| Show I 1 the thirteenth by RUPERT mw HUGHE commandment I 1 E III hill 11 1 hi A SHOT FIRED IN FARAWAY SERBIA BRINGS SUDDEN DISASTER TO BAYARD Is cf Y W A to a loung a new yorker on an a to cleveland A it meet pretty D ph a TIP kip u whose hose brother Is in the same office with mith cloy clay 1 in wall street arest aila after whirlwind rearm bill they become an enraged Dal dahline fline goes to new york with her mother to ta buy lier her tro us ean daphne I 1 h brother bayard has just juht married and left fop fill europe with his bis bet bride e leua leila daphne and her mother install themselves in ID bayard a hit flit daphne meets to tom I 1 duane man about town who oho seems greatly attracted to her DIP daphne I 1 me accidentally descos discos era that cf clay 1 Is po penniless willes except top for his salary bayard and his wife return to new york unes peet edly tire three women set out on an a shopping excursion and the two younger lounge women on buy elpe expense he gonns having baling them charged to bayard baiardi Is furlou furious over the expense seeing hard times ahead chand daphne indignant declares she die will aill men earn her own livin living gand and breaks her engage plent ment with clay through an introduction u action by duane daphne induces didion athe a theatrical at ric magnate ignate to give her a position in one of his companies comat her first rehearsal Is a blisco but rebon lichen at dunnea duanes request gives her an another chance sudden illness of miss reliable kemble the star gives DO daphne p no her boom but her acting is a dismal failure she 1 lg coa a soleil led by T tom do duane us daphne turns to clay and they plan to be mar ried but the fall 9 day as a result of the hard bard times time clays clay story salary I 1 ial cut 1 in halt aud aad they anre forced to abandon baud their plans III CHAPTER XIV C continued 10 it vas one thus ill atiat t he hod had made him self important 0 enough o gh to advance I 1 in his lie firm and I 1 be had put pat a large share have of his salary alv every cry asek into a sa inga bank back with will h b s extra ion and bit bita of A anex pecha too luck he had bad bought securities of ec impregnable value these he had bad locked away in a safe it deposit v PO it vault they paid him only f lour fo o or al ill five per er acot t but they nove ere as swe suie as dinv inv thing romi mundane deme and twice a yin ill they ey granted him the lofty emotion of the coupon cutter cartel no he tied had paid cash cah tor far what mer or cluin dise he bought and demanded special pe ilal tile discounts W for or it 1 in time the 1 man I cities aniie do a he had five fire ill thousand thou A saad dolls dol lais woith of bondi bond to his beote to deposit box blue and the then he married carried pa pawned ed him self elf at the marriage shop he kept his hoard board a secret from leila tow he saw a chance he to use the talents thit that he Is had ad burled buried 1 in a nap nall tin kill H he e filled the ears of clay and daphne with his market jargon he see wai as unintelligible to daphne as a lead and scot at talking look at Q 0 s he would my eay sold at five fire a year ago fric friend 1 it or of mine bought it P people a ad rnea hoji who were a 1 in the know sm said it vas going gain up it ought to have love gone up but tt it dian didn I 1 dropped slowly and ad dickerd fic kerd A gly to forty three today it te fort a six it if I 1 had gone into the market the other day eulth five thou band ad do dohara is and aid upped snapped it up et at far forty I 1 ahr three I 1 id d have hava ea cleaned io haud up three handled and a half 1 in no n t time one that ratch catch your you five thousand dollare dot lara s sold said chiy ive caught it it said bay bayard ive ile had ad it all long along you ion have ba clay groaned if id known that td it have borrowed teero d it to get rome married ried on an hot ot in a mil million I 1 ion years said hill era eil when phen pre ive made A killing with this ibis money ill male inake you yon all 11 a pies pie ali en hut but you u mulan couldn t pry this out of azhar me with a crowbar I 1 wish I 1 knew where to borrow more if you ran can ralso raise any money clay don t you spend it in matri amor A fellow can A get married so apy time but its only once nee in ten amys years that you can climb aboard a market ct after a panic and ride in eulth tile the tide ride he mt to his safe bare deposit vault took out fit his bonds bond carried them to the i e president of his bank and be torn rd it all that he could raise on the atel ties the hands bonds had fallen b elm belov pur on account of the depres slon alan but bayard liia an granted 80 per trall cent of a their face value minus 30 day aab discount at at 5 per cent ent his anemic to im bank k account at we was sud ad imily dily wolles swollen by three IS thousand ad nine hundred and seventy nine dollars bullara and ad Ight era cents AM lie sought an out t I 1 a broker ft a college friend mad whom he be could trust to advise him honestly they conferred on the tocks stock to buy bay the old dilemma dould could not at be escaped those that of fared the thus moat t profit offered the most risk riek to buy bay on en margins was further danger with ill promise of further profit yet efter fter all bayard flit felt to buy tri glit ho however ever wise use n as tome nine even it he doubled his money he would 11 have 0 ve only ehlt thousand in ran place of 0 his hio loor four and eight thou than and d was os no fort fortune th the e 1 I on of what but stocks to bet all we a thrilling one requiring a long war council blut at length tile the wun made sue and he gave his broker broke the waa command A d to go forward the market crept up and up bay til M turned his lii profits back into his bis ills rotation ile he was growing rich a he nm nes pt planning ing works work of at iba I ba charity works vork of art tile the purchase ot of a great reserve fund of securities saint borne years yen before when president T waft taft as all inaugurated every omen amen w j fine due th the wethe a p prom att fair el weather eleither the there was nes not a tot mt of at blonn am anywhere epee the cou con t all aud d then a blizzard backed ua from til the e owan allen and played havor havoc M tt es inea i nea so up upon the ell er tit at good gold feeling and ad dea democratic equality and ad peace the european war val im backed eked in from nowhere A young man from serbia bat a grand duke dubs of austria and the world held of for the firt first time but not at the last the bullet that blew alev the austrian austria heir multiplied itself as by eastwo was into two billions of mit siles A ming from saved to his great surprise killed an old belgian sah alb he had bull A never heard of the selm schoolteacher fell ell low into a ditch till still eh clasping aping his umbrella the shoemaker moved on with a strange appetite tor far shooting refugees in hordes filled the tha roads with a new Phala onic lc exodus so go ganv A child plodded along I 1 la liun on ley gry flight that herod might be hae been limiting flowing donn the innocents ago again A falth ari the moral minal cataclysm t a flAA financial wI earthquake the ear european 0 coln exchanges flung thel their rd doors shut the american exchanges tried to keep josef their shop via windows d 11 open but hid had to ca clow them dov down n biord kip was mas among the first me cas nettles hist before afoo he be could put in astep a stop a aider der his seems margins were go gone a lie had said add that prices baig at struck u it e hot torn tam could go no an lower now new the but bot win torn itself was knocked out caprous prices stopped falling at last be cause use of the closing of the markets europe established a general moratorium 1 I america established one cam of 0 Benth neut everybody owed somebody badt else and e everybody gave tolerance be me cause ev abdy needed it night tell I 1 on an the commercial world a night Illo d b by horrors yabo avry rm ad na before boland a factory A could not t meet act all eien its ill diminished pay roll the president of the concern could not borrow a pro penny at the in bank of which lie use adirent a director th the factory 1 I down ending all its workmen into the hordes ot of the unemployed the office forces were reduced to a mini mum mini and the salaries of the minimum further reduced clay was waa thrown out of even his bis halt job and ad bayard was wao put on half pay bayard sober be thin igme tita concerned theme themselves elves vea with extricating himself rom the wreckage it was mas not aut poa pa sible his t to dc debar barr himself of everything he could bot act give up his ex pensive passive apartment it was ill leased 11 for aw Is a year and ad a 1 halt f more r lie he could not or dismiss his ais expensive wife bhe he was leased for ninetynine ninety nine years he could not give up ids his diameter character his really costly tastes liia his so zeal A tor for front at tile the tze maintenance of 0 a good baca faca facade the instinct t ol of la lovable crable bluff was a thustin sell seen 1 in his t telegram to lelia leila he wanted 0 what her at home to comfort him now mv tint that he had no im business ineas tor for her to hamper besides s he could not at of at ford to keep her at newport out on of 0 his ominously small funds he telegraphed herban her ft liberal bun sum to pay her bills and ad her railroad fare and ad parlor failla car tare fare lie he met he her and found be her A astonishingly beautiful in her in million atre aim uniform he felt like the pauper who received a white oldie elephant tor for a present but she was use gorgeous gore eona 1 her trappings trapp ingi they embraced with alth mutual ampro approval I he be laughed 1 I wis was going to begin economy liy by cutting out the taxi lal business icess but I 1 mulan t curry clery a cleopatra Am patra like you in the subway you fou look like all 11 the money I 1 in the world and vou too to re worth it in the taxicab he crushed her to him again in ID a dismal ecstasy and sighed gayly gnyla toure you re too grand for far in me honey I 1 im busted higher than a ute mt you sou flindt diant bring home boom all any change of course 1 91 I did better than thit she beamed 2 and being married to him made do ni bones bout about heading bending and disclosing one entire ilk bilk most emet acle 1 j gantly y depleted it w was as transparent translucent indeed like hile gossamer over marble and ad of a x sapling metry except for one knob which abbe h deftly used md and placed in the hand band of bayardi bayard lie he did not need to glance at his hl pat palm to tell that it was full of bank notes I an all abdat he b aid and she prim nod and proper again chortled allied that a the money you tele implied graphed in me to pay my bill bills with emt but chis this la Is no yme time to pay bills you yon re a genius he said id and ehe he was 1 la her bar way Y when they were nt it home he a again he be told her we ot of his speculations she did not rep reproach each him she was gambler enough to thrill at the high chance i and ad sportswoman pt m n enough not to blame him for losing his bakem dont deal you worry norry she said from hla his top as a from a data dais we well if be rich yet you yon al tilt t imagine any ill thing all ese else theres there a everything in thinking a thing 1 Is going to happen anit I 1 m too sensitive ftfe to be a christie sri call outlet at built about pat pain but I 1 nm ma one as bout about good luch it you must just tell your self that youre going to come out oil all right and you will and we ile must keep up appear appearances ancic so an that th t other people will believe delta 1 in us As it a the only way we too to keep your or credit good I 1 learned that at newport people who are people up there never imer pay their bills bill that s nh Y t they boy get trusted everlu everywhere here and have plenty of cash ell their creditors dont dm dare insult era cm or air sue era the only people ft ho get sued nee are the poor little dubs that pay rich cash most of the I 1 tj time me end and then k to be trusted when hold haid up AP bayard had rebuked lelia leila for spending spend ID g money on clothes and on but she had bad had the fun un she still etin had bad the clothes and where were the finite ol 01 1 nis his 7 ol of self denial where were his hoarded earnings his bis fm few bonds were irredeemably dee mably in pawn pann and on the roads of belgium and vast cart pineal mariada tied of etches who had kept thrift and bullied them houses were mger ng along in hungry penury pearly fugitive from shattered homes and wondering about the me next III a b bread cad CHAPTER XV bayard tried leilas recipe for a time but there then were espenes cip esp enies enec that he could out not el charge lexin and even the atad ad ol of money she hid had smuggled out of new port did not last long other offic people were no more willing to bills bill than he moneys tha that were owed oved to him he could not get collect Us he could sot net re y 01 h I 1 1 she ran to he her father and flung he her arms about him ep spond to the multitudinous appeals for ity ell chirety this was a real shame in times ol of such inch frantic needs need lie he could coald not act do say any of the honorable pleasant things that one can do with money he had to do many of the dis dishonor homor able 1 loathsome th we things linage one without money must do in his desperation boyard bayard s thoughts reser reverted ted to his original riu rescuer r his father he never appealed to the old man tn in vain bayard had often prom ased himself the deit delight of if anding eh u home a big cheek check so as a an subtraction A from we venerable a his debt but t 11 HAS lino a promise easy to defer I 1 in th the e face of f all the other temptations and apple unities hid ell father never pressed pleased him new never expected a return turn of 0 the money he had bad been investing in the boy for a child to la a piece of furni to ture bought on an the instalment installment pie plan to go into somebody a else house as won soon i as it I 1 Is pat paid it tor for I 1 bayard put off the appeal to his fa ther as long RE as he be dared but at last eat at down to the I 1 hateful felt letter he hated to trouble hla his pow poor old dad at such a time he wrote mt sith truth ill but his very life depended on 11 raising some I 1 immediate money he A was waa young and husky and he would be on As hla his feet 1 in a jiffy ile he would pay back every cent I 1 in a short art while even tt if he bad to b borrow avow tt it ot some one else anyway in a few weeks A the v panicky conditions we would u id be 0 over or and it business would return to the normal he be knew lie be arote rate that to old reliable kap IV could perform his usual miracle and ad get blood fron from some ot of those cle cleveland lead turnips he nee so sure of his father that he ended ded his letter with nn an advance pay mt ment of this was wa the real first payment he had bad made in advance for a long 19 time Us he sealed the letter put a special delivery stamp slump on it and took it to the branch post office afim eo 60 that it would reach cleveland without tail fail the next morning when he got bulk back to the house there was a telegram from home leavi leaving g beaver due tomorrow a m do don t meet an me but be home wast must see sea you important mamma well 11 love FATHER the next morning morn lof bayard rose role be times to meet his father it at the train and daphne went to the grand cen can aral it station with him she run ran to her father and thing her or arms bout him and bayard him and ad cap chat his hia suitcase for b turn it wo waa no a time to be tipping a porter police nor to be making use of tax taxicabs leals with the jit ney budway at hand bayard lugged ills his fathers father s suitcase along I 1 |
