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CHAPTER VIII. Continued.
"Jim, you gave mo an awful scare,"
he said brokenly. "Don't evor do it
again. I have little loft to live for.
To bo suro I havo somo feeling for
mother, Fred, and sisters. But for you
I havo a love second only to that I
should have felt for Beulah had I been
allowed to havo her. The thought,
Jim, that I had wrecked your life,
with all you havo to live for, would
have been the last straw. My life is
purgatory, Hculah is only an ever
present curse to me a ghost that
rends my heart and soul, one minute
with a blind frenzy to revenge her
wrongs, the next with an icy remorso
that I have not already done so. If
I did not havo her, perhaps in time
I could forget; perhaps I might lay
out some scheme to help poor devils
whoso poverty makes life unendur
able, and with the millions I have
taken from the main shaft of hell I
might do things that would at least
bring quiet to my soul; but it is im
possible with tho living corpso of
Beulah Sands beroro me every minute
and that devil machinery whirling In
my brain all tho time the song, 'Re
venge her and her father, revenge
yourself.' It is impossible to give it
up, Jim. I must havo revenge. I must
atop this machinery that is smashing
up more American hearts and souls
each year than all the rest of earth's
grinders combined. Every day I de
lay I become more fiendish in my de
sires. Jim, don't think I do not know
that I havo literally turned into a
fiend. Whenever of late I see myself
In the mirror, I shudder. When I
think of what I was when your father
stood us up in his office and started
us in this heart-shrivelling, soul-callousing
business, and what I am now,
I cannot keep the madness down ex
cept with rum. You know what It
means for me to say this, mo who
started with all the pride of a Brown
ley; but It is so, Jim. The other night
1 wont homo with my soul frozen with
thoughts of the past and with my
brain ablaze with rum, Intending to
end it all. I got out my revolver, and
woke Beulah, but as I said, 'Bob is
going to kill Beulah and himself,' she
laughed that sweet child's laugh and
clapping her hands said, 'Bob is so
good to play with Beulah,' and then
I thought of that devil Relnhart and
tho other fiends of the 'System' be
ing loft to continue their work unhin
dered and I could not do it. I must
have revenge; I must smash that
heart-crushing machinery. Then 1
can go, and take Beulah with me.
Now, Jim, let us have it clearly under
stood once and for all."
Itomorse and softness were past;
he was the Indian again. "I am going
to wreck that hell-annex some day,
and that some day will bo the next
time I start in. Don't argue with mo,
don't misunderstand me. To-day you
stopped me. I don't know whether
you meant what you threatened; I
don't care now. It is just as well that
I stopped, for the 'System's' machine
will bo thero whenovor I start In
again. It loses nothing of its flond
ishness, none of its destructive powers
by grinding, but on tho contrary, as
you know, it increases its speed every
day it runs. Now, Jim Randolph, I
wart to toll you that you must get
yours and tho house's affairs in such
shape that you won't be hurt. when I
go Into that human rat-pit the next
time, for when I como from it tho
New York Stock Exchange and tho
'System' will have had their spines
unjointed. Yes, and I'll havo their
hearts out, too. Neither will ever bo
able to take from the American people
their savings and their manhood and
womanhood and givo them In ex
change unadulterated torment. I am
going to bo fair witli you, Jim; this
is the last time I will discuss the sub
ject. After this you must tako your
chance with the rest of those who
have to do with tho cursed business.
When I strike again, none will bo
spared. I will wreck 'the Street,' and
tho innocent will go down with tho
guilty, if they have any stocks on
hand at that time.
"My power, Jim, is unlimited; noth
ing can stay it. I am not going to
explain any further. You havo seen
mo work. You must know that my
power Is greater than tho 'System's,'
and you and I and 'the Street havo al
ways known that tho 'System' is moro
powerful than the government, more
powerful than are tho courts, legisla
tures, congress, and the president of
tho United States combined, that It
absolutely controls the foundation on
which they 'rest the money of tho
nation. But my power is greater, a
thousand, yes, a million times greater
than theirs. Jim, they say that I havo
made more money than any man in
the world. They say that I have five
hundred millions of dollars, but the
fools don't keep track of my move
ments. They only know that I havo
pulled live hundred millions from my
open whirls, the ones they havo had
an opportunity to keep tab on. But I
tell you that I have made oven moro
In my secret deals than the amount
they have seen mo take. I have had
my agents with my capital in every
deal, every steal tho 'System has
rigged up. Tho world has been throw
ing up its hands in horror because
Carnegie, the blacksmith of Pittsburg,
pulled off three hundred millions of
swag in the Steel hold-up yes, swag,
Jim. Don't scowl as though you want
ed to read me a lecturo on the coarse
ness of my language. I have learned
to call this game of ours by lis right
name. It is not business enterprise
with earned profits as results, but
"Whej I Strike In Again, Don't Attempt to Stay Me, for It Will Do No
Good."
pulled-off tricks with bags of loot
black-jack swag for their end.
"I got away with three hundred mil
lions when Steel slumped from 105 to
50 and from 50 to 8, and no one know
I'd made a dollar. You and Mho
Street' read every morning last year
tho 'guesses' as to who could bo
rounding up hundreds of millions on
the slump. The papers and tho mar
ket letters one morning said it was
Standard Oil; tho next, that it was
Morgan; then it was Frlck, Schwab,
Gates, and so on down through the
list. Of course, nono of them denied;
it is capital to all these knights of tho
road to bo making millions In the
minds of tho world, oven though they
never get any of tho money. Dick
Turpin and Jonathan Wild never
woro fonder of having tho daring
hold-ups that other highwaymen per
petrated laid to their doors, than are
these modern bandits of being credit
ed with ruthless deeds, that they did
not commit. But Jim, 'twas I who
sold Pennsylvania overy morning for
a year, while the soiling was explain
ed by tho press as 'Cassatt cutting
down Gould's tolograph poles. Gould
and old man Rockefeller soiling Penn
sylvania to got oven.' Jim Randolph,
I havo to-day a billion dollars, not tho
Rockefeller or Carnegie kind, but a
real billion. If I had no other power
but tho power to call to-morrow for
that billion in cash, it would be suffi
cient to lay In wasto tho financial
world before to-morrow night. You
aro welcome, Jim, to any part of that
billion, and tho more you tako tho
happier you will make me, but when
I strike in again, don't attempt to stay
me, for It will do no good."
Shortly after this talk nob left for
Europo with Beulah. A great Gor
man expert on brain disorders had
held out hope that a six month's treat
ment nt his sanitarium in Berlin
might aid In restoring her mind. They
returned tho following August. Tho
trip had been fruitless. It was plain
to mo that Hob was the sanio hope
lessly desperate man as when ho loft,
more hopeless, moro desperate If any
thing than when ho warned ino of his
determination.
When ho left for Europo "the
Street" breathed more freely, and aa
time went by and thoro was no sign
of his confidence-disturbing Inlluenco
In tho market, the "System" began
to bring out its deferred deals. Times
woro ripe for setting up tho most
wildly inllated stock lamb-shearing
traps. It had been advertised through
out tho world that Tom Relnhart, now
a two-hundrcd-timc millionaire, was to
consolidate his and many other enter
prises into one gigantic trust with
twelve billions of capital. Ills Union
ami Southern Pacific railroads, his
Southern lines, together with his
steamship company and lead, iron,
and copper mines, were to be merged
with tho steel, traction, gas, and other
enterprises ho owned jointly with
"Standard Oil." Some of tho railroads
owned by Rockefeller and his pals, In
which Relnhart had no part, woro to
go In too, nnd with these was to unlto
that mother hog of them all, "Stand
ard Oil" itself. The trust was to bo
an enormpus company, the llko of
which had until then not evon been
dreamed of by the most daring stock
manipulators. The "System's" banks,
as well as trust and insurance com
panies throughout the country, had
for a long time been getting into
shapo by concentrating the money of
tho country for this monster trust.
It was newspaper and news bureau
gossip that Relnhart and his crowd
had bought mil)Ion3 of shares of the
different stocks involved in the deal,
and It was common knowlodge that
upon 'Its successful completion Rein
hart's fortune would be in tho neigh
borhood of a billion. On October 1st
tho certificate of tho Anti-People's
Trust, ?1 2,000,000,000 capital, 1 20,000,
000 shares, were listed upon tho New
York, London, and Boston Stock Ex
changes, and tho German and French
Bourses, nnd trading in them started
off fast and furious at 10G. Tho claim
that one billion of tho twelvb billions
capital had been set asldo to bo used
in protecting and manipulating tho
stock in tho market, had been so wide
ly advertised that even the most dar
ing plunger did not think of selling it
short.
It was evident to all in tho stock
gambling world that this was to bo
tho "System's" grand coup, that at
its completion the" masses would bo
rudely awakened to a realization that
their savings woro invested in tho
combined American industries at vast
ly inflated values, that tho few had
all tho real money, and that any at
tempt upon tho people's part to regu
late and control tho now system of
robbery, would' bo fraught with un
paralleled disaster not to the "Sys
tem," but to the people.
Since Bob's return from Europe I
had seen him but a few times. Up
to October 1st ho had not boon near
tho Stock yxohango or "the Streot."
Shortly nftoJ tho listing of tho "Peo
ple Be Damned," as "tho Streot" had
dubbed the new trust, ho began to
show up at his office regularly. This
was the condition of affairs whan
Fred Brownley called mo up on tho
telephone, as I related at tho begin
ning of my story which I did not real
ize I had been bo long in tolling.
My thoughts had been chasing each
other with llghtnlng-liko rapidity back
over tho last five years and tho 15 bo
fore them, and each thought deepened
tho black mist over my present men
tal vision. In the midst of my re
flections my telephone rang again.
"Mr. Randolph, for Heaven's snko
havo you done nothing yet?" It was
Fred Brownloy's voice. "Things aro
fright nil bore. Bob's brokors aro sell
ing stocks at five and ten thousand
lot clips. Barry Conant Is loading
Relnhart's forces. It Is said ho has
tho pool's protection order In Ant!
People's and that it is unlimited, but
Bob has the Relnhart crowd pretty
badly scared. Swan has just finished
giving Conant a hundrod thousand off
tho reel In 10,000 lots, and ho told
mo a moment ago he was going to
got Hob himself to face Barry Conant.
They're down 20 points on tho nvor
ago, although they haven't lot Anti
People's break an eighth yet. They
have it pegged at 100, but there is an
ugly minor Just In that Hob, undor
cover or a general attack, Is unloading
Anti-People's on to tho Relnhart wing
for Rogers and Rockefeller, and tho
rumor Is getting In Its work. Evon
Barry Conant is growing a bit anx
ious. Tho latest talk is that Rolnhart
Is borrowing hundreds of millions on
Anti-People's, and that his loans aro
being called In all directions. Do you
know Relnhart is at his place In Vir
ginia and cannot get here boforo to
morrow night? If Bob breaks through
Anti-Peoplo's peg, It will bo the worst
crash yet."
(TO 1113 CONTINUED.)
DIDN'T THINK HELP NEEDED.
Simplo IF8herman Had Heard of the
Wonders of Science.
II. G. Wells, tho novelist, spoke at a
Boston club about tho wonders of
modern invention. "So thick and fast,"
he said, "thoso new inventions como,
life grows rather confusing for plain
and simple folk. Thero was an old
fisherman rowing in his boat one day
when an automobilo canoe sprung a
leak near him and immediately sank.
To tho Indignation of the canoo's oc
cupants, the old man paid no heed to
them, but rowed calmly on his wny,
pulling an old clay pipe. However, tho
wrecked canoeists managed to swim to
him, and as they clambered into his
boat one spluttered angrily: 'Confound
you, why didn't you lend us a hand?
Didn't you see we were sinking?' The
old man took his pipe out of his mouth
and stared at them in astonishment,
'lilest. if I didn't think yo wuz ono o'
them new-fangled submarines, ho
said."
Extravagance in Dress.
Very few persons outside of tho
glittering circle of our enormously
rich families, who constitute what Is
referred to as "the best society," can
understand how any young woman in
tills or any other country can spend
upon her wardrobo such vast amounts
of money as aro expended by tho
daughters of somo of thoso families.
The history of tho world does not
show such reckless extravaganco in
the way of dress. Nor, for tho mat
ter of that, does tho history of tho
world show so riotous a use of money
as Unit practiced by our very rich In
their strictly social divertisements.
Happy Is the lot of tho man or wom
an who Is not tempted to such foolish
Indulgences, which tako tho edge from
life's real joy!
Good Enough for the Dog.
Bobby's mother was often distressed
by her small son's lapses from corroct
speech, all the moro because his re
ports from school were always so
good. "Hobby," she said, plalntivoly,
ono day, "why do you keep telling
Major to 'sot up' when you know 'sit
up' is what you should say?" "Oh,
well, mother," Bobby answered hasti
ly, "of courso I havo lots of grammar,
but I don't llko to wasto It on Major
when ho doesn't know tho difference,
being a dog." Youth's Companion.
Good at Figures.
A lawyor in a seaport town adver
tised for an ofllco boy. A lad applied
for the situation who had hitherto
been employed In tho local fish mar
ket. Tho boy, on being asked If ho
was a good writer, answored In the
afllrmativo. "And can you do men
tal arithmetic?" "I think so, sir."
"Well, what would 30 pounds of sal
mon at ono-half-cent a pound bo?"
"Bad, sir," was tho cpilck reply.
'Twas Ever Thus.
"I thought you called up information
for tho number," said lie. "Why did
you quit and ring oft?" "Information
hud either dropped dead suddenly or
gone off to dinner with a friend," she
replied. "1. waited and waited and
waited, and all I could hear was somo
blooming phonograph playing away."
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