Show i fly by RUPERT RUB RT HUGHES copyright by irmo a CHAPTER continued 14 when bayard opened tho the door clay swept in like a march gale ile ho flung himself at bayard and clenched his bis elbows in ills hands and roared bayardi bayard I 1 bayard I 1 its came bomol I 1 were rich I 1 were madel made I 1 eureka I 1 munitions I 1 wow I 1 listen I 1 tho the other night while I 1 was trailing a job in darkest new tersey jersey I 1 ran across it a little duo clue and a little man who told me a little secret the germans have been getting ready for this wile war for years piling up guns and om am for der tog tag the other countries were caught only halt half ready they have stopped tho the germans oil OH the marne but been using their shells at such a rote that the famine Is near their only hope Is to buy supplies of ug us going to dump enough contracts on oil this country to furnish about a million dollars p p every citizen their agents are pussyfooting pussy footing round to distribute contracts quietly the bethlehem steel company has gathered Kath cred in tl a big lot of them and I 1 had a tip that tho the stock was going to boom so are a lot of other stocks id sell my right arm for a little cash hut but theres no market tor for detached right arms so BO 1 used mine to sign up a few little contracts for placing contracts an ad d ive plucked them and brought brou glit them to you ilo ho broke into dano dance find and whirled bayard oft 01 his feet bayard tried to be patient all very interesting clay but take your delusions down to bellevue where put you in the right cell what can you or I 1 do with ammunition contracts accept era cm you blamed iriti open up lip your old shut up tip factory and get busy we have no machi machinery for making ammunition get it then or adapt yo your ur machinery chinery I 1 they need millions 0 of f each article for there are millions of men in the field using up lip what got so fast that its only a matter of weeks before be desperate bayard began to see the scheme also the obstacles but it takes money to make those things where will wo we get the cash for the pay rolls and the raw materials from the backal banks the banks are bursting open with idle money its rotting on their hands bands I 1 bayard went aglow with the realization odthe of the opportunity ite he began to tremble at the vision of the sudden avalanches of wealth pouring down the bleak mountains of despair he could hear theroan the thol roar odthe oc the Nia garas of gold daphne and lelia leila came rushing from concealment clays beatitude was so complete that he bo forgot forgon his re sentiments sent ments and kissed them both bayard was frantic to bo be at work resolved to telephone the brer president 1 ilie of his bis company at once and lay the matter before him leila cannily advised bayard to grasp the whip band of tho the situation and keep it she began to dance about the like a miriam celebrating the passage of the red sen sea the first tiling thing well do she said eald will bo be to get my jewelry out of tho the pawns pawnshop bop and the second will be tu to buy some more and oh all the dresses and the hats I 1 this asserted a sobering effect on bayard no lie ho announced weve gone through nodes lindes once because I 1 gambled away my illy reserves this time im going to get a big reserve before I 1 spend abent a cent ill nover never risk another ordeal like the ilia ono one weve been through so no wore more fractures of the thirteenth for mol lelia leila laug laughed bed bayard went to alio no to start tile tho wheels of the ilia factory in motion by summoning the president to council ue he paused to ask hell want to know who tile foreign agent Is you tire are dealing with or are ard there several who shall I 1 sayi say I 1 wetherell crell said clay ciny the great greal skoda gun that suddenly one day dropped a monster shell shelf in dunkirk twenty nillia oft off could hard hardly ly have caused wore more stupefaction than tho the name of at wetherell detonating in that room daphne snatched her hand from clays bayord sprang up so BO sharply that he almost threw leila forward on her face instinctively he caught tier her by the arm and saved her from falling failing but instantly lie he flung her arm ana from him in a gush of disgust clay gaped at the tableau in bewilderment ile ho had not flat dreamed that auy any of the three had find ever heard of wetherell lie ile could not imagine tho the bitterness the name involved will some kind friend please tell no me what all the excitement la Is about s this was not easy ansy who wanted to tell cloy clay that lelia leila had just been no ac aused of neglecting tier her husband and her bar own duties for the society of this very wetherell leila herself was the one that told him look alook here byllie boydte lelia leila cooed coded and billed dont you think youve donl done enough youve shown me that yuu dout trust roe rne and youve ordered mr mi witherell Wp therell r to come near roe me ts biln an that enough without bce j garing us all for spite what else Is it but cheap nasty spite its a great deal more than spite bayard groaned gronn cd do you think ill accept favors from a man who luis has been courting you and got caught tit lit it id rather starve I 1 well I 1 1 leila averred and im not going to starve and im not going to lot let you commit harl kart on Wethe doorstep just to spite spile him film I 1 tell you again once tor for nil there was nothing wrong in brells behavior absolutely nothing its outrageous that you should accuse nio me of such horrible things so bayard was coerced into having III alg a life guyed by his enemy it was one tiling thing however to consent to deal with wetherell and another to devise a tolerable reconciliation well bayard sighed beggars cant be choosers it id saved my money I 1 havo have to tako take brellos money B leard called up the president ot of tits his company nt at the office ills ilia oration made a huge success bayard dakur d began to smile to himself to wink nt at the spectators and finally to share in the apparent rapture of ills his distant car to lo ear the end of the matter waa that when bayard left the telephone lie ho was a new nev man lie ile had cunningly raised tits his chiefs hopes to tho the highest degree decree yet withheld the name ot of the english agent he explained that lie he intended to take leilas advice and use his knowledge as a lever for his own advancement and clays clay and bayard sat down to make figures and the talk grew too technical for tho the women to endure after fi hearing caring the first music of bayard and clay chanting in hundreds of thousands of dollars daphne stole out unheeded and went up nil to her own room mr air chivvis was sitting by a window in me mournful idleness mrs cliv calv vis via wits was stitching away at her embroidery brol dery she was cheerful tor for her slie site told daphne that thai she had found a market tor for her needlework the prices were poor but they were real she advised daphne to get to work with her daphne had not tho the courage to say eay that her brother and her betrothed were about to become plutocrats she said only that she was very tired and there Is no more exhausting drain on tho the nerves than their response ponso to unexpected good news it Is more fatiguing than bad she w was as surprised and shocked too to find how flow snobbish she was all of a sudden about tho the petty earnings of a chivvis CHAPTER in those days tho the united states ot of america suddenly woke to the tha fact fa ct that they could pull themselves out of bankruptcy by helping the benighted states of europe into it there were sudden n geysers of f fortune and sudden collapses of failure As in bonanza times many were ruined while the ilia few prospered but clay find and bayard seemed to touch nothing that did not turn to gold bayard had bad gained immense prestige ww W w so go bayard was coerced into having hla his ufa saved by his enemy with will ills firm because of the huge orders ho he brought in lie he took all the power that was waa accorded and grasped for more ula ills most reckless were rewarded with success lie rode a tidal wave find swam with it BO be well that all his progress seemed to be due to his own power bayard astounded dutilh with the solution of that old account find with a cash payment tor for new gowns in celebration of his now new glory ile he did not forget his own people na he telegraphed his mother a thousand dollars and almost her with amaze finout lie ile telegraphed his father simply the me price of a railroad ticket to new york and a peremptory summons a to takor take tho first train cast when daphne heard this she had to sit down to keep from falling down bayard resuscitated her with a check for a thousand dollars it meant nothing moro more to lier her than abracadabra tho the whole incredible altern eltern tion was a fairy story to her bit she ninde made a faint attempt to refuse tho the gift but bayard forced it hack back into tier palm nod and closed her lingers fingers on it phe repaid bayard with kisses till silo she lost count and embraces till they bath lost breath then she borrowed from him enough cash to pay her moss grown bill with tho the daphne could not wait for tho the elevator she ran up several flights of stairs scratched tho the door with her bet palsied latchkey and flung herself into sirs mrs ChIvvIs 1 arms and kissed her even mrs afro chivvis her apology was tho the money for tho the bill silo she flaunted before hex tho the check bearing tile tho heavenly legend commanding the fifth avenue bank to pay to daphne RIP kip or order one thousand and no hun hua dollars on penalty of incur ing tho the displeasure of bayard kip airs handled tho the parchment with reverence anti and permitted her husband to touch it it might havo have been ono one of tile golden leaves of tho the sacred book of mormon anti and she a 1 sealed wife of himself 1 what are apo you planning to do with all this sho said nt at length 1 I dont know knew 11 said daphne what would you suggest you were planning to go into bustness business why not use this as capital final what business ought I 1 to start banking or battleship building or what theres embroidery said mrs airs Chiv chavvin vin daphno daphne had to guffaw at that mrs afro did not laugh 01 1 I mean it 11 sho she urged think it over all AH right ill think it over the novelty of being rich lost its savor with leila end the monotony of being neglected began upon her damask soul she find and daphne forgot their mutual grievances for their common grievance the trouble with these husbands leila grumbled I then when in bad luck you cant loso lose lem cm and when in good you can cant find lem cm its tho the same with clances fiances fi fl ances said daphno daphne daphne had tho the worst of itt it for leila began towander to wonder again leaving daphne to the society of mrs who kept urging her to invest her dwindling thousand before it was gone but in the environs of noisy riches the tha schemes of mrs chivvis demanded such prolonged labor fiber tor for such minute that daphne remained cold she began to resent clays neglect morosely tho the few attentions bo be paid her only insulted herdis her his mind was so eo far away and his bis heart was all for his bis business ile was dazzled by the fierce white light ot success and ho he spoke to daphne in a kind of drowsy hypnosis and lie ho spoke incessantly of tho the det details rills of hit his business or his fits gam filings beings no lie could not see how deat deaf she bhe was to the very vulgar fractions of hla his speculations or the road mad arithmetic of ills his commissions she yawned dawned in his face when lie grow grew eloquent on the dynamics of wealth the higher philosophies or ol finance and he bo never know knew lie ile kissed her goodby good by ns as af it lie he kissing hissing a government bond safe and quiet and all his own after ono one of clays visits mrs airs chiv vis via found daphne in a brown study mrs airs chivvis explained explain ea tier her own affairs and daphne was so exhausted exhaust eI with tho the sultry problems of love that mrs afro chivvis business gossip was completely refreshing ive been down to the womans comans exchange site she said trying to sell some of my needlework they were very nice about 14 it but it means a terrible linio amount of labor for a n pit pittance tanco of money you have baye to pay them so BO much a year for the privilege of putting your things on sale rate there then they dont guarantee to return it in good condition and they dont guaran guarana too tee to sell altor lt or it if they do da they charge you 20 per cent tor for their end of it 1 I see any profit in that s so 0 I 1 went to knoof ono 0 tile the jobbers ile he anid my style of work brought goof good prices in the big stores but they wont pay him much and hell pay me less 1 I was thinking theres money in these them things thing nad and in nil all aorta of needle things it you have a little capital different said eald daphne and ive got come capital now do you remember Fugg suggesting esting to me once that we might go into business together yu you to furnish the he brains land and I 1 the monel oh ob I 1 put it that way P anyway its true well would you lands ankel if youre a mind to furnish the money and the ideas and let roo me count tile the pennies id like hire nothing better greatt great I 1 what coillie wo we go into intel what would you prefer oh tiny any old business that will keep me busy and make a lot of money my aly husband says that you cant mikka an a lot of money without putting til in a lot khath one reason ho he lias has been kept down so 90 ile ho never could got get ahead that was what we were bavine up for to get a little cli pital and then tile tho war clime came along hild and wo we lad had to spend our hay savings lugs that war has made your brother so BO rich that lie ho could give you a small fortune I 1 dont believe you could do a better than to put that into a business neither do 11 II daphno daphne cried lets I 1 CHAPTER 11 daphne was going to bo be independent but she bho was still all woman when it caroo came to tho the selection of tier her special trade silo rho would lie a business worn an hut but silo she would do a wor homans womans nans business there were ever so ninny dainties and that SUB bile wanted ranted to hang jn in her shop silo she was going to j 4 jr IN I 1 1 I 1 AIN IM my husband says that you cant make a lot of money without put ting in a lot hayet hare a window t with tier hor nomo name on jt I 1 that would be more fun than a limousine with crest on oil door gradually Ira dually her scheme enlarged site she would devote her shop to tho the whole mechanism of tho the boudoir boudoir wear was waa tho the word that II pleased eased her it was in human nature that the partners should quarrel over a name for the baby before tho baby was born they spoke of themselves as tho the firm daphne claiming the ma ina of the power voted en bloc tor for and claimed the victory mrs chivvis surrendered with the amendment that miss kip should bo be at ono one side mrs tit at tho the other silo she bribed tile assembly by promising that a cousin of hers a young artist living in tho the washington mews should paint a pretty signboard on a swinging shingle after many designs had been composed and destroyed they agreed on this legend BOUDOIR WEAR everything for tho the boudoir things for urides MISS KIP MRS CHIVVIS it the cousin painted palti ted it well anti and illuminated it with elaborate and tin nn figure of n young lady in cubist negligee it find tho the traditional charin of a tavern board in fact their shot shop was to bo be a tavern tor for women in search of sartorial refreshment troubles mustered about them ns as aeda weeds shove up in a garden faster than they enn bo be plucked out |