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Harry Cressas scowling over his breakfast It was not because his apartment in the New York hotel was not satisfactory, or his breakfast unpalatable; possibly a rather bewildering night in Broadas expressing its influence; but he was satisfied that his ill-te paper: "It is stated on good authority that theof the late e and carefully planned schero education in the South, and will richly endow schools in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas"

Cresswell finally thrust his food away He knew that Mrs Grey helped Miss Smith's school, and supposed she would continue to do so; with that in ht trust his judgment in later years He had no idea, however, that she meant to endow the school, or entertained wholesale plans for Negro education The knowledge made him suspicious Why had neither Mary nor John Taylor " conspiracy back of the cotton combine? He took his hat and started don

Once in John Taylor's Broadway office, he opened the subject abruptly--the ainst Taylor for certain unnamed or partially voiced assumptions Here was a place, however, for speech, and he spoke alhly

"Taylor, what does thisat hiet rid of soer schools," Taylor drily retorted

"It must be stopped," declared Cresswell

The other's brows drew up

"Why?" in a surprised tone

"Why? Why? Do you think the plantation system can be htest chance of cornering cotton and buying the Black Belt if the niggers are unwilling to work under present conditions? Do you know the obble up every inch of cotton land in this country at a price which no trust can hope to rival?"

John Taylor's interest quickened

"Why, no," he returned sharply "Who?"

"The Black Man, whose woolly head is filled with ideas of rising We're striving by main force to prevent this, and here come your damned Northern philanthropists to plant schools Why, Taylor, it'll knock the cotton trust to hell"

"Don't get excited," said Taylor, judicially "We've got things in our hands; it's the Grey money, you know, that is back of us"

"That's just what confoundsman "Are you men fools, or rascals? Don't you see the two schemes can't mix? They're dead opposite, mutually contradictory, absolutely--" Taylor checked him; it was odd to behold Harry Cresswell so disturbed