Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 1023) (1925 05 08)

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rT Issued weekly—Subscription price, $4,00 per ees. Went 23d Benect “lint pal N.Y ? the Post-Office at New York, N. ‘ No. 1023 NEW YORK, MAY 8, 1925 ioe, } FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ri Canada, $4.50; Foreign, $5.00. Harry E. Wolff, Publisher, «nc., 166. a Entered - ex at Second-Class Matter, October 4, 1911, Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. ~92 ONLY A DOLLAR OR, FROM ERRAND BOY. TO OWNER By CHAPTER I.—Trouble in A Printing Office. ~ Crash! R '- The half dozen employees of Peter. Koop’s printing establishment on Main Street, Leesburg, looked up in a startled way to find Fred Towne, errand boy, struggling with the ruins of a foundry form on the floor which a stone-hand hhad sent him to fetch. The cause of the disaster was a banana peel dextrously placed in Fred’s path by Jude Ferguson, an apprentice, who had . a mania for mischief in general and a personal grouch against Towne in particular. “Now you’ve done it!” chuckled Jude, as pleased as a mud lark at low tide. “The foreman won’t do a thing to you! That was a ‘live’ form, and I was goin’ to take it to the foundry as soon as Benson had made a correction in it.” It was hardly necessary to remind Fred that the damage was a serious one. The revised proof of the form had just come in, with a solitary and unim- portant correction marked on it, and Foreman Gregg had written the word “Rush” in blue pencil across one corner of the she@t. The “Rush” was intended for the instruction of the foundry—that the plate was wanted as soon as possible. As ‘Fred was picking himself up, and regarding the _ wreck with a rueful face, the foreman came over _ to see what had happened. - When he saw that the foundry form he was in such a sweat over was irremediably “pied,” his brow grew as black as a thunder gust. We won’t repeat what he said as he glared at the un- _ fortunate boy. Any one who has worked under ‘the average job printing foreman knows that the responsibilities of his position doesn’t im- prove his temper, and he is apt to“speak to the point when things go wrong. Foreman. Jim Gregg was red headed and more than ordinarily - quick tempered. Furthermore, he was Jude _ Ferguson's brother-in-law. Jude was always arrying some story to him about Fred which inflamed the natural dislike he entertained against the errand boy. He would have fired _ Fred long before only that he found him uncom- monly. useful, much ee at the business than agate, who was naturally lazy, and shirked his % as whenever he could.. ° f ? ‘Jude » was a year older and had been a year. iger in the printing office than Towne, but lidn’t know half as much about the “ ‘4, . F - I de art A SELF-MADE MAN preservative.” The employees of Peter Koop worked from 7.30 a. m: to 6 p. m.—ten hours. The nine-hour law was in effect, then, in union as well as the more important “open shops,” but it wasn’t in operation in Leesburg. In any . event, Mr. Koop wasn’t in favor of the shorter. work day. He paid his workmen as little as he . could and got as much of them for the money as he could. His “time-slips” compelled the men to account for every five minutes. -When these had passed under the eagle eye of the foreman every morning and had been turned into the office, Mr. Koop examined them himself, and he usually had something to say to the foreman afterward which didn’t make Grege feel any happier. The only way Grege could ease his ruffled — mind was to call the man or men.down, though ~ he knew, having passed the slips himself, that they were not guilty. From a business point of ; view, Grege was a good foreman; you couldn’t _ fool him worth a cent. He knew how a job ought. to be set, and he could tell at a glance from the proof about the time required to put it together. Nevertheless, he wasn’t popular with any one but — the boss, Neither was Jude Ferguson—the men ~ hated him, and ‘with good reason, for he was always snooping around and carrying informa- tion to his brother-in-law. __ Fred Towne, on the contrary, was a first fa- vorite. Probably that was the chief reason why neither Jude nor Gregg liked him. Fred knew where every type in the office was to be found; Jude never, or at least very seldom, could find) a case when he had a piece of copy to work on. — When _ there was a rush, the foreman frequently sent Fred to help a journeyman on the “straight matter.” If the copy was “reprint,” the work- ~ man let him set a part of the “display,” and he never failed to do it well—so well, in fact, that the men often trusted him with written copy — having displayed lines in it. ‘fh CHAPTER If.—Jude Ferguson in Trouble. It was early in the summer and there was ~ plenty of light after six o'clock when work ceased in Koop’s printing office. All hands took off their aprons, completed the making out of er. Roy sek ot 3 A

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- Ee pr ae ONLY A their time-slips, and then hung them on a hook besides the foreman’s desk, which was perched on - an elevated platform at one side of the room. The presses in operation were stopped about fifteen minutes before quitting time in order to allow time for washing rollers, etc. As the hands passed out they rang’ up their numbers on the time clock, and the overworked bookkeeper came in afterward, abstracted the sheet, and substi- ~ ated a fresh one to receive the morning impres- sions. Some of the printers and pressmen made a bee-line for the saloon on the corner, but the majority went home, glad that the day’s work » was over. Fred Towne lived at the humble home of a railroad man employed in the freight yards “of the Leesburg & Western Railroad, not far way. F The man’s name was Valentine, and he had a sixteen-year-old daughter named Eva, who was “very partial to the young boarder. She admired Fred not only because he was a good-looking ‘boy, but because he was manly and’ straightfor- _ ward. She was a very pretty girl herself, viva- cious and even- -tempered. Fred thought her an uncommon. nice girl, and thev were as.thick as two peas in a pod. Mrs. Valentine had taken a great liking for the boy, in common with her husband, and had such confidence -in him that she permitted Eva to go anywhere with him—a privi- Jege accorded to no one else, for the good woman kept a watchful eye over her only daughter. She felt assured that Fred would protect Eva under any and all circumstances, as though he were her brother. And she was right. - As Fred was on his way to the Valentine home _ that afternoon several of the compositors de- tained him in front of the saloon for about ten minutes to speak the incident of-the pied foundry - form. They denounced the affair as a scurvy _ trick of Ferguson’s, and were of the unanimous * opinion that Towne ought to take it out of * -Jude’s hide at the first chance he got. Fred ~ finally got away from them and continued on-his way. His friend, Tom Benedict, who was an advanced apprentice in the Koop office, and Jude, also lived in the neighborhood of the rail- ‘road yard and the Valentine cottage. Usually Fred walked home with Tom, but this occasion was an exception. As he approached a corner ‘grocery within a block of the cottage, he spied Eva Valentine coming out of the store with a jug ‘in her hand. As she started toward her home, Jude Fergu- whom she was. acquainted with but didn’t like even a little bit, suddenly° made his appear- ance from. around the corner and confronted her with a smirk on his freckled countenance. xs “Goin’ home, Eva?” he said. “I'll walk with you.” « “You needn’t trouble yourself,” she answered partly. “Why not? ralk with ?” “T prefer walking myself.” “You wouldn’t say that if Fred Towne came along,” he said crustily, for he liked Eva and was Se of a ate another reason for disliking his x ~ son, Ain’t I good enough for you to because you say I mustn’t. DOLLAR exclusive privilege to walk with you. I want a chanee once in a while myself.” : “And suppose I don’t want you to?” she -re- plied, saucily. ae: “Why. don’t you want me to?” “T have my reasons.” “What are your reasons ?” preventing her from going on. tat “I’m not obliged to tell them if I don’t want Ye to,” she replied, independently. “Let me pass.” ~ ““[?'m goin’ to walk with you, anyway,” said” ; Jude, following her up. “No, you’re not,” she said, making a move to cross the street. He kept close at her side, how- ever, ‘and she got angry. “T. don’t want vou to follow me,” she flashed. “’'m goin’ to .walk right along’ with you just I like vou, an——” “Well, I don’t like you. So there!” ‘ “I s’pose you like Fred Towne, don’t you?” he sneered. _ : “Yes, I do. Now are you satisfied?” “No, I’m not. If you don’t let me walk along with you, I'll punch his face when I see him again. I kin lick him with my eyes shut, and I'll do it, too.” Fred heard his last remark very clearly, for he was now close at hand, although unperceived by either Jude or Eva. Jude’s words nettled him, and his attitude toward Eva didn’t soften his feelings toward Ferguson,” so he stepped up and said quietly: “So you ¢an whip me with your eyes shine tan you, Ferguson? Well, you’ve the opportunity to make good now, if you want to.” Eva and Jude turned quickly around. The girl, with a pleased look, stepped quickly to his side, while Ferguson — glared at the boy he hated. As Jude made no- effort to carry out his threat, Fred gave his” attention to Eva. : “Where have you been? “Yes. ” “Well, you’re bound home, I guess, so come— ” persisted J ude, To the grocery?” — on.” They walked off together, leaving Jude. gaz- jie after them with a malignant expression in is eyes. “Tl fix you, Fred Towne!” he muttered, “I*l get you bounced from the shop, see if I don’t. Yah! How I hate you!” He followed on som distance behind Fred and Eva, for he lived tw blocks beyond the Valentine cottage, on the same street. Jude tried to get his brother-in-law to discharge. Fred next day, which was Saturday but Gregg laughed at him, and Jude was it tensely disappointed. The only’ way he saw of revenging himself on Fred was to, annoy him, for, though bigger and apparently stronger, he did not have the sand to invite a personal en counter. On the following Monday, as Fred was picking up a handful of type from one of th stones to distribute, Jude jostled his arm and the type went to pi. Fred sprang around, but guson glided away quickly, and took up. so thing to do close to his brother-in-law, and so. Fred was checkmated for the time being. Later on, when Fred was passing a big sixteen- page pamphlet form of solid type, which had_ been brought from the pressroom and stood up from the horses, and then they were turned _ against Se of a Ss. Jude ie to trip

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Re about a wholesale case of pi. He failed, how- ever, and got a slap across the jaw for his pains. _ As he backed away a press feeder fetched him a sly kick in the rear, and, turning upon his fresh aggressor, he struck his head against the corner of a case and uttered a howl that focussed Grege’s attention on him. of his his | = ‘at Fred as though he was the cause : Then rouble. Fred laughed and walked on. Jude turned on the pressman. “What did you kick me for?” “Who kicked you?” — a “You did, you big stiff!” Oh, forget it!” replied f “Jude was mad enough to chew a ten-penny nail. “Here, Jude,” shouted Gregg, “give Ogden a lift with that form.” If there was one thing Ferguson hatéd, it was to assist in hoisting a big chase full of type on a stone. But he had to : < obey when ordered by the foreman, and he started in to do-it verv grudgingly indeed. He ‘went so awkwardly about the job that he eaught ‘one of his fingers between the iron chase and: the wooden rim of the stone. He howled murder ‘and let go of the chase. His end went down like then fell over. on its face, dragging Ogden with ¢. Fortunately, the iron quoins held all, despite the jar, and the form was saved. : ‘Gress was so mad, though, that he collared his rother-in-law. and, unmindful of the relation- ‘ship, booted him twice. Jude grabbed a mallet ‘and made a motion as if to throw it at Gregg. The foreman seized his uplifted arm and ordered him out of the office. He went but he was back next day, having patched the difficulty, up. His discomfiture, However, was a source of great “satisfaction to the men. A small pamphlet indery, employing half a dozen girls, was at- ached to the Koop printing office. Jude used to ‘go in there and talk to,the girls during lunch time. He soon made himself so disliked, there hat none of the girls would have anything to ay to him any more. ; began playing tricks on them to get square. 3 One of the girls reported him, and Gregg or- ‘dered him to stay out of the bindery. Diseover- ing which girl had told on him, he decided to be —yevenged on her. He found that the girl, whose name was” Edith Clark, brought her lunch in a the girl when she handled it, and then watching hhis clrance, changed thé boxes. ‘and Miss Clark opened the box, the mouse sprang ‘at her. She promptly fainted and pandemonium nsued in the bindery. Fred happened to be in there at the time, for the girls lid to talk to him, and he stopped the panic by chasing the * mouse, While the other girls were resuscitating - the unconscious girl, Fred examined the box, saw Jude’s name inside, and judged he was the author of the trouble. If he had needed any her proof, Ferguson’s grinning countenance dl ae ONLY A DOLLAR ~ «Pl] get square with you,” he snarled, looking the man, walking off. | -boys who had formed themselves into an o: a flash of light, denting a hole in the floor, and- This riled him, and he_ When noon came. sores would have furnished it. - ue y on the young rascal, and 8 ¢ ; 7 plained the case against Jude, the box was looked at, and he was pronounced guilty by the girls. “Get down on your knees and apologize,” or- # dered Fred. ee “J will, like fun!” snarled Ferguson. . “Let go _ my ear, will you?” eS ake. “Not until you've begged Miss Clark’s pardon.” _ “I'll die first,” roared Jude. At that moment — Tom Benedict appeared. Edith Clark was his — best girl. ‘ela = 7 “What's*the trouble?” he wanted to know. Fred ~ explained the situation. Then Tom took a hand ~ in the matter, and Jude found it convenient to beg the girl’s pardon very humbly. When they ~~ released him he shook his fist at Fred and » threatened dire vengeance on him, and there wasn’t any doubt but he meant what he said. CHAPTER IIl—Only A Dollar. Ferguson associated with a rough crowd of — mH- zation called “The Night Hawks.” The name was appropriate because they met only at night jn an old house on the outskirts of the town, and _ they seldom returned to their honies, until long after midnight. Jude was not an especial fa- vorite with them, but he was a member of the gang, arid that counted So far as enlisting’ theix _ sympathies in his behalf. Having woke ‘up to — the fact that he couldn’t injure Fred Towne much ~ in the way he had counted on, he took counsel — with the gane. They advised him to say nothing ~ and saw wood for a while until some scheme could be hatched up against Towne that promised suecess. Accordingly, Ferguson quit playing tricks on his enemy in the printing office,.and © na imagined that Jude had learned a salutary esson,. : : om That was where he deceived himself. On the Saturday afternoon following the bindery inci- dent Fred and Tom left the office at’ five o’clock, which was the hour the shop shut. down on that — day, and started for the railroad station to see the Pacific Express come in and depart. Fer- guson, and a crony of his named Morton, followed on behind them.. The four boys seated them- selves on a pile of sleepers between the tw tracks opposite the station, and waited for the train to come in. Fred*and Tom paid no atten- tion Jude and his companion. Morton, and — convérsed by themselves. They were talkin who had already consented to accompany th Jude was listening to them, and occasiona nudging his associate, and then whispering word or two in his ear. : = ‘ ‘ , Presently, the long drawn out whistle of. the — express sounded down the line, and the boys — turned their faces in that direction. All they could see was the front of the locomotive coming down upon them like some steel-clad monster, belching a thin vapor from. its \nhostrils. 2 ae

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connecting platforms of two Pullman sleepers smart-looking young tourists were standing with their backs against the car, talking and smoking ae cigarettes. ‘They soon noticed the boys seated on the _ sleepers and began to chaff them. . Finally one_ »- of them put his hand in his pocket and drew out a big, shining new silver coin. “Do you see this dollan?” he asked, with ‘a broad grin. “Sure we see it,” replied Fred. _ “Goin’ to let us scramble for it?” asked Jude, " springing un eagerly. ~ “Where do we have to run to to get it?” in- » quired Ferguson. _. “When the train starts,” explained the tourist, “vou boys must start, too, and try to keep up _ with the platform of this car. The chap who heads the race as far as yonder switch gets the dollar. Are you on?” “Bet your life we are,” chorussed the boys. “Tm going to offer it as a prize to the best yunner among you,” replied the sprucely dressed young chap. Word of the impending race was ~ gonveyed through the two Pullmans, and the pas- sengers began sticking their heads, out of the windows. to watch the contest, which aroused great interest and amusement. At that moment _ the conductor on the platform cried “All aboard!” and waved the usual signal to the engineer. As the train pulled out the race began, first at a jog trot and then at a more rapid pace. As the cars gathered headway the bovs began to spurt, - for the prize was eagerly desired by each.. The tourists encouraged the runners in every. way “they could, while their eyes sparkled with fun. Some of the passengers began to cheer, the la- dies waving their handkerchiefs. . More heads opped ‘out of the other cars, for the people aboard got wind that something out of the usual -was going on. Fred Towne now darted ahead of the bunch, closely followed by Ferguson. Strain- ing every nerve, he succeeded in keeping abreast of the car platform for the required distance. _“You’ye won!” laughed the tourist, tossine the ‘coin into his outstretched hands. ‘Then the long train swept, by, the passengers giving the boys a parting cheer. Fred gripped the shiny dollar in ‘one hand as he slowed down. Jude was furious with disappointment. He had fully calculated-on ‘winning the money himself, for. he was a good runner. There wasn’t any doubt but that it had een a fair race, and that the winner was the fleetext of the party. That fact, however, didn’t onsole Jude. He wantcd that dollar, and be- sides it was gall and wormwood to him to see Fred, especially, win the money. Py ought to have half that prize,” he snarled, retorted t won it; did't’ 52” Yoney.” “Bosh!” interjected Tom Benedict. o feet behind Fred.” “That’s a lie! ‘I wasn’t: rl leave it to Mor- . “You were “He was away an ONLY A. stood in front of the four boys, and a couple of ¥y : _ growing on bushes for people to pluck.” “gh “We was both even when. he pitched you. the DOLLAR palses: ee “J was almost upto you. I could have ficieied you with my hand, but I couldn’t have reached _ Fred nohow.” “You say that ’eause you’re his friend.” “T say it because a the truth. I know what I’m talking about.” “You don’t know nothin’,” shorted Jude: : “Well, the chap who offered the money tossed it to Fred and said he’d won. He was the judge of the race, and what he said goes.” Ferguson couldn’t go behind that, so with a nasty look at Fred and Tom he drew off with Morton, and they suas the fence and. walked toward the street eyon 7 “Jude will hate you worse than ever after this.” chuckled Tom Benedict. ; “That doesn’t worry me any,” replied “Fred. — “There never has been any love lost between us, IT don’t faney fellows of his stamp, anyway.” “Well, you’re a lucky boy. You'll have a whole dollar to. spend to-morrow.” “No, I won't.” “Why not? Got any pas G use for that dollar you won?” “Yes. It’s the only dollar I have ever owned & in the world, and I’m going to keep it as a lucky piece. I’ve an idea that as lone - I hold on t ee it I’ll get more.” : fe “What put that into your head?” : mt couldn’t tell’ you. But I feel it in my bones.” say “Then I'd freeze. on to it if I felt that way. Ws “T mean to.” ¢ “Maybe Mr. Koop will give you a raise in you pay. ” “Don't you believe it. It’s like drawing a ‘ito th to get a raise out of him.” — “IT believe you. I’m a two- thirder, but I don’t get two-thirds of a journeyman’ S wages.” “You ought to, for you ’re worth: it.” “That’s right. And you’re worth more than $4. Jude gets $6, and you can set type all around him. Besides, there are a lot of things you can do that he couldn’t tackle to save his life, 2 he’s been a year longer at the business.” » “He'll never be worth his salt as a printe he’s too lazy and careless.” “He'll never be worth his salt at anything if he don’t mend his ways.”» “He wouldn’t last under Gregg - Be waren’ related.” “Nor under any other foreman.” | back to the station and then started for home. Fred pulled the silver prize he had won out of his pocket and looked at it. It felt good ‘to own that much—a whole hundred cents’ ‘worth. “Only a dollar,” he said. “When will I have. another to os rie a 5) “That’s onundrum, I guess,” isuched “Silver doles, or paper ones, either, are “That’s right—they aren’t. If they were—— “Nobody would work. Neither are they lying around in the road for folks to stumble Neola “That’s right, too. Hello! what's that? “What's what?” . t Fred made a swoop at. something: in. he. htened up,

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within the last, hour or two, yet none had seen it. It was a bank bill worth $50. “Great scissors!” exclaimed Tom. “A fifty dol- lar bill!” “Fred gazed. at the note with open mouth and eyes. The -bright new dollar in his other hand - faded into insignificance before this old dirt- _ begrimed piece of faded green paper. “Talk about luck,” continued Tom, “it’s coming your way by the raftful: I never found any- thing larger than a nickel in my life, and that was SO, smooth that I had a lot of trouble pass- ing it.” “Somebody. must have lost this, ” said Fred. _ “That’s evident. fifty dollar bills in the Butter for somebody else to pick up and blow in.” “T wonder if I could find out- who lost it?” _“Are you anxious to*find. the owner?” asked ‘Tom in surprise, _ “Fifty dollars is a lot of money,” replied Fred, solemnly. “You're right, it is.” - “The person who iit it might eat be able to fford it.” _ “That isn’t your funeral.” “Tf I knew who that person was I’d——” . “Return it, eh?” laughed Tom, incredulously. ~ *T certainly would. “i = *You'd be-a—— _. “Would you keep, this money, Tom, if you could ‘find the owner?” “No; but I wouldn’t go ain town asking people if they’d lost it.” “Of course you scouldn’t do that; but it might ‘be advertised for.” “Go on! It would be a waste of good money to advertise for a lost bill. identified 2” : . i bill could: m% ow? s cee that red iiiikese cross on the back, and ‘the fact that it’s been torn and pasted together.” “Ho! That don’t count for much.” “1 think it counts for a good deal.” ‘What are you going to do? Keep the bill for while on the possibility that the owner might how up?” asked Tom, wondering] y. “Yes.” 3 / Mid you're a phenomenon, Fred. The owner = 24 7% : 3 red years.” ~ *T haven’t any particular need to spend the 3 - Money ot present, so I might as well keep it act.” pill. I told you I believed it would bring me and you see it has.” -wouldn’t swear to it,” replied Tom, doubt- Well, that’s my opinion,” replied Fred, in a sitive tone, as they came to a stop in front of Valentine cottage. d ‘ht, old chap, have it your own way,” an “T- hope you'll hag one: more on ONLY A DOLLAR People don’t usually plant’ How could money be — ill never show up if you keep the bill for. ao You can use the — the > show ue had come into posenesion of the fift : Mr. Valenti -head. Suppose.” minutes her father came in. Tom went on his way anit Fred entered the house: » CHAPTER IV.—The Old: Mill at Plainville. — Supper. was nearly ready when Fred entered — the combfhed sitting and dining room. Eva was setting ‘the table, for it was almost *— time for her father to get home. : a hat de you suppose we’ve got for supper» tonight, Fred?” she asked the young ‘printer. “T’m not good at guessing riddles, Eva,” he re- plied. . “It’s something you like.” “Ts it? That makes it harder to guess, for tage like ost anything that tastes good,” he laughed. fears ut you like this particularly.” : “Then it must be pork and beans.” “That’s just what 1t-i8.” “Then I’m right in it. In fact, I’ve been right in it since I left the office.” “How is that?” “In the first place, four of us—Tom Benedict, Jude Ferguson, ‘Slatts Morton and me—ran a — race in the yard with the Pacific Express for a dollar, and I won the money.” ‘ “You ran a race with the Pacific Express!” ex- claimed Eva, opening her pretty eyes. “Why, how could you do that?” Fred told her all about the incident. “My, that must have been fun!” she cried. “It was, for everybody concerned. And it was’ profitable for ‘me: There’s the dollar. Look at~ it. Doesn’t it shine ?” Fam “It’s a new one.” od & “That’s what it is. Well, as Tom and I wer coming up the road, what do you sHDROSe As found?” . aa igh never guess,” "Roar SS ra she answered, shaking her” “A fifty dollar bill.” ” ; %: ~ “You didn’t!” she ejaculated in astonisliments, : “Well,” said Fred, bringing forth the dirty, mutilated and cross-marked oe “is that fifty dollars or isn’t it!” ; Eva-had to admit that it was when she looked at it. “My goodness! Aren't you fortunate?” , “Yes, I think I am.” admitted Fred. “Whereabouts in the road did you~ ~find. it? “In the gutter, not far from the grocery.” oe “You're rich; aren’t you? : - “Yes, I’m worth fifty-one dollars at the presertt ; mone ent, if no one claims the bill.” ; ow could any one claim it?” ae sel § couldn’t say. The possibility is small, ge should think So. thousand. : 5} & hope I'm honest enough to give it ‘up if th owner did turn up.” . “Pm sure you are; but you needn't worry: one will ever claim that bill.” Eva finished setting the table, oF in a fe There isn’t one chance in 3 Supper was put on the table and all sat do’ to it. Before the meal was over Fred rela od

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ONLY A = luck, and asked him what he was going to do with - the money. . _.. “I’m going to keep them both. .The dollar for good luck and the fifty till I have a pressing need to change it.” . When he went to his room, soon afterward he, _ put the money in his trunk. Later on he and Eva — went. out for a walk, as they did nearly every - Saturday evening. He bought an evening paper, ‘and when they got ‘home they looked over .it together. On the-first page was the story, under Jurid headlines of a murder that had been com- mitted the night before, but only discovered that afternoon. The victim was a reputed miser, named Abel Ashfield, one of the oldest residents of Leesburg. He lived with an old housekeeper, known as Martha Wills, in a large and roomy mansion on the suburbs. It developed that’ he had kept all his money and valuables in a sMall safe set. into the wall of his bedroom. This had been broken open and everything ab- stracted by the villains who had perpetrated the crime. The police were at work on the ease, but it did not appear that they had any definite clue as to the identity of the scoundrels. They had got ‘into the house through a rear window in the basement, and had departed the same way with their booty. How much money they had secured, and what else in the way of plunder they had made off with, was not known, as Abel Ashfield - never told anybody about his affairs, not even his housekeeper, who had no idea what he was worth. The old man had two nephews, one the son of is brother, a steady-going man who was.cashier in the bank of the near-by town; the other, a ~ good-for-nothing fellow, named Jim Harker, the son of his sister.. Ashfield had held no communi- ‘ation with either for many years, so the house- keeper saidy though the later had made several attempts of late to see his uncle. That was the whole story, as picked up by the reporters, to ‘the time of going to press, and it seemed to be . up to the police to do something if the murderers were to be apprehended and the stolen property: recovered. fied “That's tough on old Ashfield,” said Fred. “I remember seeing him once on the street—he was : small, white-haired man, with a face that look- ed like faded parchment.’ He looked as if he - ht be all of seventy years old. He didn’t dress if he was worth anything to speak of. One of he compositors at the office told me that he uessed the old man had no money, only the old ouse in which he lived. At any rate, he lived a way that gave color to that opinion.” ‘I don’t like to read aboyt murders,” said Eva, with a shudder. sa “Tt isn’t the most cheerful kind of reading, I’ll- dmit,” replied Fred. ‘It’s awful to think that a poor old man like im should be killed for what little money he ight have had.” - \ “You can’t tell but what he had a good deal, he really was a miser. The fact that he had a in the house would look as if-he was well ‘do hope the rascals will be caught and pun- » Young, people enjoyed the trip to the other town — POLDAR: a a “That’s too dréadful to think of. His own flesh ~ and blood. No, no,” said Eva, “that doesn’t seem — possible.” ot ree “Such things have happened before. Even — sons have been known to murder their fathers, — either for money or some other reason.” “Horrible!” exclaimed the girl. a _ “This is a pretty wicked world, if one is to judge what he sees printed in the daily papers. Leesburg is a paradise compared with a big city like New York or Chicago. Well, it’s getting late; we'd better go to bed. We've got a nice long trolley ride before us in the morning.” ~ * Tom Benedict brought Edith Clark to the Valen; tine cottage a little after nine next marming, and Fred and Eva were all ready to accompany them. The trip they had planned over the electri road would take them to Plainville, twelve miles — away, and they expected to walk around the — pretty suburbs of that town and have a modest — meal at a restaurant before returning to Lees- burg. It was an ideal day for the ride, and the ra) A immensely. As they sat near the front of the car, which, was. well filled, they did not notice that Jude Ferguson, Slatts Morton, and a couple of their gang*were standing on the rear plat- form. Such, howéver, was the case, and the young rascals cast furtive glances at them occasionally as the car speeded along. : ae _ When Fred signalled the car'to stop on reach- ing Plainville, Jude and his companions got off — quickly and retired under a nearby tree. They then. followed Fred, Tom and the girls at a dis- tance up the street. ~ } ie ieee “You heard them say that they were goin’ toe look at the old mill?” said one of the shadowers. Se a J me meant Towne and. Benedict plannin’ things yesterday at the station,” ied Jude. “Didn’t we Slatts?” : oe “That’s right,” answered Morton, nodding his head. “They’re goin’ to the old mill that folks say is haunted, and then they’re goin’ back to town to eat.” ' 3: “Then we'd better git to the mill before ’e The question is -how kin we separate ’em, go th we kin git a chance at Towne! We don’t want t monkey with Benedict if we kin help it. One is’ enough for us at a time, and we ain’t out for his. scalp.” : “While the rascals were’ struggling with question they made their way toward the mill in question as fast as their legs could carry them. It was clear that they had designs only on ‘Towne, and it took some figuring to find a pr — tical way of carrying out their purpose. | _At length they reached the dilapidated stru ture, which stood on the banks of 1, now gone to water and mud: —

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the boys did not investigate, but contented. them- selves with peering through the hole into the - dark and damp-smelling depths of the cellar, where a portion of the old machinery still stood in varying stages of decay. They could not see “much, and their curiosity did not induce them to pursue any exploration in that direction. Return- ‘ing to a passage between the rooms they mounted a stout stairway to the régions above, where they - found evidences of recent occupancy by what they - gupposed were tramps. Judge looked out of one - of the front windows ae 3 Fred, Tom, and the irls approaching at a distance. : : Pave they come, fellers,” he said. “We'll hide in this big closet.” os -.. The four young rascals got out of sight and _ waited. : * ‘ : ¥ CHAPTER ¥.—What Happened in the Mill, {Js that the old mill?” asked Eva Valentine, as. they drew nearer. “It looks like an ordinary ~ building.” Sai r ; soa the old mill,” replied Fred. “The big wheel is gone, and that’s why it doesn’t look like a mill any more.” They walked around it to the rear, looked down into the stream where the remains of the wheel lay, just as it had fallen, and then came back to the front. ~ - “Come on in,” said Fred. 3 ; ; “It’s awfully dirty looking inside,” said Edith ‘ Clark, thinking of her Sunday gown and the con- “sequences that might ensue if she brushed up against the walls. Finally they were induced bY ‘the boys to enter, and they walked around in a very careful manner. Fred piloted the way about as he was of an inquiring mind, and liked to look into things. IS ei ee i udder. : py ; ene what people say, but I don’t take any stock in the report,” ‘replied Fred. Most every $id place is said to be haunted more or less. You. aren’t afraid in the bright daylight, are 3 you?” « . s - _ No-o,” she replied, clinging’ to his arm, and looking fearfully around the small inner room which, owing to the fact that it had but one window, and that boarded up, was not particu- larly cheerful. f Z - “J wonder what’s to be seen down stairs?” said Tom, trying to make out something through the broken hole in the floor, * ~ : _*J puess that’s where the machinery was,” re- aA . d. . Bs aoe i a-trap-door,” pointed Benedict. “Let’s you and I go. down and take a look.” : “No, you mustn’t go,” objected Eva, grabbing her escort by the sleeve. Edith also vetoed the proposal. é “It won’t take us but a° minute,” said Tom. rou girls can wait here.” a; ~ But the girls wouldn’t have it, so the boys up the idea and all four started back for ne ag room. 3 ; Well haunted?” asked Eva, with a I’m going to see what’s upstairs,” said they. : uld b ONLY A DOLLAR Bete: = ~ ders and did not hurt him greatly. ~ the corner of the stairs, and ee ay low, but the girls declared that they didn’t want — to be left alone. ‘ : “Then Ill wait till -Fred returns,” replied Benedict. Fred gained the floor above and looked around. There was nothing particular to see there, and he was on the point of retracing his steps when he spied the roomy closet. Curious to see if there was anything: in it, he went towards 1, grapved the hanwe anu pulled it open. Two arms ‘shot out like a flash, catching ~ him by th® collar, and he was jerked forward into the gloom of the closet. Before he could recover from his surprise, Jude and his compan- ions had him down on the floor and were pound- ing him for all they were worth. Fred, however was a game. boy and the darkness prevented his .— enemies from doing very effective work. : Half their blows landed on his back and shoul- In a moment, or two-he started to defend himself in a way that promised to make ii inveresting ior his unknown assailants. The struggle made a noise that was heard below and Tom, wondering what was the matter, sprang up the stairs. At that moment 4 portion of the closet floor gave way under Fred, — and he went GuWu With a crash ouc of signu _ Jude followed, but saved-himself by catching the . jagged timbers. He roared “Help!” and was): caught and pulled up by his comrades. : The young wzascals were alarmed, for they believed — their. victim had been killed, and they made a dash to escape from the building. - ‘Slatts Morton and Jude were the first to reach — the opening above the starway, and in their hur- ry did not notice Tom Benedict coming up. The — result was they collided with him, ana the three ~ went rolling down the stairs, to the great terror ~ of Eya and Edith, who screamed: shrilly. ’The other two of Jude’s gang got as far as the stairs, and hearing the confufsion below con- cluded not to make their exit that way. They — turned around and dashed for the back window, — which was merely an open hole, bereft of sash and glass, if it ever had any. Each in turn low- ered himself out at arm’s length, dropped to the ground, and then made off a8 fast as they coul go, leaving Morton and Ferguson to shift for themselves. ‘Jude, Slatts, and Tom landed all i a heap at the foot of the stairs. it began to bleed badly. 3 pe ; Ped my nose!” howled Jude, scrambling to hi eet. : : : 4 Wow! My neck!” groaned Slatts, following lown at © Per,

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of the consequences of the trouble that had hap- pened all around, they made a break for the front room, scurrying out o fthe mill and down the road to Plainville. “Oh, dear, what does this all mean?” fluttered Eva, terribly unnerved. ‘Where is Fred?” ~ i “Who is that on the floor at the foot of the stairs?” shivered Edith. “Is he dead?” i “Dead!” screamed Eva. “Oh, it may be Fred!” “Or Tom! He went up stairs last,” cried the thoroughly alarmed Edith, shaking in every limb “What shall we do, Eva?” - Eva was no braver than the-average girl, but she thought as much of Ired as though-he were her brother. The very idea that he might have been thrown down stairs by the rascals who had come tumbling on top of him, and was lying there dying, perhaps dead, nerved her to instant. action. i She ran forward, knelt bythe boy’s side and _ peered into his face. : ' “Why, it’s Tom,” she cried, turning to Edith, oa great feeling of relief that it was not Fred. “Tom!” shrieked Edith. “Oh, don’t say he is Ae dead!” she added, rushing forward, and dropping beside the lad she thought so much of. ' “No, he isn’t.dead; he’s breathing,” replied +. Eva. : . “But he may be dying,” moaned Edith. . “Help -. me carry him out into the air.” . re “Yes, yes, I will; but what can be keeping Fred up stairs? I’m afraid something has hap- pened to him. I’m going to run up and see.” Under ordinary circumstances Eva never would - ha've dared venture up on that floor, but her anx- jety about Fred banished every other considera- tion from her mind. She sprang up the stairs like a fawn and stepped out on the deserted floor -of the room. Not a sign of the boy was to be seen anywhere. * Tre “Fred! Fred!” she called. “Where are you?” 2 ‘She received no answer but the dull echo of her own voice. as ’ “Oh, where can he be?” she breathed, in anxious suspense. “There is no one here, and he came up here only a few moments ago.” The open window attracted her notice. She yan over to it and looked out. There was not a soul in sight. She was growing more frightened at the mystery of the thing. vis _. As she walked back she saw the closet, the door of which stood wide open. In fear and trembling *, she cautiously approched it and looked in, At first she could see nothing clearly, then she ob- y served the jagged hole in the floor. She did not -eonnect it with Fred’s disappearance, and after a final look around the big room she returned down stairs, much bewildered and upset by her inabili- ity to find her escort. ; “He isn’t upstairs. There’s no one there at I don’t know what has become of him,” she all. old Edith. he must be. He didn’t come down.” : ‘T know he didn’t. I can’t understand it at logked all cver the room, and I am positive ** there.” at moment Tom t up, SF Pe ONLY A DOLLAR | ? yet gloom of the passageway, and, seized by a fear . “Fred not upstairs!” gasped Miss Clark. Why. | whispered Edith, who also expressed Eva’s senti- _ ments on t Tea eee my Auieaee “Tom, Tom,” eried, Edith eagerly, “are you hurt?” “That you, Edith? I didn’t know where I-was. __ I don’t know whether I’m hurt or not, I fell all ” sore and bruised, and my head feels as big as a balloon. Hello, Eva; you there? Say, what hap- pened to mé, anyway?” , is “Don’t you remember?” asked Edith. “You were knocked down stairs by a couple of boys, I~ think.” | oy : “One of them looked just like Jude Ferguson, — but of course it couldn’t have been him, here in - Plainville,” spoke up Eva suddenly. _ “I remember now. We heard a racket upstairs ~ just after Fred went up, and I started up to see: what was the matter. Two chaps ran into me, and we all came rolling down in a bunch. Where are they, and where is Fred?” “They ran away,” said Eva. “And Fred, we don’t know where he is.’ ’ , : “Don’t know where he is?” exclaimed Tom, in astonishment. ‘“He’s upstairs, of course, if he didn’t. come down.” ; “No, he isn’t,” replied Eva, in a positive tone. “J was just up there looking for him, and there : isn’t anybody upstairs,” ‘i “That’s funny,” answered?Tom. “There’s no other way to get down that I know of except those stairs.” ; He stood up and felt of himself. ‘ “T guess there are no bones broken. I’m only lame and sore from the tumble,” he said. “I'll go up myself and take a look.” j , At that juncture there were sounds of steps in, — the next room. An instant later two men, rather rough in appearance, darkened the doorway into | the passage. The moment they saw Tom and the two girls they stopped with a startled impreca- tion. 2 é Se CHAPTER VI—Doubts and Fears. “Well,” growled the foremost man, “what are. you people doing here?” ‘ fees Tom looked at the fellow. So did the girls, and they drew closer to Benedict, for they didn’t like the looks of the intruders. Just then there was a heavy rumbling in the air which presaged the approach of a thunder storm. The sun had van- ished behind a dark bank of clouds which*covexed half of the heavens, and the brightness of the early afternoon -had gone out of the face of | nature. Under these’ conditions the passage be- — tween the two rooms was much darker than it — had been, though neither Tom nor the girls had noticed the difference. a gts Thinking it well not to provoke trouble, Tom — told the men that they had come there to look at the mill. : ; eg “Well, if you’ve seen all you want of it, yowd better go,” was the surly reply: oe - “We're going as soon as a friend of mine comes down stairs,” answered Benedict: ae “What’s he doing up there?” asked the man sus- piciously. “T don’t know what he’s doing. He went up to_ look around. I'll see if I can find him.” ies “Don’t leave us down here with these men,” we iy eat he subject. 7 5 ° oi - t3 y tS et

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who had addressed him below. ONLY A ? “Come up with get Orr -ascend to the floor above. é The men didn’t move, but watched the girls - follow Benedict up the stairs. As soon as the three had disappeared: through the opening the fellows talked together in a low tone. Tom eee $i » several. times, and, receiving no reply, ; aire mS the closet and looked into it. The room was so dark’now that he didn’t notice the hole in the floor, and might have walked into it and got a nasty tumble like Fred had experienced but that Eva caught him by the jacket and warned him of the danger. He fumbled in eS, ou tch, but he didn’t have one; so all he coul¢ lene examine the closet in: the dark with great caution. As the place was quite bare he was soon satisfied that his chum wasn’t in there. “Tis funny where Fred has gone,”“he said. “Could it be possible that he fell into that hole? he added, as the awful possibility occurred to his ind. A a gave a gasp, and her heart nearly stopped - beating. She had not thought of such a thing when she noticed the hole herself. Now that hole seemed to furnish the solution of the mys- tery surrounding Fred’s unaccountable disappear- ance. If he had fallen down there, how far had e gone? : a Pen down and see if he’s there,” said Eva to ce ict in an agitated tone. : ey dhanied his chum’s name repeatedly, “ without result. oc aes “We isn’t down ee a said, ene ee ¥ i rrupt y the voice 0 e Bice nauseated Win 3 This fellow now stood at the head of the stairs, with his head and shoulders above the floor. : : «What's keeping you_folks so long up, here? e said; irritably. ‘“Where’s that friend of yours?” = fe rons veply was drowned by a heavy crash - of thunder almost overhead. The two girls gave a jump and uttered stifled screams. Almost im- mediately the wind and rain swooped down on the ‘old mill, and the air grew so Gert sna? the young sople could barely see one another. ac didn’t hear what you said,” called the man on the-stairs. : “J said that I don’t know where my friend has Tom. be “What: kind said Tom, starting to put ” got to,” replied econ, sor tow sneered the man, of steer.are you giving me?” Af e at all. I’m telling you the truth.” Ee tae friend came up here, and didn’t go own again, you ought to have found him long before this. I’d like to know what kind of game you'r to, anyway.” euWe're up rhe ane. In any case,” added Tom, losing his patience, “I don’t see why you ; interested in us. ; ES ieak hore: young fellow, I don’t intend to take any sass from you. Just come down stairs, where we can keep track of you, or there’ll be something ee : * % joing you won’t like. : “The: fellow spoke ‘in a tone that showed he ant business, and Tom, having the two girls protect, decided that the easiest way to avoid able was to obey, for he couldn’t hope to cope ans ‘Cor ‘O ? » Fred.” ; * anything ourselves to help him, even if he did ~ when the storm had passed? DOLLAR make it very unpleasant for us if they should — take a notion to do so.” - i irae So Tom assisted the girls down stairs, and the three went into the front room, where they — watched the progress of the thunder storm and kept a wary eye out for the two men, who, how- ever, remained out of sight in the passage. Hva was terribly distressed about Fred. She pictured - herself that the boy was lying unconscious or ead somewhere in the hole under the closet, and she clung tg Edith and cried bitterly. Tom and Miss Clark both tried to comfort her, but she was inconsolable. So the minutes passed and the sterm continueed outside. ‘ oh Jt was an uncommonly heavy one. The thunder © crashed with fearful detonations and the light- ning lit up the darkened landscape with startling intensity. It was a trying situation all around , for the young people, but there was nothing to do but grin and bear it. What were they to do: How could they leave the mill without Fred? They had not the slightest intention of desert- ing him, and yet it seemed evident that the men wished the mill to themselves for some reason. Who were these men, anyway? They were not tramps, but they might easily be something worse. — What was to be the end of this adventure? At Se length, after what seemed tobe an endless time, - the thunder storm passed away, and the sun came out again. > “What shall we do about’ Fred?” asked Eva. “Blessed if I know,” replied Tom, scratching his head in a perplexed way. SEA “Come now, are you people going, ‘or do you expect to camp here for the rest of the day?” asked the fellow who had done all the talking, poking his head into the room. ; < “Come outside,” said Tom to the girls, paying i no attention to the man. “What do you suppose those men want about the mill?” asked Edith, after they had got into the sunshine. tetas “T wouldn’t be surprised if they are a couple of crooks who are hanging out there for no good purpose,” replied Tom. “I think the best ‘and only thing we can do under the circumstances ~~ will be to hurry in to town and tall at the police — office. We'll tell the story of Fred’s disappear- — ance, and call their attention to the presence of these two fellows here. Then I could come back with an officer and make a systematic search for The girls agreed that this would be the best — plan to follow, though Eva hated to leave the mill, believing that Fred,had fallen through the hole in the closet, and might be dead or dying some- — where inside the building. 5 = “As the case stands,” said Tom, “we can’t d : fall through that hole. Therefore, the sooner we call in outside help the better it may be for him.”» Eva, convinced that Tom was right, offered n

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10 ONLY A -~went down into the dark depths like a shot. He -. landed on top of an old mildweed mattress, which . broke his fall somewhat. 2 ' “Where am 1?” he muttered. “It’s a wonder I did not break my heck. I wonder who those rascals were who assaulted me? I must gét out of this and get back to Tom and the girls.” -— Lighting a match, he perceived he was at the bottom of a kind of shaft with a hole opening o into the mill, barricaded by ‘several barrels ful of rubbish. Sticking out of one of the barrels “was a valise with the name “Able Ashfield” _ printed on it in small black letters. He realized it belonged to the old miser who had been mur- ' dered and robbed. He took the valise out of the barrel and toppled it over to make room for him - to get out. Snatching up the valise he stepped into the mill proper. He located the stairs and was about to ascend them when the trapdoor was _raised.and two men came down. Fred slipped under the stairwav out of sight. 2 The men crossed to the barrels with the aid- of a pocket lantern. Fred recognized by the con- -versation between them that one of them was the old miser’s scapegrace nephew, Jim Harker.” But pretty soon an éxclamation from. Harker, that the valise was not in the barrel, brought his friend Bill up with a start. ‘“Somebody has been "here and taken the valise away.” “Well, then the feller in the cellar found the -valise and. sneaked away with it.” CHAPTER Vil.—Fred Comes in for a Thousand : Dollars. : Harker, as if impressed by his companion’s - words, began to flash the light about the cellar. “Pm afraid V’m>in for it,” thought Fred, un- wv easily. - j ~~ Fortunately for him, they started their investi- - gations at the other end of the place, and Fred - decided to make an effort to escape while they ‘were so employed. He came out from the shelter -- of the stairway, softly mounted the steps, pushed “up the trap, placed the valise on the floor, and then followed, closing the trap as softly as he - eould. His exit was not observed. Taking up the valise, he made his way out of the building ‘on his tiptoes, and then clasping his heavy bur- den-in his arms started down the road toward ‘town as fast as he could go. He saw that it had DOLLAR He cae is, Anyhow, and I’ll be able to identify both if they are caught. There’s one thing -I’d like to know, and that is who the vogs were that were in the closet. They were not there for any good purpose, that’s certain.” pa .Just then Fred sighted two persons coming up ~ the street at a rapid gait. When they got closer Fred, with great satisfaction, recognized his friend Tom. The other was a policeman. Fred _ _ waved his hand and set the:valise down, for he been raining heavily recently, and from the posi- - tion of the sun noted the fact that two or three hours had elapsed since the time he, Tom, and the girls had come to the mill. : ~ “YT must have been unconscious in the cellar for some time after all,” he mused, as he hurried along. “I wonder where the folks are? They were evidently driven away from the mill by those two rascals. They must be expecting me to join them somewhere along the trolley line. Well, T’ve got to go to the police statign first, turn in this valise, and put the officers on to those chaps, who, without doubt, are the murderers of Abel bet those were the chaps that made the girls and was winded. Tom gave a shout, poin i -to the officer, and they hurried ane os me os “My goodness! I’m mighty glad to see you, Fred,” cried Tom. “We've been worried to death _ about you. - We couldn’t understand what had happened to you after you went up stairs in the mill. You disappeared as if you had vanished into the air. We found a hole in the floor of the closet, and were afraid you had fallen through it — and were perhaps badly hurt.” : a “T did fall through it, right to the cellar.” os “You don’t look as if -you were hurt much,” said Tom in surprise. : _ “I wasn’t hurt at all, though I was knocked insensible. I lighted on an old mattress which was at the bottom of the shaft.” ee “Gee! You were lucky. Eva will be pleased to death to find that nothing’ has happened to you. She’s been so worried about you that we didn’t know what to do with her.” Z “Is that so?” asked Fred, rather delighted that he was an object of so much interest to. the sir whom he thought a whole lot of. i get that valise?” asked “Say, where did you Fred. : é “T found it in the mill cellar. By the way, of- ficer, you heard about the murder of Abel Ash-_ field, haven’t you?” |. % : “I should say I have. Half our force are out hunting the neighborhood for some trace of the murderers.” _ “Well; there are two of them, and they were — in the cellar of the old mill about fifteen min- utes ago,” 3 : ; “What! exclaimed the ceredulous liok. “V'm giving you straight goods,” replied Fred. — “Here’s the proof of it. This valise belonged to Abel Ashfield—there’s his name on it—and I guess from its weight that it contains the stolen property from the old man’s safe.” eee The officer was astonished. He saw right away that Fred was giving him the exact facts of ease. He took up the valise and admitted that i was heavy enough to contain a lot of valuable plunder. pee “How did you get possession of this?” “Tt’s too long a story to tell you now if you — expect tc go after the rascals. who killed Abel Ashfield.” ES. ad “You say there are two of them?” fhe “Yes, and one is Jim Harker, the old man’s nephew.” ~ Beh se: “Say. 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.. What am I talking about? Why, there was 4 big thunder storm an hour or more ago. Didn't you hear the thunder?” ; - *” «Not a bit. I must have been unconscious all __ through it.” _ “Well, it was a corker. The girls were almost frightened to death. It shook the mill from roof to cellar.” ; ; _ “] didn’t know a thing about it. I noticed, how- ever, that it had been raining.” - “Raining! Well; I should say so. It simply poured down for about half an hour. I thought it never would let up. When it was over those rascals chased us out of the mill, and we came ~ on to town ta notify the police about your mys- - terious disappearance, and to get assistance to search the building through for you.” On _— Where aré the girls?” _. “At the police station.” “Well, office,” asked Fred, “are you going to fi the mill after those murderers?” “As there are two of them, and I dare say * they’ll put up a desperate resistance, I don’t think I’d better go alone. We'll »-frn to the station, and you can tell your story to the cap- tain 5; ; “But the villains will get away in the mean- time,” replied Fred. ; ay “We'll have to chance that. Vil — earry the valise.’’ -. So they started off for the police station. When Fred entered the station, accompanied by Tom _and the officer, Eva fairly ran into his arms, she ‘was so delighted to see him looking as usual. | _ “Oh, Fred, where did you go? Do tell me.” “J went on an exploring expedition,” he, grin- ned. “Why, what do you mean?” : “T took an unexpected drop into the cellar.” ~ “Then you did fall through that hole in the ‘eloset?” = © » “I guess: that’s about the size of it, Eva, though the hole wasn’t there when I was yanked into the place.” ” “Ts wasn’t there? And what do you mean by - gaying that you were yanked into the closet?” phe asked in a puzzled way. “Come, young man,” said the officer, who had _placed the valise on the presiding officer’s desk, - “step up and.tell the captain your story.” Accordingly, Fred stepped up and, with his riends around him and the policeman standing ear by, he related all that happened to him from the moment he left Tom and the girls on the first Come on. bly reported to the Leesburg authorities. The four young people then left the police sta- -tion to get their belated dinner, after which they took a car for home. The morning papers had the full story of Fred’s adventure in the old mill Plainville which resulted in the recovery by him of the stolen property taken by the mur- -derers of Abel Ashfield. The valise contained $20,000 in money, $10,000 _of diamonds, an er precious stones, bel Ashfield’s will, ‘ONLY A DOLLAR. Wes povaee and cutting off James Harker with one ollar. : i Harker, and his companion Bill were not cap- + tured by the Plainville police when they subse- é quently searched the mill and the woods in that direction. The rascals had taken time by the forelock and made their escape. As soon as+ George Ashfield heard of the murder of ‘his uncle he came tc Lesburg and®made arrangements for ~ the funeral. He did this out of respect to his father’s brother, and without any idea that he would be any great gainer by*it. The discovery of the old miser’s will, however, among the re- aaeie property made a whole lot of difference to. _ him. gre He immediately took charge of the estate as the acknowledged heir, and almost the first thing. he did. was to present Fred Towne with $1,000, — # ~ as an evidence of his appreciation of what he owed the boy, for had not Fred recovered the — valise the will, as well as the property, would ~— have been lost to him, and he would only have been entitled to a half interest im his uncle‘s house, ; ; Fred put ‘the money’in a sayings bank, and — when he showed the book to Eva, he said: vale “My luck, you see, started with that dollar I won racing with the Pacific Express. It was only a dollar, but it’s netted me so far $1,050.” { “Do you expect it to put any more in your way?” asked Eva, laughing. ce “Do I? +I wouldn’t be surprised if it made me ‘a millionaire one of these days.” “ CHAPTER V1II.—Fred Is Promoted and Jude — Hears Something He Doesn’t Like. 5 Jude Ferguson and Slatts Morton, who was a ~ Gordon press feeder, were much surprised to see Fred ‘owne walk into the office on Monday morning same as usual.. They had not expécted to see him turn up for a week, if he ever did — again, for they had figured that the fall he got would knock him out badly. Neither had read the morning paper containing the story of the recovery; through Fred, of the dead miser’s prop- erty, and they aid not learn about the matt until a pressman spoke about it in Morton’s héar- — ing, and he immediately beckoned Jude over to me out.” e 3 _ “Chase- yourself, now. The foreman has h eye on us.” ae

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ae ONLY A Fred was the talk of the. printing office that ~ morning. The compositors shook hands with him -..and congratulated him upon what he had done. “The Plainville police never would have. re- covered that stolen property,” compositors when Fred went into his alley for a line of type to complete a job he was helping . another printed on. “Those chaps would have got away with it, just as they’ve vot away them- selves.” ~ “That may be,” admitted Fred; “but after mit it was just pure luck that put me in the way of the valise.. If I hadn’t fallen down that shaft, - . I never would have known it was there.” _ “That’s all right; but look at the nerve you - showed in walking off with it right under the ~ noses of the raseals. That’s what counts. You ought to get a good reward for saving $30,000 worth of money and valuables.” ic : “I wouldn’t refuse it if it came my way,” -- grinnéd. the boy. “T should say not.” -.. Fred“having set the line he was after, left the alley. That morning Gregg called Fred to his desk and surprised him by saying’ that. he was going to get another errand boy, and that here- - after he meant to keep him at the case. i “After this week your wages will be six dol- ‘. lars,” added the. foreman. : , “Thank you, sir,” replied Fred, delighted at his advancement. -- The reason of his promotion was beciuse Gregg ‘was satisfied that Towne could do as well as a certain $12 hand he had, rand as Mr. Koop was. ‘always at him about running the office as eco- nomically as possible, he had decided to discharge the man and save $6 on the weekly payroll. He would have liked to have got rid of his brother- his wages, but he didn’t care to raise a ruction in his domestic circle by letting him go. As “soon as the compositors heard about Fred’s raise they renewed their congratulations and expressed their satisfaction. Before the week was out he received $1,000 from “George Ashfield alluded to this piece of good luck to any one but Tom Bene- dict, under promisé of secrecy, and the Valen= tines. Fred and Eva were drawn more than ever ogether by the adventure at the mill. her regard for him that the boy was more atten- ‘tive to her than ever, much to the satisfaction of Mrs, Valentine, who, now that Fred was worth $1,000, had. been promoted . in his business, and was undeniably smart and a nice boy, began to gure on her young boarder as an excellent prop- osition for her daughter in the future. When Jude discovered that Fred had been raised both nm position and wages he was wild with rage. He made a kick to Gregg but got no satisfaction. —“T don’t know what you see in that Towne,” growled to his: brother-in-law at the supper le that night. “You’ve made him as good me, and I’ye been a year longer in the busi- j You ought - give me a couple of in-law, too, for in his opinion Judge didn’t earn’ The girl had given such strong evidences of said one of the. - \ in the previous chapter, but he didn’t mention - DOLLAR iy ia “There are a lot of things you don’t see.” re= plied the foreman, impatiently. “You give me more trouble in a week than Towne does in a ~ year.” ; “Is that so?” sneered Jude. didn’t like him.” : € “T don’t. like him much, but I’m not running the office on my likes or dislikes. It’s up to me to make the best showing I can, and Towne isa mighty smart young printer. I wish. you were — half as satisfactory, ’ if you want to know, my opinion. It is only the fact that you’re my brother-in-law that enables vou to hold your job. — And that won’t avail you if Koop ever gets on to you, let me ‘tell you that. He’s got sharp eyes; the old man has, and I’ve seen him watching you — more than once lately. He spoke. to me about your time slips this morning, so you’d better look out. He'll be sure to compare your work with Towne’s now that he’s steady on the case, and if he takes a notion that vou’ll have to XO. I won’t be able to keep you.” Jude was rather startled by this plain state- ment of facts. “Well, you kin fix my time slips, can’t you?” he asked, rather humbly. : “The only thing I ean do jis to give you the easy jobs, but even then if you don’t hustle more than you’ve been doing you'll get into trouble. You waste too much time around the office. When you get a job to set you’re always hunting for the tyre. Can’t you TeMmeRioer where the cases are? e “You ought to give me more pg matter to set. I kin do better on that.” “J guess I’ll have to keep you on Seeaieht mate. ter altogether after this. I’ve been trying to make a printer out of you. I’ve given you every chance to get ahead. It doesn’t seem to do any — zood, ‘Now, Towne hasn’t had half the show — you’ve had, and he’s doing first class. He can set most any kind of a reprint job. When I have: sent him to help any of the men, he’s always given satisfaction. On the other hand, the comps always have a kick coming over you. Wither- you delay the job by your slowness, or you have to set a line over two or three times before it will answer. Now J’ll give you fair warning, that unless you do better right away, Towne is going — to show you up by his work. Then Koop will — “Y thought you want to know why I’m keeping you. You had a better understand right now that. I’m not going — =) to hurt my chances on your account. Youll~ 13 never “have a. better opportunity to get ahead than. you’re having now under me, and if you ain’t a fool altegether you'll sit up and take. notice.” With those words Gregg finished his supper and left the table. This wasn’t the first nor the second time that he had pulled Jude over the coals for one thing or another at the office, but it was the first time he had intimated that Fer guson’s hold on his job was so insecure. . Jud was disgusted at his brother-in-law’s attitude t ward him, and set up a kick with his sister, wh had always stood’his friend. Mrs. Gregg, ho ever, was beginning to wake up to the fact tl her brother wasn’t the ill-used person he so long represented. himse j i tomed to

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¥ 2 ONLY A DOLLAR but at their fast run in on the tiresome subject, Mr. Gregg had got mad and said such plain truths about Jude that Mrs. Gregg weakened. _ “Well, why don’t you attend to business?” re- plied his sister sharply. “Jim says you aren’t Searth your salt in the office.” “fe said that, did he?” snarled Jude. “He did. Now, after what he just said to you at the table, it looks to me as if you don’t seem to care whether you get ahead or, not. I can’t be fighting with Jim all the. time on your ac- count. I’ve something else to do.” She got up and began to cle&r off the table. : Jude was mad clear through. He counted on _ his sister, and now it looked ‘as if she, too, was going back on him. Being naturally ignorant of the ins and outs of the printing business, she - was unable to see through her brother’s fake ex- cuses, and thus he had been able to work on her - sympathy; but it looked now as if he had reached the limit of hi8’ pull. ~~ Jude said something under his breath that his sister wouldn’t have been pleased. to have heard: “and snatching up his hat went out to hunt up “some of his gang. ; CHAPTER IX.—In Which Jude and His Friend Slatts Get It In the Neck. > Jaane knew in his heart that Fred would make him look like thirty cents in the comparison of their work. For that reason, if for no other, he hated Towne worse than ever. He was sore on his brother-in-law for. promoting Towne, and ‘thus’ putting him in a position to show him Jude) up. Instead of resolving to apply him- -gelf with more diligence to acquiring an insight into the tradé, he devoted his thoughts to schem- ing against Fred. _“T£ I could only get him out of the office some- how, I’d be all right,” he mused. “There isn’t ny use of me expectin’ Jim to fire him, for he. won’t.- I must get around it some other way. Slatts will help me, for he doesn’t like Towne ho more’n. me. I'll go around to Slatt’s house and talk the matter over with him.” “He met Morton coming out of the very humble welling where he lived. _ “Where you bound, Slatts?” he asked: .“Where do you s’pose ?” replied Morton.* bound for the club house.” : “Tm with you,” said Jude. ’ The club house in question was the rendezvous f the “Night Hawks,” on the outskirts of the own, about half a mile away. “ mie On the way Jude enlarged upon his grievance gainst Towne, and said-he was anxious to find “T’'m or don’t know how you're goin’ to do it if our brother-in-law won't fire him,” said Mor ton. T’ve got to do somethin’ or first thing ; know get bounced myself.” ‘How will you?” asked: Morton in eicprises hereupon Jude told him what Gregg said at . Morton was smart enough to He w pape that his companion and went upstairs. ome way to get F fred away from the office for ~ ee for he had heard the men say so a Aa score of times. _ Under these circumstances Jude’s lack of abil- — ity was bound to attract the attention of Mr. E Koop, who was always snooping around the com- — posing and press rooms when he was in the office, — As a matter of fact, the proprietor had» ob- — served Ferguson’s methods alreadv= and had called his foreman’s attention to the fact, but — Grege had covered up Jude’s delinquencies in order to save him. Mr. Koop had also noticed Fred’s activity and constant diligence, and had — oo likewise pointed the boy out to Gregg as one deserving of encouragement. Consequently, when © the foreman. proposed to advance the boy to the > ease and raise him to $6, the proprietor nodded” wig approvingly ‘ You’ d better put up a ‘better bluff than you've Bee. doin’,” said Morton. “If you don I think I see your finish. There’s no Be away from the fact that Towne can set type ate’ around you.’ “Yah!” snarled Jude. friend of mine?” “So I am, but I can’t go behind what every- body knows in the office. You know blamed well | ys that you couldn’t set a decent lookin’ job to save. your life...Look at ere card you put together ee this mornin’. id “What about it?” scab Ferguson. . ae “Why, the reader almost had a fit when he saw the proof.” “How do you know he did?” - » “J was standin’ at his desk waitin’ for him te revise a_press-proof of a bill-head I had on my — jobber. He looked at your job, then at your name, and then he showed it to his copyholder. Egan looked at it and said, ‘Rotten! JWll have to show this to Gregg,’ said the reader; ‘he'll never stand for that.’ Grege must have turned it over to somebody else to reset, for it was put on my press afterward to work off, and it looked as dif- — eae as daylight and darkness from the day you a i ” Jude didn’t make any reply, and soon afterward the two boys reached the old rookery that was used as a meetingplace by the “Night Hawks,” “Vie “T thought you was a. When Fred wasn’t working at the case, or on the large stones, he was sometimes put at locking up small forms for the job presses. 3 One day one of his forms went to Morton who, knowing he had locked it up, tried to get him in trouble by loosening the quoins a little so that the rollers pulled the type up and the spaces with. it. Then he complained to the foreman of the small presses who, as he expected, told him to. take the form back to the stone and have it fixed. Morton knew that.Gregg never liked to see form brought back to be fixed up, so he halloed out to Fred: “Say, why don’t you lock your forms up right? This one is all loose. Everythin’ | i workin’ up. Gregg heard him and sgalicodt over to look Of course, he didn’t expect Fred to be mart ec yet, but this form looked as if a jar phe a senc it into pi. : “See here, Towne,” he said angrily, “w

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é Fréd came over and examined it. “YT didn’t send it that way. I tried it before I carried it over to the pressroom, and it was as ‘tight as a drum. pe “Oh, it was,” sneered Gregg. . “Looks like it, doesn’t att? : Z “Somebody must. have monkeyed with it,” re- plied Fred, stoutly. “I try to do all my work SEs 1 aaa 5 =e “Do you mean to say that I monkeyed with it?” demanded Morton. “Are you willing to swear that is the way you ‘got it from me?” Yds. 1am.” “You saw ‘that it was loose when I handed it te you?” “No. I didn’t notice nothin’ Wrgne till the rollers pulled the type -out.” + One of the compositors came up at that mo- ment. “That isn’t Towne’s fault,” he said to the fore- man. “I saw Morton loosen up the quoins before he put_the chase on the press, and I wondered why he did it.” Gregg, who ‘didn’t like Morton, demanded to knew if he had touched the quoins. Slatts, how- ever, seeing he ws in a hole, began to lie out of it. The foreman didn’t believe him. This was the first form locked up*by Fred that there had been any complaint about, and that fact was - much in his favor. “Don’t let me catch you at such a trick again, Morton,” said Gregg pointedly. “Fix it up,” he added, turning to Fred and then walking away. Fred planed the type down, and took up the -quoin key to tighten the patent iron wedges. _ “Pm on to you, Morton,” he said in a low ‘tone. “You tried to get me in trouble over this _ form. You-know there was nothing the matter “with it when.I gave it to you. If you get funny again, I'll make you sorry for it.” “Yes, you will,” sneered Slatts, with .a malevo- + lent look. : me _ “J s*pose you think you know it all since you’ve - been promoted. Been tryin’ to show Ferguson up, too. * Well, maybe your finish will come all - right.” Fred made no reply, but tightened the form,,. _ tried it, and’ handed it to Morton, who went back to the press with it. rs “What was the trouble with the form?” asked - Tom Benedict, when Fred went into his alley, stick in hand, to set a line of type. - Fred told him, and then added that he guessed t was a put-up job. “Tll bet it was,” answered Tom. “You want to ‘keep your eyes skinned for both Slatts and _ dude. They'll try to do you if they can.” to. attend a funeral, and one of the compositors was instructed to give work out and look after = ea r. Koop, knowing that his foreman was away, made it his business to keep his eye on e composing room. On one of his snooping tours e caught Jude_and Slatts Morton chinning be- ‘hind one of the. “frames. He didn’t say anything’ » them, and they were not aware that he had ected them. Next morning he called, Gregg oiler, told him what he’d seen ‘and order- h oth of the bovs that after-— rdinely. when he “That afternoon Gregg went off at two o'clock . »job cases in rotten shape. ONLY A DOLLAR handed Morton his pay envelope, Gregg told him that his services were dispensed with. Morton believed he was discharged on aecount of the trouble about Fred’s' form, and he privately — vowed to get seuare with the young printer. : Five minutes later Jude was informed that he was bounced. He put up a big howl to his brother-in-law, but the latter cut him short. “F told you what you might expect if you didn’t do better,” said Gregg. “Mr. Koop has ordered your discharve and it = ompossible for me to keep you.’ Then Gregg told him hee the boss: had dant him and Morton loafing behind a frame, and that had settled their fate. Jude walked out of the office, looking very black. He joined Slatts and~ they went off together vowing vengeance against ie whole establishment, from the proprietor own. - CHAPTER X.—The Young Incendiaries. On Saturday nights Fred and Tom were ac-— eustomed to go to a gymnasium and practice athletic exercises for the benefit of their health | and to enlarge their muscles. After Fred had — eaten his supper he went to Benedict’s house to meet him as usual. Tom was waiting for him, — and they started to the gymnasium - in ee spirits. “Well,” said Tom as they walked along, “Tm mighty glad that Jude and Slatts have been fired from the office.’ If ‘anybody ever deserved — to be bounced it was Jude, but I never thought he’d get it as long as his brother-in-law was _ foreman of the office.” “Well, I’m not surprised that Jude got it in the neck at last for sojering. He could put in more time doing nothing than any other chap I ever met. “That’s right. I’ve diet wondered how he managed to square himself on his time slips. I. guess Gregg must have helped him out.” : “He certainly did, or else Jude covered it up with that old bluff “distribution,” which he could — easily work in, seeing he was distributing about ~ half his time.” “T could distribute as much type in half a day! as he put away in a week,” said Fred, with a laugh. “The men always swore that he kept the _ It didn’t seem to, worry him much if he dropped half a dozen dif- ferent letters in the same box so long as he got the line of type in the case. I suppose you res member the time he distributed a couple of hand- fuls of old style agate three-nick. into a Roman nonparejl two-nick case. I had to pick it all out before the case could be used, and it was t dickens of a job.” “T remember -it, for I wanted to: use the case myself at, the time and couldn’t. Jude wouldn’t — have lasted a week™in any other printing offi I wonder what he'll do now? Slatts can get job feeding at any of oar offices, if there’ a vacancy for a job pre feeder, and he can hi his job down if he wants to; but Jude, even i he gets a job will find -s ‘a hard matter to mak r

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ONLY A DOLLAR oys usually remained there until it was time for the place” to close up, and this occasion was no exception to the rule. It was half-past.ten when they left, and they decided to take a short cut This carried them up past the rear of 3 Koop’s printing office. That part of the town was dark and deserted The gas lamps were few and far be- _ tween, “and their light did not penetrate far. - - Suddenly Tom pointed a short distance ahead. _ “T saw two shadows run into the eae at the ck of our office,” he said. ~ “T saw them, too. doesn’t it?” said Fred. 5 I don’t see what any one should be doing in there at this time of the night. ight be thieves.” “Tt they’re thieves they’re more likely to force ; b inoir way into one of the other buildings than in’ You don’t often hear of burglars looting a ‘printing: office.” . *T don’t ever remember hearing of anak a case. uppose we steal into the alley and see if we can find out what those chaps are up to. think they ain’t honest we can look up a police- man and put him onto them.” “All right. I’m with you.” So they entered the alley on tiptoes. It was as dark as the fabled caves of Erebus d they had to grope their way along, using ‘great caution not to stumble over objects that The alley ended in a small yard at the back of the printing office. sign of the intruders anywhere. ‘Where could they have gene to?” asked Tom. They must: have. made their way into one of Looks kind of suispielans, There was. not a at — “Then we'd better try to find an officer. pretty «Wait a moment. Let us see if we can find out which building they’ve broken into,” said Fred. It didn’t take them long to discover that one of the basement windows under the printing office ” whispered Fred. They’re burglars as It’s up to us to hunt a cop.” [ll remain here ' “They’ve gone in here, That’s what they have. ure as you live. “Well, you go.and find one. “You've sot plenty of nerve to do that. ig you when they conie out. y é L don’t ere they will. If you’re going, get om at once moved off down the alley toward eet and was soon swallowed up in the There was a small barrel beside the “euuent window, and Fred crouched down e He hadn’t been there but a moment ‘two before he saw a couple of heads appear nin : ie ae one here, Slatts,” said the voice Ende Ferguson. “T told you that you were — “could have, sworn I heard steps in this yard,” plied. Morton. Well, you kin see for yourself that there ‘Ss no ; here, can’t you?” “There pies Soil hed be. Let’s met ack and astonished at their presence there at that time Wee of the night. * =a “They’, re up to some niece of wickedness, I'll bet a hat,” breathed Fred. “I’m going to find out what it is. They haven’t any right to be here, so late at night especially. I wouldn’t be sur- prised but they’re up to some mischief in the printing office. Maybe they mean to pi a lot of our type in revenge for having been discharged. It is like them to do just such a mean trick. _ Let them try it and they’ll see what the inside of a cell in. the jail looks like.” é With these thoughts in his mind, Fred crept in through the window and made his way. cautiously forward in the gloom. ‘His intention was to ascend ~ to the printing office, where he expected to find ~~ Jude and Morton inside up to some mischief. He meant to give them both the surprise of their — lives, and something in the way of a pounding . that they were likely to remember for several days, after which, if they had done any damage, he intended to put the police after them. Sud-— _ denly he. heard sounds over in a corner of the cellar under the stairs leading to the first floor. “That must be them over there,” breathed Fred. “What are they up to down here? He slipped softly over and heard the two boys talking in low tones. They were evidently doing something, for he saw the dim glow of a candle — which reflected their forms on the dirty wall, — and heard the rustling of paper and the occa- — sional splitting sound of wood being torn apart. “This is where we get hunk on old Koop,” chuckled Ferguson. “That’s right. The whole push will be huntin’ other sits Monday.” 3 “Fred Towne among them. Gee! How I hate that feller!” “He and Tom Benedict will be on their uppers in a week or two, for there ain’t jobs enough in town to half go°’round.” s “Yd like to see them both starve,” was Jude's. charitable reply. “So would I.. But ne such luck. Now, every- thin’s ready. Who’s goin’ to touch her off!” “You do it. You’re nearest the candle.” “Not much. We'll both do it together, then one can’t give the other away.’ “Ha! Hain’t we sworn to secrecy 2” sonata Ferguson, “Sure we are; but I believe in bein’ on the ; sa side always. Come nearer and grab on to the candle. What are you holdin’ back for? Are you flunkin’ already?” “T should say not.” — “Then don’t be so slow. It’s after eleven and we want to get home right away, So we won’t be suspected of havin’ had a hand in this thing: “Who'll suspect us?” “Your brother-in-law might get an ides you were. mixed up in it out of revenge for losi your job.” : “Why, should he? Tm always out-nights. with the gang.” “Well, are you ready? w’ pee Morton im: patiently. ome “Sure,” was the reply. . k “Then here goes old Koop’s printing office.” “Great Scott!” palpitated Fred, eS had i prong the conversa esis

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16 . are going to set the build afire. I.must stop this.” . He sprang forward with a bound just as Jude and Slatts applied the candle to the pile of paper -. and wood they had prepared for their nefarious _ purpose. 3 hos > § A CHAPTER XI.—The Fight in the Cellar. ; The paper blazed up; throwing a glare for sev- eral yardssaround. The instant the young rascals ; had set it afire they started to leave the spot, only to find themselves confronted by |Fred -. Towne. They fell back with an exclamation of consternation and surprise. : “So this is what you two are doing?” cried Fred, springing on top of the fire and trying to beat it out with his feet. “You’re a nice pair of rascals.” - Morton was the first to recover his self-pos- “session. _ “Slug him, Jude. It’s Towne. He'll give us away.” The speaker sprang on Fred and began to punch him. Ferguson followed his example a’ moment later. Fred found himself obliged to turn _ his attention to defending himself. He ha parti- ally extinguished and scattered the burning pile of wood and paper.- The moment his attention was diverted from it, it took hold afresh and “blazed up, soon throwing a bright light around the fighting boys. Fred had his hands full with the two of them. They were desperately in earn- est in their endeavor to get the best of him, for they knew they were in his power, and this crime was a serious one. : Swat! Fred’s fist took Jude in the eye and he staggered back with a howl! Biff! He landed -on Morton’s jaw with a force that rattled Slatts’s teeth. Both, however, came at him again,- and _ in trying to side-step a blow from Ferguson’s ‘ fist, Fred tripped over the cellar steps and went down on them. Jude and Morton jumped on him at once, and, holding him down, tried to pound his face. ; Lbs ue Morton was in the only available position to do any effective work, and Fred quickly grabbed him by the wrists and checkmated him. _ “Get a-stick and hit him on the head,” eried - Slatts to Ferguson. Jude reached for a piece of wood and whacked Towne alongside the ear with it. : i “Once more,” said Morton. : ~. “Do you mean to murder me?” cried Fred, who ~ gould not-avoid Jude’s onslaught. ipa: ‘ “Will you swear not to give us away if we let “up on, you?” replied Slatts. «No, I won’t,” answered Fred, suddenly up- setting Morton and rolling over on top of him. - Hit him, Jude,” cried Slatts. ‘“He’s-got me down. Break his head.” Ferguson brought the stick down on Towne’s head. He tried to escape the blow, but did not “wholly succeed. It stunned him completely for the time being, and the young rascals, believing they had knocked him out, kicked the blazing ood and paper closer together and then, grab- . y vietim, dragged him across the cellar to the yard, where they ea oe and ONLY A DOLLAR Se a ly out of sight before Fred recovered. He staggered on his feet and his first thoughts was for the — fire. He made his way into the cellar‘again, — though his head was bleeding from a deep gash inflicted by Jude’s blow, and, going over to the — stairs where the blaze was\beginning to assume _ dangerous proportions, he started in to ex- — tinguish it. pe }t was not’an easy proposition he had on his — hands. The smoke half choked him, and he reeled around like a drunken boy. _ The fire was getting the best, of him in spite of his efforts when for- _ tunately Tom appeared with an officer... Not — seeing Fred, they looked in at the cellar window’ — and saw the reflection of the growing blaze. — “My gracious!” exclaimed Tom. “The place is on fire.” : kot They lost no time making their entrance and rushed over to where Fred, smoke-begrimed and bleeding, was fighting the fire. nc “Why, Fred!” cried Tom. ‘sepa eete “Help me put it out,” gasped Towne, looking ready to drop. bere Tom and the policeman, recognizing the seri- ousness of the situation, jumped in at once, and — after a desperate struggle that lasted fifteen minutes they succeeded in turning the scale and putting out the fire. As soon as the last of the — lighted wood was reduced to a smoking mass, Fred fell against the stairs in a faint. Tom and | the policeman bore him into the yard, and Bene- dict endeavored to revive him while the officer returned to the cellar to make certain that the fire was wholly out. Tom dashed some rain water into Fred’s faee and that brought him to his senses. “Gee! You look like a wreck, Fréd. You’ve - got a cut over your ear and another on the top of your head. How did you get them?” “Ferguson hit me twice’ with a. piece of -wood.” — “Ferguson!” exclaimed Tom in astonishment. “Where did you meet him?” Vaal ‘“In the cellar.” “You don’t mean 1t.” “I do. The fellows we took for burglars were Jude and Morton. They started that blaze to burn out the printing office in revenge for the discharge.” ? Ss “Go on!” cried Tom, almost incredulously. — “It’s a fact. They heard us out here, and after you went off they came to the window to look out. I was’ hiding behind that bafrel and they didn’t notice me. When they went back I - lowed them, discovered what they were up to, and jumped in just as they started the blaze. They attacked me like a pair of ‘savages, but I think I should have got the’ better of them only ,I fell. over the stairs. That put me at a disadvantage, and Jude hit me twice with a stick while Morton — held me down. Then they dragged me out here, left me and scooted.” é “Well, I never thought those chaps were so f bad. They’ll be sent to a reformatory for this _ night’s work.” es rf ere When the politeman joined them, Fred told his story to him.' : ‘ee | “This is a mighty serious matter for th young scamps,” he said. “You must come me to the station and tell your. wus 0 officer Se charge. He'll send a couple of m es Sian a

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ONLY A_ » Soe Fred and Tom went with the policeman to the police station, about eight blocks away. Fred yepeated his story, which was supplemented by the evidence of Benedict and the officer. A state- _ ment of the case was entered on the blotter, from which it was subsequently copied and enlarged - wpon by the reporters of the morning dailies, of - which Leesburg boasted of three, and duly ap- _ peared under appropriate scareheads on the fol- lowing morning. j Fred and Tom volunteered to pilot the two policemen detailed to arrest Jude and Morton to the homes of the boys. Before starting off, _ Pred had his bead bandaged up at a neighboring drug store. On reaching Gregg’s house, ‘one of - the officers pounded loudly on the front door. - The family had long since retired, but the racket aroused the foreman of Koop’s printery, and he opened an upper window and stuck his head out. _“What’s the matter?” he asked in no pleasant tone, rather aStonished to see a party of four below. : “Ts Jude Ferguson in the house?” asked the _ officer. , ea. “IT don’t know. What do you want with him? -“T want to see him.” ee “Youre a policeman, aren’t you?” asked Grege, beginning to suspect that his wife’s brother had - got himself into a scrape. am.” Ra : “Has Jude been getting himself into trouble?” asked the foreman. “Did you come to arrest him?” 4 : _ “J did. Now, don’t keep us waiting, but come down and let us in.” : p Gregg shut down the sedarg and ima few minutes he opened the front door. “Jude is not home,” he said. “I just looked in his room. You may go up if you insist on doing so.” 5 ac aN are certain he’s not in the house?” said - the policeman. a Papen certain he’s not in his reom or my room. / You can look the rest of the house over and - €onvince yourself. _He went out after supper and - we haven’t seen him since.” : The two officers looked the house over, Gregg’s own sleeping apartment excepted, while Fred and Tom remained in the background. Jude was not found. The party then left, but one of the police- men took up his post in the shadow of a building on the opposite side of the way to watch for the young rascal’s return. The rest went on to Mor- --ton’s home. Morton’s father, a section-hand on _ the railroad, came to the door and said his son had not come home yet. Recognizing the police- “man, he, too, wanted to know if his boy had got into trouble. He received no direct satisfaction other than that Slatts was wanted at the-station- house. The second policeman also took up a posi- tion to watch the Morton house, while Fred and Tom, having done all that was expected of them, left him and started for their homes. . “Jude and Slatts are up against it for fair,” said Tom. ; “They deserve all that’s coming to them. If adn’t been that we fortunately detected them tering the alley, Mr. Koop’s. printing office . auld have been burned down ,before this, and See oS . your companion and the policeman arrived on the stor the and’ DOLLAR = \ employees of the pressroom, would have been out of work.” Sat “Yes, I guess we wouid,’ replied Tom. “I~ wonder if they realized that they were commit-» ~ ting a:very serious crime?” , he rae “T should judge that they didn’t care what they did so long as they got square with Mr. Koop.” “It is evident they drew a line at murder, ‘at — any rate, or they wouldn’t have dragged you out of the cellar. It’s my opinion that the officers > won’t catch them to-night. Ten chances to one ~ they’ve left-town, knowing that they’d be arrested as soon as you recovered your senses and in-'° formed on them.” aN Fred agreed with him, and’soon afterward they ~ parted company at Tom’s door. ° . CHATPTER XII.—A St rtling Encounter. Tom Benedict was right when he said that — Ferguson and Morton were not likely to be ar- rested that night, and that they had fled the town. Next morning, when their respective families read. the paper, they knew why the boys were wanted by the police. Jude’s sister nearly had hysterics over the disgrace that had fallen on her brother, — to whose many failings she had for so long shut- _ her eyes. : ; ae Gregg, in consideration ef his! wife’s presto 35 had little to say on the matter, but he thought. re a good deal, nevertheless. He had suspected for * ~¥e some time that Jude was a bad boy, and now he was sure of the fact. Mr. Koop’s first intima- tion that his property had been in danger was re- ~ 7 ceived from the morning paper. After reading the story carefully, he went to the station house for further particulars, but could get no more e light there on the subject, so he called around-to ’- see Fred Towne. Fred had already tdld a very exciting story of his night’s adventure to the = Valentines. : zs ‘Eva had been much alarmed when she saw his head bandaged up after he came own stairs to — % breakfast. He assured her that the gash would soon heal, and that it would amount to nothing. — . When Mr. Koop called, about ten o’clock, he was invited into the little parlor and Fred was — notified of his presence. ; Syst “Well, young man,” said Mr. Koop, when Fred ~ appeared, “it seems thateyou saved my printing office last night. I am under great obligations to _ you, and shall see that you are suitably re- warded.” ; ioe “Tom Benedict and the police officer deserve as. much credit in the matter as I,” replied Fred, who. was not so selfish as to wish to take more than his share of commendation in the affair. : “Yes, I believe they rendered very valuable Bd > but you were on hand all the time, and tried te ~ extinguish the fire at the start, which no doubt you would have done had you not been attackec by the rascals. At any rate, your head gives ev dence that you had a strenuous time of it befot scene. (Under these circumstances I am of the opinion that_I am more indebted to-you than to the others. Now, I want you to tell me the w I have only had the newspaper acco he; repor sually exaggerate | 4 ~~ e

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“18 Fred immediately told all that had taken place _ from the moment he and Tom left the gymnasium for home until they parted from the second police- _*. man on watch for Morton. ; Mr. Koop punctuated the story at intervals ~ with approving nods, and when Fred had finished he once more expressed his thanks to the young ‘printer. i ¥ general faithfulness to my interests since you came to work for me,” he said, which was an unusual acknowledgment on: Mr. Koop’s part, ' “and it has been my intention to advance you as fast as you deserved it. Now that you have ren- ‘dexed me such a special service, young man, I consider it my duty to present you with $100, _- and to raise your wages.” ‘S : “Thank you, sir,” replied the delighted boy. - Very well. Hereafter your pay shall be $9 until further notice. I will give you the $100 ~ to-morrow.’ - Thus speaking, Mr. Koop rose, put.en his hat, ané took his leave. Tickled to .death, Fred rushed into the dining-room to tell the Valentines of his good fortune. + | : “You see it all started with that silver dollar, t Lp said. “I’m going to keep it as long as live.” _- *You ought to have it framed,” she answered - with a laugh. * _ “Perhaps-I will one of these days. It deserves a gold frame, for so far it’s brought me in $1,150 inside of a couple of months; not speaking of promotion. at the office and two increases of wages.” “Do you really believe that dollar responsible for all that?” “es “Sure -I do.” “Eva smiled incredulously. In her eyes it was nly an ordinary dollar, and she did not credit it with any lucky features. She believed Fred ~ would have been just as lucky had he not got it. - Next morning Fred was the -lion of the com- posing-room. There was a bunch of Mr. Koop’s employees around the door a few minutes before ~ half-past seven, and when Fred appeared he was ~ surrounded at once. The men wanted to hear his story from his own lips, for they had all read about the matter in the papers, but Towne ex- cused himself. on the ground that the shop would, open up in five minutes, and he couldn’t possibly narrate the circumstances in that short time. erguson and Morton were generally denounced, nd everybody was called into Mr. Koop’s office im the course of the morning and the proprietor handed him five $20 bills in fulfilment of his romise. Mr. Koop also raised Tom from $10 to 2a week. Work was a little slack, anyway, in the composing-room. Gregg looked to be in a bad umor all the morning, and the men were careful ot to attract any unfavorable notice from him. Two weeks later the Sunday-school Fred, Tom, Eva and Edith Clark attended gave its annual picnic, and the four wanted to attend it badly. va, Who worked in a millinery store, found that he would be able to get off for the day, but the other three were not so confident. However, they agreed to wait on Mr. Gregg two days before the t i ated for Satur y off that day. of According! = = tin 2 “With Fred,” said Tom slyly. ipatien 2 “Oh, with anybody that’s nice,” replied Eva, with a deep blush. : ears Se “Well, how do I suit?” chuckled Tom, “You will have to get Edith’s ermission first,” : “Oh, come off! I’m not tied ‘to her apron strings.” j S, “Aren’t you?”*tittered Eva. “I thought you were her exclusive property.” i “You did, eh? How about Fred and yourself? You nearly had a fit the day we went to Plain- ville and he fell through that hole in the closet.” Eva blushed to her hair, and Fred hastened to her rescue. ee “Don’t mind him, Eva,” he said. “Tom is only — kidding you.” The musicians now started up a popular air and about half the girls in their i mediate vicinity. began to hum the tune or sing the words. When the music stopped the girls and boys resumed their chattering like a lot o magpies. And thus the time was passed un the island was reached and all debarked and hu ried to the grove. There was a covered dancing: platform in the center of the grove, and as soon as the musicians had established themselves in a for a stroll up the island, which was a long and narrow one. It was almost entirely covered by trees, which grew very thick in some spots Therefore it was not hard for two couples, like the boys and their charmers, to get separated when one pair lagged behind the other. Fred anc Eva did not notice for some time that Tom and— Edith had dropped out of sight. When they di discover that they were alone they were sor distance from the grove where most of the p nickers were, and nearly at the extremity of th island. ‘ :

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‘ONLY A _ denly a face was thrust out of the bushes behind them. It was a haggard-looking countenance, with two or three weeks’ growth of beard. A ~ second hard-looking face followed, and the two -/men looked at the young people. They stepped softly out of the bushes and advanced upon the - uneonscious couple. Suddenly Fred and. Eva were both seized by the men, who pressed a hand - aeross their mouths, to prevent any outcry on. - their part. Fred instantly recognized their ‘assailants as Jim Harker and his friend Bill, the murderers - of Abel Ashfield. But that wasn’t the only sur- - prise the young people were treated to just then. ‘Two boys pushed their way out of the bushes’ and came forward. Fred and Eva easily identified »them as Jude Ferguson and Slatts Morton. It _ was a disquieting situation for Fred, and a terri- _ fying one for Eva. What. were these men, aided : th Fred's personal. enemies, going to do with them? CHAPTER XIII.—The Tables Turned. Fred, when he was first seized, had started to put up a struggle, but he soon discovered that Jim Harker had muscles of steel, and that he was _ practically powerless in his grip. As for Eva, ; ate do nothing in the grasp.of the man i Addressing Jude and Morton, Harker ordered them to each get hold of one of Fred’s legs and elp carry him off. With grins of satisfaction they obeyed, and then Harker started with his pris- oner for the bushes. Bill followed with Eva, and this order the procession moved off? short distance behind the fringe of pushes was a little eek, and in this creek lay a large cat-boat, her mast hidden among the trees.. The prisoners were tarried on board the boat and into the cabin, where they were released, and the sliding or shut upon them after their captors had with- drawn, There was a locker that looked like a lounge on ther side of the cabin, and no one of these Fred had been placed, while Eva was left on tHe other. - As soon as their enemies went into the cockpit panete and shut the sliding door, Eva ran over _Fred and, throwing one arm around his neck, oked into his face. “Do you think they will ieos us on board this boat some time?” she asked, anxiously. “TZ guess that’s their intention. In fact, judg- g from the-sounds [ hear, I am afraid that they propose to carry us away from the island right | awa ae they do that, Fred,” said Eva nervously, ‘we'll not be able to get home. How could we get of the island if the steamer went off without us?” “If that was all I expected to have to worry about in connection with this matter, I wouldn’t feel a bit broke up, for I’d find a way. to get off this island and take you with me.’ “How eould you if they left us here?’” k can't explain now but I’d manage it some- "ye in the river now. ‘Do you hear them ° il?” ) he’s goin’ to make him sweat.” tbe? e tp : DOLLAR interest to me. I wonder if we could find some> thing in this cabin that would help us stand those ~~ vascals off? If we had a couple of stout pieces. of wood that would answer for eudgels I think we. could prevent those chaps from entering the cabin. The door is too narrow for them to‘make a com- bined rush. They can only get. in one at a time. Now, a good club apiece, or even one club in my —. hands, would give them a whole lot of trouble, Look in that locker on the other side and see, what’s in it. Pu examine this one. Perhaps luck, will stand hy us.’ “J don’t know what you mean by a locker, Fred,” said Eya. ; < “Why, ‘the space under these lounges. See, there’s a flap that lets down.” rf Fred suited the action to the word by opening the locker on which they had been sitting. “A | — thrill of satisfaction ran through the boy’s nerves for the very first thing he saw was a revolver pnatee on ae of a box. He grabbed it up in a twi “This i is fine,” he exclaimed. “I couldn’t have asked. for anything better. Now Fl be able to stand them off in great shape, for every chamber, ; is loaded with a half-ounee ball.” Eva was also greatly pleased that they had something to defend themselves with. There was pc else in the locker’ thas was of any use te them aay: “Well, let’s look in the other: A knife would be _ - better thari nothing for you to help me out with, Le he said. “Nobody likes to run against one.’ ye ey _ Fred epened the opposite locker and there, to . — his surprise, was another revolver, fully loaded like the other. He had it out in a moment. én “Have you the nerve to use this, Eva?” Packets She looked at it doubtfully. “Wouldn’t you dare shoot if you thought my ; life was in danger?” ae That appeal nerved her at once. a “Yes,” she said resolutely. “I’d shoot every Ee: ‘one’ of them sooner than let them harm you.” tee “as Spoken like a brave little girl. Here, take it. It may not be necessary to shoot, for a person can put up a mighty good bluff with a cocked reyolver that leoks ready for business. We'll only shoot as a last resort. I think when we point them at our captors they'll be glad to leave us alone.” While they were planning to surprise their enemies the cat-boat, under the influence of a gentle br eexe, was sailing down the river toward — Plainvile. Jtm Harker, who was the leading spirit on oir) seemed to be in no hurry to en- lighten his pris@hers as to their ultimate fates eee Jude and Morton were conversing together, and ~— they wh to be greatly tickled at having Fred Towne in their power. Pm “'Phis is where we'll take some of the starch out. ; of him,” said Ferguson. . “Bet your life we will,” answered Morton. “We owe him a whole lot.” “Jim Harker owes him a whole lot, too, and What de a #2 7 i. ra “We can look on and enjoy the fun. you s "pose he’s. goin’ to do to him?’ “T dunno; but I heard him say he’s ‘goin’ to ge abe square with him for eucherin’ him and Bill out’ — of the swag they ae from the old miser’s house.’ : “What a chump he wa — all that.

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ONLY A DOLLAR ee “we'd never haye given up a cent. There was To-say that the rascals were thunderstruck $20,000 in money. Why, that would have carried and disconcerted would but faintly describe their — + us to New York, and given us no end of a swell consternation at that thrilling moment. ieee | time. Then we could have pawned the, other — ; stuff, which the papers said was worth $10,000.” iS a Botte ie eould, ee been in aouee shoes. : I hain’t heard that he ever got a cent for givin’ -, ‘ : ents _ the valise up. Vl bet the police made somethin’ CHAPTER aE as Gets the Upper Hand out of it.” j e of His Enemies. Nae “You can bet they did. The police ain’t such wise guys after all. Jim Harker and Bill Tweed has been hid on that island ever since they es- piainty that-he meart-buaisteas: sae niet aha the cops ain’t troubled “Throw up your hands, both oh ou repeat ed “Nor they haven’t got onto us, either,” inter re “ae ae bee I don’t Sig is shoot, ju jected Ferguson gleefully. “As soon as Harker a tk ma = eee vee oye o take ne paar a ~ thinks it safe we'll all light out for Chicago. I t tell ae at all, so if you value your lives do as Ere ccna op ante Big eersicas there, for Jim Keluctantly the men raised their arms—they | “Tt guess we can. Well, it’s too bad that we couldn’t help themselves. ae ~ . didn’t finish up Koop’s. office when we had the gic Eva,” said Fred, “and get on the - chance. It would have made a fine bonfire, and iy es - 4 hog be : no one would have suspected us. I don’t see how oe Towne happened to get on to us. It was rotten Tuck.” z" “ ~The boat was now nearing the creek that ran ~~ up to the old mill. They soon steered into it, and ae ‘the wind failing them, Harker.worked up along- _ gide ‘the bank and sent ‘the two boys ashore with a line to tow the cat-boat up to the mill. It hap- _ pened that Fred was watching all that was going “on outside through a slit in the door slide. The tthe present moment looked propitious for him to ‘make a sudden move. Jude and Morton were on the ‘bank and couldn’t very well interfere in favor of their rascally associates.- Fred went to Eva ‘and told her what he was going to do and what he expected of her. - “JT hate to ask this of, you, : if we don’t do something effective right away these scoundrels may get the better of me, and if Jim Harker looked into the muzzle of the re- volver and then at the resolute boy, who showed “Now cover the rascals while I get up beside you,” he continued. “And if they make a move, don’t hesitate to shoot.” + aA ae ' Jude and Morton were by this time ‘aware of\ what was going on in the boat, and were both surprised and alarmed when they saw the r volvers in the hands of the late prisoners. Some- how or another it didn’t occur to them to make 2 break for cover on their own account. Probably they were too bewildered by the unexpected turn in affairs to think. Fred sprang quickly on the roof of the cabin and, facing the’scoundrels, o dered them into the cabin. Harker glared at him viciously. . If ever there was murder in a man rier 2 aes a eling be si ae i gogo S , : ooked us if he would not have hesitated to choke Eva, but I’m afraid the life out of the boy if he could have got a po about 4s ee rae once they get me into the cellar of the mill they'll ome, now, I've got you two dead to rights half all me, even if they don’t finish me entirely. ” psi sie re opin 2 ae the consequences.” - I think you care for me, little girl, just as I care Harker dct o regret this, young fellow,” sai Sete nee Sees would ante you to have “I'll give you one minute to start yoursely “Oh, Fred, Fred,” she cried, throwing her arms ptr Fred, ‘in 4 So an rurnon tone, “I know — round his neck and. bursting into tears, “it would, frm In Be Sethe and I’m not to be tri ‘eak my heart if you were injured by these at kk es in'the mood to shoot you fello en. I love you with all my heart, and I'll ‘%? t@Ke nolice. willingly die to save you.” 5 — Harker’ sullenly came forward and @ She clung convulsively to him, and sobbed as if tS the cabin. ae ears oe her heart: would break. : anny é Now you get in there, too, cried Fred to Bi “And I love you very dearly, too, and will pro- The rascal obeyed very grudgingly. ia tect you with my life. Now, brfice up and let: us Keep. your. eye on those boys, Eva,” said take the bull by the horns. With such men as _, Fred, “and shoot them if they tay to get away.” — 5 tliey are we can’t take any chances. I feel sure '_ Fred sprang down into the: cockpit and slam- — en 7 2 ae * tified in shooting them in order med the sliding door shut. ‘ ee baa tig a “Now, you Jude and Morton, come this wa’ "Eva dried her tears and promised to be brave, ‘aid Fred, addressing them sharply. Then Fred moved over to the slide, which was - They refused to budge. - ts 2 3 not fastened, followed by the girl. He threw it You'll do what I tell you or I'll put a ball in cpen suddenly and stepped out into the cockpit you, roared Towne. ae i before the rascals suspected anything was going “You wouldn’t dare,” snarled Jude. ‘ tc happen. With a fierce imprecation both men + Fred lost patience with them, and raisin started to their feet and advanced toward Fred. revolver, quickly fired, sending the ball close 4 “Stop their heads. Jude fell and lay cowering hands!” _ ground, Sea i “Oh, Fred!’ se “No, 4 hay ’ cried Eva, “you've sh zee)

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cS | ONLY A » - ferguson, trembling like an aspen leaf, got on. . his feet. ile “Now, come this way. at once,” ordered Fred. _ “And hold on to that rope.” . _. The boys, thoroughly cowed, no longer refused a his bidding. mG 53 naa the Hoar of the boat around so it will head - down the creek. —Keep your eye on the cabin door, _ Eva: If those rascals. open it, shoot.” The boat was soon turned around. “Now, then, start off and haul her down to the river,” said Fred. j fo ue Jude and Morton did not dare object, an ey ae ‘off, rope in hand. At length the boat eached the entrance to the river. . “Jump aboard, you chaps, by way of the bow, and hoist the sail,” cried Fred to Jude and Mor- mn. ; B - They both hesitated to obey this order, for they had recovered tkeir self-possession and were cal- ulating on making their escape. ~ ‘T’ll give you half a minute to do as I order . If you hold off, I'll put a bullet through our leg or arm.” ; That settled the matter. Fred could easily wing them at~ that short distance, and neither rguson nor Morton cared to take any chances. they sprang aboard, one after the other, and ted the sail. The wind catching the canvas dy remarked, the breeze was’ quite light, and _ the cat-boat went along on her return course at o great speed. 4 ; _ “Sit down where you are and keep quiet,” said d'to Jude and his companion. : : “Say, what are you goin’ to do with us?” sked Morton. : ““T think it’s about time you two returned to sburg,” replied Fred. : ge We don’t want to go there,’ objected Morton. ‘Put us ashore and we'll never trouble you any “more.” = E ‘You won’t trouble me any more anyhow, if I help myself.” “Tt ain’t a fair deal.to hand us over to the po- ce,” said Morton. “Give us a show, can’t you?” “It’s my duty to take charge of you chaps and ‘turn you over to the Leesburg authorities, since. the chance has come my way.” / “AY right. You do it, and some day we'll get k with you,” snarled Morton. “Shut up,” replied Fred. “I’ve heard enough rom you.” i ; eis on turned to Jude and the two entered into t ow conversation. E ; hat are you going to do, Fred?” asked the : them the opportunity if I can help it.” rl. ing to keep on up to the wharf where the pianose my ite. ‘and have the captain of the boat take charge of these chaps.” “ae “Pm glad of that,” answered Eva, who was nxious to see the last of them. i see to it that they won't get away after } plained who they are.” . : 0,” she replied. the boat out into the river. As we have al- - Harker and his companion burst out on them, and — the retreat of Bill convinced them that they ha Just keep your eye on them, Eva. They'll try rk some dodge if they can, and I don’t mean — tracted the attention of several of the picnic party . they were astonished to see him standing with caught the murderers of Abel Ashfield.” _ DOLLAR enough. He can stow them down in the hold some- where until we return to Leesburg and notify the police.” sate ,At that moment the ‘sliding door was pushed wide open and Jim Harker sprang out, closely followed by Bill. 3 : Se Each had a bottle by the neck, and there was blood in their eyes. é CHAPTER XV.—Conclusion. The rascals had been planning this move while — Mae Fred was talking to Morton, and since then they had been watching Towne through a slit in the door. Seeing him in conversation with Eya, they thought they would be able to take him off his” guard by a sudden rush. They made a mistake, — however, in the boy they were dealing with. He was not off his guard a single instant, and the moment Harker sprang out at him he raised his _ revolver and deliberately fired at the ruffian. Harker clapped his hand to his breast, and with a ery staggered and fell in his tracks, © - “Now, you go back,” said Fred to Bill, “or I'll give you a dose of the same niedicine.”’ : The rascal saw that he was at the boy’s mercy, so he hacked into the cabin and pulled the slide to again. Eva had uttered a startled cry when another when Fred fired the shot that laid the murderer out. Harker was a terrible-looking ob-. ject as he groaned and twisted about in his age. ony, and Eva shuddered and turned her head away. ee a “He brought. it on himself,” said Fred. “1 simply had to fire. In another moment he would have brained me with that bottle.” “Do you think he will die?” asked the girl. . ‘ “I don’t know whether he will or not; and if it wasn’t that I don’t like to have an man’s blood on my hands, I wouldn’t care. Such scoun- drels are better in their graves than on earth, where their presence is a constant menace.” see Jude and Morton had sprang to their feet when the men made their rush, and they were ready to jump in and help them as soon as they could do it without danger. The shooting of Harker and d better not butt in, so they got well forward and. " hung on’ by the mast. They saw that Fred was not going to stand any nonsense, and that he ha nerve enough to shoot to kill, if necessary. The shot and confusion on board the cat-boat at- _ eae on the island, and there was instantly great ex- citement along shore. Consequently, when Fred ran the cat-boat alongside the steamer, there was a crowd of boys on hand to see what was the matter. Fred was recognized by several and a revolver in his hand, and a wounded man at his feet. Towne alled a deck-hand over, “Will you tell the captain or the mate to come here, I’ve The mate the

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ONLY A “moved to the steamer, secured and placed in the hold, that is except Harker, who was so danger- ously wounded that he wag carried to one of the Small staterooms and a superficial examination made of his wound. ; i He was made as comfortable as possible under : the circumstances, and a man sent off to a neigh- ~ boring village to get a doctor to attend~him, _° The physician, when he arrived, extracted the ‘ball and bound the wound up. Two hours later the boat reached her wharf at ‘Leesburg. The police were summoned to take «eharge of the prisoners. Jude Harker was re- moved to the station-house in an express” wagon, and Fred and Eva had to go along with the party in order to give the police an account of -. the affair. The town had offered.a reward of | $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and % conviction of Harker and Bill, and this was sub- sequently paid over to Fred. Mr. George Ash- - field had also offered a reward of $5,000 for the _ Same purpose,.and Fred got that, too, after th» rascals lowed to turn State’s evidence, and he got off with Awenty years in the State prison, while Jim Har- - ker was eventually executed for the crime. Jude Ferguson and Morton were tried, convicted, and sent to a reformatory for a term of several years. ‘Mr. Koop seemed to have taken quite a fancy to “oe Towne, and he was delighted to learn that the - _ young fitebugs had ‘been captured through Fred’s plucky efforts. After their conviction he pre- sented the young printer: with a gold watch and ‘chain, and assured him that he had a steady job in the office as 1 as he chose to’ stay there. On Sunday night Pilioving the picnic, when Fred and Eva were returning from church together, the boy said: ease “Do you remember what you said to me yes- terday while we were prisoners in the.cabin of the cat-boat? You threw your arms around my - neck«and said you loved me with all your heart, and that you’d willingly die to save me. Did you mean that?” Eva was silent a.moment and then she said: “Yes, I did mean it.” And I said, ‘And I love you very dearly, too, and will protect you with my life.’ Do you re- “member ‘that also?” ‘ “Yes,” she said, softly. 4 re , “You believe I meant it, don’t you?” -he said. “Yes.” : Sn ae - *Are we going to always love each other very dearly?” he asked. . - *T hope so.” ‘ “And may I ask your mother if I can have you for my wife some day?” “Yes, if you really and truly want me.” Re “Of course I really and truly want you. Aren’t os you certain of that?” _ =e Ves, -Nred.” 4 ; One night that week Fred put the momentous diamond ring a few days afterward on her en- -gagement finger it is to be presumed that Fred received a favorable reply from “Mamma.” ed continued to attend strictly to advancing in his busin and by the first. ere tried and convicted. Bill was al- — question before Mrs.* Valentine. As Eva wore a; DOLLAR | fe Koop advanced him to $12 per week, which was — as much as he paid a couple of his men jobbers. The average pay his regular hands received — was $15, only one man getting $16. In the course — of time one of the organizers of the International Typographical Union came to Leesburg and suc- ceeded in establishing a union. It led to a gen- — eral strike in town for higher. wages and shorter hours. Nearly all of Koop’s employees, includ- ing Fred and Tom, had joined the union, and as’ Mr. Koop refused to grant their demands they © quit work. The strike continued for several — weeks, and then the offices gave in. one after the — other until only Mr. Koop’s remained non-union, He swore he’d never give in and he meant it. Finally, ore morning the papers announced the sudden death of Mr. Koop, from heart failure The widow tried to run the office, but did not find it a profitable job. Fred heard that it was to be sold at public auction. He immediately called o: Mrs. Koop and made her an offer for the office, agreeing to pay $5,000 down and the balance in *“Koop’s Printing Office,” the name of which hi proposed to retain, would be a strictly union shop, and there was great. rejoicing among the craft at the next meeting. Fred put Tom in as fore- man of his composing-room, hived as many 0 the old hands as would return as soon as tra warranted it, and started out to build up the bu ness to its former proportions.* And he did build it up until every press in the house was running” full time, and every job that he turned out bore — the union label. ¢ To-day “Koop’s Printing House” is the larg not only in Leesburg, but in that section of State, and Fred Towne is considered one of t solid men of the town. He has a fine residence in the suburbs, and it is hardly necessary to say that Eva is mistress of it. Tom is superinten ent of the entire businéss, and his home, which 4 not far from Fred’s is presided over by Edith whose name once was Clark. In a gold frame hanging against the wall.of Fred’s library, is large silver coin. Both Fred and his wife woul rather part with anything else in the house tha that, for they regard it as their most valued pos session, although it is Only a Dollar. og Next week’s issue will contain “PRICE & ror ). BOY BROKERS: OR THE YOUNG TRA ERS OF WALL STREET.” ‘ A GREWSOME DISCOVERY Workmen engaged in breaking up a scuttl German destroyer beached in Mill Bay have d covered under a mass of wood which completely — concealed them, the bodies of five German officers — and sailors, who evidently were not warned at the time the fleet was sunk by the German, crew: f the naval strict ze of the

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AND THE GUIDE — Or, — e Gus _ Three Weeks Lost in the Rockies By GASTON GARNE_ (A Serial Story.) CHAPTER XVIII.—(Continued) _ “Take it easy, doc,” replied the Gopher. “I’m - in trouble. The sheriff has attacked the gang ~ and killed a lot of us, and I don’t doubt the rest - have been taken prisoners by this time. This is ‘a new recruit. We got our heads cracked, and want your help. Jl vouch for Gus. You need have no fears of him. Gus, this is Dr. Blake, the slickest chemist in all creation. Come, now, doc, let us in, and don’t make no more fuss.” _“This.is a bad job,” said the doctor. “It comes just at the wrong time, too. Another hour’s work and I shall have succeeded. You know what’s coming to you then for the help you_have given me, George Brandt. But come in. I'll look you both over and see what I can do to help you out. = : : + tle about, now! Bustle about!” 7. Blake then threw the door wide open, ush- ering his visitors into what seemed to be a cav- - the vast chamber. Glittering stalactites hung. from the walls, the roof was lost in obscurity; through the middle a ~ clear stream ran off into the darkness. “Great place, isn’t it?” remarked Brandt. “This is one of the finest caves in the far West. It ae ab hotel here in Fire Hole Canyon with this hyar cave as the show spot. Me and doc is coming 0 that one of these days—hain’t we, doc?” - “All things come to him who waits,” replied e doctor, gloomily. “I’ve been waiting a long me, as you know, George Brandt, but I’ve got there at last.” : “Have you really, do?” demanded the Gopher, something to show.” , ‘They had been advancing toward a light which me from one corner of the cave. ere a spot had been partitioned off between ‘ - projections in the rocky wall by means of “rough boards. ‘ door stood open, and Gus, following Dr. imself in a room which had been fitted up as a t one end was a furnace provided with roast- ¢ ovens and several queerly shaped pipes, which ae att “a wide seam FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY “Look here. You’re a judge of ore—what do you Matt, fetch a pail of water and get towels. Bus- ern of unusual size, for Gus could see no end to © ould make any ‘feller’s fortune if there was a © I brought it to you from up West Canyon. Bub. “and the Gopher in through the door, found - - plosion. nee be . Sed ‘ There was a long bench covered with beakers, ‘ bottles, flasks, and all sorts of chemical apparatus, — yee At another point was a‘concentrating machine, * and there were other bits of machinery of which © Gus did not understand the use. pi eri: Boxes of ote and piles of broken rock were everywhere. ee: Over the open fire, suspended from a big iron hook fixed in the wall, was a pot filled with some seething hot mixture, from which yellow fumes arose and sent out en abominable smell. ; Matt now brought the water and towels and Brandt washed his face and head, Gus following his example. ~ ; : Reta t “You might have cracked your skull, Brandt,” ~ he said, “but it is only a scalp wound. I’ll put on some sticking plaster, which will.do the business, As for the boy, his case is not worth considering, Ts there any chance of the sheriffs’ posse follow~ ing you in here?” as Ps ae “Not a bit, doc. They had gone before wa started away. I looked around with the greatest care when we turned into the cave, but I didn’t see a soul.” “T shan’t care after to-day,’ said the doctor, rey a think of this?” He took a lump off the bench and handed it to the Gopher. : ar “The toughest kind of arsenical,” replied Brandt. “If there was fifty dollars a ton gold te. it, assay value, it wouldn’t pay to work.” : “Right. Now look at this.” : Bee oie Dr. Blake opened a drawer, and produced .a ae i of tiny golden “buttons,” as they ‘are called. Z “Bach one is out of a sample of that.ore!? ha exclaimed, triumphantly. *“It runs less than twenty dollars to the ton, and under the old pro~ cess wou.d cost thirty dollars a ton to work. I got out those buttons by my process. The ore ean easily be worked up for ten dollars a ton my_ way. There is no worse ore to be found that is worth considering at all George Brandt;” “That’s what! Doc, it’s great. I know the ore. say, what’s in the pot?” “Some of the same stuff,” replied the doctor. “You see by my process I expect to save the roast- ing out of the arsenic, wherein lies the big ex=- pense. This time it is to be a big sample. Yo see, I melt down the concentrations, and when i reaches a certain degree of heat I put in a certain chemical, known only to myself, which frees the arsenic and precipitates the gold. I am now about. to make the final test. Watch and see the gold come.” = ite Thus saying Dr. Blake took a bottle from th bench and slowly poured its contents into the pot. Gus was standing over near the door, talking to Matt, and not paying very much. attention to the doctor’s explanation. ae: Then, all in an instant, there came a loud éx “Oh, look! Look!” yelled Matt. “The pot had burst, D endt had. Atle

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- CHAPTER XIX. Lost Underground. Filled with horror at the sudden,and fatal turn | taken by affairs, Gus made a rush for the unfor- . -tunate victims of the explosion. At the time he thought that Matt Marston had been hit by some of the contents of the pot, for the boy ail in the same instant dropped like a log. _ Gus seized George Brandt by the legs and dragged him away. - The Gopher was'to all appearances quite dead, '-and his face was horribly burned. — Before Gus could return to the doctor’s assis- tance he found himself staggering. He seemed to be choking to death—he could scarcely breathe. “It’s the arsenic from that infernal mixture. I shall die if I stop here!” thought Gus. He had heard’ too much about the dread effects of arsenical gas to doubt it. Bice If Brandt was dead then there could be no hope for the doctor. Gus staggered back to the door and, catching - Matt by the/collar, dragged him outside. | Here the air was clearer, but Gus was almost gone, and the wonder i¢ that he survived it. His strength was leaving him; he sank. down - on top of the boy, and for the time being lost ** consciousness. 5 But it was only for a moment. _. Contaet with the cool fresh air of the cave had + saved Gus, and he soon revived. He staggered to his feet, and rushed back to-_ ward the door. 3 The wreck of the pot still hung from the hook, but its contents had vanished, spreading itself over the stone floor of the cave, where the stuff | was rapidly congealing, forming a yellow, shiny | Tass which certainly looked like gold. a Gus turned away, sick with horror. _ + Dr. Blake and George Brandt were both quite , dead; of this he assured himself first. Tf the latter had been insane he certainly did not show it, and proof of Mr. Marston’s claim ~ never came to Gus. soe ced Seeing that nothing was to be done inside the > laboratory, Gus returned outside, and gave his attention to Matt. - Taking up the lantern, which had been left near -. the laboratory door, he flashed the light full in the boy’s face. , ; Matt winked vigorously, but he did not open his eyes wide. é tet is ot: Gus could see that he was breathing in a natural manner, and.there was not the least sign of his - having been burned. : ae “What in the world can be the matter with him?” thought Gus, after shaking him about and making several ineffectual attempts to get him on = his: feet. at As he stood there, looking down at him, Gus re- “membered what Mr. Marston had said to him the man Blake. ; : ; Gus’s fathér had been quite a student of hyp- notism, and had often talked these matters over th hi FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY » him that I can break the spell?” y about his son having probably been hypnotized by - .manded, rubbing his'’eyes in a puzzled way. _had to do just as he told me. ‘V’ll bet anything the doctor had: him hypno- tized’”” Gus Said to himself. “That would account. for the way he dropped at the same time Dr. Blake went down. I wonder if I fix my mind on- It was a chance for an interesting test besides. moun something clearly had to be done for the OY. ss the Gus had heard that the correct scheme in such cases was to call the name of the unconscious sub- ~ ject many times. Soe “Matt! Matt! Matt!’ he shouted again and again, but the boy never moved. . Gus now turned him over on his back and so held the lantern that the light fell full on his face. : : Sek “Matt! Matt! Matt!” he kept saying in slow, measured tones. As much as twenty times he reeated the name, and then all at once, to his great satisfaction, the- boy opened his eyes. : “Matt Marston, get up and stand on your feet said Gus, in the same commanding way, at the same time, throwing the whole strength of his will into a desire that the command:should be obeyed. — It worked. ‘ ; Matt immediately got up and stared around. : “What has happened? Who are you?” he de — Siu “Don’t you know me?” replied Gus. “It is only a few minutes since you saw me.” “TI never saw you before,” was the answer. “No. I don’t know you. Where is Dr. Blake?” : “Nead.” , : “Dead ?”” “Yes, The pot inf the laboratory exploded. The arsenic or something else did it. He is dead.” “The laboratory! Oh, yes, I remember. Heis — dead. Oh, I am so glad. Then I can go home?” “Yes, you are free.” ; “Free! Oh, it can’t be. I.don’t know what — has been the matter with me. Why did I come here? I want to go home to my father and moth-. er. Have I been away a long time?” ‘teed “Yes, months. Your father wants you to com home.. He sent me out here to Idaho to get you.” Will you come home with me?” 5 eon I will. But the doctor——” ed “T tell you there is no doctor in the questio He is dead. Matt, did he hypnotize you?” = = “Hypnotize.me? I don’t know. He used to look — at me with those terrible eyes of his, and then I couldn’t help He took me away from home. I just liad to’ go with him. I really couldn’t help it. Oh, my he feels so queer.” : oF “Don’t think any more about it,” said Gus. “You come with me. No, stay: where you are. There is no use in you seeing them. Will you wait here while I go?” & ce “T must. I feel that I have to do just whatever you say now that the doctor is dead. What i ‘your name? I must call you something. Tell me: what it shall be.’ Ra “My name is Gus, and that is what you can call me. Gus tells you to stay here, and not move ani dneh,saG shay Go ee i Ae

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ve are sent to China by the ed in connection with bamboo where the surgeon’s knife cuts. et went through Joey’s body, the surgeons mere- reached in through an incision and removed the severed appendix. An examination of it _ showed that the boy would have had to undergo _ the regular operation in a few years. PARTY TO MARK SUN HEAT HALF WAY : AROUND WORLD 5 _ The National Geographic Society announced _ sonian_ an expedition half-way - around the, world to make a daily measure of the heat of the’ sun. pe To the layman such an inquiry appears an —ultra-refinement of scientific research, but should e joint expedition work dut the findings it hopes ry from its studies all civilized mankind will yenefit by the results. The observations will extend over four years. ‘héy will be made to determine a method of long ige weather forecasting by which it is hoped a eyclone in the Middle West, storms at sea, a week of rainless days for a county fair or the last front of spring can be predicted well in advance. _. Dr. Charles G. Abbot, director of the Smith- onian Institution’s astrophysical observatory, will the expedition. . : Institution, ASIAN GOAT EATS $25 CHECK he appetite of a goat in Asia which several ks ago showed a fondness for paper Jed to the essity of a strict watch on all checks eashed one of Wall Street’s larger banks. Also, it used.a considerable waste on the part of Amer- ea’s large international commercial houses of noney which was expended in cabled messages etween New York and the Far East. < The i.ternational commercial house had made ut a $25 check, drawn on the Bank of the Man- tan Company, 40 Wall Street, for the account, a Far Eastern firm. The firm in question, re- FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY GOOD READING at it would send, in co-operation with the Smith- - found the piece of paper in some unexplained manner and ate it. The international commercial house was ‘promptly informed and, after close investigation, it made out a duplicate check for $25, which it forwarded to the proper address. It then had to cable full instructions to New York, giving the number ‘and series, the bank upon which drawn and the amount of the check. This information in turn was relayed to the Bank of the Manhat- ‘tan Company, which, as a matter of policy, put in | operation its full miachinery to safeguard against the possibility of the original check coming through. ‘This, however, is regarded unlikely. It was sworn by the proper authorities that the goat had masticated the check as thoroughly as if it d been torn into bits. | The total cost to all persons concerned, in time and money, was estimated by oné authority on berm and commercial practice to have been 50. THE LIBERTY BOYS OF ’76 LATEST ISSUES 1247 “ Prize and How They Won It. , 1248 ‘“ Great Haul! or, Taking Dyverything in Sight. 1249 “ in a Snare; or, Almost Trapped. 325 ‘ Brave Rescue; or,'In the Nick of Time. 1251 * Big Day; or, Doing Business by Wholesale — 1252 “ Net; or, Catching the Redcoats and Tories, ° The Liberty Boys Worried; ox, The Disappearanee of Dick Slater. s 1254 “Iron Grip; or, Squeezing the Redcoats. ; , 1255 “ Success; or, Doing What They Set Out to Do, 1266 “* Setback; or, Defeated But Not Disgraced, 1257 in Toryville; or, Dick Slater’s Fearful Risk. 1248 ‘“ Aroused; or, Striking Strong Blows for Liberty. 1259 “ Triumph; or, Beating the Redcoats at Their. Own Game, 5 3260 “ Scare; or, A Miss as Good as a Mile. 261 Danger; or, Foes On All Sides. 1262 Flight; or, A -Very Narrow Escape. 1263 “ Strategy; or, Outgeneraling the Hnemy. 1264 The Liberty Boys’ Warm Work; or, Showing the * Redeoats How to, Fight. 1265 Push; or, Bound to Get There. Sy 1266 'The Liberty Boys’ Desperate Charge; or, With » “Mad Anthony” at Stony Point. 1267 “ Justice, and How They Dealt It Out. 1268 “ Bombarded; or, A Very Warm 'Pime. 1269 ** Sealed Orders; or, Going It Blind. For sale by all newsdealers, or will be sent to any address on receipt of price, 8c. per copy, in money or pestage stamps. , HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, Inc. 166 West 23d Street New York City _ “Moving Picture Stories” A Weekly Magazine Devoted to Photoplays and Players a < Ai PRICE TEN CENTS PER COPY -Each number contains Three Stories of the Best Filma@ on the Screen—Hlegant Half-tone Scenes from the Plays! ~Interesting Articles About Prominent People in the Films—Doings of Actors and Actresses in the Studic\ and Lessons in Scenario Writing. f Stee tRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, Inc, 166 West 23d Street = New York | ust BS

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296. _FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY NEW MORK, MAY _ 8, 1926 TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS alt SESE, ve Postage Bree s ry 8 Cents 2.00 4.00 ” “ “ ” wee o keer eene HOW TO SEND MONEY — At our risk send P. O. Money Order, Check or Registered Letter; remittances in any other way are at your risk. We accept Postage eramipe the same as cash. When sending silver wrap the Coin in a Separate piece of paper to avoid cutting the envelope. rite your name gnd address plainly. Address letters to ¥ y Harry E, Wolff, Pres. _ HARRY E. WOLFF, Charles E. Nylander, Sec. - Publisher, Inc., L, F. Wilzin, Treas. ITEMS OF INTEREST HIKES 450 MILES TO MATE ‘Walking from Los Angeles to San Francisco, - more than 450 miles, to rejoin her husband of a - year, Mrs. Milfred Gustavson, nineteen, was ar- rested for vagrancy as she was waiting at the dock scanning every man in uniform who passed. Her husband is Clifford Gustavson, second-class earpenter’s mate aboard the U. S. S. Mississippi. When the young woman told her story the case - “was dismissed and she was commended for her loyalty and constancy. ers A AUTOMATIC SUN GUN ~The only known automatic sun gun in the - world, located at Cintra, twenty miles from Lis- bon, Portugal, booms the correct time to sur- “ younding towns and hamlets from a height of 2,000" feet. ‘ tee By a convex lens arrangement supported by the cannon, and controlled by a sun dial, the sun’s --Yays are concentrated at noon each day on the touchhole of the cannon, and thus it is auto- matically fired by old King Sol himself. DISADVANTAGES OF SIGHT _ Amos Cady of Boliver, Mo., could play six in- ‘struments simultaneously while he was blind, but now that he has regained his sight can only play one. He was blind twenty-two years. He played -@ harmonica held to’ his mouth with a yoke, a - panjo with his hands, a bass “drum beaten with his elbow, cymbals struck with his knees, a tri- angle and eight Swiss bells rung by his feet. His ‘inability to play more than one instrument now ~ ig explained by the fact that he cannot concen- ' trate sufficiently to play six because the acute sen- + sitiveness of touch and feeling that comes with _ blindness left when his sight was restored, i ARMY GETS WORLD’S BEST ‘ANTI- eS AIRCRAFT WEAPON , will have the most. effective anti- anti-tank rapid-fire weapons in the der finad action taken by the War De- the Bre ig fifty-cali- FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY » terial. 166 W. 23d St., N. Y. The new gun will have two different mounts, de- pending upon ‘whether it is ‘being used for anti- | aircrait work or for horizontal fire. ris With the former, the gun will be able to fire 450 shots a minute to a vertical range of 15,000 — feet. Every fifth shot, or ninety shots a minute, — will carry a “tracer,” thus enabling the- gunners to follow the course of their fire. 1 ee The “tracer” will act also as an. incendiary agent when passing through inflammable ma ‘Firing from the other mount, the gun will have a horizontal range of 27,000 feet, approximatel; five miles, firing 450 solid shots a minute, and with the ‘tracer.”’ a LAUGHS Tom—Is it true that you proposed to Ali and were rejected? Jack—Not exactly rejected —she said when she felt like making a fool of herself she’d let me know. , ‘eet “All the world loves a lover, you know,” the young man. “You'll find out your mistak when you speak to father,” replied the swee young thing. : Master—Norah seems quite gone on that le ter-carrier. Mistress—Gone! Why, she actual mails a posteard to herself every night, so he’l be sure to call at the house next morning, z “Why, dear,” said the mother upon noticin her litle girl standing before a mirror i “What & wonderful thing the X-ray is,” ex- claimed Jiggers.. “Just think of being able + see through the very flesh of our bodies.” “That? nothing,” said his wife, scornfully. “Any woma can see'right through a man without half trying.’ Old Gentleman—Do you think, sir, that you able to support my daughter without continual hovering on the verge of bankruptcy? Suitor Oh, yes, sir; I am sure I can. Old Gentilman. Well, that’s more than I can-do. Take her, a be happy. ; Ay fr “No, Harold,” said the fair, proud gir can never be yours!” “Never?” he cried anguished tones. “Neyer!” she answered, cold His mood changed. “Oh, very well,” he snee “There are others.” “Yes, Harold, I know the are,” she said. “And I accepted one of them this afternoon,” ~ sige Sans ? Village Druggist—I understand the chur committee has decided to raise your salary. large Parson—Well, I hope it isn’t true Druggist—Why, man, are you cr: fo; but I will be if “1. E;

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/ CHICKEN THIEF USES LINE - Fishing for chicken is San Antonio’s newest mter sport. Tony Franks, who lives in Steves Street, had been missing chickens from’ his hen- house. One chicken would disappear each day. Franks hid in some brush near the back yard. was not long until an eighteen-year-old white appeared from behind an outbuilding. The y threw a piece ef bread into the henhouse. A hicken swallowed the bread and a fish-hood to which it was attached, The youth reeled in the _ tine and decamped with the chicken. HICAGO OPERA FIDDLERS GET .$155 : : WEEK PAY js _ The eighty-two members of the Chicago Civic Opera, Company’s orchestra have become the high- ‘ paid musicians in the country, if not in. the d, James Petrillo, President of the Musicians’ lion, said, with the signing of a new wage greement. he players received a wage increase of $8 a ek, bringing the minimum pay to $119 a week. addition, the agreement provided for $5 for ach practice, adding $385 or $40 a week. The be rage salary will be close to $155 a week dur- : ing the twenty-two weeks, of the opera season. AP Be tae, Z YS ARE GENTLEMEN RIGHT FROM THE Ry CRADLE “ Miss Bess V. Cunningham, Executive Secretary ‘the Institute of Child Research, Teachers’ Col- e, Columbia University, in announcing, before “convention of Pennsylvania school men the re- its of a series of experiments on boy and girl es, said that men are born gentlemen, “and ¢ n't get away from it, whether they like it or not.” Fifty-three pairs of infants of opposite sexes, ss Cunningham said, were placed in inclosuyes together before one boy baby could be found who rould be so ungentlemanly as to take a toy away his famale companion. She did not say in many instances the girl babies confiscated the of the hoys, nor were any deductions made lerefrom. ° Q ODDS AND ENDS In the church at Mullion Town, Cornwall, Eng- a thoughtful mediaeval ecclesiastic provided “eis door near the font, through which the may escape when the sponsors renounce him all his works. een produced in the experimental labora- es of the University of Chicago, according to nt announcement.. In the experiment the f the fish were removed, and one was trans- into the forehead. us amazing he AS a performed by Dr. "FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY HERE AND THERE ‘out in the open to warm themselves. ne-eyed fish with apparently normal vision : ; Nee Belaoes +e in the university, searching for a cure for blind- - ness. Mrs. Otto Frederick of. Minneapolis Minn,, claims to have the smallest dictionary in “the world. It is carried in a locket and contains near- * ly 15,000 definitions. It is one and one-eighth inches long, three-quarters of an inch wide and ‘three-sixteenths of an inch thick. ; Some Roumanian shepherd boys’ started a fire The flames melted the snow,- worked their way into a fissue. of the ground and are still shooting merrily up. ~ Thus was a New well of oil discovered. *» NEW WARM CURRENT KILLS MYRIDS OF > FISH AND SEA BIRDS Strange changes in the ocean currents along the west coast of South America, with the water so tepid in places that it destroyed marine life, were’ described by Captain George S. Dexter of the — Grace liner Santa Luisa. The Santa Luisa, ac- cording to Captain Dexter, sailed through im- mense stretches of sea covered by dead jellyfish» and dead: seabirds. Captain Dexter said that the ~ jellyfish were killed by the warm currents and that. . the birds died after eating the jellyfish. The phenomena reported by Captain Dexter to the offices of the Grace line are described in an. announcement issued by the steamship company, which says: s; ' “Ordinarily there is no rainfall along the South American coast from southern Ecuador to north- ern Chile because of the cold Humboldt Current which flows northward from the Antarctic Ocean... On the northward voyage of the Santa Luisa: from Valparaiso, however, Captain Dexter said that he-was surprised to find a warm current flow- ing southward, the temperature of the water be- | ing as high as 75 degrees. He said that it was be- opligie lieved that this current originated in the neigh- ~ * borhood of Mexico. “When the Santa Luisa passed the Chincha Is- lands and the Guanape Islands, which are off the — Peruvian coast and which are the homes for mil- lions of sea birds, Captain Dexter was surprised — to see only, hundreds of ‘birds in the air where formerly there were myriads. In addition to this the water was full of dead birds. These birds live . on the numerous fish which are to be -found in these waters and Captain Dexter said that the fish use as food a certain kind of jellyfish. The jellyfish were killed by the unnaturally warm water and the fish thus are poisoned food. The birds consequently became eating the fish. ‘ northern Peru and Eeuador. Whole villages were washed away and,-according to Captain Dexter, — there are three new rivers at Talara, Peru, ordi- narily a desert, one which is.seventeen feet deep, “Chief Officer. V- Cernesco of the Santa Luisa said that where formerly only a desert was pre- sented to the eye of the traveler at Talara age has sprung up z ; poisoned as a result of — “The warm current caused torrential rains in .

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wee : AME AND. FORTUNE WEEKLY eee ag POINTS OF INTEREST | : “WORKMEN FIND A PEAT BED - While excavating for a sewer in a real estate devélopment tract on Staten Island, N. Y., work- .. “men employed by Cornelius G. Kolff a few days _ ‘ago came upon a deposit of peat, similar in every sway to the peat used for fuel in Ireland. . Kolff had some of it taken out and dried and has used * it as fuel in an open fireplace in his home at Harbor View. Deposits of peat or turf; as it is also known, have been reported on other occasions, but no at- tempt has been made to ascertain the extent of the beds. § e TWO NEW STAMPS READY Two new postage stamps are about*to be issued by authority of Postmaster General New to ac- cord with the new law of Congress dealing with postal rates. With the issue of these stamps the ~ department has taken final steps to comply with the legislation covering the advanced rates on certain-classes of mail. The stamps will be on _ sale later in the month. : 3 In_.designing, engraving and printing this is- ‘sue the Bureau of Engraving and Printing has broken all records for work of this character. One of the stamps is to be used for “special de- livery” on parcels subject. to the increased rates. The other is the 25 cent “special handling” stamp designed to give fourth-class matter the same ex- peditious treatment as is accorded first-class mail in transit. The new 15-cent special delivery stamp is of the same size and design as the present 10-cent ' spécial delivery stamp, but the color is an_ orange - » similar to the six-cent Garfield stamp. The 25- eent special handling stamp also has the same. shape and size of the other two, but the design is different and its color is dark green. WITH CHAMBER’ OF HORRORS : BENEATH HIS HOUSE : -~. Bones believed to be human and other gruesome articles found in caves and passages under the -.. home of H, H. Hughcock, a negro voodoo doctor, } * in Camden N. J., and the statement of his 7-year- ‘old daughter that he had killed.a woman recently - and buried her caused Hughcock to be held with- out bail for court. : : -Bugheock had been arrested for practicing medicine without a license and bail was being en- dered when his little girl made the startling state- --ment. This led to a search of the house. Detec- NEGRO ~ ‘ground passages leading from the cellar, in one - of which was a newly made grave containing the ones of an infant in a box. On the ground near- y was a glass jar containing more bones. ‘ailing to find the body of a woman, they again ‘with phosphorus were suspended from the ceiling. - _ declined to make any s ‘hauser by the fact that it was an ancient India tives reported that they had found several under-» - was found buried with the bodies. e Hughcock child, who told them she noved from the house late at The detectives-said that in each of the under- ground passages. they had. found something cal- culated to cause horror or fright. In one cham-- ber was a black cat with seven white cats. I another was a dead chicken on a table. It leaped into the air, and.at the same time emitted a weird sound when an electric button was touched. Owls and bats were found in all the chambers. Bells — rang as the detectives steppe on a push button and hair was suspended from the ceiling to brush against any one in the tunnel. ain In the larger chamber dolllike heads covered © All these weird contrivances, Prosecutor Westcott ~ said, were designed to overawe the voodoo doc- tor's patients and impress them with his power. Hughcock was arrested.on complaint of Mrs Lottie Ingram,:a negress, who said she had pai him $25 to cure her of a heart ailment, She : clared that after her experiences in the under-— ground chamber she became worse. The prisone tatement when question by the police. FIND 21 SKELETONS OF EARLY INDIA Twenty-one skeletons of Indians, believed to of.a prehistoric tribe, were brought to Lexington, Ky,, recently by Dr. W. D. Funkhauser, Profes W. S. Webb and William J. Curtis of the Uni- versity of Kentucky. The find was madé in cient graves near May’s Lick, Mason County, K , Dr. Funkhauser, who is chief zoologist ‘at the university, says there is mo way to estimate thi age in which. these Indians lived. The discoverie; were made in the area in which anasfoges were found niany years ago. Shell and kone. naments were found buried with the skeletons. These decoratians are of a type never before found anywhere, Dr. Funkhauser said, and are_ considered among the most valuable relics of a1 cient times ever discovered in Kentucky. .— The graves were found in cultivated fields at a depth of about two feet. From the positio: the skeletons, Dr. Funkhauser said, it is indicated that the bodies had been buried in a sitting ee tion, with their heads on their “knees. — i c- ne of the graves contained two or more boc The multiple graves are explained by. Dr. F custom when a chief died to slay other mem of his family and bury them with, him. graves indicated that this practice had been ried out. é awa The graves were lined with stones, and wi in a better state of preservation than the maj of graves of Indians found in Kentucky, due, Funkhauser believes, to some extent to the hi elevation of the ground. Dr. Funkhauser re-_ Babies to the ancient race as “the Sha a! grave eople.” Ph, : : ey » n one of the graves a necklace of bear hauser says it will be some years befor scope of the Scones can be estimate ected tha ms will be mo raigiet =

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HOW SEEDS TRAVEL seeds journeys Some make with “wings, and others travel from place ~ to place py attach- ing themselves to the clothes of men or the hair of an- imals; still oth- ers are transport- ed by birds, says a writer in St. Nicholas. The ‘seeds of the maple tree are particularly imteresting: They are provided with wings, and when they become de- tached’ from the parent tree a gen- | tle breeze will carry them a con- siderable distance from. the branch to: which they were attached. There are many forms and modi-} fications of the; winged seed, as the linden, the horn-beam,. the elm and the pine. These; are all) common trees. Some seeds are also provided with: parachutes, or umbrellas, not for protection from. rain and storm, but for purposes of loco- motion. The seeds ef.the thistle, the milkweed and the dandelion in fact, the seeds of all plants which have a cotton growth—are pro- vided for these journeys. Besides these, Some weeds are provided with hooked: appen- dages by which “they can attach themselves to the} clothing’ of men or the hair of an- imals, and so are | Carried from| Place to place. i Big3 ft Telescope Has unusually power: lenses, Preps pites | over 8 times, away seem close. ie Fra moon hand stars as never Sine Ferry “Wonder” oleae tae, ES ABSOLUTELY FREES ‘andsome leatherette | Thousands | j/ of Delighted y Users | “Tam delighted | W Withthe*Wonder’ | telescope. Today | Thavebeen watch- | 7 ing submarines 3 y tolles off the coast.”” ff} —Philip Brush. " Wi “I. can tell time'on the. church "lock 5 miles away.”—Edward Foster, “‘Coul uf e. ooo | your potty } md coupon today! TaRRY & CO., Chicago, Lis | Ferry & Co., Dept. 2462 3224 N. Halsted St., = Chicago, Hil. Send. me 3 it, Ferry Wonder Tele- ( cope and cee oe Case. I wil man lus postage eal dt fi a not éstianed you my mo. I on wil} J Clty no eh a Bites se | | catalog of of Things You Want Sent Free ] | SD oltre ia TRIAL of DeZilvo should convince you more than anything we may say, how needlegsit is to suffer with this dangerous, un- sightly,disfigaring ailment. When your Goitre or Big Neck has been Betis stelothers. For freetrestment a _KolarLaboratories, 21 Kolar Blig., Ft. Wayne, ind. TOBACCOS Or Snuff Habit ed Or No P. No Pay gnirat Hominy Coun’ O50 tears’ Sctbine it fale Used br oo on oo ye 400,000 Men and Wi 1-85 ee ea Can You Answer This X Question and be Fair to Yourself? Foe san as successful ag you could be—if you had some other occupation? Many a man fights for success—and fails wrong row to hoe, Don’t make this mistake! If you have been making 1t—quit! Find out NOW what you can do best and tackle that—before it is too late, Wur expert vocational counselors, employing iatest scientific method which eliminates all guess work, ‘will show you what occupation you are best fitted for, and guide you step by step until you succeed. Write for free information Today | BUREAU OF VOCATIONAL RESEARCH Dept. 10 530 Broadway New York City PIMPLES EE FREE: nod ek ay 2.S.QIVENS, 199 Ohembel Bdg., Kansas City, Mo. Old Money Wanted We paid $2,500.00 for one silver dollar to Mr. Manning of Albany, N. ¥. We buy ali rare coins and pay highest cash premiums. Send 4c for large Coin Circular. May mean much profit ‘to you. NUMISMATIC BANK. Ft. W8rth, Tex. amely all his life” cause he has the Dept. 436, only chanceto get this This te peel watch for $2.85. ae thin - fe and 8 ret ‘. Here fa saat Magte, Tees na Jones Mfg. Co., Dept. 280° Siete Mase

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