Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-01-02
! cHApTER Mv.-contiuued.

CHAPTER XV.-ContiQued
Eyes, that is to say, / could have
had that any day in the week these
mast eight months-if he really has
got that much left where he can real
ize on it. He's pretty well spread
PUT"
Then you have had it-what have
you done with the money!"
q presume | look as though I'd
spent or could spend mere fifty thou
isand dollars or so, don't II" was his
quiet answer mo, didn't have it,
and haven't,got it. I'll say this much
10 you, however, that l ran my little
old car here tonight on charge TAX
en- out of one of the overhead receiver
snotors of the International Power
eompany-a motor completed on my
own ideas, and by my own hands It's
uine, tell you-mine."
'Chariey!" she caught him by the
wrists, with both hands, eagerly. ''You
San give me the things I've got used
30 having! I'll go back oh! IL go
Sack-weIl go on togetherl ! hate
ner so-you don't know!"
That's nice of you, Grace: but
you've guessed wrong. I've not got
chat fifty thousand yet
But you can have"
Yes. can. What could | buy with
ft? For one thing, could buy back
my wife?"
"sBut Charley! We're rich! You've
succeeded"
mo, / am poor, I've failed. I'm
Just beginning to see how much I've
failed!"
IF you don't tell father the truth
about this TIL do it myself" she ex
claimed fiercely You've not been
Ioyal-you've taken pay"
Your father took his pay from
me" was his halfsavage answer.
'tHe's been paid enough! AS for me,
don't want any more of this sort of
pay"
What are you going to do--you're
not going to sell out to some one
else?"
No, my dear. I'm not going to do
precisely what you suggested l should
do just moment ago. I'm not going
to sell out | could do that, too, and
make more than any fifty thousand.
The foreman in our factory, who
knGws very little, can sell out to-mor-
row morning for ten thousand dollars.
maybe double or treble that now. The
NEntchmaa on our door can sell out
when he likes. We can all sell out.
amy of us sell out. But we haven't!
Sc there has been any selling out it
mas been done by those who built this
paaoe here-the place which you found
better than the best home / could Of
fer you"
She sat back stiff, silent, somber.
ssYou-you never mean that you are
going to throw this away, then!" she
asked at length. What earthly good
will that do? Pail have 1t out of you
somehow! I'll-I'm going to tell hint"
-'Try It, said Charles Halsey. cas-
Fly
She had courage. Father" she
called out PA! Come here-at
Sncei'
Rawn rose suddenly up from his
chair at the startling quality In her
sOice. What's that. Grace?" he
called across the long gallery.
Come here, want you! We've got
something to say to YOU"
Halsey sat motionless
Rawn approached slowly. obviously
annoyed. IL it's important" he be-
gan. He had found love-making to his
young wife especially delicious this
evening, although he mistook her
strange silence and preoccupation
merely for wifely coyness
''It is important" Grace exclaimed:
and rising, clutched at his arm.
We'll, then. what's it all about
what'ssit about? Come, comet"
'Charley's done it. he's got it-he's
got the machines inished--over
there" Her voice was almost a
scream. hoarse. croaking. She stood
bent, tense.
What's that?" demanded Rawn
what do you mean? Is that the truth.
boy"
File came over in his car. under In
aernational overhead-he told me so.
right Low" she went on. half hyster