River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-11-18
CHAPTER xIx-continued.

The neat-waisted caller, with the
0rst slow motion he had used since
he came into the room, drew the slip
Of paper towards him again.
There followed another banker, a
guddy-faced man whose heavy features
we're utterly incapable of emotion; and
be sat at Allisons table in thick
eowled Bohdity.
There are about to begin interna-
dOnal movements of the utmost i'm
portance," Allison told him. There
5s a war scheduled for next month,
which Is likely to embroil the whole
Of Europe"
The banking gentleman nodded his
head almost imperceptibly
'Mr. Chisholm advised me that your
sources of information are authentic"
ne stated What you tell me is most
Geplorable."
Quite" agreed Allison. 81 am in
2ormed that the company you repre-
cent and manage has the practical di-
Fection of the entire banking system
of Europe, with the exception of one
country. Besides this, you have pow
erful interests, amounting very nearly
20 a monopoly, in Egypt, in India, in
Australia and in a dozen other quar-
sers Of the globe"
You seem to be accurately in
formed admitted the banking gentle
nsan, studying interestedly the glow
ang Goals in Allisons fireplace.
IF can show you how certain at
kitude towards the international com
plications which are about to ensue
will be of immense advantage to your
banking system, as well as to the in
terests / represent, | have no doubt
that we can come to q very definite
understanding.
The solidly 1owled banking gentle
man studied the glowing Goals for two
minutes.
81 should be interested in learning
che exact details" he finally suggest
I'D
Allison drew some sheets OF paper
from an indexed file and spread them
before the financier 1t was largely
matter Of credits in the beginning, ex-
tensions here, curtailments there, and
all on a scale so gigantic that both
gentlemen went over every item with
the imaginative minds of poets. In
avery line there was a vista of vast
empires, Of topping thrones, of altered
boundaries, of such an endless and
shifting panorama of governmental
forces, that the minds of men less in
ured to the contemplation of CONNER
cial and political revolutions might
have grown tagged. On the third
mage. the solid banking gentleman,
who had not made nervous motion
since his grandfather was a boy,
looked up with a start.
why, this Affects my own coun-
try!" he exclaimed. 1T affects our
enormous shipping interests, our great
transportation lines, our commercial
qualifications in all parts of the globe!
1t cripples US on the land and wipes
us from the seal 1t even affects my
own government!
Quite true" admitted Allison.
The banking gentleman drew .
long breath
What you predict may not come to
pass" he maintained, although the Sc
cret information which had brought
him to Allison had prepared him to
take every statement seriously.
Il can show you proofs The war
which is to be started next month is
only the keystone of the political arch
OF the entire eastern hemisphere.
There are a dozen wars, each bigger
than the other, slated to follow, II
needed, like the pressing of row OF
electric buttons. Knowing these
things as you shall, it is only ques-
ton of whether you will be with me
on the crest, or in the hcaiOw."
The caller moistened his lips, and
turned his gaze finally from the glow
ing Goals to Allison's face.
"Show NE everything you know
he demanded.
They sat together until morning.
and they traversed the world; and.
VIXEN THAI visitor had gone. Allison