Show ro > l1jJI1 1 1 I NIA a Te M Y mhea t Same s I ° me dl J ° r min t a at anent Pier liE DELUGE t rltbe bold OAVID GRAHAM PITIT TIPS 4tr of TI CCtST fit f-it the tV tfZKSTT JST 4H5 87 T l 3tdL mzz 1N the C da XXIX Continued IM > i CHAPTER wand e first news I got was that Bill hail disappeared As soon sacked Vest the Stick Exchange opened Na rIce became the feature But or 11 I Coal rtaln I i Pad of wash sales Roebuck ndouli rjdon and Melville wore tholll1 II various brokers buy many 1 j rem through I prone the stocks in large quantities to ten I p the prices up My next letter I Idaho IS brief us my first phlllnplc I 1 is spy IjiH Van Nest is at the Hotel > iadri Ufort Newark under the name of forest LaalAWJ 1Iowas In telephonic IaSpn Umlcatlon with President Mel Ice I I atlMJ e of tho Natloual Industrial bank a yesterday I I ke ot t The underwriters of tho National 1 camp I companys now Issues fright i t been I by yesterdays exposure have Roebuck Mr Mow the Ma pelted Mr Is not I j Langdon and Mr Melville them oxIJe pH to buy So yesterday those with real fought copper w gentlemen d jj with their own money large r made 1 titles of stocks which aro worth t nilnuf Is jthan half what they paid for Ian Cltr r i ey will continue to buy these s has sare Mi to long as the public holds are Ia x > f They dare not lot the prices Iressorp BUD They hope that this stork wil d l iloif over and that then the in 1 Gap Ne Ing public will forget and will ph flea eve them of their load prosper had added But this storm wont out wh It will become corer a cyclone If t the ri truck that out No prophecy unmet d I to myself Your rule Iron of mae i I must befacts < always facts lployed y facts medat t be gambling section of the public fact k my hint and rushed into the ockhold rkft the burden of protecting the lade th J Twriters was doubled and more r meager more of the hoarded loot was tor sa gorged That must have been a Jelng illy dafor 10 minutes after tho to ab Exchange closed Roebuck sent tot ease me tcUOD My compliments to him said I to the sui messenger but I am too busy Color be glad to see him here however forced f Yon know he dares not como to f said the messenger Schilling a Sao Ident of the National Manufac usiaess ti Food company sometimes called nit of Poison Trust If he did and It apan ft to get out thered be a panic ay at Probably replied I with a shrug or 1 ats no affair of mine Im not re The one ilble for the rotten conditions n cop eh these so galled financiers have laced and 1 shall not be disturbed I oa lie crash which must come I Cans kllling gave mo a genuine look oft of-t Art listed pity and admiration I sup 1 lO ad you know what youre about the I j be but I think youre making ape It Make maas Thanks Ned said Ihe had been until lead clerk a few years before d I had got him the chance with mh Ye buck which he had Improved sod so-d east It Im going to havo some fun worka tt live but once oot led 1 dally letters had now ceased being d be advertisements had becomo gton II sought by all the newspapers is qe Wi country and of the big cities fn silver tat Britain I could have made age a-ge saving by no longer paying my office odd regular papers for Inserting tell 10 m Hut I was looking too far Ie Impoo I ad to blunder lntothat fatal mis e on e Instead I signed a years con Wlngfte with each of my papers they 13 I prey teeIng to print my advertise j stral aim1 I guaranteeing to protect them or dd tot loss on libel suits I organ tis a dummy news bureau and Ycrln IIghlt got contracts with tho tele Into PMc companies Thus Insured I straU nst the cutting of my communlca iomeih nl with the public I was ready for as and real campaign rho wor began l with my History of the 15th It dona1 Coal company I need not I feet Ii at that famous history here 1 hides d recall only tho main points how Wed that the common stock was I utle oally worth less than two dollars a 850 ta e that the bonds were worth less pelmo woiiU five dollars In the him Igams d that both stock and bonds were t GIIU a4 my detailed recital of tho blonbc ea of Roebuck Melville and Lang amoa In recking mining properties Inking I I ed for In-king coal railways In ejecting I f 3trican labor and substituting fo ot8 t from eastern Europe how they II ovae 1 swindled and lied and bribed a atad r r key bUll twisted tho books of m d companies how they were plans 1 avadm plan-s to unload the mass of almost wit rthlHs securities at high prices o ignad j1 to gut from under tha market tag fr 1 let the bonds and stocks drop 1 I rn to whore theycould buylhem in e T terms that would yield them moro line X250 per cent on the actual cupl cetaid Invested Less and dearer coal e to I er wages and more ignorant labor dalm 1 nornious profits absorbed with a gpiCT 0a JWrcy into a few pockets met the day the seventh chapter of I history appeared the telegraph a lot panes notified mo that they would latcool nlmlt no moro of my matter They moat > alnd consequences In libel suit1 8004 1 nOd Moseby general manager o tot the 1 Ye companlos suet It I Kuarc or to protect you W 10 I 1 give head In any neat you nAk a Wo cant take the risk Mr Black lock replied he The twinkle In his eye told me why and also that he like vvery one else In the country ox cept tho clique was In sympathy with me meMy lawyers found an honest judge and I got an Injunction that compelled the companies to transmit under my contracts I suspended the History for one day and sent out In place of It an account of this attempt to shut me off from the public Hereafter said I in the last paragraph ha my letter f shall end each daya chapter with forecast of what the next days chapter Is to be If for any reason It fails to appear the public will know that somebody has been coerced by Roebuck Melville Co d XXX ANITAS SECRET That afternoonor was It tllo next I happened to go home early I have never been able to keep alive anger against any one My anger against Anita had long ago died away had been succeeded by regret and remorse that I had let my nerves or whatever the accursed cause was whirl mo into such an outburst Not It no reminder of his treachery Howdy II1nc lock said ho 1vo come on a little errand for Mrs Lang don Then with that nasty grin of his You know Im looking after things for her since tho bust np No I didnt know said I curtly suppressing my Instant curiosity What does Mrs Iaugdon want To see clfor Just a few minutes whenover It is convenient If Mrs Laugdou has business with me Ill see her at my olllce said I She was one of the fashionables that had got herself Ihto my black books by her treatment of Anita since tho break with the Kllorslys She wishes to como to you here this ufternoon if you are to bo at home She naked me to say that her business Is Impoitant and very private pri-vate 1 hesitated but I could think of no good excuse for refusing Ill bo here an hour said I Good day He gave me no time to change ray I mind Something perhaps It was his curious expression as he tools himself I him-self oft made me begin to regret The more I thought of the matter I the less I thought of my having made i any civil concession to a woman who had acted so badly toward Anita and i thyself Ho had not been gone a quarter of an hour before I went to I Anita In her sitting room Always the Instant I entered the outer door of her part 01 ant house that powerful power-ful Intoxicating fascination that she had for me began to take possession of my senses It was in every garment gar-ment she wore It seemed to linger In any place where she had been for a long time after she left It Sho was at a small desk by tho window was writing letters May 1 Interrupt said I Monson was hero a few minutes ago from Mrs Langdon Sho wants to see me I told him I would see her here Then it occurred to me that perhaps I had been too goodnatured What do you think S I I 7 tip I I I I > 2i7c t Y III A I i t FOOL SHE FLARED AT ME OH THE FOOLS WOMEN MAKE OF MEN that I regretted having rejected what I still felt was Insulting to mo and degrading to her simply that my manner should have been different There was no necessity or excuse for violence In showing her that I would not could not accept from gratitude what only love has the right to give And I had long been casting about for some way to apologize not easy too to-o when her distant manner toward mo made It difficult for mo to find oven the necessary commonplaces to keep up appearances before the servants on tho Cow occasions on which we accidentally met But as I was saying I came up from the once and stretched myself on tho lounge In my private room adjoining ad-joining tho library I had read myself Into a doze when a servant brought mo a card I glanced at It as It lay upon his extended tray General Monson I read aloud What does the damned rascal want Tasked Tho servant smiled He knew as well as I how Monson after I dismissed dis-missed him with a present of six months pay had given the newspapers news-papers tho story or rather his version ver-sion of tho etory of my efforts to educate myself In tho arts and graces of a gentleman Mr Monson says lit l c wishes to particularly H > M he you I WellTril see 11 1 said L I > plsod him too nuoh to dislike him ho might possibly bo in Hud I thought that notion vanished the vit 1l1t him Ho Was tnsttti I net nyo upon obvJo3l > at lh vei r top of the wave Hello Monson vu my greeting In I could not see her face hot only the back of her head and the loose calls of magnetic hair and tho white nape of her graceful neck As I began be-gan to speak she stopped writing her pen suspended over the sheet of paper After I ended there was along a-long silence Ill not see her said I I dont quite understand why I yielded And I turned to go Walt please came from her abruptly ab-ruptly Another long silence Then I If she comes here I think the pnly person I per-son who can properly receive her Is you f Noyou must see her said Anita at last And she turned round In her chair until she was facing me Her expression can not describe It 1 chn only say that It gave me a sense of impending calamity Id rather notmuch rather not said 1 particularlY wish you to see her she replied and she turned back to her writing I saw her pen poised as If she were about to begin but she did not begin and I felt that she would not With my mind shadowed with vague dread I loft that mysterious mysteri-ous ttlllnf i id went back to tho llbarj It was not long before Mrs Lang Ion VMS announced There are some women to whom u haggard look Is becoming be-coming she Is and of them Sho was i much thinner than when I last saw her Instead of her former restless petulant suspicious expression she now looked tragically sad May 1 r trouble you to close tho door lAIn I she when tV runt had withdrawn I closed thp door Ive come sbtj began vmnout seating herself to make jv r us unhappy un-happy I lour I us 1 am Ive I hesitated long before coming Hat 1 rim desperate desper-ate Tho one hope I have loft is that you and 1 between us may bo able totochat you and I may be able to help each other I waited I suppuso thoro are people she wont on who havo never known what It was to really to care tor some unit else They would despl o mo for clinging to a man after he linn shown mo that tlmt his lovo has ceased Pardon mo Mrs Langdon I Interrupted In-terrupted You apparently think your husband and I aro Intimate friends Before you go any further I must disabuse you of that idea She looked at me In open astonishment astonish-ment You do not know why iy husband Ims left mo Until a few minutes ago I did not know that hQ had left you J said And I do not wish to know why Her expression of astonishment changed to mockery Oh t she sneered Your wife has fooled you into thinking it a onesided affair Well I tell youshe Is as much to blame as he more For ho did love me when ho married mo did lovo mo imtll she got him under her spell again I thought I understood You havo been misled Mrs Langdon said 1 gently pitying her as the victim of her Insane jealousy You have Ak your wife she Interrupted angrily Hereafter you cant pro tend Ignorance For Ill at least bo revenged Sha Called utterly to trap him Intermarriage when she was a poor girl and = Before you go any further said I coldly let mo set you right My wife was at one time engaged to you husbands brother but Tom 1l she Interrupted And her laugh made me bite my lip So she told you that I dont see how she dared Why everybody knows that she and Mowbray were engaged and that he broke It off to marry me All In an Instant everything that had been confused In my affairs at home and down town became clear I understood why I had been pursued relentlessly In Wall street why I had been unable to make tho least Impression Im-pression on the barriers between Anita and myself You will Imagine that some terrible emotion at once I dominated me But this Is not a I romance only the veracious chronicle chroni-cle of certain busman beings My first emotion was relief that It was not Tom Langdcu I ought to have known she couldnt care for him said I to myself I contending with Tom Langdon for a womans love had always made me shrink But Mow braythat was vastly differetlt My respect for myself and for Anita rose No said I to Mrs Langdon my wife did not tell me never spoke of It What I said to you was purely a guess of my own I had no Interest In the matterand havent I havo absolute confidence In my wife I feel ashdmcd that you have provoked me into saying say-ing so I opened the door I am not going yet said she angrily an-grily YJaterdayJ morning Mowbray and she were riding together In the Riverside drive Ask her groom What ot It said L Then as she did not rise I rang the bell When the servant came I said Please tell Mrs Blacklock that Mrs Langdon Is In the libraryand that I am hero and gave you tho message As soon as the servant was gone she said No doubt shell Ho to you Those women that steal other wom ens property are usually clover at fooling their own silly husbands I do not intend to ask here I replied re-plied To ask her would be an Insult In-sult suItSho Sho made no comment beyond a scornful toss of the head Wo both had our gaze fixed upon the door through which Anita would enter When she finally did appear I after one glance at her turnedIt musl have been triumphantly unon hei accuser I had not doubted but where Is the faith that Is not the stronger for confirmation 1 And con Urination there was In the very atmosphere at-mosphere round that stately still figure Sho looked calmly first at Mrs Langdon then at me I sent for you said I because I thought that you rather than I should request Mrs Langdon to leave your house At that Mrs Langdon was on net feet and blazing Fool she flared at me Oh the fools women make of menP Then to Anita Youyou But no I must not permit you to drag me down to your level Toll your husband tell him that you were riding with my husband in the Riverside River-side drive yesterday Istopped between her and Anita My wife will not answer you said L 1 I hope Madam you will spare us the necessity of n pajnful scone But leave you must mat once She looked wildly round clasped her hands suddenly bust Into tears If she had but known she could have had her own way after that without any attempt from mo to oppose her For she was evidently unutterably wretchedand no one know bettor tbnu I the sufferings of iirreturned love But she had given me up slowly sobbing she left the room I opening time I door for her and closing It behind her I almost broke down myself said I to Anita Poor woman How can you be so calm 1 You women In your relations with each other are < t mystery mys-tery To be Continued |