Show J ta A T T TP vhf fco LA DA bai I 1 8 ao 00 AJ i f r JL FIVE q jeordie jE ORdE randolph f c ald LILLIAN ER T IV icy D clr C A I 1 CORPORA vuly SYNOPSIS 9 at a vestry meeting of the market jare church gall sargent listens to la d discussion about the sale of the church tenements to edward na allison All lson local nicolon king onil and when naked asked tier her opinion of the church by rev llev smith boyd nays it Is apparently a lucrative business enterprise allison takes gail riding in lilal motor tar car when he suggests lie ho la is entitled to on the laurels of hla his mho asks the he A disturbing why gall finds cold 0 d digap in lie he eyes of rev llev smith boyd at EL a bobsled party aillston tells jim sargent that hat ills his now ambition Is 19 to conquer the world ile he starts a campaign for consolidation soli dation and control or of tho the entire transportation por Port tation atlon system of the world gall call bei becomes popular dillmon gains control 0 of orallia and at air angea ranges to absorb the vt darr court tenement property Y of malliet square church G gall 11 tel tells Is dayd that the ta thedral market square church proposes to bull build will bo be out of profits wrung from squalor at a of the alio seven financial magnates of the country 0 n n ry allison organizes the internal i 1 transportation company rev nev smith boyd wider undertaken undertake takes a galls galla spiritual in ruction find gall air unconsciously rives gives altison allison a hint that solves the vedder court problem for him slie she roes goes on an inspection trip in Alli sons new subway CHAPTER XII XI I 1 continued out in tire the open where the sun eun paled tho the electric lights of the car into sickly yellow up into tile the air peering into third story tenements and down narrow alleys aflutter with countless flapping pieces of laundry work then suddenly into the darkness of tile tha tunnel again then out on the surface or of country fields and dreary winter landscape to the terminal it was more cozy in the tunnel and they returned thero there for lunch suddenly there came a dull muffled report 1110 jlko the distant firing of a cannon then an all interval of silence an infinitesimal one in fit which tire tho car rap ran smoothly on and halt half rising they foo looked kodat at each other in startled questioning tio ning then their nil all at ai once came a stupendous roar as it if the world had split asunder a jolting and perking parking it a headlong stoppage a clattering and slapping and crashing and grinding deafening in its volume and with it all darkness blackness so intense that it seemed almost palpable to the touch I 1 there wits a single shriek and a nervous laugh verging merging on hysteria tho the shriek was from arly and the laugh from luclle lucile thore there was a cry from tile the forward end of the car as aa of sori someone lu in pain A mans mana yell ot of right fright greggory the general mafi manager A strong hand band clutched galls in the darkness firm reassuring the rector dont movel move I 1 it was the voice of allison All lson crisp harsh commanding anybody hurt tim corman the voice of age but otherwise steady its me called tom the motorman head cut a little arm bruised nothing bad gall allison again yes clear voiced with the courage which has no sex mrs afro teasdale mra afro fosland Pos land ted doctor boyd and so through the ho list everybody safe it is an accidental blast said the voice of allison All lson ile ho had figured that a concise statement of just what had bad happened might expedite organization we are below the fairmount Far mount ridge over a hundred feet deep and the tube has caved in ill on us there must be ba no waste of exertion dont move until I 1 find what electrical dangers there are A match flared up and showed the pale face of the engineer bending jover no matches ordered allison All lson wo we may need the oxygen lie he and the engineer made their way back into tho the parlor compartment they took up the door of the motor well in the floor and in a few minutes they replaced it from the sounds they seemed remarkably clumsy that much Is lucky commented allison All lson tile the next thing is to dig in front or behind wondered the engineer in front decided allison All lson tho the ex tas joslon came from that direction and has probably shaken down more of the soil there than behind but its solid clay in the rear and further out gall felt the rectors hand suddenly leave her own it had been wonderfully comforting there in the dark so eo firm and warm and steady he fie had not talked much to her just a few reassuring words in that low melodious voice which thrilled her ds did occasionally tho the touch of Alli sons hand band as did the eyes of dick rodley but she had rebelo received ed more strength from the voice of allason All lson lie he was big allison All lson a power a force a spirit of command she began for the first time to com comprehend his bis magnitude what have we to dig with the voice of rev smith doyd boyd and there was a note of ep eagerness gerness in it the benches up tn in front here yelled mccarthy and there was a ripping sound as aa he tore the seat beastrom from one of them pardon me it was the tae voice of the rector up in front the balance of you sit elt down and keep rested ordered allison All lson now also up in ill front mccarthy cCarthy Al boyd a and nd I 1 go cirill the long struggle began the girla grouped io seber tn in the back ot of the tha car moving but very little for there was much broken gloss glass about up in front the three men could be heard making an opening into tile the debris through tile the forward windows they talked a groat great deal at first strong capable callable voices they were interfering with each caell other then helping combining their strength to move heavy stones and the like then they were silent working independently or in effective unison tim corman was the possessor of a phosphorescent faced watch with 22 jewels on tile the inside and a ruby on tile the winding stem and ho he constituted himself timekeeper thirty minutes he bo called out its our shift tho the men crawled in from outside but they stayed in fit the front compartment tile tho air was growing a trifle close and they breathed heavily goodby good bood by girl called the gayly funereal voice of ted teasdale husband Is going to work another interminable wait while the air grow grew more stifling thero there was no further levity after lincoln and the motorman and mccarthy had come back for the condition was becoming serious some air must undoubtedly be finding its way to the car through the loose debris but the carbonic acid gas exhaled from a dozen dozed pairs of lungs was beginning to pocket and the opening ahead though steadily pushing forward displayed signs sign of lessening solidity they established shorter shifts now a quarter of an hour the men came silently in and out and as silently worked and as silently rested while the girls carried that heavy burden of hardest labor wal greggory was tile the first to give out then the injured motorman when their turns came they had not the strength nor tho the air in their lungs strong mccarthy was the next to join them the shifts had reduced to two of two men mail each by now ted and old tim and allison and the rector and these latter two worked double time their lips and their tongues were parched and cracking and in their periods of rest they sat motionlessly lessly facing each other with a wheeze in tho the drawing of their breath their stentorian breathing could be heard from the forward end of their little tunnel clear back into the car where the three girls were battling to preserve their senses against the poisonous gases which were now all that they had to breathe acting on the rectors advice they had stood up in the car to escape tire the gradually rising level of the carbonic gas stood as the time progressed with their mouths agape and their breasts heaving and sharp pains in their lungs at every breath arly dropped silently crumpling to the floor then a few minutes later luclle lucile and panic stricken by the thought that they had gone under gall gail felt her own senses reeling when suddenly looking ahead through eyes which were staring sho she saw a crack of blessed lichtl there was waa a hoarse cry from ahead I 1 the crack of light widened another one appeared some four feet to the right of it and gall already fancied that she could feet feel a freshening of the air she breathed with such tearing pain against the light of the openings two figures the only two which were loft left to work strove at first with the slow limp motions of exhaustion and then with the renewed vigor of approaching triumph silo she could d distinguish ting them clearly now by the light which streamed tn in the stocky strong figure of allison and the tall sinewy figure of tho the rector they were working frantically allison with hla his coat off and the rector with his bis coat and vest both removed and one sleeve torn almost entirely from his shirt ro hla his swelling biceps and a long red scratch galls senses were numbed so BO that they were reduced to almost merely optical consciousness so that she saw things photographically but even in her numbness silo sho realized that what she had thought a trace of weakness in the rector was only the grace which had bad rounded his strength the two figures bent inward toward each other there was a moment of mighty straining and then the whole center between the two cracks rolled away A huge boulder had barred the path and its removal let down a rush of pure fresh air from the ground above let down too a flond flod of dazzling light and in the curving under rim of the opening stood the two stalwart men who were the survival of the fitt estl tile the more mere instinct of self preservation drove gall forward with a cry toward the he source of that life itte giving air and she scrambled through the window and ran toward the two men they came hurriedly down to meet her and each gave her a band CHAPTER XIII gall dodges the spotlight immediately after had reached ho home in e from the accident to ID the subway and had been put to bed and given tea and had bad repeatedly assured tile doctor there was nothing the matter ith her they brought at her urgent request copies of 0 tile the extras which were already being yelled from 1 every street corner and down every quiet residence block the accounts were in the main more m 0 re or loss less accurate mccun at barring tile the fact that they started with the assumption that there hero had been one hundred in AIll Alli sons party all killed later issues however regretfully reduced the number of dead to forty six and finally none at which point they became more or less coherent and gave nit an exact list of the people who were there the cause ot of tho the accident and a most appreciatively accentuated acce situated ted history of the heroic work of abe men although she regretted that her picture had by this time crept into the public prints grouped with the murders and defalcations of tho the day she was able to overlook this personal discomfort as one of the minor penalties which civilization has paid for its progress like electric light bugs and electric fan neuralgia and an d the smell 13 trial of gasoline in the meantime tho the representatives ot of the gay and carefree care free and absolutely sol uncurbed metropolitan press were by no means discouraged by the fact that they had not been able to secure much except hectic imaginings digs from the exterior of the sargent house they were busy in every other othe r possible direction with the same commendable persistence which we observe a in an ant to drag a grasshopper up and down a cornstalk on the way home little miss piper of the morning planet a somewhat withered and puckered little woman who had sense enough to dress so as to excite nothing but pity quietly slipped on her ugly little bonnet with the funny ribbon bow in the back and hurried out to the magnificent residence of mrs birs phyllis northmore Worth more who loathed publicity and had photographs once a month for the purpose the result of that lighthearted light hearted and lightheaded light headed interview in which mrs afro 14 phyllls hyllis northmore Worth moro more by special request was not quoted suddenly sprang on the startled eyes of gall when she leaped through the sunday morning planet at eight next morning an entire page embellished in the center with a beautifully printed photograph to was devoted to the sensational beauty from the middle west around her were w a r a grouped gr d nine smaller photographs allison All lson dick rodley odley ll willis cunningham houston housto n van aloon rev smith doyd boyd a sallow youth who had danced with her bar three times a count wito who had said how do you do and sailed tor for europe and two men whom she had bad never met all these crack were classified under the general head of slaves to her witching smile and a big boxed ln in list was given in extremely black faced type stating in dollars and cents the exact value in the matrimonial ri market of each slave and the lively genius who had put together this symposium by a toweringly happy thought conceived in the very height of the rush hours totaled the whole and gave it as the commercial worth I 1 of galls beauty and charm it ran into thirteen figures including the dollar mark and the two ciphers tor cents when luclle lucile teasdale and arly fosland arrived at jim sargents Sar gents house bouse at ten and had been let in at the side entrance they found gall dabbing her eyes with a powder putt taken from a little black traveling bag which stood open at her side arlene was a second later than luclle lucile in clasping gall gail in her arms because she had to lift a traveling veil the two girls expressed their condolence and their horror of the outrage and volubly poured out more sympathy then they sat down and shrieked with laughter its too awful for words 1 gasped luclle lucile dut but it Is tunny funny too galls chin quivered there should be a law against such things silo she brokenheartedly broken heartedly returned in a voice which wavered and halted with the echoes of recent sobs ill put jhb planet out of business nasal stormed jim sargent stalking up and down the library with his fists cle clenched riched and his face purple ill bankrupt and he paused as he passed to reassuringly pat the shoulder of poor aunt grace who sat perfectly numb holding one thumb until the boric bone ached the press Is the palladium of our national liberty uncle jim drawled the soothing voice of ted ted you cant do a thing about it counseled gerald fosland a stiff look ing gentleman who never mado made a mistake of a speech pe ech or minner manner or attire shucks gall gaill suddenly remembered luclle lucile the big faulkner reception Is this week and your gown was to be so stunning dont go home mrs airs helen davies cast on her featherbrained feather brained daughter a glance of severe reproof have you no sense of propriety luclle lucile she warned gall very naturally cannot remain here under the circumstances it does great credit to liar her that immediately upon realizing this horrible occurrence she telegraphed to her mother without consulting any of us that she was returning 1 I just wanted to go home said gall call liar her chin quivering and her pretty throat tremulous with breath pent from sobbing blow over gall argued uncle jim tn in deep distress because she was going PO fo soon boon if she had only stopped long enough to pack up they might have persuaded herto stay just forget it and have a good time jim ordered the stern voice of aunt helen will you be kind enough to see if anyone is out in front certainly agreed jim wondering iby why his cifes sister was suddenly so severe 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