Mon tiptoe
tewart Edward White
WHO’S WHO IN THE STORY
GRIMSTEAD, a capitalist, stran
ded by the breaking down of his
car on a California mountain side.
BURTON GRIMSTEAD, ms char
ming, spoiled daughter, is with him.
She is not overly pleased when she
finds that her father had insisted on
fcer coming in order that she may be
GARDINER, her father’s
second-in-command, a Capable ?
man whom, however, she does not
lIk SIMMINS, their English butler-j
chauffeur, is sent after help and re j
* U LAWRENCE DAVENPORT, a
young fellow in a I ludicrous home
built car with a battery that is
shown to be a marvellous invention,
producing, by some mysterious agen
cy, from the a.r, the electr.uty by
which the car runs. ' ,7 ‘
I'ltooo bet from Gardmer oy cor
rectly predicting a rain storm, am.
°Lv!;°ence e ‘ Davenport, a
famous -her make Itmt-st^vn.
terestmg to
CHAPTER VII
“The royalty idea appeals -O me,
answered Davlnport.l certamly
do not want to get mixed up in
fairs unless I have to. ui .
feel responsibility m turning 4 thm
hie this louse without trying .« *> (
fr “T»?)l find the b 4 j
it in pretty competes!. hand., |
stead assured him. i
“I do not doubt that for a mo
meat,” said Davenport.. “I shouldn 11
j, ave a moment’s uneasiness on that
" I’m thinking of the nor A a. | ■
score. 4 {li *' j
EWorld at large” repeated Grim- (
stead, a little blank..y. | ,
thought oi this as much as Iha -
for it is a new propoj* ion. But I
pondermg in ir ,
while. It k t..e f-om this. :
dustry that mast b rea diust- <
“Os course there * |.
rifeagreed Grimsteru* , •
"Bvt just stop tq loilq-S th» « ut ‘
£iut ju» -,- , h cake c ,f nrg’J- j
that tMs buttery is ail it Might i
ment> that vuis. short cut 1
be; that it a and ,
to unlimited , simply have i
electric companu s - sboU id
to go out oi bus* • • of ‘ them? I <
anybody buy an L \ a ® think of the i
Reaching out fiom - ]d be j
correlated industries that i
more or less a- imaglua- j
. ” interrupcea Gum ,
stead y dril|.„ ’“M clrcady consider
ed all that. ~ , rHvennort, re
“Of course,” smiled Dav enp
lapsing from hu. tern e » .
“and then besides *•»“«,"« who
dveds of thousann* of voAwcn
would be thrown out o. emp d
for a time until a reaojusui v
been made. terrible”’ cried
“Why, it sound*, ten min •
BU - r T°"at’s why I W ‘here’s a rej
sponsibility connected d,
this capital and there
ous kinds and these ui _
fn.,l other and nrobably more mu
mate ’V useful things to do «■
" It shouldn’t be sprung on
th “What would your suggestion”
asked Grimstead. hrvLhlv
Davenport laughed bo, i.hlv.
“Mv goodness. shat * a
order! But I suppose it migat he
fed out through a singre mdus ... “
if ” t _sav motorboat engines oi !
Nothing’ of that kind. It we W |
tie patents, we could regulate tha..
““ton’ you finally prefer the stock |
proposition?’ to
“] guess u s v. hat 1
v.. V p ’’ said Davenport.
“Very well,” returned Grimstead
“Gardiner, get your noteoooe and
C t
of private secietar> ana
short hand. , tract
r “Draw me up a ; Pi’°P * . “ d
oiabodvinp* these po.nus, - ,*
totructed him. “Patents m name of |
Universal Power (oipoiation. > P j
tal stock 100,000 shares, no par ai
ue, non assessable. . Forty par ceu.
to furnish all working capital, -
ufacture to commence within tin -
months. One hundred thousand do.-
Urs to be paid to Mr. Davenport as
bonus cash" payment on the> condn-,
sion of the first 100
sales. That satisfactory as tar a.
The attentive youth nodded. j
“All right. Now i us t to cover th
point you brought up, add this. Iha
for the first five years Mr Daven
port is to have the veto right as to |
any contemplated extens^, n v s pT^ i
ine«s That suit you, Davenport.
finel» cried the young
disappeared with a
light in the direction ot the car ’ ™
rying a portable typewriter,
stead met him just at the circle
the firelight. . n 0 „a “
“No shenanigan about thi:s, Ko ,
he warned in a low voice,
this contract drawn absolute y ’ i
so that any lawyer he may consu
will approx e of it. I don’t want a
chance for a n objection once we
leave this place.” . .
“I understand that part of it,
bU “He’s one of those lily-whites,’
growled Grimstead. “I’ve got him
focated now. Full of uplift and shy
of horse sense. I know em, and
•fi-iev’ve got to be bandied,
cuckoo on the service-to-humanity
sU-fk The chances are that ne
won w sign any contract without
seeing a lawyer. So draw up a
subsidiary agreement on his part to
sign the contract provided his law
yer—get his name —pronounce it
technically correct. We’ll get him
to sign that anyway; and that will
tie him up.” iff
It was near 10 o’clock before
the little typewriter ceased clicking,
and about 11 when Davenport af
fixed his signature to the agreement
to sign. As Grimstead had foreseen,
I he did not want to sign the contract
| itself without expert advice as to
j its form; but, being satisfied with
its substance, he was willing to ag
ree to that.
“Water, lemons, sugar!” Grim
stead then called to Simmins, and,
set out on the ground before him
lour tumblers, pouring into each j
a generous measure fi*om a bottle.'
The drinks mixed, Simmins han
ded one to each. Grimstead arose.
“Here’s to the Universal Power
Corporation!” he proposed.
They drank. Larry saw the toil
driven millions and the lifting of
yet another of the great pressures
of life. Burton saw confusedly an
angel with a flaming sword some
how Teopening by a crack the gates
of Eden. Gardiner contemplated a j
vision of great activity and great j
wealth. Grimstead was smiling. What j
he saw the great invisible intelii-1
gence too were perceiving through j
the lenses of his soul, They did not j
smite.
Chapter XIII i
“Go to the Ant”
The next morning a corduroy i
road across the meadow was made j
and a road around the fallen red
wood was beg' ,n '
Then Grimstead decided to go
fishing and received some informa
tion from Davenport about the lur
king place of rainbow trout.
“There’s one thing; be sure you 1
get the most northerly swale,” con- j
eluded Larry. “The country star- i
fishes up there, and if you get to.
following the wrong canyon you’ll ,
end jost\”
“You bfetter come along, RosS,’* j 1
Kidd CVmstead. “Co get your j
tackle.”
Gardiner appeared in the direc- 1 (
tion of the car, and was gone so long I
that Grimstead became fidgety, j
Gardiner seemed to have a great i i
deal of tackle to rig and clothes to
put on. ] 1
“Here,” called Grimstead, at last, !
“I’m going to make a start. You I
follow along when you get ready. I
I’ll strike the stream and fish j
down, and you keep going until you i
find me.” !
He tramped off sturdily, and 10 ■
minutes later, after vexations de- !
lays having to do with leaders and i
the disentangling thereof, Gardiner |
followed. Simmins approached.
“There would seem to be no oc- j
casion for my further presence, j
sir” he suggested, indicating with
a turn of the head the direction
of the patiently laboring selfstarter.
“We seem to be safe for the i
present,” agreed Davenport. “Why?
What’s on your mind?”
“I thought I would like to try
my luck, sir.”
“Sure. Go to it J Better go
down-stream, though.”
fn five minutes Simmins de
parted blissfully. Already he had
a complete drama in cold storage !
having to do with his return at 1
eventide carrying a long string of
shining beauties to find that Grim- !
stead and Gardiner, for all their j
fancy tackle, had succeeded in !
landing- only four, and they rather I
small.
Plunketty-Snivvles and Rapscall- j
ion followed Simmins.
Burton, coming from her tent a J
few minutes later, found Larry
smoking liis pipe alone.
“Deserted. Everybody. Even
the dogs,” he answered her inquiry.
“Like to go walking.”
“Surely!” she cried eagerly.
They headed straight up the
stream, coming at length to a nar- •
row gorge at the entrance to which 1
stood detached a fragment of rock,
big as a summer cottage, square as
a cube of sugar. A jagged heap
of alus and debris gave a rather
rough passage to the top.
“Pretty scrambly,” said Daven
port. “Think you can make it?”
She scorned reply, but began at.
once to scramble up over the jag-1
ged talus. Davenport watched the j
poise of her light and graceful!
figure for a moment, then followed, j
The top of the rock was perfectly
flat, but at two elevations, one two
feet higher than the other. It was
i carpeted deep with moss.
“Hop down,” advised Larry, him
-1 self descending to the lower of the
two elevations. “Now sit down and
lean your back. Can you beat this?”
The natural seat thus formed and
cushioned commanded to the right a
view up the stream which at this
point ran straight and wide for some
distance. Birds flitted and midges
; hovered in the sun.
“I want to know more about
these gifts of yours,” demanded j
Burton after a time. “I want to j
! know how you knew so accurately i
about the rain?”
“I don’t know very clearly my
self,” Larry answered. “I’ve never
tried to express it.”
He hesitated; seeking for an
opening.
“Did you ever read Maeterlinck’s
‘Life of the Bee?’ ” he inquired. “Or
any of Fabre’s insect books?”
“I’ve read the ‘Bee’ and one of
Fabre’s —the one where the Em
peror moth —”
“Yes, I Know. Well, that gives
us a start. Now bees, and espe
THE CHATHAM RECORD
cially ants, have what you might call
a co-operative government that is
as complicated and a lot more in
telligent and efficient than any hu
man government. You would hard
ly go so far as to say that an ant is
an intellectual creature; that he, or
any of his, ancestors or fellows, has
a brain that could think* out and
put in operation a system of govern
ment. Vet he acts with a heap more
intelligence than most men do—on
the average. How come?”^
“I don’t know.” •
“Neither do I; but I surmise. Sup
pose for the sake of argument that
in the void all about and through
us is a saturate solution of all pos
sible knowledge and wisdom. The
i things we cail living creatures live
| in this; it is all around us; but we
! are more or less cut off from it by
( the fact that we are individual and
imperfect beings. We are in shells,
let us say; particular wisdom or
knowledge gets to us only through
special cracks. A perfect being
would have a point of contact for
every possible knowledge or wisdom.
But in our infinite world every in
dividual, whether it is a rock or a
tree or an ant, is so built that he
can come in contact only with the
paiticular little piece of wisdom or
intelligence from the great store
that he needr. in his business. All
the rest of the points of contact are
blocked off by his individual struc
ture. Thus within his limits he has
perfect knowledge. It’s the same
all through nature. How do you
suppose tjuail know ahead of time
whether the season is to be dry or
wet, atid breed The
more you think if it the more in
stances you will perceive.”
CHAPTER XIV
Burton Finds It Curious
“That is the most interesting
thing f have heard!” breathed Bur
ton. “And it sounds so reasonable!
But you know we started to talk
about you, not about quails and
r.rVI tslicve y° u a crafty
.ildestepper.”
“We re hfeaded toward me. If
things were all working along the
way they should, man would have
this same access to universal wis
dom that the lower creatures have.
As respects all the things he w T ould
normally run against in his every
day normal life he would see, or
feel —perceive is a better word—the
causes and effects and results; be
cause the stream of life would flow
through him by certain channels
turning certain wheels.”
“That’s what you do” she cried
excitedly. “I see!”
“In a very small and practical
way; a little more than the aver
age. People have just about lost
that power. They have little rem
nants of it. You’ve heard of ‘pre
monitions’ that have worked out; or
a ‘feeling’ that some one was in the
room; or experienced seme one of
the numerous ‘coincidences,’ such as
receiving a letter right on top of
some especial thought of the person
who wrote it. You may have had
dreams that came true.”
“Yes,” she cried, “what about
it?”
“You probably thought of all as
uncanny. It wasn’t uncanny at all.
Simply old, choked channels letting
through a trickle.
She pondered this a moment, her
brows puckered prettily.
“Is it our fault —this choking?”
she asked. “How did it happen?”
“I don’t know, of course; but
l surmise,” he repeated. “It is the
intervention of mind, of intellect.
Man’s intelligence is a fine tool, and
complicated. But it was supposed
to be only a tool for the purpose of
examining and making practical what
came to it by direct channel. Man
kind got so tickled with it that he
began to run all his affairs by it
alone. That blocked the channel.
The mind took control, instead of
playing with a fresh supply on first
hand —well, call it inspiration; that’s
what it is—we make over and re
fashion old stuff. If it weren’t for
the fact that some people’s chan
nels are not completely blocked, so
that a kind of trickle does get thru;
and if it wasn’t for an occasional
crazy genius who busts out, we’d
tie ourselves up in our minds and
dry up and blow away.”
“Then,” she summed up slowly,
I “you could tell about the rain and
I the tree falling, because this cur
rent flowed through you?”
“That’s roughly it.”
“How do you do it?”
“It’s hard to say. I set my mind
aside and then take what comes to
me. I turn my attention to the
type of thing that is useful for me
to know.”
“Do you think everybody ought
to have this power?”
“Yes, it belongs normally in the
race.”
“Could I do it —with practice?”
“I’m certain of it.”
“Oh” she cried. “I want to try!
How do you start?”
He smiled.
“This is no conjuring trick to be
! learned; it’s a good healthy faculty
Ito be developed. You’ve got to
! relax something inside of you that
i you hold tight together for every-
I day life —something in your con
j sciousness. Then things just float
lin and you leave them alone for
future reference.”
“I’m going to begin now,” she
:announced.
She laid aside her hat, and the
cool air current was stirring the
hair at her temp’es. Little by little
lvr form fell into the simple, rest
ful curves of relaxation: one by one
even the smaller muscles relinquish
ed their guard. Her face took on
the dreamy and far-away ' pjaceiu. •
ness of a sleeping child s.
Thus 11» minutes passed. Then
she stirred slightly.
“Well?” asked Davenport at last.
“It was certainly very curious,”
she confessed. “I can t make it
out.’ ’
He hesitated, and the sunburn on
his cheeks seemed to deepen a little.
“Are we to waste timer’
he asked gently.
She did not reply. After waiting
a moment he reached out and took
her hand.
CHAPTER XV
The Mystery
“You did see,” Davenport went
on. “You saw what I saw yesterday
when we were in the old orchard,
what I have felt from the very first
instant I saw you standing in the
firelight—beautiful as the night!”
She turned on him troubled eyes.
“I don’t know why I talk and
act this way. It seems almost
shameless; I dp not understand it.
But somehow I cannot hide and
dodge and retreat and flirt as L—i
If is impossible. I do not know
what it is that - v has come to me,
Larry, and yotr* must wait until
I find out. I have been made love j
to before and—from the first I
have been attracted tol you. Just j
now when I tried to set my mind !
aside, as you call it, just one idea, j
one impression, came to me, and !
that was of nearness to you— l
don’t mean physical nearness — I
don’t know what I mean or what
I’m talking about—”
“I do,” he assured her,
“I am shaken, and I don’t know;
I can’t tell what it means.’ ’
“It is the answer to my love for !
you!” he breathed.
She turned her clear eyes on
him again.
“I do not know,” she repeated,
“and I must know, I might allow !
you to keep my hand and to—and
to go on, and there is something
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eupiiig; within me hat tells me
v.ouxj "be swept away by your
-ove. But I mast not; and you
must not. If it were not so serious
to me, that might happen. I am
talking in what my mother would
have called a most unmaidenly
manner,” she ended with a wistful
! little smile.
He gently restored her hand to
her lap.
“I understand,” said he. “But it
will come. I am on air! It can no
more help coming than the poppy
can help unfolding in the sun.”
“I hope not,” she breathed, but
so low that he did not catch the
syllables.
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At this, ifioment, just when some
obvious change of subject seemed
most desirable, Grimstead appear
ed wading down the middle of the
stream.
“Keep quiet!” Burton adjured
Larry. “Let’s surprise him!”
The 'fisherman was having a fine
time, splashing down the long strait
vista, casting his fly right, left and
straight ahead he advanced. Lar
ry watched him critically for a few
moments.
“He knows the job,” he told Bur
ton. “Did you see him make that
flip cast to the pool behind the'‘ce
dar root?”
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