The Alaska citizen., 1910-11-28

two gleeful men. were compelled, by force of circumst snce and curi- osity, also 10 opera-g ess and lorg- nette the sufferers
 Like the general i ito which he was developing. Bobby managed to meet Agnes face to face in the foyer after the show. Tears of modification were in Ter eyes, but still she was laughin ' when he strode up to her and Rith master full authority drew her arm beneath his own.
 Your carriage is too small for | four" Bobby calmly told Mir FL | liston. and. excusing hin self from the Starletts, deliberately conducted | Agnes to a hanson. As they got | we'll under way he observ,Nd: You will notice that I make no question of being seen in public with one who occupies a theater box with the notorious Mrs Sharpe"
 "Bobby!" she protested. Violet | lid not know. The Sharpe.s visited | in Savannah. His connexions down | here are quite respectable. and no doubt Mrs Sharpe. who is really clever, held herself very circum- specify"
 "Fine!" said Bobby. You will mo- l tice that I am quite willing to lis
 en to you. Explain some more" ! Bobby" she protested again, and 1 hen suddenly she bent forward and pressed her handkerchief to her eyes
 1 Bobby was astounded. She was actually crying! In a moment he had her in his arms, was pressing her head upon his shoulder. was
 saying soothing things to her with perfectly idiotic volubility. For an | 'nfinitesimally brief space Agnes /, yielded to the embrace, and then
 suddenly she strengthened up in dis may.
 l Good gracious. Bobby" she ex- claimed. This hanson is all glass;" l He looked out upon the brilliant ly lighted street with a reflex of her own consternation, but quickly found consolation.
 Well, after all" he reflected phil
 osophically, T don't believe anybody
 who saw me would blame me"
 You're a perfectly incorrigible
 Bobby" she laughed. The only
 check possible to put upon you is
 to hold you rigidly to business.
 How are you coming out with the Brightlight Electric company? | have been dying to ask you about it."
 T have a telephone in my office"
 he reminded her.
 '1 am completely ignoring that lungenerous suggestion" she replied ] itently admitted Well. the Bright
 light Electric is still making money. and Johnson has stopped leaks to
 the amount of at least twenty thou sand dollars year. which will per
 init us to keep up the ten per cent | dividends, even with our increased
 capitalization, and even without an increase of business"
 "GloriOus," she said with spark ling eyes.
 Too good to be true" he assured
 her. They'll take it away from me"
 How is it possible" she asked.
 'It isn't; but 1t will happen. nev-
 ertheless." he declared with con- yiction.
 He had already begun to spend
 his days and nights in apprehension of this. and as the weeks went on
 and nothing happened his apprehen-
 sion grew rather than diminished. | In the meantime the Consolidated 1 Illuminating and Power Company
 went pompously on. The great con-
 hine was formed, the fifty million dollars worth of stock was opened for subscription, and the company rave vastly expensive banquet in the convention hall of the Hotel | Spender, at which a thousand of | he city's foremost men were en-
 'ertained, and where the cleverest lafter-dinner speakers to be obtained l 'alked In relay until long after mid night. Those who came to eat
 the rich food and drink the rare
 wine and lend their countenances To the stupendous local enterprise being shrewd business graduates who had cut their eye-teeth in their cradles, smiled and went home with out any thought of investing; but l the hard-wOrking, economical chaps If the offices and shops, men who felt elated if after five years of 1 slavery they could show ten hun 1 fred dollars of savings, glanced in awe over this magnificent list Of names in the next days papers. If the stock of the Consolidated Hum
 mating and Power Company was | considered good investment bv ! 'hese generals and captains and 'ieutenants of finance. who. of ! course, attended this Arabian Nights | bannuet as investors, 1t must crr- tainly be good investment for the corporals and privates
 Immediately vivid results were shown. Immense electric signs, fur nished at less than cost and some of them as big as the buildings upon the roofs of which they were erect ] ed. began to make new cOnstella- ttons in the city sky; buildings in the principal downtown suuares | were studded. for little or nothing | with incandescent lights as thicklv as wall space could be found for | them. the men whose only automo- piles are street cars awoke to the | fact that their city was becoming intensely metropolitan; that it was l blazing with the blaze of Paris and London and New York; that all this glittering advancement was due 10 the great new Consolidated Hum mating and Power Company, and more applications for stock were made. Every applicant was SuDDlied but