Show wnm A novel by THOMAS W LAWSON author of frenzied finance Doub doubleday loday iff co continued from last week she was sobbing as though her heart would break sobbing bobbing wildly convulsively like the little tile child wh who 0 ln in the night comes to its mothers bed to tell of the black go blins that have been pursuing it long before she had finished speaking and it took only a tew few heartbeats heart beats tor for that rush ot of words I 1 had bad broken the power of the fascination that held me had turned away nay my eyes and tiled not to listen for fear of breaking the spell I 1 did not dare cross the room to close beulahs door or to reach the outer door of my office which was nearer hers than it was to my desk I 1 waited through a silence broken only by beulahs weeping wee pins that seemed hour long then in bobs voice came ony onti low sob of joy i Beu beulah lall Ia heulah baulah ulah my beulah Ke ulah I 1 realized that hs he had risen I 1 rose too thinking that now I 1 could close the door but agala again I 1 saw a picture that transfixed me bob had taken beulah by roth loth shoulders and lie he held her of 03 and looked into into her eyes ves sons long and bes beseechingly berhing ly never before nor since have I 1 seen upon human face that glorious joy which the old masters sought to get into the faces of their worshippers wor shippers who kneeling before christ tried to send to him through their eyes their souls gratitude and love I 1 stood as one enthralled thrall ed and as reverently as the living ioner mer touches tha brow of his dead wife bob bent his head and kissed her forehead again and again lie he drew her to him and implanted upon her brow and ebes ases and lips Us his kisses I 1 could not stand the scene any longer I 1 started to the corridor door and then as though tor for the first time either had bad known I 1 was within hearing they turned and stared at me at last deb bob gave a long iong deep sigh then one of those reluctant laughs of happiness yet wet with sobs well dejl jim dear old jim where did you acne fromi from like all eavesdroppers you have heard no good of yourself own up jim im you did not hear a word good or bad azout al out yourself tor for it Is just coming back to zie ae that we have been selfish that we hare eft att you entirely out of our business conference fer euce I 1 we all laughed aua and beulah sands with flidr arl flee a bloom boorn of burning blushes said mr randolph we vre have not settled what it is best to do about fathers affairs after a little we lid did be begin in to tall business and finally a agreed reed that beulah should write her father word ing her letter as carefully as possible to avoid all direct statements but showing him that she had made but little headway on the work she had come north to accomplish bob was a changed being now so too was beu ben lah sands both discussed their hopes and tears fears with a frankness in strange contrast to their former manner but there was one point on which bob showed he was holding back I 1 finally put it to him bluntly bob are you working out anything that looks fooks like real relief for miss sands and her father 1 I dont know how to answer you jim I 1 can only say I 1 have some ideas radical ones perhaps but well I 1 am thinking along certain lines I 1 saw he be was not yet willing to take us into his confidence we parted bob going along in the cab with miss bliss sands two days afterward she sent tor fatus us both as soon as we got to the effim 1 I have this telegram from it makes me uneasy mailed today to day important letter answer as soon boon as you receive the following afternoon the letter came it showed judge sands in a very nervous uneasy state ile he said lie had been ing a life 0 of dally daily terror as some of his friends for whose hose estates he be was trustee had been receiving anonymous letters advising them to look into the judges judge a fiust affairs that the reinhart crowd had been using renewed pressure to make him aim let go all his seaboard stock which they wanted to secure at the low prices to which they had bad depressed it in order that they might reorganize and carry out the scheme V T t A they 0 p an I 1 I 1 g judge went on oil bobny to ay that tho the day aji was compelled to aselt sell his seaboard stock ho he would have to make public an announced announcement ent of his condition as there could be no sale without the courts consent ills his closing was my bly dear daughter no one knows better than I 1 tile the almost hopelessness of expecting ray any relief from your operations operation but so BO Ilo hopeless ilac hac I 1 become ot of lite late so much am I 1 reliant upon you my dear hila child and eternal hope so springs in all of us when confronted confront fd with great necessities tt les that I 1 have hoped and still hope that you are to be tile tho savior af 0 your family amaly that you only a frail child are til lough gods marvellous marcellous marv ellous workings to be the one ona to save the honor of that namo we boil love more than life tho the ono one to keep tile tho wolf of poverty from that door which so tar far has conic come nothing but tile of prosperity and happiness tho the one my dear Bou baulah lall who la Is to save your old father from a dishonored grave dear child forgive me for placing upon your weak shoulders the additional burden of knotting I 1 am now helpless and compelled to rely absolutely upon you after you have read my letter it if there Is no hope I 1 command you to tell me so at once for although I 1 am now financially and almost mentally helpless I 1 am all still a sands and there ims has never yet been one of tile tho name who shirked his duty bov however ever stern and painful it might be when I 1 handed the letter back to miss bliss sands sho she said mr aar randolph let me tell you and mr brownley a little about my father and our home that you may see our situation as it Is my father la Is ono one of 0 the noblest men that ever lived I 1 am not the only one who says that it if you were to ask the people of 0 our state to name the one man who had done most for or the state as a state most for her progressive betterment most tor for her people high and low white and black they would answer judge lee sands lie ile has been and Is the idol of our people after acler lie he was graduated from harvard he be entered the law office of in my grandfather senator robert lee sands before lie he was nas 30 lie he was wag in ill t congress and w was as even then reputed the greatest orator of our state where orators are so plentiful he married my mother ills his second cousin julia lee of 0 richmond at 25 and from then until the attack of that ruthless money shark led a life such as a true man would map out for himself if his maker granted hm m the privilege you would have t to visit visit ai at our home to appreciate pre preci clate ate my fathers character and to understand how terrible this sorrow Is to him every morning of his life he spends an hour after breakfast with my dear mother who is a cripple from hip disease he takes her in his arms and brings her bar down from her room to the library au it if she were a child lie he then reads to her and he knows good books as wen well as he knowd knows his mends frien J 9 after re ee takes tales motte mother r tia ta ck ck 10 to her room he gives an hour to our people th the blacks of the PI plantation an tation and his white tenants throughout the county lie he is a father to them all lie he settles all their troubles big and little then tor for hours he and I 1 go over his business affairs every afternoon from four to five he devotes to his estates and the mn men and women to whom he go ac acts ts as trust trustees ca lie he has often said to me eve W e have a clear million of money and property and that is all any man should have in america it Is all he is 13 entitled to under our form of government ern ment any more than that an honest man mail should shoud in one way or another return to the people from whom he has taken it I 1 never want my family bave a ve bios chaa t m million dollars when he went into the seaboard affair he e explained i ap to ia 0 ine me that it was to assist the wilsons they were old mends friends and he acted as their solicitor for years in building up the south ile he discussed with me the right and advisability of putting in the trust brinds he said he considered it his duty to employ them as he did his own in enterprises that would aid the whole people of the south instead of sending them to the north to be used in wall street as belting tor for the system grinder these fortunes were made in the south by men who loved their section of the country more than they did wealth and why should they not be employed to benefit that part of the country which their makers and owners loved I 1 remember vividly how perplexed he was when at the beginning ol inIng the would show him that ili the rn investments we ro rei returning limIng unusually large profits it is not right beulah he said to me one morning after receiving a letter from baltimore to the effect that seaboard stock and bonds had advanced until its his investment showed over 50 per ier coat cent profit it Is not right tor for us to maka this money no man in america should make over legal mateis of la interest terest and a fair profit on an investment that is an investment of capital pure pura and simple particularly in a transportation company 1 bete every dollar of profit comes horn flom the people who patronize the lines I 1 have worked it out on every side and it is not right it would not be legal if the people who make the laws lar tor for their own betterment tm understood der stood their falls as they should ile ho was always writing to the wll wit sons to conduct the affairs of 0 the seaboard so that there would be remaining each day only profits enough to keep the road up tip and the wharves in good condition and to pay the annual interest Inte est iest and a 4 fair dividend and when the came to our house housa to lay before him the oker offer of feln hardt and his fellow plunderers to ora SS 4 f ara hova a ad Sri 11 ar edwith thiet hat ltv ta 0 er was a an insult to lionnet inen icca 1 it t was ho 0 who advised the control of 0 the seaboard block to prevent Roin bart f fiori I 1 orn securing control I 1 sat fiat in tho library whoa when he be talked to the elder cider wilson and ti the le directors ile ha appealed to jolia john wll wil son t to 0 make an effort to sto p the growing grower tendency to use the people ns as pawns to enslave themselves and their children H ha said sonic man of undoubted probity standing and wealth somo some one ahorn the people trusted must ebirt the fight against cheso now new york fiends whose only thought is to loll 1011 up wealth and lie he told john wilson be was the man since he had great wealth honestly got by his bis luher father and grandfather no ono one would accuse him of being a seeking notoriety and his standing in the financial world was so old and solid that it would have to listen to him I 1 remember how emphatically father said 1 I te tell 11 you john even the discussion of such a proposition as that scoundrel rein hart makes Is degrading to lo an americans honor ile he said it make the least difference if reinhart counted hla his millions by the score and was wag director in 30 or 40 great institutions and gave a fortune every ear tor for charity to tile tho church that he was a blackleg just the same and so is any man he said who dares to say lie he will tako take the stock of a transportation por tation company which represents a certain amount of money invested and double or multiply it by live and ten simply because bi causs lie can compel people to pay exorbitant fares and freight rates and so get profits on tills this fraudulently inci eased cased capital it was the decision arrived at by bv father and tile t ic wilsons at this meeting an a decision to refuse in any aay circumstances cum stances to allow cur sout southern h ern people to be b bled by alic cfall tem blat stained reinhart and his dollar blends on the war path you can see sec from what I 1 tell you of my father the teril ble condition lie I 1 I 1 in now at night when I 1 I 1 got get to 0 o thinking of him hoping against hot hope e with no one to help him no one zvi with whom he can talk over his aaers when I 1 thirk think of his noble nobleness nessin in devoting his time to mother and by sheer will power concealing from her his awful suffering it nearly drives me mad miss sands why will you not let in me e lend you the money necessary to tide your father over tor for awhile auhll aw hll 7 I 1 asked you are so good mr randolph but you dont quite understand my father in spite of 0 what I 1 have said ile he would not relieve his suffering at the expense of another not if it wore were a hundred times more acute you cannot understand the old fashioned deep rooted pride of the sands but can you not at least temporarily disguise from him just low how you have arranged the relief her big blue eyes stared at mo me la in bewilderment air randolph I 1 could not deceive father I 1 could not tell him a lie even to save his life it would be im possie p my ily father abhors a lie lie he believes a man or f oman who who would lle lie the lowest of the low things on eaith bait when V iea I 1 go back to my father he will wili say tell me what bat you have done I 1 can just see him now stan standing daig between the big white pillars at the and ot of the driveway I 1 can hear him saying calmly beulah my daughter dau welcome your mother Is waiting for you in her room do not lose coee a monic moment tit getting to her after waid hell take me over the plantation to show me all the familiar things and not one word will lie he allow me to say about our affairs until dinner is over until the neighbors have left for no sands returns from C mr randolph I 1 could not tell my father a lie even to save his life aff TT 77 T 4 y apfl at fL aint to to othor ot il sa drawn draw n lupiny rock r erill N on of oc ill his big c hair chair in the library alcove and ive lighted ills his cl cigar ar for him he will me in the eye and say Daugh daughter daughten te r tell me what you have done dona I 1 would no more think of boldin ho ldla any anything thin back than I 1 would of stabbing him to th clife heal heat t no 11 mr ar arti candolph nan 1 dolph Is no possibility of bellef except in fairly that thai and fa fairly aly winning back what vhal wall street lias has stolen from father even that will cause both of us many mally twinges of conscience and anything mole moe Is impossible if this cannot ba lono done father must all of us must aay th ine 0 penalty of ruthless act rob bob had listened but reade ro comment until she was vas v as through I 1 then he said it looks to ms me as th though ouli g the market Is shaping up so that wo we may be able to do something soon it was evident to both of us that he had some plan in mind later we learned that that night ceulah beulah wrote her father a long iong letter telling him what v aliat liat she had done that she had made almost two millions profit front from her operations that they had been lost and that the outlook was not reassuring she begged him to prepare himself for the fi final ll 11 calamity promising that it there were no change tor for the better by december I 1 site she would come home to be with alim him when the blow tell fell she begged him to prepare to meet it like a sandland sands Sand sand and assure him that it if worse came to worst she would earn enough to keep poverty away judge sands would receive this letter th the e second day following friday the day of november my 1 god how well I 1 know the date it is ia seared info roy my brain as though with a white hot iron fron after our talk with beulah sands I 1 begged bob to 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