The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1920-09-30
CHAPTER WI.

BVY IuIIty 0uyU dullhIU uAO u1teueu
b the eulogies Of his secret self. He
had heard from Q hundred sources the
came belief repeated. that Dicky Nor
gan, given time and counsel, would
have made the city as proud Of him for
bis intrinsic worth a. II now was
proud Of him for his military valor.
This praise Of Dicky Morgan had at
arst stunned billiard; after that. II
had exalted him; still later. It had
abased his soul. He had longed.
eeaselessly, during that third period
Il his introspection. to take the city
10 his heart. to reveal himself. to'an-
swer for Dicky Morgan's failures and
To pledge himself anew to the achieve
ment which Dicky Morgan's friends
had prophesled; and then be had been
overwhelmed by the recollection that
be had made this course impossible.
II be had only known that all his de-
eeptions were needless! II he had
only known that Dicky Morgan could
have come home. and been forgiven
What anguish he could have saved
and what repentancei And the prob
lem was still the same-should he
continue, safe In his masquerade. to
the goal he had set for himself. OF
should he risk the worst. and salve
his conscience BY renunciationi
BY far the most distressing factor In
this puzzle was his relationship to Car
Of Durant. He had seen her only half
. dozen times during the month, and
never alone-the fates or Armstrong
had circumvented hlm-but he was
head over heels In love with her again
and he sensed, from fugitive glances
and 4 stray word or two on her part
that she wasn't entirely averse to him
But what would Carol think II she
knew that this grave and tender
stranger was hiding behind the wrath
Of Dicky Morgan-it was thousand
times the worse! II she were evel
truly In love with Henry Hllliard, Il
was imposslblei
And then there was little Angel,
Cullen
And In addition. there was the seri
GUS business Of making good; he wa
no longer impelled to It by resentment
but rather by unauthorized ambition
this, too, he would see destroyed b!
any admission Of his deceit To con
tinus In the game was to lose his prob
ity; to relinquish II was to lose al
else: and even now. his Joy and prid,
was contained In precisely those thing
which he must give up, II he decided
to tear of the mask Of hypocrisy; ant
his self.respect was rising out Of thu
mud Of what be never should hav,
done At all.
When he thought Of his worldly am
titions. he was profoundly regretfu
that he had talked professionally with
Mr.. Cullen. To be sure. the mattel
had come up casually and naturally
and the opening had seemed too good
to be missed; at the same time. Hi
Mard couldn't help rejecting that I,
had been premature. II might prove
eventually. to have been just the prop
or course to produce results; 1t nigh
be that Cullen would become so impa
dent that he couldn't be restrained
and would leap without looking, ant
leap further than he intended. and yet
ever since that preliminary interview
Hilliard had known that he had made
breach In his own fortresses: thai
b had rendered II possible for an In
formal land logical enough invest
cation to begin. or for mild suspicior
to arise and gain momentum befor,
he had devised the means Of combating
II. And although Hilliard believed
Implicitly In the goods he had to sell
BE- knew the dificulty Of the market
be knew how timorous ID the average
investor: and he knew that their
might very easily come . time at which
Ais harangus would be remembered
and remembered adversely.
In this connection he was irritat
ID by the tone of Harmon's letters I,
him iron New York. Harmon was en
shasiastsc, and confident: he was n
Sysng sesrdily On Hilliard 70 breal
shrsasA ~ acumen Of the up-stat'
easatnlists: but be thought that an