Mr. Crewe's Career -- Volume 2

opened, and those fitting the occasion are chosen and sent out to the faithful who own printing-presses and free passes. The Honourable Hilary Vane bore away from the residence of his empe

n New York and other States with telling effect against Mr. Crewes there. Mr. Tooting knew by heart the time of going to press of every country newspaper which had passes (in exchange for advertising!). It was two o'cl

man, Vane. You oughtn't

care a snap of my finge

blood would have sung with pride to have heard himself

services, had never had a sign that that po

own. On reading Mr. Crewe's defiance that morning, he had, with characteristic promptitude and a desire to be useful, taken the first train out of Putnam for

om alone was summoned, by a nod, into the private office. What passed between them seems too sacred to

the Hull Mercury, it might serve to clear a

Mr. Bascom

an annual to the Groveton News. Roberts, his name is. Suppose you reco

com marks it 'Roberts.'

ithout the

on centre, you might get this wor

nd champagne every night for dinner." Slip number four, taken direct from the second chapter of the "Book of Arguments": "Mr. Crewe is a reformer beca

of Arguments," paragr

State." Assigned, amon

co

up to Leith to-day

ve been thinking for some time that the advertising

legal business with State Senator Billings and other gentlemen who were waiting. At three o'clock word was sent in that Mr. Austen Vane was outside, and wished to speak with

closed the door behind him,

ded his son for a moment fi

h" he

e aroused, in the ordinary man who beheld him, a feeling of sympathy or compassion: it was the i

n another time-when you ar

sy?" inquired the

have thought, by that smile, that the

reflection on your habitual

more to do than sit in the window and

d you, Judge?" he said. "I don't believe

k about. I've had 'to earn my li

ate it," s

k you don't show it a gr

y ans

Judge," said his son. "I can

nt of that," said th

n lau

to-morrow morn

pointed to a chair on th

ed, with sententious significance, characteristicall

He felt that this was a crisis in their relatio

creep into his voice, "we have jogged along for some years pretty p

able Hilar

ck to it as well as my wandering, Bohemian nature will permit, and while I do not expect you necessa

le Hilary gr

. And I suppose it was inevitable, such being the case, and you the chief counsel for the Northeastern Railroads, that I should at some time or another be called upon to bring suits aga

eached for his Honey De

of paper. "I made up my mind from the start that I would always be frank with you. In spite of my desire to amass riches, there are some suits against the Northeastern which

sage of this act shall mot be increased on the roads leased or united under it." What his sensations were when he read it no man might have

ful the Gaylord Lumber Company could recover a very large sum of money from the Northeastern Railroads," said Austen. "Having discovered the section, I believe it to be my duty

on't. Bring suit. Much use it'll be. Do you

worth trying,

try it before?" asked

t, whether I bring it or another man. If you would prefer for any reason that I shouldn't bri

nd now's your time. This seems to be a popular season for attacking the property w

ular success. And now, rather than admit by the least sign the importance of his son's discovery of the statute (which he had had in mind for many years, and to which he had more

fter his marriage, when he had come home in wrath after a protracted quarrel with Mr. Tredway over the orthodoxy of the new minister, in the middle of his indignant recital of Mr. Tredway's unwarranted attitude, Sarah Austen had smiled. The smile had had in it, to be sure, nothing of conscious superiority, but it h

erstanding of the Honourable Hilary's mood and limitations. Out of the corner of his mental vision-without grasping it-the Honourable Hilary perceived this vaguely. It was the smile in which a parent privately indulges when a chi

ound the eyes-a danger

f if you want to. You've always been headed that way, and there's no use trying to stop you. You don't seem to have any notion of decency or order, or any idea of the principle on which this government was based. Attack property destroy it. So much the better for you and your kind. Join the Humphrey Crewes-you belong with

et, but his eyes held the look that seemed still to express compassion, and what he felt was a sorrow that we

, Judge,

und himself bereft of speech. Austen put his hand on his father's shoulder, and looked down silently

that, Judge, and I don't in

y rigid. He saw his son turn and walk to the door, and turn again with his handle on the knob,

ted quarrel had come; Austen had joined the motley ranks of the rebels under Mr. Crewe. Only the office boy, Jimmy Towle, interrupted the jokes that were flying by repeating, with

the bureau to the last. Once or twice he paused in his packing to gaze at the face, striving to fathom the fleeting quality of her glance which the photograph had so strangely caught. In that glance nature had stamped her enigma-for Sarah Austen was a child of nature. Hers was the gentle look of wild things-but it was more; it was the understanding of-the unwritten law of creation, the law by which the flowers grow, and wither; the law by which the animal springs upon its prey, and, unerring, seeks its mate; the law of the song of the waters, and the

f the buggy. After that he walked slowly to the back of the house and looked in at the kitchen window. Euphrasia, her thin arms bare to the elbow, was bending over a wash-tub. He spoke her name, and as she lifted her head a light came into her face which seemed to make her young again. She dried her hands hastily on her apron as she drew towards him. He sprang

usten? I saw you a-h

patting her, "I'm going to

untry?" sh

farm for a sor

ce bri

e a real vaca

lau

now I get out a good deal. I just thought-I just th

with your mother before you. I've seen her leave the house on a bright Sabbath half an hour befo

a while to see you, Ph

ney

han three or four mil

sia re

t of that,"

thought

n col

thing," he said qui

e and see me?"

something fo

nt, Austen. You know I'm

hands on h

romise?"

," said Euphr

r a moment, look

e to stay here and ta

eyes, but his own we

en't I took care of him nigh on forty years, and small thanks and recompense I get for it except when you're here. I

dge is worried now. Things are not g

uphrasia. "He ain't

n Austen's eyes in spite

chin a little, "you know you don't

sense can be knocked into your head about it, I hope you'll marry somebody that does know the value of

hed, and sh

se hereafter. No, I believe I am safe in saying that the Judge's securities are still secure. Not that I really kno

ricken at the very thought. "He hasn't to

no, no. It's not quite as bad

is it?" she demanded.

repeated. "What

them a new kind of caterpillar -only th

ook her head

er can follow you, Austen. If Hilary has any worries, I g

g persons are making tr

ess than an hour late. And then they're eternally smashin' folks or runnin' 'em down. You served 'em right when you made 'em pay that Meader man six thousand dollar

to quarrel with him now. I think i

phrasia. "I'd like to see him! If he did, it

o out and pay a little visit to Jabe up in the hills, and drive his colts

d at him, and h

she declared, "but I su

out of that,

d Euphrasia. "Come in soon, Auste

her over the hood of the buggy. When he was out of sight she lifted her head, ga

tle better than at the beginning. The sole bond between Euphrasia and Hilary was that of Sarah Austen and her son. Euphrasia never knew when Hilary was tired, or when he was cold, or hungry, or cross, although she provided for all these emergencies. Her service to him was unflagging, but he had neve

d not exchange a word with Euphrasia between home-coming and bed-going, and this was apparently to be one of these occasions. After supper he went, as usual, to sit on the steps of his porch, and to cut his piece of Honey

Austen?"

p shook, but she raised i

know?" sh

with unparall

on the little table

ell you he w

said H

ow he wasn't just bu

Vane wa

" she exclaimed. "You've

zing swiftness and vigour for one of her age,

him-you've never behaved like a father to him. You ain't worthy to have him." She flung herself away and stood

hemence and anger, of Euphrasia seemed to have had n

has h

and packed up his things, and said he was goin' away because you was worried. Worried!" she exclaimed scornfully. "His worry and his trouble don'

and up the narrow st