Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1913-03-14


waves, seemed in amiable mood, and
purred gently along the sea-wall, be-
low the green and curying terrace
which ran down from the gallery
front. A bird chirped here and there.
Little enough the peaceful scene re-
fiected the feelings of these, its only
human figures. Virginia Rawn was
pale Dark rings showed below her
eyes. Her mouth dropped just trifie,
plaintively, in a way not usual with
her She was pale. paler than her
usual clean and clear ivory. Yet she
was coolly beautiful in her morning
gown of light figured lawn, with its
wide, flowing sleeves, showing her
round white arms. Halsey, frowning-
ly serious, felt the charm Of her rise
about him, oyerwhelm him. He knew
that the hour had come for him in
more ways than one; that hers, for
ever, was the one face and figure and
voice and presence for him, hopeless
and unhappy. and doomed for ever 50
TO remain. She was not his wife. She
was the wife of another man-of his
enemy; the man in all the world least
like himself; the man who. by virtua
of that unlikeness, had won this wom-
an for his own. What hope for him
Charles Halsey, for whom was no
| place in the world?
Without much comment he placed
before her the morning papers, with
their glaring headlines.
| Well" said he, "it is the end"
"Yes?" said she. smiling; Il sup
pose now we can learn all about oar
! earlier life and career?"
quite so. Here is the entire his
4 tory of Mr.. Rawn's career-what he
/ did when he was a young man, where
he came from, how he rose to power
how he failed and feIl-it's all here
Here's the story of the Internationa
Power company--they claim it was in
tended as a merger OF all the Traction
companies OF the eight leading cite.
Of the country! Bond issue one x
eight billion dollars, capitalization on'
to two hundred billion in stocks-yo'
can take your choice in crazed figures
Here are biographical histories of al
the known and unknown stockholders
Here, Mrs. Rawn, is a picture of your
self, as well as one of Mr.. Rawn AM
one more of the house here-a new
view, think. The photographer mus
have made flashlight of the grounds.
She smiled as he tried to Jest. fol
| lowing his pointing finger along tn
blurred, brutal headlines, shriekin
their discordant, impossible and incor
sistent tales The first paper, tn
Forum, declared the ruin of job
Rawn's fortune to be now beyond al
hope OF repair. Rawn himself-reall
at that time often in helpless stupo
in q New York hotel room-was II
ported to have fed the country. Ha
sey, his son-in-law, and Halsey's wifi
who really had only denied then
. selves to visitors and reporters-wer
declared to be in hiding in some s.
cret apartments of the great castle o
the North shore. place actually 81
little known to any member OF the s
lect North side society in which Raw
had been. more or less On sufferanc
received. Ravns wife was also i
: Gated here. In a condition verging c
. insanity, according to the imaginatic
of the writer's. which, after all, wa
fatemlly near to the truth
nj Virginia Rawn smiled. and turns
4 the pages. The next journal had lit
4 else but detailed discussion of Il
c Rawn collapse. It also asserted Il
= scheme OF the International Pow
Q company was the most bold and 7
l.paeious fraud Of the day. With jou
naIistic vaticination il iHsouciantly
clared that the intention Of the cor