The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-09

| II always thought. MIR. Rawn." said
she. that you played q dangerous
game. 50 long as you simply trusted
that he'd do anything you told him"
Yes. ! see it now. But he always
was odd-he always held something
back. l tell you. he's crazy, Now.
he's either Just crazy over his fool So
cialist ideas. or else he's going to hold
out for a squeeze. In the first case
you can handle him. In the second.
can.
You see-I couldn't tell our direc-
torate" he went on; but there was
always something lacking which 1
couldn't handle myself We need him.
and we've got to have him! You can
get him. know you can. You can do
anything you like. You're wonders
full"
She sat and looked at him, her lips
still parted in the same enigmatic
smile which he did not like to see. but
she made no answer.
What's wrong with him." he went
on Immediately. What does he say is
the trouble. anyway? And is it the
truth that he's got overhead CURRENT"
She nodded. "Of course. | know
something about 1t from my work in
the office. Yes. he told me that he
had done what you have all been try
ing to do SO long. He said he came
over under power from the overhead
just as he told you"
He may be lying. for all we know.
You cant look at car and tell where
Its charge came from. Electricity is
electricity. to all intents and purposes.
What want to know is, what hes got
against US. anyhow. Jennie?"
We'll. for one thing, he seemed
troubled because Grace would not go
back with him He seemed to think
that you and the life you could give
T her had been the reason for her aban-
doniIg him
I Why, what nonsense. Grace hasn't
abandoned him. And only got her
over here because | needed her my
-before-well. before we were
married. Who was to take care of
me, I'd like to know? And you say he
complains of that"
That was one Of the things"
But Grace would go back? She's
" 'Oo
and have taken charge here Shed
go back to Charley tomorrow if he
asked her-why, I'd make him take
care of her. of course. The trouble
with him is. he values his own person
al affairs too much, That's no way to
begin in the business world man
has to lend everything to the one pur
pose OF success. Look at me. for in
stance"
She did look ate him, calmly coldly
without the tremor OF an eyelid. with
I out raising her hand to touch him as
| he stood close by. without indeed ma
| king any verbal answer A slight
shudder passed over her, visible in
the twitch of her shoulders
Its getting cooler." he exclaimed
/ ''lli fetch a wrap for you And so
has,ened away, obsequious, uxorious
as he always was with her.
But Charley never would take any
counsel from anybody" resumed he
presently. Hes always been ~ssact-
able enough, that's true: never raised
. much of a disturbance until tonight
don't see why he cut up so ugly now
He's not crazy over Grace. and If the
truth be told. Grace isn't the sort OF
girl that a man would get crazy over.
You're that sort"
| Perhaps not" she smiled family
Just the same, Grace's attitude may
have started him to thinking. When
he began thinking he seemed to con-
clude that all the world was wrong
And he's starting in to set it right!
n
That's the way with lot of these re-
formers, They want to set the world
right according to their own ideas
They don't pay any attention to the
men who keep them from starving.
made that boy-what he's got he owes
to me"
Indeed. How singular. He says
that it's just the other way about
that what you have you took from
him. He says you want to take
more-more than your share-from
things that belong to everybody
What's that. What's that. Well
!. now, OF all the insane idiocy ! ever
heard! Good God. what next, Him
Charles Halsey, the man brought UT
with me. Jennie. l never heard the
like Of that in all my time
"Eut il that's the way he feels
now's not the time to argue that with
hm!"
. But, good God, the effrontery-"
'All the world is full of effrontery
Mr. Rawn." she said-continuing te
, address him formally. as she always
did, It's buy and sell. Everythins
We get we nav for in one way n,
, another Even if We took power out
OF the air by our overhead motors