There Was Frank, Open
SYNOPSIS.
A fooliah young tenderfoot becomes
fascinated with the. bold, artful wife of a
drunken prospector' In a western mining
town. They prepare to elope In a blind
ing blizzard but are confronted by the
maudlin husband. He ia shot by the
wife, but the chivalrous boy pins a
note to the body taking the crime
upon himself. In their flight to the
railroad station the woman's horse
falls exhausted; the youth puts her
on his own and follows hanging to the
stirrup strap. Seeing he Is an impedi
ment, the woman thrusts her escort into
a snow drift and rides on. Half-frozen
h stumbles Into the railroad station Just
as the train bears the woman away.
Twenty-five years later, this man. George
Gormly, is a multi-millionaire in New
York. He meets Eleanor Haldane, a
beautiful and wealthy settlement worker,
and co-operates with her In her work.
Gormly becomes owner of a steamship
line and finds himself frustrated in pier
and track extension plans by grafting al
dermen, backed by the Gotham Traction
Company. An automobile accident near
lils country house, on a stormy Christmas
eve. brings about a meeting with the
members of Miss Haldane's family. Gorm
ly makes the maroned party comfortable
and referring to a worse storm he once
experienced In the west, offers to notify
the people at the Haldane place of the
accident. An automobile accident near
ins country nome, on a stormy Christmas
Eve, brings about a meeting with the
members of the Haldane family.
CHAPTER III. Continued.
He had never seen her except in the
quiet conventionality of a street dress.
He had imagined her in all sorts of
guises. When she burst upon him
that way however, the sight dazzled
him. It was so far beyond any dream
he had ever indulged,, that he could
scarcely comprehend it. He stopped
and stared at her. For once his lion
control deserted him. There was tliat
frank, open admiration in his glance
of which no one could mistake the
meaning.
"You must pardon my surprise,"
said Gormly; "I have never seen you
in an evening gown, and I confess my
imagination unequal to "
"Do you like it?" said the girl nerv
ously. "J am scarcely conscious of it. Miss
Haldane," he returned directly. "I see
only you."
"How singularly unobservant," she
said lightly, recovering her equipoise,
"for a man whose business it is to buy
and sell such things not to notice
them."
, "In your presence tonight, Miss Hal
dane, business is as far from me as
if it was on the other side of the
world. It is on the other side of the
world," he continued swiftly; "for this
is a different world from any in which
I havo ever moved, and I "
His speech was broken by the en
trance of Mrs. Haldane and Miss Stew
art. The latter was a fragile, grace
ful, charming girl, who would have
attracted instant attention and notice
anywhere, except beside her regal
companion and friend. Mrs. Haldane
was a not unworthy complement to
the other two. These two also were
wearing elaborate dinner gowns.
At this moment Haldane, followed
by the two other men, came in from
the library.
"Mr. Gormly," began Haldane, sen
encfdeMij fff
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Admiration In His Glance.
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relation 7b The woman
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ior, "I am unable to get anybody over
the telephone."
"I am sorry to hear that. I suppose
that the wires are down on account of
the storm."
"Exactly. Meanwhile, I scarcely
know what to do. Could you send a
man on a horse over to my place?"
"I should be glad to do so, did I pos
sens the horse."
"The pair that brought us up from
the lodge?"
"Neither is broken to saddle, I be
lieve, and but I can send a man over
pn foot. I have no doubt "
"I hardly think that would be pos
sible," interposed Dr. Deveaux. "I
should not like to be responsible for
any man on foot in such a storm as
this."
"I'll go myself," said Gormly quick
ly. "You, Mr. Gormly!" exclaimed Mrs.
Haldane. "Why, we couldn't think of
such a thing. The danger!"
"Madam, I have been afoot in worse
storms than this," he answered, "when
I was a mere boy in the far west."
It was the first intimation anybody
from New York had had as to any
period of Gormly's life outside of New
York, and one of the company at least
pricked up his ears at this remark
and listened attentively.
"We couldn't think of allowing you
to do so," said Miss Haldane. '
"I suppose that pair you have could
hardly take us over?" questioned Liv
ingstone Haldane.
"I am afraid not," answered Gormly.
"They have been driven rather hard
today, and they are a light pair at
best, as you notice."
"Well, we are thrust upon you, then,
marooned as it were."
"I hope you won't find my house the
typical desert island," answered Gorm
ly, smiling. "Indeed, I scarcely know
what the resources of the establish
ment are, having entered into posses
sion only today; but whatever they
are, they are at your service."
"There's no help for it, I suppose,"
answered Haldane somewhat gloomi
ly. "I guess you will have to keep us
until morning."
"Think how happy you make a lone
ly old bachelor," returned Gormly, "by
being his Christmas guests. And If
you will accept this situation, as in
deed I fear you must, I shall make ar
rangements so that you can be taken
to your own place on Christmas morn
ing. Let me consult my butler, who
was Mr. Goodrich's major domo before
I bought the place, and see what can
be done."
A brief conversation with that func- i
tionary threw some little cheer over
the situation. Gormly's own ward
robe, which had been sent down,
would amply supply the men with
whatever they needed, and the butler
imparted the cheering news that the
lodgekeeper was a married man with
two grown daughters, and he had no
doubt that such things as the women
required might be secured from tbem. ;
"Send at once," said C-?f' ' !"3 i
ly, "and ask Mrs. Bullen to cr up
to the house and be of what service
she can to the ladies. How are wo
off for bedrooms?"
"Plenty of them, sir, and all ready
for guests.
"Well, see that they are prepared,
and have Mrs. Bullen here immbdiate
ly." ,
As the butler went off to attend to
these orders, Gormly re-entered the
room and found the whole party com
fortably gathered about the fire. He
explained that he had found a wom
an on the place, the lodgekeeper's
wife; that he had sent the station
wagon fQr her; and that she would be
present doubtless within a half hour
with such indispensable articles of at
tire as might serve to make the wom
en guests at least comfortable.
"If you were only in communication
with your shop, Mr. Gormly," said Mrs.
Haldane and whether she meant to
be offensive or not. Gormly could not
tell "we would lack nothing."
"I am sorry for your sake, madam,
that I am not. As it is, we shall have
to do our best with the limited re
sources at hand."
Conversation ran on desultorily this
way for a short time, when the butler
announced the arrival of Mrs. Bullen.
As he did so, the tall clock musically
chimed out the hour of nine.
"Now that your'woman is here, Mr.
Gormly," said Mrs. Haldane, rising,
"as I am somewhat fatigued from the
ride and the experience, I shall retire
to my room. I suppose you young
people won't think of going to bed
at this unearthly hour?"
"No, indeed," answered Miss Stew
art "I think I'll stay awake until
Christmas."
"Will you go, Beekman?" said Mrs.
Haldane, addressing her husband.
"Why er my dear "
"I was about to propose a table of
bridge," said Dr. Deveaux?"
"An excellent idea," returned Hal
dane quickly; "but there are six of
us here and "
"I don't play," said Gormly quickly.
"I'll stay out also," said Eleanor. "I
don't care much for bridge at best."
"Good night," said Mrs. Haldane,
moving away, escorted by the butler,
and met outside presently by Mrs.
Bullen.
"Mr. Gormly and I will watch your
game," said Eleanor.
"By the way, Eleanor, may I ask
where you met Mr. Gormly?" queried
her father.
"He is very much interested in our
social settlement work. Many of his
employees live in the vicinity of the
new settlement house we are building,
and I have had occasion to consult
him at his office a great many times."
"Ah," said the elder man reflective
ly, wondering how much might be be
hind that entirely Innocent statement.
Meanwhile a footman arranged a
card table, at which the quartet took
their places and instantly became ab
sorbed in the game. Miss Haldane
manifested no special interest in the
play, and at Gormly's suggestion she
left the hall and went with him into
the inviting little library through the
broad open doors that gave access to
it from the hall. Another fire was
burning there. He drew a low chair
before it in which she sat down. He
himself stood with his arm resting on
the mantel, looking down on her.
The two were in plain sight from
the bridge table; but as they talked in
low tones their conversation was in
audible in the hall. Haldane glanced
curiously and uneasily5 at them from
time to time; but finally, becoming
absorbed in his game, paid them no
further notice.
CHAPTER IV.
Miss Haldane Is Charmed and Charm
ina. .
"Mr. Gormly," began Miss Haldane,
'I have not seen you for some time."
"Not for two months and eleven
days, Miss Haldane," answered Gorm
ly quietly. '
"Gracious!" exclaimed the astonish
ed girl. "How pat you have the time!
Do you keep a calendar of my visits
to your office?"
"I have a marvelous memory for de
tails which I wish to remember," said
the man.
"And I am so much Interested in
the settlement houso that How does
it progress, by the way?" he contin
ued, gravely as if his recollection of
anything connected with her was a
mere matter of course.
"Oh, beautifully. You see, there is
nothing to consult you about now. It
is all in the architect's and builders'
hands. You have been so helpful to
me I really don't know what I should
have done without you."
"And you have, of course, respected
my confidence? No one knows any
thing about my connection with the
enterprise?"
"No one at all."
"Not even your father?"
"Certainly not. I never discuss busi
ness with my father, nor does he
discuss business with me." '
"And yet," said Gormly quickly, "I
should think he might discuss busi
ness with you to advantage."
"What do you mean?" asked the
girl.
"I am a business man, Miss Haldane,
accustomed to deal with men and
women in a business way, and much
depends upon my ability to estimate
the capacity of those with whom I
work. I have not often seen a woman,
or even a man, with a better head for
business than you haTe."
It was the deftest thing the man
could have said to her. Women, she
knew, were not naturally business
like, and to have such qualities at
tributed to her was the subtlest kind
of flattery. It came, too, from a man
who was a power in the business
world, and was therefore the more
valuable.
"J t. vy good of you to say that,"
saiii tae girl, smiling pleasantly in ap
preciation, "and I am more proud of it
because everybody says you are suctv
a fine business man yourself."
"1 should like to do something real
ly worth while," said the girl after a
little pause. "I like people who do
something worth while.". -
"So do I," said the man, with obvi
ous meaning.
"Mr. Gormly," she exclaimed im
petuously, "why don't you do some
thing worth while?"
Gormly 6miled. "My dear young
lady," he answered really, he was
old enough to be her father, he
thought half sadly, as he noted his
form of speech "I have the largest
store in the world. I have agents i.i
every civilized country and many that
are uncivilized. I own and control a
fleet of steamers. I have my private
woolen mills, and silk mills and fac
tories. I suppose there are ten thou
sand people in my employ. I can give
you a check for another million for
your settlement work as often as you
wish it. and"
"These are all very well, Mr. Gorm
ly," said the girl gravely. "They spell
tremendous material success; they
show your ability end acumen; in the
eyes of the world ttsy court for a
great deal; indeed, I fin J latnly that
they are counting more and more;
but they don't really amount to any
thing after all. What is money, what
are power and influence? My fathor,
for instance, was born with more than
he could possibly spend, more than he
knew what to do with, inherited from
thrifty ancestors who had the wit to
buy land when it could be bought for
a song. He . has influence, power.
What does it amount to? I want him
to do something, really to do some
thing in the world for the good of
mankind. I am preaching to you Just
as I preach to him."
"Do you look upon me as you would
a father?" asked Gormly quickly.
"Why. no, not exactly. Certainly
not," answered the girl.
"I am forty-four, you know."
"No, I didn't know; but what if yon
are? You are still a young man. My
father is fifty-five, and I don't call him
old "
"Wonderful consideration from twenty-two!"
said Gormly smiling.
"Well," resumed the girl, "I was
saying that you ought to do something
in life. You have made yourself. You
started with little or nothing, if I may
believe the newspaper accounts of
you."
"Have you been reading them?"
"Every word," answered the girl.
"I was quite proud of being able to
say to my friends that I knew you and
what they said about you was true."
Never in his life Intd Gormly been
happier than at this frank, spontan
eous expression of approval.
"You ought to put these great tal
ents of yours at the service of your
fellow men; not in buying and selling,
but in doing something for them," she
ran on.
"Don't you think that in selling
them honest goods at a fair profit. In
telling them the strict and only truth
about what you have to sell, in allow
ing them the' utmost freedom of re
turn and exchange, in providing gen
erously for employees, is doing serv
ice to your fellow, men?"
"Certainly, it is. It is doing service
to the little world which you touch,
a larger world perhaps than most of
us can touch. But I want you to do
something, I want every man and
every woman who has the ability to
do something, in a great, splendid
way."
"But what would you have me do?"
"I don't know," answered the girl.
"I don't know what I would have any
body do; but there are so many things
to be done, so many wrongs to be
righted, so many things to be achieved.
The great man goes out and makes
opportunities. Part of his greatness.
I take it, consists in seeing what there
is to do. Ruskin says somewhere that
the greatest thing anyoody can do Is
to see something. If I were a great
woman, I could answer your question
better: but I am only "
"I tnink you are a great woman,"
said Gormly softly, "and I would be
perfectly willing to take your answer
and abide by it"
"I would not have it that way," an
swered the girl dreamily. "When my
father asks mo what 1 would have him
do, I say to him, 'Go and see.' He
laughs at me; most people laugh at
me. You don't, Mr. Gormly."
(TO BK CONTINUED.)
No More Room.
The elevator slipped rapidly by one
floor after another, while many in
mates of a large office building rang
the bell and demanded to be carried
to the street It was the noon hour
and every one at the elevator shaft
was anxious to get luncheon.
The elevator seemed to be only half
filled. Actually there were three girls
and a man in it who had got on at the
fifteenth floor.
"Filled up," shouted the operator,
as he sped by the angry crowd at the
door.
Finally he reached a floor where
one of the officers of the company had
his office, and the man was there and
wanted to go down. He shouted to
him, "Filled up," and the man said
something positive.
Then the operator added:
"Filled u? with hats."
Demand for Granite.
Although Aberdeen is the home ol
Scotch granite, a shipment of 350 tons
recently was exported to that city
from South Carolina quarries to meet
a demand for a variation in color from
the native stone.
"Why does he let his wife venture
out alono in hi3 auto?"
"He's anxious to see what will hap
pen when two unmanageable thing!
come together." Smart Set.
United States to
WASHINGTON. Preparations have
been going forward for some
time at the Brooklyn navy yard and
at Newport News for the construction
of the two biggest battleships in the
world. The one that will be built at
the Brooklyn navy yard will be chris
tened the New York, and the name of
the one at Newport News will be the
Texas. These ships each will have a
displacement of about 28,000 tons
;and will be equipped with 14-inch
.guns. They are the greatest terrors
;that any country ever has planned as
;yet. They are super-Dreadnoights,
'.mighty engines of war upon which,
perhaps, the destiny of the nation
;may some day turn. The construc
tion of these two huge battleships
was authorized at the regular ses
sion of congress last year. They will
cost about $11,000,000 each.
The new ships, the New York and
the Texas, will be nearly. 600 feet
long. Their speed will be more than
21 knots, they will carry at least 3,000
tons of coal and have a complement
of 75 officers and 1,500 men. No ar
mor that is carried by any warship
In the world would be able to with
Uncle Sam Planning to Make Millions
WITH the beginning of the present
century Uncle Sam had an awak
ening, and he began to assume the
position of a father to his American
children. Already he has become a
great creative force, working for the
betterment and protection of all the
people. He is a real patriarch, de
'voting himself to the personal wel
fare of each of his subjects and devel
oping the family estate for all it Is
worth.
These new movements are along a
hundred different lines, and they em
brace every part of our country.
They affect every branch of business,
every grade of society, and every
man, woman and child. The plans in
volve an expenditure of hundreds of
millions, and will' add billions of dol
lars to our national wealth. There Is
the Idea of making golden crops
spring up on the soil of our waste
lands, one feature of which was the
building of the Roosevelt dam, recent
ly completed. Uncle Sam has $80,
000,000 in hand to water the deserts,
and his reclamation fund for our arid
lands is fast approximating a hun
dred millions or more. He is tunnel
ing i the mountains, damming the
streams and carrying the water in
flumes over the canyons. He has
more than 1,300 miles of canals al
ready dug
Another big scheme is draining the
Washington to Be
THE question of park Improvement
in Washington is by no means
tocal. The capital will eventually be
come the most beautiful of cities. It
now has more trees planted in its
streets than Paris boasts. It will
never have the grime of either Paris
or London. It has park possibilities
unsurpassed by those of any city in
the world. With wood and water, hill
and valley, its reservations now ex
isting, and its areas that should be
reserved, and may be reserved at cost
much below their future value, its
system of minor and major parks,
bridle paths and boulevards, leaves
nothing io be desired but a little com
paratively economical legislation to
link some of its units.
The "City of Magnificent Distances"
has already become a realized dream.
Going After Crooked Seed Companies
FOLLOWING the instructions of
congress in the agricultural ap
propriation bill, the secretary of agri
culture this year continued the pur
chase of seed in the open market to
determine whether and how much
adulteration was practiced by seed
dealers. These samples were analyzed
and the names of the offending seed
men have been published.
The leaflet with the names of the
dealers from whom adulterated sam
ples were purchased shows that when
a dealer has once been published it is
seldom that he Is again caught in the
list. When the department has been
analyzing a certain line of seed the
adulteration in this also stops. In new
lines of seed, however,- there are more
offenders caught.
Some of the samples analyzed this
year showed the merest trace of seed.
The general showing was better, how
ever, U?an ia previous years.
Have Biggest Ships
stand the impact of one of these pro
jectiles. A mile and a half , away a 14-inca
shell would go through IS Inches of
the hardest armor plate ever made,
and do it as easily as an ordinary bul
let would pass through a piece of blot
ting paper. The ten 14-Inch guns on
either the New York or the Texas
will deliver 80 shells in five minutes,
or 112,000 pounds of projectiles. A
14-inch shell leaves the muzzle of the
gun at the rate of a mile in two sec
onds and will travel 25 miles.
The powder chamber on these gigan
tic guns is big enough to hold two
barrels of sugar end for end. Every
time one of these guns Is fired 365
pounds of powder is exploded, and.
the enormous volume of gases sud
denly released and expanding la
what sends the huge shell rushing:
through space. Each shot costs $500
and each gun costs $81,000. The pro
jectile Is not only a huge bullet but
a powerful explosive agent as well.
Within it 13 a storage chamber con
taining 100 pounds of the most pow
erful expIosle that ever has been de
vised. The shell does not explode un
til the target is penetrated.
When these two new ships are com
pleted we shall have the strongest
navy In the world in the point of gun
power. . These ships can deliver the
heaviest broadside blow that a war
ship has ever struck. They will have
the courage of their own strength,
and will get Into the battle to stay.
THIS COimTlW
VYIU. BE A
CAROEN
SPOT KHEtf
I GET ' .
THR0UCH
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swamps. We have millions of acres
of wet lands that can be turned into
farms. They are scattered over the
Union from California to Maine. They
are as rich as Holland, and will feed
tens of millions.
Another big project includes the
water powers, which the experts say
are equal to 60,000,000 horses, or
twice enough to run every mill, drive
every train and light every house In
the country. This power can be In
creased to 200,000,000. Much of It
comes from waterfalls controlled by
the government
A part of this same scheme is the
development of our rivers. We hare
295 of them In the United States,
with navigable waters long enough to
encircle the globe. The Great Lakes
are the busiest freight routes upon
earth, and boats can go on the Mla
sisippi for 2,000 miles. Already we
have built 4,500 miles of canals, and
we have schemes which propose the
Joining of the Great Lakes with the
Mississippi, and also with the sea.
a "City Beautiful
7f
It Is, indeed, something of a boom
town, and Its real estate dealers are
driving stakes and bargains out in the
woods far beyond the boundaries
Washington knew a dozen years ago.
Washington is growing in Impor
tance as a city of handsome homes
Even Its Faubourg St. Germain.
Georgetown, admits that the city
proper has acquired a society of Its
own that is not made up wholly of
public magnates and department
clerks. The former gaps in Its
street plan are now worth fabulous
sums per front foot, ad Pierre L'En
fant's estimate of the Washington of
the future has been proven none too
liberal.
To imagine Washington in 1950, it
is only necessary to recall it in 1850.
The various appropriations made to
insure the system of parks In propor
tion to the growth of the city, have
been investments. The perfection of
the system of linking the various
reservations together may be done
more cheaply now than after ten more
years have passed, and it will be done
sooner or later.
l.ucPAR j I1t M T
WISE TO MS
y A) & A fid ETC-ru
There were 1,214 samples of seed
purchased, some of them in bulk and
some by mail order. Of these . 204
were found to be adulterated. There
was some improvement in the line of
orchard grass seed examined. There
were 317 samples analyzed and of
these twelve were found adulterated,
compared with fifty-five adulterated
samples the previous year. In the
worst samples found there was 37
per cent, of orchard grass seed aai
27 per cent, of dirt and chaff, whila
the remainder was made up of rye
grass, meadow fescue and other seed,-