The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-03

awakened to realization of the dense
ignorance l wallowed In. Jim, but for
the loading of the dice, should now
have been taking Beulah Sands to her
father with the money that the hellish
System stole from him. Later should
have taken her to the altar, and after,
who knows but that should have had
the happiest home and family in all
the world, and lived as her people and
mine have lived for generations, hon
est, God-fearing, law-abiding. neigh
BORROWING men and women, and then
died as men should die? But now,
Jim, l see black, awful picture. No,
I'm not morbid, I'm going to make a
heroic effort to put the picture out of
sight; but I'm afraid, Jim, I'm. afraid"
He stopped as we pulled up on the
sidewalk in front of Randolph & Ran
dolph's Office. Here 1t is on the bull
letin. See what did the trick, JiHl.
They held the Sugar meeting last
night instead of waiting till tomorrow,
and cut the dividend instead Of In
creasing it. The world won't know it
until tomorrow. Then they will know
1t, then they will know it. They will
read it in the headlines of the papers
"a few suicides, few defaulters, a
few new convicts, an unclaimed corpse
or two at the morgue; few innocent
girls, whose fathers fortunes have
gone to swell Camemeyer's and Stand
ard Oils already uncountable gold,
t,1rnod into ctroof olboro. q fa~ uaw
palaces on Fifth avenue, and few
new libraries given to communities
that formerly took pride In building
them from their honestly earned saw
inCz. A report or two of record-break
ing diamond sales by Tiffany to the
kings and czars of dollar royalty, then
fro',t-page news stories of clawing,
mauling, and hair-pulling wrangles
an, oug the stage harlots for the pos
session of these diamonds. They were
not quite sure that the dividend cut
alone " ID do the trick, and they
were ia. ng no chances, these mighty
warrio 3 of the System, so their hire
ling senate committee held session
last night and unanimously reported
to put sugar on the free list. The peo-
pie will read that In the morning, and
probably the day after they'll be told
THAI the committee held another ses-
sion tonight and unanimously report
ed to take It off the free list. By that
time these honorable statesmen will
have loaded up with the stock that
you and and Deulah Sands sold, and
that other poor devils laughter
tomorrow after reading morning
papers"
] - bitterness was terrible. My
; torn as I listened. He
S, through the office and into that
of Beulah Sands. followed She was
at her desk, and when she looked up.
her great eyes opened In wonderment
as they took in Bob his grim, set
face, the defiant, sullen desperation of
the big brown eyes, the disheveled
hair and clothes. For an instant she
stood as one who had seen an appari
ton.
Look me over, Beulah Sands" he
said, look me over to your hearts
content, for you may never again see
the fool of fools in all the world, the
fool who thought himself competent to
cope with men of brains, with men
who really know how to play the game
of dollars as it is played in this Chris
tan age. Don't ask me not to call you
Beulah; that what tried to do was for
you is the one streak of light in all
this black hell. Beulah, Beulah, we
are ruined, you, your father, and I,
ruin ed, and I'm the fool who did it."
She rose from her desk with all the
quiet, calm dignity that we had been
admiring for three months, and stood
facing Bob. She did not seem to see
me; she saw nothing but the man who
had gone out that morning the person
ification OF hope, who now stood be-
fore her the picture of black despair,
and she must have thought, ut was all
for me-" Suddenly she took the lapels
of his torn coat in either hand. She
had to reach up to do it, this winsome
little Virginia lady. With her big,
calm blue eyes looking straight into
his, she said:
Bob"
That was all, but the word seemed
to change the very atmosphere in the
room. The look of desperation faded
from Bob's face, and as though the
words had sprung the hidden catch to
the doors of the storehouse of pent-up
misery, his eyes filled with hot, blind
ing tears. His great chest was con-
vulsed with sobs. Again-clear calm,
fearless, and tender, came the one
syllable, Bob" And at that Bob's
self-control slipped the leash. With a
hoarse cry, he threw his arms around
her and crushed her to his breast.
The sacredness of the scene made me
feel like an intruder, and started to
leave the room. But in moment
Beu1ah Sands was her usual self and,
turning to me, she said Mr.. Ran
dolph, please forget what you have
seen. For an instant, as l saw Mr.
Brownley's awful misery, I thought of
what he had tried to do for my father,
what penalty he has paid. From
what you said when you left and the
fact that got no word from either of
you, | feared the worst and did not
dare look at the tape; simply waited
and hoped and-prayed. Yes, prayed
as my mother taught me should pray
whenever was helpless and could do
nothing myself And l felt that God
would not let the noble work OF two
such men be overthrown by those you
were battling with In the midst Of