Show 13 the thirteenth th by con commandment i en RUPERT HUGHE 8 camye abt 1 aj aurver A broil A SHOT FIRED IN FARAWAY SERBIA BRINGS SUDDEN DISASTER TO BAYARD synopsis clay wimburn WIm buro a young new yorker on a visit to cleveland meet pretty daphne kip hip whose brother ii I 1 i in thu the same office u with ith day clay in at street aftin n courtship they become engaged daphne hoeq oci to new york with her tier mother to buy her tier trousseau daphnes brother boyadj Ilaya Boya nJ rJ hae box just married and left for europe with his bride lelia daphne and her mother instill themselves in lit bayard a flat daphne meets TOOT tom dunne man nian about town who seem greatly attracted to lier tier daphne accidentally discovers that clay Is except for or tits hi salary dnard 1 and hh wife ito return to new york brex the three is women omen set rot out on a shopping excursion and the two to mounger women buy expensive goinn having liming them charged 0 to o hazard elayard Is ia furious oer the elpi rise seeing hard times ahead daphne indignant dt clares bho she will mill earn her on oin living and breaks hor engage anent with clay through an introduction by duane daphne induces cleben a theatrical magnate to give her tier it position in one fit y his companies her ifer first rehearsal Is n alosco but ilcken at dunnes Duane tf request gives lier tier another chonce budded illness of kiei kemble Keni bc to t stor bleci daphne lier tier chance but her tier acting Is a dismal allure failure she lg Is con soled by tom duane daphne turns to t clay and they plan to be married ried but the follo following day as it 11 suit of the hani hard times clays salary 11 ll cut in half ond and they re forced to abandon their plans CHAPTER XIV continued 10 it waa was thus that he had anade him celt t important enough to adrance rapidly la in his firm and ho he tad I 1 ad aul I 1 tit a i largo hare of his tits salary evry week into a bank hh his extra commissions and bits of anex peeled luck ho lie had bought of impregnable value these lio lie had locked away in a anfe dewalt vault they paid him only tour four or fa ao 0 per cant but they were mere as its sure an a anything mundane and a benr they glinted him the lofty emotion 0 of o tho the cc C apon upon cutter ito bud cald each carli for what nhat roer mer chan chandise diso so ho he bought and demanded spatial discounts for it in time tho many mickles made a ijo ile bad hat five thou thousand gand dollars ilo llara worth of bonds la tits rate deposit depoi tit box and then ho lie married panned him elf self at the marriage shop he ile kept hie tits board heard a from leila now he lie an edw a chance to use the tf it ats its that he had burled in a napkin ito lie filled the ears of clay und daphne daphno mith H ath his tits market jargon lie was ns as unintelligible to daphne it mad scot talking look at Q A 0 11 lie matij say wd sold at eight five ave a year bio alo friend of mine bought it 11 booe who ere in tho the know bald said it was going up it ought to have gone tip UP but it decint t dropped slon 13 and sickeningly to forty three mcday it ie Is forty six air if I 1 find gone into the market the other day with he me thou ilion sand and napped snapped it up at forty three I 1 id d have lime clipped up tip three hundred and anti a hal halt la in no time first catch your five thousand dollars s ild clay 1 ivo I TO taught vaught it 1 eald sold bayard tre ive had it nit dilong you inver clay groaned it I 1 id d known that id have it to let get married worried on not in a million years mid sold ciny ard han ive pio made a killing alth thil money ill miko you all a present but you pry thie out of me we with a crowbar I 1 with wish I 1 knew ant w where to borrow more it if you can ralee raise any uny money clay dont pend spend it in matrimony A fellow can get any bitne but its it a only once fh fin ten aea a e that on con can climb aboard a market after a panic and ride tide III 11 the tile tide he ile bent ent to his hi eafe safe deposit vault took out his tits bondi bond cardet them to tho the ice ce president of ills hn and born borr imd nil all that ho lie could anime on tho the the bonds boudi gitil fallen below par on t count of the depra ion slon but bayard was granted fco 60 per cent of weir food value manus 30 dara days discount at 5 per cent ills banc banic account wai wax taud ud denly su cillen by three th thousand usand nine hundred and leventi nipe dollar dollars and anti eighteen cent cents lie out a broker a college friend nhom ho he could dinst to advise hlin lihn honestly they conferred on the stocks to buy the old could not be escaped those that offered to the meet most profit offered the mot rio to buy on margins vias further danger with promise of further profit lee after all bayard fet tc t to buy outright however wise wn tamp tame even if it lie doubled alp money he would hao hae only eight thousand thou iund in pah e of his hi four and eight th chiu ju ond nand wel no fortune the question of what stocks to bet au u wax wa a thrilling one requiring a lone war council bat but at the lon irtis nude mide and be he gave his big broker the i amand to go forward the market crept up and anti up bay tartt rd turned hia his profit i back into fits til peculation ho ile wa was growing rich lie waa was planning of arvish l charity clin rity works of art uio the purchase of a tat great reserve fund of securities rome year years before when president taft was mas inaugurated every omen wt w fine the weather burdau prom arf fair aar weather there uns wa net act a aln tint lt of tonn storm an upon the con mn tinong add and then a blizzard oacie il in froan the oan ocean and played havoc now frn so upon the era em of good voting f cling and ond democratic deme equality an I 1 civilized peace pence the european war backed in from noN nowhere here A young nian from front serbia diot shot a grand duke of lustrin and anti tho the world heard of bir ajeo for the first time tint e but not the last lost the bullet that ale flew w the austrian heir multiplied itself as by bingle into billions of missiles A young shoemaker from bavaria to ma film gretat surprise killed an old belgian Itel glan tie lie had never neer beard heard of tho the schoolteacher fell into a ditch still clasping his fits umbrella the shoemaker nihed on mith a strange op petite toi fox shooting in hordes filled the roads with it new exodus so many children along in hungry flight that herod might have been hunting down the innocents again viah tho the moral cataclysm went ment a earthquake the european exchanges flung thila door doors shut the american exchanges tried to keep their shop windows dos open but had to close them down don bayard kip was among the first casualties ual ties before ho he could put in a stop cider lils margins gIns were gone he ile had said that pric having truck struck hot bottom could go no lower loner now the hot bot torn tom itself was as knocked out prices stopped falling at last lost be cause of the closing of tho the markets europe established it general moratorium america established td on one 5 of owed somebody ele else and everybody we gme tolerance be enuce anu o needed it night fell on the commercial world a night illumined illumine by horrors unknown before bayard Ilay a factory could not meet even its diminished pay roll the president of the concern could not borrow a penny at the bank ot of which be lie atas a director tho factory shut down sending all its workmen into the hordes of the unemployed the office omee for i were mere reduced reduce di to a mini mum ant ic salaries of the mint minimum munt father deuced clay nas thrown out of t c n bis his half job and bayard was put en on half pay bayards Ba yarda sober thoughts concerned themselves with mith extricating himself from the urecka wreckage ge it waa was not possible to sd himself of everything ho ile could not give up his tits expensive pensive apartment it map wa leased for a ear and anti a half more he ile could not dismiss his expensive wife she was leased leared for ninety nine years he ile could not give 1 bp ip his character hie his costly tastes his nal for front the maintenance oj of n good faude the instinct ot of lovable bluff was seen in h 4 telegram to leila he ile malted her at home to comfort him now that ho he bad had no business for her to t hamper besides he could not afford to keep her at newport out of his small funds he tele graphed her a liberal sum to pay her bills and her tier railroad fare and parlor car fore fare he ile met her and found her beautiful in to her millionaire uniform he lie felt like the inper who recel ea a buhite elephant for a present nut she was moo gorgeous in her trav trapping riago they elu embraced braced with mutual approval he ile laughed 1 I was going lo 10 begin economy by cutting out the taxi tail wetness but I 1 I 1 earry a cleopatra like you in the lou ion lonk like all tho the in n the world and worth it in the he crushed her to him film again in a dismal ft ecstasy ata ty and sighed gayly youre too grand for me honey im busted higher than a it kite you bring home any change of course 1 I did better than that theft she he beamed and being married to bin him made to bows bones about bending nod and disclosing one entire ellk silk stocking root roo t ie kintly depleted it wie was transparent translucent indeed tike like fossaner gos saner satier oer o er cr marble aad add of a sapling sym cottry except for one unsightly knob which abe he deftly removed ana placed in the hand of byrd he lie did not need to glance at his palm to tell tuat last it was wa full of bank notes what all sit thier this hT ald o 0 tin iii and she prim and proper again chortled that the money you telegraphed me to pay my bills with but this Is no time to pay bills youre a genius he eald said and bhe she was in her way when they were mere nt at home again he told her tier of his ruinous speculation she did not reproach him she was gambler enough to thrill nt at the high chance and sportswoman enough not to blame him for losing hie his stakes dont ou on worry V the she said from his lap as from a dais I 1 uell eu be rich yet you imagine anything dec else theres everything in thinking a thing Is to going to bappel im too sensitive to be n christian scientist about pain but I 1 am one about good luck lou ion must just tell your self pit that ouro oure going to come out all right and you will and we must keep up appear nices so that other people mill believe in us ite its the only way too to kep krep you cred credit t good I 1 learned that at Nep rt people who are people up there never pay their bills that a why they get trusted everywhere and have plenty of 0 cash their creditors don t dare insult cra em or sue cm em the only people mho get sued are the poor little dabs that pay cash biot of the time and then nite ask to bo be trusted alien han hard up bayard had rebuked leila for spending money on clothes and on limu but she had had the fun she baill had the clothes and anti where were mere the fruits of his years ot of fiela denial where were his hoarded earning 41 ills few bonds were irro irredeemably dee mably in puma and on the roads of 0 belgium and east prussia myriads of wretches who had kept thrift and bullied them houses were mere staggering along in hungry penury fugitive froin from shattered homes and wondering about the next days bread CHAPTER XV bayard tried leila lelia x recipe for a time but them there were expenses that be he not charge and even the wad of money she had smuggled out of newport did not last ling other people were no more willing to pay bills than be moneys thai mat were owed oed to him he could not collect he ile could not re i till 0 she ran to her father and flung her arm arms about him r spend to the multitudinous appeals for charity thi WB was n real abamo in times of such fantle nead he ile could not do any of the hO honorable pleasant things that one can do with money he ile had to do many of the dishonorable loathsome things one without It hout money must do in his desperation bayards thoughts to hi hl q original rescuer his father ue he never appealed to the old man I 1 vain bayard bad had often prom ased I 1 myself the delight of sending home a big leck k aa a subtraction from his ven venerable emble debt but it was wn arx n promise easy to defer in the face of all nit th thea other temptations and ilia 1114 father never p pressed him n never ee r e expected spec t ed a return of 0 the money he had been investing in lie tile boy for a child Is a piece of furni tare ture bought on the instalment installment plan to go into sameal a e else ise house as soon an it in 1 for bayard put off the appeal to his fa ahr as long as be dared but at lat sat down to the hateful letter lie ile bated to trouble his poor old dad at such a time he wrote with truth cruthi but his fits very life depended on some immediate money he ile was young and husky and he be would he on bis feet la in a jiffy be would pay back every cent tit in a sh chrt 4 while even it he had to borrow U of some one else anyway in a few weeks the anif ky conditions would be oi 01 r and bushae a would return to the normal he ue knew he b wrote that old le aaita J kip could perform his usual miracle and get blood from some of those cleveland tu turnips mlp he be was uns so sure of his father that ho he ended coded hie film letter with on an advance p payment ay of thanks this was the drat first payment he had made in advance tor for a long time he ile scaled sealed the letter put a special edw delivery stamp on it and took it la to the branch brunch post 90 that it would reach cleveland NIt without hout fall the next moru morning Inc IN mian hen he be got back to the house there was a telegram from home leaving beaver dia tomorrow it in dont meet me but be home rout mutt see red you important mamma well uell love i FATH nil tho the next morning bayard roat ro betimes to 10 meet bla his father at the train and daphne wert mert to tho the grand cm aral station with him she ran to her father fattier and god flung her arms about him and bayard hugged him film and car abd his suitcase for him it vas as no time to be tipping a porter dor to be malting use ot of taxicabs with mith the jit ncy ney subway at hand laa hazard ard lugged I 1 bis fathers sul tense along I 1 if efty IT ninth street the ball boy who ulio had not been tipped for some days td a strict neutrality he ins feeling the anch too han breakfast was ended lesley noted that leila herself carried the delics away with mith daphne daphnes help when the table was clear she closed the door on the two men and said 1 1 ell leave you two alone to talk business raj arh tio men regarded each other askance es kance as uneasily as two wrestlers circling for a hold besley lesley was the first to speak lie said 11 ell my boy I 1 I 1 I 1 wrote you a long letter last night dad bayard said I 1 you did what bayard had guessed the situation ho he taw the cruel joke of it ho lie tt 0 ought he could dull the edge m with ith mockery he snickered rather arav enly 1 I wrote to ask you to lend me some money I 1 guess I 1 wasted the pottage and I 1 guess 11 I 1 wasted asted the fare over here I 1 thought I 1 aughn t have taken n berth in the sleeper but your mother insisted said sald id I 1 d not been fedin any too well bayard laughed outright bt a laugh met et with mith vinegar tears wisley sank into a chair with the little whimper of a sick old man bayard went to his father and put hia his arm about him and anti regretted his wall street disaster with a ferocious remorse he ile could not speak and i thero there mn a it long dumbness before wesley sighed 1 I guess we got to lose the home then tat then was a history in a rd ird ba baard urd bent his head in shame at his helpless helplessness nees As usual it was who found a shabby comfort in 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