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PROMIN By EMERSC AUTHOR of |THE MISSISSIPPI ILLUSTRATIONS bv Ra ~ af COPYRIGHT 1912 BY EMERSON KSby UYNOP3I3. BHg CHAPTER I?John Hawn it born fcft Hf TVxas. Early In life he shows signs ox masterfulness and Inordinate selfishness. BHT CHAPTER II?He marries Laura Johnv ' p?n. He Is a clerk in a St. Louis railway gfflce when his daughter Grace is born. W xears later he hears Grace's lover, a jyoung engineer named Charles Halseyt peak of a scheme to utilize the lost curTent of electricity. "With his usual un*?crupulousness he appropriates the idea Vb his own and Induces Halsey to perfect An experimental machine. He formB & wsmnanv rrrftVt Vilrocolf ?<a Tjrpsident. at a ^ aalary of $100,00!} a year, and Halsey as uperintendent of the work* at a salary tvi ?f $5,ooa CHAPTER m-Rawn takes change of the office in Chicago. Virginia Delaware, * beautiful, capable and ambitious young woman, is assigned as his stenographer Che assists In picking the furniture and decoration for the princely mansion Rawn has erected. Mrs. Rawn feels out of place in the new surroundings. CHAPTER IV?Halsey goes to New York with Rawn and Miss Delaware to explain delays in perfecting the new motor to tJve Impatient directors. He gets a ^ jnessage that a deformed daughter has Jgt been bora to his wife, Grace Rawn. He returns to Chicago. JHm CHAPTER V?Rawn bargains with Miss i-' R Pelaware to wear his Jewelry and appear tn public with him, as p. means to help Mr iiim In a business way. CHAPTER VI?Rawn is fortunate In market speculations, piles up wealth and attains prominence. CHAPTER VII?He frets because his rife does not rise with him In a social way. He gives her a million dollars to leave him. *TER IX?Grace moves to Grayna.ll, and Halsey continues to live 4n f>w? near the works. CHAPTER X?Halsey's machine proves A success, bat be keeps the fact a secret. CHAPTER XI?Virginia Delaware become? more and more indispensible to JFtawn. He takes her to New York on a business trip. Idle talk prompts him to offer her marriage. CHAPTER XII?They are married, through Virginia's tact and ability they bake a place for themselves in the social faorld. She was a woman of Bmall feminine onf + Vi ore nnw an. VUttilU ac UCBU ouc OCfcb uvn| ?? -gular, stiff, unbeautifuV the sort of "woman no clothes can make well-dressed. Already she had disclosed somewhat of her soul. What appeal, then, physical, emotional, moral, could she make to him?a student, a risionary, an idealist?at such a mo - '? - A * - xi i meiit? And did there not remain mau | same cool, distant figure from whom he had so constantly to wrench his eyes?and his heart? Yes; and his heart! Halsey's face was dull red. He was unhappy. The world seemed to him only a hideous nightmare, full of disappointments, injustices, of wrongs that cried aloud for righting. Ah. the corrmarison now was here, fair and full and unavoidable! "No, you didn't know," said lie slowly. "A lot of people don't Now let me tell you a few things more. You didn't know that something like a year ago your father told me fchat he'd make me a present of fifty thousand dollars the day I could run a car from the factory to this place on a charge taken from our own overhead receivermotors." "A start for a million dollars!" she murmured. "You get that?when you succeed?" "Yes, that i3 to say, I could have had that any day in the week these ' * At- _ T- 11? T pasi eigni moiuns?11 ue reauj u<xs> ?ot that much left where he can realize on it He's pretty well spread j>ut" "Then you have had it?what have Fou done with the money?" "I presume I look as though I'd spent or could spend a mere fifty thousand dollars or so, don't I?" was his juiet answer. "No, I didn't have it, ind I haven't got it. I'll say this much to you, however, that I ran my little Did car here to-night on a charge taken out of one of the overhead receiver motors of tne international rower company?a motor completed on my own ideas, and by my own hands. It's mine, I tell you?mine." "Charley!" she caught him by the wrists, with both hands, eagerly. "You can give me the things I've got used to having! I'll go back?oh! I'll go back?we'll go on together! I hate utu su?yuu uuii t saiuw; "That's nice of you, Grace; but you've guessed wrong. I've not got that fifty thousand yet" "But you can have." "Yes, I can. What could I buy with It? For one thing, I could buy back my wife?" I "Sut Charley! We're rich! You've succeeded!" "No, I am poor, I've failed. I'm just beginning to see how much I've f 99 'If you don't tell me the truth about this I'll do it myself!" she exclaimed fiercely. "You've not been loyal? you've taken pay!" "Your father took his pay from me," was his half-savage answer. "He's been paid enough! As for me, I don't want any more of this sort of pay." "What are you going to do?you're not going to sell out to some one else?" "No, my dear, I'm not going to do precisely what you suggested I should j.. ......i. .. .. to sell out. could : roo <;nd y? tAWN (ENT CITIZEN ?m ur\i ir.u ni iivuvjijix BUBBLE; 54-40*OR: FIGHT y Walters HHOUGH make more than any" fifty thousand. The foreman in our factory, who knows very little, can sell out to-morrow morning for ten thousand dollars, maybe double or treble that now. The watchman on our door can sell out when he likes. We can all sell out, any of us sell out. But we haven't! If there has been any selling ^ut it has been done by those who built this place here?the place which you found better than the best home I could offer you." She sat back stiff, silent, somber. "You?you never mean that you are A ~ 1 O O T!*0 17 P gUUlg LU luiun I.UW u. IT , ".v... j asked at length. "What earthly good will that do? Pa'll have it out of you somehow! I'll?I'm going to tell him!" "Try it," said Charles Halsey, easily. She had courage. "Father," she called out. "Pa! Come here?at ?>> ujlujc; Rawn rose suddenly up from his chair at the startling quality in her voice. "What's that, Grace?" he called across the long gallery. "Come here, I want you! We've got something to say to you." Halsey sat motionless. Rawn approached slowly, obviously "jf it'a imnortant?" he be- ' auuuj vu. a*. *v x _ ga.ii. He had found love-making to his j young wife especially delicious this) evening, although he mistook her strange silence and preoccupation merely for wifely coyness. "It is important!" Grace exclaimed; and rising, clutched at his arm. "Well, then, what's it all about, what's it about? Come, come!" "Charley's done it, he's got it?he's got the machines finished?over there?!" Her voice was almost a scream, hoarse, croaking. She stood bent, tense. "What's that?" demanded Rawn. "What do you mean? Is that the truth, boy?" "He came over in his car, under International overhead?he told me so, mvht now." she went on, half hyster F ? Jcally. "You owe him money?a lot, a pile of money?he told me so right now?it's worth more than any fifty thousand. Oh, we're going to have money too. You see!" Rawn shook off her arm and half 9ung her back in her chair. "What's this about, Halsey?" he said. "Is it true?" Halsey nodded calmly, Dut saia aothing. Rawn half-assailed him, his large hand on his shoulder. "Did you get :he current?" he demanded. "Did you really come over under power out of Dne of our overheads?" "Yes. to-nieht." said Halsey. "Often before." "Why, my boy, my boy!" began John Rawn. At occe he stood back, large, complaisant, jubilant. "My boy!" was all he could say. Not even his soul could at once figure out in full acceptance all the future which these quiet words implied. "Come!" he explained after a moment, excitedly. "Let's get to the telephone! I want the wires right away! I'll make a million out of this before morning!" "And write me a check for my fifty thousand to-night?" smiled Halsey. "Surely I will?I've told you I would?I'll do more than that?I'll make it a twenty-five thousand extra for good measure. I'll have the check taken care of to-morrow at my bank, \ as soon as I can get downtown! Oh, | things'll begin to happen now, I promise you!" "I wouldn't be in too big a hurry to use the wire, Mr. Rawn," said Charles Halsey quietly. "And never mind about that check." "What do you mean? You're going to try to hold me up?" "No, I'm not going to try to hold you up at all. If there's any question about that possibility, I can get a million to-morrow as easily as I can any traction ot a minion io-mgni, mr. | Rawn, and it's just as well you should j know that, perhaps." i "A million?" croaked John Rawn. j "You'd sell us out?" "No, I said. I'm not going to sell you out, Mr. Rawn. And you're not going to buy me out." "Of course not, of course not," laughed Rawn hoarsely. "You don't understand me." "You haven't ^understood me either, Mr. Rawn. Now, what would you do if I told you that after taking my charge for the little car yonder I turned about and dismantled every motor in the shop?destroyed them all ?locked *up the secret, ended the whole game now?to-night? What would you say to that?" "By God! I'd kill you!" said John Rawn. fvc\ nv rn\TTT\nrT"Pm. \ x \y xjjl-? a v ?? y Mary had a litle lamb, I think she called it Pet, It stood on the track and "was struck And I think it is running yet TOWNS AND HUES SWEPT BY STORM; LIST OF DEAD REACHES 225 PERSONS. Witnesses Relate Thrilling Stories of Harrowing Scenes Reviewed From Windows of Train. Chicago, March 24.?Totals of the dead and injured in the track of Sunday's storm are as follows, according to reports received tonight: City Dead. Injured. Omaha and suburbs 152 330 Terre Haute., Ind 18 250 Chicago 5 40 Yutan, Neb 16 20 Berlin, Xeb 7 IT Council Bluffs, Iowa. . 12 13 Bartlett, Iowa 3 10 Weston, Iowa 2 2 Neola. Iowa 2 2 Glenwood, Iowa 5 2| Beebe, Iowa 21 Malvern, Iowa 2! Walton, 111 1 3 Sterling, 111 1 Traverse City, Mich. .. 1 Perth, Ind lj Totals 225 694 | By far the greatest damage was j done in and near Omaha, through j part of which a tornado swept Sunday evening, throwing down many substantial buildings, ripping off roofs and sidings of houses and killing men, women and children by the score. The storm kept its work a secret! from the rest of the world for hours j by breaking down all wire communication. Messengers with news stories! had to go by train to Lincoln, the I State capital, to send out the first! definite news of the disaster. During the early hours of the mornins injured persons worked desper ateiy to remove persons caught beneath razed biuldings. The debris caught fire in many places and many j persons were painfully burned before they could be extricated. No great number was killed in any place. The wind swept along, taking its toll here and there. The tornado even jumped over portions of the city im its path, swooped down again and dashed constructions to eartfe. -TV? un r rum uuu>uo< The gale left Omaha only to sweep on to towns in Iowa in the same destructive manner that it had attacked villages in Nebraska. The rage of the elements even extended in a somewhat abated form to points far in the East to Illinois. No sooner had the twister passed than a gale swept over i much the same territory, but with j lessened fury. What sems to have been a separate storm swept portions of Indiana, but worst near Ter-e Haute. There nearly a score of persons were slain and many others hurt. The sleet and wind storm of the last few days had reduced telegraph and telephone communication to dire; straits as hundreds of poles and j thousands of miles of wire were car-1 ried down in a tangle. The tornado! added to the havoc west of Chicago, j oithnnfrTo wires ivere renaired to the! east. In many cases large regions j were unable to use commercial tele-! graphic facilities and news associa- j tions were forced to send representa-j tives in the most unusual ways to reach the newspapers. Floods swept through several Wisconsin cities, damaging many thous ands of dollars worth of goods. Dams | were washed out in many places and j the released waters swept over the fields below. In Chicago all the elements seemed j to meet shortly after Easter Sunday j' had closed. "Wind blew a violent gale,! ?? a if ?-r> cnmo r*7 nppq I PLLUW new uuw c il m r--??, , hail passed windows in other parts of the city. 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