Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-03

lup q Hchsrmsrhorn's window With u
antly the Same amount IN loose cash.
What did no DO with 4 gamble itf'
"ThAt 10 his own affair Brouillard
| countered briefly.
| .sWell. the future-next month"; flu
ture -is my AFFAIR. II you've rot money
enough to interfere again-don't.
Youll lose II, the same = you did be-
fore. And perhap6 sha'n't take tho
| second interferenos - good-naturedly
as I did the nfst.
rs that al you have to say" Brou-
Hard asked impatisntly.
! "Not quite. don't believe you were
Altogether IN earnest . minute ago
when ron expressed your desire 10 call
Il all Oh. You don't want the Mirapo-
liz well to 90 dry right now. not one bit
more than do -
Il have been trying pretty hard to
| make you understand that II IL mat
ter Of utter indifference to me"
but you haven't succeeded very
we'll; It isn't ct all matter Of indinel.
ence to you" the magnate insisted per
suasively. "As things are shaping
themselves mp At the present speaking.
you stand to lose. not only the hum
dred thousand you squandered on old
David. but all you've made besides. !
keep in touch-lt's my business to
keep In touch. You've been buying
bargains and ron are holding them
for the simple reason that with the
present slowing down tendency IN the
saddle you can't sell and make any
money"
"Well!"
I've got proposition to make that
ought to look good to you. What We
need just now In this town 10 little
moro activity-something doing. You
can relieve the situation II you feel
like it."
Howl"
I'll tell you. you mustn't 30 and use
1t against me. That would be low
down welcher's trick. But you won't.
Sec here. your bureau at Washington
is pretty well scared up over tho pros
pect here. It is known In the capital
that when congress convenes there ID
going to be dead-open-and-shu fight
to kill this Buckskin reclamation pro.
ject. Very well: the way for you fel.
lows to win out 10 to hurry-nnish
your dam and finish 1t quick, before
congress or anybody else can get &C
ton"
For single instant BrouillaFd was
puzzled. Then he began to under.
stand.
Go on" he said.
What I WAS going to suggest II
this: You prod your people at Wash
ington with hot wire; tell 'em now's
the time to strike and strike hard.
They'll SEQ the point and II you ask
for an increase OF q thousand men
you'll get 1t. Make IL two thousand,
just for the dramatic effect Well
work right along with you and make
things hum again. Well start up the
cement plant. and I don't know but
what We might give tho Buckskin y. Z
N. folks small hypodermic that would
keep EN- alive while We are taxing :
few snapshot pictures Of Nirapolis.
on the Jump again"
LET mo get Il straight. said Bruuil-
lard. putting his back aSsinst the doo,
You fully believe you've got us downl
that eventually. and before the vates s
is turned on, congress win pass Q bill
killing the Niquoia project. But In the
meantime. to make things lively, you'd
like to have the reclamation service 20
ahead and spend another million or 20
in wages that can be turned loose In,
MirApolis. 10 that iti'
You've surrounded II very neatly.
laughed the promoter. "Once. some
little time ago. I might have felt the
necessity Of convincing your scrupIes.
but you've cut away, all that foolish
ness. It's little tough ON our good
old Uncle Samuel III admit. but It'll
be only . pin-priek or % in comparison
to the money that 10 thrown away
every time congress passes an appro-
piration bill. And, putting It upon the
dead practical basis, BrouilIard. IT,
your own and only salvation-person-
ally, / mean. You've got to unload or
60 broke. and you can't unload on .
falling market. You think about It and
thsn get quick action with the wire.
There II no time to lose"
Brouillard was looking past Cort-
wright and out through the plate glass
window which commanded . view OF
the great dam and it, network Of forms
and stagings.
1T Is . gamblers bet and rather
desperate one. he said slowly. You
stand to win all or to lose all In max
ing it. Mr.. Cartwright. The town IL
balancing on the knife-edge Of panic
at this moment. Would it 60 up, or
down. with sudden resumption Of
work on the damn"
'The careless thinker would say
that Il would yell Fire! and 60 up In
TO tho 1ir 80 lar that 4 scs!4 never.
climb down." was the prompt reply.
But well have tho medicine dropper
handy. In the nrst place. everybody
can afford to stay and boost while
Uncle Sam is spending his million or
so right here in the middle Of things.
Nobody will want to pull out and leave
that COW unmilked. In the second
place. we've Got mighty good anti.
dote to use in any sure-enough case
Of hydrophobia your quick dam build.
ing may start"
"You could let IL leak out that. In
spite Of all the hurrah and rush on.
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