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The Water Bearer
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CHAPTER VIII—Continued
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He flung himself Into the work with
feverish ambition and belief. Baxter
he saw little of these days nor did he
tett him of his plans or state that he
bad secured an office. Baxter had
told Caleb that he was busy trying to
find the right tract of land for his
"Little Colony."
"They are Inclined to he fussy," be
said. "I've got one or two proposi
tions, but I'm afraid they won't ex
a c tly su it. And I've got to s wing 4ht*
deal." By which Caleb Inferred that
he needed money badly for bis affair
with the stenographer.
"Not going to get married, are you?"
Inquired Baxter Jestingly. "I suppose
you were browsing over at El Nldo
when yon acquired that tan.
must be some girl. I told you you'd
fall hard. The mater's due at Del
Monte tomorrow," he went on.
thought I'd need her to help me out.
but, If I pull off this stock deal. I'll
be In clover. Good Job I didn't write
her. Something usually shows up if
you're In luck. If you're not, why,
t hat ' s ali there Is to I t"
He frowned. Caleb saw him look
ing at his picture gallery on the bu
reau:
"How are things going In that direc
tion?" he asked.
"Meaning Mary Morgan? That's
her name." Baxter picked up the sil
ver frame. His face was still clouded.
"She's getting hard to handle. Still
hanging on to her Job. Wants me to
marry her. but Insists upon the child
being horn, anyway. Says she always
wanted one. She's an enigma to me.
She
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I think I'll be able to transfer her to
a gun-metal setting before long.
Here's hoping! Tell me about your
Doings across the bay. for that's where
you were, of course."
But Caleb did not care to discuss
Betty, and the telephone broke their
chat
"It's tlu Morgan girl," said Baxter.
"She's getting to be n pest, but she's
got to he Jollie d. Be sorry for me,
Caleb."
Caleb cocked his eyebrow. The ref
vrence to the stenographer ns "the
Morgan girl." after all that had hap
pened and still lay between them,
■truck, him as particularly callous.
Still, Baxter often spoke with affected
bravado. Caleb kept silent
CHAPTER IX
Progrès»
The work went swiftly. Ills prelim
inary specifications ended and the
—Drawings traced and blue-printed, Ca
leb started on his model. From the
maps of the geodetic survey he panto
graphed a scale enlargement of the
lower end of the Callénte plain and
much of the surrounding district. In
cluding Oabilnn mountain.
Baxter had run down to Del Monte
to pay a duty cell to his mother. Duty,.
In Baxter's case, Caleb surmised, ns
with his affection, was largely a mat
ter of keeping his mother In good hu
mor whereby the financial supplies
might be more lavishly and easily
forthcoming. Both were too selfish,
•fter years of Indulgence and spoiling,
to have much genuine love for each
other. In one of the gossiping week
lies at the club—not Vedder's Pioneer
—Caleb noticed an Item that caught
his eye wl»h the mention of the Bax
ter name.
"It Is rumored by Dame Gossip," ran
the paragraph, "that Ted Baxter, who.
by the way. has been hanging up some
creditable scores In the golf tourna
rnent on the Del Monte links. Is not
overjoyed at the Insinuating chatter
that perslts In suggesting that he may
shortly acquire a stepfather. Gossip
has been rife In this direction before,
but now Intentions seem to he serious,
ft Is hinted that young Baxter may
emulate the example of his stepfather,
to-be. A double wedding Is not en
tirely out of prospect, according to
those who claim to have watched 'Ted'
strolling on the fair-greens In the early
mornings with a certain demoiselle
who has Inherited a fortune from In
terests closely connected with the lura
he r Industry."
Caleb could not guess, and did not
rare to. the name of the girl referred
And Caleb whistled under his
to.
breath.
"If Mary Morgan sees this Item," he
told himself, "she Is likely to stir
up things. 1 wonder how Ted's stock
deal Is prospering?"
Baxter had not told him the name
* of the shares with which he was spec
ulating. But he noticed the girl the
next morning as he passed through
an outer office to Cox's private room
by appointment She was not In tai
lored clothes but In a lighter, fuller
costume. Her face was startlingly
pale save where she rouged her cheeks
and reddened her full lips. The dark
half-rings beneath her eyes empha
sized their glance and, for a moment
Caleb felt It full upon him.
thought that It half besought half
challenged him not to speak of her to
Cox. And then the mouth grew sul
len and she turned away as Cox's sec
retary held the door open for Caleb.
"Come to accept the Beaver Lake
proposition?" asked Cox. rising to
meet him. His brows contracted and
bis look hardened a trifle when Caleb
shook his head.
. *T think not I've come to make a
proposition Instead."
"Yes?" satd Cox shortly, his tone
as noncommittal as the tick of a clock,
while he shoved the cigar box »cross
He
Oaleb not the tips of all too of his
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lingers on the shining surface of Cox's
desk and leaned forward a little.
"You said that the Crystal Springs
company Is In the business of buying,
convey I ng and selling water. It is the
first consideration that holds my prop
What w ill yo u give me for
osttlon.
two million dully gallons of pure wa
ter, with constant renewed supply,
within a reasonable distance of Golden
and capable of development at costs
that will leave you ample profit?"
Cox lit his cigar slowly and, under
cover of the smoke, closely surveyed
Caleb's face.
"Two million gallons dally? You
mean what will I give you for your In
formation as to where 1 can secure
this?"
"And my plans for development.
Conservation, storage, filtration,- col
lection. piping, pumping?"
"Ah ! Pumping? It Isn't on this
side of the hay. then?"- -
The question came swiftly, backing
a swifter glance. __;_
"You told me yourself that the wa
ter development on the peninsula was
practically developed to Its limit,"
checked Caleb. "It is across the bay."
"We have many prospects there our
selves. Plans half developed. It Is un
likely that you offer me anything new.
Have you spoken to Mr. Hinckley
about It?"
"Hardly, I wished to talk with you
direct. I believe you have not looked
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into this particular method of exploi
tation or more than suspected the
source of supply."
Cox smiled and pushed aside some
papers carelessly.
"If that Is so." he answered, "I will
give you one-half a cent per gallon for
your secret."
"Ten thousand dollars? You are
not liberal, Mr. Cox. I am not vis
ionary In this matter. 1 am prepared
to show you and your engineers a com
plete project, without estimating ex
act costs. But, If my general plans
are not approved by Mr. Hinckley and
|)|g associates, If my source Is not uu
thentic. If It Is not sufficient, I do not
figure timt I have anything to sell,
Hut I want to know where I stand be
fore I submit facts and figures."
Jector."
_ Cox heat a Ilttle-lattno-Jglth his fin.
For a moment they remained silent,
the elder seated, Caleb standing, Cox
patently appraising him. The latter
spoke first
"How much do you want?*'
"One hundred thousand dollars and
recognition of myself as the origina
tor of the plan. I do not expect to
any way displace Mr. Hinckley. I have
not his experience. Quite probably
lack his ability. But I should want
an appointment as consulting engineer
on the work, and publicity as the pro
gera on the desk top. lie looked out
of the window.
"I'm not the Crystal Springs com
pany," he said finally. "1 can't buy
pigs In pokes. You'll have to show
me more of your project. If It's all
you say I have no doubt we can come
to terms."
"1 have stated my terms."
"You'll have to take a chance with
us, Warner," Cox said with a smile.
"We are not exactly highway robbers,
we westerners. And we don't mind
paying for information. Bist I can't
Briar*" Costly
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Scarcity of Material Makes
It la said that French soil no longer
yields the precious briar bush. Spain
has but little, Italy has about run dry,
and that It is in Corsica that the
finest specimens are found. It Is the
root of the shrub that matters In
North Africa the light and sandy soli
renders the texture of the woody root
rather porous and this "briar" is used
for cheaper grades of pipe.
In Corsica the roots have a tough
fight to gain bold in the rocky soli.
A Corsican briar root may weigh 15
or 25 pounds when It is brought rough
to the factory, but when cut down this
will give no more than a dosen blocks
for use. From these emerge, perhaps,
two really tip-top. flawless "beat Baa
deal In 'Ifs.'
Send up your model,
bring In your papers tomorrow after'
noon. I'll have Hinckley here. Well
talk further. If It promises well IT
get the directors together and you
shall present your proposition at the
meeting. That agreeable?"
They shook hands on It and Caleb
left the office practically content
After dinner at the club, alone, he
found a telegram awaiting him In his
rooms. It was a notice from the local
bank that the deal for his house had
been completed and that the purchase
price, eight thousand dollars, less cer
tain fees, now lay to his order.
"Which," said Caleb, as he stuffed
the message back In Its yellow envw
lope, "rounds out the day very nicely."
Next morning Caleb got up late and
leisurely, three hours after his usual
time. He ordered breakfast sent up
from the dining room and lingered
over his bath and shaving before he
settled down In the window, grape
fruit before him, the dally paper to
one side.
™y Baxter, whose quiet wedding is
the talk of Nob Hit!."
It was the resemblance to Ted thal
From the outer page a face looked
at him that seemed familiar, though,
for the moment, he could not place It.
Even • the flaring two-column head did
not supply the link Immediately.
"ROMANCE IN HIGH LIFE
"Popular Society Widow
"Weds Eastern Man
"and Millionaire."
Then he read the caption under the
halftone picture; "Mrs. Ernestine Le
Caleb had noticed. He" read the ar
ticle. The Del Monte corresponded!
referred to If as a romance. It ap
peared that the couple had been mar
ried quietly at Monjyrey and had left
for a protracted honeymoon In the pri
vate car of the bridegroom.
It was not Caleb's affair and he had
bis own business to attend to. Baxter
would show up In his own good time.
Caleb finished his breakfast and went
down to his office to superintend the
packing of the model and its dispatch
to Cox. Later he visited his bank.
It was noon before he got back to the
apartment house.
"Do you know what she did?" he
asked truculently. "Mortgaged every
ho fin she had to catch this million
And I
He found Baxter changing his
clothes. His face was p asty._the
whites of his eyes congested. To Ca
leb the signs were plain. Baxter had
been making a night of It.
"Seen the paper. I suppose?" Baxtei
greeted Caleb. "There's the devil to
pay all around. The mater's gone
and so's my Income. Look at that."
He picked up a slip of pink papet
from his dressing table and handed 11
to Caleb. It was a check tor one thou
sand dollars.
"Signed by papa-ln-low," said Bax
ter sarcastically. "A present to a
good boy. God bless you—and good
by I
ulre. Flayed her last cent on the red
heart and won. She had the right to
do what she liked with my father's
money under the will, but It was un
derstood that she was to look out
for me.
"Soon as I got down to Del Monte
I saw what her game was.
wasn't welcome. The brldegroom-on
the-hook looked at me as If he expect
ed to see a little boy In knickerbock
ers. She's kidded him along properly.
"No use looking at me In that Moth
ndlstlcal way, Caleb. I'm hitter and
l have a right to be. She was twenty
four when she married my father and
she never Intended to be a mother
Thought It *ud spoil her figure. I've
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Thought
heard her say so. I was only a kid
when I overheard that, but It lllu
ralnated things a lot. I knew then why
I never had a mother like other kids
I was an unfortunate accident,
snake has more affection for Us eggs
than she ever had for me.
"I tell you. Cal', the way she acted
round that old fool would make you
sick. With the airs and graces of a
young girl. Faughi She wanted me
to go hack to Golden,_1 l ooked toe.
much like an animated birth certifl
cate to suit her play. No doubt sh*
told him what ft waywrtrd youth 71
was. When I wouldn't stand up to the
wedding—we had a sweet row about j
tion and l boiled over a bit—she calm i
ly told me she was broke. Said bet 1
trousseau had exhousted her bank no ;
count and her capital. Yesterday aft j
ernoon this check came to tm> In a
letter from her. I tore the letter up j
Hoped I'd settle down to somethin* j
serious and Inclosed a check from héi
husband. Said she didn t expect f<
see me for some ti me. They were g<>
lag to travel extensively.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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Iron mountain is one of the Isolated
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clnn pirates and his attendants had
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Rome, being a republic, was for
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under the dictation of one Sulla,
whose political rival was Marius,
Caesar's uncle by marriage. Sulla
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out of the city for years, during which
period of exile the young man pro
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orator. He was destined to make
marvelous usa^iater, of all these ac
complishments.
On Sulla's death Caesar returned to
Rome, receiving high office In the
state. He spent the next twelve years
In building up the welfare of the plain
people, whose fortunes were at low
ebb. and In trying to heal civil dis
putes and secure equality for all Ro
man citizens. This course made him
tremendously popular with the peo
ple, even while his extravagance
plunged him deep Into debt. At the
age of forty he formed a triumvirate
(triple alliance) with two famous
men. Pompey and Crnssus, by which
the three were virtually to share
among them the sovereign power of
Rome. Caesar, In the division of of
fices, was made governor of northern
Italy, Gaul (France and Switzerland)
and the Alps.
This office was no sinecure, for the
provinces were swarming with Insur
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he was constantly on the battlefield ;
often fighting In the front rank like a
common soldier; little by little sub
duing all Rome's Gallic foes. He con
quered Gaul, hurled the Germans
back over the Rhine and made that
river a Roman boundary ; crossed
Info Britain, and, after one repulse,
conquered the country that Is now
England ; then, as Gaul again rose In
a mighty confederacy of revolution,
he crushed the uprising and stemmed
the tide of barbarism which would
otherwise have swept over the Alps
and engulfed Rome.__
He kept a chronicle of his cam
paigns which, as "Caesar's Commen
taries." has endured for nearly 2.U0U
years as the foremost Latin textbook
for schools and a model of literary
style.
Crassus died and Pompey and Cne
s«r quarreled, thus breaking up the
triumvirate. Pompey's party was In
power In Rome. To weaken the great
general who was becoming the peo
pie's idol, the senate, at I'ompey's or
der, deprived Caesar of office, ordering
him to give up his command at once
and to return home, under penalty of
a treason charge. Caesar had two
courses open to him—either to obey
meekly and to lose all he had gained,
or to defy the order and thus render
himself liable to death as an enemy
to Rome. The river Rubicon divided
his Gallic province from Italy. Should
he cross that river under arms It
would be an act of open war against
Pompey.
71 making himself master of the Italian
: peninsula, returned In triumph to
j Rome, where he was hailed as dicta
i tor. Pompey raised an army In the
1 East, but was beaten by Caesar (who
; met him with a far smaller force)
j and soon afterwards was murdered,
Pharnaces, Aslan king of Pontus,
j next defied Rome, and Caesar subdued
j him In- one brief campaign, sending
home this still briefer report of the'
victory : "I came, I saw, I con
Caesar did not hesitate.
With his
legion of veterans he crossed the
Rubicon, thus irrevocably committing
himself as Pompey's foe.
having no army sufficient to cope
with him, fled, leaving the field clear
to his victorious rival. Caesar, after
Pompey,
qoered !"
A later conquest of Spain made
Caesar master of nearly all the world.
He ruled Rome Justly.
But ambition wrecked him as it had
many another great man.
conquered the world he longed to be
Having
kin« ILune ha*«d tU*> l'U*a of a king
Mark Antony. Caesar's friend, pub
licly pressed royal honors on him.
'The people stood mute. Caesar, quick
to feel the public pulse, refused the
crown.
A faction rose against him, work
ing secretly for fear of the populace.
Its ringleaders. Cassius, Casca, Cim
ber and other demagogues and polit
ical schemers, lured Marcus Brutus.
Caesar's best friend. Into the con
spiracy under pretext that national
welfare demanded Caesar's death. In
the senate, March IS. 44 B. C., the
conspirators Ml upon Caesar and as
sassinated him,
Rome's oid-werld greatness was due
to Caesar more than to any other man.
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"Marriages are made in heaven,
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