The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-06-05
CHAPTER xxI-continued.

n ,,l,rs in hre hands and roared:
rpovord! Bayard! It's come
.r.11o ~icht We're madel Eureka
1;nopda! Munitions! Wow! Listen
no other night while I was trailing
ioh in darkest New Jersey 1 ran
oss a little clue, and little man
80 told me a little secret. The Ger
mons have been getting ready for this
',Dr for years, piling up guns and am
nunition for Der Tag. The other
cnnntries were caught only half ready:
onn1 have stopped the Germans on
40 Marine. but they've been using
.hoir shells at such q rate that the
,n,,,ina is near. Their only hope Is to
INV supplies of us. They're going to
',,,nn enough contracts on this cOun-
.rr 70 furnish about a million dollars
tn every citizen. Their agents are
nussv-footing round to distribute con-
tracts quietly.
"The Bethlehem Steel company has
rothered in a big lot of them, and l
had a tip that the stock was going
y n boom: so are a lot Of other stocks.
ri sell nv right arm for a little cash.
Rut there's no market for detached
right arms, so I used mine to sign up
few little contracts for placing con-
tracts, and I've plucked them and
brought them to you" He broke into
dance and whirled Bayard off his feet.
Bayard tried to be patient. ''That's
al very interesting, Clay, but take
YOUR decisions down to Bellevue,
where they'll put you in the right cell.
What can you or do with ammuni-
ton cOntractS!"
accept 'em, you blamed hit! Open
up your old shut-up factory and get
busy"
1--WE have no machinery for making
ammunition"
"Get it, then, or adapt your ma
chinery! They need millions of each
article, for there are millions of men
In the field using up what they've got
so fast that it's only q matter Of
weeks before they'll be desperate"
Bayard began to see the scheme
also the obstacles. "But it takes
money to make those things. Where
will 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
otting on their handsT"
l., Bayard went aglow with the realiza-
lon of the opportunity. He began to
remble at the vision of the sudden
valanches of wealth pouring down
he bleak mountains of despair. He
ould hear the roar of the Niagaras
{ gold.
Daphne and Leila came rushing
rom concealment. Clay's beatitude
vas so complete that he forgot his re-
sentiments and kissed them both.
Bayard was frantic to be at work.
he resolved to telephone the presi-
uent OF his company at once and lay
cne matter before him. Leila cannily
advised Bayard to grasp the whip
uano OF the situation and keep it. She
began to dance about the room like
Miriam celebrating the passage of
the Red sea.
The first thing we'n do" she said,
VIII De to get my jewelry out of the
'a"nshop and the second will be to
'uy some more. And, oh, the dresses
and the hats!"
This asserted a SOLDERING effect on
bayard. "No," he announced. "We've
eone through hades once because
senOled away my reserves. This time
:" going to get big reserve before
Speho cent. I'll never risk another
Urueal like the one we've been
through u, No more fractures of the
thirteenth for mel"
Leila laughed.
oaVard went to the telephone to
t e'art the wheels Of the factory in mo-
o "on ny summonfng the president to
u Uuucl' He paused to ask: HELL
T., %"nt 70 know who the foreign agent
sos Sou are dealing with? Or are there
SV VET Who shall say2"
~ "'etherell," said Clay.
Inc great Skoda gun that suddenly
MA. Jay dropped a monster shell in
h on twenty miles off could hardly
w. caused more stupefaction than
he. nahe OF Wetherell decorating in
rar upAne snatched her hand from
t S,ayS : Bayard sprang up so sharply
on ne almost threw Leila forward
he, ner face Instinctively he caught
ton, W me arm and saved her from
Avn BUT instantly he flung her
~ from him in a gush of disgust.
darraS CAPPED at the tableau in Devil
INV He had not dreamed that
wa. Vi the three had ever heard of
bttonSreH' He could not imagine the
% v1i,' the name involved.
pa WI" VIII some kind friend please tell
M, wat all the excitement is about p
ten w.. was not easy. Who wanted to
cuso G1ay that Leila had just been ac-
her oa VI neglecting her husband and
yorn 0"m duties for the society of this
the ona "eSnerell? Leila herself was
g. One that told him.
and II biR.l here, Bydie," Leila cooed
done O a don't you think you've