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The Water Bearer -*s CHAPTER VIII—Continued — 12 — 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 "I 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 By J. ALLAN DUNN Author of "A MAN TO 'TS MATE" •RIMROCK TRAIL" -» 6 By Dodd, Mead * Co» WNU Servie» 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 m Tin L X. '/ r » / / Wfj • I ■B < ♦a;#' WJ t * t; .* l: ' j f 'J ",P Found Baxter Changing Hie Clothe». 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 ** 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 A 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.) And as such a pip« lish briars." beauty can be fashioned only from rdot which Is In the region of a hun dred years' growth, It is not to be wondered that a perfect briar pipe U costly.—Manchester Guardian. Famous Mountain Iron mountain is one of the Isolated knobs of the St Francois mountains. In St Francois county. Mo. 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