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JOHN I PROMir* By EMERSC AUTHOR of |THE MISSISSIPPI ITUICTPATffiNC k,r D, ILLUUiiuiuvnu tJJ COPYRIGHT 1912 BY EMERSO, SYNOPSIS. ) CHAPTER I?John Rava te bora fift Texas. Early in life he shows signs of masterfulness and inordinate selfishness* C17APTER II?He marries Laura Johnson. He is a clerk in a St. Louis railway (Office when his daughter Grace is born, xears 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 la his own and induces Halsey to perfect experimental machine. He forms a company, -with himself as president, at a alary of $100,000 a year, and Halsey as uperintendent of the work* at a salary f *5,000. CHAPTER jfll?Rawn takes cht**ge of the office In Chicagoi Virginia Delaware, ft beautiful, capable and ambitious young woman, is assigned as his stenographer. 8he 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 TV?Halsey goes to New York with Rawn and Miss Delaware to < ?? thp new mo VJLyiam uciajo m tor to the impatient directors. He gets a message that a deformed daughter has been born to his wife. Grace Rawn. He returns to Chicago. CHAPTER "V?Rawn bargains with Miss Delaware to wear his Jewelry and appear In public with him, as #? means to help him In a business way. CHAPTER VT?Rawn la fortunate !n market speculations, piles up wealth and attains prominence. CHAPTER VTI?He frets because his Irife does not rise with him in a sociaj way. He gives her a million dollars to leave him. 'TER IX?Grace moves to Gravnall, and Halsey continues to live in the cottage near the works. CHAPTER X?Halsey's machine proves ft success, but he keeps the fact a secret CHAPTE i XI?Virginia Delaware bet^rfmo.ct mm-p and more indispensible to Rawn. 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 sake a place for themselves in the soci&J World. CHAPTER XITT-Halsey threatens to get a divorce because his *rffe refuses to return to him. He'tells RMrn that he has broken up all the machines after proving I the success of the invention- Rawn, in a great rage, threatens to kin him. CHAPTER XIV. The Step-Mother-ln-Law. On this very beautiful evening, in this very beautiful scene?as beautiful as any to be found in all that luxurious portion of a great city representing the flower of a great country's civilization?Graystone Hall was a Hrmhlft Rtne-A At the back of the taL mansion house countless auto-cars passed in brilliant procession, carrying countless men and women, personal evidences of all the ease and luxury that wealth can bring; and of these who passed, the' most part looked in with envy at the tall mansion house beyond the curving lines of shrubbery, brilliantly illuminated now, the picture of beauty and ease, of ceace and content. More than one soft-voiced woman murmured, "Beautiful!" as she passed. More than one man, more than one woman, . envied the owners of thia palace. "He's awfully gone os his wife, they say," commented one young matron, much as m?ny did. "Not that I see mnch in her myself?althou^J. she seems to have a sort of way about her, after all." "Lucfcy beggar!" growled her husband. "Yes, they're both lucky." That both Mr. and Mrs. Rawn were lucky seemed to be the consensus of opinion of the procession of those passing at this moment along the great driveway, and hence lookin^, upon the rear stage of the drama then in progress. But they gaw.no drama. ?- v ii. i mi A. me evening was oeauurm. ine spot was one of great beauty. Apparentlyall was peaae and content. There was no drama v'sible, only a stage set for 'a scene or happiness. Yet, two hundred yards from the point of this belief, on the stage of the dimly-lighted gallery facing the lake, the comedy of life and ambition, of success and sorrow, moved briskly; moved, indeed, te its appointed and inevitable end. I ' Tl - 4 ? * 4 t , ' ; itawn s voice, narsn, nan animai m its savagery, wakened some sudden kindred savagery in young Halsey's soul. In a flash the spark rose between steel and flint. The accumulated resentment of many days made tinder enough for Halsey now. "All rignt, Mr. Kiwn," saia ne, ms head dropping, his chin extended. "Go on with-the killing now, if you like. I'm going to tell you right here, that sort of talk will do you no good. If you kill me you kill my secret. It isn't yours, and neither yaa nor any other man is apt to set it going again." "You hound, you cur!" half sobbed Rawn. His daughter stood, tense, silent, unnoticed at his elbow. "Thank you. Now, I'll tell you. I dismantled every motor, ana i m never going to build them" again for you. I meant every word of what I said. Also I mean this!" As he spoke he?rose and struck Rawn full in the face with his Jialfclenched hand. The sound of the blow could have bean heard the whole length of the .gallery?was so heard. iAWN JENT CIT1ZLN )N HOUGH BUBBLE; 54-40 OR FIGHT TT7 I. ly waners NEHOUGH An "instant later, half roaring, John Rawn closed with the younger man. The women, plucking at their arms, could do nothing to separate the two. indeed were not noticed in the struggle. As to that, the whole matter was over ic an instant Halsey was far the stronger of the two. He caught the right wrist of Rawn as he smote down clumsily, caught his other wrist in the next instant, and then slowly, by sheer strength, forced him back and down until at last he crowded him into the chair which Grace a moment earlier had vacated. The bony fingers of his hand worked havoc on John iiawn'5 wnsi. on ms twistea arm. Halsey tv^s not fo long from his Allege athletics, where he had been wel-1 come on several teams. He was younger than Rawn, his body was harder from hard work and abstemiousness. He was the older man's master. "Sit down!" he panted. "I don't think you'll do this killing very soon!" Rawn, for the first tiix*e in his life, faced a situation which be could not dominate by arrogance and bluster. For the first time in his life he had met another 'man, body to body, in actual physical encounter; and that! man was his master! All at once the! consciousness of this flashed through every fiber of him, bodily and mental. He had met a man stronger than himself?yes, stronger both in body and in mind. The Consciousness of that lat ? i ter truth also sank deep into nis heart. It was a moment of horror for him. He, John Rawn, master of this place, rich, happy, presperous?he, John Rawn, beaten?subdued?it could not be! Heaven never would permit that! They all remained tense, silent, motionless, for just half an instant; it Beemed to them a long time. Halsey at length straightened and turned toward the door. "I'm going," said he dully. "Good by, Grace." Rawn turned, confused, distracted. He cared for no more of the physical testing of this difference. But he saw Success passing in the reviled figure Df his son-in-law. "No, no!" he cried ?"Jennie?he fouled me?but don't let him go?hell ruin us, do you iear?" Halsey was within the tall, glass ioors and passing toward the front ' sntry. He heard the rustle of skirts !>ack of him and felt a light hand upon lis shoulder. "Well," he began; and turning, faced poung Mrs. Rawn! "I'm sorry," he stammered, 'it's disgraceful.' I beg your pardon with all aiy heart. But I couldn't help it* He struck me first with what he said. He threatened me. Let me go. I'll never come back again. I'm sorry?on your account?" "Charles," she said softly, "Charley, wait. Wbere are you going r"To the divorce courts, and then to hell." "But you mustn't go away like this. I'm sorry, too. Wait!" Suddenly moved by some swift, irresistible impulse, perhaps born of this unregulated scene where all seemly control teemed set aside, she put both her white, bare arms about his aeck and looked full into his eyes, her own eyes bright. He caught her white wrists in his hands: but did not put away her arms. He stood looking at | her, frowning, uncertain. His blood! flamed. "It's disgrace," he said. "I admit It I can't square it any way in the world. I'm sorry on your account? awfully sorry!" His blood flamed, flamed. "Listen!" she said, panting, eager, her voice with some strange, new, compelling quality in it, foreign to her as to himself. "You mustn't go. You mustn't ruin the future of us all in just a minute of temper. You mustn't > <> rV. /*\'o ruin yourseu, w?inc. dcbiuco, ^ c j Grace!" "Oh, Grace!" "But she'a yo^. wife." "Not any longer. She's chosen for j herself. She left me and would notj come back. I'm going now. I'm on my own from this time." "Why not?" she asked coolly. "But why wreak ruin on us all? You don't stop to think!" "Voc ft will set him back nrettyi badly?" Halsey nodded toward the bowed frame of Rawn, dimly visible, in the gallery's shade, through the tall glass doors. "Yes,'* she said slowly, "he's my! husband, surely." ?"Who has given you everything." She nodded, her arms still about his neck. "Let me think this out for all of us, Charley. Keep matters as they are until I have time to think?won't you do that much?just that little?for me?" His hands were still unon her wrists j as he looked down upon her from his height, his eyes angry, his face frowning, disturbed. Worn almost to gauntness, tall, sinewy, of a certain distinction in look, as He stood there before her now an ignorant ob.wer might have thought the two lovers, he her lover, not Her stepson, sTfe'at 'the least his younger sister, surely not his mother by mixed marriage. As they stood thus, Rawn turning, saw them through the tall glass door. His face grew eager. "He's not gone," he whispered hoarsely to his daugh-! ter, who stood rigid, close at his arm. "She's got him! By Jove! She's a Konder?my wife, my v/ir'e?she'll land him yet?she will 1" ) i ? w Struck Rawn Full in the Face. "Do yea see that?" hissed Grace at j last, pointing at the door. j "Do I see it?didn't, you hear me? ; Yes, or course i see it: "And you'll allow that, between your , wife and my husband?" "Allow it?wife!?why! damn you, girl, what are you talking about? wives and husbands??what's that to do with this? There's many a million dollars up no^v I tell you, on those two standing there. You make a move now?say a word?and I'll wring your j neck, do you hear?" He caught her j by the wrist. She sank into a chair, j sobbing bleakly. A moment later the two figures beyond the door stood a trifle apart. The arms of Virginia Rawn dropped from Halsey's neck. She laid a hand upon his arm anC. side by side, neither; looking out toward the gallery, they j drew deeper into the room, behind the 1 shelter of a heavy silken curtain which j shut off the view. Ti i _;_l,x- rrv.^ it was a. utjiiutiiui uigut. jluc iuj.15 ladder of the moon lay across the gently rippling lake, which murmured! at the foot of Graystone Hall's retain-! ing sea-wall. The scent of flowers was about. It was a scene of peace and beauty andfcontent John Rawn and his daughter remained upon the gallery for a time. (TO BE CONTINUED). Beyond the Big Cities. According to the government reckoning, the United States is divided in-1 to three distinct parts, a writer in Richardson's Annual says. First (because they are most frequently forced on our attention) come the big cities. There are only fifty-one * ^ _ i of them, with a population or more than 25,000. Next come the small town people? those who live in towns of 25,000 down i to 2,500. Uncle Sam differentiates; these from the 25,000 and more, because they live "nearer the soil." j Many of their people are retired farmers or merchants, depending on farm trade, aiid all are more or less closly influenced by agricultural conditions. Last, we have- the ruralists?the1 \ farmers or those directly in touch with agriculture. The last census ' * * J ? - - ' - MA -f V? /-S siiows tnat tms ciass uuiuuuiuci a i other two combined, totaling nearly fifty-four per cent of the people. But we will find if We turn to statistics, that these bulk figures are misleading. New York State, for example with its number of cities, has a rural j population of only twenty-one perj cent, whereas in tnc central, western or southern States?the big farming section?the per cent of rural popunr\ AVPT" PItV. and 1<XC1VI1 until x U"o "ir" V ' X- ~-o v * sometimes to ninety per cent of the State's people. Probably ihree-fourths of our population is either rural or closely allied with rural conditions. ^ 'Going to Preacli Funeral of Some S. C. Lawmakers.'' Greenwood Journal "When I get rested I am going to: nreach the funeral of some South Carolina lawmakers," said Senator B.1 R. Tillman this morning. The sen-i ator had just exchanged mileage forj himself and Mrs. Tillman to Augus-j ta, and the inconveniences of travel j under present conditions in this State; were evidently uppermost in his mind, j "The mileage ought to be pulled on the trains," added the senator ' with characteristic emphasis, dis-; playing his old-time fire. | Senator and Mrs. Tillman left this morning for their home at Trenton after a visit of two days to their son. Mr. Henry C Tillman. ! I You don't have to join the army to i-- - ?w lonV ahead and not ue <1 SUlUiCl. u ua? ~" ? to the rear wben geting off a trolley car. i # K^x// As! I It tells you ho r*hrm^ 1m<=> wit X .1 VS X J. 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