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Show THE RICH COUNIT REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH Nature i Dragons Drive NATURE, so far as in her Imitates God, and turns her face every land beneath the skies, Counts nothing that she meets with base, But lives and loves in every Tennyson. place. To By EDWIN BALMER Copyright by Edwin Balmer WNU Service Patience CHAPTER XIV Continued 21 Between their interludes of delight she watched him for sign of restless ness; for she knew that never, since he was a little boy, had be thrown oft the burden of care cast upon him ; hut now he had! He climbed with her gayly, strongly, singing; shouting .where an echo answered; and theyd camp, sometimes, high on the mountain together. By their camp-tirtheyd talk she as never before to any one, even to her sister ; and he with a freedom that surprised himself ' as he told her of his life before he met her, his struggles, his hopes and his dreams, which he had kept even from Winnie. . Do you .know one thing love is if its nothing else?. he said to her once just before they fell asleep. What? Its the end of the loneliness youre born to and live in and not knowing till youve her in your arms. They returned to a Chicago of accented madness, with more banks and businesses failing. They went to a hotel where they took temporary quarters, but where they remained for nearly a year. Agnes said to her friends : Its my fault. I dont look anywhere else. AS a matter of fact, she didnt care to. Cathal was working day and night for weeks on end, as his cases came up in court; and the hotel was as convenient as any place could be to the criminal courts, to his office and to the homes of his clients. Agnes put nothing, in these days, before his convenience and the chance to be with him whenever he dropped his work. Their interludes, between the excitement of his appearances in court, exceeded even their happinesses on the mountain. The excitements and strainings, by which he lived, were exhausting to her; so she rested a good deal by day, when he was away. She dwelt, indeed, in a very maelstrom of madness. No other city surpassed Chicago in display of the insanities of civilization. There it stood, of the world, on the the ' edge of a prairie afflicted with no plague but that of plenty or surplusage, indeed, of all crops and cattle; and men would have starved by the thousand but for the bread-lineone of them given by a gangster. s worked unpaid; and a committee, well financed by separate funds, proceeded to gather proud exhibits of a Century of Progress and of day after day the bulletin-board- s the citys best clubs posted another and another card bearing the name of a member who had been in perfect health yesterday. They went by their own hands; and all did not choose death to escape the consequences of their failures; many chose fraud, embezzlement and betrayal of trust The bulletin-board- s of their clubs took no cognizance of this choice, when they made it; but their names blackened the pages of the newspapers and crowded the court calendars. And some of them sent, as had Philip Linsdale and Ormstead, for Cathal Martin OMara. Agnes always kept awake till he returned to her after he responded to such a call; sometimes it would be three or four oclock in the morning. Always he returned wide awake, excited, intent, thoughtful. ' He seized her and held her, and she liked to lie in his arms whether or not he felt like going over with her. Just then, the new case he had Just . taken. still awake sometimes, after Lying Cathal had told her of his case and dropped to sleep, Agnes regarded, from this poignant viewpoint, her own family and her own old life. r was the driving dragon within these men the hunger for money, the root of evil from the oldest reported time. They must have money, these men; and especially, having had money, they must regain their losses and have more and more and more. For what? She thought of her mother and father, and of the woman in New York. ' She thought of Bee and Davis and " ' . Jeb. Davis was at work again in still another new association with Ken Kemble; and Bee's third baby, another boy, was born and growing up. Agnes went home a good deal; for her mother had forgiven her. Indeed, Beatrice Gleneith had found far less to overlook than she had expected; for her friends had been surprisingly mild in their criticisms, and decidedly interested. Things were very, very bad in Chi e . cago. They were as bad as could be, people said; they could get no worse. But they did get worse much, much worse.- - Insull crashed. Insult, the strongest man of the city! Insull. the emperor of power and transit; Insull, the mighty man of millions! who almost alone had stood through nearly tnree years of the panic Insull crashed. And the crash all but carried down Chicago. Not millions; hundreds of millions in money was lost the fortunes of the great and the little. Jeb was utterly wiped out; and so was Ojai. Robert Gleneith was ruined. His loans at the banks, which Jeb had helped to arrange, were secured by which stocks in holding-companiehad dropped from a high of hundreds of dollars a share to three-eighth- s of a dollar. The banks had been unable to sell him out fast enough; he owned nothing but the idle and now worthless buil.dings of his plant; and he owTed three hundred thousand dollars. He 'offered his home for sale, and received no bid as great as the mortgage; he would have moved out his and Davis but the bank family preferred to have the house occupied; so they camped (they called it) in the house, without servants, except Rog- - -- grain-mark- s, Scnooi-teacher- black-bordere- Money-hunge- d Her Little Daughter, a Light One, Like Herself. ' na, who asked to stay without wages, for her food and shelter. One item went to the credit side of the ledger. Bob sent no more checks to Cash and he ceased to frequent New York city. He had given up Cash' and he. Informed his wife of the fact. Bob was able to supply his family with funds enough to keep going; for, in spite of his debts or because of them he succeeded in negotiating further loans. Jeb owed plenty of money to several banks; but none of them deemed him worth the further risk of a penny. Rod came to his help Rod with his Massachusetts and Andover bonds he had never sold at Jebs urgings. It was the week after the complete and ignominious collapse of Jebs a& fairs, following the fall of Insull, that Davis paid Cathal an unannounced visit at his office. Jeb knew his stuff. He was just a damn fool! Just be a ninny, a nitDavis burst out frantically. wit! Think you know everything, but you dont know a damn thing. Take away the last dollar of everybody you know ; bust 'em, ruin em ; rob em ! What are you talking about?" . Cathal inquired, studying his It proved to be over a hundred thouAnd how can I possand dollars. sibly get that? Davis demanded. Cathal wasted no time. He went to At noon, Bee often drops In on her sister at Agnes apartment on the north It is almost down town" yet side. it overlooks the lake; and the wind sweeps off the water, clean and clear. Agnes at once. Davis, Cathal told her, has to Agnes adores the place. Bee likes to linger there. have about a hundred and thirty thouIts fun to fight for business and to sand dollars or go to jail. And he You feel good get some, said Bee. told her why. It left Agnes white and shaky. Now about it at least until your husband gets home. Its certainly hell on the what can we do for him? to have his wife good at anyI want you to let me do something husband but what can I do? thing practical, of the sort 1 should tell you about but Flop? wont this time. Years ago I got a Of course you cant flop, said certain big man out of a big jam. He Agnes. never paid me for it; he wasnt able And wont! Im going to make to then; and later I wouldnt take it. some for my boys; and Im gomoney But now he can pay me twice a hunto pay you back some day, Agnes ing dred thousand and never feel it If I you and Cathal. merely suggest it, hell do IL I ask No! Agnes begged her. I dont you to take my word that its all right want it; and he doesnt either. We can put up thirty thousand; 1 can I know you dont ; but it's our debt get a hundred thousand from that man. and you cant deny it, Agnes. Itll be wholly for services rendered, no new Bee had gone, Agnes All after Involving Alone, obligation. right? For went in to her baby her little daughAgnes fought with herself. yourself, Cathal; for us, no, he re- ter, a Light One, like herself. Youd never ask it For Davis At ten months, she has Soft flaxen plied. and Bee and the boys 1 guess so. hair and eyes of deep blue; she has And so Cathal got the money and skin like pale petals of wild rose, an cleared Davis. adorable little mouth, and tiny, formed chin and most perfect little hands. Her To the OMaras a child was born the hair is like Agnes in texture and hue. following spring, upon one of those Her name is Winifred Agnes; and the days marked in memory by the closing kingdom of the happiness of her father of every bank in the United States. and mother encloses her. The tiny girl, some day to find herself Will that kingdom fall in a few standing in the stream of Time, came years? Agnes does not believe it; for at the end of one phase of adjustment her love and Cathals differs from that of human affairs which we call an which once held her father and mother. epoch. Of course an end of one epoch And Bee and Davis never knw anymust mark the beginning of another. like this. They tried to improvise This began from the bottom, men thing a kingdom on material possessions; said.- Improvement appeared, values in and even those were taken from them. general became higher. Standing and gazing down at her Prices have not yet risen sufficiently baby, Agnes wonders suddenly what to bring Robert Gleneiths holdings she shall tell this child, some time, into the clear. Bobs books do not jet of the glory of the Gleneiths that is balance ; but he is operating his plants gone? and making a little money. And hes Should she relate how they had a living again in the same little house little money, and were happy; but had on Easter Lane to which he brought to have more and more? So they made Tricie as a bride and where, for many and her father became unfaithful; it; years, they were happy. They are ten- and Davis tried to kill himself; and der again together. failing at that, he went crooked? Are they happy? Well, what is hapWhat, out of all the past, should Agpiness? nes preserve and pass on to her child? Tricie has not forgiven him; she What, out of all her family who so was never to make that mistake. She highly prospered for years? What has succeeded in never referring to her really memorable and inspiring act or husbands association with Cash. occasion? Jeb has a job. Hes a customers On her side, Agnes realized, standing man, selling stock, and people are bethere over her sleeping child on the lieving him again. side of the Gleneiths, nothing. Davis has a job in a creamery comNothing to compare with that which pany; hes district superintendent at entered so largely into the making of fifty dollars a week. Bee has a job, the man who is this babys father; and shes good at it nothing to compare, in Its effect when She means to keep at It; she has de- Winnie will pass it on (Agnes prays) clared her days at an end. to her own children! How Cathal! Davis and she rented a very small Martin OMara went up with Fitzpathouse near Easter Lane. Bee keeps a rick, his chief of battalion, to the tower1 middle-agemaid wTho wears spec- with the building ablaze below, and' tacles and who is only a plain cook how he died there, and his wife stood but who is completely reliable with the and watched him. little boys. THE END. J. The recently great and wise E. Braddon, ! Hes just lost his friends and customers millions millions, but was such a complete ninny knowing absolutely nothing when he posed to know it all that nobody even thinks of getting after him. Whereas I I, Cathal All right, said CathaL What are you in for? It proved to be more 'serious than Cathal had suspected, though he never had trusted' Ken Remble. Ken and Davis had sold certain stocks, mak ing some representations that were not accurate. The point was that Ken knew better; he deliberately had misrepresented; and Davis, desperate again, had gone along with Ken. It would be extremely hard to prove that Davis bad not known as much as Ken ; and they both had used the mails for selling. Cathal heard Davis out, and thes. to d said: There is only one You've got to buy hack every share or stock at once. Whats the total? poor 1 child-bearin- Ginger Cookies cupfuls molasses 1 cupful sugar 1 cupful cold water 1 cupfuls lard 10 teaspoonfuls ground ginger 5 teaspoonfuls soda 4 eggs Enough flour to make a nice 2 dough. Roll moderately thin and cut with cookie cutter. Bake well but not too fast. Makes large quantity. Copyright. WNU Service. When Happiness Comes Those who have the most of happiness think the least about it. But in thinking about and in doing their duty, happiness comes because the heart and mind are occupied with earnest thought that touches at a thousand points the beautiful and sublime realities of the universe. W. M. Thackeray. EMINENT DOCTORS WROTE THIS OPINION! colds result from acid condition of the body . . . they prescribe various alkalies-- ex cerpt from medical Journal. The ALKALINE FACTOR in ILTOEN'S MENTHOL COUGH DROPS HELPS BUILD UP YOUR 5 ALKALINE RESERVE g THE OTHER WOMAN LIVES d JUST AROUND THE CORNER I may seem unreasonable, but , men cannot understand why a woman who is usually happy and loving should have recurring periods when her whole character seems changed. He cannot appreciate the distress, the discomfort that all women must endure. He does not know what it is to do housework with an aching back and failing energy. All he does know is that other women seem more cheerful by comparison. r Are you such a wife? 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