Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 716) (1919 06 20)

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JUNE 20, ists STORIES © OF a Boys THAT MAKE MONEY. EE ae ae 2Ece . Se bin ts Se ae Broker Brown shot through the door, propelled by Sid's muscular arms, the bomb exploded. with @ concussion that shook the building. The brave boy was sent staggering ovt into the corridcer after the man whose life he had saved.

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FAMEAND FORTUNE WEEKLY STORIES OF BOYS WHO MAKE MONEY once in a while, such «He was Issued Weekly—Subscription price, $3.00 per year; Canada, $3.50; Foreign, $4.00. Harry 23d Street, New York, N. Y. ntered as Second Class Matter, October 4, 1911, at the Post-O E. Wolff, Publisher, 166 Wesa e at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. No. 716. NEW YORK, JUNE 20, 1919. Price 6 Cents. DRIVEN TO THE WALL THE NERVE OF A WALL STREET BOY By A SELF-MADE MAN CHAPTER I. DISCHARGED. “So you've been speculating again, Broker Brown, of No. boy and messenger. “I can’t deny it, sir,” replied Sid Davenport, respectfully. “Didn’t I tell you to cut it out?” “You did, sir.” “Then why didn’t you?” “I got hold of a tip on B. & O., and the temptation to make a haul was too strong for me to resist. “I suppose you made the haul?” sneered the broker. “Not yet, sir. I’m waiting for——-” “Well, you won’t wait for anything in my office,” snapped Mr, Brown. “I told you if I caught you monkeying with the market again I'd discharge you. As my word is as as my bond I shall dispense with your services at the end of this week. That’s all. You can go,” and the speaker turned to his desk, : , As there wasn’t any doubt about the broker being in ear- nest, Sid made-no reply and turning around returned to his post in the waiting-room. “So, I’m bounced. Well, I don’t care. If Mr. Brown can get along without me I can exist without his eight bones a week,” said the boy to himself. have you?” cried Wall Street, glaring at his office a Sid was self-reliant and independent. _ While he was willing to run his shoes off his feet to serve his employer he wouldn’t crawl to any man. ; He always tried to do his duty, and if he made mistakes slips never happened through careless- ness on his part. ! a smart boy and a very capable messenger. Many brokers had remarked the fact, and Brown had more _ than once congratulated himself on having such a boy in his answe. » “Look here When the B. & O. = came his way his good resolutions proved no more stable than a foundation of shifting sand. He yielded to the temptation, and he was now up agai the consequences. . : He was not a squealer and could take his medicine like a major. At any rate he had a thousand dollars up on B. & O. and he was already $500 ahead on the deal, so he could take his bounce philosophically from a financial standpoint. rthermore as his father held a responsible pocinen which enabled him to support his family in good shape, it didn’t make any difference if he was not able to turn in his wages regularly to his mother. evertheless his folks wouldn’t stand for him being out of a job if they became aware of the fact, and his father was sure to demand an explanation of the cause of his discharge. “T'll keep the matter quiet for the present,” Sid told him- self. “I can turn in eight dollars out of my own funds, and the folks will never be the wiser until I catch on somewhere else and I tell them about the change.” At this point in his meditations the cashier called him and sent him out with a note to Brown’s representative in: the board-room. When he reached the Exchange he saw there was consid- erable excitement around the B. & O. standard. A glance at the big blackboard showed him that the price was advancing once more. “It looks as if it’ll go ten or twelve points above what I paid for it. If I make $1,000 clear I sha’n’t worry much over the loss of my job. I’ll be worth $2,200 then, and I guess that’s as much as my father has saved in the last ten years. It’s my opinion I can make more money fo : the market than by running my legs off for any broker in the Street. At any rate with the start I ought to have in a day or two I’ve a great mind to give the plan a trial and see how I come out. I lose all the money I won’t be any worse of than when I started in.” sj Sid delivered his note and then started back for the office. He had hardly taken off his hat when Brown’s bell rang loudly, and Sid went in to see what he wanted. pos “Where have you been?” he asked, sharply. 5 “Over to the Exchange.” ee Bb ae: is ss ty I begs Rayer to deliver iat — ) rough for the day. I give you now because I’m to a directors’ meeting and may not be back. There is a ~ eee! ae ; took the note and put it in his pocket. , young man, who gave you that tip can’t tell you. Sie Brown./ed ics couBenteal” ‘And you bought some of the a buel : <— ) a’ ae @ Siete ti &.

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oe : DRIVEN TO. THE WALL. “Well, that establishment operates on bucket-shop prin-| to fill them with glee, and though they had no love for the ciples.” “Only so far as buying and selling small amounts of stocks. They do business on the square, same as any reliable broker.” ‘“How do you know? That bank is an eyesore to Wall Street and ought to be suppressed. It encourages messenger boys and clerks to gamble by making deals in as low as five| shares of any stock on the list. It has cost a good many people their positions.” “I don’t blame the bank because I’ve lost my job. Nobody ee, invited me to speculate. I went there of my own ac- co - “Do you expect any other broker will hire. you when he learns why I discharged you?” “TI haven’t thought about the matter.” “T suppose you expect to make enough out of your B. & O. went to enable you to loaf around for a while,”, sneered.the trader. “I’ve never loafed in my life, and I don’t expect to begin now.” : “Huh!” ejaculated Brown, putting on his hat. “Don’t forget that errand.” : : ’ 5 “No, sir. JI’ll deliver it all right,” and Sid walked outside. _ At half-past three Sid finished his duties for the day, and then started for a lunch house to a sandwich and a cup of coffee before going on his e a “The note was addressed to a Water Street wholesale house not far from the Brooklyn Bridge, and Sid didn’t expect it would take him long to cover the distance. He entered the warehouse five minutes after four, handed the note to the cashier in the counting-room and then walked - out again. ; As he started up a side street where there was a tall cheap tenement house he saw a crowd of ragged urchins around the door looking into the dirty entry. The screams of a girl inside had evidently drawn them to _ the spot. J i eeWhats the trouble?” Sid asked one of the kids. _ “Mother Moses is lickin’ her gal ag’in, dat’s all.” ‘At that moment the girl in question broke away from her tyrant and rushed out into the street, the crowd opening to _ give her passage, and then scattering as the harridan came Secnine after her victim “Save me! Save me!” shriecked the girl. ~ She looked to be about fifteen years old, with a pretty, in- ocént face that, contrasted strangely with the ragged dress tha clung ‘to her sylph-like form. ; »*Shé ran blindly into Sid’s arms, and then struggled to get him, SwzOh, please let me go. She'll kill-me,” cried the terrified fo she won’t—not: while I’m around,” replied the boy, ving her behind him as the wicked-looking hag made a for her with one hand while in the other she held a uplifted to inflict a blow. ; : ‘woman glared at the young well-dressed niessenger. whi ig alo ga PRON . cal Ly ov. * ven you. ve eueugh already?” retorted Sid, looking the harridan in old woman they began encouraging her to in again, The tumult aroused the attentién of the whole neighbor- | hood and every window in the tenement soon held an occu- | pant, mostly women of untidy aspect. _ The two saloons near by emptied their customers on the | sidewalks, and matters were looking decidedly strenuous. “Tll_ kill you!” sereeched the harridan, making another pase at Sid, with her long, serawny fingers extended to tear is esn. Sid dodged again with the activity of a monkey, and the woman tripped and fell for the third time. . She pitched head foremost against the tenement waif, and, striking the corner of the doorway, rolled over uncon- scious. CHAPTER IL SID MAKES A DOUBLE PROFIT ON THE B. & 0. Nobody offered to pick up the hag. The chorus of satisfaction that went up from the tenement windéws showed that she was not popular among the women of the house. Half the kids rushed to look at the vanquished harridan, the rest efowded around Sid and expressed their admiration of his prowess. “You’re de fust feller dat ever licked Mother Moses round here,” said one, “She’s a hully terror, and ain’t afraid of nobody—not even a big cop. She banged de ear of one a while ago, and nearly tore de coat off anudder. I don’t see how yer done it. We t’ought you’d be wiped up.” “Youd better sneak afore she comes to,” said another. “Tf she gets a knife she’ll carve you up.” c “Where’s the girl? Who is she? No relation I’ll swear,” said Sid, looking around the crowd. “You mean Nellie. Nobody knows anyt’in’ about her ’cept she lives wit’ old Mother Moses. If I was her I’d run away. I Sues she’s afraid te do dat.” e girl had disappeared at any rate, so Sid guessed he’d better go on his way before the hag came to her senses and made more trouble for him. ; m Accordingly he wabed his way through the crowd and walked off, followed by many admiring glances. : When he reached the corner he saw a policeman hurrying down the other side of the street. ; 4 “I didn’t get away any too quick,” he thought, as he con- tinued on. ~~ He couldn’t help thinking about the girl he had defended as he walked along. ; Although attired in rags, and Speareeny, of the tenements, there was something about her that seemed to say she was out of place in her crude surroundings. At any rate Sid felt a strange interest in her, and he thought about her all the way home. ; Next morning he bought a Wall Street daily on his way down town and scanned the market report of the previous day’s operations. ~ B. & O. showed an advance of nine points above what he | paid for it. ai le “It will surely go higher to-day,” he thought, “and it prrpably be cae | for me_to sell out at the first chance be any event I'll take a chance, for now that I’m prectialy out of the office it’s to my interest to look after mi : Mr. Brown gave me a pretty. cold more than one. ded he wouldn’t take more back he ran up to the little bank and ordered bis on the fol- ls

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od _ dem away with : galdbhy pied dete DRIVEN TO THE WALL. 8 His father was ambitious to miake a broker of him, and| watching the crowd of employees hastening to their offices— had asked Mr. Brown some weeks before to get him an open-| a sight that made him feel like a duck out of water—he went ing in Wall Street. The broker hired him to fill Sid’s shoes. He wouldn’t have thought of doing it only he was angry with Sid for Leong omit | to speculate after he had told him not to, and it wasn’t long before he regretted making the change, but then it was too late to rectify his mistake. The office foree were much surprised when Sid bade them good-by on Saturday noon. ’ It was the first intimation they had that he was going to leave. They were not aware that he had been discharged, and he did not tell them. They supposed he had struck a better job in some other office, and wished him good luck. “Well, I’m worth $2,500, and that’s better than holding down any messenger job in Wall Street. My folks don’t know that I’m worth twenty-five hundred cents. If I can’t average a whole lot more than eight do a week by using my money to some advantage I shall be greatly sur- prised,” he said to himself as he walked to a lunch house to get something to eat. ; Instead of going directly home afterward he walked down to Water Street and made his way in‘the' direction of the seer in front of which he had had the scrap with the old arri | His purpose was to find out if possible how the girl Nellie Was getting on. é He had a strong desire to rescue her from the clutches of such a villainous companion, and had an idea of consulting * the ice on the sub en he reached the teneément he saw one of the boys who had ken to him sunning outside of the door. Walking up to him he said: “T suppose you ‘don’t remember me?” “Sure I do. You're de feller wot put it all over Mother Moses de udder afternoon. A ep came up after you sneaked and_seein’ de old woman lyin’ like & dead one was goin’ to send for an ambulance, but she come to and told him she wasn’t goin’ to no hospital. Den he wanted to know wot de trouble was. She told him it was none of his business. Dat she had jest been lickin’ her gal for bein’ sassy to her, and she guessed she had a right to do it as much as she wanted to. She didn’t say nottin’ about the scrap. When she went into de house he found out all about it from de men who had _ “What part of the tenement do they live in?” “Dey ain’t dere any more.” “No!” cried Sid, surprised and disappointed. \ “Some feller knowed the old woman come and took their traps, and everybody ’round here is ae ar gone, eg cay. had RA. Se de all nght. Bu old woman was a hully ter- dre did they live here?” or four months.” me that a girl like Nellie should stay know for? Want to tackle de old || was*a messenger, of the Exchange. Tt felt rather range for him to redlize that he that for the present his hus up to the little bank and took his seat on one of the chairs provided for customers fronting a good-sized blackboard. As matters were lively in Wall Street there was already quite a crowd of cheap speculators present. ae B. & O. still occupied public attention, though to Sid’s eye it looked shady at 124, which was the figure it had closed at on Saturday noon, “It’s my opinion it’s due for a break,” he thought. “I don’t think it will go much higher.” He amused himself watching the people in the room, and wondering how many of them were out of work. When the Exchange opened at ten the quotations began to come in, and were put up on the blackboard under their respective headings by a small youth employed for that pur- pose, : B. & O. opened at 124 1-8 and gradually went to 125. The next quotation was 124 7-8. When Sid saw that he came to the conclusion that the tide was turning, and going up to the margin clerk’s window he put in an order for the bank to sell 200 shares for him, de- positing $2,000 to cover the margin of security required. — Hardly had he got back to his seat when B. & O. was quoted again at 125, and then went to an eighth above that, and finally back to 125. : For twenty minutes it hovered at that figure and then be- gan to go down an eighth at a time. At eleven o’clock it roosted a while at 124, and then it slumped again to 123. . ane caused a rush of the speculators long on the stock to cash in. Sid watched the dropping of the price with great interest and excitement. ia ti sold short at 125, and now at 123 he was $400. “This knocks the messenger business into a cocked hat,” he breathed. “I’ve made about a year’s wages inside of an hour, and I may collar twice as much before the day is out. - Brown did me a big favor by bouncing me. On top of it all Unt boss of my own time. is is what I eall fine.” When one o’clock came around B, & O. was down to 121, and that meant Sid was another $400 to the good. He had no thought of going to lunch as things stood. In fact he did not think at all of his stomach. é, He kept his attention glued to the blackboard, and his eyes on the quotations of B. & O. as they came out. ‘ At two o’clock the stock had reached 119 1-2, and its. down- — ward move came to a stop. , : tome quotation was 119 5-8, and the next an eighth . 1igher, ne “I guess it’s time for me to close out my deal,” he said, “or I’m liable to lose some of my profits.” . So he went to the clerk’s window and ordered him to buy 200 shares of B. & O. to cover the amount he had sold, J as soon as this arrangement had been put throu . strolled out of the room and went to lunch with a appetite, cs ; After eating he went into the messengers’ entrance of the Exchange and looked at the blackboard there. : i He saw that B..& O. had recoyered to 121. “a He returned to the little bank and remained there watching | the market in general till three o’clock, then he walked down ~ to the Battery; spent an hour there with the crowd of idlers, _ and after that went home. ; The following morning found him at the little bank i but ali he did that day was to settle with the bank and ‘col-_ lect $1,000 profit. ~ 2 us — CHAPTER III. TROUBLES OF A NEW BOY. | After epeniae an hour at the little bank on Wedne morning Sid came to the conclusion there was othr for him, so he went out to watch life on Broad street Le,’ be . ih at

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’ DRIVEN TO He almost wished he was back again with Brown. “Tf I hadn’t been bounced I wouldn’t have made that $1,000 on Monday,” he told himself. “I wouldn’t have collected that sum in two years had I remained a messenger, so what am I kicking about? ‘The trouble is I’m not used to doing noth- ing. I must try and think up some way to put in my time between deals. I guess I’ll go down to the Curb and see how the mining brokers are getting on.” As he started to cross the street a boy ran up and slapped him on the back. “Hello, Sid, how are things?” The speaker was his friend Dick Pratt. “Fine as silk,” replied Sid. : “You don’t look as if things were rushing at your office.” “You mean Brown’s office.” “Of course—what else?” “Well, Brown’s office doesn’t worry me much at present.” “What do you mean by that?” “I’m not working there any more?” : “No,” replied Dick, in surprise. “When did you, quit?” “Saturday.” “You don’t say. Make a change for the better? “J think I did. At any rate there’s more money in my new occupation.” “Then you’re not a messenger any more?” “Not at the present moment.” _“Who is your new boss?” P i “A party about my size and general appearance. “What’s his—Gee! There’s my boss coming across the street. Tl have to skip,” said Dick Pratt, hurrying away. _ . Sid went over to the Curb market and stood there for a while. Business appeared to be good with the traders and a lot vot stocks changed hands while the boy stood there. ’~ “Hello, Davenport, this is the first time I ever saw you standing still,” said a trader Sid knew, grabbing him by the arm, : “Yes, sir; rather a new experience for me,” replied the ex- messenger. &€Dt,1-¢ _ “Yes, sir.” Tay “Thank you, sir. I’ll call on Mr. Hodge.” e er then said good-by and walked away. Sid, how gag dae plea oat ah cond around to s office. ar ‘to his recent success in the market he was not anx- ‘go to work for anybody. ‘ ouldn’t want him to speculate on thé side any Brown did, and Sid felt that he could do a whole speculating than carrying messages around the eel toniks for the Fe ae Sy ; xt deal he embarked in ‘oor Rees and clean him out of considerable}. » of chance, whexe the blanks greatly| THE WALL. experience undeceives them, otherwise they wouldn’t go into the garne. So instead of rushing down to see Hodge, Sid walked back re the little bank and spent the rest of the business day there. While he was there he saw Brown’s junior clerk, Phil Hooker, come in and make a deal at the window. Sid grinned to himself. “Brown would throw a fit if he knew that Hooker was in the game, too,” he thought. “It isn’t unlikely that he’d get . the bounce also. Well, he won’t find out through me, I wonder how his new messenger is coming on? He doesn’t look like an ideal hustler to me. Maybe he’ll turn out all right after he gets broke to harness. I wish him luck at any rate.” At a quarter before three Sid left the little bank and strolled down Broad street. _ He thought he’d look in at the messengers’ entrance to see if any of his acquaintances were there. As he turned in a boy pushed by him in a great hurry and preceded him in. “Hello, there Clarence Townsend, now.” That was the name of Brown’s new boy. Clarence approached the .rail with an air of great im- portance, He had a note in his hand for his employer’s representa- tive which he had been instructed to deliver in a hurry, as it was nearly closing time at the Exchange. The rail was lined with messengers waiting to deliver notes. As one of them left Clarence sprang into his place, but in doing so he trod on the foot of the boy on his left. “Hey, who are you walkin’ over,” said the messenger, fetching him a dig with his elbow in the stomach. eg cried Clarehce, falling against the boy on his right. f : “Who you shoving, you dude?” exclaimed the other, push- ing the new boy against the other one. “Holy smoke! Do you think you own this place?” cried the first boy, who was red-headed and aggressive, knocking Clarence’s hat off, and elbowing him out of the line, wnicn closed up. . Clarence recovered his hat and then retaliated by knocking the red-headed lad’s hat over onto the floor of the Exchange. That precipitated a scrap between the two, and Clarence got a black eye in short order. Sid saw an attache rushing to the scene, so he separated the combatants just as the Exchange closed, and all the boys put Clarence and Sid made a dash for the sidewalk. ; “There’s your note on the floor,” said Sid, as he started. to go, too. : ‘ The new boy, looking much the worse for his experience, _ picked it up and looked around the Exchange in some per- — plexity. é “You'd better get back to your office,” said Sid, “You can’t deliver that note now.” 5 “T don’t like this job,” replied Clarence, grouchily. “I don’t know what I’ll say to Mr, Brown when I get back. He | told me the note was important, and must be delivered be- fore this place closed. If those fellows had let me alone I’d have done it. I’ll have a swollen eye to-morrow. I guess I'll report sick and not come down. I’d like to get square with the ch ho hit me.” ; “ey wouldn't try if I were By ” said Sid. “That’s Mike Brady, and he’s a tough lad. He'd be likely to do you up.” “T don’t care who he is. He’s got no right to hit me,” said Clarence, stepping outside with Sid. Just then the man for. whom Clarence brought the note Neg a ieee: and seeing him the boy stepped up and h it to him. " “his is a nice time to hand me this,” said the broker, after — reading it, “Go back and tell Brown that he sent it over too — late.” ; : : c H ot... J . ¢ ; So Clarence started for the office to report to his boss. “Tf he isn’t in for a calldown I’m no guesser,” thought Sid, ‘after his successor. “He got here in time to deliver _ and 1" fe, but he fell ae a = t the hard luck of an sper é é

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. DRIVEN TO THE WALL. 5 CHAPTER IV. NELLIE AGAIN. * zpving the month that followed Sid participated in several eals, . He ¢ame out shy ow ajority -of them, but on the whole he found himself §500 tO the good, after paying all his ex- Penses, which raised his capital to $4,000, so that he had no call to kick at the way Fortune was treating him. During this time he had thought more than once of the unfortunate Nellie, and wished he might come across her in; but he figured that his chances of doing so were de- eidedly slim. + One afternoon a broker named Carter, who ‘was on friendly terms with Sid, and knew how the boy was employing his time, met him on the street. “Well, Sid, how is the market treating you?” he asked. “T can’t complain. I’ve made over $1,500 since I quit Mr. Brown, not counting the $1,300 profit I captured out of B. & O. a day or two before I left his office.” “You’re doing well, but don’t get over-confident, or you may get a jolt that will make a hole in your capital. If I hear of _ anything good I’ll let you in on it, for I’d just as soon give *you a boost as not.” “Thank you, Mr. Carter.” “You’re welcome. By the way, I’d like to have you do me a@ favor. Ill make it all right with you.” “Tl be glad to do you a favor, Mr. Carter, if it’s in my ) mer replied Sid, who was anxious to stand well with the | roker. “Well, drop around to my office in half an-hour and I'll you what I wish you to do.” “All right, Mr. Carter, I’ll be on hand,” replied Sid, and the trader walked off. _ _ At the sopeite: time Sid called at Carter’s office and was shown into his private room. ; “Sit down, Sid. The favor I wish you to do for me is this: Do you see that package?” said Broker Carter, pointing to 2 small packet on his desk, * : _’. “I surely do,” replied the boy. ' ‘ “Well, I want you to take it to the home of a customer -' of mine. He lives in the suburbs of Hackensack, There are emeurie bonds in that package of the value of $15,000. I intend to employ a messenger, but when I saw you On the street I d my mind. I know you and have every confidence in you, and I believe you are smarter than any A. D. T. boy that walks on two feet.” . “Thank you for the compliment, sir.” “You deserve it. Here’s a couple of dollars for your ex- - Ppenses. You can get a trolley car at the ferry that will take you within a few blocks of your destination. Here is the _-¥eceipt you will ask the gentleman to sign after he has) pened the package and found that its contents correspond .- with the wording of the receipt. You had better start right _ away so that a ean reach Mr. Taylor’s house before dark.” “All right, Mr. Carter./ I'll see that he gets the ackage, and I'll bring you the receipt in the morning,” said Sid, get- oe Hae a and making for the door. % take him long to reach the ferry, and fifteen min- utes later he was boarding a car in the State of New Jersey. He had quite a ride before him, but he didn’t mind that. _ This mission was a change in his daily routine since leav- -Brown’s office, and he was rather tickled at the idea of " an important errand for his friend, Broker Car- ‘When he left New York there was no indications of a in the weather, but when he got on the car on the Jersey side of the river he noticed a bank of dark clouds r ‘the sky in the direction he was going. | hope it doesn’t rain before I deliver my ~ package,” ht Sid, “for I haven’t got an bi pe and if I am aC seek shelter somewhere it will delay me, and that n’t suit me at all.” . ¥ higher and higher as the car*sped on ss er and more somber. the distance had been covered when junction of two tracks and the conductor aS. of only passenger left on board, | “We turn off here. The regular Hackensack car will be along in a minute or two,” replied the conductor. “T hope it will, for it looks like rain, and there isn’t any shelter around here that,I can see.” “There’s a roadhouse a hundred yards away; but it won’t rain before your car comes. Get out now, I’m waiting for you.” Sid got out, but he didn’t like to do it. He thought it was an outrage to have to change cars at that lonesome spot on the border of the marshes that skirted the Hackensack river, and it was particularly annoying to have to change under the present weather conditions. _The car he had quitted ran on to the other track and soon + disappeared in the distance. Sid Tooked back in the direction he had come, but there was no sign yet of “the car behind.” The sky was now wholly clouded over, and was more threat- ening than ever. Through the trees Sid saw the roadhouse which the con- ducter had mentioned. It didn’t look very inviting, and as far as he could see there was not a sign of life about it. About half a mile away he saw other houses strung along at intervals, but they were too far away to relieve the bare- ness of his surfoundings. Five minutes or more passed away and the Hackensack car had not come in sight. ‘ The cold soughing wind that came across the river and the marshes compelled Sid to button his coat close up to his throat. Then when his patience was about exhausted it began to rain, though not hard. It came on harder presently, and Sid realized that he would have to seek the shelter of the roadhouse if he wanted to eseape a drenching. He started for it on a run and soon reached the porch, The house appeared to be closed up tight, which seemed an odd thing for a public house, unless, as he surmised, it was deserted. He soon found this wasn’t so, for through one of the closed blinds a ray of light shone, and presently he heard a girlish voice singing a mournful kind of song. Sid’s curiosity was aroused and he looked through a break in the closed shutters to see what the singer looked like. She was sitting at a small table sewing, with her back toward him so he could not see her face. : There was a lighted candle on the table close to her elbow, and this threw her shadow upon the nearest wall. All that Sid could make out about her was that she ap- peared to be a young girl very poorly attired, _ She was alone in the room, and her surroundings were not particularly cheerful or attractive. It ap to be the public room of the house, for it was fitted with a small bar, graced with a meager supply of bot- tles and glasses, three or four tables similar to that at which - the girl was seated, a dozen very common wooden chairs, while the walls were garnished with several cheap pictures. It was clear to Sid that this roadhouse wasn’t doing any business to speak of, and he wasn’t greatly surprised for he didn’t see where customers were coming from. “J don’t wonder that girl is not in a cheerful frame of mind,” thought Sid. “Sitting alone in that room on such an afternoon as this is enough to give a person the blue funk, It might be that she’s all alone in the house, too. If she is she stands it pretty well. I wish I could get a sight of her face. It strikes me she’s pretty.” ¢ ~ The rain now not only came down hard, but the wind swept it all over the small piazza, so.that Sid found that his place of shelter didn’t amount to much. . “I can’t stay here and expect to keep dry,” he said. “I'll knock on the door and ask that girl if I can stay till the rain lets up. If this is a public house I guess she won’t have any objections. I'll buy a glass of soda, and a couple of good cigars, if they’ve got any good ones here, which I'll give the governor when I see him this evening. If the girl is all alone I’ll be company for her.” au ; So Sid tenet ob the door, and presently a girlish voice asked who was there. q “T’'m a boy from New York on my way to Hackensack,” re- __ pied Sid. car poe on bs A pacogerd me a at e junction yonder, was told to take the next Nae The ear hasn’t shown up yet, and it’s ining so aT. | get well soaked unless I can get in under a 1 I'd like to

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DRIVEN TO THE WALL. eS Ee TN nc ee His explanation appeared to be satisfactory to the girl, for | he heard her unbolt the door, turn a key and then the ‘door; the same.” opened. _ “Thank you, miss,” public house, isn’t it?” ~ “Yes,” replied the girl, in a low tone. As she stood in the shadow, and turned her back to him to close the door, Ww hich she did ‘not lock ined Sid failed to see her face. “J don’t drink or smoke, miss, but rl buy a glass of soda and a couple of cigars in consideration of the privilege of re- maining here a short time.” “You are welcome to remain here without buying anything. We haven’t much to sell anyway, for few people come here. There may be soda. I will see if you wish me to, I’ve ee seen anything drunk here* but whisky, Lascaagr by Jim Ovn: She stopped abruptly and then said: “If you are wet I'll light /a fire in the stove.” “You needn’t take that trouble on my account, miss. Just then he caught a good look at her in the candle light. He uttered an exclamation of surprise. He recognized her as Nellie, the tenement house girl, in whose behalf he had laid out Mother Moses, the old harridan. said Sid, stepping inside. I CHAPTER V. IN THE ROADHOUSE. é . » She seemed to find something familiar about him, too, for ; she looked at him in an earnest way. ' . “I think we have met before, miss,” he said. ‘is Nellie, isn’t it?” “Yes. And you are the boy who——” “Interfered to save you from a hard-looking old woman whose name I was told is Mother Moses. That. happened on —— street in New York, about six weeks ago. You have managed to escape from that old hag, I judge, or I wouldn’t have run across you here.” “No,” she replied, in a hopeless tone; “I’ll never get away _ from either her or Jim Poynders as long as,they are able to aye prevent me.” f -. “Do you mean te say that the old woman is here in this aoe Me ?” asked Sid, not relishing the idea of encountering the yx again, Sghe and Jim have gone to Jersey City to meet one of eee friends.” i re “And they left you here alone?” " es. ee ~ “Why or you take advantage of the chance to make pe? Pee wool at dare,” she replied with a frightened look. - “Wouldn’t dare! If you went to the police and told your story they would put you out of reach of that old woman and her : a bon vould find me and bring me ‘back to Mother Moses, _ She shuddered as she spoke and showed evident ‘terror. wold saw that she was completel “Your name td y under the thumb of the © rascally persons, who centeoied her actions. pike here, Nellie, I’ve taken an interest in you end wonld to do something that would save you from the com- anjonship ot ese eee People aa are living with.” othing for me.” °° oan cee whey ae How ona eed to ee connected with |’ .? You are not one peaeee oe to you? There is s on for it, or they, Seo for oe ys is noth- ‘haven’t seen this th ce: ne ag es “This is a} here now.” |half expected to be killed. She started Why are they hold: | ignorant of would kill me if I did. She said she would, and Jim said ~ They are not “But they never would know you told me. “They would learn. They would , see it’‘in my face. Then they would——” L “It can’t be possible that You bie: ‘been very long in the — society of these persons. You don’t look or act like’a gizl © raised in the slums. Your conversation shows that you have — had the advantage of some education. Your face and figure — indicate respectable and yefined parentage. Had you been kidnaped when you were young, and brought up among such surroundings as the tenement of street, or eyen worse. that life would have’ left its impress on you. Your nature would have been warped like a plank left for a long time ,in the sunshine. You cannot touch pitch without getting it on your hands and clothes. Do you see what I’m getting at? You have not long been under the power of Mother Moses and this Jim Poynders or you would show it. Am I not right?” “{ have known Jim Poynders as long as I can remember. He claims to be my father, but I do not believe it. At any rate he left me, when I was a very little girl, with a farmer and his wife,on Long Island. There I lived until five months ago when Jim Poynders, who had visited me at irregular in~ tervals, came and took me away from the farm. He brought me to New York and gave me in charge of Mother Moses, with whom I lived in the tenement on street. She treated me with great harshness, particularly when she was half drunk, as she mostly was. I made one attempt to run away, but ‘she caught me before I got far, and she whipped me so cruelly that I could hardly move for a week. She Mold me then if I tried it again she’d kill me, and she thrust a wicked-looking knife before my face. She looked as if she meant it, and I believe she did. I have heard her mutter in her sleep about a policeman she stabbed years ago in Boston. Jim also told me that Mother Moses would think nothing of cutting me into ribbons if I tried to get away again, an he said he cowldn’t prevent her if she took a notion to do it. © The afternoon you int red to save me from her I stayed away from the house till after dark... When Kwent back I to beat me worse than ever when two men of the house stopped her. She got her knife and chased them up stairs. I believe she cut of them badly and probably would have killed him if Jim not come in and hauled a away. ,She would have been — arrested, only that Jim got a wagon, put all our things on it and drove out here, ie we have been since.” _ . Sid listened to Nellie’s story with interest, but he learned nothing from it that would throw any light on the girl’s real history. Who was the farmer you lived with on Long Tslagat 2” he as “His name was John Frost.” — “Whereabouts on the island was the farm?” “Near the town of Riverhead.” Sid made a note of those two facts in his mind. i He was pretty well satisfied that Nellie had been stolen from her rightful home and parents when she was- very young, for some reason, by this Jim Poynders. | 2 He suspected that revenge more than ransom figuted i in the matter, for surely the girl’s parents would have 29587 their last dollar, if necessary, to get her back. ote bgt guy ag the true ane of the nose he bk ere mi ie er reasons in the backgroun to account for the ih bein: sr that under “Oe one control. It was at she innocent victim of it all, was truth, eo bois nears Sid could ities to inte t himoelt user Gr Be at the AR oe cag He determined, however, and see if he could eg a

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4 Then it would come on again with fresh force, only to sub- “side to a drizzle. Sid not only paid no attention to the weather, but he had _ forgotten all about the important errand he was bound upon. The packet of bonds rested in the inside pocket of) oat. Several Hackensack ears passed within fifty yards his _ Place of shelter, but their fleeting presence had no influence on his actions, His thoughts at present were centered in the girl, and he talked as gently to her as he might have done to hi $s own _ Sister, and strove in every way to cheer her up, and assure ~ her of his strong interest in her welfare, present and future. of grati are so good to think of me,” she "said, flashing a look titude in his face. “I haven’t a friend in the world.” ou have one now, for you have me at your back,” said id. “But I don’t want you to get Yourself into trouble on my account,” she said, earnestly. “You really cannot do any- me.” “We'll see whether I can or not. At any rate I mean to $ thing for Lio, no; Jim or Mother Moses would kill you if they t you trying to take me away from them. You don’t ca how bad they are. You must not remain here any r. It is dark outside and they may come back at any moment. If they found you here———” “fT could say I took shelter from the rain. png, down, you see.” euey would put you out and beat me for letting you in,” said, with an anxious look from the door in the direction of the junction. __ “It would never do to have you beaten on my account, so I suppose I’d better go, just as soon as the next-car comes in sight.” “I wish it would stop raining, for it is too bad that you Should get wet.” . - “Don’t worry about me. I won’t melt. Just put your trust in me, and remember that you have one friend who will do his,best to rescue you from your present surroundings,” said - ae taking her hands in his and looking into her eyes. It is so kind of you to interest yourself in me. I know ou are a brave boy and a strong one, from the way you treated Mother Moses that afternoon. She swore herribly that night, when she told Jim about the trouble. She said if she had her hands on you that moment she’d get even with | you, and she meant it. Now go, please go, for if she and Tt is still com- ¢ away alive.” Lt Ro ood-by for the present, Nellie. eahen you least expect it.” the oor. for ~ a tingle over his kiss, and her heart beating furiously a newly-born sensation. reh and began stamping his feet. we ou?” mars e recognized’ the tones and her face went white, _ With great ves aac of mind she shot the bolt and turned ole ‘in the conn Ber-'< ” she ss il excitedly. “You must Sait sorte eon ¢ d 2 a si cae just as mal Sirk aes on t! faces and ce cee te the candle. » eg cried, earnestly. Oe: outside into the black ee DRIVEN TO THE WALL. velled greatly at h's escane from a wound of some bens AS she placed her hand on the knob a man stepped on the | judged that that door connectod with the publie room. passege end go toward gust banged the door open | come. ‘shut the door | so I'it know him if I ever see him ‘so would ask shelter for the “Phis is @ public h busi ‘ness. Come in,” said a ingts assuming a friendly tone. ce re\you alone?” he added a as the - man limped in. a ee ~ 7 present a fine appearance when I call on\Mr. Taylor with the package he is expecting. It’s as black as the ace of spades around here. I’m either at the back or the side of the house, and I’ve got to get around to the front to begin with.” He was conscious that he was standing on a platform or oHrs and lest he get a fall he began to move cautiously for- ward This was not.easy to do in face of the fierce wind blowing against the house: Suddenly his feet slipped and he shot off the low porch like @ cannonball. His extended legs crashed against something that sounded like glass. His body followed his ‘legs through the cellar window, carrying away sash and all in his flight, and he landed in a heap on a pile of gunny sacks. The sacks broke his fall, and though badly ‘shaken up he was not hurt in the least. At first he hardly knew where he was, for his surroundings were pitch dark, but the absence of wind and rain soon m him realize that he had tumbled into the basement or cellar of the roadhouse. He heard somebody come to the door above, look out and then go in again. Then he heard footsteps on the boards above his head and ete he was under the room from which he had just made is exit, After a few moments of imaction he fumbled for his match-safe. Pulling it out of his pocket he struck a light. He saw by the stone walls around and the mass or ks bish that he was in a cellar. Glaneing up he saw the opening through which he had come in. His clothes were covered with particles of glass and the wrecked sash lay on-the bags at his feet. There wasn’t a eut on his hands or his face, and he mar- t, He saw he had carried away the erazy sash in his fli; which accounted for his faco and hands having esca’ scratch, The hole was too high fér him to get out by without the aid of something to stand on, so he started to look for a bo or something elee that would serve the same purpose. .There was nothing ef the kind in’ the cellar. He opened a deor he eame to and striking a match saw a dim found you here, | and she remembered you, you might] flicht of waoden steps before him There was a door at the head of them, and Sid ventured to— You will hear from | walk up and open it to see where it led. it opened on @ hallway, and Sid found that faet out by wrher face to his, kissed} her on the lips, and started! striking a match. Wait till I look out before you go,” she said, her nerves! on the Heht side. Yoere wes a deor at either end of this passage and one Also a flight of stairs communicating with the next story. A dull gleam of light shone under the side door, so so Sid, 4 The door ahead he figured opened on the road in front of — aan, up, Mother Moses; what in thunder is the matter| the house: That was his avenue of retreat, so he was about to start for it when there eame a smart pounding on the door. “Grac’ ous! A visitor! I must get out of this hallway or [ll be seen.” He had a quick choice between entering weed seemed to be 2 renzr room or returning to the cellar, and he chose ne: . former as being the most convenient. Sid heard a man’s steps issue from the public room into ade the doer on which the knock had e knocking was repeated. | thought Sid. “In fact “I su bee that’s Jim Poynders, i se ieee catch a sight of his face it can’t be any one elsa, it was Jira Poynders, and when he got he the door, he drew the bolt, turned the key and peered out. “Who’s there?” he asked gruffly. “A stranger. My auto broke down a short rn up ‘the | read. As it is raining heavily I oer walk any f night. If will pay Joana, damic tha: ar nab m ot. MA deeng he not th : ‘urther and i

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=a. °°” 8 DRIVEN TO THE WALL. : He led his visitor into the main room of the house, which} has brought him to this neighborhod on such a night, and was now illuminated by a lamp with a reflector set in a| what could have induced him to seek hospitality in such a bracket attached to the wall near the bar. place? If that watch chain and diamond stud doesn’t tempt Nellie and Mother Moses were cooking supper in the small! these people to rob I am a poor guesser. Why, people have kitchen off the room at the back near the door that Sid had| been murdered for much less than that—a good deal less. made his hasty exit through. With such a display of jewelry, Poynders and Mother Moses The table at which Nellie had been sitting when Sid peeped | will conclude he has a roll of money | in his pocket as big as through the blind from the outside, before he knocked for|a house. I must save him somehow.” admittance, was spread with plates, knives and forks, and| At this juncture Poynders stepped over to the visitor cups and saucers for three. again. There was a fire burning in the stove which Poynders had| “Supper is bein’ cooked,” he said. “Shall I have somethin’ kindled soon after his arrival with the old woman, for both| prepared for you—a chop or some ham and eges?” of them had been wet, “No, thank you. I had my dinner in Hackensack, and am “Let me help you off with your overcoat,” said Poynders to} not at all hungry. If you will show me to a room presently his visitor. “Then take a chair by the fire and warm your-| where I can rest till morning, it is all I require.” self.” “Nellie,” called Poynders. With the man’s assistance the stranger divested himself of} The girl made her appearance from the kitchen. his heavy overcoat, which Poynders spread across a chaiy at} “Go up stairs and prepare the front room for the use of the back of the stove, and presented a well-dressed appear- iad | Scainecage 3 said the rascal. “He is goin’ to remain all ance. night.” A heavy gold watch-chain was hooked across his vest, dia-| “The front room,” said Nellie, looking at the operator in mond cuff buttons sparkled at his wrists, and a valuable dia- | a nervous way. mond stud glistened in his handsome four-in-hand tie. “T said the front room,” replied Poynders, with a threaten- As Poynders noticed these evidences of wealth an avari-| ing look. cious gleam shot from his eyes, and a wicked expression The fresh beauty of the girl, as well as her artless, inno- came over his face. cent look, attracted Hodge’s attention. The visitor was a man between fifty and sixty years of a that your daughter?” he asked as Nellie moved toward - age, and appeared to be in good health. the door. “Shall I prepare you a glass of hot whisky ? You will find “My daughter! Sure.” it warming after your tramp in the rain,” said Poynders. “She doesn’t seem to resemble you,” replied the trader, “Thank you, I shall be glad to have it,” replied the stranger. | dryly. “I feel quite chilled by the raw night ‘air, the wind and the wThat isn’t my fault. She looks like her mother,” an- in.” swered Poynders. He sat down before the fire while Poynders went behind| “Her mother must be a fine woman, then.” ‘ the bar. ‘She’s dead and buried long ago,” said the rascal. The proprietor sat the roadhouse filled a tumbler half full| “Oh!” exclaimed the operator, and he looked at the stove. of hot water, and communicated a few facts to the old| Poynders went to the front door and looked out. woman in an undertone. “It’s stormin’ worse than ever,” he said when he came bee Mother Moses peered out at the visitor through a crack| “You were lucky comin’ to this place.” in the door, and then whispered something in Poynder’s ear.| “Yes,” an ‘ge Hodge. “It feels comfortable to be andar a “re man er fg ilgh gaa & cigh room — Laer gy be vi 2 on such a night.” id Yr again an ew a few ps of liqui “You were on your way to New York, I suppose, when your pe a small three-ounce druggist’s bottle that he took from 4 broke down?” ass 2 a “Yes,” Then The walked over to the stranger and handed him the| “You were not alone, eh?” ; ekios whisky on a battered tray. “My chauffeur was with me. I sent him back to a black- . ‘ The gentleman took it, swallowed about half of it at . smith shen we passed for help to trv and repair the machine.” a gulp, then after remarking that it seemed to go to the ri “Then he knows you came here?” ae Ea finished it t sad returned the tumbler to the tray, wh i “No, for I was not aware that there was a house in this a Ognders carried away. direction. My purpose was to catch a trolley car at the as ile these things were transpi me in the room, Sid had| junction. It came on to rain so hard that, seeing this house, discovered a sliding panel in the wall of the little room in| I decided to ask for shelter.” 4 _ which he had taken refuge. * “You did the right thing, May I ask your name?” Tt had Asien been put there for the a pergae of passing| “Hodge—Andrew Hodge _ liquor through to persons in the “Of Wall Street?” sepetgitnad Poynders, looking a “bit Judging from the cobwebs hanging around it the panel had startled. _ not been *isturbed for a long time. “Yes. How did you know? Y hac _As a matter of fact, as the little room was ere used by| The man looked confused, but recovering himself said: _ i Pp ynders nor the old woman, the panel had escaped their I heard your name mentioned by a couple 4 ey 3 who Poe stopped here yesterday for drinks and a light lunch a, had it attracted their notice they would have paid; “Indeed. They did not give you their names, did they 2” Spereyd to it. ae es : Stay a cfr jprancere to me.” = avon caution push panel open an inch or odge turne e stove again. } reste oun or niicts whisky to hi oThS heel of the tom bin, ad Weds os aeandiaoe e ng the e heat of the room seems ave le his back was towards ras the bey “ said. “If the room is ready I will go to bed” Phe stepped ela, ready by this time,” said Poynders. ES you,” replied the o rator, risin, m his | AL pases know, ” he otted he “but my I wetting I got c pgp yom seem sane ae a tor. ‘pha = mr tom ber San : Peeyou'll be al Tight ia" th ” said P ou right in the mornin’,” sai oynders, of surprise, or in him he reco ed | his u te at pba: ‘ Fo." “pxchar jie —_ or ncertain steps e door ee SOS See

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his mind about remaining here all night; but she was smart _ enough to keep in the background. I wonder what was the my Matter with him when he left the room? He didn’t act just _ Yight. I hope he isn’t sicky It doesn’t seem to me that the _ wetting he got would affect him in that way, at least not af so soon. When that rascal comes back I must slip up- | Stairs and warn him of the character of the man and woman in this house.” i -__ Mother Moses stood looking at the door which had closed behind Poynders and the operator. _ “What luck!” she chuckled, rubbing her skinny fingers _ together, while a wicked light shone in her bleared eyes. _ “He must have a pile of money about him. Them Wall _ Street men always do. That diamond pin must be worth a lot. Them cuff buttons and that watch and chain, too. Fine _ pluckin’, he, he, he! Fine pluckin’ for Jim and me. No one knows he came here—no one, he, he; he! The marsh is _ handy—right at the door, and no one need ever know. If his body is found it’s easy to say that he walked in there in the dark and the storm. Ho, ho, ho! No one will ever sus- pect us. Why should they? We ought to make enough _ out of this night’s pluck to go West. Jim has been wantin’ _ to go for some time, but things were ag’in us. Now this slice of good fortin’ comes to our door. I know’d some- thin’ would happen soon. Yes, sir; I dreamed t’other night that Jim and me was ridin’ in our carriage like swell folks, and that the money had come to us through that gal. Con- found her fair innocent face. I hate it!” and the speaker worked her fingers savagely. “Jim was a fool to have her brought up on that farm. He should have raised her in - the slums, and then she wouldn’t have that face. No, no; _ she’d be like the others. Ah, if I only dared sp’ile her M4 pets for her. If I only dared; but Jim won’t have it. > im is too Laaoap esha ae but. I’ll make a man of him yet. - To-night, perhaps.” : __ She muttered her thoughts loud enough for Sid to hear the larger part, and the wicked way in which she spoke made the boy’s blood run cold. At that moment Nellie returned, and Mother Moses was ready Poynders came back. f . The tees drew their chairs to the table and began to : i the table. The girl hastened to obey, and by the time everything j ey eat—Poynders and Mother Moses with an excellent appe- te .. ‘Sia determined to take advantage of the chance to go up- stairs and warn Mr. Hodge. ; __—He slipped stealthily out of the room and was presently I the stairs on his toes. ; “He’s in the front room,” thought the boy, stealing along the landing. _ There were two doors in front and two at the back. - Sid opened*the door directly ahead and looked in. _ Jt was so dark he could see nothing, so he struck a match - and saw that it was a small room, furnished with a cot, a x , a small old-style bureau and a chair. _ "Phere was no one there, and a dress hanging from a hook With a hat beside it, and some other female apparel, told him it was the room orames by Nellie. _ “He’s in the next room, which is doubtless larger,”. thought the boy. So he turned the handle of the door on his right and _ walked into the room. ¥ heard heavy from a corner. 3c another match he saw Mr. Hodge stretched upon ed bed with his clothes on. | ae ies ; I’m glad he is not undressed,” breathed Sid. Going up to the sleeper he him by the arm and . Mile bencator did not respond. ek “Wake up, Mr. Hodge,” said Sid, shaking him with more Sires septic e did not wake up, red show sleep,” thought DRIVEN TO THE WALL. © it. If. Mr. Hodge had seen her I think he’d have changed] In that case I can do nothing to get him away from this den of villainy. They will rob him at their leisure, and then perhaps to cover up the crime, throw him into the marsh. I heard the old woman mutter something about the marsh, but what it was I didn’t catch. What shall I do?” Sid was face to face with a very serious problem, and he hardy knew how to act. i Andrew Hodge was a large man, and it was not pos- sible for Sid to think of getting him out of the house by himself. How then was he to save the gentleman from the fate that hung over his head! He made another effort to arouse the operator, but it was as fruitless of result as the other. As he stood in the darkness thinking how desperate the situation was an idea occurred to him. He struck another match and looked at the gentleman. “He has not been robbed yet,” he muttered. “If 1 take property there will be nothing for these people to lay hold of, and consequently there will be no excuse for them to touch him. At any rate I’ll be able to foil them, and that’s a whole lot.” : With this purpose#in view, Sid hastily detached -Mr. Hodge’s gold watch and chain and put them in his pocket. _. Then he pulled out the diamond scarf-pin and stuck it in the folds of his vest. The diamond cuff buttons followed. Then he went through the operator’s clothes and found, as he expected, quite a roll of money, the amount of which he did not waste time to find out. Having secured everything worth taking, Sid left the ec as softly as he entered it and returned to the passage elow. He went to the front door and opened it. ; It was raining torrents outside and blowing great guns. “Lord, must I go out in that?” he muttered. Thm it struck him that he ought to remain in the house exis risk and see that Mr. Hodge was not made way with. It took a lot of nerve to decide to stay in the danger zone when the worst he could expect outside was a e»mnlet2 ducking, which, of course, was bad enough in its y-7; but Sid had as much sand as any boy alive, and he believed it was his duty to stand by the Wall Street man to the limit. So he closed the door, but did not secure it, and returned to the little room at the rear of the passage. CHAPTER VIII. * JEM POYNDERS GETS HIS. Opening the sliding panel once more Sid looked into the public room where he had left Poynders, Mother Moses and Nellie eating supper together. They were just finishing the meal—in fact Nellie was already through and was in the kitchen washing some of the dishes, and thinking, perhaps, of the boy who had prom- ised to help her get free from her miserable surroundings. His kiss. still tingled on her young lips, and the thought of it made her heart beat faster, and sent the red roses into her cheeks. She supposed he was miles away from the roadhouse by that time, and great, indeed, would have been her anxiety for him had she even suspected he was concealed only a few yards from the room in which she stood. The old hag and Poynders were talking together in a low tone, but as the table at which they were seated was close to the panel every word For said was easily heard by Sid. “He’s safe enough, Mother Moses,” said Poynders. “As soon as Nellie is done with-her work we’ll send her to bed and then pay our man a visit.” “That diamond in his scarf must be worth a lot of money,” 9

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"reasons. awe didn’t ate Bf 10 DRIVEN TO caer nec cee e en e errEreeranrernnneTieeretnnrenrnSaEnEnE OSES SSNS RSS <a a a iD ‘ | “Of course, I expect to find a wad in his clothes.” “And when we have plucked him, what then? It’s the marsh, isn’t it? The marsh tells no tales, He will be gone and that will be the end of him.” “The marsh!. No, no.” “And why not?” hissed the old harridan, “Are you goin’ to let him wake up in the mornin’ in the room and find him- self cleaned out? A pretty thing that would be. He would accuse us of takin’ his property, and what could we say? We can’t leave here on such a night as this. Even if we did the police would soon spot us, and then we'd be locked up, and tried, and sent away for a long time.” “We must get rid/of him, but not by way of the wiarahi? “What better Bs than that ?” “Ti’s death and he must not die.” “Bah! . Jim Poynders, you always was -chicken-hearted. Tt will be your ruin.” 0a have my reasons why he rhust live. to me.” “In what way?” sneered the har. “Do you expect to get ‘another chance to rob him? Such luck don’t happen twice with the same man.” “My reasons are my own, Mother Moses,” ders. sourly. “So. You have a secret from me, eh? Poynders, how you go back on me,” agely. “We were to pull together, and divide equally. you try to cheat me ’H— “Well. you’ll do what?” said the man, in an ugly tone. *T'll fix you—fix you, do you hear?” she screamed. “Yes, I believe you ite ag you got the chance,” said ' Poynders; as Nellie, attracted by the shrill tones of the hag’s voice, came trembling to the kitchen door and looked into the room, “Don’t you tempt me, Moses. “You ought to know me. your points, and I'll have my rights.” “And I’ve saved yout neck many a time, for you’re too handy with that tongue of yours. Only for me you wouldn’t ba sittin’ here night. ‘The electric chair would have shocked your old'life out of you long ago.” “Bah! I can look out for myself. , I’ve done’ it before I met you. Was I hung for the cop I fixed in Boston?” The old woman grinned like a famished hyena. “And there are others you know nothin’ about. I’ve ‘got the grit that you lack, Jim Poynders, But we are wastin’ He is valuable repliéd Poyn- Take care, Jim Jim Payhders,” hissed Mother “T’ve helped you work time. I'll send Nellie to bed, and then we’ll pluck our bird.. After that how are you goin’ to get rid of him and still let him live to put the police on us? If I don’t like your plan I will have WY own way in spite of you.” “My plan is to tell him in the mornin’ that the house Was entered by thieves durin’ the night and that we were cleaned out as well as he,” said Poynders. The old hag cackled scornfully. “You expect he will believe “that, eh? And _ ‘th they wiil beli it, too, when he reports ‘that. ‘Do you s'pose I e cops nosin’ around where I am? Don’t you know I’m tends in New York for hurtin’ that on street the night we left there? Don’t you s’pose the Jersey police have my description, and if Poe me here they’d nab me?” ou wasn’t afraid to go with me to Jersey City Pe Ba We took care not to go where we’d run a ape t the cops, ayin dian't we? We visited a pal cf yours who’s ve for es. It would be - police, tter in _ Prent if the. cops came to us.” . “You co — zamieeene sense Sua days.” ere th | him with his own weapon. said the harridan, ae sa Le losin’ your _brains, Jim Poynders? | 1a | around! gpd fel atom the Hor’ his face, where he la THE WALL eas The hag spoke like a person who was laying the law down and would not be gainsaid. ; “T tell you no. I won’t have him harmed,” cried Poyn- der, hoarsely. The hag sprang on her feet, livid with passion. “Nellie,” she screeched, “go to bed.” The girl, who. had finished her work in the kitchen, was glad to take advantage of the order, and left the room by way of the passage. The aspect. of things between Mother Moses and Sim Poynders made her more than ordinarily nervous. She had often seen them quarrel, but never was the old woman aroused to the pitch she was to-ni~ht. Nellie feared serious trouble between them, and she didn’t want to be a witness if they came to blows, for she feared” it might end in murder. She rushed up to her room and flung herself on the ved in a tremor of apprehension, with her hands pressed — her ears to shut out any sounds that might come up to her. She trembled not only for herself but for the gentle-— manly visitor in the adjoining room. She felt eertain that he would be robbed, perhaps mur- : dered, during the night, and the thought of such a thing — filled her gentle Bost « with horror. Outside the storm held high carnival. : The howling wind shook the crazy old building from — ee to roof, and the rain spattered loudly on her — window. It seemed a fitting night for crime to stalk forth oad checked. t ‘ And while she lay trembling on her bed, Sid was also quivering with excitement in the little room below. The old hag with blood in her eye had drawn a wicked locking knife from somewhere about her, and her attitude toward Poynders was one of awful menace, “Is it the marsh or isn’t it?” she screamed, leaning to- i me him in the attitude of a panther about to spring on its pre “No it isn’t,” replied the man doggedly, drawing his hand from his hip. With a screech Mother Moses sprang at him with her . gleaming blade in air, only to stop and recoil as she into the barrel of a glistening revolver. “Thought you’d catch me off my guard, didn’t Mother Moses?” he cried. “But I seat f whom I’m de with. Drop that knife or I'll d \ athe hag uttered a terribl ip dey’ bs but did not obey the order. 4 fhe tried to circle £08 4 him, but the effort was 7 ailure. For every step she took Poynders had to move hardly an inch to keep her covered. Baffled completely in her efforts to reach him, she fans the knifi . on, 7 ‘ e on the floor in a rage and falling down herself seemed to go into a fit. Poynders picked up the knife and tossed it behind the bar. — Pa ti ga the revolver to his pocket he or down at e hag. 4 “It is time we went upstairs You shall have half the ee ’ we find in his clothes and his diamond cuff buttons to boot. ‘Get up and act reasonable.” 5 He reached down to seize her by the arm. As he dd so the wily harridan, who was only shamming, — suddenly rose up, and flung her arms istease his wala : “Here, I say, quit that,” he cried. But he never suspected her deadly object. BF ie talon-like fingers were feeling for the butt of his re volver. In a moment she got one hand on it, drew it from his pocket and gave him a that sent him staggering “Now, Jim-Poynders, I’ve got you,” she screeched, co “T-say i t's the marsh, dye Not only for him upstairs but for you, too.” : Ep fiendish look she pulled the meee. With a There was a flash, a s d Poynders - ” he said roughly. eaned out the visitor, - . 3

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a DRIVEN TO You, ought to have known better than to go agin me. Now _ You'll go into the marsh yourself along with the gent up- Stairs. I'll do all the pluckin’ myself. I'll have your share and mine, too. My dream will come true, for I shall ride ; my carriage like any fine lady; but it will be out West, Where the cops don’t know Mother Moses. Nellie shall be My maid, and wait on me. She’s under my thumb now, but - with Jim out of the way I'll lead her a life, and sp’ile her ) beauty, and do as I please with the miss. Now to business,” - she said, laying the revolver on the table. “Now to pluck the bird, and then to the marsh with both of them, Bah, You white-livered fool!” she cried, giving the motionless Tascal a contemptuous kick with her shoe. _— : She picked up the candle Nellie had used, lighted it and oiteny h of thé panel the bod Sid, staring through the opening é at y -, of Jim Poynders, heard her steps shuffling along the entry, and on the stairs going up. ' When they died away above he woke up to the changed ' situation. s The tragedy that had just happened Rot wholly ‘unexpected by him, for the hag’s purpose had evident to him from the moment she sent Nellie from room, He felt that ope or the other of the two was going to t huft over the difference of opinion about the disposition the drugged operator. ; Peynders yanked his revolver out he thought the was doomed, but the reverse was the fact, owing to eraftiness of the old woman, who artfully turned defeat victory. And now what was he to do? _. There would be something doing the moment Mother _ Moses discovered that Mr. Hodge had been cleaned out al- |_-Teady. e » . She woypld, of course, suspect that Poynders had robbed _ their victim himself while. he was upstairs with him, and * she would come down in a great rage and search his y. Sid’s plan of action was outlined the moment his eyes Bones, othe, revolves: Ay! the table. ith that in lis hand he with on felt that. Mother Moses, s on him, It took but a few moments for him to run inte the room and pick the Then ing for rear door he .removed the key. Runnihg to the front door he took possession of that house at all.” et “Ne: ‘Witen you pushed me Sos af te beck doe T salem! nos THE WALL. 11 ay footing and slid off the porch through a window into the cellar. “Oh!” she exclaimed. “That was the crash we heard. | My heart’ jumped into my mouth when Jim Poynders went | to the door and looked out. ‘I was afraid it was you, and that he’d see you.” ls “I heard him come to the door. I was in the cellar at the | time, | “Do you know if anything happened downstairs? I heard a shot, and then Mother Moses came upstairs and went into | the next room where the gentleman, who took shelter here |soon after you left, is sleeping. I am sure she went there to rob him. Perhaps she has killed him, though I heard no cry. I am so frightened,” and she trembled in his arms, and clung to him as her only protector. “Yes, something has happened. Mother Moses got Poyn- der’s revolver from him and shot him.” “Shot him!” : pene settled him for good, I judge, and you are im. h, my!” “ve got the old woman locked in the room downstairs, and she can’t get out except by breaking through one of the windows. I am glad to keep her away from this part of the house at any rate. If she eseapes she’ll have to leave you behind. I guess you’ve seen the last of her.’for in the morning I intend to put the police on her track. They’re | bound to catch her, Sooner or later, and then I'll see that she gets what is coming to her. I saw her shoot Poynders, and my testimony will convict her. After this I shall take care of you myself. You shall go home with me and my mother and sister will look after you until some arrange- ments can be made for your future. “It seems too good to be true,” faltered the girl. “I told you Yd stand by you and I have kept my word.” . “Yes, yes, you have. I am so grateful to you—indeed am.” “All right, and don’t fear but I will continue to stand by you.. I will look out for you just as if you were a sister, so cheer up, Nellie, and put your trust in me. I'll never go back on you. You believe me, don’t you?” “Yes, oh, yes. You are so good.” He drew her face to his.and kissed, her. “Oh!” she cried, hiding her head on his shoulder. “Are you glad to have me for a protector?” “Yes, yes.” “And you will look on me as a friend?” “Yes.” “Remember my name is Sid, and you will call me that. Now I'm going outside to keep my eye on Mother Moses, and see that she doesn’t get too gay.” “Oh, Sid, be careful. She has a knife,” said the girl, tremulously. . “Poynders took it away from her and threw it behind the bar. She may have got it again, it is true, but I’ve | Zot the revolver she shot him with, and that will protect | me. As for the gentleman in the next room, he’s as safe as you are. He has not been robbed by Mother Moses, be- cause I visited the room while you three were eating supper, and took charge of his money, his watch and other jewelry. The old woman, I dare say, is furious by this time. After shooting Poynders she came up to rob the gentleman, and finding nothing on him she went back to search the dead man below, thinking he cleaned the gentleman out himself when he brought him upstairs. She has found out that Poynders hasn’t got the plunder about him, so I guess she’s searching the room below to diseover where he hid it. joi ened He ene are mounting guard at the head of the stairs. He was curious to learn what the old woman was doing. He also wanted to prevenut her from leaving the house, ed it the | for she wes so slick that she might be able to elude capture if she once got away, and he she\was too dan- gerous a to be at large. : So, after telling Nellie to go to bed and sleep, so as to be foals foe Ronee ereey hentia morning, he went down- stairs. Peeping through the.panel he saw the old woman sitting a staring at her dead partner.in guilt. Taye 20 ay 06 We teaek, witty bis. pocketn. 68 Goes There were signs of confusion around the bar, where the had evidently been ing for the swag she t : 7 hy &

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12 DRIVEN As a matter of fact she had séarched the whole room and then sat down to consider what she would do next. TO THE WALL. She worked herself up till nature” couldn’t stand it and then she fell back in a real fit, which ended in unconscious- en Sid looked in at her she had just come to, the con-: ness. clusion that the plunder was hidden upstairs in the room | where the gentleman lay in his drugged sleep. She sprang up and w ent to the door. “She’s settled,” said Sid. the place?” “Nothing but a piece of clothes line outside,” “Is there a bit of rope about replied Nel- Hey surprise and consternation was great when she found | lie. it was locked on the other side. To her mind there was no one in. the house who could have done this but the girl Nellie. She shook the door furiously and uttered fearful yells. Sid went to the back door and opened it. The storm had spent itself by this time. The rain had stopped and the clouds were breaking up. Taking his knife from his pocket he stepped out and cut Finding the door resisted her efforts she rushed to the| the line. bar and 'picked up a bung starter. Her intention was to smash in the panels and force her way out. Sid realized that he would have to chip: in and prevent Then he bound the old hag securely with it. While he was thus engaged, Nellie gazed fearfully at the dead Jim Poyndeérs. She could hardly realize ‘that one of her persecutors was | gone, and the other in a fair way to follow him, leaving It would not do for her to get upstairs, for he’d only have| her a free girl at last. to follow and tackle her there at some disadvantage. Sid dragged the unconscious harridan out of the way, The present was the best time to take the bull te the| but did not touch the corpse. horns. So when she rushed at the door, with wrath in her eye, he shoved the panel wide open and cried: “Hold on, Mother Moses. Your game is pp. Drop that bung starter or you’re liable to land in the morgue.” . Thus speaking Sid menaced the hag with his revolver. - CHAPTER X. SID AND THE WALL STREET MAN. Lesa. The hag started back with a snarling cry and glared at unexpected apparition of the revolyer and the boy’s face at the open panel. '“Who are you?” she hissed. “And what are you doin’ _ in this house? ” _ “Iam here to see your finish,” replied Sid coolly. uick as a flash the old woman whirled the “tae starter oid was taken by surprise and barely dodged in time to _ save his face. ‘The movement caused him to pull the trigger. * seal was a flash, a report and a terrible cry from the ¥ Eke looked in she gies rolling about on the floor, fea one of her legs shattered by the ball. He watched her for some “moments with grim satis- ould hardly have cared if he had killed Bey though of shedding human blood was repellent to him. vadesis regarded her as better than a wild | made desperate attempts to get on her feet, uttering He w * the idea i He ving the panel he went to the door and was in the]. unlocking it when a hand was laid on his rieeiae ae what has happened?” said Nellie’s voice in his heard, Nellie! I’ve laid Mother Moses out.” aig yu peer Tea Loam she fluttered. ou hear her Pes Supe! don’t you? She’s wounded but I’m She won't be able to e lice will surely get her in® re where she is?” i me.” flung door open ‘and entered the ther fies fairly frothed at the mouth when she saw Sa a hreats a “A : wk wrYou ™ of her le I did it a Aetaiiy. a It sim nplifies mat eet tg I a now, oe flung the shrank tack tortOek > mI id ha by Then turning down the lamp over the bar he locked the passage door, and went upstairs with Nellie. “Everything is safe for the rest of the night,” said Sid. “Is there another bed in the house where I can lie down ?” “There is a cot in the large back room where Mother Moses slept,” replied the girl. She opened the door of the apartment and’ Sid struck a match and looked in. The room was in the confusion that the old hag kept it, but the cot was ready for occupancy, as Nellie had made it that morning and it had not been touched since. “You go to bed now, bes and don’t feel nervous,” said Sid. “You saw me tie the old woman so tight that she can’t possible work herself loose. There is no danger of any more ieee to-night. I'll be asleep inside of ten mimutes. Good night.” He kissed her again, and Nellie returned to her own room. She undressed and went to bed, but its was long before she closed her eyes. A new and pleasant future was opening before her, and that of itself was sufficient to keep her awake. But her heart was swayed by other indescribable sensa- tions, of which the brave boy who had come to her rescue figured most prominently. She regarded him as her one and only friend, and what she wouldn’t have been willing to do for him is hardly worth mentioning, It was a bright, sunshiny morning when Sid awoke in his F strange surroundings. He had not removed his clothes when he lay down, so it was but the work of a moment to put on his jacket, after washing his face and arranging his hair as best he could. Knocking on Nellie’s door he found her already up and waiting for him. He looked into the large front room and found the opera- tor sitting on the edge of the bed looking rather dopy. “Good morning, Mr. Hodge,” he said. “How do you feel?” The Wall Street man blinked at him. “Morning, young man,” he said. “You belong to the house, I suppose 7% ; “No, sir. I’ should hope not.” Masked’ ‘sated iu felt, sir,” added the boy. as you how you felt, sir,” a ie “Rather ra My head: feels a bit light.” a “T_ believe that’s one of the after effects of a dose a? z knock-out drops.” Bg a} eappose T shall sirpeis hen I tell you that you suppose e Ap when ‘you you were . ged last night,” sal d Sid oe a “Tl was last Pia id “Yes, sir. You were hocussed all — The operator “looked at him in “Why "should I have been "he scrnat slowly. “So that you could be rot ‘vith ae 2 Have vou the time?” han ee Hodge's hand went to Lay, watch ‘pocket, as of c

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DRIVEN TO THE WALL. 130 a a, he dived into his trouser’s pocket where he carried is roll. His wad had vanished like everything else. My heavens! I’ve been robbed. Look here, young man, do you know who has done this?” _ He looked at Sid as if he suspected him of complicity in the crime. “Yes, sir. I know all about the matter.” “You do. Are you mixed up in this affa‘r?” _ “Yes, sir; but not in the way I judge you think. Let me introduce myself. My name is Sid Davenport. Until six weeks ago I was office boy and messenger for Thomas Brown, broker, whose office is at No. Wall Street. At present I am not employed. My father is manager for the Parker-Golden Automobile Co. on Warren street, and I live in Harlem. Now you know who I am.” “Well, how is it you are here and know that I was drugged and robbed? Make your story short, for I’ve got to see the police at-once and put them on the track of this busi- ness,” said Mr. Hodge, impatiently. “There is no hurry, sir, as you will understand after you have heard all.” “No hurry! \ Do you know that I have lost $400 in money and nearly $2,000 worth of jewelry including my watch; and chain. My diamond pin cost me $1,200.” “Well, you won’t lose anything. The man who drugged you is dead downstairs, shot by his partner in crime. They quarreled over what should be done with you in order to keep you from reporting the rebbery in the morning. e woman * “What woman? I only saw a very pretty, innocent-look- ing girl last night.” : “Yon didn’t see the old harridan. She kept out of sight while you were in the room below. That’s where she was smart, for had you seen her your suspicions of the character of the house would doubtless have been aroused. She’s the worst of the rascally pair who set out to do you. She insisted that you be thrown into the marsh near at hand ‘on the principle that dead men tell no tales.” F ‘ “What!” gasped the operator. “Did they intend to mur- = , ie ° r me, too?” . _ “The woman, whose name is Mother Moses. did, and be- shot and killed him.” cause the man wouldn’t do it she “She did?” * >. “I saw-her do it.” 5} “You did?” . “Yes, sir. Then she came upstairs intending to rob you ‘herself and secure all the plunder for herself, after which he she meant to drag you to the marsh and throw you im to “Tt js clear that she robbed me, but she did not carry out her other ‘ntention or I should not be here now.” “She didn’t rob you, sir.” “Who did then, if you know?” “J performed that job myself while Mother Moses and her ay ly r were eating their supper.” “What! You robbed me?” ; “Not exactly. I took possession of your property in order to ent it from falling into the hands of the would-be “sobbers. Allow me to return it to you and thus relieve your ‘ is your diamo ick-pin, *s all, sir.” ‘MR. HODGE’S STOLEN DAUGHTER. ‘ ons to said Mr. eee Car- had q| discharged from my employ. | downpour of rain, are the causes that made me come to this - |house. I was admitted by the pretty girl you saw, who, I }may assure you, is entirely innocent of any wrong-doing. | But of her I'll talk with you later on. The woman and the man, the one you saw last night, were not in at the time, Ss oA Lge. they showed up I, for reasons, got out at the ack. Sid then told how he fell into the cellar, where he was |when Mr. Hodge rapped for admission, and all that hap- | pened after that as we have told it in the foregoing chap- ters. The operator was much astonished by his recital. “Where is the young girl?” he asked. “In the next room waiting for me,” replied Sid. “She has been in the power of the old woman and the dead Poyn- ders, but she is now under my care.” “Who is she, and how came she in their power?” asked — Mr. Hodge, in a tone that betrayed some agitation. - ; “She doesn’t know her own real identity. Her earliest recollection is connected with Jim Poynders. It’s my opin- ion she was kidnapped from her home when a little girl.” “My heavens!” ejaculated the operator, now showing un- usual emotion. “Let me see her.” ‘ : “Certainly, sir. I will bring her in here,” replied Sid, sur- prised at the gentleman’s agitation. He went to the door and called Nellie in. “Nellie, this is Mr. Andrew Hodge, a rich Wall Street man, who, as you know, took shelter here last night,’ and narrowly escaped being robbed and murdered.” The = advanced timidly, holding on to Sid’s arm. Mr. Hodge looked at her keenly and with great earnest- ness. ‘ His agitation appeared to increase. “My dear,” he said, in tremulous tones, “have you no recollection of your parents?” y “No, sir,” she replied, with downcast eyes. “Jim Poyn- ter claimed to be my father, but I am sure he wasn’t.” “What is your earliest recollection?” “As a child on a farm on Long Island with a man and wife named Frost, who I thought were my parents till one day, when I was ten years of age, Jim Poynders came and told me he was my father, and that my mother “Was that the first time you remember “Yes. When I went away I ran to Mrs. Frost out my wonder and grief in her ears. Then she told how, when I was a very little girl, Jim Poynders had. 1 me at the farm to be brought up, telling the Frosts that he was my father and could not care for me himself. He away and 3 not come back till that day, eight years after, “71 bet the reason was because he was serving time prison for some crime,” volunteered Sid. “I loved Mrs. Frost; for she was very kind to me, and I ieved to think that she was not my father,” went on Nellie. “Two years afterward she died and Mr. Frost married again. His second wife was not kind to me. She made me work hard, and treated me harshly. Jim Poyn- ders called occasionally, but never appeared to think of me. Five months ago he came and took me away, and. that is how I came to be with Mother Moses.” “My dear, I lost my only little daughter when she was two years old,” said Mr. Hodge, with emotion, “She was stolen from home by a rascal named Bryant, whom I had I spent a fortune trying to find her, but in vain. I never learned what _ of Bryant either. It may be that you are my lost little di ter. You have her eyes as I remember her, and her é was golden like yours. When stolen she had around her neck a di incrusted cross, attached to a gold chain. amond : You do not remember such a bauble?” he asked * “No,” replied Nellie, shaking her head. > CF 4 “The rascal who stole your child probably took it off and sold it,” said Sid, who was listening with shment to the operator’s revelation. . : He thought what a great thi it would be if she proved to be Mr. Hodge’s daughter. — Ra “ost see and talk to this Frost.” he said, eee Bae i gab eh + for his farm?” 5 pS var EY

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14 » DRIVEN TO THE WALL, up I will adopt you and give you my child’s place in my monenzaek authorities, while mine wouldn’t amount to ucks.” heart and home. Nellie looked at Sid with swimming eyes. “You had better accept, Nellie. It’s a grand chance for you,” said the boy. “Then you den’t want me?” she said, with a papery “T have promised to stand by you, little girl,” sai patting his arms about her, whereupon she threw her arms around his will if you don’t want to go with Mr. Hodge; but he is a lips.| with when they come here, Sid, | the old hag escaping.” neck, and began to ery on his shoulder, “and I} wished to take with her. “T’ll go with you,” said the operator. “All right,” said Sid. “I’ll take the key of the entry door and hand it to the police, so they can use it to get in I guess there is no danger of Nellie was told to get her hat, and anything that she She brought. a bundle downstairs, and then the three wealthy man, Nellie, and can do more for your advantage! started for Hackensack. * in a minute than I can in a year.” I only want to be with you. “JT don’t want anything. They went to the police station first and told their stories, no mention being made of Nellie’s connection with the af- I love you with all my heart because you have saved me! fair, this having been agreed upon between Sid and Mr. from Jim Poynders and Mother Moses, and I will work for you if I can. Don’t give me up now, I can’t bear it. It would break my heart?” “There, there, don’t 6 You shall do as you please. But remember, you may be Mr. Hodge’s real daughter. If that fact can\be proved, think how nice it will be to find you have a father who will love and care for you, and make a fine young lady of you.” “But I want you, too,” she said, clinging to him. . “Mr. Hodge will let me call and see you. He wouldn’t refuse you anything.” “The girl appears to love you,” said the operator. “Take her home with you, and to-morrow morning call at my office and we will have a talk about her.” “All right, sir, Now let us go downstairs and see how matters are below.” Nellie remained in the passage while Sid and Mr. Hodge entered the public room. “There is the corpse of Jim Poynders,” said Sid. “He doubtiess held the secret of Neilie’s identity, but his lips will never disclose it now. Somehow I believe the girl really is your lost daughter, sir.” “What makes you think so?” asked Mr. Hodge, eagerly. “Because Poynders seemed to have some special reason for saving you from going into the marsh. If any person kmew the desperate chances. he was taking by opposing that she-fiend’s will Jim Poynders did, and yet he held out against her. I was watching them and I noted that he was doggedly stubborn in\his opposition to bringing about your death. Why should he have any interest, in you? Why risk his life in an argument to save yours? Doesn’t that show some- thing unusual at the bottom?” “Tt looks so,” replied the operator. “Well, he lost his life, and there is his murderess yon- der, bound as I left her. I see she’s conscious now. I saw her shoot Poynders, and by gracious I'll see that she goes the gallows for it if there is law in New Jersey to bring it about, and I guess there is,” he concluded, ly. “T shall investigate Nellie, and may hea grant that she’s my child. In the meantime I am sure will eare of her.” eae “Don’t you worry abou T think a lot of ‘alt her.” ‘ When they went up to Mother M h wrap like te iteyod.". she hi atte. "a li you, e hissed at Sid. “I know now. You’re the boy who interfered with me on eee . orp Soy could only get my fingers about your throat . i f “fT know you would, you old cat. You’d fix me like fixed Jim Poynders. I saw you shoot him and F'll oan tbat walked ‘away from her in disgust. “Now, Mr. Hodge,” said Sid, “ve got deliver those bonds i named T; trusted Hodge as the easiest way to keep the girl out of trouble. The authorities took the matter in hand and sent a wagon with three officers to bring Mother Moses and the body of Poynders to the station-house. Mr. Hodge took Sid and Nellie to a first-class restaurant, where they had an excellent breakfast, after which he started for Jersey City, while Sid, accompanied by the girl, went to Mr. Taylor’s house to deliver the package of bonds. Having executed this errand, Sid and Nellie boarded a car and in due time reached Jersey City, crossed the river and took an elevated train for the boy’s home, where he expected to find his folks much wrought up over his failure _ to return home as usual the afternoon before. CHAPTER XII. SID TAKES NELLIE TO HIS HOME. “Why, Sid!” exclaimed his mother when the Wall Street boy, accompanied by Nellie, walked into the apartment | where he lived with his mother, father and a nineteen-year- old, sister. “Where have you been? We have been awfully worried about you.” “Tl tell you all about it presently. . Let me introduce this young lady. Nellie, this is my mother. Mother, this is Nellie Frost. Where’s sis?” “She’s in her room,” replied Mrs. Davenport, rather as- tonished at the shabby appearance of the visitor, though she admitted her beauty, and was rather taken with her artless expression. I’ll call her.” Dera Davenport rushed in as soon as she heard that her brother had returned. : Sid introduced Nellie to her, “Entertain her, sis. I want to talk to mother,” said Sid, “Who is that girl you have brought here, my son?” asked Mrs. Davenport. “She is d wily shabby. Looks like a tenement-house person.” “T have come in here to have a talk with you about her. She is under my protection at present.” : “Under your protection!” gasped his mother. “Yes, and she’s to stay here a while with us.” att here with us! That shabby girl! Are you crazy, i “No, I’m not crazy, mother. rescued her from a horrible situation. She is not an ordi- “Why, what do you mean?” “Mother, Nellie Frost, though Frost is not her real name, is the daughter of parents at present unknown. She was kidnapped from home when yr hg? two years old, and she has been very unfortunate-up to the present time. I guess her hard luck is over now, for a rich Wall Street man, who believes he is her father, has offered to adopt her, so I ex- pect her stay here will only be brief. I want you to fit her out in a suitable manner at my gy 4 ed ke 5 jes her here.” 3 it her out at your expense! Where would you the I want to know who you are workin Foytan astonishment Mr. Brown had not been working for him tiene ther will want an when \h She has no home, and I~ expense, so that you need not U *.

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DRIVEN TO THE WALL. 15 Nellie. yt and I’ll tell you her story, as she told it to me,” sai Smeg cneryan laid all the facts about the girl before s moth Then he "told her that Andrew Hodge, a big Wall Street operator, had lost his only daughter through a kidnapper, and that en stolen she was of the same age as Nellie agen she was intrusted to the care of the Frosts by Jim Po: ene has taken a fancy to me because I saved her from the surroundings in which I found her. She is grateful, and wants to stay under my care. I intended to provide for her, but Mr. Hodge’s offer to adopt her is such a chance for her that I intend.to talk her into accepting it. She will get a Abe. Tod home, fine clothes, and be well educated. In fact Hodge proposes to treat her exactly as if he was certain was his daughter. Maigey Sid, tell me bigot wu, came to meet this gi \ “Certainly, mother, a ae to be surprised.” He explained how Broker Carter had asked him to deliver a package of bonds to a gentleman in Hackensack the after- noon previous. Then he went on and told everything that happened to him from the moment he left Jersey City en route for " Hackensack. : _His experience in the roadhouse took his mother’s breath away. “Well,” said his mother, who was really a kind-hearted woman, though her ideas of propriety and caste were strong, “since you insist on that girl staying here I will consent} to her remaining until your father passes upon the matter. ou had , better go right down to his offiee and explain e case.” i go, mother. Now I'll give you $100, and I want you to spend as much.of it on as you think proper make her presentable. I don’t think = he will stay here more a day or , as Mr. wants me to call at his Sag were last night, and how the utmost kindness She’s got a heart of gold, and a nn as unsullied as an tame tanding her eae attire, and her five ee coins ioe peas bae re tPs m where the Davenport fg ing wi with ie As appeare much embarrass ill at ease. _ The girl flashed an an. appealing look at Sid. * ead went directly to her and put his arms around her, ~ much to Dora’s astonishment. Nellie dais ber head on his shoulder and Dora gasped and at mother, fete Sid, t want you to understand that this is irl in the world, and I.want you to treat inet a sister. Don’t imagine se she is isn’t as good as you are, for she is. In fact gens have, or ever will. You see how she reeognizes me as her preserver and 4 in the world. That is just what I am, and I'd go through fire and water for her, as I would pops and strange here, to bring her around while I’m down town. you?” almost inaudibly, while her cheeks MPR E UES ittle Pi Put your arm ro Be e her feel at home. I and taking Nellie’s ta face in his hands wo. . i ss - om Fe at , Sets with at 2 3 Ph des “Well, young man, where. were you last night? ” “On the edge of the Hackensack marshes, sir.” “How came you to be there? | Were you out in all that storm ?” “I was under cover. The cause of my presence in New Jersey was an errand I undertook for Broker Carter.” “How is it you never told us that you left Mx. Brown’s employ six weeks ago?” ad my reasons.” “T should like to hear them.” “We haven’t time to discuss them now if you want to hear the story of my adventures in New Jersey.” “Indeed... Well, I’ll listen to you. One moment, are you working for the broker who sent you that errand?” “No, sir.” “Who are you working for?” By m working for myself.” “Yourself!” cried the surprised Mr. Davenport. “Yes, sir. Seeing that I’ve made nearly $3,000 since I cut loose from Mr. Brown I don’t see that you can find fault with my course of action.” ; ene $3,000 in: six weeks.” Sid started in and told his father all about his experi- ence at the roadhouse. Then he told him all about Nellie. “I took her up to the house and left her in the care of mother and Dora. In a few days I expect she will consent to go to the home of Mr. Hodge, a Wal! Street millionaire, who believes she is the child stolen fromm him some fifteen years ago. At any rate he means to adept her if he: can’t pre ¢ she’s his daughter, and that means she'll be an eiress.” After some further conversation with his father, who of- fered no objection to having Nellie stay at their anartment for a few days, Sid left and hurried down to Broker Car- ter’s office to turn over the receipt Mr. Taylox, of Hacken- sack, had signed. i CHAPTER XIII. , THE DYNAMITE BOMB. Next day Sid and Mr. Hodge had to go to Hackensack 8 to — the examination of Mother Moses, who was held or tri The opcsator said he was going out that afternoon to found Dora| Riverhead to call on Farmer Frost and see what he could to be very} learn about the girl. “Call at my office to-morrow and I may have news for you,” he said. “All right, sir,” replied the boy. “New I want to make yo ‘ou a little present for what you did for me last night. I believe you saved my life by put- ting that old woman out of busi ness. In any case you saved me from losing at least $2,000 Thus speaking the operator handed Sid a check made out to his order for a Chowne dollars. “J’m much obliged to Hodge, but I'd rather Mr. s she will be in a position to put on more|not take it. I only did nett I "thought to me right thing, and I don’t want to be paid for it,” said “['m not paying you. I’m merely giving you a little present,” : Mr. Hodge tried to get him to accept it, but he wouldn’t, and so the matter “You are out of a position, I believe,” Yl look one up for you.” “Thank you, Papitine yin naan we Pe ath ay making more money on my own “What are you — % “S in the market,” hd Sid told Mr. Hodge w made $4,000 within the year, the greater part of bs inside of the last six weeks. eee ‘ou been a ; fortunate y re pita ually out oe een Sees Nee ie Pre Oe eRe Ts thee CES oo

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Mr. Hodge thought a moment. : Well, if you buy, buy O. & H. right away. It’s going at 85, and hold it for about 105, and then sell quick; you’ll “make some mpney,” he said. _ “Thank you, sir, Ill do it.” After leaving the operator Sid called on Broker Carter. “Here’s $4,000 of my good money, Mr. Carter. I want ou to buy me 400 shares of O. & H. at the market, which s about 85. Get it right away, will you?” “Certainly. Has somebody tipped you off to this stock.” “If I waited for a tip, Mr. Carter, I wouldn’t make many deals,” replied Sid, who did not want to put anybody else on the stock under the circumstances. - Carter bought the stock and reported the fact to Sid svhen he saw him later on. _ “Say, Sid, you can have desk room in my office if you want, he said. “I have a small desk in the corner of the _ counting-room near the door. I have no use for it and you can have it just as well as not. It won’t cost you an mg. You can have letters addressed to you here, and I'll have your name put on the door in small letters. Then - you’ll have a sort of headquarters.” “Thank you, Mr. Carter. Ill accept your offer.” That evening after the Davenports had had dinner, and Sid was sitting in the parlor with Nellie and his sister, the bell rang and when Sid went to the door he found Mr. Hodge standing there. __ Sid was astonished to see the operator, and judged that he must have obtained important news about Nellie. : : “Glad to see you, Mr. Hodge. Walk right in. Allow me to present you to my sister. Dora, this is Mr. Hodge of Wall Street,” said Sid. “Pleased to make your acquaintance, Miss Davenport,” said the rich man. -“And here is Nellie—my Nellie J call her at present. She looks better fixed up a bit, doesn’t she?” _ The operator seemed to pay little attention to his words. 4 ce walked straight to the girl, who had risen when Sid . spoke. - His manner was agitated and his eyes glistened eagerly. “My dear, dear child, will you come to my arms, for I am your father, and you are indeed my stolen darling— _ taken from my mother and me fifteen years ago on a never- _ to-be-forgotten New Year’s day.” __-Nellie flushed and became greatly agitated herself. She looked at the big, finely-dressed gentleman who claimed her. _ “Are you—really—my—father?” she murmured. “Here is the proof. This little locket with you: mother’s picture, found in the pocket of Poynders at the Hacken- i ie Ws be a - sack police station, wrapped up in this paper on which is ies * ao the words, ‘Proof of the identity of Nellie Frost. ‘If found on my person after death the police are instructed to communicate at once with Andrew Hodge, No. —— Ex- ; change Place, New York City, and hand him this locket and _ the paper.’” : . - “That settles the matter, I guess,” said Sid. “You recog- picture.” ping 24 ter. Her name : ing Nellie in his arms, fer he could hold out no longer. My own Daisy. I have recovered you Thank Hea N ‘ ven! Thank Heaven! At Jens he partially released her ellie, or rather your father. I 7 DRIVEN TO THE WALL. nize the locket, of course, if it contains your late wife’s es, I bought that locket myself. Nellie is my daugh- is Daisy Hodge. My dear, dear little girl,” after fifteen long A and she looked ‘wist- a t shall lose you now, but you are in het- Street about nine o’clock he received a sudden slap on the shoulder, Turning around he saw Phil Hooker, BBroker Brown’s ju- nior clerk. “Say, Mr. Brown wants to see you,” said Hooker. “Is that so? What about?” “I ecouldn’t tell you, He gave me a note to take to your house last night, but I couldn’t get over there, so I mailed it to you.” “1 didn’t get it,” replied Sid. : “You'll find it when you go home. I know it contains a@ request for you to call on him, for I saw the typewriter writing it off on her machine. Better call some time this forenoon.” “All right, I will,” replied Sid. At eleven o’clock he went to Brown’s office. Clarence Townsend was not in the reception-room, so Sid knocked on the door of the private room and was told to come in. “You want to see me, Mr. Brown, I understand,” he said. “I do. Sit down. I want to know if you will come back to me.” “What’s the matter with your new boy?” “I’m going to send him away Saturday. He’s slower than molasses, and has cost me a hundred times his wages since he’s been here. I'll give you $10 a week if you will return.” “Sorry to refuse your offer, Mr. Brown, but I’m in busi- ness for myself.” “What are you doing?” “What .you fired me for—speculating. since I left here.” : Broker Brown stared at his ex-messenger. At that moment the door was pushed open and a wild- eyed man entered the room. ; “lve called for a hundred thousand dollars. I want it quick—quick, d’ye understand,” cried the visitor, in sharp, jerky tones. Be . “Who in thunder are you?” roared Brown, springing up. “Get out of my, office.” “Ha! You refuse me! Then you shall die.” “Qpen that docr. Davenport, and help me put this crank out,” said the broker. Sid lost no time in flinging the corridor door open. Then he heard Brown exclaim: “Good lord, man, what are you about to do?” “You have refused me the money, then I shall blow you up, and I will go with ‘you, so you sha’n’t escape me,” Thus speaking the lunatic held up a dynamite bomb, the fuse of which he had just lighted with the burning end of a cigar. Sid dashed forward and tried to wrest the bomb from his hand. He pushed the boy back and held it out of reach. Brown stood frozen to the spot with horror. , Seeing that a tragedy would be enacted in another mo- ment, Sid did the only thing he could do to save the broker —he seized his late employer around the waist and rushed - him toward the open door As Broker Brown shot through the door, propelled by Sid’s muscular arms, the bomb exploded with a concussion that shook the building. The brave boy was sent s after the man whose life he T’ve made $3,000 ring out into the corridor saved. “4 # CHAPTER XIV. THE CURTAIN FALLS ON MOTHER MOSES. A moment after the explosion there was excitemen burn, not only in the building but on Wall Street, whole window had been blown into the air and fell with a crash on the street, while the report had been block away. : All eyes i wrecked

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“a. Hs DRIVEN TO After the erowd got a peep none wanted to go in. Sid, with good judgment, closed the door, and led Brown around into the reception-room. \ Sid explained the situation, for Brown could not. he got into communication with the police. In the meantime several policemen, Wall Street detectives They were allowed to come in, and were told the startling _ him out of the room in the nick of time after making a . a9 effort to knock the) bomb from the lunatic’s hand. : e re | i ition, and the police took charge. Sid took advantage of the first chance to get away, and _ he went to Hodge’s office to tell that gentleman the news. ) Half of the traders in the Exchange had abandoned busi- - mess on hearing the report and wild rumors that at first were circulated throughout the financial district. , Sid later on met Broker Carter on the street and told him the facts. Shortly afterward newsboys were crying “Extras,” with! full particulars of the tragedy, on the streets of the city. Mr. Davenport bought a paper of a boy and started to read the story. When he saw his son’s name mentioned he nearly had a accident, and that he had escaped without a scratch. It was several days before Brown’s office was restored to its former op eee and quite as long before he got fully over the shock his nerves had sustained. He sent Sid a note of grateful thanks and enclosed a check for $5,000. Sid accepted the thanks but sent the check back. this time O. & H. was up to 90, and was attracting attention at the Exchange. Two days later it jumped to 95, and the lambs of Wall | Street began getting excited over it. _ ‘The excitement grew as it kept going up, and there was pandemonium in the Exchange when it reached par. ' Sid finally sold at 105 3-8, and cleared a profit of $8,000. That raised his capital to the comfortable sum of $12,000. While the deal was still on Mr. Hodge brought him a from his ter. it began “Dear, dear Sid,” and ended “Yours lovingly, finished, ; be satisfied till I hear your opinion, Now, Sid, dear, you to come up and see me Friday evening. I’ve father if you may come and he said certainly. Aunty eal anxious to see you. I’ve told her all you did for * and how brave you are, and something else which I _won’t tell you. Now don’t disappoint me, for I should feel dreadfully bad if you did not come.” Sid went, you may be sure, for he had a very warm spot ; heart for Daisy, though he could only think of her as she came into the room to greet him she was a “of loveliness that almost took his breath away, “was introduced to Mr. Hodge’s sister, and found the ' 2 Daisy had represented her. \ te Daisy spent rose was then going at 72. it reached 80. ; *s it go at that,” he told Carter. “Eight the hand is worth ten or twelve thou- The cashier took one look into the private-room and he} shut the door in a hurry and rushed to the telephone, where | ’ c |amounts to $30,000, and a few hundred extra. That isn’t so and reporters came into the building, and pushing their way ‘bad for an ex-messenger,” through the mob to Brown’s office knocked for admission. | Brown had now recovered himself and he told every-} body that Sid Davenport had saved his life by dragging} He soon saw, however, that his boy was the hero of the} THE WALL. 17 That afternoon he walked right into his father’s office. “How much do you suppose I’m worth now, father?” he said to Mr. Davenport. “Why, been making another one of your hauls?” “Yes. Just cleaned up $8,000 to-day.” “The deuce you did. You’re go'ng some, young man.” “That’s what I’m .in business for. My capital now “You are certainly running in luck, Sid. It’s only about a couple of weeks ago that you made money out of a tip that Mr. Hodge gave you,” “That’s right. Want to sell me an auto?” “No. Walking is good enough for boys of your age.” Sid didn’t do anything in the market for two weeks, and then he bought 1,000 shares of C. & O. one morning at 83, orters soon left to write up their stories for aj just to get into the swim again. It was a pretty good stock and it seemed likely to go sup a point or two from the general trend of the market. At two o’clock C. & O. had gone up a point and three- quarters. ; He concluded to sell at that as he would make a little over $1.000, which he regarded as a pretty good day’s work. Accordingly he returned to Carter’s office and told the cashier to sell his stock. “So soon?” said that gentleman. “Yes, sir. I’m a thousand dollars ahead now. If I hold on I may lose it by to-morrow,” he answered, : So his shares were sold and he added about $1,100 to his capital. Bid was now accustomed to his new method of making a living, and he did not find time hang heavy on his hands any mare A mon passed quick deals, cashing a share. ar? he jaice on . rofits coun! up, so that he was worth something over $30,000. x > He found a summons at home that day requiring his presence in Hackensack at the trial of Mother Moses. The trial would come off three days later, so the next morning he called on Mr. Hodge and showed him the_docu- ment he had received from the public prosecutor’s office. one,” said the operator. I'll call Thursday morning and we'll away during which he made several in at a profit of from fifty cents to $3 thousand share basis all these small hat one day he reported to his father é : in and straightforward, and left His testimony was_ plain the judge or the jurymen, y hag the following week she was sentenced to death. She was “never Scccuited, for one morning she was found Sid had been so lucky in the market that he believed things were sure to come his way right along. the report tha’ was about to be acquired by the Northern Traction Trust. If this report was true sure to boom as soon as th Sid started out to investi but he found he couldn’t learn much on the subject t interested him. He saw, er, the of the inde ent com- pany, known as the B. & T. Traction, to rise, and that as a good sign he t 3, shares of it, fully expecting to make $20,000 out of the deal. : aoe come out all right. I’m going to — deat"said the content Sa 7

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18 DRIVEN TO THE WALL. “I hope’ you do, but I have my doubts about it. You can’t} “I suppose so.” tell what is going on behind this advance of B. & T. I don’t} Daisy hung up the “phone. take any stock in it. at any moment.” Several days elapsed and B. & T. Traction continued to rise slowly and finally reached 45. Once more Carter suggested that the shares be demi but Sid wouldn’t have it. “You'll clear $15,000,” said Carter. . “If it goes up two points more sell me out,” was Sid’s oars cs & T. Traction, however, didn’t go up two points more. tt hung around 453-8 for two days and then something happened. pe bottom fell out of it, and down it went to 35 in no in half an hour Sid’s profits of $15,000 in sight melted pias and with it went half his marginal deposit, or $15,000 me happened that Sid did not come down town till noon I wouldn’t be surprised to see it drop “I’ve got the money, Sid,” she cried, in an animated tone. You dear, good girl!” cried Sid, gathering her in his arms and kissing her several times. Daisy ran to the door and held it open in expectation of the arrival of Mr. Dashaway’s messenger. At last the corridor door opened and a boy came in. “Are you from Mr. Dashaway?” exclaimed Daisy, “Yes,” replied the boy. “I’ve got a note for Miss Hodge.” She almost snatched the envelope out of the lad’s hand, tore it open and pulled out the check, which was to her order for $15,000. She drifted back into the roo “Here it is, Sid,” she cried, excitedly’ holding it out te him. “Tt’s made out to your order. he cried. She ran out to the clerk’s desk, for her father’s was closed, seized a pen and wrote her name across the back Endorse it right away,” that day, and he was paralyzed when he saw what had/| of it. ha “ all, ee are you going to do now?” asked Carter. . “You wouldn’t take my advice, so you see what you’ve run up against.” ‘Sif I sell now I’ll lose $15,000,” said Sid. “You surely will,” replied the broker. “And if you don’t sell you are liable to lose the other $15,000.” “TTl hold on,” said Sid. “You've got a good nerve,” Taiedh orien. That afternoon B. & T. recovered to 88. By holding on Sid had saved $9, 000, and if he sold now he would only lose $6,000. Next morning B. & T. a sudden drop to 31, and that put Sid on the ragged Hee Bed —_ half a point stood between him and the end of his Sid. Was practically driven to the wall, for he didn’t have enough money left to meet a call for the smal smallest margin. He wished most sincerely now that he had taken Carter’s . Bie 600: and sold owt when he could have made a profit of He even wished he had sold out the afternoon before and put up with a loss of $6,000. There was only one person he could apply to and that : was Mr. Hodge. He could easily see him ee and Sid believed he|@ ee bea do it. oy eage Tyr “And I’m glad to, see you,” he replied, with a rueful this morning,” said the re 1. tie Pye Bane: eM ’m in the hardest kind of “What's the- matter, dear? ~Seenis to me you don’t look th Sid had followed her out, and the moment she had writ- ten the last letter he grabbed the check, hastily blotted it and with the words “I'll be right back,” darted out of the office and made for Carter’s office at a speed he never sur- passed when a m er himself. Some minutes later he bounced into Carter’s office. “Mr. Carter in?” he asked the cashier. “No. Over at the Exchange.” =" “Well, here’s a check for $15, 000 to hold my B. & TY shares which have dropped nearly to the limit.” “T'm afraid you La Ay too See Davenport,” said the cashier, “Too wer asp “Yes. ES down to 301-8, and Mr. Carter has probably Rates nl you out under the rules.” “Great Scott! I hope not. I must see him. I'll take the check over to the Exchange and give it to him person- ally if you won’t accept it” “J’d like to, but I have no authority to do so under the circumstances.” ‘Sid grabbed the check and made a bee line for the Ex- change. When he got there he sent an attache to look for Carter and bring him out. In a few «moments the broker appeared. “Have you sold me out yet, Mr. Carter?” asked Sid, ex- citedly. “No. but I'll have to do it, because your steck is down to 30, and as it looks as if it was eoing lower I ean’t afford — to hold it. x warnes oo penny Ape Comseqnenen would- ‘is g on e stoe ue 6a you did, and the slump has pw ee me to wall _- at ‘the last minute a friend came to my res- check from a Mr. Dashaway made out to a, order, and she has endorsed it payable - | ro take it,” said Carter. “It will probably see ee rough.” *T hope it will, ” replied 'S to Broker coy and then he se a to ot ; office, where Daisy was awaiting his ret He auf 3 an & T. Lei te went — to 27 that day, but before aap Show it recovered to 32. * < ag ng to 40 ef: B oe tte ten ated Sate aoe a ter all mais a ns “opportine of een + bel endorse it and turn it over to you as addi He went to a desk and ais the check, her that the check had Gad hin, and she was day it went up to 35, and the day af e pote but for opportune

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20 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. : BARRY, THE BREAKER BOY THE HERO OF THE COAL MINES By GASTON GARNE (A SERIAL STORY.) CHAPTER XXI (Continued). He picked out his own gang to work with, and “But they won’t—now,” snapped Hawk, with the; did a good deal as he pleased in general. Jerry conviction of one who has at last got the other side| Worked with him, and so matters continued for sev- where he wants them. “Mr. Brennan, backed by| ¢ral days, until Conductor Tom Boftin and his brother Mr, Tevis, will enter suit against these parties for| Fred came to the Black cottage one night, and in- heavy damages—so heavy, in fact, that they will/ sisted on Jerry’s going back to his job on the road. _ let you alone.” “You ain’t got no business in a mine,” said Tom. “I suppose you are willing that I should do so,| “Yeu won’t make so much as you do as a braky; Barry,” added the lawyer. “Last night’s abduction; and besides, you don’t own no mines, like I hear and what it led to will immensely strengthen our| Barry is going to when he gets of age.” case. These poor fools that were so eager to do the, “Let up on that, please,” entreated Barry, now work will, some one of them, turn State’s evidence,| somewhat tired of his unique distinction among his _ to save their own skins from long sentences. Oh,| daily surroundings. “But I don’t think that Jerry _ we will do fine, very fine.” better go back to the road.” _ “I suppose you are willing, Barry?” “Sure you'll keep straight, and be safe, kid?” . . “I am willing for anything that Mr. Tevis and—| _ “I'll try to be, at any rate,” laughed the boy, and _and Miss Rose agree to. Meanwhile, I am well again.| the next day Jerry went his way, and Barry his, — Don’t you think I had better go back to work? I} though they saw each other often. _don’t.like to bé idle, and we thought it best that I) ‘The prisoners were charged in the police court should learn coal making, taking in school after-|and remanded. Barry, with others, appeared against _ wards.” them, and our hero’s short, simple statement was so _., oa mg to a ede eg 2 ae ee “Tf you really mean it, I see no reason against it _ whatever. I will wait, however, and see Mr. Tevis. ee e will be in today, and is already acquainted over nt = che "phone of the main faphe of last night’s affair _ and Rose’s rescue.” _. $o it was that Barry, the following day, donning . his mining suit, and accompanied by Jerry, also in mining togs, took their way to Flat Top mine. Jerry, though assured of his railroad job, said he would stick with the ex-breaker boy for a day or two, just _ to “keep the bogie man away, for while the kid was _ handy in getting out of scrapes, he needs someone _ like me to keep him from getting into *em—see?” Mr. Tevis meantime returned and when he learned th ing, and of Barry’s desire:to begin again in mine, be assented. n’t you grow so absorbed in your underground it you will forget to appear against Ge es Otherwise, on.” = ee

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a” FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 21 There were now two beds in the room. Barry} With a snar] like that of some wild beast, the chose the old one near the window, perhaps because | beetle-browed man came again into the window, Rose had occupied it the night of the kidnapers’ raid.| while Barry was striving to get himself free of the He was sleeping quietly, an hour or so before day-| bed clothes. night, and dreamed that he was at last about to gain full control of his fortune. it to him in a great sack, stuffed with banknotes; but get up and take his money. He struggled harder and harder, until his throat He might have succeeded in jumping through and finishing his murderous task, but rapid steps sounded Mr. Tevis, Rose, and Mr. Brennan were offering) on the grass behind. The next instant Neath was violently jerked back- something held him down, and would not let him) ward by a strong hand, that flung the man sprawling to the ground. “Hully gee!” exclaimed Jerry’s strident voice. “Are began to hurt. It hurt more and more and he tried} you chaps at it again? Take that, you mutt, you to cry out. All at once the others vanished with the} sneak, you cowardly cur!” sack. He made up his mind that he would get up| He had pounced on Ben Neath, who was still anyhow, but a band of iron was around his windpipe.| weakened from his hospital experience, and was no At last he screamed, or thought he did, and his| match, physically, for so husky an antagonist as the eyes opened. leaned through, over the bed, and had the boy by the throat, while he brandished a long surgeon’s knife in the other hand. ee ee ee de eee Foe ee eee eS ee ee “2 CHAPTER .XXII. A KICK IN THE NECK; THEN JERRY. With a scream, Barry Brandon woke up to a dread - ‘realization of the situation. ‘He was choking for breath, adi in another instant _ it looked as if the glittering blade, poised high, would : fi be driven into his heart. ‘The man leaned far over the bed. This he could = do from the outside, for the window was low, and the _ bed was drawn close to the sill. “Now I’ve got you,” hissed the other. do me, but I’ll do you—see?” _ Im all this agony of pain and suspense, the boy had oe one last resource, and he availed himself of the chance, while the fellow was talking. _It was useless to release his throat. The man was too strong. But with one convulsive movement, the of oe drew up both legs, with the light cover, swiftly, 4 nt ‘il his knees struck the man’s. left arm, slightly Hislod; rir x the grip on his throat. = “Then he kicked out with all his might, quick as a rine: to strike the fellow with his foot before “You may as Barry drove his leg out with all his force, the ; mask flew off, his head went back, and instead Barry with the knife, the blow went wild t his th throat free, for he had féreed the back a pace, and he swiftly rolled him- on the far side, rota care cover ‘savage features for an instant, ‘floor, all tangled up in the bed _ The window sash was up. Another masked man | braky. With each breath, as he sat on the man’s breast, he chugged him good and hard with his fist, until the long knife fell one way, and a half drawn revelver the other. While this was going on, Barry got loose at last, and came hastily through the window, and together the two soon had Ben Neath tied hard and fast in strips of the bed sheet. “Well, kid,” said Jerry, sitting comfortably on the man’s body, while he grinned fiercely as he surveyed Barry’s bare legs and general mussed-up appear- ance, “that was certainly a close call for you.” “It sure was, Jerry. This is another time I am indebted to you for help at a critical minute.” “J don’t know. I believe you would have got him anyhow. He was going backwards when’ I sighted him like he was shot out of a gun.” “But he recovered, and I was tangled up in the bed clothes. I am mighty glad you showed up when you did.” “It was my night home, and I just happened to come in by the alley gate instead of the front one. Don’t know why, except that I knew you all were asleep, and I could get into our room this way with- out waking anybody.” “What will we do with him, Jerry?” “Turn him over to the chief of police or Hawk. | He’s too dangerous to monkey with anywhere out -| side of a jail. ; Here Ben Neath groaned, and swore to himself. “Shut up, you duffer,” said Jerry. “I’ve no — patience with you. All the rest, even Nelse Keeler, — have given up and are going to take their medicine — like little men. | But here you are at it again. Baden af / notion to punch you again.” saRh ‘To emphasize his remarks Jerry half reload hlete! self and sat down heavily, making Neath groan in “Get on your clothes, Barry, ” said he. no help for it, but for both of us to take this where we know he can’t play ee. vs So - = more of his oly work.” 3)

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OR FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. GOOD READING MOTOR TRUCKS HAVE GREAT ADVANTAGE OVER AIRSHIPS Revictualling the starving towns and villages of Northern France by dropping parcels of food and clothing from the skies has a romantic glamour about it that makes people overlook the business de- tails of freight transportation by airship. Matter of fact persons who pinned their faith to the humble motor truck find their views amply vin- dicated by a bill of expense incurred by fifteen air- ships which recently carried 3,000 pounds of sup- plies 250 miles from Le Bourget to Maubeuge and Calenciennes, It cost just over $1 for each pound of merchandise carried, whereas by motor truck the and African coasts at that point. An engineering _ journal in Great Britain states that whereas it now _ of Gibraltar it would be possible, when the Cape- - Cairo Railway and other rail connections are com- _ pleted, to go from London to the Cape in eight days. Unfortunately, the Straits are about 1,200 feet deep Mid cost would not have exceeded $100 for the whole trip, or 8 cents a pound. It seems the motor truck has a big start on the airship in the matter of cost of haulage. A TUNNEL AT GIBRALTAR ~ Now that the construction of the Channel tunnel is assured, military and commercial interests are turning their thoughts to the Straits of Gibraltar and forecasting the advantages which would be se- cured by building a tunnel between the European takes three weeks to go from London to the Cape, ‘with the Channel tunnel and one under the Straits _and ‘unless the underlying rock is impervious to iter, no tunnel can be constructed there, since the imit for the pneumatic process is about 175 feet. b *- “tapi x ea? / a - ‘THOUGHT HE WAS POOR Charles Owl-Walks-in-the-House, a full-blood companied the letter, and now Owl and Mrs. Owl will go on their way home. t THE DINGO This is the name given to the wild dog of Aus- tralia. He is to that country what the wolf is to eastern Europe or the coyote to the United States. Hunting with a pack or alone, he is a constant men- ace to Australia’s chief industry, the breeding of ° sheep. Many are the schemes devised for the dingo’s extermination, but his capture or death is a com- paratively rare occurrence when set against his con- stant depredations. There are dog trappers who spend their whole time trying to catch dingos, men who have studied every aspect of their work and who spare no pains and avoid no hardship in a con- tinual warfare with the wile and cunning of this sheep slayer. Although the dingo is met with from time to time in almost every part of the Australian bush, his principal habitat is the rough range country in the centre and north of New South Wales and the deep dark scrubs of Queensland. The dog trapper’s life is of the loneliest kind. _ For weeks, perhaps’ months, he camps in the deso- late ranges, setting his traps and watching with ready rifle in the moonlit night for a chance shot at the enemy. In the bush there is a price on the head of every dingo: In some parts a dingo is worth ten pounds sterling or even fifteen pounds to the man who delivers his scalp to the pastoral ‘board or to the squatter. This is made up by sums contributed by the sheep | ‘breeders and allowed by the district councils, so generally recognized an enemy is the wild dog. — With such handsome emoluments to encourage him, the professional dog trapper is not easily daunted, and his patience and perseverance are remarkable. Sometimes he may get as mgny as three or four dogs in a week, but as a rule he is-doing very well if he gets three in three months. ‘Indian, who was recently discharged from the United tates Guards, thought he was penniless until re- cently and had accepted charity from the Red Cross, For the most part the dingo confines his murder- ous attacks to sheep and weakéning calves, but in the far-out Queensland districts, where large packs travel together, hunger has been known to make them bold enough to attack men in their lonely — |eamps after the manner of wolves. = = The dingo never barks, but his weird howl is i familiar sound in the bush at night, and is blood. trv 4 es 25 should be doubled or trebled.

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| Ee FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. FROM ALL POINTS DRYDOCK SHORTAGE AT NEW YORK It is stated that at the present time in the port ~ -of New York there are only 15 drydocks that can accommodate ships whose length is 350 feet» That ~ is to say there is accommodation for about 1,500,000 tons of ships. If the Shipping Board’s expectations are realized, the United States will possess 16,000,- _ 000 deadweight tons of shipping in 1920, and there are, according to an article by Ralph U. Fitting in the Evening Post, only about 55; commercial dry- docks over 350 feet in length in the entire United States: The English found that one dock capable of taking ships 350 feet in length will handle about 95,600 tons of ships. Unless we take the matter in hand at once, our own fleet will be severely handi- capped by lack of docking facilities. “MOURNED AS DEAD FOR THREE YEARS _ Five years ago Edward T. Devitt stepped across the threshold of his father’s house to enlist in the - Canadian Army, Nearly four years ago his father and sister read an official letter that the boy had ‘been killed. That was all—no word came, no word was expected. Devitt stepped back over the thres- _ hold the other day. a He appeared as a war-scarred veteran. The home is at No, 306 Forrest Avenue, St. Paul, Minn. He enlisted August, 1914, with the Edmonton _ Fusiliers and went to France with the first con- _ tingent. One day a comrade brought news back _ to the States that Devitt was dead. ‘While officially “dead,” the soldier was only wounded at Ypres June, 1916, and had a turn at “blighty” in England. He returned to the front in January, 1917, and served until the armistice as signed. > he "ss MET AFTER YEARS © J. R. Hughes of Kamiah, Idaho, was standing in the lobby of a hotel in Spokane, Wash., the _ other day when a man, apparently an Englishman, approached the desk and after registering walked — } to Mr. Hughes. . “How are you? I haven’t seen you for a long said the newcomer, and then followed the off with his luggage. £733 x H 1 “He know the name meant nothing to two men met again and It developed that both men came from Wales: and they began to talk Welsh. They discovered they both came from the same town and then sud- denly Mr. Hughes exclaimed: “Wait a minute. I know you. Don’t tell me who you are—you are the son of the Congregational minister.” “Yes, and you,” rejoined the doctor, “used to live across the street and we went to school to- gether.” The two men had not seen each other for twenty years. They sat talking till 3 A. M. of the old days. DIAMONDS WORTH $50,000 IN OVERALLS Fifty thousand dollars worth of diamonds are used each year in the production of Nash passen- ger cars and trucks. The diamond, regarded gen- erally as a luxury, is not so classified by the produc- tion department of the Nash Motors Company, where it is looked upon as an essential and as such is held responsible for some of the most important machine operations that go into the various parts of the Nash Six. The jeweller has developed for the diamond set- tings that inspire admiration, poets have enshrined it with a halo of romance, but the automobile man-_ ufacturer, quick to perceive its more practical pos- sibilities, has literally put the diamond “in overalls” and set it to work. , Instead of its more familiar background of gold and platinum the diamond as seen in the Nash fac- tory is “set” in a small socket at the end of a short and unromantic steel bar. Both diamond and “set- ting” are covered with grease and grime, and in~ this unsightly but practical garb the “job” assigned — to the king of gems is the more or less prosai¢ though vitally important duty of regrinding the surfaces of emery wheels. : hy i It is the emery wheel that is depended upon for the high degree of accuracy demanded in the Nash factory for bearing surfaces of the crank shaft, the cam shaft and for pistons, transmission sleeves and similar parts that must be smoothed so that the surface will not vary as much as the thousandth ° Nash plant are scores of each is manned rgd aw RES et he or pee G5 ahah sae tes a

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24 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. That his daughter—his pretty Susy, who might have had the pick of a dozen good fellows—should have given her heart to a scoundrel such as this, STEVE WESTON’S GHOST’ By D. W. Stevens. that nothing would convince her of his guilt, and - a 4 a ‘ : x that she should be pining away before his eyes for Five years in the State Penitentiary! his unworthy sake-was it not a hard burden for That was the sentence which sent a thrill through |him? The loss of the money was nothing, but that the little Corryton court-room on that dismal De-| they should have been the dupes of a rascal, and cember afternoon. ; that his confiding girl must suffer at his ‘hands! Squire Miller, the prosecutor, and the richest man | He had hoped so much for her—was this to be the in Corryton, sent a quick glance at the prisoner, a! end of it all? , young man sitting with his curly head bowed into| He was thinking it over sadly as he unhitched his hands miserably, and then turned uneasily to the | the horse, in the dim light of the hay-filled barn, fair-faced girl at his side—his daughter. led him into the stable, and pulled down a bundle Everybody in the room looked quickly at the same ‘of fodder from the upper loft. quiet figure; everybody in the room felt a compas- | Then it was that his reverie was suddenly, sionate sympathy as she threw up her hands with i strangely interrupted. a little moan, and fell heavily to one side. Af Rete arn i F gure which had been lying unseen upon the Curious case—curious case,” said the little judge, hay in a further corner of the barn rose up hastily, watching the young > tee he walked away UN) shook itself with a muttered sound, and disappeared steadily upon the sheriff s arm, and addressing .4| through a small back door into the stable-yard; and spectator, who, not being a Corrytonian, had wit- against the cold light of the winter sky the squire, nessed only the denouement. “I’m sorry for Wes azing with startled eyes, saw the well-known face ton, bad as he is, and I’m sorry for poor little Sima ae fee of Steve Weston ' aoe was engaged ne him; they’d have been mar- What was it he had seen? Was not maw Weston S ” safe in the little Corryton lock-up, in readiness for os. ye itera ig pi Ce | his transportation to the State prison on the mor- terested. “They fell in love the first minute they row? Could there be such a thing as the ghost of saw each other—two years ago, when Steve Westen a living person? Had he seen Steve Weston’s ghost? came here and bought the aioli. factory. The squire was strangely nervous. _ “The squire never did like it. He said he didn’t} Only a month ago the house had been the scene want his girl marrying a fellow that nobody knew | Of a jolly turmoil. There had been the secret look- ioe about; that might turn out to be a thief or a|ing up of bride-cake recipes, and the preparation und, for all they knew.” of wedding-dresses—cheerful talk and friendly con- pean he did prove to be?” said his listener, gratulations. Susy—Susy, with these sad eyes ; eagerly bright with happiness, and these white cheeks pink “He ‘did, ” the judge responded, solemnly. “It | with excitement—had been the life and center of it if was a month ago it happened. He took a thousand ll, with her handsome lover never far away. / dollars out of the squire’s bureau one night, slick as} But now! The poor mother could hardly believe _ apin. Oh! no, there ain’t a particle of doubt that it to be the same world, where a cruel turn of the he was the one. The squire woke up and saw him| wheel had transformed the genial lover into a rascal 3 as day, just as he was stepping out through and villain; the happy bride-into a careworn woman, e window. They didn’t find the money on him, | still loving, still blindly believing, but with the fire _ Tmeee he was too sharp for that; but there was of her youth gone out; and the squire—the prosper- _ - evidence enough against him without it.” ous, complacent squire—into the sone man he — _ “We're home, Susy,” said Squire Miller. He|seemed to-night. the lines, stepped from the buggy, and| “I will go up-stairs, mother,” said Susy, at last, lifted his daughter to the ground gently. rising wearily. ‘I—I am tired.’ bi) _. “Don’t look like that, Susy,” he said, taking her|. The squire sat in silence while the cleared fon M nds and Jooking into her white face imploringly. table, lighted the lamp and sat down with her knit- _ “Don’t, my girl. Remember what you’ve escaped— ting; and then he got up restlessly, put on his wee common thief, a——” - and coat, and went out, with some vague exc 2 _ “Stop, father,” said the girl, quietly, and she He could see a light glimmering from the window mi ed her hands away and met his eyes steadily.|of the post-office—the popular rendezvous on ped vince | winter evenings; and he walked in that disor s not a thief! Do you think you can con -that—you: or all the world—when he has} Something beside the wind and the light. of the falling snow struck his ear—a footste » is innocent? 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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 25 he should see—Steve Weston’s tall form; with his|marked by a red track as they went, up the walk hat down low over his eyes and closely folded arms.|}and into the house, and saw his wife, frightened - The squire turned away quickly, with a gasp of|and speechless, and Susy, pale and startled, come : horror. into the room. : All was bright and jovial as ever at the post-| The squire turned the lamp higher, with a shak- ‘office. ing hand, and looked down at the prostrate figure. 4 The sheriff sat by the little wood-stove, which} The man, with .a painful effort, raised himself on. __- Was growing red-hot under its constant replenishing, | his elbow, looking from one to another feebly. _ talking comfortably to the listening group behind| “I didn’t want to be taken, you see,” he said, him. weakly. “I followed you up to make a confession, The door opened sharply, and the squire, pale and; but I didn’t count on being taken—and I shan’t be __ wild-eyed, came in, walked down the room unstead- ” pointing to his wound with ghastly signifi- _ ily, and sat down among them, looking from one to | cance. _ another in a strange, alarming way. The squire stood speechless. B The squire turned to the sheriff. A strange suspicion floated through his mind. . “Your prisoner?” he said, with agitated abrupt- | Was not this man, with his striking resemblance to ness. ‘“‘He—he has not escaped? as Steve Weston, the man he had seen stepping swiftly. _ “He’s safe, squire,” the sheriff responded reassur-| through the window on that unhappy night? Was ingly. “He won’t trouble you again. J left him|not this the form he had caught a quick glimpse _ about fifteen minutes ago; and I was Just telling | of—this the face that had turned for a moment the boys how low-spirited———” upon him? ‘4 But the squire was not listening. He sat staring| The man, with his eyes fixed upon the squire’s . with wide eyes through one of the windows, at a|face, and seeming to read his thoughts, nodded a] + figure which stood motionless ks sd dis- | feebly. tinct against its snowy-background—a figure with! “you've guessed it—it was me that took your Be. ae nee pia “hodrdely and pointed sapecaet he said aes pee oe eal | _ toward the window with a trembling hand. “It’s ae So tiaeapen cat Dh Hezr ctepmhakgeemnare - his—his ghost!” ; _ As he spoke the figure moved slowly out of sight; and the little group, turning with startled faces, saw nothing but a broad, white surface, with a straggling fence in the distance. __. The squire bent his eyes to the ground, with a eas ‘shrinking fear of looking behind him, and hurried up the street. Pee ‘The post-office light glimmered far behind, and his own house rose big and dark before him, when, with his hand on the gate, he turned at last and threw a glance behind him. ‘The figure had followed closely; it stood motion- only a few feet away. And as he looked it came Sprward slowly and stood almost at his elbow. 2 Eke. squire’s hands fell EY are at his sides, heart: Na with strange violence, and his head He looked up, with a wan attempt at a smile. The squire groaned. But Susy, leaning upon her mother’s shoulder, and bending forward with lips, uttered a faint ery of joy and triumph. “T got on Steve’s track to see if I could get some- thing out of him,” the man went on, monotonously. “He was doing better than I’ve ever done; I’m the bad one of the family. They think I’ve been deed for two years, and I’ve let them think so.” His voice grew weaker. The squire bent lower. “I saw him leave here that night,” he went on, painfully. “I was going to try him then and see what he’d do for me, when it struck mé there might . be something to be got out of the house. Well, I tried it, and I did it up well, and went away with- out bothering Steve. But when I heard that they’d taken him—lI’ve never had anything against him, and I couldn't, feel easy till I'd come—till T'd_ come——” His low words ceased; his lips parted once or twice inaudibly, and he fell back heavily-—aege Then, hardly knowing what he did, he sprang at .pparition, dashed its folded arms apart, and at the throat, and felt the warm contact of flesh and blood. © gor were: the low spoken words he There was a quiet wedding at the squire’s big house a month later. But, in consideration of the — exceptional circumstances, it was not to be ‘won- | ag dered at that Corryton rebelled against the modesty _ 3 howiy relaxed his hold—struck by |of the affair; that an enthusiastic crowd gathered — dge that the voice was not Steve Wes-| outside, and that, at the conclusion of the ceremony, | - in his captive’s hand flashed be-|the newly-wedded pair was called for vociferously;— W him place a pistol oon) own} nor Ses the Bae ig ol of the ch puree thea

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7 26 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY | "chins, this man, who seems ,to be about forty- five years old, goes at his work systematically and NEW YORK, JUNE 20, 1919. calmly. ‘He was noticed the other day walking along x on the grating and did not seem to be peering down, but he evidently has an eye like a hawk. Suddenly g he spotted a coin ten feet or more below at the TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS bottom of the ventilator. He stopped and took from under his arm what appeared to be a covered um- Single Copies brella, or fishing rod. Extracting the rod, which baer an oa me 4 was in several sections, he/fitted it together, whist- One Copy One Year ..........c.ceaeeeeeeeeees aeee- = ling all the while, then stuck the long bamboo shaft POSTAGE FREE down through the small openings in the ventilator. \In a moment he withdrew itand there was a HOW TO SEND MONEY—At our risk send P. 0. Money Order. Check R tered Letter; remittances { th j ; Gay urea your ewistored Letes > remittances (nuany cox || shiny half dollar stuck to some sticky substance at cash. When sending silver wrap the Coin in a separate piec the tip of the rod. The man pulled it away from of t id cuttt th i Write ae ° Sidreas gininly. Addvene lottere to yous ane“ | ithe rod and stuck it in his pocket. He then took the rod apart, stuck it into the bag and walked ‘nonchalantly on in search of further treasure. HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, 166 West 23d St., New York - GOOD CURRENT NEWS ARTICLES| GRINS AND CHUCKLES _ Not many ‘people in the country are familiar with! 4 friend asked little Hilda how she liked going the great army supply base which was built in’ to school. “I like the going and the coming,” she Fee etait Baan. 1a-Peemes ee ne Sa ins tie sia” ‘One of the new reinforced concrete warehouses ; : _ measures 980 feet by 200 fect; another is 980 feet; “You cam reach a man’s heart with food, a wom- - by 306 feet; and both are eight stories high. There fants Bs ough ade Ktomanty pee aie aude ae three, double-decked pi 150 feet wide ° ‘ , ’ by 1,300 feet ; and there is ng pet pier 60 fect | the Simple Mug. wide by 1,300 feet in length. All of this work was Tie ated rs | 2 as ‘emergency construction which was put through ina| Mistress—Norah, my husband is raving over, remarkably short time. those lamb chops, you’ sent up.) He says they are i ' nA raw, and he is acting like a wild man. Norah— | It is not generally known that the Star-Spangled ‘Then shure, mum, if he’s acting like a woild man, | pete of the United States is older than asad raw mate is just the food for him. of the present flags of the great European Powers. ; be _ It was adopted in 1777 by the Congress of the Thir-| Little Willie—Say, pa, what is the difference _ - teen Colonies of North America, then at war with! between a close friend and a dear friend? Pa— the mother country. The yellow and red Spanish) A close friend, my son, is one who will not lend you flag came out in 1785; the French tricolor was|any money, while a dear friend is one who bor- _ * in 1794; the red English emblem, with the) rows all you, will stand for. aby Se oa a ion jack in the upper corner, dates from 1801; the k; eae: _ Sardinian (now the Italian) flag first fluttered in| first Amateur Fisherman—Now you are living _ 1848; the Austro-Hungarian flag was one of the/in the suburbs, I suppose you go fishing often. Are ~ consequences of the compromise of 1867; the present | yoy catching much of anything these days? See- — anen te first appeared in 1871, and the Russian onq Ditto—Oh, yes. Colds and trains, ha merican flag has undergone since i : 2 Py Meee nie rr. : Office Boy—Pledse, sir, a gentleman called when , ‘ Hee — petty inact sarees % ieee you was out. \Editor—What did he want? vi Ay vege phy ote ‘ Boy—’E said ’e had come ,to give you a tg ex Ponisi |t ~ -_ aa green fields, th e the flowers. x feast on the + «they are: ™}

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f FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. A FEW GOOD ITEMS A WONDERFUL LOG HOUSE The largest log houes ever constructed, has re- cently reached completion at Portland, Ore. This is in more senses than one a monumental edifice, since it is put up to commemorate the timber and lumber industry of Oregon, with special refer- ence to its part in the great war. It is therefore most fitting that it should take the form of a huge structure of logs. Huge in every truth it is: 206 feet long, 102 feet wide, 72 feet high. There are 64 pillars, each 54 feet in height. More than a mil- dion board feet of lumber were used in the under- taking. The building is constructed altogether of the huge fir logs that constituted the chief raw material for the emergency wooden fleet. RAISING eH gs ee The queerest farm in the Ozarks is that of Miss Rose Ahern and her brother Henry. Several miles up Indian Creek, in the heart of the rockiest and fs etachent part of the hills and bluffs, this brother and sister operate what they call their “diamond rattlesnake farm.” And, being in a neighborhood where snakes are plentiful, they are doing a thriv- _ ing business. For three years the Aherns have been following * aes business, and they will probably have 300 or .- 400 snakes this season. They expect to do far better _ than ever before, now that the war has ended. The _ principal profits come from the extracting of poison from the rattlesnakes, which is sold at high prices > tien chemists and others. Physicians use ison, after it has been prepared in a scientific for the treatment of epilepsy and other acne . It is known as crotalin. Recah — get a good revenue from the sale of : s to museums and travelling shows. The blished rat is 2 cents a pound. A large, fat ent usually brings several dollars. The smaller, r specimens are killed and rendered into oil, to have covered a large part of the State of Chihua- hua. Their cattle are said to have numbered more than 1,000,000 and the property was valued at about $200,000,000. When Villa confiscated the estate and the family only had a small fortune left and went to El Paso, Gen. Luis Terrazas jr., son, was captured by Villa and held for ransom. He was tortured and hanged until he indicated that he would tell the bandit leader where $800,000 in gold pesos was hidden. This was in a column of the Bank of Chihuahua City. The son was released and returned to his people at El Paso. Later he went to Los Angeles where he died as a result of the tortures of the Villa ban-' dits. . In the meantime the fortune had dwindled so that the family had to live in a small rented house. A BRIDGE WITHOUT METAL The natives of Java have a bridge-building tech- nique which’ utilizes tothe limit their slight re- sources for work of this character. Of raw ma- terials they are acquainted with but two, and one of these is really a product of their own ingenuity. They have no nails, no iron, no true wood; they are forced to rely entirely upon bamboo for the struc- tural parts, and upon a rope of their own manu- facture to effect the junctures. In spite of these limitations, they achieve highly creditable .results. — A bridge over a river in thecentral part of the island is almost 150 feet long, and the width of the roadway some four feet. The four bamboo columns at either side of the stream are built up of a double length of from 50 to 60 bamboos, tied up with rope and firmly pressed together. by forcing a quantity of wedges between rope and bamboos. Such columns are found to be of remarkable strength and elas- ticity; they are, in fact, used throughout the Dutch Indies as derricks for lifting roofpans when build- ing sugar factories, ete. The original element which the Javan natives have brought to the construction of these bridges, as remarked, is the rope. This is made of a fiber ~ |taken from the native aren-palm which grows all over the island. It makes a rope that resists effec- tively the heavy decaying action of the hot and | tropical climate with its legions of fungi; in ithout any indications of h has a steady sale at $1 an ounce. DIED IN POVERTY s Terrazas, 85 years of age, wife of Gen- as, former Governor of Chihuahua, who tly, has lived in exile in El Paso since |it lasts for many years wi , family were driven from their Chihua-|rotting. So between this rope and the eng hen the city was occupied by Villa in |natives are able to achieve a semi- ; S, A ture for ee it would Sy pet to. was reputed be the wealth- the ground of cheapness : property ; sept | Site ie eee a

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST LOAFERS WORKED. Brass. rail habitues’ who spend the night in the City Hall at Senburg, Pa., after the sa- loons separate them from their money and turn them into the street, met with a surprise when they awoke the other morning. Neatly piled in a huge row were hundreds of pieces of cordwood. Burgess Clement announced that all persons who seek rest in the borough bastile must pay for the privilege. Two found the job not to their liking. They gave their names as Gen. Per- -shing and Happy Hooligan, and sawed wood for a full\hour be- ,fore they were allowed tovleave, his wife, as witnesses, went to the local telephone exchange. The bridegroom at Denver put the cali through, and the Rev. James Thomas, a Denver clergy- man. read the necessary service, whic): was heard distinctly by all present in Ashland. AN ECCENTRIC MAN. John Lamun, of Springfield, lil, aged 96, is an eccentric. Here’s what he will and will not do: Has never voted, and says he never will. Will eat nothing that ever breathed life. Keeps his clock ‘three hours ahead of standard time. Will make no statement under oath. He in- sists the correct way to spell his name is “Lamun,” instead of “Lemon,” as relatives claim is proper. Because of his eccentricities, relatives attempted to have a "They vowed they will never more come back to this town. MARRIED BY TELEPHONE, A 2,500-mile strand of No. 8 copper wire was used by Robert Thorne of Denver to tie the nup- tial knot that bound himself in wedlock the other day with Miss Rose Thomas, a school teacher of Ashland, Ore. The wedding was solemnized over a long-distance telephone between Denver and Ashland, when the bride, accompanied by her brother, A. W. Thomas, and But County Probate Judge Jen- kins ruled it unnecessary. A son of Lamun’s said his) father has been doing things ac- cording to customs of 1868, when a great change in his life began. In that year, the son! said, a group of religious fanat- ics converted his father. conservator appointed for him.) OLD COINS WANTED $2 to $500 EACH paid_ for Hundreds ef Coins dated before 18.5, Keep ALL old Money. You may buve Coins worth a Large Premium, Send 10c. for New Illustrated Coin Value Book, size 4x6. Get Posted at Once. @LANKE CORN CU., Box %. Le Rey, MN. % RUBBER VACUUM SUCKERS. The Jatest novejty out! Dishes and plates will stick to the table, cups to the saucers like glue. Put one under a glass and then try to lift it. You can’t. Lots of fun. Always put it on a smooth surface and wet the rubber. Many other tricks can be ac- complished with this novelty. Price, 12 cts. each by mail, postpaid. FRANK ‘SMITH, 383 Lenox Ave., New York. GOOD LUCK GUN FOB. ‘The veal western article. carried py the cowboys. It is made of fine leather. with a highly nickeled buckle. 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