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"And culture and work?"

"Quite incompatible, I assure you, my dear" She stretched her silken li at the waters

Just then Mrs Grey drove up in her new red motor

Up to the time of Mary Taylor's arrival the acquaintance of the Vanderpools and Mrs Grey had been abows After Miss Taylor came there had been calls and casual intercourse, to Mrs Grey's great gratification and Mrs Vanderpool's led amusement and annoyance Mrs Grey announced the arrival of the Easterlys and John Taylor for the week-end As Mrs Vanderpool could think of nothing less boring, she consented to dine

The ate was different from that of the Vanderpools The display of wealth and splendor had a touch of the barbaric Mary Taylor liked it, although she found the Vanderpool atriany and velvets that thrilled while it appalled Precisely that side of the thing appealed to her brother He would have seen little or nothing in the plain elegance yonder, while here he saw a Japanese vase that cost no cent less than a thousand dollars He meant to be able to duplicate it so than he sixty years ago

The deadcotton--travelling in the South in reconstruction tients In this way he made his thousands Then he took a step forward, and instead of following the prices induced the prices to follow hiht him his tens of thousands About this ti and selling of stock in various cotton-mills and other industrial enterprises Grey hesitated, but Easterly pushed him on and hecontrolling interests in certain large rew and succeeded, and Grey h, and he would venture no farther He "was going to retire and eat peanuts," he said with a chuckle

Easterly was disgusted He, too, had made millions--not as many as Grey, but a few It was not, however, simply money that he wanted, but power The lust of financial doripped his soul, and he had a vision of a vast trust of cottonthe land He talked this incessantly into Grey, but Grey continued to shake his head; the thing was too big for his i, and just as he had set the date a year hence he inadvertently died On the whole, Mr Easterly was glad of his partner's definite withdrawal, since he left his capital behind him, until he found his vast plans about to be circu this capital froers and Chinamen," he snorted to John Taylor, and strode up and down the veranda John Taylor rear, and elevated his heels The ladies were in the parlor, where the fe themselves before Mrs Vanderpool