Bisbee daily review., 1913-02-16

complaints on the Que side. his direc-
tors discreet grumbling GU the other.
he paid as little attention on the one
hand as upon the other. John Rawn
had dream, and he knew that his
dream must come true His dream
was one OF wide-reaehing and relent-
/ less power. shared by those few men
destined by fate to own the so-ealled
I American republic. Let the people do
what they would. all they could. 1nis
was his dream IL had come to him
\ In all its fullness one evening in the
| great city Of the east. He exulted.
AS 10 the industrial situation in In
| iernationsl Power. Rawn now began
20 prove himself good business man,
and he received more and more the
I grudged confidence OF his associates,
/ who came from almost every rank of
big business. Through the aid and all
vice OF these, his private fortune BIZ
gan TO mount up enormously. So also
did international Power make money.
The only sore place of the directors
Ioverstrained nerves eentered in affairs
| at the gaunt building in the suburb,
where dozen mysterious machines.
toothed and armed. cogged and coiled.
still stood ia a state Of half-comple-
ton, as inehoate and mysterious now
as they had been at their inception.
None OF the workmen, none OF the
foremen, could guess what they would
look like when completed.
There was something else. which
not the most suspicious guessed-John
Rawn himself did not know! His sue
cess was vast bubble. Halsey was
the only man who ever had known the
full secret of mantling one OF the mi
raculous receivers which they all had
seen and all had accepted. Rawn,
bold enough, kept this to himself. al
though he feared TO go to Halsey and
make any demands. Halsey held grim
peace for months--indeed, for more
than four years in all, counting from
the first motor made in the Kelly row
woodshed. It was risky. but for once
Rawn dared make no desperate move.
Halsey talked little. He was very sad
since the birth OF his hunchbacked
child. Sometimes he talked to Vir-
ginia Delaware about 1t; never to his
wife, Grace.
And still the seven days wonder OF
International Power remained to puz-
gle the Industrial world. No inkliug
of the real intention of the company
ever got out There was. as Rawn had
predicted. no market for the stock, for
the reason that 1t was not listed and
for the further reason that IL was not
sold. It was held in a close com
munion Of hard-headed and close
mouthed men, and there we're no con
fdences betrayed. The thing was too
big to conform to ordinary rules. In
the center of all this stood the figure
OF John Rawn, suddenly grown large
and strong. He ruled his army, off
: GERS, staff and line, cavalry, infantry
I and auxiliaries. as one born originally
: to command. He brooked neither
: parleying nor thwarting of his will
except in one instance He never made
any demands on Halsey. never gave
, him any Deremptory orders after thai
one day in the office. months earlier
before Halsey made his first trip tC
: New York
These months seemed to have aged
John Rawn, none the less. He grew
gTimmer and grayer, more taciturr
and reserved. At the clubs he was
/ one of the most talked-of men In town
and one who talked least himself. As
his hair grew grayer at the temples
: his jaw grew harder, at the corner o.
his chin coming the triangular
wrinkles which GO with hard-faceC
middle age. .Enigmatic, self-centered
: ne could not have been called happy
man. He smiled but rarely, ioked mo-
at all, engaged in no badinage, told
40 stories. found no lighter side o.
life, played no golf. had no vacations
Like some vast engine OF tremendou!
driving power he went on his way, ad
J mired in a city and country full o.
able men, as one competent to hold
> his own with the best and strongest o.
} them all. And still OF all his traits
r stood out the one OF self-cOnfidence
! He played a game of enormous and
I continuous risk-fundamental risk by
! reason OF Halsey, incidental by reason
, Of his widely ballooned market opera
4 tons; yet his nerve held. Moreover
/, he was learning the price of success
2 an absolute devotion to the means o
! success When ne learned that tbs
! child of his daughter was not a son
, but girl, and that It was bunch
; back for life, a sad-faced. unsmilinl
child-he set his jaws for a moment
: but said few words OF coincidence
either to his daughter or her husband
: He did not smile for three months aft
3 er that, and never referred to this sub
= iect again, after it's first discussion
5 with his wife at Graystone ball; bu
5 Il cost him no time and no energy los
2 from business. II only deepened II
: his soul his growing hatred for Charley
: Halsey, the man whom he dared no
, ehide.
In the headquarter Offices a vast
e smooth running business machine hat
l now been built up. Rawn was an or
; ganizer. The laxness and looseness o
: the old railway offices ia Sc. Louis
0 where he had got his business school