Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 1026) (1925 05 29)
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MAY 29, 1925 ' Price 8 Cents No. 1026 i FROM A DIME TO A MILLION; _: OR)A WIRE-AWAKE WALL STREET BOY. | Li Bits, | OY PSLL/ -MLIELL AND OTHER STORIES Dora lost her balance, and with a piercing scream fell partly out of the elevator, In another mo- ment she would have been crushed to death but for Castleton who sprang forward, seized the wire rope, and pulled desperately at it
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ae FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY Issued weekly—Subscription price, $4.00 per year! Canada, $4.50; Foreign, $5.00. Harry EB. Wolff, i ae 1ne., 106 West 23d Street, New York, N No. 1026 FROM A DIME . ¥._ Entered as Second-Class Matter, October 4, 1931, the Post-Office at New York, N. x NEW YORK, MAY 29, 1925 1 pe 4995 Y., under the Act of Mareh 3, y LX ive Price 8 Cents. . TO A MILLION OR, A WIDE-AWAKE WALL STREET BOY By A SELF-MADE MAN © CHAPTER I.—What Joe Castleton Found in the Gutter. : “Only a dime!” exclaimed Joe Castleton, gazing disgustedly at the bright silver coin as it lay in the palm of his hand. “Only a miserable litt _. ten-cent piece represents the whole of my worldly _ _wealth,-and yet I have a pointer on the market at this moment worth a million to any one with _ the coin to back it. If I had even one hundred i gollare, and that’s a mighty small amount for a ‘fellow to tackle the market with, I could make ‘something. I could more than double my money, But to think I have only a measly dime. It’s enough to give a fellow an attack of heart fail- ure. _ When Joe Castleton indulged in the above soli- Joquy he was standing at the door of the Ajax office building on Broad Street. He had just come down from the offices of Morris & Goldberg, on the fifth floor. a firm of stock brokers to whom _.. he had carried a message from his employer and had accidentally overheard Mr. Morris tell Mr. - Goldberg that the syndicate which had been form- - ing to boom B. & L. stock was now complete and that he had just received instructions to start in at once and secure every share in sight as close to _ the market as possible. Joé hadn’t worked two years in Wall Street without picking up a whole _ lot of information about how business was con- _ dugted in the financial district. Being a bright get as close to Stock Exchange methods as it was possible for him to do, with an eye to the future, since he did not always expect to be but a brok- er’s messenger. ; ‘sitting in the office with nothing particular on his hands, in looking out of the window, he gave his _ attention to the daily news of what was going on, or in prospect, in the Street, and thus kept him- = fully informed of the trend of the market at all times. He knew that syndicates were fre- quently formed to corner certain stocks with the _gbject of forcing up the market price of the shares “as: high as could be done with safety, when the promoters of the deal would quietly unload at she advanced figures and gather in the difference feeween what they paid for the stock, through heir private brokers, and what they received for = ee Sega see Reg and ambitious boy, he had made it his business to. Instead of wasting his spare moments, when same. Joe knew that millions ‘were made, and sometimes lost when a screw worked loose, at this game by those on the inside, and that only pick- ings -were left for the fortunate outsiders not caught in the subsequent slump. Of course, the chief factor for the success of such deals was absolute secrecy, consequently it was not often that information concerning what — was on the tapis got away from those interested in an enterprise of this kind.. When such infor- mation was occasionally imparted to outsiders, it was called’a tip, and was supposed to go no fur- ther than the favored party. The pointer that Joe had just got hold of was a first-class tip on ‘as - a good thing that was about to be pulled off, though, as a matter of course, it came into his possession by the merest accident in the world— still it was no Jess valuable on that account. Joe worked for Broker James Hoyt, of No. — Wall — Street. As a messenger he was a crackerjack. — He covered ground in such a brisk fashion that Mr. Hoyt once remarked that he made a pair of seven-league boots look like a bargain counter misfit. More than half of the brokers knew Joe by sight and reputation, if they didn’t condescend to speak to him, and there wasn’t one of them but would have been glad to have had him attached” to his office. Life was rather a serious matter to Joe, for his widowed mother largely depended on his eight dollars a week to help support the fami- ly, which consisted of three small girls besides Joe himself. — " <5; Mrs. Castleton went out dressmaking by the “day, when the opportunity offered, but it was sel- dom that she had a whole week of consecutive employment. So it was a constant struggle with her to pay rent and make ends meet. Joe was a good boy and loved his mother and sisters dearly. He was willing to make any sacrifice for their sake. That’s why he never had any money he could call his own. In fact, it was a rather re- _ markable circumstance for him to have as much a as ten cents in his pocket after buying the two subway tickets in the morning which carried him | down and up town each day. His lunch, day in~ and day out, consisted of a couple of home-made sandwiches and a piece of pie, which he ate in the © office and washed down with a glass of water. Yet ~ Aris the boy was never heard to complain of his iot, and he always looked clean and neat, even if his clothes were not of a fine texture. i See Joe within y
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Preys fi FUT dk . ats mY =r FROM A DIME - the Tast few. months had become interested in the market. s He believed that if he had command of a little ~_ money he could make a stake for himself, and in- - eidentally give his patient little mother a lift. He thought he saw many chances where a hundred dollars could be easily doubled. He never expect- ed to get hold of a really valuable tip, and now, _ when this one had so unexpectedly fallen into his “hands, he felt that it was hard luck indeed that “Well, what’s the use of kicking against a stone - wall?” he concluded, leaving the doorway of the office building and heading for Mr. Hoyt’s office. ~ “T can’t make use of the tip, and that’s all there tis tO-it.” . ~ As he crossed the street he saw a big, husky messenger, whom he knew as Ike Thacker, pound- ~ ing a small, inoffensive lad named Frank Webster, who ran errands for a fat broker who had an ~ office on the same floor with Hoyt. Joe knew that Thacker was a bully. He delighted to bulldoze ~ ‘boys younger and smaller than himself. Some- times he found a spunky youth who was not easily - intimidated, in which case he would leave him alone in the future, which clearly showed the ~ eowardly side of his nature, but generally he had ~ his own way. Joe was one of the boys he had ‘failed to master at the start, and now Castleton - had grown big. and strong enough to command 'Thacker’s respect. Frank Webster’s inability to hold his own successfully against the messengers who found pleasure in ill-treating him occasion- lyy had caused Joe to take him under his wing. So when Joe saw what Thacker was doing on this’ occasion, he started to interfere. Ike was just _ topping off his cowardly performance by admin- istering a kick to Webster. Joe reached him in time to grab his foot, and the result was Thacker st his balance and tumbled into the street head first. He scrambled on his feet as mad as a ornet. 4 - “Did you do that?” he snarled to’ Castleton. ~“f did. How did you like it?” Thacker clenched his fists as’if he intended. to sail into Joe and take revenge, but there was something in the boy’s eye that deterred him, “What did you do it for?” he snorted. “J thought I’d give you a dose of your own icine,” replied Joe, coolly. “You were thump- 1g Frank Webster, and just about to kick him. ‘ou know he’s no match for you, so do I. That’s why I chipped in and took his part.” : : ‘What right have you to butt in? - ‘y to me, and I was just learnin’ him man- % “What did you say to him, Frank?” asked Joe, who knew that Webster was not one of the cheeky ids: as I was going back to the office from an errand to the Mills Building when he caught me by the sleeve and asked me to lend him a dime told that I had no, money to spare. Then he eatened to punch me if I didn’t come up with e money. I refused and he started in to thump 7 r i that, Thacker?” hat have you to say to ‘do ow what business it is: sot to say. I’m goin’ to ge he had no funds to enable him to make use of it. _ ““You’re not strong enough to defend yourself He was~ of sot one 3 TO A MILLION “T haven’t thought about the matter at all, but if { catch you thumping Webster again I’ tr and make things interesting for you.” see “You will, eh? If it wasn’t that I see a cop on — the other side of the street, I’d push your face in, d’ye understand?’* “J don’t think you would, Ike Thacker,” replied — Joe resolutely.. “Any time you feel like trying to do me up just start in, only I hope you’ll be man enough to attempt it before my face and not with a blow behind my back, as I’ve heard you have the — habit of doing to persons of your own size.” Te “Yah!” snarled Thacker. “You hear a lot, don’t — you? I'll fix you for this. I’ll make you wish you’d minded your own business before I got through with you.” if ee After uttering those words with a scowl of hate, — he turned on his heel and walked away. Beas “I’m much obliged to you, Joe,” said Webster, — with a grateful look. ‘This isn’t the first time — you’ve done me a good turn. Maybe some day Ill . be able to return the favor.” ‘ “That’s all right, Frank,” replied Castleton. against such chaps as he, and I won’t stand to see = abused for nothing. So don’t say anoth« word. If you’re going back to your office, cor on.” : As the boys stepped on the sidewalk, Joe paus His sharp eye had been attracted by the glistening of a ray of sunlight on an object lying against — the curb stone. He stooped and looked clo er. : Then he stretched out his finger and picked up a diamond ring. The stone was a magnificent so taire of undoubted value, es “What's that you picked up?” asked Frank. “A diamond ring,” replied Joe. “Isn’t it beauty?” . ae Why, that must be worth “T should say it is. thousand. dollars.’ ‘ “As much as that?” said Joe, who had no id of the value of such. gems. E “Tt may be worth two or three times that,” plied Webster. “Mr. Dayton (his employer) a ring not near so fine as that, and I heard tell a broker that it cost him $900.” 4 Roe “Then I’m in great luck to find such a ring.” oil should say you are. What will you do w it?” ‘ “T hope to find the owner and return it.” “That’s the right thing to do, if you can, suppose some big broker lost it. You'll get ward for restoring it, of course.” Fs “I wouldn’t object to that. I could use LOO to great advantage just now.” apa : “JT guess you’d get $100 all right. At any 1: it’s worth it. A ring like that is sure to b vertised for. You’d better watch the pape away.” a : ee ~ “I mean to. T’'ll also show it to Mr. Hoyt. | might suggest some way. of finding the owner, if the person who lost it is a broker. I hope | come in for $100 on it, for I know how I cor first-class tip th
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~ Tf IT thought you had any coin to invest, I’d put you on to it, but I guess you haven’ £.7% “No, I haven't any money,” replied Webster. “And if I had; I don’t think I’d put it into stocks. It’s too risky.” Joe laughed, for he knew that Webster’s na- ture was a timid one, and that he was about the last person who would take a shy at a game of chance of any kind. They had reached the office building where they were employed by this time, and, boarding an elevator, they soon parted on the second floor. i | CHAPTER Il.—Joe Gets a Rowand of Five : Hundred Holle: : ‘When Joe entered his office, he fone that Mr. ~ Hoyt had not returned from the Exchange, so he took his accustomed seat, pulled the diamond ring out of his pocket, and examined it carefully. It sparkled and seintillated from every point of view. __ Clearly it was a gem of the purest water, and the boy did not doubt but that it was worth a good amount of money. - “If I can get, $100 for restoring this to the own- er I’J] be in great luck,” he said to himself. “Tl slap that money right into B. & L., and then I'll _have the satisfaction of making a little something it of that tip. I guess Il] take this ring in and .ow it to. Miss Peters. Maybe she can guess wa it’s worth.” ‘stenographer, and she and Joe were very, good friends. ~ “See what I found on the street, Carrie,” e, holding up the diamond ring. “Oh, isn’t that a beauty!” the stenographer ex- claimed, the moment her eyes rested on it. “Where did | rou find it?” ‘the gutter, between here and Broad Str éet.” Girl-like, Miss Peters immediately slipped it on of her fingers and then held up her hand to it sparkle. What wouldn’t I give to own such a ring,” she cried, almost eviously. said if the fellow was all right,” grinned Joe. 2 “Jt will take more than a-diamond ring to win me, Joe,” she answered laughingly. - “How much more?. A million-dollar bank ac- count?” oe Something better than money.” TL thought money or its equivalent was what Oe | are after.” oney is a good thing to have, but it isn’t erything.” Well, money is what I’m looking for just now.’ ‘You're not the only one that is looking ne That's no dream. Don’t you think it’s pices LOO to. veturn that to the owner?” . Have. you any idea who the ome Not the slightest.” - n how do fe yu expect to be able to find the nee y you’ e honest enough to wish to lo- 2 FROM A DIME TO A MILLION” Miss Peters, whose other name was Carrie, was - $1,000 at this moment I’d put every dollar of at I s’pose you’d give your heart and your hand - “F have no doubt but it will. It’s worth over - $1,000, I should think.” Si “pPhat’s what Frank Webster said, too. ‘His gt poss, Mr. Dayton, has a ring not as good as this a for which he paid $900.” “That’s a magnificent stone. It might easily ~ be worth $2,000.” “T think some broker lost it. I’m going to show it to Mr. Hoyt. He might have an idea who it belongs to.” “He might,” replied Miss Peters, taking it off her finger with some reluctance. “Let me know if you find*the owner, will you?” “Certainly.” “And supposing you don’t, what are you going. to do with it?” “Yd sell it for as much as I sould get, provided 3 it was near its value, for the ring is of no use to = me, while money would be of great use. If'l had the value of it. now, I could make what would — represent a small fortune to me.’ “How could you?” “T know a certain stock that’s going to rise in a few days.” # “How do you know it’s going to rise? Hardly Sas anybody can tell with any certainty what's going to happen in the market from day to day.” “That's right, too; but, you see, in this case Tye_ ee got inside information.” =e “Oh, you have?” smiled Miss Peters incredu- lously. t z “That’s what I have,” replied Joe, with a posi+ tive nod. “Somebody has. been giving you a tip, T sup- pose?”’ she said with a dubious smile. “Nobody has given me a tip. I pote the tip myself, that’s why I know it’s all right.” --— “How did you happen to get it?” “Td rather not explain how I got it, eee if you’ye any money you'd like to put up, Yl steer you next, to the good thing.” The girl shook her head. ‘ “T know better than tb speculate in stocks, and I thought you did by this time.” ; “There are exceptions to every rule. If I had into—well, a certain stock.” “Pm afraid you’d regret it.” 4 “Well, as I have only a dime at this moment, + can’t very well go into my deal; but I hope "to realize enough out of this ring to make a stake.” “You'd be' a foolish boy to risk the money on a stock venture. Stock gambling i is the most uncer- tain of all games of ‘chance.” At that moment Joe heard his electric bell ies and he knew that Mr. Hoyt had got back and wanted him in the privaat office. He therefore lost no time in answering the summons. “T want you to take this note to Mr. Cannon, of Day & Cannon, and biting me back an answer.’ “Yes, sir,” replied Joe, who left the room, his hat, and was soon on the street. | Day "& Cannon’s office was in the Johnstone Buildmng, and that was only a short distance from. Mr. Hoyt’s, so it didn’t take Joe long to run over there. Both Day and Cannon were in the p 2 room pares when ae was announced.
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ae FROM A DIME * “Wighteen hundred dollars,” answered Day. “That’s a lot. of money to put into a ring for one’s self. He'll advertise for it, of course?” “Yes. He was writing several advertisements to put in the principal papers when I was in his office. He is offering $500 reward for the return of the ring.” é ~ Joe was struck by Mr. Day’s words, and after ~ handing his note to Mr. Cannon, he. turned to that gentleman’s partner and said: ; “J beg your pardon, sir, but are you speaking about a Berieae ring that was lost in Wall Street to-day?” ; - Mr. Day regarded Mr. Hoyt’s messenger with a look of surprise. : . “Do you know of such a ring having been » found?” he asked. : : “ft found a valuable diamond ring myself less than an hour ago in the gutter, not far from the -assay office,” replied Joe. “Have you got it with you?” ame : “Yes, sir,” answered the boy, drawing it out of his pocket and handing it to the broker. : "-«That’s Hammersley’s, without a doubt,” said “Mr. Day. “You are a fortunate lad to find this, - for you'll be $500 richer as soon as you take it over to him. T’ll telephone him that it’s been found, and that you'll take it to him.” -*“]']] be glad, to do that, sir, after I carry Mr. Cannon’s reply to Mr. Hoyt,” said Joe, through whose brain danced the large sum of $500 men- tioned by Broker Day as the amount of the re- ward Mr. Hammersley intended to give for the yeturn of his diamond ring. While Mr. Cannon was writing the note his partner put the telephone receiver to his ear and asked to be corinected with Mr. Hammersley’s office. = As soon as he got the broker on the wire he ~ told him about the finding of his ring by James would deliver it'to him in half an hour. Ham- _ mersley was delighted, and said he would be glad _ to pay the reward of $500 to the lad. Joe re- turned to his office, feeling like a bird. He told Mr. Hoyt about his having found Broker Ham- mersley’s lost diamond ring in the street, and asked permission to carry it over to him. His em- ployer told him that he could do so, and so Joe started on his errand. When he reached Mr. Hammersley’s office he sent his name in and was - told to enter the private office. - Poke a seat,” said Mr. Hammersley. “So you found my ring, eh?” Stores oles _ *» “Yes; sir,” producing it and handing it to him. “4, _““I see you are an honest boy, and did not hold pack to see what reward would be offered for the return of so valuable a gem. There is a copy of the advertisement I intended inserting in several of the papers. You see, I offered a reward of $500. ell, it will give me great pleasure to “present it to you, hoping that you will make good ise of the money.” ete Fe » to - Hoyt’s messenger, Joe Castleton, and that the boy . _. “We've lived her a. have hi met hae Bd TO A MILLION a able trouble and expense in getting it back, if I ever did.” = The broker got his checkbook and wrote a check ~ to Joe’s order for $500. Castleton accepted it. thanked him again, and took his leave. He fairly hugged himself with delight. , “B. & L. is going at 45. I'll be able to get 100 shares, and take $50 home to mother. Talk about luck! And I thought I didn’t have a bit. Thisis — where I make a stake. Vil bet I’ll clear $1,000 by * getting in on the ground floor with the insiders of the syndicate. Just think of what a thousand dollars means to a fellow who has had his nose — on-the grindstone ever since he began to work . down here, over two years ago! Why, I’ll be able to buy mother and the girls the new clothes they need so badly, and I can get a new suit for my- self. And there are a whole lot of other things we need in the worst way. This is where we get on Easy Street for once in our lives. Mother will ~ be just tickled to death when I dump a wad into — her lap and tell her how I came by it. In fact, — the $50 I mean to give her this afternoon will — make her smile all over her face. But hold on; i - mustn’t shout before I’ve got that thousand in my hands. It doesn’t do to count one’s chickens be- — fore they’re hatched.” ieee Mr. Hoyt eashed the check for Joe, and on his way home he stepped into a small bank on Nas- sau Street, that had a brokerage department for the accommodation of speculators with limited capital, and bought 100 shares of B. & L. at 45. With the memorandum of the transaction in his — “pocket, and $50 cash, he went home as happy as a lark. CHAPTER III.—Joe Gets Out of the Market with a Good Profit. “ifs When the young messenger entered the litfle fiat that he called home, that afternoon about five o’clock, it struck him that his mother looked +, or- ried. Ay “What’s the matter, mother?” he asked, bend- ing down and kissing her, as he never failed to do : when he got home from his business. “You look as if something had gone wrong.” Fis Mrs. Castleton did not at once reply, but tried to appear very busy with her sewing. Joe put — his arms around her and insisted on knowinj put the landlord off,” “He was here again -ance. I did not have it to give him, and he tal harshly to me. He said he wasn’t accustomed t: call two or three times for his money. He saic that if I didn’t send it to him by to-morrow, possess proceedings, would follow.” ee “He said that, did he?” replied Joe, intensely indignant. eI ea . “He did.” St Phos sos you always paid him promptly & ore?” peers “T was a week behind last month.” “But he got his money, -didn’t he?” - “Of course.” : i
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“Then all I can say is that he’s a hog, and that it would give me a great deal of pleasure to kick ? him,” said Joé, who was as mad as a hornet. “1 q won't stand to have anybody abuse you, mother— i whether he’s the landlord or any one else. How much do you owe him?” “ “Five dollars, and I don’t see how I can raise - it until I get your wages on Saturday.” - “You told him that, I suppose?” bat § did. >? “And he wasn’t satisfied to wait three days?” “He didn’t appear to be.” - “All right. We'll move on the first of next month, to some other flat. Let him have his old yooms. There are plenty of flats jbetter than this one for the same money, I’ll bet.’ “But it will take money to move, Joe, and I really cannot afford to.” -- “Oh, I think you'll be able to afford to, mother.” “ST don’t see how. I don’t even see how I'll be able to have the full rent on the first for next “month. When'one gets behind, it is well nigh im- possible to pull up. I haven't been as fortunate as usual tntely i in. getting work, and I really don’t : know what is to become of us if things don’t improve.” The little woman; who had kept back her tears with difficulty. while explaining the cause of her ‘worriment, now broke down and began to cob. ‘She felt thoroughly discouraged at the outleok,: and did not know where to turn for relief. “Brace up, mother.- Things will improve. : fact, they’ve improved already. I was very lucky to-day. I found a valuable diamond ring in Wall : Street. this afterncon. It belonged to a wealthy broker named Hammersley. He rewarded me lib- erally for returning it to him, and I have brought you home fifty dollars to help you get on your feet again.” 3 UR itty dollars!” exclaimed Mrs. Castleton, sup- poring that was the amount Joe had got from the roker, and to her it was like a small fortune at hat critical moment in the family’s affairs. “Yes, fifty dollars. There it is,” he added, toss- ing it into her lap. “Now you can send the land- Jord his measly five dollars, and pay any other **pills that you happen to owe. I also hope you will = Pook around for another flat. I don’t care to live arilord owned by such a man as our ~ “Oh, Joe, Joe! It looks as though a kind Prov- dence has come to our rescue at the eleventh hour,” said Mrs. Castleton, throwing her arms around her son’s neck and crying this time tears of real joy The ee clouds had suddenly rolled away, leav- “jing a rift through which the sunlight shone down into her worried heart. Joe-then sat down and told her how he found the ring, and how he had discovered its owner -“J think we can afford to have something extra “J’l] take one of the five Jollar ‘ion of his story. Do you owe the butcner pis out and change, it. rocer anything? ee aT ‘owe the grocer seventy cents, dear. You ‘pay him now and T will give. you a list of a few Pg I think ‘the my Hangs you can buy.’ ight. Make-. at your list. | appreciate a steak for su FROM A DIME TO A MILLION’ good ‘for supper to-night,” he said at the ‘conclu- “Well, do as you please, but we mustn’t be extrav: agant because we have a few dollars ahead. We shall need every cent of it, especially as Iam _— not earning as much as I have been accustomed to. > “Don’t worry about that, mother,” couragingly. from.” said Joe en- meant, but she did not press him to explain. She. was perfectly satisfied now that she had the money — to satisfy the exacting landlord, and quite a little sum in addition with which to meet subsequent emergendies. She wrote a list of things she felt” she could not get along without, gave it to her son, and then started to prepare supper. Joe add- ¥ “There’s' more’ where that came — Mrs. Castleton didn’t quite understand what he Res = ed a few things to the list that his mother had ~~ been afraid to put down, so accustomed was she to the most rigid economy. He also went into a — eandy store and spent a dime on some mixed eandies for his three sisters. sweet tooth, but they didn’t often have a chance to satisfy their desire for sweets. “TJ hope they won’t have an attack of heart aor when I hand them this candy,” chuckled oe three months.” His smallest sister—Eva, five years place Hs - she saw him coming in with his arms full-of bun- _ dies, a most unusual sight to her young eyes, time. could to tell her sisters. They immediately flock- ed out to see what was in the wind. When they found that they were going to have a nice steak _ for supper they were delighted beyond measure, for, they were accustomed to only the cheapest kind of meat, and not any too much of that. The eldest, who was fourteen and understood their rather straitened circumstances, wondered where the money had suddenly sprung*from to account for the liberal supplies that appeared on the scene. She naturally took the first opportunity to’ ques- tion her mother on the subject, and then learned about the finding of the diamond ring by her brother in Wall Street, and how he had $50— for restoring it to the owner. : They each “nad a8 “This is the first they will have had in ca _ thought it must be Santa Claus coming out of his She ran into the sitting-room as fast as she “Tf the little mother had known that it was re e instead of $50 that her son had got, and that he had put $450 of it into a stock deal that he be- lieved would net him a clear thousand, she wou probably have been overpowered by this favorable turn of Fortune’s wheel. Some mothers, no doubt, would have thought that Joe had made a reckless use of the $450, and would have scolded hist, per- haps but Mrs. Castleton was not one of that kind. She looked upon her big boy as the man o the house, and she believed everything he did wa: all right. While Joe was aware of this, he did not confess the truth, as he was so sure of winning a nice wad of money that he had planned. to give her and his sisters a tremendous surprise when. the evént was pulled off. The candy, of course, was quite a surprise to the girls, and each gav Joe a big hug before they retired in a body to the sitting-room to sample it. Next day Joe enjoyed the new sensation of a strong hedeeagset intere : the eet of the market. . L., however, remained stationary, that_quite a little business was done On Fri noticeal
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bet FROM A DIME the stock began to attract some attention from the brokers, but the price did not advance more than five-eighths of a point: The following day was Saturday, and during the two-hour session of the Exchange B. & L. went to 46 1-8, which was the closing figure. Monday morning, about eleven, when Joe went to the Exchange to deliver ~ a note to Mr. Hoyt, he saw Ike Thacker and sev- eral of his cronies hanging around the,messen- -gers’ entrance, When he came outside after de- livering his*note he was suddenly greeted with a “shower of dirt and small stones that landed with unpleasant accuracy on his face, neck and shoul- ders. A shout of derisive laughter followed, and _ when Joe turned to ascertain who his assailants ‘were he found Thacker and his pals lined up on the curb, apparently ready for business. There were five of them altogether, and a formidable combination for one boy to go up against. “Come on, you lobster,” cried Ike. “Here’s your chance to polish me off.” = “Jump in and tackle him, Ike,” encouraged one - of his friends. “Knock his block off. He hain’t got no friends,” ejaculated another. _ Joe surveyed the odds against him, and he saw that if he didn’t begin hostilities they would, so he made a sudden rush at Thacker and handed him a straight one on the jaw that landed him on his back in the street. Then he drew off and started warily up the street before the others re- covered from their surprise. It was only a mo- ment, however, before the whole gang, with Thacker in the rear, followed Joe, intent on tak-. ing vengeance on him. Seeing that he couldn’t escape a mix-up, Joe backed against the wall of a New Street office building, and a moment later the crowd rushed upon him. Castleton was per- fectly cool and determined, while his opponents, - 4m their eagerness to land on him, interfered with one another. Joe smashed one-red-headed chap in ‘the eye with a force that damaged that: member - considerably, while he reached another with an ipper cut that made his teeth rattle in a painful ‘way. He received two glancing blows on the face himself, and returned two very effective ones. _ The scrap lasted only one round, and a short one _, at that, for a policeman suddenly caught on from ‘all Street and started for the combatants, but - Joe had had all the advantage of the encounter. - Jn fact, he was feeling surprised at his good luck when one of the onlookers, an A.D.T. messenger, yelled: — “Look out! Here comes a cop!” In & moment Thacker and his pals broke away, ‘caught sight of the officer, and hustled off down _ the street to beat the band. Joe was left to square imself with the policeman, which he had no diffi- culty in doing, for the man knew him ‘and ac- . ~pted his explanation. When Joe got back to the fice he had nothing to do for a while, and he got a chance to look at the tape. At noon it was up. - another point, and when the Exchange closed at_ S ¥Nhree it was ruling at 49. ; — “Pm $400 to the good so far in this deal,” said ' foarte Paces, ‘that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, — _ close his deal. He could not tell how lon \ sand and fifteen dollars! -ago that I stood at the entrance of t building with a soli : TO A MILLION The newspapers next morning had something to — say about B. & L., and during the day there was increased activity in the shares, though not. ‘so many changed hands as the syndicate had the bulk of them in its control. When the Exchange — closed that day, Joe found that he was more than $600 ahead of the game. All day Wednesday Joe was kept unusually busy on account of a press — of business in the office caused by a rising market. — At two o’clock B. & L. took a sudden boom and went to 57 during the hour. é “I wonder if I hadn’t better sell out?” thought Joe, when he saw that quotation after the Be. change had closed. “At present figures, I’d bein ~ over $1,100 after deducting all expenses.” ae The prospect of making a couple of hundred more dollars deterred him from closing out that — day, and he went home without taking any action. — During the evening he came to the conclusion — and ‘he decided to sell out in the morning, He found no chance to go to the bank after he reach- ed the office, and during the morning he was on pins and needles lest. something might happen to send the stock he was interested in downward. When he carried a note to the Exchange at half- past eleven he saw the floor was wildly excited over B. & L., and from the number of shares that were changing hands he came to the conclu-._ sion that the syndicate was unloading its hold. ings. The stock had already gone up to 60 3- When he came out of the Exchange he decided take the time necessary to run up to the bank a thi might take—all depended on the number o ae tomers waiting to be uttended to. However, h had $1,500 profit at. stake, and that was wort! taking chances for. He lost half an hour at the bank, but got his order in all right, and was told that his 100 shares would be sold inside of © quarter of an hour. When he got back to the office the cashier wanted to know what had kept him away so long, and Joe said he had been de- tained on some private business he had under-— taken to transact. gone : yes The cashier shook his head disapprovingly, | said nothing more, and‘in a few minutes he sent out again. An hour later B. & L. unexpec edly took on a slump, and when Joe heard of it he congratulated himself on having taken ti by the forelock. Next morning he received a statement and a check which showed that he h made $1,565 out of his deal, and perhaps he wa. the happiest boy in Wall Street! ; : 4 / CHAPTER IV.—Joe’s Presence of Mind Sa the Life of Dora Kane. ere Cae Sa “Am I dreaming. or am I really wide awake?” Joe asked himself, as he looked at the check for $2,015, representing his deposit. and his | fits in the B. & L. deal. “Is this wealth reall : mine, to do with as I feel like? It reads straight enough—pay to the order of Joseph Castletonit a3. sum of two thousand/—just think of it, two It’s only about ten i olitary dime at was all the money I owne ng hee
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the time, And even that dime was something of a luxury to me. Now I’m worth two thousand dol- Jars! - It really doesn’t seem possible, and yet I - dare say stranger things than this are happening every day in the world. Why, when I tell mother, _ she'll have a spasm of some kind. This is where I have it. on Carrie. I’ll just run in and show—” -. He was interrupted by a messenger boy who brought a note for Mr. Hoyt. ~. “You'll find him at the Exchange,” said Joe, after looking at the note. ; % “Suppose you take it to him, you're doin’ _nothin’,” said the messenger. “I’ve got another - letter to take to South Street.” ; - “Yell the cashier,’ said Castleton, “If he says Vm to take it, I will.” : The cashier took the envelope and then ealled Joe to carry it to the Exchange. So the boy had to postpone enlightening the stenographer about his good luck for the, present. On his way up ‘Wall Street he passed Ike Thacker, hustling along with a message. Thacker. scowled and edged away, as if afgaid Joe might tackle him. Castle- ton had no intention of wasting any time on the young bully. He went straight on to the Exchange d handed his note to Mr. Hoyt, who read it and ismissed him with a short nod. As he was about to leave, Frank Webster came in with a note to the managing clerk of his office, who represented Broker Dayton at the Exchange. “Hello, Frank! I'll wait for you,” said Joe. Frank joined him at the door in a few minutes. The day I found that diamond ring I told you da tip on a certain stock. Do you remem- ” , Webster nodded. : ‘ “That stock was B. & L., the one that boomed ‘to 61 and then went on the tobog, yesterday after- noon.” : ~ “What about it, Joe?” : made $1,500 out of the boom.” mine How could you?” You told me that you didn’t - have a cent to back your tip.” 2 told you the truth at the time, but I got for returning that ring I found in the gut- , .?. PROTOSS “You told me the next day that you found the owner and got a reward, but you didn’t tell me ‘how much you got. Was it really?” ; - “Yes, it was really $500, and I immediately bought 100 shares of B. & L. at 45. I held on to it- until an hour before the slump and sold at 0 5-8. Here’s the evidence,” and Joe pulled out ~ hig statement and check and showed them to Web- ster. . ! - You're rich,” replied Frank, after he had ced at the documents. “I’m glad you did so - Your tip turned out all right, didn’t it?” “T told you that it was a winner. I also told ui that if you had any money I could put you xt to a good thing. Well, I meant B. & L. If u’d bought only ten shares you’d have stood to 1s 150. and the margin on ten shares would r have been $445.” * ‘That maybe, Joe, but a fellow doesn’t often ve such luck as that. Most of the time he’d 445, 7 sg dee you'll bank the money.” rst thing ’'m going to do is to make my . ih FROM A DIME TO A MILLION . Lafterward told you I returned to its owner, Mr. ‘ing bim- buy th v “And the balance I’m going to use to make a million. of.” : Sr “A million!” exclaimed Frank, loking at his — companion wonderingly. ; “Exactly—a million,” replied Joe coolly. “You’re joking.” “No, ’m not. There’s money to be made in the market, and I’m looking for my share.” es “You're foolish, Joe. If I had the stake you’ve made I’d hold on to it with both hands. el’d put it.into a savings bank and let it earn four per cent. Interest, compounded every six months. It’s — 3 a safe way to make money. I’ve figured out that one dollar remaining in a savings bank ‘will in- — crease in Value to one dollar and forty-eight cents. If you put your fifteen hundred dollars in a bank it will amount to fifteen hundred times that in ten years. Just figure it up when you get time.” “How long would it take me to make a million — at that rate?” grinned Castleton, “If I put that — money in a savings bank it. would earn probably — seven hundred dollars in ten years. If I put it MDE hee on 200 shares of some stock that I had good rea- son to know was likely to advance five points, and it did advance tl.e five points, I’d make a thousand - dollars right off the reel.” Sa “But look at the risk you’d be taking.” woes “Nothing ventured nothing gained, Frank, The — difference between us is that I’ve got nerve enough to take a chance and you haven't.” Bs “Most of the persons who take chances in the . a stock market land in the poor-house.” — ge 3 “T won't say they don’t, but that’s because they don’t make a proper study of the business. Well, maa here’s where we break away. Just mark the f down in your notebook for future reference that one of these days I'l] be worth a million.” es With those words, Joe entered his office. The first chance he got to speak to the stenographer was about half-past twelve; when she_ sto ped work to eat her lunch. Joe had brought his foe as usual, only there was more to it of late, and- he hauled a chair up alongside the girl’s table. “Well, Carrie, how much do you supposé I made on that tip of mine?” Beet e “What tip?” * . “Don’t you remember when I came in here and showed you that diamond ring I found and which Hammersley, that I said I had acquired a valu- able tip on a certain stock?” hat “Oh, yes, 1 remember now. So you did make something out of it after all.” Reese, “Sure I did. I made fifteen hundred simoleons,”” “Fifteen hundred what?” ee “Dollars.” - “You tell it very nicely, Joe.” “Don’t you credit my statement?” : “Well, hardly. How would you be able to mal so much money?” ae : “1 bought one hundred shares of the stoc went up something over fifteen points. Fi ; times one hundred, see?” ae eneaes BS, “Tt sounds all right,” laughed the stenographer. “But if my recollection is right, you told % the time that the whole of your funds amounted, to just one dime. How could you buy or put. the margin on one hundred shares of any stock?” “IL got $500 from Mr. Hammersley a ring, and I used the bulk
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“Ts that true?” “Sure as you live. I was.in on B. & L., the stock that the brokers were so excited about dur- ing the fore part of this week, and which went to smash yesterday afternoon. I sold out an hour _ before the slump, and so was one of the lucky birds.” ait He showed her his check for $2,015, and slie -_-was convinced that the young messenger was an extremély fortunate boy. Mr. Hoyt happened to come in at that moment and he rang for Joe. ~ “No rest for the weary, is there, Miss Peters?” said the boy, putting the chair in its place and making a lirfe for the private office. ; 4 “TJ want you to take this letter to Hanover Street. If Mr. Wilson is in there will be an-an- swer,” said Mr. Hoyt. “Tf he’s out, I’m not to wait for him, I sup- ose?” “No. Get back as soon as you can.” So Castleton started for Hanover Street. He found the number, which. was an old-fashioned five-story office building. “What floor is Mr. Wilson’s office on?” he asked the elevator boy. “Third.” Joe stepped,into the cage, the boy shut the door and pulled up the wire rope which started the elevator. This rope worked the reverse way. It went up slowly compared with the swift up-to- date elevators in modern buildings. At the third floor the boy pulled down on the rope and stopped _ the cage to let his passenger off. Joe found Mr. ~ Wilson in, delivered the letter, got a reply, and -_ returned to the corridor to take the elevator down. At that moment the elevator was coming up with a passenger—a very pretty young lady named Dora Kane, daughter of one of the tenants of the third floor. When the cage reached the corridor where Castleton was standing, the attendant _ stopped’ it and opened the sliding gate for the __- young lady to get out. Ag she was in the act of - doing so, something happened to the machinery that caused the mane to start suddenly upward. ‘The elevator boy became rattled and did not “seem to know what to do. Dora lost her balance and, with a piercing scream, fell partly out of _ the elevator. | In another moment she would have been crushed _to death but for Castleton, who sprang forward, seized the wire rope and pulled desperately at it. The machine stopped just in the nick of time. ® _. CHAPTER V.—Joe Surprises the Family. -- - Tt happened that Mr. Rufus Kane, Dora’s father, came out of his office, followed by his stenographer, at that thrilling moment. He saw his child’s perilous predicament and, with an ex- clamation of mingled horror and anguish, he rushed toward the elevator. Castleton’s presence of mind and prompt action, however, had pre- vented a tragedy.” As soon as the cage was sta- onary, Joe yelled to the attendant not to start e elevator downward, for fear it might work rong. He climbed quickly up the outside of the te d iron framework and, throwing one arm n round the imperilled girl, while he clung e framework with the other hand, he drew x aa ‘ FROM A DIME TO A MILLION | | wae - seated in a leather armchair, Mr. Kane turned * to the young messenger. her free of the cage and her father caught her — in his arms. ; ae ; “My darling, you are not hurt, Kane said in feverish anxiety. — Eat: “No, papa,” replied Dora faintly, for she was suffering from the shock she had sustained. “Thank Heaven for that. This brave lad un- — doubtedly saved your life by his promptness in seizing the rope and stopping the cage. Come — into the office, Dora, and sit down until you re- cover yourself. Don’t go, young man,” he added to Joe. ‘I want to see you.” a 3 y He grasped Castleton by the arm and led him toward his office while his Stenographer supported —~ the trembling Dora. As soon as the girl was are you?” Mr. “What is your name, young man?” LC eeale “Joseph Castleton.” See “You are employed in this neighborhood, L should judge?” pea “Yes, sir. I am messenger for James Hoyt, — stock broker, of No. — Wall Street.” ; “Well, my lad, I hope you understand that b am deeply grateful to you for saving my daugh- ter’s life.” pees “Yes, sir. I know you must be. I am glad that I was on hand to be of service to her.” aay “You showed wonderful presence of mind in a terrible emergency, Castleton. My daughter will never forget the debt she owes you. As soon as — she has recovered from her fright she will thank — you for herself.” “ee “I'm afraid I cannot wait, Mr. “My name is Kane.” | “Mr. Kane, as I have a message to carry back to the office from Mr. Wilson on this floor. So hope you'll excuse me from remaining any long- Gia j ” “Just wait a‘moment. Dora, my dear, do you think you can speak to the young man who saved you from being crushed in the elevator?” eae “Yes, ae 3 ‘ : an She held out hex hand to Joe and looked grate- — fully into his face. (ge “T shall never forget ‘what you have done for me, Mr. Castleton. I am sure you saved me from a terrible death. I shudder to think of the nar- row escape I had. You must let papa and I know you better. You will ¢all and see us at our home. Mother will want to thank you, too, when she — learns how indebted I am to you. Promise me you will'call on us. “Papa, give Mr. Castleton our — address.” { Joe promised, for he was rather glad than otherwise to have an opportunity of becomin better acquainted with ‘so pretty a girl as Dor \Kane. ‘He returned to his office feeling that he had acquitted himself well under trying cireun stances, and had acquired a friend of some im- — portance in Mr. Kane. He managed to find a chance to get to the bank-on Nassau Street before three o’clock and exchanged his check for a certifi- cate of deposit for $1,500, and $515 in cash his way home he bought four boxes of cai one for his mother and one for each of his s “This will be quite a little surprise of i ‘he chuckled, and will pave the for t one I have to spring on ent oars Star i ipa Pig caens . ie see Ppt ee L
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~ - ; é 2 _ HHis oldest sister was helping her mother on 2 . .new dress that was under way for herself, and the two younger ones were reading, when he ar- rived. Little Eva looked with childish inquisitive- mess at the package he laid on the table and _ ‘wanted to know what was in it. ‘ “Something good. Come here dnd give me a _ kiss, and you shall have some.” » ... As Eva regarded this a very cheap way of - catching on: to the good thing, she immediately _ complied. Joe then opened the package and hand- ed her one of the boxes of candy. : “That’s all for yourself. There are three other boxes for mother, Edith and Fanny.” He distributed the candy—first to his mother, ‘then to Fanny, the eldest of the girls, and. the third box to Edith. Brst “Why, Joe, what does this sudden extravagance mean?” exclaimed his mother in surprise. “Where did you get the money to buy all this candy? ‘These four bexes must have cost you a dollar at any rate, for it looks like good candy.” “Never mind what they cost, mother,” laughed her son. “Sail in and sample the sweets.” : “You didn’t find another diamond ring, did you, brother?” smiled Fanny. ; “No. Lightning doesn’t usually strike in the ‘same place twice. Still, I’m in luck, just the same. Now, mother, can you stand a surprise?” __, “What kind of a surprise?” she asked with some interest, while the two elder girls pritked up their ears, anxious to hear what was coming. “Oh, a big one.” { ‘ _ “It must be a pleasant: one, from the expression of your face,” said Mrs. Castleton smilingly. . “Tt certainly is.” “Then I shall be glad to learn what it is.” “To begin with, here is a present for you,” and ' Joe tossed a wad of bills representing $500 into her Jap. : _ “My goodness, Joe, did you find this?” she cried, picking the roll up and noticing that the outside _ bill was a twenty dollar one. Pe All the girls gathered around to see how much as in. the wad. “Count it, mother,’ said Joe, not answering her -. question. _. As she turned over twenty-dollar bill after ¢ _twenty-dollar bill until she had counted twenty- five of them her surprise grew proportionately. ‘Five hundred dollars,” she ejaculated at last. “Yes, mother,” said Joe beamingly. ‘That’s the first present of any importance I have ever ~ been able to give you.” “Why, where'did you get this money?” - “T made it.” : nets : “You made it!” she exclaimed incredulously. “Yes, mother. and over a thousand more, in the ¢k market yesterday.” é “Why, Joe, how could you?” she asked in utter azement. ved $500 instead of the $50 he’ had given her ‘ o weeks since from Mr. Ty) FROM A DIME TO A MILLION > _ ego n he told the whole story—how he had re- ‘. by saying that she hoped they would becom the certificate of deposit for $1,500, made out in his name, and $14 cash he had in his pocket. rt ‘Now, mother, I think we’re on Easy Street. No more worrying for you after this.. That wad will , make a little bank account for you to fall back on, and the $1,500 I hope to double before long. One of these days we’ll.own our dwn home, and then we'll be able to put cn a little style. Fanny needn’t go to work now, as we expected she’d have to do, but can go to the High School, if she wants to. As for you, mother, I don’t think you need bother hunting for dressmaking. ou can oblige your old customers for a while, but as soon as I get a little further ahead you must quit the business entirely. I will support the house, and | all you need do is to look after it and the girls.” It was some time before the excitement at- tendant on Joe’s story quieted down. The very fact that they had now a few hundred dollars at their back, and no longer obliged to live from hand to mouth as they had been accustomed to do for so long, was a distinctly unusual sensation for the little family, and it took time for them to realize the full significance of it. Then Joe told them how he had saved Miss Dora Kane from being crushed to death in the elevator of the build- ing where her father had his office. Mrs. Castle- ton shuddered at her son’s recital of the girl’s narrow escape. 2 “Tt was providential,” she said, “that you were on hand to stop the elevator. Had you not been — there the girl would surely have been killed.” . “There’s little doubt of it, mother. _— She hac such_a close call, as it was, that there was scarcely __ room between the top of the opening and the floor of the elevator, where she jvas caught, to drag her ~— through.” : 1 Between the improvement in the family’s. re-% sources and Joe’s narrative of his rescue of the | — girl there was enough to talk about until bed- _time came around, and the Castleton’s retired ~~ feeling happier than they had been for many a long day. \ : CHAPTER VI.—Joe Goes in Partnership with Elsie Webster on a Deal. — The story of Joe’s rescue of Dora Kane was in the morning papers, somewhat to the lad’s sur- prise, who wondered how the reporter's had heard about the matter. There is precious little, how- ever, that escapes the attention of some member __ of the newspaper fraternity in a big city like New York. They are here, there and everywhere about town, and generally manage to pick up everything of a startling or unusual nature that happens. - At any rate, the incident in question was duly chronicled with sufficient accuracy, though no newspaper man had been on the scene when the _ affair happened. During the day Joe received a dainty note from Dora Kane, in which she ex- pressed her gratitude all over again,/and in more pronounced terms. She said that as Joe had not stated when he would call at her home, she v. tured to suggest that he would utilize the ensu Sunday evening for that purpose. She conclud oe ood friends. eee ee - i
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ian FROM A DIME _ *T hope so, too,” Joe said to himself, as he put * the note in his pocket. e He read that note over several times that day, - and before he went home he bought a new, though ~. not expensive, suit of clothes, and sundry other things that he considered necessary to improve __ his personal appearance, and after an early tea Sunday afternoon he put in considerable extra time over his toilet before starting for the Kane --yxesidence on Madison Avenue. . His reception by ‘Dora, -as well as by her father and mother, was all that he could have desired. Mrs. Kane ex- pressed her gratitude in a feeling way, and made a good deal of the young messenger: Dora her- ‘self, looking quite charming in a pretty gown, “was of course the chief attraction for Joe, and she proceeded to monopolize his society in a way that gave the boy considerable satisfaction. Before Joe took his leave Mr. Kane presented him with a handsome set of diamond cuff buttons, and told him that if at any time he could be of service to _ him, he hoped Castleton would let him know. He “was invited to call soon again, and Dora, who ’ went to the door with him, wanted to know when she might expect him. RS “How would next Sunday evening do?” asked oe. “It will do nicely. “at eight o’clock.” ‘ The matter being thus arranged, Joe bade her - good-night and started for home. I shall expect to see you » Frank Webster’s sister, Elsie was a public sten- ographer. ‘She had an office in one of the big Wall Street buildings, employed three or four typewriters, and carried on quite a paying busi- - ness. * Joe dropped in to see her occasionally, ' She was always glad to haye him do so. ~ Her brother had told her how Joe protected im from the aggressions of the ‘rougher mes- _-sengers of the Street, and she was grateful to him for it, for Frank was very dear to her. | On the day following his visit to the Kanes, ~ Joe carried a message to a broker on the same floor ofthe building where Elsie Webster had her office, and he thought he’d pay her a flying ‘visit, as he had no answer to take back to his own office. Accordingly, he rapped on her door and entered. : - “Good morning, Miss Elsie,” he said, walking fy be “It ig a good thing to be able to say. that. having the money roll in.” » - money that way than out of your business. TO A MILLION “That’s right. I had a tip on B, & L., and it panned out in great shape. I suppose Fra told you how 1 got. the money to start the ball rolling.” Sesteaes “Oh, yes. You found a valuable diamond ring ~ and got $500 for taking it back to the owner.” Joe nodded. a “It’s funny how it happened to be my luck to pick it up. Frank was with me at the time, — and he didn’t see the ring at all. In fact, I shouldn’t have noticed it only that I saw the sun-_ light sparkling on something in the gutter, ar I looked to see what caused it. I dare say scor of people passed near that ring before we ca along, and yet nobody saw it.” Cities _ “Some people are more fortunate than others’ in finding things,” said Elsie. “Well, I’m @lad— you did so well in the market. By the way, Frank said you told him that you expected to make a million in Wall Street.” “I hope to one of these days,” replied Joe, wi a grin. “Sounds like a dream, doesn’t it?” — “A million is a lot of money,” said Elsie. “Tt is quite a bit. If I make it I can say tha I began with a dime, because that was the ex- tent of my capital the day I found the ring.” “From a dime to a million is a big jump.” “I’ve got fifteen hundred towards it, at a rate, after giving my mother -five hundred AtGy 3? > Se mace I can help you to double that,” sai sie. aah oo “How could you?” : co Sanaa “Well, I think I’ve secured a good: tip myself she answered in.a low tone. : Rae ore . “What is your pointer, if you ‘don’t min ing me?” asked Joe, much interested. aa —“I am not sure that it would be doing rioht for me to mention it, as it came to me iene ing in the line of my work. It might be con- sidered as betraying the interests of a customer.” -“T£ you don’t think it is right to mention it, don’t do it,” replied Joe. “Still, there migh he s no harm in small fry like you and I.taking ad- vantage of any bit of inside information ‘that came our way. What is the nature of; pointer?” hs “It is a letter which I was told to tyne myself and deliver as soon as possible. and re to the consolidation of two railroads. It.says t CY eae the stock of the merged road will go up twen points before the month is out.” neste “That looks like a tip worth having,” said eagerly. “What’s the matter. with you going in on this thing together? You must ha some spare money by this time that you have 1 immediate use for. See how easily I made in two weeks out of $450 because I was s tunate as to get hold of a winning ti ought to be able to do as well. You’d ma’ help you do it, too. You shall have the a tage of my general knowledge of the stock mi
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FROM A DIME her brother, and this seemed to be the opportunity to do so. Finally she said: ‘ “T}] let you read the letter and you can. see -4f there really is anything in it. If there is, I might be persuaded to risk the little money I have accumulated,” She produced the letter in question, and Joe ' yead it through. He saw right away that it was a piece of valuable advance information relating to the consolidation of the C. & P. road, a small connecting independent line, with the B. & 0. system. The big road would searcely be affected by the merger, but the stock and bonds of the C. & _. P. were bound to increase in value. Joe remem- pbered to have read something about such a pro- ject being in contemplation, but nothing had since ‘appeared in print relating to the matter. Now it appeared that the matter had been put through on the quiet. He had no doubt but that the peo- “ple on the inSide had already bought un all of the” C. & P. shares in sight, or were doing so as fast as possible. “This is a good thing, Miss Elsie, the only question being whether we’ll be able to get any of the C. & P. stock: Still, as the writer is ad- “vising his friend to look around for some, it is ' possible there may be shares enough floating i ‘around for us to get in’ on a few. Shall we go partners on this thing, or don’t you want me to touch ‘it?” ‘ “How much money will it take to make a little something out of it?” : E “Tt won't take much to buy a few hundred shares on margin, as it seems that C. & P., ac- _ cording to this letter, is going at 40. How much ean you put up?” “Two hundred and fifty dollars.” - “That would get you 60 shares, provided they - are for sale.” ; “Very well. Can you come around after lunch? V’ll have the money then.” ae “Tf I can, I will. At any rate, I’ll be around after half-past three.” «~~ “Very well.” ; _ “P)) try and get 400 shares. If I succeed, I'll let you have the profit on twenty of mine in con- sideration of getting the tip from you. That will give you a fifth interest in the deal.” “No, no. I only want the profit on what I’m ~ able to secure myself. You’ve been a very good friend to my brother, and this is the way I make - it up to you.” ; “Nonsense, Miss Elsie! You must have a fifth ‘of the winnings, if we come out ahead. I think you are entitled to as much as that.” | They had a little argument over the matter, - and the girl finally yielded the point. Then Joe ~ -yeturned to his office. He gat a chance to drop in on Elsie at two o’clock. She had the money ready for him. f Es oan “Remember, we’re partners, Miss Elsie. It’s a great pleasure for me to have so charming an e associate in a stock deal.” 2 “Oh, go jalong!” blushed the girl. “You're -jollying me. x “ne not jollying you a bit. “T'll leave it to ae. ‘he’d lunch about one o’clock. Quite often he and ~ pulled it out of the man’s pocket and stuffed it TO A MILLION ae lice? sense,” replied Elsie, with another rosy blush. Castleton, however, knew she was pleased iust : the same, and he chuckled as he took his Jeave. @ That afternoon he placed an order with the little bank on Nassau Street for the purchase of 400 shares of C. & P. at the market. Two days later he got word that the shares had been secured, | and were held by the bank subject to his orders. CHAPTER VII—Ike Thacker Puts Joe in a Bad Box. ; Joe now kept his eves on the ticker for signs ~ of an advance in C. & P. He did not believe it. would go up much until the announcement of the | merger had been made public. He sent word bv mail to Elsie that the bank had met the stock, and that there was nothing to do but await de- velopments. Elsie had requested him to hold ail — communications with her on the matter either in person or by letter through the post. as she did~ not want>her brother to know that she had a Joe was now gettine into the deal on with Joe. -habit of eating his lunch at a. quick lunch counter - instead of bringing sandwiches down town as he | had formerly done when his finances were ‘such alow ebb. He was not always fortunate ix. veing able to eat at a stated time. When business was particularly brisk he was busy almost @very mo-) ~ ment up to three o’clock; when things were slow, — Frank went to lunch together. On the day he sent the letter to Elsie he looked in at Dav‘*on’s — office about a quarter to one to see if Webster was ready to go to lunch. ‘ se Frank, however, was out on an errand, so he went to the eating-house alone. Ike Thacker was there at the time and saw him enter, though Joe did not see Ike. Thacker was not anxious to be ~ wecognized by Castleton, so he bent his head down _ ever his plate. When he looked up he saw that — Joe had taken a seat at the counter alongside of © a stout man with a red face. Ike noticed a red — pocketbook protruding from the stout man’s side pocket, and he wondered if there was money init, ~ He only got a glimpse of it, for the aisle was full _ of people constantly passing. It struck him, how- ever, that it would be an easy matter for an ex- pert to steal the red pocketbook. ' : “Tf I was sittin’ where Castleton is, I believe I could swipe it myself,” he said to himself. ‘That thought: put an idea into his head. He hated Joe bitterly. Here was the chance, he — thought, if he was smart, to get Castleton into © serious trouble. He was so anxious to accom- plish such an end that he did not pause to let . the idea cool. He hurriedly finished his coffee, got, _ up, walked over to the counter in the rush, and, as he passed the man, he put out his hand, grabbed the red pocketbook with his fingers into his own. Then he made a bee-line for th washroom. There was no one there at the m e ment and he quickly pulled the wallet out and ee examined it. ‘There were a lot of papers and two — new $5 oe pael Beviee : is ne fe ner in ved ink. He replaced the papers an stuffed the bills in his own pocket. Several cus- tomers came into the washroom at that mome;
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ee FROM A DIME and Ike made his way back to the Ieneh room, assing down the aisle again, he stopped behind - Joe and deftly slipped the red wallet into his _ pocket. As an excuse for his presence at tne counter he called for a slice of pie and began to eat it standing: up, like several others were doing ‘3 who could not find seats. He grinned. and con- _gratulated himself that he had not been observed. At the same time he was considering how he would be able to complete his plan of letting the stout man understand that Castleton had_ his pocketbook. He wanted to do it in such a wav as not to attract Joe’s attention to him. As luck would have it, circumstances favored him. Joe finished his meal before the stout man and started with his check for the pay counter. Then Ike bent over and said to the man: ze “Mister, I think I seen that boy sittin’ next to you take your pocketbook.” ; The stout man clapped his hand to his jacket , pocket and, finding that his wallet was gone, ~ jumped off his stool and grabbed Thacker by the arm ash “Who did you see take it?” he demanded ex- ' ¢itedlys ay “J think I seen that boy in the brown derby by the cash counter take it, but I ain’t sure,” he answered, '. The stout man rushed forward and caught Joe just as he was going out at the door. et. “Hold on a moment,” jhe said roughly. back here. I want you? “What do jyou want?” demanded Joe not relish- ing the man’s words and attitude. “Tt want the red pocketbook you stole from my pocket,” replied the stout man, drareing him to- ward where the manager of the lunch-room stood. : “J gues you’re crazy,” cried Castleton, putting ~* wp considerable resistance. “Am 1? We'll see about that,” answered the man doggedly, gripping the boy firmer. The incident, of course, attr acted immediate at- tention in the ‘crowded restaurant, and the man- ager stepped forward to see what the trouble was. “ve fest my wallet,” blustered the stout man, “and I believe this boy, who sat next to me, has ‘taken it.” - “f don’t know anything about your wallet,” cried Joe indignantly. “Take your hands off my Jacket.” ~ “J want him searched,” roared the stout man to the manager. “You won’t search me,” replied Joe resolutely. ‘“Y’m not a thief. I guess you’ve seen me in here ‘before, ”* he added to the manager. The manager, however, didn’t remember Castle- ton’s face, as he hadn’t been coming to the lunch- ouse very long. A crowd was now forming ‘about the boy, his accuser and the manager, on the ‘outskirts of which stood Thacker, highly de- : ted at the success of his wicked plan. A short, ‘square-built man worked his way up be- ‘side Ike and seeined interested in what was go- ng on. ey, fed Gina of pocketbook was it?” asked a the front line. It owas a long, red Sees Me Hue the “Come TO A MILLION hand pocket,” said the man who had seat the ‘ question, pointing. t The manager looked in the indicated direction, et saw the end of the wallet and pulled it out of Joe’s pocket. “It that your pocketbook?” he asked the stout ie man. “Yes. I knew he had it. Call a policeman and — have him arrested.” “Hold on,” said the manager, as Joe, s speedhiess: with surprise, said not a word. “Can you des scribe the contents of your wallet?” ga “Sure I can. There.are a lot of papers in it, and two new $5 bills. I marked a cross in the corner of each one with red ink, for a purpose. of my own.” on The manager opened the wallet. There’ were many papers but no money. The absence of the money cast a doubt about the matter “There are no bills here,” he said. ~ “No-bills!” gasped the man. “There must be, or else the boy has taken them out.” “Look here, young man,” said the manager, looking at Castleton, “is this your wallet?” “No, sir,” replied the bewildered Joe. = = “How came it to be in your pocket, then?” “Blessed if I know! Somebody must have put it there.” “Of course,” sneered the stout man. “Hayen’ you found those bills in it?” addressing the man- ager. ‘s “There’s no money at all in this wallet.” “Let me see.” : “Wait a moment. papers?” The stout mam described several exactly, and there seemed to be no doubt that the wallet was his property. 33 “Have you got this man’s money in your pocket, | young man ?” asked the manager sternly. # “No, sir,” replied Joe, who was overwhelmed by the fact that the wallét had been found in his pocket, for which he could not possibly account, “Are you willing to be searched, or shall I se end for a policeman and give you in charge?” ; “It’s your duty to send for an officer, anyway,” said the stout man. “I want to make a charge against this young rascal.” By this time a crowd had gathered outside add was blocking the doorway. Inside there was con siderable excitement and confusion, and person wanting to leave could not reach the cashier’ desk. At that moment a policeman on the beat. who knew Joe, forced his way into the restaurant and took a hand in the proceedings. “Well,” he said, “what’s the trouble?” “This boy stole my pocketbook. I want. hir arrested,” spoke up the stout man. “T guess you’ve made a mistake, hayen’t you?! he said, recognizing Castleton. “1 know this ne He’s Broker Hoyt’s messenger. I guess he ‘woul Ye not take your pocketbook.” “Tt was found in his possession all right,” Yr plied the stout man aggressively. “What have you to say, Joe?” asked the. ficer, who didn’t believe the boy was. - guilty Oe pocketbook. found on you? » “Yes, and I don’t understand h r pocket. aot didn’t put it Can you describe any of th
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FROM A DIME ~-“You don’t suppose he’d admit anything, do you?” said the stout man sarcastically. “Thieves ‘never do. I demand that you arrest. him. 1 will accompany you to the station and make the charge.” ‘The policeman was in a quandary. He didn’t obliged to do so if the accuser insisted. “Where’s the pocketbook?’ he asked. “ere it is,’ said the manager, “The gentle- man has identified it with one exception. He claims there ought to be two $5 bills in it, but there are none.” “The boy has taken them out,” insisted the ‘stout man. : 2 5 “No, he didn’t,” said a voice back in the - erowd. “I’ve got the real thief here.” -" Immediately there wag seen to be a struggle oing on in the direction of the voice. The dis- turbance was of only momentary duration, and then a small, square-built man, holding firmly on ‘to Ike Thacker by the arm, pushed his way for- ward. _ “Here’s the fellow who took your pocketbook,” he said to the stout man. The policeman recognized the square-built man as one of the Wall Street detectives who did duty in plain clothes. “How do you know?” asked the stout man sus- piciously, fancying the detective might be a pal the accused. “The wallet was found——” “In that boy’s pocket. Exactly. I saw. this chap put it there, and I’ve been watching him to see what his little game was.” ; - “}4’s a lie! I never had the pocketbook,” said “pallid-faced Ike, who looked guilty, if ever a id. : ll right, young man,” ; sah “a ey there are two $5 bills missing from the wallet. Davis,” to the policeman, “search him.” spite of his protestations and struggles, Ike : searched and the two new $5 bills brought to “Very good,” said the detective, taking the wal- Jet and the bills. “Come with me, then, and make the charge you were so eager to make-against the other lad.” : ‘he policeman made a lane for them through rowd, while Joe began to receive - aes yatulations of many who had at first believed ‘im to be guilty. He got outside and away from e scene ag soon as he could. Having recognized - Thacker, he had no doubt but Ike had deliberately put the job up on him to get him into jail, if pos- “That was a mighty mean thing for him to do, - seems it reacted on himself like a boome- . He was a fool to take the money out of Jet before he put it in 1 t. That ‘must have seen him TO A MILLION want to arrest Joe, but he saw he would be- replied the detective . to some reformatory. At any rate, I guess he’ll be out of Wall Street for good, and I’m not a bit sorry to be rid of him.” aS : Joe having watched the detective, his prisoner, — the stout ‘man, and the crowd that followed at .~ their heels, out of sight, turned around and went ~~ back to the office. ag Ike Thacker spent the night in the Tombs, and was brought up for examination at the police i court next morning. His defence was so shallow that the magistrate committed him to the Pro- tectory for the balance of his minority. Fi Two days later the consolidation of the C. & P. with the B. & O. was officially announced and there was a rush by the brokers to buy shares of the former road. As a consequence the stock advanced rapidly and Joe sold out at. 60, clearing $8,000, and paying over to Elsie Webster $1,600 as her shares of the transaction. The girl was delighted at her luck. A week later Joe made his mother move to a better flat in — a finer neighborhood. . % ee 5 Shortly after Joé received a tip on D. & G., and bought 1,000 shares. In three days the stock advanced five points, and Joe sold out, advanc- ing his capita) to $12,000. as _ The boy messenger’s next haul was in I. & GC, ey a he made $15,000. He was now worth fa p ae CHAPTER VIII—Joe Gets A Pointer ; On The Operations Of A Syndicate. tes Gs “It isn’t.so long ago that I had to bring down a couple of sandwiches, with an oecasional slice ~— of pie, for my midday meal, while now I could go out and eat of the fat of the land if I was so isposed. The change in my circumstances has come about as quick as a transformation scene at a theatre. Seems almost too good to be true, and _ yet it is true. I have only to look at the key of ay ote deposit box to realize that it is a solid act.’ Carrie Peters soon noticed that Joe didn’t eat his Iunch in the office any more as he used to do. She rather missed the cheery chat she was ac-— customed to have with him. 1 ae “T see that you don’t bring your lunch down to ~~ the office any more, Joe,” she remarked one d as he stopped by her table just as she was pr paring to quit work at one o’clock to eat. - “No; I go out now to a quick-lunch house.” “Getting extravagant, I IS strength of that $1,500 ket a little while ago.” ; “That’s about the size of it,” grinned t wondering what Miss Peters would her that he was now worth $27,000. suppose, on the you :nade out of the mar- Bees,
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3 * O’Brien, ; 5 ¥ eat ar > “ “J wonder if she’s got hold of another pointer?” he asked himself. “If she has, I hope it will pan My money is getting’ ‘out as good as the last. rusty for the want of something to do. I should like to put it at work again. I might double it Well, I’ll drop around and see her as -soon as I’m off for the day.” A messenger came and left a note for Mr. Hoyt. fake it around to the Exchange, Joe,” said “the cashier. - s he walked down New street, for this was when the messengers’ entrance was on that street, he saw O’Brien and a couple more A. D: T.’s stand- ‘ing near by. : “Pipe de young gent dat gets messages from de ladies,” grinned one of the lads. _ “One would think he was a regular broker,” said another. “Ah, he gives me a pain in de neck,” snorted O’Brien. ee : - Joe passed into the Exchange without noticing them. When he came out a few mirtutes later, with a message in his hand to a broker of the Astor Building, they were still there, and they flung more jibes at him. They grew angry be- cause he refused to recognize their insults, and one of them picked up a small stone and flung it after him. It struck his hat, making a dent in it, and then caromed © off against a window, ‘through which it went with a crash. O’Brien and his associates took to their heels at once. A hat- ss clerk rushed out to see who had done the damage, and saw them disappearing around the er of Exchange Place. It was utterly use- ‘to give them chaseywith any hope of catching a, so the angry clerk turned to Castleton and che knew who the boys were. ye a te Mec Aa 4) oe ea TO A MILLION _ “They are A. D. T. messengers. One of th ; is named O’Brien. I don’t know which = the Ss _three threw the stone. It struck my hat first.” Des the eae thrown at you?” ‘Looks as if was. It’s 1 it didn’t hit ane hen” s lucky for me it didn’t i When he reached the office of the brok - whom he had the note, the gentleman ee. heme and ee He to wait. He took a seat and looked around for a newspaper. He sa e up e the aoe ae corner behind otha ee went over and picked it up. As he s i out a slip of paper dropped into his hank te following words were scribbled on it in pencil: “Bradley begins buying to-morrow. Forward 3 your check for the balance of your subgeripipee =: 3 Jordan is with us for a million, JOHN Di? 5 Joe studied the check for a moment=> ‘ee ‘Has all the pre of a comtemplated cor- ner in some stock,” he mused. Let ce is Bradley? I know of two brokers of thet rae Probably this is one of them. That Jordan must — be the millionaire operator of the Atlas Building. He is clearly a moneyed man when he’s in on deal for a million. i floor, since he will naturally try and buy up all the shares he can on the outside. I must keep my eyes skinned when I’m, sent ‘to the Exchan after this. Tl put Frank on to him, also. Be-~ tween.us we may be able to get a line on the name of the stock I’m after. But hold on; may- be I won’t have any use for this tip, after all. Elsie may have a much better pointer. Ill\do nothing until I have seen her.” oh A few minutes later Joe’ was admitted to the — broker’s office, and there being no answer to the — note he brought, he returned to his office. A few minutes before four Castleton walked into Miss Webster’s office. He took a chair beside her desk and said he had receivéd her note asking him to éall around, , ie “I’m doing all of Mr. Jack Bradley’s work sinc his stenographer was taken sick—his office is o this floor,” whispered Elsie, so the girls wouldn’ overhear her communication. ; “Jack Bradley,” replied Joe, pricking up his ears. “Yes, Last evening he and another gentlema came in after the girls had gone away and I was — preparing to go home. Mr. Bradley wanted : couple of letters written. After dictating them and while I was.typewriting from the shorthand, — he and the other.man stood near by and began talk about a certain stock that was about to cornered by a syndicate of capitalists. I heard every word they said, although I never pause a moment in my work nor made a single mista The name.of the stock is M. & N., and Mr. Brad remarked that it was going at 52, which was or six points lower than. it ought to be. H a& Foo it? Aas
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aie rs + that I picked up-to-day myself,” replied Joe. * He showed Elsie the piece of paper containing John D.’s brief note, in which Mr. Bradley (pre- _ sumedly Elsie’s. customer) was mentioned as the prospective buyer of an unmentioned ‘stock for a - combination of speculators, including one Jordan, - ‘a millionaire. 5 “TY guess this note has reference to the same deal you have mentioned,” said the boy. “At any vate, a broker named Bradley is connected with it. Your pointer is more definite, as it conveys the - name of the stock, while this note does not.” _ “Ts there anything in this matter for us both?” asked the girl. ; - “Yes. I should say that it will be safe enough for us to buy M. & N. at the present market price, especially as Mr. Bradley intimates that it is very jikely to go to 70 in a short time. That means, of course, that measures will be taken by the syndicate to force it up to that price or beyond, if ossible. Bradley and his associates will gather in all the shwres they can* get at 52 and about that figure, and then the price may be looked for to rise. How much do you want 0 go in for?” safe? ~ “Do you think it is perfectly “Nothing can be said to be perfectly safe in Wall Street. The best laid plans have been known to go to smash most unexpectedly. It is what I _ should call a safe risk. I have no doubt but it will “be backed by quite a number of millions. It takes millions to put such a thing through with any prospect of success, for the stock is purchased buy? I’ve got about $1,900.” ] - “I shall try to get 3,000 shares for myself’ ht away. That will cost me nearly $16,000 in argins. I guess you can afford to give me your order for 300, which will require an investment -your part of $1,560.” 3 Elsie considered a while and finally agreed to ‘in on 300 shares. After some further talk on the subject Joe left cot CHAPTER IX.—The Little Old Man and the _ + Mining Shares. The day following Joe’s investment in M. & N. the market partook of a general upward move- “ment. Conditions favored the bulls and all stocks re buoyant. M. & N., among the rest, advanced to 54. This meant that Joe was $6,000 and Elsie. Webster $600 better off inside of the first twenty- “four hours. Castleton was naturally quite tickled, he had not looked for results so soon. The apers commenting on the day’s market spoke listically of a further advance in prices, and ted various reasons to account for the rise. FROM A DIME TO "A MILLION "J think it’s all right, and confirms a pointer _. “How do you know but I’m long on: a good : Se stock???) ee “T don’t know. Are you?” : Ean? “What-stock?” ; Sey “<M. & N.” : ene “You're lucky. How many shares have you?” “A few thousand, more or less,” laughed Joe. “A few hundred, you mean.” : : “All right; if you know what I mean better — than I do, haye it your own way.” “J said that because I don’t think money enough to buy a thousand.” “You don’t know how much money I’ve got.” c “That's” true, but I thought you had about : $1,500.” Bias: “Don’t you think I’ve made put that deal through?” : Ss “T haven’t thought about the matter, and you*® — didn’t tell me that you had gone into the market. again.” ahs “T know I didn’t. It’s a good plan not to tell everything one does, even.to his best friend. .I know you’re all right, Frank, but business is one thing and friendship is another. However, I ~ don’t mind telling you that I have added con- — siderable to my pile since my first deal.” Saree “Pm glad to hear it, Joe. You know that) I~ % 3 you’ve got anything since I wish you every success.” . At this point they entered the lunch house and Joe changed the topic. On their way back Joe — was surprised to see Dora Kane coming down Wall Street with her mother. They stopped to talk to him, and Joe introduced Webster to them. “This is the heroine of the elevator incident, Frank.” 5 Dora laughed, but it was a nervous laugh, for Migs recollection was certainly not pleasant for ~ er, + ; “We are on our way to papa’s Office,” she said ~ to Joe. $ 2 “Then we'll walk half.a block with you, if you have ho objections.” — : - “Objections? Why, the idea! We’re only toc glad of your escort, aren’t we, mamma??? ~~ Her mother smiled and nodded. : “Have you time to take a look in at my office?” asked Castleton. ; e- “Tm afraid not to-day, but the next time I come down here T’ll drop in and see you,” Dora replied. Saas 4h: may not be in when you call, but perhaps. you won’t mind waiting.” : “I will certainly wait a reasonable time.” “Well, here is the building where Frank I are employed. Mr. Hoyt’s office is,on the th floor, center corridor, right off the elevator, you couldn’t miss it if you tried.” 7% They bade Dora and her mother good-by a took the elevator up. There was a message wait-
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16 ¥ t “How do you like that?” said Castleton, “One of you three fired a stone at me the other day in New street. . I’d like to know which of you it. was.” “Yah! .Go soak your head, you big ‘stuff!’ snarled O’Brien, as the three backed away, for _ they were afraid of Joe, after the way he had held out against Thacker and five others that day _on New street. Joe. made a bluff to go for them, when they took to their heels and fled. “You were very good to frighten those bad boys away,” said the old man in a weak tone. “I sat down to rest here because I don’t feel strong. » I don’t know as I am able to attend to the busi- ness that. brought me down here to-day. I ought to have got off the car at Wall Street, but the con- ductor did not pay attention to my request.” “Were you going to call on some broker?” “Yes. I brought down some shares of mining _ stock that I wanted to sell.” “T could help you around to Broad street. Some one of the curb brokers might buy your stock, if it’s worth anything. What is the name of the mine?” “The Ajax Mining and Milling Co. I have four certificates of 5,000 shares each. They cost me fifteen cents a share, but I’m afraid they’re not worth near so much now.” : “T have this morning’s quotations of the Gold- field Exchange in my pocket. Is the mine in the Goldfield district?” ' “It’s in Tonopah.” Joe took the printed list out of his pocket and — Jooked it over. The Ajax Mining and Milling _ Coz was not mentioned. “Nothing here about it, sir. The.best way to ascertain if your mine is any good is to call at the Mining Exchange. It’s close! by. The main en- trance is on Broadway, but we can go ih from New street just as well. you say so, and then I'll see you to a Broadway ear.” ; ne old man agreed, but when-he reached the New street entrance to the Exchange he declared / that he was too weak to go any further. “Well, you sit on these steps, and I’ll see what I ean find out about your mine,” said Joe. He took the elevator upstairs, and going to the proper official he ascertained that the Ajax Min- ing and Milling Co. stock was inno great demand, but was selling in Goldfield at from four to five - cents a share. The’ official referred Joe to several brokers “who might possibly buy some of the stock, but - was sure that they would do so. He said in any ease they probably would not give over three cents for it. Joe returned and reported to the old man. - *Well,” said the old man, “I’d be*glad to take — _ three cents if 1 could get it.” «Then we'll call on one of the brokers to - whom I was referred,” said Joe. ; The old man started to get up, but sank back again. He looked white and ill, and Castleton saw that he was in no shape to do business. “What is your name and where do you live?” the boy asked him. “Andrew White. ‘No. 4.” j j ey ~- "You look like a pretty sick man, Mr. White. ‘ought to see a doctor right away.” — FROM A DIME TO A MILLION I'll take you up there, if : I live at the Mills House. ; . Soe / A policeman passing at the time, Joe called him over and asked him.if he didn’t think the. old man ought to be taken to a hospital. While: they were talking the subject of their remarks. fell over unconscious, and Joe grabbed him in time to prevent him rolling on the sidewalk. ze Joe picked up the package he had held in his hand, as a crowd began to gather. The police-— man went away to ring for an ambulance and — the boy was left in charge of the unconscious’ man. The ambulance turned up much quicker than usual; the man, still insensible, was put into it and whisked off to the nearest hospital. As the vehicle disappeared around the corner Joe woke up to the fact that the old man’s package was in his possession. : ? “Well I can keep it for him till he leaves the hospital,” he thought. When he reached the office and had explained why he was detained, he opened the package and © found, as he supposed, that it contained the four certificates of Ajax Mining and Milling Co. stock. He turned the package over to the cash- ier, to put in the safe for the time being. The waiting-room being clear of customers and vis- itors, Joe went over to the ticker and took a look — at the quotations on the tape. Ltt gs He found, as he expected, that the upward move of the market had continued. He ran over the tape until he came to a transaction in M. & N., when, much to his satisfaction, he saw that the stock had gone up another point, As soon as he was off for the day he made a call on Elsie to inform her that M. & N. had gone up three points during the day, and consequently she was worth $900 more than when she came to business that morning. “It seems almost too good to be true.” “Well, just figure it out yourself. You have the call on 300 shares, and the price of hie shares has advanced $3 each. Three times 300° is 900. There you are. ing off a log.” Se Then Joe mentioned about the old man he had met on Beaver street, who wanted to sell 20,000 shares of the Ajax mine, and how he had been carried to a hospital in an ambulance. « “Poor old man!” said the sympathetic girl when she had heard the whole story. “Do you think he’ll die?” : ; “I hope not, for I’ve got his stock in my pos- session and wouldn’t know what’ to do with it. However, it isn’t worth over six or seven hun-— dred dollars, and it is a matter of doubt whether it would fetch that.” f Thus speaking, Joe put on his hat and bade Elsie goodby. ; eo mA ris It’s as simple as roll- z: i CHAPTER X.—Joe Clears Up Forty-Five — Thousand Dollars. ames cy Joe came downtown earlier than usual next morning and paid a visit to the hospital where the old man had been carried to. _ sires “I would like to find out how Andrew White, the man who was brought here early yesterday afternoon from New street, is this morning.” The doctor who attended the old man said that his general condition was not very encoura ‘ ¢ ak nee in Pi
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eo es A / - “Don’t you think he will get well, sir?” asked Joe. oD iver aaa “Jt is impossible to say whether or not he will BeemeCOver. ving - “He's conécious, isn’t he?” peat rasta is = ; “Then tell him that the boy’ who-was with him on New street at the time he collapsed has got _. his package of mining stock, and is ready to de- liver it to him at any time he sends for it. There - is my name and business address. Hand it to him, please, so he will know where to find me. I will call again tomorrow morning at this hour.” _ Joe left the hospital and went to ‘his office. He was kept busy running errands all day, and didn’t get a chance to go to his lunch until after two. - *‘M. & N, closed that day at 56. ‘ “ When he went to the hospital next morning he was told that Andrew White wanted to see him, und that he would be permitted to visit his cot. i followed the orderly into a long room lined ‘on ‘both sidesewith beds. The house doctor was going his rounds and two uniformed nurses were present. The old man recognized Joe, and seem- ed glad to see him. “So your name is Joe Castleton, and you work for a Wall Street broker?” he said. “That's right,” nodded Joe. : “You were very good and obliging to me that afternoon after we met on Beaver street,” he went on. “You saved me from thoge boys, and hen you tried to do something for me about that mining stock, which is now in your hands. Ym afraid I’ll never leave this place alive. Some- thing tells me that I can’t recover. -haven’t a friend or a relative in the world, I want ‘ou to have, in case of my death, all that I own. That isn’t much. The stock of the Ajax Com- y and a small trunk of books at the Mills fotel. I shall have the nurse draw up a docu- nt making you my heir, which I will sign if I Yow any weaker. .You are a good boy and de- serve any little recompense I can make you for your unsolicited kindness to me. All I ask of “you in return is to see that I am decently buried.” foe tried to persuade him that there wasn’t y likelihood of his dying yery soon, but he Shook his head and said that he felt that his leart was giving out, and that was a bad sign. ‘astleton couldn’t stay very long with him, as had to be at the office at nine o’clock, but he ‘promised to call on the following morning. During the afternoon he called the hospital up m the phone and asked after Mr. White. _ - “He was told that the old man seemed to be rowing weaker, and that he was not expected to live over two days at the outside. _ “Poor old chap!” said Joe, as he hung up the receiver. “I guess he was right when he said e did not expect to leave the hospital alive. It ks as if the small favor I did for-him will esult in making me the owner of the Ajax mining stock now in our safe, not that it ap- rs to be a very) valuable bit of property. “jit ought to be worth a thousand dollars, that’s something.” The market continued its upward trend that: and M. & N. went to 57%. *, then FROM A DIME TO A MILLION Now, as I. mine. reached the hospital next morning Pe a te eK 2 ad eked oa 17 he was told that the: old man had died during the night. He was handed a sheet of paper by = which Andrew White had made him his heir, and was asked if he would take charge of the body. Joe replied that he would send an undertaker to ; the hospital some time that day to take the dead =‘ man away. When he reached the office he phoned to a well-known burial establishment ‘and asked them to send to the hospital for the body and prepare it for burial. He said he would be up late in the afternoon to select the coffin and make arrangements for the funeral. He bought a. single grave in Kensico Cemetery, and next day one of the undertaker’s assistants carried the dead Andrew White up there and saw that the last rites were properly carried out. Joe then got the trunk of books from the Mills Hotel and had it sent up to his mother’s flat for future ex- + amination. By this time M. & N. shares had gone up to 60, and the advance of that particular stock was beginning to attract attention. A day or two later, when it was quoted at 62, the = brokers began to make strong effort to get hold # of some of it. The price went up to 66 in a oes time and the traders. actually fought or it. There was little doubt but that it would go to 70, but Joe, desirous of being on the safe side, decided to sell out right away. He was unable to reach the bank and place his selling order until the stock had reached 675%, which was - the figure he got for his holdings. His own profit — on the deal reached $45,000, while Elsie’s was $4,500. ‘ie ; pS With $72,000 in nis safe deposit box, Joe felt eae he was something of a capitalist on a small scale. “T am sure all thé messenger’ boys in the Street, if they put their savings together, could-~ n’t match that amount,” he said to himself with a feeling of intense satisfaction. “I need only ° $28,000 more to make me worth the tenth of a million. It isn’t so hard, after all, to make a million if luck runs your way. Now, I must see about those Ajax Mining and Milling Co. shares. I paid out about $150 to bury the old — man in a thoroughly respectable’ manner, so I — guess I am fairly entitled to whatever profit I can make out of them.” - : CX ai Consequently Joe wrote to a well-known’ brokerage house in Goldfield for particulars Pas about the Ajax mine. He put the shares away — in his safe deposit box for safe keeping. Four — days later he received a reply to his letter. The writer did not hold a very high opinion of the — z He said there was verv little prospect. of X it paying more than a nominal dividend that year. The company was chiefly pushing work | in the hope of making a strike of some value. The company owned several claims, and might in the course of time turn up something worth while. If Castleton could afford to hold the stock for some time the writer advised him to_ do so; if he preferred to sell, the firm would. try to get a buyer at the best figure possible... “[’'ll hold it,” thought Joe, “on the chance that ~ some day it may be worth something. Seven eight hundred dollars cuts very little ice with PO MRE tanga itcs ets Snst now.t hie he
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_*' CHAPTER XL—Joe Finds Himself Worth tgs One-Fifth ‘of His Million. ~-- ' The summer season passed slowly away and _ business was rather slack in Wall Street. When Joe had occasion to go t6 the Exchange, which wasn’t near so often as usual, the’ floor - looked deserted. Two-thirds of the brokers were - missing, and the balance seemed to wish that they were away, too. Every Saturday afternoon you could see a ‘procession of clerks and steno- - .graphers making for the west side ferries with ~ Suit. cases, bound on their two weeks’ vacation. Joe’s turn didn’t come till the middle of Au- ust, and Frank Webster and his sister had ar- ranged to get off at the same time in order to go to the same place that Joe had selected, where his mother and sisters were rusticating for six ~ weeks at his expense. Joe had selected Pineville in the mountains, because it was near to where Dora Kane and her mother were stopping. He hadn’t seen the girl for a matter of six weeks, ‘though .they corresponded, and he was anxious to spend a portion of his vacation with her. As a matter of fact, she was just as anxious for him ~~ to do-it. About a week before his vacation was ~ due Joe found out that a certain broker was ‘ going around quietly buying up A. & G. shares. “Phere is something in the wind,” he said to himself. “I guess IT buy a few’ myself on general principles.” ; ’ Accordingly, that day Joe went to a well-known brokerage house and left an order for 10,000 shares of A. & G., at the market price of 42. - The member of the firm who took the order from Castleton did not for a moment suppose that he was buying the shares for himself. He knew Joe was employed by James Hoyt, and he naturally judged that the order really came from ‘the trader under cover. For that reason he put ‘no questions to Castleton, being only too glad to count on the full. commission he saw coming to the house. Two days- later puchases of the stock at the Exchange called attention to A. & G., and the price went up two points that day. Next ‘morning.a crowd of brokers gathered around the _ A. &-G. standard, which seemed to be the only stock that had much life to it. The morning “newspapers: had called notice to thé rise and - quite a’number of traders came in from near-by esorts to see what was on the tapis. Whether hrough preconcerted arrangement of men in the mploy of the clique now largely controlling the hares, or from some other cause, A G. be- ame the center of much excitement. Many brokers, suspecting that a syndicate was atthe back of the movement, began to bid for the shares believing that the price would go right up. ~ 4“Jt’s funny things should begin to liven up ‘just as we are about to take our vacation,” said nk next morning, as they met on the street on way to their offices. “There hasn’t been nyt ig doing for a month or more to speak of. “Jt may interfere with my outing a bit,” re- 7 | FROM A DIME TO A MILLION “Ep ee a deal connected with A. & G., and Pve got 4 see it out.” ; Pee “Tt seems to me that you are getting to be regular speculator. How did you come out M. & N.?” : “T came out away ahead. You'd have a fit i told you how’much I made.” “You must be worth money by this time.” “Ym working slowly towards that million.” “Got a good-sized contract on your hands t fetch it.” es “Tl get there all right, unless I have a b setback.” ; “Sis will be ‘much disappointed if you’re no ready to go up with us on Saturday.” “Oh, I'll be along on Tuesday or Wednesday I fail to connect on Saturday. Goodby,” an Joe left him. ; site, That day was a pretty hot one, and the brokers had a perspiring time of it at the Exchange, through it all A. & G. soared up to 55, and : its seemed disposed to go higher. Joe followed i upward flight with feelings of great joy, a when the Exchange closed for the day“he fig up-that he stood to win $125,000 if he sold out a the present stage of the game. The boy spe the whole evening see-sawing between selling o and holding on. The next day was Saturday, an there was only a two-hour session. Even if & G. closed at an advance at noon, a whole lot things might happen between that time and ue day mornin®& that would completely alter the si uation. é fee “T guess I'll sell and get off with Frank his sister. It might mean $50,000 extra to me if.I held on until Monday, and then aj J might land in the soup. I'll sell,” he conelud determinedly. j ie Having made up his mind on the subject, Jo he was kept on the run till eleven. Then. sneaked in the time necessary to order his stock sold. It was immediately dumped on the mark in five lots, and was greedily snapped up at At half-past twelve Joe phoned to the bro to learn the price the stock had gone at, and figured up hi: profits at something over $150 “That makes me worth $222,000,” he said cor tentedly. “I ought to be able to enjoy "Mot 4 weeks’ vacation very much, indeed. doesn’t think I’m worth over a few thouse Ill have to chase her out house-hunting she gets back to town. It is quite time had a home of our own. At any rate, I easily afford to buy a fine little place in the s urbs and furnish it up to the queen’s taste. mother and the girls will begin to have th of their lives.” — ; : a - An hour later, Joe, Frank and Elsie for the West Shore depot. , “yf
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* the West Shore, where they were to change to the Catskill mountain railway, which would take them up to Pineville. Dora and her mother from Pineville. the young people whiled away the time in one ‘way or another until the train reached Catskill village, when they grabbed their suitcases and made for the train of the mountain railway that “was in waiting. At Pineville, the next stop, a bus . Castleton and her daughters were staying. A supper was awaiting the late arrivals, and ‘after Joe and friends had got away with their share they adjourned to a good-sized room, where a dance was in progress. After remaining ‘there an hour they went to their rooms, Joe and Frank bunking together. About eleven next morning Joe hired a rig and, finding that the d lay straight to the Rip Van Winkle Hotel, he drove there, and was warmly welcomed by Dora, who was expecting him. He found that ir, Kane had Wome up by the early train on aturday. He was invited to stay to dinner, and epted. After the meal Dora suggested that y take a walk among the glens in that inity. Joe was glad to have her all to him- f, and consented. They met a good many ollers at first who, like themselves, were out to look at the wild and romaantic scenery for which that section of the Catskills is celebrated, but gradually, as they wandered on, penetrating the less-traveled spots, more absorbed in them- ‘selves than the view, they found themselves quite . They did not think of the possibility that xy might lose their way in that locality, for ‘they,did not dream that they had walked so very far from the hotel. Finally, after sitting an hour on the brink of an awful-looking chasm, made ovely by a cascade with a fall of more than two hundred feet, they decided that it was time to back to civilization. _ After half an ‘hour’s tramp it began to strike em that they must have wandered out of their e, for they seemed to be getting deeper and per into an unfrequented portion of the moun- 1 range. I’m afraid we’re not going right at all,” | Dora, with some anxiety in her voice. ; nd I’m afraid that I don’t know much about matter,” replied Joe. “But don’t worry. get out of our pickle in some way. If we | find the road we took away from the hotel, e’d be all right.” “Of course, but how are we to find it?~ There are three paths diverging from ‘this plateau. The uestion is which ought we-to take?” If we only could meet one of the natives, or tor, they’d be able to direct us; but I haven’t a soul for more than an hour,” said Joe. ey looked all about them, only to find them- elves shut in by mountain fastnesses, rugged in outline, without a solitary landmark anywhere to ride them in the direction they wanted to go. As FROM A DIME. were at the Rip Van Winkle Hotel, five miles carried them to the big boarding-house where . prospect of * inythe oj TO A MILLION . 19 or : 3 jen ates “Tt looks as if we’ll have to trust to luck, Dora,” said Joe, “so we might as well take this path to. the right. Being the right-hand path, we’ll hope that it-won’t lead us wrong.” So they took it. 5 - “don’t believe the road is in this direction,” said Dora, after they had proceeded for a matter of fifteen minutes. “If it isn’t, we had better turn around and go back to the plateau and take one of the other two paths,” replied Joe, who, being out of his latitude in the mountains, felt more or less befogged. “T think we’d better go back,” Dora said. -“ANL right, back we go. We’re something like the ‘babes in the woods’, for we’re out of our % reckoning entirely.” : “Tt would be just too awful ‘if we really were . lost up here in the mountains.” , : “That’s right,’ nodded Joe. “We might meet with those Dutch chang eteers that done up Rip Van Winkle. Just think how tough it would be if we went to sleep here, and woke up to find our- selves tWenty years older. I’m thinking I'd be out of a job in Wall Street, while you—you’d be: -an old maid, wouldn’t you?” Dora, who was now distinctly nervous and anx- ious, did not see anything funny in her compan- ’ ion’s remarks, Indeed, she felt more like crying than laughing. To say the truth, they were in a serious predicament. The hotel was a mile and a half away, and the road leading to it wound off some distance away in a direction different to that which they were following. Then, to add to their troubles, the air was getting quite chilly - and the sun ‘was going down, They found their — way back to the plateau and took another path. Unfortunately, it was the wrong one, but. for a time they imagined they were on the right track at last. Finally the sun dropped behind the range, and about that time they woke up to the grim fact that they were really lost among the Catskills. “Oh, Joe, Joe, we’ve lost our way!” said Dora tearfully. “We'll never be able to find our way back to the hotel to-night. Papa and mamma -will be worried to death about me, and your folks won’t know what has become of you.” .” “It’s too bad that we didn’t pay more attention to where we were going,” said Joe. “However, as it won’t do any good to throw up our hands. It would only make matters worse for us. We must keep on trying to get out of our hole. There are | a whole lotiof farm houses in these mountains. If we keep on pushing ahead, we ought to run. across one.” a Z RS, “There are some scattered farm houses, it is, / true,” replied the girl, “but they are miles ‘apart.’?/ “Tt doesn’t make any difference how far apart) they are. We only want to find one of them in & order to get our bearings.” Fags tne _ They kept at a hazard, however, the girl srow- ing’ more discouraged at every step, for dusk was coming on apace and they ought to have bee back at the hotel long before. It was darker up * in the mountains than elsewhere at that hour, — for the peaks and projecting crags threw long shadows acrgss their path, and made their toil- some and aimless wandering more hopeless. The — their being obliged to pass the ni F caused Joe to look sharply from
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FROM A DIME to. side for some cave or nook that would at least. ~ afford a partial protection for them against the night air. Suddenly, as they reached the mouth of a defile, a light burst on their view. They saw at once that it was a candle shining from a window. ; Both hailed it with a feeling of thanksgiving. Here at last was a sign of life. The people who -Vived here would be able to direct. them how to _ reach the Rip Van Winkle Hotel... Confident that _... their troubles were over they hurried toward the building, which was at best but a aude story-and- a-half affair. Had they not been so over-anxious _ to escape from their present difficulties they might _ + have hesitated before trusting to the hospitality of strangers in that: wild locality. Joe knocked at the back door of the dwelling. Instantly the voices they had heard inside ceased. Nobody coming to the dgor, Joe knocked again, louder than before. In a Moment ox two the light disappeared, the window was opened, and a voice asked in not. very pleasant accents who was there. “A boy. and a girl. We have lost our way in ithe mountains, and would like to be directed to the road that will bring us to the Rin Van _. Winkle Hotel,” replied Joe. ~- The window was shut, the light reappeared, and Joe could hear low conversation inside. Finally the door was opened and they were bidden to -enter. Joe led the way across the threshold, hold- ‘ing Dora by the arm. The occupants of the room appearance was not reassuring, seen in the un- certain light of the candle.. One of the men said something in a low tone to the boy. He went to _ the window and reached for the candle. As he - did so the light flashed full in his countenance. - Joe’s eyes were on him at the moment and he gave a gasp of astonishment. He knew the boy at once—it was Ike Thacker. ie CHAPTER XIII—In the Mountain Hut. _ How was it that Ike Thacker was up here in the wilds of the Catskills when he was supposed - ‘to be at the Westchester Protectory? And who were these men with whom he was associated? ‘Ike was an uncommonly bad boy, therefore it might be presumed that the men were not above ‘suspicion. They certainly had a rascally look. “What was he and Dora up against, Joe asked him- ‘self. The men were bad enough, apparently, of themselves, but the presence of Thacker was sure © complicate matters, for Ike had a mighty : ong grouch against Castleton, and would be ‘glad to take advantage of an opportunity to do m up if he could. So far Thacker hadn’t recog- nized Joe. He placed the candle on a rude table nding in the center of the room, and then he ot a better view of the visitors. oe Castleton!’ he exclaimed. rou were at the Protectory.” - You thought a lot. Well, you. see, x -were three hard-looking men and a boy. Their — . And what are you doing here? I thought ae — Jess,. TO A MILLION -“Yhat ain’t none of your business,” replied th young rascal surlily. — : “You know this boy, eh?” said the red-whis ered man, who seemed to be the boss of the shan’ “TY should think I did. If it hadn’t been for him — I should not have been sent up to the Protectory.” “Why don’t you tell the truth for once in yt life, at any rate, Ike Thacker? You put up th job on me in the restaurant expecting to get pinched. You forgot, however, that somebo else in the place might catch on to your little game, and, fortunately for me; it happened that a Wall Street detective spotted you. Your pl rt failed and you had to pay the piper. I had no’ ing whatever to do with sending you to the Pro- tectory—you sent yourself.” : “Yah!” snarled Ike. : y Joe turned to the man with the red whisk “If you or one of your associates will guide ° to the Rip Van Winkle Hotel, I will give you tw dollars,” he said. oe “Two dollars,” repeated the man with an pleasant grin... ee “Yes.” eee ee and the girl have lost your way up “We. have.” { 5 “You’re stoppin’ at the hotel?” sie “This young lady is. I am stopping in Pi ville.” : 43 a “Ts two dollars all the money you have?” “J might have another dollar or two.” 2 “Has the young lady got any money, too? “That has nothing to do with the matter?” re plied Joe, not liking his remark. ROSY “Tt hasn't, eh? Well, now, I thought with a wink at his companions, ; Joe now foresaw trouble ahead. Do distrusted the men from the moment shi looked at them, clung to her young: prote arm and looked apprehensively at the occu of the house. ; je “Sorry, young gent, but we'll have to bor whatever money you have. So just ante 1 said the red-whiskered rascal pointedly t “Ts this a hold-up?” asked Castleton angr’ The fellow grinned. ; _“We belong to the society for the impr. of industrial conditions,” he chuckle wealth of the country, accordin’ to the n : pers, is increasin’ at the rate of five billion year, but as none of it is comin’ our way. ; lookin’: for our share, and takin’ it when we fi it. .We calculate you two have a portion of 1 five billion that ee, to us, so cough up, ~ two hain’t got no right to live on the fat o: land at first-class hotels when we’re scratch a livin’, see?” “Tf you went to work instead of around the mountains, you’d earn your sh the five billions you speak of,” replied Joe bo “Come, now, no back talk. Just produce, we'll have to make you. Jim, help the y« gent disgorge.” f a eae Seeing that to resist would be worse th Joe handed out a five dollar bill arid was all the money he had ahout | earched, ne : ie
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atch and chain and the diamond cuff buttons . Kane had presented to him. He also took a idsome stickpin out of his necktie. _ “Now, Jim,” said the red-whiskered man, “help e young lady to donate them diamond ear-rings f hers and that ring on her finger. Also, that rnament at her neck.” “You chaps will regret this robbery,” said Joe. o attention was paid to the boy’s remark, and Dora was quickly relieved of her jewelry. The s00ty was spread out on the table. Now, Jim, you and Bill take a bit of rope and these young people’s hands behind their backs,” lered the red-whiskered man. After this job was done, Joe and Dora were ordered to walk up to the attic by the stairway in the corner. Jim followed with the candle in his hand. He put the candle on a box and tied astleton to one of the roof supports. “You kin sit on that box, young lady,” he said. “How long are we to be kept here?” demanded Joe. “After robbing us of all we had, you ought ‘to show us back*to the hotel.” 1e man grinned. . We etpiiookin’ to be pinched,” he said, turn- 1g on his heels and going back downstairs, leav- 2 them in the dark. “What's going to become of us, Joe?” sobbed ora. ion’t cry, Dora. Nothing is going to happen > us more than has already taken place,” said soothingly. “They will keep us’ here a few irs, maybe, till they’re ready to leave them- ves, and then they’ll turn us adrift. We may to stay all night, but we may as well make best of a bad situation by keeping up our ourage. We can’t help ourselves.” , it’s dreadful to have to stay here in this dition,” shivered the girl. “Papa and mamma t be wild about me by this time.” __ mak oo not have to stay, Dora. I think T’ll ble to .work my hands free. At any rate, ’m trying hard to. accomplish it. Creep over to the head of the stairs and see if you can hear what those rascals are talking about. It might be useful for us to get a line on their movements.” 8 Dora, after some persuasion, walked over to the opening in the floor, knelt down and listened. tile she was thus employed Joe worked at his Is. He had a small hand and strong wrist, he believed it would-be only a matter of a time before he succeeded ih freeing himself. ‘a little while Dora came back to him. hey are going away, Joe—the men are—and ave that boy to watch us while they are es near the hotel. After that they spoke about hos releasing us. They expect to make their ye down the mountains to the river..” “So that’s what they intend doing? They are ntly regular crooks. Fine associates for : cker boy to catch on to.” m glad the men are going to leave. 1 of them,” said Dora nervously. | sh! Some one.is coming. Sit on that box. ering light of the candle appeared up s, and a moment later the red-whiskered - He looked at the prisoners to see secure she man. Jim had re- d ut exchangin, I'm ” FROM A DIME TO A MILLION They intend to rob two or three of the cot-— = ar 2% word with them, retired as he had come. 4 cou-- ple of hours -passed slowly away, during which — they heard the rascals conversing downstairs. Joe had not been idle, but had got his hands loose, and with his pocketknife had released himself from ‘the post. After that he freed Dora’s hands ~ and bade her in a whisper to keep up her cour- . age, for he intended to make a break for liberty as soon-as the men had left the building. At length there was a movement helow. Joe crawled over to the opening and saw that the rascals had their hats on and seemed avout to go. One of them carried a small valise in his hand. “T dare say that contains housebreaking tools,” thought the “boy. “Took here, Ike, you know the way to the road, don’t you?” said the man with the red whiskers. “You follow this ravine to the dead pine, where the path branches. All you have to do then is to turn to the right and keep straight on for half a mile and you'll walk right into the road. It will take that ‘candle about two hours to burn out. When it does release the youngsters and light out. Wait for us along the road, if we are not waitin’ for you, see?” Thacker nodded sullenly, So the three men took their departure, and for a while Ike stood by the door, looking after them. Then he came in the © room, and sat down at the table to watch the can- die burn away. Joe, after whispering his plans to Dora, was on the point of descending the stairs and confronting Thacker, when Ike got up, took — the candle, and began to mount the stairs to the attic. : a CHAPTER XIs—In Which Joe Makes His Million Determining to give Tlacker the surprise of his life, Joe whispered to. Dora to take her seat on the box while he returned to the post and, putting his — hands behind him, appeared as if still tied. Ike ~~ stepped out on the floor, candle in hand, and ap- proached the prisoners. He thrust the candle close to Joe’s face and met his gaze. Bs “How are you~ enjoyin’ yourself, eh?” “As well as can be expected,” replied Castleton calmly. . i “Yah! You big stuff!. I’ve got you where T- want you now,” snarled Ike. “I owe you a whole lot, and I’m goin’ to take some of it out of your hide now, I hate you worse’n p’ison.” “Your hate doesn’t amount to anything. You'll soon be back in the Protectory.” ae8 “T will, I don’t think.” : es “What did you come up here for? We don’t want to see you.” TG “T come here to get square with you:” +3 “How are you going to do it?” eb Te Ee “I’m goin’ to kick the stuffin’ out of you. You — can’t get away,” he grinned, “so I can kick you. till I’m tired.” Hh : Gilet Thacker raised his foot and then shot it at Joe’s leg viciously. Castleton nimbly stepped aside and Ike’s toe struck the post. ; erat “Wow!” he roared, hopping around in pain, th candle rolling from his grasp. Joe gave him no time to recover, but sprang upon him, bearing him tO tie: Rode, fi et i YB ootd *Pick: up the candle, Dora,” s ‘ive that piece of rop
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22 é FROM A DIME Astonisment at first deprived Ike of all power of resistance. He quickly recovered and started to put up a fight. Joe, however, had all the ad- ‘_vantage of him. Rolling him over on his face, he pulled his arms around and, holding his wrists together, told Dora to tie them with the rope. While she was doing it, Ike kicked, squirmed, and swore lustily, but all to no avail. Joe then tied his ankles. Being satisfied that Thacker couldn’t ~ free himself, he rose and took the candle from the box, where Dora had placed it. = “How. do you like being tied up yourself, Ike?” “Tl get square with you for this,” roared the bad youth., © “Perhaps you will, but I doubt it,” returned Joe. “¥ could kick the stuffing out of you now, if I wanted to, but I’m not built that way. We're go- ing to leave you here in the dark until we can find a constable to take you in charge. Come along, Dora.” j Ike roared and whined to be let go, but Joe paid no attention to him at all, and assisted Dora _ downstairs. Blowing out the candle, he led the girl out of the hut. “Now we'll go to the hotel, Dora,” he said. “How are we going to find our way there?” she asked. We _ “T heard the fellow with the red whiskers di- rect Thacker how to find the road, and I’m going to follow his instructions. We'll go down the ra- vine till we come to a dead pine tree. Then we'll turn to the right, where I expect to find a path leading direct to the road.” Dora felt much encouraged by his words. “What time do you think it is?” “Tt’s after midnight, I guess. I can’t tell ex- actly, for those rascals have got my watch and everything else of value I had about me.» And they got everything you had, too. We must try - to have them caught before they can escape out of these mountains, and then we’ll stand a chance _ of recovering our things.” ; They soon came to the dead pine and easily made out the path leading to the right. “According to the red-whiskered man, the road is half a mile from this point,” said Joe. _ They trudged ahead, and in due time came out on the road. They had not gone a hundred before they came to a turn in the road and almost yan into a bunch of men with lanterns. Mr. Kane was one of the party, and Dora was soon sobbing in her father’s arms, while to Joe was _ left the task of explaining matters. All hands at once started for the hotel. On the way Joe told how the red-whiskered rascal and his two com- - panions had set out to rob one or more of the cot- tages near the hotel. This caused the party to hurry along, in hope of catching the scoundrels. __ As they drew near the first of the cottages they - heard the report of a revolver, followed by the - sereams of women. Joe and the hotel people set TO A MILLION. ards. house in the ravine and found Ike Thacker still in the attic, for he could not move out of the place to save his life. In due time he was returned the Protectory, while the other three, including the red-whiskered man, who recovered from his wound, were subsequently tried, convicted sent to the State prison for several years. In the — meantime Joe had the time of his life in the Cats- _ kills, principally with Dora as his companion. About a month later Elsie got hold of ano z “good tip—this time it was an electric railway merger. One of her customers, coming into her office after indulging in more mint julip than was good for him, incautiously told her how she coulc make a little stake for herself by buying a f shares of the Paterson Electric Railroad. She drew from him the fact that the United Tractio Co. was buying up the shares of this road for th purpose of getting control. Elsie sent for and told him what she had learned. He immed ately started an investigation, and bought so’ 20,000 shares of the Paterson line stock for him-— self and the girl at 88. He had to put nearly — $170,000 in margins for the 19,300 shares he got ii cia while the other 700 cost Elsie about $6,200. an When the news was published that the Uni Traction had got control of the Paterson lin stock of the heretofore independent line ju to 108. At that figure Joe sold out. He made a clear $400,000, and Elsie cleared $14,000, making her worth $21,000. Joe was now a capitalist the tune of $600,000. On the first of the ceased to be a messenger, being promoted Hoyt to a clerkship in the cogunting-room Castleton family spent the Christmas in t home which Joe presented to his mother furnishing it up in fine style. Mrs. Ca and her daughters now had everything their could wish for, and were more than ever satisfied that Joe was the smartest boy not only in Wall Street, but in the world. 3 “Toe Dora had the same opinion of him, as in bonds and mortgages, but he retained en to enable him to work the market to good ad- vantage. ; : Kane. _It was arranged that the pee should off as soon as he had made the million on + his ambition. was centered. The happy event ly came off soon after his twenty-second day. Three months previously he made a big ¢ in Union Pacific. He didn’t operate on a tip, ] purely on his own judgment. When he had 3 ceived a settlement from his broker, who ‘was | own employer on this occasion, he was wort $1,350,000. % Mr. Hoyt then offered him a partnership business and he accepted it. sca Thus Joe Castleton made his mar Street, rising, in the short space of years, from A Dime to a Million. fis ee tess -week’s —
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ee a GUS AND THE GUIDE ; ‘ — Or, — a Weeks Lost in the Rockies By GASTON GARNE (A Serial Story.) CHAPTER XXI.—(continued) “Gus made no reply to all this. It. was a satisfaction to him to know that he ad Mr. Marston’s money in his pocket, and he etermined to keep that fact to himself. _ Meanwhile the sheriff and his men were charg- r down upon the deserted camp. Following the*bend of the stream, in a minute ey came to a place where for the time being ey were out of sight. ‘This was what Gus had been waiting for. “Now is our time to get back to where I left Stumpp and the boy, Colonel Tolkins,” he “Are you ready to make the try?” ht now,” replied the colenel. “You are @ of the git thar kind, Gus, while in these am too slow and heavy for anything. I “masses of broken roek which had fallen the towering precipice above them as. well ey could. ‘Whatever possessed you to take Sile. Sree : uide, Gus?” inauired the colonel, as they ; along: “He don’t know no more about ‘Bitter Root mountains than a dead cat. He’s een. hanging around Black Rock for a uple of years.” found all that out,” betsy Gu: “¥et I’m ‘ht. The fis is now to get Matt Marston at this and safe home to his father.” fe’s hardly worth takine home,” growled the nel. “From what little I saw of the boy hen Blake had him in-Black Rock, I Should say 2 was little better than a fool.” ink Dr. Blake kept him hypnotized most e time,” answered Gus. “D on’t believe in -any such rubbish. The boy idiot—that’s all. Say, hain’t we most ? We are in plain sight of the sheriff now. . Which they haven’t yet.” : re right there now,” said Gus, and in a hey came. in among the mass of broken ich perpablab a the entrance to ‘the ‘Stumpp came forward to meet them. heaven’s sake, Sile, what’s the matter 2” eried Colonel Tolkins, surprised at inge which had come over the man. jon — that’s what’s the matter with ilas. | pe r Aoes wit Sound ‘FAME AND. FORTUNE WEEKLY. Sheet let's jine them. _you a Gopher? “know how to eet out no more’n a baby. hurried forward, keeping behind feet out of this on the auiet, for the sake of my his eyes fixed upon him and his whole mind con-" r any of his crowd happen to look ae ‘“poppycock, Gus.” Gus had huseied over to the place where Matt Marston lay, still asleep. ; “He hain‘t waked nor showed no. signs of ~~ waking,” said Silas. “I dunno avhat to make ~~ of him. Say, wasn’t that Sheviff Oliver and his men what went down the yalley?. Gus, why not It would be the best way.” . “No, no, no!” cried the colonel. “I'll get ar- _ rested, surest thine, if we do. Some of the ~ Gophers must have been captured. Ten to one they'll go back. on me. to sneak out is possible. some way.” “Don't know nothing about it.” groaned Silas. * and then with a sickly smile he added: “I reckon « I’m a failure as a guide; but say, colonel. be — — I jedge you must be from the . What we want to do is of this here valley, if such a thing Hump yourself, Sile, and suggest way you talk.” “Don’t ax no questions, Sile Stumpp.” snapped the colonel. “The Gophers are dead ones. and I won’t want to tie to no cornse. I was brousht into this here valley blindfolded, and Tf don’t Gus, it. is up to you.” : SNe eee “Well,” said Gus, “I know the way, but it’s the way the sheriff came in. There is no better : arrangement for getting up to the top of the - ridge, and probably it is guarded, [——” ig “Oh, you mean the movable runway,” broke in the colonel, “I have heard all about that. I've © been taken down in blindfolded. You see the — Gopher's holdout wasn’t here when I—that is to” say. “That is to say, when you’ jined the gang,” put’ in Silas, dryly. “Gus, if you know the wav. it’s up to you. If we are nipped we are nipped. that’s all.. I’m willing to make the try to- get friend the colonel; but if it was only me I would go down and jine Sheriff Oliver at once. What about that boy?” “He'll have.to come with us,” replied Gus, “for without him I don’t move a peg.” “Wake him if you -ean, then. tried and it’s no go.” “Perhaps we can make him walk in his’ sleep,” ; said Gus, and ‘then once more he started in to. see what he could do in the line of hypnotism.. For fully five minutes he stood over Matt with I can’t, Pie. ie : centrated on the unfortunate boy. Then, suddenly snapping ‘his fingers, he ex- claimed in a loud voice: Matt! Matt! Matt! Get up and follow me! Matt remained “motionless. 2 “You can’t do nothing with him that way. or said Tolkins. “I see what your game is. - : are trying to do the hypnotism act, That's apt Gus paid no attention to him. He would not even allow himself to listen. . Again he repeated the formula, keepin whole mind concentrated on Matt. Still there was no result, but when he did third time success came. . Without opening his eye., “Matt slowly aro and ree Gus moved away the boy followed _ 1 Adi bd ite muttered )
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ze to me. I want to keep my mind fixed on this © ~ boy. : Matt's eyes slowly opened now, but he looked neither to the tight nor the left, following after ' Gus like a dog, with Colonel Tolking and Silas Stump keeping close behind. In a few moments they were in the pass which led up to the movable runaway. Looking back into the valley to have a last glimpse of the sheriff and his posse, Gus saw that all hands had dismounted, and the horses were hobbled: It looked as though the sheriff had settled down to wait for the return of such of the Gopher gang as had escaped him at Fire-Hole Canyon. And Gus pushed on, guiding the guide and the yest of his helpless following. Silas ian ay from sheer weakness, ‘Colonel Tolkins stumbled, while as for Matt, it was per- fectly evident that he was walking in Bisep: CHAPTER XXIII. Belle To the Rescue. “Here’s. the place, Colonel. This is where we went up. We ought to see the platform in a minute now.’ Gus was speaking. Followed by his. peculiar companions, he had almost reached the end of the pass which led out of the Gopher’s valley. | Would they be able to run that singular mov-. able platform up into place without understand- ing the mechanism of the thing? ' This was what was bothering Gus, and he was hoping to find the platform already jin place. ‘Now, if we are going to run up ag’ inst guards it is about time to do it,” drawled Colonel Tol- kins. “Heavens and earth! don’t care a blame whether they shoot me fora \ Gopher or not.” . ‘If we run against any of the sheriff’s posse vise only thing to do is to surrender,” replied us. “So say I,” added Silas. “If I can pull myself up to the top of this here platform you tell abont _ it is all I shall be able to do. I’m satisfied I can’t go another step without grub!” “Matt Mar ston did not say anything. All through that toilsome journey up in the mountain, during -which they had encountered no one, the boy had not spoken a single word. Gus on several occasions had tried to make him talk, but each time he had failed. What the end of it all was to be he could not tell, but Gus felt, serious doubts of ‘being able to deliver anything ‘short of an idiot to Mr. Marston, and he felt very Aged over the prospect, you may be sure. They now turned the projecting point of rock sae Gus reckoned was to decide their fate. He was right. ° ~ fore them. The door of the cave beneath it was open, and the movable platform in place. “Hold on!” breathed Silas. “Let’s have a look before we go ahead.” ‘No use,” replied Sass: “Lets push. ahet d. if Ne oD ME we FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY “Gopher Tom,” now, came forward as the hands. ve I’m that winded I. Now the black wall of the precipic® was be-. The ssenal offered no objection, ‘and. they reached the platform, seeing no one. “It’s a shaky affair for a man like me,” said. : the colonel. “Have I got to climb that thing?” “You certainly have,” replied Gus. “If it hold half a dozen mounted men, and that’s what. I know it will, there can’t be any doubt its holding you.’ They started on the ascent, and reached the top. safely, seeing no one. “We had better make for the hut, Silas, don you think so?” questioned Gus. “You look abou beat out. It will give you a chance to rest.” a “T am beat out,” replied the guide. T. scam go much further. If we only had food “Stand where you are! Hands up, all of you The cry came with startling suddenness. Out from among the dark fir trees six armed men sud~ denly sprang. . z Gus and the colonel instantly recognized them — as members of the Gopher gang, but none of th 2 were those who had taken a prominent part Gus’ affairs. ; The spokesman, whom Gus heard addressed as y went up. “What bring you here?” he demanded. Tolkins, it’s up to you—speak!” “Tt isn’t up to meat all, Tom Treadway,’ plied the colonel. “I was left behind and boy was trying to help me out. Do you s’pose 1 was going to sit down and wait for Sheriff Olin to come up?” “Tt’?s up to you, then,” said Treadway, tu his rifle on Gus, “I was told you were dead but you seem to be«very much alive. What ar doing with that boy?” TE you will lower that rifle Il] tell you I know,” replied Gus, quietly. “I stood by Brandt i in the fight when you fellows went on the run. — I don’t see any reason why I should be tr iS like arf enemy, I must say.” : “Throw down your rifle,” said Gopher “There it is,” replied Gus, giving it a tos “And you, Sile Stump,” he added. “Pitch out your revolver. You're the fellow who betray d us and broke up our band.” Dire, “Not on your life,” replied the guide, throw- ing down « revolver. “J hain’t seen Sheriff Olin : since I started utp in these infernal mountains I’ve been lost for over-three weeks. I’m just. bout dead.” ; “If you will just let me speak I can explaiz all,” said Gus er pe sie ier ahead, then,” was the reply, and Gus told his story in such a frank manner a at the G phe could ee fail to be impressed. “Waal, I reckon you are telling the said Treadway. “So Brandt is dead, and Jak too. There hain’t many of us left, but we t still live are bound to be revenged. We are here _ laying for the sheriff, and he and his gan down thar -laying for us. Meanwhile, we dc want no yarns taken back to Black ‘Rock—no not none, I say the best thing we ean do. i $ shoot you all now that Dr. Blake is dead. © coming of that idiot boy caused the begi all our trouble. It never ought to hav lowed. Some one has got to pay the dead ones of 0 tle
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SIX-FOOT JERSEY GHOST A six-foot ghost that throws stones has been seen in Perth Amboy and Woodbridge, N. J, and _ the police of those towns have been asked by resi- dents to capture the spook, which is said to have ~ come out of the Hope Lawn Cemetery every night. ~ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Reid, of Florida Grove Road, Perth Amboy, told the police the ghost had been prowling around their house, and on one casion threw a rock into a room where their dren. were playing. The police say the ghost pparently no gentleman. ‘ : FARMER HAS LAST LAUGH Three years ago, Sam McKee, Key County armer, Oklahoma, in need of cash, endeavored ) find a buyer for patt of his oil and gas royalty, nd was laughed at. The best offer he had was a le for a skinflint horse. Old men said he was - the southwest quarter of section 34-25-1W. ‘The + was a successful one. Recently a collector for _ the State auditor received a check from McKee for $8,147.95, which was 8 per cent. of his oil me for the preceding quarter of a year. SATURN NEARS EARTH. Saturn, the ringed giant world, became the new ming star in the sky on May 1, when it was at closest approach to the earth for 1925. Sat- rn’s distance from this world is 821,240,000 es, but Saturn is a huge planet, 73,000 miles diameter, and shines in first magnitude, despite 4; remoteness. It rises in the southeast just as ‘sun goes down, and shines all night with a yellow ruddy lustre. It brilliance is so great that it casts a reflection in water, like the moon. turn, with its series of rings, is one of the st spectacular objects in the sky. The rings inot be seen with the naked eye, but a glass Sa: power is thirty or more will reyeal them. m™ a a ORIGIN OF LIMERICKS ae Most people consider Edward Lear the origi- ; tor of the limerick. But Lear himself stated that for the general idea of his verses he was in- ebted to a friend who recounted to him a certain ryme beginning “There was an old man of To- Limericks were the vogue many years ve Lear’s “Book of Nonsense” appeared in '6.. The Yorkshire Publishing Company of Ot- ing “Dickory, Dick- ho made the The great : claimed, was their poor lly repetitions of | ‘FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY yz GOOD READING THAN HALE DIARY GIVEN YALE ‘Edward S. Harkness, of be re- ve. Yale University lib + the: ™ ‘ notebook kept by Nathan Hale, a rare addition to the memorabitia of Hale, a:member of the class= of 1773. The notebook, or account book, is an autograph record kept by Hale as captain of his company showing equipment issued to his men. Tt contains 136 receipts, dated June 27 to Au- gust 31, 1776, written in his hand and signed by the soldiers, constituting a fairly complete mus- ter roll. Several pages of accounts are for money, clothing and the like. The notebook is an important sguree for students of the: Colonial period of United States history. After Hale’s death it passed into the possession of, Alice Adams Ripley, his step-sister, then a widow, to whom it is supposed he was engaged. She used its blank pages on which to write poems and record her religious thought as well as a diary dated 1782, giving an account of her marriage to William Lawrence.. These entries enhance the in- terest of the book and throw light on the private life of Hale and members of his father’s house- hold. WILD WEST WEEKLY LATEST ISSUES Young Wild West at Ace High Fair; or The | Liveliest Time on Record. 1164 ‘ Risky Ride; or, Arietta and the Gulch Gang. - 1165 “ Buekskin Band; or, The Sheriff's Big Mistake. 1166 “ Double Triumph; or, Arietta Saving the Flag. 1167 “ and “Cowboy Jack’’; or, Spoiling a Ranch Raid. © 1168 “ Only Chance; or, Arietta’s Quick Throw, 1169 “ Desperate Charge; or, The Shot That Beat the 2 Redskins. 1170 Young Wild West at Gold Dust Flat: or, Arietta and the Secret Band. 1171 “ in Danger; or, Helping the Trapped Cavalry- | men, ‘ ; 1172 Young Wild West and the Dutehman’s Claim; or, | Arietta Defending Her Life. 3 ‘ Taming the De sea or, The Hard Crowd of Bull Tail After the aneh. qiTs * “Vultures”; or, Arietta and the Band of Ten. 1175 ~“ ~Calling the T'wo Gun Man; or, Saving a Sher- ift’s Life. : 1176 “ and the Boy Ranchero; or, Helping a 'Tender- foot to Suecess. ; BD i Goes ung ones Jake’; or The Boss of Gimlet fuleh. 1178 “ and the Choetaw Chief; or, Arietta Defying the Redskins. 1179 “ Defying an Ambush; or, Arietta Leading the” Cavalry. “Wor sale by all newsdeaters, or will be sent to any ad- dress on receipt of price, 8c. per copy, in money i or postage stamps by HARRY E. AVOLFY, Publisher, Inc. 166 West ,23d Street New York City “Moving Picture Stories” A Weekly Magazine Devoted to Photoplays and Players PRICE TEN CENTS PER COPY Each number contains Three Stories of the Best ‘Films on the Screen—-Liegant Half-tone Scenes from ia the —Interesting Articles About Prominent People in- Be be: Films—Doings of Actors and Actresses in the Stud) and Lessons in Scenario Writing. } ; HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, Inc. 166 West 23d Street : New York Git
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FAME AND FORTUNC wins | NEW YORK, MAY 29; (1926 - YERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS Hiugle Copies oor, see ve ots Postage Pree & Centa Une copy Vhree Months...4,-.- “ i 00 Une Copy Six MuDtis........06 M 4S 2.00 Une Copy One LYeur.....seeeeee Make LS, 4.00 Canada, $4.00; Loreign, $5.00, HOW TO SEND MONKHY — At our risk send P. O. Money Order, Check or Kegistered Letter; remittances it any other way are at your risk, We accept Postage Stamps the same as cash. When sending silver wrap the Coin in a sepurate piece of paper to avoid cutting the envelope. Write your name.und address plainly. Addvess letters to HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, Inc., Charles E. Nylander, i 166 W. 28d St, N.Y. Harry BE, Wolll, Pres, } Sec. 'L. ¥, Wilsin, Treas. ITEMS OF INTEREST DIVINING ROD MAY FIND STREAM Because a peach tree limb, used as a divining rod, “tipped” for water at a spot in a:Lynchburg, Va., street, city forces are digging up that street in quest of a small stream which has been flow- ing through the basement of a bank fox three months. lf the peach tree limb divines correctly, the city will pay for the excavation and stop the ~~ jeak, but if the “tip” is wrong and the digging - futile, the bank is to pay for the digging. THOUSANDS SEE CAVE-IN ~ Thousands of persons are visiting the vicinity of Union Church, a village west of Brook Haven, _ Miss., where the earth is cracking and sinking in an area a quarter of a mile long and 40 feet wide. The dropping of the earth continues at an es- “timated gait of a foot a day. One theory is that Years ago aborigines inhabit- ing the country dug large underground chambers beneath the hills, the entrance subsequently being filled and the earth only now caving in. FINDS $120 IN OLD SOFA An old sofa formed a part of a load of waste -* dumped near the Beach street grounds, Holyoke, 'Mass., recently, and within a few minutes the ex- citement in the neighborhood was comparable _ only to the discovery of some part of the world. In fact, that particular part of the world was never found to be so well supplied before. ; - One of the workmen uncovered $120 in bills in ' the sofa, which apparently had been, used as a safety vault by a former owner. The finder de- nied he plans to make a tour of the world. Peay 62,000 MILES OF BANDAGE ) The Federation for the Support of Jewish Phil- - anthropies announced recently that the six hos- pitals maintained in New York City-by the or- ganization had used enough gauze bandage dur- ng 1924 to circle the globe two and a half ties e ‘FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY _- periment on. Me _ Yhe federation supports ninety-one charitab institutions, including Mount Sinai, Leban Beth Israel, Montefiore, Jewish Maternity, Joi Disease hospitals. Children under the care of federation wore 14,882 pairs of shoes during th year. Reh e Some of the institutions for children are the Home for Hebrew Infants, Hebrew Orphan Al * lum, Blythedale Home, Hebrew Sheltering Guar: ian Society, Grippled Children’s East Side Free School and the Convalescent Home for Hebre Children. Food and coal are used in great q tities, and by centralizing. buying the feder is able to save considerable money. These asylums and hospitals used 32,00 of coal and 1,000,793 pounds of meat and poultry. They consumed 1,032,000 pounds of bread, 150, 000pounds of butter, 246,572 dozen eggs, 486,- 000 pounds of sugar and 1,218,21, quarts of LAUGHS “Say, have you forgotten that you owe me hundred frances?” “No, not yet; give me tim May—Don’t vou think Charlie has a fine tache? Clara—Yes, and he got awfully mad the other evening when I called it down, ~~ Ivy growing on houses protects them dampness, as the plant extracts every part moisture from wood, brick, or stone. Patience—And you say there were a lo women hanging on to the straps in the- eee ees and a lot of men hanging’ on to. seats, S ee cer i “That lawyer of miné has a nerve,” so?” “Listen to this item in his bill: ‘For ing up in the night and thinking over your ten dollars.’ ” ee “J don’t see why you call your place galow,” said Smith to his neighbor. “W. isn’t a bungalow, what is it?” said the nei: Mother—I haye just heard something thi ought to know. Your father tells me that husband is hopelessly involved. Married. ter—Isn’t that lovely! Now, maybe, he’ll over all his property to me. “Well, did he pay you?” asked the w dentist who had been to collect a bill for set of false teeth that he had made for almost a year before. “Pay me?” grow! dentist. “Not only did he refuse to pay actually had the effrontery to gnash at with my teeth.” 33 _She—You won’t object to ‘having mamma live with us after we aré:ma you? He (a young physician)—Not ; fact, she’ll be most welcome. She—I’y you feel that way. He—Yes; yo always ailing, and I really need s
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ee WORLD'S TINIEST ZOO INMATES The smallest animals in the London Zoo are a ygmy mice from Gambia in Western Africa. "hey are smaller than bees, and a pair could asily set up housekeeping in an ordinary safety natch box. While the pygmies were being sipped to London fifteen of them escaped through ole smaller than might be made by a lead cil and were never seen again. d CHEAP WIVES Uganda a man can buy a handsome wife for pulls, a box of cartridges, and six needles, d if he has’ the luck to go a-wooing when man happen to be a drug in the market he can a suitable damsel for a pair of shoes. A -affir girl is worth, according to the rank of her mily, from fotr to ten cows; and in Tartary father will surrender his daughter until he $s a good quanity of butter in return, and in xtain parts of India no girl can marry unless ar father has been pacified by a present, of rice A WATGH BOY : no uncommon sight to see a boy watching 1ttle in order that they may not stray. or keeping rds off the crops. A watch boy whose duty it is ep a lookout for a school of fish and who sits ‘gentry box set upon stilts is characteristic of orway- Fite seen of this lad’s labors is the shore of e Norwegian fiord. His little sentry box is de of wood and is perched high upon posts. ‘the boy sits, gazing out across the arm of sea, employing his keen eyesight for the bene- of the farmers, who depend upon him to give arm when a school of fish shall appear. » They work contentedly enough in their fields, ‘onfident that the lad will let them know when it e to read a harvest from the sea instead of the lands. When the signal is sounded the ers leave their work, throw their big nets oy their shoulders and hurry off to their boats. “Sentinel boxes similar to those employed in y were in use among the fishermen on the hores of the Mediterranean, and it is supposed 44 the Vikings brought back with them from of their piratical raids the idea that has -in practice eves since. r3 x ; - < .PEKINGESE DOGS ingese dogs, otherwise Chinese lapdogs, . curious history. I ‘rans d took back to his captain a little dog that was posed FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY POINTS OF INTEREST , need lime for making their shells, but they do ble danger of infection with typhoid and other lonesome little creature, the other dogs taking exception to his Oriental habits and appearance, and when the Prince and Princess of Wales re- turned from a continental trip, the latter pleaded with her mother-in-law to be allowed to take Looty to Sandringham. About six months later Looty’s mate arrived « from China, and the breeding of this- species of dog became wa diversion in fashionable society. Not many years ago a number of women got to- gether material for a dog show and ¢called it the Association of the Dogs from the Palace of Pe- kin. Looty, who had long since passed to dog heaven, was represented by a very numerous progeny. : SNAILS ARE NUTRITIOUS ‘ “All snails. are edible and nutritious,” says Canon Horsléy in a book on British land and fresh water molluscs, just. published. He goes on | to say that even the common or garden snail, ° sade? insipid, is as nourishing as calf’s-foot jelly. : , There is a large white-shelled snail called Helix pomatia that is commonly eaten by con- noissetrs in the south of England, while all over France, Italy and Spain several species are used as food. In France there are many snail farms, which yield a good profig to their owners. In the French and Italian quarters of New York snails "may be bought, either alive or cooked, and at most of the French restaurants they are served, ~ eae farcis” being the most usual form of the dish. Snails are easy to raise in large quantities. They not have to be fed, as they can find their own | food, which is exclusively the leaves of many plants. .They are most delicious when property prepared and cooked, and, as Canon Horsley says, as nourishing as calf’s-foot jelly. Snail culture apparently has not made a begin- ning in this country, the few snails found on the market here being brought over from Europe alive in barrels and casks and sold by fish dealers in our large cities. Writing in the last Year Book -of the Department of Agriculture, Mr. E. W. Rust suggests that the opportunities for snail- growing are really much better in the United States than in Europe. While in the Old World, the snail-grower generally has but a small piece _ of land on which the snails must be confined by a fence of special design, and where they must be regularly fed, in this country there is an abund- ance of waste land where these creatures might | be successfully raised without attention, and as they do not wonder far, they would not need to be confined. Mr. Rust states that the Mississippi — Valley offers idea] conditions for snail culture. There is no reason why snails should not be used to some extent as a substitute for oysters, which they resemble in flavor. Their feeding habits Og ies = not, as in the case of oysters, involve the possi- diseases. — a
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DECOYS FOR THE TSETSE FLY Scented decoys for the deadly tsetse fiy are now employed in up-country districts by Government entomologists, says Science. In order to trap and destroy the insects which cause sleeping sickness, dummy animals are being erected upon which the flies light with the intention of biting the animals. If animal odors cling around the dummies the flies will linger about until killed. _ Images of donkeys with brown paper legs are commonly employed. : HEN MOTHERS PUPPIES When a mother beagle hound on the farm of James W. Cesan, in Agawam, Mass., deserted her four puppies, the orphaned family were taken over by a Rhode Island Red hen. Now they are inseparable. Mr. Cesan first discovered the waifs snuggled beneath the hen. The only drawback seems to be the_hen’s failure to interest the puppies in the worms and other choice morsels she provides. — HE MADE IT HIMSELF The first time 20-dollar yellowback gold certifi- eates were issued a Government engraver re- eeived his salary in these new bills and decided to take a short trip to New York. When-he paid his hotel bill he gave the clerk one of these new bills, whereupon the clexk scrutinized it and re- fused it, saying that he had never seen such a - pill, and it wasn’t good. The engraver assured him it was good, for he had made it himself just last week. “That’s what I thought,” returned the clerk as he rang for the house detective. : RECOMMENDS CHIMNEYS FOR AUTOS Professor Yandell Henderson of the physiolog- ical chemistry department of Yale, an authority on poison gases, suggested the installation of chimneys on automobiles and motor trucks to eliminate the contamination of air near the ground, in an address before the Yale Branch of - the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. _ Experiments-conducted by Prof. Henderson and Prof. J. A. Haggard, as associate, have-disclosed that a large quantity of harmful gas is thrown off by all gasoline-driven vehicles. With many automobiles on the streets, he said, it does not 2 take long for the air to get foul. He said if long ehimneys were used the injurious gases would. be -* discharged above the breathing range of persons _ walking in the streets, vi : FISH GATHER IN MILLIONS FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY | HERE AND THERE ' redesigned and simplified currency is _ pect a bill of any other denomination bearing ' when the Government retired $270,000,00 -notes have the eagle on the back and ‘ton’s portrait on the face. «They a eats See Moa a ne ae oe Re But.a better idea of the density of these sc of fish 1s aiforded py the tact that fishing 1 with hook attached can be sunk in the water pulled out, instantly with just as many fish there are hooks, be there a dozen or fifty. Ton: these herring are taken by the fish companies anc frozen ‘in boxes for use as bait for the halibut — fisheries. They are an excellent table fish and. there ought to be a profitable market for them the interior. As yet, comparatively few o are shipped, though dealers are now calli them. Fishermen say the herring seek the’ to escape the whales, which prey on them im ce) tain localities during their migrations. ONE-DOLLAR BILLS Most of the dollar bills now in use are no m like those of a year ago than a limousine is a truck. The bill has been redesigned and s ardized in the interest of quantity productic Government is now getting out only one m place of the five old models. All dollar bills i the future will be. exactly alike, except for slight variation as between silver certifieates ; United States notes. The Government ha making the new design for two years and been putting it out for eighteen months. — If the reader will reach inte his pocket dollar bill, the chances are ten to one he will - a silver certicate of the new design. A the back will show a much simplified desi, out pictures, consisting chiefly of a scr panel and lathe-work border. There is no ican eagle in the centre, as on the old s tificate. The central] figure on the face ture of George Washington. ; It is the intention of the Treasury Depart that this picture shall be made the invariable bol of the dollar bill, never appearing | other sort of money. A favorite method counterfeiter is to raise one-dollar bills © or twenties. by changing the numbers. It more difficult to change the pictures. Wh tion the public should come to associate the ; of Washington with the one-dollar bill and picture. There are still five varieties of one- in circulation, as follows: Treasure notes of 1890, when a oes issue. $152,000,000, $64,702,000 in one-dollar bills, 1 put out under the Sherman act for the pu: of ‘silver. These are being retired as they co in, about 300,000 now remaining in cireula tion Federal Reserve Bank notes issued in of its silver certificates, to melt up that 1 of silver dollars and sell the silver to Bri meet the demand of India for that. metal tired, : ees Nationa] bank note e-dollar der nted in th cS, ALE S ut
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IN THE CRYPT By JOHN SHERMAN: uring my trip to England and Ireland I had ny curious adventures. That is natural, of e, as men of our cloth are more likely to across queer characters and see. strange Ss Pi focovced at once to lay the tale before enlightened readers, feeling sure that they be as fully interested in the remarkable entures of Leslie Thorburn and the heroic de- yotion of his daughter Ethel. : ~The man was griminal, to be sure, and yet I yuld not help sympathizing with him, and feel- iz sorry for his lovely child. ; ‘ never in my life felt more like neglecting uty and letting the man go free, but I had m my .word of honor that I would capture and so there was nothing for it but to hunt ions had been put to it from time to time. t+ grew to be most picturesque, with its erent styles of architecture, looking like an renious piece of patchwork. ; h one wing—the oldest—was a quaint chapel + stainedglass windows, sculptured saints on lis, and a queer little pulpit built of oak d upon high, and surmounted by a sound- oard. Beneath the chapel was the crept, or vault, here reposed in state the bones of Thorburn’s estors, their tombs being marked by eraven -of brave knights in armor, saints, angels, her devices. : $ ne tomb in particular, that of Sir Reginald horburn, as the name had formerly been was in a good state of preservation, and en, that of the good old knight remained e figure represented him as lving upon his “with his hands folded upon his breast, as if He was dressed in a sort of half ‘and a full stiff ruffle was around his neck, ead resting upon a helmet, and his feet ¢ the stone image of a dog, once his favor- anion. : ention these details because I had abundant ortunities to notice them, and they became ndelibly impressed upon my memory. With these preliminary remarks, I will proceed » the story of Leslie Thorburn’s crime, '- sueceeded in bringing him to justice. been in a position of great trust and lity; and had appropriated the funds - FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY | deporting myself generall; like that ign es = 29 He had evidently determined that as loner as his good name was to be blighted he might as well make out of the transaction as he could. His peculations amounted to several thousands of pounds, and had extended over a period of : eight or ten years. He had been so long in the : employ of the firm that he could do about as he liked with his accounts, and had grown reckless in his stealines, until at last the firm began to suspect some one, and I volunteered to worlky up the case, giving them my word of honor that f would convict the thief. . There was something about the old cashier's looks that I did not like, notwithstanding that no one suspected him, and without sayine any- thing about it I watched him closely. His firm did not seem to think it at all neces- sary that his books should be examined, but I insisted upon it. and probably he overheard me doing so, for the next day he was missing. It was some time before the full amount of his stealings could be estimated, but it was some- thing startling, and completely upset the notions of the respectable gentlemen who had so lone trusted a thief and placed confidence in a de- faulter. The man had frequently treated me with haughtiness and disdain, not to say contempt. © and I suppose the least little bit of spite ani- ~ mated me when I determined to hunt him down. I apprehended that he would not leave the city at once, for he was a shrewd scoundrel, and seemed to know that the first places to be search- ed would be his out-of-town residence (he was employed in London) and the many railroad stations. I hunted for him, consequently, in the city, but without success, for the fellow seemed to fear me more than the London men, as I afterward learn- -ed was the case, and took extra pains to keep ~ out of my way. I knew all his haunts but neither briberv nor threats, bullying nor flattering could enable me to find the scamp, and at last I announced that I was. completely baffled, and would give up the case. That was all gammon. I was more de- termined than ever to ferret the thing to the bottom. : But I wished the impression to go abroad that I had given up the case as a bad job. : : To give the affair a greater appearance of truth, I took passage for New York on the next steamer, and went aboard with the other passengers. i : Bes Se I did not go very far with them, though, for, changing my dress in my cabin, I appeared as a sailor, and when the pilot left the steamer to her- self I returned with him and was dropped off at — a miserable little place on the coast. ‘ Thence I proceeded to Thornburst, the country- seat of the defaulter, to which I have hitherto referred. ; Procuring the habiliments ofa rustic or “chaw- — bacon,” I hung around the place waiting for a — chance to see the master. TR. Feeling sure that he would turn up before long I remained in the neighborhood drinking ale with laborers listening to stories and gossip in th tap-room of the “Thorburn Arms Tayern” an a ature, the English peasant. orked some and idled }
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‘FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY hours chatting with the old steward of the Hall Oh, what a world of sorrow there was in # who would not believe that his master was guilty short sentence! os : of any wrong. ' “No—no; he will send for you before long. and “T tellee, my mon,” he would say to me, “I you will be happy once more,” said the other, care na for what they say but a Thorburn never auickly. : war known to do wrong and my master will not “No Arthur, I cannot be happy with the know be the first to break the rule.” edge that my father is a thief. You would no I acquiesced in this. belief and then the old ave the daughter of a forger and embezzler for man continued: — : a wife. ae “There is poor Miss Ethel, all he’s got now _ “Indeed I would, for you have done no wro "a that will cling to him. I-.don’t know what to. I blame ‘you not, and jgpile I cannot condon think, but she seems to pine and grow thin, as your father’s crime, I will at least assist him if some sorrow was eating her up.” escape.” / ; I asked what had become of the rest of the “Thanks, dearest, thanks! I could never: family. dure the thoughts of my poor father being s] “Hugh married against his father’s wishes and UP in prison; it would break my heart.” was cut off; Rob went to America and was dis- “There—there, .iny love, compose yourself, owned for leaving the old homestead; Hal drank must go now; but remember tonight, in the _ - himself to death and broke his,father’s heart crypt, at eleven!” ° = Si with his wild ways, his debts being something “JT will, never fear. My ol pets terrible, and Margaret and Eleanor married men me, for I can trust her with peer es Ms who had nothing,’ and had to be supported by The néxt moment her lover—for so I juds their father-in-law. him to be, and subsequently learned that he w: “Wasn’t he extravagant himself?”’I yentured “and had disguised himself so that he could a to suggest, but the old man flew into a rage, Ethel’s father—disappeared in the woods, an and I said nothing more about it. I learned, completely lost sight of him. . +e however, that my theory was corréct, for Thor- Ethel quickly returned to the house, anc - burn had bought all sorts of things that he had quickly followed, turning over in my busy ~~ no need for, had speculated largely, and during a plan that I had formed for the capture the last year or so had gambled away hundreds defaulter. we: of pounds. I succeeded in making all m nen 5 His daughter Ethel, who was the only one left. and at ten o’clock that night was bidder ag y to him, was well provided for out of her father’s jn the erypt under the chapel. I had often Q stealings, though she knew nothing of it until there with old Simon, the steward ice after the crash came. * "the place well. Many times I had though She had been educated in France, had traveled the criminal would find an excellent hiding all over the continent, had been furnished with an there, and on that account I had studied. unlimited amount of money, besides silks, laces. and knew every secret passage it contained velvets, jewelry and'-finery of all kinds, and not was therefore an easy matter for me to a wish of her heart was not gratified. myself during the evening still clad She was not a spoiled child, by any means, al- rustie garb, and wearing a look of stu ‘hough she had anything she wanted, and her nocence upon my face. ; father doted upon her, while the servants per- At about eleven o’clock I heard voices, fectly idolized her. i lookine up from my place ‘of concealment, I saw her phe Longesd meee ei ue bi the glimmer of a lantern. Sie and was irresistibly attrac o her, partly from ait , : i her great beauty, but more on account of her 44 Yootcteps cease’ Tookonteen te thn’ te Oe caw ie ae nt bear to think of her the, partition behind which I was concealed, father’s - disgrace, and would not believe | it, which did not reach to the ceiling. | ; : : I could see that the light had been set though the proofs were daily accumulating, and ae : 2 “his crime was the one topic of conversation in and then I heard’ a ‘young woman’s voice s the neighborhood. I knew that this was killing ou re eed. welcome to someone whom she her, for she grew more pale and haggard every ; : Re day, and allowed her grief to show itself upon |. Standing on tiptoe, I peered over the p _ her face, which assumed a more spiritual beauty tion, and there, by Sir Reginald’s tomb, stand - *han it hitherto had, as if the girl’s nature was 1m the full light of the lantern which had b ‘ying to conquer her hatred of crime in all placed on top of the stone sarcophagus, shapes and by whoever committed. — Leslie Thorburn, dressed for traveling, with ~TLate one afternoon I saw her go down the arm about his daughter’s lovely form, which sh -chaded walk which led to the gates, pass out and clung fondly to him, and looked up into h ore ict, Bt own, ~~ T-suspected that she was going to meet either made me ashamed of myself for playing her father or*some. one who would tell her about of a spy upon her father. ich ee 4 : “Dear Ethel, appearances are strongly Hidden behind a thick clump. of pushes, I saw me, and I could hardly prove my compl a€ nocence. ete a Sy Szeeee*
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‘FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY hours chatting with the old steward of the Hall Oh, what a world of sorrow there was in # who would not believe that his master was guilty short sentence! os : of any wrong. ' “No—no; he will send for you before long. and “T tellee, my mon,” he would say to me, “I you will be happy once more,” said the other, care na for what they say but a Thorburn never auickly. : war known to do wrong and my master will not “No Arthur, I cannot be happy with the know be the first to break the rule.” edge that my father is a thief. You would no I acquiesced in this. belief and then the old ave the daughter of a forger and embezzler for man continued: — : a wife. ae “There is poor Miss Ethel, all he’s got now _ “Indeed I would, for you have done no wro "a that will cling to him. I-.don’t know what to. I blame ‘you not, and jgpile I cannot condon think, but she seems to pine and grow thin, as your father’s crime, I will at least assist him if some sorrow was eating her up.” escape.” / ; I asked what had become of the rest of the “Thanks, dearest, thanks! I could never: family. dure the thoughts of my poor father being s] “Hugh married against his father’s wishes and UP in prison; it would break my heart.” was cut off; Rob went to America and was dis- “There—there, .iny love, compose yourself, owned for leaving the old homestead; Hal drank must go now; but remember tonight, in the _ - himself to death and broke his,father’s heart crypt, at eleven!” ° = Si with his wild ways, his debts being something “JT will, never fear. My ol pets terrible, and Margaret and Eleanor married men me, for I can trust her with peer es Ms who had nothing,’ and had to be supported by The néxt moment her lover—for so I juds their father-in-law. him to be, and subsequently learned that he w: “Wasn’t he extravagant himself?”’I yentured “and had disguised himself so that he could a to suggest, but the old man flew into a rage, Ethel’s father—disappeared in the woods, an and I said nothing more about it. I learned, completely lost sight of him. . +e however, that my theory was corréct, for Thor- Ethel quickly returned to the house, anc - burn had bought all sorts of things that he had quickly followed, turning over in my busy ~~ no need for, had speculated largely, and during a plan that I had formed for the capture the last year or so had gambled away hundreds defaulter. we: of pounds. I succeeded in making all m nen 5 His daughter Ethel, who was the only one left. and at ten o’clock that night was bidder ag y to him, was well provided for out of her father’s jn the erypt under the chapel. I had often Q stealings, though she knew nothing of it until there with old Simon, the steward ice after the crash came. * "the place well. Many times I had though She had been educated in France, had traveled the criminal would find an excellent hiding all over the continent, had been furnished with an there, and on that account I had studied. unlimited amount of money, besides silks, laces. and knew every secret passage it contained velvets, jewelry and'-finery of all kinds, and not was therefore an easy matter for me to a wish of her heart was not gratified. myself during the evening still clad She was not a spoiled child, by any means, al- rustie garb, and wearing a look of stu ‘hough she had anything she wanted, and her nocence upon my face. ; father doted upon her, while the servants per- At about eleven o’clock I heard voices, fectly idolized her. i lookine up from my place ‘of concealment, I saw her phe Longesd meee ei ue bi the glimmer of a lantern. Sie and was irresistibly attrac o her, partly from ait , : i her great beauty, but more on account of her 44 Yootcteps cease’ Tookonteen te thn’ te Oe caw ie ae nt bear to think of her the, partition behind which I was concealed, father’s - disgrace, and would not believe | it, which did not reach to the ceiling. | ; : : I could see that the light had been set though the proofs were daily accumulating, and ae : 2 “his crime was the one topic of conversation in and then I heard’ a ‘young woman’s voice s the neighborhood. I knew that this was killing ou re eed. welcome to someone whom she her, for she grew more pale and haggard every ; : Re day, and allowed her grief to show itself upon |. Standing on tiptoe, I peered over the p _ her face, which assumed a more spiritual beauty tion, and there, by Sir Reginald’s tomb, stand - *han it hitherto had, as if the girl’s nature was 1m the full light of the lantern which had b ‘ying to conquer her hatred of crime in all placed on top of the stone sarcophagus, shapes and by whoever committed. — Leslie Thorburn, dressed for traveling, with ~TLate one afternoon I saw her go down the arm about his daughter’s lovely form, which sh -chaded walk which led to the gates, pass out and clung fondly to him, and looked up into h ore ict, Bt own, ~~ T-suspected that she was going to meet either made me ashamed of myself for playing her father or*some. one who would tell her about of a spy upon her father. ich ee 4 : “Dear Ethel, appearances are strongly Hidden behind a thick clump. of pushes, I saw me, and I could hardly prove my compl a€ nocence. ete a Sy Szeeee*
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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY _ See ce se &Pon ” ease <The apparent diameter of Antares is 0”.039, a ~~ <seigeed feat a Fela oh Ae thief, and little Jess than that of Betelgeuse, but the real. nave done? She must know: the truth some day, diameter is far larger, being 420,000,000 miles, or it were better you should tell her than half as big again as that of Betelgeuse and twice ; : the diameter of the earth’s orbit. —f r, what does she mean?” ~ It is so far away that its light, travelling at “ell hor ee patina, Se ask her pardon. 182,000 miles a second, takes no less than 370 n 20. iy, if you will, but don’t leave her to years to reach the earth. SS é ax the shame all alone.” “Antares,” writes Professor Russell, “though ‘Woman, you are mad!” : looking fainter than Betelgeuse, is twice as far “And you are a coward! Listen to me, Ethel: away, and is in reality three times as bright. father loves you no longer, or he would tell Moreover, it is fully as red as Betelgeuse, and so il, He dare not deny that vour education. probably gives out rather less light per square ~ your dresses, your gold and jewels have all been mile; so it is,not surprising to find it the bigger urchased by money that is stained with crime.” of the two stars. Its actual luminosity is about 1 poor girl 3,000 times that of the sun;. but according to I almost held my breath, “tell me it is these measures its diameter is about 500 times ar the sun’s, and its superficial area about 240,000 ould to Heaven I might,” groaned the man, times as great. This shows that,“ per square despair, “but I cannot deceive you any longer. mile, Antares gives out only one-eigthieth as much wr father is a criminal. Ethel. and will flv light as the sun—that is, thatthe surface of this the county this very night; the ship is star is much less luminous, and probably cooler, now awaiting me.” : | than the darkest parts of any sun-spot. Let me eo with you,” she sobbed. “Additional evidence of the remarkable and al- nd share his ill-gotten gold?” screamed the most unique character of this great luminary is an in horror. “He has not_even made ‘found in an observation by Mr. Joy—also: with on, and does not mean to. Leslie Thor- the 100-inch telescope at Mount Wilson. Antares - mn, you are a black-hearted villain, and a dis- has a much fainter.companion, three seconds of to the family; but you cannot deceive me. are away, which is s0 overpowered by the rays of my son work for the men vou robbed? jts preat neighbor that it affords a rather severe _are a thief, and intend_to remain one. Leave test of the defining. power of telescopes of mod- , Ethel, for he isa villain!” « _ , erate dimensions. This companion appears vivid- e old woman ceased, but Ethel had not heard ly green, but until recently it was uncertain whole of this long speech, having fainted in “Whether ‘this color arose ‘merely from contrast ther's Ses ys taes ree ike mae Neate deep-red of the primary, or was real.’ oF kissed her ten y, + 2] r. Joy’s spectrograph show that th i nto the arms of the old woman, hurried away. is remarkably. ease: Antares.- he aber Thad anticipated this move, however, and giv- of the Orion type—B3 on the Harvard scale— signal to a couple of men J had in wait- which means that it is a very hot star indeed, | re rushed upon the defaulter, and in a uch above the temperature of Sirius, and far t we surrounded him and made -him a exceeding the.sun. Though so hard to see in the — mer, » A : glare of Antares, it is really fairly bright—of made a considerable resistance, but all.in shout the sixth magnitude; and its real luminosity and quickly hurrying him away, I had must be about fifty times that of the sun, or twice nveved to the nearest railway Station. and that of Sirius. Being so hot, it: probably shines him back to London that very night. very intensely—twenty times the sun’s surface ade a full confession, and gave up what brightness being a iow. estimate; and we may still remained in his possession: but the therefore conclude that its linear diameter is not - + that he had intended to run away without fay from. one million miles. ~ king any. restitution whatever told against «phough the companion is so extraordinarily unlike Antares .in almost every particular, the two rs stars undoubtedly form a true binary paix. They Spann ane — Pista ORES eles are moving together in’ space, and show traces fay ” gee of hee fathere ovine “che oscar. = orbital motion, which, however, is exceedingly © trong again, and in time ceased to re- eeu ss : : ; the terrible scenes through which she See ae ee ae : ; ight in the Crypt. j ne that dreadful night in the Cryp HOW INDIANS KEPT WARM f eo ee ee Ce : Poe Indian ee on the warpath for any — itis ength of time in cold weather he had a very in- - GIANT BETELGEUSE ai genious and simple process for keeping war : f, is a bigger star than Betelgeuse, the could not bulid a fire without giving his location ss of which astounded the world when away, says the Philadelphia Ledger, so at nig only a few months ago. This greater — the party would dig'a number of holes a tares, and Prof, Henry Norris Rus- feet deep and in the bottom kindle a fi bes it in the Scientific American. Its wood (charcoal). r measured at Mount Wilson Observ- would lie on the gro ichelson’s interferometer. Ant res legs hangin the ‘This kept t warning - Ethel received a great ‘shock, but not
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