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THE SEMI-WEEKLY ROBEMJNIAN 7 THE CASH INTRIGUE GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER CmmjHgU. , ky Am steslw-Mamll C. SYNOPSIS Phillip Kelvin, accompanied by hl aerro txxJyruara, Bam. Invades Wall street with U, 000, 000 Id a dress ault case and begins selling stocks, going short 4.000 shares dally. Ha meets Rensselaer, an old com rade. They call upon Elsie White and her pov erty stricken family. Elsie apparently loves Phillip. Broker Galleon warns Kel vin he will be ruined, but Kelvin con tinues to sell stocks. Kelvin tells Wall street magnates that a billion dollars of actual currency has been withdrawn from circulation by Hen ry Breed's bread trust The cash corner causes a panic in stocks. Banker Pellman endeavors to see Breed. Breed refuses to release cash and stop the panic. Kelvin declines to assist Pell man, who discovers that Breed Is the power behind Kelvin's stock operations. Business goes to smash. Thousands are starving. Kelvin assists Elsie White, who learns that he has caused 'he panic. She becomes Lillian Breed's maid at Forest Lakes, the Breed estate. Breed shows Lillian and Kelvin his steel vault in the cellar, containing millions In cash. His ambition is to concentrate all the money In the United States in this ault Blagg, Breed's wireless operator, plans a social revolution. He hates Breed and loves Lillian. Breed and Kelvin plan to control all the railroads. Breed sends for Boiling, a great railroad man. KelvTk tells TJllTan he would make him self emperor if be could. She volunteers to be his empress. Rollins refuses to co operate with Breed. Lillian makes love to Kelvm. Breed, Instigated by Kelvin, offers bread to the public at cost They gain control cf all the railroads and make Rollins man ager. .Dr. Zelphan discovers Breed wor shiping his billion and a half of cash. Zelphan tells Breed he will be a Jlbber lng Idiot in a year If his miserly haMts continue. Rollins refuses rebates to big shippers. Blagg asks Lillian to Join him in form ing a new government with the aid of Breed's cash. Breed and Kelvin scheme for control of congress. Breed plans to make Kelvin and Rol lins president and vice president. They smash three big trusts. Kelvin buys Long Island acreage. Blagg's spies watch Kelvin. He buys three big New York city districts which oppose him politically. Lillian pursues Kelvin, who compromises her. Kelvin is shot at. Breed shows more signs of insanity. Lillian becomes Kel vin's mistress. Kelvin and Rollins are nominated for president and vice presi dent. Kelvin gives homes to dispossessed people. Kelvin and Rollins are elected. Blagg tries to kill Kelvin. Elsie White reveals her love for Kelvin and is discharged by Lillian. Kelvin as president plans to become em peror and with Rensselaer as secretary of war organizes a great army. Kelvin tells Rensselaer he contemplates nothing seri ous concerning Lillian. Breed shows Kelvin the crown, scepter and ermine robe he has bought to use as emperor. Rensselaer proposes to Lillian and Is rejected. Commerce Is paralyzed. Thousands are Blaryjngv LTTIan Traps lcelvm. compelling him to announce their engagement. Elsie saves Kelvin from an Infernal machine. Kelvin proclaims himself emperor. Rollins defies him. Elsie helps Rollins escape. Kelvin alienates Elsie's love. Jilts Lil lian, and she Joins Blagg's army. Breed, who wanted to be emperor, denounces Kelvin, who goes after Breed's treasure. The. people rise against Kelvin. , CHAPTER XXV. TLTROrGII the dark wooda at Forest Lakes there came hur rying from the northern boun dary of the estate an active figure, making his way steadily to ward the big graystone house. Oc casionally in the denser shadows he stopped to listen. He knew that a dozen or so of picked mountaineers had been left on guard, flintlike men, who would much rather shoot first and Inquire afterward In these trou bled times. Lie was congratulating himself upon his good fortune in es caping these men when as he rounded the corner of the bouse two of them stepped forward with leveled guns. "Throw up your hands! Come in the light!" commanded the one near est him and flashed the glow of an electric pocket lantern in his direction. "Are you Sumner Rollins?" "Yes." replied Hollins, relieved, and began to lower his hands. ' Hold up your bauds! Wait a min ute!". - - Collins instantly raised his hands again, feeling rather ridiculous, while the guard stepped to the door and rang the bHl. He had no more than ning It when the door opened and Elsie White stood revealed in the flood of light. "Come in. Mr. I'nlllns." she cheerily invited. "I have been waiting for you these three nights." "Waiting for me!" he exclaimed as he strode up and took both her hands in his own. "I don't see how that could be. I have been trying for a week to get word to you. but could find no way. I knew that with the telegraph control In the hands of Blagg no message was safe, now Thirty Years Together. Thirty years of association think of it. How the merit of a g-ood thing stands out in that time or the worth lessness of a bad one. So there's no guesswork in this evidence of Thos. Ariss, Concord. Mich., who writes: "I have used Dr. King's New Discovery for 30 years, and its the best cough and cold cure I ever used." Once it finds entrance in a home you can't pry it out. Many families have used it forty years. It's the most infallible throat and lung medicine on earth. Unequaled for lagnppe, asthma, hay-fever, croup, quinsy or sore lungs. Price 50c, f 1.00, Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by all druggists, did you And out that I waa cornier?" "I don't know," replied Elsie, drop ping her eye as she gently disen gaged her hands and closed the door. "I Just seemed to know It. You see" and dow she looked up at him frank ly "I knew that you were aware of our dantrer." The light of Joy leaped lDto his eyes. Once more he caught at her hands, and she blushed aa she drevr them behind her. "They are waiting for you." she said. "I think that the dancer is growing very near. There are armed soldiers Just about a mile south of the gate." "I thought I heard a murmur of voices as I came through the woods from the north." said Rollins, puzzled again, "but the sound seemed to come from the east, and It seemed to me, too. that an orderly night march of disciplined men would not betray it self in that way." Elsie bad opened the door of the li brary, and the tableau that met Rollins' gaze was so startling that he stopped transfixed. Behind the long library ta ble at the far end of the room in a "WKLOOMK TO ouu ooubt!" cackled UltEED. high backed chair sat old Henry Breed, the richly Jeweled crown upon his jerk ily nodding head, the robe of ermine and carmine upon his emaciated form, the diamond tipped scepter in his hand. At one end of the table sat Jens Nel son and at the other end Dr. Zelphan, peering through his thick spectacles at Rollins and grinning through his bushy red beard, while Mrs. Rens selaer sat aloof in a corner, thinking her own thoughts. "Welcome to our court!" cackled Breed. "Welcome to our court! What plenipotentiary have we here?" and his head nodded so violently that the heavy crown jerked off and fell ipon the table. Dr. Zelphan calmly caught It as it was about to roll to the floor, carefully -pushed out a dent that had been made in the soft gold and restored the crown to Breed, who, after many bobbing at tempts, placed it again upon bis head. "I shall examine the envoy's creden tials and present Mm to your majesty In due time and form," sonorously an nounced Zelphan. with an evident en joyment of the mockery that Rollins, in his shocked abhorrence, could not understand. "Quite right," agreed Breed. "Quite right Let all things be done In due form." and, apparently resolved not to interfere with proper observances. Breed drew his old, well worn Bible to him and began to mumble to him self garbled quotations, of which ven geance was the chief burden. "I am the prime minister." Zelphan stated with burlesque gravity, arising and shaking hands with Rollins. "Our friend Jens, here, is the lord high chamberlain. Mrs. Rensselaer is the flrst lady In waiting. If you behave yourself. Rollins, we'll make you a duke or an earl or something. Pick out your title anything you please." Rollins smiled thinly, but he could not take his eyea nor his mind from the appalling wreck of Ilenry Breed, the richest man the world had ever known or perhaps ever would know, the man who, starting without a dol lar, had In the course of an ordinary lifetime compassed half the wealth of a nation to his own use and through that half controlled the balance of it. And be was come to this end! Kelson roused Rollins to immediate : business. - "TChat is the news?" he asked ab ruptly. ' Rollins turned to him with relief. "I have a force of more than fifteen hundred good, solid men who will be here inside of half an hour to protect ' the vaults. I am quite sure that an attack will be made upon them to night. I have been collecting my forces for a week against this moment ; and watching Kelvin through the spy ; of whom you told me. When they got ! the GatUngs Into the garage today I knew the time was growing very short, j We made a forced march tonight. making a straight cut to get here." "They have Catlings, you say?" ask ed Nelson, troubled. "Fourteen of them from the govern ment arsenal mounted in automobiles. If my men get here in time I want to ambush the expedition from behind tne wall and have my sharpshooters puncture tbelr tires and pick off their gunners. Kelvin is to be among them. If we can capture him the whole prob lem is solved." "But they have Gatlings," protested Nelson. "We have ambush and strategy," in sisted Rollins confidently. "If only my forces can arrive in timer "You have done wondera," aaidKel son admiringly. "How have you man aged it? I thought.wewexebelple88." "Bolllns shrugged hla shoulders. I "Kelvin haUjBeDemy be could not throttle, and that was the American press, which, after alk la the stanch foundation upon which our liberty baa been founded and upheld. Upon the Instant of his proclamation Kelvin had a censor ready to take ctcslb!e charge of every newspaper office in the Unit ed States, lie might as well have put Infants there. In some cases the cen sors were intimidated. In others they were hoodwinked. In others they were bound and gagged and In some places killed. The eastern newspapers on the Tery first day Issued my call to arms, and. though the telegraph was closed to us, within two days the ap(eal was being printed In Chicago and HL Louis, spreading farther west every day 6ince the proclamation. In every village and every country settlement men are arm ingthe sort of men who always re spond to the call of patriotism, the sort of men who know when their country and tbelr homes are in dan ger and who are willing to die to de fend them. Nelson, you can't whip men like that!" i Zelphan, whose whole bearing until I now had been like the flippancy of l an overgrown, mischievous schoolboy, ' smiled and nodded his bead approv ingly. "It la the existence of such men as these followers of yours and your self, Rollins, that reconciles me to America," he admitted. "I have damned you as a whole more than once as being a race of people who are plunging themselves into nerve bankruptcy; but, after all, there Is something In the fundamentals of thla country different from any other na tion. There Is a healthiness In the body politic which, If nature be given a chance, can throw off all Its can cers. America needs Just some such eruption as this to clear her blood and let the healthy molecules like you and Nelson here get to work. Nelson was fortunate enough to earn the schol arship grade entitling him to be sup ported by Breed through his college career and conceived himself bound in simple loyalty! Strange, isn't it?" "I know," nodded Rollins, with a i kindly glance at Jens. "Breed gave him to me for my secretary, and he , was a spy on all my acts." I "He was more than that," went on the doctor. "He was passed on to Kelvin when Phillip I. became presi dent, and when Jena found that Kel vin actually meant to declare him self emperor, to the exclusion of Breed and everybody else, be set up a system of spies of bis own and helped Blagg place the bombs that were intended to blow Kelvin out of his throne! All this, mind you, in spite of the fact that he does not quite approve of ev erythlng that has been done by our royal friend back here and that he does not believe any one man should control so much cash." "Caslsy suddenly broke in the shrill voice of Breed, and the crown bumped from hla glistening bald head upon the table in front of him and rolled to the floor. "Cash!" and his wrinkled old face weazened into an expression of desperate intentness. "The greatest force In all the world the power that can totter thrones and disrupt govern ments; that can cause wars and sup port them and end them; that can build cities and devastate them! Cash!" Hla voice rose In a shrill cres cendo, but before Its quaverings had ceased there came another sound much more startling the unmistakable, nev er to be forgotten "Marseillaise!" There came a loud cheer, impregnat ed with the same fury as the song, and then the blows of rails and logs upon the heavy Iron gates, a fusillade of shots from the rifles of the guards, screams of agony and answering shots. "Too later' groaned Rollins. "It Is not Kelvin's army, but Blagg's! God help us!" A piercing scream, as if it might have been that of a cat in mortal an guish, came from the end of the room where Henry Breed sat alone nodding his head and mumbling and mowing la his pitiful pomp. "Cashr he shrilled. "My cash!" There waa a metallic crash and an other mad cheer. The gates had giv en way, and then the mob came pour ing In. Rollins, who was unconscious ly reaching for his pistol, found his fingers caught in a soft band and felt a gentle pull. He obeyed the tugging immediately and allowed himself to be led toward the rear of the building. "This way," Elsie White urged. "I must hide you." "My men!" he protested. "They should be approaching the grounds by this time, and now I must lead them by a different way." "Don't go!" she begged of him. "If they see you crossing the open spaces they will chase you and shoot you as they would a wild animal." "I cannot help It," he answered calmly. "I must go." He raced on through to the kitchen hall, but he did not let go of her hand, and now it was he who led. ne reached the rear door and threw It open. "Come!" he said simply. She looked up at him a moment and then gently stepped out beside him, closing the door after her. ne paused for a moment with sudden mastery to gather her in his arms, and for Just that moment she laid her head in sur render upon his shoulder. She knew now that her dreams of Kelvin had been but the outcome of a youthful ideal an ideal which had made her eee Phillip through distorted eyes, A King; Who Left Home set the world to talking, but Paul Mathulka, of Buffalo, N. Y., says he always KEEPS AT HOME the King of all Laxatives Dr. King's New Life Pills and that they're a blessing to all hia family. Cure constipation, headache, indigestion, dyspepsia. Only 25c, at all druggists. Whk'b had clouded her Tlaiou lo tins sterling love. "It looks like desertion." said Rol lins, "but we can do no good bre ". He struck out with her along the path, but the pulled against his direc tion. "This way." she Insisted, "straight back from the house to the garden and around past the kennels. Tben we ran be under cover all the way." In the meantime In the library the voice of Jens Nelson, cool and collect ed, inquired: ' "How shall we prepare to die stand lng or crouching?" lr. Zelphan. standing where he had been, looked swiftly about the room. Tbey two were the only occupants. Two sharp, resounding shots echoed Just outside the hall door. "The guards!" exclaimed Zelphan. "They are still at the door. There is a part of your America, the part that I love. What wonderful material for my book. Come! If we must die let us die crouching," and without wait ing be raced up the stairs, heading to ward the attic. Nelson hesitated a moment. Two more shots rang out, followed by howls of hate, and then a fusillade of bul lets spattered against the walla, crash ed through the glass and Imbedded themselves with soft thuds into the heavy woodwork of the doors. Nelson hesitated no longer, but followed the doctor. (To be continued.) Seemed to Give Him a New Stomach. "I suffered intensely after eating and no medicine or treatment 1 tried seem ed to do any good," writes H. M. Youngpeters, Editor of The Sun, Lake View, Ohio. 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