Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-05-19
CHAPTER xlv--continued.

II didn't know you could be so con-
vincing," was Miss Genevieve's COM
ment. ct was splendid! Nobody will
ever believe that you are going to go
on building your dam and threatening
TO drown US, after this"
What did / say?" queried Brouil-
lard, having, at the moment, only the
haziest possible idea of what he had
said
AS if you didn't know!" she
laughed. you congratulated every
body And the funny thing about it is
that you didn't say a single word about
the Niquoia dam"
Didn't I? That shows how COM
pletely your father has converted me,
how helplessly am carried along on
the torrent OF events"
"But you are not" she said accus-
ingly. Deep down in your inner con-
seriousness you don't believe little bit
IN Mirapolis. You are only playing the
game with the rest of us, Mr.. Brouil-
lard"
German, Mr.. Cortwright's ablest
srumpeter in the real-estate booming,
was holding the plaza crowd spell
bound with prophetic outlining of the
Metropolitan future.
In the middle distance and back
grounding the buildings on the oppo-
site side Of the plaza, rose the false
work of the great dana standing for
est of sawed timbers, whose afternoon
shadows were already pointing like a
many-fngered fate toward the city Of
the plain. But, though the face of the
speaker was toward the shadowing for
est, his words ignored it. 1.-THE snow
capped Timayonis," the mighty Chi
grlngo," and "the golden-veined slopes
Oh Jacks mountain" all came in for eC-
loglstic mention; but the massive wall
OF concrete, with its bristling parapet
OF timbers, had no part in the orators
namboyant descriptive.
Brouillard loved Amy Massingale
with passion which, however blind it
might be on the side of the higher
moralities, was still keen-sighted
enough to assure him that every
plunge he made in the Mirapolitan
Whirlpool was sweeping him farther
away from her.
he had transferred the power COM
panys stock, minus a single share to
cover his official standing on the
power company's board, to Cartwright,
ana had opened an account at the Nj
quota National. The ninety-nine thou
SAND nine hundred dollars had since
grown by speculative accretions to the
rounded eighth Of a million which all
nnanciers agree in calling the stepping
stone to fortune.
he had regarded this money-was
sun regarding it-as loan; his lever
with which to pry out something which
ne could really call his own. But more
ana more possession and use were dull
Ag tne keen edge Of accountability
ana there were moments of insight
@nen the grim irony of taking the
pllce OF honor to pay an honor debt
forced itself upon him. At such mo.
1uehts ne plunged more recklessly, in
one OF them taking stock in a gold
uredge company which was to wash
nuggets by the wholesale out of the
(uadJenai bend, in another buying yet
oIner options in the newest suburb of
Mirapolis.
win the waning of the day of cele-
DiaIlons the temper of the street
Nurongs was changing. 1t is only the
eopie OF the Latinized cities who can
axe the carnival spirit lightly; in
olIer blood liberty grows to license
e,u the thin veneer of civilized re-
s s..aInts quickly disappears. From
S Sally dawn the saloons and dives had
~, IN adding fuel to the flames, and
hSnI-heartedness and good-natured
ho.sepiay were giving way to sardonic
1lmor and brutality.
IL the short faring through the