Show Mg gB aca FRAD PAR Y T T A novel by THOMAS W LAWSON LAWSOM author of frenzied finance ima pk C C from last issue I 1 looked locked at her at t bob ln in horror arror 1 I was beginning to realize the absolute deadness of this woman from the first look I 1 bad known that her mind had fled but knowledge Is not always realization she did not even know who I 1 was her mind was dead to all but the man she loved the man who through all those long days L of A her suffering she had silently worshiped to all but him she was newborn at the sound gourd of wedding church bobs head slowly ros rose from efrom her shoulder I 1 saw his decision the instant I 1 caught his eye I 1 realized the uselessness of opposing it and sick at heart and horrified I 1 listened as he said in a voice voice now calm and soothing as that of a father to his child yes beulah my darling I 1 have slept too long bob has been naughty but we will make up tor for lost time get your hat and cloak and well hurry to the church or we will be late with a laugh of joy she followed fol loved him to the closet where hung the he little gray turban and tle me pretty gray jacket he took them from their peg and gave them to her not a word jim he bade me in the name of god and all our friendship biot a word beulah sands will vill bo be my wife as soon as I 1 can find a minister to marry us it is best best it t Is right it Is as god would have it ali or I 1 am not capable of 0 knowing right from wrong anyway it is what will be she has no father no mother no sister no one to protect and shield her the system has robbed her of all in life even of herself of everything jim but me I 1 must try to win her hack back to herself or to make her new world a happy one a happy one for her r y lm 11 1 1 CHAPTER VII an old gs ga ibler whose life had been spent listening to the rattle of the drop in bound out little roulette ball as told by a fellow victim as his big last dollar went to the he relentless ligers maw that hat the the kee keepers berrs lot foot was upon an electric button which enabled him to make the ball drop where his hi stake was not ile he simply said thank god I 1 thought that prince of cheats fate who all through life h has had his foot on the button of my garne game was the one who did the trick long suffering had driven the old gambler to the losers bible bable philosophy cheated by mans device he be knew anew he be had some chance of getling even but fate he could not combat bob brownley had thought himself ip iii hard bard luck when his eyes opened to tile the tact fact that he had been robbed by means of dice loaded by man but when fate pressed the button he be saw that his man made hell was as but a feeble lial limitation tation and was satisfied as whoever knows the game of life Is satisfied because he must bs be bols bobs strong head bowed his iron will bent and meekly his big soul murmured thy will be done that night he married beulah sands bands the minister who united the grownup grown up man and the woman who was as a newborn new born babe saw nothing extraordinary in the match ile he murmured to me who acted as best man to the groom maid of honor to the bride and father and mother to both we see strange sights we ministers of the great city mr randolph the sweet little lady appears to be a trifle seared scared my aly explanation that she and mr brownley were the awful survivors of the awful tragedies of the day was sufficient lie he was satisfied when he got no other response to his question do you you take this man to ba your wedded husbard husband than a sweet childish smile as she snuggled closer to bob bob and his bride went south to his big mother and sisters the next day ile he left to me the settlement of his big trades ile he instructed me to set aside profits for beulah sands brownley aley and insisted that I 1 pay from the balance the tha notes he had given me a few weeks before there remained 8 over 1 oi the leading bewall wall street paper in Us its preaching im cilladi 1 on I the panic wound up with acil street liis has hied through many falack ack I 1 Fil il days some ot of the them n have been thirty t nth ot of the Irl Ili days but no I 1 r ld a y yet marked inar keil from the calendar no liy monday Mon ilay tuesday Tuc wednesday ar thursday yet gain cred to tile storehouse of tile the palt v was as ever more jubilantly welcomed by his satanic majesty than yesterday we ive pray i no coming day clay may lie be ordained to go against yesterdays record for igerna cruel cruelly ty and sinful destruction it Is rumored that aliat mr brownley of ilan either for himself or his clients cleared ot of profit we believe that this estimate is low tile losses through robert brownleyd Brown leys teril lenoble ble on sliu clit inuss huva lun lua over sall wall street and the country will do well to take tile the ot of yesterdays market to their heart it is this the colleen ration ot of in or of a rew few am la is a menace to our financial structure it I 1 ll 11 the unanimous opinion of tile the street that robert nobert Bio Bion nley cougil nover never have succeeded in battering down donn the price of 0 sugar in the lery ery teeth of tile the Cne knemeyer meyer and standard oil support as lie did yesterday without NIt hout a cash backing of fron from OOOO to if a vast aggregation of money owners deliberately place themselves behind an onslaught such as was so successfully made yesterday vly c can an that 5 laughter not be repeated at any time on any stock and against the support of any backing when I 1 read this arid and listened to talk along the same lines I 1 was puzzled I 1 could not for the life of me see where bob brownley could have five to ten millions backing for such a raid ranch much less fifty to a hun him d dred red yet I 1 was forced to confess that he must have had some cremen r KI i y y I 1 7 k 1 A 7 1 good bob has come back to play with beulah dous backing back yng else how could he have done what I 1 had seen him do bob left his wife at his mothers house while he went to sand landing to the funeral after the old judge and his victims had been laid away and the relatives had gathered in the library of the great white sands ands mansion he be explained their condition and told them their that she was his wife he he insisted upon paying all judge sands debts over of 0 which was owed to members of 0 the sands family for whom he had been trustee before lie he went back to his big mot mothers bers bob had bad turned a great calam calamity ity into ar occa buu rc something rejoicing I 1 jud judge e sands sand and bid family were ve re very dear to the people of the see sec tion but his misfortune had threatened such widespread ruin that tho the ur unlooked looked for recovery of a million find arid a halt half was a godsend that made mada fur for hal happiness tro days after the funeral hobs bobs dearest lope hope fled lie had ordered all tl things lins at the sands plantation put in their everyday every day condition beulah sands lin uncles cles aunts and cousins had arranged to welcome her and to try by every means in their power to coax back her lost mind they assured dob bob thit that barring the absence of beulahs father mother and sister there would not be a memory missing dob bob and his wife landed aiom tho river packet at the toot foot of tho the driveway which led straight from the landing to the vine covered white pillared portico bobs agony must have been awful when his wife clapped her hands in childish joy as she exclaimed oh ob bob what a pretty place she gave no sign that she had over ever seen tho the great entrance through which she had come and gone from her babyhood bob took her to the library to her mothers room to her own to the nursery where were the dolls and toys of her childhood but there came no sign of 0 recognition nothing but childish pleasure she looked at her aunts and uncles and the cousins with whom bhe hall had spent her life bewildered at finding so BO many strangers in the otherwise a quiet place As a last hope they led in her old black foster mother who had bad nursed her in babyhood who was the companion of 0 her childhood and the pet of her womanhood there was not a dry eye in the library when aba met the old mammas outburst of joy with the puzzled gazo gaze of the iho child who does not understand tile the grief of 0 the old was pitiful as she sha realized that sho she WES nias a stranger to her honey bird the child seemed perplexed at her grief it was plain to all that the sands home meant nothing to the tha last of the judges family bloh brought her back to now york and besought the aid of 0 the medical experts of Anic america rica and of the old 1 world to regain that which had been I 1 recalled by its maker the doctors were fascinated with this new phase 1 of mind bif blight lit for in some sor io particulars beulahs case was unlike any known instances but brt none gave hope all agreed that some wire corin connecting acting heart and brain had burned out when nhen the cruel system threw on a voltage beyond the ches capacity to transmit all a agreed reed that the woman child wife would never grov older unless through some mental eruption beyond human power to produce some of the medical men pointed to one possibility but that one was too terrible for bob to entertain I 1 the first anniversary of their marriage found bob and his wife settled in their new fifth avenue manson mansion ile he had bought and torn down two old houses between forty second and forty third streets and hd had a palace the inside of welch which was unique I 1 among all new yorks unusual structures the first and second poors were all that refined taste and unlimited expenditure of money could produce nothing on those splendid floors told of the strange things above A sedate luxury pervaded the drawing rooms library and dining room bob said to me in taking me through them some day jim beulah may recover may come back to me and I 1 want to have everything as she would wish everything as she would have had it it if the curse had never come the third r if floor or was beulahs A childs dainty bedroom two nurses rooms adjoining a nursery with a childs small schoolroom and a big playroom with dolls and doll houses childs toys of 0 every description in abandon as though their owner were in baci fact but a i few 0 nv Y years ea rs olf old across tile the hall ball were three offices exact duplicates of mine bobs and gerali sands at randolph Randolp randolphe hs M I 1 1 I 1 first saw them it was with diffin that ii I brought myself to realize th I 1 was not where the gruesome happenings of a year before had taken place bob had reproduced to the minutest details our downtown down town workshop shop standing in the door of beulah sands office I 1 faced the flat desk at which she had sat the afternoon when I 1 first saw that hideous result of the work of the SL system stem I 1 could almost see the little gray figure holding the afternoon paper in horror my eyed sought the floor at the side of the chair in fit search of bobs agonized face anil and uplifted hands As I 1 stood for the first time in the middle of 0 bobs handiwork I 1 r seemed to hear bear again those awful groans jim bob said 1 I have a haunting in idea that some day beulah will wake and look around and think she has been but a few minutes asleep it if she should she must have nothing to disabuse her mind until we break tho the news to her I 1 have instructed her nurses one or the other of whom never loses sight of her night or day to win h her 0 r to the habit of spending her time at her old desk I 1 have told them always to be prepared for her awakening and when it comes canies they are instantly to shut oft off the rest of tho the floor and house until I 1 can get to her here comes beulah now out of the nursa nursery ty came a laughing happy child woman in spite of her finely developed womanly figure which had lost nothing of its wonderful beauty and the exquisite faco face and golden brown hair bair and great blue eyes which as fascinating as ou on the lay day she first entered tile the offices of randolph randolph in spite oi of tho the close fitting gray gown with nith dainty turned over lace collar I 1 could hardly bring myself to believe that she was wai anything but a oung child with an eager look and a happy laugh she went to bob and throwing her arms about his neck coveted his face with kisses good deb bob has come buck back to play beulaa beula i she said she knew he blid the they told beulah bob had gono away to the tha woods to gather flo flower werl beulah knew if bob had gone to tile he woods he would have talen tal en cn with him now bob must play school with v ith beulah she sat at her desk and opened her childs school schoolbook book with mock severity she said bob cat c a t what does it spell for halt half an hour bob sat and played scholar and vacher t acher by turns with all the patience of a fond father with di diG culty I 1 kept back the tears the sad sight brought to my eyes for the first year of bobs marriage we saw but little of him at the office the exchange saw less he had wan dered in the floor door two or three times but did no business and seemed to take bu little interest aile street knew bob had mar ried the daughter of judge lee the victim of tom Rein reinhards reinharts harts cold blooded Sea seaboard oard air line deal oth erase er ase it knew nothing of the affair his friends never dever met ills his wife oc caslo casio nally they world aou ld pass the brown ley ey carriage on the avenue or in the park and taking it for granted that thai the beautiful woman was mrs brown ley they thought bob a lucky fellow it seamed quite natural that his wife should choose seclusion after the aw ful fl tragedy at her home in virginia but they could not understand why with such cause for mourning the ex ullie ulL te figure beside bob la in the vic victoria torla should always be garbed lo in gray after a while it was whispered 7 7 that there was comet something t ing wrong in bobs household then his frienda and acquaintances ceased to whisper or to think of ef his affairs with all new yorks bad points and they are as plentiful as her church spires and charity bazaars she has one offset I 1 tins ting virtue if a dweller in her midst chooses to let NOT new york alone new york is willing to reciprocate in her most crowded fashionable districts a person may como come and go for a life timo time and none in the block in which he dwells will know when his coming and going ceases when a new yorker reads in hs his newspaper of the m man an who lives next door to him murdered and his body discovered by the gas gag man or the tax collector the butcher or the baker as the case may be he ha never thinks lie he may have been remiss la in his neighborly duties continued next week |