Show DAY IT A novel by THOMAS W LAWSON author of frenzied finance 1907 doubleday Double doy rag co continued from last issue presently lie he came cam back to me jim I 1 must have a talk with you come over to my office when we got there he turned the key and stood la in front of 0 me his great eyes looked full into mine in ill college days gazing into their brown depths by some magic I 1 seemed to see the heroes and heroines of always happy ending tales as the child sees enchanted creatures far hack back la in the burning yule log flames fames but there v ere no joyous beings in the haunted depths of bobs eyes that day jim you gave nia ma an awful scare he be said brokenly dont ever do it again I 1 have little left to live for to be sure I 1 have some feeling for mother frei fred and alstein sl al gut but for you I 1 have hare a love second only to that I 1 should have felt tor for beulah had I 1 been allowed to have her the thought jim that I 1 had wrecked your life with all you have to live for would have been the last straw ay my life is purgatory beulah is only an ever present curse to reea ghost that rends my heart and soul one minute a blind frenzy to revenge her wrongs the next with an icy remorse that I 1 have not already done so it I 1 did not have her perhaps in time I 1 could forget perhaps I 1 might lay jay out some scheme to help heip poor devils whose poverty makes life unendurable and with the millions I 1 havet hare taken laken from the lie main shaft of hell I 1 might do things that would at least tiring bring quiet to my soul but it is impossible with the living corpse of deulah sands before me every minute and that devil machinery whirling in ivy icy brain all the time the song revenge her and her father revenge yourself it ft is impossible to give it vp tip jim I 1 must have revenge I 1 must stop this machinery that Is smas smashing hing up more american hearts arid and souls each year than all the rest of earths grinders combined every day I 1 delay I 1 become more fiendish in my desires jim dont think I 1 do not know that I 1 have literally turned into a fiend whenever of late I 1 see myself in an the mirror I 1 shudder when I 1 think of what I 1 was when your father stood us up in his office ind and started vs us in tois this heart shrivelling shri velling soul cal lousing hrs and ahat I 1 am tina 1 L l i cannoa cannot bep kee ulsess tubs dowil except with rum fuai you know what it means for roc me to say this me who started with all the pride of a brownley but it is so jim the other night I 1 went homo home with ny my soul frozen with thoughts of the past ard with my brain ablaze with rum intending to end it all I 1 got out my re revolver olver and woke dellab but as I 1 said dob bob is going to kill ceulah and himself she laughed that sweet childs laugh and clapping her bacas said hob Is so good to play with beulah arid and then I 1 thought of that doll reinhart nein hart and the other fiends of the system being left to continue their work unhindered arid and I 1 could not do it I 1 must have revenge I 1 must smash that lic heart art crushing machinery then I 1 can call go and take beulah with me now jim let us have it clearly understood once and tor for all remorse and softness ness were past be was the indian again 1 I am going to wreck that hell bell annex some day and that some day will be the next neit lime I 1 start in dont argue with me dont misunderstand me today to day you stopped me I 1 dont know whether you meant what you threatened I 1 dont care now it la Is just as well that I 1 stopped for the systems machina lue will be there whenever he never I 1 start in again it loses nothing of its fiendishness ish ness none of its destructive powers by grinding but on the contrary as you know it increases its speed every day it runs now jim Randol randolph lill I 1 want to tell you that you must get yours and the houses affairs in such shape hape that aou QU wont be hurt when I 1 KO go into that human the next time for when I 1 corno come from it the new york stock exchange arid and the system wll will have had their spines yes and ill have their hearts out too neither will eer be able to take from the american poop people le their savings and their manhood and manhood and give them in ex unal pc V ing unadulterated A u iterated torment ent I 1 am going to be fair wit with you jim this Is the le last time I 1 will discuss the subject aft after ier this you must take your I 1 chance with the rest of those who haver hava to do with the cursed business when I 1 str strike 11 I 1 e again none one will be spared B I 1 d I 1 w will I 1 wreck tire the street and the innocent will go down own with the guilly it ir they have any stocks on hand at that time sly power jim Is unlimited nothing can stay it I 1 ani an not going to P aph plain tin any ally fu further fur lher you have seen me work you must know that my power Is greater than ill ohp systems and you and I 1 and the street have always known that the tha system is more poi powerful erful than tile the government more powerful than are tile the courts le legislatures isla congress and the he president of 0 the united states combined that it absolutely controls the foundation on which they rest the money ol of tho the nation but ray my power is greater a thousand yes a million times greater than theirs jim they say that I 1 have made more money than any man mail in I 1 the he world they say that I 1 have five hundred millions of dollars but the fools dont keep track of my movements they only know that I 1 have pulled five hundred millions from my open wl whirls itris the ones they have had an opportunity to keep tab on dut but I 1 tell you that I 1 have made even more in my secret deals than the amount they have seen me take I 1 have had my agents with my capital in every deal every steal the system has egged r up tip the world has been throwing up its hands in horror because the blacksmith of pittsburg pulled williel off three t blin fired millions 0 of swag in the steel holdup hold up yes swag jim dont scowl as though you wanted to read me a lecture on the coarseness yf f my language I 1 have learned to call this game of ours by its right name it Is s not business enterprise with earned profits as results but pull edoff tricks with bags of loot blackjack black jack lack swag tor for their end 1 I rot got away with three hundred millions when steel slumped from to 50 ind and from 50 to 8 and no one knew id made a dollar you and the read I 1 the g guesses ti esses as to who could be rounding up hundreds of millions on the slump the papers and the market letters belt tars one morning mornine said it was standard S ta ald a r oil the next that ft was morgan 1 organ athen then it was frick schwab G gates t and a so 0 on down through the it list Is t ot course 0 u arse none of 0 them denied ie it Is i s capital e ap a J to t all these knights 0 of the road to 10 be making millions in the mill minds ds of th the e world even though they never never get any ally of the money dick turpan and jonathan wild never were fonder of having the daring holdups hold ups that other highwaymen perpetrated pet rated laid to their doors than are these modern bandits of 0 being credited with ruthless deeds that they did not commit but jim I 1 who sold pennsylvania every morning for a year while the selling was explained by the press as cassatt cutting down goulds telegraph poles gould and old man rockefeller selling penn to in get even jim randolph I 1 haie hae today a billion dollars not the rockefeller or carnegie kind but a real billion it if I 1 had no other power but the to call tomorrow to morrow for or that billiou billion in cash it would be sufficient to lay I 1 in in waste the financial world before io tomorrow to morrow night you arr are volca alc Vol cc fmc jim to any part of that billion and the more you take the happier you will make me but when I 1 strike in again dont attempt to stay me for it will do no good shortly after this talk dob bob left for europe with beulah eulah li A great german expert on brain disorders had held out hope that a six months treatment at his sanitarium in berlin might inight at alu 1 aa a restoring her mind they returned the following august the trip had been fruitless it was plain to me that bob was the same hopelessly desperate man as when he left more hopeless more desperate it if anything than when he warned me of his determination when lie he left for europe the street braathen braa brIa thed more freely and as time went by and there was no sign of his confidence disturbing influence in the market maket the system began to bring out its ts deferred deals times were ripe for setting up the most wildly inflated stock lamb iamb shearing traps it ht hii h ii been advertised throughout the world that tom Reinhart now a two hundred time millionaire was to consolidate his and many other enterprises ir 0 one gigantic trust with twelve billions of capital ills his union and southern pacific railroads his southern lines together with ills his steamship company and lead iron and copper mines were to bo be merged with the steel ti action gas and other enterprises he be owned jointly with standard oil some of the railroads owned by rockefeller and ills his pals in which reinhart had bad no part were to go in too ad aad a ad d with these was to unite that mother hog of them all stand aid oil itself the trust was to be an enormous company the lite like of which had until then not even been dreamed of by the roost most daring stock manipulators the sy systems sterns banks as well as trust and insurance companies throughout the country had for a long on time been getting into shape by concentrating the money of 0 the country for this monster trust al I 1 ept e pt rr ink N jk 0 k wa q fill io V 1 5 V I 1 y 1011 J 4 1 Z ill g J RN MA 10 I 1 WIZ y 11 1 in 1 ten minutes you will get word that jim randolph has cut his throat it was newspaper and news bureau gossip that hat Rein ll einhart bart and ills his crowd had bought millions of shares of the different stocks involved in the deal and it was common knowledge that upon its successful completion rein harts fortune would be in the neighborhood of I a billion on october the certificate of the anti peoples trust capital shares were listed upon the new york london and boston stock tock exchanges arid and the german aud and french bourdes bourses Bo and trading la in them started off fast and furious at the claim that one billion of the twelve billions capital had bad been set aside to be used in protecting and manipulating the stock in the market had been so widely advertised that even the roost daring plunger did not think of selling belling it short it was evident to all in the stock gambling that this was to be the systems grand coup that at its completion the masses would lie be rudely awakened to a realization that th at their savings were invested in the combined american industries at vastly inflated values that the few had all the real money and that any attempt upon the peoples part to regulate and control the he new system ol of robbery would be fraught with unparalleled disaster not to the system but to the people since dobs bobs return from europe I 1 had seen him but a few times up to october he had not been near the stock exchange or the street shortly after the listing of the people he be damned as the street had bad dubbed the new trust he began to show up at his oralce regularly this was the condition of affairs when fred Dr brownley Brown loy called me up orr on the telephone as I 1 rented related at the beginning began of ray my story which I 1 did not realize I 1 had been so long in telling my lily thoughts had been chasing each other with lightning like rapidity back over the last five years and the 15 before them and each thought deepened the black mist over ray my present mental vision in t ti i midst i last ot of my reflections my teo tee one rang again mr randolph for Ire II cavena averla sake have you done nothing yet it was fred brownleyd Brown leys voice things are frightful here dobs bobs brokers are selling stocks at five aud arid terr ten thousand lot clips barry conant is s leading reinhards reinharts Rein harts forces it Is said lie he lias has the pools protection order in anti peoples and that it ft Is unlimited but bob has the reinhart Reinli axt crowd pretty badly seared scared swan has just finished giving conant a hundred thousand oft off the reel in lots and lie he told me a moment ago ho he was going to get bob himself to face barry conant down 20 points on the average although they let lec anti peoples break an eighth yet they have tt ft pegged at but there isan is an ugly rumor ramor just in that hob bob under cover of a general attack Is unloading anti peoples on to the reinhart wing for roga s and rockefeller andl and the rumor is getting in its work kven even barry conant is growing a bit anxious the latest talk is that rei hart Is borrowing hundreds of millions on anti peoples and that his loans are being called in all directions do you know reinhart Rein bart is at haa hl place in virginia and cannot got get here hera before tomorrow night nighta if bob breaks through anti peoples peg it will be the worst crash yet all right rrell frol r answered 1 I will go over to hobs bobs rf alt zit row now I 1 hate to do rt ft but there is no other hope I 1 dropped the receiver and started for bobs office As I 1 wont through his counting room one of 0 the clerks said they have just broken anti peoples to 90 on oil a bulletin that tom reinhards reinharts Rein harts wife and only daughter have been killed in an automobile accident at their place in virginia they first had it that reinhart himself was wai wa i killed that has been corrected although the latest word is that he h ta 13 prostrated I 1 rapped on bobs private olace fice door 11 i I 1 belf felt th the c oming gle le as I 1 heerd heard his boario bellow come in he blood at the ticker with the tape ape ln in one hand while the tl 0 other lie he held the telephone libre receiver to ills his ear my god nihat a picture for a stage ills magnificent form was erect his feet were as firmly plantel as if ho he were made ct bronze ills his shoulders thrown back as it if ha anve were 0 o withstanding the i ush rush of the elchan exchange ge hordes ills his eyes albre wl with th a sallon shouldering ing blaze his jaw was set in a way that brough tinto terrible relief relict the new haul hard alies of desperation that hat had recently come into his lace face ills his gibat chest was rising and falling as though he be were engaged in a physical phyll struggle his perfect leavy black melton cu cutaway taNny coat thrown back from the chest aril a low turndown white visite collar formed the lie setting etting for a throat and licad head that reminded ded one of a forest monarch at bay on the mountain crag era awaiting the coniing ot of the boulds wid Inin litti tors rs I 1 hesitated at the threshold to catch my breath as I 1 took in the terrific P guro had nob hr brownley been an alleyly of mine I 1 should have basked ant ut in fear ear and I 1 do not coa confess to more than my fair share 0 of f cowardice inwardly I 1 thanked th inked god that bob was in his office instead ot of on the floor of the exchange ills whole appearance was frightful he showed in every line and lineament that he was a man who would hesitate at nothing eben e en at killing it if he be should find a human obstacle in his road and his mind should suggest murder iio was the personification oi of the most awful madness ti rs evec when lyben ho he caught si sight lit of me he be hardt haraty moed a although A my coming must haye have a surprise so it is you jim randolph Is ll it what brings ou on here hla a voice was hoarse but it had a metallic ring that went to my marrow cob bob brownley in all 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