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Show T 1 make It up with the Kllerslys? . and lol l !am yo i d simply fanolc.il The other think me iiieddlcsn.iie. matter is the Travelers club. Ive Kinoothed things out there, l iu going io put you up and rush you throuKa."' j salJ 1. It seemed: No, thunks, I had ever j incredible to me that cared, about that ciuli and the things It rep- resented, as I could remember I un-- ' doubtedJy did cate. It waa like looking at an outgrown toy and trying to h-iigain the emotions it once excited. "I assure you. Matt, there wont be His manner tlie slightest difficulty. was that of a man playing the trump card In a desperate game he feels it DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIRS, Authcr "mECQSCUe eau not lose, yet the stake Is so big that he can nut hut be a little nerla&zxsffr jscff vefc soaBartzzaci oaraavno vous. CHAPTER XXX. Continued. she wishes, said 1, ignoring bla quesI do not care to Join the Travelera' I have only contempt for a woman tion. Then cuuie to me I must ask said 1, rising. club," His look made me shake hands who trie to bold a man when lie to excuse me. I am exceedingly you wishes to go. aald Anita, with quiet with him. As 1 did it, we both reResides " membered the last time we bad busy." but energetic bitterness. A flush appeared in his cheeka and ahe hesitated an inatant before going shaken hands when he hud the roses and spread until hla whole deeiened for She on with my bride. my Gladys deserves her fate. must have been afire. He seatbody doesnt really care for hi in. She'a It seemed to ine I could smell those ed himself. You know what I'ye never did of rosed. him. She only Jealous come for, he said sullenly, and humlove him." bly, too. XXXI. How do you know? said 1 sharpAil hla life be had been enthroned SURLANGOON TO THE COMES was ly. trying to persuade myself It his wealth. Without realising upon FACE. not an ugly suspicion In me that I shall not estimate the vast sums it, he had claimed and had received lifted Its head and shot out that quesIt coitt the Koehuck ijiiigilon clique to deference solely because he was rich. tion. Because he never loved her, she maintain the prices of National Coal, He had thought himself, in his own The feeling a woman lias and so give plausibility to the fiction ieraoii, most superior; now, lie found replied. man for a woman, tliut the public was buying eagerly. that like a silly child he had been (or a man or a chair and crying: Bee without any resiamse, isn't love, isn't In the third week of my campaign, slauding on 1 mi." And the airs, the tall how Involved was so Moivllle that sort a deeply worthy the name of love. It's the graceful condescension of baffled covetousness. Love means lie had to let the two others take the cynicism, which had been so becoming to him whole burden themselves. , upon Then nut greediness." generosity, In the fourth week, Langdun came were now as out of place aa crown 'Why do you not ask me whether and robes on a king taking a swimto me. what she said is true?" The Interval between his card and ming lesson. The change in her tone with the What are your terma, IUacklockY last sentence, the strange, ominous himself gave me a chance to recover from my amazement. When he en- Dont be too hard on an old friend, note In it, startled me. to carry off bit frank Because, replied I, as I said to tered he found me busily writing. aid be, trying her. to ask my wife such a question Though I had nerved myself, it waa plea for mercy with a smile. I should have thought he would cut would be to insult her. If you were several seconds before 1 ventured to look at him. There he stood, prob- hla throat and Jump off the Battery riding with him, it was an accident. As If my rude repulse of her over- ably as handsome, aa fascinating as wall before he would get on hla knew tures and my keeping away from her over since would not have Justified her la almost anything. She flushed the dark rod of shame, but her gone held steady and unflinching upon mine. It was not altogether by accident, ahe said. And I think site expected nio to kill her. When a man admits and respects a womans rights where he is himself concerned, he either is no longer Interested In her or hss begun to love her so well that be can control the aavage and selfish instinct of passion. If Mowbray Itoiigdon had been there, I might have killed them both; but he was not there, and ahe, facing me without feaf, was not the woman to be suspected of the stealthy and i ELUGE of home-mmln- g i , traitorous. It was he that you meant when you warned me you cared for another man? said I, so quietly that I wondered at myself; wondered what had become of the Black Mati who had uae ,hls flsts almost as much gs his brains In fighting his way up. Yes. she aald, her head down "TOR MONEY have gone to live at the Downtown hotel. When you have decided what course to take, let me know, ir my rights' ever hud any substance, they havo starved away to sm-- weak thlnga that they collapse even as I try to set thiwn up. 1 hope your freedom will give you liappinnss and- me peace." You are ill. air? asked my old servant, my old friend, as he took the note. V'jy w'rli her, Saud'rx, as long as I - : JUST FOR MONEY! AND I HAD THOUGHT HIM A MAN!" ever, certainly aa i self-contro- l. her: fair-weath- foul-weath- I had decided to concentrate A long pause. n Ingr-nlous- ; i ! : But 1 could now. beneath that manner 1 had nee envied, see the puny soul, with its browy glitter of the vanity of luxury and show. 1 had been somewhat afraid of myself afraid the sight of him would stir up in me a tempest of Jealousy and hate; as 1 looked, I realized tlint I did not know She does not love my own nature. If she did or this man, 1 thought. could, ahe would not be the woman I lie deceived her inexperience as he deceived mine. What can I do for you? said I to him iiolitely, much as if he were a stranger making an untimely luter- ruptiou. My look had disconcerted him; my tone threw him into confusion. "You keep out of the way, now that you've liocome famous, lie began, with a halting but heroic attempt at his cusAre you tomary easy superiority. living up in Connecticut, too? Bam Kllersiy tells me your wife is stopping there with eld Howard Forrester. Bum wants me to nsu my good offices in making it up between you two and her family. i waa completely taken aback by tlds cool Ignoring of the real situation lietween him and me. Impudence or Ignorance? I could not decide. It impossible that Anita had not told him: yet it seemed impossible, too, that he would come to me if she Have you any busihad told him. ness with me? said I. Ills eyelids taltcheil nervously, and he adjusted his lips several times before he was able to say: You and your wife don't care to ,ov-wa- a self-assure- to any man for any reason. And he was doing It for mere money to try to save, not bis fortune, but only an If Anita could Imperiled part of it see him now!" I thought. To him 1 said, the more coldly because 1 did not wish to add to hla humiliation by showing him that I 1 can only reiwat, Mr. pitied him: Langdon, you will have to excuse me. I have given you all the time I can spare. His eyes were tshirting and his hands trembling as lie said: will transfer control of the Coal combine to you." His tones, shameriil as the offer they carried, made me ashamed tor him. For money just for ! And I had thought him a man. if ite had been a hypurvite like Roebuck, or a frank boheier In the right of might, like 1'pdegrair, I might possibly, in the clrc.iiuistani-ls- , have tried to release him front my t net. he had never for :n instant deceived lilmself ns in the ral nature of the enterprises he plotted, moled and profited by; ho thnii-dit smart to he hud. and he delighted In making the most cynical on the Mack deeds of himselfopigra::i ami associates. Better sell out to Roebuck" 1 I control all the Coal sin-Rested. I need." "I don't care to have furthor to do with Roebuck." anything langdon answered. "I've broken with him.' "When a man lies to me said he given me the chance to sen t how much of a fool he thinks I mn and also the to see just bw i. d You Practice Thrift VVhen'you purchase anything from us. WITH UNCLE BY The Secret lie hived it maiden and he said: I wunder If (lie minx would wed? All duy lie thought of her and sighed. And all night long the fellow cried: Would h His buainea arew. likewise his rocks. And yel. nobody danu-bis sucks! Nutsidy smoothed his ruffled hair. Nor brought of sllpia-rJust s pair. Ch uli! n-.- ST. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. d At last, the man took sick (ins day Idni but for pay! Nobody nurai-"I've not a soul on nrtli." ha said. 1 wonder if that girl would wed? Would slic?" d A bootblack heard Ills tale of wot And blurted out. Say, cull, you're stow! I only way 1 know t' tell Is go an' ast her,- w hut t 'ell. T- n:- Tlien said the man who hived the lass: That seems to be the proper gas! Shes worth a itosen chaps Ilk ms. But. by gee wlnu-k- . I'll go and see! And sea! lie did, and very much elate. him as a flsli grabs bait! Said be, with liliislies on bis brow: 'It's easy. If you lx IT NOW! " Do it! Blie grabbed Remarks. When an office girl takes pity on a stray cat ahe usually goes out, buys a nickel's worth of pickles and then wonders why the cat ia so ungrateful aa not to eat them. To those who cannot understand, many things are impossible. Everything is a gamble in this world even the fee that you pay the Some preacher for marrying you. men invent flO In matrimony and find a fortune; others have to "sweeten the pot for years and years and never get their bait back! We often hear that auch and inch a book Isn't worth the paper on which it is printed. At the present price of paper, this may truthfully be aald of moat modern literature, A woman ia as old as she looks, after the leaf has been torn from the family Bible. When a woman says ahe ia breaking in n green maid, she forgets sometimes that the young woman la a - For, fn my pictures of the three main the industrial, phases of finance the life Insurance and the banking he, aa arch plotter in every kind of respectable skulduggery, was necessarily in the foreground. My original intention was to demolish the Power Trust or, at least, to compel him to buy back all of its stock which he had worked off on the public. I had collected many Interesting facts about it, facta typical of the conditions that finance has established in so many of our industries. For instance, I waa prepared to show that the actual earnings of the Power Trust was two and half times what its reports to stockholders alleged; that the concealed profits were diverted Into the pockets of Roebuck, his sons, 11 other relatives and four A man waa saved from death by a of The Seven, the lion's share going, of course, to the lion. Like al- brave lad who received twenty-fiv- e most all the great industrial enter- cents for hia kindness. After all. a prises, too strong for the law and too man la worth' only the price he sets remote for the aitiervlsion of their on his own head. One way to get close to nature is to stockholders, It gathered In enormous revenues to disburse them chiefly In go up in a balloon and fail out. salaries and commissions sp4 rake-off- s Perhaps Walter Wellman can tell on contracts' to favorites. I had us of the fine points of dog stew as a proof that in one year it had "written result of his dash to the North Pole, off 12 millions of profit and loss. 10 anyhow. millions of which bad found Ita way Mining seems to have a great atto Roebuck's pocket. traction for the colored man. Kalso-mininI mean. I had no choice. I must turn aside A country editor says hla wife spent from Roebuck; 1 must first show tba' while Textile was. in a sense, sound two hours while in the city recently, Just at that time, it had been unsound, trying to buy him some postprandial and would be unsound again as soon Cigars. A small boy. reading, asked his pa as Langdon had gathered In a sufficient number of lambs to make a what the first flush of civilisation'' battue worth the while of a man deal- meant, whereat the father replied, That, my son, must refer to Eve's ing in nothing less than seven figures. face powder. I proceeded to do so. Many a man would give a lot toThe market yielded slowly. Under my first days attack Textile preferred day to lie able to eat pie as he wanted fell aix points. Textile common three. to when he was a small boy. Then he While I was in the midst of dictating had the digestion but nor the pie. Now my letter for the second day's attack, he has the pie .but not the digestion. I suddenly came to a Bill atop. 1 The Last Oat Stem. found across my way this thought: There is talk of making the new after Isn't It strange that Chicago street cars narrower than humbling himself to you, should make those now in use. The ixirfly gentlethis bold challenge? its a trap! man who has ridden seven blocks beNo more at present," said I, to my his street because he couldn't yond And don't write out stenographer. pass a fat flshwoman in the aisle, will dictated. what I've already weep bitter (ears at this announce1 shut myself in and busied myself ment. at the telephone. Half an hour after I set my secret machinery in motion, Oaculatory. No real nice sensible girl gets angry a messenger brought me an euvolope, It con- at a man for kissing her if she likes the address tained a sheet of paier on which ap- him and she thinks he means IL What peared. in typewriting, these words, she does object to is a man flitting from flower to flower gathering sweets and nothing more: He la heavily short of Textiles." just because he likes honey. Isa new The Indeed was trap. .It What Peter Needs. sue was a blind, lie bad challenged Peter May purchased three geese at me to attaca his stock, and aa soon as the Will Baldwin's sale the past week. I did, he had begun seccrHy to sell now is a nice plump needs What Peter It for a fail. I worked at this new sit- wife to pick 'em. Henry IO.) News. uation until midnight, trying to get Fats. together the proofs. At thut hour for I could delay i longer, and my Sometimes, where there is a will proofs were not quite complete I there is a banana pee in the way. sent my newspapers two sentences: I sliull make a disclosure that will, send Textiles ' up. Do not sell Textiles! (To 1st Pomln'ied ) type-writte- 170 I aar ikn. s upon Roebuck,- because he waa the richest and moat, powerful of The Seven." now. You' wish to be free? I asked, and my tone must have been gentle. I wish to free you, she replied slowly and deliberately. There was a long alienee. Then 1 must think I aald: it all out. 1 once told you how I felt about these matters. I've ' greatly changed my mind since our talk that night In the Willoughby; but my prejudices are still with me. Perhaps you will not be surprised at that you whose prejudices have cost me so dear. I thought she was going to speak. Instead she turned away, so that 1 could no longer see her face. Our marriage was a miserable mistake, 1 went on, struggling to be Just and Judicial, and to seem calm. I admit it now. Fortunately, wo are both still young you very young. Mistakes in youth are never fatal. BHt, Anita, do not blunder out of one mistake Into another. You are no longer a child, as you were when I married you. You will be carerul not to let Judgments formed of him. long ago decide you for him as they decided you against me. T wish to be free, ahe said, each word coming with an effort, as much on your account as on my own Then, and It seemed to me merely a truly feminine attempt to shirk responsibility, ahe added, "I am glad my going will be a relief to you. Yea. it will be a relief," 1 conOur situation has become fessed. intolerable." I had reached my limit I put out my hand. of I aald. Good-by- , If ahe had wept it might have modl- fled my conviction that everything at an end between us. But she did not weep. Can you ever forgive me?" ahe asked. Lets not talk of forgiveness. said I, and I fear my voice and manner were gruff, as 1 strove not to break down. And 1 IjPt'a try to forget. touched her hand and hastened away. When two human beings act out to misunderstand each other, how fast and far they go! llow shut-iwe are from each other, with only halting moans of communication that break down under the slightest strain! As I was leaving the bouse next morning, I gave Banders this note for much of a fool he Is. 1 n U. thick so Miorly of you as your attempt to fool iu seems to compel.' Rut he was unconvinced. Ive found ho intends to abandon the ship and leave me to go down with it, he arsisted. lie believes he eau escape and denounce me as the arch rascal who planned thn combine, and can convince people that I foozled him Into it. hut 1 happr-m-to know that it was falsa. Pardon me, Mr. Langdon, said 1 with silff courtesy. I reiieat, I can do nothing for you. Oood morning." And I went at my work as if he were already gone. Had I been vindictive, I would have led him out to humiliate himself more deeply, if greater depths of humiliation there are than those to which he voluntarily descended. But I wished to spare him; I let him aee the uselessness of his mission. He looked at me In silence the look of hate that can come only from a creep ture weak as well as wicked. I think it was all hla keen sense of humor could do. to save him from a melodramatic outbreak. He slipped Into Ills habltualpose, rose and withdrew without another word. All thlq fright and groveling and treachery for plunder, the loss of which would not Impair hit fortune plunder he had stolen with many a Jest and gibe at hla helpless victims. Like moat of our debonair dollars chasers, be was a good sportsman only when the game waa with him. That afternoon he threw hia Coal holdings on the market in great blocks. Hia treachery took Roebuck, completely by surprise for Roebuck believed in this gentleman, coward, and neglected to allow for that quicksand that ia always under the foundation of the man who has Inherited, not earned, his wealth. But for the blundering credulity of rascals, would honest men ever get their dues. Roebuck's brokers had bought many thousands of Langdon'a shares at the high artificial price before Roebuck grasped the situation that it was not my followers recklessly gambling to break the prices, bnt Langdon unloading on Aa soon ar he saw, he his pal. abruptly withdrew from the market When the Stock Exchange closed, Na-- i tional Coal securities were offered at prices ranging from 11 for the bonds to two for the common and three for the preferred offered, and no takers. Well, you've done If, aald Joe, coming with the news that Thorniey, of the Discount and Deposit bank, had been apiwinted receiver. Ive made a beginning," replied I. GRADES OF RANK IN JAPAN. Society There le Divided Into Many Separata Cissies. A traveler Just returned from Japan tells some things which perhaps all the world does not know. Says he: Of rank, there are eight classes after the mikado and the Zlogoon, namely (1) the princes; (2) the nobles who owe feudal service to the prince, or the empire; .(3) the priests; (4 the soldiers. These four form the higher orders and enjoy the privilege of wearing two swords and petticoat trousers; (5) Inferior officials and doe-- , tors, called respectable, allowed to wear one sword, with the trousers; (6) merchants and tradesmen, whose legs may not pollute , the trousers, though by entering aa domestics to a man of rank they may enjoy the privilege of wearing one sword; these are the only people by whom wealth can be accumulated; (T) artists, artisans and petty (8) day laborers and peasants. Tradesmen who work on leather, tanners, eta, are excluded from classification. They are defiled, and may not even live with other men; they live In villages of their own. shop-keeper- Good Stories from the Ladies' .Tome Journal, published by Henry lltemua company, Philadelphia, as the title Indicates, Is e selection of amusing stories, jokes and anecdotes from that popular periodical that are worth preserving. One of the moot vexatious experiences of the average man la his inability to remember a good story or Joke which he has heard, and which he would like to pass on to his neighbor. To such this interesting volume should prove a storehouse of reference, and it should be found In the home of every lover of the bright and witty things of llie. Not Too Simple. 14 years old, of Dado-deAla., la not aa simple - as you might think from hia name. He saw a fellow hanging around the barn and acting In a auspicious manner, and set a big bear trap where he (thought It would do the most good; and then got up next morning to find that he had bagged his game. The man had entered the barn to steal one of the horses, but put hla foot Into it Instead. He turned out to be a noted thief, for whom a reward of $500 had been oty fered, and John Simple la going to get the money. It's not what a boy l named, but what he does, that counts The Bachelor's Guide to Mat. mouy, by Reginald Wright Kauff is an essay into the field of humoi which this popular novelist, with iphoriama on flirtation, courtship marriage, may be truly aald to hit ve token rank with foremost of Am ton humorists. It ia, In fact, cleverest book of ita kind we ha read for some time. Mr. Kauff m Sectaries that the Woman Question after all, nothing but Man; yet thei 'B no phase of the problem that he sot illuminate with the startling learchllght of his wit. Henry Alto-buCompany, Philadelphia, are the publishers. John Simple, n, Divorce In Japan. In Japan the divorce question haa been simplified so that a man can divorce hia wife for one of seven reasons the first of which la that he la no longer satisfied with her. Witch's Bridle." An interesting but most cruel object of punishment may be found In the council chamber of the town hall at Forfar, which Is generally known as the "Witchs Bridie." This is K kind esse made of flat iron bars, into which the head of the unhappy aorcer eat was thrust, a lock at the back and keeping it in position. The mouthpiece in this Instance Is mads of iron plate, studded with sharp pikes, which caused great suffering to the woman if she tried to apeak. Aa coon as the victim had been condemned to death for witchcraft this bridle waa placed over the face and ahe was led through the town by a short chain, to be mocked and made the butt of all who saw her, after which she would he publicly strangled and burned. The latest record of an execution of a apposed witch at Foriar, in Scotland, was in the vear 1662. g Bald by the Pessimist. ia a sure guess that the resurrection hour will be a stag party. Every woman will atop for a last It Marcel and lose her seat. Rccord-Heraid- . Chicago For Psrfsct Identification. Dr. Paul Prager, an army surgeon ol Vienna, suggests that molds of the mouths of prisoners would be much better than finger prints for Identification purposes, as the palate remains absolutely unchanged thyughout life. Wore Backcloth Wedding Dress. In order not to lone a legacy of $25,. 000 left to her by an eccentric aunt, e young lady was. In France, some time ago, married wearing a wedding dress which, though of fashionable cut, waa made of Backcloth. 4 |