Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 720) (1919 07 18)

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JULY 18, 1919. au "FDATUNE 7] STORIES OF BOYS THAT MAKE MONEY. SACK NUMB! or THE BOY WHO WAS UP TO THE SNUTE (AWALL STREET STORY.) Y YX “ay eh Jenkins, in a furious rage, made a rush at Talbot, but Joe grabbed him and held him back, assisted by White. “I'll fix you yet, you squealer!” roared the struggling clerk, shaking his fist at his side partner in guilt.

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_FAMEAND FORTUNE WEEKLY STORIES OF BOYS WHO MAKE MONEY Issued Weekly—Subseription price, $3.00 per year; Canada, $3.50; Foreign, $4.00. Harry E. Wolff, Publisher, 166 Wesa 23d Street, New York, N.Y. Entered as Second Class Matter, October 4, 1911, at the Post-O e at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879. No. 720. NEW YORK, JULY 18, 1919. Price 6 Cents. “Back Number Bixby” THE BOY WHO WAS UP TO THE MINUTE . By A SELF-MADE MAN CHAPTER I. “Very good. I’ve let you in on a good thing, and I hope | you appreciate it.” THE GAME BEGINS. “Sure I do.” “Say, Talbot, what do you think of this new kid the boss has hired to run his errands, and ’tend to things generally in the office?” asked Samuel Jenkins, second bookkeeper for Nathan Bixby, stock broker, of No. Wall Street, one morning when the “kid” in question was over at the Ex- change with a message to a trader in the board-room. Jenkins, who is a fairly good looking chap of eight-and- twenty years, but rather handicapped by a shifty look in his steel-gray eyes, and a sinister curve to his mouth, had left his desk and walked over to that occupied by Tom Talbot, the junior clerk of the establishment, who looked after mar- gin deals and other matters that brought him into touch with the customers of the house. “What do I think of him? I think he’s a pretty clever lad. He seems to be slicker than greased lightning. If any boy is up to the minute he is,” answered Talbot. “Well, I don’t fancy him,” said Jenkins. “You and I don’t want smart boys around this office. You know what I mean,” he added, significantlly. “He can’t interfere with us. He isn’t in the counting- room, “I know he isn’t; but he’s got a sharp pair of eyes, and he knows a thing or two about this business. We must get him out of the office.” “How can we?” “By putting up some kind of a job on him.| That ought to be easy for us.” ’ : “But the old man has taken a great liking to him.” ¢ “What if he has? Bixby is out of date—a back number. We can fix things so he’ll sour on his new boy. He’s our meat, and you and I are feathering our nest at his expense. I don’t propose to lose such a snap by taking any chances with that boy, so he must be got rid of.” “It’s easy to say he must be got rid of, but he’s made such a hit with the boss, and Dolby, too, that——” “Pooh! The eashier don’t count. He’s a worse fossil than Bixby. He’s been here so long that he’s got into a rut, and -ean’t see anything beyond the edges of it, that’s why things are so easy for us. Everything has been coming our way since you and I started to pull tegether, and there’s no reason why shouldn't continue if we nurse matters properly. Pye studied that boy, and in my opinion he will prove dan- gerous to our interests if we stays here. An ounce of pre- vention is worth a pound of cure. That’s the line I go on. Understand?” | “Yes” ; ey ee AS eee hee ee pots ee ae ae Liat soe Ps ath 8. Oy se Res ee ee p | “A good thing has got to be watched and taken care of. My brain is always on the job. I’m always looking ahead, and weighing contingencies. That’s the secret of our success in a nutshell.” “Yes, you’re a pretty clever fellow, Jenkins. — I’ve always admitted that.” ; “l’m glad to see that you appreciate my abilities. Stick by'me and I'll make your fortune.” With those words Jenkins strolled back to his desk with a kind of half defiant, half contemptuous glance at the old cash- ier, whose back was to him, and who was busy with his books, , just as he had been for thirty odd years in the employ of Mr. : Bixby, one of Wall Street’s “old guard.” aitee man was more respected in the “Street” than Nathan ixDy. He was of the few active links between the days when gold was the most important article of speculation in the financial district and the present day. _ _He was full of reminiscences of Daniel Drew, Jay Gould, a Fisk and other lesser lights, who made historv in Wall reet. : He could tell you all about that memorable “Black Friday,” brought about by a corner effected by Gould and Fisk, when |ruin stalked abroad in Wall Street like the phantom “Red ; Death” throughout Europe a century or two before. . ! The young members of the Exchange wondered why the {old man did not retire. | _ Surely forty years or more of continuous connection with | the Street ought to be enough for any man, especialiy one so well fixed financially as Bixby was looked upon to be. __In their opinion he had outlived his usefulness, and was alluded to among themselves as “Back-number Bixby,” a piece of pleasantry that greatly tickled them. The messenger boys used to have their fun, too—not with Mr. Bixby, but with his méssenger, the immediate predétpssa- } | | of the “up-to-the-minute” lad who had lately taken on the job. The messenger in question had grown gray-headed in Mr. Bixby’s employ. | From the day he entered the office, forty years since, until he retired for good on a pension two weeks before, he had never done anything else than carry messages for his em- _ ployer. ; Clerks had come and clerks had gone, many of them to the i cemetery, during that time, but Andy Adze never aspired to * desk in the ecounting-room. ae a re ithe ie, a *

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\ Why he didn’t no one could. say but himself and poses] Mr. Bixby. His wages were advanced year by year until the day he; left hé dinary messenger, He and cashier Dolby were the old standbys of the house, and now Mr. Dolby, with his white hair and short gray beard, was the “last of the Mohicans.” He did not ask to be retired. Had he done so it is not improbable that Mr. Bixby would have decided to shut up shop and let the curtain fall on his long Wall Street career. _Dolby would probably die in harness if his employer sur- vived him, and it seemed likely that Mr. Bixby would stay in business as long as Dolby was able to perform his duties, al- ways provided that Death did not take a hand in the game. When rheumatism put Andy Adze out of business, Mr. Bixby advertised for a new messenger. There were more than a hundred applicants, but Joe Jarvis, a good-looking, spry and sharp-eyed lad, got the job. He was as shrewd a looking boy as ever stepped into Wall Street, and he fairly exhaled smartness. . _Ninety-nine brokers out of one hundred would have snapped -him up out of a mob. . Yet his smart look was lost on My) Bixby. ", The reason he got the position was because he greatly ‘resembled Andrew Adze in iis younger days.’ a That fact recommended him at once to the old broker. Joe hadn’t been two days at work before he had injected a brand new atmosphere into the office. Dolby, the cashier, didn’t like it at first, neither did Mr. Bixby, but both were pleased because the new boy reminded them of Andrew at his best, and they decided to submit to the infliction of an up-to-date office boy. Every fay they w to like Joe better, and now at the end Mae weeks the boy had acquired a cast-steel grip on his lob. The two clerks, Jenkins and Talbot, did not like Joe’s ad- | vent in the office, for reasons which the reader will probably understand from the conversation between them with which our story opens. Joe couldn’t fail to see that their attitude, especially that of Jenkins, toward him, was antagonistic, but the fact did not seem to worry him in the least. vA He was as polite to them as though they were his best friends, but there was nothing servile in his politeness. There was a manly independence about the boy that warned Jenkins concerning his character, and for very good reasons - Jenkins decided that something would have to happen to cause Joe to get out. 2 ; : As Jenkins’ brain was prolific in expedients, particularly _ of a shady nature, he did not doubt but he would accomplish his object. hao : ; ‘Thus Joe Jarvis, without knowing it, was up against a snake in the grass, and a very dangerous one at that;. but ins was also up against a proposition, the weight of 4 _ which he did not estimate at its true value, and—but we will not anticipate. ; at ¥ = _—— CHAPTER I. a THE QUEEN OF HEARTS TRUMPS A KNAVE. | ‘When Joe Jarvis bustled into the office after his return _ from the Exchange, the clock indicated half-past twelve. * was putting on his hat to go to lunch. : Jenkins He was always the first to him a sandwich and piece of pie. Sa i rarely went out himself. 5 out to buy his frugal lunch, and he ate it at 1 got the chance, io teturn to Dolby he knocked ie told to enter. _ : f five foot ten, dressed “BACK-NUMBER BIXBY.” look after the inner man, and |_ ing a financial paper through | back. with serupulous neatness in garments of the best material and of proper cut. vue \ As far as appearance went le didn’t look like a back Was receiving six or seven times the wages of an or- | number except as to his age. “What do you wish for lunch to-day, Mr. Bixby?” asked Joe. The broker picked up a small piece of paper from his desk and handed it to him with a dollar bill. The boy took the paper and the bill, folded them together and shoy@d them into his vest pocket, then he retired with- out another word. | He marched into the counting-room to Miss Lenox’s table. eda anything downstairs, Miss Lenox?” he asked, po- itely. “Nothing to-day,” she replied. Joe walked over to the cashier and asked him the same question. “A piece of apple pie and a chicken sandwich,” said Dolby, feting fifteen cents out of his pocket and ‘passing it to the y- : By the time Joe had finished his errand and handed in his parcels, a note was ready for him to take to a broker in the Mills Building, and he started off with it. As Joe hurried down Broad street his eyes ran ahead of him and stop at the northeast corner of Exchange place. They rested on a very pretty and modest looking girl of perhaps fifteen years, who stood there with a tray of bou- tonnieres which she offered for sale to the passer-by. . She was neatly dressed, but her garments were of poor material, which showed, in connection with her vocation, that she Brlonged to a very humble order of society. Joe had noticed her standing there for a week, and having passed her often, was greatly attracted by her good looks and gentle, almost lady-like demeanor. The young messenger, who was an acute observer of everything that passed under his eyes, felt sure that she was no common girl in spite of her evident poverty. His opinion was- d by many of the habitues of the district, and as a consequence she did a good trade among the brokers ahd better class of clerks. ~ ait Several times Joe had been on the point of layi nickel on a boutonniere as an excuse for addressing as he had no use for the article, for he didn’t think 11 proper er for a messenger to wear one, and he feel as if he had the nerve to present it to the office stenog- rapher, he didn’t buy one, . On th’s- occasion he determined to purchase one, antl was making a bee-line for the girl, when two brokers stepped up cad ‘began to talk to her while investing in boutonnieres. Joe decided not to buy till he came back, and shot by her like a high-power automobile engaged in a race. ; There was no answer to the note he carried to the Mills Building, so he went back towards Wall street at reduced s 3 As he approached the corner of Exchange unruly -group of messenger lads came f1 street. ,! After a general tussle at the end of the corner building they suddenly made, a rush for the flower girl, and, sur- rounding her, n to tease and annoy her. The biggest of them, a tough-looking, red-headed chap, pretended that he wanted a boutonniere. He seized the finest on the tray and began forcing it into the hole in the lapel of his coat, while the others guyed . “That’s ten cents,” said the girl, regarding him doubt- uly. “Dat’s ?round one of dese again, an up the all right. Cha it up ag’in me, and I'll come ee days when'I git rich and settle up,” said .? replied the maid, very trouble. “You must pay me now.” dat I left me check book at de “Tf you have no money, " “Wot, after I’ve stuck it in me ? got no Ph tie oe give yer ten kisses. I'll bet dat’ll soot yer better dan de money.” — i : “Don’t you dare touch me!” flashed the girl, stepping ‘The young ruffian hesitated at carrying out his. bold sug- cee ne rat nave given up his design, but iis cop- nervously, t “Is dat a fact? Wot a pity i } ¢ : ‘ 4 2 to» . PS Be «. est

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panions began jeering him, daring him to kiss her ,and asking him if he was afraid of the girl. ; That spurred him on, and he grabbed her roughly, causing her to drop her tray of flowers and scream out. He threw one arm aro her neck to draw her head toward him, but this was as far as he got. The next moment he was sent sprawling into the gutter by a tremendous blow from Joe Jarvis’ fist. .. Joe had dashed to the flower girl’s aid, scattering the other boys left and right. His face blazed with indignation, and he looked so dangerous that the other lads had no relish for butting in. Reddy, the tough, however, son differently. He was accustomed to hard and not used to taking them meekly. He scrambled to his feet, as mad as an angry bull. He had no difficulty in singling out his aggressor, and he | started in to retaliate in his own peculiar style. . ) “Wot did yer hit me for, eh?” he snarled. “I’ll wipe de | the man, when they reached the sidewalk. sidewalk up wit’ yer in about half a minute.” Thén he swung his fists at Joe in quick suggestion. The young messenger d sd the blows, and quick as a flash punched Reddy in the jaw-with such force that he a couple of feet. A crowd began to collect on the corner with surprising rapidity, and the girl was pushed aside and her stock in trade trampled on and ruined. Reddy was surprised but not defeated by the thump he bg received, though it was a corker, and had jarred his head He put his hand to his face, spat out some blood and then sailed in again. — ee RS STR UE 6 Gorey, tac on le mou Reddy tried to get back at his assailant, but Joe was an artist at the science of self-defence, and by the time a police- man e he almost done up the tough boy, who to game, and took his putiishiliens Hike a prize- - Officer bbed both of the belligerents. ting, eh?” he said. “It’s the station for both of you old on,” objected Joe. “I had to thump this fellow in { “pe tgs re insulted the flower girl here, and I inter- save her. r girl, seeing the scrape her champion was in, and seized the policeehien arm. arrest He isn’t to bla That boy s wouldn’t pay me for it. Se a ee ee Then this boy knocked him down. and began to fight him,” she said, up a bystander, who had witnessed “Tris lad did the right thing.” you’d better come to the station That’s the only. place where the officer. 3 io so, so the policeman marched | Exe r the accom i ; place, girl panying the boys up at the desk, Joe explained his flower girl corroborated his story, and accused Reddy * he “man who dcconipanied thent also spoke up for Joe. “Who are you a em } icer e “My mame is Joe Jarvis, and I'm aha hag Nathan Rigby. No. —— Ls Street.” _ oo ¢ ew ope ag Mamta ‘and Jee looked quite e the tough boy, who was sulky and had; say, was rather the opposite. lat y he said, nodding at Reddy, rascal up,” “BACK-NUMBER BIXBY.” 3 “I'll guarantee that she’ll be on hand, officer,” said Joe. . I'l) take her to the office and keep her there till you send a policeman to take us to the Tombs.” “Very well. I'll take your word. And you, sir,” he added, turning to the witness, “your testimony will be required, too. Will you appear at the Tombs at three o’clock?” “1’ll_ be there,” replied the man, “though it will ineon- venience me some. There is my, business card. I deem it my duty to see that that raffian is punished for his conduct.” The officer nodded and the three left the station together. CHAPTER III. THE KING TAKES A TRICK. “You’re a plucky lad and very handy with your fists,” said “You gave that ruffian a good whipping, but not half what he deserved. I must go now. I’ll see you at the court.” Then he hurried away. Joe turned to the girl. : : “[’m sorry you got into trouble, miss,” he said, with his customary politeness. “And I’m sorry that you'll have to go with me to my office, but I promised the officer that you would appear at court, and I’m responsible for your appear- ance. : “T'll go with you. It was very good of you to protect me against that boy, and I’m very grateful to you. I am so sorry you were arrested, and that you have to go to the court on my account,” she said. < “That’s all right, miss. You don’t think I could see that tough insult you and not chip in to protect you?” : *“Tt was kind of you, and I thank you for it.” , “You’re welcome. So your name is Crystal Rand?” The girl had given that name to the sergeant at tht sta- tion, and said she lived on Varick street. . es. “You heard me tell the officer that my name was Joe Jarvis?” “ ” “Now that we know each other, I hope we shall be friends. I have noticed you for a week selline flowers on the corner of Exchange place. By the wav. where are your bouton- nieres? You had eight or ten left on your tray?” “The tray was knocked out of my hand by that boy, and the a crowded up and destroyed it with what was left of my stock.” “That’s too bad. You'll be out half a dollar, I suppose. — Here, let me make it up to you.” I couldn’t take any money from you. Mrs. : O’Gallagher won’t mind when I tell her what happened. Te “Who is Mrs. O’Gallagher?” ; ee 9 “I live with her. She’s the only friend I’ve got.’ She's given me a home, and is yery good to me. She’s poor, i I’m trying to help her by selling flowers.” _ i ad “Tow has the business panned out?” “Very good. I have sold out,every day but to-day before two o’clock. The gentlemen who buy of me often give me ten cents for a five-cent bunch, and two each gave me a_ quarter to-day for a couple of ten-cent boutonnieres. “Did they? I guess you won’t be out anything over this unfortunate incident. I'll give you ten cents now, and you can save a nickel bunch for me to-morrow. I'll be down your way some time during the day,” said Joe, offering her — the money. 2 “No, no; I’ll save a nice one for you, but I won’t take any pay for it.” ” a a “Nonsense! Take the mon 3 é: ay.” The girl, however, wouldn’t take it, so he had to let the | -

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4 “BACK-NUMBER BIXBY.” Bixby the trouble he had got into through defending the “Thank you; but don’t call me Miss Rand,” she said with flower girl. : a smile. “Nobody calls me that. My name is Crystal.” Tl have to go to the Tombs Police Court by three o’clock “Pll call you Crystal if you call me Joe. Nobody calls me to appear against that boy,” he continued. “I hope it won't} Mr. Jarvis.” _inconvenience you much, Mr. Bixby, but I’m afraid it can’t be “T will do so,” she said, helped. A policeman will be here after me before three.” So they started off together for Varick street. Very well, Joe. I'll be able to get along without you. I'll tell Mr. Dolby to send Talbot to the bank in your place.” ; n you, sir. I took the liberty of bringing the young ' lady up here, and she’s out in the waiting-room. I did that to save her from being detained at the station. She’s the CHAPTER IV. principal witness in the case.” _ “Very well,” said the broker. “There is no harm in her sit- 4 eee ting outside.” { 5 "i . : Joe then went to the cashier and explained things to him. They finally arrived before a big tenement house, in which He peered out at the girl and said it was all right. Crystal said she lived on the top floor. as There were quite a number of customers in the waiting- |.“ Will you come up and see Mrs. O’Gallagher?” asked the room, talking and looking at the ticker. girl. “She will dike ;to thank you for what you did for me. Crystal was more interested in looking around and noting | _,. Your thanks are quite enough, Crystal,” replied Joe; “but hat : ; in | lll. go up and see her if you wish, for I have lots of time,” ca les ites ke ee pen pervade Nlead So they mounted four flights of stairs carpeted with a kind everythin : | of oilcloth, : ; Joe brought a chair and talked with her till he was called| Mrs. O’Gallagher was in, sewing on some custom work she to go out again. ~ | was doing for a Broadway establishment. “I won’t be out long,” he said, as he reached for his hat,| She was a typical Irish woman, stout, red-faced and mus- “Nobody will bother you, Miss Rand, so you need not fee] | CUlar, but had been so long in America that she had scarcely nervous at being here.” any brogue. 28 : i ; She smiled and said that she would not feel nervous, She was surprised to see Crystal in company with a well- though her situation was so unusual, and he departed. dressed boy. Joe was out and in till about half-past two, when a police-| _, Mother, this is Joe Jarvis,” said the girl, who called Mrs. man appeared, and was walking up to the cashier’s window | 0’Gallagher mother. “Joe, this is Mrs, O’Gallagher. : when the boy cut him off. ' “Joe Jarvis, is it? Sure it’s glad I am to know any friend “You're after me, I guess?” said Joe. of Crystal’s,” said the Irish woman, good naturedly. 3 “Are you Joe Jarvis?” “Glad to make your acquaintance, Mrs. O’Gallagher,” said =, wt Bae 2 7 eC a seat Joe,” said the girl, seating herself. i i 7 i 2 ,” sail : : udditing at rr Ae wri! Sa, fe sapiesalone Fo gaked So gee Crystal then told Mrs, O’Gallagher about the trouble she “Yes.” had oe. pane eicerdarege Pip ey pete a of - “A ? id it| small part of her s in e, an ow Joe had interfere Five Gowan By your employer? The. sergeant ‘saya if ey ee behalf, thrashing the young tough who had tried to “No. », jan} had SS her. ‘ “Then _—s* yi pe aa aes She described how her champion had been arrested with Joe told the cashier he was going to court, and the old| the tough, and she and a man who had witnessed the scrap ° - 4 had gone to the police station with them. ' ; ma at eg ” said the boy, motioning to the girl. “The officer at the desk let Joe off after he heard our 2 Crystal got up and énme ko kites. stories, but we had to go to the police court at three o’clock % They atcompanied the policeman downstairs and up to| t testify against the boy who wanted to kiss me. The judge Tae Gr Noy ree ea i. but the fF i FS ow bs pe Ay a td a monh, and Joe and I then came back Siatfors, rm SR, Soe eS as Welt bia me tae gr — Le ong eee Mie ey ee ee ; oung ruffian wan iss you, e7 cess to him, eae Gee rence Lage eee ie ERE AE HBO eee hte didn’t get half what he deserved. The fudge ought to . The court-house was on that corner of the block, while| have given him a yaar?” What’s a month, faith? . Did you the Tombs prison was on the other corner adjoining it. give hima good lickin’?” she asked Joe. =e They were soon inside and the policeman notified the clerk| “Yes, ma’am, I gave him a pretty fair whaling.” ~ i of their arrival, and the case they were interested in. “Well, you look as if you were able to do it. It’s greatly _ It was something over half an hour before Reddy O’Rourke | obliged I am to you for protectin’ Crystal. She’s a good girl, _ was brought before the magistrate. : and sorry I am she has to go out sellin’ them posies. It’s . “He was charged with disturbing the peace by fighting on a| ag’in me-will, but she insists on helpin’ me keep the pot _ public thoroughfare, and technical assault on Be Rand. | boilin’. Ah, me! If she only had her rights, it’s ridin’ in ! “I couldn’t fight wit’ meself, and I ain’t no more guilty dan| her own carriage she’d be instead of livin’ in a tenement de other feller,” said Reddy to the judge. ' house.” j by Crystal was called to the witness chair and told her story.| , Joe looked at Mrs. O’Gallagher, wondering what she meant Joe then testified, admitting the part he took in the affair. by at. _. The man who had volunteered as a witness was on hand,| © “Crystal, darlin’, Mrs. Ryan was in here a while ago lookin’ % and his eons helped to justify Joe’s actions and make} fotyou. You might step across the hall and see what she the case ker for Reddy. . ; wants. I’ll entertain your company till you come back,” _. “Now what have you got to say?” asked the magistrate,| continued the Irish woman, as she went onwith her sewing. : go . J cae to O’Rourke. ¥ will be back in a few meets, Joe,” said the flower girl, . -*Not’in’,” answi h 5 R ashing a winning smile at him, = ; i Eee tecn etered beleeet= je All tight. I can wait,” said Joe, who wak in no hurry to ea” eg ‘eon toc?* rs : Ro the girl left the room for the apartments of Mrs. Ryan stock brokers,” on that floor. ge . Next ease.” SX “Crystal is not your daughter, Mrs. O’Gallagher?” said Island I'll lose me job,” pleaded Reddy. Joe, anxious to see if he could learn something about the pretty flower girl. ‘ “No; her name is Rand, while mine’s O’Gallagher. But she’s as good as a daughter to me, bless her. She’s the com- fort of my life. Faith, there isn’t a finer girl in the world, bar none, if I do say it, seein’ as I’mv her foster mother, and as fond of her as though she was me own flesh and blood. For sense and heart she is the equal of any lady in the ; : “She certainly looks superior to her condition in life,” said ; oe. P Ss _ ths for your t 5°

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“BACK-NUMBER BIXBY.” 5 —~ —_—___———_ — _ “Looks, isit? She is. She’s a real lady, that’s what she “Was he killed?” > , “No, he died of the yellow fever.” “Gee! That was hard luck.” ; “Faith it was. Crystal’s mother never recovered from the shock. Hard luck pursued her till she became reduced to the straits I found her in. Crystal has lived with me since she became an orphan, takin’ pot luck and never complainin’, helpin’ me with her own two pretty hands, that by rights should not be s’iled with such a common thing as dish water, or the handle of a broom, though she knows in her heart, the darlin’, that she’s a real heiress at this blessed minute.” “A real heiress!” cried Joe. 7 “Yes. You see her grandfather, the manufacturer, died only a few weeks ago.” “He did, eh?” f “Of grief, the papers said, ’cause his eldest son, on whom he depended, was drowned in one of the big lakes when his yacht was lost on the rocks. If Crystal’s father had lived he’d come in now for all the old man’s property.” “But Crystal is his heir, and should be entitled to a big share of her grandfather’s estate, I should think.” “That’s what I say, but unless some good lawyer was -eoigp to take up her cause she stands no chance of gettin’ er due. “If she can prove her identity I should think you could " find a capable lawyer to take her case up on a contingency Mrs. O’Gallagher paused to wipe a tear from her eyes, and | fee.” Joe was not a little affected by her story. “From the poor lady’s story I learned that she had married, a West P’int graduate named Sidney Rand, who subsequently became a capt’in in the army out West somewhere. He was the youngest son of a wealthy manufacturer—a millionaire two or three times over, I believe he was. Sidney Rand, when he got married, expected to leave the army, and take a posi- tion in his father’s factory. His father, it seems, objected to the lady of his choice, not bacause she wasn’t good enough for him, as things go, but because she was an orphan, and poor, do you mind, and so he wouldn’t receive his son’s wife at his house, nor recognize her at all. He told Mister Sidney that, in his opinion, he had made a bad job of it in marryin’ beneath him, though I understand old Rand himself started in life without a cent, and got rich through becomin’ a trust, or somethin’ of that sort. At any rate, the posses- sion of money gave him high ideas, and he told his son that ~she must give up his wife or shift for himself.” “What did he do—shake her?” asked Joe, almost indig- is. * “A real lady!” exclaimed Joe. é “Every inch of her. Since you’re a friend of hers, and look like a young gentleman, you shall hear her story.” “T should be glad to,” replied the young messenger, rly. . eeThe mother of Crystal lived in the back rooms of a little store near me some ten years ago, and that’s how I came to get acquainted with her, for she sold newspapers and sta- tionery and candy to the children of the neighborhood, and - | often went in there to buy ‘paper and envelopes, and a ‘newspaper now and then. She was a real lady, but sorely pressed, poor soul, for the store didn’t pay, and she sup- ported herself and the child by needlework.” — - “Needlework is not very profitable, I should think,” said Joe. “Sure it’s not. ‘Well, she wasn’t strong enough to battle with adversity, poor thing, and so she took sick and faded away like a flower struck by a blast. When she realized she was at death’s door she sent for me, told me her sad story, _ and begged me to do somethin’-for her child, now about to become an orphan. It’s meself that’ll take her under me own eare, though it’s poor enough I am; but heaven will help me to give her the bit and the sup’, I told her, and with that assurance from me, and with her poor, thin hand in mine, she “When I read about her grandfather’s death in the papers I wrote a letter to a lawyer named Sefton, who has c of the estate. He answered me, and what do you s’pose he said in his letter?” ‘ , “T have no idea.” t “He said Capt’in Rand never was married.’ ee “But he was.” , : “To be sure. ‘Didn’t I see the certificate meself that she. ot from the minister, and have it in me trunk for a long time? Wh went to look for it sure I couldn’t find it, more’s the pity. What became of it I don’t know; but I hope to find it unexpected like some day, and then——” ; » “You'll be able to do something for Crystal.” ice “Maybe so. Ah, if I only knew some one with a little ~ money who would step forward and help Crystal into her. ri . I wish I could do it, Mrs. O’Gallagher, but the little money I have wouldn’t do her much good. However, I'll sp to Mr. Bixby, my boss, and see if. he knows any lawyer who would be likely to interest himself in the case.” “Sure if you would do that I’d be greatly obliged to you, oa ie re tal would not forget you in case she got what’s due Fak a A; At that moment the flower girl came back and excused her- self to Joe for staying so long away. bP a SEPT. “Don’t mention it. Crvstal. Mrs. O’Gallagher and myself. — got first rate together, didn’t we, ma’am ?” : “Then how happened a ; ‘ " we did, And now it’s your turn, acushla.” 4 but the end, more’s the pity, was near, though neither) Joe femarned half an hour longer talking to the girl. who dreamed of it, poor souls. * , kad ed a fresh interest in his eyes since he heard hey Mrs. O’Gallagher paused again and cast a peculiar look at) story, a then he took his leave, promising to see he oe. do ae taj . ’ er stand on Broad street and Exchange place. “Are you interested?” she asked. - . ery much so,” replied the young messenger. "Well, then, would you mind takin’ that. tin can yonder RN _ to the corner and buyin’ me a pint of beer, for ‘t’s dry I am hays ~- with talkin’ so much. You'll find a dime on that shelf. See . CHAPTER V. TWO QUEENS AND THE KING. Joe lived with his widowed aunt and a couple of girl cousins 7 _ Both her and mother had been dead some years, ! and brothers or sjsters. hee, an SONI Sree es ee m a lobe chick, and was as good as a from Mrs. Ryan’s, and Joe) m to him. : Bea IEE FEE, ot! He thought iteeat peaked Set ozs also of his cousins, to t spot,” said Mrs, .O’Gallagher,| whom he stood a brother. \p Te ‘she a he showed them more attention than most brothers — bated: . s Depend 3; t Y 4 them around to dances and other ra a= that way. : : ~ *PIl do it, Mis. Gallagher,” said Joe, jumping up, though - he didn’t relish the , but he was ‘gaxious to hear the

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“BACK-NUMBER BIXBY.” “You’re late,” said his cousin Sadie. been?” “How much will you give to know?” “My pocketbook is empty,” laughed the girl. because you’re always home before me, and I get off at five.” “1 suppose if I don’t satisfy your curiosity you'l) have a fit. I have been in the society of a very pretty girl. “That’s just like you, boys—always interested in pretty girls,” replied Sadie, who didn’t relish the news a little bit. “Surest thing you know, Sadie, that’s why I’m so inter- ested in you.” ES ng you for the jolly,” “Jolly—nonsense! You’re one of the prettiest girls in Har- lem, and if you wasn’t my cousin, I’d be over head and ears in love with you.” “Indeed! I thought you did love me.” “So I do. I love you and Clara as. much as though you Were my sisters.” “Well, what about this pretty girl you just mentioned ? Who is she, and how long have you known her?” — © “She’s only 2 poor flower girl who sells boutonnieres to the brokers and others on Broad street. Her name is Crystal Send and I’ve known her, to speak to, only since noon to- yy.” “How came you to make her acquaintance ?” “You'll never guess.” said Sadie, making a mock bow “You were attracted by her beauty, I suppose, and went up. and, spoke to her.” “Not at all. I saw her insulted by a tough brute of a mes- senger boy. I took her part and slugged him in the jaw; he pitched into me, and I was polishing him off when a big cop came along and pulled us both in for fighting.” : a ot: don’t mean to say that you were arrested?” screamed cousin. ft aA feeret to say that such was the case.” ™s wars 4 is ghies what a disgrace! Did you tell mother?” “We I haven’t imparted the alarming intelligence to her as yet,” laughed Joe ; “IT don’t see anything to laugh at,” said Sadie. “I think it’s just awful.” “Tl admit that it was rather embarrassing to be mar¢hed off to the station-house as though I had committed a crime,” said Joe. “However, I suffered in a good cause.” How did you get out of it? You weren’t taken to court, were you?” “No. The flower. girl and a gentleman who witnessed the} trouble spoke up for me'and I was let go; but I had to go to court afterward to testify against the tough boy. He got a month on the Island.” Joe then told his cousin how he escorted Miss Rand to her| home in Varick street, where he was introduced to her foster ng ary Mrs. O’Gallagher. . Sadie thought that Joe showed altogether too much interest the fair flower girl, but she kept her thoughts to herself. At,the supper table Joe went over the story agtin for the benefit of his dunt and cousin Clara. - owe much concern over his arrest, but he made ro) ' After supper he went out to call on a friend, nat? then the ’ two sisters held a pow-wow about Crystal-Rand. : Neither was pleased at the idea of Joe getting on familiar _. terms with the young girl in question. agreed that she couldn’t amount to much if she lived: arick street in a cheap tenement. “The idea of him going home with her from the court. Just as if that was necessary,” said Sadie, almost angrily. “T’m afraid she’s some designing girl who is laying herself him. e he’s a ine looking boy. and wee ee ang Scuihinut Jocugan at us pater gs Senpan ali wo, taal id Sadie, at Joe’s | ™ it was. how t , on’t seem to have the fering few, but mee = ite inde I’m sure we're. aa petty , wp caer i ae ee herd mae fat, “Where have you “T asked you 'shares of O. & B “You work down near Wall Street. Why don’t you go down to Broad street during your lunch hour and take a look at that flower girl.” “T will. Ill do it to-morrow,” said Sadie, with a snap of her teeth. “I’d like to see if she really is so pretty and angelic as Joe says she is.” ee Angelic!” laughed Clara, a bit scornfully. “Handsome is as handsome does.” The entrance of their mother into the room at that moment cut their confidences short, and they turned their attention to other matters. = morning Joe was at the office bright and early as usu. His attention was soon concentrated on the previous day’s market report. Why was he so interested in that? Because he had a $100 bill up as marginal security of ten B. stock, the price of which was going up. He had bought it at '80, and it was now 87. Whicl goes to show that Joe was a small spéculator on his own account. It was his third deal, the first having been quite succéss- ful, while the second netted him a loss, leaving his capital at just double what he had started in with. This he had put up on O. & B., and the prospect of making another $100 looked good at that moment. an O. & B. went up nearly three points yesterday,” mut- tered Joe. “That’s : : hope it will do as well to-day. ae T'll be $100 to the I wonder if I'll ever be rich? If things pan out the ri ein. I may.” He turned to the general financial intelligence, which is org dry oe unless one is interested in it, and was quite absorbed in the doings of the Street when Jenkins and Talbot came in. They glanced at him in no pleasant way, and went on to their desks, Miss Lenox, the stenographer, followed them, — shortly afterward the cashier entered, opened the safe and passed out the books and various documents to the two clerks, who got busy at their work. wie was still reading the Wall Stret Daily when Dolby ed him up and asked him to fill his'\ink well. A quart ink bottle was kept, with other stationery, in the pig eloset in Mr. Bixby’ $s room, and Joe went in there to get t When he came out>with the bottle in his hand the cashier had gone into the wash-room. Fe ae: however, was at the safe taking something out of Ww ag ahowe, some paper hastily into his pocket and - slip iat The action pot aa suspicious, but the boy sunecnes whatever he did was all right, and thought nothing about it. He walked into the counting-room, filled the cashier’s ink- stand, and then wert around to each of the clerks’ desks - and performed the same service for them. Shortly afterward he was sent out on his first errand. “, This took him up Wall Street, and he got no chance to see if Crystal was at her stand as usual. His next errand took him to the Exchange, and in crossing Broad street he looked down at the corner of Exchange Place and caught a fleeting glimpse of the flower girl through the crowds of passers-by. It was close on to noon before he was sent on an down Broad street, and then he took advantage of his chance to go up to Crystal for a moment and speak to her. The girl smiled brightly when she saw him and held out one of her ds, “I thought I’d stop and say good-morning, Crystal,” he said; “but that’s all I can say now, for I’m in a hurry.” Then che left her and executed his errand. EB er again. F > boutonniere I vs he or fen ‘ on mandad him the one one received f, “Thanks, Crystal. That’s'a’ things, but I’m going to sport this put it in a .* and keep p it in thi atter whieh Tl pu i owed in one of my : i a Ri ge Bs ets ey

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oe é “Don’t be so foolish,” replied the girl with a smile and a vivid blush. ; “Foolish! This is the first thing I have received from you, and I mean to keep it as long as I live,” he replied. “Why, it will fade in a few days and then be valueless.” “Tt can never be valueless to me since it came from you, b ‘return. Here is a brand new silver quarter from the mint. Keep that to remember me by, and the incident that made us acquainted.” “Thank you. I will do so. I will string it on a ribbon and wear. it around my neck so that I may’never forget how good ~you were to save mé from that boy.” ~ As she slipped:it into her pocket a customer came up to buy a flower, and Joe continued on to the office. ° peta CHAPTER VI. THE KNAVE LEADS. = * Joe had hardly disappeared among the throng of pedes- trians when his cousin, Sadie Jarvis, crossed the street to the corner where the flower girl stood. ‘ _One glance at Crystal convinced Sadie that Joe’s descrip- tion of her was not overdtawn, and prejudiced though she was, she could’not but admit that the girl was as sweet and ‘unaffected as she was pretty. > 7 : Sadie stopped and looked at the boutonnieres as an excuse fi ing Crystal up still more. ‘ pens, sell many of these 2 she asked, picking one out and ing a nickel in payment. ‘ bs iad, : “Yes; I sell all my stock every day .before*three,” replied Crystal, in a low and gentle tone, “Thank you.” you have any trouble with the messenger boys around here? “They'are sometimes unruly.” © “Yesterday I had some trouble with one, but he was ar- “Wasn't another boy arested pt the same time?” asked “Yes. \He took my part atid was arrested for thrashing boy; but he was let off at the station.” - ‘ e was going to say something else, but two brokers cpuring. up to buy boutonnieres started her off, fully ‘convinced = a this flower girl was a dangerous rival of herself and her r. " v That afternoon when Mr. Bixby called Joe inside to help him on with his overeoat the messenger asked him if he knew of a good, honest lawyer who would take up a case for a poor girl who was heir to a large estate,’ but had no neans of asserting her rights. — F ' t meWho is this poor girl you speak of—a friend of yours?” asked the broker. ~ = | | “Yes, sir. Her name is Crystal Rand.” i “And you say that she’s heiress to a large estate?” “S I understand from the woman with whom she is liv- “Hum! What relationship does she claim in the case?” bed @ ghter.” won s ‘ san _ “But there are other heirs closer than herself, I presume?” “I think not, sir, Her grandfather had only two children— sons. The younger was her father. He was an army offi- _ cer, and died in Cuba® of yellow fever during the Spanish- ‘American War. The elder was drowned’ some months ago. His death was soon afterward followed by the father's. “Well, I.suppose the old gentleman left a will, which would ‘be the’ keynote of the situation?™ ~— = he did, and cut off the daugbter of ‘that would settle her chances: I! and did not expressly disinherit she could contest it, and get some recog- sid Joe | cor RO ever, and she can call on hin claim’ én her grandfather's es- ae arias bid x e t* “BACK-NUMBER BIXBY.” | 7 ; “Miss Lenox will give you the note after she has type- written it,” said Mr. Bixby, putting on his hat. » Bs much obliged to you, sir,” replied Joe. “You are welcome;” said the broker, walking out of his room. While Joe was waiting’ for the note the cashier sent him Crystal,” he replied with an earnestness that’ brought more| into the private room for a financial book that stood on Mr. lushes to her cheeks: “Now let me give you something in| Bixby’s private safe. When he returned with the book the note\was ready, and he took it and left the office for the day. 4 He went directly to Crystal’s home .on Varick street, climbed the stairs to the top’ floor, knocked on the door, but received no answer. He tried the door and found it locked. Neither Mrs: O’Gallagher nor Crystal appeared to be at hore, So he left somewhat disappointed. : However, he could either give the flower girl the note next day when he saw her on the street, or call in the afternoon again. - : He rather preferred to do the latter, as it would afford him 2 better chance for a good talk with Crystal, whom he was decidedly interested in. " He reached home early that afternoon, long before his cousins came uptown. = When Sadie came in she did not mention to him that she had seén and spoken to the fair flower girl that day, but after supper ‘she told her sister all about it, and passed her opin- ion upon Crystal’s many attractions. Joe hadn’t failed to note that-O. & B. had gone up two more points that day, and he figured that was $90 to the good on his latest deal. ‘ F He said nothing to his aunt or cousins about his speculative ventures in Wall Street, as they were so small as to be hardly worth mentioning. > Next morning when Joe reached the office he was sur- prised to find Jenkins already at his desk. ‘ This was a sufficiently unusual circumstance to attract the oy’s notice. e looked in through the wire partition an- ~aw that the book-keeper was writing a letter. Jenkins looked up and saw him. ‘ Se “Come in here, Jarvis, | want to see you,” xe said, in a fugaaly tone that also surprised Joe. went in to'see what Jenkins wanted. . Will you?” asked | ake with Mr, Bixby? Thés is t should hardly concern him,” answered Joe, eyeing Jenkins so steadily that the book-keeper turned over a new leaf, see?” t it strange that Jenkins, who had him since he came into the spare cash I had left td do-it, but I had to do something that

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7 ness to transact at noon which would prevent me from at- tending to the matter,” said Jenkins, suavely. ee well, I'll sell it for you. I suppose any broker will ° “Yes,” said the book-keeper, pushing the envelope toward him. “Put it in your pocket and don’t let anybody in the office know you have it.” . “T’d like to look at the contents of the envelope in your} presence first,” said Joe, whose bump of business caution was well developed. Ms “Well, look at it,” said Jenkins, impatiently, “only be quick about it.” Joe examined the envelope and found that it contained a $100 bond, No. 999, Series C, of the Northern Traction Co. Having satisfied himself he put the envelope in his pocket. “Now don’t bring the money here to my desk after you have sold the bond. Keep it until I ask you for it. I may not do that till my creditor appears, and then I’ll probably take you out in the corridor.” “But I might be out on an errand when the man calls on you,” said Joe, wondering more and more at the extreme pre- cautions Jenkins was surrounding what seemed to him a very simple matter. | “T’l] have the man wait tili you get back. That will be all right,” said the k-keeper, patting Joe on the small of the back and then letting his hand glide around his body in a| ing careless way till it stopped for a moment near his side pocket. i arn then Talbot came in and Jenkins pushed Joe toward e door. 4 When Joe was taking his seat outside he saw Jenkins and Talbot in conversation at the latter’s desk. ; Joe took up the Wall Street Daily that he always consulted the first thing in the morning, but somehow he couldn’t in- terest himself in it. . ee comin’ get that strange interview with Jenkins out of mind. 2 Pe more he thought it over the more singular it appeared im. _, He was a pretty cute lad—right up to the minute in every- , thing, and it was pretty ‘d to pull the wool over his eyes. Jenkins’ reasons for wishing to sell the bond on the out- side might be all right—Joe was not prepared to say they were not—but for all that the boy had a vague suspicion that there might be something wrong in the matter. _. He considered the question from all standpoints in order to see if he could detect “a nigger-in the woodpile.” “Jenkins was uncommonly friendly with me of a sudden,” he thought; “but then there may be nothing extraordinary in that, for when a person has an axe to grind he naturally , goes to work about it in a diplomatic way. I can’t say that I fancy Jenkins much, not because he’s been offish with me . since I came here, but because I have sized him up as-a shifty ; sort of chap who would not be above swindling his best friend _if the temptation presented itself. He never looks you _ straight in the eye, and a fellow who can’t do that is not to be trusted. He and Talbot are pretty thick, I’ve noticed that se half an eye. I don’t see anything particularly wrong with Talbot, but somehow I think he’s an easy mark. A man of Jénkins’ caliber could lead him around by the nose. He _ hasn’t got much sand, nor the courage to support his own - convictions. He’ll never be anything but a clerk as long as : ; Ls F P he lives. He hasn’t got the push and energy to land himself - ee y on op.” . entrance of the cashier put an end to Joe’s reflections. _ and soon afterward he was called on to go out. _ He delivered his message at the office of a big broker, and | on his way back he dropped in at a money and bond broker’s te sell Jenkins’ $100 bond. = : ; A clerk came presented Presently he returned without it. BF hairy “Will you step into the private office, please. Mr. New- wishes to see you.” © ; wondering if there could ‘sg anything wrong about the forward to wait the d and said he on him. : wanted to sell it. ~ “BACK-NUMBER BIXBY.” “examined the bond and then walked away with “Is there anything wrong about it?” asked the boy. _ “No. It is a genuine bond. I merely asked how it came on te possession? Did some one send you here to sell it or Ss “Yes, sir.” “Do you know him?” “I do.” “Are you employed in the Street?” “Yes, sir.” “By whom?” “Nathan Bixby, stock broker, No. —— Wall Street.” “Surely Mr. Bixby didn’t send you here with this bond?” said Newberry, eyeing Joe curiously. “No, sir.” “Who did, then?” “One of the clerks in the office.” “Indeed,” said the broker, with an odd smile. “Doesn’t it strike you as just the least bit funny that he should send out a bond for sale that he could just as well dispose of to his employer?” “TI called his attention to that, sir; but he had special pri- vate reasons that he explained to me.” “Oh! I see. Was Mr. Bixby at his office when you left?” “No, sir; he hadn’t come in yet.” ; “What time does he usually reach the office in the morn- 4 i “About half-past nine.” “And you left the office before that, I presume,” said New- berry, looking at his watch in a casual way. “No, Sir; I left at about quarter of ten. Mr. Bixby is late this morning.” nae the way, who is the clark who gave you this bond to sell? “Samuel Jenkins. He’s the assistant book-keeper.” “I suppose it’would,be a breach of confidence for you to tell me the reasons that Jenkins advanced for wishing to dis- . pose of this bond on the outside?” “Yes, sir. You must find something irregular in this transaction or you wouldn’t ask me all these questions. I know it isn’t customary. All any broker requirés is a rea- sonable assurance that secyrities offered for sale are the © property of the person offering them for sale in person or’ by proxy.” “That’s right. You appear to have had experience in the > Street.” ra “ve only been with Mr. Bixby a little over two weeks, I worked for Goodrich & Mosby, who retired a short time , for two years.” “Well, young man, to be frank with you, for you seem to be acting in good faith in this matter, I do find something irregular in this transaction. This bond is one of a set I sold to Mr. Bixby, through his cashier, just two days ago. These Northern Traction bonds are not often offered for sale singly, at least not the $100 brand, of which this one is a sample. They are a good investment, gilt edged, and have never been below par. They are held chiefly by banks, in- surance and trust companies, estates and peovle of means. It is hard to buy a single $100 bond. That fact of itself would attract attention to your offer of this bond for sale. I doubt if a broker in the Street would buy it offhand, so you see how the case stands.” “Well, Mr. Jenkins told me that he bought that bond of Mr. Bixby quite recently. but having urgent need the outside,” said Joe. “He may have told you the truth, for Mr. Bixby, after buying the batch of $100 bonds, had the right to sell them separately if he chose to do so; but, as I said before, it would be mangel. so far as these particular bonds are concerned. Under the cireumstances I consider it wise to communicate with Mr. Bixby before buying this bond of you, or even re- turning it to you,” said the broker. é “Well, sir, I suppose it is right for you to satisfy vourself, but I am bound to get into trouble with Jenkins if you let Mr. Bixby know that he sent me out to sell that bond, pe dare say Mr. Bixby won’t be pleased with Jenkins for do SO. f “pm sorry, but I think it’s my duty to investigate this bond offer. TI ware say that teares anything crooked about it, but if it should turn out that there was, I would be out a- ‘matter of $103; that is, if I took the risk of purch: : without question. Under those circumstances I am protect myself.” — , sas eimai dh seine .-) a \e looked up Mr. Bixby's call number. then to use the ~ money to-day, and as he had a special reason for not wishing - to ask Mr. Bixby to take it back, he asked me to sell it on hme 4 aa a % eds eee ae TMi oa LL PERN Se ee

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¢ i _ “BACK-NUMBER BIXBY.” 9 / drew his desk telephone to him and asked to be connected} “Now we'll have Talbot in here,” said Mr. Bixby. “Ask him With Joe’s office. to step in, Joe.” This was done almost immediately, and Mr. Newberry in-| The messenger went into the counting-room and told Tal- quired if Mr. Bixby was at the office. bot that the boss wanted him. He was told that he was. Talbot dropped his pen and started for the private room. “I'd like to speak to him on a matter of importance,| Joe was following when Jenkins called him over. Please.” ; “Sold that bond yet?” he said, Whoever answered the ’phone connected the wire with the; “No, sir,” replied the boy. waate broker took it, looked at it, and then told Joe to bring “chair up to the lounge. | i: “Did Jenkins give you this bond to sell on the outside?” * The situation had taken on an unexpected complication and Mr, Bixby and Dolby looked alternately at Talbot and Joe, who had accused each other of the same act. he e young messenger looked excited and indignant, while. es, sir.” the clerk appeared all taken aback. ; 3 : Eb It seemed: to be a question of veracity between them that “This morning—a few minutes before nine. I found him at} would require the judgment of a Solomon to decide which | his desk writi ived at my usual time.” had told the truth, : “What peaedee Me Sankiia. give for “You say you saw Joe Jarvis at the counting-room safe eer, morning?” said Mr. Bixby, looking intently at ‘albot. ~ “I did,” replied the clerk, doggedly. “Did you notice what he was doing there?” ‘ “He seemed to be fumbling around on one of the shelves.” mee nee a a i = og ker. “You ‘gay you saw i ” sai roker. his hand Seade the safe?” to Talbot. ‘On which shelf?” “The middle one, sir,” answered the clerk. ‘ | That was the shelf on which the package of Northern . Tract ion bonds lay, and Dolby had so, reported to his em- 3 ployer. . ‘ : a? “You are sure it was the middle shelf?” continued the e woke 2 | es, sir. a4 hee “If you thought his presence and actions at the safe un- oo al perhaps supieots why you did not report the fact Yr. - “T ealled Tanking’ attention to him, and he turned around ” y. “Then Jenkins also saw Jar Finally Mr. Bixby held up the Northern Traction Co, ' he iknow about this bond? His duties ae not take him near © from it and shoved it into your jacket pocket. Maybe it fe i: ES fam

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10 “BACK-NUMBER BIXBY.” Tt was Joe’s turn to gasp. It was no longer a question of his word against Talbot’s. Jenkins would, of course, be called in to coryoborate the! that young man.” | clerk’s statement, and the boy did not doubt but he would do it, for they appeared close friends. Still that did not prove anything against him, false as! Talbot’s statement was. Jenkins had handed him the bond to sell, and would have to account for it being in his possession. “Richard,” said Mr. Bixby to his nephew, “go into the counting-room and ask Mr. Jenkins to step in here.” : In a few moments White returned with the assistant book- eeper. That astute sindividual saw at once that there was trouble in the air, and he did not doubt that it was connected with the Northern Tracion bond. In an instant he had mapped out his course of action. “You sent for me, Mr. Bixby,” he said inquiringly. “I did.. I want you to settle a little question of veracity between Talbot and my new messenger. Talbot says he saw Jarvis at the counting-room safe yesterday morning, and Joe denies that he was there. Talbot says that he called your attewition to the boy’s presence at the safe, because he thought he had no right to be there. Now, did you see Jar- * vis at the safe on this occasion?” “Yes, sir,” replied Jenkins, without the slightest hesita- tion. The only reason why Joe was not paralyzed at this bare- faced lie was becatise he expected that the bookkeeper would bear out Talbot. He heard the man quite coolly, and did not attempt to in- terpose a denial. “Did you notice what he was doing at the safe?” asked ' Mr. Bixby. ' *T couldn’t see just what he was doing, but he acted as if he was hunting for something.” “Did you consider that he had any right to be hunting for something in the safe?” “I thought it kind of strange that he should be there, but as I did not. see him take anything out of the safe, I let the matter go.” “Were you aware that there was a package of Northern Sena bonds on the middle shelf of the safe?” sir.” “Well, one of those bonds was found missing this morn- ing.” ‘ “Yes, sit,” “Do” you knuw acting about it?” “I, ‘sir!” exclaimed Jenkins, in, simulated surprise. “Cer- tainly not, six.” “Didn’t you hand Jarvis a Northern Traction bond early this morning and ask him to sell it for you, representing thag it was your property, and that for private reasons, which you explained to him, you wanted it isposed of on ' the outside?” % ir. Did he tell you that? Why, such. a thing is ridiculous on its face. Assuming that I was crooked enough _ to steal a bond from your safe, would I be such a fool as . to ask the messenger of the office to sell it for me.” 4 aoe bookkeeper’s countenance was the picture of indignant eni Mr. Bixby’s face never changed, but cashier Dolby gazed at Joe in an uncertain way. Matters had suddenly assumed a dark look for the young messenger. — as a flash the boy saw that he was the victim of a plot. For reasons best known to themselves Jenkins and Tal- bot had put this job up on him. He was eaught in the toils, and the qussitod as how was he going to extricate himself, | It was a fact that he had tried to sell the missing, bond, ~ which > had asserted he received from gers for that Be - repudiated all , co 3 transaction, which taken in connection wa statement that he had been at Te eg daa gee ssoutld of the aatttwis 3S on bonds a made things mighty ti for him. < SAP wondered how it was going to end. ©) i At bee moment there | a knock on | ¢ oor. ee it and a policeman a the pig “4 telephone message was received a hat an officer Be sent he herp,” he said, looking ao Role deel gi me Be | sea. “That’s right,” said the broker. Then to the astonish-}. ment of all in the room, he pointed to Talbot. “Arrest The broker felt iil, and the excitement caused him to sink back on a couch. Talbot turned as white as chalk and staggered back with consternation as the policeman walked over to him and placed his hand on his shoulder. “Why—why—what. does this mean?” gasped the clerk, whose self-possession seemed to be swept completely away. “It means that I do not believe the story you have told, and I accuse you of taking this bond from the counting- room safe and passing it over to Jenkins, your confederate, in a scheme to ruin young Jarvis,” said the broker sternly, as he lay glaring at the young rascal. “T—deny: ” fluttered Talbot. “Why, man, you show your guilt in your face. clean breast of this matter and I'll let you go. you go to the station-house at. once.” , — was staggéred by the turn that the case had aken He didn’t dare make signs to Talbot to hold his tongue af all hazards, but he tried to catch his eye. Talbot, however, was so badly rattled that he was all at Make a Refuse, and He believed that his employer had some evidence that inprigaiantes him, otherwise why should he accuse him in. such a decided way after the testimony had shown so strong | against the messenger? “Well, will you. confess or take the consequences?” asked ” Mr. Bixby sharply. ; : “T will confess, sir,” said Talbot. “I did not see Jarvis at the safe as I stated, neither did Jenkins. It was a job put up on the new messenger by Jenkins to get him out of the office, and I helped work it. I took the bond from the safe at Jenkins’ orders and gave it to him. The object was to'have Jarvis offer the bond for sale outside. We ex-/ pected the sale would be held up and you motified. We re? lied on our united testimony to convict the boy of a theft of the bond, We believed you would not prosecute = but turn him loose, and that was all we wanted. That’s the whole story.” “Perhaps you'll tell me why you and Jenkins were anxious to get my new messenger out of the office? In what way did he incur your dislike in so short a time? hay “You'll have to ask Mr. Jenkins, sir. He—— Jenkins, in.a furious rage, made a rush at Talbot, but Joe grabbed him and held him back, assisted by White, “Tl you yet, you squealer!” roared the struggling clerk, s ings his fist at his sid partner in guilt. “Officer” said the broker, “release your prisoner and sks charge of this man, Jenkins.” He got up from the couch as he speke and went to his desk. The policeman did as he was sonueated: and Joe and White let go of the bookkeeper. “Now, Jenkins, what have you got to say?” said Mr. Bixby. “What excuse to offer for your contemptible con- duct? Why did you want Jarvis out of. the office?” “Because I didn’t like him, and now I hate him,” hissed Jenkins, glaring at the young messenger. “That’s the only reason, is it?” U “That’s enough,” gritted Jenkins. “Jarvis, do you know of any other reasons why Jenkins should take such strong measures to bring about your dis- grace?” asked the broker, with a keen look. “No, sir. I haven’t the slightest idea why either Jenkins: or Talbot should be down on me,” — Joe. “Officer you.can let your man go. I shall not require your services any longer. Mr. Dolby, take the policeman outside and hand him $10 for his trouble.” The cop.followed the cashier and left the office $10 richer than he entered it. “Jenkins, you can collect your wages from the. cashier and leave the ona said Mr. Bixby. “Patbot, you will remain in this room. Joe, you will return to your duty. What did yo usb » see me about, Richard?” he concluded, turni , oe, sat <? "hls meh outside, and began thinking over what had nee sg a ‘thunder did Mr. Bixby hit the nail on the head?” - looked blacker than a bottl of ink aint Be, i feared that when the cop arrived ire oi “with the theft of the Northern ead edi could I aS have in a : my innocence with the those two men espace ; BS. Bed ee ne off to the station-house. In that event hole, for resin

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o “BACK-NUMBER BIXBY.” | ae 2? Mr. Bixby may be a back number, as they call him, | the marriage certificate, and to find out what other evidence just the same he’s got a mighty long head. I’m think-|I had that Crystal was the capt’in’s child. I had to tell g he’d make a first-class magistrate. At the very moment | him I had mislaid the certificate and other information, two rascals thought they had me fixed the boss turned | more’s the pity, but I hoped to find it when I searched in one On Talbot and took him right off his feet. It must be that | or two places I hadn’t had the chance to look yet. He he was studying the clerk all the time, and suspected from | scemed- much disappointed, for he said the marriage cer- S deportment that he was not telling a straight story. 1! tificate was a very important p’int, which would have to doubt, though, if he could have ¢arried his point with Jen- | be presented before the Court in-order to establish Crystal’s kins. That chap is a man of a different caliber from Talbot. | identity beyond a reasonable doubt.” I wouldn’t be surprised if Talbot was nothing more than Jen-| “Well?” said Joe as Mrs./O’Gallagher paused “ind cast an kins’ e,* unconscious look at the quart can on the edge of the sink. At that juncture White came out of the ‘private office. _ “Sure I hate to trouble you, Mister Joe, but would you “Let me congratulate you, young man, in getting out of | mind takin’ that hlicky over to the corner and bringin’ me @ tight fix,” he said, stopping in front of Joe. a pint of beer? I’ve somethin’ in me throat that feels like : Re oe you, Mr. White. Ii had a elose call, and I am very} a cobweb, and mighty unpleasant it is.” \ ‘or my escape. , Many an imnotent person has been! “All right, Mrs. O’Gallagher. I'll get you the pint.” railroaded to prison on a trumped up charge no stronger| “Sure it’s a shame to take advantage of your presence than the one brought against me.” ; here, Mister Joe, but——” Z . “That’s the truth,” nodded White, walking away. “That’s all right,” replied the messenger, grabbing the . Joe was then sent out on an errand, and when he got | “blicky,” as she called the quart can. . ack he saw Talbot at his desk. : =e “Wait till I reach for the dime.” The boy was sent out. right away again, this time to the} «Never mind the dime, Mrs. O’Gallagher. It’s my treat,” Mills Building. - laughed Joe. As he approached the corner of-Exchange place he looked meats . as F for Crystal, but she was. not there, somewhat to his surprise. Is it, now? It’s kindgof you to remember it. T could “She couldn’t have sold out so early,” he mused, and he Agape a eee from here who—but wondered if she had come down at all that day. \ Joe got the beer, but by that time Mrs. O’Gallagher had ; forgotten what she was going to say about certain people ate: great distance from her rooms. _ sa $ CHAPTER IX. sk leer e boy wasn’t sorry, for he had no interest in the mat- 7. Pat ee was eager to hear further particulars concerning Crys- tal’s improved chances of coming into her grandfather's 5 et Fi a ~ || property. That afternoon Joe visited the Varick stredt tenement for After Mrs. O’Gallagher had satisfied her thirst she pro- « = ANOTHER DEAL WITH A KNAVE TURNED TRUMPS... the third time. tee gens Te * * He found Mrs. O’Gallagher in and sewing on custom goods | *°ece¢ to gratify him : as before. . - “Well, Lawyer Sefton took his Teave of me, sayin’ he “Good afternoon, Mrs. O’Gallagher,” he said politely. would call again, when he hoped I would have the docu- “Good afternoon, Mister Joe. I suppose you came to see| ments which would. establish Crystal’s right to what was Crystal?” said the Irish woman, who seemed to be in ex-;¢omin’ to her. I didn’t expect to lay me eyes again on his » cellent humor. y face for a week or two at the least; but what was me sur- “T admit:that I did. I looked for hér to-day at her stand | Prise when in he popped this mornin’ with all the grace of -on Broad street and Exchange place, but she was not there. |@ jumpin’ jack. Crystal was in the next room gettin ready as she down to-day?” ; 5 to go to the florist’s for her supply of posies for the day. “She was not,” answered Mrs. O’Gallagher, stopping to|‘Am I in time?’ says he, after wishin’ me good mornin’, as — thread her needle. ° polite as a French dancin’ ‘master. ‘For what?’ says I, _ “She’s not under the weather, is she?” - _ | Wondering what he meant. “To see Miss Rand,’ say he. “Net at all. When I left,her this mornin’ she never looked | ‘Faith, you are, says I. ‘I'll call her, and if you don’t say better-in her life.” bu ae she’s a born lady, every inch of her, it’s greatly surprised __“Left her? Where has she gone?” I'll be.’ ” ; Ah, it’s elegant news I have to tell you, Mister Joe. The| “Well,” said Joe, much interested in the developments, darlin’ is goin’ to come into her property after all without | “what did he think of Crystal?” the least trouble in the world.” “He declared she was the livin’ image of her grandfather, “You don’t say. Then you’ve found somebody to champion | and ‘that he hadn’t the least doubt but she was the rightful her cause? I spoke to my boss about her, as I promised} heiress. ‘Unfortunate, Mrs. O’Gallagher,’ say he, ‘faees you I would, and he gave me a letter introducing Crystal! don’t count in court as evidence. We must have somethin’ to his r. I’ve got it with me, and that’s the real reason | more substantial.’ ‘Isn’t her face substantial enough?’ says why} came here this afternoon.” said Joe. at I, lookin’ at the darlin’s rosy cheeks, which were the picture ‘It’s a thousand times obliged to you I am, Mister Joe,| of health. ‘You misunderstand me, ma’am,’ say he. ‘We and Crystal won’t think any the less of you, you may be! must haye’somethin’ that we can put on record. In other , for your attention to her interests, but she won’t need} words, ma’am, you must look up that certificate, and the etter now. It won’t be at all necessary for the dear) other proofs you say you’ve mislaid.’ ‘Sure Ill do that to- to morrow,’ says I. ‘See that you do,’ say he, ‘for I must have 0 has : them as soon as possible. I'l! take the liberty of callin’ to- © letter with very little ceremony a while ago, “has, the | morrow afternoon after them. So mind that you have them ts be thanked, had a change of heart. I had a visit from} ready for me,’ say he. ‘But suppose I can’t come across y. He came all the way from Boston to see| them at such short notice,’ say I. ‘You mustn’t suppose such He’s a red-headed little man, a sort of hop-o%thumb,}a thing, Mrs. Gallagher,’ say he. ‘Keep on the job,till you do you mind? T,could blow him into the middle of next} fihd them. And now, ma’am, it’s a surprise I have for you.’ we with half a breath, faith. I can’t say that I fancy | ‘Indeed?’ says I, ‘I hope it’s a pleasant one.’ ‘I’ve got a coo- _his face much, but as he didn’t make it himself, I suppose} pay down at the door waitin’ to take Miss Rand off with me it wouldn’t be right to hold him responsible for it. He’s}to the home of a distant relative of her father’s family— mighty soft spoken, that’s what he is. You’d think butter) q very fine lady, } assure you, Mrs. Gallagher—who knew Rand when he was a boy. I met her quite by acci- and Mrs. O’Gallaghér illustrated the lawyer’s action. “ oo Rand. She was interested in her immejetly, and told me by , for hasn’t he promised to do the right thing by Crystal. and | had been a great favorite of hers, and she would be de- Make a grand lady out of her if she can prove she’s Capt’in | Jighted to & his daughter, and help her in every way to Sidney Rand’s daughter, wrich I know she is.” sécure her fottiie. Nothin’ could have happened better,’ | va at all.

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12 “BACK-NUMBER BIXBY.” “Did you let Crystal go with that lawyer?” exclaimed Joe anxiously. What, alone? I did not. I went with them,” replied Mrs. O’Gallagher. “You found the lady all right, I suppose?” T did. She lives in a fine house in the Bronx, and seems to be as rich as Lawyer Sefton said she was. The moment. she clapped her eyes on Crystal she ran up and grabbed her in her arms. ‘You’re the image of the dear capt’in,’ says she. ‘I would recognize you anywhere, I shall love you very dearly, for your father’s sake.’ I looked at the lawyer, quite tickled at the fine reception the darlin’ was receivin’, and he seemed to be as pleased as meself, for he was rub- “bin’ his hands together and grinnin’ all over his face, for all the world like a monkey on two sticks, which I oughtn’t to say, seein’ that he’s on our side.” ; “Then you left Crystal at the lady’s house?” said Joe. “Sure I did, though sorry to be parted from her; but it’s for the dear child’s own good, and I’d make any sacrifice for her sake, so I would.” * ; Mrs. O’Gallagher wiped her eyes with the end of her ron, and then her gaze rested on the can, she finished beer and went on with her sewing. “What part of the Bronx does tlie lady live in, and what is her name?” asked Joe. : “Are you thinkin’ of payin’ Crystal a visit?” asked Mrs. O’Gallagher: « : much as I do for her, she'll wait for me till I get ahead a bit in the world, for, of course, I wouldn’t think of marry- a) her till I was able to support her in some style,” said oe. = “But if she has lots of money you don’t need:any. She'll have enough for both of you,” said Mrs. O’Gallagher. “I wouldn’t touch a cent 6f her money.” “Why not? What is money for but to spend?” “We won’t argue the matter, Mrs. O’Gallagher. I'll copy that address now, and pay Crystal a visit, maybe to-morrow evening,” said Joe. > “Do so, and then call on me and let me know how the darlin’ looks, and what she had to say, and how she’s en- j’yin’ herself with the lady.” “I will do so with pleasure. * Joe took down the paper and read the following: “Mrs. Charlotte ‘Tucker, No.. 23 Woodbine Terrace, be- tween and -— streets, Bronx.” He made a copy of it and then took his leave. ” CHAPTER X. THE KNAVE TAKES A TRICK. \ « Joe had” noticed t O. & B. closed that afternoon at , ig 7 ies 00s pee hee eae ecpermetonats Dee. ve bee twelve points above what he paid for his ten shares, and he “You'll find a paper on the shelf with the lady’s name and) W235 considering the advisability of selling out first thing ‘address. You can copy it. I know Crystal will be delighted | next morning. ; to see you because when she bade me good-by at the door, He stood to make over $100 clear profit, and that wasn’t as I was comin’ away, she told me to tell you everythin’| to, be sneezed at. | ‘ that had happened, and to assure you that she was wearin’|\, The afternoon papers, however, encouraged him to be- a certain new quarter around her neck, next to her heart,| lieve that the price would go higher next day, so he de- « and that she’d never forget you as long as she lived.” cided to hold on a while longer. ; F “Did she say all that?” said Joe, delighted. he: * Tn the’ morning he was rather surprised to see that Tal- “Faith she did, and it’s quite gone on you I’m thinkin’ she | bot was still on the job, but he had no hard feelings against _ is. Sure she might do worse than marry you, for there’s no the clerk, as he believed that Jenkins was the real enemy he tellin’ what kind of doods will come a-courtin’ of her as soon| had been up against. . . as she’s a great heiress.” ; During the day Mr, Bixby hired a new bookkeeper, and “I'm afraid I won't stand much chance, Mrs, O’Gallagher,” | things went on smoothly. said Joe soberly. . At eleven o’clock, when Joe was sent to the Exchange, “Why not, if she likes you?” he saw that there was a big boom on in O. & B., and that it “Because was up to 96, or sixteen points to his good. . oe noon it reached par, and at one o’clock was going at As soon as!Joe got a chance he rushed around to the little bank on Nassau street where he made his deal and or- dered his ten shares sold. In ten minutes they were disposed of to some trader for 105 8-8, and Joe made a profit of $250, which was about: double what he had expected to clear on the deal. Of course after he had figured the matter out he was greatly tickled at his good luck, for,he was now worth $350. That wasn’t a lot of money as things go, but it looked life before. + is ¥ “1 wish I had a thousand dollars now,” he said. “I’d sell O. & B. short, for it’s bound to take a tumble in a lian short time. It looks as shaky as a house built of cardboard. oak ‘ou say he’d show I wonder if the bank would stake me on the strength of the called on her and didn’t look swell enough to suit his no-| amount it owes*me? I’ve a great mind to ask the margin ; like i clerk about it.” ‘ When he got off at half-past three he went up to the ) little bank and spoke to the clerk on the subject. : if he was twice as big as that tom-tit of a lawyer,” and|~ The young man told him to wait and he’d look into his account. ~ “It takes about twenty-four hours to make a settlement.” — he said, when he came back. “If you want to leave your - order to sell at the market, we'll take it, but the deal won’t go through till around noon to-morrow. There'll be $350 — coming to. you.” y , | “The price may drop clear down by that time,” said Joe, ~ “and there’d be nothing in it for me.” : } “You'll have to please yourself,” said the clerk. Joe considered the matter. ‘| He wanted to make the deal then and there, but as he couldn’t do that, and if he didn’t leave his order now, he. ney mek ee Bie ee Ane em Shenee to do it next day if he “Suppose I give you an order to sell 0. & B., but not at a F ywer price than par, will you take it?” so gure Name any figure you and we will not make — it. I fe? ar, 3 the maret and will to understand that I’m what the French call de trop.” ' “What do you mean by de trop? /I’m not a French scholar, do you mind.” y. “In the way, is it? What will he have to say about who stal marries? Isn’t she the one to be pleased?” ell have a great deal to say, Mrs. O’Gallagher, as long as he’s her guardian. He’d have the right to show you ‘the door, too, if he thought you didn’t look nice enough to visit his ward.” ase} would I visit his ward, whatever that may be, for? It’s me darlin’ I’d call on.” : 5a : “Crystal would be his ward. That's the legal-title that .o. 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; ; ; “BACK-NUMBER BIXBY.” price is 103, we'll sell at the market,.of course. ~Under- stand?” E “I do. Tl go you.” t The slip to that effect was made out, and Joe signed it, then he went home. ' ‘ ““T£ that stock don’t drop till my deal is made I ought to double-my money, for if it don’t go back around: 90 in a few days I’ll be much surprised,” thought Joe, as he walked toward the elevated station. That evening he dressed himself in his best clothes and appeared in the dining-room ready-to go out. “Where are you off to to-night 2” asked Sadie, suspiciously. “Going to visit your new charmer in Varick street? You look rather swell to call at a tenement.” “No, I’m not bound for Varick street,” replied Joe. “I’m going up into the Bronx.” In the Bronx! Who do you know there? It’s a young lady, of course, or you wouldn’t have put on*so many frills.” “How many girls have you, Joe ?” asked Clara. “Well, I’ve you two to begin’ with,” he laughed. * “Oh, we'don’t count. We’re only your cousins,” said Sadie, tossing her head. : “I thought you counted a whole lot,” he said. “Not just at present. You have given us the shake.” “Nonsense! I’m going to take you to a dance to-morrow evening, ain’t I?” “You promised to do so.” “Don’t I always keep my promises?” “Of course you do, Joe.” said Clara. “Don’t mind Sadie.” “Well, so long. When I get back maybe I’ll tell ypu, who T’ve seen.” : abe eb LE at Joe said good-night to his aunt and walked out. er _ He went to the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth, street sta- tion on the Third avenue elevated road, and cayght a train going north. ah Dabis He got out at the station nearest to the street he was bound for, and in due time reached Woodbine Terrace. which was a short. street, only a block long. the residences all being of a superior grade, and elevated on earth embank- _ ments above the level of the sidewal’. “Crystal has certainly got in with some well-to-do friends,” » said Joe, as he locked for No, 28. “I’m afraid she'll be altogether a too swell proposition for me when she comes into her money. Too I have come to think so much of _ her. I wish she had remained just a plain flower girl, and then I’d have stood a good show with her. It will be a long time before I make enough money to be able to support her in the style she'll soon get accustomed to. I wonder if she will remain true to me? Why should she when she’ll meet a fine lot of rich chaps in the society her guardian will _introduce her to? She told Mrs. O’Gallagher that she was Wearing my quarter next to her heart, and ‘would never forget me as long as she lived. That’s the way she feels now, but time changes everything, even constancy. Here is No. 23. Well, I'll see her once more, at any rate. ‘He ran up the terraced steps and rang the bell. A good-looking young negress came to the door. “Miss Crystal Rand is staying here, I believe,” said Joe. = vee, len ak Wed ee ts Sd tell‘ MiaaGocken? or ani rs. er. _, She showed hin | into a swell furnished room, pushed a buttom that lit a single electric bulb which cast a dim, red glow about the center of the room, and asked him to be He was about to take a gilt chair near at hand, but it looked so fragile that he concluded not to. As all the chairs seemed to be of this va , he took his seat on a Vat the fay end of the Too sgeinst a ‘pair of glass folding doors. He had only been there a minute, feeling lik a duck out of water, when two persons entered the room I the doors, which was fitted up as a library. “he, along, old man, get a move on if you’ve got any- _ thing to tell me; I’ve got to go dov . I promised to a particular friend at the Criterion Parlors at nine cae ee alvin beer sig nite iad: a was a young man who spoke, and his tone impa- _ tient ‘and not over respectful. cohen! apres ae scald > ae y dear nephew, you should recollect that 1. itacr ’ _ “A nice way to address me, when I'm “trying to i Geek Gate layer See ee 7, 43 to feather your nest out of it. You’re not doing sometiing for nothing, dear unky,” laughed the young man, satirically. “I know you. Come all the way from Boston to make me a business proposition, didn’t you? You think if you can get that young heiress, Crystal Rand, out of the way, or at least get hold of the proofs of her mother’s marriage to Captain Rand, so that you can destroy them, that I will be the heir- at-law because your sister, my mother, married a distant rela- tive of the Rand family: Very clever, but rather dangerous, I should think. If this little game of yours should be dis- covered we’d both land in prison, though you’d get the worst of it because you’re a lawyer, and are bound by your oath not to disgrace the profession by taking a hand in such a piece of crooked business.” Joe, who heard every word uttered, as it came through the long crack in the center of the door, against which his head almost rested, was staggered by the revelation. Clearly the occupants of the, library were not aware that the parlor held an occupant, particularly one acquainted with Crystal Rand, whose interests were at stake. ; “My dear nephew,” said the lawyer. who was evidently. an elderly man by his voice, “you mustn’t talk about these things. I have confided the facts, as well as my plans, to you, and you must be careful to keep them to yourself. It’s for your interest to do so.” “Oh, I’m not a fool to blab dangerous matters on the outside,” said the young man, lighting a cigarette; “but we’re alone now, with nobody to hear us, and I feel like telling you a thing or two. Before the old man turned up his toes you had no use for me. When I asked you for a little money once in a while you turned me down without the slirhtest consideration. If you could work this precious scheme -of yours without taking me into your confidence you’d do it quick enough. But you can’t, unky, and that’s where I’ve got you. How much is the estate worth?” “It’s worth a good deal.” ‘ “Non-commital, as usual, like all lawyers. Well, can’t you give me an idea?” “I dare say $150,000——” i “One hundred and fifty thousand grandmothers! the business alone is worth more than that.” “How do you know?” snapped his uncle. 5 “Because I’ve consulted both Dunn and Bradstreet, and the old gentleman’s credit was good for half a million.” “Fudge!” o's “Not at all, unky. However, let us call it a quarter of a million, but I know that’s way under the mark. You want me. to give you an even half’ of what I get out of it? “That’s fair, isn’t it? \Half a loaf is better for you than no bread at all.” ; “That’s all right, but you can’t do anything without I co- operate with you.” Faae 2 “Even so, consider the risk I am running.” “Fifty thousand ought to pay you for that.” “It won’t. I must have half.” ) “Suppose I won’t agree to that?” “Then I'll throw up the scheme.” “f “Where will you come in in that case?” ; “Tl do business with the real heiress.” x “But you won’t make anything like $50,000 out of her. “How do you know I won’t?” : , “I know you won’t. You'll only be entitled to your regular fees and expenses. The Court will see that you don’t come. any game over your client.” “Nephew, you’re a fool.” Re ta “Thank you, unky, and I can return the compliment if you turn down my offer.” by i yd “Look here, Nicholas Niles, I’ve talked with Miss Rand, and she’s as innocent unsophisticated as a young yer i just born.. As matters stand at present, I — her legal ad- viser. Whatever I advise her to do she'll do without ques- tion. If you don’t sign this paper now I'll wash my hands — of you, and bring her forward as the real heiress, which she is, of Captain Rand, who, by the terms of Martin Rand’s last will and. testament, would have sw to the whole — estate had he lived.” +1. Se - ae ‘ et “Why, I thought he didn’t make any will? i Tote “Never mind what you thought, nephew. He made one— a few days before his death. This takes precedence over will found in his safe which he made some years ago, — he owned to his eldest Hv gy Some upset all his calelations Why, « , - ae ex ayes Pe ee ie ~«

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14 | “But as his younger son is dead, too, and died years ago, I doh't see how this will can do his daughter any good.” _ Martin Rand was never certain that his'son Sidney did “Then he must have been a fool, for I suppose his death must be a matter of record at the War Department, and he certainly never turned up after the war.” “I believe there is no question about Sidney Rand’s death. However, Martin Rand left his estate to his youngest son, and his heirs and assigns. That makes Crystal Rand, who is Sidney’s daughter sé “Where’s the evidence that she’s his daughter. You haven’t seen it yet. You told me that the old Irish woman, with whom the girl has been living, mislaid the documents. Suppose they never turn up, who will be the heir then, eh? Me, unky, and without any help from you, either.” _. “They'll turn “up, young man. I'll see that they do, so don’t count your chicks before they’re hatched. Stand in with me and your fortune is made; refuse, and you will get nothing. Shall I hand you the pen?” “I suppose if the real documents are not found you'll manufacture the necessary evidence. What an old rogue you are!” chuckled the young man. . “Are yeu going to sign, nephew? This is your last chance, for to-morrow I shall ally myself with Miss Rand if your signature is not attached to this paper.” . Suppose I do sign, what are you going to do with*the “You deave all the details to me.” / “Suppose the documents establishing her Telationship to Sidney Rand turn up, are you going to take the risk of de- stroying them? What do you suppose the Irish woman will do in that case? She may hire a lawyer and make things unpleasant for you?” “That’s part of the risk I am running, nephew, for half of the estate,” said the wily old lawyer. “Well,{1 guess I'll sign. I don’t see that I can gat the bet- ter of an old shark like you, exeuse the compliment, but really, you deserve it. There you are—there’s my autograph down on your document. I guess half of the estate will pan me out pretty well, and when you cash in your chips I hope you'll remember me in your will to the extent, at least, of the other half, which you expect to freeze to.” “Thank ‘you, nephew; we are now~hand-in-glove in a ven- ture that will set you up as a young man of fortune. That’s all. I won’t detain you any longer.” Joe heard them push their chairs back, cross the room and walk out into the hall; the old man going upstairs, and the young one leaving the house by the front door. | XxX } THE KING LEADS. | “Gee!” muttered Joe, who was almost paralyzed by what he “So that old lawyer, the same, I presume, g to try and do Crystal scoundrel he is! Looks Maybe Mrs. Tucker is nding it with him. If she wasn’t I don’t see how he could be walking around the place as if he owned it himself. Then | that rascally nephew of his seems to be living here, too. | I don’t fancy the lawyer much, anyhow, after the way / Mrs. O’Gallagher spoke about him, and it looks funny that he should run across a lady who was a distant relative of Crystal’s, and she should want her to come and live with her on account of her liking for the girl’s father. Tl bet +) the whole thing is a put-up job on Crystal. The lawyer wants to have her under his thumb, and away from the tection of Mrs. O’Gallagher, who would do anything, for : r. It’s lucky I called here this evening and ove \. the plot. Now I'll be able to save Crystal from being robbed | of her rights. O-ho! when I tell Mrs. O'auene what I | have learned there’ll be something doing. She'll co up iy » and clean the house out. To tell the truth, I ou to at Crystal away with me right now, for fear something might happen ween this and to-morrow. I wonder what | excuse I could offer to Mrs. Tucker in order to get Crystal i of the house ? _ I might suggest a walk around the heard steps on the stairs coming down, and he thought ee Tey ice “ati: oil of the Ges heard. who called on Mrs. O’Gallagher, is out of her fortune. What an ol as x he was stopping at this house. t orn “BACK-NUMBER BIXBY.” Tl know The steps were those of a man, though light, and pres- ently there entered the parlor Lawyer Sefton, whom Joe easily recognized from Mrs. O’Gallagher’s description. ? He approached the boy with a kind of a smirk on _ his smoothly-shaven countenance. and a movement of his skinny hands, characteristic of him. _“Good evening, young man,” he said. “You called, I be- lieve, to see, Miss Rand.” “T did,” said Joe. : “You have been here some little time, I think?” he went on, eyeing the young messenger keenly. “About fifteen minutes.” » “Hum! Been sitting here all the time, I suppose?” “I wasn’t standing up, sir,” replied Joe, who didn’t want to tell a lie, nor to admit, for an excellent reason. that he ~ ea passed most of the time on the sofa against the glass oors. The lawyer grinned. sald “I regret to inform you that Miss Rand is, ahem! indis- posed this evening and cannot™see you, much as she would wish to do so,” said the lawyer suavely. “She directed me to tell you that she will be happy to have you call some other evening, say next week.” : Joe was satisfied Lawyer lying. He didn’t believe that Crystal had heen told of his pres- ence in the house. f The legal individual probably thought it was a simple matter to hoodwink the young caller, but he didn’t know that he was dealing-with a boy who was up to the minute, and not easily humbugged. Joe,;.Rowever, felt that he had no choice but to accept the lawyer’s statement and withdraw, whether it was a fic- tion or not. He got up, said he was sorry to hear that Miss Rand was not ‘feeling.;well that evening, and requested Lawyer Sefton to tell her that he would call some other time. The lawyer accompanied him to the door and watched him go down the steps. _ F “T wonder if he heard any of the conversation I had with my nephew in the library?” he muttered. “If he did—well. it might prove very awkward for me. If he was sitting in that chair near the door all the time he could scarcely have distinguished what we were saying. I guess he didn’t hear anything; but it’s well to be on the safe side, I must take measures for the immediate removal of the young lady. Char- lotte,” he referred to Mrs. Tucker, who was really Mrs. Niles, his sister, and the mother of his nephew, Nicholas Niles, “shall take her off ewhere into the country and notify Mrs. O’Gallagher that they have gone to Boston on a brief visit to other distant relatives of Martin Rand’s. That will be just the thing. Mrs. O’Gallagher will suspect nothing, neither will the girl. I don’t like that boy’s face, I can see with half an eye that he’s uncommonly sharp. It won’t do for him to meet tal Rand. If she’s in the country he can’t. This is a delicate game I am playing, and I can’t afford to take any chances.” Joe didn’t care to return home right away, for he was afraid of getting the laugh from his cousin Sadie, so he took the train downtown and walked over to the theater district, where there was lots of life and gaiety. : As he was sauntering along the main block of Lobster Square, above Forty-second stréet, he _ to a brilliantly lighted entrance and saw the name of Criterion Billiard Par- lors on the fan-light. “J guess this is the place-where the lawyer’s nephew had a date with a friend at nine o’clock. I'll run tp and see what the place looks like.” r : F sadlnge re: og stairs and found himself in a handsome illiard pool room. j 3 ee: he didn’t know Nicholas Niles, he did not look around ‘or the young man. ; He put in an hour there watching the players, and was about to leave when two young . one somewhat under the influence of highballs, came along. ‘= die At that moment the table opposite where Joe was sitting was vacated, and one of the young fellows, the ysober one, said: “Want to roll the ball, Nick?” ; “Don’t care if I do, old man,” replied Nick, turning his fishy eyes toward the cue-rack, : y “Here, Sefton, tak p - “That’s the lawyer’s ne »” thought Joe, taking a good look ey aes ee ay heir-at-law, and try an him again if I see rb

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“BACK-NUMBER BIXBY.” Joe watched the game, which was a kind of farce-comedy on Shefton’s part, as that youhg man couldn’t make a shot - except by accident. “OR are you going to work again, Nick?” asked his friend. ; aa Never. I’m the heir-at-law to a big estate.” ‘Since when? This is the first time I’ve heard about it.” “Never mind. I’m not saying anything for publication,” chuckled Sefton. “Who left the estate?” ‘ “Nobody left it to me. I happen to be the nearest of kin—see ?” ; “You’re lucky. Who was the geezer?” Sefton was trying to make a shot and didn’t answer. He nearly shoved the end of his cue into the cloth, and an attache, who had had been watching him, came over and said he’d better ‘quit playing, as he couldn’t see what he was doing. . That broke up the game, the two young men left. and Joe concluded to do the aoe ; Next morning Joe kept a sharp eye on O. & B. when he went to the Exchange. .- ; boom was still on and the price was up to 106. It dropped to 104 around noon, but recovered to 105. It fluctuated between 103 and 105 up to two o’clock, when ‘took a tumble to 100 ee amid great excitement. due him was, as he knew, $350. i the bank had-sold 85 shares of O.°& B. for his account at 105. {Tt “a3 St As the stock closed at 101, he was about $130 ahead on the deal at that moment. a is Joe was very well satisfied with the outlook, and went up to Varick street to call on Mrs. ' Gallagher. Doe That woman, however, had gone over to the Broadway establishment to deliver her work, and collect what was due her, so Joe did not see her. Next morning about eleven O. & B. went to pieces, and dropped rapidly to 88. | 3 Before three it dropped to 85, and Joe managed to find to run around to the little bank and order 35 at the market to close up his short sale. .him $700, and made him worth some- on,” thought Joe, as he started again for -“T’ve got capital enough to buy 100/shares stock on margin, gnd if my next deal should also turn I might double my money. Ill bet my cousins would have a fit if they knew I had made so much money this month, but bag time he found Mrs. O eT called on you yesterday afternoon about four and you were not in, Mrs. O’Gallagher,” said Joe, as he seated him- “j was over to the shop with my work. Did you call on “1 did, but I didn’t see her.” “How is that?” ee Lawyer Sefton.” as he there? ae PF ys W aaa he told mé that Crystal was indisposed “What!” cried the‘ woman, dropping her work, with a look of alarm. “Is the darlin’ sick?” , ; “If you want to know my opinion, Mrs. Oo Galagns*. I don’t think Crystal indisposed at all. I believe that old villain lied to me.” . “Why should he do that?” . oR prevetit .mé from seeing Crystal.” @ “What objection could ‘* have,to $60 seein’ her?” rete. probably has his reasons. By the way, have you Cy thoge Ts ? A. a ee Mrs. Bana’s isrridge certificate, and the * other proofs?” so ad ad _ *T have not.” , “Well, if you do find them, don’t give them to Lawyer 3h ; not? Isn't he tryin’ to get Crystal her. rights?” ~ eee aioe not. He’s a rascal of the first water.” ig Way do you say s 4 ~ that? 7 = lend eee 15 “Because he is scheming to put his own nephew, a young man named Nicholas Niles, who is a distant relative of the late Mr. Rand, in possession of the Rand estate,” said Joe energetically. : Mrs. O’Gallagher was greatly astonished. “How do you know that he’s doin’ this, Mister Joe?” “From his own lips. Listen and I’ll tell you what I over- heard while sitting in the parlor of Mrs. Tucker’s house the night before last.” Joe then told her every word, as near as he could recol- lect, of the interview he had overheard between Lawyer Sefton and Nicholas Niles in the library. “May the saints preserve me if that isn’t a great piece of rascality,” cried Mrs. O’Gallagher, in a voice quivering with indignation. . “I’ll go up thereat once, and do you come with me. We'll take the darlin’ away before they do any harm to her. And it’s a piece of my mind I’ll give to that Tom Thumb of a lawyer, and to Mrs. Tucker as well, the two-faced thing that she is.” “I haven’t any proof that she’s in the conspiracy, but I suspect that she is, because that lawyer induced you to bring Crystal to her house, and the lady herself made such a fuss over her. It looks to me, taken in connection with what I overheard, that it was all done for a purpose.” “I’m sure of it,” said Mrs. O’Gallagher, putting her work aside. “I’ll get me hat and we’ll go up there at once.” An hour later Joe and the Irish woman were walking up the steps at 23 Woodbine Terrace. The same colored girl answered the ring. “Pye called to see Mrs. Tucker,” said Mrs. O’Gallagher.” “She’s gone to’ Boston.” : “Indeed! Then tell Crystal Rand her mother’ is at the door and wants to see her.” 3 5 “Miss Rand has gone with Mrs. Tucker to Boston.” “Gone to Boston without sendin’ me a blessed word about it! Impossible. I’ not believe ‘it,” said Mrs. O’Gallagher, squaring her jaw, which meant trouble. “Has Lawyer Sefton gone to Boston, too?” put in Joe. “He has,” replied the colored maid. “Oh, the, villain! I’d like to put me ten fingers on him at this moment!” exclaimed the Irish, woman. : “Whereabouts in Boston has Mrs. Tucker and Miss Rand gone?” asked Joe. The maid replied that she had not the least idea. All she knew was they had gone to visit a distant rela- tive of the Rand family. ‘ “And when will they be back?” asked Mrs. O’Gallagher. “T couldn’t tell you,” answered the maid, who looked bored. & t we to do, Mister Joe?” asked Crystal’s foster — “i aa was looking for trouble, but didn’t know where to it. “We can do nothing here. Come away,” said Joe. “I think we ought to go in and search the house,” she said. i “You would lay yourself open to arrest, Mrs. O’Gallagher. Come with me.” Reluctantly she followed Joe to the sidewalk. “I’m afraid they’ve taken Crystal out of the city in order to further their designs,” he said to the anxious woman. “We must try and block them. I’H speak to Mr. Bixby in the morning, and ask him to let me see his lawyer right away. That : grscriigman will be able to advise us what to. do. he will take up the case for Crystal on a contingency fee we may hope to put a spoke in Lawyer Sefton’s plans. In the meantime I advise you to drop everything and make a close search for the missing documents. Mr. Bixby’s lawyer may not care to make a move till he sees them, for he will ping fing have some tangible grounds to work on. Will yo lo it? ’ “Sure I will. Me darlin’s happiness is at stake, and I'll move heaven and earth to help her, so I will.” Ke Pe and Mrs. O’Gallaghre then took a train back to Man- ‘ CHAPTER XII. , “A MISDEAL. Pe Joe was in the office when Mr. Bixby arrived next mornin _ He hurried in to help him off with his overcoat, as broker if he could speak to him about a very important mat- ter. ey ” : ; y

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\ 16 “BACK-NUMBER BIXBY.” Mr. Bixby nodded as he took his seat at his desk. other fellow, against whom the young man was making the Joe told him everything about the effort that was in| best defence he could. f eb bon progress to swindle Crystal Rand out of her rights, and | The man was not looking for an attack from © hi Je asked, as a patticular favor, that he be allowed to call on/5¥PPOsing that his companion could easily take care of him. Lawyer Bates & ae see what ought to be done. ; Th ER So pear fe ak ane Sige to trading: otis os _His hat fell off, and as he turned around Joe recognized the case,” said the broker. gt ig ee. I ized hi The stenographer was called in, the letter written, and “Vout” he noma also recognized him. start pees mae message he was allowed to _ “Nice business for you to be engaged in, Jenkins—attack- The lawyer’s office was at 115 Broadway, and Joe found|™% People on the street. You'll probably land in jail for that he had just arrived. ba greed apr pe io Thad He sent in the letter and was admitted to the private Ri A fete ap Pint you?” Fcieeiae ouRe INAR ERO Ne ves PE the lawyer all he knew of Crystal’s history, and Surprised at being addressed by name, the boy looked at ; him her presumed right to her late grandfather’s estate. “nr : He then went over the conversation he had overheard Talbot!” exclaimed Joe. sare! vlad i ekg and his nephew dealing | with the | pis former partner in guilt, and it strack him that this plot to detraud the girl, a 2 assault was simply a case of personal r Finally he told about the visit he and Mrs. O’Gallagher evenge. had -paid to the home of Mrs. Tucker the preceding after- jb Lond Pet ig pet afew; Jeane: eer, cone eae noon, and what they had learned there. Th ee with a roa an wu ro € i ; ; e ex-bookkeeper, a r of anger, swung around est ~ what would you advise Mrs. O’Gallagher to and tried to grapple with the young messenger. . i A deal “I would advise her to lose no time in finding the docu- deca at ae ts oa Be) qn. 00l, BA erene ments she has mislaid. Then if she will bring them to At that moment Jenkins’ all i ’ ; y, who had recovered his feet _ me T will look into the case.” and scattered senses, came up, and the boy found himself f That ended the interview and Joe went back to the office, opposed to both, balinien nese paps J was sent on an errand to an office} “Talbot, who had been haneing aloof, wiping the ‘bioed E> : : ' i t to Pads phe je me Ch Sie beaker he besa sretieacd Pe ote hate now. seemed to realize that he oug’ o oO big ers about a_syndicate whi ad just |" He had fidence in his fists, but seeing an empty been formed to corner and boom L. & M. stock, then selling | heer: bottle tying in the. authens a epitidiad it up and flung unusually low on the market. lit at Jenkins’ head i Joe learned enough to satisfy himself that he couldn’t) .’ His aim was true, and the ex-bookkeeper fell to the walk _ get in on L. & M. himself any too quick if he wanted to stunned. : : ; make a good thing. ‘ At the same moment Joe pressed the other chap so hard } Accordingly, on his way up to Varick streot from the of-| that, seeing his companion was knocked out, he concluded fice that afternoon he dropped in at the little hank a6 that discretion was the better part of valor, and took to his smashed him in the back of the ear from behind. ee al fond his statement of his previous deal ready for him, There was $1,050 coming to him. heglg “What did you hit him with?” Joe asked Talbot. as he looked down at the unconscious Jenkins, who was bleeding from a cut on his head. i “A beer bottle,” replied the clerk, “It was the only thing handy.” / Mf “Well, you’ve knocked him out, and you may have hurt him-seriously. We can’t leave him in this condition on the o> highway, even if he is a hard case and deserves all e got.” } “Give me the fifty.” he said to the clerk. “and teke an _. order from me for 100 shares of L. & M. at the market.” | “You're quite a plunger,” laughed the clerk, and he started { to fill out the order slip. “You'll either become rich or land! in the poor-house.” : ; “That’s a safe bet,” smiled Joe, “with the odds in favor of the poor-house.” Pa signed, put the $50 in his pocket and continued on way. . Mrs. O’Gallagher was not at home, but Joe found a paper i addressed to him pinned on her door which stated that she | had gone uptown. ' : “Where will we carry him? The drug stores are all shut up.” 4 “I suppose we ought to take him to the nearest. police station, but.I haven’t any idea where that is.” either have I.” At that moment Jenkins began, to move. ay i he’s coming to,” said Joe. “T fees so,” replied Talbot, who felt nervous over the: re- sult of his. blow./ ; ; ; The ex-bookkeeper opened his eyes, put his hand to the wound and then sat up with a stifled exclamation. His gaze encorfntered Talbot. ; : “You hit me, blame you, and I'll fix you if I swing for it,” he gritted malevolently. . ; “I advise you to leave Talbot alone,” said Joe. “You were the cause of all the trouble at the office yourself, and you ought to take your medicine like a man instead of trying to revenge yourself on the party who helped you along in your crooked work.” ; : os, “Yah! I'll fix you, too. You made a mistake by butting in to-night.” “All right. Get back at me if you can; but I warm pe eeoninis 500 iss a a a pind Shan mone Se ee _ litical organization, and it was close on midnight when x Rice. walbion ai One Hundred and Tw a te i ong One Hun ani enty-fourth _ street when a young man turned into the Stxsot scan Lex- - ington avenue. ' a As Joe reached the corner, two men, with soft hats pulled low down on their foreheads, glided noiselessly after the | ¥Koung man, and suddenly jumping on him, felled him to the sidewalk 4 ; Joe uttered a shout and started forward, thinking that his presence would frighten off the rascals, whom he supposed were a couple of footpads. __ The fellows, however, stood their ground, and began beat- ing the young man in a brutal way. ; __.. As soon as Joe came up, bent on rescuing him if he could, ~~ oa fellows left off hammering the victim and started ‘or , of your nonsense.” a peaiiie scowled at the boy, got up and walked slowly Wye and ‘Talbot thes started. olf inthe oppndite direction, —— CHAPTER XIII. A FULL HAND WITH THE KNAVE HIGH. e result was he was taken by surprise when Joe: He remembered that Jenkins had sworn to get even with. you, now that you won’t find me an easy mark, and I'll stand . Next ing Joe went downtown early and took his way ty 4 "Varick street. ; . : Rs

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“BACK-NUMBER BIXBY.” cand TT He ‘found Mrs. O’Gallagher washing up the breakfast! dishes and tidying up the living-room. “was out. : I was up.to my sister’s looking in an old trunk for them ents,” she said. “Did you find them?” he asked eagerly. “No. It’s afraid I am I’ve lost them.” “It would be fierce if you did. yer yesterday, and he says he must, have them before be at ' makes a move in the matter.” ' “I’m sure I don’t know where I could have put them. I’ve! think Crystal will lose! smashed all records by hitting 105 and a fraction. looked every place/for them. Do you her rights because I can’t find them?” “I couldn’t tell you, Mrs. O’Gallagher, be very im rtant. If I were Morning. ere’s his card. Crystal’s mother, and maybe he’ll think of some other way for establishing the girl’s identity.” ; “I will. I feel very bad over the loss of them papers. Mrs, Rand gave them to me and told me to take care of them for Crystal’s sake.” ‘Well, you call on the lawyer, and I'll be up here this afternoon to hear what he told you. I must be off now or Tl be late at the office.” Y ¢ Joe, however, didn’t call, as Mr. Bixby sent him to Brook- ig a business matter of considerable importance, and he didn’t get home till six. He decided that the morning would do just as well. When he called at Varick street in the morning the rooms Were locked up, and he was disappointed. He went around again after“work and the place was locked as_ before. ) He took the liberty of knocking on the door of the tenant This was Mrs. Barry, a ‘particular friend of Mrs. O’Gal- ay ; eons but d kn here M 3 your pardon, ma’am, but do you know where Mrs. O’Gallagher went?” aera “Are ye Mister Joe Jarvis, of Wall Street,?” “Yes, ma’am.” “Thin I’ve a message for a minute?” Joe walked into the room, which was not very tidy. Mrs. Barry went to a shelf, and after wiping her hands in her apron, picked a folded piece of paper off a shelf with two and handed it to the boy. but they seem to for ye. Do yez moind steppin’ in aoe is what he managed to discipher, written in lead pen- * Sb ee eS the Behn, See Te ¥ eae Ty aes te aattah Boag pi anal Re a, he Se in ae hi ‘a pee re Shey > i ris

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18 In due time the train started and was soon bowling along at a good gait> e car stopped at the pfincipal stations only and finally rolled into Hick: ville just about dusk, - Lawyer Séften and his nephew made a break for the door, and Joe followed them. The lawyer singled out a public eab, and he and Nicholas got into it. Joe caught on behind the vehicle, which was soon bowl- ing down the street. Tt turned off into a tree lined thoroughfare, which it fol- lowed for about half a mile, by which time the boy found his musclés pretty well strained. He dropped to the ground and followed the cab on foot up another street for perhaps three-quarters of a mile, by which time they were out in the country. aun, the cab eased up a bit at a low hill, Joe caught on ke the foot of the hill on the other side the vehicle pulled up to a gate and stopped. The lawyer and his nephew got out, paid the man and en- tered the grounds. The cab rolled away, leaving the’ messenger by the side of the road. He looked over the fence and’ saw a fair-sized country residence standing well back in the midst of a large lawn. There were lights in many of thé rooms, particularly on the ground floor. Lawyer Sefton and his nephew disappeared into the house. “So this is where Crystal is living in the power of the conspirators, and Mrs. O’Gallagher doubtless is here, too,” muttered Joe. He walked cautiously to the house and peered in through one of the lighted windows. He found he was Idoking into the dining-room. While Joe was looking Lawyer Sefton and Nicholas Niles came in and seated themselves at the table. A well-dressed lady and a,servant entered through another “The lady took a sea near Sefton and talked,’ while the servant waited on “the two late arrivals. “1 don’t see that I’m gaining anything here,” thou Joe. We walked around to the other side, passing the kitchen door. He saw a window open from the bottom, and de- cited to push it up are clamber inside. He did so, and then shut it down, | The room was entirely. dark. Striking a match so that he could see his way and not| T es over the furniture, he found that he was im a sort of Vn tia seine wilt ae ade _and on the desk lay a re- ies Ill take charge of that,” said Joe, ‘and he put it made bis way, to the door and found, to his great rin that it was locked. 4 ore he could reach. ie window pres which he had ° red h he head a key the lock of Pi: thought of an open Sadek r he “Seon sear the desk, and jumped into the place, pulling ae door to after cone one Sepsis with 4 lighted lamp and Matas it on top} “a mae she left. Bo nt oa ie saw he eae the ass now, but deemed it ‘Wise to wait.a few mi = cre er _ He was on the point of a start when Lawyer Sef- ton and his came in, ‘that settled his chances. “Now, nephew,” said the lawyer, opening the desk, Steel minister will be here soon, so we will settle everythin be- r: fare h¢. commen; for } want-to return to Boston fret: thing in| oar} ght, unk.” : man ° “ i i “Here is. a” ede Rage are to sign, and to put sha dhall wat the. cignatuve aio ef your fuvare wife! W before the ony. It will be binding om you both in al “BACK-NUMBER BIXBY.” : : —— i ES a ee Ter oe il terest in her grandfather’s factory. I will take that in full payment for my services toward yourself. The rest- of the_ estate will yield you two all the income you need wish for. Now then, sign the first document.” The young man did so. “Very good,” said the lawyer. stairs for the youfhg lady.” Niles left the room, While he was gone the lawyer pulled two other docu- ments from a pigeon-hole. In a short time the young man returned with Crystal. She looked as if she had been erying, and Joe’s heart beat fast as he peeped out at her. “Now, Miss Rand, you will please sign this paper,” said Lawyer Sefton. “I will sign it on condition that you» do not force me to marry your nephew,” said Crystal. “Think again, young lady,” he said. “Here are the docu- ments that prove your mother was the legal wife of Sidney Rand, and that you are the legitimate offspring of their union. Once: destroyed, your mother’s marriage can be doubted and your legitimacy questioned. Think, well before you force me to ignite, them at this lamp. Think well, I say, for if you again refuse, they go up in smoke.” ates, forgive me,” sobbed the girl. she said. “Then back to poverty you go,” cried the baffled lawyer, shoving the papers into the flame. It, was then that Joe took a hand. in the game. srepping quickly from the closet he reached out his left and and snatched the documents from the lawyer's fingers, and as the old rascal turned with an exclamation, he shoved thé revolver forward with his right, “Joe!” cried Crystal, almost hysterically. “Give me those papers.” cried Lawyer Sefton, furiously. “Sit_down, Nicholas Sefton, or I'll blow your roof off,” “Now send the servant up- “I refuse,” cried Joe. “And you sit down, too, you old sinner.” The boy advanced a step and snatched up the two agree- ments from the desk. “T’ll take these as evidence against the pafr of you for conspiracy. Come, Crystal, we'll go back to New York. Got your hat and thin He led the girl, from the room, locked the door on th ‘ uncle and nephew, and took his stand at the front door til Crystal rejoined him. “Where is Mrs. O’Gallagher?” he asked. Heaven t Lim her since the day she left me at Mrs. Tuckeve he ; “Then the poles may haye to look for her.” ‘ They reached the station in time to catch the last train Se eeektve, and arrived in the city of churches at ten They reached Varick —_— shortly before eleven, and, to Joe’s surprise, they found Mrs. O’Gallagher in her rooms. She had just returned from a hospital, where she had been ever since she was picked up unconscious in the strect | by the police. She had been drugged in the cab and the papers taken er. We will not dwell on the explanation that took place be har, tee ree ad evening; Fla say Haakon next morn- ing Cry, foster r visi Lawyer Bates, placed the d ee in his and him to con- duct the case. He had no trouble. in. proving Crystal the rightful ee to the property of Andrew Rand. The Court appointed a guardian over her. and she and . Mrs. O’Gallagher were provided with a suitable home, where oe Jarvis was a lay visitor. ae eighteen eaystal becopie her own | em eee Suyem catia -ople were ma e charge o tress, ‘and Joe, i ee Joe retired from fed, 200 property, ae ich he had es to her by being, up to ae ae ag aus oung all, St beh seal ie the minute. , Next week’s issue will contain “A YouRd Bawaiitie: 6 ) STEERING IT RICH IN THE er BUSINESS.” 4 ae

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. | FROM ALL POINTS : * ) OUR LARGEST DREADNOUGHT _ Our latest “dreadnoughts, “Iowa” and “Massa- chusetts,” will mark a great advance in size and Power over any previous warships. Their length will be 684 feet, their breadth 106 feet, and their Mean draft will be 33 fet. The motive power will be similar to that of the “Mexico,” that is to-say, .they will have the electric drive. The maximum jsbeed will be 23 knots and they will have a cruising tadius of 8,000 miles. Their displacement will Yeach the unprecedented figure of 43,200 tons. The armament will consist of 12 16-inch guns and 16 [inch guns. BEES TAKE HOME ) Bees infesting the home of Adam Myers, a farmer, of Loachville, Berks County, came near ‘Causing him to abandon his farmhouse and move off the premises. A swarm the size of a small cloud descended on the property and drove out the Cecupants of the house. Most of the bees erMered through the chimney. Benjamin Rohrbach, of Fur- nacedale, an expert in handling bees, volunteered to drive the bees out. He placed a white cap over the chimney, hive shape, and sealed the doors and win- dows, smoking them out in three days. The Myers family is again in possession. Mr. Rohrbach now has 12 swarms from the bees. ¢ _ LUMINOUS BUTTONS. Here is a wartime application of luminous paint that should be use- ful in summer camps, on the hikes of boy scouts, in peacetime Maneuvres of citizen soldiers, in Marking the landing places of air- craft, etc. : The British Army had dise or buttons two or three inches in diameter, coated with luminous Paint and having a sharp spike on the under side. These were stuck upon the sides of trenches, build- ings, fences, etc., or were swung by hand to give signals in the well known code where bright lights Were golden. The luminous dises were visible cents y ATTENTION, Have You Seen the New Book on Scenario Construction? The Scientific American suggests that the names and numbers of city streets might well be marked with this luminous paint. A DISASTROUS ERUPTION. Mount Kloet, Java, was in eruption on the night of May 19, and the next morning the country within fiffy miles of it was darkened by a thick rain of ashes. The volcano threw out the total contents of a crater lake, covering half a square mile and 300 yards deep. Crater bank gave way . and a red hot lava stream, mixed with mud and steaming water, flooded many inland native villages and overran the town of Britar, tearing down everything in its path. The inhabitants suddenly awoke to find a brown, boiling current eight miles broad, and diced mis- erably, half buried and half drowned. The aspect of the country was changed into a mud lake re- sembling No Man’s Land in Flanders in winter. Twelve villages were destroyed, twenty-one miles of railways disappeared and sugar plantations suf- fered heavily. Swollen rivers are bringing down bodies of natives. Military and civil medical services and private doctors are treating thousands of injured in field hospitals. Soldiers are cutting out bodies of vic- tims from the now stene-hard lava. It is estimated that there are 50,000 dead. SCENARIO WRITERS! | The Title Is SCENARIOS How To Write _—— By JAMES P. COGAN Price 35 Cents Per Copy Se ee a ee en mission of scenarios. ' SIXTY LESSONS stil ttt iilden oh cclnarte. writing: from the mest elemental te the most sdvanced principles. BUY A COPY For 35 on ain, Sehen, 5p toagh te tle Beek 2 eee HS cere wer schools, This t ange OE CMT ert CP EMT ere ee Sere: from thirty to sixty feet, so they formed valuable landmarks. Lu- -Minous ribbon also was used for Marking trails through the woods and himinous patches were attach- to the backs of stretcher-bear- ers to prevent them from being ee by their own troops. stam and jpn ou 219 Seventh Ayeune, New York, N. and every kiown good point ts shown, to inweese saat kk. ‘ GET A COPY TO-DAY —3ym THIS IS A GENUINE GOLD MINE OF INFORMATION | By followin, one ee ey eee FOR aan BY ALL NEWS-DEALERS AND BOOK STORES. If you cannot procure a copy, send us the ee $5 cents, = Agr Fd i we will mail you ene, Addre bs

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0. K. it.” t Pa thinks,” said i FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. _ SKY-SCRAPER DICK | THE PERILS OF A YOUNG MECHANIC By GASTON GARNE (A SERIAL STORY.) CHAPTER II. THE RICH MAN’S TRICK. “ Montague sat up at last. “I’m an old man, and I’m not used to being crossed in my ways. You are blackmailing me now, and you know it! But go your ways. There will be a reckoning, my fine foreman.” He looked over some papers, with a deadly look of hatred, and then cast his threatening eyes at Dick. “You go on with your work. I agreed to the engineer to let you supervise the advance work on the iron, and I must keep my word, or they’d get suspicious. But as for my daughter, you keep away from my house or I’ll set the policemen on your trail. I will have no trespassers in my home.” . Dick smiled impudently—for the young chap had a way of tilting back his chin that was maddening— to the one whom he was mocking. “Don’t worry, Mr. Montague. I know my bus- iness and my place. I am an iron worker now. Your daughter is the child of a millionaire, and Iam not wanted in your home. will not go there. But ~ the time will come when I will be-more than a mere iron-worker, and I will then show you some different campaigning. Now, I’m going back to the job. But I give you fair warning that the iron on the Apollo Building must be the right thing, or I don’t With this speech Dick Donaldson turned on his heels and left the rich man’s office. As he did so Montague chuckled merrily, for he had regained his composure oncg more, and with it _ the confidence to trim Dick’s sails. “Well, he is up against a harder problem than he Montague. “That boy thinks that be- cause he went to a technjcal school before coming . here to start at the bottom round he knows it all. . Well, he mounted up to foreman quickly. But he’ll try the down-hill trip once more before I’m through a a y Pa on et she | struction engineer. the spirit of his master, who would stand for no delay, particularly when he could deliver a hard, cruel blow on the ear of someone unable to fight back. Outside the office Tommie looked to see if the mas- ter were watching from his glass door. He was not, and Tommie, who had been listening to.the entire conversation recorded in the previous chapter, smiled with a joke of his own. “The old gazabo t’inks he’s de king-pin. Well, I’ll put Dick Donaldson wise ter dis, or me name ain’t Tommié Biddle. I’ll fix ’im! He docked me fer havin’ a game ov baseball, an’ couldn’t see de game neider. Well, here’s my revenge!” He espied Dick at work directing several of the men as they were swinging a big beam up on a crane, to make some alterations in the bolt holes. “Say, Mr. Dick, yere’s a tip fer ye. De old man wants ter see Svendsen, and ye knows he’s dead sore on ye. Ta-ta—lI’m off!” Then the small lad sped along between the groups of workers, and delivered his message to- the big Swede, who despised the young foreman of the con- struction work with an abiding hatred. The fellow hurried to the office of the millionaire, and the oddly assorted pair were soon engaged in scheming which even crafty Tommie Biddle could not overhear, hidden under a long desk table as he was. While they were working and plotting together, ‘for an end which boded ill for Dick Donaldson, the noon whistle blew. Dick hurried for his street coat, and doffed his jumper. ; “I’m going to take lunch down the other street,” said Dick to Terence Donahue, his assistant, with whom he generally took the midday meal. “See you later, Terrence.” ' j With this word the young foreman hurried out and took a downtown car on the run. In a few minutes he was going up the elevator to a great office of the engineer of the new Apollo Building, and this gentleman received the young foreman most cordially. _ { “Why, it’s my good friend Dick,” said the con- “I’m sure glad to see you. Won’t | you go to lunch with me at the club?”, = “No, Mr. Beckwith; I'm too busy. I can’t: take lunch to-day. ‘There’s big game afoot, and I must Ras ~ c ave : . fet oe oe 7x 7 vis 5+ Daf ‘| .* yy 2 A WP ei

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FAME AND FORTUNE» _WEERLY, : 21 be running in a minute. All I want is to ask you to do a favor for me.” “Dick, I’d do anything for you,” answered the other cordially. “What is it, my boy?” _ “Well, I want yottto send one of your camera men _ over to the place where the new building is going - up. Have him take a dozen pictures of the iron _ beams that have already been delivered by the truck- men.” “Yes—but that’s a queer request, isn’t it?” “It is, and it has a queer but very important rea- son. “You know I can’t give away the secrets of structing“engineer of this building, hired by -the owner of the property, I can give you a tip.” Paul Beckwith, the famous engineer, was too good a student of character and men not to know that some great excitement actuated Dick. “What is the row? Crooked work?” Dick said only: “You just go there and measure those beams, get out an affidavit of your examination, and have it witnessed by the architect. That’s all I’ve got to Say. »” -. The,engineer was startled into a long whistle of » surprise, but he saw the drift of Dick’s hint. “You bet I will, my boy, within the next half - hour. Any other ideas?’ Dick was thoughtful, as if struggling over some great problem. “Say, would it be wrong for me to be pa:t pur-. chaser of a lot of iron—provided I worked a little profit out of it myself right while I was working | _ for a certain company ?” . I don’t get the plan exactly. But you can buy anything you want and sell it so it is done legally.” The young fellow’s face broke into an amused smile. ; “Well, Mr. Beckwith, it’s a case of war te. the death for me in a certain quarter. But are you will- ing to go partnerships half and half with me on a certain deal if it is no risk?” “T’ll risk your word, lad!” a: “The young chap stuck out a hand, to grip the other man’s, and his eyes sparkled with determina- _ tion and hope. “All the tip is that you send up to the Ferronia - Tron Works and buy up the complete lot of iron _ beams that are there. The beams are the exact size, _ shape, and number required for the new Apollo _ Building by the contract.” _ Beckwith gasped, “But how do they happen to be duplicates? That * Bien. is w a fortune, and it would be foolish. to . have’ ordered duplicates: They would only fit this one building. And it takes months and months to prepare beams and structural work for a certain building.” e _ Dick merely smiled, as he started toward the door. “You said you’d believe me, # said he. “It is the chance of a lifetime. I can tell you definitely that ante bg ats ona ae excuse, and you , the man I’m working for. But, as you are the con-| can get it cheap. An order almost like that but not quite was carried out in another mill. You know my boss does very little of his own iron work, but contracts for it, and then does the construction work.” Beckwith’s eyes were glowing, as he caught the idea of the young iron worker. “So, ho! The iron that He is sending is not ac- cording to specifications? And there is a duplicate set which can be bought up and held—one that is O. K.?” “T won’t tell you another thing, for I must be in time to work as soon as the one o’clock whistle blows. I will be down on the building myself this after- noon.” Dick darted out, caught a swift elevator, and by going without a morsel of lunch he managed to walk into the shop just as the work whistle blew. Old Montague saw him come in, and chuckled with mirth as he turned back to the office. “Little he knows what is due him this afternoon, on that derrick. It’s a good thing I know how daring he is, when he rides up with the beams. Well, my inning is now, and no one will ever know the difference.” He worked away over his papers, while Dick pre- pared to go with his gang of men and begin the work on the great building. CHAPTER III. THE TREACHERY OF THE SWEDE. ~ After some delay the iron workers were ready for the start on the Apollo Building. The deep foundations, on concrete piles which ran far down into the earth, were all complete, and the workers began to start on the swinging of the beams. A dozen beams came down later, and Dick, on close examination, saw that they were true to the specifications in every respect. They measured ex- actly as the plans’called fur, but Dick knew that this was only a decoy. ; >“They will be all right for a little while, and then the old man will string in the bum kind—which are much weaker, although they measure and look al- most identically the same.” Such were Dick’s thoughts, as he directed the men under him to their different positions. “The old rascal thinks to have me fired before the bad beams are put in. Well, I’ll fool him.” And so it was that Dick worked with an energy that one would have supposed meant a positive love for his employer. However, the youth really en- tered heart and soul into any work—not worrying about whom it was for, because he naturally loved his profession, oF 3 continued.) oR Fs

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FAME ; AND- FORTUNE WEEKLY. _ GOOD READING HAS BIG FEET Augustine Puren, confessed Bolshevik leader, in jail in Scranton, Pa., because of a wild rampage he figured in at Carbondale, Pa., when he wrecked the interior of a church, it is said, has feet of such an abnormal size that the County Commissioners have been compelled to hire a special shoe expert to fit the prisoner up with new footgear. And the aforesaid footgear is going to cost the county $16. Puren’s old shoes went bad last week and it was then that the officials discovered his feet were about as abnormal as some of his views happen to be radical. Five bids were received from shoe experts, varying from $16 to $30. The prisoner, who is serving a year’s jail term, will have his new “kicks” next week. DEATH LETTER DELAYED Although William Kruse, a resident of Lafayette, * Ind., died in Duggerstadt, Germany, a year and a H half ago the news did not reach here until the other _ day. ‘A letter addressed to his daughter here trav- . eled from Germany to Holland and then to this country, being en route since a year ago last No- vember. Kruse died Nov. 20, 1917. He left here with hfs , wife in February, 1914, to visit his old home in _ Germany. Then the world war broke out and he was unable to leave when he sought to return to America. He had taken out his first naturalization _ papers here, but the German authorities refused to __ give him passports. Not a word had been received _ from either him or his wife since the outbreak of _ the war until the other day, when Mrs. Louis Brown, _ the daughter, received the worn and torn letter from her mother that had been eighteen months in transit. _ The message was sent to a priest inHolland, who _ sought to have it forwarded, but delays were en- ; countered. Mrs. Brown has sent a cablegram to the _ priest in Holland to ascertain whether her mother _ is still alive, and, if she is found, she will be brought H! _ back to this city. “GOOD asians FOR BUSINESS” In the firm belief that it will Be good business for business men to promote wise buying, intelligent | saving, avoidance of waste, and safe investment, the | appended thrift copy is offered for the special con- » ‘sideration of advertisers and publishers. These - advertisements’ are part of the general thrift edu- estion and War Savings campaign of the United | States Treasury Department. : ee Motives of self-interest, as well as of patriotism, | should-suggest the use of this material, =e the pro- re cnet ideas set forth in it, . ksi com- - rs _ a ee ~ e munities furnish the best markets for business and the best audience for advertisers. The thoughtful spender and intelligent saver gets more for his aes and therefore gets more satisfaction from his wor The advertisements can readily be reduced or ex- panded in size to fit space. Those who prefer to write their own copy should find in them usable phrases or ideas. Those who can not devote im- portant space are requested, at least,.to run the symbol or to insert one or two slogans or thrift- tograms with the words “Buy W. S. 8.” . Saving and Working Capital. Under the present financial conditions we can not hope to borrow money abroad to develop our. re- sources. Reliance for working capital must be placed more and more on the individual savings of the American people. They must be encouraged to save instead of waste, and invest instead of hoard- ing, so that their maney will earn interest for them and at the same time help to pay off war bills and promote prosperity. ' Saving and Practical Citizenship The citizen with a personal stake in his country in the shape of War Savings Stamps or bonds is less susceptible to pernicious suggestion. Ownership of Government securities promotes Americanization, encourages the foreign born to take real root. Thrift and Industry Personal thrift and avoidance of waste lessens industrial and other waste. Those who are “getting ahead” and have money on hand are getting more satisfaction from their work, are more interested in their work and are less migratory, and tend to buy homes and become permanent and desirable members of communities. You are asked to pro- mote good business for business by publishing some of the Government’s thrift material and also through means of your own devising to do every- thing possible to make wise spending and intelligent saving a permanent and happy national charae- teristic. Benjamin Franklin, whose picture is on the 1919 War Saving Stamps, and whose thrift, industry, and patriotism furnish a desirable example to 1919 Americans, affords A ready text for thrift education. Every man, woman, and child led to ponder his deeds and wise sayings, and to begin to save, is helped to a more constructive citizenship which must react favorably on business. Sincerely yours, SAVINGS DIVISION, War Loan Organization, A _ / U.S. Treasury Department, : + Waeingeen, se 9}

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. INTERESTING ARTICLES bad , ANIMALS TAKE TOWN A large black bear makes frequent visits to Eurena Park, a shady grove donated by Mrs. Charles W. Schwab, of South Bethlehem, to Weath- erly, Pa., her girlhood home. Tracks of Bruin have been noticed for some time, and within the past few days he has been seen by different townspeople near the cool spring, evidently seeking refuge from the burning rays of the sun. Though Weatherly is by no means a town in the wilderness, deer and elk are seen quite frequently near the town, and it is a very common thing to see town. Even snakes like to play about on the paved streets in the center of the town, a brown one, meas- uring 18 inches, having been killed on the principal street one morning this week. __. CLOSED THE STORES. Calais, Me., claims the “cake” for having the strictest Blue Law enforcement in the country. Sun- day closing is in vogue, under the compulsion of the new City Marshal, Robert Kerr, who sent out " notifications to all places of business that the laws on Sunday closing will be strictly enforced. _As a result shop doors were locked in Calais on the next Sunday which have long been open to Sun- day trade in Bread, fruit, cigars, ices and like viands. _ Marshal Kerr is acting under orders of the City Council and the program here is billed weekly with- out any proposals of modification. The public, rather skeptical, turned out to see if the Marshal really working on the Calais Sabbath. The experiment will continue. _ PRESS BUTTON AND FIND A PIG ON OATS If you want to locate a supply of seed corn or oats, a grain binder, a pure bred bull, or some young pigs in any community in five counties in Connecticut, says a news letter of the United States Department of Agriculture, all you have to do is to __ wall into the office of the State Librarian at Hart- aiid t r ~~ . ford, Conn., run a series of cards through an elec- tric sorting machine, and, presto! you have the information. . It may sound a little like the story of Aladdin’s lamp, but it is only big business applied to farm af- fairs under war stress. ‘The Council of Defense took up this plan and offered to back the farm bureaus to the limit-in every county in the State. Five of - the eight counties began surveys in March, 1918. ‘When the survey was completed the farm bu- reaus had a stack of cards containing minute in- rmation as to the resources and needs of every - farr _An ic sorting machine was installed in : wild rabbits hopping about the outskirts of the fheant business and found that he was the only man ithe State Library and any fact disclosed by the sur- vey can be made available by throwing on an elec- tric switch. £ COUNTERFEITERS’ WAYS. A favorite method of counterfeiting is to use silver coins of Central and South American republics, which are many times below our silver in value, and strike them off as United States coins under.a powerful press which absolutely effaces the old de- signs. The new coins are silver, and they look all right. The only fault is'‘that they are light in weight. In the counterfeiting of paper money there are four principal methods. The first is the copying of notes by hand, putting every finest line and imitating every silk thread in the paper of the original with delicate pen and ink work. Some of these notes cannot be detected with the naked eye even by some experts. Another way is the engraving of a_ steel plate from which the bogus paper is printed. The engrav- ing must always be done by hand. Most of the men who have been caught at it have been expert en- gravers, often graduates of some government’s Treasury Department. The Lupo-Morello gang, which was broken up some years ago, produced this class of work, which so nearly approximated the common bill of our daily circulation that for months the counterfeiters were not even suspected. — Photographie reproduction is a third favorite pro- cess of turning out counterfeit paper. At first thought it would seem that this would be absolutely accurate and that it would be most difficult of all counterfeit work to detect, but, strangely enough, itis not so. If it were the Secret Service might have a hard time of it, but as it is, the photoengraving process is not so good as the old-fashioned hand sys- tem. The camera reproductions are somehow weak and flat and can be easily detected. : ‘ The fourth method is the raising of genuine biils and notes—taking a $5 bill, for instance, and chang- ing it toa ten. The numerals are erased in the cor- ners and the blanks are then filled in so carefully that time and again bank cashiers and tellers have been deceived. It takes a good man a whole day to Fives raised to tens are the most

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24 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. self, was only about two feet square. The beast A STARTLING ADVENTURE WITH MAN-EAT-| sprang over a child to seize the husband and father, ING TIGERS ’ By Horace Appleton “T have hunted wild animals in almost every coun-| try where they exist,” said Captain Kincardin, “and of course I have had my share of perilous adven- tures, “T went out from Bengalore in the fall of 1870 .With a party of British officers to hunt tigérs. We, of course, intended to knock over anything else in the shape of game, but tigers were the main object. We took the railroad for about a hundred miles up the country, and then secured carts-and drivers and beaters at a village and drove twenty miles to a range of wooded hills, which were greatly cut up with gullies and traversed by several small creeks. gripping the man by the right shoulder. There was a heavy blanket at the door, and the tiger had not noticed that opening. Of course all the sleepers were at once aroused, and all set up a great yelling and screaming. So far from the tiger being in the least put out by the confusion, he took his own time and paid no attention to any one but his victim. He pinned the man down flat on his back for a moment, growling in a low tone. “Strike him with my sword,” called the man to his wife, but she, poor thing, was too frightened to use the weapon, although it was at hand and sharp enough to have inflicted great injury, With his free arm the man caught up-a billet of wood and belabored the tiger, but the beast took a firm hold, lifted the man up, and sprang for the opening. It was fully seven feet from the door, and both fell The nearest village was in a fertile valley three miles back with a crash. The tiger tried it again, but from our camp. The inhabitants were preparing to} with the same result. He then changed his hold to leave it as we reached the neighborhood. Two man-| the man’s throat, made a third spring, and after eating tigers had made their appearance in tne;some hard work, managed to get out with his vic- hills and created the greatest consternation. Their | tim, though it seemed absolutely impossible for him first victim had been seized from a family circle| to accomplish it. sitting around a fire just at dusk. He was a boy} “This occurred on the night before our arrival, about fifteen years old, and the beast had seized him | and we found the window casing covered with blood by the hip and trotted off with him as a dog carries | and showing the marks of claws. Further than that, a bone.’ She was in no hurry, going at a slow trot, , the spoor left by the beast as it dragged the body and her mate covered her retreat and menaced the| away was plain to be followed, and we ran over it - father as he shouted and flung firebrands. The boy’s| about half a mile to find the spot where the victim ‘cries were heard for a long time, and next morning| had been eaten. We had camped, as I told you, in many places were found along the trail where he| the hills about three miles from the village. ‘had clutched the grass with his hands and pulled} “There were a few cowardly cur dogs in the vil- it up by the roots. He had been carried less than} lage, but none of these had been molested by the half ‘a mile and all that was found of his remains| tigers. One of them took a great liking to me, and were two or three of the larger bones and some} when I mounted to the platform to begin my watch bloody fragments of clothing. The villagers organ-| he lay down at the foot of the three. ized a grand hunt to either kill the tigers or drive him, and flung three or four broken branches at his them away, but the result was the killing of one| head, but he refused to go away. It was a balmy man and the wounding of two others, the beasts|evening, with plenty of stars but no moon. One I scolded at seeming rather to seek a conflict than avoid one by ruming. , i? — as : “The hunt was abandoned and the villagers lived in a state of terror for the next week. The appear- ance of a single man-eating tiger in the vicinity of a native village creates more terror than fire or flood or epidemic. After a tiger has eaten three of four human beings he seems to lose all his fear of man, and it is a fact that he will eat no other meat unless reduced to fierce hunger. When the natives would ‘go forth to give this pair of tigers oppor- - tunities to seize them the beasts invaded the village. . The huts were frail structures, with doors and win- dows guarded by blankets, and the tigers had en- _tered three different places by night and carried off _ victims. A woman whose husband had been seized - related the circumstances with great detail. A light! had been kept burning to keep the beasts away, but as the family of five were asleep on the floor at mid- it one of the great cats sprang in at the window, was undefended. This opening, as I saw my- ars »~ could have seen a man moving many rods away, if he kept in the open, but it was very dark under the trees, and the grass in the openings were two feet high. I was close to the hut from.which the man had been dragged, but had not kept my watch long before I realized that it was a great chance if I caught the slightest glimpse of the expected visit- ors. There were so many dark spots below me and the foliage so obstructed my vision that I had a good mind to descend and seek for some other posi- tion: However, I held on, and by and by the vil- lagers grew quiet and were in a happy frame of mind, believing the man-eaters as driven to some other district, now that we had ar- rived. Some of them even neglected to drop the blankets hanging at their doors. ag “It had come to be 10 o’clock, and I was wonder- ing if I dared light a cheroot, when I heard the dog before me whine and move about. Next moment I caught sight of two dark objects stealing across the as dead or open space toward the foot of my tree, and realized _ “ = - ‘J e ¥ 7

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bes Jena ioe C that the tigers had come. The dog ran out to meet them, singular as it may appear, and then occurred a familiar scene. You have seen a mastiff stand Still in all his dignity while a puppy scampered arcund him in play. Well, the tigers stood there _ Stiff as-two statues, and the cur ran a¥ound in a _ Circle and: tried his best to get up a frolic. They at = oe ee a ae Se an te anal a few minutes, all three were in for frolic. ‘I could not see as distinctly as I could have wished for, but a made out the movements very well. The tigers _ jumped over the dog a dozen different times, and on three or four occasions dropped their tails and Yan away to let him pursue them, but always com- | ing back to the same place. I softly cocked my gun | for a shot, but they were so constantly on the move | that I dared not risk it. Our object was to bag _ one or both, instead of driving them away from the } Neighborhood by a general alarm. The play con- _tinued for a quarter of an hour, and ceased then | because a child in a hut near by cried out in its | sleep. The tigers changed their demeanor in an in- Stant, and a low growl warned the dog that the - frolic was at an end. He did not want it so, but _ Scarcely had he renewed his efforts when one of the beasts struck a blow with its paw and laid him dead on the grass. Then both stood stock still, listening 1 for the cry to be repeated. They were side by side, - broadside to me, and not a hundred feet away, put in the darkness it was a chance shot. I pulled trig- ger, and the report’ of the rifle was followed by a terrible growling and snarling and the sounds of } claws at work in the grass. The natives were out in a moment, shouting, screaming, and blowing horns, and as soon as their torches‘were alight I descended from my perch. One of the tigers was -Yolling over and over on the ground, and uttering Sounds of rage, while the other had disappeared. [ _ gave the wounded beast a shot through the head, and ‘| when we came to examine the body we found it to _| be that of the tigress. | “The lieutenant came running up to compliment } me on my luck. and in ten minutes every man, “Woman and child in the village was in the circle around the dead beast. Everybody supposed the | Mate had made off for the jungle, as would be the = ase nineteen times gut of twenty, but we were sadly | Mistaken. While we stood in a circle, with eight | or ten torches, lighting the scene, the male tiger | Seized a woman who stood not over ten feet from e, and, before even a cry was raised, had disap- i eared in the darkness. _ } “When morning came we ving that hunger had not forced him to display joldness. es 008 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. 25 | to the village and the seizure of another victim. The trail was followed to the mouth of a dark, dry gully with a rocky bottom and sides lined with bushes, and the natives would go no further. One of them was dispatched to our camp with word to come over, and in a couple of hours there were five of us white men on the ground with a determina- _ first growled in a menacing way, but as he con-} tion to hunt the big cat to his death. A body of “tinued his play, they grew beter natured, and, after natives were sent off up the hill to beat the gully, and we took our stations in a crescent, each man facing the hill, and none of us over 100 feet from the spot where the trail had been abandoned. It turned out that the gully did not penetrate the hill for more than a quarter of a mile, and after a little the natives got on both sides of it and began to beat toward us. “The beaters had been at work half an hour when we heard a cry announcing that the man-eater was making his way toward the plain, hustled along somewhat by the volleys of stones, but sharpening his claws and growling defiance. In taking up our positions it so happened that Lieut. Farrington was on my right in line with the mouth of the gully, and not more than twenty feet from my elbow. In three jor four minutes after a cry of warning the tiger pappeneet in the mouth of the gully, head on to Far- | rington, and looking him straight in the face. “Hold on! He’s my meat!” shouted the officer as he brought his gun up, and it became a point of honor with the rest of us to hold our fire. He took cool and careful aim, but his bullet simply touched his skin between the tiger’s ears. He dropped like a stone, but was up in an instant, and, with a roar to shake any man’s nerves, he sprang forward at the ljeutenant. In the tenth of a second I turned my eyes from the beast to the officer, and what was my horror to see a serpent twining itself about his leg and rearing its head on a level with his shoulder, I forgot all about the oncoming tiger, and for the first time in my life my blood seemed turned to ice. Farrington stood with his left foot ahead and right braced, and as the tiger touched the ground for his last spring the rifle spoke again and the beast rolled over with a ball through his brain. Then, while we all kept our places like so many blocks of stone, he’ ‘dropped his rifle, seized the snake just below the |head with his right hand, and came walking toward us. The serpent writhed and twisted about in its rage and as it uncoiled itself from the man’s leg flung it thirty feet away. It was rushing back at him when one of the party, with a shot-gun at his shoulder, blew its head off. : “Good shot!” remarked Farrington, as he walked tack and picked up his rifle. : “We ran after him and shook his hand, and show-

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Bh 26 FAN AME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY NEW YORK, JULY 18, 1919. FAME. AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. Andes from Central Peru to Cape Horn. These ani- mals are very shy, and hunters capture them with difficulty. They may be tamed if taken when young, and there is no reason why they could not be raised in certain sections of the United States. Guanacos TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS Single Coples One Copy Three Months One Copy Six Months POSTAGE FREE HOW TO SENP MONEY¥-—At our risk send P. O. Money Order. Check or Registered Letter; remittances in ae other way are at your risk. We accept Postage Stamps the same as cash. W When sending silver wrap the Coin in a af paper to avoid cut ad plainly. Address HARRY E. WOLFF, ~ Publisher, 166 West 23d St., New York separate 4 he a Ga Write your name and GOOD CURRENT NEWS ARTICLES A new device for detecting current leakage in the ground near electric lines is featured by metal plates to be’ strapped to.a man’s shoes, which pick up the electricity and cause sounds to be heard in a tele- anybody of anything?” phone receiver. Church leaders in this country have received news| of a movement which has been started in Scotland | to erect a kirk and college in Jerusalem as an ex- pression of the Scottish people’s gratitude ‘for the deliwerance of the Holy City and in memory of the} Scottish soldiers who died in the expedition to Pales- tine. The college in Jerusalem will provide ac- commodations for ministers, students in theology and others interested in sacred learning. The kirk ‘will have a staff of resident clergy. ' af? old ae and his son were at work in the ned near the roadside when his son discovered a d turkey, which probably was discarded by an- te farmer who was on his way to the market. Both were curious to learn the cause of its death. They brought the turkey to the barn, dissected the pil s body and obtained an egg, The boy set,the was gala the result was a fine turk oy gobbler that the next summer for $5. With this money the Ey purchased a pig. The next siimet the young ‘capitalist sold his sow and eight pigs for He then bought two thoroughbred heifers. The ensuing’fall he had two milch cows and calves ™ which he sold for $200. His final investment was in two one-year old filly colts. After a lapse of five years the lad was the custodian of two good mares ane $1,000 in gold which he procured in the sale f their colts. And to-day this farmer’s son is studying agriculture and animal husbandry in a ee es as the result of one re egg. . Teme RET Sey Rim ‘are said “to feed upon the pungent herbage of the | Patagonian deserts, as well as up on the bitter | grasses of the pampas, and furnish to the wandering ' natives their principal flesh food and the only skins used for clothing or tent making, except those of the rheas. Over a large part of their habitat none but salt water is to be had, which they drink read- ily.’ Guanacos are about a third taller than the average sheep, and weigh about the same. There ‘is no fixed price for the animal, as few have been | domesticated. They must be picked up wherever ‘they can be found, at whatever the owner may charge, anywhere from $6 to $20 gold each. Guan- aco rugs are prized very highly here, and cost $16 to $25 gold, according to size, quality of the hair, etc. A rug 6 by 9 feet is worth $20. GRINS AND CHUCKLES “Mamma,” said Tommy, “does sugar ever cure “Why do you ask, my boy?” “7 thought I’d like to catch it,” said’ Tommy. Magistrate—You say you have known the pris- oner all your life? Witness—Yes, your honor. ‘Magistra te—Now, in your opinion, do you think he ; could be guilty of stealing this money? Witness— How much was it? Polite Shopman (showing goods)—-Here is some- thing I would like to call your attention to, madam. It is the very latest thing out. Mrs. Roundér (ab- sently)—If there’s anything out later than my hus- batid I'll take it, if only for a curiosity. ~~ “While coming down in the subway this morning I noticed two deaf and dumb men Lies | opposite me. One of them had an impediment in his speech.” “How could a deaf and dumb man have an impedi- ment in his speech?” “Two of his fingers were cut off.” ~ be Little Freddie had just made his first acquaint- ance with animal crackers. After eating quite an assortment of them Freddie became very thought- ful. “What makes you so pensive, dear?” asked his mother. “Oh, I was just thinking what a circus was. ' going on inside of me.” Ina “SIE town they tell of a suitor who,.a some years of devotion, finally proposed to the | of his choice. “But, Henry,” protested the lady, “this is really sudden. You had better give me a week to think it over!” “Very well, my dear,” said And, after due reflection, he added, “per- Henry. | ; seek ‘information concerning | haps it wo uld be as well if I thought if over wayeals " fe . at the same > time!” * ome

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. $ A FEW GOOD ITEMS MOVING A HOUSE 1N SECTIONS ' In West Somerville, Mass., a large three-story dwelling was cut in two, moved from its site ten - feet above the street level, and set up a mile distant from its former resting place. ; After bracing the house, first one section and then the other was moved to the new location with jack- _. serews and rollers. On bringing the two portions together they devetailed into such a perfect fit that _ it was impossible to discern the separating cut. _ _The structure was prevented from topping over _ “by tearing down the chimneys and loading the first & floor with bricks. a THE PASSING OF THE HORSE The day of the horse in New York has passed. Figures just made public by the Sanitary Bureau of the Department of Health show that from March, 1917, to March, 1919, there was a decrease _ of 2,664 occupied stables, with a decrease of 32,296 in the number of horses in the city. The annual ‘report of the offal contractor shows that during 1918 10,225 horses died in New York, while the year before the number was 11,507. __ The figures show that while the Borough of! _ Brooklyn has more than twice as many stables as are in Manhattan, the latter has 37,825 horses as compared with 23,680 in Brooklyn. oi % MAGNET SCREWDRIVER _ *“T magnetized a screwdriver by holding it close to a dynamo for a few minutes, nearly two years ago, and it is still my most valued helper when it _ is necessary for me to do repair work on my car,” __ writes Ethel Webb in the Electrical Experimenter. _ “Tt is a great help when working around the car to have this magnetized screwdriver to pick up screws and small pieces of the machinery which drop down inside, out of my reach. “In setting screws it is invaluable; simply pick _ up the screw by touching the head with the mag- -netized screwdriver, and it may instantly be set _ in place with only One hand. It does away entirely __ with the annoyance of the screw slipping away and g lost, as it so often does. I always carry it ey box, and find the other fellow appreciates eo I find him having car troubles on some lonely bit of road.” ; : Be AS _ - LIVE IN HENHOUSES _ Some of the wealthiest residents of Serbia have been found living in stables and hen houses by ican Red Cross officers, according to advices as e . ers * — oa 7 oy Ne 2S a eee : a 2 - * cau — ~ i a he. 4 aes é be ae a ow > & = ~~ ~ ) a - . heads are more fortunate than refugees returning from Bulgarian detention camps, who discover their homes objiterated or destroyed beyond repair. ~ Rich fesidents of dozens of Serbian towns have been found sleeping under the stars on heaps of straw and covered with burlap. Families which had been comparatively wealthy before the war re- turned. to: their homes, or the heaps of ruins which their homes had been, penniless and with no cloth- ing except that which they wore. In some cases the refugees, stripped of their remaining rags at the Bulgarian frontier after. the armistice, made their way aeross Serbia in burlap bags in which Red Cross rice and food had been wrapped. The. condition of the Serbian poor, according to the dispatches, is beyond description. A large pro- portion of them are without homes. Added to this distressing condition is the fact that in most fam- ilies the wage earners are dead. The mother in the average Serbian family is now obliged to sup- port herself and her children on what she can pro- duce with her own labor, and that of her children, on a small farm, stripped of its machinery and ‘ools, and in most cases with only the walls of the suildings still standing. Generally, the meagre stores for this Spring’s seeding were taken by the enemy. _ A MARKET BRIDGE. A combination bridge and market place has been constructed by the city of Monterey, Mexico, and this bridge which serves a double purpose, is one of the sights of that part of Mexico. A shaded market place is almost necessary in the southwest- ern part of the continent to protect the produce and make marketing comfortable for the citizens. It may be that the people felt that they were scarcely getting the value of their money in putting up a simple bridge that was only necessary part of the year, as the river is dry except in the rainy seas when it becomes a raging stream that is very diffi- cult to cross. As the market place on top of the bridge is used al] the year and means an income to the city in rentals, the wisdom of this unusual bridge construction is séen at a glance. Heavy buttressed walls support the bridge. These are of solid concrete, but the walls, roof, and parti- tions for the booths ate made of metal lath with a coating of cement. This greatly reduces the cost and is permanent and fireproof. A double row of win- dows on each side of the enclosed part of the bri ge gives sufficiént light and ventilation, so that it always cool and pleasant on the hottest day. Montery is evidently one of the enterprising Mexican cities which is keeping up-to-date in its construction work. . - _ | pa, « y ee. a of a cea, ey: ‘ ‘ a d : ; o>, aa BD tr Re ek . < : a, at) ome

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28 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST GET RING 15 YEARS To find a ring that she had lost: fifteen years ago was the good luck of Miss Emma Lei- senring of Danville, Pa. son Kingston was digging gar- den at the Leisenring home when at a depth of fourteen inches he found the gold band bright and shining. Miss Lei- senring immediately identified it. The world “Mother” was en- graved on the inside of it. AMERICA’S STORE OF RA- DIUM The total production of ra- dium element in the United Nel-| | Stockbridge mountain range, 'saw two golden eagies flying low, and each carrying a lamb in its talons. As Patrick Larkin, a shepherd of the Highland farm, reported the loss of- two lambs from the flocks he watches,-it is presumed that they were the property of William B. Osgood Field of New York, who owns the estates Oldtimers assert that this is the first time in fifty years that golden eagles have been seen in the Berkshires. BOY FOILS ROBBERS Eight Chinese robbers at- States up to this year is esti-, ¢ked Sing Hop, a wealthy Chi- mated at 55 grams. It was first ese shirt manufacturer, in ‘his produced in 1913, in which year| {factory at No. 908 Washington 2,1 grams resulted; in 1918 the product was 13.6 grams. Charles H. Viol, writing in Science, es- timates that the Carnotic hold- Street, San Francisco, Cal., and demanded $2,000.. When he re- fused they beat and tortured jhim until he agreed to give ings of the Standard Chemical| them all the money he had with Company should produce at least | ™- 500 grams of radium. : GIRLS SAW GOLDEN EAGLES Miss Adeline 0. 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Wonderful Victory Over Baldness ‘HAIR GROWN ON MR. BRITTAIN’S BALD HEAD BY INDIAN’S’ MYSTERIOUS OINTMENT Now has Prolific Hair and Will Give True Recipe Free; it is Scientifically Verified y head at the top and back was abso- inter bald. The scalp was shiny. An e3- _ Dert said that as he thought the hair roots Were extinct, and there was no hope of my / €¥er having a new hair growth, Yet, now, at the age of 66, I have a luxuri- etd growth of soft, strong, lustrous hair! ‘Oo trace of baldness. Indians’ Secret of Hair Growth At a time when I had become discouraged ‘at trying various hair lotions, tonics, special- Asts’ treatments, etc., I came across. in my vels, a Cherokee Indian ‘medicine man” Who had an elixir that he guaraateed would 4 8row my hair. Although I had no faith, I Save it a trial. To my amazement, a light Tazz seon appeardd. it developed, day “by day, into a regular healthy growth and ere long my bair was as prolific as in my youth- ful days. 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Enough various parts, wire, etc., are furnished to make the following apparatus: Electromagnet, electric cannon, mag- netic .pictures, dancing spiral, electric hammer, galvanometer, voltmeter, hook for telephone receiver, condenser, sen- sitive microphone, short distance wire-, less telephone, test storage battery, | shocking coil, complete telegraph set, \ electric riveting machine, electric buzzer, dancing fishes, singing tele- phone, mysterious dancing man, electric jumping jack, magnetic geo- metric figures, rheostat, erratic pendulum, electric butterfly, thermo electric motor, visual telegraph, etc., etc. 4 This does not by any means exhaust the list, but a great many more apparatus can be built actually and effectually. With the instruction book which we furnish, one hundred experiments that can be made with this outfit are listed, nearly all. of these being illustrated with superb illustrations. 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