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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 " }
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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 !
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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
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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.!
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-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
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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
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"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|
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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.
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"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
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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 ;
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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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