Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-07-17

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six months cut IN Montana, and new
er found better or sQuarer fellow
anywhere
Yes" admitted Blagg, IL the world
were made up Of people exactly Like
/ Kelvin Il would be all right; they
would all have an equal chance. But
since the world contains but q few
/ men Ike him he Is dangerous"
"EonsenseF' replied Rensselaer,.
"whyT'
Because he alone. aided By Breeds
money. was able to destroy a ire
I mendous institution like the Stock Elk
/ change" returned BIagg heated1y. cit
/ should have been wiped out OF exist
ence. no doubt, but IN the process Of
breaking # up thousands Of helpless
poor were thrown out OF employment
and faced starvation. and these are
the people who invariably suffer. Then
Kelvin, by merely opening his mouth
with Breeds consent, stops the panic
What does he do? He issues to the
press this morning an announcement
that the cash drain has stopped. that
Breed no longer requires shipments OF
actual money for his bread, and that
percentage Of what he has taken in. is
10 be put back into circulation. What
happens next? Immediately confidence
VIII be restored; people will go back
to work. Don't you see the monsuous
thing IN this? The very lives of hun
dred5 Of thousands Of men. women
and children have depended upon this
mans word. 1t is monstrous! Some
day that system will be swept away,
ana with ii must be swept young KeI-
win and all his kind"
You talk like Kelvin himself used
to talk out on the RANCH" Rensselaer,
remarked. Kelvin has his own dreams
Of reform You ought TO compare
notes"
Il doubt If our dreams would be
found to be Of the same stuff" return
ed Blagg grimly. The only ones ben
Gifted by his activity are a very few
of his own Kind. Breed and himself
chiefly Take the gardener out there.
He and his family would have starved
had not Kelvin personally secured
them these places. because he used TO
board with them when lie was poor"
See the sunshine and hear the little
birds twitter," fippantly interrupted
Rensselaer,. In the meantime would
it not be a pity to sweep out of ex-
istence such q tall, well built, good
looking, decent sort of chap as KEEL
vin?"
Phillip and Elsie had by this time
left the garden and were now walking
slowly toward the house.
Yes" Blagg admitted, ''it would.
snd it makes 1t all the harder when
you see so beautiful a girl as that look
ing up at him with that amount of
adora ton"
Lillian Breed. coming from a cross
path just behind Phillip and Elsie and
half concealed by sbrubbery, stopped
instantly as she saw them, clutching
her hand upon her breast and half
crouchina.
Took at that girl" said Rensselaer,.
'Tn figure she is positively the most
beautiful creature l have ever seen.
But she is beautiful like a cat, like a
tigress.'
he glanced at Blaggs face and half
recoiled. II flashed upon him instant
y that If Lillian were a tigress here
was the male of her species. His eyes
were blazing. and his lips were parted
in almost q snarl as he viewed the
succeeding tableau. Lillian suddenly
advanced upon Kelvin and Elsie.
startling them both. They found her
smiling Rlagg and Rensselaer, could /
see her give some brief but pe$emp-
tory directions to Elsie. and the maid, .
hastily taking a basket from Phillips
hand, hurried into the Eouse Phillip.
outwardly uumoved. saw her go. and I
unmoved he walked with /
Lillian out of view around the wing
OF the house
"And the queer thing OF it, said .
e trifie reFretfully. is that /
he doesn't care hang for either of ,
their"
That's ity' exclaimed Blagg. That's |
lust what I'm telling you He cares
for no creature IN this world but him
self"
II don't believe that either" declared
Rensselaer,.
AS Henry Breed, released from Eel /
phen and breakfast, opened the door
of Kelvin's ONCE Lillian started has
lily from the back of Phillips chair.
over which she had been leaning. The
girl was confused, but the young man
was not
How nearly do you known asked
Breed, ignoring the girl Together.
Kelvin, his map put away now, bent
over a very large sheet OF white card
board. ruled and cross ruled In blue
and red. and swept his eye across the
dia arranged figures.
''rhe situation clears up more The
further go into f." said he. ''Out OF
the panic we have emerged with
considerable profit In cash and with
actual possession of IS per cent OF the
New York Central and about the same
Of the Pennsylvania. Southern and
Union Pacific, Northern Pacific, South
arn railway ana New Haven groups.
These practically govern all other rail-
roads
Breed sat down upon the stiff settee
which Kelvin had insisted upon having
n this room instead OF a padded NOR
RS chair. his beady eyes giittered
above his havkhke nose; bis pointed
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