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TWO mUM E junn i PROMN By EMERSC AUTHOR of |THE MISSISSIPPI ILLUSTRATIONS by Ra COPYRIGHT 1912 BY EMERSOf SYNOPSIS CHAPTER I?John Raws ts born tn Texas. Early la life he shows signs of I master'ulness and Inordinate selfishness. Airi'ajx li?ne marnes jmo.ua ? ?v? )#on. He is a clerk in a 31 Louis railway iofflce when his daughter Grace is born. rTears later he hears Grace's lover, a {young engineer named Charles Halseyf peak of a scheme to utilize the lost curIxent of electricity. "With his usual un crupulousnees he appropriates the idea is his own and Induces Halsey to perfect an experimental machine. He forms a j company, with himself as president, at a i alary of $100,000 a year, and Halsey as superintendent of the work* at a salary | ef $s,ooa j I CHAPTER vTT?Rawn takes chfcVRe of the office in Chicago. Virginia Delaware, a beautiful, capable and ambitious young " * rvV* "woman, is assigned as ms . 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 IV?Halsey goes to New York with Rawn and Miss Delaware to explain delays In perfecting the new motor to th^ impatient directors. He gets a message that a deformed daughter has been bora to his wife. Grace Rawn. He returns to Chicago. "^CHAyTER V?Rawn bargains with M!ss Delaware to wear his jewelry and appear in public with him. as a- means to help him in a business way. CHAPTER VT-Rawn t? fortunate In market speculations, plies up wealth and attains prominence. CHAPTER VTI?He frets because his Irtfe does not rise with him In a sociaj way. He gives her a million dollars to leave him. *TER IX?Grace moves to Graynail, and Halsey continues to live * *" 14 ? - - ? in tfte cottage near uw ( CHAPTER X?Halsey*s machine proves ft success, but he keeps the fact a secret CHAPTE i XI?Virginia Delaware become? more and mo ret indispensible to Rawn. He takes her to New York on a business trip. Idle talk prompts him to offer her marriage. CHAPTER Xn?They are married. Through Virginia's tact and ability they pake a place for themselves In the social world. CHAPTER XTTT?Kalsey threatens to get a divorce because his wife refuses to return to him. He tells Raws that he has broken up all the machines after proving the success of the Invention. Rawn, In a great rage, threatens to kin him. ottapter xiv?Halsey declares he | ^will never build another machine tot ^awn and slaps his face. Virginia Rawn Intercepts Halsey as he is leaving the house and, with arms about his neck, implores him to reconsider, because his decision will ruin them all. "I told you I was a student, Mrs. "Rawn," he went on after a time. "I haven't got much mind. But somehow. while I don't suppose religion can change business very much, I think of the twelve disciples and their Master, trying to lift the load off of human beings, trying to lift the people of the world up above the day of tooth and claw. I don't reckon they can do it. But you see, each fellow has to choose ' 1-? T'-*~ tViic* TMit- 'hpfnrft ! lor nimseu. i vc uau tuio me. I could have thrown in with Rawn?I can do so yet, right here, now, as you know. I can hold him up, as he would hold me up, or any one else?I can take his money? fifty thousand, a million?I don't think he's really got as much money as most people think. He's in debt, deep. .That's all right so long as your credit Is good. He has had >all sorts of credit?and it depended on me?on my invention. It wasn't his. It isn't going to be. I've told you why.?But you see, I could make him divide even with me?make him take a third, a fourth, of what I'd won. He'd have to terms. He knows that. All ! right, I'm not going to do it! Failure as I am, I've got a few ideas which I think are right. Maybe I got them from Ann Sullivan?I don't know! Go ask her about things." "And you won't put back the machines? Not even for me?" "Not even for you," he smiled. "Not *- ? i.1 X ?? I that I know what you mean Dy mat. He looked at her keenly. His toil^stained hands twitched uneasily in his lap. "You're talking about things that never came into my thoughts in all my life," said she, with the same strange direct look at him. "But you couldn't expect an ignorant woman to learn it all in one night, could you?" "I'm not trying to convert you, Mrs. Rawn. I'm going to leave this place. * Put T'm nnt Yoil 11 noi see me (igaxa. ^ trying to change you. I wouldn't?" "Listen!" she broke out sharply. "I'm set to do that for you?I'm expected by Iiim, out there, to change you. Isn't that the truth? Didn't you see?" "Yes, it's easy to see," he answered grimly. "It's up to you." "It's up to you and me, Charley, yes. i You can ruin me and all of us by walking out that door. You can break the lives of those two people out there, and mine, yes, of course you can, and your own.?You can do all that. You can make me come down from this dace where you say everybody envies i me. and you can have everybody | laughing at me and forgetting n ^ in less than six months' time You can get me st>? v^d, ;f r'1 7ii v-*- -an mak? mp vroVhrj and - nserM , if I you like. Of course you can. Do you want to do that?" "It isn't fair to put it before me in that wmv " } wviuit j i> a i : COj* 1 u _. . . ? it &\ _. [ ) A W1\I j \?J*ik IT It IENT CITIZEN )N HOUGH n* mnt r> w a a a'AH nr1 T TT DUDJ9LL} 0^"^UBUiv nuni j y Walters YfHOUGH and-unhappy for ever if you" went away tonight that way?Charley?" "What can you mean?'* "Things are moving fast tonight, Charley, and we're discussing matters pretty openly?" "Yes,'' be nodded. "I don't want to set a wife against uer uuou&uu. Neither must you. But the truth is. I Mr. Rawn is not what a good many think he is?" 4<Do you think that's news to me?" she asked of him, and looked full into j his eyes. "Good God, Mrs. Rawn! What do i you mean?" "Much what you do!" "But you loved him?yon n?arr!ed I himf" "Oh, yes, surely. That was some months ago. But you see, there's a distinction between master and su| perior." "I'm very miserable," was his simple answer. "Things are getting too much confused for me. And now you say you'd never be happy if I left you j now, tonight?" ! "Then why go, so long as we are so confused? Why don't you wait? I've I asked you to! Do you expect to set'* -" Vinnr'c timp in a ! I 116 clil U11S ill H U(XlL"LlWU.i. UAUW, ? j passion of anger? Now listen. AlI though he's my husband, and she's | your wife, I don't blame you. I'm only asking you to wait a little. I'm making it personal, Charley!" "How dare you do that, Mrs. Rawn?" "Because I have the right to do it! I don't intend to have you make me more unhappy than I am. I've just told you I'm not happy. I don't know ?" She laughed a little amused ripple of laughter?"but I'd have been happier if he had handled you as you did him! I'm not taiKing just uie i way I meant to when I came through I those doors to stop you. I'm like you ?it's all confusing?HI have to wait, the same as you. There's a lot of things to be figured out! I'm covetous of everything in the world?that any 1 woman ever had?from the queen of England to Ann Sullivan! Yes, I'm ambitious, I'M- admit that. And you've set me thinking?I'm wondering? wondering what really is the best a j woman can get out of life." "Mrs. Rawn, you've got success as you understand it, by marrying a middle-aged man. You're young." She shook her head. "It isn't pos sible," said she frankly, catching his thought "I'm far enough along to see that!" "You know what Mr. Rawn did when he wished to change?he put away what he had, and reached out for that which he had not. For my own part, I don't see how any woman could be happy with him. He ruined the life j of one woman, his wife; of another, ; his daughter. Now, you tell me he j - T I Hasn't maae an aDsoiuitJi^ mo j for yet another woman?yourself. Oh, it's brutal for me to say it, but it's true, and you've just said it's true." "If only it could come to the ques-j tion of what a woman really wanted ?" she resumed, pondering. "That's for each woman to figure out for herself, Mrs. Rawn. I've only i said what most American women i want. We're living in a wholesome! and beautiful age, Mrs. Rawn!" "I thought I was right!" said she suddenly, looking up. "Now I believe I was wrong. Charley?" "It's in the air," she said, as though to herself, after a tim'i, finding him j silent, troubled, pale. "Don't you know. Charley?" She turned to him. He leaned toward her now, his lined | young face illuminated with sudden j emotion. "I wish I could explain that i to you, Mrs. Rawn." said he. "I feel it, too! Now maybe we can under-; stand! How did I drive my car overj here, charged from one of our over-1 head motors? Ah. that's my secret.! *-? *- ~e HTViot mn. I -fcJUt I tOOK. 1L UUL Ul Liic an x imv tor of ours was in tune with it?the great power that's in the air, everywhere. Mrs. Rawn, it's getting in tune with the world that makes you happy. Nothing else is going to do it! Get in tune with the plan! All I'vej ever done in my receiving-motor has; been to get in tune with the hills and | the rivers and the forests?with life." j She leaned toward him now, that on! her face which he had never seen there before. He looked her fair in I the eyes and went on, firmly, strongly.; +T->ot? orm T'vp sniri to mv- i 1 V c Lilac, ? - ~ w self that I wasn't going to throw that i awaj' and give it to a few, when it1 belonged to everybody. I am unhappy j as you are; more so. I'm not in tune ' with life as we live it No, I certainly! am not. But I know that to be perfectly happy we've got to get in tune with the purpose of the world. What is it? What is that second current? I don't know. What is it? You tell mo ?? j IU^ . "I'll tell you what I believe/' said; Virgin!' ^ ^ slowly, her hands droppinr i? K~ '1-, her lace pate. "I' shouldn't v. :>ti ;er if it was?love!" "And tliM b ongs to everybody, not just p few?every on*1?not just to the ricv. .1. z \ to buy what was looking at her .e shook har| THE HEKAUj , head. "Xot always, Charley." "Why not?Virginia?" CHAPTER XVL Means to an End. "Well, he's gone, then?" Rawn turned toward nis wire a raes years older than it had been an hour ago, a face haggard and lined, pasty in color. His bitter agitation was evident in his voice, in his expression, in the stoop of his shoulders?in a score of signs not usual with him. Virginia was even more noncommittal than her wont as she faced him. Grace had disappeared. "What did you do?how did you handle him, Jennie?" he began?"you were talking for over an hour there! Did you manage to hold things to gether?will he let up?" She faced him now, as he stood in the blaze of the electric lights in the interior of the house, where Halsey had left her, in the chair from which she had not moved since his departure. Every delicate, clearcut feature was fully visible now. Her lips just parted to show the double row of white teeth in a faint smile. Her chin was a trifle up, her head high. "He will wait a little while," she answered quietly. "At least, I think so." "Good! Fine! I knew you'd do it, Jennie! You're a wonder?I don't think there's a woman in all the world like you!" He advanced toward her. >? ? 1~ z ?~ J "JLJonT paw me over: sue eAumiuicu, drawing back. "Well, now, then?I only meant?" "I don't want to talk," she said. "He's gone, yes, and he'll not do anything for a little while, I think. It's enough for tonight?I'm tired. This has been a horrible evening for me. I never thought to see a time like this!" "Horrible for all of us!" exclaimed John Rawn. "That man took advantage of me out there?I ought to have wrung his neck for him, and I would have done it if it hadn't been for you two women. Of course, we don't want scenes if thev can be avoided, for there's no telling what talk might run into if it got out. But just the same, Jennie, don't you see?" and his face assumed a still more anxious look? "he can ruin us all whenever he gets ready, and he's wise enough to know that I can't do anything with him now. Something's gone wrong with him, and I don't know what!" "No, you don't know what," she said slowly. "I don't think you in the least imagine what!" "Do you, then?" he demanded. "If yon do, why don't you tell? Do you know that everything we've got in the world is up at stake on this? He can kill my credit, he can split this comnany wide open, he can break me in spite of all. See what he's done in return for what I've done for him? Sometimes I wonder if there's such a thing as honor left in the world!" "So! Do you?" She rose now, and would have left him. "Well, I want to talk this over with you. Please, Jennie. Sit down," he said. "Tell me what you said. I want to know where things are, so I can act tomorrow?or maybe even before tomorrow. You don't realize what a hole I'm in." "What did I say to him?" she repeated, looking down at her wrists. "Nothing very much. I told him if he went on he'd ruin us all; tnat it wasn i right for him to do it. I told him we wanted him?I wanted him?to wait? for my sake." "For your sake?" "Yes, I did," she answered calmly. "I said that." "It was best!" he cried, rising and walking up and down excitedly. "What a mind you have, Jennie?what a woman you are! "Where'd I be without you, I wonder now? Why, of course, that was the way! Any man will do anything that you tell him to, especially a young man?of course, of course!" "Thank you," she commented coldly; "thank you very much." He sought to put a consoling or an explanatory hand on her shoulder, but she shook* him off, shivering. "I don't mean anything," he began confusedly. "Get me straight, now. I only wanted to say that when you work for mc in this you are working for your own S2ke also. It's all up to you, Jennie, right now. If you can't land him, we're gone?it's no use my ?-*- !l*u l.i trying to ao anyimng wuu aim. jjv you know, I'm going to send you out after him." I "Send me out?" "Yes; things have to be done the j best way they can be done. That fel- ! low car: say one word which'll ruin us in one day's time. He can br^ak the values in International more than ! we can mend in months. Our men i would begin to (.-.over as soon as they , r>o?o-iit n Mnf t] anvthinsr was really ; ' ""b"1 ? --- wrong. As for v.e, I'm spread out for , millions in th<> general market. If they began to hammer me I couldn't come through?I wouldn't last a week. The thing to do is to keep this news i safe until I can protect myself?until I I can protect us all. Now it's you, Jennie, that's g?f. to do that?it's you! i I'm sending jo\i out after him." "I always tkonsjht, Mr. Rawn," said 1 she, "that yo* played a dange?ous game, bo long as yon simply trusted that be'd do aDyt'iing yoa told him." "Yes, I seo i: now. I>ut he always was odd?he &r: \ys held something back. I tell you, he's orazy! Now, he's either just crazy over his fool Socialist ideas, or else he's going to hold out for a squeeze. In the first case you can hancile him. In the second, i can. __ .. _. . ! 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