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Show TflE DELUQE Zfr DAVID GRAHAM PIUPS, o"7S'CQSrc ' CHAPTER XXIX. Continued. Tin- Hi st news t got wiis that Hill 'Van Nest h:nt 'disappeared. Ah soon Sh tho Stick Kxchnugc opened, Nn- tlomil Coal became the renturo. lint. liKti'iii of "wash miles," Hochuck, Cangdon uml Melville wore theln- M'lvi'H, llnnugh various brokers, buy- ng the stocks In large quantities to teep the prices iii. My next letter . -y mm ns brief as my Hist philippic: -w "Hill Van Nest Is at the Hotel ?rnnkfort, Nownik, under the name or riiomns Uiwry. Me was In telephonic :ominunlcntlon with Piesldent Mel- lllc, of the National Industrial bank, :wlce yesterday "The underwriter of the National Coal company's now Issues, frlRht-iiied frlRht-iiied by yesterday's exposme, have compelled Mr. Iloebiick, Mr. Mowbray Mow-bray Langdon and Mr. Mclvlllo themselves them-selves to buy. So, yesterday, those three gentlemen bought with real money, with their own monoy, large liinntltles of stocks which are worth less than half what they paid for them. "They will continue to buy these -' stocks so long as the public holds aloof. They dare not let tho prices slump. They hope that this storm will blow over, and that then the In vesting public will forget nnd will I eliove them of their load." I I had added: "Hut this storm won't blow over. It will become a cyclone." I struck that out. "No prophecy," Bald I to ni) self "Your rule, Ironclad, Iron-clad, must be facts, always fa;ts; only facts." . Tho gambling section of tho public took my hint nnd rushed Into tho ; market; tho burden of protecting tho underwriters was doubled, and more and more of tho hoarded loot was dlBgorged. That must havo been a costly day for, 10 minutes nfter tho Stock Kxchango closed, Hoebuck sent for me. "My compliments to him," said I to his messenger, "but I am too busy. iril be glad to see. him here, however. "You know ho dines not como to you," said tho messenger, Schilling, ! ts'r -il)resldetit of tho National Mnnurnc-hired Mnnurnc-hired food company, sometimes called I tie I'olson Trust. "If ho did, nnd It I vero to gel out, there'd bo a panic." j '"" '"Probably," replied I with a shrug, j "Thnt's nonffalr of mine. I'm not re- I sponsible for the rotten conditions j which these so-called llnnnclers hnvo produced, and I shall not bo disturbed by the crdsh which must come." Schilling gave me u genuine look of , mingled pity and admiration. "I sup pose you know what you're about," said he. "but I think you'ro making i a mistake " I "Thanks, Ned," said I ho hnil been my head clerk a few years before, and I had got him tho chauco with Hoebuck which ho had Improved so v well. "I'm going to have some fun. '""T, " Can't live but onco." My "dally letters" had now ceased . - , to be advertisements, had becomo nows, sought by all tho nowspnpers of this country and of tho big cities In . Oront Hrltalu. I could havu mado u largo saving by no longer paying my "' "v sixty-odd legular papers for Inserting j them. Hut I was looking too fnr .',tv ahead to blunder Into that fatal mis- ' . take. Instead, I signed a year's con tract with each of my vapors, they guaranteeing to print my advertise-I advertise-I tnents, I guaranteeing to protect them against loss on libel suits, l organ-1 Izod n dummy nows bureau, and j through It got contracts with tho tele- j , . graphic companies. Thus Insured . ogalnBt tho cutting of my coinmunlca-1 I tlons with the public, 1 was ready for j tho real campaign. I It began with my "History of the1 j National Coal company." I need not j repeat that famous history here. I i I need recall only the main points how H"V I proved that tho common slock wus H '' actually worth less than two dollars a share, that tho bonds wero worth less than twenty-five dollars In tho bun-I bun-I drod, that both stock and bonds were , II Illegal; my detailed lecltal of the j ' I crimes of Hoebuck, Melville and I.nug-. don In wrecking mining properties, In I wrecking coal railways. In ejecting I American labor nnd substituting I helots from eastern Kurnpo; how they i had swindled and lied and bribed; how they had twisted the books or the companies, how thoy wero planning plan-ning to unload tho mnss of almost ' worthless securities at high prices, then to get from under the market and let the bonds and stocks dropj down to where thoy could buy them In on terms that would yield them more than 250 par cent on tho actual capital capi-tal Invested. Less and dearer coal; , lower wages and more Ignorant labor ers; enormous profits absorbed without with-out mercy Into a few pockets. On the day tho seventh chapter of this history appeared, tho telegraph I companies notified mo that they would l transmit no more of my matter. They U feared tho consequences In llbol suits, H explained Moscby, general manager or H one of the companies. H "Hut I guarantee to protect you," 'H said I. "I will give bond In any m amount you nsk." , "u emit take th risk, Mr. Hlack-! lock, leplled he. The twinkle In his ee told me why, and also that he, I like every one else In the country ox- I tept the cllipie, was In sympathy with me. My lawyers found an honest Judge, and I got an Injunction that compelled the companies to transmit under my I contracts. I suspended the "History I j for one day, and sent out in place of It an account or this attempt to shut me -off from the public "Hereafter," said I, in the last paragiaph la my letter, "I shnll end each day's chapter with n forecast of what tho next day's . chapter Is to be. If for any reason It ' falls to appear, the public will know that somebody has been coerced by Hoebuck, Melville & Co." XXX. ANITA'S SECRET. That arternoon or, was it tho next? 1 I happened to go homo early. 1 have never been able to keop nllve anger against any one. My anger against Anita had long ago died away, j had been succeeded by i egret nnd remorse that I had let my norves, or I whatever tho accursed causo was, 1 whirl mo Into such an outburst. Not i "'FOOLf SIIK FLAKUD AT Ml-:. OH, TUB FOOLS WOMEN MARK Or' MKN,'" Hint I regretted having rejected what I still felt was Insulting to me and degrading to her; simply that my 1 manner should hnvo been different. Thoro was no necessity or excuse for i violence In showing her that I would I not. could not, accept from gratitude what only lovo has the right to give. And I had long been casting nbout for soiuo way to iiologlzo not easy to do, when her distant manner toward . me mado It dltllcult for mo to tind I even tli" necessary commonplaces to I "keep up appearances" before the I servants on tho few occasions on which wo accidentally met. i Hut, as I was saying, ! came up I from tho o 111 co and stretched myself ou tho lounge In my private room nd-' nd-' Joining tho library. I had read mysuir I Into a doze, when a servnnt brought mo a card. I glanced nt It us It lay upon his extended tray, "(lenernl Mouson," I read aloud "What does the damned rascal want?" I naked. Tho servant smiled. Ho know as well ns I how Mouson, attar 1 dismissed dis-missed him with a present of six I months' pay. had given tho nows- papers tho story or, rathor, his vor-i vor-i slon of tho i tory of my efforts to educate mysel;' In tho "arts nnd graces of a gentleman " "Mr. Monsou snys ho wishes to see you partlculaily. sir," said ho. "Well I'll see him." said I. I do-Hplsod do-Hplsod him too nuch to dlsllko him, and I thought ho might imsslbly bo In want. Hut that .lotion vanished the Instant I set eyes tijxin him. Ho was obviously at tho very top of tho wave. "Hollo, Monson," win my greeting, In It no reminder of his treachery. "Howdj. HlucMock." said he. "I've come ou a little en and for Mrs Lang-don." Lang-don." Then, with that nastv grin of his: "You know. I'm looking after things for her since the bust up " "No, I didn't know." said I curtly, suppressing my Instant cuiloslty. What does Mrs. Langdon want?" "To see you for Just n few minutes whenever It Is convenient." "If Mis. I.angdon has business with mo, I'll seo her nt my oftlce," said I. She was one of the fashionables that had got herself Into my black books by her treatment of Aultu since tho break with the KUerslys. "Sho wishes to come to you hero this uftornoon, If you aro to bo at homo. Sho asked mo to say that hor business Is Important and very private." pri-vate." I hesitated, but I could think of no good excuse for refusing. "I'll bo hole un hour," said I. "(Inod day." Ho gave mo no time to change my mind. , Something perhaps It wns his curious expression as he took himself him-self off mado me begin to rogrot. The more I thought of tho mnttor, the less I thought of my having made any civil concession to n woman who had acted so badly toward, Anita and myself. He had not been gono n quattor-or an hour before I went to Anita In her sitting room. Always, U'.'J Instant I entered tho outer door of her part or aar house, that powerful. power-ful. Intoxicating fasclnatlea that she had for mo began to take possession of my senses. It wns In every garment gar-ment she woro. It seemed to linger In any place where sho had been, for n long time after she left it. Sho was at a Binull desk by tho window, was writing lettets. "May I Interrupt?" said I. "Monson was hero a few minutes ago from Mrs. Laugdou. She wants to boo inc. I told him I would see her here. Then It occurred to me that perhaps I had been too goodnntured. What do you think?" I could not soo hor face, but only tho back of hor hood, and tho looso colls of magnetic hair and tho whlto nnpo of hor graceful neck. As 1 bo-gnu bo-gnu to spenk, sho stopped writing, her pen suspended over tho shoot of papor. After I ended thoro wus n long sllonce. "I'll not seo hor," said I. "I don't iiulto understand why I yielded." And I turned to go. "Walt pleaso," camo from her abruptly. ab-ruptly. Anothor long sllonce. Then I: "If sho comes horo, I think tho only person per-son who can propbrly rccolvo her Is you." "No you must seo hor," said Anltn nt last. And sho turned round In hor chnlr until she was facing mo. Hor expression I can not describe It. 1 enn only say that It gavo mo a sonso of Impending calamity. "I'd rathor not much rathor not," said I. "I particularly wish you to seo her," sho replied, and she turned back to hor writing. I saw her pen iKilsed as If sho woro nbout to begin; but sho did not begin and I foil that sho would not. With my mind shadowed with vaguo dread, I left that mysterious mysteri-ous Ftlllnoss, and went hack to the library. It was not long before Mrs. Lang-don Lang-don was announced Thoro aro somo women to whom a hnggard look Is Incoming; In-coming; sho Is one of thorn. Sho was much thinner tliuu when ( last saw her; Instead of her former restlesB, petulant, suspicious expression, she now looked tragleallv sad. "May I I I trouble yotti coso the door?" said sho, when t"J '"mint had wlthdrn.vn 1 closed, io door. "l'yo conje," she began, fluhout seating heijelf, "to make ". as un-hnppy, un-hnppy, I fear, us 1 am. I've hesitated long berore coming, Hut I mil desperate. desper-ate. Tho one hope 1 have left Is that you nnd I beiweui us may be nblo to to that you and I may be uble to help each other." I wnlled. "I suppose there are people," sho wont on, "who have never known what It was to really to caru for somo one olso. They would despise nui foi clinging to a man after ho has shown mo that that his lovo has ceased." "Pardon me, Mrs. Lnugdon," 1 Interrupted. In-terrupted. "You apparently think your luisbnnd nnd I nro Intimate friends. Heforo you go any further I must dlsabuso you of that Idea." Sho looked at mo In open astonishment. astonish-ment. "Yqu do not know why my husband has left mo?" "Until a few minutes ago, 1 did not know that!' ho had left you," I sahL "And 1 do not wish to know why.' Her expression of ustonlshmcut changed to mockery. "Oh!" sho sneered. "Your wife has fooled you Into thinking It n ouo-sldcd affair. Well, I tell (hi. sho Is as much to blamo as he more. For ho did lovo mo when ho married mo; did lovo mo until she got him under her spell again." I thought I understood. "You hnvo been misled, Mrs. Lnugdon," snld 1 gently, pit) lug her ta tho victim or hor lnsano Jealousy. "You hnvo " "Ask jour wire," sho Interrupted angrily. "Hereafter, you can't pretend pre-tend Ignorance For I'll at least bo rovongod. She failed utterly to trap hlin Into mnrriage when sho was u iroor girl, and " "Heforo jou go nny further," said I coldly, "let inn set you right. My wifo wns at one time engnged to jour husband's brother, but " "Tom?" sho Interrupted. And her laugh nihdo mo blto my lip. "So slin told you that! I don't seo how sho dared. Why. everybody knows that sho and Mowbray woro ongaged. and that ho broke It off to marry mo. ' All In an Instant everything that had been confused In my tilTnlrs at homo nnd down town, became clenr. I undorstood why I hail boon pursued relentlessly In Wall street; why I had been, uuablo to make tho least lm-prcsslou lm-prcsslou on tho barriers between Anita nnd myself. You will Imagine that somo terrlblo emotion nt onco dominated me. Hut this is not a romanco; only tho veracious chronicle chroni-cle of certain husmnn being My first omotlon was relief that It was not Tom Langdim. "I ought to havo known sho couldn't caro for him," said I toelf, I, contending with J!lJJ Roman's lovo had JU aMTTTiraHTnHmrlnlC-'a-Hut Mow. hrnjr-I-tliat was vastly different. My i-C8ic&t for myself nnd for Anita rose "No,' said I to Mrs. Langdon, "my wife did not tell me, never spoko of It. Whatf said to you wns purely n guess of liiAown. I had no Interest In tho mnttM-and haven't. I havo absolute confldlpco In my wlfo. 1 feci ashamed that ydu havo provokod mo Into ttnj'-ing ttnj'-ing so." I opened tho door. "I cm not going yot," said sho an grllj-. "Yestcrdny morning Mowbruy and sho woro riding together In tho Hlvorsldo drlvo. Ask her groom." "What of It?" said I. Then, as shu did not rise, I rang tho bell. When tho servnnt camo, I said: "Ploaso toll Mrs. Hlacklock that Mrs. Langdon Is !n tho library and that I am hero, nnd gavo you tho mossago." As soon ns tho sorvant wns gono, sho said: "No doubt sbo'll Ho to you. Thoso women Hint steal other women's wom-en's property aro usually clovor at fooling tholr own silly husbands." "I do not Intend to ask her," I ro-piled. ro-piled. "To ask hor would bo an Insult. In-sult. Sho mado no comment beyond a scornful toss of tho head. Wo both had our gazo flxod upon tho door through which Anita would ontor. Whon sho finally did appear, I, urtor ono glanco nt hor, turned It must have been triumphantly upon hoi accuser I hail not doubted, hut where Is tho faith that Is not the stronger for confirmation? And con Urination thoro was In tho vory atmosphere at-mosphere round , thnt stately, still flguro. Sho looked calmly, first at Mrs. Langdon, then at me. "I sent for you," said 1, "becauso I thought that you, rather than I, should request Mrs. langdon to loavo your house." At thnt Mrs. Langdon was ou tier feet, nnd blazing. "Fool!" sho llored at mo. "Oh, tho fools women mako ol mon!" Then to Anita: "You you Hut no, I must not permit jou to drag mo lown to jour level. Tell your husband tell him thnt you wer riding with my husband In tho Hlvorsldo Hlvor-sldo drlvo yciftorday. I stopped between her and Anita, "My wlfo will not answer you," snld I. "I hope, Madam, you will spare us tho necessity of n painful scene. Hut leave jou must at once." Sho looked wildly round, clasped her hands, '.uddenly bust Into tears. If sho had but known, sho could hnvo had her own way after thnt, without any attempt from mo to opposo her. For she wus evidently unutterably wrotclfcd and no ono knew better than l tlf sufferings of unrotiirnod lovo. Dint sho hud given mo up; slowlj-, Vobblng, she lert tho room I opening llie door for her nnd closing It bohlndltior, "I alimVit broke down inysolr," said I to Anlut "Poor woman! How enn you bo soalm? You women In your relntlons with each other nro- niys tory." I (Toj bu Continued.) |