The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-03-05

great central room OF Graystone hail.
with these black and frowning mes
of fate in his hands. scarce
daring to look at them. He felt some
sense of definite disaster a. tE'sd. He
glanced at last at one. and star,Sc 20
though struck. Calling a servant. he
sent word TO Mrs. Rawn inquiring Il
he might meet her at once.
She Joined him presently, smiling
family. giving him her hand. then
leading him to a breakfast table on
the long gallery facing the lake front.
a ~favorite spot with her. She gave
the butler orders to serve them break
fast here at once; for she now learned
Halsey had neither slept nor eaten.
Halsey did not learn that the same
also was true Of her.
They seated themselves and for the
time said nothing, each gazing o1t
over the lake. The morning was CAIN
and beautiful. The blue lake. Just
dotted with little whitecap rolling
waves, seemed in amiable mood. aad
purred gently along the sea. vail. be-
low the green and curving terrace
which ran down from the gallery
front. A bird chirped here ard there.
Little enough the. peaceful Hcene re-
1ected the feelings Of these, its only
human figures. Virginia RIVE vas
pale. Dark rings showed below her
eyes, Her mouth dropped just a trine,
p%laintively, 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, frowaing-
ly serious, felt the charm OF her rise
about him, overwhelm him. lie knew
that the hour had corne for him in
more ways than one; that hefs, for
ever, was the one face and figure and
voice and presence for him, hopeless
and unhappy, and doomed for evsr so
to remain. She was not his wife. She
was the wife o. another man -oe bis
enemy: the NAH in all the world least
like himself; the man who, br virtue
of that unlikenes5, had won this Wom-
an for his own. What hope for him,
place in the worlc?
Without much comment he placed
before her the me ming papers, with
their glazing headlines.
Well" said he, 1T is the cad"
"Yes?" SAID she. smiling; u sup
80 oon o,rn al 1hnr,t cnr
earlier life and career?"
Quite SO. Here IL the entire his
tory Of Mr.. Rawn's career-what he
did when he was a yong man. where
he came from. how he rose to power
how he failed and fell--it's all here,
Here's the sto;y of the international
Power company-they calm it was in
tended as a merger Of al the traction
companies of tho eight leading cities
of the country! Bond issue n to
eight billion dollars, capitalization one
to two hundred billion In stocks-you
can take your choice In crazed figures
Here are biographical histories of al
the known and unknown stockholders
Here, Mrs. Rawn, Is " picture Of your
self. as well as one OF Mr.. Rawn and
one more of the houIe here-a new
view, | think. The photographer mus
have made a flashlight o! TIE grounds.
She smiled as he tried to jest, fol
lowing his pointing finger along the
blurred, brutal headlines, shriekint
their discordant, impossible and incon
sistent tales. The first paper, the
Forum, declared the ruin OF Johr
Rawn's fortune to be now beyond al
hope of repair. Rawn himseli-really
at that time often in a helpless stupol
In a New York hotel room--was re
ported to have fed the country. Hal
sey. his son-in-law, and Halsey's wife
who really had only denied them
selves to visitors and reporters-wer,
declared to be In hiding in some Sc
cret apartments Of the great castle OF
the North shore. a place actually blu
little known to any member of the sc
lect North side society in which Raw
had been. more or less on s~ufferance
received. Rawn's wife was also 10
Gated here, in a condition verging oil
insanity, according to the Imagination
of the writer's. which. after all. wa
~fatefully near to the truth.
Gro BE CoNTINUEDo