Show I 1 TH T H y DAVO G GRAHAM PM IMA of SOS cox em ao z CHAPTER XVI continued 1 I ovie one a lot to you matt he plead ed cd but I 1 vo ve done ou a gi gibat eat many favors haven ha ventI t I 1 that aou ou have bob I 1 cordially agreed agi eed iut but 1 this ion t a favor its business loll liou t ask iti it blacklock Dlack lock he cried I 1 ve loaned you more money now than the law allows anil and I 1 cant can I 1 let you have any moi e some one has been liang to and you ou ve been believing him said I 1 when I 1 say bay ray my request jon t a but business I 1 mean it I 1 I 1 cant can t let you have any more lie he repeated I 1 cant and down came lis fist in a weak violent gesture I 1 leaned for forward Nard and laid my day hand strongly on his arm in addition to the stock of this con tern cern that I 1 hold lu in my own onn name is said ild I 1 I 1 hold five shares chares in ili the name of a man mail whom boboly knows that I 1 yven even know if you don t let me have the money that man goes to the dis brict attorney with that lands ou lit in the penitentiary that puts your company out of business and into bankruptcy before to morrow noon I 1 saved sou aou three beals ago and got you this job against just such an emer emergence genc as this thin dob bob core and by god auta boull 11 toe the markl mark but we ve haven I 1 t done an anything abing that eter evor bank in town doean doesn t do every da dai doean doesn t hive have to do it we dida didn t lend money to dummy borrowers bono bori and accounts our customers would go they could get accod that s true enough said I 1 but I 1 in in a position for the moment where I 1 need ray my friends and they ve got to come to me it if I 1 don t get the money front from 5 ou III get it elsewhere but ovir the cliff with you and sour bank the laws you ve been violat ing may be bad toi foi the practical bank ing business but the re mighty good for punishing ingratitude and eo ile he sat there yellow and pinched and shivered eil every now and then lie he anade tie no reply presently I 1 shook his arm impatiently ilia eyes met mine and I 1 taxed them eidl tin im to pull tb through rough but it if F arv eren t I 1 d see to it tit t you were ere protected come your answer answers friend or ti aitor send round in the morning and feet th tha mone said lie he putting on a re barned hopeless hop pless look I 1 laughed feel easier if I 1 take it now I 1 replied well we II 11 fix ax up the notes and checks at once but it a too late he be said loll 1011 on cant can t deposit today to day I 1 made special with v ith them I 1 replied ills face betrayed beti ayed him I 1 saw that at no biage of that proceeding had I 1 ben been wiser than lit in shutting off his last chance to evade what scheme lie he had in mind I 1 don t know and can x i till agine hut bilut lie he had thought out probably pio bably something tool ob lih tl at woul I 1 have given me trouble wit without timit diving him A foolish ruan man an n it a tight aa alce ice Is ia as ah foolish as ever and nd coley was a foolish man inan only a roof fool commits ci lines thit that put hini him lit in the powei of others rhe bilmes of the really bil or of In dusti and generals genei als of finance aie of the kind that puts othis in their power duck up coley said bald I 1 ho DO bolij think I 1 ili the man to shut a ri filand till in the he hold of a sinking still ship I 1 lell ell me who told ou oil I 1 wis w is choit on textile one of my men dirien he aloa bloch ii as lie he himself together alch I 1 VeIls pel slated tedi fur for I 1 van teil to know jupt how fit the was like to llo ile seemed to I 1 ie e thinking out it a lie the file tint anith lil I 1 commanded I 1 know now it wil lInt have been one of your men inen who was it ita III not give y xi aw awa a it was aas lo lc i langdon he finally sald said I 1 checked an exclamation of amusement I 1 had bad been assuming that I 1 had been beti aed by some one of those lilly alln that so BO often throw the best plans into confusion tom landon Lani dou I 1 said sadil call it mas as lie he that bained me it was a fil endly act said loi lobey ey ile he and I 1 are ver intimate and he t know how close ou on and I 1 are 0 I 1 that 3 iou on call my loans did be hebi I 1 went on you blame him kluck really you yea t sald coley par ear festl Y for lit h wits a pi off y good friend to those he liked as friendship goes in finance it he happ happened enod to har you virtlow the langgons Lang dona dons keep a sharp wat wa h ou on in their stock and he dropped in to ED warn me as a friend loud do the slime same thing lu in the le same earne circumstances ile he dian didn t stiv ea a word about my luy calling your luat li to tea ba frank I 1 instantly thought of it roya anya 11 I 1 intended to do it when iou w camy came but a sickly mile eyon yon anticipated me 11 1 I understand said I 1 good hu stio 1 I don loaa bla bia blame me him blin and I 1 alda t aben after I 1 had completed TOV business at the national I 1 went ent back to my office and gat bid to together kether the threads of my aeb of defense I 1 lien I 1 ciote and sent out tu to all my biens papers and alt all toy agents a against the maciag ment of the textile dinst it would lie be tn in the coining lit in rood good time thile foi the opening of the stock exchange before the first quotation of textile could bo be made thousands on oil thousands of Inea Ime toia anti anil the he coun kiy mould haie hae read rad my iny letter would be believing tivit tint matthiew Matt liew had bad detected the textile trust lit in a stock jalbing am swindle indle and ilda promptly aptly guined it ring to heep falth faith with ills hla s and ith tho the public As I 1 it ad over my p aloud bt foi e sending it out I 1 found la in it a note or of conti deuce dence that cheated tile me mightily I 1 ni even sti than I 1 tb thought ought said I 1 and I 1 felt stion gei still as aa I 1 went on oil I 1 10 0 picture the thousands on thou sands and s throughout the lind talling lalli liiK at day call to gie battle ANITA BEGINS TO BE HERSELF I 1 had asked sam Ull ersly to din dine with ith me so BO vaa as I 1 that thai not until ten minutes beffie beffi e the hour set did he be come into my iny mind lie he or any of hla family even his sister bister my ally flint was to send woid that I 1 couldry t keep keel tile the hut but I 1 just dine somewhere I 1 deflected and thebes e s no I 1 eason nit why by I 1 t dirie dine with ith hini him since bince ive I 1 ve done every thing that hat can lie done in ili iny office suite I 1 had bad a bath and di casing room with a completo complete wardrobe chua 1 hus b hurrying a little over my any toilet and bv snaking ni mi chauffeur the speed limit I 1 was mas at only tenta minutes late sam who bot had bad been lite late also as usual was having baving A i cock cocktail tall and was 01 deilnn the he dinner I 1 smoked a cig adette and watched him at business oi 01 at ani thing serious his mind was till all but but tit at dinner anti and things of that hat sort he shone rhose small email mccomi ot of his had often moved me ine to a sol t of lilt ing contempt as it if one savi a man mail of talent devoting himself to engrav ing abe th lord a pra prater er on gold dollars hint ahat evening however as I 1 saw how comfortable and contented he be looked with vi ith not a care in the world orld since he vaas wa 6 to hive a good dinner and a good cigar afterward as aa I 1 saw how nuch much genuine pleasure he h was getting out of selecting the dishes anti and ahing the waiter later malnate directions tor fot the chef I 1 duried him fou must come over to ray my rooms after dinner and give me some me music I 1 aard claua aliu lie be replied but ive to go home and play bridge mother s got a few in to and moie aiole are coming coining afterward aft erit ard I 1 believe then III go with you and talk to our she dopart doan 1 t olry lle lie glanced at we 1110 in ID a way ay eliat made me ine pass my liana land over my taw face I 1 learned at least part of the reason for mi 1 fealing ai a disadvantage before him I 1 lad had oUen to shave and aa my illy livain to la beava and black it has to bo be looted looked after tv twice ice a day oh I 1 can call stop at my rooms and get my daae into condition in a few sald I 1 and put lint on evening darst darsi too ho he sugg slig geste estol I 1 toil I 1 ell wouldn t w want ant to go in a dinner lacket I 1 can cant t say why this was tho the last straw but it was hother bother sald eald I 1 my common sense smashing lashing IL the spell of snobbishness that had bad begun to 0 o leasa je assert ert itself as soon its as I 1 got into his unnatural un tin healthy here III 0 10 lo o as I 1 am braid and all I 1 only make myself ridiculous trying to bo be a sheep I 1 ira a froat and a goat stay that shut him into himself nhen hen lie he it merged it was to say some thing doing doa down n tou town n to bodny adly ell eh A sharpness in ills his voice and in hla his eyes eyen too mado made me put my mind on him birn moio moi e c lost ly and then I 1 saw what I 1 should have seen beffie that be was moody and slightly distant sc S en toni tom Lai lanfgdon lldon this after noon noona I 1 asked carelessly lie colored les w had lunch with nith him was his bla answer I 1 stif smiled fled for his benefit aha thou feht I 1 so toni tom langdon has been foot fool enoi ihli to take this pa roquet into ills hta confidence then 1 said to him Is rom foin making tile the lounds daining the he lats to leave the sinking IN hat do N ell u mean matta maff lie he de amandd d its as it r had accused him I 1 looked at him and I 1 imas imag ins file my unshaven j iw did not make my aspect hat ti id tom say about me met I 1 alred indu inquired oil oh almost nothing we were talk ing chiefly of of club matteis he lii in a fair imitation of hla his usual offhand manner ahen hen dots dot a my any name come up there I 1 said ila he flushed and shifted I 1 was just about to tell you he stammered hut but apt sou know knewt t g C I 1 x I 1 ay ta rill 1 A I I 1 TOOK I 1 IF r AS THOUGH I 1 IN ERE AFRAID THE NN br BE BRO kl an know liate that t aront told ou lie has mith withdrawn drawn and boull auh have to get another second it if ion 0 I 1 think that Is unless a oll I 1 ell suppose appose 3 aoud ou it have told me it if soud changed our reind since I 1 had bad become so BO deeply inter ested in anita my ambition amb amba atlon to join the travelers had bad a all 11 but dropped out of my mind I 1 had forgotten about it said I 1 hut but now that ou oil remind me ine I 1 want my nanie name it was A as a pissing fancy it was part and parcel of a lot of bilanin I 1 ve been indulging in for the last few months hut but ie T e come to ma m senses and it its a mo me to the ellid ald where I 1 belong sini sim my from this time on lie he looked tremendously relieved and a little too I 1 thought I 1 aias as reading him like an illuminated sign he P r eager to keep friends with me though I 1 until bee he a abac cutely sure cure there a nothing more in it foi him and ills his people and II if at guess was vi as a good one it la Is not to the discredit of my shrewdness that I 1 dian didn t see it was riot not hope but fear that made him try 0 to o placate n e then hat bat the langgons Lang dons ban done but sammy was wan saying in his bis filen dif est eat tone what the matter matte old man youre you ie now tonight to night digh nei er in a better humor I 1 as a suied glied him and as I 1 spoke the words they came cam true na hat I 1 had been say ay ing about the Trave travelee Tra veleia lei a and all it rep res resented tented all the snobbery and ing and rotten pretense pre tenso m final and absolute of it all acted on me nit n te artie otan an 11 1 act en 1510 the follows follow s that used to ti go I 1 up to tb mouin cis benc bench li at lie I 1 felt as it I 1 had suddenly a from fro the parlor of 0 a dive and its stench ot of sickening perfumes into the pure air of oc god a heaven heanen I 1 signed the bill and we went ent afoot up the avenue a denue sam as I 1 saw with a rood good doal deal of amusement was as etting to devise sonic subtle tactful way ay ot of attaching hla his poor clunis little sue to the well of my secret thoughts thought a hat is it samino said I 1 at last what hat do vou want to know that ou oil re afraid to ask tile me nothing lio lie said hastily till im only a bit about about sou on and halt this in the tone ot of deep emotion we deseive lor for the attempt to luio jule fi lends into confining that about ahr themselves which will liva ua Is tile the opportunity to pity them and it if necess essit ii to sheer off aiom them matt I 1 do hope A ion oil haven t been hard hit hir not vet said bald I 1 easily chy our tears and put awai sour laack clothes othea cl ayour your fiend toni tom langdon was mas a lit lib tie pie matino I 1 till I 1 in afield lie ive allion ou a atno impression sam continued with an overe ngoi ness to con convince ince lit me that did not attract my attention at ho time toni tom acioly said I 1 heir Is ili loaded up with textile tint that was all A ear elwi I 1 beally dicent think of it again until I 1 saw aou ou looking so eo black md and aluni that enough so I 1 chaired the subject As ve anve entered ent eiert ills his house i said eaid it not ot go it up 1 to the it drawing raa ing room malta make my excuses to bour mother will III into the lettla smoking loom t heie let e tell your sister and say bay I 1 im in going to stop only a mo ment sam had just left me gilhen w hen the butter butler came mr air hall I 1 think that ww mail the name sir to speak to sou on the telephone I 1 had agven s as ono one of the places at which I 1 raight might be found should it bo be necessary to consult ma line I 1 followed the burlei to the ho telephone closet dundei the main stairway As aa soon as dall ball made suie sine it was waa 1 I its be began IN III uge the code words I 1 ive ve lust just seen real less as you told me to F c at less I 1 that hat m waa as M itchell my epy apy in the employ of tan Tavla istock tock who m was as my principal rival in the business ot of confidential bro brokerage keinge for tho the a I 1 yes said I 1 what does lie he say 1 1 I I 1 here I ere has been a great deal ot of heavy bu buying ing for a month then my dread was waa ix veil ell founded textiles were to bo be deliberately rock eted 1 lie ho s been doing it I 1 asked I 1 ile ho found out only this afternoon its it a been kept unusually daik it who inho ho I 1 demanded intrepid he answered intrepid that la Is langdon mow alow blay badon i the whole thing was nas planned carefully continued dail ball mad and 1 Is coming off according to schedule pearless overheard oveil leard a final a brothel brought front from bini today so it was A his no mischance it was A as an am assassination moni mowbray bi ay langdon had stabbed me in the back and fled did sou hear what I 1 said asked pall a la Is that you yes I 1 oil oh came in a rell relieved eved tone giom riom the other end of the it lie you yott were so BO long in that I 1 lit I 1 d been eon cut off ana an instructions Instruction sl no said I 1 good by I 1 heard him I 1 ling ing off but I 1 fiat eat there for minutes the ic celver eiver still to nia in ear I 1 was muttering lang don langdon why why vi w hy by I 1 again and agton na hy had lie ha guined against me why had lie he plotted to destiny nie me one of those plots so frequent in wall street where the ali ansas assas sin steals up tip delivers tho the moi coital in blow and steals away vIlt without hout ever being detected or even I 1 saw the whole hole plot lowi now I 1 understood lorn I 1 otia langdon a activities I 1 recalled mow alow bi baay ay I 1 langgons lang anadon dons a cut ceilous lous phrases and looks and tones hut why iti why iby now how was waa I 1 in ills his wayt it was 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