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TIIE YALE EXPOSITOR FRIDAY, J AX. 11, 1007. VV J&$ Ht ' HE MELOTE Djf DAVID GRAHAM PUTT ,T (XMZiZ?r JSCS lytf CHAPTER XVI. Continued. "I owe a lot to you, Matt," he plead ed. "Hut I've done you a great many favors, haven't 1?" "That you have, Hob." I cordially agreed. "Hut this Isn't a favor. It's business." "You mustn't ask It. Hlacklock," he cried. "I've loaned you more money now than, the law allows. And I can't let you have any more." "Some one has been lying to you, and you've been believing him," said I. "When I say my request isn't a favor, but business, I mean it." "I can't let you have any more," he repealed. "I can't!" And down came his fist in a weak-violent gesture. I leaned forward and laid my hand strongly on his arm. "In addition to the stock of this con cern that I .hold in my own name," said I, "I hold five shares in the name of a man whom nobody knows that 1 even know. If you don't let me have the money, that man goes to the dis trict attorney with information that lands you in the penitentiary, that puts your company out of business and Into bankruptcy before to-morrow noon. I saved you three years ao, and got you this job against just such an emergency as this, Hob Corey, And, by God, you'll toe the mark!'' "Hut we haven't done anything that every bank in town doesn't do every day doesn't have to do. If we didn't lend money to dummy borrowers; and over-certify accounts, our customers ,fld go where they could get accom krfodations." "That's true enough," said I. "Hut I'm in a position for the moment where I need my friends and they've got to come to me. If I don't get the money from you, I'll get it elsewhere but over the cliff with you and your bank! The laws you've been violat ing may be bad for the practical bank ing business, but the're mighty good for punishing ingratitude and treach ery." He sat there, yellow and pinched, and shivered every now and then. He made no reply. Presently I shook his arm impatient ly. His eyes met mine, and 1 fixed them. "I'm going to pull through," said I. "But if I weren't, I'd see to it that you were protected. Come, what's your answer? Friend or traitor?" "Send round in the morning and get the vnoney," said he, putting on a re signed, hopeless look. I laughed. "I'll feel easier if I take It now," I replied. "We'll fix up the notes and checks at once." "Hut It's too late," he said. "You can't deposit to-day." "I've made special arrangements with them," I replied. His face betrayed him. I saw that at no stage of that proceeding had 1 been wiser than in shutting off his last chance to evade. What scheme he had in mind I don't know, and can't imagine. Hut he had thought out something, probably something fool ish that would have given me trouble without saving him. A foolish man in a tight place is as foolish as ever, and Corey was a foolish man only a fool commits crimes that put him in the power of others. The crimes of the really big captains of industry and generals of finance are of the kind that puts others in their power. "Buck up, Corey," said I. "Do you think I'm the man to shut a friend in the hold of a sinking ship? Tell me, who told you I was short on textile?" "One of my men," he slowly replied, as he braced himself together. "Which one? Who?" I persisted. For I wanted to know just how far the news was likely to spread. He seemed to be thinking out a lie. "The truth!" I commanded. "1 know It couldn't have been one of your men. Who was It? I'll not give you away." "It was Tom Langdon," ho finally said. I checked an exclamation of amuse ment. I had been assuming that I had been- betrayed by some one of those tiny mischances that so often throw the best plans Into confusion. "Tom Langdon," I said satirically. "It was he that warned you against me?" "It was a friendly act," said Corey. "He and I are very Intimate. And he doesn't know how close you and 1 are." '"Suggested that you call my loans, did he?" I went on. "You mustn't blame him, Hlacklock; really you mustn't," said Corey ear nestly, for he was a pretty good friend to those he liked, as friendship goes la finance. "He happened to hear. You know the Langdons keep a sharp watch on operations In their stock. And he dropped In to warn me as a friend. You'd do the same thing In the same circumstances. He didn't ay a word about my calling your loans. I to be frank I Instantly thought of It myself. I Intended to do It when you came, but" a rtckly mile "you anticipated me." "I understand," said I good-hu moredly. "I don't blame him." And I didn't then. IRS, Author of "THFCOSTMs QS3f'IZZg&ZL J2K&Vy2 After I had completed my business at the National Industrial, I went back to my office and gathered together the threads of my web of defense.. Then I wrote and sent out to all my news papers and all my agents a broadside against the management of the textile trust it would be published in the morning, in good time for the opening of the stock exchange. Before the first quotation of textile could be made thousands on thousands of investors and speculators throughout the coun try would have read my letter, would be believing that Matthew Blackiock had detected the textile trust in a stock-jobbing swindle, and had promptly turned against it, preferring to keep faith with his customers and with the public. As I read over my pronunciamiento aloud before sending it out, I found in it a note of confi dence that cheered me mightily. "I'm even stronger than I thought," said I. And I felt stronger still as I went on to picture the thousands on thou sands throughout the land rallying at my call to give battle. XVII. ANITA BEGINS TO DE HERSELF. I had asked Sam Kllersly to dine with me; so preoccupied was I that not until ten minutes before the hour set did he come into my mind he or any of his family, even his sister. My fiim mS'1 lip if m$p ' "I TOOK IT AS THOUGH I WERE AFRAID TIIE SPELL WOULD BE BROKEN." first Impulse was to send word that I couldn't keep the engagement. "But I must dine somewhere," I reflected, "and there's no reason why I shouldn't dine with him, since I've done every thing that can be done." In my office suite I had a bath and dressing-room, with a complete wardrobe. Thus, by hurrying a little over my toilet, and by making my chauffeur crowd the speed limit, I was at Delmonico's only twenty minutes late. Sam, who had been late also, as usual, was having a cocktail and was ordering the dinner. I smoked a cig arette and watched him. At business or at anything serious his mind was all but useless; but at ordering dinner and things of that sort, he shone. Those small accomplishments of his had often moved me to a sort of pitying contempt, as If one saw a man of talent devoting himself to engrav ing the Lord's Prayer on gold dollars. That evening, however, as I saw how comfortable and contented he looked, with not a care in the world, since he was to have a good dinner and a good cigar afterward; as I saw how much genuine pleasure he was getting out of selecting the dishes and giving the waiter minute directions for the chef, I envied him. "You must come over to ray rooms after dinner, and give me some music," I said. "Thanks," he replied, "but I've promised to go home and play bridge. Mother's got a few In to dinner, and more are coming afterward, I believe." "Then I'll go with you, and talk to your sister she doesn't play." He glanced at me In a way that made me pass my hand over my face. I learned at least part of the reason for my feeling at disadvantage berore him. I had forgotten to shave, and as my beard Is heavy and black it has to be looked after twice a day. "Oh, I can stop at ray rooms and get my face Into condition in a few minutes," said I. "And put on evening dress, too," he suggested. "You wouldn't want to go In a dinner jacket." , I can't say why this was the "last straw," but It was. "Bother!" said I, my common sense smashing the spell of snobbishness that had begun to reassert itself as soon as I got Into his unnatural, un healthy atmosphere. "I'll go as I am, beard and all. I only make myself ridiculous, trying to be a sheep. I'm a goat, and a goat I'll stay." That shut him into himself. When he remerged, it was to Bay: "Some thing doing down town to-day, eh?" A sharpness in his voice and in his eyes, too, made me put my mind on him more closely, and then I saw what I should have seen before that he was moody and slightly distant. "Seen Tom Langdon this after noon?" I asked carelessly. He colored. "Yes had lunch with him," was his answer. I smiled for his benefit. "Aha!" thought I. "So Tom Langdon has been fool enough to take this paroquet into his confidence." Then 1 said to him: "Is Tom making the rounds, warning the rats to leave the sinking ship?" "What do you mean. Matt?" he de manded, as If I had accused him. I looked steadily at him, and I imag ine my unshaven Jaw did not make my aspect alluring. "What did Tom say about me?" I inquired. "Oh. almost nothing. We were talk ing chiefly of of club matters," he answered, in a fair imitation of his usual offhand manner. "When does my name come up there?" I said. He flushed and shifted. "I was Just about to tell you," he stammered. "But perhaps you know?" "Know what?" "That Hasn't Tom told you? He has withdrawn and you'll have to get another second If you think that Is unless you I suppose you'd have told. me, if you'd changed your mind?" Since I had become so deeply Inter ested In Anita, my ambition ambi tion! to Join the Travelers had all but dropped out of my mind. "I had forgotten about It," said I. "But, now that you remind me, I want my name withdrawn, it was a passing fancy. It was part and parcel of a lot of damn foolishness I've been indulging In for the last few months. But I've come to my senses and It's 'me to the wild,' where I belong, Sam my, from this time on." He looked tremendously relieved, and a little puzzled, too. I thought 1 was reading him like r Illuminated sign. "He's eager to keep friends with me," thought J, ''until he's abso lutely sure there's nothing more in It for him and his people." And that guess was a pretty good one. It is not to the discredit of my shrewdness that I didn't see U'.was not hope, but fear, that made him try to placate me then what the Langdons had done. But Sammy was saying, in his friendll est tone: "Whats the matter, old man? You're sour to-night" "Never In a better humor," 1 as sured him, and as I spoke the words they came true. What I ha4 been say ing about the Travelers and all It rep resentedall the snobbery, and smirk Ing, and rotten pretense my final and absolute renunciation of It all aotsd on me as I've seen religion act on the fellows that used to go up to the mourners' bench at the revivals I felt as If I had suddenly emerged from the parlor of a dive and Its stench of sickening perfumes. Into the pure air of God's heaven. I signed the bill, and we went afoot up the avenue. Sam, as I saw with a good deal of amusement, was trying to devise some subtle, tactful way of attaching his poor, clumsy little suc tion-pump to the well of my secret thoughts. "What Is It Sammy?" said I at last. "What do you want to know that you're afraid to ask me?" "Nothing," he said hastily. "I'm only a bit worried about about you and textile. Matt," this in the tone of deep emotion we reserve for the attempt to lure friends into confiding that about themselves which will give us the opportunity to pity them, and, if necessary, to sheer off from them "Matt, I do hope you haven't been hard hit?" "Not yet," said I easily. "Dry your tears and put away your black clothes. Your friend, Tom Langdon, was a lit tle premature." "I'm afraid I've given you a false Impression," Sam continued, with an overeagerness to convince me that did not attract my attention at the time. "Tom merely said, '1 hear Blackiock is loaded up with textile shorts,' that was all. A careless remark. I really didn't think of it again until I saw you looking so black and glum." That seemed natural enough, so I changed the subject. As we entered his house, I said: "I'll not go up to the drawing-room. Make my excuses to your mother, will you? I'll turn into the littlo smoking-room here. Tell your sister and say I'm going to stop only a mo ment." Sam had just left me when the but ler came. "Mr. Ball I think that was the name, sir wishes to speak to you on the telephone." I had given Ellersly's as one of tho places at which I might bo found, should it bo necessary to consult me. I followed the butler to the telephone closet under the main stairway.. As soon as Ball made sure it was I, he began: "I'll use the code words. I've Just seen Fearless, as you told me to." Fearless that was Mitchell, my spy In the employ of Tavistock, who was my principal rival In the business of confidential brokerage for the high financiers. "Yes," said I. "What does he say?" "There has been a great deal of heavy buying for a month past." Then my dread was well founded textiles were to bo deliberately rock eted. "Who's been doing It?" I asked. "He found out only this afternoon, It's been kept unusually dark. It " "Who? Who?" I demanded. "Intrepid," he answered. Intrepid that Is, Langdon Mow bray Langdon! "The whole thing was planned oare fully," continued Ball, "and is coming off according to schedule. Fearless overheard a final message Intrepld's brother brought from him to-day." So It was no mischance it was an assassination. Mowbray Langdon had stabbed me In the back and fled. "Did you hear what I said?" asked Ball. "Is that you." "Yes," I replied. "Oh," came in a relieved tone from the other end of the wire. "You were so long in answering that I thought I'd been cut off. Any Instructions?" "No," said I. "Good-by." I heard him ring off, but I sat there for several minutes, the receiver still to my ear. I was muttering: "Lang don, Langdon why why why?" again and again. Why had 'he turned against me? Why had he plotted to destroy me one of those plots so fre quent in Wall street where the assas sin steals up, delivers the mortal blow, and steals away without ever being detected or even suspected? I saw the whole plot now I understood Tom Langdon's activities, I recalled Mow bray Langdon's curious phrases and looks and tones. But why why why? How was I In his way? It was all dark to me pitch-dark. I returned to the smoking-room, light ed a cigar, sat fumbling at the new situation. I was In no worse plight than before what did It matter who was attacking me? In the circum stances, a novice could now destroy me as easily as a Langdon. Still, Ball's news seemed to take away my courage. I reminded myself that I was used to treachery of this sort, that I deserved what I was getting be cause I had, like a fool, dropped my guard in the fight that Is always on every-man-for-hlmself. But I remind ed myself In vain. Langdon's smiling treachery made me heart-sick. Soon Anita appeared preceded and heralded by a faint rustling from soft and clinging skirts, that swept my nerves like a love-tune. I think my torment must have some how penetrated to her. For she was sweet and friendly and Bbe could not have hurt me worse! If I had fol lowed my Impulse I should have fallen at her feet and burled my face, scorch Ins, In the folds of that pale blue, faintly-shimmering robe of hers. ' "Do throw away that huge, hideous cigar," she said, laughing. And she took two cigarettes from the box, put both between her Hps, lit them, held one toward me. I looked at her face, and along her smooth, bare, out stretched arm, and at the pink, slen der fingers .holding1 the cigarette. I took It as If I were afraid the spell would be broken, should my fingers touch hers. Afraid that's Itl That's why I didn't pour out all that was la my heart. I deserved to lose her. "I'm taking you away from the. others," I said. We could hear the murmur of man? voices and of music (To be Continued.). MAN MADS IN THE IMAGE OF. GOD Sunday School Lesson for Jan. 13, 1907 Specially Prepared for This Paper. LESSON TEXT. Genesis 1:2C-2:S; Memory v ei, 2K, 27. GOLDJ3N TKXT. "Clod created man In his own tmuKC In the image of Clod created he him." (Jen. 1:27. SCIUI'TURK REFERENCES. Man as the Child of God, is made In the image pf God: v. 2; Gen. 6:1: 9:6; Col. 3:10; James 3:9. The offiirirlnK of God: Mai. 2:10; Acts 17:2, 2K; I'sa. 100:3; 1 John I I, 2. A little lower than the angels: l'a. 8:5. 6. Made to have dominion: v. Si Pa. 8:6. The many plares where God I I called our Father. l'assuKes showing low the moral image may he restored, a Rom. 8:14; Matt. 6:9; 1 John 3:2, 10. Comment and Suggestive Thought. V. 27. "So God created man." He formed his body, but he created his spirit, made in the image of God; he put Into man something that was not In the world before. "Breathed Into his nostrils the breath of life." This means more than the inbreathing of animal life. "Seeing that our author speaks of an inbreathing by God only (n the case of man. and not In the case of animals, it would seem that in it is meant to consist tho specific pre-eminence of man over the animals, that which in vs 26, 27 Is called the Image of God; I. e., that by this inbreathing, affecting man personally, is meant the communication, not merely of the physical, but, at the same time, of the mental vitality of man, the communi cation of the spirit." Dillmann. "Male and female created he them," both alike are made In the Image of God, both alike are his children. How he made them is told in the second story. (Gen. 2:18, 21-24.) It was "not good that man should bo alone." None of the animal creation, not even the high est ape, was near enough to him to be his companion, and the mother of the new human race. No man could de velop into his best while alone. KIther it would bo necessary to create a woman in the same way as Adam was created, or In some other and better way to supply the needed companion. The Dominion of Man. V. 28. "And God blessed them," by giving them children, and dominion, and noble work, and food. It would be a blessing, a happiness, to live. The Joy of God himself was bestowed upon his children. "Be fruitful." As God delighted In his work of creation so that "the morning stars sang to gether, and all the sons of God shout ed for Joy" (Job 38:7), so he would have his children blessed In filling the earth with people. "And have domin ion over the fish . . . and . . . every living thing." These are by na ture subordinate to man; and by his higher nature man would have the power to benefit the lower animals, supply them with food and care, and give them a iarger usefulness and a higher and happier life than they could have without man. This is true of all well-cared-for domestic animals to-day. "Man's relation to the beasts Is that of Providence," says George Adam Smith. "And subdue it." "Bring It under cultivation, master all Its forces, possess themselves of Its re sources, subject it and all that it con tains to their use. This, man s grad ually learning to do In the advance ment of knowledge and the progress of science and the arts." Green. Marvelous as has been man's con trol over the forces of nature, beyond seer's vision or poet's imagination, yet man has even now attained to but a small portion of the treasures of his Kingdom, a few grains from the har vest, a few drops from the measure less ocean. ' Hut as he regains the Image of God, he will gain his domin ion over all nature. For It is written on the history of the world that only so fast and far as man becomes filled with the spirit of Christianity does he hold dominion over animals, or make the earth his servant. V. 3. "And God blessed the seventh day." Made It a blessing to man, one pf the greatest blessings he ever be stowed, "endowed it with a treasure of grace flowing forth from the rest of the Creator." Del itzsch. "This institu tion, though, like other institutions, capable of abuse, has, nevertheless . . . operated on the whole with won derful efficiency In maintaining the life of a pure and spiritual religion." Prof. Driver, In Hastings' Bible Diet. "And sanctified it." "Hallowed" It. Pet It apart for sacred uses. "Made It a holy day, taken out from among the common days, and devoted to God, having a special relation to a holy God." Dillmann. Some such Institution was essential to the moral and religious develop ment of man, the means of cultivating his higher nature, and, hence, to the best progress of his civilization physical and mental. The two great essential foundations of man's progress and true prosperity were ordained at the very beginning, the family and tho Sabbath. These two primeval Institutions, kept sacred and wisely used, are the remedy for most of our social and mojal evils. The Sabbath Is the" opportunity for caring for the spiritual nature, the highest and noblest part of man Practical Points. The same God who breathed life Into the dust-made body, still breathes Into the soul, defiled by sin, dead in sin, the new life of righteousness and heaven by his Holy Spirit. The reason here given for the Sab bath Is repeated In the fourth com mandment to enforce and Illustrate the duty of Sabbath keeping. The glory of man is that he Is made In the Image of God. Herein Is hope, Joy, life, and immortality. The revealed fact of our origin en ables us to know what we need to k&ow abut God our Father. BLOATED WITH DROPSY. The Heart Was Badly Affected When the Patient Began Using Doan's Kidney Pills. Mrs. Elizabeth Maxwell, of 415 West Fourth street, Olympla. 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