"It will soon be over," Reuben said. "We've got them, sure thing. We must think now of the future, Dick. There are a lot of changes coming to Sabinsport. There will be things doing here when the boys get back. I will need you both. I am old. I have the old ways; but I have learned something since you and Ralph Gardner came to this town, and I'm not so old that I can't learn more. I must do it, for we must reckon with those stacks there." He nodded his head to the opening he had cut long ago in the noble trees which ran down the long slope of the great lawn, an opening that he always carefully preserved for it brought into the landscape from the veranda the tall smoke stacks of the wire mills. Dick's mind flew back to the day a dozen years before when he had walked over the hills and caught his first view of the town. There were but four stacks that day, there were twelve now, and from every one of the twelve black smoke rose, straight into the clear air, and they said as clear and loudly to him now as they had so long ago, "We are the strong things here, we are the things to be reckoned with." Yes, they had great struggles for great things coming, he and Reuben Cowder, and Nancy Cowder--his wife. THE END PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following pages contain advertisements of books by the same author. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BY THE SAME AUTHOR New Ideals in Business By IDA TARBELL Author of "History of the Standard Oil Company," "Tariff in Our Times," "Business of Being a Woman," etc. $1.75 "Miss Tarbell has rendered a great service in bringing together within the covers of a single book, the actual results of hundreds of experiments along these lines. She has visited plants of all sorts all over the country, she has interviewed both masters and men, she has watched the transformation of communities from the old type to the new, and she reports her findings specifically, giving places and names, so that the interested employer can check the facts and secure, if desired, additional information."--Bellman, Minneapolis.