The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-09-02
NINTH INSTALLMENT
CHAPTER XII.

tilliter were together when kehr 8
,iphergram was handed to Barclay,
s,and although they imagined that it's
contents were important they couldn't
help laughing at it's wording.
Suckers won't bite. Your muttering
carburetor Tommy has tickIed Aphro-
dite. Please pound his whiskers
quick.
something about this blessed son
of mine" said Barclay. He opened a
drawer in his writing table and took
out code book, and then with the aid
of the others deciphered the message.
The plain English of it was this:
Strikers won't fight. Your adopted
son Tommy has spoiled our plans.
Please call him off quick.
Well" said Sturtevant, what will
you do?'
"Kehr," said Barclay, "is blood
thirstily anxious to teach the strikers
a lesson. He being the man on the
a pretty free hand But I'm glad
there has been no blood shed. 1t
seems to me that this is matter for
Her to settle. Silliter-can you make
Her call this strike off and bring
about a state of amity in Bitumen?'
Stilliter simply reached for a tele-
graph blank and wrote:
Kehr, Bitumen, Pa.
Am sending Her,
and signed it Barclay.
What will you do about Tommy"
he asked. He'll be even more in the
way when Celestia gets there"
After a moments reflection Barclay
wrote telegram to Tommy:
Come home at once, must see you
on important business"
These kilograms dispatched, Sturte-
want and Semmes took their leave,
while Barclay and Stilliter sat on for
a time in silence. Barclay was the
first to break IL.
You will have no trouble in per-
suading her to go?"
She dislikes me, but she does what
I tell her-only I don't tell her. l
don't understand her aversion to me.
She knows that I am with her heart
and soul for the common good. And
she is willing to work with me. But
l repel her.
Barclay smiled grimly.
You have never made any great
effort to please the ladies'" he said.
"A mistake of youth of which 1 be-
gin to repent in middle age. I have
made the mistake of imagining that
l could live and die an abstract in
tellect. It's my eyes I suppose. They
made me representative"
But you weren't born with weak
eyes"
"No-when 1 was at college retort
burnt in my face. I had splendid eyes
as child. Nobody ever had better
physical equipment than I had-a
stronger body or stronger brain. L
am the kind of man who ought to
marry and have children
Both were silent again: Then Still
liter said:
I've been giving the matter more
and more thought. It seems to me a
sort Of duty
Sulliter sat gazing off into space
through the thick lenses which gave
MIN sight, and Barclay, a troubled
smile on his lips, sat and watched
Shutters face.
You must have someone in mind,
ne suggested presently.
Stilliter gave kind Of guilty start.
And suppose I have?"
The smile faded slowly from Bar
clay's mouth.
l do suppose that you have" he
said sternly: "but don't tell me that
our plans are to be wrecked because
you have turned amorous in your mid
die age"
I thought" said Stilliter, "that I
nao myself In absolute control"
This is frightful!" said Barclay,
Simply.
oh, don't worry" said Stilliter;
'he great work shall be accomplished
nrst' But it seems only right to tell
you what my intentions are-after the
"ork is finished. Has anyone SO great
claim on Her as II"
YOU repel her. You have said It,
l have willed her to like me. 1t
20 lhO one thing 1 cannot successfully
""l her to do. I'm just say
lug what my ultimate intentions are"
g., Oont you think" said Barclay,
mat when her work is done, the poor
tni'u ought to be turned free. to live
" love and to be happy"