Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-09

that the dividend on the common
stock had ceased and an anonymous
letter informed him that he had bet
ter look into his affairs and recall
certain powers of attorney. He con-
suited Dashmore, who frightened his
lips and looked very thoughtful when
he had mastered the contents of the
letters.
There's something doing, Van.
Somebody is trying to do you dirt;
and what's more, they have got you
on the run. 1t don't matter how big
a wall is, if you pull the right bricks
from under it, down comes the wall.
Now you thought that was all a joke
about Bulpitt, but l expect you'll find
some connection between that joke
and this" tapping the letter referring
to the bankrupt's suicide. 'They got
the poor devil all snarled up and he
woke up one morning to find he was
a rogue. The writer Of this anony-
nous letter knew what he was talking
about when he advised you to look
into your affairs. If | were you I'd
certainly go to New York"
"The fact u.s." rejoined Vandraken.
In a troubled voice. I'm afraid to
leave. | fear l am losing my grip as it
is. 1t may be only imagination, but
Kitty hasn't been the same since we
came here. Instead of looking at me
well, you know how a girl does look
when ev%erything's all right - she
looks at me as if l we're a bridge
problem, and something is troubling
her"
Seen too much of you, old man.
They can, you know. It's not compli-
mentary TO US, but they can. You
have a fight on your hands if you
don't want to step out of the million
aire class and get into the ranks of
the gilded youth and furnished gilt,
at that. You have brains just as we'll
as Bulpitt. Don't lay down on him.
Let's make another Muley Zidan OF
the cuss. Converting brigands on
specially what?"
maybe you're right, but I hate to
leave her in the vicinity of that devil
faced brute. Dare. Ugh! How l hate
that man! He has me hoodooed, SLAP
Dash. 1t may sound mad, but 1 believe
he has something to do with the
change in Kitty"
However, before Dashmore was
done with him, he had persuaded his
friend to leave Donoyle for awhile
and devote his energies to fighting
Bulpitt and Company.
1t was finally decided that Dash
more should go to New York and try
to line up the young millionaires OF
Vandraken's own type the spenders
against the money spinners. That was
the issue as Vandraken saw it. He
himself would go to London, and worl
the market from. there. In spite of the
gigantic size of the capitalization he
did not see why Metal Common
should not be cornered. In fact, the
very vastness of the stock would rem
der the men who were selling it I'm
suspicious and easy to trap; but, al
the same, Vandraken knew he nigh
emerge from the fight a comparative
pauper and thought it only right tina
Lady Kitty should know.
When Vandraken and his iancet
, met the day after the latter's tall
!, with her mother, on the subject o
breaking her engagement, they hat
!, so much to say to one another tina
they foupnd it hard to say anything
but at last the young man blurted GU
the truth about his financial position
t 81 suppose l would still have a yer.
decent income he finished, "but, o
: course that would be different from
: unlimited wealth." He watched he
t face eagerly for it's real answer
) This makes it hard for me, Stan
DISH" she answered, looking yer.
t troubled.
" SsIf rooJ,,s{ -, .1o H"N ,+bo
) bitterly. "If it was'my money yo,
t were going to marry, and l lose il
Of course I lose you. I release you til
l regain my position"
| ooh, you don't understand" an
swered the girl, with a despairing ges
ture. II came to tell you that l couldn'
go on with our engagement. Now yoj
have made it almost impossible TO
me to tell you. If you had asked me t
marry you the first time we met,
would probably have accepted you.
was well brought up she put in, sac
ly. "Still I would have made no pre-
tense about til liked you - W
could have been good friends. TIL
next time we met there was a grea
change in you, or at any rate in tn
way l felt towards you somethin
in you called to something in me.
thought, in my foolish girls heat
that it was soul calling to soul; but
is hard to distinguish voices. Yo
ought to have gone overheard wit
me that last night on the yacht. Star
dish, l felt there was a change con
ing l told you I felt it. l know no
that it is something evil in 0 thu
appeals to me, and l will shut tn
door in its face. I am not the world
girl you first knew. I don't know whs
has changed me. but l am changed.
can see two roads before me; on
leads to the stars, the other lead
downward. That is the road where yo
would lead me, and I'd dance down
gaily enough when we got started
Il suppose somebody has been tel
ing you things about my past" sal
V~andraken sulkily. 81 never pretende
to be a saint, but whatever my lii
has been it has left no mark on m
It's a phase which has passed unles
you throw me over. What are wome
for?" he pleaded good women
if it is not to drag men up? 1t is II
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