Show rl N r brath el K X Z from eugene drama by same name nam A df of 1 f 0 geall C 1 W ie copy dellige p g ajl SYNOPSIS mr me ard ama mrs Rynol ave into tl tleta air new bunT bungalow alow SW down balance same a as renton rent rant on staten island inland dick meade newspaper man cyric cynic socialist taken dinner and spends the night dack warns 11 bob against john 13 brand ran bobs old schoolmate now a member of tho the who la s expected to call brand hudson cement company nt offers bob to use ilia 1118 position as ajl with the united Cont construction ruction company to cheat the specifications tor for cement work on an the pecos river dam jan overbear ing asks its bob to accept HU reual refusal in the th face nc of their poverty chills her brand wiles jane jana into a conspiracy to make bob earn the tw H he a takes her for or an auto ride and they are ar seen by dick she receives 1 conspirators monty by mall mail from brandt dr andi and in the sudden change from skimping eco economies norril and unpaid bills to ready mone loes lobes all ter s of 0 true moral values the clandes tine auto rid rides continue jane tries in vain to influence bob to accept brand a offer dick arrives unusually early on his re regular lar Wed wednesday nesda visit on the he heels bees I 1 agn ora of bob who arrives unexpectedly come mrs collins J jane e a chappron chaperon ar rayed for a ride and brand with big auto tho the tour actors are together Kether tO on a stage let tor for tragedy jano explains the conspiracy bob again refuses to steal the W and jano jane leaves him film for good un unless less ho be reconsiders bo bob buries his conscience and jane pets gets her fine feathers they become social friends of 0 mr an and 1 mrs brand dick disappears from t their hel r life ike bob begins to tipple CHAPTER paying the price with all their money and all mrs brands charm the tha brands aero ere not within the inner circle of new york society just what the circle Is Is a hard to say those who try to d define it are generally those who know little about it or who at least are not part of it the circle Is composed of 0 many segments there are times when these segments vis vie alth fill others so that it Is difficult to tell where tho the one begins and tho the other ends elide but the bounds rles ries are there and generall speaking they may be determined by the horl and vertical lines new york has grown ertl call its skyscrapers sk scrapers stand as monuments to millions but from the batter to the bronx it measures the same number of feet and inches as in the da of peter stuyvesant and it la Is the landholders of new york that dominate the circle within its circumference there have been many encroachments encroach ments savants savanis are welcomed elc omed toasted and forgotten marriage and intermarriage haie hae brought many newcomers millionaires and millionaires billionaires billion aires late haie been tolerated but the oligarchy remains the brands had neither antecedents nor matrimony as passports brand s wife lie had beauty culture wealth all the reciprocal means that society loiel but she lacked Incent he and ambition her nearest approach to the inner circle was the long island hunting set she NN was as an ardent horse woman and rode and drove admirably she had been received by some very smart people ot of the younger set in the hunts at hempstead and meadow brook ana and it if she had pursued these ac might late hae found an en an bering wedge to the sacred a sphere phere but the brands lived iliad on little rock day bay and it was something of a h hard ard ship for mrs brand to shift her mounts from her bar stable halt half way across tile the island an ambitious worn wom an would not let such a little matter as that stand in the wo a of social pro pre ferment but she found the effort tir irk some she entered a tax few of her fa favor NO r lies in the horse show but more from pride for her horses than in a social oc I 1 a I 1 quest in tact fact mrs brand aas was D not 0 t society mad she courted comfort and liked her own amusements when jane came upon the scene the situation 8 situation changed what ahat mrs brand lacked in was of aspirations jane sup plied and what nihat loung mrs reynolds lacked in matter of means nas as amply furnished b by her now nov friend and jane wanted all or nothing she craved not entree to the circle but ad mit bittance tance to its most sacred confines she urged mrs brand to seek every emery possible avenue of approach to social recognition and influenced her bar to at tempt lavish entertainments brand was as agreeable enough he rather en ell joked the energy and zeal that mrs reynolds displaced and approved of the effect it had on his wife ile he as with a supply of unlimited cash janes only sesame to her goal was through her friend and by the means of her own personal attraction she made the most moat of the latter and tho the bills from her modisto mediate and milliner caused dob bob many a misgiving despite the abandon with which he made and blent his money he liked to see gee his wife look as good as the best ind and he plunged harder and deeper so that he could gratia her averi wish without the semblance semb lince of question economy was a word that he hid had banished tor for ever and it if their bou bounce had permitted it he would late have urged her to attempt some of the prodigious attales that she shared it the brands yet while RL indulged and encoe raged his vnye lie he found himself often assuming a care trap spirit that he did not feel there came moments when the false of his life pilled palled and he gave ibay to deepest nielan chol moto moie and more lie reported to the bracing influence of stimulants and rid it a cc b from this practise only hib 1116 for a lon loio ehno lie ha kept the tha ical state of his bis mind from jane and the neceia nece eIt iti tor for the deception carried him farther and farther away coir her in this life of 0 wealth and gaiety the words of 0 brand now came home to him with poignant atienz he was waa indeed on the looking in ue he baw his wile wife through libs his apostasy mount haher higher to the goal of her ambition while he sank lower and lower the metamorphosis ot of soul began to take on physical ex the candor of 0 his espree slon sion changed to cunning and craftiness arid and an inherent frankness of in manner anner gave WILT way to constraint at the club the change became noticeable his evenings there were not of 0 the r convivial on sort as before he sought bought culy one form of amusement gambling lie ile played heavily and lost oftener than he v won on ilia his speculations in the street also went awry within a year from the date of 0 his flig gotten otten prosperity reynolds had begun paying the price ile ho paid heavily and alone his thoughts often turned to dick and the happy hours they had spent in tho the little bungalow bun gilow and jane had bad SL seemed emed happ too tor for the tha reporters boyish nature and lovable loable ways bays had endeared him to both reynolds forgot all the difficulties of 0 their life across the bay and dated every element of discontent and unrest from the time of brands brand a coming brand a coming the thought ot of it made the blood surge through his veins he cursed the day that ho he had eier eer made the millionaires acquaintance and the day it had been renewed and be cursed brand himself what had brand ever done or intended to do for him hima he had used him as a pawn in the game of 0 spoil A cat a paw to drag a 10 I 1 I 1 c 1 1 1 3 f 1 X V 7 1 ac 4 4 h NI ga pa af weve got a fortune lafortune do you realize it chestnut from the flame and then be had thrown him the shell and tor for such little glan as T v as aa his lie he had sut but fared an incomparable loss lose he was burned and seared forever in the bit berness of these moments reynolds renolds nor er soul m was as racked and torn and in his heart at times there was murder ile he wondered mou dered what dick know knew of his actual deal with brand he longed sometimes to look up the reporter and bare the whole bhole etor but confession to another would do no good now it would not dot repa the municipality he had robbed and it would not renew the bond of friendship with the man he hid had cast aside when renolds rushed after his wife nife that night he stopped tor for dick at the little place of cheer on the corner he almost dragged his friend awa ama and while they waited tor for the car he told his intention lie he was go ing from jane to brand he said and hat brand wanted chanted of him lie ho would do lie he was mas done with and dono done with inith principle lie ho was going to put ills his hand in the grab bag and take one draw at the game it if that m was as the wa na it was placed it if that nas mas the only wa cna lie ho could decently clothe his wife nife and gle gho her the place sho she was entitled to that was the wa was he be would play it ho he would mould hive have told dick all thell it if he be would haie bae listened but the reporter laid a li ind over 0 er his bla mouth and stopped him don I 1 sa sai an mole moie dob bob he had warned it tint thit la Is tile iny you ou feel it if bour our mind is mado u up 1 1 I don doll t N want ant to heir hear any more 1 I 1 now too much nu now but I 1 can forget let it 60 0 o at that you know ou cm can me only remember this you 11 tall fall hat flat there are some men who cant go wrong and get away with fill it tho the x wrong rong ah always ays gets aw a with them that was about the last word he be had had from dick they had ridden up U P to the city together ther but bat they the had conversed but little and at the buttery battery the rr reporter shook hla his friend a hand and hurried away dick was a dreamer yes dot bat on the basic principles of 0 dick was mas right and he be bad proved a good prophet the sting of conscience and remorse belan to take tuch such a hold on bob that he ceased to thare share his wife a 8 pleasures and he be found himself aggrieved and annoyed at her extravagances tho the eight of her costly gowns actually irritated him for or he continued to lose loee heavily and his entire fortune now was less than the tony forty thousand dollars alth fill which brand bad rewarded reward td cd his duplicity it was waa not his losses how eier that unnerved him it ivas tho the thought that he now had bad nothing of 0 his own making and that for every luxury his wile wife enjoyed he be and she were bounden to brand jane jana was waa oblivious to it but that only aggravated the ill ile he avoided her night after night he bo remained anwa urging press of bust busi alss while he was engaged in nothing more mora urgent than some game of chance which for or him had lost even the element of sociability his sleeping Ble hours were as troubled as his wakeful ones and pleading extreme nerious nervousness ness to jane be advised thit that they occupy separate rooms he dreamed constantly of 0 dick and the bungalow and of his earlier days with fill jane and once he be dreamed of 8 something am athing else he awoke clutching at the clothes it with fill heads beads ot of cold sweat starting from hla his brow and the picture 0 of f a horrible nightmare still before his a ees es he had dreamed that the dam had collapsed and that hundreds of persons were dead martyrs to his bill crime and while he dreamed these dreams brand slept peacefully one was a conscience prodded transgressor an and d the other a self satisfied progress tie le at last laet bob decided on an c scope escape he determined to risk everything he had house and all in a final coup it if he won con he would go away whether jane went or not he could give her enough to be comfortable on if he were it ere successful and it if he lost well there would at least be a change CHAPTER unto him that hath mr richard meade it was now not dick if reynolds had bad followed the activities of the times he would have seen his bis friend a signature over articles of import in an enterprising weekly for the reporter had abandoned his newspaper work and joined the staff of a powerful publication he was a i allied man a muck raker and crops were fine it if a sear ear had wrought so BO much to the detriment of bob it had been on the other land hand equally equall beneficent to dick in the clearness of eye ee directness of manner and quiet reserve ono one read accomplishment of purpose dick was a success and the reward of suo suc cesis cesa was nas manifest in his bis outward appearance peara pe arance uce and his environment he sat at a desk as big as brand a 9 in a suite as finel final furnished and as richly carpeted he looked out upon a busy thoroughfare one of the cross streets in new yorks colony of publishing houses bouses he inspected the passing throng not with a restless spirit of in and conjecture but with calm observance ance and quiet analysis dick was still a socialist but a kocl socialist a list of deeds not words ile he bad learned to subdue his direct frontal attacks on the elemi and to take more credit unto himself and his kind in this re pe he aad had outdistanced hai his employ ers and hla his writings attracted serious attention from the men who think when dick thought of bob and his enal surrender to brand he did not scoff at his friend or rail at his tra ducer he pitied reynolds not only tor for what he had done but tor for what he NN was as a palpable N ichim of the sa system stem a s w way ay and the ver worst kind of a N victim tor for at firby the system had merely merel stolen a part of the man a earn ing power and now it had stolen the man himself the reporter knew be jond ond a doubt that the false premises premise a on which bob had founded his new prosperity pros presaged only one tiling thing collapse and unlike reynolds he had not simply mon wondered dered and dreamed he had watched he had kept himself in formed about cob bob read when tile the in should come to extend the needed aid dick rose now put on a N well ell fitting tweed coat and walked leisurely over to the budway lie he got oft off at wall street and made his way may to the offices of a prominent broker IN gave his card to one of the clerks and in a moment was nas shown into the private sanctum of the firm a head I 1 hello meade tile the broker greeted you look prosperous what can I 1 do tor for aou ou business 7 tho the soung writer smiled arid and twirled his bis stick so no he replied I 1 guess ou i 0 a had about enough tor for one day di broke pretty good tor for 3 sou ou didie t if in amount ot of trade i 3 es a the only way it ever ener breaks bleaka good tor for us commissions are all we ask meade noner speculate rahe bicker pressed his lips firmly together as if he feared might part and curl into a arin lut I 1 ut tut his ciller caller cautioned you might make it seldom to say the least but ho he changed his barit bantering tring tone toile to one of sharp businesslike in henning he be said time Is money to ou and to me too I 1 know knon some tiling thing and I 1 it wint ant to know a little more bob speculates through your our house there was an adful slump in consolidated alro toda bodai hor hon badly was lie stung on it if why that a confidential meade you dont me to tell my tomira business to everyone who inquires about it dick got up and walked ever to the 1 broker ue he commanded attention this time in such euch a way that henning was unable to evade his look don dout t quibble with me henning ho he counseled I 1 you know that my in quirica into reynolds business arent calculated to do him harm I 1 have heard something which makes me think he was caught pretty bad today now its yes yea or no if you dont want to enlighten me say eay so EO dont stall that means said the broker if I 1 dont anim er that find out come somewhere else well wall then he was hit a plenty about forty 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