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PROMK By EMERSC aiituad tuf MTQQTQQIPPf ILLUSTRATIONS by Ra COPYRIGHT 1912 BY EMERSOl LiYNOPSIS. . I T?John Rawn It bom III in life he shows silrna <xf n.asterfuine*.; unci Inordinate selfishness. CH.VPTKR II--He marries I>aura John- j on. He Is a clerk in a St. Tx>u1s railway j o'fiee when his daughter Grace is born. , Years late/ he hears Grace's lover, a young engiheer named Charles Halsey. speak of a. scheme to utilize the lost current of ??leetricfty. With his usual unRcrupulousness ho appropriates the Idea as his own and induces Halsey to perfect an experimtntal machine. He forms a company, with himself as president, at a alary of *100.009 a year, and Halsey as superintendent of the works at a salary of $5,000. CHAPTER iTT?Rawn takes cnMge 01 the office in Chicago. Virginia Delaware, a beautiful, capable and ambitious young woman, is assigned as his stenographer. Phe assists in picking: the furniture and decoration for the princely mansion Rawn has <jrected. Mrs. Rawn feels out of place in the new surroundings. CHAPTIXR IV?Halsev goes to New York with Rawn and Miss Delaware to explain delays in perfecting the new motrr to tb>e impatient directors. He gets a n.essage that a deformed daughter has been born tc his wife, Grace Rawn. He returns to Chicago. CHATTER V? Rawn 'bargains with Miss Delaware to wear his Jewelry and apoear In public with him. a? a means to help him in a >isiness way. CHAPTER VI. John Rawn, Prominent Citizen. The blare and blaze of American 'life went on in all its capitals of industry. Buildings sprang up, factories poured their smoke unceasingly into the sky. Men ran hither and thither like ants, busy about what seemed to them of importance. Vast hives of heaped-up stone twice daily poured out their population of small creatures, some of them crippled, hurt, shorn in the battle of life, their faces pale, their forms bowed and stunted before their time. Out of the rich west poured always a steady stream of the products of the soil and of the mines, wealth unspeakable, dug from the resources of this admirable country of ours. Many produced it, a few controlled it, all required it. But lb ere came a sort of hush o^er 'all the country, as though an eclipse j ?1 ?? were passing, ui aume $iwu toot uj a cloud coming between these cities and the sun. Men said that business was not so good as it should be, though the country was richer than ever. None understood the popular unrest. Many pondered, many attempted to explain, but they fcund all save the easy and obvious explanation. The .masses remained morose, dissatisfied. Pamphlets appeared. In the journals pretending to give voice to popular trend of thought there were now to :be seen many screeds from many un known men. Some men said that prices should rise, others that rates of iransportation should risQ, but that wages should decrease. Others said that wages should increase?a few only of these, not many; for those who needed most a larger wage were those most dumb of expression, least able and least apt to make any public protest Our proudest may be our poorest?our neediest our most silent. In John Rawn's slowly growing factories near the western capital wages did not rise. He kept on his fight with the labor organizations. For this reason he met additional expense and additional delay in carrying on his plans, but still waged war, relaxing not at all, meeting pickets with policemen, force with force. The popular discontent of the day meant nothing to him. His eye was iixed ahead. To Halsey's complaints on the one side, his directors' discreet grumbling on the other, he paid as little attention on the one hand as upon the other. John Rawn h-p.d a dream, and he knew that his cream must come true. His dream was one of a wide-reaching and relentless power, shared by those few men destined by fate to own the so-called American republic. Let the people do what they would, all they could. This was his dream. It had come to him in all its fullness one evening in the great city of the east. He exulted. As to the icdustrial situation in International Power, Kawn now began to prove himself a good business man, and he received more and more the grudged confidence of his associates, Wiio came irom almost every raim ui \ i bis business. Through the aid and ad- i vice of these, his private fortune be?an co mount up enormously. So also did International Power make money. The only sore place of the directors' overstrained nerves centered in affairs at the gaunt building in the suburb, where a dozen mysterious machines, toothed and armed, cogged and coiled, still stood in a state of half-complecion, as inchoate and mysterious now as they had been at their inception. XTrtno of fhci TvrvrVmori nnnp of the foremen, could guess what they would look like when completed. There was something else, which not the most suspicious guessed?John Rawn himself did not know! His success was a vast bubble. Halsey was the only man who ever had known the full secret of mantling one of the miraculous receivers which they all had Been and all had accepted. Rawn, bold enough, kept this to himself, although he feared to go to Halsey and make any demands. Halsey held grim peace for months?indeed, for naorc IENT CITIZEN )N HOUGH BUBBLE; 54-40 OR FIGHT iy Walters IfAf T^U > nuuun than four years in all, counting from the first motor made In the Kelly row woodshed. It was risky, but for once Rawn dared make no desperate more. Halsey talked little. He was very sad since the birth of his hunchbacked child. Sometimes he talked to Virginia Delaware about it; never to his VT 11Ui And still the seven days' wonder of International Power remained to puz| zle the industrial world. No inkling I of the real intention of the company j ever got out. There was, as Rawn had | predicted, no market for the stock, for j the reason that it was not listed and j for the further reason that it was not j sold. It was held in a close com! munion of hard-headed and close| mouthed men, and there were no confidences betrayed. The thing was too big to conform to ordinary rules. In the center of all this stood the figure I of John Rawn, suddenly growi large and strong. He ruled his arm. offi j cers, staff and line, cavalry, infantry and auxiliaries, as one born originally to command. He brooked neither parleying nor thwarting of his will? except in one instance. He never made any demands on Halsey, never gave him any peremptory orders after that one day in the office, months earlier, before Halsey made his first trip to New York. These months seemed to have aged John Rawn, none the less. He grew grimmer and grayer, more taciturn and reserved. At the clubs he was one of the most talked-of men in town, and one who talked least himself. As his hair grew grayer at the temples, his jaw grew harder, at the corner or his chin coming the triangular wrinkles which go with hard-faced middle age. Enigmatic, self-centered, he could not have been called a happy man. He smiled but rarely, joked not at all, engaged in no badinage, told no stories, found no lighter side ot life, played no golf, had no vacations. Like some vast engine of tremendous driving power he weflt on his way, admired in a city and country full of able men, as one competent to hold * * ? a a His own witn me oest anu buvuscoi. ui them all. And still of all his traits stood Qut the one of self-confidence. He played a game of enormous and continuous risk?fundamental risk by reason of Halsey, incidental by reason of his widely ballooned market operations; yet his nerve held^ Moreover, he was learning the price of success? an absolute devotion to the means of success. When he learned that the child of his daughter was not a son, but a girl, and that it was a hunchback for life, a sad-faced, unsmiling child?he set his jaws for a moment, but said few words of condolence, either to his daughter or her husband. He did not smile for three months after that, and never referred to this sub ject again, alter its nrsi uiscussiuu with his wife at Graystone hall; but it cost him no time and no energy lost from business. It only deepened in his soul his growing hatred for Charley Halsey, the man whom he dared not chide. In the headquarter offices a vast, smoothVunning business machine had new been built up. Rawn was an or * l?rrrL Ar-n oca nf ganizer. me i<a.\.nc.t>o emu. iv/uo^hvuu the old railway offices in St. Louis, where he had got his business schooling, were missing in the headquarters of International Power. Employes had small time to gossip in business hours. Out of business hours, it is to be confessed, once in a while there was discussion as to the salary of Miss Virginia Delaware, which was reported a wholly instable affair. It was rumored in stenographic circles that she had taken to wearing very stunning evening gowns. Yet not the most captious?though williag ^s did not lack ?could raise voice gainst her. or couple her name with any other. Rawn ~^ woro novpr sppn together ex emu out. i*v . v* ? -~<=> ? cepting during business hours; he never mentioned her name in any company. Once or twice a laughing voice at the National Union, where rich men met in numbers, tried to create some sort oi' discussion over Rawn's beautiful private secretary, but it was so 1 by Rawn himself V.: it i v..s resumed. L :>on >iio c-iier hand, few could spe?k in definite knowledge regarding rhe domestic matters of John Rawn. He was a man of mystery, though one of known and admitted power. He held what he gained; and, as there must have been accorded to him strength of soul, grasp, readiness, courage, he began to be accepted as one of the large figures of his day alike in industry and finance. He had by this time fully arrived in the prominent citizen class in his chosen metropolis. Did firemen perish, John Rawn joined the list of those who aided the widows. Was some neighboring city swept by flames, again he joined?on the front page of the papers?those who gav? succor for the needy. Did a famine in India or China sweep off a million souls, John Rawn ?oil tfae front page?aiaea me sur| vivors. He was a member of the leading clubs of the city, a director of the board of the art institute. He bought if ha did not occupy a .hex the opera, hud allow."*] !iih n;?i. io ! :>: - >? ; at the banquets ofi<p.-d by r souls I i'au JTrTT'T.'- IV y^'W??f?<5LVTC Yes, It Was an Abode Suited for a Prominent Citizen. to celebrities of one sort or another j who proved themselves amenable to j receptions, banquets, addresses of i welcome, and what-not, anything to j bring lesser names into print on any j page, tails to any kite. In short, John Rawn comported himself as a prominent citizen should. Ever he was the kite, never the tail. He loomed a large | and growing figure in his little world. \ Above all, there seemed something j uncanny in the unvarying facility with j which Rawn made money. There is I i no real explanation of the difference j in money-making power, except that \ some men make money and some do ! not. Rawn did, without any doubt or question. Not lacking ability and calmness in judgment, and not lacking full information such as is accorded those ; said to be upon the sacred inside of j the market, he was in and out of Rubber. Coppers, Steel, at precisely the j right time. JHis oil investments m California, played up and down in proper symphony, had made him more than a million dollars, smoothly, easily, simply. The railways market was an open book to him, and public utilities seemed something he could gage while others stood and wondered. There are times when some men win. Rav. n could not lose, whether he dealt i in Ontario Silvers, Arizona Coppers, j anything he liked. He was in with j * * ?- ?* AT. j IHe paCK Wlieu, m mese ncn-c: I days of individual and corporate greed, I it finished pulling down a republic, and battened, guzzled at the bowels of the quarry. He partook with thes* of a broad knowledge of the narrow-; ing raw resources of the country, and was in with them at the death. He was one of those to get hold of large acreages of the passing timber lands, he was counted with those who sought the great coal neias tortneir own; ran j true to scent, with these, the trail of j monopoly in any commodity which the people more and more must need. In the one matter of his relations with a certain transcontinental railway, Rawn made a quarter million as hi3 | share of the three-quarters of a billion | taken in sales of mineral lands from i the railway's land-grant holdings. That I the grants had covered only agriculi turiil lands mattered little, for when ! the sleepy government at Washington j ! reluctantly took the trail, it was I shown a law, c^-iningly passed a few ! | years earlier, which barred the repub- j ! lie, by virtue of a six-year statute of \ ! limitations, from recovering any of its | own property! John Rawn often I laughed over that. He laughed also | when the "suckers," as they called ID em, Dlt just as eageriy at inigauuu i as they had at mines. 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