The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-04-26
CHAPTER xxI-continued.

BayaF0! Bay4r0! It's come !!
We're RIGHT We're made! Eureka
Uneedal Munitions Wow! Listen
The other night while / was trailing
n job in darkest New Jersey I ran
across a little clue, and a little man
who told me little secret. The Ger
mans have been getting ready for this
war for years. piling up guns and am
munition for Der Tag. The other
countries were caught only half ready.
They have stopped the Germans on
the Marine, but they've been using
their shells at such rate that the
famine Is near. Their only hope is to
bug supplies of us. They're going to
dump enough contracts on this cOun-
try to furnish about a million dollars
to every citizen. Their agents are
pussy-fOoting round to distribute con-
tracts quietly. .tA s.. 2
pThe Bethlehem Steel company has
gathered in big lot of them, and l
had d tip that the stock was going
to boom: so are a lot of other stocks.
I'd sell my right arm for little cash.
But there's no market for detached
right arms, so used mine TO sign up
a few little contracts for placing con-
tracts, and I've piucked them and
brought them to you" He broke into
dance and whirled Bayard of his feet.
Bayard tried to be patient. that's
all 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 confracts?'' $50 H.
Accept 'em, you blamed tjitl Open
up your old shntup factory and get
busy
We have no machinery for making
ammunition. 81
Get II. then, or adapt your ma
chineryl They need millions of each
article. for there are millions of men
La the field using up what they've got
50 fast that it's only a matter OF
weeks before they'll be desperate"
Bayard began to see the scheme
also the obstacles. "But 1T takes
money to make those things. Where
viii 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
rotting on their hands r. f,.5
Bayard went aglow with the realiza-
tion OF the opportunity. He began to
trelnble st the vision OF the sudden
avalanches OF wealth pouring down
the bleak mountains OF despair He
could hear the roar Of the Eiagaras
Of gold ss.l. Z.
Daphne and Leila came rushing
from conceaIment. Clay's beatitude
WAS so complete that he forgot his re-
sentiments and kissed them both.
Baynrd was frantic to be at work.
lie resolved to telephone the presi-
dent OF his company at once and lay
the matter before him. Leila cannily
advised Bayard TO grasp the. whip
hand Of the situation and keep it. She
began to dance about the room like
q Miriam celebrating the passage of
the Red sea.
..The first thing wen do she said,
''wiIi be to get my jewelry out of the
pawnshop and the second will be tc
buy some more. And, oh, the dresses
and the hats II ~
This asserted SOLDERING effect on
Bayard. NO.. he announced. We've
gone through hades once because 1
gambled away my reserves. This time
I'm going to get big reserve before
spend a cent. I'll never risk another
ordeal ike the one we've been
through. No more fractures Of The
Thirteenth for meg'
Leila laughed.
Bayard went to the telephone to
start the wheels of the factory in mo-
ton by summoning the president to
+ council He paused to ask: He'll
want to know who the foreign agent
Is you are dealing with? Or are there
several? Who shall / say?"
.Wetherell,'' said Clay. 4e.. ..e
The great Skoda gun that suddenly
one day dropped a monster shell in
Dunkirk twenty miles of could hardly
have caused more stupefaction than
the name of Wetherel decorating in
that room.
Daphne snatehed her hand from
Ciay's. Bayard sprang up so sharply
that he almost threw Leila forward
on her face. Instinctively he caught
her by the arm and saved her from
falling. But instantly he flung her
arm from him in a gush of disgust.
Clay gaped at the tableau in Devil
derment., He had not dreamed that
any Of the three had ever heard of
Wetherell. He could not imagine the
bitterness the name involved.
VIII some kind friend please tell
me what all the excitement Is about r.
This was net easy. Who wanted to
tell Clay that Leila had just been ac-
cused Of neglecting her husband and
her own duties for the society of this
very Wetherell? Leila herself was
the one that told him.
Look here, Bydie," Leila cooed
and billed, don't you think you've
done enough? You've shown me that
you don't trust me and you've ordered
Mr.. Wetherell never to come near me
again. Isn't that enough without beg
caring US all for spite? What else
Is it but cheap, nasty spite?''
Sits great deal more than spite"
Bayard groaned. do you think I'll
accept fayors from man who has
been courting You and got caught at
tt2 I'd rather starve! 70
Well. wouldn't ~ Leila averred.
eAud I'm not going to starvel And
I'm not going to LET you commit hari-
" lr4yx an Wefhnrpllss fTnorSfpp 3ast IN