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Show oade me pass my haud over my face. I learned at least on me as rv cn vclloim act sn the fellows that used to go up to the mourners bench at the revivals. 1 felt as If I had suddeuly emergod front the parlor of a dive and lts stench of sickening perfumes, into the pure nir of God's heaven. I signed the bill, and we went afoot up the avenue. Sam, as I saw with a good deal of amusement, was trying to devise some subtle, tactful way of attaching his poor, clumsy little to the well of my secret thoughts. "What is it Sammy? said I at fast What do you want to know that youre afraid to ask me? "Nothing, he said hastily. "Jm only a bit worried about about you and textile. Matt, this In the tons of deep emotion we reserve for tht attempt to lure friends Into confiding that about themselves which will giva us the opportunity to pity them, and, if necessary, to sheer off from them Matt, I do hope you haven't been hard hit? Not yet, said I easily. Dry your tears and put away your black clothes. Your friend, Tom Langdon, was a little premature. Im afraid Ive given you a false Impression, Sam continued, with an overeagerness to convince me that did not attract my attention at the time. Tom merely said, I hear Blacklock Is loaded up with textile shorts, that was all. A careless remark. 1 really didnt think of It again until I saw you looking so black and glum. That seemed natural enough, so I changed the subject. As we entered his house, I said: TI! not go up to the drawing room. Make my excuses to your mother, will you? Ill turn Into the little smoking-roohere. Tell your sister and say I'm going to stop only a moment. Sam had just left me when the bub ler came. Mr. Ball I think that wag the name, sir wishes to speak to you on the telephone. I had given Ellerslys as one of the places at which I might he found, should it be necessary to consult me. I followed the butler to the telephone closet under the main stairway. Aa soon as Ball made sure It was I, he began: I'll use the code words. Ive just seen Fearless, as you told me to. Fearless that was Mitchell, my spy In the employ of Tavistock, who was my principal rival In the business of confidential brokerage for the high financiers. "Yes, said I. "What does he say? "There has been a great deal of heavy buying for a month past. Then my dread was well founded textiles were to be deliberately rocketed. "Who's been doing lt? I asked. "He found out only this afternoon. Its been kept unusually dark. It "Who? Who? I demanded. "Intrepid," he answered. Intrepid that Is, Langdon Mowbray Langdon! "The whole thing was planned carefully," continued Ball, "and Is coming off according to schedule. Fearless overheard a final message Intrepid's brother brought from him So It was no mUchance It was an assassination. Mowbray Langdon bad stabbed me In the back and fled. Did you hear what I said? asked Ball "Is that you. Yes, I replied. "Oh, came ip a relieved tone from the other end of the wire. You were so long In answering that I thought Id been cut off. Any Instructions? "No, said I. "Good-by- . I heard him ring off, but I sat there for several minutes, the receiver still 'Langto my ear. I was muttering: why why? don, Langdon why again and again. Why had he turned against me? Why had be plotted to destroy me one of those plots so frequent In Wall street where the assassin steals up, delivers the mortal blow, and steals away without ever being detected or even suspected? I saw the whole plot now I understood Tom Langdons activities, I recalled Mowbray Langdons curious phrases and looks and toned. But why why why? How was I in his way?. It was all dark to me pitch-dar- part of the reason my feeling at disadvantage before huJ fatten to shave, and as mj Is heavy and to be looked after twice black it has a can stop at my rooms day. "Oh, get my rae into condition in a fewandminutes BUld 1. IE MELTO Trill, for aught o, Wool ktt st la tie d no a Pearance dant I. havent Hay been the era Fede, yean, u, Charles of the w a83-SZSC- 1 I bavOf Z wrote and sent out to all my new papers and all my agents a broadside G "But this lent against the management of tbe textile fcustn't ask It, Blacklock," he trust it would be published in the more money morning, In good time for the opening I've loaned you of the stock exchange. Before the allows. And 1 cant m the lawmore." first quotation of textile could be made U have any thousands on thousands of investors to you, Ce has been lying and speculators throughout the counCve been believing him," Bald a try would have read my letter, would Wn I ay my request Isnt ' be believing that Matthew Blacklock business, I mean It." had detected the textile trust in a he more," Vt let you have any and swindle, bad i cant!" And down came turned against It, preferring promptly t gesture. In a to faith with his customers and Cd forward and laid my hand withkeep the public. As I read over my &rni My on bis pronunciamiento aloud before sending addition to the stock of this It out, I found In It a note of confI bold In my own name, idence that cheered me mightily. "Im hold live shares in the name stronger than I thought, sold that 1 even nan whom nobody know I. And I felt stronger still as I went have me mow. If you dont let on to picture the thousands on thouto the honey, that man goes sands throughout the land rallying at that with information that my call to give battle. joa in the penitentiary, out business of your company you -- b? 'd defend? ie A. Peti I. It Is on Autltcr of "THECQSZlfc ipiyiD GRAHAM PHILLIES, SOS CUVK (CQVZ&'r After I had completed my business Continued. XVI. CHAPTER at the National Industrial, I went back Matt," he plead- to my office and gathered ..glot to o. a many together the great I've done you threads of my web of defense. Then to he ecent tfl aa in my . , stock-jobbin- been ar chard li od alleges rn of ly decides to the lulmi It ag the i stand itroductli: img rep4! of i the e! prosec that m In the pro brought ieke. Tti east all or tt weak-violen- con-(h- the la Boise 'or the ie e g o Is when he ired to by i i 1 bankruptcy before ago, I saved you three year ;ot you this Job against just such XVIL Into ANITA BEGINS TO BE HERSELF. I had asked Sam Ellersly to dine with me; so preoccupied was I that Bob as Corey, this, aergency not until ten minutes before tbe hour hyGod, youll toe the mark!" set did he come into my mind he or 3t fg havent done anything that any of his family, even his sister. My hank In town doesnt do every doesnt have to do. If we didnt money to dummy borrowers and ratify accounts, our customers here they could get accom- so And put on evening dress, too, he suggested. You wouldn't want to go in a dinner lacket. I can t say why this was the last straw, but it was. Bother! said I, my common Bense smashing the spell of snobbishness that had begun to reassert ltseir as soon as I got into his unnatural, unhealthy atmosphere. "Ill go aa I am, beard and all. I only make myself ridiculous, trying to be a sheep. I'm goat, and a goat I'll stay. That shut him Into himself. When he remerged, It was to say: "Something doing down town eh?" A sharpness in his voice and In his eyes, too, made me put my mind on him more closely, and then I saw what I should have seen before that he was moody and slightly distant. Seen Tom Langdon this after noon? I asked carelessly. He colored. "Yes had lunch with him," wag his answer. I smiled for his benefit Aha! thought I. "So Tom Langdon has been fool enough to take this paroquet Into bis confidence. Then I said to him: "Is Tom making the rounds, warning the rats to leave the sinking ship? What do you mean, Matt? he demanded, aa if I had accused him. I looked steadily at him, and I Imagine my unshaven jaw did not make my aspect alluring. What did Tom say about me? 1 Inquired. "Oh, almost nothing. We were talking chiefly of of club matters, he answered, In a fair Imitation of his manner. "When does my name come up there?" I said. He flushed and shifted. "I was just about to tell you, he stammered. "But perhaps you know?" to-da- usual-offhan- S3M. true enough," said I. "But a position for the moment (I need my friends and theyve come to me. If I dont get the 7 from you. Ill get It elsewhere over the cliff with you and your The laws youve been violat- for the practical bank-Minebut there mighty good ingratitude and treach- - ed be bad finishing there, yellow and pinched, every now and then. He at shivered no reply. esently I shook his arm Impatient-Hi- t met mine, and I fixed eyes o to pull through," said 1. werent, Id see to It that you protected. Come, whats your w? Friend or traitor? tad round In the morning and get noney," said he, putting on a re-going If I hopeless look. , - ughed. Til feel v. I VVell replied. easier If ud checks at once. its too late, he it I take fix up the , said. "You deposit made re special arrangements I replied. betrayed him. I saw that BW of that proceeding had I wiser than in shutting off bla chance to evade. What scheme In mind I dont know, and cant lat Hut he had thought out them, bee Mug probably would nltely the ttal. Tt be flrlil to the iue own; irlde. T calllnf 1 :reek the TA less U'aI i penoeij nilnera I InVodaM, ldltlom ng dUtrW IeabodJ Tom Langdon n coni' Will eye 'xc,amtlon of amirne-ha- d been assuming that 1 betrayed by some one of mischances that so often best plans into confusion. JAngdou, I said satirically, that warned you against y of i he finally l i, redo to fool-:- t - e deperu . something huve given me trouble n saving him. A foolish man tht place is as foolish as ever, y was a foolish man only a mmlts crimes that put him in 'er f others. The crimes of w big captains of Industry and k of finance are of the kind Mt others in their power. c op, Corey. said 1. "Do you the man to shut a friend in . of a sinking ship? Tel! me. 1 '"you was short on textile?"' my men" he slowly replied, uced himself together. Ir 0,1T Who? I- persisted. otd to know Just how far wig likely to spread. n,e to bo thinking out a lie. truth" I commanded. ! couldnt have been one of ,'M "'ho was It? , Ill not Rive late eg to rrlnlly act, said Corey. aro 'err 77nw how that 1 w Tr. he gent to I ng ;)vernit!r:j w rt a i, 0n j Pj 4 U tuy loans, lan ,llra- - IUacklock; said Corey eari,na 4asPretty good friend friendship goes 7(1. "Be happened to hear. keep a sharp l'(iriUon In 'their stock. pped in to warn me as a forV"uV u Unit'd fflrlal you call Went on. Vft,.l,tn 1 euty n panes Intimate. And be close yob and I I , d do amB thing In AFRAID THE SPELL WOULD BE BROKEN." lightI returned to the smoking-room- , ed a cigar, sat fumbling at tbe new situation. I was in no worse ptigbt I TOOK IT AS THOUGH I WERE first Impulse was to send word that "But I couldnt keep the engagement. I reflected, I must dine somewhere, "and theres no reason why I shouldn't dine with him. since Ive done everyIn my office thing that can be done. dressing-room, and bath a I suite had with a complete wardrobe. Thus, by and by hurrying a little over my toilet, the speod making aiy chauffeur crowd limit, I was at Dohuonlcos only twenty minutes late. as Sam, who bad 'been late also, was and cocktail a usual, was having smoked a cigordering the dluuer. I At business him. watched arette and was or at anything serious his mind dinner at ordering but all but useless; shone. and things of that sort, be of his accomplishments small Those or sort a to me had often moved as If one saw a man contempt, pitying engravof talent devotiug himself to on o'd doMarj. Prayer Lords the ing That evening, however, as he looked, comfortable and contented since iM with not a care In the world, and la good dinner was to have a good as I saw how much afterward; cigar t,n was genuine pleasure he the of selecting the dishes and giving cber. the for directions waiter minute I envied him. room "You must come over to my some me and give after dinner, .. music, I said. but I Thanks, he replied, a and P brldKj promised to go home to In few a Mothers got 1 be w more are coming aflei ard, ; toumstancet. He didnt vie fd about my calling your r1 tlilrh b frank- -I t u OtoJ on, myself. wgcnU j T canto, but a alckly the ft. s anUel puled me." nd talk I "Then Ill go lb you. land. uid 1 good hu play. I1 him." And I your alster she doesntIn a y He glanced at mo "Know what?" than before what did It matter who "That Hasnt Tom told you? He was attacking me? In the circumhas withdrawn any youll have to stances, a novice could now destroy BtUL me as easily as a Langdon. get another second If you think that Is unless you I suppose youd Pull's news seemed to take away my have told me, if you'd changed your courage. I reminded myself that 1 mind?" was used to treachery of this sort, Since I had become so deeply Inter- that I deserved what I was getting beested in Anita, my ambition ambi- cause I bad,' like a fool, dropped my tion! to Join tbe Travelers had all guard in the fight that Is always oo but dropped out of my mind. "I had forgotten about it." said I, "But, now that you remind me, want my name withdrawn, it was passing fancy. It was part and parcel of a lot of damn foolishness Ive been Indulging In for the last few months. But I've come to my senses and It' me to the wild. where I belong, Sammy, from this time on." He looked tremendously relieved, and a little pnzxled, too. I thought I was reading him like an Illuminated Hes eager to keep friends sign. with me, thought I, "until hee absomore In it lutely sure there's nothing And that for him and his people. one. it Is not a good was pretty guess to the discredit of my shrewdness but that I didnt see It waa not hope, me. fear, that made him try to placate then what the Langdona haa done. But his friendliSammy was saying, in est tone: "W'hata the matter, old msn. You're sour I Never In k better humor words the t as s;Kike and ured hint, I had been say-lnthey came true. What and all It repTravelers the about resented all the snobbery, and smirkfinal and ing, and rotten pretense myall acted absolute renunciation of it g ed myself in vain. treachery made me But I remindLangdon's smiling heart-sick- . Soon Anita appeared preceded and heralded by a faint rustling from sort and clinging skirts, that swept my nerves like a love-tunI think my torment must have somehow penetrated to her. For she was sweet and friendly and she could not have hurt me worse! It I had followed my Impulso I should have fallen at her feet and buried my face, scorching, in the folds of that pale bius, robe of hers. "Do throw away that huge, hideous cigar. sho said, laughing. And she took two cigarettes from the box, put both between her lips, lit them, held one toward me. I looked at her face, and along her smooth, bare, outstretched arm, snd at the pink, slender fingers holding the dgaretts. I took it as !( 1 were afraid the spell would be broken, should my fingers touch hers. Afraid thats It! Thats why I didnt iour out nil that was la my heart, I deserved to lose her. Tn taking you away from Ihs others," I said. We could hear, the murmur of immy voices and of must faintly-shimmerin- g (To be I'oiiilnucd ) MINES AND MINING NORTHWEST NOTES One day last week a bid Of $1,500 was made for a seat upon the Salt Lake Mining Stock exchange. Most of the Utah mines closed down on the 3r), 4th and 5th, for the usual Fourth, of July rest. An unusual interest in mining properties In the mountains south of Burley, Idaho, haa been noticed during the past three weeks. About a dozen men ate being employed at tbe Caniora mine, near Albion, Idaho, and a large quantity of blgb-grad- e ore Is being taken out. A number of quart? locations have been made recently In Boulder canyon on Lanld creek. In Idaho, and a number of the locators believe they have fortunes In sight. The Luman copper mine, near Fremont county, Wyoming, that was recently sold to Senator W, A. Clark for $1,500,000, Is now being , systematically developed. Mineral paint will probably be one of the productions of Cassia county, Idaho, In the near future. Two locations were made recently, one of 1G0 and the other of 120 acres. Officials of the Butte Mining companies centering In the east, estimate that the June production of the Butte mines will show a falling off of pounds of copper, as compared with June last year. Fifteen hundred tons of ore a day are now being treated at the new plant of the Utah Copper company at Garfield. By the end of the week another section of the great mill will be placed In commission. The shaft house of the Strong mine at Leslie, fourteen miles east of Laramie, Wyo., was totally destroyed by fire on the 2nd. The shaft was nearly 400 feet deep, and all the hoisting machinery was destroyed or 'damaged. Beginning early this fall, the largest and most modern gold reduction plant In Nevada and probably In tbe world will be In operation at Blair, In tbe Silver Peak district, about twenty-fiv- e miles northwest of Goldfield, In Esmeralda county. In spite of fire and its attending drawbacks, the Utah mine of Fish Springs continues to reward the efforts of the management with so generous a hand that no decrease In the usefulness of the organization has been experienced. The Gold Mountain Consolidated company has placed the third shift at work in both (nine and mill. This organization owns the Annie Laurie, the Kimberly and the Mammoth groups at Gold Mountain, and more men are in demand. For the first half of the current year the dividend payments reported to the Mining World by eighty-eigh- t gold, silver, lead, copper, zinc and quick-Ive- r mines la tbe United States, including Alaska territory, having an of capitalization outstanding amounted to the huge sum of Ther-mopoli- $337,-755,72- 7, $38,560,812. The rumor from New York that the Guggenheim interests are after the control of all of the Balaklala properties in California, has called attention anew to the recently organized Guggenheim company In the east with a capitalization sufficient to take in many of tbe great mines of tbe west The ejtcnslve plant of the Hanni-pa- h mine, located about twenty-thre- e miles from Tonopah, Nev., was entirely destroyed by fire on July 2. The principal owners of the mine are Samuel Newhouse of Salt Lake and A. n J. Betties, the cyanide man. Tbe fire consumed all the buildings and descended Into the shaft. A private wire from Cobalt says that tbe Nlplsslng Mining company, now under the Newhouse management, has found another very rich vein four Aches wide on No. 400. This Is adjacent to the Tretheway Temls kamL Hudson bay and Orlen properties. This makes tbe second vein struck In two weeks. Tbe Skaggs property, In the Dolly Varden district In Nevada, which was sold about nine months ago to a Boston firm, is proving far richer than was first thought. Tbe mines are being worked and are paying tbclr own way at tbe present time. The price the property sold for was $150,000, the last paymeut having Just been made. Word from the camp of Seven Troughs, Nevada, Is to the effect that the Seven Troughs Mining company at last has caught tbe thieves who have been stealing blgh-gradgold ore from the Falrview group of this Utah proposition. A woman, tbe wife of a miner, has been arrested along with her husband, and they are now in jail at Wlnnomucca. Tbe great $100,000,000 smelter trust, head by Simon Guggenham, senator-elec- t from Colorado, has fallen under the ban of the federal authorities, and experts are conducting an investigation to determine whether It is a combination in violation of law, upon which It Is expected to base a suit for dissolution of the corporation and possibly criminal proceedings on the evidence being accumulated. There are not a few problems In economic geology that are as yet unsolved, and are open for speculation. One of these is the occurrence of impregnations of copper ia purely sedimentary rocks 'unconnected with any visible or probable volcaulc source or manifestation. and General Manager Fresldent George L. Hyde of the Eva. Mining company, has Just returned from the Eva mine in the ML Nebo district, and reports the property in very fine condition. They have run a luunel 3.10 feet connecting with their shaft at a depth of 300 feet. well-know- , e for Juno Goldfield tax collections ran to about $13,000. More than half is for gambling permits. Arch Neil, who came to Laporte, Ind., from Wyoming to construct bridge, was overcome while working in the sun on the 3rd and . died in five minutes, Estimates have been made for new double track on the Union Pacific In Wyoming, which will extend from Hanna to Rawlins, a distance of forty miles, and Rock Springs to Green River, sixteen miles. Four women saved the Wheatland dam, impounding the largest artificial body of water in Wyoming, from destruction. working all night trying to repair a leak In the dam while a messenger was summoning help. . According to the wool buyers now In Lewiston, Mont., 20,000,000 pounds, s of the entire clip of or the state, has already been disposed of on contract, giving rise to an situation In many respects. The remains of Wallace O. Stone, an engineer, were found 'strewed along the Great Northern track at Bellingham. It 1 supposed he was caught on the Whatcom creek viaduct and ground to pieces by a train during the two-third- night Clessen G. Wolcott, the veteran Union Faciflc conductor, died at his home at Cheyenne, Wyo., on June 80. For over a quarter of a century the deceased has been an employee of the Union Faclfle and a resident at Cheyenne. Upon complaint filed by officers of lease on the (the Little Florence Florence mine, officers have seized 300 pounds of cyanide solution found at the Smith Assay and Reduction The solution Is Works in Goldfield. worth about $8,000. A special from Baker City, Ore., tells of the killing of Jack Hamilton by his divorced wife. In a quarrel over a fence, blown down in a storm, Hamilton struck the woman, who drew a revolver and shot him dead. Tbe Hamiltons lived at Pleasant Valmiles from Baker ley, twenty-fiv, City. f Passengers on the steamship Olympia, which arrived In Seattle on the 7th from Nome, bring word that tbe miners in that district are organizing to resist a $1 a day reduction in their wages. Operators at Nome have been paying $5 a day with board, and now wish to pay $4 with board. A strike Is expected. All the telephone girls of the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company In Butte went out on a strike Sunday afternoon In sympathy with the striking linemen of Utah, Wyoming and Idaho, the end of a ten days truce arriving that afternoon and tbe company having reached no understanding with the linemen. son of John BowThe man, who lives In a hovel made of old canvas and bourda, in an isolated spot in Reno, Nevada, died from starvation. There bad been no food lu the shack for three days when the lad died, and Bowman, his wife and their two surviving children were all to HI even to beg. Tbe comstock mines of Virginia City, Nevada, have produced more than $050(000,000. Other great producing camps are Austin, $62,000,000; Ploche, $80,000,00; Eureka, $44,000,-00Mountain City $62,000,000; $48,000,000; Candelaria, $55, 000,000; De La Mar, $20,000.00, and others aggregating over $100,000,000 more. As tbe result of a drunken row at Aldrich, Mont., John Ferry was shot to death and George Roberts was so severely cut that he cannot live. Six men employed by the Montana Coal and Coke company at Electric and Aldrich have been arrested, charged with the crime. Tbe killing was the outcome of a quarrel during the 4th uf July celebration. Jake Terry, known as Terribly Tersmuggler and train ry," robber, a fugitive from justice in the United States, was shot and instantly killed by A. I- - Llndiey, at Suntas. a border town thirty miles north of Bellingham, Wash. For years Terry has terrorized the authorities on both sides of the line, committing many crimes and defying arrest. According to a statement made by State Veterinary Pflacglng, tbe loss of sheep in Wyoming due to grubs in the head bas reached 20,000, and no effective method of stopping the ravages of tbe Insects has yet been discovered. The state authorities have called upon the Bureau of Animal Industry to put government experts In the field for the purpose of fighting the pest. Six lives were lost Saturday afternoon, says a Seattle dispatch, when the Hudson Bay steamer Mount Royal was wrecked on the rocks In Kltselas canyon, on Skeen river, sinking In less than five minutes afterward. Many of the flfty-Avt- f excited passongert Jumped Into the raging canyon waters, but few were drowned, most of the people saving themselves by clambering on the rocks of Ringbolt Island. Again the reports are rife that Ini-la- y is to be the real town on the Oregon Short Line between 8pnrks and Carlin, Nevada. A townsite baa been laid out on land that haa a splendid natural drainage, situated at mounthe base of lofty, tains. and Erastus Sinlgcr, a quite wealthy ranchman of Riverton, Wyo., and always considered a bachelor by his friends aud acquaintances, recently became engaged to marry bis own daughter, snd their relationship waa only dlacovored when they wsre about to be married. e 0; Tus-caror- a, snow-covere- d well-know- |