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Show 1 make it up with the Ellerslys? told Sam and fancied so, youd simply think- me meddlesome. The other matter is the Travelers club, f Ive smoothed things out there. Im going to put you up and rush you througn. No, thanks, said I. It seemed incredible to me that I had ever cared about that club and the things it represented, as I could remember I undoubtedly did care. It was Hke looking at an outgrown toy and trying to feel again the emotions it once ex- cited. I assure you, Matt, there wont be His manner the slightest difficulty. was that of a man playing the trump TME'BEL1 card in a desperate game he feels it can not lose, yet the stake is so big that he can not but be a little ner- DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIRS, Author o THFCQS&C z foama&ffr jscs ty an&imo bobbs-hebeo- CHAPTER XXX. Continued. I have only contempt for a woman who tnes to hold a man when he wishes to go, said Anita, with quiet Besides but energetic bitterness she hesitated an instant before going on Gladys deserves her fate. She doesn't really care for him. Shes of him. She never did only jealous a love him " How do you know? said I sharply, trying to persuade myself it was not an ugly suspicion in me that lifted its head and shot out that ques' she wishes, sard I, ignoiing his question. "Then come to me. His look made me shake hands with him. As I did it, we both remembered the last time we had shaken hands when he had the roses for my with my bride. It seemed to me I could smell those roses. home-comin- bly, too. XXXI. All his life he had been enthroned COMES TO THE SUR- Without realizing upon his wealth. FACE. I shall Dot estimate the vast sums it, he had claimed and had received clique to deference solely because he was rich. of National Coal, He had thought himself, in his own and so give plausibility to the faction person, most superior; now, he found that the public was buying eagerly. that like a silly child he had been See In the third week of my campaign, standing on a chair and crying: And the airs, the Melville was so deeply involved that how tall I am. he had to let the two others take the cynicism, the graceful condescension, which had been, so becoming to him, Vhole burden upon themselves. In the fourth week, Langdon cqme were now as out of place as crown to me. and robes on a king taking a swimThe interval between his card and ming lesson. himself gave me a chance to recover What are your terms, Blacklock? from my1 amazement When he en- Dont be too hard on an old friend, tered he found me busily writing. said he, trying to carry off his frank Though I had nerved myself, it was plea for mercy with a smile. several seconds before I ventured to I should have thought he would cut look at him. There he Btood, prob-A- s his throat and jump off the Battery ably as handsome, as 'fascinating as wall before he would get on his knees Roebuck-Langdo- Because he never loved her, replied. The feeling a woman has for a man or a man for a woman, without any Response, isnt love, isnt worthy the name of love. Its a sort Love means baffled covetousness generosity, not greediness" Then Why do you not ask me whether what she said is true? The change in her tone with the last sentence, the strange, ominous note in it, startled me. 'Because, replied I, as I said to her, to ask my wife such a question would be to insult her. Tf you were riding with him, it was an accident.' if my rude repulse of her over- tures and my keeping away from her ever since would not have justified her v -- deepened and spread until his whole body must have beeq afire. He seatYou know what Ive ed himself. come for, he said sullenly, and hum- LANGDON it cost the she maintain the prices tion. of g vous. I do not care to join the Travelers I must ask said I, rising. club, you to excuse me. I am exceedingly busy. , A flush appeared in his cheeks and In almost anything. She flushed the dark red of shame, but her gaze held steady and unflinching upon mine. It was not altogether by accident she said And I think sHie expected me to kill her. When a man admits and respects a womans rights where he is, himself concerned, he either is no longer Interested in her or has begun to love her so well that he can control the savage and selfish instincts of passion. If Mowbray Langdon had been there, I might have killed them both; but he was not there, and she, facing me without fear, , was not the woman to be suspected of the stealthy and ? traitorous It was he tttat you meant when you warned mejou cared for another man? said I. so quietly that I wondered at myJelf , wondered what had become of tte "Black Matt who had used his fist almost as much as his his way up, twauMfcdsu.e.hting she said, her head down Yes, now. A long pause You wish to be free I asked, and my tone must have been gentle. I wish to free you, she replied slowly and deliberately.. There was a long silence Then 1 I said- I must think it all out once told you how I felt about these matters. Ive greatly changed my mind since our talk that night in the Willoughby; but my prejudices are still with me Perhaps you will not be surprised at that you whose prejudices have cost me so dear. I thought she was going to speak. Instead she turned away, so that 1 Could no longer see her face Our marriage was a miserable mistake, I went on, struggling to be just and judicial, and to seem calm "I admit it now. Fortunately, we are both still young you very young Mistakes in youth are never fatal. But, Anita, do not blunder out of one mistake into another. You are no longer a child, as you were when I married you. You will be careful not to let judgments formed of him long ago decide you for him as they decided you against me I wish to be free, she said, each word coming with an effort, as much 'on your account as on my own." Then, and it seemed to me merely a truly feminine attempt to shirk re-- 4 eponsibility, she added, I am glad my going will be a relief to you Yes, it will be a relief, I conOur situation has become fessed. I had reached my limit Intolerable. I put out my hand of "Good-by- , I said. If she had wept it might have modified my conviction that everything was at an end between us. But she Can you ever forgive , did not weep. me? she asked. Lets not talk of forgiveness, said I, and I fear my voice and manner were gruff, as I strove not to break down. Lets try to forget. And I touched her hand and hastened away. When two human beings set out to misunderstand each other, how fast shut-we j and far they go! are from each other, with on-- " halting j means of communication that break s down under the slightest strain! As I was leaving the house next morning, I gave Sanders this note tor n 1 her; to live at the I have gone own hotel. Down- - When you have decided what course to take, let me know. If my rights ever had any substance, they have starved away to such weak things that they collapse even as I try to set them up. I hope your freedom will give you happiness and me peace." You are ill, sir? asked my old Servant, my old friend, as he took the - "8ay , w'th her, Sanders as long as i fair-weath- foui-weath- FOR MONEY JUST FOR MONEY! AND MAN!" But I ever, certainly as could now, beneath that manner I had once envied, see the puny soul, with its brassy glitter of the vanity of luxury and show. I had been somewhat afraid of myself afraid the sight of him would stir up in me a tempest of jealousy and hate; as 1 looked, 1 realized that I did not know my own nature. "She does not love If she did or this man, I thought could, she would not be the woman 1 love. He deceived her inexperience as he deceived mine. What can I do for you? said I to him politely, much as if he were a stranger making an untimely interruption. My look had disconcerted him; my You tone threw him into confusion. keep out of the way, now that youve become famous, he began, with a halting but heroic attempt at his Are you tomary easy superiority. living up in Connecticut, too?1 Sam Ellersjy tells me your wife is stopping there with old Howard Forrester. Sam wants me to use my good offices in making it up between you two and her family. I was completely taken aback by this cool ignoring of the real situation between him and me. Impudence or ignorance? I could not decide. It seemed impossible that Anita had not told him; yet it seemed impossible, too, that he would come to me if she Have you any busihad told him. ness with me? said I. His eyelids twitched nervously, and he adjusted his lips several times fore he was able to say: v You and your wife dont care to cus-Ho- HAD THOUGHT to any man for any reason. And he was doing it for mere money to try to save, not his fortune, but only an imperiled part of it. If Anita could see him now! I thought. To him I said, the more coldly because I did not wish to add to his humiliation by showing him that I I can only repeat, Mr. pitied him: Langdon, you will have to excuse me. I have given you all the time I can spare. His eyes were shifting and his hands trembling as he said: I will transfer control of the Coal combine I had decided to concentrate upon Roebuck, because he was the richest and most powerful of The Seven. For, in my pictures of the three main the industrial, phases of finance the life insurance and the banking .he, as areh plotter in every kind of ' respectable skulduggery, was neces sarily in the foreground. My original intention was to demolish the Power Trust or, at least, to compel him to buy back all of its stock which he had worked off on the public. I had collected many interesting facts about it, facts typical of the conditions that "finance has established in so many of our industries. For instance, I was prepared to show that the actual earnings of the Power Trust was two and half times what its reports to stockholders alleged; that the concealed profits were diverted into the pockets of Roebuck, his sons, 11 other relatives and four of The Seven, the lions share going, of course, to the lion. Like almost all the great industrial enterprises, too strong for the law and too remote for the supervision of their stockholders, it gathered in enormous revenues to disburse them chiefly in salaries and commissions and rake-off-s on contracts to favorites. I had proof that in one year it had written off 12 millions of profit and loss,(10 millions of which had found its way to Roebucks pocket. I had no choice. I must turn aside from Roebuck; I must first show tha while Textile was, In a sense, sound Just at that time, it had been unsound, and would be unsound again as soon as Langdon had gathered in a sufficient number of lambs to make a battue worth the while of a man dealing in nothing less than seven figures. I proceeded to do so. - The market yielded slowly. Under my first days attack Textile preferred fell six points. Textile common three. While I was in the midst of dictating my letter for the second days attack, I suddenly came to a full stop. I found across my way this thought; Isnt it strange that Langdon, after to you. humbling himself to you, should make His tones, shameful as the offer this bold challenge? Its a trap!" No more at present, said I, to my they canned, made me ashamed for And dont write out him. For money just for money! stenographer. 'And I had thought him a man. If he what Ive already dictated. I shut myself in and busied myself had been a self deceiving hypocrite like Roebuck, or a frank believer in the right of, might, like Updegraff, 1 might possibly, in the circumstances, have tried to release him from my net. But he had never for an instant deceived himself as to the real nature of the enterprises he plotted, promoted and profited by; he thought it smart to be bad, and he delighted In making the most cynical epigrams on the black'deeds of himself and his associates. Better sell out to Roebuck, I sugI control all the Coal stock gested. I need. it I dont care to (have anything further to do with Roebuck, Langdon answered. Ive broken with him. When a man lies to me,, said I, he gives me the chance to see Just l)ow much of a fool he thinks I am, and also the chance to see just how at the telephone. Half an hour after I set my secret machinery in motion, rJ f- - type-writte- type-writin- To-m- 'd " i JkV(L When you purchase anything , - ' v I from us. - UNCLE BY a The Secret. maiden and he said; "I wonder it the minx would wed? All day he thought ot her and sighed. And all night long the fellow cried, i Would she , j He 1 Aved -- 170 SALT LAKE CITy, His business grew, likewise his rocks, And yet, nobody darned his socks' Nobody smoothed his ruffled hair, Nor brought of slippers Just a pair. . Uh uh' tiw A bootblack heard his tale of woe And blurted out, "Say, cull, youre slow! De only way I know t tell Is go an ast her, whot t ell, T ell'" Then said the man who loved the lass1 "That seems to be the proper gas' Shes worth a dozen chaps like me, But, by gee whack, Ill go and see! And see'" He did, and very much elate. She grabbed him as a fish grabs bait! Said he, with blushes on his brow; "Its easy, if you DO IT NOW! Do u Jiwelry and Silver are benv opened defly at oer store. , 6ociety There Is Divided Into Many Separate Classes. ", I f I thiflfi AIN ST. UTAH. GRADES OF RANK 4N JAPAN. At last, the man took sick one day Nobody nursed him but for pay! Ive not a soul on earth, he said. I wonder if that girl would wed , Would she it' Remarks. When an office girl takes pity on a stray cat she usually goes out, buys a nickels worth of pickles and then wonders why the cat is so ungrateful as not to eat them. To those who cannot understand, many things are impossible. Everything Is a gamble in this world even the fee that you pay the Some preacher for marrying you. men invest $10 in matrimony and find a fortune; others have to sweeten the pot for years and years and never get their bait back! We often hear that such and such a book isnt worth the paper on which it is printed. At the present price of paper, this may truthfully be said of most modern literature, A woman is as old as she looks, after the leaf has been torn from the family Bible. When a woman says she is breaking in a green maid, she forgets sometimes that the young woman is a s. , A traveler just returned from Japan tells some things which perhaps all the world does not know. Says he: Of rank, there are eight classes after the mikado and the Zlogoon, namely (1) the princes; (2) the nobles who owe feudal servicq to the prince, or the empire; (3) the priests; (4) the soldiers. These four form the higher orders and enjoy the privilege of wearing two swords and petticoat trousers; (5) inferior officials and doctors, called respectable, allowed to wear one sword, with the trousers; (6) merchants and tradesmen, whose legs may not pollute the trousers, though by entering as domestics to a man of rank they may enjoy the privi- lege of wearing one sword; these are the only people by whom wealth can be accumulated; (7) artists, artisans and petty (8) day laborers and peasants. , - Tradesmen who work on leather, tanners, etc., are excluded from classification. They are defiled, and may not even live with other men; they live in villages ot shop-keeper- their i own. Good Stories from the Ladies' Home Journal, published by Henry lltemus company, Philadelphia, as the title indicates, is a selection of amusing storieB, jokes and anecdotes from that popular periodical that are worba preserving. One of the most vexatious experiences of the average man is his inability to remember a good story or joke which he has heard, and which he would like to pass on to his neigh- bor. To such this interesting volume Bhould prove a storehouse of refer-- , ence, and it should be found in the home of every lover of the bright and witty things of liie. ' Not Too Simpje. John Simple; 14 years old, of Dads- den, Ala., Is not as simple as you4 thight think from his name. He saw a felldw hanging around the bam and acting suspicious manner, and set a big bear trap? where he thought It would do the most good; and Ihen got up next morning ter find that he had bagjged his game. The man had tljp barn to stealing of the horses, but put his foot Into It instead. He turned out to be a noted thief, for whom a reward of $500 had been offered, and John Simple is going to get the money. Its not wha,t a boy is named, but what he does, that counts. The Bachelors Guide to Matrimony, by Reginald Wright Kauffman is an essay into the field of humor in which this popular novelist, with his aphorisms on flirtation, courtship and marriage, may he truly said to have taken rank with foremost of American humorists. It is, in fact, the cleverest book of its kind we have mad for some time. Mr. Kauffman declares that the Woman Question is after all, nothing bpt Man; yet there !s no phase of the problem that he does aot Illuminate with the , startling aearchlight of his wit. Henry Alte-muCompany, Philadelphia, are the . publishers. hrv id A man was saved from death by a brave lad who received twenty-five- , cents for his kindness. After all, a man is worth only the price he sets on his own head. One way to get close to nature is to go up in a balloon and fall out. Perhaps Walter Wellman can tell us of the fine points of dog stew as a result of his dash to the North Pole, anyhow. Mining seems to have a great at- traction for the colored man. I mean. A country editor says his wife spent two hours while In the city recently, trying to buy him some postprandial Kalso-minln- cigars. A small hoy, reading, asked his pa what the first flush of civilization meant, whereat the father replied, That, my son, must refer to Eves face powder Many a man would give a ot today to be able to eat pie as he wanted to when he was a small boy. Then he had the digestion but not the pie Now he has the pie but not the digestion. ' ' The Last Oat Stem. There is talk of making the new Chicago street cars narrower than those now in use. The portly gentleman who- - has ridden seven blocks beyond his street because he couldnt pass a fat fishwoman in the aisle, will weep bitter tears at this announcef ment. ) Osculatory. a messenger brought me an envolope, No real nice sensible girl gets angry It con- at a man for kissing her if she likes the address tained a sheet of paper' on which ap- him and she thinks he means it. What these words, she does object to is a man flitting peared, in from flower to flower gathering sweets and nothing more: He is heavily short of Textiles. , just because he likes honey. It was indeed a trap. The new Is' . What Peter Needs. sue was a blind. He had challenged Peter at three geese purchased May me to attaca his stock, a,nd as soon as the Will Baldwins sale the past week. I did, he had begun secertly to sell Peter needs now is a nice plump it for a fall. I worked at this new sit- What wife to pick em Henry 10.) News. uation until midnight, trying to get together the proofs. At that hour Fate. for I could delay no longer, and my Sometimes, where there is a will proofs were not quite complete I there is a banana peel In the way. sent my newspapers two sentences: row I shall make a disclosure that will send Textiles up. Do not sell Textiles! (To be Continued 1 tA 41 vO i You Practice Thrift , f self-contro- l. much of a fool he is. I n isitate to think so poorly of you as your attempt to fool me seems to compel. But he was unconvinced. - I've found he intends to abandon the ship and leave me to go down with it, he persisted. He believes he can escape and denounce me as the arch rascal who planned the combine, and can convince people that I foozled him into it. , Ingenious, but I happened to know Pardon me, Mr. that it was false. Langdon, said I with stiff courtesy. I repeat, I can do nothing for you. And I went at my Good morning. work as if he were already gone. Had I been vindictive, I would have led him out to humiliate himself more deeply, if greater depths of humiliation there are than those to which he voluntarily descended. But I wished to spare him; I let him see He the uselessness of his mission. looked at me in silence the look of hate that can come only from a creature weak as well as wicked. I think it was all his keen sense of humor could do to save him from a melodramatic outbreak. He slipped into his habitual pose, rose and withdrew without another word. All this fright and groveling and treachery for plunder, the loss of which would not impair his fortune plunder he had stolen with many a jest and gibe at his helpless victims. Like most of our debonair dollars chasers, he was a good sportsman only when the game was with him. That afternoon he threw his Coal holdings on the market in great blocks. His treachery took Roebuck completely by surprise for Roebuck believed in this gentleman," coward, and neglected to allow for that quicksand that is always under the foundation of the man who has inherited, not earned, his wealth. But for the blundering credulity of rascal3, would honest men ever get their dues. Roebucks brokers had bought many thousands of Langdons shares at the high artificial price before Roebuck grasped the situation that it was not my followers recklessly gambling to break the prices, tiut Langdon unloading on As soon a he saw, he his pal. abruptly withdraw from the market. When the Stock Exchange closed. National Coal securities were offered at prices'ranging from 11 for the bonds to two for the common and three for the preferred offered, and no takers. Well, youve done it," said Joe, coming with the news that Thornley, of the Discount and Deposit bank, had been appointed receiver. Ive made a beginning, replied I. s Divorce .In Jgpan. In Japan the divorce question has been simplified so that a man can divorce his wife for one of seven reasons the -first of which Is that he is no longer- satisfied with her. Witch's Bridle. An Interesting but most cruel object of punishment may be found in the council chamber of the town hall at Forfar, which Is generally known as the Wltbhs Bridle." This is a kind of cage made of flat iron bars, Into which the head of the unhappy sorcer ess was thrust, a lock at the back securing and keeping it in position. The mouthpiece lu this Instance is made of Iron plate, studded with sharp spikes, which caused great suffering to the womaii if she tried to speak. As soon as the victim had been condemned to death for witchcraft this bridle was placed over the face and she was led through the town by a short chain, to be mocked and made the butt of all who saw her, after which she would be publicly strangled and burned. The latest record of an execution of a supposed witch at Forfar, In Scotland, was In the vear 1662. v , Said by the Pessimist, . s a , f'-- It is a sure guess that the resurrection hour will be a stag party. Every woman will stop for- a last - Marcel and lose her seat. Record-Heral. Chicago For Perfect Identification. Paul Prager, an army surgeon ol Vienna, suggests that molds of of prisoners would be much better than finger prints tot ldentifi-- ' cation purposes, as the palate remains absolutely unchanged throughout life. "V M. J '4 Wore Sackcloth Wedding Dress. i In order not to lose a legacy of $25,- 000 left to her by an eccentric aunt, 4 a young lady was, in France, some- time ago, married wearing a wedding dress which, though of fashionable cut, t was made of sackcloth.- - f . T ? 'n |
