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BED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF r? rn l i I fi , k4 j The City of Purple Dreams By EDWIN BAIRD ) Copyright by P. O. Brown ft Co. CHATER XIII. Continued. 17 Near the close of the dny's icbsIob Without cxnctly knowing why, he went on the "floor" for u few minutes. A man shouted In his car: "July's Rone to a dollar nnd a half I" Without answering, without even looking at the man, he stood watch lag the monster turmoil. The uproar was deafening. The old speculator turned away. Very carefully, very slowly, he made his way through t,he hurly-burly, de scended the steps that led to the ground floor, his hand sliding Jerkily along the bnnlster. When he entered his broker's ofllec his hair was no more white than his face, and as he sat down and held his hand a moment over bis eyes his fingers trembled as one af flicted with palsy. It was the first time In his twenty-odd years of speculating that he had been seen unnerved. He looked at his broker and shook his head. "He's done It," he said, with a pitia ble pretense of smiling. "lie's done It, Howard. He's got us. He's cor nered the market." Authoritative news of the corner went out over the land. The name of Daniel Randolph Fltzhugh loomed gigantic on the financial horizon. He controlled all the wheat, no could exact for It whatever price he wanted. If he chose, he could get fifty dollars a bushel. He was the King of Wheat His name became a household word. Scarcely a man, waman, or child In the middle West but prattled of htm. The farmers lauded him as a benefactor of humanity. Others condemned htm as a thief. Thousands of tatters of every description flooded his mall. Loaves of bread dwindled In size. Mutterlngs reached htm. His life was threatened. , His wealth multiplied with prodi gious leaps'. At no time could he tell kow much he was worth. He knew It was more than fifteen millions and less than thirty. Then there came a day when he waa to settle with Otis. The defeated gladiator made the appointment for eleven o'clock that morning In Fits hugh's office. At five minutes to eleven Fltzhugh was alone awaiting him. He had given orders that none but Otis wns to be admitted, and that afterward thoy were not to be disturbed. As ho lolled back In his cushioned chair beforo the mahogany desk, nnd gazed round the luxurious room, a reverie came' over him. He recalled his first venture In wheat, made with a few thousands won In a poker game; he remembered the time he had worked for Qulgg for four hundred dollars a month. And then, his memory slipping his control and leaping back further still, ho thought of tho time when No I nad he been a dlshwnslier? Had he slaved In the scullery of a filthy kitchen for a miserable weekly pittance? The door opened. Symington Otis entered. In these days of his monarchy Fltz hugh saw many sorts of characters ex posed raw nnd naked to his gaze. lie saw men come cringing to him, begging and plendlng. He snw others enter, blustering nnd trying to outface him. Otis behaved In neither manner, lie walked In quietly, nnd, closing tho door, remained standing, with no greet ing vhnt8oever. He looked ten yenrs older than his actual ngc. Fltzhugh returnod to bis chair. The silence had lasted fully half a minute beforo he epoke. "It has been agreed, Mr. Otis, that I shall deal with you as I see lit." . Otis nodded. He did .not speak. "My rule has been to give no quar ter and nsk none. I see no reason why your case should mark an exception. I see every reason why It should not. For eight years or more your hand has beon against roe. You have opposed my ventures, obstructed my path, hin dered me in every way." "I came here," Interjected Otis cold ly, "to talk business; not to discuss our personal affairs." I "And we are going to discuss those affairs. Mr. Otl" Fltzhugh rose, and, with his bands resting on the desk In 'front of him, leaned toward his visitor, iwho now stood opposite "I will let you out of my corner on only one con dition." "Which lar "That jrou tall your daughter" "xou.need not go further! I will (consider nothing that Involves my fam ily." ' "Then you refuse to deny to her" "Absolutely!" "the preposterous falsehood you I repeated?" "I repeated ao falsehood. It was the truth." "It was a He! The woman Is dead now, and I shall say nothing against her. But you, and you only, can undo fthe wrong she did me." "Mr. Fltzhugh, I must ask jovl to come at once to business." For the nnnl time, will you tell her "No! Absolutely, no!" "Then you will take tho nlternntlve." Fltzhugh turned nnd prossed one of tho pearl buttons on his desk. Ills ex pression wns one ninny Clilcngoano had seen tn their sorrow since Inst July; the fnclnl muscles tense, the stern Jnw thrust forwurd, his eyes hard ns agate. A young man entered. Fltzhugh nodded to him, und ho departed, re turning presently with a small, round top table, which he placed near the desk. In the center of the table was a plush box not unlike a Jeweler's ring cusc. Otis looked on ns a child who fears the dark. He had not even n remote Ideu of what the box contained, nor could he Imagine what the tabic portended, yet he felt, nevertheless, Hint some sinister torture was Impend lnif. "You nre short to us," snld Daniel, nfler locking the door upon his em ployee, "seven million bushels of whent ranging In price from utucty-slx cents to n dollar and ten. I nm going' to settle our trnntmctlon In less than one second." . He crossed to the table, picked up the little box, pressed n spring In the side; the lid flew open, nnd he extract ed a new gold eagle, which he held up between thumb nnd forefinger. "This will settle It. A fitting emblem, Mr. Otis. Gold ! What a sermon you nnd I rfllght preach upon It!" Tried beyond all patience, Otis cried out: "Come to tho point! What's your object?" Fltzhugh laughed. It was the same mirthless laugh that had once remind ed Hunt of a wolf bnrlng Its fangs. He poised the coin.' "Heads or tolls, which do you want? If I win, your wheat will cost you two and a quarter a bushel " "Two merciful Oodl man, that price will ruin mel" "Of course It will." 'Fltzhugh re placed ,tlie eagle In the box, breathing audibly a sigh of relief. "Now then, I think wo understand each other. If you will only go to her" " "I won't consider thatl" "You know the alternative." "It makes no difference. I will not consider ltl" i f "Very well" poising the coin as be fore. "Heads or tails?" "Stop this asinine playing 1" "Should you win you will have Just enough to live on modestly." "The idiocy of such a thing 1" Fltzhugh again gave his discomfit ing laugh. "I don't agree with you. All our mighty warring, proclaimed broadcast In every country of the world, has been nothing more than a game of hcads-and-talls. You bet wheat would fall. I bet It would rise. "But You, and You Only, Can Undo the Wrong She Did Me." I won. Tho toss of a gold coin will add an artistic climax. Walt!" ns Otis made nn attempt to Interrupt. "I'm not through. If you will do ns I ask, you will uot lose a cent. You will get your whent " "I will not do It!" "Once nnd for nil, will you save yourself?" "In the way you ask never t" "Then, you will take tho conse quences 1" Daniel seized the gold piece. "Wc'.'l toss for It; and If I wlu you will go bunknipt." Otis, who hnd remained standing throughout the conversation, groped behind him for n chair, staring aghust at his opponent. There could be no doubting his seri ousness. Thero wns not a trace of merriment In his hnrd face. Nor a vestige of compassion. "Then you do mean It?" "Kvery word of It I" Tho groping hand struck a chnlr. Otis sat down, clutching tremblingly at the arm, moistening his lips. "Talis," ho whispered, but so Indis tinctly he was asked to repeat tho word. "Heads," he said, more firmly. Fltzhugh spun tho coin Into the air. It fell upon the polished table with a little ring. The older man's face grew suddenly ghastly, and the two heavy furrows extending from his nose to tho corners of his mouth deepened. He wbb on the verge of a collapse. "What Is It? Quick I" Fltzhugh bent und looked at the gold eagle. "Heads," he said. essBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBiflssBBBBBBl1illBlBilfe AT aarpjff WmMsWm CHAPTER XIV. Daniel's career In La Salle street closed with his corner In wheat. Ter minating the ocean of details, he sailed forthwith for Paris. "For a long holiday," he told his friends. Hut It was really for quite another purpose Hunt, vtto sworo by the man and potently believed him the greatest he hnd ever known, settled his specula tive deals und went with him. One evening In the Cafe Mnrtln they met Artie Sparkle. Artie had long since become nn expatriate, due, ac cording to gossip, to unrequited affec tion nnd hope too often deferred. He wns with n brilliantly gowned woman of the French boulevurd type, who wore Just n little too much rouge, Just a few too many diamonds, nnd a gaiety of manner Just a trifle too effervescent. Artie's animosity toward his former rival had very obviously been burled, or forgotten, for he pounced Joyfully upon tho two Americans, nnd with gusto and eclat presented them to her of the gorgeous plumage his wife of the month. Then more wine wns ordered to toast the bride, and Artie extolled ec statically the bliss of connubial life, touching In particular upon his own, which to him, of course, wns unparal leled and paramount. Gradually the talk turned upon other topics, with the benedict easily leading. "I read nil about It In' Lunnon, denh fellow." This to Daniel. "Frightfully clevnh of you, I miiHt say, getting nil that grain and freezing out the otliuh chaps. . . . And poor old Otis; I saw him In Cnrlsluxl Inst week. He looks dreadfully dono for. I feuh the poor fellow won't Inst long." Always the mention of Otis' name spelled bad moments for Daniel. Since that Indlun summer dny when millions had hung upon the toss of n coin the aged speculator, as Daniel knew, had been a bowed-down man. He never visited the pit again. Ho never went near It. The memory of Its roaring sent a shudder through him. He waa care-worn, listless, comfortless. He had lost his "nerve." Grain gambling topics were taboo In his household, nnd those who valued his good will found It politic not to broach such la his hearing. When In October he had left for the German "'bad" cures he was broken In health as well aa la spirit His quest wns fruitless. One May morning In Florence Dan iel read at his breakfast table of Otis' death. He had died In mid-ocean en route to New York. Ho put down his newspaper, beck oned tho waiter, ordered some cable gram forma. Leaving his breakfast untouched, and Hunt'a questions un answered, he wrote a lengthy message to a Chicago trust company that spe cialized In mortgages. He fretted with Impatience until he received an answer; and then, having read It he tore It up and sighed hopelessly. Daniel heard afterward that Otis had left nothing beyond his life insur ance. The house on the drive had gone, and with It all the pomp of cir cumstances. Mrs. Otis was residing temporarily In Oconomowoc. Kathleen waa with her. Early In Juno of that year two wealthy Americans, who had made their "piles" In July wheat, booked flrst-class transportation from Home to Chicago. When thoy boarded the liner at Naples there embarked with them a quarter of a million dollars' worth of European art treasures. When they left the liner nt New York the name of the tail, distinguished-looking one, of the black Vandyke beard and white ducks, wns not Daniel Randolph Fltz hugh. It was his own, Hugh Daniel Fltzrnndolph. This name Juggling had heralded their coming, und they were surround ed nt the pier by a phnlanx of sharp eyed men armed with cameras. Daniel greeted them warmly, shook hands, gave them cigars, and waxed so Jovially humorous about his malleable patronymic thnt he wns voted u shin ing member of tho Good Fellows' club nnd lauded as a thoroughgoing, line sort. Nothing derogntory was printed of him In the New York newspapers; and tho eccentricity of one'r. using one's family nnme for n "komlcnl kut out" was made to appear a very nat ural thing for ono to do. Ills arrival In Chicago received a similar reception. Tho thing he had long been plan ning, tho thing that had prompted his trip nbrond, which hnd necessitated tho proper rearranging of his name, wns mndo public. With n fanfare of trumpets, a sounding of cymbals, a bcntlng of tom-toms, Hugh Daniel Fltz rnndolph Inaugurated his campaign for tho Chicago mayoralty. In the primary election these were nominated: Hugh Daniel Fltzrnn dolph, advocating puro politics; Sain Rufllngton, fat nnd puffy nnd a tool of the trusts; John Dlnwoody, lean and lank nnd n patron of vice, und Ivan SkiinkuB, skinny and erratic und a champion of the working man. Beforo tho primaries, Daniel's chief rivals, Bufllngton and Dlnwoody, took sennt notice of him, shelving him In a category with Sklmkus, tho Socialist, who hnd no chance whatever. After his nomination they changed their views. They suddenly realized many things; realized he had been working hours to their minutes; that his enor mous volumo of advertising was not unproductive of results; that he had a happy faculty of making friends wherever be went; that his populurlty was booming dally; and that ho con trolled nearly as many votes as thoy. This would never do, decided lluf flngton nnd Dlnwoody. Thoy Immedi ately set about to crush the Intruder who presumed to enter a domain al ways exclusively their own. Thus, when the papers supporting the mal contents were not casting their har poons at each other, they took time to shy a concerted volley at the Interlo-ner. Che. (Copy for Tilts Department Supplied by National Headquarter of the American Lesion.) SAYS READOPT WAR ORPHANS Editor Harold Ross of American Le gion Weekly Urges Care by Potts of Unfortunates. Harold W. Ross, formerly managing editor of the Stars und Stripes, which was the official publication of the American expeditionary forces In France during the war, has been ap pointed editor of the American Legion Weekly, official magazine of the American Legion. Mr. Ross, a native of Colorado, en tered the newspaper Held more than ten yenrs ngo nnd worked on vnrlous papers In Salt Luke City, San Francis co, New Orleans, Atlanta, New York ind I'nnamn, but chiefly In San Fran :lsco nnd the West. He enlisted us a Klvute InAprll, 1017, nnd stilled for JYance August 1. He wns sent to the Harold W. Ross. first officers' training camp nt Lnngres, France, but was detached before re ceiving a commission and nsslgned to duty on the Stars and Stripes when that publication was started In Febru ary, 1018, and remained with It, most of the time as mannglng editor, until Its career came to nn end with the home-coming of the A. E. F. He re ceived a qltatlon from General Per shing and recently received n medal from tho French government for orig inating the plan which led to tho adoption of 3,507 war orphans by American soldiers overseas. As editor of the Weekly Mr. Ross Is now conducting nn active campaign for tho rendoptlon of these same or phans by the more thftn 0,000 Ameri can Legion posts throughout the Uni ted States nnd In many forelgu coun tries. HE ADOPTS FRENCH ORPHAN Le Roy Tucker, Former Captain, Aids Legion's Campaign in Memory of His Father. Another contribution of $75 fnr the adoption of a French war orphan, In the Legion's campaign to aid H.OOO late proteges of the A. E. !'., milking a to till of four to date, was received at Le gion national headquarters during the week ending May -- The adopter Is Le Roy Tucker, formerly captain, Twenty-fifth Engineer Service coui pnny, Twentieth Engineers, now living nt 1501 West Sixth street, Topeku, Kan. "In memory of my father, .Tallies Wnlter Tucker of the One Hundred nnd Thirty-foil rlh Indiana Infantry of the Civil war." the captain wrlteii, "I wnnt to adopt a French orphan on this Memorial day. "As I spent most or my time In France In the Vnsges mountains, do ing forestry duty, I would like a little girl from the department of the Vosges, If possible. And If you havo any way of knowing, select n little girl with brown eyes and hair. "I S. If the young lady will write In French, I will Improve my knowl edge of French n bit, and If she cares to receive letters In English, I will be glnd to write." Mss Tucker's request was forward ed, with his contribution, to the Amer ican Red Cross. National heudquury'rs of the Ameri can Legion has ndopted two of tho orphans anil another has been tuken under the paternal wing of Kurl Ross post, Stockton, Cal. Home for Sons of Service Men. Thu national adjutant has received advice of the founding nt Itennlngtou, Vt., of a homo for tho care, main tenance, education nnd scientific In struction In agriculture und horticul ture of tho minor sons of soldiers or sailors who have served In tho army or navy of the United States of Amer lea, or In tho army or navy of any of Its European allies; and thereafter for the like cure, maintenance, education and scientific Instruction of the Uueal male descendants of such sons. It Is "The Green Mountain Home, lac" .bsbbsVbV " sasx "sbVBBBBkBSBSsW-. RJPBSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSMBIBSSsV BSSSSSSSSSSSSSSaBSSSSSSSSSSSa CONGRESS RESPONDS TO CLL Legion Is Successful In Obtaining Pas sage of Two Measures Impor tant to Maimed Heroes. Appropriations of $40,000,000 for hospitalization of disabled discharged ex-service persons nnd $1120,000,000 for vocational training for maimed heroes of the world wnr have, been obtained from congress to dnte through the ef forts of the American Legion, accord Ing to n report rerently received nt Legion national headquarters from Thomas W. Miller, chairman of the organization's national legislative com mittee tn Washington. "The sundry civil bill." the report reads, "carried nn appropriation of $00,000,000 to be expended by the fed eral board for vocational education, nnd It Is the belief nf this committee thnt the board will be nble, In the nenr future, to render more efficient di versified service, to nil of our disabled comrades." The committee previously hnd ob tnlned from congress n $.10,000,000 nn proprlatlon, which, together with the Legion's co-operative plan for round Ing up ellglhlos nnd for assisting the federal board In placing them In train ing, hnd gone fnr toward remedying conditions which Induced the Legion to Institute n congressional Investiga tion resulting In sweeping reforms. The report Is n summary of recent activities of the committee In Its ef forts to carry out tho Legion's pro gram of beneficial leglslntlnn ns out lined nt the Minneapolis convention last yenr. Among others, It cites the following provisions embodied In vari ous measures recently adopted: All disabled personnel still In hos pitals may continue to travel on fur lough nt a one-cent rate per mile. AH' men now In receipt of hospital ization from the United States public health service will bo entitled to pur chnsp quartermaster supplies from the government nt cost. The compensation originally nllowed vocational board students wns $30 n month. The Legion Induced congress to Increase this to $80 n month, nnd the recent passage of the Darrow bill fixes their allowance nt $100 n month during the period of training, with nd ditionnl allowances for married men. LUDLOFF ASSUMES NEW TASK Resigns as Executive Secretary Headquarters Office to Take Up Work In New York. In H. E. Ludloff, who wns a member of tho national headquarters staff of tho American Legion since May, 1019, recently resigned ns executive secre tary In the Indlnnnpolls offices to take up his duties with the Equltablo Life Assurance society, New York, ns sec retary to the seconti vice president, Wllllnm J. Grahnm. When Henry D. Llndsley, first na tional commander of the Legion fret opened tho nntlonnl headqunrters at New York, Mr. Ludloff became man ager nnd helped In the enrly organi zation work. He served In this ca pacity und also as secretary of the national executive committee until nfter the national convention of the tmtmk r V.KXBk hiwihuhm' faff eBSBwLeSSBBBBvBSBrSSSBBr SBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBSBI ssbbbbIbbbbbbb7'? JubBCLisbbsbbsUbbVbHbbBbsbbbbbbbbb IcbiHIIsbhkBbsbbbbbbI Z ssbbbsbbbHIbsIbsbbbbbbbsbbbbbbb "''SS00&A KJBMsSBBMsSSSBb1sSBBBbISBBBBBBBbIbsS H. E. Ludloff. Legion In M',nneapolis, last year. When the headquarters were moved to Indianapolis, he continued his work with the organization as execu tive secretary, which position he hold until his resignation it short time ngo. LOOKING BACKWARD By WILLIAM R. SHIELD8 I love to think of days In camp, when early In the morn I faintly heard and deeply cursed tin biiKlcr'H raucous born; I sit nnd dream of training days when 1 would hike and drill, And learn a thousand funoy ways thi subtle bocho to kill; And often from the tteld I'd trudge with Bweut upon my trow: I love to lie In bed and think, I needn't do It now. 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