Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-04
CHAPTER XIII.
Broken Pillars

I at six o'clock and by seven he had had his break
fast and was on his way in the machine to Hab-
berton Station The air chill and now and then
gust of broke against the curtains and logged the
glass wind shield But gloom without could cast its
pail the brightness that glowed within he did not
shine in his heart To him the world was in its Easter
morning: 4. r
Mrs. Garriott.'
The name had new sound, and he uttered it with
confident ring of possession. He would have liked to
cry it from the roof OF the station so that everyone
might hear; but just then the train came rumbng in
and he got aboard without even thinking to get the
morning paper. He did not to know about other
peoples affairs 1t much more interesting to him
to think about his own. 1t drab city to which he
was returning; but in his heart memory OF old
rose and ivory and the of the world did not matter
He reached the shop little after eight. When he
came in ODowd looked up at him with wolfish grin
which had in it something of reproach. This was no
time, he sad to be chasing butterflies. Garrotts hap
pness reflected in his radiant face in Mirror
and so ODowd greeted him with brief cordiality.
"Have good time? You're lookin' better. We've
got to work, though The parts came in from the
foundry and machine shop last night and we ready
to assemble. Besides there's hundred letters on
desk, and the company called up already this
mornin. They want to arrange for test Saturday,
and we haven't spun wheel yet"
They'll have to watt said Brooke, the cloud Of
business affairs gathering in his face do you think
we can manage 1t!
Everything seems to be all right; but we can't tell
without the power.
Garrott flew up the stairs two steps at time, ran
hurredly his MAIL then called up the company
and told them he would let them know before the shop
closed if he could keep his appointment. When he
came down again o'Dowd had begun putting the ma
chinery together. And soon Brooke was so deeply en-
crossed in his work that he lost all sense OF the flight OF
time.
O'Dowd was good mechanic; but like most men of
practical training had imagination He used to say,
"What I want is facts; just you show me, Brooke.
III it, you've got the goods Brooke had shown
him how the Garrott engine could be used in brew
npI ho hort RI chOW hirnW ha r
would do with street car; but ODowd was crotchety
and nervous Brooke had promised him substantial
profits the deal with the car line went through and
he sensed difficulties where existed.
But his chief saw no chance of failure. What he had
done with the truck had demonstrated that success
here was only a matter of modified forms in applying
the same principles. And this morning nothing could
check CARROTS enthusiasm or his optimism he was
of himself and of his machinery than he had ever
been. So he only laughed at ODowd, and in the mo-
ments when his mind not busy thought of Natalie.
1t not until unchtme that he realized he had not
learned how the market going. He sent Saot out
for pint of milk, bun, and the morning paper and
went up to the office.
HE had been living all the morning in happy anticpa-
IL ton of chat the phone with Natalie, and he
wondered what she would have to say to him. He had
difficulty in getting the wire to the Grange; but
at last Bradley's voice answered.
rs" us that you Bradley"
"Ths is Mr. Garriott Is Mrs. Garriott there9"
eyes, sir. 1 think so, SIR
eyes, sir. Just hold the wire minute, sir"
Brooke waited. On the desk before him was the
paper of yesterday afternoon He had not cared yester
day what had happened to the world He had been
living in Arcadia But his eyes caught heading in
black-face type which startled him. Alarming Condi-
tons in the Financial World-Clinton Trust Company
Closes Its Doors" He caught up the paper, the re-
ceiver still his ear and hurredy read the summary
of the Officers of the Trust Company Make
Statements Embarrassment Only Temporary--.De-
positors Besiege Doors-Police Preserving Order.
That Natalie's trust company stock in which