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DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD, DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA. h I K 4 -3 S ftiiiium3?niiiiimumitiimiiiiuummmmniMiimiiiiiiiimium The Thirteenth Commandment Mllllllllltlllllll1lllltlllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllI1lllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllIIIIIIIIIlllllinillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllMI CHAPTER XXI Continued. 14 When Bayard opened the door Cluy swept In like a March gale. He flung himself at Bayard and clenched his elbows in his hands and roared : "Bayard I Bayard! It's' come I We're rich I We're made! Eureka! Unecdnil Munitions! Wow! 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 nie a little secret. The Ger mans have been getting ready for tills war for yenrs, piling up guns and am munition for Dor Tag. The other countries were caught only half ready. They have stopped the Germans on the Marne, hut they've been using their shells nt such a rate that the famine Is near. Their only hopo is to buy 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 pcssy-footlng round to dlstrlbuto con tracts quietly. "The Bethlehem Steel company has gathered in a big lot of them, and I had a tip that the stock was going to boom; so are a lot of other stocks. I'd Hell my right arm for a little cash. But there's no market for detached right arms, so I used mine to sign up a few llttlo contracts for placing con tracts, and I've plucked them and brought them to you." He broke into dance and whirled Bayard off his feet. Bayard tried to be patient. "That's all very Interesting, Clay, but take your delusions down to Bellevue, where they'll put you lu the right cell. What can you or I do with ammuni tion contracts?" "Accept 'em, you blamed ijit! Open up your old shut-Up factory and get busy." "We have no machinery for making ammunition." "Get it, then, or adapt your ma chinery! 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 before they'll be desperate." Bayard began to see the scheme also the obstacles. "But It takes money to make those things. Where will we get the cash for the pay rolls and the raw materials?" "From the baiks! The banks axe bursting open with idle money; it's rotting on their hands 1" Bayard went nglow with the realiza tion of the opportunity. Ho began to tremble at the vision of the sudden avalanches of wealth pouring down the bleak mountains of despair. He could hear the roar of the Niagaras of gold. Daphuo and Leila came rushing from concealment Clay's beatitude was so complete that ho forgot his re sentments and kissed them both. Bayard was frantic to be at work. He resolved to telephone the presi dent of his company nt once and lay the matter before him. Leila cannlly advised Bayard to grasp the whip hand of the situation and keep it She began to dance nbout the room like a Miriam celebrating the passage of the Bed sea. "The first thing we'll do," she said, "will be to get my jewelry out of the pawnshop and the second will be to buy some more. And, oh, the dresses and the hats!" Tills asserted a sobering effect on Bayard. "No," ho announced. "We've gone through hades once becauso I gambled away my reserves. This time I'm going to get a big reserve before I spend a cent. I'll never risk another ordeal like the one we've been through. No more fractures of the Thirteenth for mel" Leila luughcd. Bayard went to the telephone to Mart the wheels of the factory in mo tion by summoning the president to council, no paused to ask: "He'll wont to know who the foreign agent Is you are dealing with? Or are there several? Who shall I say?" "Wethercll," said Clay. The great Skoda gun that suddenly one day dropped a monster shell in Dunkirk twenty miles off could hordly have caused more stupefaction than the name of Wethercll detonating In that room. Daphno snatched her hand from Clay's. Bayard sprang up so sharply that he almost threw Leila forward on her face. Instinctively he caught her by ho arm and saved her from fnlllnir. But Instantly he flung her srra from him in n gush of disgust. Clay gaped at the tablenu in bewil derment. He had not dreamed that any of the three had ever heard of Wethercll. He could not Imagine the bitterness the name involved. "Will some kind friend please tell r:o what nil the excitement Is about?" This was not easy. Who wanted to Ml Clay that Leila had just been ac cused of neglecting her husband and ier own duties for the society of this very Wctherell? Leila herself was the cm that told him. "Look here, Bydie," Leila cooed and billed, "don't you think you've done enough? You've shown me that jroU don't trust me and you've ordered Mr. Vft'th'Telt ,never to come near mo undo iKii'f hat enough without beg- garlng us all for spite? What else is It but cheap, nasty spite?" "It's a great deal more than spite," Bayard groaned. "Do you think I'll accept favors from a mnn who hns been courting you and got caught at it? I'd rather starve 1" "Well, I wouldn't 1" Leila averred. "And I'm not going to starve. And I'm not going to let you commit hnrl knrl on Wethcrell's doorstep just to spite him. I tell you again, once for all, there was nothing wrong In Weth erell's behavior, absolutely nothing. It's outrageous that you should accuse me of such horrible things." So Bayard was coerced Into having his Ufo saved by his enemy. It was one thing, however, to consent to deal with Wethercll, and another to devise a tolerable reconciliation. "Well," Bayard sighed, "beggars can't be choosers. If I'd saved my money I shouldn't have to take Weth crell's money." Bayard called up the president of his company at the ofllce. His oration made a huge success. Bayard began to tmlle to himself, to wink nt the spectators, and finally to share In tho apparent rapture of his distant ear-to-ear. The end of the matter was that when Bayard left the telephone ho was n new man. Ho had cunningly raised his chiefs hopes to the highest de gree, yet withheld the name of tho English agent Ho explained that ho Intended to take Leila's advice and use his knowledge as a lever for his own advancement and Clay's. Clay and Bayard sat down to mako figures, and the talk grew too tech nical for the women to endure. After hearing the first music of Bayard and Clay chanting In hundreds of thou sands of dollars Daphno stole out un heeded and went up to her own room. Mr. Chlvvis was sitting by a win dow in mournful idleness. Mrs. Chlv vis was stitching away at her em broidery. She was cheerful for her. She told Daphne that she had found a market for her needlework; the prices were poor but they were rcaL She advised Daphno to get to work with her. Daphne had not the courage to say that her brother and her betrothed were about to become plutocrats. She said only that she was very tired. And there is no more exhausting drain on the nerves than their responso to unexpected good news. It is more fatiguing than bad. She was sur prised and shocked, too, to find how snobbish she was all of a sudden about the petty earnings of a Chlwls. CHAPTER XXII. In those days the United States of America suddenly woke to tho fact that they could pull themselves out of bankruptcy by helping the benight ed states of Europe Into It There were sudden geysers of for tune and sudden collapses of failure. As in bonanza times, many were ru ined, whllo the few prospered. But Clay and Bayard seemed to touch nothing that did not turn to gold. Bayard had gained immenso prestige So Bayard Was Coerced Into Having His Life Saved by Hia Enemy. with his firm becauso of tho huge orders he brought In. Ho took all tho power that was accorded and grasped for more, nis most reckless audacities were rewarded with suc cess. He rode n tidal wave and swam with it so well that all his progress seemed to be duo to his own power. Bayard astounded Dutilh with tho solution of that old account, and with a cash payment for new gowns in celebration of his new glory. Ho did not forget his own people. Ho tele graphed his mother a thousnnd dol lars and almost slew her with amaze ment. He telegraphed his father sim ply the price of n railroad ticket to New York and a peremptory sum mons to taku the pjrst train east J o 'IS? M to When Daphno heard this she had to sit down to keep from falling down. Baynrd resuscitated her with a check for a thousand dollars. It meant' nothing more to her thnn abraca dabra. The whole lnctedlblo altera tion was a fa4ry story to her. She made a faint attempt to refuse tho gift, but Bayard forced It back into her palm and closed her fingers on it She repaid Bayard with kisses till she lost count and embraces till they both lost breath. Then sho borrowed from him enough cash to pay her moss-grown bill with tho Chlvviscs. Dnphno could not wait for the ele vator. Sho ran up several flights of stairs, scratched tho door with her palsied latchkey and Hung herself into Mrs. Chlwls' arras and kissed her even Mrs. Chlvvis. Her apology was the money for the bill. She flaunt ed before her the check bearing tho heavenly legend commanding tho Fifth Avenue bank to "pay to Daphno Kip or order ono thousand and no hun dredths dollars" on pennlty of Incur- lng tho displeasure of "Baynrd Kip." Mrs. Chlvvis handled tho pnrchment with reverence, nnd permitted her husband to touch It It might hnvo been one of the golden leaves of tho sacred Book of Mormon, nnd sho a scaled wife of Brlghatn himself. "What nro you planning to do with all this?" she said at length. "I don't know," said Daphne. "What would you suggest?" "You were planning to go Into busi ness. Why not use this as capital?" "Fine! What business ought I to start bunking? or battleship build ing, or what?" "There's embroidery," said Mrs. Chlvvis. Daphne had to guffaw at that. Mrs. Chlvvis did not laugh. "I mean it," sho urged; "think It over." "All right, I'll think It over." Tho novelty of being rich lost Its savor with Leila, nnd the monotony of being neglected began to prey upon her damnsk soul. Sho and Daphne forgot their mutual grievances for their common grievance. "That's tho troublo with these hus bands," Leila grumbled. "When they'ro in bad luck you can't lose 'em, and when they'ro In good you can't And 'em." "It's tho same with fiances," said Daphne. Daphno had the worst of it, for Leila began to wnnder again, leaving Daphne to the society of Mrs. Chlvvis, who kept urging her to Invest her dwindling thousand beforo it was gone. But In the environs of noisy riches tho schemes of Mrs. Chlvvis de manded such prolonged labor for such minute profit that Daphne remained cold. Sho began to resent Clay's neglect morosely. Tho few attentions ho paid her only Insulted her; his mind was so far away and his heart was all for his business. Ho was dazzled by the flerco white light of success, and ho spoko to Daphne In a kind of drowsy hypno sis. And ho spoko Incessantly of tho details of his business, or his gam blings, no could not soo how deaf sho wus to the very vulgar fractions of his speculations, or tho mad arith metic of his commissions. She yawned In his face when ho grew eloquent on tho dynamics of wealth, tho higher philosophies of finance. And ho never knew. Ho kissed her good-by as .if ho were kissing n government bond, safe and quiet and nil his own. After one of Clay's visits Mrs. Chlv VIs found Daphuo In a brown study. Mrs. Chlvvis explained her own af fairs; and Daphne was so exhausted with tho sultry problems of love that Mrs. Chlvvis' business gossip was com pletely refreshing. "I've been down to the Woman's ex change," sho said, "trying to sell some of my needlework. They were very nice nbout it, but It means a terrible amount of labor for a plttnnco of money. You have to pay them so much n year for tho privilege of put ting your things on sale there. Then they don't guarantee to return It in good condition, 'and they don't guaran tee to sell It; or if they do they charge you 20 per cent for their end of It. "I couldn't seo nny protlt In that, so I went to one of the jobbers. Ho salil my style of work brought good prices In tho big stores. But they won't pay him much nnd he'll pay me less. "I was thinking Thero's money In theso things and In all sorts of needle things If you havo a llttlo capi tal." "That's different," said Daphne. "And I've got somo capital now. Do you remember suggesting to mo once thnt we might go Into business to gether you to furnish tho brains and I the money?" "Oh, I didn't put it that way!" "Anyway, it's true. Well, would you?" "Land's sake! If you're a mind to furnish tho money nnd tho Ideas and let me count the pennies, I'd like noth ing better." "Greut ! What could we go Into?" "What would you prefer?" '"Oh. any old business that will keep mo busy and mako u lot ot money." "My husband sayB that you can't I mako a lot of money .without putting By RUPERT HUGHES Ooprrfght br iHrper & Brothers In n lot. 'Hint's one reason he has been kept down so. Ho never could get nhead. Thnt was what we were saving up for to get n llttlo capital. And then the war came along nnd we hnd to spend our savings. That same war has mado your brother so rich that he could give you n small fortune. I don't believe you could do better than to put that Into n business." "Neither do II" Daphno cried. "Lot's!" CHAPTER XXIII. Daphne was going to bo Independ ent, but sho was still all woman when it came to tho selection of her speclnl trade. She would bo u business wom an, but she would do a woman's busi ness. There wero ever so many dnlntlcs and exquisites thnt she wanted to hang In her shop. She was going to . sv M M ' 5 3s "My Husband Says That You Can't Mako a Lot of Money Without Put. ting In a Lot." have a window! With her nnmo on It I Thnt would bo more fun than a limousine with crest on door. Gradually her scheme enlarged. Sho would devoto her shop to tho whojo mechnnlsm of tho boudoir. "Boudoir wear" was tho word that pleased her. It was In human nnturo thut the partners should quarrel over a name for the baby beforo tho baby was born. They spoke of themselves as The Firm." Finally Daphne, claiming tho ma jority of tho power, voted cu bloc for "Boudolrwear," and claimed tho vic tory. Mrs. Chlvvis surrendered with the amendment thnt "Miss Kip" should bo at ono side, "Mrs. Chlwls" at the other. Sho bribed tho assem bly by promising thnt n cousin of hers, q young artist living In tho Washing ton Mows, should paint a pretty sign board on n swinging shingle. After ninny designs had been composed nnd destroyed they agreed on this legend: BOUDOIRWEAU Everything for tho Boudoir. Exquisite Things for Brides. MISS KIP. MRS. GHIVVIS. Tho cousin painted It well nnd illu minated It with elaborate lntlnls and an allegorical figure of a young lady In Cubist negligee. It hnd tho tradi tional charm of n tavern board. In fact, their shop was to be a tavern for women In senrch of sartorial refresh ment Troubles mustered about them ns weeds shovo up In a gurden faster thnn they can bo plucked out. Ex penses undreamed of .materialized in swurms. Everything wus delayed ex cept tho demands for their money. The petty-cash box, like n sort of per verted fairy purse, emptied Itself as fast ns it was filled. Tho petty cash was tho least of their dismay. The grand cash was tho main problem. They had stitched their lingers full of holes nnd plied up reams of fabrics, but tho total was pathetically tiny. Ono thing was Instantly demon strated. They must give up their plan or go Into debt. Indeed, they already were In debt. "Wo'vojot to tuko tho plunge," said Daphne. "I'd rather die than go on paying a year's rent for an empty shop." "I know," Mrs. Chlvvis fretted, gnnwlng her thin lips, "but It's a risk. You'd better ask your brother." ''No I" Daphne stormed. "I'm going to win out on my own. I'oor Bayard Is too busy to bo bothered with my troubles, fie doesn't know I huvo any. And Lellu Is so busy with her social business that she never asks mo what I'm up to. "But what nro wo to do?" Mrs. Chlwls walled. "We can't go on with bur stock, and you havo no money left, and I hadn't any to start with," ! 'Ml'". ' - v?. V aU- .M 7 Rt.ih. w'll i3 FA VW k ti rvr "There's only one thing to do," Daphne answered, with n sphlnxlc solemnity. "Buy on credit. It's n case of nothing venture, nothing gnln ; nothing' purchase, nothing sell I noth ing borrow, nothing pay. The only way to get out of debt Is to go In deeper like getting u fish hook out of your thumb." Mrs. Chlwls suffered herself to bo persuaded. They visited tho whole salers and the Jobbers nnd were well received, having paid cash before nnd, thanks to Mr. Chlvvis' suggestion having been astute enough to demand discount for cash. And now tho motortrucks and tht delivery wagons and the cyclcenra and the messenger boys began to pour stock Into the little shop. It was pleas ant not to have to pay for things, though the tips wero reaching alarm ing proportions, nnd tho bundle of bills for future settlement grew and grow. Mrs. Chlwls made a list of their debts and tried to show It to Daphne, but she stopped her eyes nnd ears and forbade any discussion that would quench her spirit In the swirl of her tasks Daphne almost forgot Clay Wlmburn. Sho was too busy to enre much. She hnd no time to mourn. Clay was only ono among a myriad regrets, and his af fairs could wait. Her business needs could not. Clay did not come nenr her. Ho spent a lot of money trying to get her off his mind. He got a good deal on his conscience, but not Daphne off his mind. Ho longed for her especially, too, because there camo a sudden dis aster to his schemes. Ho was not so rich as he hnd been. Indeed, ho could not bo suro that lie was rich at all. Any day might smother him with bankruptcy. This fear kept him from Daphne, too. The bouncing munition stocks that were known ns "war babies" had ab ruptly fallen Into a decline. The sub marine thnt torpedoed the Lusltania shattered Wall street's joy, throw tho dread of war Into the United Stntes, and set every one to questioning tho problem of revenge nnd Its cost The slump In the market came at the most unfortunate moment for Bay ard and Clay. Any moment of slump, Indeed, would hnvo come most untime ly for their ventures. "Kip and Chlwls" were making n picnic ground of the shop. Behind tho soap-veiled windows they laughed and debated on arrangements und prlco tags and show cards. Mr. Chlvvis, still out of a job, noted as maid of nil work nnd stevedore, and grow so useful that they had to put him out And at last the moment arrived when they declnrcd tho shop open, "raised the curtain," as Daphno said. She waited with a stage-fright she had not felt in Rcbcn's theater. Thero was no luck of temperament in her manner now. But thero was no audi ence, either. At night Kip nnd Chlwls locked their doors and went home, discour aged beyond words and dismally weary In the legs, also in the smile muscles which had been kept nt an ex pectant tension all dny long. Occasional purchases wero mado, but unimportant Kip and Chlvvis tried to learn what interested pcoplo nnd what did not They realized thut they had far too much of certain things and far too llttlo of others. Thoy attempted to sell the dendwood by marking It down ; but it would not move. "What do tho women enro for prices?" Duphno railed. "They nro spending somo man's money, nnyway. They pretend that It's to plcaso him, but they know and wo know that it's becauso they hato each other." Ono day a great lady who could hardly squeeze through tho door creaked Into the shop und spilled her self Into a startled little chair llko a load of coal. Daphno felt that sho was about to die on their hands or ask for an ambulance, but sho asked Instead for au embroidered brcukfnst gown from tho window. Mrs. Chlwls fetched it nnd the old ogress clutched it from her, holding It up to her nose ns If to sniff It, but really to b'co It. "That's It! That's what I'vo been looking for!" sho wheezed. "Have you got much of this sort of thing?" "Oh yes." "Agh, that's good I My daughter la marrying in somo haste a young Im becllo who's going over to Franco to run an nmbulance. I'm Mrs. Romlly." Mrs. Chlwls waited unperturbed for further Identification. Daphne hnd never heard of Mrs. Bomllly, cither, but sho gnsped as If sho had boon say ing her prayers nt tho shrlno of Bom llly from childhood and now had been visited by the patron saint, whom sho had recognized at once, of course. "Oh yes, of course." Mrs. Itomllly was coughing on: "I've been to several shops, and I was almost In despair until I snw your sign. If you could do a few things In rather a hurry I fancy I could givo you u Inrgc-lsh order. And if tho things wero at all successful, 1 could throw quito a llttlo trade your 7ay. You're rather new, aren't you?" Duphno assented that the firm was quite new. She brought forward nn order pad and stood nt attention. Mrs. Itomllly had troussenucd a largo family of children and several poor relations. She knew what sho wanted and what she ought to pay for It and when It should be done. Daphno took down her orders ns If 'tho llttlo room wero tho mere vestibule to on enormous sweatshop where hundreds of sempsters would seize tho Job und complete It In a Jiffy. (TO UK CONTINUED.) Optimistic Thought All bravo men lovo; for he only 1b bray who, bus affection to fight for. TO THEHOLY CITY Sacred Road Filled With Crowds of Refugees. Scenes Brought About by Modern War. fare In Sharp Comparison With Those Which Met the Eyes of the Magi. Beyond Bethlehem the once narrow camel road over which the Magi hnd come broadened Into a dusty highway nnd began to (ill with a throng of pco plo going to nnd from the Holy City, writes John II. Flnley In "From Becr sheba," In Scrllmcr's. Tho refugees from Jericho, encamped In tho Held opposite the tomb of Rachel, wero ris ing frowzled from their nomnd beds. Lorries nnd ambulances wero starting from camps at tho roadside for tho hellish places from which these refu gees had fled, down where tho British forces wero holding their trenches awaiting the dny ot advance. A bat talion of Anzac cavalry wns passing In the opposite direction for Its pe riod of rest after the night's riding. Indian lancers nnd Indian Infantry men, picturesque even In khaki, looked nnd knelt toward the dawn and their own Himalayas. Trains of camels from somewhere bore their compact loads that might be myrrh or the dolly man nn for tho troops. Hundreds of donkeys, "Allcnby's vfilte mice," went pattering along. Airplanes wero mount ing nnd circling with their hum, to scout or perhaps to bomb the hills toward Shechem. Barefoot women with vnrl-colorcd burdens on their heads walked with all tho statcllncss of queens toward tho city of peace tho city of peaco amid shepherds fields, now become munition magazines, which wero dally augmented by whnt tho trains brought up from Egypt, nnd dally diminished by what the trains toward tho front wero carrying north ward for tho redemption of Samaria and Gnlllce, tho ancient land of tho tribes of Itcnjamln nnd Ephrnlm nnd 'Mnnasseh and Issnchar nnd Zebulon and Ashcr and Naphtalt nnd Dnn Dnn, which I would yet reach but that Is another story. For the day I was content to stop nt the mount within tho wnlls of Jerusalem, where Abrahnm ended his sacrificial Journey, fire and knife In hand; tho mount whoso topmost rock wns regarded as the center of the world, tho "stone of foundation," on which tho ark of tho covenant onco rested ; the mount from which Moham med Is said to have ascended on his miraculous steed; the mount over whoso edges the orthodox Jew does not dare to venture lest ho trend upon the "Holy of HoIIqs," but walls at tho wall of lamentation without; tho mount nt whoso vergo tho Christ was crucified nnd burled, nnd frpm whoso rock-hawn tomb he rose. It seems In deed tho "center of the world," nnd over It all, as I saw it that morning, tho tower of ascension stood on tho Mount of Olives against tho sunrise. Snowdrops From Hooge. Hooge Is an ovll memory to n great number of our returned soldiers. East of i'pres, closo to Mnplo cojise and Sanctunry wood, Just abovo Bollc-r wardo lake, and astrldo Uio Mcnln rond, no stretch of ground has been moro often nnd more hardly fought ovdr from the dark days of Into 1014 until Inst September. ' The whole nrca of Hooge and Bellcwnrdo Is scarred and pocketed by shell holes, craters and defenses until there remains not n yard of undisturbed ground. Yet here, making gunplts last March, tho writer discovered on tho very lip of n shell hole a clump of snowdrops gayly blooming and when In April we hud to wash buck from tho Yprcs ridges bo cause tho Germans had outflanked us on tho south, he carried away with him tho bulbs. They were sent homo, and todny In n Harborno gnrden nro shyly putting up tholr buds of white, grecn strlped, and a few dnys of moro con genial weather will bring them Into bloom. London Mail. Humors of the Mule Race. In neurly every army race meeting held In Franco during tho wnr there wns provision for n mulo race. Some mules, a London Times correspondent snys. wero remarkably fast and hnudy, while others were satisfactory so long as It was a straight course. At ono meeting of the IMcqulgny courso tho dlstanco was four furlongs, with a very sharp right-handed turn nt the half distance. If the turn wns not taken there was no alternative but to go Into the woods which surrounded tho course. Fully 25 of the mules re fused to tnko tho bend mid plunged straight Into the wood, which Is thick and very dark. After a while tho whole woods wero reverberating with the agonizing cries which only mules can mako. Strange to relate thero wero no serious casualties to men or mules. Cat Simply Would Not Die. A cat belonging to a young Indy re siding In North street, St. Andrews, Scotland, went nmlsslug. A search was made, ami the loss was advertised, and all hopo of the return of puss wns given up. After the cut hnd been absent for 21 days a inalil, on cleaning tho drawing room of a houso In Grey friars Garden, heard tho mewing of n cnt Uer mistress at once procured men to remove tho built-in grate, bo hind which tho cat was discovered In a very einiicluted condition. Its owner was apprised of tho Und, nnd quickly attended to her cat which has slnco made u wonderful recovery, It Is sur mised thnt the rut had been hunting for birds and fallen dowu the chimney. .