The Monticellonian., 1919-05-23
CHAPTER xxl-Continued.
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"BaEard Bayard It's come We're rich We're made! Eureka Uneeda! Munitions Wow. Listen The other night while I was trailing
 a job in darkest New Jersey ran across q little clue. and q little man who told me q little secret. The Ger
 mans have been getting ready for this war for years, piling up guns and ann intuition for Der Tag The other countries were caught only half ready. They have stopped the Germans on the Marne. but they've been using heir shells al such rate that the famine is near. Their only hope iS to 4 buy supplies of Us. They're going to dump enough contracts on this coun- # try to furnish about q million dollars # to every citizen. Their agents are # pussy-footing round to distribute con q tracts quietly.
 < "The Bethlehem Steel company has A gathered i'll big lot of them and l # had tip that the stock was going $ to boom so are q lot of other stocks. # I'd sell my right arm for Il little cash # But there's no market for detached # right arms, So I used mine to sign up ~ Il few little contracts for placing con # tracts. and I've pluelled them and s brought them 10 you. He broke into s dance and whirled Bayard off his feet. # Bayard tried to be patient That's # all very interesting, Clay. but take .# your delusions down to Bellevue. s where they'll put you i'll the right cell. sf What can you or l dc with ammuni-
 t tion contracts:"
 E Accept 'em. you blamed iit! Open s#up your old shut-up factory and get
 busy"
 We have no machinery for making
 ammunition."
 Get if, then. pr adapt your ma
 chinery! They need millions of each 8afticle, for there ire millions of men ]&Ein the field using up what they've got 9so fast that it's only matter of before they'll be desperate" M Bayard began 10 see the scheme
 hlso the obstacles. But it takes Money to make those things. Where twill we get the cash for the pay rolls
 and the raW materials?''
 From the banks, The banks are
 bursting open With idle money; it's Fotting on their hands :" 2 Bayard went agIow with the realiza.
 tion of the opportunity. He began to fremble at the vision of the sudden hvalahches of wealth pouring down the bleak mountains of despair He zxfould hear the roar of the Niagaras of gold
 @ Daphne and Leila came rushing E<from concealment Clay's beatitude >NaS so complete that he forgot his re ' Heqtments and kissed them both x fiayard was frantic to he at work. Ne' resolved to telephone the presi- >Rfent of his company at once and lay
 De matter before him. Leila cannily 1s dvlsed Bayard to grasp the whip \ Rand of the situation and keep it. She 9egan to dance about the room like |5| Miriam celebrating the passage of M De Red sea.
 Rx The first thing we'll do,' she said s~ill be to get my jeweNy out of the <* nwnShop and the second will be tC 8 uy some more. And. oh. the dresses nd the hats,"
 z This asserted sobering effect on 2 ayard. No" he announced We've pne through hades once because I
 ambied away my reserves. This time nm going to get big reserve before 8Xspend cent. I'll never risk another z fdeal like the one we've been
 Trough. No more fractures of tue E irteenth for me !''
 Leila laughed.
 Bayard went to the telephone to
 nrt the wheels of the factory in mo pn by summoning the president to M 2hncil. He paused to ask: Hell a Xant to know who the foreign agent
 you are dealing with? Or are there |sslg gNeral2 Who shall say" Wetherell," said Clay The great Skoda gun that suddenly 4ae day dropped monster shell in
 tlhkfrk twenty miles off could hardly xf Ne caused more stupefaction than MI name of Wetherell detonating in SS nt room.
 ': )aphne snatched her hand from .5 .s35<p ' s. Bayard sprang up so sharply he almost threw Leila forward M her face. InStinctively he caught a by the arm and saved her from ling. But instantly he flung her }; m from him i'll ;t guSh of disgust. sszsA Hay gaped at the tableau in bewil- E20F nent. He had not dreamed that ny of the three had ever heard of He could not imagine the
 ferness the name involved. EsF Nlli some kind friend please tell
 9 what all the excitement is ahout?
 lis was not easy. Who wanted t0
 N Clay that Leila had just been nc
 ssd of neglecting her husband and
 own duties for the society of this
 Wetherell? Leila herself was
 one that told him.
 Look here. Bydie," Leila cooed
 2 billed. don't you think you've 35 e enough? You've shown me that
 don't trust me and you've ordered
 Netherell neyef 10 come near me
 Tn. Isn't that enough without beg
 hs Us all for spite? What else
 E@ but cheap, nasty spte?"
 \ a great deal more than spite
 afd Groaned. Do you think I'll
 fpt iavors from q man who has
 courting you and got caught at M q rather starvei"
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