CHAPTER XVIi—(Continued.) — Fen On the day following the hindering concrete fallure at the dam, Smith gave still more color to the charges of his detractors in the business field, Those whose affairs brought them in contact years older and harder, boody harshly dictatorial, relsome; a man who seemed to have parted, in the short space of a single bilities which he had shown to such a marked degree in the reorganizing and refinancing of the irrigation project. finance on the toboggan slide, at last,” was the way in which Mr. Crawford Stanton phrased it for the bejeweled lady at their luncheon in the Hophra cafe. “Kinzie is about to throw him over, and all this talk about botch- work on the dam is getting his goat. They're telling it around town this morning that you can’t get near him without risking a fight. Old Man Back- us went up to his office In behalf of a bunch of the scared stockholders, threw him out bodily—hurt him pretty savagely, they say.” The large lady's accurately penciled eyebrows went up in mild surprise, “Bad temper?" she queried. “Bad temper, or an acute attack of ‘rattleitis;’ you can take your choice. I suppose he hasn't, by any chance, quarreled with Miss Richlander over- night ?7—or has he?” The fat lady shook her diamonds, “I should say not. They were at lunch- eon together in the la ordinary as “I came down a few minutes ago." Thus the partner of Crawford Stan. ton's joys and sorrows. But an invis ible onlooker In the small dining room above-stairs might have drawn other Smith and the daughter Lawrenceville magnate had a small table to themselves, and if the talk were not precisely quarrelsome, it leaned that way at times, dies’ conclusions. of the “I have never seen yon quite so bru- tal and impossible as you are today, Montague. You don't like the same man. Arg you going to reconsider and take me out to the Baldwin ranch this afternoon?” “And let you parade me there as your latest acquisition ?—never in this world I" “More brutality. Positively getting me into a frame of which Tucker Jibbey will seem blessed relief. Whatever do pose has become of Tucker?” “How 1 I know?” “If he in last you had met him—as I asked you to— in such heavenly temper you are indulging now, I might think you had murdered him.’ It doubtless that Smith, reaching for the salad oll, gl But neans accon seem you are mind In like a you sup- shoul¢ had come night, Hind as any sheer accident at the moment overturned his water small accident by no nted for the sudden gray- ing of his face under the Timanyoni win for that or for the shaking hands with which he seconded the wait- er's anxious efforts to repair the dam nin, the momentary trepidation had given to a renewed hardness that lent a biting rasp to his volce, “Kinzie, the suspicious old banker that I've been telling you about, is de- termined to run me down,” he changing the subject abruptly. got it pretty straight that he is plan- ning to send one of his clerks to the Topaz district to try and find your fa- ther, in the hope that he will tell what he knows ab#ut me.” “Does this Mr. Kinzle know where father Is to be found?” “He doesn’t; that's the only hitch.” was by aA%s, the age. When they were alone ag nace table was level-eyed. taguer in this fight you are making, If you'd only let me,” she suggested. “I'll fight for my own hand,” was the grating rejoinder. “I can assure you, right now, that Kinzie’s messenger will never reach your father—alive.” “Ooh!” shugddered the beauty, with a little lift of the rounded shoulders, “How utterly and hopelessly primitive! native, I have a map of the mining district, you know. Father left it with me—in ease I &hould want to commu nicate with him.” Smith looked up with a smile which was a mere baring of the teeth, “You wouldn't get in a man's way with any fine-spun theories of the uiti- mate right and wrong, wonld you? You wouldn't say that the only great man is the man who loves his fellow men, and all that?” Again the handsome shoulders were lifted, this time in cool scorn. “Are you quoting the little ranch per- son?" she inquired, Then she answered his query: “The only great men worth speaking of are the men who win. For the lack of something better to do, I'm willing to help you win, Montague, Most naturally, I am the one who wontd know where my father Is to be found, And I have changed my mind about wanting to drive to the Bald whi... We'll compromise off the play-—- if there is o play.” “There is a play, and I have the “Merci!” she flung back. “Small favors thankfully recelved, and large ones in proportion; though it's hardly a favor, this time, because I have paid for it In advance. Mr. Kinzie's young man came to see me this morning." “What did you do?” “] gave him a tracing of my and he was so grateful it made me want to tell him that it was all wrong; that he wouldn't find father map, “But you didn't!” “No; I can play the game, seems worth while” Smith was frowning thoughtfully when he led her to the elevator alcove. “My way would have been the surer,” he muttered, half to himself. jJarbarian!" she laughed; then: “To think that you were a ‘debutantes’ darling!” Oh, yes; 1 know it was Carter Westfall who sald it first, but it was true enough to name you instantly for all Lawrenceville,” when it and once ao CHAPTER XVIL |" The Megalomaniac. Sixty-odd hours before the expiration of the time limit, Bartley Williams, lean and somber-eyed from the strain he had been under for many days and nights, saw the president's gray road ster plowing its way through the mesa sand on the approach to the construc- tion camp, and was glad. “I've been trying all the morning to squeeze out time to get into town,” he told Baldwin, when the roadster came to a stand in front of the shack com- missary. “Where is Smith?” The coloned threw up his hand In a gesture expressive of complete detach- ment. “Don’t ask me loco In these last John has gone plumb two or three days. It's as much as your life's worth to ask him where he has been or where he is going or what he means to do next.” “He hasn't the engineer, possibility. +#Oh, no: he at It ever—going It just a strong. is what I'd tell him, If he'd let me get near enough to shout at him Last night, after the theater, he went around to the Herald office, and the they're talking it on the street he was aiming to shoot up the whole joint If Mark Allen, the edi wouldn't take back a bunch of the he's been publishing about the Line. It wound up In a scrap sort. I don't know who got the worst of it, but John isn't crippled up any, to speak of, this morning—only in his temper.” Williams shook his head, "I guess ‘II have to stand for the grouch, if he'll only keep busy. He has the hot end of it. We couldn't very well get along without him, right now, colonel. | With all due respect to you and the | members of the bourd, he Is the fight ing backbone of the whole outfit.” “He is that” was Baldwin's ready admission. “He Is just what we've been eanlling him from the first, Bart. ley-—a three-ply, dyed-in-the-wool won- his specialty. He Is fighting now like a man in the last ditch, and he thinks he is in the Ipst said bare fig half aghast iting 7° the stopped at harder than shaving in 100 way new spaper tor, High of some oo we diteh.” “It will be only two days more” said the engineer, saying it as one who has been counting the in keen | anxiety. And then: “Stillings told me | yesterday that we're not going to get} an extension of the time limit from the state authorities.” “No: that little fire went out, blink, just as Smith said it would. Stanton's backers have the political pull—in the | days going to hold us to the letter of the | law.” “Let em do it. We'll win out yet— | if we don’t run up against one or both | of the only two things I'm afraid of | now : high water, or the railroad call- down.” “The railroad grab? Have you heard anything more about that?” “That Is what I was trying to get to town for: to talk the railroad business over with you and Stillings and Smith, ing-——a bunch of engineers, with a stranger, who gave his name as Hal | lowell, in charge. They claimed to be : squarely in thelr right of way for a bridge crossing of the river.” “They didn't serve any papurs on | you, did they? inquired the colonel | anxiously. “No: the notice was verbal. But Hallowell wound up with a threat. He sald. ‘You've had due warning, legally and otherwise, Mr. Willlams., This is our right of way, bought and paid for, as we can prove when the matter gets into the courts. You mustn't be sur prised if we take whatever steps may be necessary to recover what belongs to us" “Force? querfed the Missourian, | with a glint of the border fighter's fire in his eyes” “Maybe. But we're ready for that, cases of new rifles on a mo- tortruck yesterday, and had them sent out here?" “No “He did—and told me to say nothing about it. It seems that he ordered them some time ago from an arms agency In Denver. That fellow foresees everything, colonel” Dexter Baldwin had climbed into his car and was making ready to turn it for the run back to town. “If I were you, Bartley, I believe T'd ua dozen try word among as many of the men as I'll tell Smith—and Bob Stillings.” Colonel Baldwin saw the company's attorney, as soon as he reached Brew- ster. But Smith was not In his office, and no one seemed to know where he had gone, ‘The colonel shrewdly sus- ing another draft upon the secretary's and he sald as much to Starbuck, later in the day, when the mine owner sauntered into the High Line in this thing to win! You take eare of those options, Stillings; they're worth n million dollars to somebody. Lock 'em up somewhere and then for- get where they are, Now I'm going he fore I eat or sleep!” “Easy, John; hold up a minute!” the colonel broke in soothingly; and Stis lings, more practical, closed the offies door silently and put his back agalart it. “This is a pretty sudden counery, but there Is some sort of a limit, you know,” the big Missourian wen’ on. “What's your idea in going to #tan- “I mean to give him twelve hoars In which to pack his trunk and get out of Brewster and the Timanyop]. If he hasn't disappeared by tomors»w morn- ing— Stillings show to dumb quietly was signaling In Baldwin. He %had Baldwin saw wanted, and Immediately evitable cigarette, “Not any, this time, colonel” rebuttal. was trees, Rich-dollars is over at the hotel. her at iuncheon with the Stantons less than an hour ago.” “You haven't seen Smith, “No: but I know out in the country, somewhere, taking the air in Dick Maxwell's runabout. I wanted to borrow the wagon and Dick told me he had already it to Smith.” “We're needing him,” ss ly, and then he told Starbuck of development in the paper- railroad scheme of obstruction, From that the talk drifted to a dis cussion of Kinzie's latest attitude. By this time there had been an alarming number of stock sales by small hold all of them handled by the Brew- City National, and it was plainly ident that K had finally gone over to the enemy and was buying-—as ply possible-—for some unnamed customer. "ly us out where he Is, myself, lent short ers, ster ey inzie chen ns they by finis franchise only in the round-up,” sald the colonel dejectedly. “I've talked until but you can't talk marrow in pty bone, Billy. I used to think we had a fairly go od bunch of men in with us, but in these last few days I've been changing my mind at fox- trot." The time keep it up, they can Wear littles, and we'll break our shing the dam and saving to turn It « necks the them ver to hoarse, to an en u remainder of the day, when the offices were up to the clozing and making ready without incident. continued St - the go to g In colonel was home, Smith's passed shsence irbuck “I'm Going to Hunt Up Mr. Crawford Stanton.” had offered to go to the dam to stand a night watch with Williams against a possible surprise by the right-of-way the lights, “That last lot of steel and cement vouchers was made out yesterday, he sald, slipping the rubber band from a file of papers in the desk. If you'll take time to sit down here and run ‘em over, and put your name ‘em, I'll hold Martin long enough to get the checks In tonight's mail. I'll be back after a little.” Smith dragged up the president's big swivel chalr and planted himself in it, and an instant later he to everything save the on the vouchers, let himself out, and when the followed him, the lawyer closed the door of the private office, nnd edged Baldwin into the corrid« “We've mighty near got a mac to deal with in there, colonel whispered, when the two were earshot. “I was watching his eyes when he sald that about Stanton, and they fairly blazed. He's going to kill somebody, If we don’t look out.” Baldwin was shaking his head biously, “He's actin was lost columns of fig had colonel Stillings cautiously Tr, man he out of du- g like a locoed thorough bred that's gone outlaw,” he sald you reckon he's sure-enough or Bob?" “Only in the deal with the all to the That was been turned murder nerve, options shows that good on the smoothest the business trick that’ in any stage of this dodg- h the It sim- nawing gan ng fight wit big fellows, Kinzie's there rat-g were it ply knocks pe 1 ead, If who could calm Smith and bring him to reason near enough to him to dig his shell and get at the real man to he there he first hold with us—" “A woman?’ queried Baldwin, frown- g disapproval in antl n of SRT might be going to suggest “A for cholce, of course, 1 was thinking of FyOung woman the Hophra House; anybody with half an eye that good grip on him. Sup go across the street and give an invitation to and missionary work mith, level-headed and sensible take it the way it's Siting was a | and scrupl but the had just reopartion to his Southern and breeding. “I don't like to drag a woman it, any way or shape, Bob" he tested : and he would have gone that he had good lieve that Miss Richlander's influence ht not be at all of the but Stillings cut only somebody down a little ~gomebody down under that used when took ipatio whe woman r at CAN See a pretty We she has IwiNe i her come little 8 do n on She looks enough to meant.’ had no them In birth awyer colonel into pro- on to he. reason to him petitioning for an injunction, came up “The judge has taken It under ad- visemment, but that Is as far as he would go today,” said the lawyer. “It's a bold steal, of course. I'm and I can't arm®l resistance. Just the I hope Williams has his nerve with him.” “He has: and 1 haven't lost mine vet,” snapped a volee at the door; and Smith came In, dust-covered and swar- grasslands, Out of the pocket of his driving coat he drew a thick packet of papers and slapped it upon the drawn- down curtain . of Baldwin's desk. “There you are,” he went on gratingly. “Now you can tell Mr, David Kinzie to go straight to blazes with his stock- he puts Into It, the more somebody's going to {lose ! “John !~~what have you done?’ de- “I've shown ‘em what it means to go up against a winner !” was the half- triumphant, half-savage exultation. ing banker of yours that will last him for one while! options, at par, on enough High Line stock to #wing a clear majority Kinzie should buy up every other share there is outstanding. It has taken me all day, and I've driven a thousand miles, but the thing is done.” “But, John! If anything should The the evidently “There need be no ‘dragging.’ young woman doubtless business situation ; she knows Smith a whole lot better than we do, It's a chance, and we'd better try it. He's good for half an hour or #0 with those vouchers” (TO BE CONTINUED knows MUSIC NEED 0 OF FIGHTING MEN instruments Brings Cheer to Troops and Is Just as Necessary as Ammunition, “The blare of the trombone, shrill note of the piccolo and the drums blending with other band In. struments in a military organization give cheer to the men with the guns and is just as necessary as ammuni- tion,” says Charles H. Parsons of New York. the those of the vaudeville stage, when “There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight' was sald to have led troops to the capture of San Juan hill, The old Civil war melodies having the swing of march eadence were first of all, ‘Dixie; probably used, at least hummingly, by the soldiers of North, as those who followed ‘Stars and Bars." And it is worth while to recall that ‘Dixie’ was the most popular of all the the old-time songs during the war of 1808, “Canned music will give to the boys " added Mr. Parsons. “The phonographic records will cheer many groups. And they will have programs provided by the | stars of the operatic world and other | on those options, . . . break the last man of us!™ pee pen 1” was the gritting rejoinder. “I've told you both a dozen times that I'm To Mark Light Switches. 80 that electric light pull switches ean be found in dark rooms there has | been Invented a glass pendant filled with a substance absorbing light in | the daytime and becoming luminous at night, ———————— Lines Will Fall Straight From Shoulder to Heel in the New Models. House and Evening Gowns Will Touch | the Floor—High Collar to Re. place the Low One Now Worn. New York-~What the next few weeks holds for us In the way of fash- ions, not more than two dozen people | in the world know. These are the! French designers, who guard their ge- | crets carefully and establish around This new type of sport coat is of white Jersey cloth trimmed with bands of black and white plaid jersey. The buttons are black, so is the sleeve lin. ing. that thelr workrooms a detective force has much French police sy in common with the stem, Women who wanted to skets that to be to the pm in a few days have been caugl locked up in a dark roon the as though mon criminal All the pr and they are the stranger, to punish an o a of a house without h Be wns were shown bile houses th in the act, French |] and terroriz are called be ffender who tries to gown French permission. There are leaks, he great French we is caught wesses of the severe to into gn from a desig from WRIooms, ns well as rom our departm Washington. Somehow, knows the truth. Rumors From Paris, The things that been to find out are interesting. They prove true. The it be slim and tight just De low the waist- line, around the hips, and there will be no flare from shoulder to instep. Coats are cut to the hipline and are either bound in with fur or embroid- ered cloth, There is no attempt to curve garments in at the waistline. There no attempt to flatten the fabrics against the figure in order to outline the anatomy beneath. The cloth will hang in a straight line from the shoulder to the girdie at the hips thereby giving a well-known Oriental silhouette that has and gone | through the fashions recurring | cycles, i Skirts will be exceedingly for walking, and for the evening they | will be long and in flowing lines that do not flare, but cling to the figure in the fashion of the Orient, House gowns and evening gowns will touch the floor and cover the toes in front, swirling out into greater length at the back. The high collar, it is sald, will re- place the low one. The decolictage that is expected is the straight, Italian line of the fifteenth century, used in men’s costumery as well as women's. In opposition to this is the high, straight collar tha} does not fit under the chin, thereby causing an ugly roll of flesh, but flares upward and out. ward, It is the collar that Sarah Bernhardt made famous more than a quarter of a century ago. These collars are shown on shirt- | waists and one the bodices of formal | and informal frocks. The immense | handkerchief collar of the Revolution | will be put on coats, Sp rumor Says, and the deep, delta decolletage adopt ed in the American Revolution will ba used on dinner and restaurant gowns. | Plentiful Use of Fur. No cable from Paris excludes the word fur. If gne can judge by these | forerunners of what is to happen, such | as rumors, personal letters and cables, the animal world will be sacrificed to | clothe women. No one can tell where all the skins come from, but it is said | that in Paris every designer is lavish- | ing fur on costumery as though it were as plentiful as grass, { The few coat suits that will be shown, so the cables say, will be half | fur and half cloth. Entire short coats | of fur bound around the hips in the | new way will be offered with knife | plaited or hox-piaited skirts of cloth | or velvet, i One-piece gowns will have old-fash. | IWOTer, ents in somebody ghle may we have will tte, is sald, pew silhous ie is come in narrow | front by broad straps that around the waist, Capes of fur lined with velvet or | satin will have deep waistcoats in front that hold them securely to the wrap —— figure, sna ine skirt beneath will be plain or plalted. It 1g definitely sald that the exten which of umbrella What or jupe worthless, goes drapery Is known as tonnean, will The ex under the name be abolished, melon skirt, dismissed as will the who flat, persuaded Egyptian hem, thelr p ski atrons to buy sited from now receive a it ig sald, will re- of fashion and rts, pli should because, garments height Alexandrian at the of the pleture, Will Brocades Be Worn? A fashion reporter who was at the remarkably successful fabric exposi- recently held In Lyons, France, gives a bit of most Interesting news concerning the introduction of bro. cade, It is this: That the most ex- quisite brocade with an unus sign has already been made at Lyons for Mme. Polncaire, wife of president of the Fre nch republic, t warn his brocade $ design is not allowed to be tion sual dee the the Q be when peace is declared. is closely rded and i pied, belleve haif brocads held of WOT Woven for the weaving the nnacle master Weavers of 1 YOns, It is said : iia EXCIUN tired f urcniase of aii ies that the has mnkers end cire il if brocade of rranged for by ndividuals of px been a YW OT Paris. Another new silk at Lyons and wl beautiful is called La § It Is which ich is & $ fry £0 €In ifices tl and and women's aN } Fashions That Follow the Army. ger in good » tO Wear any esembles " - py FF fi unt is no lo consi ng th That ational costumery has rtunate in our ised by, iz in g ow, ont and to taste t wear a dark red; a blue awning skirt er above it; but the Sa line it with white striped ! may a red sweat about of the nation! colors nent are to i 1 blood of thousands who are fighting for an ideal, i} filling sacrifices women who pushing their men forward on the ith of that ideal to when they of ire i 2 ism, Is too vulgar 3 rmissible however, other fashions, mt have noth- There are that follow the arn ing to do with — Mere is a pretty redingote in plaid it is made ef fine voile in gray, with It is of plain gray voile. Revers and chemi. sette of white voile trimmed with <e. rise, sult, for Instance, that has a West | Point skirt and an Annapolis jacket, fastened with brass buttons patterned | after those of the English admirsity, | fashion. The white duck tam-o'shanters pad terned after those worn by the mer of the navy, the dark blue flannel mig. dy blouses laced with white cord and | finished with white and blue pique col {lars have nothing objectionable about | them, (Copyright, 157, ny the MoClure Newspa- per Byndionte) To Wash Black Silk. To wash black silk brush and wipe it | thoroughly, lay it on a flat table with | the side up which Is intended to show | and sponge with hot coffee, strained through musiin. Allow it to hecome partially dry, then ron. -
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