The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-12-03
eNAPTER ii-cs~tievss.

ty1svea- Then 10 made the Aguros
thirtytvo and fortytvo. He biack-
sssd thsn with repeated traeinss -
~ nuseA. This done. he pat sevso.
tasa und1 twenty-seven and thirty.
two unAsr foFtytwO. He made tie
sabtsaction and studied the two tens.
A swing door opened softly and his
executive clerk reappeared with . soft
tread.
Some papes for your signature.
sir" he said ~ b siippsd then on the
olotter in froat o6 Westssiing. "AnA
tho l33d-no order aboat that, sir7''
he asked.
''Noas. It rsmains!" Wssterling 70.
patsd.
Tie clerk went ost impressed. His
ohase taking to sums Of subtraction
md totally prsoccupied! The 131d to
ssmain! He. too. had . question. mark
b his secret mind.
Wsstsriins proceeded With his math-
s0atics. Having heavily shaded the
taas. he essayed . sum In division. He
fosnd that ten went into seventy Just
esven times.
~One-seventh the allotted span of
dfe!" he unused. Take OF fifteen
yeaFs for youth and fifteen after nifty.
dve-nobody counts after that, though
I mean to-and you have ten into
forty, which IL one-fourth. That 10 Q
good deal. But it's more to = woman
than to a man-yes. q lot more to .
woman than TO 4 mani"
The clerk was right in thinking
Westerling preoccupied; but 1t was
not with the International crisis. Over
his coffee the name OF Miss Marta Gal
land, in the list Of arrivals at a hotel,
had caught his eye in the morning pa
per. A note to her had brought an
answer. saying that her time was linn.
tited. but she would be glad to have
him call at i've that afternoon
Westerling realized that the ques.
Itiou Of marriage as social require
'Dent might arise when he should be-
Oms oMcially chief of stan with the
'retirement Of His -Excellency the field
marshal. For the present he enjoyed
his position - . bachelor who was
the most fAv0rsd man in the army too
'much to think Of marriage.
1t vas = little surprising that the
'bell that the girl Of seventeen had
'rung IN his secret mind when he was
oR one Of the hrst rounds Of the lad
daf. now lost In the mists Of . lower
stratum Of existence. should ever
tinkle again. Yet he had heard it's
note in the tone Of her prophecy with
AAch step in his promotion; and while
~ ether people whom he had known
" Il Tfr were the vaSusst shadows OF
personalities. her picture was ~ def,.
pits II detail ~ when she said: "You
have the will! You have the ambi-
tioa!" She had recognized in him the
power that be felt; foreseen his ascent
70 the very apex Of the pyramid. She
was still unmarried, which was
strange: for she had not been bad
looking and she was Of iine old fam.
H. What was che like now! Com.
Oonplsce and provincial. most likely.
Many Of the people he had known in
his early days appeared 20 when be
net them again. But. at tho worst, he
looked for an interesting half.hour.
The throbbing activity Of the streets
q the capital. ~ his cH proceeded ON
The way to her hotel. formed IN ener-
aettc accompaniment to his gratifying
backward survey Of how all his plans
had worked out from he very day of
the prophecy. Had lie heard the re-
mark of great manufacturer to the
banker at his side In passing limous-
inc. There goes the greatest captain
OF industry of us all!" Westerlinx
would only have thought: Certainly.
l 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
amall dividends!" he would have
thought, Splendid dividends-the divi-
dends of power!"
He had caste contempt for the men
Of commerce. with their mercenary
talk about credit and market prices:
and also for the scientists, doctors, en-
gtneers, 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 q great general. He re-
sented the growing power of these
leaders Of the civil world, taking dis.
dnction away from the military, even
when. as man Of parts, he had to
court their influence. His was the
profession that was and ever should
be the elect. A penniless subaltern
was a gentleman. while he could never
think of man in business as one.
All the faces in the street belonged
10 a strange. busy world outside his in.
tsrest and thoughts. They formed
what was known as the public, often
Daking clstter about things which