Gunnison news-champion., 1907-06-21

mss asrce thaf Al xrr. fa..p n
should siFss more han an eEea
shoS . lsnssss 5. he'll ~hez. the ssl-
va n sh,cscss and the flames .zs
hottest
Nc acre a. shs entrance 90 Ea--
dolIIh & asndoiyhs effsce a. he E.a..r-
cd oai this s.rribl. iarreut o; hiftcr
ncss. Tie Elsred q me ss q anHzeoa
prisoner aizhf glare o. his sccger fuE
his answer 20 here can I fna libeF-
ug' I had ns words 10 answer him.
As J no;.d the awful changes in every
liue 81 has face the rigid hardness
the haunted. nervous hook OF dospers-
tion. which seemed a fersrunHer ~
madness. ] cesld not sec. either.
wherc his millions brought anv hap
piness. Ills hair. which oHce vas
smooth and osderly. hung owes has
forehead iH sn impaired mass of tsn
gled curls. and here and there show
ed Of white. Bob BrOwuley was still
handsome. even more fascinating han
before the mercury entered HE sogl
bat it was thst Wild awful beauty of
the Gagged lion. lasEing himself into
madness with memories Of h.s lost
freedom.
Jim" he vent on. Wien b. saw
could not answer 4 guess yog don't
know where ] can swap the yellow
mud for balm of Giiead. won't both
or yog with my troubles any longer.
I will GO up.tuWu and see the little
girl whose happiness Tom Reiuhart
. s..arTaH -. l.fa N.suafyaaa . MIL ss.,
aud show her the pictures iu this
weeks Golfers of the fIa hospital
for incarsblcs that Bciuhaft has 50
generously and uobiy built az cost
~ two and a half millions The Dr..
tie girl NAV think better of EciHhart
when she knows that her fathers
money was pat To such good use Who
knows bat the great finance king mey
dedicate IA as the Judar Toe Sands
Home and carve over the cBtrga 7o
a bas-relief vt her father. mother. ard
sister with Hope. Faith. and Charity
coming from the mouths Of the.r
hanging severed heads 9'
Bob Browniey laughed q horrible
ringing laugh as he uttered these ar-
ful words. Then he beat lH hand
. down ON my shoulders as be- SAID b. a
hoarse voice. "Jim. but Tor you {
should have had crimps in that iackal
philanthropists soul by now and in
the souls of his kind Eu' never
mind lie viii Keep. he viii surely
keep until ! get 10 him. Every aav
he lives he viii be filter for a., criml-
ing. Within the short two years since
he finished griilins Judge Sands soul.
he has put himself in better form 10
appreciate his reward. ] see by he
press that at las lis aristocratic wife
has gold-cured Newport OF it's habit
Of dating bacf the name Beinhart to
her scullionfc~d. and it has taken her
into the hirhi lstep circle. read the
other day of his daughters marriage
to some English mob, and of the dis
covery of the ancient Reinhart family
| tree and crest with the mailed hand
ana two-edged dirk and the vulture
rampant, and the motto, Who strikes
In the back strikes often"
He left me with his laugh still ring
ing in my ears I shuddered as
passed under the old black and gold
sign my uncle and my father had nail
ed over the once entrance in an age
now dead. an age when Wall street
men talked of honor and gold. not
gold and more gold.
In telling my wife of the DAYS hap
penings ! could not refrain from CIV
ing vent to the feelings that consum-
ed me. Kate. Bob will surely do
-
! can see no hope for him. He grows
more and more the madman as he
broods over his horrible situation.
The whole thing seems incredible to
me. Never was human being in
such perpetual living pureatory-un-
limited, absolute power on the one
hand, unfathomable. never r-cool down
he'll on the other"
Jim. how does he 40 what he does.
| cannot make out anything | have
read or you have told me. how he
creates those panics and makes all
that money"
No one has ever been able to fig
ure il out" | answered Il under
stand the stock business. but can
not for the life of me see how he does
/ it He has none of the money pow.
ers in league with him, that's sure,
7 for in the mood he has been in dur
| ing the past two years it would be i'm
possible for him to work with them,
even if his salvation depended on it.
| The mention of any OF the big 'Sys-
tenn men drives him to fury. He
has today made more money than
any one man ever made in q day since
/ the world began, and he had only com
menced his work when he quit to
/ please me. As I stand in the Exchange
and watch him DO it, II seems com
monplace and simple. Afterward il is
beyond my comprehension. At the
/ gait he is going. the Rockefeller. Van
{ derhilt. and Gould fortunes combined
will look tiny in comparison with the
one he will have in a few years. II
/ is beyond my power of figuring out,
and il gives me a headache every time