The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-16

/ Rawn grew cold and hard. There's
one thing We can't do. Jennie" said
he. We cant side in with any of his
socialistic talk What he wants to
| do is to give to the people Of this
country for nothing what this lnterna-
/ tional Power Company is planning to
| sell them for ever What We want is
monopoly I've been gambling every
thing I've got on the certainty of that
J monopoly I'm in soak, in hook. up
/ to my eyes on the market, this min
ute. I'm margined to the full extent
/ of my credit. The biggest men Of
America are back OF me I'll be rich
/ II this thing goes through-one of the
/ richest men in America. But I'd al
! most rather lose 1t all thar 10 see you
side in with him. or listen for five min
utes to his rotten talk about the
rights OF man There are no rights
OF man except what each man can take
for himself! AS for him, I'd kill him.
or get him killed, if | knew first how
he got that current through the re-
ceivers. Give me that. and I'll let the
| rights of man wait while. I'll show
them thing or two,
But OF course he added, frowning
again in helpless perturbation, we've
got to get him in hand. Grace couldn't
do it"
No; on the contrary. can-if |
pay"
Then pay" he snarled suddenly.
his voice harsh, half choking What's
the price-nothing worth mentioning
But it's got to be paid. no matter what
it is. We're caught, and we're
squeezed We've got to pay. no mat
ter what it is, Jennie."
rs 1t no matter to you, Mr.. Rawno"
How can it be? I'm almost crazy
tonight DO it, that's all and draw
on me to the limit"
ITO the limit, Mr.. Rawn?"
To the limit" He looked her
straight in the eye. and she met his
gaze fully. She shivered slightly
again, but her delicately clcan.cut face
showed no further sign Only she
shivered, and pulled her wrap trifie
closer about her shoulders.
Very we'll" she said Il may have
TO draw on you-and myself. too"
It's all in the game. Jennie-we'ye
got to play it together we're two of
the same sort-weve got to climb. to
succeed. We run well together One
/ must help the others hand
Yes. it's game" she answered.;
and so rose. and left him without fur
ther word
John Rawn followed her up the stair,
mumbling some sort of conjugal affec.
tion, but she left him at the landing
and passed toward her own apart
ments down the hall. giving him hard
" even a look of farewell. He fol-
lowed her with his eyes. standing a
/ little time. his hand resting on the
Intel OF his own door.
/ Alone, Rawn seated himself in the
/ Elizabethan armchair devised by his
/ most favored decorator as fitting for
/ this Elizabethan room. A vast oak
bed. heavily carved, with deep and
heavy curtains. represented the deco.
rator's idea of what the Virgin Queen
preferred. The walls were deeply
/ carved in wainscot and cornce. A
rude attempt was made at strength
and simplicity in this. the sancrum OF
the master of Graystone Hall. Grant
ed the aid of a lively Imagination, this
might have been the apartment OF
some feudal lord OF another day; as
the designer and architect had no.
failed delicately to suggest to Mr.
Rawn
1t is possible that in the time o.
Elizabeth pier glasses with heavil,
carved frames we're not common ir
the size affected by Mr. Rawn In his
private apartment. He stood before
the great glass now and gazed at wha
he saw face haggard and lined
shoulders STOPPING little forward
body a little stopped. a little heavy
a little soft; the watch charm hangins
in free air-the figure of man M
longer athletic. II ever So
Rawn stood engaged in his regular
nightly devotions-he made no pray
ers of eventide beyond that to his mir
ror. But now something he saw
caused him to fling himself into a sea
at a smaller glass. where the ligh
was better. He gazed into this also
intently. Something seemed strang,
about his eyes. about his mouth. II,
turned his face slightly sidewise ant
studied the deep, triangular lines a
the corner of the chin. He saw a rol
of fat at the back of his neck, and OBJ
served a certain throatinesc a volu
minousness OF flesh below the chin
The latter stood out distinct. pushin,
forward the rich mans chin, the oil,
mans chin. He lifted a finger an,
touched the arteries on his temSles
They were frmer to the touch thai
once they had been. He looked at tn,
veins on his hands, and realized tha
they stood fuller than was once th
case. His nose, large. just a trifl
dubious. seemed to him to have game,
somewhat in color in late years HI
looked at his eyes in eager question