Show I OI OF TilE CAPITALIST 4 It I TN r If I N x c I II 11 i t f I I j Lr f A In 10 j o r J 0 i r TC v I t t r i 1 Y 1 LL y L J f Y Fb 1 J ti 1 iii h II IIii i A AI ii I h I I to i t ii 1 1 AI r r Ii u I II P Pi I 1 i 1 j 11 J l 0 1 I f II IJ S H fI h Ib I 1 rJ I I It i l t MF Ji y TV III 1 l j f 11 I f Ilci t I I II r fJ If 3 I V l r L i Ii i I L r Ii i a I It ir R 11 I 1 It f H 4 K J D lt I r Z I I o I i l t ff ii i 4 R fI d 11 fI 1 W Vl d I I II A r 2 A N t S TIr z j p I Il r I i r w N I I A i S t ji c j I K p I X I P J I tf 1 ft 1 l h tj r I I I L 4 M 17 bL BI Jr fr A Z f r i I S I V n nI fr r 3 Z I S If 8 g 8 fit FP I s LUn J n 0 0 p J fj Zi l f 10 I r tz L j I 1 r i Ai 1 I I f I 1 I U w I iy rn A 00 J n a u 1 0 fl 4 c I II U S as L 1 g 0 7 liI 1 f f 11 P d m 1 I L 11 II 1 0 BY Br OSBORN SPENCER over his sho l I der del through the tIle glass gass p front of the carriage the coachman saw that his employer the Capi Capitalist Capitalist was comfortably blY seated then drew the taut tuut and the well trained horses started on a satisfying trot down the avenue A few minutes later when a amile mile ile had been covered the horses turned into a n business street and the carriage anlage wheels that had been rolling smoothly over level asphalt hogan began to 1 over Belgian blocks Simultaneously the course of oi th car carriage that so far had been direct and unimpeded by business traffic grew devious leViOUS a as the driver without slack slackening ening ning the th speed wove woe his Ills way wa through a 3 tangle of drays dra s and trucks trolley cars and nd delivery wagons Half Halfa a B mile farther on the traffic becoming still denser the rate of progress was decreased to a walk alk Still Stin farther long Ilont there were occasional forced stops and once or twice the man on the box at the risk of displacing his hist t vertebrae vertebra e scanned anxiously the face of a church clock sixty or eighty feet above the pavement level Just before he reached a certain cor coy corner ner ller he gazed even een more Inore anxiously at atthe atthe atthe the hands of a timepiece in the tower of o the oldest church in the t e city It showed that five minutes were still lacking before the famous bells would begin striking the hour and much re in his mind the coachman eased off at the reins rein When the corner was sas reached the horses turned to the left of their th lr own volition Presently th b y drew up ul u quietly in front of a soaring g structure of granite and md polished mar ble with gleaming brass handrails on Sis its ls revolving weather w ather doors and great greatt re t t plates of glass in the win Wilt windows dow dows a The driver descended with delibera deliberation deliberation tion from his box and opened the car cari carriage carriage i door respectfully r As his em employer employer employer stepped stopped out a i rb awe awestruck aweStruck struck I said to his companion t old d man S He can sign his check for as many millions ns you can earn dollars in a week weel Howd you ou like to be in his place As the millionaire passed with dignity through the cir thug door of the tall building he heard the remark The answer was not nu and as he lie was shot up to his j of offices on the seventeenth seven floor above the sidewalk he wondered wo idly what It had been and his face wore a curious half hal amused look With a small fiat flat key he let himself in through a door whose opaque ground glass panel was bare of any an Inscription though a little farther lown the corridor another door with witha vi a beautifully transparent upper half Lore his name in small but impressive Impre ive golden Rolden letters done in elegant Itoman S The room which the Capitalist en entered entered tf red was his own private office A dull duIl tinted rug from the orient nearly bearly covered the floor A long Ion 1 framed panoramic view of a smelter whose tall till chimneys vomited yom fled great gren t volumes of black smoke hung directly over his bis massive desk On one side sidewall wall waIl were photographs of other manu manufacturing manufacturIng manufacturing establishments c On the opposite wall was a picture of logging If ging operations in a pine forest the tall taIl trunks suggesting nothing so 80 as temple columns and it was flanked on the Ule left leCt by a view of a adeep deep pit hewn out of the rocks in int t which a group of quarrymen were at ip f work and on the Ule right by a floating rP ge that could take two tons of mud out of a river r er bottom at every bite hite Directly opposite his desk be beneath beneath neath a handsome sienna marble mantle a gas log glowed cheerfully Deep DC p le red chairs were st scattered altered here and there The Capitalist glanced quickly about 1 lIm Im and sat at down at his big bi flat desk just as the tenth stroke of the famous old Id church clock sounded In a neat pile jule before him he found a dozen type j Sf r I I r t I a j I I ti SN 9 1 I r I i ifIl ir I Ii II i I 7 1 IT ITI f I 77 S v vS V I S L S 0 o N 1 L Lf i f written I teis prepared before his arrival l b his secretary replying to letters in the morning mall mail These he read at signing all but one of four long pages which he went over with great care scratching out words and sentences here writing in iii words and sentences there Then he looked through a second pile of let letters letters letters that lay spread out opened for his perusal More important than the others his secretary had left them for forthe forthe the Capitalist himself to answer His brows were drawn dra n into deep per perpendicular perpendicular perpendicular lines Jines as he read Some of the letters were laid at his left on the desk and on top of them he placed a little slim sUm red dancing devil of a paper weight At his right he made a pile of the others weight weighting ing lug them with a pretty bisque shep herdese Then he pressed a button and a trim boy stepped in from the next room Anybody waiting Then the list of callers caners not being an impressive one tell em Ill see em cia pretty soon Send in inI inI I 1 did a little axe work on n this let letter ter tr said staid the Capitalist to the secretary when he entered Have Haveit it put through the machine again and Ill take another look at it Ill give you the answers to some of the letters now The others I may ma answer with my own fist For half an hour the Capitalist and Mr rr devoted to the letters Put the last two through the Ute ma machine machine chine yourself Pree bles said the Capitalist when shen they had finished fini bed and them in book X Its in inthe inthe Inthe the safe Smith Andrews and Summers are waiting Ask ington to come in III See the others for forme forme forme me and take care of them yourself If any ally anyone one of them says he lie must see me mesay mesay mesay say Ill be ready in half an hour Hand me mf my Iny cigars before you go entering saw the Capi Capitalist Capitalist in the act of unlocking a polish polished ed d mahogany casket containing a cigar box full of bo bonea Havanas in color and wonderful of flavor and seating himself gingerly accepted one of them doubtfully Just back sir said tersely Been all through the mine Nothing in it ft Tough rough time though Thought got onto me inc half a dozen times Had to skip a day or two sooner than I meant to But any anys how I saw things Their lode is about run out and be done good and proper if you bought It The Capitalist grunted and deep perpendicular lines cut into his Ids grows for the second time that morning Then taking a closely written sheet from the bottom of the pile Dile on which the little red devil danced he gave it to his mine detective PUk ington took tool it fingered his long black cigar and finally lighting it betook himself the cigar and the letter to a asea seat sea t by the window and began to read The Capitalist touched to ched the button on his desk dask Send Bloom in he said to the trim boy bo Bloom office ollice ce manager appear ing laid a pile of unsigned checks an inch thick before the Capitalist How much money in Blo m said the latter without looking up begin beginning beginning ning fling to affix his signature to the checks thousand dollars even How much in these checks light Only Spigel Co pay poy p up UI Yes Yc sir London draft Anything An thing special in these Only that cheek check to the Smith Brothers Got Cot the reports Here they are sir fir Quarry report very good sir But Ept I hear theres a t little feeling among the men about the new lieu boss Hes driving them pretty hard making them work Lumber report not so good Zinc mine fair fail Nothing special about th others What dye dyo think about that letter said the Capitalist t when I the office manager had disappeared disappear d Something almost like a mask seemed to drop from the Capitalists face which looked set and hard Then he lie went on without noticing the vigorous reply to which started to give tongue Ill rn answer it this afternoon in a away away away way curl their hair hall and you bother any more mote about that mine Id better read your da before I write though come to think of it I wont answer it till 1111 to tomorrow tomorroW morrow I And now no I want you to go up to that there quarry dropping into the English of the earlier days das before he was a capitalist Fix yourself up in overalls and jumper and get a labor laborers laborers ers job I dont guess a week of hurt you Get under the skins of them there devils and well have a u little rough house of it if we have to Might llight as well come now as ever Better Dettel too for there aint no big contract on just now and theres enough piled up to last six months Make your first report In about three days das give you a couple of hundred hu dred and well wen see how we stand when you have finished the job up to the sec see secretary secretary who had entered with a look on his face that spoke of something important Milligan is outside sir sim Wants to talk about that preliminary railroad survey and says he must see soe you Cant explain it to me Show him him in then said the Capi bUst the mask again aguin on his lila face and his hie early crude English forgotten for otten but tell him Im lm much pressed for time and he stay long And by b the way vay wa call anIl up Brown Jepper son the lawyers and find out about that suit against the Get the Reverend Rev rend Doctor Mullet Muller on the th phone and ask as 1 him if it will be convenient con II for him tini to lunch with m at the club at 1 to talk over his church extension scheme Let me know as soon as you youcan youcan youcan can what who t he lie says If he says says no send j out for a glass of milk an apple and anda a sandwich and Ill lunch here at my m desk The mask was off the Capitalists face when Milligan entered and the latter could tell teIl by b the perpendicular lines that had cut into the brow again that a strenuous time was in prospect The stiff and rather acrimonious us talk between the two men lasted till tin almost 1 and their eyes were still flash flashing flashing ing lug and an their faces still flushed when they separated The mask was on again when the th thI I Capitalist met the Rev Re Dr Muller at atthe atthe atthe the club though and the greeting ex cx extended x tended to the clergyman by b his hi host was as suave sua p as if he had never r had haa I his temper ruffled rum ed or had een even consid considered i ered anything whatever save with ref reference reference reference to some scheme s heme for tor the benefit of oC the church In his whole life The luncheon was a gastronomic I dream The Capitalist despite his lack lackor of or early training in that direction had learned how to order a meal the cler clergyman clergyman gyman had always known ho how to eat eatone eatone eatone one A little after 2 when they were i finishing their cigars and coffee the Capitalist broached the real topic he be had wished to talk over with the cler clergyman clergyman clergyman gyman It had to do with the purchase of some e real estate necessary to one of the Capitalists big deals As the prop property property erty was held 11 ld by b a rich lich member of the cler congregation n the Capital 1st wanted him to learn quietly if it a proposition to buy would be acceptable The matter was not brought up ab abruptly abruptly abruptly as the Capitalist would bring up matters matteis with men of his own type Out hut delicately tactfully and almost inci mci incidentally dentally He had promised a contribution tien tion to the church extension fund and had hind hinted that under certain unexpressed unexpressed unexpressed pressed conditions it might n be a gener goner generous generous ous one The clergyman took the hint and the parting of the two was accompanied accompanied accompanied by expressions of mutual and Very ery sincere appreciation At when the Capitalist again sat down at his desk thereon half a dozen neatly ne tJ typewritten t memoranda of telephonic communications received in his absence by Mr Ir Only one was important It was brief buIe and to the point It read Slump in the market today nearly nearh wiped out my m margins on omi X Y Z Must have help or go under Can I see you youIt youIt youIt It was signed with the name of a ayoung ayoung young oung man the Capitalist knew well weil too well he reflected as he told Pree bles to get the young man on the phone and tell him to come at once On went the face mask when the unlucky young speculator entered and the perpendicular lines Unes in the Capital brows bros were deeper than they had bad teen been before that day da daHow How much is it this time Her Herbert Herbert Herbert bert As much as that I told your our father Id look after you on one con that sometimes tithe take t ke my advice adice You bought into X Y Z against my judgment but Ill help you out this once on one condition Sign this little paper which Ive Ie written out while waiting for you Its a solemn promise never to buy stocks on a margin again and it gives me absolute power fower of attorney in your affairs till tillou I you ou pay pa your our obligation to me in full fuU FreebIes is a notary and two of the clerks will act as witnesses I shall shan not riot tell teU them the nature of the docu document document ment mont anti and an shall shaH keep it safe from ob oh observation observation You Tou dont like to sign si n it Very well and the lines Jines grew deeper and straighter it jt is the only thing things s ou will The Capitalist touched the button Freebies and two clerks were sum summoned summoned the document was sealed signed witnessed vi delivered tucked into the tIme Capitalists pocket and the crestfallen young speculator departed Carriage waiting sir said the trim boy at three venturing in inand inal and amid al d heres a telegram marked per personal personal personal The Time Capitalist read the wire and crumpled it up un gasping Then he lie h summoned Telephone to the tile house and say y Im called out of town the dinner r party for tOnight must be called oft somehow Ill phone up myself bye Send tIme the carriage carr e home Get Got ready read to go to Washington with m mon mo 1110 moon on the 6 k tra train i I suppose sup th grips crips are all packed as usual and aDd if they the arent get them in order Sena Semma Senator Senator tor is having trouble with one of our bills bUls and ii me IDe on en n tho tl ground Ill S get t at the tough letters Jetters in rt he the meantime mean t me and well have bave dinner on en n the dining car Dont let me bo ht h disturbed by b any anyone one except on the most important busin business st and then only by b one of our own folks And so it was that the th Capitalist day wound up on a W Bh train running a fifty mile clip cUp Instead of at a private dinner party wh ie it he had hoped to entertain a selected few r w from among those who like vere rere ere able to write their names at a the tbt bottom of valid vaUd |