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PROMIN Bv EMERSC AUTHOR if TH? MISSISSIPPI ILLUSTRATIONS by Ra COPYRIGHT 1912 BY EMERSCW jupsia. John [lawn Is born Jn j . 5m Jift 1-.'- shows signs of j i > .s and inordinate selfishness, j <"'i x I * T J-T ti f I ? J lo marries Laura John|j. is a clerk in a St. Louis railway <?ftic?- whet: his 'laughter (5rae?? is born. Tears !al?v lit- hears tirade's lover, a young: engineer named Charles Halsey, Fpeak of a scheme to utilize the losi current of electricity. With I is usual m;Frrnpnlousness he np;in>priates th" idea I as his own and induees Halsey to perfect I *ti experimental machine. He forms a , company. w.!th himself, as president, at aj salary of SIM. *- y year, and Halsey hp . superintendent oi" the works at a salary j of $.',.000. CHAPTER iTI? Fiawri takes ohMof! the in Chicago. Virginia Dfiawarp, ft beautiful, capable n rrci ambitious young woman, is assigned as his stenographer. She assists in picking the furniture and decoration for the princely mansion Hawn has erected. Mrs. Rawn feels out of place in the new surroundings. CHAPTER TV?TTalsev goes to New York with Rawn and Miss Delaware to ' explain delays in perfecting tlie new motor to the impatient directors. He gets a j message that a deformed daughter has j been borr. to his wife, Grace Rawn. He i returns to Chicago. CHAPTER V. In Proper Person. Jcfhn Rawn stood looking at the unceasing throng that surged confusedly through the corridors of the gilded hotel. Warmth, music, a Babel of voices, were all about. There approached a little group of laughing men coming from the carriage entrance, bound, no doubt, to a banquet hall somewhere under the capacious roof. One voice rose above the others -RS the group advanced. There appeared, rapidly talking and gesticulating as he came, a ruddy-faced, stocky figure, with head close-cropped, jaw undershot, small eyes, fighting terrier make-up. "I tell you, gentlemen, I'll compromise not in the least on this matter! It makes no difference what they do with the ticket or with me. There's only one way about these matters, and that's the right way! I care nothing whether this man be a rich man <or a poor man. The only question is, whether he is right. If he is not right, he will never?I say to you, gentlemen?" this with close-shut jaw and fist hard smitten into palm?"I say to you, it makes no difference who he is or what he is, he'll never win through; and in the event you suffer ?rom us?" He passed on. gesticulating, talking. Men commented audibly, for there was no mistaking a man idealized by some, dreaded by others, scorned by none, anathematized by not a few. He was to address that mgnt a meeting sf independent politicians, so called, 'lore in the very house of individuilistic power% ard many old-line members of his party had their doubts, the j 'ear of a new party being ever present in the politician's mind?the same Var professional politicians. Whig, Democrat, what-not. had of the new party formed before the Civil War at !he command of a people then claiming self-government as their ancient right?as now they begin again to do, Tacing our third War of Indepenience. "Going strong, isn't he?" commented one sardonically, within Rawn's hearing. "That's all right, my friend," was Lilt? SIIU1IU5 auo wui \-fi v i. "Strong enough to make a lot of you hunt your holes yet. There's quite a few people in this little old country outside this island?and he'll?" "Nonsense! No ch?nce, rot tr. ^?2st chance in the world!" "You underestimate this new movement," began the other. "Xew movement!?you're 'progressive.' eh? Got that bee? A lot of good it'll do you. It will be simply a new line-up following our oid and time-tried political methods?it all rnmpa tr? that tsVp mv u-nrH Thp people aren't ill politics. A lot of professionals do oui governing for us." "All the same, there goes the -people's candidate!* "Take him and welcome," was the answer. "Take your candidate. We'll eat him up?ii he runs." They also passed on down the hall, thoi'r VAl^CiC CWiil Irwvo/'i UVUXUViU^, IIXVA* I VIV/\^U U UUiiV II VU up with others, arising confusedly. This and that couple or group passed by, also talking, among them many persons obviously of notoriety, importance or distinction, though unknown to their observer. Rawn stood and watched them all. The scene was to ais liking. The stir, TSe confusion, appealed to him. The flowering of the great city's night life was here, such as that is. It was the focus of our ^ ?. _ ? i: -L ~ 4-1^4. country s civilization, suca as t.ua.i is. Men worth millions passed, shoulder to shoulder, a wondrous procession, such as that is. And here and there, always moving and mingling with those men whose reception or whose raiment announced them as persons of importance, moved women, beautiful women, floating by, brightly, radiantly, rustlingly?women blazing with jewels, women with bright eyes, women whose apparel be-1 spoke them as accepted integers cf the city's vast human sum. Eavm stood studying Uio procession ENT CITIZEN ! >N HOUGH BUBBLE; 54-40 OR FIGHT y Walters I HOUGH for a long time, eyeing groui; after group carefully. A conclusion was forming in his mind. He was learning that when a man has achieved power, success, wealth, notoriety even, he turns with his next thought to some woman; and finds some woman walt-l ing. And then it occurred to John Rawn with sudden and unpleasing force that, although he was among this throng, he was not of it. Himself a man of power, success, yes, even of wealth, he lacked in certain betokening appurtenances thereto. A not unusual wave of self-pity crept slowly over him. Why should he, a man of his attainments, lack in any degree' what others had? He stood pondering, not wholly hap- j py, until presently he felt, rather than j saw, a glance bent upon him by a j man who passed, a stately and well-: garbed young woman upon his arm.' He was a man now in faultless eve-j ning dress, yet easily to be recognized | ?none less, indeed, than the dyspep-i tic director who so summarily hadi been dismissed by John Rawn himself not three hours ago. His dark face became even darker as he saw the victor of that controversy standing! here alone. He smiled sardonically.! To Rawn it seemed that he smiled! because he saw the solitary attitude i of a man as good as himself, as fit j as nimsen ior an me lusiguia. ui power, yet publicly self-confessed as lacking all such insignia. He start-! ed. flushed, frowned. He had shown | these men, these influential magnates; in New York, that he could be their [ master upon occasion?he had mastered this man passing yonder. Yet now he stood here alone, with no woman to advertise his power to the world; and men laughed at him! No wnman xcnrp his silks rifsnlaved his jewels. He was John Rawn, born to I the purple; vet he might be taken i here for a country merchant on his! first trip from home. . . . He turned to the key-counter. The; clerk, with infallible instinct?without j his request?handed him the key to! his room, not lacking acquaintance) with men of Mr. Rawn's acquaintance, i and knowing money v aen he saw it. j . . . Rawn passed down the hall, j went up two flights is the elevator, [ J ? -3 rx 7 /sVinr\/1 rlnT* on/1 I lunieu HI IU Lilt- ICll-Iiauu tumuui, auu I at length knocked deliberately at a j door where a light showed. "Come!" called a soft voice. He knocked again, a trifle hesitant, and looked down the corridor, each way. j The voice repeated, "Come!" He' pushed open the door. Virginia Delaware stood before her; dressing-glass, her toilet for evening j completed except perhaps for a touch [ about her coiffure. She turned now, ; and flushed as she saw her visitor. "Mr. Rawn!" she exclaimed; "I j thought it was the maid! I had just j cailed her." "Rawn turned and shut the door. "Never mind her," he said. "I will be srone in a minute. I just, wanted?" j "You must go!" she exclaimed.; if ' ' 1 ^ ' 1 i ^mmr1 i "You Want to Win, to Succeed, to Triumph, Don't You?" [ * "You ci:: ' :> have come?Is : not permit-?i: i > not right!" "How cUl:you look. Miss Delaware!" was a!i he said. He had never before seen her arrayed in keeping with these other lilies of the field. Indeed, his life had given him small acquaintance with conventions, or those who practiced them. He had i nn mental nrneesa of analvsis as he ! gazed at lier now, or he might have j seen that after all the young woman's j costume was no more than one of j fllmv blue, draped over a pure and lustrous white. He could not have named the fashion which drew it so daringly close at hip and hem as to reveal frankly all the lines of a figure which needed not to dread revelation | for its own sake, whether or not for , other sake. He could not have ! guessed what skiL belonged to the hand that fashioned this raiment, could not have told its cost. To him the young woman was very beautiful; and lie was too much ccmuscd to bo capanl? ~r ar.lysis. T"0 corsage ;}' fh<1 crown, cut square and daringly d- on. displayed nook and shoulders tv-hitf as those of any woman of any city. Her figure gave lines had her costume not aided. She was beautiful, yes. And there was something more, Rawn could not tell what. There was some air of excitement, of exaltation,; some sort of fever about her. upon j her. In her eyes shone something ' Rawn had never noticed there before. Hastily he made such inventory as he might of unanalyzed charms. He arrived at his conclusion, which was, that Virginia Delaware would do! "You could travel in fast company, my dear girl," said he approvingly. i "What do you mean?" She turned; upon him. "That you could go quite a consider-; able pace, my dear girl. You'll do. Let! me see your hands!" he demanded.! And in spite of her he cooilv took up a hand, examining the shapely fingertips. He sighed. No needle had blackened or roughened them, the typewriter keys had not yet flattened them. He stepped back, looked at her from head to foot, appraising all j her graces, valuing her height and roundness of figure. There was small light in his eye other than that of judicial approval. She bore out his theory. "You surprise me!" was all he said. "How do you mean, Mr. Rawn??But you must go, you really must!" There came a knock at the door. Pawn's negative gesture was positive. After a moment's hesitation the girl stepped to the door and spoke to the moid. ':You may return again in a little while, maid," she said. "I'm not quite ready now." In turn she stood with her back against the door, her own color rising. "Oh, don't be uneasy," said John Rawn smiling. "This is quite considerable of a hotel, taking it as it is. There won't be any scandal over this." "I don't think I understand you." 'Tm going in just five minutes. But I want to say something to you in the way of a business preposition, Miss Delaware." "I'm sure I don't know what you mean." Her head was high, her color still rising. "Nothing in the least wrong, my dpar enrl " Raid John Rawn. "It's sim ply a matter of business, as I said You're here as my assistant, of course. But did it ever occur to you that as you stand there now, and as I stand here, we might pass in that crowd below there and not be known by anyone?" She stood looking at him, her color high, undecided as to his meaning even now as he went on. "It would be rather a pleasant experience, perhaps, for you?as it would be for me?just to mingle with that giddy throng?say, for dinner. Would you like to be part of it? It's just a foolish thought that came to me." She turned to him, her eyes bright her face eager. "Could we. Mr. Rawn?" sne saia. "i m crazy over 11: "I dee," he commented dryly. "You were dressing to go down to dinner?" "No, no, I couldn't afford to do that, of course. I couldn't go alone, and I had no company. I wasn't going down at all. I just dressed up?to? to?" "Just to look at yourself in the mirror, isn't that it, Miss Delaware?" "Yes, it's the truth!" She turned to him calmly at last, well in hand again. "I couldn't be one of them? H Vk/\ tl\ aca r\AAr\l /I anrr? Ka. I'UUIUU I UC 11 tvc~ luuoc pcvjpic uv/nu u<zr low, so I did the best I could up here ?I dressed as much like tliem as I knew how. I?I?I imagined! I dreamed, Mr. Rawn. I ve never known a real evening of that sort in all my life?but it's in my blood. I want to go, I want to dine, and drink, and dance?I'm mad about it, I know, but it's the truth! I want what I can't have. I want to be what I'm not. I don't" know what's the -reason. It's in the air?maybe it's in the day, in the country!" "Yes, it's in the country," said John Rawn. "We're all going a swift pace, men and women both. I don't blame you. I understand you. Now I know what you want." "You want just about what I want." "But Mr. Rawn-?" "It's the same thing?it's power that you want, just as I do. I feel it in the air when I come near you. You feel the same way when you come near me!" She nodded rapidly, her eyes narrowing. "Yes, it's true!" she said. "That's true." ?-- ?<-?-? VioTria if -nri fVi i n I UU W dliU 1,1/ uait ii, >, tkuiu ^ uu. ability to influence men, just as I do, don't you, Miss Delaware? That's what was in your soul when you stood before your mirror when I came in, wasn't it, Miss Delaware? You want to win, to succeed, to triumph, don't you. Miss Delaware?you've got ambition? Wasn't that your dream? isn't that what you were imagining. a.-; you stood there and looked in your glass?" "Yes, yes, it's true, I know it!" she admitted panting. -'I know it, my God! yes, I can't help it! But what chance have I ?" "All sorts of chances, my dear girl. I don't make mistakes. I told you this is a business proposition. Now, then, teli me, why did you tog out this way?" "I did because I had to. I told you i Tmirin't hoin it. It was in my blood I tonight!" "Any man waiting anywhere, Miss Delaware?" "On my word, no! I wasn't even going downstairs. But I told you 1 was mad to be in that crowd, where the rich people are. I wanted to hear the music, I wanted to see them?I wanted to pretend for one night that I | was a part of il all!" i ' You v. i; ; to win?you coveted I f ' ?v r" is I? rci 'vv.: "V, s! ' :'ii1' b!:iz-.d ti- v And in- i :}im (] at thai moment 11'r? rc;>iu so^med j fill! of som-' Wrge infill* nc?*. moving, j throbbing i^ii about them. "I wanted that." the eirl admitted. , "All the world does!" "I suppose you wanted to sop some irong man fall 011 his knees and beg oi' you?" "Yes." J u..* I'll A ^ I I am sorry, 111 v utjai, uui i n uui uw i that. But I understand. So you | searched ou; these glad rags and tried j vourself out before the mirror there! j Very good! You'll do! Believe me?j or ask any man in all thi? city." She nodded rapidly. "Yes, you know j it., now." "Now, you're no more mad than I j om," said John Rawn. "You're as cool-1 headed as I am, if T know women at J all. We think alike. You're young, j I'm young enough. Where'd you get : ihat gown?" "I had it made?in an alley, in the city back home. It cost as much as I could afford. Thirty dollars!" She flung out the words scorniully. "it- lnnks thrpp hundred: and I've i seen worse below tonight that probably cost three thousand. But it's not yet quite complete?your costume." 4'It, was the best T had. You ought : not to taunt me. I stood here facing i | myself. I felt disappointed, bitter! ! j Yes. I'll admit that." "You needn't be." said Rawn calmI !v. He nodded to her barf and unj adorned neck, lier hair which lacked j brilliants, her fingers left unjeweled. I The girl caught his meaning without i further speech, and it hurt her yet f mnrp. "What could I do? Why did you bring me lioro, Mr. Rawn? You've made me unhappy. I've seen it, and I can't be a part of it. It doesn't seem I can go back thore to work and be just the same any mom. after seeing ; the city here! I toll you. it's got in ray blood, all at once." "No," he said evenly, "not acain just the same. We outgrow ourselves, and can't go back. I'm .not the same man I once was." Pie half-unconsciously shifted to get a glimpse of himself in the mirror. "But now, my business proposition ! is very simple. It iioias gooa ror one evening, Miss Delaware. I was just going to propose that we forget all this unliLppiness, and do a little pretending for one night, say for one hour or so." He fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, and drew out something which suddenly flamed into dancing points and rays in the light that fell upon it. She stood motionless while he passed about her neck a tiny thread, delicate as if spun of moonlight. She held out her hand, and he slipped over it a gleaming ring of gems. She bent her head, and he placed a sparkling ornament in her hair. She had seen these jewels before. Sl?e turned to tne glass now, her bosom heaving as she saw them gleam at her own neck, her own hands, in her own hair. She held out her hands to look at them now; and the gems flashed back challenge to her eyes, sparkling yet more brilliantly. "It was nothing." said John Rawn j tersely. "That's all that lacked. You're j good as the best now. I've seen no ! woman in this city that is your equal j in beauty. You were born for this j life. Now do you understand what I I mean? I say, you can carry it off!" stia tnrnpr] to him. another woman, ! ' j changing on the instant, something in her eyes he had never seen before. But in his own eyes there was at the time nothing save the original calm and purposefulness. "As I was saying, then, since we can both carry it off, why not do so for an hour or so? I've read somewhere of masquerades. Why not try it?" She turned to him, flushed, radiant, but slightly frowning, puzzled, studying him. Rawn felt the query of her look, felt also something stirring down in his nature which he grappled at ' ~ ? ?.nn oKlo aiinnrpss TTlR OIICC ctuu W clo ayir. i.\j wi* j voice was cool and low as it was be! fore. "It's a big crowd below, and we'll ! be lost in it. I've learned already that you can be discreet. We'll drop down in there, where no one knows us. We'll try ourselves out, and see whether we'll do, here where the test is hardest. You're ambitious? So am * * * I I. This is tne neari 01 ui? wunu? the place of gratified ambitions. What do you say. Miss Delaware? I've been ! looking around down there, and as | nearly as I can see, I'm the only man i in this avenue worth a million dollars j who ar this rrecise moment, of the I day isn't talking to some good-looking j woman!" j "You flatter me!" commented the ' girl. He did not endealor any analyi sis. i "Not in the least! I simply talk sense and business to you. 1 covet what you co<*et, love what you lov-. want what you want. Things which j arc rqnal to the same thing ought *0 i be *-o r.ch other?for just a litj lie while. Miss Delaware. Isn't it ! true? If it is only play, why, let's play | at it. i "I forgot to tell you," he added, j "that my son-in-law, Mr. Halsey, has i gone back to Chicago. He was summoned by wire. No one else knows us both. There wouldn't be one chance in many of our being seen by anyone here who knew either of us. and if so, ,..l.?* 1.} TVo'll err, wnH Hirm Wi^il W licit, ilill ill . II V " e,w as the best of them, in the main room. What do you say, Miss Delaware?" She stood facing him now, seeming years older than she had a few moments before. A very skilled observer might possibly have suspected a. certain new quality in the calmness of her ry -. L'eautiful she certainly ! was; aliurinjer, irresistible in the an \ ( -" in ; . ? .1! ci" v oi. -.i.s. /';< rt:;inly o*:ght to hr.ve been. ?tnd would have been to any but this particular man , who now stood facing hor, half smiling; a man of -Middle age, gray about . the temples. 01 heavy-browed eyes. | strongly lim-d face, of strong and bony j frame; nor an ill-looking or unmanly I man one might have said, though , years older than this young woman : who stood now threading between her j fingers the filmy moonshine chain j which suspended the points of flame j that, rose and fell upon her bosom. At last she said, hesitating, and i holding up the flaming pendant, "I'm i not to keep them?" "No, Marguerite!" he smiled. 'This j particular Papa Faust retains a string ' on those jewels. They have been seen i elsewhere, my dear girl. No, one | nicrht's use of them is all this business ! proposition carries, nay dear." He began to be just a shade more familiar; bat she looked at him, still curiously helpless, because she found him strong where most men are weak j nnd defenseless. He caught some sort j of challenge in her attitude and in ; spite of himself trod a half step for- ! ward. . . . She evaded him. He j heard her laughter rippling in the hall, [ and followed. . . . Soon they were J in the crowded lift, packed in against ; shirt front and aigrette, silks and jew- | p?1a. arms and bosoms bared for the ! evening's fray. It may be true thnt no gentleman is grown in less than three generations, j but it is not the case that it requires j ihree generations to produce an aris- 1 locrat; and here was simple and per- j foct proof of that assertion. Head | waiters make no mistakes! The head waiter of the main hall unhesitatingly took John Rawn and his companion to as good a table as there was in tlie room. He knew the air of distinction i when he saw it! Heads, in plenty, of men and other ; women, turned as they passed through j | in that careless throng of the world- j | wise and blase. They walked by quiet- j j ly, simply, took their places with no , ! hesitation John Rawn had bethought him earlier as to the dinner order. He gave his directions now quietly, without hesitation. The two ate and drank discreetly, comported themselves, in fact, easily as any of these scores of others. They did not lean toward each other and obviously talk secrets, they did not laugh j uneasily and stare about. Among the I many well-bred women in that room? i i where at least a few such were present?none showed an easier accustomedness than Virginia Delaware. Her eagerness, her feverish anxiety, all now were gone. She was perfectly 1- 1 J Ti. YlrtlV ly ID. IiailU. it was lici picaouic uu t? only to prove her fitness for such a j scene, to comport herself as though i she had known no other surroundings than these in all her life. Once more the miracle of possibility in the yotmg American woman was shown. Rawn, discreet as his companion,, looked on with approval. "You're it!" "No, J Don't Know Her?" he once whispered across the table, as he bent above the menu. "You are the part!" Suddenly there came to hitn out of this occasion an additional surge of self-confidence. Yes, he said fo himself, he, too. could travel this gait. He could step easily into this life, the summit of life in America? as he thought?as though born to it. He could spend money with the best. He could obtain for himself as beautiful a woman to wear his jewels as any -nnn h^re in all this great city. He wOuld as widely advertise his power, his wealth, as any of these. Did he : Vi ?a QOC S66 euviuus ucut upua : companion and upon himself? It was I done! lis had won! He had suc' seeded! | After all, it had been easy, as he had found so many things easy in the Lest. As to the young woman with him, John Rawn's cold heart went out in admiration. "By Jove!" he said, 'she's a lady, that's what she is. She'd be?" Yot it is to be noted that his admiration for this young woman was primarily based not upon the usual impulses of men so situated, Dut upon a vast self-respect, for that he had placed her here and so proved his own judgment to be good. Some souls j are slow to any love but that of self, the approbation of self being the breath of life to them. Even the beauty of Virginia Delaware?and she was 1 beautiful?was swallowed up in John Rawn's iove and admiration for himself. There was. thus far, no suggestion of impropriety between them, now or later. They dined long, deliberately and well. Miss Delaware drank no wine, Rawn himself only abstemiously. TlKi keenest delight of the evening ?41: by ciiher came not of food or (.riliK. I ii'" .!i 10\ 'U tiwU Oi Lilt isi'.lit life tell u{ on Uiem, entered fl their souls. Distant and low-voiced ||3m|3 musical instruments set the air athrob with sensuous melody. Flowers bloomed, jewels biazed, soft voices rose, wine added its stimulus here and there. Hut beyond this luxury, this sensuousness, beyond the novelty nf if hf>vr>n;l thu vm^iip imnnl?3PS nf a common, humanity which runs' through all the world, they felt the last and subtle delight which comes with an admitted assuredness of self ?the consciousness of power and abll- J/k ity to prevail, the certainty of knowing all the path, all the full orbit of fl the great. As they sat thus calmly, apparently, as most might have said, old habitue* of scenes like this, apparently persona J8 of wealth and distinction, Rawn felt once more bent upon him the look of Q a passer-by. There approached the table where they sat the couple ha had seen earlier that evening, a stately and beautiful young woman, whose features now were a trifle more ani mated, whose eyes were brighter; ana with her the same dyspeptic director, sallow, with pointed dark beard. His face flushed still more as he saw John Rawn and his companion. He turned an admiring gaze upon the latter, whcfm of course he did not recognize. Rawn caught the gaze. It was the keenest delight of his evening that he could smile back, showing his own teeth also. ''By Jove!" muttered the ex-director to himself. fl "I beg pardon!" haughtily commented his own fair companion, who had caught his gaze aside. "Ycu know that person'/ wno is sner* "I don't know, my dear?I'm just trying to think. Her face?it looks like the goddess on some stock certificate I've seen?" "Indeed?" , . "Yes, goddess with a handful of iightning bolts." "Indeed?" -jM "Yes. We might call her the 'Lady j of the Lightnings' tonight She surely f Hi does shine like the bright and morn! ing star, the way she's illuminated? j eh, what?" ! "Indeed?" 1 ^TTTaII Vtnnrv if 11 f QVm'd q IaaVoF u cn, uaug 11 aii* u iwmv*| HiUtfiiHTOl | "Indeed?" "Yes, indeed! And they both look like ready money." The ex-director gave a little laugh. I "You don't know them?" asked hit companion, more placated as they I reached the corridor, where Virginia Delaware was at last out of sight. "No, I don't know her?never saw her before, unless, as I said, in an engraving. Don't worry?I haven't got I any of the engravings?now." | "Who is he?" "Fellow by name of Rawn, from Chi ; cago." (TO BE CONTINUED) + H ... - _ _ . r | STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, | COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. ! 0. B. Mayer, Plaintiff, { H| against I Olie Waites, Hattie Waites or Hattie Livingston, Katie Bell Tribble, John I Oii<3,P.n Ann Willi Minwnie I Hall and Gloria Waites, Defendants, Puisuant to an order of the Court herein, I will sell to the highest bidder, within the legal hours of sale, on ' Monday, saleday, March 3, 1913, at pub[ lie outcry, before the Court House door : at Newberry, S. 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