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PROMif FMFRS( MTHOR of THE MISSISSIPPI ILLUSTRATIONS by Ri COPYRIGHT 1912 BY EMERSC srrfopsr^ 1 ^CHAPTER I?John Rawn la born tft i xuk. Karly in life he shows sijns o? masterfulness and inordinate selfishness, CHAPTER II?He marries Eaura Johnson. H*? Ik a clerk in a St. Ixuiis railway office when his daughter Grace is horn. Years 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 miscrupulousness he appropriates the Idea as his own and Induces Halsey to perfect .an experimental machine. He. forr?6 a company, with himself as president, at a salary of $100,009 a year, and Halsey as superintendent of the works at a salary of $5,000. CHAPTER ill?Rawn takes ohM?^ of the office in Chicago. Virginia Delaware, a beautiful, capable and ambitious young woman, is assigned as his stenographer. She assists in picking the furniture and decoration for the princely mansion Rawn h'_?* erected. Mrs. Rawn feels out of place in the new surroundings. CHAPTER TV?Halsey goes to New York with Rawn and Miss Delaware to explain delays in perfecting the new motor to to/* impatient directors. He gets a message that a deformed daughter has been born to his wife, Grace Kawn. Me returns to Chicago. CHATTER V- Tlawn bargains with Miss Delaware to wear his jewelry and appear In public with him. as a means to help him In a business way. CHAPTER VT?Rawn is fortunate in market speculations, piles up wealth and attains prominence. CHAPTER VIT?Hp frets because his wife does not rise with him in a social way. He gives her a million dollars to leave him. CHAPTER VIII. The Extreme Monogamy of Mr. Rawn. It is always more or less annoying to put away a wife. Even if the expense of the process be little, as in these modern days it has come to be, and even if consent thereto be mutual, co ci ro in its 13 3U VlVCtl lllc V.U1X,, V ui v >u practically all cases so many unpleasant attendant features as almost to dispose one to favor the abolishment of the marriage idea, and to condemn it as one not destined to survive in these days of modern competition. ^ ^jl Her Face Was Bowed Down Upon Her Arms. This, the more especially as regards that monogamic idea of marriage which the government at Washington -at-o1 coats to nvpr mir pn tire domain. As to the idea ol' polygamy, much may be said in its favor. Thus, if one be tired of one wife, or bored by another, in polygamy it is t-dsy to shift the domestic scene to a third, and that in wholly good-humored fashion. The idea of divorce has about it something almost po?rsona!, as though one were displeased over some matter, as though one held in one's heart something actually of criticism, or dissatisfaction, or mayhap con demnation of one's own earlier judgment in the selection of a helpmeet. Again, even after divorce has been consummated, there are so many small habits to be broken, heritage and holdover of relations but recently sun<dvred. For instance, if one has been /accustomed to pork and boiled cabbage at tabic, and if only one woman has evinced ability to prepare shoulder of pork and cabbage in the proper manner, and if that woman has chanced to be one's lately current wife, it is, let us repeat, an annoying thing to find that that particular woman. after deliberately forming and fostering in one a craving for shoulder of 03hhafrp?aftpr havine: estab . f/VSX A MUU VWWMWpv 0 Jished an addition, as it were, in one's soul for that viand?has with shameless disregard of wifely duty and do-mestic decency obliged one to divorce iher, perhaps ex vinculo, or at least ab mensa et thoro. And again there may be yet other 'habits upon the one hand or the other which must be broken or readjusted, it one's wife?or one of one's wives? has been in the habit of leaving her tatting eaeh afternoon on the top of the table near the best view out of the bow window, and if one sees continually this abandoned tatting permanently left there in the confusion of ^pr permanent departure?it is annoying, let us repeat, to be reminded of a habit to whose creator we have said farewell. It causes a mental ennui constantly to be removing tatting or <JENT CITIZEN DN HOUGH j [ BUBBLE; 54-40 OR FIGHT iv Waltpfs AJ V V %*lkV? w >N HOUGH embroidery. i Or. if one's current wife has had the old-fashioned and not wholly well-bred habit of meeting one at the door of an evening, at the close of the day's labors?just as in the evening the cave woman greeted her man at the mouth of the cave to ask him what had been the fortune of the day's bunt?and if I now that footfall, ill-bred, yet after all I habitual?and was it wholly unweli come, after all?shall have ceased for ever, with what eouinimity. let us ask, can we regard the memory of the woman who formed that habit and handed down an annoying expectation - a 1-CJ11 | to tier nusoana, impossiDie 01 lumu-i merit after her departure? It is, as John Rawn wisely hc.s said, i true that much may be said in favor) of the idea of marriage; yet upon the) other hand, how very much there is that could be said against it, or at least against it as implying an unrestricted . continuance, offering no ! change in association. The which is by way of saying something to prove j John Rawn's excellently philosophical course in life to have been quite correct. There could have been no doubt as to the wisdom of his marrying Laura, his wife, in the first place, no doubt as to the wisdom of continuing the marriage relation with her for many years; but, upon the other hand, it is obvious that his idea of the timeliness of the divorce in due season was equally wise. Indeed, the only reservation in his mind in regard to this matter was one of censure for a worn-1 an who, having entered into the holy state of matrimony with a gentleman of his parts, had had the temerity to create in his soul an addiction for shoulder of pork and cabbage; ^rho v.o/* inft taf-tinjr nnrm the table; uau uv/i v.u v-r and who, departing, had given no future address whither her tatting might be sent! Yes, Laura Rawn had been, without doubt or question, an unreasonable and unkind wife. Above all it was wrong for a woman to go away and leave her !ate husband feeling so much alone. Why shouJd he, John Rawn, be allowed to become conscious of a feeling of lonesome ness? Why should he be left to dread ihe drawing of the curtains at night, when there remained only the pound of the surf along the wall, the wail of the wind in the cornice? One chloroforms a formerly prized dog, but missos it. It is much tpe same way with the divorced wife. Too many unpleasant features attend the process of 'ueii separation. Any civilization worth the name ought to devise some j method loss annoying for this which j Mr. Kawn has so fittingly d-scribed j as the corollary of the marriage rite, i Eurcly our boasted age has its drawbacks, its shortcomings! Some men in such circumstances ' "" ~i.T ? ?v, Drooa; sonic unmv, uiucjs scaau vui. the other woman or women. John Rawn was cast in different mold. He had. in short, spoken truth when he told his wife that he had no new matrimonial plans. Situated thus, yet handicapped thus in his new-found solitude, but a few days had passed before he sent over for his daughter, Grace, and her husband, unaries ?aisey; there being in his mind a plaa to mitigate certain unpleasant features of his lil'e as he now found it ordered. He greeted Halsev and Grace at the j door gravely, with dignity, when they i came one evening in response to his I invitation. They entered, just a trifle ! awed, as they alway * ere. by the aui gust surroundings ot Graystone hall, so dift'erent from their own cottage near the factory. The owner of the place looked well the part of owner here. John Rawn still was large and strong, the city had not yet much softened his lines. His hair now wras whiter about the temples, but its whiteness left his appearance only the more distinguished. You scarce could have found in all the haunts of prominent citizens a better example of prominent citizen than himself, John Rawn. The major domo took the wraps of the young people and vanished silently. Rawn, waiting for them in the j drawing-room?not in the hall, as once j he would have done?with dignity mo- j tioned them to places in his jfresence, even brought a low chair himself for the sad-faced, hunchbacked child which represented the Rawn succession in the third generation. "Go kiss grandpa, Lola!" said Grace to her daughter; and went to show her the way. But the child, turning suddenly, only hid her face in her mother's skirt. "Laura's timid," apologized the mother. The disapproval on her father's face was obvious enough. He !;ad passed bitter hours alone, pon- ! ' over tV.-s child, hesitating ; v.netner to love ir. or to naie it, . vhether to accent it or *o regard it j as a blot upon Ins lire. He had hoped j a grandson, since he no longer might ; hope a son of his own. This crippled child was the sole Rawn succession, flis pendulous lower lip trembled for a time in the self-pity which now and again came to John Rawn. It seomed hard enough that he, John Rawn. j president o:" the Inienjatioual Po.vv^r Con:.*'; ::y, 11: ' m vi1 doni.'o of ' '~v. th > o!" i\ >r ]!> ] :! ! ]'..]. < n!l 5- n.o'"1. Hut now he (iid not lack directness, j "Grace," he suid, "I've called you over I to-night because to-morrow, as you 1 know, is Friday." i __ "Vps, Fa." "And as you know, Grace, your mother?that is to say, the late Mrs. Rawn, always had the way?in short, I may say that she induced me to depend upon?I mean to say that always she had shoulder of pork and cabbage for Friday evening. Now, I am left alone, helpless?it is too much!" Mr. Rawn made no attempt, wholly to conceal his just emotion. "Now look at me," he resumed. "Your mother went away, ana seinsniy neglected to take into consideration this habit, or to provide any means for meeting it. My chef has tried often to prepare this dish.' I must say he always has failed." "Why don't you write to Mrs. Rawn and ask her for the recipe?" asked young Halsey soberly. "That is not practical," rejoined Mr. Rawn icily, "even did I know that lady's present address; as I do not." His daughter sat gazing straight at I* ? ?' V* V* /-?#-? Trtr V\ r?rv ^i?n Ktif mm, unuei uci utravj uiuno, uui uiauc no comment. Grace had not improved with years. Her face was heavy, pasty, her expression morose. The corners of her mouth turned down, and deep vertical frown-wrinkles sat between her dark eyebrows. "But I do not wish that name, mentioned again," said John Rawn raising his hand. "I dismissed that thought of asking her aid as something unworthy of me. Let Friday come. I shall seek no aid outside of those from whom it may fitly be expected." Ah, hero! i "Now, Grace," he continued later, turning toward her, "I know very well you're a good housekeeper." "She is that!" Halsev nodded. Con-j tinually he forced himself into such I approval of his wife as he could compass. Continually he refused comparisons. "Precisely, and skilled in all the dishes which the late Mrs. Rawn had | as specialties. You do not know how: things are running here, Grace. 11 can't get anything done on time, and i am deprived of what I really want. \ Grace, I need a housekeeper!" "Surely, Pa. Why don't you hire one?" "How much better off would I be in that case? None in the least. No, I want you. You'll have to come over here to live!" The young couple sat gazing at mm for a time before making reply. "That's impossible, Pa," said Grace. "I have a home of my own, and it is more than twenty miles from here." John Rawn raised a hand. "I have thought all that out. You reason now, as so many do, when any distinct change in life is proposed to tham. You let the little things outweigh the larger or.es. It was a fault your mother had. Now the large matter, the' really important tmng, is tnis?tnat l; can not be allowed to live on here in j this way with all those annoyances.' Too much dt'^nds upon me. in busi-. ness, for me to have the quiet and peace of my life interfered with. I've! got to hnve a clear head?especially' on Saturday. Now, then, if you can: step in h^re, my daughter, and establish in some measure the.sort of life r i -1 i J ^ ! i nave always u?eu useu lu, eviueiitij , that is your d*ity, and you ought not; to balance against it the small incon-j veniences which that course would cause you and your husband. I'm quite sure you can teach that chef?" "But, Mr. Rawn, I've got to be at the factory almost day and night!" broke in Halsey. "Precisely. I do not mean for you to make your home here, only Grace. You'll have to stay on where you are. Of course, you can come here at j limes to repon, au least unue ui mi^c a week?say Friday night. Very much depends on you, Charles You know how much I value you, how much I; rely on your services. Really, it all j depends on you, otur success as a com- j panv. We've been very patient, although I must say?" Halsev muttered something under j his breath and turned away. His at- j titude angered Rawn to tne point or forgetting himself. "Never mind what you think about it, young man! It's what I think about it that counts. Grace belongs j here, anyhow. She will have a wider J life with me. It's time she had some j things which she has never known. It j may be necessary for us to travel, to i see something of this' country and Eu- j rope. Besides, the child needs care, j All these things cost more money than I you can afford, your.g man. Don't try i to balk me in what I suggest. It is obviously the right thing to ao." "But how long?" "Indefinitely!" "And you want me to break up my home 'indefinitely'? Well, I must con-; fess I don't in the least see it that; way, Mr. Rawn." "You're selfish, and that's why you ! can't see it, Charles. Above all things j you ought to avoid the vice of self-; ishness. You are not parting from | your wife, but only helping her to a j better grade of liviug. Meantime, of course, your duty to her and to the company is to make a success of your work. Think of the business, my son. ?i . no sood comes of selfishness. .... be just. And for God's sake,! : j. i:y :o g-1 one of those machines done!" Halscy only sat and looked at him darkly for a time, making no reply. "It seems to me that I can never get you to understand Charles," resumed j Ttawn, "that things are not the way; they us^d to b^ before we came here to Chicago. T'm a bigger man now i iuch. I've iioivn th"** J two or :y> ; :h, my jcy. 7 shonld pot I)!* t; :!k (1 if ev? *:':jr' 11 y i werp ol)!iyf(l to m.'.!:<> niy r?'-s: I't.cp : in New York, it' noi abroad. We are i rising in the world, rising very fnst, j Charles. Do you want to go up with I the Rawns, o" stay down with thu i ill this world? Resides, in i this case you ought to respect the i wishes of your own wife. You want | to remember, my dear boy, that my daughter, Grace, is half Rawn as well * - i<? *r i mi 1 ? x 1^1 ^ i as nan jonnson. ine oiuy iruuuie | with her is, the Rawn half has not yet had its innings." Halsey turned and stared at his wife. He found her sitting with her pP'7 ' She Had as Yet Issued No Veto to This Calm Proposal. dark eyes fixed, now on her father, now wandering hither and yon ovrr : the rich surroundings in her father's home. To his intense surprise, she had as yet issued no veto to this calm proposal to which 'they all had list-1 | ened. In his surprise he forgot com! ment of his own. What caused him: ! greatest surprise of all was his secret! feeling that he wp<; not so -j to this arrangement as he ought io| be! He pondered Grace, her sour vis-' age, her morose air. He recalled' countless angry, irritated words. He; looked, and saw no longer any fem-j mine charm. It took all his resolution; not to question why he had - ever made this choice. Almost he began a certain comparison. "Now let this end it," resumed John Rawn. "Let comforts, and let luxuries, come where they have been earned. It's the Rawn half of Grace that has earned the luxuries, Charles, if I am willing to give them to her. Take what you can get, my son, of conffort and luxury in this life?aftpr you've earned them. But earn them iirst. Your place is over there at the; lrnrl-c T'hic ic vnnr nnnnrtnnifr TPall "? Wi 1 iiiu JVUI , x Ull j in with my plans and I'll carry you| along. Don't try to hold Grace over j there when she belongs here. Don't' be selfish, Charles." I-Te relented just a trifle. "I don't' say this is going to last forever. Pull; off success over there for us. I'll tell you what I'll do?the day you can! charge a storage battery from one of; our second current recoiverj?finished and in place there ki the factory?and| run it from the factory up here, I'll make you a present of fifty thousand dollars." "And about Grace??" Ah! that; comparison? "She'll be a good deal closer to you I then than she is now. She's half; Rawn, I tell you, Charles; and love! in a cottage does not suit the Rawn j blood to-day! j , "But I'll tell you?" his face light- j ened a bit at the jest? "you can go j on with your brotherhood of man ideas over there at the factory. I hope you love them?those brothers who are trying to ruin me and this company! Try them out?associate with them? love them all you can. Compare that life with this, my boy;N and when i you've done your work, foi which you j are paid?when you can charge one j car at one receiver, and come from ! that life to this, on the strength of j your brains and your own ability, as I have come here myself?why, I say i I'll give you a slice of a million dol- j lars! Then you can compare that life I with this, and see how you like the ; two. I've made up my mind already j about that! So has Grace!" TJ o Icav f n rn o/-I nn /->o mnro fr> his wife. She had changed in the last few : minutes. Her eye was brighter, her ! color higher. She was gazing not at! her husband nor at her child, but at! These rich surroundings. "I wonder if I could plnv one of my i old pieces on the piano any more | now?" she said gaily, rising and walk- j ing to rhe seat of the grand "Mano i which stood across the room from I them. "I've been so busy?" i \ i ! (TO BE CONTINUED). i minrii i SMITH HAS ITEMS INCREASED. J Washington, Feb. 20.?Senator E. D. I Smith of South Carolina, today an- j nounced that he had induced the sen- j ate committee on public buildings; J - - C 1 ana grounds 10 repoxt wvuiciui* ( amendments to the public building ; bill, appropriating $60,000 for a Fed-1 eral building at Clinton, and in-; creasing the appropriation for the Co-! luinbia postoffic-e from ?225,000 to ! $265,000. 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