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CHAPTER XXI— Continued
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When Bayard opened the door Clay
swept in like a March gale Be flung
himself at Bayard and clenched his
elbow s in his hands and roared :
“Bayard! Bayard! It’a come!
We’re rich ! We’re made ! Eureka !
Uneeda! Munitions! Wowi Listen!
The other night while I was trailing
a job in darkest New Jersey X ran
across a little clue and a little man
who told me a little secret The Ger-
mans have been getting ready for this
war for years piling up guns and am-
munition for Der Tag The other
conntrles were caught only half ready
They have stopped the Germans on
the Marne but they’ve been using
their shells at such a rate that the
famine is near Their only hope 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
pussy-footing round to distribute 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
rd sell 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 little 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 In the right celL
What can you or I do with ammuni-
tion contracts?"
"Accept ’em you blamed ljlt I 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 banks! The banks are
bursting open with Idle money It’s
rotting on their hands !”
Bayard went aglow with the realiza-
tion of the opportunity He 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
Daphne and Leila came rushing
from concealment Clay’s beatitude
was so complete that he 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 at once and lay
the matter before him Leila cannily
advised Bayard to grasp the whip
hand of the situation and keep it She
began to dance about the room like
a Miriam celebrating the passage of
the Bed sea
“The f-’st thing we’ll do” she said
r “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!"
This asserted a sobering effect on
Bayard "No” he announced "We’ve
gone through hades once because I
gambled away my reserves This time
Tm 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 me!”
Leila laughed
Bayard went to the telephone to
start the wheels of the factory in mo
’ tlon by summoning the president to
council He paused to ask : "He’ll
want to know who the foreign agent
is you are dealing with? Or are there
several? Who shall I say?"
“Wetherell” said Clay
The great Skoda gun that suddenly
one day dropped a monster shell in
Dunkirk twenty miles off could hardly
have caused more stupefaction than
the name of Wetherell detonating in
that room
Daphne 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 the arm and saved her from
falling But instantly he flung her
arm from him in a gush of disgust
Clay gaped at the tableau in bewil-
derment He had not dreamed that
any of the three had ever heard of
Wetherell He could not Imagine the
bitterness the name involved
- "Will some kind friend please tell
me what all the excitement is about?”
This was not easy Who wanted to
tell Clay that Leila bad just been ac-
cused of neglecting her husband and
' her own duties for the society of this
very Wetherell? Leila herself was
s the one that told him
‘ "Look here Bydie” Leila cooed
and billed "don’t you think you’ve
done enough? You’ve shown me that
you don’t trust me and you’ve ordered
Hr Wetherell never to come near me
-again Isn’t that enough without beg
garing 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 man who has
been courting you and got caught at
it? Td rather starve i”
"Well I wouldn’t!” Leila averred
"And I’m not going to starve And
I’m not going to let you commit hari-
kari on Wetherell’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 life saved by bis enemy It was
one thing however to consent to deal
with Wetherell 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-
erell’s money” '
Bayard called up the president of
his company at the office His oration
made a huge success Bayard began
to smile to himself to wink at the
spectators and finally to share in the
apparent rapture of his distant ear-to-ear
The end of the matter was that wheh
Bayard left the telephone he was a
new man He had cunningly raised
his chief’s hopes to the highest de-
gree yet withheld the name of the
English agent He explained that be
Intended to take Leila’s advice and
use his knowledge as a lever for his
own advancement and Clay’s
Clay and Bayard eat down to make
figures and the talk grew too tech-
nical for the women to endure After
bearing the first music of Bayard and
Clay chanting in hundreds of thou-
sands of dollars Daphne stole out un-
heeded and went up to her own room
Mr Chlvvia was sitting by a win-
dow In mournful idleness Mrs Chlv-
via 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 real
She advised Daphne 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 response 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 hudden
about the petty earnings of a Chivvis
CHAPTER XXII
In those days the United States of
America suddenly woke to the 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 While the few prospered But
Clay and Bayard seemed to touch
nothing that did not turn to gold
Bayard bad gained immense prestige
So Bayard Was Coerced Into Having
His Life Saved by His Enemy
with' hils firm because of the huge
orderB he brought in He took all
the power that was accorded and
grasped for more His most reckless
audacities were rewarded with suc-
cess He rode a tidal wave and swam
with it so well that all his progress
seemed to be due to his own power
Bayard astounded Duthh with the
solution of that old account and with
a cash payment for new gowns in
celebration of his new glory He did
not forget his owp people He tele-
graphed his mother a thousand dol-
lars and almost slew her with amaze-
ment He telegraphed his father sim-
ply the price of & railroad ticket to
New York and a peremptory gum-
ipons to take the first train east
t
When Daphne heard this she had
to sit down to keep from falling down
Bayard resuscitated her with a check
for a thousand dollars It meant
nothing more to her than abraca-
dabra The whole Incredible altera-
tion was’ a fairy story to her She
made a faint attempt to refuse the
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 she borrowed
from ’ him enough cash to pay her
moss-grown bill with the Chlvvises
Daphne could not wait for the ele-
vator She ran up several flights of
stairs scratched the door with her
palsied latchkey and flung herself
into Mrs Chivvis’ arms and kissed
her — even Mrs Chivvis Her apology
wns the money for the bill She flaunt-
ed before her the check bearing the
heavenly legend commanding the Fifth
Avenue bank to "pay to Daphne Kip
or order one thousand and no hun-
dredths dollars” on penalty of lncur-
ing the displeasure of "Bayard Kip”
Mrs Chivvis handled thq parchment
with reverence and permitted her
husband to touch it It might have
been one of the golden leaves of the
sacred Book of Mormon and she a
sealed wife of Brigham himself
“What are you plannlngto 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 — banking? or battleship build-
ing or what?”
"There’s embroidery” said Mrs
Chivvis
Daphne bad to guffaw at that Mrs
Chiwla did not laugh “I mean it”
she urged “think it over”
“All right Til think it over”
The novelty of being rich lost Its
savor with Leila and the monotony
of being neglected began to prey upon
her damask soul - She and Daphne
forgot their mutual grievances for
their common grievance
"That’s the trouble with these bus-
bands” Leila grumbled "When they’re
in bad luck you can’t lose ’em and
when they’re In good yon can’t find
’em”
"It’s the same with fiances” said
Daphne
Daphne had the worst of it for
Leila began to wander again leaving
Daphne to the society of Mrs Chivvis
who kept urging her to Invest her
dwindling thousand before it was
gone But in the environs of noisy
riches the schemes of Mrs Chivvis de-
manded such prolonged labor for such
minute profit that Daphne remained
cold
She began to resent Clay’s neglect
morosely The few attentions he paid
her only insulted her his mind was so
far away and hlg heart was all for his
business He was dazzled by the fierce
white light of success and he spoke
to Daphne in a kind of drowsy hypno-
sis And he spoke incessantly of the
details of his business or his gam-
blings He could not see how deaf
she was to the very vulgar fractions
of his speculations or the mad arith-
metic of his commissions She yawned
in his' face when he grew eloquent
on the dynamics of wealth the higher
philosophies of finance And he
never knew He kissed her good-by
as if he were kissing a government
bond Safe and quiet and all his own
After one of Clay’s visits Mrs Chiv-
Vis found Daphne in a brown study
Mrs Chivvis explained her own af-
fairs and Daphne was so exhausted
with the sultry problems of love that
Mrs Chivvis’ business gossip was com-
pletely refreshing
"I’ve been down to the -Woman's ex-
change” she said "trying to sell some
of my needlework They were very
nice about it but it means a terrible
amount of labor for a pittance of
money You have to pay them so
much a year for the privilege of pat-
ting your things on sale there Tien
they don’t guarantee to return it in
good condition and they don’t guaran-
tee to sell it or If they do they change
you 20 per cent for their end of It
’ “I couldn’t see any profit in that so
I went to one of the jobbers He aald
my 6tyle of work brought good prces
In the big stores But they won’t pay
him much and he’ll pay me less
“I was thinking— There’s mtney
in these things and in all sorts of
needle things if you have a little capl-
tal” “That’s different” said Daphne
"And I’ve got some capital now Do
you remember suggesting to me once
that we might go Into business to-
gether— you to furnish the brains and
I the money?"
“Oh i didn’t put It that way!"
"Anyway it’s true Well would
you?” v
"Land’s sake! if you’re a mind to
furnish the money and the ideas and
let me count the pennies I’d like noth-
ing better”
“Great ! What could we go into?”
“What would you prefer?”
"Oh any old business that will
keep me busy and make a lot of
money" r
"My husband says that you can’t
makg a lot of money without putting
in a lot That’s one reason be has
been kept down so He never could
get ahead That was what we were
saving up for— to get a little capital
And then the war came along-and we
bad to spend our savings That same
war haa made your brother so rich
that be could give you a small fortune
I don’t believe you could do better
tban to put that into a business”
"Neither do 11” Daphne cried
“Let’s 1”
CHAPTER XXIII
Daphne was going to be independ-
ent but she was still all woman when
it came to the selection of her special
trade She would be a business wom-
an bat she would do a woman’s busi-
ness There were ever so many dainties
and exquisites that she wanted to
hang in her shop She was going to
"My Husband Says That You Can’t
Make a Lot of Money Without Put-
ting in a Lot?
have a window I With her name oh
lti That would be more fun tban a
limousine with crest on door
Gradually her scheme enlarged Sbe
would devote her shop to the whole
mechanism of tbe boudoir “Boudoir-
wear” was tbe word that pleased her
It was In human nature that tbe
partners should quarrel over a name
for tbe baby before tbe baby was
born They spoke of themselves as
“The Firm”
Finally Daphne claiming tbe ma-
jority of tbe power voted en bloc for
"Bondolrwear” and claimed tbe vic-
tory Mrs Chivvis surrendered with
the amendment that "Miss Elp”
should be at one side "Mrs Chivvis”
at the other Sbe bribed the assem-
bly by promising that a cousin of hers
a young artist living in the Washing-
ton Mews should paint a pretty sign-
board on a swinging shingle After
many 'designs bad been composed and
destroyed they agreed on this legend:
BOUDOIR WEAR -r -
Everything for the Boudoir
Exquisite Things for Brides
MISS KIP MRS CHIVVIS
!
The cousin painted It well and Illu-
minated it with elaborate intlals and
an allegorical figure of a young lady
in Cubist negligee It had the tradi-
tional charm of a tavern board In
fact their shop was to be a tavern for
women In search’ of sartorial Tefresh-
menL Troubles mustered about them as
weeds shove up In a garden faster
than they can be plucked out Ex-
penses undreamed of materialized In
swarms Everything was delayed ex-
cept the demands for their money
The petty-cash box like a sort of per-
verted fairy purse emptied itself as
fast as it was filled
Tbe petty cash was the least of
their dismay The grand cash was the
main problem They had stitched
their fingers full of holes and piled up
reams of fabrics but the total was
pathetically tiny
One thing was Instantly demon-
strated They must give up their plan
or go Into debt Indeed they already
were in debt
"We’ve got to take the plunge” said
Daphne “I’d- rather die than go on
paying a year’s rent for an empty
shop”
“I know" Mrs Chivvis fretted
gnawing her thin lips "but it’s a risk
You’d better ask your brother”
"No I” Daphne Btormed "I’m going
to win out on my own Poor Bayard
is too busy to be bothered with my
troubles He doesn’t know I have any
And Leila is so busy with her social
business that sbe never asks me wbat
I'm up to V
"But what are we to do?” Mrs
Chlwls walled "We can’t go on with
our stock and you have no money
left and I hadn’t any to start with"
“There’s only one thing to do”
Daphne answered with a sphlnxlc
solemnity "Buy on credit It’s a
case of nothing venture nothing gain
nothing purchase nothing sell! noth-
ing borrow nothing pay The only
way to get out of debt Is to go In
deeper — like getting a fish hook Oat of
your thumb”
Mrs Chlwls suffered herself to be
persuaded They visited the whole-
salers and the jobbers and were well
received having paid cash before—
nnd thanks to Mr Chivvis’ suggestion
having been astute enough to demand
discount for cash -
And now the motortrucks and the
delivery wagons and the cydecars and
the messenger boys tegan to pour
stock Into the little shop It was pleas-
ant not to have to pay for things
though the Ups were reaching alarm-
ing proportions and the bundle of bills
for future setUement grew and grew
Mrs Chivvis made a list of their
debts and tried to show It to Daphne
but she stopped her eyes and ears and
forbade any discussion that would
quench her spirit
In the swirl of her tasks Daphne
almost forgot Clay Wlmburn She
was too busy to care much She had
no time to mourn Clay was only one
among a myriad regrets and hts af-
fairs could wait Her business needs
could not
Clay did not come near h'er He
spent a lot of money trying to get her
off bis mind He got a good deal on
his conscience bnt not Daphne off bis
mind He longed for her especially
too because there came a sudden dis-
aster to his schemes He was not so
rich as he had been Indeed be could
not be sure that he was rich at all
Any day might smother him with
bankruptcy This fear kept him from
Daphne too 1
The bouncing munlUbn stocks that
were known as "war babies” had ab-
ruptly fallen Into a decline The sub-
marine that torpedoed the Lusitania
shattered Wall street’s joy threw tbe
dread of war Into the United States
and set every one to questioning the
problem of revenge and Its cost
The slump In the market came at
the most unfortunate moment for Bay-
ard and Clay Any moment of slump
indeed would have come most untime-
ly for their ventures
"Kip and Chivvis” were making a
picnic ground of the shop Behind the
soap-veiled windows they laughed and
debated on arrangements and price
tags and show cards
Mr Chivvis still out of a Job acted
as maid of all work and stevedore
and grew so useful that they) had to
put him out And at last the moment
arrived when they declared the nhop
open “raised the curtain” as Daphne
said
She waited with a stage-fright she
had not felt In Reben’s theater There
was no lack of temperament In her
manner now- Bnt there was no audi-
ence either
At night Kip and 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 at an ex-
pectant tension all day long
Occasional purchases were made
but unimportant Kip and Chlwls
tried to learn what Interested people
and what did not They realized that
they bad far too much of certain
things and far too little of others
They attempted to sell the deadwood
by marking It down but It vyooM not
move
"Wbat do the women care for
prices?” Daphne railed "They are
spending somb man’s money anyway
They pretend that It’s to please him
but they know-and we know that It’s
because they hate each other”
One day a great lady who could
hardly squeeze through the door
creaked into the shop and spilled her-
self Into a startled little chair like a
load of coaL Daphne felt that she was
about to die on their hands or ask for
an ambulance but she asked Instead
for an embroidered breakfast gowi
from tbe window
Mrs Chlwls fetched It and the old
ogress clutched It from ber holding 1
up to her nose as if to sniff It but
really to see 1L
“That’s ltl That’s what I’ve been
looking for I” she wheezed "Have you
got much of this sort of thing?”
“Oh yes" '
“Agh that s good! My daughter Is
marrying In some haste — a young im-
becile who’s going over to France to
run an ambulance Tm Mrs Romlly”
Mrs Chlwls waited unperturbed for
further Identification Daphne had
never heard of Mrs Romllly either
but she gasped as If she had been say-
ing her prayers at the shrlnq of Rom-
illv from childhood and now had been
visited by the patron saint whom she
had recognized at once of course
( "Oh yes of course"
Mrs Romllly ' was coughing on':
’Tve been to several shops and I was
almost in despair until I saw your
sign If you could do a few things la
rather a hurry I fancy I could give
yon a large-ish order And if the
things were at all successful I could
throw quite a little trade your way
You’re rather new aren’t yon?”
Daphne assented that tbe firm was
quite new She brought forward an
prder pad and stood at attention
Mrs Romllly had trousseaned b
large family of children and several
Qpor relations Sbe knew what she
wanted and what sbe ought to pay for
It and when It should be done Daphne
took down ber orders as If the little
room were the mere vestibule to an
enormous sweatshop where hundreds
of sempsters would seize tbe job and
complete It In a jiffy '
(TO BB CONTINUED)
Optlmlstlo Thought
All brave men love: for he only 11
brave who has affection to fight
ALL MUST BE FED
Practically Every European Coun
try Short of Foodstuffs
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Agriculturists on This Side of thO
Water Are Called on to Save the
World From Starvation— West-
ern Canada's Groat Op-
portunity
Considerable discussion Is taking
place In the papers as to the amount
of money that the United States will
have to pny for Its guarantee of the
price of wheat for 1919' The indlca-
tlons at present are that the treasury
will not be affected Instead of wheat
going down the outlook now Is that It
nlll go considerably above 'the pres-
ent guarantee It Is not only the opin-
ion of a man of the experience of Mr
Hoover that gives weight to this as-
sumption but we have the glaring fact
that there will be more mouths to feed
for this year and the next year or so
than there were in 1918 and the quan-
tity of food will be little If any
greater
The assumption Is based on the fact
that Germany Austria nnd Poland
and others of the fighting nations un-
able to secure food enough In the past
two or three years and still unnble to
supply It within themselves will re-
quire to be fed The food can now bo
taken to them For some time the sol-
diers will require to be fed Italy will
have Its demands There will be ad-
ditional shipping some of which will
be needed for requirements fit India
but It will also make -oeeftn transport
easier Mr Hoover Is possibly better
acquainted than any other Individual
observer with both the world’s food
needs and its prospects of supplying
them
He is naturally very closely In touch
with conditions on this continent and
his position as virtual dictator of the
distribution of American-grown food
In- Europe has given him a possibly
unique Insight Into European needs
Mr Hoover says there will be no
surplus from the 1918 crop to carry
over Into 1919 Even under normal
conditions this would be a sufficiently
precarious situation foe there natu-
rally never Is any possible guarantee
that one or more of the great wheat-
producing countries- In Europe may
not experience a crop failure Under
present conditions however such lack
of surplus Is distinctly dangerous for
the Very European nations upon w-blch
thut continent could normally rely for
the great bulk of Its wheat that Is to
say Russia Bulgaria Serbia and Rou-
nmnin will for obvious reasons be un-
nble to supply their own demands for
the coming year In addition to this
Mr Hoover points out that famine In
India will call for a substantial pro-
portion of the Australian surplus and
that' moreover a considerable part' of
the Australian supply which for lack
of shipping has been accumulating In
that country has spoiled
And the demand Is by no means
only for whedt Mr Hoover estl-
mated that he would be able to fur-
nish Germany 180000 tons of grain
during the month of April But it is
asserted that the German stocks of all
kinds of grain and of potatoes and
vegetables will surely be exhausted
before June
Mr Hoover has also expressed the
belief that It is questionable whether
under the circumstances food enough
can be supplied to tide Germany over
until the next harvest
It Is quite clear from all this that
the world Is going to depend more
than ever upon this continent to keep v
the wolf from the door until the war-
devastated and anarchy-ridden coun-
tries in Europe can once again feed
themselves Already we read of the
protests of British soldiers' occupying
Germany against allowing German
women and children to perish of star-
vation as they are beginning to do If
these conditions prevail In Germany
what must be the state of affairs else-
where in Europe among nations which
have fought with us during tbe ''last
fpur years? 1
To sum up It may be stated’ with
confidence that the demand ’for every
product of the farm will be unprece-
dented nnd that the agriculturist will
receive the' highest prices on—record
for nil that he has to sell
Tbe duty of Canada therefore Is to
keep up its work of assisting in sup-
plying the need It can do so It has
the land available at low prices the
market Is there railroad facilities are
good the climate and the soil produce
the best wheat In the world Western
Canada offers the opportunity and the
unceasing flow of farmers into the
country Indicates the fact that advan-
tage Is being taken of It — Advertise-
ment Shaving at Home
“Why do 'you start the talking ma-
chine when you shave?”
"Makes it seem Just like a real bar-
ber shop” — Louisville Courler-JournnL
Important to Mothero
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA that famous old remedy
for infants and children and see that It
Bears tbe
Signature of
In Use for Over 80 Years
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
He Wants to Know
“Opportunity Is at your door"
“With wbat— a wheelbarrow or an
automobile?”
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Corn In the field is shocked but
when It Is made Into whisky it is
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