The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1914-10-24

he unused. This done. he put 9.
teen under twenty-seven and Il
two under forty-two. He made
subtraction and studied the two Il
A swing door opened softly anc
executive clerk appeared with a
tread. %
Some papers for your signal
sir" he said as he slipped them on
blotter In front of Westerling. :"
the 1S2d-no order about that, q
he asked.
None. IL remainsl" westerling
piled.
The clerk went out impressed.
chief taking to sums OF subtractid
and totally preoccupied! The 1920 n
remain! He. too. had question.mz<
In his secret mind.
Westerling proceeded with his M
ematics. Having heavily shaded
tens. he essayed q sum In division.
found that ten went into seventy {,
seven times.
"One-seventh the allotted span
life!" he unused. '.T-ke or nfte
years for youth and esIeen after ar
five-nobody counts aNer that. thou
] mean to--and yo&xave ten ID
forty, which is one-fourth. That h
good deal. But it's more TO WON
than to a man-yes. a lot more to
woman than to mani"
The clerk was right In ttlnkiI
Westerling preoccupied; But IL WI
not with the international crisis. oyl
his coffee the name OF Miss Marta Ga
land, In the list OF arrivals at hotd
had caught his eye in the morning %
per. A note TO her had brought a
answer, saying that her time was lin
tied, but she would be glad 20 nav
him call at five that afternoon.
Westerling realized that the cues
tion OF marriage as a social reuuire
ment might arise when he should be
come officially chief OF stan with tn
retirement OF His Excellency the feldy
marshal. For the present he enjoyed
his position as a bachelor who was
the moet favored man in the army tod
mucn 10 mink or marriage.
II was a little surprising that the|
bell that the girl OF seventeen Lad
rung in his secret mind when no was
on one OF the first rounds OF the lad
der, now lost In the mists OF a lower
stratum of existence, should ever
tinkle again. Yet he had heard it's
note In the tone OF her prophecy with
each step In his promotion; and while
the other people whom he had known
at La Tir were the vaguest shadows OF
personalities. her picture was as def.
mite in detail as when she said: you
have the will! You have the ambi-
toni" She had recognized In him the
power that he felt; foreseen his ascent
to the very apex Of the pyramid. She
was still unmarried. which was
strange; for she had not been bad
looking and she was OF a fine old fam
lily. What was she like now7 Com
monplace and provincial, most likely.
Many OF the people he had known In
his early days appeared so when he
met them again. But, at the worst, he
looked for an interesting half-hour.
The throbbing activity OF the streets
OF the capital, as his car proceeded On
the way TO her hotel, formed an ener-
getic accompaniment to his gratifying
backward survey OF how all his plans
had worked out from the very day OF
the prophecy. Had he heard the re-
mark OF great manufacturer TO the
banker at his side In a passing limous-
Inc, There goes the greatest captain
of industry OF us ALL" Westerllng
would only have thought: Certainly.
i am chief OF stan. am at the head
OF all your workmen at one time or
another!" Had he heard the bankers
answer, But pretty poor pay. pretty
small dividendsl" he would have
thought, Splendid dlyidends-the divi.|
dends of power!"
He had a caste contempt for the men
OF commerce, with their mercenary
talk about credit and market prices;
and also for the scientists. doctors, en-.
gineers, and men OF other professions,
who spoke of things in books which
he did not understand. Reading books
was one of the faults of Turcas his as
sistant. No bookish soldier. he knew
had ever been great general lie re
sented the growing power OF these
leaders OF the civil world, taking dis
tinction away from the military. eyed
when, as man OF parts, he had 70
court their influence. His was the
profession that was and ever should
be the elect A penniless suhaltern
was gentleman, while he could nevet
think OF man in business as on.
All the faces I'm tho street belonge
to strange, busy world outside Ills "a
terest and thoughts. They forme
what was known as the public, otte
making a clatter about dhings Wild
they did not understand, zhen The
should obey the orders of their 8
periors. OF late, their clatter had BED
about the extra taxes for the recent
crease OF the standing forcesfby a