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This was where the money earned by honest
workmen was spent, that women might gleam with such gewgaws. Wall
Street bought them, Wall Street which was forcing this country into
the war to protect its loans to the Allies. America was to pull
England's chestnuts out of the fire that women, and yet more women,
might wear those strings of pearls, those glittering diamond baubles.
Into his crooked mind there flashed a line from a speech at the
Third Street hall the night before: "War is hell. Let those who want
to, go to hell."
So - Wall Street bought pearls for its women, and the dissolute sons
of the rich bought gold wrist-watches for girls they wanted to
seduce. The expression on his face was so terrible that the clerk
behind the counter, waiting to find what he wanted, was startled.
"I want to look at gold wrist-watches," he said. And eyed the clerk
for a trace of patronage.
"Ladies?"
"Yes."
He finally found one that was a duplicate of Anna's, and examined
it carefully.


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