The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, April 22, 1913, Page TWO, Image 2
JOHN F
PROMIP*
By EMERSC
AUTHOR of feTHE MISSISSIPPI
ILLUSTRATIONS by Ra
COPYRIGHT 1912 BY EMERSOf
SYNOPSHk ?|
CHAPTER I?John Rawn ta bow *
Texas. Early In Hfs h? shows signs m
masterfulness and inordinate selfishness.
CHAPTER II?He marries Laura Joha>#on.
He is a clerk in a St. Louis railway
face when his daughter Grace is born.
Tsars later he hears Grace's lover, a
young engineer named Charles Halsey,
of a scheme to utilise the lost curjN6t
of electricity. "With his usual un?crupulousness
he appropriates the idea
W his own and induces Halsey to perfect
aa experimental machine. He forms a
company, with himself as president, at a
*?ry of $100,000 a year, and Halsey as
superintendent of the works at a salary
?f $5, (XXX
CHAPTER XII?Rawn takes ch&t^e of ;
offlop in rrhicaeoi Vireinia Delaware, |
* beautiful, capable and ambitious young I
woman, Is assigned as his stenographer. I
8he assists in picking the furniture and j
decoration for the princely* mansion
Rawn has erected. Mrs. Rawn feels out
of place In the new surroundings.
CHAPTER IY?Halsey goes to New
York with Rawn and Miss Delaware to
xplain delays in perfecting the new motor
to the impatient directors. He gets a
message that a deformed daughter has
been bora 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
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CHAPTER TT?Rawn Is dominate ta
market speculations, piles up wealth ana
attains prominence.
CHAPTER Vn-He frets because his
Irlfe does not rise with him In a soclaj
way. He gives her a million dollars to
Imti him.
TER IX?Grace moves to Graynail,
and Halsey continues to live
In the cottage near the works.
CHAPTER X?Halsey*s machine proves
% success, but he keeps the fact a ae*
tret.
A -rr^r, ? -O-T vn -nQlQTI7!>r*.
VnAT"li!> A Al?Tirgiaio . ?
?me* more and more indispensible to
Rawn. He takes her to New York on a
business trip. Idle talk prompts ilm to
offer her marriage.
CHAPTER XII?They are married.
Through Virginia's tact and ability they
Bake a place for themselves in the sociaJ
fcerld. '
i
CHAPTER XIIT?Halsey threatens to
f#t a divorce because his wife refuses to
return to him. He tells Rawn that he has
fcroken up all the machines after proving
the success of the Invention. Rawn, in a
iree.c rage, threatens to kill him.
CHAPTER XIV?Halsey declares ne
will never build another machine fo*
Jtawn and slaps his face. Virginia Rawn
fctercepts Halsey as he is leaving the \
house and, with arms about his neck, implores
him to reconsider, because his decision
will ruin them all.
CHAPTER XV?Halsey tells Virginia
that he has abandoned his invention because
it would put a great power in the
hands of a few to the detriment of the
many.
CHAPTER XVI?At Rain's instigation
Virginia agrees to try to bring Halsey to
A ^ * * 1 ^ i 4- o
Terms, no mauer wnat it
CHAPTER XVTT?The directors plan tc
get the control of the company away
from Rawn.
CHAPTER XVIII.
' "
They Who Sow the Wind.
The information given by the ex-!
director in regard to the whereabouts j
of Charles Halsey was substantially, il j
not circumstantially, correct. He had, j
Indeed, done the most unlikely thing, j
. ;'He had taken up his abode, for the
'-time at least, at the very place to
' which he might have seemed least apt
to return; that is to say, the home of
his father-in-law, John Rawn.
Many things moved Halsey to this
iaction. In the first place, having endled
his labors, he found no reason foi
jany pretense of continuing them.
-Again, although he fully intended to
'bring divorce proceedings, and fully
] Intended to leave the city, he was unwilling:
to denart without seeine once
;more his wife and their child, because
:news came to him of the little cripple's
serious and continued illness. Id
point of fact, Grace Halsey, unhappy,
morose, and now jealously suspicious,
:had brooded over her unfortunate situation
in life until she also really was
'ill. Halsey grieved over this, in spite
of all. As to the little hunchback,
Laura, she had known only illness all
her life; and Halsey, father after all,
felt snmp forebodine which made him
unready to leave for yet a time.
Halsey, in spite of his own bitter
ness of soul, realized that Rawn himself
was well-nigh crazed by the business
situation, and his conscience mis- j
gave him when he reflected upon the
sudden consequences of his owr\ acts.
His sense of business honor and oJ
personal justice told him he owed
even so unreasonable a man as Rawn
some sort of definite accounting foi
his own stewardship, unwelcome as
another meeting between them must
be to both.
Lastly, it may be added, Virginia
Rawn had sent for him.
When he received her message he
spent a night resolving that he would
not go, that he would never again see
either her or Grace; never again
would set foot on ground belonging to
John Rawn, come what could, let be
lost what any of them all might lose. |
in tne morning ne cnangea nis reso-1
lution. By evening of the next day he
was at Graystone Hall.
To his surprise, he found it not immediately
necessary to patch a peace
'with the mast3r af Graystone Hall, for
Rawn was absent. The great mansion
seemed strangely and suddenly
changed. An air of anxiety hung over
all, the place was oddly silent. The
servants went slipshod about their du-!
ties, and their mistress did not cTndfl
tfcem^ Switc uisintegration oi the do
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mestic machine "seemed "to threaten;
mysterious danger seemed to menace
the very structure itself, long of so
bold and indomitable front. Halsey
still hesitated?and still remained.
Rawn customarily divided his time
between the operating headquarters in
the western city and the general offices
in the eastern capital, but now
he had found it needful immediately
to transfer all his activities to the
latter scene. He did not know of his
wife's invitation to Halsey, for he had
started from his office, without even
advising ht his intention, and even
without conversation with her by telephone.
He telegraphed from the train,
stating that he had been called East
on urgent matters. After that, no
word at all came from him. It was
not known when he would return. Halsey
could only wait. In truth, he was
little better than a man gone mad himself,
and Rawn was worse than such
' Gradually, day by day, hour by hoar
the terrible strain of this suddenly developed
situation began to show its
effects upon Rawn. He slept but little
after his arrival in the East, showed
himself more and more untidy in personal
habits; and lastly, began tc
seek the false strength of intoxicating
drink. His demeanor in his relations
with his urbane associates lost
its usual arrogance. John Rawn, late
dictator, became explanatory, conciliatory?a
change of mind which had
visible physical tokens. His eye became
weaker and more watery, his
shoulders more drooped, his voice
more quavering, his address less
abrupt and domineering.
i John Rawn was a broken man, and
began to show it. Wherefore his late
friends exulted. The wolves, ranged
in circle, lick their chops when the
fntto-ro nrtrtn Viifi linrpr
! tain legs. Certain large financial figures
in the eastern city licked their
chops, and smiled grimly, wolflshly,
in contemplation of John Rawn as he
tottered.
Yet Rawn himself could get no direct
proof of the identity of those
now secretly assailing him. At the
directors' meeting of the International
he was received politely and respectfully?with
too much politeness and
respect, as he felt, although himself
unlike the man once wont to rule there
with an iron hand. He did not dare
tell them of Halsey*s defection, could
not doubt that they already knew of
it; but he met no queries regarding
; that or anything else in the conduct of
the western factory's business. No one
seemed to know that the most important
of all their factories was closed,
after a tedious term spent in incompletion.
His associates all were as
polite as himself, indeed, more so; as
ready as himself to discuss gravely
and earnestly any detail of the business
which now, as all politely agreed,
sepmeri "sompwhat involved." or
"somewhat delayed." No one offered
any criticism of the executive.
But, what was far more deadly to
him, the market seemed most onerously
and cruelly oppressive upon the
outside investments of John Rawn.
International Power was not hammered,
for the reason that there was
little of it out to hammer. The Rawn
stock in International, of course, did
not come upon the market. Rawn intended
to hold on to that grimly, fight
mg ror it to tne last gasp, trusting to
chance to mend matters for him at the
eleventh hour. But ruin in the general
market faced him; and he knew that,
with credit gone, the courts would
take for his. former creditors whatever
property he could be shown to
have. He saw the shadowy circle of
the wolves of high finance. Almost he
felt their fangs snapping at his hamstrings.
In these savage hours the mind of
John Rawn oaRt ahmit for rescue, for
hope. No rescue, no hope, appeared
except one last desperate alternative,
purchasable not now with cash or
power or influence?since these were
gone?but with what other and dearer
things remain to a man?things some
men, not rotted with the love of self,
keep through any or all disaster, prize,
even above life and all a life's busi;
ness success. Halsey! Ah! Halsey
was the savior of Rawn?Halsev. the
man who had humiliated him in his
own home. How could Halsey be secured?
There might be brought to
bear upon him one influence?that of
a beautiful and fascinating woman!
What matter if the one woman was
' his wife, Virginia Rawn? He had al:
ready hinted to her of her duty. He
| wondered now continually whether
\ she had really and fully understood.
| He wondered what she was doing with
I TT-.1
xiaisey.
As to Halsey, who knew little or
nothing of all these turbulent emotions,
all these crowding incidents, he
found his situation in the great house
of John Rawn one wholly to his dislike.
He saw little of his wife Grace
i arrer tne nrst conventional greeting
on his arrival, and as to the young
mistress of Graystone Hall, she seemed
so regularly to have matters demanding
her own presence elsewhere, was
so busy with other matters, as to have
small time for him. The disturbed
* f>*n ^ ^ J' *' 'r *vr r r,v';
ating a_furor in the business world,
reflected, of course, In fhe daily markets
of the western city; but Halsey
had never had many investments, had
watched the markets little; and now,
isolated at Graystone Hall almost as
much as though upon a desert island,
and too much disturbed and distracted
In his own mind to find any definite interest
In business matters, was hardly
conscious ot the storm that raged. He
simply waited on, unhappily. It seemed
to him there was no place for him in
all the world. Why did Virginia remain
aloof?
Rawn, absent, in New York, imagined
his wife engaged continuously in
the struggle of persuading Charles
Halsey to see the light of reason, although
he did not know Halsey was
living under the same roof with her.
As a matter of fact, Halsey and she
met but rarely. Virginia breakfasted
for the most part in her own rooms,
and found, or pretended to find, somet-binc
tn oo.fiunv her for the most nart
of the day. Not once did she ask his
attendance, not once did she speak
with him, when by chance she saw
him, upon any but casual or conventional
matters. 9fae seemed always to
evade him; and because she did this,
he, rebelling, sought her out all the
more, even while continually resolving
to take his departure, and never
again to see this place, or her, again.
He wonaerea ai ner reuueuce, iier
avoidance of him. He wondered why
she was so pale. He loitered about,
unhappily, in this or that common
meeting ground of the great mansion
house, waiting to hear the rustle of
a gown upon the stair, the sound of a
lignt foot on a floor, the touch of a
white hand, the sound of a voice?ali
things belonging, not to his wife, but
to his young stepmother by law.
Yes. Without his wish, in spite of
her wish, these had become things desired,
the only things desirable any
more in his distracted life. He lived
under the same roof with two women,
saw either rarely, and rareiy thought
of but one?the wrong one. To atone,
Halsey lavished all his time and care
on his little hunchback daughter, and
had her with him as much as the nurse
and doctor would allow. The child,
undersized, pale, deformed, silent and
wistful, and pathetic always, now was
listless and weak, obviously very seriously
ill. It wrung her father's heart
to see her. But Charles Halsey wanted
it wrung. He wanted to do bitterest
penance for what he now knew
woo aof?rot ntr? So tVlA wavs of
inordinate power, the consequences,
for this one or that one, which follow
on inordinate greed, worked themselves
out toward their sure and logical
ending, the mill of fate grinding
those primarily, secondarily, even incidentally
guilty.
At this time,* had Virginia 'Rawn
asked of him to recant, to relent, to
change, there is likelihood he would
have done so. John Rawn, cuckold,
was right in his despicable reasoning.
There are many prices which purchase
principles. The weakness which had
prompted Halsey to remain at Graystone
hall on such a tenure?which
held him there now, waiting for a
voice, listening for a footfall?was the
anoiont wpnVnPfiS of VOUth before
youth, of strength before beauty, of
the empty heart before one offering
love, of the mind finding perfect echo
in another mind.
With all his starved heart, all his repressed
soul, all his mutinous body,
Charles Halsey loved Virginia Rawn.
CHAPTER XIX.
They Who Water With Tears.
As at last the news of John Rawn's
collapse broke full and fair?disastrous
enough to please even his late
warmest friends, the stock markets
east and west, became scenes of riot.
The truth, of course, had leaked out
regarding Rawn's fight in the last
ditch. The newspapers swarmed upon
Graystone hall, besieging any who
could be found. Halsey refused to
talk, and moreover, Rawn could not be
found. This threw them upon their
own resources, and what they did not
know they imagined. Even thus, the
wildest of them all could not imagine
half; the shrewdest of the journalists
could not get their hands on the "inside
story" here. No one in or around
or back of the stock exchanges could
be found possessed of secret information
which he was willing to impart.
Throughout wild hours of hurrying,
telegraphing, investigating, the papers
kept up their frenzied search for the
trutji, and found it not, and knew they
had not found it.
Halsey, one morning after a sleepless
night, more than a week after
Rawni departure to New York, secured
copies of each of the morning
papers. He stood uncertain, in the j
great central room or (iraystone nan, |
with these black and frowning messengers
of fate in his hands, scarce
daring to look at them. He felt some
sense of definite disaster at hand. He
glanced at last at one, and started as
though struck. Calling a servant, he
sent word to Mrs. Rawn inquiring if
he might meet her at once.
She joined him presently, smiling
'faintly, giving him her hand, then
leading him to a breakfast table on
the long gallery facing the lake front,
a favorite spot with her. She gave
the butler orders to serve them breakfast
here at once; for she now learned
Halsey had neither slept nor eaten.
Halsey did not learn that the same
i also was true of her.
, They seated themselves and for the
time said nothing, each gazing out
over the lake. The morning was calm
^ kino 1 q bo 'net
| aiiu UCd U LAI Ul. I UU AUttv. uwv
! dotted with little whitecap rolling
waves, seemed in amiable mood, ana
purred gently along the sea-wall, below
the green and curving terrace
: which ran down from the gallery
j front. A bird chirped here and there
I LHtlo enough th? peaceful scene re
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fleeted "the feelings of These, lts"only sarlierlife
human figures. Virginia Rawn was "Quite sc
pale. Dark rings showed below her tory of Mr
eyes. Her mouth drooped just a trifle, did when h
plaintively, in a way not usual with he came fr<
her. She was pale, paler than her how he fai
usual clean and clear ivory. Yet she Here's the
was coolly Deauuiui 111 iiei uiuium6 ruwer uuili
gown of light figured lawn, with its tended as. a
wide, flowing sleeves, showing her companies
round white arms. Halsey, frowning- of the cou
ly serious, felt the charm of her rise eight billior
about him, overwhelm him. He knew to two hun
that the hour had come for him in can take vo
more ways than one; that hers, for Here are bi
ever, was the one face and figure and the known
^ ^ Here, Mrs.
sel-? as we^
U I one more <
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J blurred, bn
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ill / i^l sistent tale
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II \? Up V I Rawn's fori
lea I Wr I hope of rej
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t? <?$9feJ \i I J who really
' i^'dilW J? /J SeIves t0 vi
^ W? vj J/ declared to
j cret apartir
had been, r
John Rawn Was Right in Hit Oespio* received.
able Reasoning. cated here,
voice and presence for him, hopeless insanity? ac
and unhappy, and doomed for ever so * e wri1
-- fatefiillv tip
to remain. She was not his wife. Sfie "
was the wife of another man?of his
enemy; the man in all the world least (TO
like himself; the man who, by virtue
of that unlikeness, had won this woman
for his own. What hope for him, TEACH
Charles Halsey, for whom was no An exam
place in the world? teachers' c<
Without much comment he placed Friday, May
before her the morning papers, with examin'ati0E
their glaring head-lines. .
"WpII " Raid he. "It is tha end." PHcants wi
"Yes?" said sh?. railing; "I Mp-1
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ana career:
). Here is the entire his.
Rawn's career?what he ^
e was a young man, where
Dm, how he rose to power,
led and fell?it's all here.
story of the International
pany?they claim it was in- iHwSBjlM
. mfcrger of all the traction
of the eight leading cities
ntry! Bend issue one to
i dollars, capitalization one
il as one of Mr. Rawn and ^ ??-? *?.??
Df the house here?a new
k. The photographer must
a flashlight of the grounds." The monument that- you
3d as he tried to jest, fol- * i*. i j i_
pointing finger along the feel should be erected to the
itai head-iines, shrieking memory of your dear dedant,
impossible and incon- , ... - . t
;s. The first paper, the parted relative or fnend
:iared the ruin of John should be ordered now, for
:une to be now beyond all . 7
.air. Rawn himseif-reaiiy the right weather is here for I
?helpless stupor its erection and we will be(
York hotel room?was re- " * 1
ave fled the country. Hal- able to give the work the 1
l-in-law and Halspv's wife. , i ? j
had only denied them- pamStaKing'j tfioro SKlil 111'd.i^W
isitors and reporters?were reCjllireS. '-S?
be in hiding in some selents
of the great castle on \r -n j i _ ^1
shore, a place actually but YOU wiL find here a HIOS^B
i to any member of the se- comprehensive display of de-^
3ide society in which Rawn . , , , ? n ,
nore or less on sufferance, SlgnS tO Select XrOIXlj all HlOSt
Rawn'. wife was aiao lo- reasonably priced and ALL
in a condition verging on j .e ru
wording to the imagination Splendid examples 01 the
^rto'the'tTOt"61' alI> was finest granite and marble
and workmanship.
be continued). your inspection is invited.
1
EES' EXAMINATION.
ination of applicants for D U DAYTTD ? CAM
jrtificates will be held on * * I/xlillLin VX uVll
2, at the court house. The
I will begin at 9 a. m. Ar Newberry, S. C.
II furnish stationery.
E. H. Aull,
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