Show vav adt PLUM PL UM T IR E Z by DAVID 4 I 1 PHILLIPS P athor os ol the cost the deluge etc copyright ted 1200 by ANT ima continued from dec 2111 21 1 I tried rot not to show the nervousness th this Is announcement stirred binl afraid ind find our rather un uncomfortable was all I 1 said mother and I 1 had not spread much c sail to our temporary gust ot of prosperity and the he storm began to gather she straightway close reefed beefed thanks but I 1 cant stop with you this tinne time said lie he ini im making an inspection of the power trusts prop estios and ive got mother and sister along we re living in the private v ate car the company gives me for the tour on oil to tell how since his fathers boath he had been forced I 1 into responsibilities and w was as among many mant ether things a member of the he pow power trusts executive committee soon came the inevitable question and how are you getting on so so implied 1 I not too well jui ju juit t at the present I 1 was beaten aou oa know and have to go back to my practice in january wish aou ou lived in my palt pait of tile the state said ho he but the ramsay company anything flown down here ile ho reflected a moment then beamed 1 I can get aou oa the legal busi business riesa of the potter enist if you want it he said their lawyer lawer down dowil liero liere goes on oil the liene bench li you know lie was on the ticket that won roebuck wanted a good safe first class man on tho the bench in this circuit nat but he added nothing more about ib iho G power vacancy at lulashi Pul ashi true my first impulse imp also was that I 1 and accept also I 1 old myself it was absurd to imagine acy alky would consider we ine still I 1 fished to hear bear and his failure to return to the subject settled once biord choro the cloud his coining had lifted some chati ak 4 other was aras not well rell enough to have the at th the bove houlet abat even eyen ing fco I 1 dined with ifil i theal eberwin 11 car 5 mrs ramsay was the sams same pie silent ill at case cas person per sri I 1 had met a at the ann at agbor bor vornice rca probably the same that she hid ad been ever since her husbands wealth and her children s infection with new arlew tangled ideas had forced her from the plain ways of he her r I 1 liked her but I 1 was not so well v ell pleased with her daughter carlotta was then 22 had abundant noticeably buce r il cc brown hair an indifferent skin pettish lips aud and restless eyes a little too close together a spoiled willful willful young woman taking to heiselt the deference that had been paid chiefly to her wealth she treated me as it if I 1 were a candidate tor for her favor bayor whom she was testing so that she might decide whether she would v bs be graciously pleased to tolerate me ine usually superciliousness has not disturbed me it is a cheap and harmless pleasure of cheap and harmless people dut but just at that time my nerves were out of order and miss hiss ramsays Ram says airs of patronage got on me I 1 proceeded politely to con aey to her the impression that sho did not attract me that I 1 lid did not her worth while this not 1 through trough 11 artful design ol of interesting by piquing but simply in tho the hope of rasping gasping upon her as she was rasping upon me when I 1 saw that I 1 was gaining my point I 1 ignored her I 1 tried to talk with ed then with his mother but neither would interfere between me and carlotta I 1 had to talk to her until she voluntarily lapsed into offended silence then ed to save the evening from disaster ter began discussing with me the fate of our classmates class mates I 1 saw that carlotta was studying me curiously even resentfully I 1 thought and she was coldly polite when I 1 said good night she and her mother called on my another the next morning and what a nice girl miss ramsay is so sensible so intelligent and so friendly said my mother relating tho the dent of the visit ip in minute detail when I 1 went ent homo home at noon 1 I find her especially friendly said 1 I whereat I 1 saw or fancied I 1 saw a smile deep down in her eyes and it set me to thinking in the afternoon ed looked in rt at my office in the court house to say goodby good by but first old man I 1 want to tell you I 1 got that place for you I 1 thought I 1 had better its lisa the wire old R is delighted telegraph ledde alieto to close the arrangements at once enre congratulated me on being able to get you I 1 knew b be e ro go tie has bas his big eyes skinned for 1 bright r ight young men ail all those bigi ian haye have whenn jhc n over ever a fellow especially a bright blight young lawyer shows signs of ability they scoop him in 1 I t cant ant it I 1 said dazed ive been lighting fighting him four four years hard it said lie and dont you trot fret about it being a case of 0 try ins ing to heap coals of fir etro 0 on your head roebuck dont use tho the fire shovel for that sort of thins thing lies hes snapping arping sn you iz rid it t k I 1 1 I 0 A A I 1 i I 1 hl fil J 1 I 1 marry a girl for her money rip because youve shown him what you can do the way to get on noNN nowadays they tell me whenever tho the fellows on top find the chap especially ally one in public office who makes it lot hot for tham they hire him good business all i round around thus so eio suddenly thal thai it giddied me I 1 was nan translated slated from froin failure to success from poverty tu to affluence from the most harassing anxiety to case and security two mouths months bo before I 1 should have i rejected ejected the power trusts offer with scorn and should haye gloried in act is as proof of superior virtue but in those crucial two months I 1 tad been apprentice ce to the ithe master whom all men that ever eve canic to anything in ia this wo id fiust first serve I 1 hal hai reformed rc my line of battle had adjusted it to the lines laid dov town n ri tactics of lil life fe as it is before I 1 r anz ka able to convince myself that my fortunes toi tunes had ad really chau gd ed ed ramsay telegraphed me to call on him in frredonia rr edonia onla on business of lis his own it proved to bo be such a trifle that I 1 besau bebau to r izelo st at his real reason for sending for in nia when he spun that trifle out over ten days on each ol of aich v I 1 was alone with carlotta Cai lotta at least half my iny waking hours I 1 thought I 1 bad the alc clew v to UA mystery I 1 saw how I 1 could increase crease the energy of his new enthusiasm for me and also how I 1 could cool it t 1 1 I evl tl to be rash and foolas li and to chipi late fate acain aga in ace j trl much was M my kev el tr ia J osao 0 f I 1 iby in molI liStS first olf on in ny re dim she peculiarly 1 1 A n phe C of ink my efforts bille ted canle came at least I 1 felt ref red how did yra like his bid titter si ater she bhe went on again with that maiter ins ing in the eyo only A very ery nice girl said 1 I in any hut but a natural manner my mother express expression lon teased me into adding dont be silly nothing of that sort you ire are always imagining that every one glares your opinion of me she littly to fall in love vitis me certainly I 1 shant with her mot mothers hers silence somehow seemed argumentative 1 I couldn coulden t marry a girl for her money I 1 retorted of course com io not le joined mother but there are other things to marry tor for besides money or love other things moxe boxe sensible than either for instance are the principal th things figs home and children I 1 vas listening with an open mind the glamour of courtship ardd honey honeymoon noon passes she sha went on then comes the suber business of living your career and our home the womans comans partin both is bettor better played it if there the sort of love that la Is exacting always interfering with the career and making the home life a succession of ups anil downs mostly downs carlotta is very ambitious said I 1 ambitious tor for her husband je ie plied piled my mother as a sensible wom an should be she appreciates that a won comans womans tans best chance for big dividends in marriage is by beins bein the silent partner in her husbands career she 11 ll be very dolue domestic when she has children I 1 saw it the instant I 1 looked at her she has the true maternal instinct what a man abos going to amount to something needs needa a woman to be taken care of oc but a woman to take care of him she said no more she had male made ber er point and when she had done don that she always stopped within a month kd ed ramsay sent for me again but this time it was business alone I 1 found him in n a panic like a man facing facine an avalanche and aa armed med oni only with broel Bh ox oel aldun kirk the senior united states senator s for our state stale lived at fredonia Fro donla ile he hail had seen that by tunneling the mesala range lange a 1 profitable railroad between fredonia und chica chicago could be built that would shorten the time at least three hours gut but it would take about halt hall the iho carrl nG business of the ramsay company besides seriously dent depreciating the interest in a the lie existing road and continued ed ILo ilio old scoundrel has got tho the capital cap atal practically albed in new york the people heie bete are lot hot for the new road be ba sure to carry at the special election next month ile he has the governor and I 1 legislature eg in ills his i bocket so put through tile the chaitar next winter 1 I 1 dont doat that an thing can lir b done said eds sawyer lawyer old judge barclay Ijar clay who ho was at the consul consultation consultant tat on it means a big rake off for dunkirk politics is on oil a money basis nowadays natural enough since there is money to bo be made out of it I 1 dont dollt see how low those in politics that don dont as ag they hey call cail it ire are any better than those that do would they got get office it they help ligia aik oik 0 the jobs of the grafters drafters gr I 1 suppose we might buy dunkirk oft off what do you think harvey asked ed looking anxiously at rae me weve got to fight the devil with fire aou I 1 on know I 1 shook my head buying him off isu t fighting its surrender we must fight him with fire I 1 let them talk themselves out and then said well ill take it to bed 1 with ith me perhaps something will occur to me that can bo be worked up auto a a scheme in fact I 1 had already thought ot of a scheme but before suggesting it I 1 wished to be sure it was as good es s it seemed also there was a frinda mental moral obstacle the tha road would be a public benefit it ought outfit to bo be built that moral problem caused most of my that night simple though the solution was when it finally came the first thing ed sald said to me as we faced each other alono alone at breakfast showed me how bow well spent those hours were about this business of the new road said lie he it I 1 wore were tile the orly only party at interest id let durik dunkirk irk go ahead for its undoubtedly a good thing from the public standpoint dut dill ive got to consider the interests of ail a those im trustee for theother the other share holders in the ramsay company and in 0 our ar other concerns here yes replied I 1 bat why do you say dunkirk intends to build the road why do you take that for granted iles hes all y to to do it and st ft 1 1 b a limey maker ai rom m the start 11 hut but t went on you must assume that he has no intention i 9 building that lie he Is only hi hiitt H kang 50 ill elaborate bluff ilow how do you know but ut that he wants to get this right of way jand charter so that lie he can blackmail mai ll 11 you and d your concerns pot not once but year after year gladly pay him several hundred thon sar sara a year not to uso use his charter and right of way you 1 I never thought of that exclaimed clai nied ed 1 I believe youre right light harvey and youve taken a weight off my conscience theres nothing like a good lawyer to make a man see straight what an infernal hound bound old dunkirk is and I 1 went on if lie he build the road ahat would lie he do nith ith it wiy why the easiest and biggest est source of profit would bo be to ion big bia excursions every saturday ard and sunday especially sunday into fro donla ailed rill fill the place every sun day from hay till november with roistering roughs boughs from the slums of oe chicago howd the people like that ile he dare objected ramsay stupidly insisting on an leaning backward in his determination to stand straight iles hes a religious reli glom hypocrite hes afraid As deacon dunkirk he dare I 1 replied cut but as the chicago ft short line hed dare lany anything thing and nobody would blame hi him 1 I 1 T personally erso nally you know how that 1 is 1 id ed was looking at me in dazed admiration mi ration then I 1 went on there are the retail merchants ot of fredonia has it ever occurred to them in their excitement in favor of this road that ruin them where will avill the chopping be done if the women can get to chicago in two hours and a half youre right youre right light e exclaimed ed rising to pace the flour floor in n his agitation bully for yot harvey well show the people that I 1 the he roadell ruin the town morally and financially but you must come out in favor of it said 1 I we give dun aird the argument that youre fight inic it because loud be injured by it no ni you must be hot for the road pei perhaps you might give out that you were considering selling your property on the lake front to a company that was goin to chang changa 3 it into a brewery and huge pleasure park As the lakes only a few hundred yards wide with the town along one bank and your place along the other why M f A laz 11 RU 19 I 1 i X she glanced at me with a smile that was an enigma I 1 think rouse the people to their peril the kind of 0 firs fire to fight thi the devil with said he laughing 1 I 1 dont think mr air senator dunkirk wll will get the consent of fredonya Fre Fred donla but theres the legislature said 1 I ills his face fell im afraid hell do us in the end old marr man I 1 thought not but I 1 only said well weve got until next winter if we can beat him here ed insisted that I 1 must stay on and help him at the delicate task of reversing the current of fredonia sentiment my ay share ot of the work was important enough but as it was confined entirely to making suggestions it took little of my time I 1 had no leisure however for there was car lotta to look attar after when it was all over and she had bad told ed and ho he had shaken hands bands with her her and had kissed me and had otherwise shown tile the chaotic condition of his mind and she and I 1 were alone again she said how did it happen I 1 don t remember that you really proposed to me yet we certainly cei areen are engaged wo certainly are sold said I 1 and the essential point it yes she admitted but and she looked mystified we drifted I 1 suggested she glanced at me with a smile that was an enigma yes we just drifted why do you look at me so queerly 1 I was just going to ask you that same question said I 1 by way v ay of eva sion 1011 then we both tell fell to thinking and after a long ion time clue she roused hersell herself to say iw we shall bo be very hap py ny J fill am I 1 so ot fond of it jaw i and you art are going going to be a great man inan and you di do so jook it ev e ua barent rent to and an fah yas as ays though mhd ma taariq n I 1 married would v osuld be dont look at me ine like ilka that your eyes are strange enough nhen oi are smiling ns but when ou i I 1 often wonder what v hat youre so cosad sad about have you ever seen a g grown ruwa persons fee that sari sad in reposo repose I 1 asked eager to shift front from the par nicular to the geneo A few idiots or near idiots she with a laugh therefore we of the future fitful e and let the past adeep bleep in its uncovered collin to be continued |