The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-02-07
CHAPTER Ii.-ContEnucd.

CHAPTER u.-continued.
Charles" said John Rawn one eve
ming Il have been thinking over some
scientific problems"
In my belief" went on Rawn.
! am upon the eve OF great success.
Charles"
What sort OF success, Mr. Rawn?"
inquired Halsey
Rawn smiled largely You will
hardly credit me when | tell you. al
most all sorts OF success, To make
II short. have formed power com.
pany-a concern for the cheap gen,
Grafton and general transmission of
power In the course OF few months
well proceed In the manufacture OF
electrical trausmitters and receivers
for what | call the lost current OF
electricity"
fialsey stood cold for a moment. and
looked at him in amazement
You don't mean to say-why. that's
precisely what I've been thinking OF
for so long"
i don't doubt many have been
thinking OF It," rejoined Rawn "It
had to come, These things seem to
happen IN cycles.
Moreover. I've got the company
formed"
You. Mr.. Rawn? How did you
manage that didn't know that
you" Halsey at last spoke
A great many haven't known about
great many things said Rawn,
walking up and down. his hands In
his pockets. his air gloomily digni-
fed
is 1t big company? queried Hal
sey wearily
Twenty ytive million dollars" an
swered Joan Rawn calmly.
We are going to dam the Missls-
sippl river, a couple of hundred miles
above here at the lodges For the
time, that will be our central power
plant. We Will contract for million
and half dollars worth of power
each year in St. Louis alone That
comes down by regular wire transmits
sion, That is nothing. it's only a drop
In the bucket Our big killing is go.
ing to be with the other scheme-the
second Currcnt-the same idea you've
been triiiing with. Well 90 east with
that"
Young Halsey's little capital OF FIVE
hundred dollars was as important as
young Halsey's original idea. which
latter Mr.. Rawn had also appropri.
ated
So now these two brought very
considerable bundles OF copper wire
and other things. and made several
machines or this and the other shape
and tried divers experiments In all
this work young Halseys manual skin
and technical training continually was
in quest John Rawn for the most part
standing by and frowning heavily.
watching Jacob labor for the earning
OF Rachel; for Halsey knew this sur
render OF his Idea was the price OF
Grace. Halsey had little hope Of ulti
mate success in his appliances Not
SO Rawn. He had something akin to
a feeling OF certainty.
Differing thus-yet who shall say
they were not partners after all. since
all these things were true regarding
them they at last emerged from the
wood3hed in Kelly Row. after many
long weeks. They carried into the
front room Of the Rawn house in Kel
ly Row a small machine. which pres
emily was to do large things This
novel and mysterious little machine,
with a glass jar underneath many
coils and wheels within. and an odd.
toothed crest OF little upreach.ng
metal fingers. had been produced only
at great cost. great sacrifice 1t had
seemed wholly right and reasona bic
III
dred dollars should disappear little by
little. and 1t had done so. long ago
1t seemed proper that the small saw
ings which Grace had deposited In a
tin baking powder can-tor she was
like her mother, part ground squirrel.
and secretive-should also disappear
little by little. and they also had gone,
In some way. only the women knew
how. they all had had enough to eat.
so far as that meant actually neces-
sary food: bat the entire Rawn family
were n gaunt and haggard. as well as
wearied and anxious quartette, when
finally they gathered about the little
machine out of the woodshed Their
play was on one card and the card
was turned. What was It?
In the most commonplace way in
the world, and quite as though he had
always done this very thing. Mr. Hen
ry Warfeld Standley. president Of the
l. & D. A. Railway Co. warned in ad.
vance by Mr.. Rawn's telephone. came
to the door himself. Presently the
three. Rawu. Halsey and the president
OF the company for which both 30 long
had worked. sat at the long GLASGOW
cred table. where lay many papers
The president pushed button and or
dered the attendance Of Mr.. Theodo-