The Green Forest tribune., 1916-02-25
CHAPTER xlx-Continued.

The neat-waisted caller, with the first slow motion he had used since he came into the room, drew the sliI of paper towards him again
 There followed another banker. a ruddy-faced man whose heavy features were utterly incapable of emotion; and he sat at Allisons table in thick 1owled solidity.
 There are about to begin interna. tional movements of the utmost i'm. portance," Allison told him There is war scheduled for next month, which is likely to embroil the whole of Europe"
 The banking gentleman nodded his head almost imperceptibly
 MT Chisholm advised me that your sources of information are authentic" :" he stated What you tell me is most deplorable"
 Quite" agreed Allison. T am in. formed that the company you repre- sent and manage has the practical di- asshh9Ya 9t.s q tas s94s ls nenlo}l zsss.,
  of Europe, with the exception of one country. Besides this, you have pow erful interests. amounting very nearly to monopoly, in Egypt, in India, in Australia and in dozen other quar- ters of the globe"
 You seem to be accurately in- formed" admitted the banking gentle man, studying interestedly the glow ing coals in Allison's fireplace.
 'If can show you how certain at titude 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. I have no doubt that We can come to a very definite understanding.
 The solidly jowled banking gentle man studied the glowing coals for two minutes.
 "I should be interested in learning the exact details" he finally suggest ed.
 Allison drew some sheets of paper from an indeXed file and spread them before the inancier. It was largely a 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 every line there was vista of vast empires. of toppling 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 commer- cial and political revolutions might have grown Jagged. On the third page, the solid banking gentleman who had not made a nervous motion since his grandfather was a boy looked up with start.
 Why, this affects my own coun try!" he exclaimed. Tt affects ou1 enormous shipping interests, our great transportation lines. our commercial ramifications in all parts of the globe It cripples us on the land and wipes own government!
 Quite true, admitted Allison
 The banking gentleman drew { long breath
 What you predict may not come tt pass" he maintained, although the SC cret information which had brough him to Allison had prepared him tt take every statement seriously.
 T can show you proofs! The wa which is to be started next month il only the keystone of the political arcl of the entire eastern hemisphere There are a dozen wars, each bigge than the other, slated to follow needed like the pressing of row o electric buttons. Knowing thes things as you shall, it is only ques tion of whether you will be with m on the crest, or in the hollow"
 The caller moistened his lips. an turned his gaze finally from the glow ing coals to Allison's face
 Show me everything you know. he demanded
 They sat together until morning and they traversed the world; ant when that visitor had gone, Alliso