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Show ! 3 make it up with the Ellerslys? 03 DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS, Author of TZFCQS&fc can&wy? km&&r jscs i? soass-nzE&Z- CHAPTER have only who tries to wishes to go." Continued. contempt for a woman hold a man when he said Anita, with quiet but energetic bitterness. "Besides she hesitated an instant before going on "Gladys deserves her fate. She doesnt really care for him. Shes onfy jealous of him. She never did 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 question. Because he never loved her, she replied. "The feeling a woman has for a man or a man for a woman, without any resjionse. isnt love, isnt worthy the name of love. Its a sort Iove means of baffled covetousness. Then generosity, not greediness. "Why do you not ask me whether what she said la true?" The change in her tone with the last sentence, the Btrange, ominous note in it, startled me. Because, replied I, "as I aald to ber, to ask my wife such a question would be to Insult her. If you were riding with him, it was an accident. As jf my rude repulse of her overtures and my keeping away from her ever since would not have justltied her 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 suid. And 1 think silo expected me to kill her. When a man admits and respects a woman's rights whore 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 XXX. I L she wishes," said I, Ignoring bis 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 ine I could smell those roses. home-comin- LANGDON XXXI. COMES TO FACE. THE SUR- shall not estimate the vast sums the Itoebiick-Langdoclique to maintain the prices of National Coal, and so give plausibility to the fiction that the public was buying eagerly. In the third week of my campaign, Melville was so deeply Involved that he had to let the two others take the Vhole burden upon themselves. In the fourth week, Langdon crae to me. The interval between his card and himself gave me a chance to recover from my amazement. When he entered he found me busily writing. Though I had nerved myself, it was several seconds before 1 ventured to look at him. There he stood, probably as handsome, as fascinating as I it cost, I fancied so, and told Sam you'd simply think' me meddlesome. The other matter Is the Travelers club. I Ive smoothed things oul 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 I1 undoubtedly did care. It was Uke looking at an outgrown toy and trying to feel again the emotions it once excited. "I assure you, Matt, there wont be the slightest difficulty. His manner was that of a man playing the trump card in a desperate game he feels It can not lose, yet the stake is so big that be can not but be a little nervous. "I do not care to join the Travelers club, said 1, rising. "I must ask you to excuse me. I am exceedingly busy." t A flush appeared in his cheeks and deepened and spread until his whole body must have been afire. He seatYou know what Ive ed himself. come for, he said sullenly, and humbly, too. All his life he had been enthroned Without realizing upon his wealth. it, he had claimed and had received deference solely because he was rich. He had thought hiniBelf, In his most superior; now, he found that like a silly child he had been standing on a chair and crying: "See And the airs, the how tall I am. cynicism, the graceful condescension, which had been. so becoming to him, were now as out of place as crown and robes on a king taking a swimming lesson. What are your terms, Blacklock? Dont be too hard on an old friend," said he, trying to cany off his frank plea for mercy with a smile. I should have thought he would cut his throat aud jump off the Battery wall before he would get on his knees own-person- traitorous. It was he that you meant when you warned tue you cared for another man?" said 1, so quietly that 1 wondered at myself; wondered what had become of the Black Matt who had used his fists almost as much as his brains in fighting his way up, "yes," she said, her head down 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 dtdiberately.. There was a long silence. Then "I must think it all out. 1 I said: once told you how 1 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. 1 thought she was going to speak. Instead she turned away, so that Could no longer see her face. Our marriage was a miserable mistake," 1 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 caroful 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 responsibility, she added. "I am glad my going will be a relief to you "Yes, It will be a relief," I con Our situation has become fessed. I had reached my limit Intolerable." 1 of put out my hand. I said. . "Good-by,- " If she had wept it might have modified my conviction that everything was at an end between us. But she did not weep. "Can you ever forgive 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 we and far they go! Ilow shut-iare from each other, with only halting means of communication that break down under the slightest strain! ' As I was leaving the house next morning, I gave Sanders this note for 1 self-contro- l. r n ber: "I have gone to live at the Downtown hotel. 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 1 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 bote. "Slay w'rh her, Sanders, as long as , FOB MONEY AND JUST FOR MONEY! I HAD THOUGHT HIM A M AN! But I ever, certainly as could now, beneath that manner 1 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, I realized that I did not know niv own nature. "She does not love If she did or this man, I thought. could, she would not he the woman He deceived her inexperience love. as he deceived mine. "What can I do for you?" said 1 to him politely, much as if he were a stranger making an untimely interruption. My look had disconcerted him; my tone threw him into confusion. "You keep out of the way, now that you've become famous. he began, with a halting but heroic attempt at his cusAre you tomary easy superiority. living lip in Connecticut, too? Sam Kllersly 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 It ignorance? I could not decide. seemed impossible that Anita had not told him; yet it seemed impossible, too, that he would come to me if she Have you any busibad told him. ness with me? said I. His eyelids twitched nervously, and he adjusted his lips several times before he was able to say: "You and your wife dont care to self-assure- 1 to any man for any reason. And he was doing It for mere money to try to save, not hla 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 pitied him: "I can only repeat, Mr. Langdon, you will have to excuse me. have given you all the time I can spare. Ills eyes were shifting and his hands trembling as he said: "I will transfer control of the Coal combine to you. His tones, shameful as the offer they canned, made me ashamed for him. For money just for money! And I had thought him a man. If he had been a hypocrite like Roebuck, or a frank believer in the light 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 he had. and he delighted In making the most cynical epigrams on the black' deeds of himself and his 1 g much of a fool he is. I B isttate t think so poorly of you as your attempt to fool me seems to compel. Tve But he was unconvinced. 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 that it was false. "Pardon me, Mr. Langdon, said I with stiff courtesy. "I repeat, I can do nothing for you. Good morning. And I went at my 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 1 wished to spare him; I let him see the uselessness of his mission. He 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 rascals, 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, but Langdon unloading on his pal." As soon a? he saw, he 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," repiied I. fair-weath- foul-weath- 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 arch plotter in every kind of respectable skulduggery, was necessarily 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 Mb 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, 1 I suddenly came to a full stop. found across my way this thought: Isnt It strange that Langdon, after humbling himself to you, should make this bold challenge? its a trap! No more at present, said I, to my And dont write out stenographer. what Ive already dictated. I shut myself in and busied myself at the telephone. Half an hour after I set my secret machinery in motion, a messenger brought me an envolope, It conthe address tained a sheet of paper on which apthese words, peared, in and nothing more: "He is heavily short of Textiles. It was indeed a trap. The new issue was a blind. He had challenged me to attaca his stock, and as soon as associates. I did, he had begun secertly to sell "Better sell out to Roebuck, 1 sug- it for a fall. I worked at this new sitgested. "I control all the Coal stock uation until midnight, trying to get I need. together the proofs. At that hour I dont care to have anything for I could delay no longer, and my further to do with Roebuck, Langdon proofs were not quite complete 1 answered. "Ive broken with him. sent my newspapers two sentences: "When a man lies to me, said I, I shall make a dis"he gives me the chance to see Just closure that will send Textiles up. how much of a fool ho thinks I am, Do not sell Textiles!" and also the chance to see just how (To be Continued 1 type-writte- type-writin- You Practice Thrift When you purchase anything from us. 'mw The Secret. He loved a maiden and he said: "I wonder if the minx would wed?" All day he thought of her and sighed. And ail night long the fellow cried: "Would she?" His busini-sgrew, likewise hla rocks. And yet, nobody darned his socks! Nobody smoothed his rutiled hair, Nor brought of slippers just a pair. Lh uh! At last, the man took sick one day Nobody nursed him ut for pay! "Ive not a soul on earth, he said. I wonder if that girl would wed? "Would she? A bootblack heard his And blurted out, Say, De only way I know t' Is go an ast her,- whot T- tale of woe cull, you're slow! tell t' 'ell, eii;- Then said the man who loved the lass: "That seems to be the proper gas! Shes worth a dozen chaps like me. But, by gee whack. I'll go and see! And see!" He did, and very much elate. She grabbed him as a flslt grabs bait! Said he, with blushes on his brow; "It's easy, if you 'DO IT NOW!' " Do it! Remarks. When an oflice girl takes pity on a stray cat she usually goes out, buys a nickel's 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 170 "MAIN ST. SALT LAKE CITy, UTAH. In tfciao ia JnrclnratuiaorSihrar an kaia a. pa ad daily itara. , GRADES OF RANK IN JAPAN. Society There Is Divided Into Many Separate Classes. 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 mikgdo and the Zlogoon, namely (1) the princes; (2) the nobles who owe feudal service to the prince, or the empire; (3) the priests; (4) ths 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 privilege 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 ars defiled, and may not even live with other men; they live in villages of their own. shop-keeper- Good Stories from the Ladies' Rome Journal, published by Henry Altemus company, Philadelphia, as ths title indicates, is a selection of amusing stories, jokes and anecdotes from that popular periodical that are wortti 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 neighbor. To such this interesting volume should prove a storehouse of reference, and it should be found in the home of every lover of the bright and witty things of liie. Not Too Simple. 14 years old, of John Simple, 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 attraction for the colored man. Kalso-mininI mean. A country editor says his wife spent two hours while in the city recently, trying to buy him some postprandial 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 lot 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 gentle- man who has ridden seven blocks beyond his street because he couldnt pass a fat fishwoman in the aisle, will weep bitter tears at this Osculatory. real nice sensible girl gets angry at a man for kissing her if she likes him and she thinks he means it What No she does object to is a man flitting from flower to flower gathering sweets just because he likes honey. What Peter Needs. Peter May purchased three geese at the Will Baldwins sale the past week. What Peter needs now is a nice plump wife to pick em. Henry (O.) News. Fate. Sometimes, where there is a will there is a banana peel in the way. Dads-de- n, Ala., is not as simple as you might think from his name. He saw a fellow hanging around the bam and acting in a suspicious manner, and set a big bear trap where he thought it would do the most good; and then got up next morning to find that he had bagged his game. The man had entered the barn to steal one 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 whEtf 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 be truly said to have taken rank with foremost of American humorists. It Is, in fact, the cleverest book of Its kind we have read for some time. Mr. Kauffman leclares that the Woman Question is after all, nothing bpt Man; yet there no phase of the problem that he does lot illuminate with the startling searchlight of his wit Henry Alte mus Company, Philadelphia, are the publishers. 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 Witchs Bridle. This is & 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 in this instance is mads of Iron plate, studded with sharp spikes, which caused great suffering to the woman 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. Said by the Pessimist. Is a sure guess that the resurrection hour will be a stag party. Every woman will stop for a last It Marcel and lose her seat. Record-Herald- . Chicago For Perfect Identification. Dr. Paul Prager, an army surgeon ol Vienna, suggests that molds of the mouths of prisoners would be much better than finger prints for identification purposes, as the palate remains absolutely unchanged throughout life. Wore Sackcloth Wedding Dress. In order not to lose a legacy of $25,-00- 0 left to her by an eccentric aunt, a young lady was. In France, some time ago, married wearing a wedding dress which, though of fashionable cut, was made of sackcloth. |
