Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 1014) (1925 03 06)

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BOYS. READ THE RADIO ARTICLES IN THIS NUMBER No. 1014 MARCH 6, 1925 Price 8 Cents : lao BOYS et MAKE MONEY. OR,AWALL STREET eo 5 De te BE Maen gr - ——— 4 UP hl His chum bent down, Bob mounted on his back and was about to look into the next room oo smash! a shower of gold-pieces crashed through the glass, —,, by the thud of a rake k satchel against the fractured pan

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Read Page 24 for Radin News end Hints. 5 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY kiy—Suheseription price, $4.06 per year! Canada, $4.50; Foreign, $5.00, Harry E. Wolff. ae ease sne., 166 oe West 23d & treet Nae one: Y. Entered _ Second-Class Matter, October 4, 1911, the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. ee No. 1014 NEW YORK, MARCH 6, 1925 Price 8 Cents. hse ce a SIRES TET AL ESS SERED al a >< De ee cn SES ca a aC a ERENT MAKING MONEY OR, A WALL STREET MESSENGER’S LUCK® By A SELF-MADE MAN CHAPTER I.—A Startling Occurrence. will be Sunday by and by,” said Dora, with an- other bewitching glance at Bob, as if she knew ‘| “What’s the matter, girls? Are you locked' the power of them. out?” asked Bob Evans, an alert, good-looking’ “So I’ve heard, but not in this world. Here boy of perhaps eighteen years, to two pretty it is a case of hustle unless you are well fixed and misses who were standing at.the door of the office don’t need to care whether school keeps or not. adjoining his own in the Wall Street building I’ve had to work ever since I left school. for I’ve where he worked as messenger for Louis Dan- got to help keep house for mother. My sister «forth, stock broker. Elsie does the rest. She keeps books for Eissner, It was about half-past nine in the morning, and _Finglestein & Goldstein, shirt manufacturers, on Bob was returning from a stationer’s with a box Broadway. Hours, eight till five thirty. She of pens the cashier had sent for. tells me I’ve got a snap because I don’t have to “Yes, we can’t get in,” replied Dora White. report till nine, and I get off anywhere between “Mr. Sackman is always here before us, but this half-past three and four.” morning he seems to be late. I do hate stariding “Does she get good pay?” asked Dora. out in the corridor.” “She gets $12. She’s a pretty smart girl, if I “So do I,” said Lily Page, who worked for Mr. do say it; but, then, I think my sister is the best Sackman, too. and nicest girl in the world.” “Well, you have my sympathy,” laughed Bob, At that moment the door opened and Joe Vin- who “knew both of the girls very well, and was cent, who worked for Oliver Lancing. a stock rather smitten with Miss Dora, who was a par-_ broker, on the other side of the corridor, came ticularly charming and vivacious young lady. in. Joe walked over, and Bob presented him to “I do wish Mr. Sackman would come,” said the girls. Dora, tappifig the marble floor impatiently with “You work next door, don’t you?” said Joe. the toe of her shoe. “Everybody who comes “Yes. We're locked out this morning, and along stares at us, and it’s just too unpleasant Bob Evans was kind enough to invite us to wait for anything.” in here instead of out in the corridor,” said Dora. “Well, what’s the matter with you stepping “Want to see me about anything 2?” asked Bob. into our office and waiting there?” -asked Bob. “Yes, if you’ve got any money.” “You can stand near the connecting door and then ~~ “Well, Joe, I haven't any money, as I supposed you’re bound to hear him when he comes.” you knew. I have to turn all my wages into the ven Let's do it,” said Lily. house: I couldn’t even lend you a quarter this Bob opened the door of Mr. Danforth’s office morning.” bowed the, girls into the reception-room, “A broker I stand well with told me to buy a where they took ‘up their position near the ticker, certain stock on my promise not to say anything . which _about it. I asked him if I might tell you on the with their own office, though it was locked. Bob same conditions, and he said if I could thoroughly -Aelivered the box of pens to the cashier, and hav- depend on you I could.” é ~ jng nothing else to do at the moment he rejoined “Then I wish I had some money, for I'd like to % ee cern ee {~~ eae st 3 rien “aren, eee replied * “No way you could raise a few dollars, is y more than I do,” re- there?” x his ong, that T know of.” answered Bob, shaking 1s just dote on it. Pine Pat Tate tl. segue Nace or pee eOn, well we ge eat be Ink raid Ba JT Ra ee itigthcat o MOS 1 Sere

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2 “Boys are lucky in being boys,” said Dora. “I wish I was one.” “T don’t. I’d rather have you as you are,” said Bob, promptly. “Why?” ® “Because I would.” Suddenly Dora declared she heard a noise in the next room. “That must be Mr. Sackman,” she said. “Come, Lily. Good-by!” to the boys, and both made a bre2k for the door and disappeared. “They’re beauts, aren’t they?” remarked Joe. *“T like Miss Page the best.” Bob was glad his taste lay in that direction as he wanted Dora“ll to himself. “Yes. They’re mighty pretty girls, Miss Dora especially.” , “Now, I think Miss——” began Vincent, but that was as far as he got, for the door opened and the girls came back. “What's the matter?” asked Bob. anything in here?” “No. Mr. Sackman hasn’t come, for the door is still locked. Now, isn’t that funny, for I was sure I heard some one walking around in there,” said Dora. “Have you a cat in there?” grinned Bob. . “No, of course not,” replied Dora. “They don’t allow animals in these office buildings.” “T didn’t know but you might have smuggled one in,” chuckled Bob. “We've got the dearest, chubbiest, handsomest little” began Lily, when they were startled by a sudden racket in the next room. . There couldn’t be any mistake this time—it was too loud, and just as if two persons were fighting. “My gracious!” “What's that?” “There seems to be something doing in there, all right,” ‘said Joe. “Well, if there’s any one in there I'll soon find out,” said Bob, resolutely. “Here, Joe, give a > ead I on get up and take a squint through eis ah chum ‘bent down, Bob mounted on his back and was about to look into the next room when— smash! A shower of gold pieces crashed through “Dropped exclaimed Dora. The girls screamed, and the hier, leaving his desk in. the counting-room, rushed into the waiting-room to find out the cause of the ce. ’ os CHAPTER IL—An Exciting Chase and Its Results. “My gecdenst® pacitines. Mr. Brooks, the cashier. What does this mean? Lester gery Deeb: perce Vin” at a seattered ’ footed, MAKING MONEY was evidentlv trying to choke him into insensi- “Here, you rascal!” roared Bob. “Stop that!” The man who was assaulting Sackman paused, glared up at the boy’s face, at the broken pane, and then resumed his attack on the hapless man. who seemed to be quite at his mercy. Bob turned around and addressed the cashier in a tone of great excitement. — “There’s a well-dressed ruffian in there trying to do up Mr. Sackman by choking him. Have you a key to this door?” “No,” replied the cashier. “Then we'll have to burst the door open if we expect to save Mr. Sackman,” said the boy, leap- ing to the floor. “Run downstairs and tell the superintendent or the janitor, Joe, and don’t lose a moment about it.” While Joe dashed out into the corridor to do his friend’s bidding, Bob ran into the wash-room, where one of the assistants of the janitor had left a hatchet and a coldchisel he had been work- ing with in there the day before. Seizing the implements, Bob returned to the door and in- serting the heavy chisel into the crack of the door at the lock, he drove it in and then started to pry the lock open. He was a strong boy, and being bent on business, his efforts were soon successful, the lock snapping short off under the powerful leverage he applied to it. Pulling the door open, and grabbing up the hatchet to use as a weapon, he dashed into the room just in time to see the than with the black mustache vanishing © through the corridor door, with a black satchel in his hand. Bob gave chase to him at once. The ; young messenger rushed into the corridor in time > to see the fleeing rascal vanish in the direction ~ of the stairs and elevators. a ead thief!” yelled Bob, as he flew after. the’? ellow. When Bob reached the stairway the fugitive» was/making for the final flight leading to the street. With a whoop, the boy straddled the ~ baluster and shot down like a flash. Several ~ people were coming in at the door. | “Stop him! Stop that man with the satchel!” a ate Bob, jumping down the flight, three steps at a time. _, The people below seemed either slow to com- prehend, or did not care to interfere. At any rate, the man got by them and vanished outside. where he was pursued by the determined boy. An © exciting spectacle was then presented to the, hun- dreds of people on the sidewalk—a big man, with _ a black valise in his hand, flying from a fleeted- bareheaded lad, armed with a hatchet bility. : ; i and shouting: “Stop thief!” : A Wall Street precise awoke to the situation _ and jumped in to head the ere off.

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MAKING MONEY 3 “Surrender!” cried the boy. brandishing the hatchet. The raseal laughed sardonically and swung the satchel at him, sweeping the weapon out of his grasp and sending it clattering, two yards away. on the floor. But Bob was not to be shaken off. He sprang upon the fellow, like a catamount, grasping him around the chest with a hug like that of a bear. Failing to release the boy’s grip, he began to punch him in the head with both ‘fists, whereupon Bob retaliated by kicking him in the shins and butting him with his forehead. Suddenly Bob released his hold about his chest, ~ slid downward, caught him by the legs and fairly overturned the fellow on the floor, where he struck his head with a whack *against the board running along the foot of the wall.” Bob now had every advantage of the situation, and he took full benefit» of it, leaping astride of the fel- low, who lay slightly stunned and bewildered on the floor. Just then the detective anveared on the _ Scene and ran to the boy’s aid. He didn’t con- sider it necessary to ask what the man had done before he deftly slipped a pair of handcuffs on his writ. Then Bob dismounted and grabbed the black satchel. ' “He assaulted and nearly killed Mr. Lawrence Sackman. whose office adjoins ours in the Terrace Building,” explained the messenger to the de- tective. “And I dare say. this valise belongs to Mr. Sackman. I believe it contains considerable gold coin. At any rate, it feels as if it did. and I’ve already had some evidence that a lot of gold pieces came out of it. You’d better fetch this fellow back to Mr. Sackman’s office. I'll carry the valise.” The detective yanked the man on his feet, and ordered him to come along, which order the man -obeved. seeing that he couldn’t very well help himself. b recovered the hatchet and followed behind them. There was a crowd gathered about _ the door, and this mob, increasing in size, fol- lo them back to the Terrace Building. where _ they took the elevator to the third floor. Bob led _ the way to Mr. Sackman’s office, the door of which was open and blocked by a small mob af curious people. who had been attracted there the report of foul play. and the excitement a os ‘pushed their way through the spectators into the ame which was already pretty well crowded ; brokers and clerks, whose offices were on floor. Mr. Sackman had been brought to 3 _senses and was seated at his desk, surrounded inner fringe of the crowd. “Make way there, gentlemen,” said the detec- E "tive, eens his prisoner before him. “Fall back, | man ay sented to in- after the two men, heels, passed through to the packed closer up than before. close to ‘after Bob’s hurried exit after the rascal, ing out of Bob’s chase of the fugitive. af 2 sched the detective Mr. Sackman, recognizing his neighbor’s mes- senger boy in Bob. “Oh, I chased him till I overtook him. He couldn’t get away from me to save his life.” “But my satchel! There’s $5,000 in gold coin in it. Did you “Yes, sir. I got it away from him. Here it is,” and Bob placed the black satchel on his desk, close to his elbow. Mr. Sackman seized it. with a sigh of relief, lifted it, and then set it down again. “T shan’t forget what I owe you, my lad,” ne ‘said. with a grateful expression. “Well,” interrupted the detective, impatiently, “IT suppose you are ready to accompany me to the station to make the charge against this man?” “Yes, I'll go with you. my office first.” “Gentlemen,” said the detective, in a loud tone, “please disperse.” Bob and Joe assisted in getting the crowd to leave the office. Mr. Sackman then opened his safe and placed the satchel, together with the gold pieces that Joe and the girls had picked up on the floor of Mr. Danforth’s office and returned to him. into it. After relocking it, and giving some directions to the nervous Dora. he put on his hat and left the office, with the detective and I wish you would clear ehis prisoner. while Bob remained to tell his story ‘of the exciting chase he had to the girls. Mr. Danforth, who had come to his office cco agers e eashier and Joe. : CHAPTER III.—Bob’s First Speculation. “Mr. Sackman wishes to see you, Bob,” said Cashier Brooks, an hour later. when the boy re- turned from his first errand of — the morning. “You’d better zo in and see him now.” “All right, ,sir,” replied the boy, ‘and he im- mediately watked into the office next door. *“T believe you want to see me, Mr. Sackman,” said Bob, when he saw that gentleman seated at his desk. “Yes. Sit down. I wish to thank you for what you did for me this morning. Your prompt in- terference saved me the sum of $5,000, for it is probable that if that rascal had got clean off I never would have recovered the money. I got that gold from the sub-treasury yesterday for a 5 1 purpose and placed it in charge of my safe Meposit people over night. On my way to the office I got the satchel, and had only. entered my room here when that man came in, locked - the door and attacked me, knocking me momen- tarily unconscious. He took the keys from my pocket, opened the bag and was examining the contents when I recovered my senses. As soon as he saw I was coming to, he grabbed me and dragged me to the wash-room, where he ae me till he thought I was insensible. He then He So maf my ae pees x po nape in time to prevent him from eScaping satchel. During Ps “

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4 MAKING: MONEY which the rascal treated me. He would have “Tt will coat. you $450 on the usual margin. -made his escape but for your plucky conduct. Did you bring the money?” and I feel that you are entitled to some substan- “Yes,” replied the young messenger, who had tial recognition for your services. Therefore, I already cashed Mr. Sackman’s check. take great pleasure in presenting you with my He counted out $50 from the roll, put it in his check for $500.” : pocket and handed the balance to the clerk. “This is a lot of money, Mr. Sackman, to give “Who do you represent, young man?” asked me for so small a service,” Bob said. “I really the clerk. didn’t look for anything, for I thought it my duty “Myself.” to try and catch that rascal and recover what I “What’s your name, and where do you work?” supposed was your property. I am very much Bob told him. The clerk made ‘a note of both, obliged to you for treating me in such a liberal then counted the money, and finding it all right way. If I can be of any further service to you , he filled in a memorandum of the transaction and at any time I hope you will call on me, for I feel _nanded it to Bob. Then the»boys left the bank as if I have not earned such a valuable present.” and started for their homes. “Not earned it? Why, of course you have. Bob now had a personal interest in the ticker Don’t you see that if that man had escaped scot and began to consult it. free the $5,000 would have been in all likelihood M. & C. took a sudden rise two days later lost to me forever? You are easily entitled to and at the end of a week it was up to 67, at ten per cent. of it, and I should feel that I hadn’t which point Bob sold out, clearing $2,800, while treated you right if I gave you any less.” Joe made $280. Bob gave his mother $250 for Bob thanked him again, and in a few minutes herself and Elsie. The $2,500 he stowed away returned to his own office, feeling like a small in the office safe for future tips. capitalist. Mr. Sackman called for him at half- past one to take him up to the Tombs Police Court, where io both hed - oe 4 at ae = amination of man with the black m €. CHAPTER IV.—Bob Takés a Trip Down Lo When the rascal was haled before the magistrate Island and Meets With a Surprise. he gave his name as Dunstan Leach, but refused to say where he lived. The evidence was suffici- _ My Lawrence Sackman was a real estate ent to hold him for the action of the grand sal ’ lawyer, whose princival business consisted of the The magistrate fixed his bail at $3,000, where- management of large estates, and the care of upon a big politician. who was in court, qualified - property left in his hands either for sale or to in real estate for that amount, and Leach was pe Jooked after while the owner and his family liberated for the time being. Mr. Sackman and were away on extended pleasure trips. One day Bob returned to Wall Street. At half-past three he cent his office-boy in to Mr. Danforth’s office” Bob met Joe. Both lads were through work for to tej] Bob Evans that he wished to see him, so 4 the day. / ; i “By the way, Joe, what about that tip you were Serer RENE SNE Se gow Woe telling me about?” “To-morrow being the 30th of May, you will “You said it was no use to you.” have a holiday,” said Mr. Sackman, “T know I did; but Mr. Sackman gave me a “That’s right, wond what: present for saving his $5,000, and est alters MY the lawyer aay Bory sath pag —— - financial condition.” “Would you like to earn a-$10 bill and do me a “How much did he give you? A hendved dol- . favor at the same time?” “I’m ready to do you a favor, whether there’s See hundred.” a $10 bill in it.or not,” replied Bob, promptly. “Whew! That’s a small fortune. Do you want “Thank you, Bob. I avvreciate your willing- to Fg Fe of it up on that tip?” ness to be of service to me. The $10 bill in this I thought I would, as you say it’s a sure case will not come out of my pocket. I want to’ winner.” take you with me down to Baypoint, Long Island, “You can take my word that’s it’s all of that. where I have charge of a country place belonging Well, the stock is M. & C. It have bought 10 to a client of mine. He and his family are, and ~ shares on margin. It’s voing at 45.” have been for some months, on an extended tour “Then, I’m game for 100 shares. That .will of Europe. I have a man and wife, very worthy cost me $450. The other fifty I'll take home to people, as caretakers on the property, but I make my mother.” it a practice of going down there about once a ~ ' “Well, you’ve got just about time to go to the month to go over the house and place to see that bank on Nassau Street, where I made my deal everything is all pre My clerk, who always _ .this morning, before the brokerage department accompanies me on these jaunts, is ill and can- . tloses. Come on.” not go, so I thought, if you didn’t mind ' ___ Bob and his friend started for the bank at onee, ing, in a measure, your holiday, I'd rather take _ There was nobody in the waiting-room when they you with me than a comparative stranger. We reached the shall stay over night and return on Friday morn- ea “That’s the margin-clerk’s window yonder,”. ing. You had better tell Mr. Saga that you dd Joe. ee art ne te SSL al WARE eM weg Se Sees Ses ee office, and. ei t to do.” de: “go that eniied Bob en Figs. ; ented haat at the windo asl do that,” replied Bob. z ' d the clerk, er oe 8E ok “Meet me at my ho ‘buy : & not wee than cient o’cloc’ want to take the 9:10 train £0

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rs MAKING “All right, sir. I'll be on hand.” Ten minutes before eight on the following morning Bob rang the bell at Mr. Sackman’s resi- dence in Madison Avenue,:and was admitted by a neatly dressed maid. “I see you’re on time, my boy,” said Mr. Sack- man. In a few minutes they left the house, walked to the Thirty-fourth Street ferry and crossed the river to the Long Island Railroad depot, where they boarded the train that was to take them to Sayville. In due time. they reached that town where a carriage was in waiting, to carry ‘them to their destination. A tall, ornamental iron gate, flanked by a small cottage, where the caretaker lived, admitted them to a fine, wide driveway. bordered by shade-trees, that led to the mansion, built upon an elevated section of the ground, mpg eg an unobstructed view of Great South An excellent lunch awaited them, te which both did justice, and then Mr. Sackman proceeded to business. He made a tour of the house with Bob, who carried-a schedule of the contents of the mansion, and checked off each item as the lawyer called it off. There was a large safe = . the librasy. This was opened and pat Fgh by Mr. who found, as he expected, was exactly as it had been at his meee _visit. Wien they were done with the house, they went over the grounds to see that the man in charge had neglected nothing within his line of duty. There was a small, private wharf on the ropesty with a boathouse, and the last thing Mr. Sackman did was to look into this house to see that the sailboat was all right, and everything in its place, as it ought to be “Is that a windmill yonder, Mr. Sackman?” asked Bob, as they were leaving the boathouse. He pointed off down along’ the shore. It’s the remains of one,” replied the lawyer. “A relict of pre-Revolutionary days, when quite a number of Dutchmen lived in this part of the island.” “How old do you geeng m 4 is?” “All of a hundred and fifty years.” eT think I should fike to Ko and look it over. _It doesn’t appear to be more than a mile away.” “Well, you have plenty of time to do that if you wish to. Tea won’t be ready for a couple of hours. You ought to be able to go there and back and see all you want to see in that time.” _“Tt won’t take me so long as that.” “You'll probably find me sitting on the piazza when you return,” said the lawyer, as Bob started off in the direction of the ancient windmill. He sore ee the shore of the+bay until, when short distance of his destination, he found his were blocked by the mouth of a small _ereek, which he could not cross without a boat. a broad sweep, and then, to his great satisfaction, _*he discovered that the windmill, after all, was on the same*side of the creek that he was. “J never would have thought that from down yonder,” he mused, as he kept on. ~ silent about the old mill, ' have been MONEY 5 cellent state of preservation. The doorway stood wide open, and Bob walked inside and looked around, with boyish curiosity. _ The place was quite bare—nothing to see but the four walls, the flooring and a stairway at one end, leading to an opening in the ceiling. Of course, Bob determined to see what was upstairs, and he was soon standing on the second floor, which was equally bare as the ground floor. There was another opening in the ceiling of that floor, com- municating with the loft, but as there was no means of reaching it, Bob could not pursue his investigations any further in that direction. “Tt isn’t so much, after all, but, judging from the number of initials cut around in the wood- work, a good many sightseers come here. I'll just add my own ‘B. E.’ to the bunch, and then T’ll get back to the Harper place.” Bob got his knife out and carved his two in- itials on a bare place. nage shows I’ve been here, at any rate,” he Salad. Then he returned to the ground floor. Throw- ing one last glance around the place, he saw what he hadn’t noticed during’ his first survey—the outline of a door, with a keyhole, but no knob. He took out his knife, and inserting the big blade in the crack near the keyhole, found no difficulty in prying it open. A large and dusty closet stood revealed, with a window in it, thickly covered by cobwebs. In the floor was a trap door, which worked on hinges, and there was a ring at one end by which it could be raised. What immediately struck Bob as peculiar was that while the floor all around was thickly covered with dust, which looked as if it had been trampled over, the trap itself was almost clear of the same. He had no trouble in lifting the trap, and found a rude stairway below, leading down into Stygian darkness. He went down a few steps and then flashed a match around. By the light he could make out a cellar, which extended under the whole of the mill. A portion of the cellar was choked up with debris, and there were . several boxes of different sizes scattered around, on the biggest one of which stood a lantern with a bit of candle in it. On another box was a small oil-stove, and an oil-can on the ground beside*it. There were many other signs also showing that the place was, or had been recently, occupied by a brace of lodgers—possibly tramps. Bob took the liberty of lighting the lantern, as furnishing a better illumination than a match, and with that in hand he made a complete survey of the cellar. In the rear of the place he found a shovel stand- ing against the wall, and evi nearby that the earth had been lately disturbed. . “Somebody has been digging here, that’s plain to’ be seen,” he said to himself. “What could | a digging here for, or perhaps they buried something? Weil, it’s none of my busi- ness. Besides, I haven’t time to investigate further.” He blew out the light, replaced the lantern ‘on the box, just as hé had found it, remounted the steps, shut down the trap, and pushed open the closet door. As he stepped out into the room, a man confronted him—a man who, to his great surprise, he instantly recognized. It was Dun- stan Leuk, the rascal who had assaulted and 5 tJ os el, et Ne SaaS ca Nae

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6 MAKING MONEY robbed Mr. Sackman some weelry since in his Wall Street office, and was now out on bail pend- ing his trial for the crime. . CHAPTER*“V.—In Which Bols Finds Himself Up Axainst It. u The récognition was mutual, and Leach started back, with a smothered imprecation. : “Why, you young monkey ” he began, rais- ing his fist, and then he stopped. “What brings you down to this neighborhood?” he went on, in a compressed voice. ; “This is a free country, I guess,” replied Bob, coolly; “and I have a right to be here as any- where else.” “You’re a Wall Street messenger boy. IT want to know what brought vou down to this part of Long Island?” nae ; “I don’t recognize your right to inquire into my affairs,” retorted Bob, coldly. ; Leach uttered an angry snort and looked as if nothing would suit him better than to strike the boy to the floor. If he had any such intention he managed to curb it. en: “Why are you spying around this milf?” he asked, in an ugly voice. “You didn’t come here for nothing, I'll bet.” “That’s true enough,” replied Bob. “I came over here to look at this old mill.” ‘ “I suppose you expect me to believe that cock; and-bull story,” sneered Leach. “T’m not worrying myself about whether you ‘believe it or not, as I guess my business is not yours.” : “You're putting on a lot of airs for a chap of your size and years,” snarled Leach. “I s’pose vou think because you got the best of me in Wall Street that you can ride rough-shod over me down here. Well, youlll find that it won’t work, see? I have got it in for you for butting into my business and squeezing me that morning, and I make it a point always to pay my debts. Such smart™alecks as you require a taking down once in awhile to teach them to mind their own busi- and not other people’s.” ‘ "RE don't want anything to do with you, Dunstan uch,” said Bob, starting to move away. : “Well, I want something to do with you. Now that you’ve put yourself in a position where I can square score between us, I’m going to do it, said Leach, putting out his hand and detaining him. “I'd advise you to let me alone,” replied Bob, drawing back amerely- : ink I can’t master you, eh? Leach, advancing on him in a threatening way. “If you do - boy, resolutely. = = = J - “I don’t think you'll get the chance,to put up pues of a fight,” replied Leach, springing at it will be after a fight,” replied the ° tough-looking chap, whose pock-marked features - were ‘partially covered with a two weeks’ growth of stubby beard. A shabby hat sat upon a closely cropped bullet head, supported by a thick. bull neck, springing from a pair of broad shoulders. He was evidently surprised at what he saw. but did not lose much time in coming to the assist- ance of Leach, which showed that the two were associates. Of course, as soon as he laid hands on Bob, the lucky boy had no further show in the scrap. “Hold on to him, Stidger, till I can get some- thing to tie him with,” said Leach. “What do you want to tie him for? What’s he been doin’?” asked the other. “This is the boy that did me up in Wall Street. I would have got ‘clean off with. Sackman’s $5,000 in gold only for him.” “You don’t say so! So this is the boy, eh?” said Stidger, regarding Bob with no little curi- osity. “He’s a spunky-looking rooster. What’s he doin’ here in the mill? He belongs in New York, doesn’t he?” : “He’s spying around the place.” “What were you doin’ in that place, ypu young | monkey?” grated Stidger, swinging Bob around. “What’s that your business?” replied the boy. “You don’t own this mith” “Look here, I’ll twist your neck for you if you talk to me in that way. Were vou down in the cellar?” , “Yes, I was down in the cellar. What of it?” Bob’s nerve and coolness seemed to stagger the bull-neck rascal. * “What did you see there?” snarled Stidger. “What do you suppose a person could see in a - dark hole like that?” “i Stidger appeared to be relieved somewhat by the boy’s non-committal reply. . “There ain’t nothin’ to be seen,” he said. - “Then what are you kicking about?” asked Bob. You two seem to be making a big rdmpus over nothing. I came over to this old mill just to look at it, because I heard it was more than a hundred years old. It’s deserted, so anybody has a right to go over it from roof to cellar if he. wants to. _That’s what I’ve been doing, and I didn’t figure on any one stopping me, as there’s no signs posted up, warning people away. So now you know why I’m here, though I don’t know that-it’s any business of yours, one way or the other. Now I want you to take your hands off me and let me go, or you'll find vour- self in trouble.” ; “What trouble will we find ourselves in?” sneered Leach. ae “Mr. Sackman knows I came over to this mill, and if I don’t return in a reasonable time, he'll — be over here looking for me. “Mr. Sackman, eh? What’s he doing down in this part of the country?” . “You’d better go over to Mr. Harper’s and ask him,” retorted Bob, in a sarcastic tone, “You'll find him on the piazza if you go right away.” ey Sheps _ Leach and Stidger exchanged glances, and — seemed interested in Bob’s words. + ae tad “Did you come down here from New York with | Sackman?” asked Leach. : (oe ie a a: ae eee

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MAKING “What \ brought Sackman to the Harper place? The house is shut up,” said Leach, in evident surprise. “What business is that of yours? You seem uncommonly interested in the movements of Mr. Sackman and myself,” said Bob, beginning to suspect that there was something at the bottom of Leach’s persistent attempts to discover the reason for the presence of himself and the lawyer in that neighborhood. Dunstan Leach glared at the boy. “Tll fix you all right in about a minute,” he .* said, vindictively, making a move toward the closet door. 1 At that moment Bob became conscious that Stidger’s grip on his arms had relaxed, and tak- ing instant advantage of the circumstance, he * broke away and made a dash for the door. The . bull-necked rascal was after him in a moment, but Bob was fleet of foot and soon distanced him. Stidger, after following the boy for a quarter of a mile, gave up the chase and returned to the mill, while Bob kept on toward the Harper prop- erty, and inside of fifteen minutes rejoined Mr. Sackman on the piazza of the house. *_“What’s the matter, Bob?” asked the lawyer. “You look overheated, as if you’d been running. 4 “You'd never guess, so I'll tell you. I met with quite an adventure over at that old mill. “Indeed ?” “You'd never dream who I ran across there.” “Somebody you know?” ; _. “Somebody that we both know rather too _ well, I guess.” 4 ~~ “You excite my curiosity. Who was it?” “The raseal who assaulted you in your office _ and ran off with your satchel containing the $5,000 -in gold—Dunstan ti / ~ “You don’t mean it!” exclaimed Mr. Sackman, in attone of ashonishment. ‘ “I do mean it,” answered Bob, who then told __ the lawyer all the particulars of his meeting with __. Leach and his tough companion. : _ - So that rascal and another chap are making = the cellar of the old mill their headquarters, eh? Said Mrv Sackman. : “It looks like it,” replied Bob. Maybe Leach is planning to jump his bail on the case we have against him when he’s called for trial. The grand jury will reach the case in ater days, and after hearing our testimony is) 2 MONEY 7 CHAPTER VI.—In Which Bob Spoils a Crooked Game And Is Suitably Rewarded. Next morning Bob ran into Mr. Sackman’s office for a few minutes, to see Dora. “How did you enjoy your short trip to Long Island?” asked the stenographer, with a smile. “Fine,” replied Bob. “I earned $10 by help- ing Mr. Sackman with his examination of Mr. Harper’s property.” “But you missed. that baseball game at the Polo Grands you and your friend were going to,” she laughed. “I’m. willing to miss any ball game for $10. Business before pleasure is my motto always. How did you put in the day?” “Lily and I took a trolley ride up to-Mamar- oneck,” she answered. “It’s a trip we've been looking forward to for some time.” “Have a good time?” “Splendid.” “The next time you girls went to take such a ride, let Joe and me take you, will you?” asked Bob, eagerly. - “You are very kind to suggest it,” replied Dora, flashing one of her fetching, sidelong glances at the young messenger. “Say, do you object to taking such a ride next Sunday ?” “If Lily will go I might agree to it.” She immediately put it up to her friend across the room, telling her that Joe would be pleased to“death to accompany her. The proposition put both girls m a flutter, but neither could be in- duced to give a decided answer then. “I'll let you know by Saturday,” said Dora, and Bob had to be contented with that. That, afternoon Mr. Danforth sent Bob with a message to a wholesale jewelry establishment on Maiden Lane. When Bob reached the store the man he had to see was engaged with a lady in swell attire to whom he was showing a tray of diamonds. She seemed hard to please, and Bob sat on a stool nearby to await his turn. The lady was such an attractive woman that his eyes wandered frequently toward her, and he noticed that during the critical examination of the sems she was handling that on one oecasion she dis- tracted the clerk’s attention for a moment and then put her hand under the outside molding of the counter, where she let it remain a moment. He thought nothing of the circumstance, and» after a time the lady decided that none of the diamonds pleased her and started to leave the store. The sharp-eyed salesman immediately noticed that one of the most valuable diamonds was missing from the tray. His suspicions were immediately aroused, and he called the lady back, making a quick signal to one of the other employes, who, went and stood in the doorway. Bob stepped to the counter as the lady returned in a haughty way.. } ; See “Madam,” said the salesman, politely but firm- ly, “haven’t you made a mistake?” hfs “A mistake, sir! What do you mean?” she demanded, with a cre her eye. “Haven't you accidentally retained “ON

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3 MAKING, who happened to be the junior partner of the firm, and whose specialty was unset diamonds. “But one of the stones—the one, I may say, that I observed attracted your eye more than any of the others, is missing.” “Do you dare infer that I have stolen your diamond?” she demanded, indignantly. 2 “I am sorry, madam, but I am afraid the dia- mond is in your possession, and unless you give it up it will be necessary to search you.” _ Bob stood by, astonished at the proceedings. He was satisfied in his own mind that the hand- somely attired lady*was innocent of the serious charge. The lady made a big kick against the threatened indignity, but the salesman was iIn- exorable. Suddenly turning to Bob, she said: “Young man, you were present while I was standing here, and I call on you as a witness that this man has grossly insulted me. I want your name and address. Will you oblige me with it? “Certainly,.ma’am,” replied Bob. He took out one of Mr. Danforth’s cards and, writing his name on it, handed it to her. “Thank you. You shall be rewarded. Now, sir, you may search me if you choose.” The head of the house was now on the scene, and the junior partner, after an explanation of the circumstances, turned the lady over to him. He invited her into his private office, and sent for his stencgrapher, who was educated in the role that was sometimes required of ‘her. At that moment a stylishly dressed young man the store and went directly to the same on counter lately occupied by the & pe ane z a BS g it to close over something, and he casually hand in.the pocket of his sack coat and is handkerchief. ike a flash it struck Bob that he saw through whole game what had been played under his Some months before he had read im a woman in Chicago who had brought gainst a diamond ‘hant for being ac- of stealing a valuable gem that was not on EE #2 ; Tit, oe i ; i i is A i hn 4 7 i o 4 f gr > aR 7 ,* he =e 1 » ever executed in his life. , long, and then he delivered his MONEY out making any purchase. Bob was go excited at the discovery that he had made that he couldn’t await the return of the junior partner, but asked to see the head of the house. He hastened into the private office and laid his suspicions before the gentleman, who acted at once. The dapper young man was asked to walk into the private room. He took alarm at such an unusual re- quest, and started to leave the store, but was headed off by Bob and another clerk. The young messenger, in the proprietor’s presence, put his hand into the man’s pocket and pulled out a thick wad of gum. The diamond was found sticking in the gum. A policeman was sent for and the swell crook given in charge. Bob was highly complimented for his instrumentality in recovering the gem, which was worth $6,000, and was rewarded with a check for $500. CHAPTER VII.—A Hero In Spite Of Himself. Of course, the incident got into the newspapers, and Bob was made out to be a bright and ob- serving young chap, with the instincts of a born detective. Many of the brokers who knew him. well clapped him on the back when they met him on the street and told him that they thought he must have missed his true calling in life. Mr. Danforth complimented him, and laurhi remarked that his visit to Maiden Lane had turn- ed out to be the most profitable errand he had “Yes, sir, I guess it was,” chuckled Bob. “I wish you had a few more ofthat kind to send me = , When, it comes to making money, I’m on the “Well, here, take this note down to Broker | Smith in the Mills Building. Maybe you'll be able to pick up a tip, or a pocketbook, or a — lost bank-book, or something of that kind before | you get back,” lauzhed the broker. Bob sprang into the elevator, and wa* pres- ently on the street. Down Broad Street he hus- tled till he reached the Mills Building, where he . took an elevator for the fourth floor. Broker — Smith was engaged and Bob had to sit down and wait till he was disengaged, which was not — note. “No answer,” said the trader, and Bob left the © office to return. When opposite the Stock Exchange he ran into Joe, bound on an errand to Exchange Place. “Well, old man, you haveh’t ‘done anything startling since I saw you last, have you?” he ~ asked, with a chuckle. é a “If you don’t quit your kidding me, Joe, TU put it all over you,” replied Bob. pais “Yes, you will! Why, you wouldn’t hit me for afarm.” . : “Don’t you be sure of that. Once on a time there was a fellow just like you who took ad-— vantage of—— : 7 -That is as far'as Bob got, for a great at the head of Nassau Street attracted not ior, and Joe’s, but every one else in- ment. _ *& runaway, I'll bet,” replied Bob. rin 2

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MAKING There was no doubt what it was a moment later, for a wild-eyed horse, attached to a light buggy, shot out from Nassau Street at break- neck speed and darted into Broad Street. As it came around the corner an electric-light post not only relieved it of the buggy, the front wheel which caught and stuck fast, but also scraped every bit of the harness from its back. More badly frightened than ever, the animal kept on its wild career, unchecked. Without thinking of the danger, Bob dashed into the street and began waving his arms at the animal. It paid no more attention to him big mass of excited curb brokers, and if it struck them somebody was bound to ‘be done up. _ He got ready to try to get on its back. A crouch, a and in another moment, amid a buzz of astonishment and admiration from hundreds of mouths, Bob caught its flying mane and alighted on the runaway’s back. , Gripping the animal with his left leg, Bob ped the mane with his left hand, swung out to one side and forward, and seized the horse ‘by the nostrils, with the other hand. The mo- ment the animal’s breath was stopped it was obliged to slow down. A tremendous shout of went up from the mass of brokers at that moment. They heaved and fought wildlv to escape the danger they saw bearing down on them, but they had taken the alarm too late to have —- the disaster but for Bob’s mag- nificent feat. One would have thought a fire or a riot was in n @ moment boy and horse a seething crowd that spread MONEY 9 that afternoon, and before he finally did show up, with his pockets filled with a miscellaneous assortment of bills contributed by the grateful curb brokers, the news was known to Mr. Dan- forth, who was fairly dumfounded with aston- ishment at what his messenger boy had done. All the clerks in the office were talking about the incident, as reported by eye-witnesses who came into the office. Joe himself had seen the whole thing, of course, and forgot all about the errand he was bound on. He hung around, watch- ing the crowd, and the subsequent procession of the curb brokers, bearing Bob aloft like a con- quering hero. The brokers themselves would have given anything to have had a band to head that march. However, they furnished the best music they could, in a vocal way. At last Joe hurriedly performed his errand and then rushed back to the office to carry the news in to the girls, who were startled to a pitch of excitement over his graphic description of what had happened and was_ still happening in Broad S t. Well, it was all over at last, and Bob was permitted to escape. He just kited back to the office, avoiding everv one along the road as if they were afflicted with a pestilence. He reported to Mr. Danforth, and what that gentleman said made him blush all over again. He nearly had a scrap with Joe later on, because his chum tried to tell him what a hero he had made of himself. Next morning every paper had a big account of the incident, and all day long he had to run a gantlet of well-meaning brokers, many of whom he had never met before in his life. The clory he got out of that affair was enough to last an average person all his life, and his mother and sister were so proud of him that he had to call a halt to their enthusiasm on the subject. -—-— CHAPTER VIII—The Doing Up of Dunstan , Leach and Bill Stidger. On Monday morning, as Bob was riding down to his business, his eye came across a story in the paper that riveted his attention. It was be sere “Mysterious Robbery at Oakdale, Long Then it went.on to state that Major Stagg’s home had been invaded by thieves, who carried off a box of bonds, and several thousand dollars’ Saturday night. i. The story set Bob to thinking pretty hard, and his thoughts were with Dunstan Leach and his bull-necked comrade, who looked to him like a jail-bird, if he had ever seen one in print. “A dollar to a doughnut that they’re at the of this,” muttered Bob to himself. “Mr. in a strong way

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10 “Mr. Harper’s place was looted last night,” he said, excitedly, to Bob. “What! You don’t mean it!” exclaimed the astonished boy. “That’s what the dispatch says. It’s from the caretaker. I must take the first train down there. I'd like you to come. Do you think Mr. Danforth can spare you?” . “Tl ask him, if you say so,” said Bob. Do so,” said the lawyer. “Has he come down yet?” “He hadn’t arrived when I left the office to come in here.” “Well, run in and see if he’s there now.” Mr. Danforth had just come and was rather surprised at Bob’s request. He went in and saw the lawyer. When he returned he told Bob he could go for the day. Bob so reported to Mr. Sackman, and the two soon after left Wall Street for the Long Island depot in Brooklyn. In due time they: reached Sayville, where a conveyance was waiting to take them over to the Harper property. They found the head constable of the village awaiting them. He had already been over the house, taking note of the means the thieves “had adopted to enter the house. The lawyer, ac- companied by Bob, with the property schedule, went over the place*and a careful estimate of the loss was footed up. It amounted to several thousand dollars, at a conservative figure. The lawyer had a consultation with the constable, and it was decided to go over to the old mill and see what they could discover. Bob, of course, went to pilot the way to the cellar. At the door _of the mill they were surprised to see Dunstan Leach and Bill Stidger seated in the shade of the building, contentedly smoking a pipe each. That gave the constable the immediate impression that those raScals could hardly be the guilty parties. Mr. Sackman and Bob, however, thought dif- ferently. They simply regarded it as a piece of ‘colossal nerve on the part of Leach and his as- -sociate. At any rate, they proposed to call what they believed to be a bluft and see what came of it. Leach and Stidger appeared to be surprised. when the party halted before them. “You seem to be strangers around here,” said the constable. “Where are you putting up?” “You mean where do we lodge?” asked Leach, innocently. “Me and my friend here, being in temporary hard luck, are lodging at present in the cellar of this mill. Any harm in that?” __ “T£ you have no visible means of support I shall _ have to arrest you both - 7 under the vagrant act.” “We're not vagrants, for we have some money,” replied Leach, displaying several bills. __ “Since you appear to have money, why are you like tramps?” asked the constable, suspici- thought ought this was a free country,” 1 If we choose to save our money, instead ding Soe gas greedy farmer, haven't > ¥ a~- replied - _ heads that stretched them “have you in remaining in this ey asa constable, - MAKING MONEY justice. Your presence in this old mill is suspi- cious, if nothing else. You can explain your case to him. If he’s willing to let you stay here, well and good; but I don’t believe he’ll stand for it.” “It’s mighty hard that the liberty of a free and enlightened American citizen should be interfered with by a country justice,” replied Leach, in an injured tone, making no effort to rise. “I’m not going to argue the matter with you, my man. Just get up, both of you, and come along with me.” . Leach and Stidger rose, with evident reluc-| tance. ; “Do you expect us to walk all the way to Say- ville?” asked the chief rascal. . “No. T’ve a wagon about half a mile from here,” replied the constable. “All right. -Lead on, we will follow.” : “No, you won’t. You will proceed first, where I can keep my eye on you.” “Are you going to treat us»like criminals?” sens seeps Leach, in a tone of assumed indigna- ion. : “T am going to treat you as I think you de- serve,” replied the officer. “Are you coming, Mr. Sackman?” e “We shall remain here a little while, and wil meet you later at the house,” replied the lawyer. Leach flashed a keen glance at Mr. Sackman, whispered something to Stidger, and then started off with the constable. “Now, you and I will take a look at the cellar and see what we can find down there,” said the lawyer to Bob, as soon as they were alone. “Very well, “sir,” answered the young mes- senger, leading the way into fhe milliand toward the door, without a handle, in the wall. His knife pried it open, as before, then he pointed out the trap-door. Lifting that by the ring, the stairs were before them, and down they proceeded to the floor beyond. Bob struck a match and they both looked around.. The place was not materially changed since Bob was there before. The lantern stood on the same box, and Bob lighted the candle in it. A careful search of the place revealed no traces of any concealed — swag. The shovel was not where Bob saw it be-— fore, and the spot where the earth had appeared — to be disturbed was now hidden under a pile of © rubbish. : a F “Well.” remarked the lawyer, “if those rascals — are really the thieves who robbed the Stagg and — Harper houses, they’ve hidden their plunder quite : successfully.” as “T’ll bet it’s here, somewhere. I’m certain they — are the guilty ones,” said Bob. =e “Oh, you “are certain, are you?” said a voice | behind . . . Bob the lawyer started and turned about, only to*receive a heavy blow al i heir” both, half stunned, on -the ground. When they recovered from the shock they fone their hands and feet bound and

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. MAKING MONEY : reply, and presently they felt themselves lifted and propped against the stone wall of the cellar. There they were left, and the two men were soon afterward heard talking at a distance. : “Are you there, Mr. Sackman?” asked Bob, in a low tone. : “Yes, Bob. We seem to be in a bad fix.’ ; “You are tied and blindfolded, too, I s’pose?” se am.” “Those rascals seem to be digging at the fury ther end of the cellar. Don’t you hear a shovel? “Quite distinctly, Bob. : “TT bet they’re unearthing their plunder for the purpose of removing it.” “y dare say they are. I can’t imagine how they got away from the constable.” | “They must have jumped on him unawares and done him up.” ‘ ; “I’m afraid they did. It was a risky thing for them to attempt in open daylight.” : “They knew what they had to expect if they were landed before a justice.” “They may leave us here in the cellar, helpless, after they take their stolen stuff away,” said the lawyer, “and then what will become of us?” “T expect that is what they mean to do. They wouldn’t dare release us.” : $ _. While they were talking, Bob was busy with his bonds, and by great good fortune succeeded in working ome of his hands loose. To draw out other was easy, and then he cautiously lifted the bandage that was about his eves so he could _ See with one eye. He said nothing as yet about __ his good juck to the lawyer, but bided his time. “Stidger at the moment was carrying a small _ Mahogany box up the celler steps. He disap- . and then Bob heard his footsteps on the oor above. While he was away, Leach began to dig in a new spot, after clearing away some of the rubbish. When Stidger returned, he picked ‘up a bag of something heavy, which Leach lifted from the fresh hole and carried that out of the cellar also. Leach then cleared wae Nora @way and commenced digging again. ie wor’ _ Went on until half a dozen more sacks were re- _ Moved from the cellar, Leach accompanying Als _ ¢ompanion in the last trip above. Bob then _ thought it time to act. He got out his knife, cu? his feet loose, and then surprised Mr. Sackman by freeing him. ; : ~. “Quick, now,” said Bob. “Grab that billet of _ Wood and I'll take this one. They have left the - ; al Se so we may expect them to come back. down 4 is - ws had hardly secreted eaeet = feb nd th Rpt g out upon ne stairs, a e spran Jilgeaee and before either was aware of what was z to happen, they were laid out, stunned and themselves béfore reached the foot” 11 light wagon standing before the door., Evidently Leach and Stidger had got rid of the officer and run off with his rig. Apparently, all their plunder was piled in the wagon. It was clear that they had intended to take it away with them to some other place, if not to New York. “Since we have this wagon at our disposal,” said Bob, “we might as well load Leach and Stidger on it, too, and carry the outfit to Say- ville. The police will insist on holding the stolen property as evidence until after the fellows are tried.” ; Mr. Sackman agreed to Bob’s suggestion, and they carried the prisoners out of the cellar, one at a time. Then they started for the village. The héad constable was found lying tied in a lone- some part of the road, and Bob speedily released him. He explained that he had been suddenly attacked and overcome by the rascals. He took charge of the wagon, the plunder and the pris- oners. It took about an hour to reach the lock- up in the village, and the prisoners were hand- cuffed and placed in a cell. An inventory was taken of the stolen property, and then Major Stage and Mr. Sackman were each allowed to take his share away. The lawyer gave Bob full credit for the capture of the thieves and the recovery of the stolen property. and Major Stagg expressed his gratitude hy a $1.000 check, payable to Bob’s order. which Mr. Sackmian afterward supplement- ed with another for $500. The lawyer and Bob returned to New York by a late train. _ CHAPTER IX.—Bob Gets-Hold of a Tip and Is ’ on the Job with Both Feet <= The Long Island correspondents of the big metropolitan dailies sent in the story of the two robberies along the South Shore, the capture of the thieves and recovery of the stolen property by Bob Evans, with such assistance as Mr. Sack- man was able to render, and the particulars were’ duly published next morning. Joe Vincent read the article in his favorite journal as he rode downtown to business, and was duly astonished to learn of the part his chum had played in the matter. ; . — #4 “My gracious!” he exclaimed. “Bob is having all sorts of stirring adventures, it seems to me. He ought to be the hero of a story-book. I wonder why something doesn’t happen to me? Now, if I only could rescue Lily Page from under the wheels of an automobile, or pull her from a house afire, or do anything else that would make me solid with her for ma I'd be right in it. I’d get into the papers, too, and see yourself in print, and know that a million or more people are i i pose no such luck is reserved for me. Some ~people never get into the limelight if they live to be a hundred.” . » Dora White also would : I was a brave fellow. I wonder wae it feels to the story of Bob's lu mi article to L 5 oe P down

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* 12 MAKING the same. Joe was waiting out in the corridor to see Bob, when the latter appeared. “Say, you’re all to the mustard, old man!” cried Vincent, as soon as he saw his friend. “Everything seems to come your way.” “So you’ve been reading about me in the paper, have you?” replied Bob, with a laugh. “Sure I have. There’s two-thirds of a column about your adventure in my paper. You’re get- ting to be the whole thing.” sa “T can’t help that, Joe. I didn’t hunt for all that trouble. I was forced into it. If those chaps had left us alone there might have been a dif- ferent story to tell. -By trapping us they only laid a worse trap for themselves. I'll bet they are kicking themselves for monkeying with us at all. However, they only got what was coming to them. Dunstan Leach will have to stay in jail now, I guess. He is a pretty hard case, and his friend Stidger isn’t any better.” When Mr. Danforth came down he called Bob into hi¥ private room and had the boy tell him the story from beginning to end. “You’re a clever lad, Bob,” was his final com- MONEY > : Luck they say runs in streaks. If you hit one, or it hits you, you are apt to be fortunate for some time on a stretch. Everything seems to come your way without any special exertion on your part. That is what people call a run of luck. It looked as if Bob Evans had got into one of those streaks from the morning that the black satchel had smashed the transom window and bathed him in a shower of gold coin, significant of what was to follow, for next afternoon he ac- cidentally overheard two brokers talking about a syndicate that had just been formed to corner M. S. shares. Now, Bob had heard brokers talking many and many times before—perhaps a hundred times— and yet never had their talk conveyed the slight- est hint of a pointer before. Yes, luck was cer- tainly tagging after the young messenger, and Bob, you may well believe, was the boy to take -advantage of that fact. Without any more delay than he could help, he looked up M. & S. and found that it was going at 49. When next he went to the Exchange he found the trader who had been mentioned as the man who was doing the buying for the syndicate, bidding for the Bator Pratl got a reward of $1,000. from stork, and taking all that was offered at the e565 * ; : ‘ -. market price. x Sn gg “si en Se albert dt Na That was enough for Bob. When he returned. © “Certainly... I sup "get something ‘© the office he asked for half an hour's leave of more from Harper by and by?” : “Mr. Sackman, who has charge of the place, promised me $500.” “You'll be well off for a messenger boy.” ~ Se Darwen’ would have been surprised if he had known that his young employee was worth a matter of $2,500, independent of the recent re- wards, the greater part of which he had made out of his deal in M. & C. shares. Bob, however, didn’t think it necessary to tell him about that. That afternoon Mr. Sackman handed Bob his absence, and getting it, rushed around to the bank in Nassau Street and bought 1.000 shares of M. & S., at 49 1-8, and it took about all his money to cover the margin. Evidently, Bob was a plunger. At any rate, he had the courage of his convictions. He was fully convinced that M. & S. was slated for a boom, and was willing to back that belief with his last coin. After-all it is the courageous person who usually succeeds in his ventures. The wayering chap lets the chances pass by because he’s afraid to take thie | risk. When there was money to be made Bob “was on the job. Later on, when he met Joe, he passed the tip on to him. “Buy M. & S. and help cut the watermelon with me,” he said to him. spent that $300 I gave you the other day, mother = “How much did you buy?” asked Joe. let me know and ve you some My “One thousand shares.” “My!” e. “You talk as if you * Joe nearly cropped. _ = were worth a barrel of money.” “One thousand shares! And you paid how “JT hope to be worth that much one of these much for it?” : “Forty-nine and one-eighth.” “Then yo y, as him “You only think it would. If those shares only Aa agooemiy es and I sold out at that ’d make nearly $2,000 ina lump. Now I believe _ as earnestly as I believe anything that the stock — will go up over ten points. I shall 8 ered _ disappointed if I don’t clear $10,000 trip. , I call. maki thats ;

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MAKING MONEY When you feel that way always get in on the ground floor while the streak lasts. Time enough to quit when things begin to turn. It is simply _ making hay while the sun shines. Now, take my advice and go the whole hog on’M. & S. You won't lose.” — Joe was carried away by some of Bob’s en- thusiasm, and he lost no time in buying as many shares of the stock as he could put up the margin for, and that was 40 shares. It cost him 49 1-2. Three days later the price had adyanced, by fractions, to 51. : “T believe you'll be a millionaire yet, Bob,” said Joe, when they came together that day. “T shan’t kick if I do become one,” replied Bob. “I should say not. I wish I was as lucky as . On the following day some ews, whether true or not, leaked out about M. & S. and the stock advanced to 57 before the Exchange closed. The efforts of brokers who wanted to buy the shares developed the fact that the stock was ‘scarce, and word being circulated that a big trader had bought a block of 5,000 shares at one point above the market caused a big rush to buy next morn- ing, so that by noon M. & S. was quoted at 62. _ At two o’clock it had reached 65, and it finally closed at 68. “Shall we sell?” asked Joe, excitedly, when he _ met Bob at half-past three. _ “I am going tu leave my order at the bank to _ sell at 70,” said Bob. - “Then I’m if on that. I’ve been on pins and _ Needles all afternoon lest the peice go to pieces at _ any moment. I'll bet there'll a crash in a oo! er two at the outside. I néver knew a stoc ‘boo on a mystery that didn’t go to pieces S0oner or later. I’ll be glad when I’m out of it. . out at 70, though Joe, if he hadn’t been F med to do so before Bob, would have told the Ne to sell his forty shares first thing in the *f at the market. M. & S. opened at 68 y fell back zemained for a while, and then de- and the and sister were helmed by his in’t uriderstand -it, good: folks,” he __ The boys left their order for the bank to close -more watchful. -and there isn’t any use crying over spilt milk. their two weeks’ vacation together, Mr. Sackman 13 Mrs. Evans took the hint and acted on it, and within thirty days B»b had to go down into his pocket and cough up $5,000. But he did it with a great deal of pleasure, for his mother was more to him than anything else in the world, and his sister came next, when he wasn’t thinking of Dora Whit@, wh6é occupied a good share of his thoughts. CHAPTER X.—Bob Sent to Southampton, Picks Up a Pointer On the Way. Bob went into Mr. Sackman’s outer- office now more frequently than ever, and Joe invented all kinds of excuses to run in there also. _Sometimes the boys met there. At any rate, the girls were - always on the lookout for one or both of them, either at noon, when they were eating their lunch, or after the boys were through work for the day. Of course, Bob always hugged Dora’s desk, while Joe found his attraction on the other side of the room.. During the summer they took thé girls to different seaside resorts not far from the city, every Saturday afternoon and spent money on them without stint. In their estimation there was nothing too good for Dora and Lily, and the girls were satisfied that Bob and Joe were the princes of good fellows. One morning, Bob, after boarding a subway express and setting down in a corner to read the newspaper, was treated to a surprise. = Almost the —~ ae that attracted his atten- tion was a good-sized paragraph, which 3 that Dapstan Leach and Bill Sudges had beoken out of the Riverhead jail and were now at large. “Gee! I’m sorry. to learn that,” said Bob to himself. “They’re liable to get clean off, go West, maybe, and so escape punishment for their -erimes.” He showed the story to Joe, later on, and t boys wondered how the rascals had menaasd = escape. : “Some of those country lock-ups are little bet- eS FA = to etd crooks,” said. Joe. ey ought to keep such sli chaps al handcuffed.” ite ee Bob went into Sackman’s office to tell him the news, but the lawyer had seen*the statement in the paper. “Too bad,” he said. “They should have been However, the damage is done, After that Bob watched the paper closely for some notice indicsting ms the escaped prisoners had been recaptured, but nothing of the kind ap- peared. He was at length forced to believe that Leach and Stidger were not likely to be retaken. — August came around, and Dora and Lily got shutting up the office and going down to Shelter - Island, where his family were settled in a cot- tage since the last of June. Bob and Joe decidedly lonesome without their charmers. Port Jeff PR On Wednesda each

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i MAKING time they were having, but how much nicer it would be if Bob and Joe were there, too. “Maybe you and Mr. Vincent could get off next Saturday, take the eight o’clock train down and stay over till Sunday night, at any rate,” wrote Dora to Bob. .“We’d just give anything to have you come. Now do try.” e Bob showed the paragraph to his chum. “Lily wrote me the same thing,” said Joe, eagerly. “She said Dora’s aunt would be very glad to have us come, and there’s plenty of room in the house to accommodate us.” y “Let’s go, Joe,” said Bob. “I can get off all right, can you?” “T guess I can manage it. I’ll ask the boss be- fore he leaves town this afternoon.” The boys got the required permission, and each wrote his girl word that he would be down on the eight o’clock train on the following Sat- urday. “We'll be right in it, Joe,” chuckled Bob. “Port Jefferson, they say, is a dandy summer . Yoosting spot, in a quiet way.” “We can go out boating on the bay there. You know the ropes, and I can give you a hand, after a fashion.” : “Yes, we can do a whole lot of things between. Saturday noon and Sunday night.” Business was rather dull in the Street that month, for half the brokers were away from town a week or more at a time, and the rest went and came to their business, night and morning, many of the fashionable watering places being within easy reach of Wall Street. Mr. Danforth was in off and on to see that nothing in the money line got away from him, the rest of the time he spent at Southampton, Long Island, where he owned a cottage. This summer colony was the most select and exclusive on the island. Thurs- day afternoon Mr. Danforth left the office at two o’clock, bound for the Long Island depot in Brooklyn. He was in such a hurry to catch his train that he forgot an important paper that he meant to take with him. He didn’t notice the omission till he reached the depot, then he called up the office on a wire. The cashier answered the call, and was directed to send Bob with the eed by a later train to Southampton. Mr. s called Bob to his desk, told him what was wanted of him and handed him the document and a $10 bill to cover his expenses. —— . “There’s a time-table on Mr. Danforth’s desk,” he said. “Go in and see when the next train for Southampton leaves Brooklyn.” ~~ Bob found that it left at 6.50 p. m. “You have lots of , then. Send a message to your home, telling your mother that you'll be away all right. You can get your supper at a ok restaurant before you board the train. You'll find the hotels crowded at Southampton, - but I guess you'll be able to get a room some- wateee. te cottage. believe.” Danforth doesn’t lodge you at his -has several guests there now, , es c- = 4°et ; MONEY another in the smoking-car. Darkness fell after a while, and then Bob, not being able ta see any- thing through the window, amused himself watch- ing the gentlemen in his car. Two men that the boy judged to be brokers, from some_words they let drop, were talking together in a low, earnest tone. Bob paid little attention to them. In the course of half an hour they vacated the seat and went back into one of the other cars. Bob de- cided to take their seat, as the one he occupied . was not comfortable, somehow, and it bothered him. When he made the change he noticed a piece of paper lying on the cushion. Mechanical- ly he picked it up and opened it. There were a few words scrawled in pencil across thé: inner side. This is the way it read: “Huxley will begin buying to-morrow on the floor, as we have picked up all we can get on the quiet. The price will probably go up from the start, as I don’t believe there is much available in the open: Smith & Jessup have a block of 3,000 that.we may get to-morrow if S. comes to town. Send me your check for balance du Within a week we'll divide a fat melon. It will be a sur- prise to the boys. SD. 3. “By gracious! This is a pointer for fair,” ex- claimed Bob, wide awake to the value indicated oy the paper. “Now if I only knew the name of the stock. I must go to the Exchange in the morning, after I get back, and wateh Mr. Huxley. It is fortunate that I know the gentleman well by sight. Whatever stock he is bidding for ex- clusively will be the-keynote to the situation.” Bob put the paper in his pocket'and began to dream of another coup in which-he hoped to dou- ble his $20,000, now stowed.away in a safe-deposit box. It was late when Bob got off the train at the Southampton station, but as he knew he was expected, that fact did not worry him. He did not know where Mr. Danforth’s cottage was situated, but guessed he would have no— trouble finding it, by making inquiries. He was * saved this bother, however, by a colored man, who stepped ®p to him and asked if his name was Bob Evans. * me “That’s my name,” replied the young mes- OT ipk ih aarti.” 58 taki got tleds “Come with me, . I'll take you right over to Mr. Danforth’s.” : He led the way to a light trap drawn up near the platform, told Bob to jump in, then followed himself, took up the reins and they were pres- ently dashing along a well-graded roadway. Mr. Danforth was seated on his veranda in company with two gentlemen. He thanked Bob for bring- ing him the paper, asked him if he had had his dinner, and then told him that as the hotels were all crowded he could provide him with a small room in the carriage-house for the night. mind night before. He got

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_. Joe when Be MAKING MONEY Satisfied that D. & P. was the stock to be boomed, Bob went to the bank and ordered 3,000 shares of it to be bought for his account at the market price, which was 61. He told the clerk that Smith & Jessup had that amount on hand, if they hadn't disposed -f it. and said the bank’s broker had bgtter see Mr. Smith. It happened that Broker Smith came on the. floor just as the bank’s representative received the order to buy, and he button-holed the trader at once. Smith, however, said he wanted 63 for the block, and the broker got the refusal of it -for half an hour till. he consulted with the bank. A messenger was sent over with a note to Bob asking for instructions. Bob returned word that he’d give 68 if he couldn’t get it for less, so the broker closed with Smith at his price, and the bank notified Bob to put up*the balance of the margin, which he did. e stock closed at 62 5-8 that day. Bob told Joe about the transaction, and he gave an order to the bank to buy as many Shares as they could get for him for $1, Next morning they both left their homes bright and early to catch the train for Port Jefferson. ’ CHAPTER XI.—An -Unexpected Encounter. The girls were at the station to meet Bob and the train rolled into the terminal of the Port Jefferson branch. And perhaps the boys were not glad to see them, looking sweet and lovely in their dainty summer attire, and perhaps Dora and Lily hadn’t spent half the "morning in their room getting themselves up mE ‘on purpose to catch the eyes of their voung admirers. Pairing off, the four s ; ; the village toward the home of Dora’s aunt, where lunch was already under way in =a spbrination pt _ talking about what a good their visit. The main portion of e village is in a valley, and is a curious and odd town. The boys woud, no doubt, have found it very interesting if they had had eyes for any- gz beside their fair companions, which they hau 7 “We're awfully glad to see you,” said Dora, ly. “Lily kept me awake half the night time we were going te have while you were here. Aren’t you glad 1c 2” with one of her sidelong glances ; always did Bob up. é: on’t mention it. We're tickled to replied Bob. “At least I'll guarantee Tam. We've been homesick since you two P “away.” Y r : ' You don’t mean that, I am sure, . You don’t know how much T have and looked quite rainy ers ot of fellows here. who wo + with your 1 15 “Don’t you believe it. Miss Dora. I’d like to enjoy your society indefinitely.” Dora blushed. more vividly than before, for Bob spoke pretty earnestly. “Just look at the bay from here. Isn’t it just too lovely for anything in the sunshine,” she said, seizing the pretext for hiding her confusion. “Yes, it is quite lovely,” replied Bob, barely glancing at the harbor, “but it isn’t half as love- ly as you look to-day.” S Dora gave a little gasp and looked down at the ground, while her face grew as red as her parasol, which she. held between the sun and their faces. As she made no reply to his re- mark, Bob wondered whether he hadn’t been just a little too rapid. He glanced behind and saw Joe making things interesting for Lily. They seemed to be getting on famously together. “T haven’t said anything you don’t like, have 1?” asked Bob, with some concern. “Oh, no!” Dora hastened to answer. “Why should you think that?” “Because you became so silent all at once. I wouldn’t want to say anything to offend you for the world. I could not help saying that you look lovely, because you do, and I always speak the truth. Aren’t you going to say something?” he asked, after a pause. “Hadn’t we better wait for Lily and your friend to come up?” “Certainly, if you wish to, but, for myself, I like the present arrangement better.” She flashed a sly glance into his face and kept on. “There’s my aunt’s house, yonder. pretty place?” “It is that. I think I’d place as this, provided-——” Bob thought he'd better not finish the sentence, sa he stopped. “Well, why don’t you go on?” she asked, look- ing at him. ; Isn't ita Say.” “Why not?” “Oh, because you might take exception to it, as I think you did with some previous re of mine.”. : i “Why, I haven’t found any fault with anything you’ve said.” . “I thought from your manner maybe you were just a little bit displeased because I said what I thought, so I guess I'd better not stay anything I think or vou might regret having invi me down here.” ost “I am sure I never will regret that,” she re- plied, softly. “I should hope not, for it would break me all geen yee ‘ a “Then me what you were going to ; “Do you redl > wea e like to live in such a © “No, I guess I won't say what I was going to

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16 ‘MAKING MONEY to come up. All four then passed into the house tegether, under a trellis that the vines of a honey- suckle had mounted. The boys were introduced by Dora to her aunt, who was a comely little woman of perhaps forty. She welcomed them in a hospitable way that made them feel at home, and after a short talk they adjourned to the dining-room for lunch. At the windows of the room, which overlooked the harbor, stood rows of geraniums in luxuriant bloom, gay as a very ruddy sunset, while the garden beyond was full of all kinds of flower- bearing bushes. Bob thought that he and Dora could be very happy in such a home, provided, of course, that she was of the same mind. After lunch they visited the shipyard, where Dora’s uncle was employed, and the boys were introduced to him. He appeared to be very glad to make their acquaintance, and showed them over the yard, where the frames of several small vessels were in various stages of construction. From the shipyard they walked around the water front and finally Bob proposed that they take a sail on the bay. The girls agreed, as soon aS Bob assured them that he knew how to handle a boat. Accordingly, a trim-built cat- ‘soat was hired for the afternoon and they put off in her. There was just weight enough in the breeze to heel the boat slightly to the leeward, sending her rushing through the sparkling water Vike a thing of life. Bob headed out of the harbor into Huntington Bay, and then laid the course for the Sound, a few miles distant. “I do love the water,” exclaimed Dora, who sat ‘eee ag Bob, of course, at the helm. So do I,” answered Lily, who, with Joe, sat on the port side of the cockpit. “Shall we go as far as the Sound?” asked Bob. “We can go ashore at the bluffs and take a short walk, and then return the way we came.” That programme was satisfactory to all on beard, and so boat kept straight on down the bay, passing many other small craft with sum- mer visitors in gay attire. In the course of an hour they drew near the entrance to the Sound, and then Bob headed the boat into a small cove at the foot of the low cliffs. The sail was lower- ed, the painter made fast around a tree, and the whole party disembarked for a stroll. They made ° heir Se se tus toe of the cliffs by a de- vious walked along up there gh a thin 5 ceten of woods. ough Bob and pty walked at a slow pace, Joe and Lily managed to fall further and gr behind until, when the first two emerged from the wood and drew near to the edge of the cliffs overlooking the Sound, where a path led down to the shore, they were out of sight. ' - “Isn't the view just lovely from here?” said beg as they gazed out over the rippling waters the Sound, “Fine,” answered Bob. , “Shall we go down to the shore?” “Wait till Lily and her escort comes up, other- wise they won’t know where we’ve gone.” “They'll be able to see us down there if they use their eyes. Come on.” Dora allowed herself to rg persuaded, gs 3 object to, but perhaps liked. They slowly de- scended the rocks, treading the path that had probably been made a very long time since by the old settlers when they were lords of all they Surveyed on the island. The bare face of the cliffs rose higher and higher above them the nearer they drew to the skore, and the only sign of life they could see were two or three gulls wheeling about in the air. Suddenly, as they turned the corner of a ledge, where the path diverged abruptly, they were con- - fronted by a gaunt, almost fierce-looking man, who rose from a rock on which he had been sitting. As Dora drew back and instinctively clung to her companion, the man uttered a snort of surprise. Then it was that Bob recognized the stranger. It was Bill Stidger. CHAPTER XII.—In a Desperate Pickle and Out. “So it’s you, is it?” said Bob, coldly. “Hidine among the rocks here. Well, the Port Jefferson constables will have to nose you out of here. You’ll look better behind the bars than at large, for there’s'no telling what mischief you may do if you have your own way. I guess we'll go back, Dora.” Stidger uttered an imprecation, and his. coun- tenance grew livid with rage. Springing for- ward, he seized Bob by the arm. “So you’d put the constables on us, would you, you little monkey?” he glared. “Us!” exclaimed Bob, snatching his arm away. “Oh, then Dunstan Leach is with you, is he? I thought that he had skipped out on his own hook. Both of you will soon be back in jail, where you belong.” “You'll never send us back, young feller,” roared Stidger. “It’s over the cliffs for you, since you’ve butted in again where you were not wanted.” Once more he grabbed Bob, and this time he meant to hold on. Dora screamed as she saw the burly rascal try to force Bob over the edge of the path. “Run to the top of the cliff, Dora,” cried Bob, “and send Joe down.” Instead of obeying, the girl, with a pluck that gave her credit, stopped and picked up a jagged piece of rock at her feet. Watching her chance. she threw it at the rascal’s head. It struck him over the ear, inflicting a nasty wound, fror which the blood flowed freely. “You little vixen!” roared Stidger, furiously | “You shall pay for that!” Rage added strength to his arms and he fairly lifted Bob off his feet. In another moment the boy would have. been pitched into the Sound, but that with great dexterity he seized the man around the neck and prevented him from carry- out his purpose. Dora, who forgot “her own danger in her anxiety to save her escort, hunted around for another stone to follow up her first attack on the Stidger, seeing that mat- ters were looking warm for him, called out to Leach, who was not in sight, twisted his sinewy awe about Bob and succeeded in tripping him we They fell heavily on the path, Stidger «an top. See ee A ek ee Se ee

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MAKING MONEY + and it would have gone hard with the rascal. for the girl was nerved up to a point that made her extremely dangerous to him, when Dunston Leach suddenly appeared on the scene. Perceiv- ing the state of affairs, he sprang forward and seized Dora’s arm just as she was in the act of smashing Stidger’s skull with the stone. -. “No, you don’t,-young lady,” he-cried, shaking 3 missile from her hand. ”What’s the trouble. iil?” “Take a look and you'll see who I’ve got here.” Leach clapped one of his hands over Dora’s mouth as she started to scream, and then, look- ing Gown, recognized Bob Evans. Susprise and aneer brought an oath to his lips. . “Bring him down to the cave, Stidger. We ve got a bone to vick withthe young rooster. Catching the struggling Dora in his arms he disappeared around the ledge, and his companion followed, with Bob in his iron grasp. In a few moments the rascals, with their prisoners, reach- ed a secluded sandy cave, hidden from the sum- mit of the cliff, where stood a small, disreputable- looking hut just out of sight of the Sound. They carried the girl and boy into the hut, and after Sy Leach had bound a handkerchief across Dora’s mouth, and tied her hands behind her back. he assisted his associate in securing Bob so that further resistance on his part was useless. _ “Now, Bob Evans, you won't get away like you did before,” scowled Dunstan Leach. We've got you now where we want you. There’s a long score against you, and it’s about time it was wiped out. You spoiled all our plans, scrooped us and our swag in, and now you've get to pay the piper.” ; haba! “What are we goin’ to do with him, now we have him dead to rights?” asked Bill Stidger, im- patiently. : : _- *Come outside and we'll talk it over,” replied Leach, the way. 2 Sak, ‘ “You'll have to decide on something, quick, “If he comes here we'll take care of him.” ven the two men passed out of the young people’s hearing. “Dora,” said Bob, “have they tied your hands tight? Don’t you think you might be able to work them loose?” He not look for a reply from her, as he could not answer on account of the e threw out the hint to her while to do something with his own bonds. time in following his suggestion, t tied her as tight as he might that bei irl she would hands, and aiso | ; ed & zt fi *thove iment re 17 “Can they see the door of the hut from where they are?” “Yes, easily.” . “Now, Dora, put your hand in my right-hand a get out my knife and cut me loose,” he. said. “She followed directions, and inside of a minute Bob was free. “I guess I'll give those scamps a surprise when they come back,” he said, picking up a piece of hard wood that would‘ answer very well for a cudgel, and approaching the open doorway, from which he peered at the two men seated on the stone, Where they were deciding upon some safe plan for getting square with the boy. Dora, determining to aid Bob to the extent of her power, grabbed a similar piece of wood, and both waited close to the entrance of the hut for Leach and Stidger to return, as they couldn’t leave the place without attracting the men’s at- tention. In a few minutes the rascals got un and came toward the hut. “T’'ll take the first one as he comes in, and you do your best to hit the other. Don’t be afraid to strike out as hard as you can,” said Bob. nerving himself for the ordeal on which their es- cape depended. Stidger was in advance with Leach close be- ~ hind. Bob held the club suspended, ready to bring it down on Bill’s head. If he got tNe blow in squarely he felt sure that Stidger would be bad- ly stunned... Just as the rascals reached the doorway of the hut and were about to-enter, Joe Vincent’s voice was heard in the near distance calling loudly for Bob. The men stopped, turned around and looked. ; “That chap will be down here in a moment,” said Leach. “We must head him off.” The words were hardly out of his mouth when Bob, seeing Stidger standing wifhin easy reach. and off his guard, stepped forward and struc him a terrific whack over the head. The ruffian went down on the ground as if shot and lay there motionless. The startled Leach turned around to find himself face to face with Bob, not only free of his bonds but with a weapon in-his hand: and blood in his eyes. £ “Throw up your hands, Leach,” said the boy, in a resolute tone, “or I’ll treat you to a dose of the same medicine I handed to your friend Bill.” Dora now sprang forward, with her uplifted club, and t 's certainly looked squally for the ~ rascal. He was not a coward. however, and know- anger. Bob struck out quickly, but Leach warded it off at the cost of a bruised arm, and then closed

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18 MAKING “ CHAPTER XIII.—In Which D. & P. Turns Out a Winner for Bob and Joe. “Hello-o-o, Bob!” came Joe’s hail, from some- where along the path. “Run down to the foot of the slope and tell him to come this. way,” said Bob to his fair companion. Dora obeyed, and when she caught sight of the path, there was Lily and Joe more than _ half- way down. She motioned to them to keep on, and waited till they reached the foot of the in- cline, when, telline Joe that Bob was waiting for him in the cove behind them, she took Lily by the arm and began telling the astonished girl the particulars of the adventures through which she and Bob had just passed. While the two girls were together, Joe ran up into the cove and was amazed at what he saw there. “Why, Bob, what does all this mean?” he ask- ed, stopping short in his surprise. “Tll tell you all about it when we have se- cured these rascals so they can’t get away. Keep your eyes on that fellow while I look into the hut for something to tie them with.” Bob was forced to tear a blanket into strips to get the material for binding the arms and legs of the men. When he had them in a helpless position he told Joe all that had happened. “So these are the fellows who escaped from the SayviMfe jail?” said Joe. “The very ones. Mr. Sackman and I thought they had skipped out West, but we were mis- taken. They've been in hiding along the coast - since they got out of jail, and they both look as if they’d been up against hard luck.” “J should think they do. What are you going to-do with them? Leave them here and send the Port Jefferson constables after them?” _ “No; I’m going to carry them to town in the sailboat.” > _ it will be a big job carrying them up cliff, one at a time, and over to where the boat. lies,” replied Joe, not relishing the job in prospect. “T don’t intend to carry them up the cliff.” | carer how are you going to get them to the at? “By bringing the boat around here to them, see?” os saw, of course, and thought it an excellent plan. be “Tl leave you to keep an eye on these chaps and look after the girls,” said Bob. “It will z take me from twenty minutes to half an hour.” . r told Dora what he was going to do, and - heavy, and he MONEY fully conscious now, were lifted in and taken to the jail, where thev were locked up. pending their transference later on to Riverhead, the authori- ties of which town were at once communicated with on the subject. Next morning, Bob and Joe escorted the girls to church and went waiking with them in the afternoon. An early tea was prepared so that the young messengers could take the train that con- nected with the Greenport express for New York at Hicksville. “We had a dandy time, didn’t we, Joe?” said Bob, after they were comfortably seated in the ear, en route for their homes. “Bet your life we did,”- replied Joe, enthusi- astically. “You and Lily hitched wonderfully well. When is it to come off?” grinned Bob. “When is what to come off?” “You know what I mean,” chuckled Bob. “How can I tell unless you tell me?” “Are you two engaged for better or worse?” “What nonsense!” exclaimed his friend, his face growing as red as a beet. “How red vour face has got!” laughed Bob. “You’re off your block. It’s you and Dora that’s engaged, I guess.” “What makes you think we are?” “Any fool could see that you two are dead stuck on each other.” - “I won’t deny that I think a whole lot of Dora, but we aren’t engaged, just the same.” “You will be before long.” “It won’t be my fault if we aren’t,” admitted Bob, frankly. “Now, own up that you think just as much of Lily.” “T won’t say I don’t.” “And she thinks you’re the whole thing, too.” “T hope she does.” “T’ll guarantee she does. We'll go down again next Saturday and bring the girls back with us.” ’ “J’m with you, if I have to do it without the boSs’s leave,” replied Joe. Next morning they were back at their posts again in Wall Street, and the first thing either did was to see how D. & P. stood in the market. It had closed on Saturday at 63. It climbed up another point that, day, and two more on Tues- day. Then the boom set in in earnest, and the Exchange was in an uproar on Wednesday. > Brokers hurried in from the nearby resorts as soon as they got wind how the cat was jumping, and the Street wore an unusually animated as- pect for August. The traders perspired like bulls on a rampage as the excitement increased on Thursday, D. & P. mounting up to 80. At that point Bob thought the stock began to look top- Joe to sell out, as he was going to do the same himself. They i 80 3-8 on their holdings, and then sat down to- gether to count up theif profits. According to their figuring, Bob had made $51,000, and Joe, Their statements afterward verified the correctness of their computation. b was now worth altogether $71,000 and Joe $4,100. CHAPTER XIV.—Bob Buys a “Gold Brick” Cheap. Bob\gnd Joe went down to Port Jefferson again on the oped creas which was Saturday, had the time of | lives, and brought the girls- i : : > sh - x

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MAKING back to their homes on Sunday night, prepared to resume their regular duties at Mr. Sackman’s office next morning. A week later the boys got a week off them- ‘ selves and went to the mountains, coming back as brown as berries. While they were away each received and sent a couple of letters to their best girls, and just .what those missives con- tained neither would give away for a farm. One morning, about a month later, shabby old man walked into Mr. Danforth’s office and asked to see the broker. E “He’s out—over at the Exchange,” said Bob, who happened to be in. 3 : The old man turned away, looking disappoint- ed. and started for the door. “Hold on,” said Bob. “Don’t you want to leave your name and the nature of your business with Mr. Danforth. If it’s important, I can run over and tell him.” . Most office boys wouldn’t have taken all that trouble with a shabby old man, who didn’t look as if he could have important business with any- body, but Bob made it a point to treat all callers alike, for experience had taught him that you can’t size a person up by his personal appear- ance. At any rate, he was never rude toward a person who appeared to be down on his.luck, for he respected their feelings. The old man stopped. “My name is of no importance, for nobody down here knows me now. Once it was different —that was when I had money and good clothes. Now I’m a wreck. I’ve lost all I had in Wall Street, and the brokers who were glad to do busi- ness with me turn me away as they would a tramp. Well, I suppose I am a tramp. I have nothing left but a few thousand shares of mining stock, and nobody seems to want them. I sone cd gs office be? ‘mang trying to dispose 0 m, no one sbuy. z “They can’t have any value, then,” replied nn **“Must be a wildeat, or merely prospects t haven’t panned out. What's the name of the eee “It’s the New Eldorado, of Paradise, Nevada. T’ve got a block of 10,000 shares, which ‘cost me te. I was assured that it ~ would some day rise. pF oe or more a share, and _ heard that mine was a failure, and then that it was eliee Fey t ad my it never was listed on an estern exchanges. Lately worth something.” |, me ee stock, if you don’t mind, : b a pe not familiar with MONEY 19 “Té did.” . “And how much do you want for it?” “I'd be glad to get half a cent a share—$50. I need the money badly.” Bob believed him. He certainly looked as though even $50 would be a god-send to him. The~ boy felt sorry for him. He took the certificate into the counting-room and showed- it to the cashier. 7 “Ever hear of that mine, Mr. Brooks?” he ask- ed him. “T can’t say that I have,” was the reply. “It doesn’t look familiar.” He took the market list of the Western mines, as listed on the Goldfield Exchange, out of his desk, and started to see if the mine was men- tioned in the paper. It wasn’t, however. “T guess it’s a wildcat,” he said. “Who does this belong to?” “An old gentleman out in the reception-room. He told me it cost him $1,000 three years ago. He wants to sell it for $50, for ‘he needs the money.” ; “I think he’s lucky if he get $10 for it,” said the cashier, returning the certificate to Bob. The young messenger told the old gentleman’ what the cashier had said, and he looked very despondent. “Well,” he said, in'a tone of resignation, “I suppose I'll have’to, go to the poorhouse. I am down to my last quarter, and don’t know where I shall get another. }When a man gets old, and hasn’t any money, or a trade to fall back “on, it is pretty hard for him to keep his head above the water. I’ve been a fool in my time, and now I am reaping the tares that I sowed,” He heaved a sigh and started toward the. door. “Hold on,” said Bob. “I'll give you $50 for that certificate if I don’t make any better use out of it than to frame it. I think it’s too long ‘a shot to ever come under the wire a winner. Still, you never can tell what may happen. [7 take it at that figure just to help you out, not because I think there’s anything in it, for if it was worth anything at all you’d have been able te sell it here in the Street for something before this. The old man seemed surprised at his offer. “You're but a boy,” he said. “Can you afford “Don’t you worry about that. Is it ‘a bar- gain?” bs og ‘ “Yes,” replied the. old man, “it is; and I hope it may bring you luck.” . Bob always kept an envelope in the safe with « a few hundred dollars in it, so he had no trouble in completing the deal, and the unfortunate old fellow went away feeling happy that he had been able to stave off going to the Island for a spell at’ 4 “Many people would call me a fool for giving. to indulge in such a thi it doesn’t cost much. May’ thing might turn out to be w va few cents = an

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20. share, but I rather doubt it. .People don’t throw a mine overboard as long as there’s any show of getting anything out of it. I’m afraid this mine never was anything but a wildcat. Lots of them are launched on the public to swindle the credu- lous out of their money. I think, on the whole, l’ll frame this and hang it up in my room.” s CHAPTER XV.—Conclusion. During September, Dunstan Leach and Bill, Stidger were tried at the county seat of Suffolk County for the two robberies they had committed on the south shore of Long-Island, were found guilty and sent to Sing Sing for five years each. After that, things went along in Wall Street in the same old way until the first of November, when ene of Mr. Danforth’s clerks left his-em- ploy, and Bob was promoted to the vacancy and another messenger and office boy succeeded to 's hy Now that Bob had begun to step up the ladder i earnest, he thought he was justified in asking -to be his wife in the near future, and she consented to link her future with his. ts saw no age od to a age or terprising young fellow. 54 pros- er $71,000, wie et to be found Wer 77, ; : Christmas a-rich»body of ore was orado. the rs af z° i : = ne a ‘ : d 8 the he had read during lunch it. “Pl i MAKING MONEY “T_haye.” “How many?” “Ten thousand.” “Who do you represent?” “Myself.” “Is the stock your property?” “Yes, sir.” “Did you bring the certificates with you?” “No, sir. It is only one certificate.” “Ah, a block of 10,000,.eh? Well, I am in- . structed to offer two cents a share for it.” “Tt cost ten cents a share.” “That may be. In fact, some of thé stock was sold as high as twenty-five cents a share. but that has no bearing on the case now. I will give you my check for $200 for the certificate when you bring it down.” “No, sir. I am not anxious to sell at that I might be able to make you another offer after communi- cating with my principal out West.” Bob gave him his name and address and then left. He immediately to a reputable broker in Goldfield, stating that he had a certificate of 10,000 shares of New Eldorado, and asked him for an offer, stating that he wouldn’t consider anything under ten cents. He also wrote to a big mine owner in Paradise, asking for informa- tion about the mine, and telling him that he had 10,000 shares, which he was holding as an in- vestment. From the Goldfield broker he received an offer of twelve cents a share. But Bob held on in spite of the fact that Billings & Co. offered him fifteen cents a share for his block, later on twenty, and finally twenty-five. A month later the fact was published broadcast that the New Eldorado had turned up a trump, and that the stock in demand at fifty cents a share. Eventually, Bob sold the: block for $3.50 per share, or ,000. Then he tried to locate old John Reid, the man who sold it to him. He found him in the poorhouse’ on the Island. Bob took him out and handed him $1,000 to keep him in his old age, and the old man was deeply grate- ful to him, you may well believe. Bob was now worth over $100,000, and with a salary of $15 a week he concluded to get mar- ’ ried, for he was approaching his twenty-first year. As Dora was ready and her folks willing, the event came off that June, with Joe as - man, and Lily Page as bridesmaid. . With the retirement of Mr. Brooks from the office, Bob was raised to the post of cashier. It was not long afterward that Mr. Danforth gave him an interest in the business, at a reasonable figure, and the firm name became Danforth & Evans. Joe Vincent left Mr. Langsing’s employ and became head bookkeeper for his chum. Long before this happened, Jo@ had married Lily Page. Next week’s issue will contain “A HARVEST OF, GOLD; or, THE BURIED TREASURE OF CORAL ISLAND.” “ “I hope vou are not bringing up ve 4 rship | money, Hawkins,” said

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY 21 CURRENT NEWS DOG FINDS GOLD A boy playing with his dog, which scratched up a sample of gold from the surface of the ground, was responsible for the latest gold “strike” in New South Wales. : PAWNS $10 BILL A Wichita, Kan., man pawned a $10 bill for $9. The pawnbroker told the police that the man said the bill was a present to him. He said that he needed some money, but didn’t want to give up entire rights to the bilk by spending it, so he pawned it for thirty days. The bill is genuine. PUDDINGS EXPLODE Explosions of plum puddings in several Potts- ville, Pa., homes were reported to city officials. In several cases women who were preparing the puddings were much alarmed. as pans and pud- _ dings went bang against ceilings. Investigation showed that the explosions were due to steam expansion in the puddings after being dished. Puncturing the top of the pudding with a fork will prevent such occurrences, officials declared. SUGAR FROM ARTICHOKES By a process discovered by experts of the Gov- ernment’s Bureau of Standards, sugar one and a half times as sweet as the cane and beet varie- ties may be extracted from artichokes. The re- fining treatment necessary is so simple that. it fy said, the cost of manufacturing the product ‘ean be ereatly reduced. Because of the low ex- > ‘pense in cultivating the vegetable and its heavy -. Gol vield when compared to other sugar-bearing plants, it is believed the artichoke may be exten- sively employed to provide a great part of the fut@re crops. of means of crystallizing the extract has been a bar heretofore. . MAC Pa CURY YIELDS GOLD IN TOKIO TEST has been obtanied from mercury by to r Hantaro Nagaoka, a Japanese _ scientist i according to word received from Tokio bv the American Chemical Society. It was said a micto- Scropical photograph had been taken of the gold. The” message said: sia “By using a mercury lamp, the anode of whic is exposed to air, for more than 200 hours, under the electro-motive of 225 volts, Professor Na- _ gaoka obtained about 0.5 gram of soot. from which one milligram of gold was isolated. A _ white metal has been found in the soot, which is supposed-to belong to the platinum group. FINDS SIGHT A HANDICAP : , Mo., could play six le he was blind. ment now is explained by the fact that he can no longer concentrate sufficiently to play the sir instruments because the acute sensitiveness of touch and feeling that comes with blindness left when his sight was restored. * PASTOR QUITS PULPIT TO LIVE IN A CAVE Warfare of church modernists and fundamen- ‘talists did not find a reeruit in the Rev. H. S. Mobley of Little Rock. Ark. Instead, he resigned the pulpit and took him- self and family away from the bickerings of paci- fists and militarists—to live’as a cave man. In the Boston range of the Ozark Mountain country, near Prairie Grove, Ark., the former minister found his haven. It was a light, dry cave, 67 feet long and 18 feet high, with a ceiling of ‘colored rock fortha- tion, a precipitous cliff towering high above it. “I wanted to rear my boys away from the temotations and strife of city life,” he says. “Here they are blessed with the gifts of na- ate ag we can gain a good livelihood from the earth. PHILADELPHIA WILL ERECT STADIUM TO. SEAT 250,000 ~ An ordinance authorizing construction of the largest stadium in the world, to be -located in South Philadelnhia, on a tract-adjacent to the League Island Navy Yard, was introduced in City Council -by Mayor Kendrick’s office. The vast structure, designed ‘to seat more than 100,000. with terraced standing room for 150,000 addi- tional, is expected to be completed in time to the main feature of the 150th anniversary of t signing of the Declaration of Independence. Construction of the stadium is to be under the general supervision of Department of Public Works, and $2,000,000 has been appropriated. to defray its expenses. The department is authori- zed in the ordinance introduced Yesterday to en- ter into contracts for the erection, construction and equipment of the stadium. . . SUPERSTITIOUS ABOUT TOADS The toad is not an attractive animal and it has - always been the objétt of curious beliefs or su- erstitions. Small boys believe that if one is illed and turned on its back there will be rain venomous the toad, the

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GUS AND THE GUIDE = pe Three Weeks Lost in the Rockies By GASTON GARNE (A Serial Story.) CHAPTER VII. The Stumping Of Silas Stump. “Surest thing. ‘Hundreds of times.” “What’s its name?” . “Name? It -hain’t got no name. They don’t name every valley up hyar in the range.” “Where does it lead to?” , Lead to? Why, it leads back in the mountains, course. Whar should it lead to? Say, Gus, ycu and me hev pulled together fust-rate so far, so I hope you hain’t goin’ to call me a liar. I should be awfully sorry to draw onto you, but I shall have to do it if you call me a liar. I don’t allow no man to do that.” Gus stopped laughing. F Stump was a humbug, there could'be no Silas longer any doubt about it. As a prospector he probably knew his busi- ness, but as a guide he was rapidly proving him- self a miserable failure. “What shall we do now that we have lost the trail?” demanded Gus, heartily wishing that he had never taken the man into his confidence at all Silas tched his head, and sent a long brown Stream of Sebacee-fittee over the edge of the prec- ipice. i : roe was peering over, but ‘could see no break im the rocky wall short of a fringe of trees over a hundred feet below. “T think,” said Silas, “that the best thing we can do is to build a fire and hev some dinner. Ef you want my opinion thar it is.” He had scarcely spoken when a curious growl- ing attracted the attention of both. Sin Gus wheeled about and looked in the direction of the sound. There, standing on its hind legs between two- spruce \trees was a huge brown bear, staring at Gus and the guide. A it growled, and Gus’s horse took fright - dashing off along the edge of the precipice on the run. ' “Catch the horse, Silas!” cried Gus. “Leave me . to tackle the bear.” Gus prided himself on his shooting, but his _Tiffe | gone off with the flying horse. - It_was a case too serious to be fooled with. Silas ran to his own horse and sprang into the <7 fae erg!” ke yelled. Gus hed ieee his revolver, and now had a r, but held back ‘until Silas gained Sey ctess : — a ee experience ani ing, but the instant Silas: FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY gave the shout he dropped on all-fours and van- ished among the trees. “Look out for yourself, Gus!” shouted Silas. “Don’t muss with the bear!” and away he dashed in pursuit of the flying horse. us laughed at the idea of being afraid of a pean when he had shot as many as a dozen in his ime. But he had never shot even one with a revolver, and this was an unusually large bear. He started in to follow, however, determined not to go very far or to run the least risk of sep- arating himself from the guide. - The bear had now vanished among the trees, and when Gus reached the spot where he had stood he could see nothing of him. As the crust was still strong enough to hold the weight of his own footsteps, it was useless to look ‘for the.trail of the bear, so Gus stopped and listened, hoping to catch the sound of the animal’s footfalls on the frozen snow. Not a sound could he hear except the dash of Silas’s horse in the distance, but there were the hoof-prints of the girl’s horse, however, and Gus started in to follow those, keeping a sharp look- out for the bear. He went along rather gingerly, for he had not forgotten the shot. The horse had left his mark on the snow dis- tinctly enough, and the trail went in and out among ‘the trees, taking many windings; as it offered a sure means of retracing his steps, Gus followed it for about a quarter of a mile, coming then to a pricipice where the descent was perha’ a hundred feet down into a narrow gulch. At edge of this —- stood a rude log hut, the trail ending directly at the door. : At first Gus did not dare to approach the hut. He stood in the shadow of a great spruce tree for as much as ten minutes, watching. The door of the hut was open, and there was no sign of any one within. © All around the snow presented the same sm6oth, unbroken surface, except where the horse’s hoofs had penetrated. ; The trail ended directly at the door, and there bo no back track nor imprint of hoof on either side. It looked as if the horse had passed directly into the hut. : When this idea came to Gus he noticed thag the door was much higher than usual. é For a small broncho to enter would be Carga J possible, and if the girl had bent low in the = she need not have left it in order to go in, “I'd like to bet this is the hold-out of the Go- phers,” thought Gus. “Of course, there is an easy Sea to all these mysteries if a fellow can only find it. I’m going to take chances and have a look inside there.” 3 It had suddenly grown darker, and there was a marked chill in the air. - Hemmed in as he was»by the spruce trees, Gus could scarcely see the sky, and where he could catch a glimpse it was clear enough, but his past the Rockies in Colorado told him that one of sudden storms often come sweeping over that mighty range was very likely close at hand. ge a “It looks like a blizzard. I must be quick!” he fcr $e Lies Kes . 4, -

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“ " ‘ 3 re re 2 said to himself, as he walked boldly out from. be- hind the spruce tree and entered the hut. The place was deserted and unfurnished. There was nothing to indicate that it had been inhab- ited in a long time. There were two rooms on the ground floor, the rear one overlooking the precipice, and for that reason there was only the one door. Gus had scarcely time to take a good look around when a fierce rush of wind struck the hut, causing it to rock and tremble, and looking back through the open doorway he could see the whirl- ing snow. : *A blizzard, surest thing,” thought Gus. “This may be a three-days’ storm before we get through with it. I mustn’t lose a moment in connecting with the grub.” : savas ; : - Traveling in the Rocky Mountains in winter is Pee Seep Py Mtoe se pe a serious business, and in spite of the compara- tively short distance which separated him from the guide, Gus knew the risk he ran of never see- ge ilas Stump again. c. oe Se no Souther time over the hut mystery, S Gus ran for his life. ‘n . 3 Already the storm has struck that high point a4 with a fierceness which if continued for any mi length of time might mean the failure of their attempt to reach the stone hut on the peak be- d. : “We'll have to. tie up here if it continues,” _ thought Gus; “but after all it may be only a uall. 7 The whirling flakes were so thick that it was _ hard to oi his way, and the only thing he could do was to follow the trail of the girl’s horse, which ‘Was rapidly filling. ; - Gus did some lively sprinting, f _ Teached the edge of the high praise trail had entirely disappeared. = iele b Now that he was in the open it did epee him long to understand that this was no squall. «The snow was so thick that he could not see & however, and before the “Pll give Silas just three minutes,” he said ‘to himself” "If he don’t answer fee whisile it’s back track to the hut, or my goose is ee acdaiins blew it three histle, d Gus answered. a came toward : keeping the whistle going, for ised Vent to his immense relief he saw Silas. from the whir Sead a the Po Ss , _ o"The guide had. captured the a FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ley, but which side of the _ on their right. 2° “Squall nothing! It’s a blizzard, boy! It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if this here storm was to hold for three days.” “If it does it will put the kibosh on our plans.” “And on us, too! Mount! Why don’t you mount?” “Silas, there is a hut near here. It. is less than a quarter of a mile. The place is deserted Hadn’t we better strike for that?” “Sure we had, if you think we can find it.” “We can try. It is right back here through the trees. I’m sure I can lead you to the place.” “Try it, then,” shouted Silas, “for to tell von the honest truth I think that up thar whar I talked of tying up we would perish in the storm.” ere was no further talking done after that.. for what they had already attempted was difficult enough. ‘ ; oy threw himself into,the saddle and took the ead. There was no trail to help him now—not a trace of it remained. All Gus could do was to use his wits, and those were not sufficient for the purpose. He was sure that he was going in the right direction. x) Shouting in Silas’s ear a warning of the preec- ipice, he urged the horse forwatd, but hee did not come to the hut. Silas stood it patiently for about ten minutes and then drew rein. - By this time there was no longer any dou about the true nature of the stots: Te was 3 blizzard of the worst kind. “ “Gus!” shouted the guide, “can you hear me oy?” . : “Just, and no more! Let me get on the other side of you!” yelled Gus, guiding his horse, “We are lost!” bawled Silas. “We are. ing around in a circle, surest thing. Fust you know aes will be over the high precipice, What’s to be e?”” if “It’s up to you,” roared Gus. “You are the ide. “We'll let the horse follow his own h ae yelled Silas. “It’s the only way.” —— _Gus would have suggested it, for he had heard his father say the same thing many times. Silas gave his horse the spur, and dropped the reins upon his neck. | ’ : With a bound the broncho went dashing off into the whirling flakes, the accumulation of snow on the ground not having yet become sufficient to — cart ws | check his Y ; All of a sudden Gus perceived that Silas was — going down-hill. . “Look out!” yelled the guide. But Gus made no effort to check the horse’s — s' There was nothing for it but to follow aera so he just let ie t was no precipice. They had struck a steen slope which appeared to lead down into some val- _ on Gus did not pretend to determine. Down they went flying, =, of the. storm oy scale pte from the

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red Let ae if i > i FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY Ae; Interesting Radio News and Hints REDUCING WAVE LENGTH The antenna series condenser is used to reduce the wave length. The smaller the capacity of this condenser the greater is the reduction in wave length. . The difference in the results ob- tained with the 43-plate cond and 23-plate condenser would not warrant the expense of changing. The Vernier adjustments on conden- sers add to the efficiency of the set and are particularly helpful in tuning in distant stations. RADIO FACTS Few persons need to be told how rapidly radio is interpenetrating every part of our daily life. More than 2,500,000 radio sets have been manu- factured and sold in the last three years in this country, with 560 broadcasting stations in opera- tion in‘our United States, and 16,000 amateur transmitters sending and receiving by io. According to engineers of the Radio Corpora- tion, 3,000 manufacturers are turning out sets or parts of sets, thirty radio magazines have — started, 250 books have been written, 20,- ,000 listeners constitute the present radio audience, and these spent $175,000,000 on their hobby last year, giving employment in one way or another to 500,000 persons. There are twelve trans-oceanic stations, which communicate not co ages Europe and Latin America but with 2,7000 radio-equipped ships. THE REFLEX RECEIVER The refiex circuit has become one of the standard favorites. The Erla set adds to this, excellent w: ip and strong, efficient ma- terial and apparatus. " It was tested on a recent evening when the at- mospheric condition was bad. Within a reason- able time all the local stations as well as_sta- tions in Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Troy and Buffalo were all brought in distinctly on the ; did not equal, on the volume sa bak He we Z Febee at rent from the “A” battery. The. more current turned on the brighter the filament glows and the electron flow increases up to a certain point, and then no matter how much current is supplied there will be no further flow of ‘electrons. This is known as the critical or saturation point. When the filament is burned brighter than the critical point the tube’s life is shortened and the efficiency of the set is reduced. To burn the filament past the critical point merely reduces the life of the tube, decreases the efficiency of the set and con- sumes current from the “A” battery more rapid- ly. Burn the vacuum tubes just below the point of howling. NEW CHARGING METHOD FOR “3B” BATTERIES Radio sets using from three to eight tubes have become increasingly popular, due to their wide range, power and receiving qualities. When a number of- tubes are used the drain on the “B” batteries becémes proportionately greater. For this reason the storage type of “B” batteries which can be recharged are now widely used be- cause of their economy and steady operation. The home-type tungar battery chargers used for charging “A” batteries can be adapted by means of a simple device, the “B” battery attachment. This attachment is hung on the side of the charger and the shért lead is clipped to the line tap in the five-ampere tungar, or the soldered joint on the right of the transformer in the two-am- re charger. The long lead from the attachment is connected to thé positive terminal of the “B” battery, and the negative lead goes to the - tive terminal of the battery. The positive lead is not used, and should be kept apart from the bat- tery while charging. A twenty-four-volt battery may be charged at 0.2 ampere and a forty-eight- volt battery may be charged at 0.1 ampere. Higher voltage batteries can be charged by using ad- ditional] attachments. For instance, a ninety-six- volt battery should be divided in half and the two negative terminals connected to the negative lead. Two attachments are used, the short leads being both connected to the charger as before and one. long lead going to each itive battery terminal. Thus the two sections of the battery are charged in parallel). e operation of the “B” battery attachment can be easily understood. When charging a six- volt “A” battery connections are made to the pos- itive and negative leads. e current is supplied by the left-hand coil on the auto transformer, which is the low-voltage side. In the case of the “B” battery, connections are made so that current is supplied by the right-hand coil, which fur- _ nishes sufficiently high voltage to take care of the higher voltage battery. The “B” battery attach- .ment-is merely a ee ane whith limits the charging current proper ‘ pape charge once in two or three weeks will, in be sufficient to keep the “B” bat- teries in good condition. The | of charge’ and further details may be obtaiped from the bat- tery manufacturers’ instructigns, pr chere .

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY 25 GOOD READING —— HOTELS ON FLOATING ISLANDS. Hotels on floating island in mid-Atlantic will be a feature of the new airway to be opened next Spring, which will make it possible to reach Buenos Aires by way of Paris in less than a week from London. : The scheme has been prepared by Pierre Late- soers, the French airway magnate, and only the formal sanction of the French Governmertt is now required. Z : The floating islands in the Atlantic will be constructed to afford accommodations for pas- sengers and seaplanes alike. They will be estab- lished on the route between Dakar (Senogal) and Fernando de Noronna Island, off the Bra- zilian coast. ; : It is anticipated that it will take eighteen months to construct and fix these floating sta- tions. In the interim passengers will be con- veyed over that part of the route by fast boats. The floating islands will be of open square, or horse-shoe shape. They will be capable of being turned in whatever direction will best afford a safe landing place and anchorage for the sky liners. Extensive supplies of fuel and spare parts will always be available, so that repairs can be carried out in mid-ocean if necessary. There will also be accommodations for the ultra-modern traveler to, take rest and refresh- The journey, which at present takes about twenty-two days, will be divided into two stages, the first being from Paris by way of sei or and Casablanca as far as Dakar. This will bes approximately three days. Then will come - trans-oceanic stretch, along which will be the floating havens, to Fernando de Noronah. DEVILFISH ARE.LIKED AS FOOD Devilfish, better known as “polypus octopus hongkongensis,” are being caught at Santa abe! California, like flies in a trap and the — es are being spinged to fish markets in San Fran cisco, New York and other cities, where they “ ‘sliced and sold at from 50 to 60 cents a poe - aceording to C. B. Florence, Secretary of the a ifornia State Fish Exchange. Mr. Florence “mk the sliced octopus tentacle — a succulent - ‘ble delicacy when properly fried. visvhile fchermen musulate Victor Hugo and end writers of fiction by telling of terrific battles = giant devilfish, usually ending by explaining how tis eight arms above the the boat, cor ed t swim, when fastened on an object. Fishermen hau! them out of the traps with their bare hands and throw them in boxes in a manner that is extremely un- dignified to a fish that has an age-old fictional reputation of being a man-killer and_ boat- smasher.” In the picturesque food shops that line the narrow streets of San Francisco’s colorful China- town the tentacles of the devilfish may be seen hanging from hooks alongside many other edibles that are strange to the native American. On the floors of the wholesale fish houses the devilfish may be seen stacked in jelly-like heaps, with ten- tacles, in some cases, extending ten feet across, — from each side of the small, egg-shaped ead. The traps at Santa Cruz, where the majority of the devilfish are caught on the Pacific Coast, are built like fly traps, only much larger. The traps are make of wire, with a cone-shaped entrance for the octopus to squeeze through in order to reach the bait fixed for him. He has no trouble in entering the ever-narrowing funnel, but finds it impossible to leave. Usually, fishermen state, two or more are caught in the same trap. Instead of being a fighter, the devilfish pro- tects itself from attack by changing its color and hiding from its enemy, according to Professor Heath. He says: “To agility and naturally acute senses should be added their surprising ability to change their color to harmonize with that of their surroun- ings, so that prey and enemies alike are usually unaware of their proximity. This color change is based upon minute elastic sacs filled with pigment and supplied with muscles for causing their ex- pansion. : “As a devilfish crawls about on the sea_bot- tom its color can be seen to change in a twinkling from deep chocolate through dull red and to gray. If sand or rock is encountered on the journey the skin is usually thrown into lumps and ridges, so that under all conditions the body is practically “invisible.” : However, if Professor Heath’s opinion of the _devilfish as a food is heeded, the fish will con- . tinue to be eaten by its celestial admirers and by a limited few who crave'the unusual. Properly fe place before the American nearces a dish of tender octopus, Professor Heath says, something must be done “to destroy its rubber-like consis- tency.’ : y “Moving Picture Stories” A Weekly Magazine Devoted to Photoplays and Players ! PRICE TEN CENTS PER COPY tains Three Stories of the Best Fiims Screen—Elegant Half-tone Scenes from the Plays Articles About Prominent People in the ings of Actors and Actresses in the Studiv in Scenario Writing. HARRY E. WOLFF. Publisher, Inc.” Each on the

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY Pl FROM EVERYWHERE 3 UNIQUE CLOCKS In polite Parisian society in the sixteenth cen- tury it was bad form for the guest or host to ok at a timepiece to note the time. To avoid this embarrassment a watchmaker originated a watch that had raised hands and time could be told by feeling inside the pocket. Another de- vice for telling time in the dark was a clock that had on its dial twelve small cups each filled with a different spice. The one seeking the time would feel around the dial to where the hands were and then taste the spice. _ FOSSIL FOREST IN N. Y. ‘The recent discovery of a fossilized forest of Gilboa, Schoharie County, N. Y., was made by excavators engaged in work for the New “York City water System, Dr. John M. Clarke is plan- ning to reproduce in the State museum a section of the forest, making it look as’nearly as possible as it did in the Pleistocene age. Only the fos- ~_ silized stumps, two or three feet high, of the Gil- trees were found standing. The remainder of the trees were probably cut off by a glacial upheaval. The fossilized remains of the trunks. _ and foliage lay alongside the stumps. The foli- _ age was partly like a fern and partly like a , palm. ‘The't grew 35 to 50 feet high, the in- side being hollow and c6ntaining a pithy: sub- “stance. The bottom spread out like a bulb, and ; roots extended from underneath like those of an onion. sa : y : aaa ———————— » 8-MILE WELL SEEKS OIL _* A theory that the earth is like a big boiled egg. which has settled its most precious deposits 7 the center, is the basis on which work was cf started on the farm of George Weaver, near . Canonsburg, Pa., Feb. 8, on what is expected to be the deepest well in the world. James Kifer, _-¥eteran old man of Pittsburg, sponsor for the undertaking, said the well would be three miles “He said: “A leading geologist has said that earth may be compared to a boiled eee. - . = » 5 dying the et pe Day that the sa it rain tu ouomt In England there was, when first noticed, an interval of five years between these phenomena, one year being wet and the other four being ary. Now every third year is wet. The drougthy year of 1921 appears to have been the turning point. The year 1922 is reckoned as the first year of the dry period, and therefore the years of 4923 and 1924 have been wet and the year 1925 will be dry. They say that there will be a dry year in England and a droughty one for the rest of the world. HOW MUCH IS IT? nae 000,000,000,000,000,000,000- 000,000,000,000,000. Quite a tidy sum! This is the amount that a man named Williams has figured out that the thirty pieces of silver paid to Judas Iscariot nineteen hundred years ago would be worth today. He tell us that those pieces of silver were worth $14.85 and if put to working at six per cent and the interest likewise rein- vested annually the amount would run into fifty figures. “Money surely does grow if left undisturbed. That is, of course, if it is put to work ahd left to work. My uncle gave me a ten dollar gold piece when I was born and for fifty years it has been undisturbed, but it is worth only $10 because no one ever put it to work. “I suggest that the birth gold piece, even if it be but a dollar, be put to work, and put to the task of providing. partially at least, for the college education of the child. “A good $100 or $1,000 bond or a share or two of first-class stock purchased at the time of the birth of your child will create a fund which, with dividends reinvested, will yield a tidy sum when little Sam is ready for college. “One dollar invested each month at six per cent will amount in twenty vears from the day month means 1 amount sufficient to carry him through the last two years of college. potas even better than depending upon the up. . “B and idealize. .I ask you to start _an education ut I ask you to go further than to dream

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.< FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ARTICLES OF INTEREST HOW RAISINS ARE MADE What are raisins? Dried grapes, somebody answers. They are dried in the sun on wooden plates. When they have stood about ten days and are almost dry on one side a tray is placed on top of the grapes and the whole thing turned over so that the other side can dry. Then, says the Min- neapolis Tribune, they are piled up in stacks of ten or twenty trays. Ina few days they are put into large boxes called sweat boxes. THREE GENERATIONS EMIGRATE Covering three generations and including thir- ty-five persons, a family from Retford, Notting- hamshire, shortly sails for Canada to settle on farms in Sashatchewan. It is believed to be the largest group of three generations that has ever emigrated. The party includes father, mother, four sons and one son-in-law, with their respective wives and twenty-three chilldren. All the adults have a good knowledge of agriculture, and they are going éut under the poirft British-Canadian Gov- ernment scheme for settling 3,000 British farm- ing families in Canada within two years. ABOUT MOUNT ETNA Mount Etna, the voleano that rises above the cities and towns of Sicily, not only- supplies them with land on which to grow their vines and olives, with sulphur out of which to draw profit in trade, but, strange as it’may seem, with snow -to cool their drinks and keep their fruits fresh in the summer. The annual snow crop is being gathered now. The crest of Etna, which rises to a height of 10,760 feet, is thickly covered with snow in winter. This snow gathers in narrow, deep ra- vines to a thickness of fifteen or sixteen feet. In the spring these deep drifts are carefully covered with a layer of ashes. These natural storehouses of are situated in many places above the 5,000-foot level, far beyond the cultivate regions, and are looked after by special guardians. They belong to the archbishop of Catania, whose dom- inion includes all the higher parts of the volcano. _ IRON APPLES Tron is an essential element in food, but as it eccurs in small quantity in any one food, it is taken into the system in a variety of foods, one of the chief sources being fresh and-dried fruits. In order to get the required amount of iron from po ae single food it would be necessar dual to devour three and one-half loaves of . white bread a day, or ten egg yolks, or fifty large prunes or five cups of raisins or fifteen tomatoes — _—in fact, a ridiculous quanéity of any one article. ‘are one of the best : ; arces of iron for * Raisins have been much advertised for he ernie is the heaviest ro F La for the . heir. iron “It is true that both fresh : wand raisins; as well as plums and. runes, — Sh ase tampa . 5i-8. Fe: 3 a= alas: iron-carrying fruit that we can eat, having 39-100 per cent of iron in its makeup. _ The use of all the fresh fruits two of three times a day will give a full ration of the needed iron for the system in combination with the iron contained in bread, eggs, meat and other articles which are routine in the daily meal. Pears also contain iron and are recommended by dieticians for their value in furnishing this element among others. In the olden days before the science of i had developed and balanced meals were peal ‘Sf the teaching of the domestic science classes in the school, spring tonics with iron in them or tincture of iron itself were regulation prescriptions. The iron preparations injured the teeth and were usually unpleasant. (—<— LOOK, BOYS! TRAPEZEE The Acrobatic’ Wonder Toy 4LMOST HUMAN IN IPS ACTIONS! _ dt consists of a handsome parallel iron frame on which the little yellow man accurately performs like an ath-— | lete. Five Different Stunts— THe FLYING tKArE“ce — Release trigger-pm and the ngurc swings pas ward, gripping the brass trapeze-bar. turns a somersault in the air and ca’ a c.oss-bar by his heels. THROUGH THE LOOP—A swift swing , yt by pees oa? swale wine loop, makes a and, catchin; i i meee ‘downward from J = eon 1G WING — He goes forw. with a rush, releases the hell pea: a horizontal-bar with his ls, makes two swift somersaults in the air and catches by his heels again. He performs two more horizontal-bar ~ acts with the grace and agility of a cir- cus star, and many new ones can be in- vented. ; The Most Wonderful Toy in the World! PRICE $1.00 The collapsible stand and the little mani- kin are, neatly packed in a handsome box. Delivered anywhere in the United States on receipt of price. Address : WOLFF NOVELTY CO, — 166 W. 23d St.. New York City, N. Y.

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RUSHING RIVER UNDER BUFFALO. That a subter- ranean river of uncalculated and | probably incaleul- | able proportions flows under the city of Buffalo is recalled by accidental discov- ery of an under- round river by engineers drilling for oil near Olean. An underground river with a the | strong current | flowing towards Lake Ontario was discovered in the days Pan - American Exposition be- neath the surface of the old Ben- nett quarry at Main street and Fillmore avenue. Again, when the Marine Trust Company build- ing, i masonry ture, was erected at Main and Sen- @ca streets, “sandhogs” bor- ing for the foun- dations splashed isto water. Geologists aware of the sub- terranean flow in the lake areas Some years ago conducted a series of investigations between the Five Finger Lakes and Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. 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