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Show - - $ i i ri- not" "Why I You see the don i kuuw. tact e- well the) re a lot of old You don't want to fogies up Vivr Take U ther w h!i ihat push. Mu't. wdh them, L'j b tin alwii lop at nd lmm sindnll "Oh I wit 1 1 - hat !u g m ia in as iui asked. time," V3 I W J 1 i!ll i a letsotm kiitw 1 i i on, ' I AN r, - i'it lets no up a i. n, it' i Insisted. 3 OU put Jfei 1 saw tha I - I Mi it -i . ' i S i . BY ZONA GALE vt ft I t. tin i u-- V Dm HE DELUGE DAVID GRAHAM PHUURS, (copyusrr xs , 1 had been ' Author of 7ZFCUSCMr i I 1 : 1 n thte Bcaas-rrr&GC- CHAPTER III Continued. ' W i a !ix u n,i it r liiatkloi k 1'' 'All i i"ht s.iul And from that was almost silent. Minute It was something in Ini tone and manner that silenced me I suddenly realized that I wa-- it t as good nn im pie--.io- : - 11 i (Uttering ! - I I 1 11 e. fi-!- 1 l i 1 . 1 iu I sell Winn a man has iiiunr; and Is will ing Lu spend i, he ean readily fool himwdf into imagining he gela n I grandli wttl women Hut I had bet ter uiouuds than that for thinking tntself not unaiiiaitne to them, as a iitle Wiiiiim had liked me when I had nothing women had liked me when thev duln t know who I was I felt that this woman did not like And vet, In the way she looked at me in spile if her effoits not to do Simply that eveiything's uncertain so I could tell that I had some sort nowadays of unusual Interest for her. Why My mind had been all this time on didn t she like me She made me feel those Manasquale mining properties. reason didn't belong to her I now said. 'Has Roebuck told you world My wavs and my looks offend- - that I had to buy those mines on my ed her. She disliked me a good deal; own account? she feared me a little She would "Yes, he said. He hesitated, and have t II safer if she had been grati again he gave me a look whose mean her emiositv, gazing lu at nte Ing cante to me only when It was too late. "I think, Blacklock. you'd betthrough the bars of a cage. Sam not without hesitation, as J ter turn them over to me. I answered. I gave my I cant, recaed afterw aid left me with her, when I sent him to bring her brough-- Word." As you please, said he. up to the Iiroadway entiance. As the and I were standing there alone, Apparently the matter didnt Inter- waiting In silence, I turned on her est him. He began to talk of the periitddenlv, and blurted out: "You don't formances of my little tike me Beachcomber: and after 20 minutes She reddened a little smiled sllght-f'What a quaint remark!" said .he I looked straight at her. But you shall Our eyes met. Her chin came out a little, her eyebrows lifted. Then, in scorn of herself as well as of me, she locked herself in behind a frozen Ah, haughtiness that ignored me. here Is the carriage," she said. I followed her to the curb; she just touched my hand, just nodded her fascinating little head. "See you Saturday, old man, called her brother friendlily. My lowering face had alarmed him. "That party la-- offA? said ,1. ..curtly And 1 lifted my hat and strode away. As I had formed pie habit of dismissing the disagreeable, I soon put her out of my mind. But she took with her my joy in the taste of things. 3 couldn't get back my former keen satisfaction in all I had done and was doing The luxury, the tangibly, evidences of my achievement no longer gave me pleasure; they seemed to add to my Irritation I worked myself up, or rather, down, to such a mood that when my office boy told me Mr. Langdnn would like me to come to his office as soon as it was convenient, I snapped out: The hell he does! Tell Mr. Langdon I'll be glad fo see him here whenever That was stupidity, a prehe calls mature assertion of my right to be treated as an equal. I had always gone to Langdon, and to any other of the rulers of finance, whenever I had got a summons For, while 1 was rich and powerful. I held both wealth and power, In a sense, on suf ferance; I knew that, so long as 1 had control of any great department of Industry, these rulers could destroy me should they decide that they needed my holdings or were not satisfied with my use of my power. 1 was surprised when Langdon appeared in my office a few minYOf'RK BOUND TO WIN AND ' es-do- I 1 i d 1 1 1 1 ing d sociates at introducing distance. Sam looked surprised. "Oh, in that case, he said, "I'll see what can be done." Hut his tone was not quite cor-th- e dial enough to satisfy me. To stimulate him and to give him an earnest of what 1 Intended, to do for him. when our little Boclal deal had been put through. I showed him how he could win $10,000 In the next And you needn't bother three days. about putting up margins. sail I, as I often had before "I'll take care of that. He stammered a refusal and out: but Vie came back within an hour, and, in a strained sort of way, accepted my tip and offer. "That's sensible, said I. "When a). Bat I was not thp man to lie cheated In that fashion warned to see her, ndl compelled her to see it and to fee! it. Don t lot me take you from I to fO' friends. ' Sammy ' Ier-hpa they'd like to come with you And me down to look at my horse. 1 caj give you a good tip he's hound to ?ln. I've had mv boys out on the raih every morning at the trials of all the other possibilities. None of em's with Mow ghli ' fi Tlowghll! said the young lady ,, . , . begun to turn toward me as as spoke the magic word "tip. Thire may he men who ean resist 1 oil a " wenttia thi word "tip at the race track, but thwe never was a woman. Vow ghli! said Miss Ellersly. Vdiat a quaint name!'1 My trainer gave It, said I. Tve got a second son of one of those -- v broken-dow- n English noblemen at the held of my stables. He's trying to get money enough together to be able tojhow up at Newport and take a shj at an heiress." It this the fellow who was fourth In our party, and who had been glv-i- n me a nasty, glassy stare, got as ret as was Sammy. Then I noticed tint he was an Englishman, and I all b chuckled with delight However, 1 raid: No offense Intended," and clpped him on. the shoulder with a U JinHe.,.Hea a good fellow, man Monson, and knows a lot horses." Miss Ellersly bit her lip and colored, but I noticed also that her eyes were dancing. Sam Introduced the Englishman to me Lord 8omebody-or-otheI forget what afe I never saw him again. ! turned like a bulldog from a toy ten rter and waa at Miss Ellersly again. Let me grtit a little something on Mowghli for you, said I. "You're bound to win and Ill see that" you dont lose. I know how you ladles hate to lose. That was a bit stiff, as I know well enough now. Indeed, my instinct would have told me better then. If 1 hadnt been so used to thp sort ot women that jump at such an offer, and If I hadnt been casting about sc desperately and In such confusion foi some way to please her.' At any rate, hardly deserved her sudden frozen I beg parcon, I stammered, lod(. and I think my look at her must have been very humble for me. The others in the box were staring Come on. cried Sam, round at us. dragging at my arm, "lets go. Won't you come? I said to his slater. I shouldn't have been able to keep ILL BIlE THAT YOU DONT LOSE." my state of mind out of my voice, li I had tried. And I didnt try. utes later. 1 envy you will you attend to the matter .at tbe He was a tallish, slim man, care-- or so, he drifted away. Trust the right sort of woman to fully dressed, with a bored, weary vour enthusiasm," he said, pausing in Travelers? I want td be warned so see the right sort of thing in a man look and a slow, bored way of talk- - j my doorway, "Wherever I am, I wish, JLcan, pull my own set of wlrds 4n co- through any and all kinds of barriers Whatever ncerts ing. I had always said that if I had I were somewhere else. of caste and manners and breeding not been myself I should have wished Im doing, I wlsh.f were doing some- ' 'Til let you know, he answered, Her voice was much softer as shs 1 7 thing else. Where do you get all this hanging his head. to be Langdon. aaid: "I think I must stay here I didnt understand his queer you.1 His expression, as he came Into my joy of the fight? What the devil are "Thank just thesame. lions thei). Though was ad expert office, was one of cynical amusement, you fighting for? soon Sam and I were alone, as As a In He for wait didn't I a hadn't repfy. finance, study as if he were saying to himself: Our yet made 1 ' I hope you'll tell your apologized. I of over my situation steadily af.fhat other game the ; game thought friend Blacklock has caught the swollfor that break, said JL I'm sister sorry And I didnt , know en head at last.' Not a suggestion for several dafs. lwett down to my "gentleman." ' Oh, thats all right, he answered, of ill humor, of resentment at my Im- country place. I looked everywhere how seriously tbe frauds and, fakirs all who my again, now that we were away among easy it it and themselves. take belongings, searching, in the play for, circumstances, pertinence searching, restless. Impatient. At last I attributed his confusion to a ridicu- - from the others. "You meant well I had been guilty of an Impertinence. motives the thing. Just languid, amused patience with I knew what ailed me what the lack lous mock modesty he had about o gloomily from ceptjng favors: it struck me as being I Motive hell! cried I in my anger the frailty ot a friend. "I see. said was that self. Nobody but a man's God he, that you have got Textile up (o everything I had once thought- - be auti- - particularly siUv on this occasion. ful, had once found sufficient. I was cause for once he was to give as well, knows his motives; he doesnt even I He was the head of the Textile in the mIJst ot the splendid, terraced as to take. know them himself. I Judge others beds had set He j bat my didnt call jfor ftis profits, gardeners just trust, which had been built by his by what they do, and I expect to be stopped short and slapped my wrote asking me 16 malf him the j judged In the same way. I see Ive brother apd hau fallen to himjou 1 exclaimed j check Sfojr, them. I did so, putting la got a lot to learn. Then I suddenly in the confusion following his broth-- , death. As he was jusfc then "That s wbat I need. A woman the the envelop' with ft 'a little jjog to remembered the Travelers Club, and woman a wife his memory on( t,he club matter. I asked hint what he'd done about needing some money for his share In j r!&bt 80rt didnt see him again'for nearly 7 the National Coal undertaking-- , he had j 1 I've been thinking it over," Searched find jiaiit J)e, directed months .aul though up to awl Ateyqjt stir" ,Vu want tc par and unload him of two or three A CANDIDATE FOR "RESPECTA- sent. I couldnt get bs trail. On open- - .uir th0 Ti8k ot an ugiy cropper, Ing day at Morris Park, I was going Matt hundred . thousand shares he, of BILITY, To handle this new business proper- along the passage the boxes course, to repurchase the shares after , turn(1(! h,m round m that wp were he had taken profits and Textile had ly I must put myself in position, to In the grand stand, on my way to the!flclng other )ou want look the whole fiidd over. 1 must set paddock, I wanted to, see my horse I dropped back to its, normal don ( your I me (ir (avor tluf (j0 have it up to 98 by the middle in line and In touch with ."respecta- that was about to -- run for the Sal 'demanded. AVhen Sam Ellersly came in ffiagumn of next month. said I "And there bility. Sweepstakes, and to tell my t Ill do whatever you say. he I said; for hlw "rations, "Sam, I jockev that. Id give him $15,000, I tlink we'd better stop. Im thinking only of your la of ?7p OOfi, (f he won for I hud Stop at, about 90. said he. "That want ou to put me up" at. the Ttav- lercsls. Club. . elers a I find I'll need for bunch down. put quite wili give me all Let me take Care of them, said L "The Travelers! echoed he, with In one of tho boxes I spied my shy this Coal business. I dont want to be blank look, friend. Sammy. He waa looking brt- - You put me up St that club bothered with hunting up an Invest- tow. Ill send you the name of h The Travelers, said I, Its about t ter. than I jiail ever seen him? meat." . seconder not later than noon. , best of 'the big clubs, isnt it? heavy-eyedI shook my head. "I must put It up th less pallid and pasty, hesaid. And as Up goes yodr pame, has members most it a like bed deof who I the Than two or been a of hsl to within shirking point par, f But dont blame me for tbe cons l'do business with and most of and keeping up on Cocktails and dared. "In niy public letter Ive been' baths. He was at the rear of the box. guences. saying It would go above ,95, and 1 (To he Continued.) talking wilh a lady and a gentleman. never deceive my public' -- r, J ac-jn- -- J in-la- j u i., 60.-"IT- -- s , to-ni- J -- ' r ' I.m B t, H - i X 4- 4' tx- I II d he ou H d be no Milt, ll--1 i H wished i he a on that Implied pi ipi- r m I to h- t; no i: me ot the in titer I ' oil at me up,' I tepei'.el "And (Jr it oi, mm all d i right. get tour best, v tvs ,e Ids of filed Is Here And f! Ii relitlve- - in the com-m- " p. bn1 i it g .! tMIMli out. tho kr! 1 i on tnembei ship 1 V 'Ins he irate me a queer, sharp Wily I! ll s liei n . ii & lag gl on e a little flight In it. ' ' ' hat I cxvzivk) You see, , igh d te been look- on! iit i . in I' i' ton to u i IKsmiled nn tintinn of honest) ing min it Sam I never take a jumper jpt ii I i.se VI flow. v And i atmiM-- ii.m Ax jon please, ti'l te measured It li in Hm ilu better wait a few year, yut out n ith a shin.; saw a ho said, Then he began, then stopped and ' Siie took i' i. serious look just a tleetin; Hash of until i'll Sin was fvinf me , e wainint; behind his smiling mask, milled led u'iU iisint look ' 1 I want you said He careful nt II what and he added t ,irele--.I4 if she v e ; not somehod), t tome l on to s e ik fi anklt about sour own i 'I ll I i ' jilaj. .lie to see, Wi II, youve got a lot of enemies doubt if Textile can be put any I al a f we e si ,u k ed ; a lot of fellows who'te lost money In Sat look 'l higher, 'lie woman who And they'd d it must hate been my mood that deals you've engineered. in he -'lo it She nude of all sorts no Joel the words from those things." say making pieunted "as diHii lilt and "I 11 take cate of that," said I, quite herafore w on me they should the ltnpi "HU ami J hat's have made. Instead, of appreciating easy lu lumJ. "Mum. bray Langdon's rljlat we aiii.i.ni twiii gsi are in bust at otice and at Its full value thin char president. Isn't he? Well, he's my est for to i n.e a ii .eid actei istic and anmzingl) fuendly sig- - closest spoke quite bon- - hat we're u h while I ' Jlst a It shows how simple-mindeshowed how stupidly etl) nal of caution, nioii. iir j' s,i:, Sam red as inattentive was bv saying: "Some- - was in cei tain wars that hadL never tejanliertv i And he stu'iiimg circumonce noted the lmjKirtant Something hew? thing doing padt a nioLon to come out of the box Hut he bad alteady gone further stance that this "closest ft lend had mi Jt ln me t the same tune Miss than his notion of friendship war-trie- . never Invited me to his house, or any- An it and tin other fellow begun to asn So he replied. ranted "Oh, no. where wheie I'd meet his tuit aw till 1 EARLY SPRING an i al 'h.W mu' Inti l. '"i ''link n; o! spiing A:e if nn' d t s ei - in vs te ii s tl hunt v Hi 'light? nn si i ins, l.. in o iilll wont to i.t'l tills ,n let .pies i r ' the little sH in; 1 lie little suiil splint; kit"" - She sl.ivs even when eve siq .iseb th.it she Inis hit gotten Then Pele.is tanit m ami tin trv sun turn lieti hi-- , white hair a tom In mine fur we a v Imili 70 ot i has f. Kltiie" Mini Hi Ii as fiiend who Is ill in the hiispit.il She has gone to see her ami she has Rot n her p'ace for todav the most pathit-ilittle woman She is down thete in the kitchen now making a salad "Then her salads will he good," I aid. Havent you often noticed how the disaptxdntnients in Hie come on In appcti'ng dishes oi exquisite' needlewoik or beautiful dispositions "Ah, yes, said Helens, "but the! yes never look any less sad I wish we couhl cheer her up. Her name Is M .v c Mary." Hiesently I went down to the kitchen. "Mary," I said, "wha fresh, crisp lettuce! I nm glad to know that I was right I thought the wot Id smelled of tiring this morning" "Spring, ma'utn?" said Mary. "Yes spring, I said. "March, April, May. Surely, in spite of the snow, you have not forgotten?" Mary smiled faintly, and sighed. So many smiles are sighs! "No, maam, she said, I have not forgotten. . "Ah, no, I said, "one doesn't If It wrw Mary, I pursued. spring what would you rather do than anything else? "O, maam," said Mary. "For myself, said 1, "spring or winter, 1 wish let us both wish to be near to some one very, very dear. Oh, maam, said Mary. "Yes'm. "Ah well, said 1 as I left her, "this, I am persuaded, is a very special day. is someAnd I know that spring where about liitenlng. I went back upstaira ntlllng at the pleasant mystification in Marys face. In the upper hallway Peleas stood with a workman, Ettare, said Peleas, "this man aays something about water-pipes- . "Ah, said I, to be sure. The w ter pipes in the attic. Have you for gotten the school play? 1 had. "I had, Peleas confessed. This win be the man to make the faontaia that LAwa,,. w an ted.' This will be the man. I assent-ad- , and let ns go up to tbe attic st foe-get- Mmv wi.li It s.) when up, they were finished, au-Jam and Utile ta bon la nm imv of a x k jam ' bons n This here spring." he said, "Itll ake about two full boura to bring up hat fountain, ma'am. " Very well, said I, I told yon here would be an early spring. At foiir oclock Lfsa and her friends ame to rehearse for the- fountain I saw them Si! Safely above ilay. tairs, and then 1 slipped down to the titr hen, tor I had . a fancy to toed - i J i ! ' Do you care to tell me. Mary? Mary. "We was married two veata ago We hadnt neither of us hit our wings against nothin, said Mary, an we was married thinktn' we was always got lq fly free; but that ain't the way God made the world to fly free. So when Wd been goln along a ways somethin' happened that hurt me, an I sez: 'It was you.' And there didn't neither one of us have the sense to see that What hurt us wasnt neither him nor line, Ytsni." said but just the way things naturally y8-"I- s he dead, Mary?" I asked, laying the bon bons on the dish. O maam, said Mary. "Nom. But I dont know where he is. And ha wont never forgive me. , Wait and see, I said only, wait! ' and see. , streamwas sun the attic the Up in ing through the dormer windows, and there were laughter and happy voices and tbe youth of Lisa and her friends, in aisles of, sun. Peleas nodded to me from his place beside a cheat of drawers. "This is a great moment, be murmured, this is the moment when she finds out that the world is a garden, not an attic. And that the prince la aura to appear there, I said, sinking beside Peleas. While I looked I saw bow, behind an ancient, disused sofa, that great giant of the morning ws kneeling on the floor and touching mysteriously Here Lisa and tome of her butter- - 1 soberly, "Its my fly friends had begged leave to come on a' Eoftdayfand pursue a most as- - 1 ?" "No ni." said Maty husband " once. -- irf 1 gut ynin wish yet" ' O ma am. No'm said Mary ' I asked with a Who is It. Mary Is it your sweetsudden impulse heart I said as 1 arranged the bon'it is still snowing Have you Marv," - tonishing course to which Peleas and I had assented only after proper facilitation. They wished to give her a kind of pay, and they had selected our attic for the simple reason that the heroine of the piece lived In an attic chamber, all cobwebs and rafteis, and fell asleep and. dreamed that si was a princess by a fountain la a gar-deand met there the prince waiting for her. After which, she awoke and found herself in the attic, fountain and princess crown gone but the prince was still there among the cobwebs and rafters. It's nice and warm up here, he said. That, said I, smiling at my own Image in a dusty mirror, is no doubt because spring la in the world, in spite of the snow. It'U be a late spring, along o the almanacs, said the man, throwing down his kit of tool. "Nonsense! said I, it will be an 1 can tell by the way early spring the snow Is piled! How dare any one prophesy a late prlng? Why should not everyone go hrough the winter prophesying an early spring, happy in the confidence tjiat the prophecy would lure on the Everyone ought at spring Itself? lenvt to understand jbat spring Is really in the world all winter long if only one knew how to )ook for it. It will' be an early spring," I reHow can you help peated firmly. thinking so when you can make the wherever you go you, yourself, spring ' mean?" The man looked startled, I, maam? be asked. "Certainly," I cried, "If I could go about all winter, carrying a little tool In my pocket which would make an attic floor and a lead pipe blossom into a fountain, I should not find It hard to believe that I could make It spring whenever I wished. Why, yesm," he said. 'Tve thought ' hat myself sometimes. "Let us have, said I to the ifaan, 'this fwtn ta i a of spring come up here, yetween this old chest and the dor-- , ner window. I hope, I added, "that his is a quick spring," because they, .re coming here to rehearse this aftertoon, and they will want the foun-al- 'M and I fomid ihat Man had miraculously aniKiiaiid my wish and had already sp.i.ul hand wit lies and opened the .1 "Do You Caro to Tsl! Ms, Mary?" about; and there before our eyea, between the dormer window and tho old chest, gushed tp tho fountain, ahinlng in the tun of afternooo. r And there, too, stood the charming little maid who waa taking' the pretty role, and her eyea were ahinlng In mock delight ' as she saw tho fair water, and, with mock alarm aa she aaw, from out the wilderness of boxes, that young prince - ' . coming to claim her. The pretty $lay waa Just over, when I heard Mary coming up the stairs with tbe tray of tea and tarts. No sooner was she there than Lisa, who can coax bewitchlngly, begged that-whave tea down in my room, where there are a deep window seats for tbe joy .of dreams' and tales. , Each one must carry something, then, I commanded, "for the things have already been brought up here. Peleas and I stayed behind, and as the cloud of Lisa's friends went In soft laugfffer down the attic stairs we turned, and fancied that the fairy tale had come true before our eyes. Between the dormer window and the ancient chest the fountain was still sparkling to the sun, as it bad sparkled when tbe little mock princess had found her lover by its side. And where she had stood, Mary stood now; and she was suddenly and unexplaln-abl- y in the arms of that earnest young -giant In blue clothea. said the young giant, -- Mary'brokenly; and then he saw us and tried to make us know all that tbtf moment brought welling to his heart our eyes, unashamed And Mary-me- t that his arms held her, and hef hand was in bis hand. , y said Mary, Tt wa "Oh, ma'am. him I told you about Itwaa hlm I iBeani 1 looked at Mary, her sad eyes so magically lighted with something that never pould go out;, and 1 Did' I not say cried. , that about? is And that Somewhere spring we shall all have our wishes?" And did I not Bay," cried Peleas. "that we'd a whole day to teach peoplo about spring?" And did I not say, I cried triumph' antly to that young giant that there would be an early spring? - He, smiled, not at me, but st Mary, An early spring, be said, In spite o' all th almanacs." Oh ma'am." n U Mary. Yes' half-doze- n - ij sBWKwawrasn f 1 |