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CHAPTER XX-Continued.
mien} Boon
Homeward again in the star
still §§ that whirl of exultation
somewhat chillier now, and Allison
bundled her into the machine with
rough tenderness. She felt the thrill
of him as he sat beside her, and the
firm strength with which he controlled
the swiftly speeding runabout, was
part her strength. They were kindred
spirits, these two. soaring above the
affairs of earth in the serene compla-
cency of those trifles of
vastness itself. not talk
much, for they had not much to talk
abut. The details of a 80
comprehensive as Allison's not
things to be explained, they
things to be seen in a vision.
she asked him the bringing
the foreign railroads into th
tion, and he told her that
only be accomplished by a political up-
heaval, which would take next
month, and would probably involve the
whole of Europe. It was another de-
tail; and it seemed quite natural She
was so interested that he told her all
about his foreign visitors
In the park, Allison stopped at the
tittle outlook house re they had
climbed on that snowy night, and they
8tood there, with the the
trees below and the ghts
stretching out to the all alone
above the world of ion. Be-
fow sounded the cl street cars,
and far off to the high in the
there gleamed the lights of
L train.
lit night
It was
who make
They did
scheme
were
were
Once
of
comt
na
Lis wi
about
©
puld
place
whe
stars above,
twinkling H
horizon,
civilizat
ng o
left,
a curviog
That was a part of Allison's
world which he had ince con
quered a part which dy
in the hollow of hi
that every moving
upon a track in
rama was under
only to illustrate
marvel of the aces
was now under way.
horizon
and in them
moved or were tran
Allison's finger was
the wheels, to
of the earth!
wonderful! And she was part
It was there that he prop
It did not surprise
known it when they
park, and that this was th
He told her that all this empire
being builded to lay at her feet,
she was the empress of it and
emperor, but that their
not in the sway. n
crown, but in
having doue,
and baving
Was this
and glory
He
# rs
long
the fact
clung
pano
his served
nd t
iay another
1
aii
and
the uttermost o«
Oh,
$ wy
it was
to her
her she
ce
that
joy as
t in the pter and
conce
a col painting
and
added to it the fire
that the force and ma
compulsion of his dynan po
felt again the potent thrill of him
the might and sweep and dr
and with 1
love in her ears, a
and her mind
tion, she felt betwe
thy and a which i
human strength to deny!
held her back, som:
withhold the
plea that she
think,
the tangle of bh
fered him
and rain h
to tell her i
er that she b
aver
d forever!
advantage an
and
and
wer. She
and
ve of him
vords
reel,
iuita-
tery
1
he hot, ti of
nd h
in its
er sey
whirling
Hr
inion
ie Ler
word « e, on the
time
to consider,
€r n
sweep
ind ;
her
suf
to
it Kissea upon
. Over and over ane
ed
lon
CHAPTER XXI.
Ailison's Private and Particular
The ¢ and entire
joyed an unusual treat
gation which did not
ported by a hectic
lurid vocabulary court had
been condemned of the
Municipal Transportation ee mpany! A
new eight-track. double-deck tube waa
to be constructed through Cre scent
island to the mainland!
Grand climax! Through
and into Vedder court, at the
forms of the surface and L and
Way cars, were to come the passenger
trains of the new Atlantic-Pacitic rail
road, a line three hundred miles short
er than any now stretching between
Broadypay and the Golden Gate! Auy
reader of the daily press, of whom
there are several, knows precisely
what the free and entirely uncurbed
did with this bit of simoo-pure inior
mation The glittering details begao
on the first page, turned on the seo
ond. continued on the fourth, jumped
over to the seventh, and finished back
among the real estate ads. It began
early in the morning and it continued
until late at night, fresh details piling
upon each other in mad profusion,
their importance limited only by tue
restrictions of type!
Extra! The trick by which the A.-P,
tan through the mountains over the
Inland Pacific track!
Extra, extra! The compuisi hy
which ithe Midcontinent was brought
to complete the big gap in the new
A.-P. system!
Tremendous extra! The contracts
of freightage, subject sirictly to the
interstate commerce law, between
Devil,
d
ree uncurbs
it bad a
need to be
imagination
en-
gen
sup
or a
Vedder
for the use
[
LOTLR
I
A.-P. and the cereal trust, the metal
| trust, the fuel trust, the cloth trust,
tions in restraint of everything! Wow!
Zowle! ‘That was the hot one! The
A.-P. was the main stem, and within
thirteen seconds of the appearance on
the streets of the tremendous extra,
every other fragile branchlet of a rall-
tion of the A.-P, was reduced to
shrivel, and its stocks began to drop
with the sickening plunge of an un
opened parachute!
Gall Sargent kept
rush for extras fic
the streets, and
including
laneous p-riraitg of
funny pi-lines which
curred In the midd
esting se
Nanette on
the first yell on
read every word,
m
sie
Allison and the
invariably oc-
le of the most inter
ntences,
It was true, all true! Here was the
first step in Allison's tremendous proj
mplished fact. The rest of
be gradually revealed, from
as suite his needs, and
he ! planned would
enread, until its circle touched, and
overlapped, and broke into an intricate
webbing, over all the land and
of the earth! And
'
ecl an ace
it would
day to
the empire
day d
rad
water
empres
Was she? Through all the night
had battled that question, and the bat
tie had left trace
her luminous
of
eyes,
afternoon Jim Sargent
came home, drawn, fagged, and with
i hollows under his He had a vio
Jent headache,
He
where
Late in the
0
eyes
and
walked
Mrs.
Gall
older slowly Into the Ii
Sargent and Mrs.
were discussing the
court, and
brary
Davies and
Vedder
alr
Grace Sargent rang a bell
When Jim felt that way, he
hot drink first of all
“What the matter? sghe
him, the cre worry
her brow.
| future of
into a ¢h
instantly
is
AJL Ol
‘It's been a hard day,” he explained
forcing himself, with an effort, to an
i ewer. Years of persistent experience
{ had taught him follow the
| least resistance “There has been a
panic on ‘change. Rallroads are going
to smash all up and down the lina. Al
's new A.-P. road it's the star
| piracy of the century. Allison has
| brought into t! railroad game the
| same roughshod mathe ha used
his traction manipulations.”
“Has your company been hart, Jim?”
asked his fully prepared for the
worst, and making up her mind to
| bear up bravely under it
“Not yet,” replied Sargent. and he
passed his hand over his brow Hi
was already making a tremendous ef
fort to br himaelf for tomorrow's
ordeal. “i escaped today by an acci
dent. By some mistake the Towando
Valley was mentionad as belonging to
the new A..F. combination. Of course
I didn't correct it, but tomorrow they'll
know.”
“Mr, Allison
| statement,’
to
lison
10
wis
in
wife
ace
3 responsible for thar
serenely informed her
“He promised he'd take care of
Gall
uncle
you.”
her uncle
about this
exploded
What know
thing?
led
RON
Gail
would Keep
gave strange
| of relief that he had done so
Her Aunt turned to her with
{a commanding but Gail merely
{ dimpled
| "Of course | couldn't say anything.”
went Gail. "It was all in
nee, Isn't it glorious Uncle Jim!
“You wouldn't | thought so
you'd been down town today.” respond
ed her uncle, trying again to
from his brow the damage which han
been done to his nerves. “They wanted
to mob Allison! He hss cut the
ground from
business of the United States! Their
stocks bave deflated an aggregate of
billions of dollars, and the slump ts
i permanent! He has bankrupted a host
She had
his
her seuss
a
on
Gr
ave
i of men,
{| poor investors; he has demoralized |
the entire transportation commerce of |
the United Btates; and he gave no one
the show of a rat in a trap!”
“Isn't that business?” asked Gail
the red spots beginning to come into
her cheeks.
“Not quite!” suapped her Uncle Jim.
“Fiction has made that the universal
ides, but there are decent men in busi
ness. The majority of them are, even
in railroading. Most roads are organ. |
ized and conducted for the sole pur!
pose of carrying freight and passen-
gers at a profit for the stockholders,
and spectacular stock jobbing deals
are the exception rather than the
rule.”
“Has Mr. Allison been more unfair
solidations?” demanded Gail,
Aunt Helen,
emphasis in which there was much of
personal feeling. “He has taken tricky
advantage of every unprotected loop
hole. He won from the Inland Pacific,
at the mere cost of trackage, a pas
sage which the Inland built through
| the mountains by brilliant engineering
aud at an almost countless cost.”
“Isn't that accounted clever?’ asked
Gail
“80 Is the work of a confidence man
or a wiretapper!"” was the retort. “But
they are sent to jall just the same.
The Inland created something. It built,
with brains and money and force. and
sincere commercial enterprise, a line
which won it a well-earned supremacy
of the Pacific trade. It was entitled to
keep It; yet Allison, by making. with
{it a tricky contract for the restricted
| use of the key to its supremacy, uses
that very device to destroy it. He has
bankrupted, or will have done 80, a
two thousand mile railroad system
which i8 of tremendous commercial
value to the country, in order to use a
kundred miles of its track and remove
it from competition! Allison has cre
ated nothing. He has only seized, by
stealth, what others have created. He
Is not even a commercial highwayman
He is a commerelal pickpocket!”
Gail had paled by now
“Tell me one thing,”
“Wouldn't any of the railroad men
have employed this trick if they had
| been shrewd enough to think of it?
"A lot of them.” was the admission.
after an awkward pause, that
make it and cor
rect?
she demanded.
“Does
morally ethically
“You may be prejudiced, Jim.”
polated Aunt Helen moving
Gail. "if they are all playing the game
that way, I don't see why
shouldn't
receive applause
play.”
“You bet I'm
Sargent, overcon his weariness and
pacing up and the library floor
“He came near playing my road the
same trick did the inland Pacific
He socured control of the L. & C.. be
cause it has twenty-year
i for passage fifty
track. He'd throw the
away like a peanut hull,
| promised Gall
{ object of charity!
Oh!" It was a scarcely audible
{ of pain Aunt Helen moved
and patted her hand. Gall
i notice th
“Why di
inter
for clever
prejudiced!”
ng
down
he
a
over miles
of
to protect me. I'm
closer,
did
+ you that
her uncle,
“with
promise,
turning on
physical m
ather’'s that she
Gail?” dems
her suddenly
80 much like her {
startled
“He
tered Gail
Aunt Gr
side of Gail
Have you acce
igked
There
She could
she'll n
£5 iw
ent:
a otion
Wan
wants me to marry bim.” fal
ace sat down by the
pled him, dear?” she
was a lump in Gail's throat
not answer!
him with my
Uncle Jim
'
llow's an un
Wer marry
her
The f«
He's made
et
8s halr He
| When Jim Felt That Way Me Needeo
a Hot Drink.
robbed
milliou
tops at nothing! He
Market Square church
dollars!"
Gail's
ayen
of six
sudde
She
head
#tartied Inquiry
defend Allison:
wan to come
“We wouldn't sell him Vedder court
| at his price; so he took it from us at
six million leas than he originally of
, fered. He did that by a trick, too.”
All three women looked up at him in
breathless interest
“He had the city condemn Vedder
court,” went on Sargent. “If he had
went up In
wanied atiil to
but she dreaded what
nly
| pal Transportation company, he would
| have had to pay us about the amount
| of his original offer; but his own pri
vate and particular devil put the idea
i into his head that the Vedder court
i tenements should be torn down any:
{ how, for the good of the public! So
| he had the buildings condemned first
destroying six million dollars’ worth
| of value; then he had the ground con
! demned! Tim Corman probably got
about a million dollars for that hu
manitarian job!"
A wild fit of sobbing startled them
all
|
CHAPTER XXII,
Love.
| Allison swept Gall into his arms.
and rained hot kisses upon her, erush.
her closely to him 8he offered
no resistance, and the very fact that
she held so supinely in his arms. made
Allison release her gooner than he
might otherwise have done. She hae
known that this experience must
come, that no look or gesture or word
of hers could ward it off.
“You must never do that again,” she
regaining her breath with an effort.
to receive him before her Uncle Jim
should know that he was in the house,
and she had led him stralght into the
little tete-a-tete reception room.
meant to free herself quickly.
“Why not?” he laughed, and ad
vanced toward her, taking her attitude
lightly, ascribing her action to a gir)
ish whim, confident In his power over
her. He meant to dispose of her coy-
She belonged to him,
“Mr. Allison.” The tone was cold
enough, and deadly in earnest enough
to arrest him
“What's the matter, Gail?” he
tested, ready to humar her, to listen to
what she had to say, to smooth mat
ters out,
“You have no right,” ghe told him.
“Yes | bas he jovially
her. “Il hope I don't have to walt until
after marriage for a kiss If that's
the case I'l take you out aud marry
you right now.”
There was an infection in his laugh,
contagion in the assumption that all
was right between them, and that any
difference which id
straightened out with jolly patience,
and Gall, though Ler determination
| would have changed, might
she not
paled her lips
last night had
had rejoiced in bh
had dreamed on
| when he should take
and his eyes were
thoughts of her.
! “let us hav clear
| Mr. Allison.” ho was
lookin
were
ve, assured
was one cou be
not have
| softened toward him. had
in his face a look which
| Ever since
pated her,
sion of her
_een
ue antici
is pe
the
her for his
cloudy
Ares
time
own,
and
quite
tly in the eves
d troubled
had been abo
ned
vid need
ye
eretal
erec
£ him direc
i own deep an
ieh
{ in the morning had deep
| dark trace wh ut th
{ you last night ti she
ch to decide; 1
ball not marry you”
He
i her gas
and his brow cloude
i You
| he charge
“Possib
more
{in wh dect
ha
returns
nged
ve chi
her
d
iy,” she
likel
crystallized or
His 806
however, have
not to
! the
| growing instinct to iiate her
“You mu
| "Last
| arms yO
Justified
You're n
first that |
| couraged
| know hat has made
The teMt
{ pear in her cheeks
“You.” she told hi Last night.
your schemas of rid empire seemed
a wonderful to me but ince
then I've dis d it cannot be built
| without dis} and cruelty. and
| you ve used both
His brow
heartily
You’
There
who we
and
sted
You in
" i
took my
objecti wa
it
s
ana
entitled
you,
I'm
en
to
you
Tee Now,
Le
ale red ipo
m
thing
SCOvere
onesty
He laughed
ve been roading the
AR in the Doapc
papers
ntan
uldn't do everythi
proud it i
Bove in the right
“it's a proof of
neas that you think
m. “Can you make
right fight that you
Lom you pretended
to arry. Ww hel
trick
ial
ng ve
done;
bye of CAD you
Gail”
mare
this light
your moral callous
informed
it in the
used me. of
to think sacrediy
p you in your
all?™
#0." ahs
me see
evan
sty ovis oh -
encoun
moat upicable Oo
here, he hat
misin
protested
anible! You're
“Look
| would be impo
formed.”
“1 wish | were’
fortunately, it
knowledge. Yo
to bo
! should
she returned. “Un
matter of direct
d Vedder court
thought it
and
ted Market
dol
a
1 CAUst
ran down
he
because |
wiped out of exi
u
of
silence,
the process yo che
out
a
gix million
could not have been
cked if she bad struck him
more
i ‘1 knew you did not unders .
{ Kindly reproved her : want
those old buildings The ouldn’t
have sold them for the wreckage price
that they sh
it Fhey
the public
| When you suggested
} be torn down. | saw
public menace, and
right with movement. The
demnation price will cover all
could get from the property
source. You see, you don't unde
business.” and his tone was forziviag
“I'd have been foolish to pay six mil
lion dollars for something 1 couldn't
use. You know, Gall, when the build
ing commissioners came to look over
those buildings, they were shocked!
Some of them woulda't have stood up
another year, [It was ouly the political
influence of Clark and Chisholm and a
few of the other big guns of the con-
gregation, which kept them from being
condemned long ago You shouldn't
interfere in business. It always creates
trouble between man and wife” and
he advaoced to put his arm around
her. and soothe her.
The hand with which she warded
him off was effective this time. She
stared at him io wonder It seemed
inconceivable that the moral sense of
any intelligent man should Le so
blunted.
“Thera's another reason,” she told
him, despairing of making him realize
that he had done anything out of the
way. “Ido not love you. 1 could not.”
For just a moment he was checked:
then his jaws set,
“That is something you must learn.
You have young notions of love,
gleancd from poetry and fiction. You
conceive it to be an {deal stage of ex:
istence, a mysterious something al
most too delicate for perception by the
human senses. 1 will teach you love,
| Gall! Look.” and he stretched up his
firm arm, as if in his grip he already
wore
the
they
from any
ratan«
ai
| held the reins of the mighty emyire he
was hewing out for her. “love is a
thing of strength, of power, of desire
which shakes, and burns, and con
| sumes with fever! Do you suppose
that, with such love driving me on,
any objection which you may make
{ will stop me? No! | set out to at
tain you as the summit of my desire,
the only thing In this world I want,
and will have!”
Again that great fear of him pos
| sessed Gall. She feared many things.
She feared that, In spite of hier deter
mination, would still have her, and
{ In that possibility alone lay the other
fears so gruesome that she did not
! dare see them clearly! She knew that
she must retain absolute control of
| herself,
“1 shall not discuss the ma
further.” she quietly sald, and
he
tter any
walking
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