Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-07-29

FNah " IA ia
be said. I'm very fond Of you and
you have been Il bitter disappointment
to me-"
Il know it." said Tommy. Il can't
i.elp il. I'm made that way, but I'm
awfully sorry"
THE bulk of my property" said
Barclay. will have to 90 TO someone
with more respect for property"
Yes. sir. | see that"
But you will always have plenty
Thank you, sir"
That's because I'm fond of you. and
because it is only just"
Even If you are disappointed in
me" said Tommy. please don't stop
liking me"
There was something very wistful
and manly about the boy. and Barclay
was more deeply moved han he cared
TO admit.
Il shall always be fond of you.
Tommy he said.
Ten minutes later the great man
wrote a few direct dictatorial SEN
fences on a sheet Of note paper and
sent them by a special messenger to
Mary Blackstone's father.
Senator Blackstone. a man with a
large mouth. hook-nosed face and
white side-whiskers. frowned heavily
after reading Barclays note; frowned
heavily. heavily paced the floor of his
library. gave vent to defiant mutter-
ings, and then suddenly collapsed into
a deep chair. as if tired, and read the
note again.
Dear Blackstone:
Don't by any chance allow your daugh-
Ter 10 throw herself away on my adopted
son. She belongs 70 the aristocracy OF
wealth That arist0cracy may one day
become a nobility. Mary is fitted 10 wear
the purple and 10 share the throne Of the
worlds greatest empire. The world in
which we live IS pregnant with great
events And the weak Will 20 under. De-
stroy this.
Yours in haste,
BARCLAY.
Mary Blackstone sat for a very long
time staring into space. She didn't
want to give up Tommy. She did
want TO give up all those wonderful
possibilities that her father had
talked about so solemnly after exact
ing from her a solemn promise OF
secrecy. Gould il be true that the old
order OF things. a president catering
10 this vote and that. a congress con
~tinually throwing obstacles in the
way OF enterprise and efficiency. was
10 change ali OF a sudden? Her father
said so.
They have ground down the
trusts" he said, only TO find that they
ground themselves down at the same
time.
Now the pendulum is swinging the
other way. Gradually the trusts will
regain what they have lost. What is
the right step? Greater trusts?
Yes. but beyond that. staggering
belief. a trusts of :-rsts. A trust
IN whose hands will be ali the
threads of business OF a whole con-
tinent. and whose stockholders shall
De the inhabitants of that con-
LneEt. Poverty and degradation will
cease tc exist. The head of that trust
nay be called chairman. a president.
dictator. perhaps he will be called
king, And already the powers who
believe in this coming change have
such a man in their eye. He will not
be the first king; ne is very young.
but he will De the second After him.
who? Why a son OF his body. trained
form birth to fill that great position.
And YOU my dear. if you wished.
might be that sons mother. and wear
4 diadem"
And so she sat staring into space.
And for the first time in her life she
found that ambition is stronger than
the mere wish to exist and have a good
time.
A footman appeared viii a silver
tray On which was a white card.
Who is II. Bentadge?"
Mr.. Thomas Barclay madam
Tell him." she said. that ! am not
at home"
Tommy, sure OF mis- welcome. had
been told hat Miss Blackstone was at