The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-10-20

ana IL III 10 DC your SOl-lLl-
law, as I hope" Seward pressed
on. won't you consider me a
member of the family now, and
let me give your son a beautiful
funeral. He'd have been my
brother if he'd lived"
THAT would be a great relief,
I'm not denying" said Patrick.
Seward had no wish to do this,
but the offer was so evidently a
sign of favor that he could not
refuse. He pushed through the
crowd to Cathleen.
II had to come" he said. "T
had to tell you how horribly sorry
I am I've talked to your father;
he doesn't mind my being here.
He says I can come to the flu
neral. The poor boy! I can
imagine how you must feel, though
I never had brother"
'He was so young" said Cath
leen her eyes looking past Seward
at her brothers white profile. 1T
"Are you going to forgive me,
Cathleen? I know all about the
bracelet now"
What do you know" she asked
quickly. Il take it all on my
self. 1t was my doing"
He saw that to clear herself by
bringing the guilt home to Joe
was the last thing she wished
now. We'll forget it," he hur.
ried on.
Thank you for coming" she
said, in the yelled voice that tears
had brought. And for a moment
she had looked deeply and CRATE
fully into his eyes.
CHAPTER XXXIV
The only scrap of paper on the
broad expanse CT Jasper Migrants
desk was the formal notice to
Laura from Higgins bank. He sat
silently bordering the problem
presented by this demand for a
half million dollars
Well, he could still handle this
matter. Time. That was all he
needed. Just a few days.
He dispatched his check for a
half million dollars to the Higgins
bank.
1t afforded him considerable re-
lief and great deal of satisfac-
ton to get back the note marked
paid. That would show Higgins
something.
On the following morning,
brief news item in the financial
pages of the Times, which the av
erage reader would not even no
tice, was of catastrophe Signifi-
canoe to Jasper H. Ingram. Late
in the afternoon of the preceding
day an obscure bondholder of the
handbook Light and Power Com
pany had petitioned the courts for
the appointment of a receiver.
The kilograms appraised him of
little more than the bare facts he
cleaned from the brief newspaper
report.
The Crash
It had become known the day
previous that the handbook Bank
and Trust Company was in diff
culties. 1t was also known that
this bank held a great deal Of
the paper of the handbook Light
and Power Company. Support fl.
nally came to the bank, which
was compelled to hypothecate its
marketable securities. Virtual con-
troll of the bank and control over
the paper of the handbook Light
and Power Company thus passed
to the powerful New York inter
ests which had come to the aid
of the bank. And Jasper Ingram
now knew that those powerful
interests" were Higgins and his
crowd.
Of course he would come
through all right. Jasper thought
They wanted his scalp, these fl,
nancial jackals, and they were too
short-sighted to realize the harm
that the crash of his extensive in
terests would do to business all
over the United States.
When the stock exchange closed
and Ingram had the final fig
ures before him, he rose and
moved, with a curious swing of
the shoulders, over to window,
and stood looking down at the
street far below.
Dreary Outlook
Leaning against the window
frame with crossed arms. staring
down at the hurrying, unim-
portant midgets, he considered
the complicated organism of his
holdings, recalled his last estimate
of how his assets had shrunk, rela-
tive to the swelling menace of his
obligations. If this bond refund
ing plan had gone through, he
might have STAYED off the evil
day. But, suddenly clear-eyed, In
gram realized that this would
have been only another temporary
stop-gap.
How strange, his lightnesS of
feeling now. How luxurious to
stand aside and know that he
need no longer carry that top
heavy structure of piled ramify-
ing enterprises, of precarious ven
lures.
Next, he supposed, the classic
finish
Jasper Ingram went back to his
desk, sat down, and from force
of habit he took a sheet of paper
and pencil and began to draw
figures in idle, unattended geo.
metric designs. He was past max
ing calculations. He thought, with