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Show "Why not?" Oh fact ts TiTTTF. CHAPTER it III. Continued. up later, Black look." I asked. know. You see a lot of As soon as I saw that lady, I knew the what It was that had been hiding at old the bottom of my mind and rankling well, they're fogies up there. You don't want to bother with that push. Matt. Take my advice. Do business with them, but avoid them socially. I want to go in there. 1 insisted. I have my own reasons. You put me up. "I tell you, it'd be no use, he replied. in a tone that implied he wished to hear no more of the matter. You put me up, I repeated. And if you do your best. I'll get in all right. got lots of friends there. And youve got three relatives in the committee on membership. At this he gave me a queer, sharp glance a little fright in it. I laughed. You see. I've been looking into it, Sam. I never take a jump Ie Dtf EtAVID GRAHAM PHEURS, Author of 47ZZCVSZ2c' scs-rsjzz- . carsivy3 (ctyjzxzvr jaw We 11 fix eaid he. All right, I don't He smiled my notion of honesty As you please, always amused him. he said, with a shrug. Then 1 saw a serious look just a fleeting flash of warning behind his smiling mask; Be careful and he added carelessly: I about your own personal play. doubt if Textile can be put any higher. It must have been my mood that prevented those words from making the impression on me they should have made. Instead of appreciating at once and at its full value this characteristic and amazingly friendly signal of caution, I showed how stupidly till Ive measured it." You'do better wait a few years, he began, then sti pped and until there. luckily I was alone; ever since that lunch I had been cutting loose from the old crowd from all its women, and from all its men except two or three real friends who were good fellows straight through, in spite of their having made the mistake of crossing the dead line between amateur I leaned sport and professional. over and tapped Sammy on the shoul der. He glanced round, and when he saw me, looked as if I were a policeman who had caught him in the act. Howdy, Sam ? said I. Its been so long since Ive seen you that I couldn't resist the temptation to interrupt. Hope your friend'll excuse me. Howdy do. Miss Ellersly? And I put out my hand. She took It reluctantly. She was giving me a very unpleasant look as if she were seeing, not somebody, but some thing she didnt care to see, or were seeing nothing at all. I liked that look; I liked the woman who had it in her to give It. She made me feel that she was difficult and therefore worth while, and Jhats what all we human beings are in business for to make each other feel that we're worth while. Just a moment, said Sam, red as a cranberry and stuttering. And he made a motion to come out of the box and join me. At the same time Miss Anita and the other fellow began to mm til stems IMPOSSIBLE m TO Cffi AT BOISE The Task of Selecting Jury in the First of the Famous Cases Now Under Way. Outlook Bad for Settlement of Strlka in San Francisco, and Meanwhile People Are Becoming Expert Pedestrians. The street railway into a fight to' a finish. Neither side is willing to Family of the Accused Man in the accept arbitration and the citizens Court Room at the Opening Sescommittees appointed to secure indussion, Which Was Unmarked trial peace have been unable to find by Unusual Incident. It has been any basis of settlement. demonstrated that the present polico force is inadequate and that stronger Boise, Idaho. Thursday, May 9, measures will become necessary to the opening day of the trial of Wila general resumption of service insure D. liam Haywood, the first to be placed if the struggle is conducted on present on trial of the alleged participants in lines. the avenging conspiracy by which it Assistant to the President Mullaley is averred the assassination of said on Saturday that he had several Frank Steunenberg was plot- hundred San Francisco. strike has developed said I. And from that minute I was almost silent. It was turned red. I want you Cntil what?" said I. something In her tone and manner to speak fianklv. that silenced me. I suddenly realized that I wasn't making as good nn Im"Well, you've got a lot of enemies a lot of fellows who've lost money in pression as I had been flattering myself. deals you've engineered. And theyd When a man has money and is willsay all sorts of things. ing to spend it, he can readily fool strikebreakers, motormen and Ill take care of that, said I, quite ted and executed, was unmarked by himself into imagining he gets on conductors, easy in mind. Mowbray Langdons quartered in the companys unusual incident. It wa3 earnest and grandly with women. But I had betbarns, and that they are competent to president, isn't he? Well, hes my business-like- . Its striking feature was ter grounds than that for thinking I spoke quite honclosest friend. the entire absence of crowds- or dem- operate practically the entire street myself not unattractive to them, as a I estly. It shows how simple-mindecar system. Mayor Schmitz said the rule. Women had liked me when I inattentive I was by saying; Somewas in certain ways that I had never onstration in any form. At no time, police department is competent to had nothing; women had liked me thing doing? Something new? once noted the important circummorning or afternoon, was the court- cope with the situation. when they didn't know who I was. Chief of PoBut he had already gone further stance that this closest friend had room more than half filled, and the lice Dinan said his men will preserve I felt that this woman did not like than his notion of friendship war- never invited me to his house, or anystreets forming the courthouse square me. And yet, by the way she looked ranted. order. So he replied: Meantime the population of asOh, no. where where I'd meet his contained not a single loiterer. turn away. at me in spite of her efforts not to do Simply that everythings uncertain sociates at introducing distance. San Francisco is deprived of a street The case was halted shortly before car But I was not the man to be cheated so, I could tell that I had some sort nowadays. Sam looked surprised. Oh, in that service, subjected to the alternabean adjournment of unusual Interest for her. Why I wanted to see her, 5 oclock, My mind had been all this time on ease, he said, Ill see what can be In that fashion. tive of walking or paying five prices didn't she like me? She made me feel those Manasquale mining properties. done. But his tone was not quite cor- and I compelled her to see it and to ing taken until Monday, and no feel it. Don't let me take you from Juror was secured, but substantial pro- for an execrable wagon service. the reason. I didnt belong to her I now said: Has Roebuck told you dial enough to satisfy me. Reduced to an arithmetical aspect, world. My ways and my looks offend- that I had to buy those mines on my To stimulate him and to give him your friends, said I to Sammy. Pergress was made. the problem is simply this: If fifty ed her. She disliked me a good deal; own account? an earnest of what I intended to do haps theyd like to come with you Mr. Haywood was brought into the police are required to afford safe conhe feared me a little. She would "Yes, he said. He hesitated, and for him, when our little social deal and me down to look at my horse. court room sharp at 10 oclock in the duct to two street cars daily over six have felt safer If she had been grati- again he gave me a look whose mean- had been put of tracks when no passengers through, I showed him I can give you a good tip hes bound morning. He found his family in a miles fying her curiosity, gazing in at me ing came to me only when it was too how he could win $10,000 In the next to win. Ive had my boys out on the are carried, how shall 200 cam be I think, Blacklock, youd betthrough the bars of a cage. late. three days. And you neednt bother rails every morning at the trials of all line of chairs to the right of his seat, operated in passenger traffic of 250 8am not without hesitation, as I ter turn them over to me. about putting up margins, said I, as the other possibilities. None of 'ems and in front were all of his counsel. miles of tracks with a total of opiy ?ecaed afterward left me with her, I can't, I answered. I gave my I often had before. He devoted more attention to his 700 police, not more than half of Ill take care of in it with Mowghli. when I sent him to bring her brough-t- word." Mowghli! that. said the young lady youngest daughter than to any one whom can be on duty continuously? That the running of two or three As you please," said he. up to the Broadway entrance. As He stammered a refusal and went she had begun to turn toward me aa else, and throughout the day took praccars a day may constitute the entire the and I were standing there alone, Apparently the matter didnt inter- out; but he came hack within an hour, soon as I spoke the magic word tip. no part in the selection of street car service for a 0 city of waiting In silence, I turned on her est him. He began to talk of the per- and, in a strained sort of way, accept- There may be men who can resist tically people for an indefinite time is perluddenly, and blurted out: You don't formances of my little that word tip at the race track, but jurors. Many men in similar jeopardy, fectly ed my tip and offer. apparent unless an adequate as a rule, make close study of their like me. Beachcomber; and after 20 minutes That's sensible, said I. When there never was a woman. force is supplied. protective exShe reddened a little, smiled slightand prospective jurors, frequently Mowghli! Miss Ellersly, said What a quaint remark! ly. said press their personal preferences, but What a quaint name! WILL SPEND A BILLION. the. Mr. Haywood seems content to leave trainer My said I. gave it, Ive I looked straight at her. But you Demonstrate Figures got a second son of one of those the matter entirely In the hands of his Astounding lhall. broken-dowGrowth of our Railroads. no of lawyers. gave noblemen Haywood English at sign the Our eyes met. Her chin came out head of my stables. He's trying to any feeling or emotion, but sat quietChicago. American railways will a little, her eyebrows lifted. Then, get money enough together to be able ly throughout the day. Mrs. Haywood spend close to a billion dollars In scorn of herself as well as of me, during to show up at Newport and take a and the older daughter stood the or- the present year in an extraordinary she locked herself In behind a frozen at an heiress. shy deal of appearance in court very well, effort to secure sufficient equipment, haughtiness that ignored me. Ah, At this the fellow who was fourth here Is the carriage," she said. I folin our party, and who had been giv- but the younger child cried after the power and track, including new roads, lowed her to the curb; she just ing me a nasty, glassy stare, got as examination of talesmen began. Mrs, to make it possible to handle the touched my' hand, just nodded her as was Sammy. Then I noticed Haywood and her children did not at- great amount of traffic being offered red fascinating little head. to them. he was an Englishman, and I all tend the afternoon session. that If the car and locomotive See you Saturday, old man, called but chuckled The with builders and the steel railmakers do of the defense took question delight. However, her brother friendllly. My lowering I said: No offense intended, and a much wider range than that of the their part, the year face had alarmed him. be a record clapped him on the shoulder with a state, and its most striking feature one in the throe industries mentioned. That party is off, said I, curtly. friendly smile. Hes a good fellow, dealt with the possible effect upon the It is estimated that if the manufaAnd I lifted my hat and strode away. my man Monson, and knows a lot minds As I had formed the habit of disand attitudes of jurors of the cturers are equal to the task, between about horses. and 350,000 freight cars to the missing the disagreeable, I soon put of letter President Roosevelt in call- 340.000 Miss Ellersly bit her lip and coltotal equipment of the railways of the her out of my mind. But she took United States, fully 50,000 passenger ored, but I noticed also that her eyes ing Haywood and his associates with her my joy in the taste of things. citizens, the speeches in cars and more than 6,000 locomotives dancing. I couldnt get back my former keen Sam introduced the Englishman to Idaho of Secretary Taft, the message will be added to the steam power satisfaction in all I had done and which is now available. me Lord Somebody-or-othe1 was doing. The luxury, the tangible forget of Governor Gooding to the legislature It is said now that the railroads will what, as I never saw him again. I of Idaho, the speech in Boise of Senaevidences of my achievement, no longfor steel rails turned like a bulldog from a toy ter tor Heyburn, and the action of the pay fullythe$92,000,000 er gave me pleasure; they seemed to If this present year. during rier and was at Miss Ellersly again. Idaho add to my Irritation. in passing a resolu- proves true, the steel mills- will have I worked myself up, or rather, down, Let me pnt a little something on tion legislature and appropriating money for the to turn out about 3,300,000 tons ol to such a mood that when my office Mowghli for you, that product. The output last year said I. Youre bound to win and Ill see that you prosecution of the three prisoners. was about 3,250,000 tons. It is said boy told me Mr. Langdon would like The chief concern of the counsel for the western roads will use fully 1,don't Jose. I know how you ladies me to come to his office as soon as the state in the examination of tales- 600.000 tons of rails and that nearly hate to lose, It was convenient, I snapped out: 1,000,000 tons of this will be tolled The hell he does! Tell Mr. Langdon That was a bit stiff, as I know well men, as indicated by their questions, in the eastern mills. Ill be glad to see him here whenever enough now. Indeed, my instinct was their attitude toward circumstanhe calls. That was stupidity, a prewould have told me better then, if 1 tial evidence, the absence of the acLAWYER IS CONVICTED. mature assertion of my right to be hadnt been so used to the sort oi cused from the state when the crime treated as an equal. I had always women that jump at such an offer, was committed, the effect of the man- Must Serve Year in Prison for Coand if I hadn't been casting about sc gone to Langdon. and to any other nspiracy to Annul Marriage. v ner in which the prisoner and his comof the rulers of finance, whenever I desperately and in such confusion foi New York. One year in state prishad got a summons. For, while I some way to please her. At any rate, panions were brought from Colorado, was rich and powerful, I held both hardly deserved her sudden frozen views of the talesmen as to the death on and to pay a fine of $500 was the wealth and power. In a sense, on suflook. I beg pardon, I stammered, penalty for murder in the first degree sentence imposed upon Abraham Humferance; I knew that, so long as I and I think my look at her must have and union labor. They also questioned med, the lawyer, who was convicted each talesman as to his acquaintance of had no absolute control of any great been very humble for me. to annul the marriage with the murdered governor, with a in conspiracy department of industry, these rulers The others in the box were staring view the famous Dodge-Morsdivorce to enor disclosing friendship could destroy me should they decide case. Hummells' conviction and sentround at us. Come on, cried Sam, mity. , that they needed my holdings or were ence has been affirmed by the appeldragging at my arm, lets go. Judge Wood announced that he in- late division of the supreme not satisfied with my use of my court. to tended Wont you come? I said to his sisgive both sides a wide latipower. I was surprised when Langin tude ter. I shouldn't have been able to keep the examination of talesmen. Trouble Between Mexico and Guatedon appeared in my office a few minYOU'RE HOL'XD TO WIN AND I'LL SEE THAT YOU DON'T LOSE." my state of mind out of my voice, il He also showed a willingness to grant utes later. mala Has Been Settled. challenges where there seemed any I had tried. And I didnt try. He was a tallish, slim man, care- or so, he drifted away. I envy you will you attend to the matter at the reasonable objection to the attitude of Washington. The Mexican ambasTrust the right sort of woman to the talesman, and in the one contest fully dressed, with a bored, weary your enthusiasm, he said, pausing in Travelers? I want to be warned so Mr. Creel, has authorized the sador, see the look and a slow', bored way of talk- my doorway. right sort of thing in a man of the day he ruled with the defense, Wherever I am, I wish I can pull my own set of wires In conthrough any and all kinds of barriers which had challenged the talesman, statement that the trouble between ing. I had always said that If I had I were somewhere else. Whatever cert. Mexico and Guatemala, which for sevnot been myself I should have wished I'm doing, I wish I were doing someIll let you know, he answered, or caste and manners and breeding and was resisted by the state. Her voice was much softer as sh6 Lawyers of Boise not connected in eral days has threatened to terminate to be Langdon. thing else. Where do you get all this hanging his head. I think I must way with the case, but who know the diplomatic relations between the said: His expression, as he came Into my joy of the fight? What the devil are I didn't understand his queer acstay here. any as much as is known of what botn Thank same. you, the was Mr. just one for? you of office, countries, has been adjusted. fighting tions then. Though I was an expert cynical amusement, sides expect to do, say that after the Creel received advices to tuis effect He didn't wait for a reply. as If he were saying to himself; Our As soon as Sam and I were alone, in finance, I hadn't yet made a study jury is secured the trial of the ca3 He declined to reveal the I thought over my situation I friend Blacklock' has caught the swollsteadily of that other game the game of I apologized. hope you'll tell your ought to be over in -- wo weeks. Judge Friday. You may basis of the agreement. en head at last." Not a suggestion for several days. I went down to my gentleman. I'm sister And I didnt sorry for that break, said I. Fremont Wood expects to waste no knowhe said, state, however, that the of 111 humor, of resentment at my im- country place. I looked everywhere how seriously the frauds and fakirs Oh, that's all right, he answered, time and another adjournment is not trouble is over. pertinence for. In the circumstances, among ail my belongings, searching, who 'play it take it and themselves. easy again, now that we were away looked for. The court will sit from I had been guilty of an 10 a. m. to noon and from 2 to 5 p. Impertinence. searching, restless, Impatient. At last I attributed his confusion to a ridicu- from the otlieis. You meant well Bixby Quits Good Position, m and sometimes until 6 oclock, Just languid, amused patience with I knew what ailed me what the lack lous mock modesty he had about ac- and motive's the thing. Tams Bixby, who has one with Washington. was on session so that the frailty of a friend. long I see, yawned Saturdays. said gloomily from cepting favors; it struck me as being Motive hell! cried I in my anger Several members of the Western for many years been the commissionhe, that you have got Textile up to everything I had once thought beauti- particularly silly on this occasion, beat myself. Nobody but a mans God Federation of Miners who are now in er to the five civilized tribes- of In85. ful, had once found sufficient. I was cause for once he was to give as well knows his motives; he doesnt even Boise watching the progress of the He was the head of the Textile in the midst of the splendid, terraced as to take. dians in the Indian territory, a1 a know them himself. I judge others case, do not join in the belief existtrust, which had been built by his pansy beds my gardeners had just set He didn't call for his profits, but in ent salary of $5,000, has sent in his resigsome that Orchard what quarters I and to do, they be brother-in-laexpect and hau fallen to him out; I stopped short and slapped my wrote asking me to mail him the by Will refuse to testify. to Secretary Garfield to take nation believe They in the same way. I see Ive In the confusion following his brother-in-lthigh. "A woman!" I exclaimed. check for them. I did so, putting in judged that he will make his statement upon effect June 30. An attorney for some a lot to I learn. Then got aw's I need. A suddenly woman the the envelop with it a little death. As he was just then "That's what the stand. On all sides- there is a jog to months ago filed his memory on the club matter. I remembered the Travelers Club, and question as to how far Orchard will of the Indians several needing some money for his share in right sort of woman a wife! hint what These asked against Mr. Bixby. hed done about the National Coal undertaking, he had be allowed to go in his statement charges didn't see him again for nearly a were investigated and Mr. Bixby was I been IV. Ive It it is directed me to push Textile up toward which, over, thinking alleged, implicates Hay- exonerated. After the interior departmonth; and though I searched and Are you sure you want tc wood, Moyer and Pettibone. It is ment had given him a clean bill, Mr. RESPECTApar and unload him of two or three A CANDIDATE FOR sent, I couldn't get his trail. On open- said he. around this evidence that the whole BILITY. hundred thousand shares he, of ing day at Morris Park, I was going run the risk of an ugly cropper, case Bixby concluded to put a stop to furundoubtedly will move. To handle this new business proper- along the passage behind the course, to repurchase the shares after ther complaints by resigning. boxes Matt? I turned him round so that we were he had taken profits and Textile had ly I. must put myself in position to in the grand Btand. on my to the of Seattle Lawyer Found Near look the whole field over. I must get paddock. I wanted to see Do yon want tc Body dropped back to its normal 50. Big Order for Rails. my horse facing each other. Long Beach Bathing Resort. I'll have it up to 95 by the middle In line and in touch with "respecta- that was about to run for the Sal- do me that tuvor, or don't you? 1 New York. One of the largest inof next month," said I. demanded. Long Beach, Cal. A floating body dividual orders for steel And there bility." When Sam Ellersly came in magundi Sweepstakes, and to tell rails my I think wed better for his rations," I said: Sam, I jockey that I'd give him $15,000 instop. "Ill do whatever you say," he re- supposed to be that of T. Wright with a single steel company, placed has Stop at about 90," said he. "That want you to put me up at the Trav- stead of $10,000, if he won for I had plied. I'm thinking only of your la Robinson, a young lawyer from Seatto the been Tennessee & Coal given, will give me ail I find I'll need for elers Club. a bunch down. put quite terests." tle, who was drowned here two weeks Iron company by the Harriman this Coal business. I don't want to be "The Travelers! echoed he, with In one of the boxes I spied my lines. me Let care take of them, said L ago. was found on the surface of the The contract calls for shy bothered with hunting up an invest- a blank look. friend. Sammy. He was looking bet150,000 tons of You put me up at that club ment." The Travelers, said I. It's about ter than I had ever seen him. Less row. I'll send you the name of a ocean late Friday. The body was In rails, representing close to $5,000,000. a state of decomposition and has not Of I shook my head. "I must put it less pallid and pasty, less seconder not later than noon. this order, 110,000 tons are for the up the best of the big clubs, Isn't it? heavy-eyed- , been positively identified. to within a point or two of par, I de- And it has as members most of the like a man who had been yet It is Union and Southern Pacific shirking bed goes your name, he said. "Up systems, thought to be Robinson, however, as and the balance for the Illinois clared. In my public letter I've been men I do business with and most of and keeping up on cocktails and cold "But don't blame me Cenfor the cons he was a attired in similsuit, I batning it those to Into baths. want would above was I He 95, and saying at the rear of the box, quences." touch with. go get In use at the Long Beach tral. The contract calls for delivery ar to those never deceive my public. He laughed. It can't be done. in 1908 at the rate of 115.000 tons a talking with a lady and a gentleman. (To be Continued ) bath rooms. d n 300,-00- n 1 r, - e to-m- month. |