Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-22
CHAPTER xxl-coatinued.

WHEN DdyaFu Optucu Odc QOUE Sldy
Swept In like a March gale. BE flung
himself at Bayard and clenched his
elbows in his hands and reared:
~Bayardl Bayardi It's come !
Were rich! We're madei Eureka a.!
Uneedai Munitionsl Wowi Listen!
The other night while I was trailing
a job in darkest New Jersey I ran
across a little clue, and a little man
who told me a little secret. The Ger
msES have been getting ready for this
war for years, piling up guns and am
XnE1Ition 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 a rate that the
famine is near. Their only hope is to
1Uy 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-sooting round to distribute con-
tracts quietly.
'sT&e Bethlehem Steel company has
gathered in q big lot of them, and /
had a tip that the stock was going
to boom; 50 are a lot Of other stocks.
xd sell my right arm for a little cash.
But there's no market for detached
Eigfst arIns, SO I used mine to sign up
u few little contracts for placing con-
tracts, and I've plucked them and
1rUUEsdt them to you" He broke into
dance aad whirled Bayard off his feet.
Eagard tried to be patient. tThat's
all very interesting, Clay, but take
yuUr decisions down to Bellevue,
where they'll put you in the right cell.
What can you or. / do with ammuni-
Eion contracts?"
accept EN-, you blamed lit! Open
UP year old shut-up factory ard get
busy
Eve have no machinery for making
ammunition"
Get it, then, or adapt your ma
chinetyI 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 a matter of
weeks baf0re they'll be desperate"
Bayard began to see the scheme
sals0 the obstacles. 'But it takes
m0ney to make those things. Where
wiN we get the cash for the pay rolls
ana the raw materialsY'
From the banksl The banks are
bursting cpen with idle money; it's
Eettiag On their handsl"
Bayard vent aglow with the realiza-
fion of the opportunity. lie began to
fremble at the vision of the sudden
znTagaRches of wealth pouring down
the bleak mountains of despair. He
could hear the roar of the Niagaras
OF gold.
Daphne and Leila came rushing
from cOncealmeEt. Clay's beatitude
was 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-
Dent OF his company at once and lay
tine matter before him. Leila cannily
advised Bayard to grasp the whip
fSand of the situation and keep it. She
began to dance about the room like
~ Miriam celebrating the passage of
die Red sea.
"The first thing wen do" she said,
"1wM be to get my jeweIry out Of the
spnwnshOp and the second will be to
buy some nor And, oh, the dresses
and The hats!"
This asserted a SOLDERING effect on
Bayard. "No," he announced. "We've
gone through hades onc because l
GaEabled away my reserves. This time
I'm going to get a big reserve before
II spend a cent. I'll never risk another
ordeal like the one we've been
through. No more fractures of the
/ Mh5rteenth for mel"
! leila laughed.
Bayard went to the telephone to
!. stnrt the wheels of the factory in mo-
ifi0n by summoning the president to
sen1ncil. He paused to ask: "He1l
want to know who the foreign agent
o. you are dealing with? Or are there
several? Who shall 1 say?''
W ~Wetherell." said Clay.
The great Skoda gun that suddenly
one day dropped a monster shell in
DEnkirk twenty miles off could hardly
Hl1ve caused more stupefactiOn than
the name of Wetherell decorating in
Aflz& room.
: Daphne snatched her hand from
Gays Bayard sprang up SO sharply
that he almost threw Leila forward
on her face. InstinctiveIy he caugh
her by the arm and saved her iron
failing. But instantly he flung he
arm from him in a gush of disgust
Clay CAPPED at the tableau in Devil
.dermeHt- He had not dreamed tina
any OF the three had ever heard o
lyWethcrell. He could not imagine tn
bitterness the name involved.
. A'yYil some kind friend please tel
me what all the excitement Is about?
This was not easy. Who wanted {
tell Clay that Leila had just been az
acused of n~eglecting her husband an
her own duties for the society of thi
very WetherelI? Leila herself wa
the n that told him.
Look here, Bydie," Leila cooe
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