have chaos
if labor doesn't get control. So, as one or the other seems bound to
happen, we ought to be able to adjust ourselves to chaos. In fact,
Crystal, I have been interviewing McKellar about having a chaos cellar
built in the garden."

Eddie pushed back his plate; it was empty, but the gesture suggested
that he could not go on choking down the food of a man who joked about
such serious matters.

"I must say, Mr. Cord," he began, "I really must say--" He paused,
surprised to find that he really hadn't anything that he must say, and
Crystal turned to her father:

"But you haven't told me why he came. To see Eugenia, I suppose?"

"No; he hadn't heard of the marriage. He came to talk to his brother."

"For you must know," put in Eddie, hastily, "that Mr. Ben Moreton does
not approve of the marriage--oh, dear, no. He would consider such a
connection quite beneath his family. He disapproves of Eugenia as a
sister-in-law."

"How could any one disapprove of her?" asked her sister, hotly.

"Jevver hear such nerve?" said Eddie.

"It's not Eugenia; it's capital Moreton disapproves of," Mr. Cord went
on, patiently explaining. "You see it never crossed our minds that the
Moretons might object, but of course they do. They regard us as a
very degrading connection. Doubtless it will hurt Ben Moreton with his
readers to be connected with a financial pirate like myself, quite as
much as it will hurt me in the eyes of most of my fellow board members
when it becomes known that my son-in-law's brother is the editor of
_Liberty_."

"The Moretons disapprove," repeated Crystal, to whom the idea was not
at all agreeable.

"Disapprove, nonsense!" said Eddie. "I believe he came to blackmail
you. To see what he could get out of you if he offered to stop the
marriage. Well, why not? If these fellows believe all the money ought
to be taken away from the capitalists, why should they care how
it's done? I can't see much difference between robbing a man, and
legislating his fortune out of--"

"Well, I must tell you, father dear," said Crystal, exactly as if
Eddie had not been speaking, "that I think it was horrid of you not to
have me called when you must have known--"

"Crystal, you're scolding me," wailed her father. "And most unjustly.
I did ask him to lunch just for your sake, although I saw Eddie was
shocked, and I was afraid Tomes would give warning. But I did ask him,
only he wouldn't stay."

Crystal rose from the table w