Show W 0 0 f 4 J THE AV sy DAVID GRAHAM LIPS author wa of 7 1 EC air C iutzi AV tm 60 eads EB dS XIV SOME STRANGE LAPSES OF A LOVER but before there was as time for or me to get a distinct impression impre aslon that ugly of cynicism had disappeared it was mas a shadow I 1 myself myr elf east cast upon her I 1 assured ni nii self and once more she ehe beamed to me like a clear cl ear calm lake of melted snow from the moun taing I 1 can see to tho the pure white sand of tile the very bottom thought I 1 mysto mystery ry there was but only the mya tery of wonder at the apparition of such beauty and purity in such a world as aa mine true from time to time there showed at the surface or vaguely outlined in the depths fomo Bt st rangel out of place in those ansul lied mateis hut but I 1 either refused to see or refused to ti fiust my sell semes ies I 1 had a fixed ideal ot of what nhat a woman should be this girl embodied that ideal deal it if soud 1 only give up sour cigar ettes I 1 ren remember lember saying to her when we were a little better acquainted 3 ou on d be perfect she made an impatient gesture dont don t she commanded almont an jaily you make inake me feel like a hypo crite you tempt me to be a hypocrite why by not be content with mith woman as the she lb ib a human beings and how could I 1 aw any woman moman not an idiot be alive for twenty five bears 5 ears without learning a thing or two why should any man want merit ita because to know Is to be spattered and ita malmd said I 1 I 1 get enough of people who know down toa town n up town toun I 1 want a change of air of course iou think ou know the world hut but iou the remotest concep tion lion of what its really like some times when ain I 1 in with ou on I 1 begin to feel mean and and unclean and the feeling glows on oil me until it a all I 1 can do to restrain reb train myself fiam niah lag am away ay she looked at me youve never had much to do with women haie ioui bhe finally bald i ild elaml in a cubing tone I 1 wish nh that titie due almost re plied piled I 1 on my mettle as a man mail and resisting not without effort the impulse to make some bome vague ague disguised as penitential ad inis missions afeei the cus customary tomar mabeu line fashion she smiled and one of dis quieting chapes seemed to me to be floating lazily and repellently down ward out of sight A man and it a woman moman can bo be a gibat dail 1 il to each other I 1 belles a said eald she alle can bf bc married and all that and remain as barange to each other as it if they had never met moie shiang ers rheims e s ala al always A ays a sort of eysler er I 1 conceded I 1 suppose that a one of the things that keep married people interested she shrugged her deia she ehe was in evening dress I 1 recall and there was on her white bite skin that in tense transparent bluish tange one sees bees on the file new snow when the sun COMPS out Mi stern t blip said impatiently thebes no DO except what we me ourselves Oui selves make its pr per fegy usellas she acet on oil ab hently I 1 timure bu re the sort ot of a miu man IV alio if 11 a woman atred for him oi 01 ev evan 1 d friendship fox foi him by bing being frank an I 1 buni humin in and natural with A ith him lie bed 1 I pun I 1 labh her for it by b delphing des phIng hei be I 1 spilled much as one smiles at the efforts of 0 a pi eco cloua chill to that it Is a in if iou weicht like an angel in comparison with mith the the I 1 vc e known 11 bald I 1 do 3 oil sup still ose I 1 bouli rare care tor for aou as I 1 to do I 1 saw ni remark hilta ted her ter und and I 1 fancied it was as hei anity that hat was offended offend cd by in nu disbelief in hei lei know edge P ige of life I 1 t a suspicion that tha t I 1 had hint buit and allena alienated ted lier ter b slam ming in her face the booi of inerd ship and A hei honesty m WB forcing her to try to open foi nio ine in my of imagining her not ht h man like the women ii and the men inen I 1 had known but a creathie irea crea tuie apart and in a class anait I 1 blood diy daiy antei day gaping at that et 3 door and m won on dering how I 1 could open it how low 1110 enen een to the of that vestal so long as my illy old fashioned belief that good women were ere more than human and bad women less lena than human had nulu encee me only to a lookout in dealing with wih the one accles of woman I 1 then came in contact with aith no harm harin to me resulted but on oil tile the contrail Contra ii good whoever r got into intel tiou ble through tInoi iRli tile the mith and sward aim free but when under tinder the of anita I 1 dragged the superhuman unan goodness part of my theody doun don out of tile tha clouds clouda and made it my gu guardian ardlan and aulde i eally it ft a 8 a miracle that I 1 ek ea aped biorn the pit lilt into which that lunacy pitched me ame headlong I 1 was mas not content m with ith idealizing only her I 1 went on to set ng good and only good in the millennium was mas at hand band all wall street was waa my whatever I 1 wanted bild happen and L when roebuck with an air like a ben e diction front from it bishop backed by a cah cathedral t edral organ and full choir gave me the up to bit bio coal blocks I 1 can lionized him on the spot never did a jersey jay in sunda clothes and hallowed tall owed boots respond to a bunco abool or a greeting with 1 u gladder smile than mine to that pious old ter of craft I 1 will say gay in justice to myself though it Is also in excuse that it I 1 had known kno an him a few fenn bears eara earlier I 1 have found it all but to fool myself for he had not long been in a potation position where here ho he could kep wholly detached from the bilmes he committed for his ben edt and by his order and where he ha could disclaim and anderen even knoAl knowledge edge the great lareis of the country have ben bein most ingenious in developing corporate law lit in the durec tion of making the corporation a com coin and secure shield the beneficiary of a calme and its conse conge but before a great financier finan cler ran can use this shield perfectly he must build up a astern he be must find lieu lien tenants with the necessary coolness courage and cunning he be must teach them to un lei stand his hints he must educate them not to point out to him film the things involved in bl hla 0 01 del s but to execute un question alili to efface completely the trail between him and them whether or not 1 they I ie v succeed in the hie igind about and faint biall beti between een them abern bc atlis IN cs and tho the tools that nominally commit conini lt the ci lines was the tha instrument he ern era plowed to put the coal industry into 0 million condition for i aoi ile he control of one of the coal rail oads and made wilmot ilent ot of it ft taught by twenty deais of lila ilia know knew what was expert expect ed ot of him and pio pioci ceded eded to do it lie ho put tit in a loal general acet who also needed no instructions but busied himself at his own and all the other oal coal loads by a ays tent tem of secief rebates and rate cut tings inis ks s tile the other roads one b one descended toward tow aid roo buck boight ht the comparatively small blocks blocha of stock necessary to give him control of 0 them when he had power 0 ov ei t enough of them to establish a caiti ti monopoly ol of trans poi in and out of the coal he was for its hla lieutenant lietitia nant to attack the mining probably his big or ders dera to 1111 mot were ere nothing more definite or less lesa innocent than wll wil not my boy don dont t sou ou think you and I 1 and some a of our friends ought to buy some borne of otiose mines if they ronie on the manket at a fair pi ice let me k ow when you hear of any ali active investments of that sort that would have been quite luke enough to tip it off I 1 to limet that the rad jad come for rea reaching chint out from con erdl of railway to montria i on triA of mine lie i f il i l mo BO lime to be easily forced one io property after another into a position thero here its owners were glad were ea eacer soTto to sell all or part ot of the v wreck reek of it at a fair price to him bin and roebuck and our friends it w was a as the iho result ot of ono one of these maves moves that the great Manas quale mines were so BO hemmed in bi ruinous fright rates by strike troubles ty by floods from broken machi machinery nerv ami aad mysteriously leak dims d mis that I 1 was waa able to buy them at a fair atice pi ice that is at less than one fifth value hut but at the lime and foi a long time afterward I 1 did not know on my honor did not suspect what hat v w als the emme cause the sole cole of the change of the coal region from a place of peaceful indu industry nd str content with fall profits to an industrial chaos naith ruin impending once the railways and mining coin panics were mem all on the beige of bank roebuck and his fi tends lends were ere ready to buy here control fr fir purposes of speculation there owner omner ship for purposes of permanent in vestment this Is what Is known as the th reorganizing stage the processes of high finance are very simple alist bu tha comparatively small holdings necessary to cliate confusion and dla dis aster second cicale confusion and di disaster diba baster ater buning buna up more and moie wreckage thaid reorganize fourth offer the new stocks and bonds to tho the public pu balc with a might v blabe of pets which produces a boom macket fifth unload on tile the public pass lil bends issue unfavorable sta statements ten tents gilces buy bk bil cheap what lou axt have sold dear clear repeat ad in foi the law is tor for the laughter of the strong and the public Is in an eager ass aas to keep up the lc fie tion lion of the inside ring divides into two parties for its cant cain one parts to break down the he other to build up one takes the profits from destruction and departs to construct elsewhere the i other takes the profits from construe tion ion and depatta perhaps to destiny As their collusion Is were mere 44 i 6 f fb fl v il I 1 I 1 aj M if w 1 I 11 T A SUSPICION THAT I 1 HAD HURT IIER ly tacit no conscience need twitch I 1 must add that at the time ot of N litch I 1 am ain writing I 1 lid did not the ex of this I 1 knew of course that many lawless and savage things were done that mere erp las lag CRIS cals among the high financiers and that almost all financiers now and then lid did things that more oi 01 ise rascally but I 1 did not know did not suspect thit that high finance was wan through and through brigandage and that the high Onan cler by long and unmolested practice of 0 had come to fco look on it as legitimate lawful bust busl ness and on laws forbidding or ham it re outrageous an arch islic attacks upon the social or der roebuck lc had given roe me the slon that it would mould be six months at least before T bat I 1 was la in those fatu ous oils days thinking of as aa our I 1 plau plan fur for putting the coal industry on a sound bound business basis boull I 1 be 1 leady eady for the public an H when he be sent pent for me slier short ly after I 1 became engaged to mimi EI 0 leisl leis and said le will publish tile the plan pan on the first of next nex ianth and will open the j A books on the third a thursday I 1 was taken by surprise and was anthan anth ln but plea ili his words meant trial if I 1 wished to make a great fortune now was the time to buy coal stocks and buy for on oil the very day of the i 1 f t f the plan every cost coal stock would surely soar boar buy I 1 must not to buy was to throw away a for tune tiet get how could I 1 imy bisy when I 1 was waa gambling la in dextie up to my limit of c wety jety it ft not beyond bei ond did not dare earv m to what I 1 vaa ling doing in fit textile I 1 II 11 la waa as d to stock gambling denouncing it as both immoral and NO gambling fox foi IN hen hea ilia his business siga cit and frie foie sight eight 9 1 informed him bani LL u certain stock was boing to be morth a great deal more than it was as then quota at he would buy in largo large quanta ties when nhea that bamo baine sagacity and 1010 hight of tile hie fellow who iio has han him solf self maikel the lie caida him that a stock was as about to lo fall he dold auld hut gambla neer and nd I 1 fi felt it that it ile he sw should learn that I 1 had bad staked a laike palt pait of entire for 1 tune on a single ga rambling lubling ope operation tation he be cut nio me off from hla his would look on me ra as too deeply tainted by my long career caree r as a buchet bucket shop roan man to be arithy of full lank and power as a fin financier an ca er do not gamble their only vice la Is grand lateen all this alila wad waa flashing through my niland icile while I 1 vaa mas thanking him I 1 am glad to have sub BIK h a long fore warning arning I 1 ana saving can I 1 be of use to oua ou vou lou know my nin machinery chiner y Is I 1 can buy anything and in any quantity tir without starting dumois and of taming the crowd no thank vou laethem lat thew them was vias his anav el I 1 liae haie all of those stocks I 1 wish at whether it Is lit bullat to me I 1 don dont t know probably not but ii ni memory is so rio constituted that it takes an in ili and complete Impi easlon ot of fi la split sent it by my mv ebes and ears eara and just as aa by looking closely you ran rail find in VL a photographic e plate a bundled details that escape bour our flavee so BO on oil plates of fit mine I 1 often find long ions afterward after waid many and many a detail that escaped me ma when in caa ita and fais cais were taking tile impre salon on oil my iny memory plate plata of that moment in my interview with roebuck I 1 find Itt alls so significant that mv in v rici fulling ling to note them at th the time ehos chous how unfit 1 I then was ass to glaid ruy my lor I 1 or instance I 1 find that lust just before lie ha spoke those oida declining my assistance asal stance and that ahat lie had already in creased lila his bol holdings dinga ho he opened find and closed his hands funds se bial times finally closed and clinched thern them a sure eure sign of t action and in that particular instance a sign of deception there nas ft as no energy tn in his leinart and no idison for en ergo erg I 1 rill nm no not t but I 1 bo be aliee in ili to lo a certain extent more than tile the face are the hands a sensitive of what la Is cribbing in the mind dut but I 1 was mag then too loo intent upon my dilemma carefully to study a man who had lulled me into absolute confidence in fix hini him I 1 left ifft him as aa soon as lie he would mould let nio mp go ills its last words ele eie no gambling matthew no buse abuse of the god Is ia giving ua its ile he coltena with the just juat ficia investment I 1 have seen rain gain biers come and go many of them hem able abla men n N er cr able men but they have melted I 1 away amay and are abid I 1 ha havagin hval vajin iii creased I 1 feel that I 1 can trust rust oil you began as a apt culaton but success has steif idled fled lou and have put 3 on the firm ground where here A we see the solid men into choite handi hand god lias lag given the development of he abounding reso resources uries of this be behold loLd country or of outs ouis do ou vender mondor that I 1 went away with it a hi heart art full of 0 shame haine for the tha gambling projects my head vaa aas plan ning upon the lie that good man had bad given tile me you ve toxie tone back to gambling lat lately el matt malt said I 1 to in mi solf self you youe e been on a bender with mith your head hea d afire lott on must get out of this tex ex tile business as soon as possible hut but its good sound aclise to plunge on oil the tha coal stocks ira in tact fact your profits there m would sano bae you it if bi b some mischance textile rise instead of fall acting on roebucks ticks up fill isitt jsn t gambling its it s his mance I 1 emerged to that soon threw |