ee Ee HN Chel CHAPTER XXV. of Fo Gall Breaks a Promise. The Whitecap would have been un- der way except for the delay of the gay little Mrs. Babbitt and her admir- ing husband, who sent word that they could not arrive until after dinner, so the yaeht, long and low and slender and glistening white, lay in the middle of the Hudson river, while her guests, bundled warmly against the crisp breeze, gathered in the torward shelter deck and watched the beginnings of the early sunset, “I like Doctor Boyd in his yachting esp,” commented Lucile, as that young man joined them, with a happy mother on his arm. “It takes away that deadly clerical effect,” laughed Arly. “His long coat makes him look like the captain, and he's ever so much more handsome.” cussion so long as I'm present,” com- mented Rev. Smith Boyd, glancing someone, “It rather pestricts the tion,” Mrs. Helen Davies observed The cherub-cheeked Marion neth glanced wistfully over at the rail where Dick Rodley, vying with the sunset in splendor, stood chatting with easy Ted Teasdale and the stiff Ger ald Fosland. “Where's Gail?” cherub-cheeked one. “It's time that young lady was on deck,” decided Arly, and rose. “She's probably taking advantag demanded the @ Her Uncle Her Aunt Her Aunt swiftly place him last Jim? Too hot-headed. Grace? Too inexperienced. Helen? Too conventional. Lucile, Ted, Dick? She laughed. Arly? There was a knock at the door, and Arly herself appeared. “SeMish,” chided Arly. wanting you.” “That's comforting,” smiled Gail “lI have just been being all alone (an the world, on the most absolutely de- island of which you can con- ceive. Arly, sit down. [ want to tell you something." The black hair and the brown hair “We're all! cuddled close together, while Gall, her | tongue once loosened, poured out in a | had been accumulating within her for the past tempestuous weeks; and Arly, her eyes glistening with the ex- tions of surprise and fright and indig- | nation and horror, and everything | else, strictly to such low monosyl- | lables as would not impedes the gasp | ! i “Td like to kill him!” sald Arly, In a | her feet she paced up! down the confines of the IMtle stateroom. Among all the other sur prises of recent events, there was none jumping to Arly, ! sarcastic return cool and until usually had not, her from | surmised Mrs. think it's a good idea for all of us,” but the sunset was too potent to leave for a few moments still. Where indeed beautiful little ; digging two small fist brown coverlet morning had not ye there were circles eyes which gave them a there was a crease of pain too, in the ite brow, Gail had come to the greatest in her life So far one of what had oc ing. Wkten she had rushed into the rector’s study he had , and seeing the fright in her face and that 3, and she sat was Gail? In maple bed, pallor of t left her face, the wan and brown around aud crisis had told neo urred that morn- she Sprung ug bad caught her in his strong arms. and she had clung trustfully faint, until wild relief. Even in her incoherence. ever, even in her wild disorder of tion, she realized that there was dan- ger, not only to her but she loved, had run away: the young rector any more t®an that she had been frightened. It was strange how instinctively she had headed for Rev. Smith Boyd's study: strange then, but not now. In that moment of flying straight to the protection of his arms, she knew something about her self, and about Res Boyd. too. She knew why she had refused those others who had wooed her Cunningham and Houston Van and Dick Rodley; poor Dick! and Al ison and all the other She frankly and complacently admitted to horself that she loved Rev. Smith Boyd, but she put that additional worry into the background. It could be fought out later She would have been very hap py about it if she had had t me, al- though she could see no end to that situation but unhappiness Where could she turn for ad whom could she get to burden which she felt crush ber. There was a burden must bear alone, unless she could devise some plan of effective action. and the sense of how far she had been respon 8iblas for this condition of affairs was to him, how. Smith vice, share in must surely no one it the was she her, and deepened the circles about her wce-smitten eyes Gall took her fists from their pres. sure into the brown coverlet, and held her temples between the finger tips of either hand; and the brown hair, springing into wayward ringlets from the salt breeze which blew in at the half-opened window, rippled down over her slender hands, as if to soothe and comfort them. She had been wasting her time in introspection and self. analysis when there was need for decisive action! Fortunately she had a respite until Monday morning the past few days of huge commercial movements which so vitally interested her, she had become acquainted with business methods, to a certain extent, and she knew that nothing could be done on Saturday afternoon or Sun day; therefore Uncle Jim was safe for wo nights and a day Then Allison oe deny the connection of her Whicle Jim's road with the A.P., and the beginning of the destruction of the Sargent family would be thor oughly accomplished! B8he nad been given a thorough grasp of how easily that could be done. What could she do In two nights and a day? It was past her ingenuity to conceive, She must have help! But from whom could she receive it? Tod Boyd? The same reason which made her think of him first made her tion in two years. “The only way in which that person attacking your would be his first before he can | pacing up aad | which attack him said Arly, Uncle Jim, step, 18 to do anything.” knotted ard slender back, her black brows her graceful bent tow floor. ‘He is too powerful,” “That makes him weak.” retumed | Arly quickly. “In every great power there is one point of great weakness Tell me again about this tremendously | bead the protested Gail Patiently, and searching her mem- all his even which Allison wonderful NOW, AUErY bad told her about | plan of empire; and and humiliated and | was, Gall could | | i was that which | “It's wonderful,” commented Ariy, | catching a trace of that spirit of the folding of fairyland; and she begaa to | pace the floor again. the most colossal piece of thievery the | world has ever known!” And she! walked in silence for a time. “That is | the thing upon which we can attack | him. We are going to stop it.” i Gall rose, too. “How?” she asked “Arly, couldn’t, just we two girls!” “Why not?” demanded Arly, stop ping in front of her. “Any phan like | that must be so full of criminal crook edness that exposure alone is enough | to put an end to iL” “Exposure.” faltered automatically ‘It “Why, Gall, it is | we Gail, and} with a lite- | was told to me in | confidence.” Arly looked at her in nishment, | “1 could shake you," she declared, | and instead put her arm around Gail. | “Did that person betray no confidence when he came to your uncle's house | this morning! Moreover, he told you this merely to overawe you with the glitter of what he had done. He made that take the place of love! Conf I'l never anything with | s0 much pleasure in my life as to be- tray yours right if you don't! If there's can damage him, | in see that it is done: and if there's any way after that to damage him again and again, | want to do it!" | For the first time in that miserable day, Gail felt a thrill of hope, and asto do now! aspect of a colossal figure. an angel spair! She felt that she could afford “Do you suppose that would save | i | both finished a highly comforting time | together, i “It will save everybody,” declared Arly. “l hope 80,” pondered Gail. “Bat shall we get to help us ?™ The smile on Arly's face was a posi. tive illumination for a moment, and then she laughed, “Gerald,” she replied. “Yom don't know what a dear he is!” and she rang for a cabin boy, CHAPTER XXVi. Gerald Fosland Makes a Speech, Gerald Fosland, known to be so for mal that he had once dressed to an. swer an emergency call from a friend | at the hospital, because the message came In at six o'clock, surprised his guests by appearing before them, in| the salon just betore dinner, in his | driving coat and with his motor cap in his band, “Sorry,” he informed them, with a stiff bow, “but an errand of such im- portance that It cannot be delayed, causes Mrs. Fosland and myself to return to the city immediately for an hour or so. I am sincerely apologetic, and I trust that you will have a jolly dinner.” “Is Gail going with you?” inquired the alert Mrs. Helen Davies, observ- ing Gall in the gangway adjusting her furs. “She has to chaperon me, while Ger ald is busy,” Arly glibly explained. “You're it, Aunt Grace. You and Uncle Jim have to be hosts, Good-by!” and she salled out to the deck, fol adieus for which Arly had set the precedent, A swift ride in the launch, in the cool night air, to the landing; a brisk walk to the street; then Gerald, hav- ing soen the ladies safe under shelter, even if it were but the roof of a night- hawk taxi, stopped at the first saloon. There he phoned half a dozen mes sages. There were four eager young men waiting in the reception room of house, . when Gerald's party arrived, and three more followed them up the steps. Gerald aided in divesting the ladies of thelr wraps, and slipped his own big top coat into the hands of Willlam, and saw to his tie and the set of his waistcoat and the smoothness of his hair, before he stalked into the recep- tion parlor and bowed stiffly. he observed, “Gentlemen,” giving | of all, have you brought with you the written guaranties which 1 required from your respective chiefs, that, in whatsoever comes from the informa | tion I am aboul to give you, the names of your informants shall, under no cir cumstances, appear in print?” One luckless young man, a fat cheeked one, with a pucker in the cor ner of his lips where his cigar should have heen, was unable to produce the docwment, and he was un to give him a Necessary chance to write it announced Gerald, with “As condition, 1 hile 1 address maining gentlemen.” The remaining gentlemen, of there Sorry,” lite sinct leave po contrition this is a very must ask you to the room » the re whom grinned appre would were now eleven, been York BiOD Hickoy have best nes ciatively the spaper man in New not such a careless 80 good that he was the only The others had three, for while very effective ed that he if he wern Was man from the Planet Gerald's mes gimple, had beer He had merely an was prepared to pro went two and sage, NnOoun« of bil had given kis gome hundred: and he i nvolving lions of dollars right n: “Hold stuff till 1 telephone,” | begged Hickey “Say, if 1 get that written guaranty up here in fifteen min utes, will it do ?™ Gerald looked him i ye, “If yom telephone, and can then as sure me word of honor, that | document [I require shall be in house before you leave, I shall | you to remain,” he decreed; | me the speculatively io on your in ithe eye for half a minute. “I'l have it here all right” he de cided, and sprang for the telephone, | and came back in three minutes with | his word of honor. They could hear | from the library, yelling, from | aver urgency in a man's voice, it was | in the voice of Hickey Gerald Fosland took a commanding the corner of the room, | where he could see the countenances | of each of the CARer young gentlemen | present. He stood behind a chair, | with his hands on the back of it. in his favorite position for responding to a toast "Gentlemen: Edward E Hison is about to complete a transportation iystem encircling the globe. The ac quisition of the foreign railroads will be made possible only by a war, which is already arranged. The war, which will begin within a month. France. unable to raise a war fund otherwise will sell her railroads. The Russian line is already being taken from its present managers, and will be tarned over to Allison's world syndicaje with- in a week. The important steamship lines will become involved in financial Following these events will come a successful rebel lon in India, and the independence of all the British colonies. “You will probably require some tan- are on the way to fulfillment. 1 call your attention to the fact that, last week, the Russian duma began a vio lent agitation over the removal of Olaf Petrovy, who was the controller of the entire Russian railroad system. Day nately assassinated, and the agitation in the duma subsided. This mom ing | read that France 1a greatly in. censed over a diplomatic breach in the German war office; and it is com mented that the breach is one which cannot possibly be healed. Kindly take note of the following facts: From the firet to the eighth of this month, Baron von Slachten, who is directly responsible for Germany's foreign re lations, was seen in this city at the Fencing club, under the incognito of Henry Brokaw. Chevalier Ducham. beau, director of the combined bank ing interests of France, was here in that same week, and was secon at the Montparnasse Cercle. He bore the name of Andre Tires. The Grand Duke Jan of Rusala was here as Ivan Strolesky. James Wellington Hodge, practically all the world, outside the United States, was here as BE E. Chalmers, Prince Nito of Japan, Yu- Hip-Lun of China and Count Cassioni of Rome were here at the same time; and they all called on Edward B. Alli son. “Furthermore, gentlemen, 1 will give clers, who, with Edward E. Allison, are Interested in the formation of the In- ternational Transportation company, which proposes to contre! the com- merce of the world, These gentlemen are Joseph G. Clark, Eldridge Babbitt, W. T. Chisholm, Richard Haverman, Arthur Grandin, Robert E. Taylor, A. L. Vance. I would suggest that, if you disturb these gentlemen in the man- be quite capable of doing, you might sald. This 8 all” bowed stiMy, add one word. kind attention, He paused “Gentlemen, | wish to I thank you for your and I desire to say a depressingly calm eye, and ne prov bably exercised twenty minutes every morning by an open window, after his cold plunge, and took a horseback ride and walked a lot, and played polo, aud a few other effete things like that Hickey sat down and waited, and, though the night was cold, he mopped his brow until the messenger came! CHAPTER XXVIL. Chicken, or Steak? Ou the outbreak of a bygone rude United States and Spain, one free and entirely uncurbed metropolitan paper, unable to ade quately express its violent emotions page with the one word “War!” print. have done so in the interest of a Jus tice which 1s greater than all other considerations Gentlemen, good- night.” “Have you a handy?" asked the from his trance. good squib, awakening right about that photograph was lost io the fields of Elysian phan. There He Phoned Half sages. a Dozen Mes tary, and t ed-headed reporter was Pages with the surreptitious i i ting and stuffing loose pocket. and the one beard was making a Gerald Fosiand, to plausible occasion 18¢ On He had wealthy 3 in mind a special! article on at home “Company Incorg Hickey, who was poet of his time. orated?™ the most inquired practical granted Gerald "Gentle men, you will pardon me for a mo ment.” and he bowed himself {rom the room. He had meant to ask that one simple question and return, blue room, where sat two en, in a high state of quiver to make his spesch batim, and detail and describe how news, and answer, couched but. in be had all over again each received several times, question, if really thought their names wonld not was fifteen minutes before he returned, and he found the twelve young gentiemen suffering with an itch to be gone. Five the haw they intolerabl¢ were decently the phone Hickey, low volces # and which the bellished and colored beribboned as he went, make the cylinders on curl up “1 am sorry to advise you, gentle. men, that I am unable to tell you if the International Transportation com- pany is, or is about to be, incorpo rated,” reported Gerald gravely, and he signaled to William to open front door presses passed out of the door, a grip like a pair of ice tongs caught him by the arm, and drew him gently but firmly back. “Sorry.” observed Gerald, "but you don't go.” “Hasn't that d-——-4 boy got here yet?" demanded Hickey, in an imme- diate mood for assassination. He was senger boys were the bane of his existence, “William says not,” replied Gerald. “For the love of Mike, let me go!" pleaded Hickey. “This stuff has to be handled while it's still sizzling! It's the biggest story of the century! Now, however, the free and entirely in the past to every emergency, bo matter how great, positively foun dered in the very wealth of its oppor Saturday night, however, saw no late extras. The “story” was too big to touch without something more tan than the word of even so sub the twelve eager i the brigade, hundreds were scout o'clock in the moming in New York gloom 1 he Until every three newspaper office was a scene ofl violent world's biggest sensa and they co of tongs! interest that one might as tion was In officen, 1ldn’t touch it a pair The deterrent was that the Large keg of gunpow and make the slightest error. 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The woman coughed and splut nd the Those on delight was a grand about him too—all but the reached out one joke ie ing youth by brought his mans siraw ing the Then he the shoulder fist down on bat crushing it and driv through the crown over his ear Next he the young man around and kicked hin with all outraged with his head the force a dignity and fierce great strength afforded if that recovers from that kick throws confetti again he will be In picking his target And the woman if she a hurry will not do sc as turns out to see a anger to Youth careful maybs handsome yawns ap: in in such a mod i | ! i | i : { i i 3 With the Essayists. Of all the displays of art the essay is the most indefinable, the most sud tie, because it has no scheme, no pro It does not set out to parrate or to it bas no dramatic purpose. no imaginative theme; {is essence is a sympathetic self-revelation. just as in talk a man may speak frankly