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PROMtt by LlVltK^V AUTHOR of THE MISSISSIPPI ILLUSTRATIONS by Ra COPYRIGHT 1912 BY EMERSOI SYNUP5I3. < "ii a . TK;: I?John Rawn la bom 111 < ?.<. "ariy in life he shows signs of J iasterfuliu'ss and inordinate selfishness. CHAPTER II?lie marries T.aura John*f>n. He is a cl.>rk in a St. Louis railway office when his (laughter Grace is born. *-ars later he hears Grace's lover. a young engineer named Charles Halsey, *peak of a scheme to utilize the lost current of electricity. With his usual un*crupulousness lie appropriates the Idea *s his own and induces Halsey to perfect ftn experimental machine. He fnrms a company, with himself as president, at a alary of $100.00*.' a year, and Halsey as superintendent of the works at a salary of $."<.000. CHAPTER iTT? Rawn takes ohM?fe of Vitk /->f('!,;,.QtrA Virginia Delaware. ft beautiful, capable a?id ambitious yours woman, is assigned as his stenographer. Fhe assists in picking the furniture and decoration for the princely mansion Rawn has ei vted. Mrs. Rawn feels out of place in the new* surroundings. CHAPTKR 7V?TTalsey pops to Now York w:th Rawn auri Miss Delaware to explain delays In pcrfcotinsr the new motor to t>v> impatient directors. He gets a message that a deformed daughter has been born to his wife. Grace Rawn. He ? ? r?u: ICLUiUS LU V URdgU. C"HA.VTr?R V?Tiawn >areains with Miss T>elaware to wear his jewelry and appear Jn public with him. as a means to help him in a business way. CHAPTER VI? Rawn is fortunate in market speculations, piles up wealth and attains prominence. CHAPTER VII. A Princely Generosity. Mr. Rawn went on with the pack. He was in and out of the market. His money grew. His ambition also grew. He felt coming now upon him anotner change. He said to himself that he was no'a* about to'pass up, into yet another era of his development. One day, after his usual day's routine, he closed his office door, took his car at. the curb, dropped in at his club, imbibed the two cocktails which were now his evening wont, and again emerging, nodded to his chauffeur in the fashion which meant "Home!" j Tney passed on out again tnrougn me floating crowd of various and often vulgar vehicles, north-bound?shrieking aloud in a vast united chorus, demanding speed, speed, and yst more speed?along the throbbing arteries of ' - the city's population. At last he stopped once more at the front of Graystoii" hall "Forty-five minutes, I>ennis," said he to frit; driver, snap- I r> rv V? ic? M-ot/iU * * T I J.'/liw, 1UO ?? ntv il. JL UCUIJ-VUC , | you'll learn it after a while." Mr. Rawn was in exceptional good humor. He was at peace with the world and with his conscience. Me looked about him now calmly, with approbation in his gaze. His gardeners had done wonders. The walks were solid and well kept, the screen-'I sward sound and flourishing. These late stubbed and desolaie trees were i V> I now wide, green and branching. The crocus borders were unbroken, the 1 formal monochrome beds, here and I there upon the lawn, showed clean-cut I and distinct. The tall pillars of his motley house even had a green veiling of ivy, swiftly grown by art. and j not by time. On a terrace a bed of foliage plant, thirty feet long, grew j in the shape of a word?a magic word j ?"Rawn." If any passer-by wished knowledge as to the creator of all this, he might read as he ran? - \nawn." ' Kawn passed up the steps and looked out through the long hallway from the rear of the house, or rather its real front, which lay upon the lake shore. Beyond, he could see the faint curl of the distant steamers' smoke j against the horizon. He stopped for a j moment, drinking in the scene, of j which he never tired. There were birds twittering softly in the trees about him. He caught the breath of iiuwers, coming 10 mm rrom ine nans within. Yes, it was an abode suited for a prominent citizen. There came to meet him now the quiet footfall which he had come to expect, not always patiently or with pleasure, as the natural end of his day's labors; his wife, Laura, had never forgotten this daily greeting of the old-fashioned wife to her husband, as the latter returned at the close of his day's labor. He stepped as he heard her siow tread upon the stair. She was comine to mpet him. She alwavs did. He. John Rawn, controller of men, a man born to succeed and going yet higher, had only, after all, an old-fashioned 7 wife! t It was an emergency this evening. He was accustomed to meet emergencies. He had come tonight prepared to meet this one. "Laura," said he, after the servants had drawn the curtains and left them alone in the central room, whither they had repaired after dinner; "sit down here, I want to talk to you a while." "Yes, John," said she quietly. But ehe looked at him startled. Her face grew suddenly grave. Be sure the brute advancing to the poll-ax knows its fate. That was the look in Laura Rawn's face now. "Yes, John," she 6aid, knowing what blow was to be hers. He motioned her to a seat beyond the little table and seated himself opposite. Reaching into a bulging pocket, he brought out a thick bundle of folded papers; long, narrow papers,. IENT CITIZEN \*T ? l/M T/~? I f mnuuun BUBBLE; 54-40 OR FIGHT iy Walters V HOUGH most or niem green, ?5Hiers brown, or pale pink. He pushed this bundle across the table, so that his wife must see it. She reached out a hand, but f uiu nut iuurv at u. I "What is it, John?" she said. Herj hand tarried, her face went still more i weary and gray, became even of an i ashier pallor than was its wont. "It's a trifle, Laura," said John j Rawn. "Look at it. There's bonds j and gilt-edge dividend-payers for just exactly one million dollars!" "One million dollars, John! What do you mean?" "Look at it, see for yourself." "Rut, John?what does it mean?" "Tf -ma<1 ria o on oaf rlocjl \fr*C T?MWT1 ! It llicauo 11 ?-) x VUt UVUt, AUt w. *%fc? 1? ??y a great deal for you. It took some j work to make it on my part. There are j not ten men in this town today who j could draw out of their business clean, i unhypothecated securities for a mil- j lion dollars. I've seen to it that ail j | these are registered in your name. | It's my gift to you, without reservai tion." i "John, how can I thank you?but I j don't want it! I've not earned it, I wouldn't know what to do with it. You're always so?so kind, John, with me. But I can't take it! It's not mine!" "It is yours, Laura. And you've got to take it!" "But I don't want to!" "I want no foolishness," he said sternly. "That money is yours. You can use it as you like. Of course, I will counsel with you as to reinvest-j merit the best I can. I don't want to i see the interest wasted. "I don't ever want to see you in need," he went on. "I don't counsel loose investments. My lawyers will also tell you what to do with your money, and they'll put up to you a list of good, safe, savings-bank investments, the kind that fools and sailors ought to have. I'll help you choose, if you like. I don't want to be ungenerous. This is ycur estate." "Mv pstat#?!?But. John. I'm vour wife! I don't care for this money. I don't understand it. and I don't want it. I want to be yo"? wife, John, the way I always was?I want to help? I want to be useful lo you all the time, i as I've always tried to be." "Precisely, Laura, and I appreciate that feeling very much. I feel the same way. I want to be as useful as I can to you. We have always been loyal to each other, faithful with each other: I know that. There are not ten I men worth my money in this town toI day who can say what I can?tlfat | they've been faithful to their wives as I have been to mine. You've been a good woman, and you've worked hard. You say you haven't earned this money, but I think you have. We've been useful, yes, to each other. Eut when we can't be any more, Laura, vrhy then?" Tlx# tears burst from her eyes now. lie Tiuwucu. i,.ie should interrupt him, but went on. ' It sluill Tipver be said that I was i unkind to you, Laura. Indeed, I shall always feel kindly to you?always remember what you have done." "But you don't, you don't, John!" "I don't? What do you mean by I that, Laura? Isn't there the proof? j Isn't there a million dollars lying right i in front of you on that table? And you say this to me, who has just given you a cold million!" | "That's it, it's a cold million, John," said she bitterly. "It's cold!" "Good God! The unreasonableness of woman!" said John Rawn, upturning his eyes. "Now I've thought all this out as carefully as a man can. I've denied myself, to take thi3 much capital out of my investments and set it aside for you. I can make five mil| lions out of that money in the next j I five vears. Rut no. I reserve it. and I j live it to you for your estate, so that: you shall never know want?more money than you ever had a right to dream of having. You do that for a woman, and what does sh?> say? Why, slip doesn't want it! Good Ood!" "John," she said struggling for her I | self-control, "you might at least tell J the truth.:: "What do you mean?the truth?" [ "It's some other woman, of course!") T if'c* n AfVlinor I I SW03T to you, Lciui a., n o i of the sort. I've boon guilty of no act i with anyone?" But she shook her' head. j "Don't I know?" she said. "It's always another woman. She's a young j woman, whoever she is. Why don't j you come out and tell me the truth, i John? How long before you're going to be married?" The tears were well- j ing steadily from her eyes, under the last of the many and bitter torments which are so often a woman's lot. 1 -- I n T onra Ihprp JJ TP "1 Say IU you agaiu, 1.UU1U, ( no plans of that sort in my mind!" '"Then how long will it be before j our?our?" She could not say the word "divorce." She had been an old-fashioned wife. "I've no plans as to that. I was only wanting to discuss the matter quietly tonight, without any disturbance." "No," she said, "I must not break down! Tell me when does it come, John?" But i?till the tears came, steadily, and she made no effort to j ' ^ LK II:. - \7.si ii \o:. I would suggest thai you ? = ui Hv o to some other pl.iCe. Lanra. Thai. will be best for mt*. Why?" In- add'd this in a burst of confidence, "?there wouldn't be twenty people around town would know you'd gone! 1 can keep a close tongue, and so can you." "liut, John, why should we? I've never crossed you in any way. I've always tried to do what you liked. "" '-3 O I'll ,.r;ilinrr Yvnv SIIOIUU we pai l ; in L?e Miiiuif, just to live along here quietly. I can't bear to think of going away. I like my things, John," she said suddenly, and seemingly irrelevantly, "who told you about all these things, these collector' pieces that you've been getting for so long?" Ke vanced with sudden self-revela- j tion, astonished at this intuition on her part. He had been sincere in his statement that there was no other woman in his affections. He had only forgotten that he had no affections, j He flushed now, but tried to pull together,* "Very well, Laura," said he; "you only prove to me what I've felt for some time. You can't understand me, you simply are not up to my require-1 ments. I'm willing to say you'd be content to live along here, just as we i did at Kelly row. I am not content to do anything of the sort. I've been thinking over this, studying over it for some time. There's the answer." He nodded toward the bundle which lay upon the table. "It's no use trying to make the j world all over again, Laura," he said after a time. "We've both done our best, but our best didn't tally. We've hung together. What's right is right. Is it right for me to be dragged down by your own limitations?ought I to stop in my own career to conform to that? Would that be right, now, Laura, for a man like me??Is it right for j any man? If you can't go forward, J ought I to go back? If we can't both! travel the same gait, whose gait ought1 to govern? Whatever you do, don't1 blame me, that's all. But you did blame me?you do now." A grave look sat upon his face. He felt himself an injured man. "Yes, John," she said. "I do." "Of course, of course! That's the; reward a man geis iui luving m? wn^, i treating you as I have. Well, we're not the first-to face a situation of just this kind Things travel swifter now than they did w*hen we were children, or when we were married. What did then will not do today. Why blame ourselves for that??blame the time, the way of the world, the way things go today. This country has changed? it goes faster every year. We've got to keep the pace, I tell you, when we get into it. Those who can't must j i.1. ? -11 oKnul Crop OUC, <1I1U (.licit 6 an liicj c is auuui it. I was born for the front, and that's all about that. Don't blame me. I've never blamed you!" "Then, what do you blame, John?" "Nothing. I say. It's the way life ruLS. We're married, why? Because we thought we were to have some jTOpmv to protect. There is much to be said in favor of the marriage institution. It holds property safe under its contract. Property?that's the Rifrn of nower! Property is the only O? J.? - _ reason for marriage; or for government, when it comes to that. Property is the token of power. I've got that! Put something ols<; goes with it! xVhy, Laura, wlirn I lock ar uo both I wonder that i've been patient so Ion.';, held back as I hav- aeon by your ov. n Darrow ideas. Ii you'd had your way, I you'd have set un Kelly row right | where we are no "I'm old-fashioned, John," said she, her head high, though her tears fell ! free, "I'm just an old-fashioned, worn- J out wife, that's all. I'm not so very much, John, and I never thought I was very much. I just did the best I could, all the time. I couldn't seem to do any more, John. I don't know how. I did my best!" "We all do!" said John Rawn philosophically. "We all do our best. But when our best isn't good enough to j keep U3 up, we go downi" He spoke generously, gravely, judicially. He was arbiter, in his own j belief, not husband. The country had changed since they two had married. "Yes, there's much to be said for the institution of marriage, Laura," he repeated after a time. "In fact, it is a necessity, as society is organized. But divorce is a natural corollary of marriage. There are contracts, and broken contracts. That's all!" "What is a?a corollary, John?" she| asked. "It's a consequence; it is something that follows. I meant to say, that if it is right for two people to be married, it is right for them to be divorced when the time comes. It's property. and the consequences to property, which sometimes determine that!" "But we said, John, when we were married?I swore it with all my heart ?'Till death do us part!' It isn't death. I wish it were!" "No, it's property," said John Rawn. "Rut all this serves 110 purpose," he continued. "I don't want to have you make this hard for me!" "Ah, God! How you've changed, John, since the old times! How you've changed!" "So that's it, is it?" he rejoined bitterly, "I've only changed, and you're sorry that I changed. Well, suppose we agree to that. I have changed!" "What do you want me to do, John?" she asked after a time, her breath still, in spite of herself, coming in sobs. "When do you want me to go?" "Tomorrow, Laura. There's no use waiting." "Very well; where shall I go?" "Why, I don't dictate to you, Laura ?I leave that all for you to determine. You can be happy as you lilce, and where you please. I would only suggest, if you ask me, that you take up residence in some quiet communky, . : ; : ' " i ; : :ir . < "Very >; < ]:. I're iioi in:'!iv fr? nds Ii* 'o i tnw>. I've not been happy iht**; I nev?r would b?*. I'll agree to that much. I believe I'll co back to our old town?I d feel ! bettor there!" "You've good judgment, Laura," h ! noted with approbation. "What yc. , say has good sense about it. Very , likely you'd be more happy there than j here. But wherever you go, don't for-J i get your oici nusoana, jonn. uoep in : my work as I shall be, I will always think of you, Laura, with nothing but kindness. I want you to think that way of me?to remember that I've been kind to yo::, always. You will, won't you, dear?" She did not seem to hear. Her face was bowed down upon her arms, flung ! out across the table. She was an oldfashioned woman, and still silly enough to pray to the God who had placed her in this world of puzzles. (TO BE CONTINUED). I j lmm COKN AND EGGS. I Experiments to Determine Effort ou the Yolks. i J I The Maryland experiment station recently concluded experiments to j determine tii-e eflect or ieeaing corn on the color of the yolk of eggs. One ; hundred and twenty Single Comb j Whi^e Leghorns were divided into I three lots of 40 each and were housed i and cared for alike except that one I | pen received its whole grain in the ! | form of corn, another in the form of! ! wheat, and the third received a mix- i ! ture of corn and wheat. All pens were J j allowed free access to narrow yards, j J which furnished a very limited amount j i of green stuff. All the eggs laid by, [ these p:-ns were saved, and after boil-! j ing were cut in half and placed in | parallel rows for comparison. In j every instance the eggs from tne corn-: I fed lot showed a yolk with a deep yel- j ; low coxor. Every egg from the corn J and wheat fed lot showed a yolk with | a deep yellow color, while with but three exceptions the eggs from those fed wheat had a yolk of a very pale, j yellow color. ! Auditor's Notice. i I, or an authorized agent, will be I at the following places named below | for the purpose of taking returns of | | personal property for fiscal year 1913. | Xewoerry Court House, Jan. 28th to j Feb. 20th. The time for making assessments expires oil Thursday, Feb. 20th, and all persons, firms and corporations j failing to make their returns by 6 j o'clock on the evening of Feb. 20th, a! penalty of f>0 per cent will be added j to their assessment of fiscal year 1913. | The law requires a tax to be charged ! | on all moneys, notes and mortgages, j | also an income tax on gross incomes | I in excess of $2,500.00 There shall be a capitation tax of < j fifty cents on all dogs, the proceeds ! to be expended for school purposes. "* x 2 nl-4 O 1 1 I Dogs not reiuriieu iui w.\<uiwu suau j not be considered as property in any j of the courts of tliis State. All male persons between the ages of 21 and 60 years are liable to pay poll tax, except Confederate soldiers, j or those persons incapable of earning j a support from being maimed or from j any other cause. ! I Nothing but personal property is to be assessed this year, but all persons who have bought or sold any real estate since last return are required to note such transfers on their returns | for 1913. All property must be assessed "at j I its true value," which is construed to i j mean the sum of money which such j I property, ander ordinary circum- j | stances would s-ell for cash. Please do not ask that your propj erty be taken from the auditors dupli! cate the same as la^t year, for the j law requires all property must be ! listed on regular tax return blanks and i signed and sworn to by person listing I same. I Na?ie of township and school dis-l j trict must be given on every return. ' EUGENE S. WERT3 i Auditor for Newberry County, Newi i berryt S. C. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. I I ! Vntiof* id herebv given that I will I | make a final settlement on the estate! ! of John Lake, deceased, in the Proj bate Court for Newberry county, S. 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