The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-30

great central room or Graystone haN
with these black and frowning mes
sengers OF fate in his hands, scarce
daring to look at them He felt some
sense OF definite disaster at hand. He
glanced al last at one, and started as
though struck Calling a servant, he
sent word to Mrs. Rawn inquiring II
he might meet her at once.
She Joined him presently. smiling
family. giving him her hand. then
feaolhg him TO breakfast table on
the long gallery facing the lake front.
faVorlte spot with her. She gave
the butler orders to serve them break
fast mere 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 sad nothing, each gazing out
over the lake. The morning was calm
and beautiful. The blue lake, just
dotted with little whitecap rolling
waves. seemed in amiable mood, and
purred gently along the sea-wall, be-
low the green and curving terrace
which ran down from the gallery
front. bird chirped here and there.
Little enough the peaceful scene re-
hected the feelings of these. it's only
human figures. Virginia Rawn was
pale. Dark rings showed below her
eyes. Her mouth dropped just tribe.
! plafntively, in 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 overwhelm 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 so
| 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 virtue
| 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.
We'll" said he, lit is the end"
| Yes said she. smiling; Il sup
pose now We can learn all about our
earlier life and areer?"
quite so. Here is the entire his
tory of Mr. Rawn's career-what he
did when he was young man, where
he came from, how he rose to power,
how he failed and fell-it's all here.
Here's the story OF the International
Power company-they claim 1t was in
tended as a merger Of all the traction
companies OF the eight leading cities
Of the country! Bond issue one 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 all
the known and unknown stockholders.
| Here Mrs. Rawn. is a picture Of your
self, as we'll as one OF Mr. Rawn and
one more OF the house here-a new
view, think. The photographer must
have made a hashlight of the grounds" "
She smiled as he tried to jest fol-
lowing his pointing finger along the
blurred, brutal headlines. shrieking
their discordant. impossible and incon-
sistent tales. The first paper, the
| Forum, declared the ruin OF John
Rawn's fortune to be now beyond all
hope of repair Rawn himself-really
at that time often in a helpless stupor
in New York hotel room-was re-
ported to have fed the country. Hal
sey, his son-in-law. and Halseys wife.
who really had only denied them
selves to visitors and reporters-were
declared to be in hiding in some se-
cret apartments of the great castle on
the North shore. a place actually but
| little known to any member of the Sc
lect North side society in which Rawn
had been. more or less on sufferance,
received. Rawn's wife was also To-
| Gated here, in a condition verging on
insanity. according to the Imagination
OF the writer's, which, after all, was
| fatefully near to the truth.
CTO BE CONTINUED)