¢. COPYRIGKT 94 By * THE RED BOOK | CORPORATION CHAPTER XXVii—Continued. nn | Gn Towards morning there was at of newspaper men 80 wor tressed, and generally consumed the mad passion of restraint, there was scarcely a fingernail left in the profession, and fright Copy boys hid behind doors army ried and dis Sud jumped from their desks, as if they had been touched at the same instant by a powerful cur rent from their instruments, hout- ed varying phrases, a which would be nearest “Let 'er go!” It had been eight o'clock in the ning in New York when Gerald land had first given out his informa tion, and at that moment it was 1 a m in Berlin. At 3 a. m., Berlin time, which was 10 p. m. tn New York, the Baron von Slachten, who had been de- tained by an unusual stress of diplo matic business strolled to his cafe. At 2:05 the Baron ten became the most thought man in his city, but the press of Berlin is slightly fe more or less curbed, certain formalities to be ob is probable fore, might have gone ab way for two or fool American. in h advertisin branch of « pers, in a8 many offices, and composite expre slach about von ttered ind there are served it three an 2004-1 thoug! Alligsor 8 “Eh? chicken.” The built Yes. Oh, Yea ire had gone out Peabody re- it. He came in an hour later, nd studied the silent man at the desk for a long minute, and then he decided an important question for himself. He brought in Allison's dinner on a tray and set it on a corner of the desk At eleven Peabody came in again gee if Allison were not ready to go to bed; but Allison sent him away a8 as he had fixed the fire. The tray untouched, and out there in the dim moonlight, which peered now and then through the shifting clouds, the long-armed willow beckoned and beckoned. Morning came, cold and gray and the night had been. Allison the dawn, his even the to fallen asleep towards at his desk with his arms, and not building of when with a start but before head on the clatter of roused him. At seven came, Allison rose up at the opening of the door, the ot notice chair 1 rested chin 4 out of the and dreary of vision was hadowed bv a ing which had its name. and in the waved {it ! tendrils feaden gray sky. Allison on that beckoning tree grove to thin} Old Peabody pottering in, and wi many a clang and clatter builded a fire in the capa cious Dutch with a longing glance at Allison, he w starved with the hunger of talk, he weut again At dusk he door. Alllsens h gti}! sat with his chin looking out at that willow. Old Peabody thought that he must be asleep, until he tiptoed up at the side. Allison's gray eyea, ing, were staring strajight ahead no expression In them. It was they had turned to glass “Excuse me, Mr. Allison. Chicken or steak? 1 pot ‘em both, one fot sup per and one for breakfast,” Allison turned slowly. part way to wards Peabody; not entirely. “Chicken or steak?” repeated Pea. body.” wivel his wtare y landscape range creek mournf willow club breeze ft against the fixed his eves oddly th stove for as cnee more « ad not pened moved his hands, weirdly waving in with as if at the willow morning,” said Peabody, a cheerfulness which oddly in that dim, bare room “I brought you the paper, and fresh There was a little of morning, but it f How will 1 1p pose, after 1 don’t of the “Good- window sounded BOMme touch went GRE away about time sun-up you have your have d the ment attention to ERB Irie after when should be saw crumotea away, fallen down around him, a wreck so com- plete that no shred or splinter of it was worth the picking up; saw him- self disgraced and discredited. hated and ridiculed throughout the length and breadth and circumference of the very earth he had meant to rule; saw himself discarded by the strong men whom he had inveigied into this futile scheme and saw himself forced into commercial death as wolves rend and devour a crippled member of their pack; last, he saw himself loathed in the one pure breast he had sought to mako his own; and that was the deep est hurt of all; for now, in the bright blaze of his own conflagration, he saw that, beneath his grossness, he loved her, after all, loved her love which, if he had shorn it of dross, might perhaps have won her Through all that day he sat at desk, and when the night time again, he walked out of the house, across the field, and over the footbridge, under the willow tree the still beckoning arms; and world, his world, the world he meant his own, never him the tiny the {0 muke HAW again CHAPTER XXVIIL A Matter of Conscience. Cail stood at the rail the White cap, gazing out over the dancing blue with troubled eyes. “Penny for your thoughts.” possibly Dick blue and other of The im Rodley jacket nautical em handsome up, in trousers bellishments, “The news “It's so Dick looked was his whits the big.” down in paper,” she at her critically Gail to Li thi worried, Baw, She wan B80 New and rather th mn puzzied, too, an that Dow He it is big and anyone “Y as, big News qnough starting impress very gr at about it, wok his head iI't Worry ip her eyes ined nt ok this bigness of the little painful. A t off suffers man who tears uick Mormaver er big borror which filed and numb that in his ruthless was any place for r of himself at But Viags stu He known sImOrge, The World He Had Meant His Own Never Saw Him Again. writhings no outerios calmly and clearly all he and all which had happened to him in retribution He saw the Heo He saw his fortune, to the last penny, swept away, for he had in bis business and his i 4 of the International Transportation company, bearing this portion of the financial burden himself, as part of the plan by which he meant to obtain ultimate control and command of the tremendous consolidation, and become the king among kings, with the whole world in his imperious grasp, a BWAY larger than that of any potentate who had ever sat upon a throne, larger than the sway of all the monarchs of earth put together, is iarge terrostri- ally as the sway of (Jod himself! All ated ans primanded Foslands where: ho de of wnich might Fosland in d« Rpt who had wettling that tir finitely ethics of ny he the “The question to form to the liberty of the we the progress of civilization.” “The didn't enough,” 8 Jim Sargent Haverman, Grandin, Chisholm: these fellows touched, and they built up monopolies by the same method son proposed; trickery, force plain theftl™ “Harsh tanguage, Uncle Jim Sar gent, to use toward your respectable fellow vestrymen,” chided Arly, her black eves dancing “Clark and Chisholm?” and Jim Sar gent’'s brows kootted. : “They're not my fellow-vestrymen. Either they go proposed menace destruction RO napped Vance, Taylor, be won't their Alli and “I would like you to remain.” etly stated Rev. Smith Boyd. “I hope to achieve several important altera tions in the ethics of Market Square He was grave this morning He had unknowingly been ripeniug for some time on many questions; and the revelations in this morning's pa- pers had brought him to the point of decision. “I wish to drive the money changers out of the temple,” he added. and glanced at Gall with a smile in which there was acknowledgment. “A remarkably lucrative enterprise, eh Gail?" laughed her Unele Jim, re membering her criticism on the ocean. sion of her first and only vestry meet. ing, when she had called their atten. tion to the satire of the stained-glass window, “You will have ntill the seribes and pharisees, doctor; ‘those who stand praying in the public places, so they qui may be seen of all men,” aud Gall smiled across at him, the mischievous twinkle which been absent for many days “I hope to be able to remove public a gravity which told of something vi tal beneath the appareut repartee, Mrs. Boyd, strolling past with Aunt Grace Sargent, paused to look at him fondly. strength as | may heave, against building of the proposed cathedral.’ “Don’t be foolish, Boyd” protes Sargent, who had always felt a father ly responsibility for the young rector “It's a big ambition and a worthy to build that cathedral, you're offended with things the papers have said, Clark and Chisholm in connection with church, is reason you off your nose to your f “It is not the p things which has determ recor thoughtfully It tened my acknowl am and be no should cut wee” iblicat ined moe” re merely has decision. To gin with, 1 was only a that sige now that It of vague, n such a voy awl very Lg ship. That when ficence, wonld pr wor ase might have been } cathedrals were the nificent bulldings ers every rich and glitt to religion then the however, magnif mag when was de. voted stick golden « nnected Alm has became enti; service ighty such ndor ympetition signification must entar with the lendor “You loyd,” remonsty his keen should that show Vhen gan to & you brougt who hadn’ BLITTs Do ning to Mra. Boyd He was He not coiled propo 8 to | derfu derful new rectory away The beautiful Mrz, Bovd ‘I am a trifle “My son has beer about it: but if he quishing the dream, it is wants sc wstoni y extreme relin he h more ia because ymething else vory mu while. 1 entirely plan for the new tepements” not understand laughed at her. She did fee! that there was affect ter and she was quite content Laughing with’ them, she walked on with Grace Sargent Gerald Posland drew chair "Do you know.” should lke very much member of your vestry.” “I'm glad you are interested,” re turned the rector, and producing a pencil he drew a white advertising they all why forward his observed. “I to become a he of tenement I have in mind,” and for the next half hour the five of them discussed tenement plans with great At the expiration of that time, Ted and Lucile and Dick and Marion came romping up, with the deliberate in. tention of creating a disturbance; and and Rev. Bmith Boyd, being whirlpool, wilked away for a rest “They tell me you're going abroad observed the rector, looking down at er and mother aré cosaug Up nex, week,” and she glanced up at the rec tor from undey her curving lashes, There was a short space of silence It was slmost as if these weary. “We shall miss you very much,” he told her, in all sincerity, They vorite rail space. he, tall, agile of graceful, broad-shouldered, limb; she, straight, lithe, Mrs and Mrs. 8S: them admirmgly, but Boyd irgent pas went on by with of a trace sadness, “I'm sorry hall be very a you Coming proud of vou," he were talking no to le * Gall nxious ave, replied. “1 to know are I'm ‘Thank They them on with your for returned new you it wechanically pressible sadness near, and yet apart Mori there was no YABE an inex They had come so far that they B80 they over, “new chance change. It which ca of was a matter of conse me between them, and it would widen they loved They ind it wie becz usd that they 1st stay Was a divergence which with And yet knew fit 19: Years mutually CHAPTER XXIX. A Vestry Meeting | a stratned atmos 3 from the first member present fell the tensic id Joseph GQ. ( hishe They meeting from the moment ¢ valked in with | Im nod to Rev. Emith Boyd idly the Ehlelding hi Yes, AaB was took the gent { places at hich Obes am Caplain guna and Those maining are “in the admiring senora, a cording i Wn account, at each of the two the rear rank” ith them for bo secondly, and admiration of birds And at x once high privates in ay pathy or iy and also by such rare caprained even thirdly them as being Youth's ing Companion Mair Demand Exceeds Supply During the ast lew years the expor tation of human pair from Japan nas increased to the point that the de mand for it now (ar exceods the ava able supply Especially when com pared with that of the average Euro pean. the pair of the Japanese woman is extremely ong, elastic, and strong which gives it superiority lor commer cial purposes The United States and France ofter the principal markets for the Orientm deaters. in Europe it i8 much useq for weaving purposes, the bair being bleached by chemical treatment, dycd in different colors, and subiequentiy woven with sill into ribbou materi ts and heavy (abrics suitable tor dra peries and upholstering. some oi which comirand prices of several bun mi ivninate, ——— D. ». vomywEy MTPORNEY .APALY mare Ba Poe Peed of Ovact Lous vw. 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