The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-08-04

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he said. Tm very fond Of you and
you have been bitter disappointment
to me-"
Il know IT," said Tommy. Il cant
help II. I'm made that way, but I'm
awfully sorry
"The bulk Of, my property" said
Barclay, will have to 60 to someone
with more respect for property"
Eyes, sir. see that"
But you will always have plenty"
Thank You, SIR"
"rhhat's because I'm fond of you, and
because it is only Just"
Even II 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 than he cared
to admit.
a shall always be fond Of you,
Tommy" he said.
Ten minutes later the great man
wrote a few direct dictatorial SEN
fences on sheet of note paper and
sent them by a special messenger to
Mary Blackstone's father.
Senator Blackstone, 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 il tired, and read the
note again.
Dear Blackstone:
Don't by any chance allow your daugh-
ter to throw herself away on my adopted
son. She belongs to the aristocracy of
wealth. That aristocracy may one day
become a nobility. Mary Is fitted to wear
the purple and to share the throne of the
worlds greatest empire. The world in
which we live Is pregnant with great
events. And the weak will go under. De-
stroy this.
Yours in haste,
BARCLAY.
Mary Blackstone sat for 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. Could 1t be true that the old
order Of things, president catering
to this vote and that, a congress con-
tinually throwing obstacles In the
way Of enterprise and efficiency, was
to change all 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 trusts. A trust
in whose hands will be all the
threads of business of a whole con-
tinent, and whose stockholders shall
be the inhabitants of that con
tinent. Poverty and degradation will
cease to exist. The head of that trust
may 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 moi
be the first king; he is very young
but he will De the second. After him
who? Why 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
| diadem."
And so she sat staring into space
| And for the first time in her life she
found that ambition is stronger thar
| the mere wish to exist and have gooC
time.
A footman appeared with a silver
| tray on which was white card.
Who is 1t, Bentadge?"
"Mr. Thomas Barclay, madam
Tell him. she said. that ! am no
| at home"
| Tommy, sure OF mis- welcome, hat
| been told that Miss Blackstone was a