es ———— A SA SS COPYRIGHT Of BY "RED BOOK ORPORATION SYNOPSIS. — Sn vestry meeting of Rquare church Gail Sargent tells Rev. Smith Boyd that Market Square church is apparently a lucrative bus 58 enter- Prise. Allison takes Gall riding fn his motor car. She finds cold di ipproval in the eyes of Rev. Smith Boyd wtarts a campaign for consolidation control of the entire ortation jo tem of the world. : popular, Alllson gains control scontinental traffic ang arranges to absorb the Ved der court tenement property of Market Square church Gall tells Boyd that the cathedral Market Square church proposes to build will be out of profits wrung from SQualor. At a meeting of the seven finan cirl magnates of the country, 1 Or. Ranizes the International Tr inaportation Company Rev, 8mith Boyd undertakes Gail's spiritual instruction and Gail tonsclously gives Allison a t int that solves the Vedder court proble him. On an inspection trip in i new sube- way the tunnel cay | goes back to her home in the riends lure her and Arly back midst of a struecel manity in Vv Suddenly and loving--man but, on the verge members their rel rio refuses the condemned At a the Market to New ruggic with the dder court Rev finds that Throug political Vedder : r by the « a8 unsanitary Rev. Smith Boyd proposes the to replace the old Vedder court with model te nements court ' 0 CHAPTER XVII—Continued. “1 attend a vestry meeting now and then,” he replied, and then he laughed shortly. “Pd rather do business with forty corporations than with one ves. try. A church always expects to con C.D.RHODES 8 Uncle Jim strode out with a hearty and, at the sound of the voices of no one but Gall and Mrs. Da vies and Houston Van Ploon, old "Daddy" Manning appeared in the doorway, followed by the rector “The sweetest flower that blows in any dale,” quoted “Daddy” Manning, patting Gail's hand affectionately The rector stood by, waiting to greet her a selfish moment, and the newly aroused eye for color in him seized upon the gold and blue and red of her straight Egyptian costume, and recog: nized in them variety. The black on her lashes. He was close enough to see that: and he marveled at himself that he could not disapprove. Gall wus most uncomfortably aware him in this but she turned to him smile of friendship of nearness; with a frank “This looks like a conspiracy,” she commented, glancing towards the study, wns thick with smoke “It's offensively innocent one.” Manning, giving the chance which an small & strictly commercial basis, while it expects you to mingle a little charity with your end of the transactions.” “The Vedder court property.” Suessed, with a slight contraction of her brows. “Still after said talked of other matters Jim Sargent returned. and glancing into the little re ception tete-a-tete as ie passed, saw Allison and came back. “1 didn’t expect to see you so soon,” wondered Allison. “We broke up in a row,” laughed Jim Sargent. “Clark and Chisholm were willing to accept your price, but the rest of us listened to Doctor Boyd and Nicholas Van Ploon, and fell. We Ingist on our cathedral, and Doctor Boyd's plan the best way to &et it, though even that may necessi- tate a four or five years’ delay.” “What's his plan?™ asked Allison. “Rebuilding,” returned Sargent “We Can put up tenements good enough to pass the building inspectors and last fifteen years. With the rents we are now rec elving offer them better quarters, Doctor Boyd suggested, selves from this whole pro eeding sible idea, I think” Gall was leaning forward, with her fingers clasped around her knee: her brown eyes had widened, and a little red spot had appeared in either cheek: her red lips were half parted, as she looked up in wonder at her Uncle Jim “Is that the plan upon which they have decided?” and Allison looked at his watch “Well, hardly.” i Allison, and seems same we redeem our Clever, sen frowned Sargent “We couldn't Clark and Chis holm At the last minute they sug gested that we might build the impending fracas eemed too seri ous to take up just now, tabled the whole thing.” Allison smiled. and watch back in his pocket, “It's fairly definite, however, you won't sell.” he concluded. “Not at your figure.” laughed Sar. gent Boyd would be too old to breach in the new cathedral.” “He'll pull it through some way.” de clared Allison. whip.” Neither gentleman had She had settled back in her chair dur. ing these last speeches, listless, and overcome with a songe of some humiliation too evasive to be properly framed even in thought She had a sense that she had given AWAY something vastly precious, and which would never be valued, Neither dig they notice that she changed suddenly to relief She had been justified in her decision She took the reins of conversation herself after Uncle Jim had left, ana entertained Allison so brightly that he left with impatience at the tea party which monopolized her Later. when Rey. Smith Boya dropped in. he met with a surprising and disconcerting vivacity In his eyes there were pain and suffering, and In. expressible hunger, but in hers there was only dancing frivolity; a little too swing 850 we've slipped “He's as smart as a noticed Gail enough to know; but he was not The study door was open when late that evening Houston Van Ploon se dately escorted Mrs. Davies and Gail into the library, one of those rooms which appoint themselves the instine tive lounging places of all family inti mates. Gail turned up her big eyes in sparkling acknowledgment as the punc: tillous Van Ploon took her cloak, and. at that moment, as she stood grace fully poised, she caught the gazn of Rev. Bmith Boyd fixed on her with such infinite longing that it distressed her She did not want him to suffer, ments.” "Oh!" observed Gail, and radiated a distinet chill, whereupon Rev Boyd, divesting himself of some cour teous compliment, exchanged inane adieus with Mrs. Davies and young Ploon, and took his committees back into the study Mra She even seemed eager to retire, and aa she left the library, ward glance ingeyead Gai! and the correct young Van Ploon, who. with his Dutch com plexion and his blonde English mus he and his stalwart American body, nothing of his being a Van at the danc to say He was an ell gible who never did anything a second too early or a second too late. or de viated by one syllable from the exact things he should say if the anxious Aunt Helen hag counted on any {important results from this evening's opportunities, had taken into her calculations the of Gail In precisely five utes Van Ploon was on the door slep, with his Inverness on his shoul ders and his silk hat in his hand, with out even having approached the elabo- rate introduction to certain important masculine perfection she f i { | | He studied her in silence for a mo- ment, and then he put his hands on her cheeks, and drew her gently towards him. Still smiling into bis eyes, she held up her lips, and he kissed her, “I'd like to say something jolly be fore I go,” he sald as he rose; “but | can’t seem to think of it.” Gall laughed, but there was a trace of moisture in her eyes as she took his arm. “I'd like to help you out, Dicky, but I can't think of it either,” she re- turned. She was crying a little when she went up the stairs, and her mood was not even interrupted by the fact that Aunt Helen's door was ajar, and that Aunt Helen stood just beyond the crack. “Why, child, that Egyptian black is running,” was Aunt Helen's first ob servation. Gall dabbed hastily at the two tiny rivulets which had hesitated at the put ber head on Aunt Helen's shoul- der, and wept softly. “Poor Dicky,” she explained. then turning, disappeared into room, Mrs. Helen Davies looked after her speculatively for a moment; but she decided not to follow, and her CHAPTER XIX, The Maker of Maps. There began to strange stirrings in the world. Money! From the land which was its home and place of it leaned across the wide and potent whisper be abod: over Beas, made money is despised held They all tency | ay and vulgar listened. The particular po the fact that the which took ay in mouey tremen and its “wn dously from its despicableness vialgarity A black-bearded grand duke, the wide land of the frozen bled himseifl to ivan at the sound of that whisper, and b ried westward empire upon from seas hum plain Strolesky i A high dignitary of an i i Gail might not have been able make a — was a person of considerable momen tte had rathér planned to nake a more deliberate ceremony of matter, impulsive not being in his line of thought A tall young man in an nverneas walked rapidly past the Van Ploon was saying the correctly clever things in the way of adieu; and house with careless assurance Gracious, Dicky, you can't in!" protested Gail, with half frown “I'm a friend of the family * listed Dick, calmly closing the door i : rack “1 guess you've forgotten “Oh, yes. the proposal it over with.” “All right,” he agreed, and taking her arm and tucking her shoulder comfortably close to him. he walked easily with her back to the library Well, have i { i i and stalked stolidly aw that ay whisper of despi American money From th land ¢ from the land of toys, from art and music, from the west to sod o fashion, land of land of cherry bloas the Oasbing jewels, from the lands of the burning sands and the lands of the the highest Hght smooth midnight sun, there came d they all, bearded and of power; ar swarth and “Poor Dicky,” She Explained, and Walked Into Mer Own Room. large and small, and robed and trou centered toward the city of strong men, and, one by one, presented themselves, in turn, to a grave and favorite chair one squarely in front of her he told her. “I'm going to propose se riously to you.’ Some laughing retort was on ner which suddenly stopped her, of deep sincerity. “1 love you, you to be my wife.” “Dick,” protested Gail. and it was she who reached out and placed her hand in hs. The action was too con- fidingly frank for him to mistake it “1 was afraid you'd think that way about it,” he said, his volce full of & pain of which they neither one had b lieved him capable “This is the first time | ever proposed, except in fun, and | want to make you take me seriously. Qail, I've sald so many pretty things to you, that now, when I am in such desperate earnest, there's I want how much I love you; how much | want you!” He stopped. and, holding her hand, patting it gently with uncon- scious tenderness, he gazed earnestly into her eyes. His own were entirely without that burning glow which he had, for so long. bestowed on all the Young and beautiful, They were al most somber now, and In thelr depth Was a humble wistfulness which made Gail's heart flow out to him. “I can't Dick,” she told him, smiling affectionately at him. “You're the dearest boy in the world, and | want you for my friend as long as we live; for my very dear friend!” name of Ephraim One motive alone had dragged them over sterile plains and snowy moun- tains and bounding seas: the magie whiaper of Money! Through Ephraim they came to the stocky, square-standing, square-faced chess player who was called Allison They found him pleasant, agreeabls, but hardly of their class. He was so forceful as to be necessarily more or less crude, and he had an unpleasant fashion of waving aside all the decent little pretenses about money. That was the fault of this whole rude coun- try, where luxury had been brought to the greatest refinement ever known in the history of the world; it was so devoted to money, and the cultured gentlemen did their best to get all they could. To Ivan Btrolesky Allison was frank and friendly. for there was something in the big Russian which was different from these others, so he hastened to have business out of the way “Here are your lines,” he said, spreading down a map which had been brought up to date by hand “The ones | want are checked in blue. The others | do not care for.” The grand duke looked them over with a keen oye. “1 am rather disappointed,” he con. fessed In excellent English. “1 had understood that you wished to control our entire railway aystem."” “1 do,” assented Allison; “but I don't wish to pay out money for them all If 1 can acquire the lines 1 have marked, the others will be controlled quite easily from the fact that | shall have the only outlet, The grand duke, who had played po ker in America and fantan in China and roulette in Monte Carlo. and ab the other games throughout the world, smiled with his impressive big eyes, and put his hand up under his beard “The matter then seeme to resolve itself into a question of price.” he commented. “No; protection,” responded Allison “H 1 were buying these railroads out right, I should expect my property in terests to be guarded, even if 1 had to appeal to international equity; but | am not” “No.” admitted the grand "They cannot be purchased.” “The proposition resolves itgelf then into a matter of virtual selzure,” Allison pointed out The grand duke, still with his hand in bis beard, chuckled, as he regarded Allison amusediy “1 shall not mind {f you call it pi racy,” he observed “We. in Russia, duke and we about it are as frank as Americans Returning to your matter of protection, [| shall admit that only agreement upon which we secure what in international equity; Can and, in conse You 18 my personal word that you will not be molested in anything which you myself and those | represent.” "Then we'll make it an annual ment,” decided Allison, putting some figures he had prepared make it a increasing each year with the earnings.” The grand proposition gr: pay sliding scale considered offered duke and avely, “After the shall begin first year.” he sald. "Wi with a large bonus, how ever.” Allison again put out of his had prepared to sug Apparently the grand duke need upply KRIODUSA Fes of immediate cash and would the al paymenis d accord ntage de need to be ecreased { tt still anot for profit on ingly, with BOTes her | ducted neces #itie Let us i us.” posed All na ite amicably whi ro into reby Ivan ; y railroad lines ir of its Strolesky ouly vaiu i country to portation company said Allison Mia in obtain it over Ivan Strolesky put beard again, and refle« "There in the way,” be removed is only one man he imn tands calcu will re inated ediately upon my turn There about Allison was ked for an and then he laughed “We have still your country.” fessed When Ivan Btrolesky bad gone, All son went to his globe and was this something that shox ®0 the uncanny practicai instant, even to learn courteously from con Rea. There came a famous diplomat heavy blond man with a red and big spectacles and a high, wide, A ‘I do not know what you want” “I have come to see” “1 merely wish to chat international returned Allison. “There is feud between you and your neighbors to the west” “That is history.” replied the visitor “We are now at “Never peace,” denied Allison. will never be friendship be tween phlegmatism and mercurialism “Excuse me. but what do you mean?" and the visitor stared stolidly “In your affairs of mutual relation ship with the land to the west. there are not less than a dozen causes upon which war could be started without difficulty.” went on Allison. “In fact, you require perpetual diplomacy to prevent war with that country.” The visitor locked his thick fingers quietly together and kept on stolidly staring “You are about to bave a war.” Alli son advised him. “No, it is not true,” and the visitor went so far, in his emphasis, as to un- lock his fingers and rest one hand on the back of the other “I think I am a very fair prophet.” sald Allison easily. “I have made money by my prophecy. 1 have more money at my command at the present time than any man in the world. than any government; wealth beyond han dling in mere currency. [It can only be conveyed by means of checks Let me show how casy It is to write them.” and, drawing a blank book to him he wrote a check, and signed his name, and filled out the stub, and tore it out. and handed it to the visitor for inspec tion. The visitor was properly pleased with Allison's ease in penmanship, “l see,” was the comment, and the check was handed back. He drew his straightecrowned derby towards him “1 have made a mistake,” said Alli son. “1 have left off a cipher,” and correcting this omission with a new check, he tore up the first one. “1 see,” commented the visitor, and put_the second check in his pocket That had required considerable out lay, but when Allison was alone, he went over to his globe and made an. other long. red mark. A neat-walsted man. with a goatee of carefully selected hairs and a lux. uriant black mustache, called on All son, and laid down his hat and his stick and his gloves, in a neat little pile, with separate jerks. He ferked out a cigarette, he jerked out a mateh, and jerkily lt the former with the latter, “I am here,” he said, “I am able to give you some impor tant diplomatic news,” Allison advised him, “Your country is about to have a war with your ancient enemy to the east. Jt will be declared within a month.” “It will be finished in prophesied the neat-walsted caller active eyes lighting with pleasure “Possibly,” admitted Allison. “1 un | dos that your country is not ip the best of financial conditions to un dertake a war, particularly with that ancient enemy." “The banking system of my country is patriotic.” returned the caller its only important banks are controlled under one system I am the head of that system. I am a patriot!” and he tapped himself upon the deep and sincere feeling. “How " week,’ his a stand breast much revenue docs your po sition yield you personally?” A shade of crossed brow of the neat-walisted caller “1 ind tle radness does not this Allison pushed elip of paper { scribed some figures The i read the sum | his shoulders | slip of paper “it banking { impossible bye bre yield you toward which lit i him a on were widened as they fled pushed caller's eyes He He BIT back fe patriotic, vou your system to ernment would compelled | money through other means not from the “Never!” and the peat. touched himself it withdraw Var | GUCEe more on breast “It would be compelled to negotiate If other governments understanding a loan trough “#MODBE h to provid id tind wnersnij nd it difficult Ir government wou case 18 « ntrol of its most valu show you that in the sppose | at will loge his ancient while § { your enemy tity your untry remains tact; Suppo course | way open which try from | | ‘ ATTILA, “SCOURGE OF GOD’ will - annihilation 10 BE CONTINUED | Has Been Pictured by Eminent i French Historian. The great French historian. Miche | the mighty Hun met a “ho in the fifth cen | tury defeat which curbed | back to eastern Europe His true ori i : Etzel, which signified a vast mighty thing. a mountain. a river. par | ticularly that immense river. the Voi Ba. Priscus, an author of | century, who saw Attila face to face describes him, gays Micheelt as “stern and grave strongly built, fHat-nosed face pierced with two fiery holes Continuing he says ‘After all, wha would this Tartar have gained by con quering the Roman empire? He would I bave felt himself stifled in walled cities and palaces of marble Par better he loved his wooden vil lage. all painted and tapestried with | ite thousand kiosks of many colors and al' around it the green meadows of the Danube Though an enemy to Ger many. he made use of it. His ally was the enemy of the Germang, Genserie the Wend, who was settled in Africa He called Attila into Gaul against the Goths of Toulouse. 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