Bisbee daily review., 1913-02-14
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And here and there, always moving | and mingiing with those men whose reception or whose raiment announced them as persons of importance. moved ! women, beautiful women, floating by, l brightly. radiantly, rustlingIy-women | blazing with jewels. women with I bright eyes, women whose apparel be- spoke them as accepted integers of l the city's vast human sum.
 Rawn stood studying the procession for a long time. eyeing group after group carefully. A conclusion was forming in his mind. He was learning that when 8 man has achieved power, success. wealth, notoriety even, he turns with his next thought to some woman; and finds some woman wait. ing.
 And then 1t occurred to John Rawn with sudden and unpleasing force that, although he was among this throng. he was not of it. Himself a man of power, success, yes, even of wealth. he lacked in certain betoken- ing appurtenances thereto. A not un- usual wave of self-pity crept slowly over him. Why should he, man of his attainments. lack in any degree what others had?
 He stood pondering, not wholly hap py, until presently he felt, rather than saw, glance bent upon him by man who passed, a stately and we'll garbed young woman upon his arm. He was man now in faultless eve ming dress, yet easily to be recognized none less, indeed, than the dyspep- tic director who so summarily had been dismissed by John Rawn himself not three hours ago. His dark face became even darker as he saw the victor of that controversy standing here alone. He smiled sardonically To Rawn it seemed that he smiled because he saw the solitary attitude of a man as good as himself, as fit as himself for all the insignia of | power, yet publicly self-confessed as lacking all such insignia. He start ed. flushed, frowned He had shown these men, these influential magnates J in New York, that he could be their
  ! tered this man passing wonder. Yet now he stood here alone, with no woman to advertise his power to the world; and men laughed at him! No woman wore his silks, displayed his | jewels. He was John Rawn, born to the purple; yet he might be taken here for a country merchant on his 4-sp
 He turned to the key-counter. The clerk, with infaIlible instinct-without | his request-handed him the key to | his room, not lacking acquaintance with men of Mir, Rawp's acquaintanee, and knowing money when he saw it. l. Rawn passed down the hall, went up two flights in the elevator, turned into the left-hand corridor, and at length knocked deliberately at a door where a light showed.
 "Come!" called a soft voice. He knocked again, a trihe hesitant, and looked down the corridor, each way, The voice repeated, "Come!" He pushed open the door.
 Virginia Delaware stood before her dressing glass, her toilet for evening completed except perhaps for a touch about her coiffure She turned now, and flushed as she saw her visitor.
 "Mr. Rawn!" she exclaimed; q thought it was the maidl had just called her"
 'Rawn turned and shut the door Never mind her." he said. q will | ffnuf aTad
 You must gol" she exclaimed. -You ought not to have come-it is not permitted-it is not rightl"
 How stunning you look, Miss Della. ware," was ali he said He had never before seen her arrayed in keeping with these other lilies of the field. Indeed, his life had given him small acquaintance with conventions, or those who practieed them. He had no mental process of analysis as he gazed at her now, or he might have =een that after all the young wonan's costume was no more than one of filmy blue. draped over a pure and lustrous white. He could not have named the fashion which drew it So | -e---tSA+ SACo- GN mp anu Hcil us tO reveal frankly all the lines of figure which needed not to dread revelation for it's own sake, whether or not for other sake. He could not have guessed what skill belonged to the hand that fashioned this raiment could not have told it's cost To him the young woman was very beautiful: and he was too much confused to be capable of anlysis. The eorsage of the gown. cut square and daringly deep
 displayed neck and shoulders white as those of any woman of any city Her figure gave lines had her costume not aided. She was beautiful. yes.
 And there was something more Rawn could not tell what There was some air of excitement. of exaltation some sort of fever about her, upon her. In her eyes shone something Rawn had never noticed there before Hastily he made such inventory as he might of unanalyzed charms. He ar rived at his conclusion, which was that Virginia Delaware would dol
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