The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-03-19

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he Daid ~ little attentioa % ths 60
hand - upon the other. Joha RAv1
haA . dream. and he kneu that ~
dream must come true. His dream
was one Of vtde-reaching and rslsat-
less power. shared by those fsv Dsa
destined by fate to own the so-ealls1
American republic. Lst the psoDSs =
what they would. all they could This
Mas his dream. II had come 70 hin
In all its fullnsss one evening In ths
great city Of the east He exulteA.
A. to the Industrial situation in In
to prove himself good business nan.
and hs received more and more The
grudged confidence Of his associates.
who came from almost every rank Of
big business. Through the aid and 3D.
vice Of these. his private fortune b.
gan to mount up enormously. 90 also
did international Power make money.
overstrained nerves centered In a6airo
At the gaunt building in the suburb.
where = dozen mysterious machines.
toothed and armed. cogged and coiled.
still stood In . state of half-comple-
ton. as inchoate and mysterious now
~ they had been At their inception.
There was something else. which
not the most suspicious guessed-John
Rawn himself did not know! His sue
cess was . vast bubble. Halsey was
the only man who ever had known the
full secret Of mantling one of the mi
raculous receivers which they all had
seen and all had accepted. Rawn.
bold enough. kept this to himself. Al
though he feared to go to Halsey and
make any demands. Halsey held grim
peace for months-indeed, for more
than four years in all. counting from
the first motor made In the Kelly row
woodshed. 1t was risky. but for once
Rawn dared make no desperate move
Halsey talked little. He was very sad
since the birth Of his hunchbacked
child. Sometimes he talked to Vir.
ginia Delaware about It; never to his
wife. Grace.
And still the seven days wonder OF
international Power remained to pus
zle the industrial world. No inklins
of the real intention Of the company
ever got out. There was. as Rawn had
predicted. no market for the stock, foI
the reason that 1t was not listed and
for the further reason that 1t was NOT
sold. 1t was held in = close com
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mouthed men. and there were no con
fidences betrayed. The thing was toe
big to conform to ordinary rules. In
the center OF all this stood the figure
of John Rawn. suddenly grown large
and strong. He ruled his army. ON
GERS. staff and line. cavalry, infantry
and auxiliaries. as one born originally
to command. He brooked neither
parleying nor thwarting of his will
except In one instance. He never made
any demands on Halsey, never gave
him Any peremptory orders after tina,
one day In the ONCE. months earlier
before Halsey made his first trip t.
New York.
These months seemed to have aset
John Rawn. none the less. He grew
srimmer and grayer. more taciturr
and reserved. At the clubs he wa.
one of the most talked-of men in town
and one who talked least himself. A.
his hair grew grayer at the temples
his jaw grew harder. at the corner Of
his chin coming the triansula,
wrinkles which go with bard-facet
middle age, Enigmatic. self-centered
he could not have been called a happy
man. He smiled but rarely, joked moi
at all, engaged In no badinage, told
no stories. found no lighter side OF
life. played no golf. had no vacations
Like some vast engine OF tremendous
driving power he went on his way. ad
mired In city and country full OF
able men, as one competent to hold
his own with the best and strongest OF
them ALL And still of all his traits
stood out the one of self-confidence
He played game of enormous and
continuous risk-fundamental risk by
reason of Halsey. incidental by reason
of his widely ballooned market opera
tions; yet his nerve held. Moreover
he was learning the price of success
an absolute devotion to the means OF
success. When he learned that the
child Of his daughter was not a son
but girl. and that 1t was a hunch
back for life, a sad-faced. unsmiling
child-he set his jaws for a moment
but said few words of coincidence
either to his daughter or her husband
In the headquarter Offices a vast
smooth running business machine had
now been built up. Rawn was an or.
ganizer. The iaxness and iooseness OF
the old railway Offices in st. Louis,
where he had got his business school
Ing. were missing in the headquarters
OF International Power. Employees had
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