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IIKARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTV. GA., SUNDAY. DECEMBER 14, 1913.
George Randolph Chester’s New Romance in Hearst’s Magazine
sisted the Senator. "They take your
valuable ferrite and give you money
for it. Then they take your money
and give you food for it, both at an
enormous profit. In the end, who has
both the ferrite and the money?”
President Don Ramon de Castilla
y Servilla clasped j^is fists quiver-
ingly beside his ears, and enpurpled
bis face, and strained his throat to
answer that question.
"The British!” he hissed.
"All right, then, soak them," dryly
advised the Senator.
**«**••
"Ah. Miss Tyler, you should see my
beautiful country!" Don Ramon urg I.
•‘It the land of blue skies, of sweet
ly perfumed flowers, of. music, of po
etry, of l<vve!”
‘‘That sounds pretty, Senor Servil
la," Virginia gravely admitted, "but I
have been in your sister countries,
where love lasts but a day, and the
rarest <\f the perfumed flowers are
poison, aud where poetry has put an
undercurrent of sadness in the songs.*’
Don Rar.ion had been bending on
the adorabUV Virginia the full battery
of his eyes, but she had touched upon
another subject which was large in
his thought.
"The Latin is poor only in money,"
he said in quick defense; "but in the
joy he takes from all the beautiful
things which God has given every
Latin has limU less wealth!”
It was rath«Ir adroit, the manner
in which Don Lamon had conquered
the mental trer. which Virginia had
slyly given him, and once more he
smiled happily and bent upon her that
fond gaze. ,, , _
“It seems to m a that all the Latin
countries have material wealth also, .f
they were only pel*distent in develop
ing it," Virginia suggested "I 11 ven
ture to say that M;\ribo. for instance,
has at least one product which should
make it wealthy.” .
Again Don Rtimo.V was distracted
from the use of his yatteries.
•it has,” he admitted with a trou
bled brow. “We send .a constant pro
cession of ships to tho United States
of America, loaded w Vth ferrite, but
we are still poor."
"Someone must be i yaping a bar-
vest of wealth from It, f>r those ships
would not be afloat," Virginia sur-
mised. _ _
“The British!” bristled Don Ramon,
once more furious with the wrongs
of Maribo.
“I wouldn’t let them!” Indignantly
counseled Virginia. “If they want
your ferrite, I would make them pay
for it.”
Don Ramon looked still more puz
zled.
"It is difficult,” he worried. “The
British are powerful In Maribo, anl
they would bring disaster on the man
who attempted to interfere with
them.” .
"Suppose they did!" glowed Vir
ginia, immediately becoming a hero
by proxy. "Why, Senor Servilla, it
would be glorious to overwhelm your
self with disaster, to sacrifice your
self, to die is need be, if, by so doing,
you could gain Maribo her rights,
rescue her from poverty, and place in
her hand the wealth which is hers!
Senor, you are a brave man!" She
bent forward a trifle, and rested her
gl >rious eyes upon his. Senor ser*
villa drew his entire abdomen up into
his chest. "You are a man of fire!"
• *♦*•**
Three months after Joshua Kidd
and his associate financiers divided
the million and a half dollar com
promise, which the United Kingdom
Ferrite Company had paid for the
breaking of the contract.
Just how it was done will be found
fold in full in "Financing Maribo” in
HEARST’S MAGAZINE.
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‘President Servilla hurried into the tea room, and took a table where he could face the rapture, Virginia Tyler. Presently a page came in with
two cards. A gravely courteous head waiter brought the cards fiver and laid them on the table of Don Ramon de Castillay Servilla. That
impulsive gentleman was furious at this interruption to his absorbing occupation of bewildering and charming the symphony in blue.”
One ef Howard Chandler, < ihrisly’s Exquisite Illustrations to “Financing Maribo” in HEARST’S MAGAZINE.
“B
1G business" is being accused
»f most of the sins of gov-
rnment in most of the coun
tries of the world, and one hears as
much of oil concessions In Mexico as
tone does of battles. George Randolph
Uhester, tho tamous creator of "Get-
Rick-Quick Wallingford,” uses "big
business” as the theme of one of his
most fascinating stories of the ex
ploits of “Captain Kidd & Do.” in the
current December number of Hearst’s
Magazine. "Financing Maribo” Mr.
Chester calls his story, and in it ne
shows more clearly than a hundred
essays Just how "big business” oper
ates In the revolutions of our Latin-
Amerlcan neighbors. Incidentally It
is a million times more amusing.
Howard Chandler Christy illustrates
the story most charmingly. Certain
excerpts that throw an Interesting
and entertaining light on how things
are done down in Central and South
America nr* reprinted here by per
mission of Hearst’s Magazine.
Maribo is a little Central Ameri
can country that lias n big volcanic
lake filled with "ferrite” in combina
tion of asphalt and iron that makes
the best of roads. The United King
dom Ferrite Company, an English
corporation, controls its production.
Hodgson Cumberley Is its head. In
cidentally it controls the whole gov
ernment of Maribo, President Ser
villa, of Maribo, is in New York.
Captain Kidd and bis company of
beautiful women and wise men of
the world see a chance in him to get
a slice of the English company*® enor
mous profits.
From “Financing Maribo,” by
George Randolph Chester, in the De
cember number of HEARST’S MAG
AZINE.
P RESIDENT SERVILLA was a
short, dark, plump man, with a
luxuriant blue-black mustache,
seeping back and upward toward
fils ears, with almost the effect of a
flamboyant beard, on the very next
day after Joshua Kidd’s decision to
assess Mr. Cumberley. he emerged
from his room, in the magnificent new
Hotel Parkgate, and, on his way to
the elevator, passed the open door of
the adjoining suite.
"Do come, Auntie!” exclaimed a
voice from within the incautiously
open doorway.
President Servilla liked that voice.
It "ess pleasant; it was musical; it
was youthful; it was* feminine! Oh,
It was all things delicious and charm
ing; and he was a connoisseur.
Unconsciously the President
•quared his shoulders and drew in
his rather too generous waistline, hut
!he did not turn his head. Only those
fortunate enough to know Intimately
the President of Maribo could appre
ciate what ,n tremendous sacrifice he
thus made to the conventions.
The swish of silken garments
pounded behind him. A door closed,
.An elevator, a few spaces onward,
■stopped at that fioor. The President
could have reached it, If he had quick
ened his pace the least trifle, lie did
jiot quicken his pace the least trifle,
and the elevator shot downward.
He paused, at the elaborate bronze
grille, to wait for the next one. and
stepped £slde politely as the two
ladies came up. one was a dignified
matron of quite evident breeding, but
the other—Ah! the other! Sh*- was
a dream! a rapture! a paradise! Ah!
the other! She was dressed in a
symphony of blues, with a daring lit
tle bonnet set Jauntily upon the rip
pling brown hair; and her eyes, as she
glanced inquiringly at the stranger
and dropped them again, were like—
Ah! like nothing which had ever been
woven into poetry or music, or rav
ished vision!
“Tea first. I suppose, Virginia,” ob
served the matronly lady as they
stepped in the elevator
Tiie rapture, called Virginia, laugh
ed, and Signor the President felt him
self distinctly thrilled. There could
be no doubt about it. The thrill was
actual!
"Russian tea, if you like," she gayiy
agreed; “I refuse anything English."
and. quite accidentally, she caught,
for a fleeting instant, the ardent eye
of President Servilla in the elevator
mirror.
President Servilla stopped long
rr^ugh in the lobby to fee the sym
phony in blue enter tho tearoom; trten
ho dashed back into the elevator, re
turned to ids room, and, with eagiflr
fingers, unknotted his cravat, of hate-*,
fill lavender. As hastily ho selected'
one of turquoise. He smoothed again
hi» waving black hair and his nour
ishing mustache, perfumed the latter
anew, and rushed downstairs. He
stopped at the florist’s stand and put
a corn flower In his buttonhole. Then
he hurried into the tearoom, and took
a table where be could face the rap
ture. Pretty Virginia Tyler, whose
sense of humor was sometimes a dif
ficult and a dangerous thing to keep
In bounds, almost choked, as she rec
ognized the complimentary change ih
his attire, but she only gave the lan
guishing President that one shy
glance, which was distinctly not flir
tatious. and then confined her eyes
demunWv to Mrs. Glendenning.
• * * * • •
(Captain Kidd & Co. form an
American “Ferrite Company” and
persuade Cumberley to enter into a
Contract to provide them with double
tiie whole present yearly tonnage of
ferrite for tiie next three years
Cumberley falls into the trap and
Rlgns the contract. Tho Idea, of
course, i» to put the English company
into tho position of being unable to
deliver and then to collect immense
damages from it on the broken con
tract. To effect this the conspirators
must corrupt President Servilla.I
Don Ramon do Castilla y Servilla
having worn his most becoming dark
brown suit with a-dark brown cravat,
because he had seen Virginia Tyler in
brown, from hat to shoes, now dashed
madly back to his room, to change
into bis gray cutaway with an old
rose tie. He had Just seen Virginia
in gray nnd old rose, and ho was sure
thftt she was still in the hotel, because
her stunning little racing runabout
was at the curb. He waited nearly
an hour, and when she finally ap
peared, she was wearing a startlingly
becoming costume of solid black,
which made his neckgear seem to
flame like an electric advertisement.
She cast at him a glance of shocked
disapproval, ns, with the modestly at
tired Mrs. Glendenning. she stepped
into her car. Though she tempered
her disapproval with a tantalizing
half smile, the President of Maribo, in
great dejection, went back to his
apartments to demand of the hotel
valet, with much heat, why his black
cutaway was not ready.
It was in such mood that lie re
ceived a call from Senator Raymond
E. Rigby, of New York. The Sena
tor, big and impressive, introduced
himself most pleasantly, hail come to
pay his respects to the chief ex
ecutive of a country which was a r
near neighbor to ills own, and inci-!
dentally, to discuss the theory and j
practice of government with one so
eminently versed in that art, science'
and pastime.
“Your revenue Is the principal
tiling,” suggested the Senator over
the presently forthcoming highball.
"You probably, however, have no tax
rate In Maribo.”
"Unfortunately, yes," and Don Ra
mon cast his eye ceilingward in
transient but poignant sorrow.
“Indeed!” exclaimed the Senator,
in surprise. *'I had an impression
that the United Kingdom Ferrite
Company attended to that little de
tail for you.”
"Not quite,” smiled President Ser
villa. “They are of great benefit to
us, but, after all, they do not relieve
us of the entire rroblem of living.”
“I should have known better,” re
sponded the Senator. "They take
from you your only valuable com
modity. they absorb your entire in
dustrial forces, and they make count
less millions of profit. Do you?”
"Well, no,” admitted President Ser-
\illa, "Mv small country has always
been poor."
"And will always be so,” supple
mented the Senator. "The British
always attend thoroughly to that lit
tle detail They have never gone Into
any country to its benefit.”
President Servilla shrugged his
shoulders.
“What is one to do?” lie inquired.
"What is any merchant to do?”
sharply countered the Senator. “Fer
rite belongs to Maribo. Ferrite is in
active demand. Then oompel a fair
market Vjiriee for it.”
Don i iamon de Castilla y Servill;
looked deeply troubled. He knit hi;
brows intto little brown knots. Hi
shook Ills', head. He turned his eyes
and his p.tlms upward.
“It has been tried,” he regretted.
"My prede cessor mads the effdrt, and
the United 'Kingdom Ferrite t ’om pany
Viade a predecessor o4 him. They
spent much (money in that campaign.
Tkey electee! me."
'Xhe Renat br preserved his gravity.
“Apparently you don’t wish to be
a pmdecessoit,” he accurately gauged.
"FrarilHy, Sei#or Servilla, I think you
could make a vigorous campaign
against, the United Kingdom Compa
ny’s candidate on the most easily un
derstood platform in the world.”
"And that is?” suggested Don Ra
mon, eagerly.
"Self-interest,” explainer! the Sena
tor, suavely. "Cut loose entirely from
the support of the United Kingdom
Company, and tell your people that,
if you are elected, you will assess a
ax on ferrfte equal to its present
narket plicae.”
The President of Maribo contem-
lated that advice in a state of pitia
ble paralyses.
“Intposible! ” he finally gasped.
“Why. the United Kingdom Ferrite
Company could not do business. They
would leave Maribo, and we would
starved” And he looked about his lux
urious vrooni in wide-eyed panic!
The Senator laughed.
“They* can’t. To begin* with, they
have too heavy an investment. They
might protest, at first; but, in the
end. they will pay the tax. and make
Maribo g fich. Then they will soak the
ultimate c**nsomer, which is the mer
ry way iff all commerce. More
over. they can’t do without ferrite for
the next thrice years at least, on ac
count of tiiie tremendous contract
they have Jitost signed with the Co
lumbia Ferrite Paving Company.”
“Oh. yes,”* said the President
vaguely, and the Senator was cor
roborated in his belief that Don Ra-
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mon had not boon told of the con
tract. “Mr. Cumberley did tell me
that we would have to make ar
rangements to double our produC- j
tion.” ,|
“I should think he would," chuckled '
the Senator. “He has Just agreed, m
writing, for his company to furnish
to one American concern, for the
next three years, twice as much fer
rite annually, as has ever been ship
ped. I suppose you will receive an
additional revenue?”
“Only in,the wages which are paid
our. laboring people.” worried Pregi-
. dent Servilla. “Of course, that brings
j double Ihe money into the country.”
“But it renders you more depend
ent.” furgued the Senator. “You are
bhylng more than half your bread-
stuffs from the Argentine Republic
now. If you double your labor in
the ferrite beds, you will buy all your
breadstulfs abroad. "Who sells them
to you?"
“The British."
"Don’t you see they have you trot
ting in a circle?" triumphantly per-
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