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"Let Not litaii Pet
aseeder,"mbf• Steps
of flitotir," Eta.
"Probably," he interrupted, "but it
was so long IWO.'"
"That it was your father's name and
not yours that I've heard mentioned.
Were you going to say that?'
"It Was a long time ago," he repeat-
ed, the forced smile gone: "I don't sup.
pose that either you'or r-
ile hesitated. and Paula saw teat it
would be best to let the subject drop
Tee duke broke in with a remark or
two, and after a few' further words
Winehip bade them good evening and
passed on.
"What am t to do with all this mon-
ey?" Paula asked when see and Wilt-
shire were alone again.
"You might give it In charitY." he
suggested.
"No; I, wouldn't do that, I couldn't
give in eharity money to which I felt
some °tie else had a prior claim.
And." she pursued, with some hesita-
tion. "I suppose I was right In fancy -
lug that he is poor."
"Ole yes; he's poor enough. He's a
pores -lit painter and still has his way
to make. Alice got to know him and
him aleter when she took it into her
head to study art in Paris. She brings
them over every now and then to stay
with us at Edenbridge. or at least aha
did till the poor old lady grew too
blind. I like this young fellow. He's
full of itlet1S. and we've had souse jolly
talks together."
"I've heard your sister spoken Of as
a greet authority on art Does sb,e
think this Mr. Winship"- •
"Sbe says she doesn't think -she
knows. In ten years' time, she be-
lieves, he will have such a place as
Sargent holds today." •
"Then what shall I do with the mon-
ey?" Paula saki again.
"What can you do but give it away
Or spend it?"
"I can keep it," she returned thought-
fully. • "I may find a way of getting
him to take it back,"
• CHAPTER II,
"T. THAT conzection 'have I with
the name of Roger Win-
' ship?" .
"Oh. that dreadful man!"
Mrs. Trafford. cried, with a little gasp.
havelft heard of him for years."
• "Do you mean old Roger Winship?"
. George Trafford asked, yawning as he
slippeddown lazily in •his armchair
and stretehed his, legs before the •fire:
"I mean any Roger Winship." Paula
replied. •"I've heard the name tonight
and I seem to have 'known it teforee
-How on epee did it happen?" came
from Mrs: Trafford.
"There was a young man itt the
Casino. rather an interesting looking
inn n. a friehd of tee The duke
epoke to hen and tben introduced him
to tne. I'd noticed him before that."
"I'M surprised at the duke. It's very,
queer the sOrt of people who seem to
ken w one another nowadays." . •
Trafford spoke with as. much
.severity as a beanaing content would
.perinit Handsome, dimplingand. en-
ergetic, she was spending her middle.
agt. !lathe Serene Satisttaptiou of seeing
all her dreams fulfilled. • . -
The daughter of a New England coal
mordent, her modest fortune had been
• the foundation on •which. the .colossaf•
coal trust had been built up. It was
to her, eredit to have married o poor
wen Certain that.a great industrial em-
pire awaited him. She had.' laureled
for love ng,ziest the wishes of her fam-
• ily, but her lovehad been based on
admiration. 'Her busband and she had
passed through good years andevil
years, had lived sparingly, had watched
and planned and,' combined and Made
their business march with the march
of the country. She had seen him rise
With 'the swiftness .and sureness of a
eonaparte to the bigbest financial posi-
tion, ark ia Vermont. then in New
England, then in America, then in the
world. Before he was siXty or she
was fifty Trafford was a name to go
with Rothschild. It was a name that
meant not only the . power �f moneys
but the power of power, the success
ef those who threw in their destinies
with It and the ruin of tease weo op-
posed it • •
During the years in which the great
trust was being organized and main-
, laud the Traffords eiatl Fed..111, ..a.t;.
mosphere of battle. There were snits
• In the law courts, appeals to suprettie
courts, state legislatures to be man-
aged, congress to be appeased, foreign
trade marts to be invaded and small
eompetitors to be crushed out at home.
febad been exciting and often dramat-
ic, but as middle age drew on and
most of the ends had been gained it
was pleasant to settle down and ettjoy4
the herdly won laurels in peace.
George Trafford, whose late father,
Andrea?' Trafford, had shared the fam-
ily elevation, was equal now to taking
his uncle's place in everything but the
:supreme command. In theexercise of
'this office Paul Trafford himself was
never idle, hurrying now to tom great
capital, new to another, with but brief
havevals to spend With his wife And
latighter at home.
Home now meant Paris, The dust
of eonilict being still thick in New
eget. It was enteral that Mrs. Traf.
lord at lenst should prefer a plaee of
abed° where she could breathe more
freely.• It ens not lees natural that
the enticements of fashion and fine
weather as well as the needs of Mrs.
Trafford's health should draw them in
winter to the nivierlt, The coining or
the George Traffords from Amerlea as
well as tbe possibility of Paula's ere
gagement to the Duke of Wiltshire -a
poseibility Mitch WAS only awaiting
ber final word to beectine a eertainty-
effereil a reason for assembling some-
!Iiing like a family party.
At the present minute they were
',Penciller the last del:lottery half hour
of the evening' in Mrs. Trafford's ten-
ting room beim parting for the night
tie Tratroiel had already gene to hie
awhile/it, end Mrs. George, beating
bates is yawn with the gloves she had
just pulled off, WEIS preparing to take
ellisetweemellegferresrereet
her husband off to theirs. Paula, dress-
ed as she came. from the Casino, sat
by a window from which she had pull-
ed the certain back. Under the star- •
nett the Sea gleamed duskIlY, reflect-
ing here aud there the lamps of the
.yachte anchored la the tiny bay.
Lighta, too, ran in a long, slanting tine
down the sea wall to the Condamine,
while more lights still punctured the
dark Mass of the town of Peewee,
looming high and ancient against the
sky.
"If he is old Roger Winshipei sena.-
George Trafford began lazily.. -
"He is," Paula interrupted, "or et
least be hinted as much. He seemed
to (speak as if his Melly bail had SOWS
connection vrith
°Did he sas that?" Mrs. Trafford ask-
ed, with a gleam of her old readiness
for conflict .
• "Not exactly," Paula explained. "He
only wouldn'ttalk of it 'when I said
I seemed to know his name. Who is
be?"
"Old- Roger Winship," George Tree -
ford went on in his comfortable, lazy
tone, "wets one of the tneiewho twenty
years ago had the folly, the hardihood
and the 111 lace to oppose your father."
"And what thee?"
"Them" Trafford laughed -"then he
was ruined."
."011!"
,"That is," Mrs.. Trafford added . In
explanation, "he would have. been ruin-
ed if he had lived. As it was" -
"His son was ruined," Paula finish-
ed, seeingher mother hesitate. ..
"No; his widow, poor thesg!" Mrs.
Trafford corrected pityingly..
"Was she ruined by -by us?" Paula '
continued, a little tremulously.
"No; by herself.".George Trafford re.
plied promptly. ••
He pulled himself up in his chair
And spoke 'with emphasis. You could .
see that *It waa one of the -subjects
that kindied..hira este interest by the
way in which his eyes awoke from
their blue benignity to dart out a ray
like keel. It was then that you real-
ized in him the :presence of the new
type -the essentially modern and chief-
ly American type -the son of the huge-
ly wealthy, self • made man, the son
. to whom has passed the blood of
peasant with the newer of a. prince
ad a cetiamand of 'Means .far in ex-
cess of anything he knows how to use.
As Trafford dragged his heavy figure
into. an. upright posture ih hischair,
his large jaw 'set, his head, thrown
baek and hist keen eyes flashing, there
was the implication that he could do
what Paul .Trafford himself had done
if there Were .need to begin the work
again.. But bis was another duty.the
duty of the second geueration to keep
what had. been Won. It was a. task
• consistent .w1th a large handed, easy
modeof life, with leisure for a certein
sort of simple cultivation, wlth praise-
worthy philanthropic undertaking and
with 'interest in everything that made.
for tile general publie good, The least
competent Judge of •character could
read im George. Trafford's rather pon-
..dereaus, clean shaven' face the presence
of. the loyal; honest Citizea who would •
have straightforward, SenSibleviews
on . ever Y subject. 'A good man 'was
the universal opinion in' New York re-
garding George Trafford, a safe man,
•K: man to be .fourie In the .forefront of
any movement to help on.the common-
.
weal, but a nten'avho in all matters
.6f Money Was of Pai31 Trafford's own•
stock and blood. • , -
"She ruined- herself." he repeated '
with .greater energy. ."She. too, was •
possessed.of the insane Conviction that'
she could.fight your father .and beat
him. She wasn't the only woman who
ever tried it, but no other kept at it so
Paula. '
loggetfiy and desperately that there
WAS no choice at last but to club her
lessee"'
"Of course," Mrs. Trafford inter-
posed, "she worked for sympathy an
the fact that she was a woman, and
she got it-teere's no denying that. It
WaS one of the injustides which were
done yotir father and which he is al-
ways so ready to forgive."
"t didn't know," Pattie Said, With a
more deekled tremor in the veto,
"tent papa fought with-weinen."
"There are no women in btu:duos,"
Mrs. George Trafford observed in her
deer, cold way; "there are only coin.
petitors."
"Your father never fights with any
one," George Trafford cried toreibly.
"It le others who fight with him. They
won't let him alone. Rig eticeese is Whet
they can't pardon, and the leer to
When themnpare it with their even
tenure." There's never been a inan
Who bag tried herder than your father
le de Cel tootber8, tine there's never
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been one who has bad inore.haral demi
to him."
In his tone there was a mingling nt
pride und indignation. Mrs. Trafford
raised her lace eaudiservelef to ter
eyes. ieveu Atie. George Treffora, wbo
bad only a counection by affinity witb
the great finaueler, threw up her head
with admiration when the trumpet was
biowu in his praise.
Paula herself felt a strange °epees -
glen about the heart. Like the rest of
the Traffords, she had set up the man
wbo had made them what they were
as a eine of demigod. She bud done
more than the rest or teem, for into
the werselp they all Accorded him see
had infused a self devotion of wince
she aloue was capeble. As the young-
est of the family it was she who bad
known him least as a man or business
and most as a mail of the world. in
all her recollectiou of him he bad nev-
er been mei:thing but the great per-
sonage whatfe goings and coining were
as important as those of kings. Dur-
ing his later years, vvhen the iramenel-
ty of his affairs obliged hen to travel
much, be was his frequent compan-
lou. She helped eins In collecting rare
old books and works of art and -fillee
Some of the gaps in hie early educe -
tion, but see never saw him ,otherwise
than as tee flutnicial potentate who
had taught atatesmen to look to elm
for advice and bishops for benefac-
tions and who coule buy anything that
was good euough.
To be the (Wee:liter of such a man
had given her a kind • of royalty -the
royalty of money. Wherever they went
they were treated with it spontaneous
awe scarcely less deferential than if
they heti sprung from the line of
Charlemagne. Goveruments and. arIS
toeracies 014 them honor, and sover-
eigns received them on, a footing curi-
ously like that of equality, As for re
publics and democracies, they bad hail-
ed Paul Trafford eit first as the tree
they -could produce at its very best -
tee •man wim out of small beginnings
'could rise M. vastness of pewee and
then dispense his means not. u3erely in
sumptuouS living, but in founding hos,
peals, beildieg churches, endowing
seats 'of learning and leaving a ham(
that time a:mid only consecrate. 11
was not strange that Paula, living li
the radiation ot so stronga charactet •
shonid give him more than filial affec
don,. For this very reason certain sug
gestions made tenight. seemed to he;
like 'a desecration.. To tight Nene s
woman! . To. club her. down! Theta
are no women in • business, only com-
petitors! What did it ',mean? For a
few minutest he kept silence, ponder,
Ing • her consiu'e words., She looked
straight before .eer, trouble 'clouding •
hi her Celtic eyeennd the little' furrow
of perplexity deepeehig between. the .
brows. . • •
• "Did Mrs, WieshIpee- see began,
• .
with some .hesitation ' .• '
"For mereyes. sake, Paula," Mrs. Tree•
ford exclairaeci hastily, "don't get -those
Winsbips on the .hinin! 1 tholiglit they.,
were dead and buried long ago, and,
epee knows, they've given us -trouble,
enough." •
• "Let her g� on, Aunt ;MIRO George
Trafford teaselled calmly. "elemthe
subject has dome up•she'd better know
it, just ns'it Is."
"1 was going to ask," Paula
with -dignity,' "if Mrs. Wieship thought
that papa had done her wrong?" ,
"Moat people think:‘. you do thetn
wrong if yob •do things , better than
they .ean," Trafford. answered"ci u ickly.
"There's no kind of. business,.: from
the stage to the church,. In which the
strong worker isn't' help as an enemy.
by the feeble and .-the Indifferent.
That's inseparable from femme nature,
and••your.. father has ,eaci tol•face IL
The J.:tepidity.' ,hae. encountered ;has
be.en „ha proportiOn .to his succese, so
naturally it's been ,eolossal,"
" "And I've never koown .him, to utter
a harsh word," .5.1rs. Trifreird observed
quaveringly., "As each new attaok has
arisen be has (need about .ta.crueli it.
When: that's 'been done hehas given
It no more thought -if et hasn't been
to help those he has beaten; Wherelie
has Seen' people with ability he has of-
ten 'taken them ..into his own emploY-
ment,' and there are plenty of wealteye.
men today who can tell you that their
fortunes were made when your father
singled theni out as clever opponents.
Your father has the: most wenderful
way of eonverting enemies Into friends.
It's a sort of art of Ills. I've- never ,
heard of it anywhere else -unless it -
vette in Mary, queen of Scots."
"Couldn't he have dope that with the
Winships?" Pabltt. asked, returning to
,the personal point;
"In business," Trafford explaipecl,.
it:winging. himself' round sons to lean
over the arm oe his ceeir and speaking
for Paula's benefit -"in business most
men 'when they can't: get . best will.
turn themeelves .about so as to put op.
with second best. They will . even ec-
celitseleriteeeet tind fourth best rather
than ,go wlth 'no advantage whatever.
But every now and then you meet
some olio with whom it must be an or
nothing.. 1:1'hey'll fight yeti td the hit,
ter- end .and die before they yield. In •
fact, they're people' with the fighting
rather than the huSiness. instinct. ,and -
when you meet them they leave you no
choice but to crush them out or your
rev,
eiVere the. Winahips like that?"
"Yes, they 'were. They were like
thet only worse. Yon could no more_
beat :modern methods into old Roger
Winship's mind than you conid into
a mountale of brass. Because he was
the largest owner of ,coal lands hi
New Hampshire lie looked noon him-
self as it sort of ruler by divine right.
For nearly elairty genre he had operat-
ed the DevIhtatnines"-
"But theyMotirs:" Panlit exclaimed.
"Now, •eee," Trafford assented, with
a short laugh. "But when your tether
first .cast his eyes on teem the Devlin
Coal company was practleelly old Rog-
er eVinsitip. • lie worked the mines
and SO !et tioe 00111 in a betreinne, pre
vinclite old faehioned way and made
imuilsoine inceine. Then canie your
father with new !dens, idig !dews, mid
vietory behind him all along the line,"
"But papa didn't want to take the
Deelin mines from 11/r. Winthrop?" '
"No, not all all. Ito was only d9vp1.
oping the plan with ivhieb he had be.
gun -that he should control the entire
Wheat and sale of coal in the speer
under his immediate influence. AS you
know, tbnt ephere 'exptitided tie he
Went Me like a growing empire. At
hest when he was a young man, he
thought of coal prodnetion only with-
in the state of Vermont Didn't ho.
nunt2"
"Ile spoke only of that." Mrs. Tref.
ford corrected. "His thoughts from
the beginning were as vast as HIS
busineas afterward ciente to be."
"At any rate," tieor-e Trafford con-
tinued. "he began witliVerniont, milet.
le and, an we should think nowadays,
very nsoclestly. And yet so .complete
was his system and so thorough his,
.orgnization, In every detail that in a
few years teere was not it bushelor
coal ruined or sold from Canada to the
Massachusetts line that wusn't under
Ms direct coutrol, to five years' time
there was practically not it 'merchant
In Vermont who could sell a ton or
coal if he hadu't bought it from youi.•
father,"
"But the Devlin mines are In New
Hampshire." Paula argued. eager eto
know about the Winships.
corning to that," Trafford
' went ou gathUSIttatleallY. "It WaStet
, natural that a businesa such as bis
end come to be seould stop within tee
ilmits of a state. It spiliea over on
every slcie-luto New Yore, Massachta
setts, Pennsylvania, the middle stutes.
everywhere. It crossed the whole
country. The farther the net went out
the easier it seemed to throw it far-
ther still. His ystem wan so perfect
that the thing seemed to go of itself.
Ln reality his method was simple. It
lay in three main points -first, to get
control of the means of transportution
by rebates from the great railway and
steamship lines -rebates allowed to
him and refused to others; then to
sweep out competition by annexing
rival companies and lastly to keep up
prices by limiting the supply. if an
Independent company refused to yield
to his .demands, then he laid siege to it
-siege as regular, as thorough, Os pa
tient and. as systematic tts that of a
fortress. Ile invested it, so. to' apealt
by sea and land. He cut olr its means
-Of transportation by prohibitive -rates
• and its customers by low Prices. If
there was litigation he was almost In
va.riably victorious: In the end the re
bellions company did one of two things
-It capitulated and came in or It went
bankrupt and, Uncle Paul bought It."
• Trafford threw back ills great liette,
with a sense of exultation in so _lunch
industrial trininph. .
"You -Ought to say. George." young
Mrs. Trafford suggested', "that youi
uncle never struck mud he had made
the most generous proposals." • •
."That's_ true,- Laura," her husband
agreed. "Paula should onderetand'
that .and the Wiuships make on ex.,
cellent illustration. The Devlin coin•
patty," he pursued. In a tone of inirra
tive, "had already been pretty hard bit
by us before your father begin' to give
it -open • attention., Of' .course 11ert1
known for .years what he: Was ,going
to 'do with It, •but he's never one to
net. before the tithe. when he was
roady-tliat is to Say, when • he had Se -
Cured his •rebates on all its railways.
when he.beld its cuStoniera in the
hollow Of, his hand, when .by his ageute
whom be kept in .its.emPley he knew
Its- business better than It did ittself-
he made his .offer.,. • It was a good.
One or. it wouldn't have 'genie fttoin •
hint.' As nearly as I can remember..
It was this: It was to hand over to -the
Veiniont Mining company-ethat was
your father, of course -for the period
of .twenty years, the mines. the plant .
and all its own.,.tiree. rio was to put
In $20,000 and his rehatea-that is to.
. •
say; it was to have the same transpOn
tation advantages as ourselves.. It was•
to.litnit its output to a given quantity,
and in return Uncle Paul was to guar-
antee a profit of $50,000 a year. Any .
profit over fifty thousand-Waa to go to
him."
"ilost. gelierous 1 call- It," young.
111rs, '..CreffOrd -commented. " • ,
yet the .ohl mitn refused. it.
Trafford said; With a. short laugh.
"Whyr Paula asked, trying to keep
tip -with -tier cousin's explanation's; .•
' "Why?" he echoed', "Because those
Whoin• the gods wish t� destroy they
first Make mad. Old Roger Winship
thought . hecould pit.-hiniself rtgainat
tbe; man . whose financial conquests
were by' .this time the. talk of ' two
worlds.. Yon -see; for forty years the •
Wieships, bad done a steady, reSpecta-,
ble business in the played out, live
and let lite Way that used t� be the
standard. they had no notion of prog-
ress or energy or real:competition.
Your father.hed begins to. eat the heart
Out of their . trade before they 'ever
heard of him. By the time they began.
to wake up they were as good ns. ruitfe
ed already. Your father knew It, but
they didn't. When 'they took in thp
• Met they threatened him with all the
rigor 'of the taw."
"Otily," !Sirs. Trafferd added, they
Weut beyond the limits of protirietY.%.
7
nismiwasinworromaiferiosimai
40 eUU emir rawer wu no weer
than a common thief -well. 00, I won't
say It. lie himself le the last to tear
malice and an example to us all."
"at any rate," George Trefford• pine
imete "your father stepped in Juse
teen with els Wet Ile was alwayel
for peace and fair dealing. and he*
knew the psyceologleal moment hate
come. He knew, too, just bow It
would be taken and laid out his plate
of actiou for five or six years alma -
If the Devlin hadu't been a -sort or
family company, with all the shares IP
a few hands.. It would probably .have
eome in after the first storm of threats
had blown over. A body of sharehoid-
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DoesYourBread,Madaini,Get
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• Of Course, you know, ell bread must in time grow stale -unless
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