The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-20
copyright. 1900. DouSis,iay. Page Co.,
Continued from Last Saturday.
Author OF
"Frenzied Finance"

There was faint touch of appeal
In the charming voice as she spoke
that was irresistible, and we were both
willing to forget we had lunch wait
ing US on the Tribesman.
step into my Office, Miss Sands.
and all my time is yours" said Bob, as
he opened the door between his Office
and mine. After r had sent note to
my wife, saying we might be delayed
for an hour or Two. I settled down to
wait for Bob in the general office, and
it was long wall. Thirty psnutes
went into all hour and an hour into
two before bob and Miss Sands came
out. After he had put her in cab for
her hotel, he said in a tone curiously
intent: Jim, | have got to talk with
you, got to get some of your good adj
vice. Suppose we hustle along to the
yacht and after lunch you tell Kate we
have some business to go over. I don't
want to keep that girl waiting any
longer than possible for an answer
cannot give until l get your ideas"
After lunch, on the bow end of the
upper deck Bob relieved himself. Re
lieved is the word, for from the minute
he had put Miss Sands into the car
riage until then it was evident even
to my wife that his thoughts wert any
where but upon out outing.
"Jim, he began in a voice that
shook in spite of his efforts to make it
nj, s,, Il t1<,
fact that am nightly worked up
about this matter, and l want to do
everything possible for this girl. No
need of my telling you how sacred we
have got to keep what she has just let
me into. You'll see as go along thai
it is sacred, and I know you will look
at it as l do. Miss Sands must be
helped out of her trouble.
Judge Lee Sands, her father, is the
head of the old Sands family of Vir-
ginia. The Virginia Sands don't take
off their bonnets to another family in
this country, or elsewhere, for that
matter, for anything that really counts.
They have had brains, learning. money
and fixed position since Virginia was
first settled. They are the best PEG.
pie of our state. 1t is cross-road say
ing in Virginia that Sands Of Sands
Landing can go to the bench, the
United States senate, the house, or the
governors chair for the starting, and
nearly all of the men folks have held
one or all of these honors for genera
lions. The present judge has held
them all. l don't know him personally.
although my people and his have been
thick from away back. Sands Landing
on the James is some so miles above
our home. The Judge. Beulah Sands
father, is close on to 10. and l have
heard mother and father say is stall.
wart, Virginia stalwart. Being rich
that is, what we Virginians call rich,
million or so-he has been very ac-
tive In affairs, and knew before his
daughter told me, that he was the
trustee for about all the best estates
in our part of the country. 1t seems
from what she tells, that of late he has
been very active in developing our
coal mines and railroads, and that par
ticularly he took prominent hand in
the Seaboard Air Line. You know the
road, for your father was director,
and l think the house has been prom
inent In its banking affairs. Now, jim,
this poor girl, who, it seems, has re-
Gently been acting as the judges Sec
rotary, has just learned that that coup
Of Reinhart and his crowd has COM
pletely ruined her father. The decline
has swamped his own fortune, and,
what is worse, million to million
and half of his trust funds as well,
and the old judge-well, you and l can
understand his position. Yet do not
know that you just can, either, for
you do not quite understand our Vir-
ginia life and the kind of revered posi-
ton man like Judge Sands occupies.
You would have to know that to I'M
derstand fully his present purgatory
and the terrible position of this daugh-
ter, for it seems that since he began
to get into deep water he has been
relying upon her for courage and ideas.
From our talk gather she has won
derful store of up-to-date business no.
tions, and / am convinced from what
she lays out that the judges affairs
are hopeless, and, Jim, when that old
man goes down it will be smash that
will shake our state in more ways than
one.
up to now the girl has stood up to
the blow like man and has been able
to steady the Judge until he presents
an exterior that holds down suspicion
as to his real financial condition, al
though she says ReinhartN and his Bal
timore lawyer, from the ruthless way
they put on the screws to shake out
his holdings in the Air Line, must
have line on 1t that the Judge is
overheard. The old gentleman can
keep things going for six months
longer without jeopardizing any of the
remaining trust funds, of which he has
some two millions, and while his wife.
who is an invalid, knows the Judge is
in some trouble, she does not suspect
his real position. His daughter says
that when the blow came, that day of
the panic, when Reinhart jammed the
stock out of sight and scuttled her
fathers bankers and partners in the
road, the Wilson's of Baltimore, she
had frightful struggle to keep her
father from going insane. She told
me that for three days and nights she
kept him locked in their rooms at their
hotel in Baltimore, to prevent him
from hunting Reinhart and his lawyer
Raftvhono AVID ktllinp them both hut