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SYNOP3R5i
CHAFFER I?John Rawn is bvrn M
Texas. Early In life he shows signs of
masterfulness and inordinate selfishness.
CHAPTER II?He marries Laura Johnson.
He js a clerk in a St. Louis railway
?fAce when his daughter Grace is. born.
Tw later he hears Grace's lover, a
yming engineer named Charles Halsey,
apeak of a scheme to utilize the lost curof
electricity. With his usual un cropulousness
he appropriates the idea
tM his own and induces Halsey to perfect
ab experimental machine. He forms a
"company, with himself as president, at a
alary of 1100.000 a year, and Halsey as
nperintendent of the work* at a salary
?f $5,000.
' CHAPTER m?Rawn takes chi?.*ge of \
the office In Chicago. Virginia Delaware, j
* beautiful, capable and ambitious young i
*7oman, is assigned as his stenographer.
Che assists in picking the furniture and
decoration for the pr!ncelv mansion
Rawn has erected. Mrs. Rawn feels out
of place in the new surroundings.
CHAPTER IV?Halsey goes to New
Tork with Rawn and Miss> Delaware to
xplain delays in perfecting the new motor
to tb? impatient directors. He gets a
Vict- a dofnrmnfl dausrhter has
been bora to his wife. Grace Rawn. He
returns to Chicago.
CHASTER V?Rawn bargains with Miss
XJelaware to wear his Jewelry and appear
In public with him, as means to help
liiin in & business way.
CHAPTER VI?Rawn is fortunate In
jarket speculations, piles up wealth and
attains prominence.
CHAPTER VTT?He frets because his
Irlfe does not rise with him in a sociaj j
way. He gives her a milllCn dollars to j
leave him.
*TER IX?Grace moves to Graynail,
and Halsey continues to live !
in the cottage near the works.
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CHAPTER X?Halsey*s machine proves !
a success, but he keeps the fact a se- j
eret
CHAPTE i XI?Virginia Delaware be- 1
eome? more 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
?t&ke a place for themselves in the social
wnu.
^ CHAPTER XITT?Halsey threatens to
a divorce because his wife refuses to
return to him. He tells Rawn that he has
broken up all the machine* after proving
the eueeess of the Invention. Rawn, in a i
great rage, threatens to kill him.
CHAPTER XIV?Halsey declares*-he
will never build another machine fox!
dtawn and. slaps his face. Virginia Rawn
mtercepts Halsey as he !s leaving the
fcouse 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
?any.
CHAPTER XVI?At Rawn's instigation
Virginia agrees to try to bring Halsey to
terms, no matter what it costs.
. - CHAPTER XVn-The directors plan tc
?et the control of the company away
irom Rawn
CHAPTER XVTTT?Rawn goes to New
Tork to attempt to avert Impending disaster.
The wolves of finance are closing
In on him. Halsey closes the factory and
takes up his residence at Graystone hall,
where his wife and daughter are seriously
111. He admits to himself that he loves
Virginia.
mTATyriro vty?T> o tt-ti rn5npfl fin an
dally. Halsey and Virginia confess theh
love for each other. She. says that was
the reason she could not carry out Rawn'jj
rders. The butler overhears and tells
Halsey's wife.
CHAPTER XX.
What Cheer of the Harvest?
The blood of youth is hot He followed
her, in spite of all, forgetting
all. They had advanced across the
A QTAI/1 rAATVl AT* Y?X7
uaii wv vy ax vi a. wwi-u, v/x uuiai;.
"Oh, Charley, Charley! Don't begin,
wait a little," she wailed. "At
least till to-night, till afternoon. I
don't know what to say yet. I don't
know what to do! Let us see him
first, and tell him."
l "Look about you," he commented
k grimly. "You're going to lose all this
^ ?all these splendid, beautiful things."
"I don't mind losing them. I want
to be poor. Oh, my God! Just to be
loved, and clean! Charley, can we?"
"But why choose me? There are
so many others!"
"All like Mr. Rawn himself?men
crazed of money, power, selfishness. I
wanted something different. Bo you
think it could have been my father's
old ideas coming out in me, so late?
He came of a family of revolutionists
?independents; 'Progressives,' they!
call them now. Something of his be- j
liers?l aon t Know wnai 11 was?
"But you'll have to leave him in any ,
case. Divorce is simple enough. You
know what I would have done, and
done, also, in any case. Grace and I?"
"Yes, I know all about everything.
Everything's past," she said despairingly.
"We're dead. It's all over!"
"I ought to go?" he asked vaguely.
"Yes, pretty soon. But I suppose
you'll have to see Grace, and?to-night
Til have to see?" 1
He bowed his head. "Yes, we've got j
to pay that part first. The best we
an do and all we can give ought to ,
fce enough for him."
She turned, left him, passing j
through the creat doors to thfi central !
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rooms within. Following her still, he |
found her at the stair and joined her.
There approached them now, with
hasty tread and face somewhat ex-!
cited, the medical man who had been
for so many days now in attendance
upon Grace Rawn and her child. He
had come on his morning visit unno-!
ticed by them.
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yog, Mrs. Rawn?^and jou, Mr. Halsey
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Come quickly!" Hi? face showed
"Ib there anything wrong?" demanded
Halsey sharply. "What** the
trouble?"
"It is my duty to tell you the truth,"
began the doctor. "Your wife la a
very sick woman, indeed."
"I know that, yes."
"But not the worst until this morning,
until just now. Something?"
"I've been here in the house wait
mg?wny aia you ncn, can me v Degan
Halsey clumsily.
I "You must not wait!" the doctor
Interrupted him, taking him by the
arm and hastening toward the stairway.
They followed him up the stair,
down the upper hall, to the rooms
which had been set apart of late days
for (iiric-i her child, quarters all
lcd unfamiliar to Halsey himself.
They found Grace Halsey. faint and
gasping, half sitting in her bed, clasping
thp r-hilri in " "rrns. herself too
weak now longer u, .old it up. Kalsey,
stricken with sudden horror, ran
to take the child in his own arms.
The truth was obvious. Even as he
lifted the poor crippled form in his
arms, the head fell buck, helpless. The
eyes glazed, turned back uncovered.
J/alsev cried out aloud. He turned
about, dazed; horror and helplessness
were on his face. It was to Virginia
Pawn he turned, as to the other part
o^ himself.
It was Virginia Rawn who took from
him the feeble, misshapen body, gath
ering it into his own arms, sue gazea
intently, frowning, grieving a woman's
grief over suffering, bending over its
face; her own face feeld back over it
when she saw the truth. Then she
passed him and placed the body of the
child upon its cot near-by, covering it
gently.
"Grace, Grace!" sobbed Halsey. He
fell upon his knees at his wife's bedside.
She did not see him, did not recognize
him, although she turned a
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^UCBUUUtUg law wnuiuv W,
too!" he cried. "I want to go! I
want to die and end it! Everything's
wrong . .
"Come," said the doctor presently;
"it's too late now. I'll call for you
after a time." He took Halsey by the
arm and led him from the room. Returning,
he signed for Virginia Rawn
also to leave the sick chamber. Left
alone, the medical man turned to the
professional nurse m auenaance. i
"Keep it quiet," he said. "It would
hurt my practice?do you hear?"
He kicked beneath the bed a small
broken vial, and wiped away the stain
from the lips of the dying woman.
The doctor, of course, had his guess,
the public its guess, the daily papers
theirs. The truth was, Grace Halsey,
by butler route, had learned of the
tete-a-tete of her husband and her stepmother
a half hour before this time.
*******
Grace Halsey, dead, her crippled
child dead beside her, never knew the
contents of the letter which had been
received for her that morning. It
still lay on the hall table unnoticed.
There was almost none to pay attention
to the many duties of the household.
The last servants had begun
to pass, scenting disaster even as had
others. The magic which had builded
this mansion house now lacked
strength to hold its tenantry. There
remained^now only one man?the butler,
lingering for his pay. Only two
persons might still be said to be actuated
by any sense of loyalty or duty
to Graystone Hill and its owner?Halsey
and Virginia Rawn.
Of duty?to what and to whom?
They dared not ask, dared not think.
They waited, they knew ^ot for what.
The master of this mansion house w^s
forth upon his business. Somewhere,
he was hastening toward his home.
When he might be expected they did
not know. Nor did the master know
what news awaited him upon his coming.
The evening dailies came out upon
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me streets, reeling aiiu lectins >vilu
the last accumulating sensations of
the Rawn disasters. The business
world continued to rub its eyes, the
social world continued to exult. Many
and many a woman smiled that evening
as she contemplated proofs of
the downfall of one whom once she
had envied. The Rawns, it now
seemed, had all along been known, by
everybody who was anybody, to have
been nobody at all. They who had
sown the wind, had the whirlwind for
their reaping. This was the general
day of harvest for Graystone Hall.
But the day passed on. Shadows
lengthened beyond the tall towers and
softened as they fell toward the east
The soft airs of evening, turning,
came in across the open gallery front.
Night came, night unbroken by more
than a few nights in ail the myriad
windows of this stately monument
which John Pawn had builded as proof
of hi3 personal success. Vehicles,
passing slowly, held occupants staring
I in curiosity at this vast, vacant pile.
Human sympathy lacked, human aid
there was not.
Thvs *t chanced easily that ttr^e
passed u? the long driveway of Gra^Mm*.
stone Hall, almostimnotlced, a vehicle
carrying one who seemed a stranger
there; an elderly, rather tall woman
of gray hair and unfashionable garb,
who made such insistence with the
servant at the door that at length she
won her way through.
Her errand seemed not one of curiosity,
nor did she lack in decision.
She left upon the table an old-fashioned
reticule, and following the advice
given her, in reply to her question,
passed up the stair and down
the upper hall, to the room where lay
Grace Halsey and her child. There,
nnkaown by any of the household and
accepted by those whose professional
duties took them thither, she remained
for many hours. Halsey and Virginia
Rawn did not know of her coming.
It "Wat a cold home-coming, also,
which awaited John Rawn. But he
came at last, to meet that which was
for him to encounter. It was night
The lights were few and dim. None
greeted him at his own gate, none
even at his own door, which was left
unguarded. At length he found the
solitary footman-butler, asleep in a
chair, the worse for wine.
"Where is she?" he demanded.
"W'here is Mrs. Rawn?"
He turned oerore ne couia oe coherently
answered, and passed down
the hall toward the library, through
whose closed doors he saw a faint
light gleaming.
Something impelled John Rawn to
hesitate. He stood, himself the very
picture of despair, his face drawn,
haggard, unshaven, his hair disordered,
his hands twitching. He must
2nd his wife, he said to himself; he
must ask her what success she had
had with their last hope. Yes, yes, it
mustvbe true! With Halsey's aid he
would yet win! If she had won?Halsey
would yet be on his side?Halsey
would tell him?Halsey would go back
to the factory? \
But John Rawn hesitated at this
door. He felt, rather than knew, believed
rather than was advised, that
his wife was beyond that door. He
waited, apprehensive, but kept up with
himself the pitiful pretense of selfdeception.
Ah, power, control, command!?those
weres the great things
of the world, he reasoned. True, he
knew his daughter lay dead in her
room on the floor above?the paper he
held in his hand told him that; for at
last the doctor had prepared his state
ment regarding Mrs. jtiaiseys aeatn
by "heart failure"?the rich and all
akin to them always die respectably,
in a house so large as Graystone Hall.
But itN was too late to save her, Rawn
reasoned. Let the dead bury the dead.
The larger things must outweigh the
small. He first must know what his
wife had done with Halsey.
To the tense, strained nerves of
John Rawn the truth was now as apparent
as it had been to the sensibilities
of all these others, late friends,
servants, sycophants. Ruin was here,
in his citadel, his castle of pride. Only
one thing could save him. ... He
hesitated at the door, held back from
that which he knew he was about to
face. . . . But no, he reasoned, she
was there alone, he must see her!
He flung open the folding doors and
stood holding them apart.
Yes, she was there! John Rawn's
face drew iilto a ghastly smile. Yes,
she had won! She, the wonderful
woman, had triumphed as he had
planned for her to triumph. She had
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They stood before, him, those two,
silent, face to face, embraced; their
arms about each other even as he
flung wide the door. They turned to
him now, stupefied, so weary, so overstrained,
that their arms still hung,
embraced. The face of each was
white desolate. unhanDv: more hoDe
less and desperate than terrified, but
horrible. They were lovers. They
loved, but what could love do for them,
so late? They had paid?but what
right had they to love, so late?
John Rawn, the man .who had
wrought all this, stood and gazed,
ghastly, smiling distortedly, at his
wife's face. Why, then, should she be
nnhappy? What was to be lost save
that which he, John Rawn4 was losing?or
had been about to lose?
But he was startled, stupefied, himself,
for one moment. He turned back,
hesitating; and so tiptoed away, leaving
them, although the joint knowl
edge of all was obvious. They had I
not spoken a word, had not started
apart, had' only gazed at him like
dead persons, white, silent, motionless?not
lovers; no, not lovers.
For one-half instant, alone in the
wide and darkened hall, Rawn straightened
himself up, threw his chest out.
Yes, she ha^ won?she had done- her
task! She held Charles Halsey fast?
there?in her embrace. He, John
Rawn, multimillionaire, collector of
rare objects, one of God's anointed
rich, had the shrewdest wife the world
had ever seen, the most beautiful, the
most successful!
Had he not seen?was it not there
before his eyes? She had his one enemy
netted, in her power?there?had
he not seen? She brought him, bound
hand and foot, to him, John Rawn!
Could a man doubt his eyes? They
had hunted well in couple, he and his
wife, and now she had pulled down
their latest victim! . . .
What mattered the means??there
was but one great thing. And the
great things must outweigh the small.
He was a man of power. He had been
born for success. He was?
He stood, half in the shadow, hesitant.
Then he heard other feet approaching
him slowly. His wife, Virginia,
came and took hftn by the arm
and had him within the door; closed
it back of him; ana, leaving him, advanced
to where HalBey stood. She
took Halsey by the hand. ... It
seemed a singular thing to Rawn, this
perforrnr?e, in fact, ax nest L. _.oper,
if. the truth were known.. ^ ^ So
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trifle clouded with distress and drink, done wl
"Well," said she apologetically; and it?" she
held her peace as he frowned and "Yes;
and looked at her dumbly. "I ha"Well!"
he broke out at last; "I'm have ke
back again!?You're here, I see." I told yc
This last t( Halsey. hand am
They two stood and regarded him
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eye on Rawn's hand, expecting some
sudden movement for a weapon. He nlfcz?
Vas incredulous that any man could
sustain Rawn's attitude toward him.
War, and nothing but war, seemed in- ?
-vitable between himself and Rawn.
?'l I' * ^ 1 I srima*;
"Keep It Quiet." Mr. Rai
- ? love you
the man whom he had wronged, the told her
man who had wronged him. "You
"I suppose?I see?" began Rawn out jnt0
clumsily, after a while. "Of course, jove ?e]
you have probably been here all the g00(j ne
time, Charley. I came back as soon j sent ]
as I could. I've been having all kinds iove her
of trouble in St. Louis and New York. (j0 y0U?
Everything's all gone to pieces." ery maE
They did not answer him, and he to work
shuffled. do, but
"Have you anything to say?" he de- can wh:
manded of his wife; "has Mr. Hal- everythi
sey?Charley?agreed??Have you per f0re to-i
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y broke in now. "It is true,
vn," said he. "I love her. I1
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a great, croaking laugh. "You I SI
? I say, that's good! That's I ^
ws to tell me, isn't it?' Why? I ^
aer?I used her, to make you
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?every man does at last?evi
has bis price. You'll go back
to-morrow? There's a lot to I ^
we can save it all yet. We
Ip them, I tell you?we'll g'jt
ing back In our own b^ I
morrow nirht!"
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