The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-02-26

who is standing out for some reason
best known to himself. and he tres
to get him to come through. u ne
doesn't come through. What's LETT!
Why. the diamond lightnings OF the
Lady Of the Lightning-and his inter
national Power stock.
Meantime, all this thing can't De
kept entirely secret; that Is to say,
the market part Of 1t can't be-. But
we sit tight, all OF us. We hold u
regular directors meetings OF the In
ternational board, and we smile, n
look pleasant. We don't know a thing
about his hot water experiences in
the open market. He explains TO US
why this and hat happens, or doesn't
happen, in International; n we smile
and look pleasant, and we don't know
a thing. After a time it's up to him
and the Lady of the Lightnings. Some
thing pops! He's up against 1t, all
except his International Power. Then
Van, and you, STANDBY, and you, Ack,
and you, and you and |, and all of as
why we're still pleasant as pie to him
and we say, Well, Mr.. John Rawn. II
you'd only sell us two or three shares
of international, we'd pay you twenty
times what it's worth-but it's very
much cheaper now-by reason or
Vans competing company!
That's about all, | Think"
The others nodded silently. The
game was not new to them, and even
in it's most complicated features might
have been called simple, with re-
sources such as theirs. If these re-
sources had made Rawn, they could
unmake him. 1t was all in the days
work for them.
$50 I'll tell you what We'll do" con-
| cluded the old financier after a time.
We'll just let you and Van look
around here a little bit and see what
more you can learn. You're one of the
real directors of International Power
to-day, Van. Mr.. Rawn is on the mi
nority and the toboggan list, or Is 60
ing to be there. Well take the first
steps when we see the boys down
East. The country's getting right
now for a little speculation-things
have been dead long enough. Therell
be a market. When the market starts,
| think you know which way it will
go for a certain person | needn't
name"
They rose, stood about l~oungingly
for a time, and at length slowly sepa-
rated, the older man and the ex-direc'
tor with the pointed beard falling back
of the others for just an instant.
What's the truth about the row,
Van?" demanded the old man, laying
a large, pudgy hand on the others
shoulder.
81 don't know, honestly, what it is.
| can tell you this much-your factory
is closed. Your superintendent, Hal
sey, has quit his work and left his old
residence. Didn't Rawn tell you that?'
mo! What's up now-some trouble
with a woman? Wasn't he married to
Rawn's d~aughter?"
Eyes, and she went to live with
Papa. Papa had the coin"
And the superintendent is going
the chorus girl route here or in New
York;"
NO, sir, not in the least-nothipg
of the sort. You can't guess where's
he's gone
The other shook his head.
well, I'll tell you then. since you
are one of the directors of the Inter
national and I'm not! He's gone and
taken his other pair Of pants and his
~celluloid collar. and moved ever to
the North Shore! He's living in the
same house with Papa ]. Rawn right
now;-that is to say, he has been fol-
two or three weeks"
well, what do you know about
that, too" commented his friend.
81 don't know much about 1t. AS
told you, there's something in here
| don't understand. ] can't for the
life OF me figure out that chap Hal
sey's motives or his " But
don't are about him It's Rawn I'm
-. ~