Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 767) (1920 06 11)

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JUNE 11, 1920. DUAL STORIES OF BOYS THAT MAKE MONEY. 58 $100000From Stocks — STORY) By A Sete (aoe (Tan ANd OTHER SToRIS —_— > Mow Dawkius. taking advantage of Jim's helpless condition, shook his fist in his face and abused bim with his cowardly tongue. while Haggard and Lee stood over the ticker waiting for the quotation to come out that would mark the boy's ruin.

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY Issued Weekly—Subscription price, $3.50 West 23d Street, New York, the Post-Office at New York, N. No 767. = year; Canada, N. ¥. Entered as Second-Ciass Matter, October 4, 19 p NEW YORK, JUNE ii, 1920. $4.00; Foreign, $4.50. Harry E. to ¢Publisher, 166 » at under the Act of March 3, 1879. - “ Reice 7 Cents BUCKY JIM Or, $100,000 FROM STOCKS BY A SELF-MADE MAN CHAPTER I—The Shadow of Mr. Grudge. : “Hello, mother!” exclaimed a bright-faced boy of eighteen, in-a cheerful, tone, entering the sit- ting-room of a little cottane. on the outskirts of Jersey City, one afternoon about five. “How are things?” typewritten and brief. Jim glanced over the communication, which ran as follows: ; “Dear Madam: _ *T beg to inform you that I have assigned the mortgage held by me on your house to Caleb ite sees Pg neighbor, to whom the interest will pas Ti be payable. “Yours very truly, “John W. Cooper.” : made no reply. ~~ on the which encl not had quite a pretentious house Baker. Being on speaking terms with her, he made bold to call in a social way. His visits were repeated at lessening intervals, and one day he took the little widow by surprise by asking her to marry him. As Mrs. Baker had no intention of marrying again, and if she had, Mr. Grudge was the last person she would have selected, she ~ turned his offer down. Caley Grudge didn’t take her refusal kindly. He considered that he had honored the little widow by casting his eyes in her direction. Be- ing well fixed in the world’s goods, and having made up his mind to marry his neirhbor, he be- came intensely indignant at the rebuff. Accus- tomed to having his own way, he resolved to achieve his point, or take satisfaction for his ruffled feelings. Accordingly, he put on his thinking-cap. He knew John W. Cooper who held the mortgage on the widow’s property. He — was also aware that the mortgage had run out and was subject to call at any time.on the usual notice. As the security was good, Mr. Cooper had not bothered his head about calling it. Caleb Grudge de i to buy in that mortgage if he could. Probably Mr. Cooper wouldn’t have paid any attention to his offer had jt not been for the fact that he was trying to raise a considerable sum of money at the time Grudge called on him with his proposal. Believing that Grudge wanted to con- tinue the mortgage himself on his neighbor's’ property, Cooper came to terms with him and - for me,” she repli “It wouldn’t be good for him if I caught him trying to ride rough-shod over you. I'd be apt to do things he’d remember.” “And then there’d be trouble. It isa great pity that Mr. Cooper sold him the He must had a sudden eall for money. we'll page subject I'm for the as hungry supper, as I’ve — as a ; + * ~S oe al t seid i= = a cy E

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2 LUCKY JIM The reader may think that Jim Baker took such a serious matter as the transfer of the mortgage on his mother’s property to a dangerous man rather coolly, but the fact was, Jim always looked on the bright side of things; and, furthermore, he had rendered a service that day to a rich New York banker who had promised to grant him any favor within his power. If he was driven to call on the banker to ask him to help his mother out, he had no doubt he would do it, so the future looked far from threatening to Jim. He got eight dollars a week from Broker Bramble, and this, with the $12 that his sister, a stenographer, got in the freight office of the Central N. J. Railroad, kept the pot boiling very comfortably at home. Our hero was known as “Lucky Jim” in Wall Street, because he had es- caped several accidents by the skin of his teeth. It is Sunceeemary <5} go into particulars about them, but had he borne a charmed life he couldn’t have come out better. We will merely mention one—the fall of an elevator from the sixteenth floor of a big office building. The car was fairly crowded and Jim was in it when the car lost its gp somehew and went down like a streak of ightning. ; , He was the only one in it that escaped scot free —two-thirds of the passengers being killed or fatally injured, while the cage was wrecked. The newspapers declared that his escape was the most remarkable on record, but as that wasn’t the first, ‘nor the second similar escape he had had up to that time, his messenger friends declared he had as many lives as a cat. Jim only laughed and said he couldn’t be killed till his time came. ns CHAPTER II.—The Midnight Robbery. Lacky Jim turned up at the office next morn- that when the boy, at his request, assist- im to his office he wanted to write out a F ts Ey 3 2 na] g 8 5 I b- a # AF i 3 ip Be Pa 5 B f 4 4 EI g i sf Rg H A Z 4 e : : Ee “ a “ ae if ; z : =ge s ae Pee i ete $28 EE nat eet he clerks, stenographer and cashier came in and got to work. Then he was called on to go out on an errand, His destination was a Broad street sta- tioner’s where he delivered his note to a clerk. The clerk went to the telephone to communicate with the firm’s printing office on Pearl street, con- cerning some printing ordered by Broker Bram- ble. While he was thus engaged, Jim amused himself looking around the store. Another clerk was shgwing a customer some blank stock certi- ficates, and quoting the price per 1,000 which in- cluded the printing of a company’s name in the space left for it. The customer wanted to take away a sample of each of the half a dozen varie- ties to show the officers of the concern he said he represented. The clerk told him that they didn’t allow any of the blank certificates to ge out that way any more as the privilege had been abused by sharpers. “We do not sell less than 500 of these certifi- cates, and the name of the company and certain other essential particulars must be printed in before they are delivered,” said the clerk. At that moment the clerk’s attention was dis- tracted for a few moments. The customer took priate OF the fact to appropriate half a dozen of one of certificate, roll them up and slip them into his ket. Jim saw him do it, but he didn’t feel that it was his business to rt the fact, and a minute later the clerk who waited on him returned with word that the print- ing would be delivered in half an hour. The other customer went out ahead of Jim, and the boy saw him meet a_ sporty-look- ing chap at the corner of Exchange place, and show him the purloined certificates. The men went off together, but Jim thought he’d know them if he ever saw them again. Jim was on the jump that day, as business was brisk Wall Street, ge has A eh eh ate et My Phage Had a sold out he ave doubled his money. He didn’t a chance to visit the little bank i = left Wall Street at four —— o'clock and started for the ferry. = 4 He caught a train boat; which was pretty well crowded, and sat down inside to read his after- noon paper. The story of a robbery in Harlem — 8 attention, and he hadn’t finished it boat reached its slip and the crowd sumedly. It ran as follows: == ote meee Watson, 162 Duquesne street, Pitts- — “I'll take it to the office otify that I found ae ne re, ‘and ‘he

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¥ 7 -_ the city the \ . LUCKY JIM rocm, sewing. He read a part of the paper to “her till it was time for her to go to the kitchen to prepare supper. His sister Flora came home just before it was ready. Soon after it was over, Jim started for Jersey City to attend a club gathering—a kind of stag party, the members of which were given to min- s It was close to twelve when the boy left the trolley car near his home and started to walk the intervening block. As he approached Caleb Grudge’s house he saw two men sneak out at the gate with loaded bags over their shoulders. That Was suspicious enough for him to conclude that ‘they were thieves. He decided that it was his duty to shadow them. Instead of going toward x walked away from it till they came to an old doned! blacksmith shop beside the - ntadw ay. They, carried théir plunder into it and shut the door. Jim crept up behind the shanty -and looked in through one of the numerous cracks. The men had lighted a candle and were taking up some loose planks jn the corner, close to where the boy was pecking in. There appeared to be quite a space under the flooring, and down into this the thieves placed their bags of plunder, after taking a few light articles out of them. They replaced the boards, went to the Soot aud ea wh Finding See coast apparently , they lit their pipes a walked away. Jim watched their receding figures till were lost in the darkness. Then he fol- lowed after them, with no intention of tracking __ them further, but simply because they were go- — » a ing in the direction he had to take. In due time he reached Grudge’s house again. This time he opened the gate and walked in. He found the front door ajar and took the lib- erty of stepping inside and walking upstairs. The house Was wrapped in complete darkness. Strik- ing a match on the landing, he opened the first door he came to. It was evidently a spare room on that floor, fairly well furnished, and there __- Was no one in it. He tried the door of the front room. It yielded to his touch and he entered, that he wouldn’t be taken for a burglar » him He lighted a second match and looked around. He saw a figure in front seated on a chair, Going up to it he encountered the sazing _ gaze of Caleb Grudge, who was bound and gage in his night garments. This established his sus- -.__picions that a robbery had been committed at the ~— house. iis ———— _ CHAPTER III.—The Man with the Stolen Bonds. = FS Grudge struggled and uttéred a succession of - inarticulate sounds. Jim quickly tore the gag - “Preteen robbed. Send for the police,” mut- - tered Grudge. “ig “Got a telephone?” asked Jim. , no. ger me and give the alarm.” - &No. Wait entertainments for their own amusement... light your lamp,” said Jim, pro- ~ Caleb Grudge. 9 “How do you know where they hid it?” -Jim explained how he had seen the men coming out of his gate with the bags as he was return- ing from a social affair in Jersey City. As he believed they were thieves he had followed them to the blacksmith shop and saw them hide the bees under the flooring, .ter which they went off. “We'll go’ and get it,” said Grudge, in a shaky voice, aS he nervously dressed himself. “You'll help me, won’t you, Baker?” “Sure you couldn’t fetch both bags yourself.” Five minutes later they left the house together, and Jim led Grudge to the old blacksmith shop. The two bags were found under the floor just as the burglars left them. Shouldering one each, Jim and Grudge returned to the house. The stuff Was tu out on the floor of Caleb’s bedroom, and he went over it. He found that five good industrial bonds, $200 in money, and several small articles of value were missing, These were worth mote than all the rest of property _ that had been stolen, and Grudge was in a sweat about it. He determined to go to Jersey City and notify the police at once. Jim got a description of the bonds from him to have it posted at the Ex- change so as to head off the thieves if they tried’ to dispose of them in Wall Street. It was half- past one when the boy finally turned into his bea. At breakfast in the morning he told his mother and sister what had happened to Grudge the night before, and how he had been instrumental in saving most of Caleb’s stolen property. -Of course, Mrs. Baker and her daughter -were sur- prised, and expressed a hope that Grudge would recover the rest of his stolen goods. The first thing Jim did on reaching the office was to write a note to Wm. Watson, of Pittsburg, about the package he found on thg ferryboat.. Jim told the’ cashier at the office about the stolen industrial bonds, handed him their description and suggest- ed that the members of the Exchange be notified not to buy them if they were offered for sale. The cashier said he’d attend to the matter. At eleven, L. & M, went up to 102 7-8, and at that © figure Jim found the’ chance to sell out, which | would give him a profit of $125 on his deal. He. was sitting in his chair after getting back, when > the door opened and a man entered the office. He was respectably dressed, wore a mustache, but appeared new ’to a broker’s office. He looked around as if in doubt, and Jim went to see what he wanted. ~ re as ei “Do you buy bonds here?” he ggKed. “Yes, sir, if they’re good oni “I guess mine are good,” said the visitor. «what. kind of bonds are they?” asked Jim. “Government 4s, or are they railroad bonds?” — “No, These are bonds’ of a manufacturing com- y.” > “Oh, indi securities. Well, if the com- “pany is concern the boss will able to . ; are through - dow. wa tes Chose bonds are “T see these bonds a —_ =e + = 3 Z ~

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aj 4 ; LUCKY JIM The visitor hesitated and then said: “Yes.” “Where do you live, Mr. Grudge?” The caller gave Caleb Grudge’s address as near as he could remember. “Take a seat, Mr. Grudge, and I will look up the current price of these bonds. How many have you to sell?” E The man said he had five. ; “Tt will take a few minutes to ascertain the market value,’ so be seated until I call you up. Jim!” he called to the young messenger. Jim went to the window. “Come inside,” said the cashier. The boy opened the brass gate and entered the ecountingroom. “That man seated outside has just presented for sale one of the bonds stolen, acco ng o your account, from your neighbor, Caleb Grudge,” said the cashier, “Ts that so?” said Jim, in some surprise. _ ~ “And he’s got the other four in his possession. Here is your memorandum of the stolen bonds. You see, this bond is one of the Duplex Manu- facturing Company’s securities, and that it is made out to Caleb Grudge. I asked him if his name was Grudge, and he said it was.” “He’s no more like Grudge than I am like the S boss,” said Jim. “You must call an officer and x have him arrested. He’s probably one of the two thieves.” ~ / “Go into the booth and telephone to the Oak street station for a policeman.” _ Jim did as he was requested, and when he stated why an officer-was wanted at the office the man at the other end of the wire said that om a policeman would be sent at once. The boy then _. returned to the waiting-room and kept his eye _. on the visitor, As the minutes passed the visitor grew impatient and restive. Finally he got up _and went to the cashier’s window. Then the door opened and a policeman entered, The moment the -man saw the officer he scented trouble, and as the cop walked up to the cashier’s window the visitor made a break for the door. As he started to ae his exit he found his progress barred by “Get out of my way!” he cried, fiercely. “Not much!” said Jim, grabbing him by the _ arm. “You’re wanted.” With an imprecation, the man aimed a blow -at Jim's face, but the boy dodged it and then by a quick movement, tripped the fellow_up. Just - then the policeman came out of the office. _ . “There’s your ,” said the messenger, point- ing at the visitor who was in the act of rising. ~The ¢ an advanced and caught the fel- pe a eo a ed ‘floor. ‘The shooting took place so suddenly that Jim The man took ad- _ bad humor. Happening “and Found advertisements, on the bare possibilty pointed revolver, but sprang at him. The man fired and the ball grazed Jim’s cheek. He was certainly Lucky Jim to escape that bullet. The next moment he grappled with the rascal. There was a momentary strugsle, then both lost their balance and rolled downstairs, locked in each other’s arms. CHAPTER IV.—The Bogus Stock Certificate They didn’t roll far, for the sharp turn in the stairway stayed their course. The man was half stunned by the shock, but Jim had all his wits about him. He released his grip, seized the pistol and got it out of the fellow’s hand. Then he stood up, prepared to hold the rascal or shoot him if he made a desperate effort to escape. The corridor above was filling up with startled brok- ers and their clerks from the adjoining offices. The policeman was raised and carried into Mr. Bramble’s office and an anbulance sent for. Jim’s shouts brought several of the spectators to the head of the stairs, “Come down here and help me secure this man,” he said. “He shot the policeman. He’s a crook and must not make his escape.” Two brokers and a clerk responded and the rascal was seized and hustled back into Bramble’s office, where he was identified by the woun policeman. The station-house was immediately notified that the officer sent had been shot by the crook whom he had been called in to arrest, and further aid was asked from the police. A patro- wagon and several officers were sent in response to the news. They arrived at the same time as the ambulance, and the appearance of both soon aroused considerable excitement in the ~ where the rumor was already circulated that a man had been shot in the Anchor Building. The surgeon pronounced the policeman danger- ously wounded, and he was carried to the hospital, while the crook was hustled off to the police station. The other four stolen bonds was: found in his pocket and taken charge of by the police. An officer called for Jim about two o’clock and took him to the court, The prisoner pleaded not guilty, but he was held to await the result of the policeman’s injuries. The Jersey City author- ities were notified of his arrest, as Jim said he was wanted there for the bergiary of Caleb Grudge’s house the night before. en Jim went home that afternoon he had quite an exciting story to tell his mother and sister, which he supplemented with the newspaper story of the shooting in which his name figured. After su per he called on Caleb Grudge, showed him the paper, and told him all the facts as the happened at his office. Grudge was delighted to hear that the bonds had been recovered, but the $200 and other articles were yet to be heard from. Next morning, Grudge hastened to New York to get his. bonds back, but he found that the po- lice were not giving up any evidence against the crook. He was informed that they would be handed over to the Jersey City authorities when the New York authorities had no further use for the bonds, and he must apply to them for the return of his property. 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gp LUCKY JIM = 5 that the package he had found in the ferryboat might be advertised for, Jim saw a three-line notice referring to it, offering a reward of $100 for its return to the proprietor of the Broadway Central Hotel. He immediately telephoned-to the hotel, stating that he had found the package and had written to the man whose name and address was on it. He said he would bring it up to the hotel that afternoon when he got off work. He did so, and the manager of the hotel paid him over the reward. | As the market still looked good, Jim watched for another chance to make a deal that promised a profit. He found that A. & D. was going up, so he thought he would take a risk on it. Ac- cordingly, he went around to the little bank and ordered 30 shares bought for his account, putting up $300 security. Next day he was notified that the stock had been bought at 85. When he got home that day he found a neighbor in the sitting- room, showing his mother a certificate of mining stock which she had bought that day of a man who once roomed with her a while, and who had sold it to her cheap because he said he was hard up. Jim always suspected the reliability of stock that was offered cheap—that is, below its mar- ket value. The visitor handed him the certificate, which called for 100 shares of the Copperopolis Mining & Milling Co., of Bullfrog, Nevada, and was made out in the name of John Smith. Jim recognized the certificate as one of the stock kind sold jn certain stationery stores, and as he knew that the Copperopolis M. & M. Co. was one of the good Western mines that would hardly use stock paper for its certificates, he be- came more suspicious than ever. Glancing down at the foot of the certificate he saw the imprint of the stationery firm that got up the certificates, and recognized it as the house his boss traded with. He asked the visitor to describe the man of whom she had purchased it. She did so, and it tallied pretty well with the customer Jim had seen pilfer the half-dozen certificates while the clerk’s attention was off him. “What did you pay for that certificate?” he asked the caller, whose name was Mrs. Green. “Mr. Smith said that Copperopolis was worth $225 a share, and he showed me a mining report in which that price was printed,” said Mrs. Green. “He offered me the certificate for $175, and thinking it a good bargain, I bought it.” “I’m afraid he swindled you, ma’am,” said the if. “Swindled me!” she exclaimed, in a startled tone. : “Yes. It is ridiculous to suppose that this man Smith would sell you a stock worth $225 a share for $175, when he could get the market value through any broker. If he had offered it to you at a discount of five or ten cents, which would more than coyer the broker’s commission, it would have been all oat aa Mrs. Green looked much disturbed. Jim pulled =z ‘was? if lis is certainly worth $225 a sha latest Goldfield quotation on it” “Then how have I been swindled?” asked Mrs. Green. “You have, in my opinion, bought a bogus certi- ficate, not a real Copperopolis certificate.” The lady gasped. “But it looks just like a real one,” she said. “The name is printed on it.” Jim explained that blank stock certificates were gotten up by stationery houses in the financial district for the use of incorporated companies that did not care to go to the expense of original de- signs. ; pe it should not be a real certificate, what shall 0?” “Go to the police and get a warrant out against Smith for swindling you out of $175.” “If he has really swindled me it will probably be hard to find him.” “I don’t think you will find him on this side of the river. He probably went direct to New York after he got the money out of you.” Mrs. Green departed, feeling rather down in the mouth, for she believed that Jim Baker’s Wall Street experience qualified him to give expert advice in stock matters. ; CHAPTER V.—Jim Locates “Smith.” Lucky Jim appeared to be as lucky in stocks as he was in escaping scot free from accidents, for A. & D., his second deal, bade fair to turn him in a good profit considering the sum he had invested. The stock kept going upward right along, and when it reached 95 Jim wondered if he hadn’t better cash in before it turned and went down again. The market showed no signs of a collapse, as far as he could see, but he knew that when a slump came it was always unexpect- ed. It ran in the boy’s head that a bird in the hand was worth two jn the bush, and so he sold out at 95 3-4. At that price it was easy for him to figure out that he was $300 ahead. Next day, as Jim was out on an errand, he saw the man who pilfered the blank stock certificates, and who he believed was Smith, the man who swindled Mrs. Green, for a Jersey City broker had confirmed his estimate of the Copperopolis certificate, and told her she had been badly taken in. Mrs. Green reported the matter to the Jersey City police, and was assured the swindler would be looked for. So far nothing had come of their efforts. When Jim saw the presumed Smith he was talkin waited for

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é LUCKY “Buy me a hundred Idaho Copper. Here’s the money,” he said to the trader. ~ The broker took the money, $200, counted it, and handed his customer a memorandum of the transaction. “Evidently the broker knew “Smith,” for he didn’t ask him his name. Jim followed the trader as he walked away. “I beg your pardon, sir, but who is that man = just made the deal in Idaho Copper with?” e inquired. : “Why do you wish to know, young man?” “Because he looks like a party I met before, and I wish to know if he is the same man.” “Why don’t. you ask him his name yourself? I never disclose the identity of my customers.” “T have a reason for not asking him. If you won’t tell me who he is perhaps you'll let me have your card.” “No, I don’t think I will. curious.” so right, sir; I won’t press you further,” said im. He kept his eye on the broker, and after a few minutes he asked another trader his name.’ He learned that he was George Lampson. Having found ‘out all that he could he went on -to his < office. When he got there he went to the tele- ‘phone booth and consulted the directory. The book showed that Lampson, broker, had his office at No. — Broad street. He made a note of it and-returned to his seat. That evening he called on Mrs. Green and told her he had seen a man on Broad street that day who he thought was the man who had swindled her with the bogus Cop- . -peropolis certificate, : . “This party has a-deal on in Idaho Copper. He bought 100 shares of the stock at the market price of $2, of 2 broker named George Lampson, ‘of No. — Broad street. The certificate will be Aelivered to him some time to-morrow. In the meantime it is quite likely he will hang around ~ the Curb Exchange to keep tab on his investment. - Tf I were you I’d go to Wall Street in the morn- and see if you can identify the man who “swindled you,” said Jim. : “But I’ve never been in Wall Street in my life, and I have no idea where the Curb Exchange is,” said Mrs. Green. You seem to be too bunch of outsiders were watch- from the sidewalk. Jim and } 7 JIM “The very one!” cried the lady, excitedly, when her eyes rested on him. “That is Mr. Smith who used to room with me.” “You are sure of that, Mrs. Green, for it won't do to have the wrong party arrested.” “T am positive,” she replied. “Very good. Wait a moment. I.see a Wall Street detective, yonder. } must have a talk with him first.” He walked up to the detective and briefly told him how Mrs. Green had been victimized. “The lady is yonder, and the man is talking to one of the Curb brokers. There is going to be a scene in a moment when she charges him with the swindle. He will deny his identity, of course. She knows him gs Smith. Very likely that is not his right name, but she is certain he is the man who sold her the bogus certificate. Will you talk with her before she acts?” said Jim. The detective thought it best to do so. Jim brought him oyer and introduced him, Mrs. Green assured the sleuth that the man talking with Broker Lampson was the man who had cheated her. “I ought to know him, for he roomed with me for some months,” he said. “And you say his name is Smith?” said the officer, = : “That is the name he gave me, and the few Visitors he had asked for Smith.” Jim then told the detective that he identified the man as the party he had seen purloin several blank certificates from the store of Dick & Dady, stationers,-on the opposite side of Broad street. “Now, I can’t swear that the certificate of Cop- peropolis stock Mrs. Green has was originally one of those blank certificates, but her certificate bears the imprint of Dick & Dady, which proves that at some time it came from their store. I think, however, that my testimony is worth some- ie from a circumstantial point of view,” said im. The detective nodded. ‘ “The Jersey City police are looking for’ the man who swindled Mrs. Green, so I think it is a safe proposition to arrest that man on the lady’s identification,” said Jim. At that moment Lampson left his customer and Jim suggested that the chance was a good one to tackle the man. “Go and speak to him, madam, and I will see what effect your presence has on him,” said the sleuth. = Green walked right up to the man and said: “How do you do, Mr. Smith?” Smith started back in evident consternation, ane the detective was satisfied he was the right party. CHAPTER VI.—Jim’s Third Lucky Deal. The man quickly recovered from his shock and fixing a stony stare on Mrs. Green, said: - “Madam, my name is not Smith.” “Well, that’s the name you always called your-_ self by.” : “You are mistaken, madam. I never saw you before in my life.” i = +

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LUCKY JIM 7 “Why, it’s only a week you called on me and sold me a worthless stock certificate for $175, after telling me it was worth $225. I want my money back. If you don’t return it right away I shall have you arrested,” said Mrs. Green. “Madam, you must be crazy,” said Lampson’s customer. “My name is Dawkins. The fact that you addressed me as Smith shows how mistaken you are in my samen fi As I don’t deal in stocks, good or bad, I couldn’t possibly have sold you anything of that kind. I am very sorry that this Smith so greatly resembles me as to impress you with the idea t I am he.” Thus speaking, the man started to walk away when the detective tapped him on his shoulder. “You are my prisoner,” he said, curtly. “What do you mean?” asked Smith, looking disturbed. “Who are you?” The sleuth showed his badge. “On what ground are you acting?” demanded the other. “On the complaint of this lady that you per- petrated a swindle on her.” “The lady is mistaken in my identity.” “Y’m not mistaken, officer,” said Mrs. Green. “I know him well. If I had any doubt about him, that ring on his little finger fully convinces me that he is the man who, under the name of Smith, once lodged with me.” -_ “This thing will have to be straightened out be- fore a judge,” said the sleuth. “Come with me.” eee your right to arrest me without a war- ~-ran “TI will take the responsibility.” - “Well, I won’t go with you. I have rights, and I intend to stand on them.” “You will come quietly, or I’ll put the bracelets on you.” be Quick as a flash Smith smashed the detective was after him. Smith tried to lose himself in the ‘crowd, but he couldn’t shake the young messen- pale off. Jim was at his heels as he rushed down Sere ge place. The rascal wheeled about and Wr at the boy. messenger ducked, slid struggled desperately to break his hold, but not do it. Jim succeeded in tripping him up eas Sawn on oe siaeprelk <— gan er, wondering what the The boy held on to the fellow the detective came up and handcuffed him. ey ee to go with the officer, Jim to street, found Mrs. Green and her back to his office. : 3 course of twenty minutes the detective Bramble’s office and told-the lady he her to the Tombs police court, where ould shortly be brought up for ex- e told Jim that his presence would and so the boy had to apply-to the Tmission to 44 to court, When t before the bar o: or ever - The lady went on . dix about a ‘ i :? F ! r Eg : - ry . i = ite iF : FI : ; 7 again for was b == w i ~ that it was a fact The additional complaint. of resisting an officer was added to the case against the prisoner, and so the judge held him in $1,000 bail to await the necessary proceedings for his transfer to Jersey City. Bail not being forthcoming, he was sent ts a cell, and Jim and Mrs. Green left the court with the detective. The boy and the officer escorted the lady to the corner of Broadway and Cort- landt street, and from there she went on to the ferry, while Jim and the sleuth kept on to Wall Street. When the young messenger got home at his usual time he related the capture of Smith to his mother, and said he guessed that Mrs. Green’s chances of recovering her money was good, as the swindler had $200 invested in Idaho Copper shares, in the hands of Broker Lampson, against which the lady intended to get out an at- tachment to prevent the trader from disposing of them. Next morning, Jim was at his office a lit- tle earlier than usual in order to have time to look over the Wall Street papers. He was anxious to keep abreast of the game in which he was now deeply interested. O. & H. stock looked pretty good to him, for it was ris- ing steadily. *T guess I’ll get in on that and see if my luck holds,” he told himself. During the morning he found a chance to get to the little bank, and he ordered 60 shares of O. & H. bought fer his account at the market, which was 75. it happened that a syndicate was in- terested in booming the stock, but Jim did not know that. His luck had steered him on to the best speculation he could have got into at that particular time. A week passed, during which time the price fluctuated a deal, but gen- erally closed higher at the end of each day’s pro- ceedings at the Stock Exchange. Seven days ter he bought the shares it was going at 80. im guessed that was good enough to realize on, as he didn’t expect it would go much higher. He was prevented by business from visiting the ~ little bank, and next morning, about eleven, the boom started in earnest. In an hour $0 was bid for the stock, which had become scarce. Jim was mighty glad he hau not sold the previous day. Up to this point he had made an additional $600 by holding on. At half-past two it was going at par. Such a tremendous advance in the price of the stock quite took Jim’s breath. He judged that it was a dangerous proposition to hold on to any longer, so he sold out at 100 1-2, clearing a profit of $1,500. When he reached home that afternoon ~ he told his mother that he had made quite a bunch of money out of stocks that day. “How much do you think I made?” he said. “I couldn’t guess,” she replied. : “I made $1,500, just the amount of the mort- gage you owe on the cottage.” = “You don’t mean that, Jim?” she said, incredu- that a stock hty big winner. rises 2 = inpid of a couple of weeks. That’s ints inside can éasily figure fics Ws clr Real Be ners. se_ was ae en t , news she was : ous at first, but her brother oc : Pg ws ey

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8 . ‘LUCKY JIM “I'll be able,to prove it to you in a ie or two when the‘ bank settles with me,” Jim said. “I am now worth $2,125. I only need $97,875 more to be worth the $100,000 I told you that I expected to make out of stocks.” “Say, Jim, do you really think you will ever be worth $100,000?” laughed his sister, “Do I? It’s a sure bet I will, sir,” yeslied Jim, in a confident tone. “Do you expect to win every time you ‘make an investment ?” “No, I can’t say that Ido. much; but still I wouldn’t be surprised if I did. Vm ‘Lucky Jim, you know, and that means I’ve : ble to be fortunate right along to hold the title.” Next day O. & H. slumped fifteen points inside of an hour, and hundreds of small speculators were either ruined or badly pinched. Jim con- gratulated himself on having got out in time to save his bacon, ‘ “Tt was my luck,” he said to himself. “I had no idea that a slump would,come to-day, but it ¢ struck me I ought to sell sg and I did. A fel- Es low risks financial. suicide b ny hanging out for the . last dollar that is in a deal.” foe The drop in O. & H., which continued at a les- ser rate, unsettled the entire market, and for several days thereafter things were wobbly and prices we: Jim got his money from the bank, taking a certificate of-deposit for $2,000 and the : balance in cash. -He showed the certificate to his s mother and sister, and that settled any lingering 4 an they might have had that Jim had been ~ lying them. That night Jim woke up suddenly a man in his reom, going through his ee, He sprang out of bed with a shout, but the man made a dive for the open window and was gone before the boy could lay ag on him. Jim saw him- disa| ring throu, te, and he felt it was useless to try and ellos im. He aes up his clothes and found that a $2 Bill and some loose -change, which included an old- fashioned George III copper cent he had acquired ~_@ few weeks since, were gone. The man had ~~ aot had time to rifle his jacket so his certificate of - deposit was safe. Had the thief. got. away with it, it would have ‘done him no good, as the boy could have stopped Sea re it when the bank opened in the morn- ‘While the — a were at breakfast, ge rushed into cottage in great ; been robbed again, he de- lare The thief had got away with $300 in hh and a bunch of valuables. t don’t ane said Jim. “The fellow who inet have been the same chap I night. He stole $2. 72 1 survive the Joss.” iy et eut be over his loss. ys in six weeks. : ' the ao was has such poor “police eS e said. “We have. to pay our That’s expecting too Se wning property, I suppose,” an” ed’ Grudge. “I think the ci if be eee he f all that’: _ Sead LS enw smith shop with him and see if his stolen prop- erty had been hidden there as before. “It isn’t likely it is,” said the boy. “In any case, I haven’t time to go with you, as I have to be in Wall Street a little before nine. The best thing you can do is to notify the police without delay.” “What good will that do? They didn’t find a part of the stuff that was stolen from me before. if you hadn't nabbed that chap at your office I wouldn’t have stood the chance of getting my bonds back.” “That’s the advantage of having a lucky boy at your elbow to help you out.” ~ “Are, you lucky?” asked Grudge, who seemed to have forgotten about Jim’s. many hair-breadth escapes. “Yes, I’m lucky to be alive,” which was the truth. ‘ replied the boy, CHAPTER VHi. Jim Makes a Bunch of Money and Quits His Job. That day there was,some excitement in the ‘Curb market. Jim noticed it when he went by on an errand. He asked a broker’s assistant what was on the tapis and learned that Montana Cop- per was the attraction. It was selling at $5 a share. Jim had been looking to see a rise in the copper stocks, for the papers had been predicting -it. On the spur of the moment he determined to get in on the game. He went up to a broker he knew, named Duncan. “I'd like to buy 400 Montana Copper,” he said. “Who are you acting for, Baker? “Myself,” “Have you $2,000 to invest?” “Yes, but,it’s in the form of a certificate of de- gee on the little Nassau bank. [ll transfer it you.” . “All right. Cane in this cafe and you can sign ~~ your name to it,” said Broker Duncan. deal was made and Jim went on his way, confident that he would make another raise out — of stocks. It seemed not unlikely that he would,. for Montana Copper closed at $8 that afternoon, giving the boy a profit of $1,200 inside of four : hours. When he stepped off the ferryboat a : roughly dressed man came up to him and asked eer he wanted to buy an old foreign copper “That depends on what you.want for it,” plied Jim, “Let’s see it.” ” és: The maittirew out of his copper, which was about as : ij can silyer dollar, but somewhat thicker. If you S carried a dozen of them in’ pocket you : could hardly forget they were there: Jim nearly : gavea vag ge he saw Dares for it looked like the coin th pocket when he rifled his trousers y Bee, i Bight OF « of ying . he wasn’t sure, but = ee <= many of those kind of coins foating around. ar Where did you get this?” th +. chap wee, : ught of ca to 0 1 the ‘old lack

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‘ robbed you, LUCKY JIM $ “A sailor gave it to me, and I’d like to get the price of a drink for it,” was the reply. “Well, ll give you a dime for it, but I don’t believe it is really worth that much,” said Jim. “It’s worth more than that as a curiosity. Look how old it is.” “I see, but dealers in old coins don’t give much for these—two or cents, maybe,” said the boy, handing him a dime and taking the copper penny. Jim watched the man as he walked off, and saw him join another fellow who somewhat re- sembled the night thief. The water front and entered a saloon. The young messenger followed, looked in and saw them standing at the bar. After a little while they came out and walked up a side street. Jim shad- owed them from the other side of the way. Two blecks above they turned south into a cheap neighborhood, and finally entered a tenement. Jim noted the name of thé street and the num- ber of the house, then he took a car and went home. Caleb Grudge was standing at his gate, looking moodily at the road when he came along. “Hello, Mr. Grudge! What did the police say meat. the second burglary committed at your ouse ?” - “The. officer said they’d attend to the matter, but as I could not give them a description of the thief they could not say what success they’d have in catching him. I told him they ought to have the suburbs properly patrolled for the protection of the residents. “What did he say to that?” “He said the gees were doing all that could em.” be expected of the: 4 Which satisfied you, eh?” “No, it didn’t satisfy me,” snorted Grudge an- grily, “but it’s what a citizen might expect from the police, who as long as they draw their wages from the public treasury care little for the wish- es of the public.” “Well, I saw a couple of fellows down at the ferry, one of whom puts me in mind of the chap who was in my room last night. I followed them to a tenement house. There is the street and gener: If aire you, I’d send it = the poe mi aid’ em im rounding up the man who said Jim. Grudge took the paper and looked at it. “Give me a deseription of the man you saw in your room,” he said, Jim did as well as he could rememher. After a Pp : < $1 ahead already on the deal,” he said. Tt was up to $12.75 when Jim was sent out on an errand to the Mills Building. On the way he stopped in at Duncan’s office and told the broker to sell him out. Duncan did so, the young "messenger cleared $3,000 on the That made ~ him worth $5,000, and he felt like a capitalist. ai Grids wat au re op ss money id pu up on shares of Erie, because that stock had taken a sudden boom. He paid 22 for the Erie, and went along the - ‘ his errands of late, and spoke to him about it The boy admitted the fact, but said it didn’t hap- pen often. “It has happened half a dozen times in the last ten days. his is un for you. What are you up to?” asked the cashier. “My eye in business,” laughed Jim. “If you have any private business on the string you want to cut it out.” Jim said nothing and walked back to his seat. He didn’t fancy the call-down he had got, and he judged the cashier would watch his movements closer after that. “I won’t be able to work any more deals, and as luck is running my way it would be a shame te quit,” he thought. Finally he made up his mind to keep on as he had been doing, and if the cashier jumped on his neck again he decided to leave the office. _ “What’s eight per, anyway, compared with the money I can win following the market?” he told himself. “VIl bet the ier isn’t worth $9,000 himself. Let him go bag. I can pay that mort- gage off any time now,-so I feel as independent as a hog on ice.” He watched the papers and market —* just as sharply as ever, but a month passed and put up his $9,000 on 900 shares, at 82, which, was a low price for\ the The had been depressed by the brokers employed by the syndicate so it could be bought in as as possible, For several days after he bought there was nothing doing, and then it go up a little. It was about this time was Summoned to appear at the trial who shot the policeman in the corrid his office. The officer had wound, but he had had : if ie ele co e behavior would reduce eight months, but when he arrested and taken to Jersey City to answer fi the burglary business, and he co another ten years for that at Trenton. gether, he would be fed and clothed at the lic expense for some time to come, and wo out of mischief. After he had been sent up t five bonds were sent to the Jersey City authoriti and when Caleb Grudge learned about it he application for their return. He got them out any trouble, but he neglected to Baker, through but of the efforts of the boy might never have got them ceedings were under way’to extradite.the who robbed Mrs. Green, the matter was by a friend of “Smith’s,” who made r loss, The second charge, that of assaultin detective, was also squared, and the man " of jail, but he blamed his arrest largely o Baker, and he determined to get square boy. Ten days passed before there doing in M. & N., and then it began to go ur S 5 rs 3 E 8s gee, g poet b - a ee ereerill es : : F g gE Sa ae i Rs

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10 and he went to the bank and ordered his stock sold. It was easy for him to figure up his profit as $18,000. As there was a crowd at the bank that afternoon, Jim lost twenty minutes of his boss’s time in attending to his own business. The cash- ier hauled him over the coals when he got back. With a capital of over $25,000 in sight, Jim felt more independent than ever, and his answers to the cashier were not as humble as that person expected from him, so the call-down developed into a rerular row between them, and the cashier reported him to Mr. Bramble. The broker called Jim into his private room and asked him where he had been so long. Jim did not care to lie ebout the matter, and told the truth. Bramble then called him down for speculating in the market. “If I hear of you doing any more of it, I'll have to let you go,” said the broker. “All right,” replied Jim. “I’ll save you the trouble by going now, for I can make more money eegguating thea running errands for you.” The broker, angry at his independent way, told him he was at liberty to go at the end of the week if he wanted to. “Very well, sir, hire another boy and I'll leave on Saturday. : Bramble did hire another messenger, and so when Saturday came Jim quit. CHAPTER VITIL.—“Lucky Jim” on His Own Hook. that he had severed his relations with Bramble. He told them that he had added $18,00C-to his capital, and was now worth $25,000. They marveled at his astonishing luck, and wondered how long it would last. On Monday morning he came to Wall Street at his time, bought a financial paper, and went down to Bowling Green Park to read it, At ten o'clock he walked into the little bank and sat jown on one of the seats facing the blackboard, to put in the morning there watching otations. He had been there an hour when ive movements of A. & B. interested him. watching it for a while, he atogpes up to window and ordered 1,000 shares ght for t. A. & B. was not a high-class stock. 100 a share, but its market The latter figure is what Jim ] ten per cent. margin. : B. had advanced to 66 3-8. saw that he could make a thousand dollars I , so he did so. Then he went tisfied with the results of his rst day on his own hook, : “Pve made $1,000, and I never would have I been working at the office,” lf. “That’s, equivalent to two I guess I won’t miss my wm gccpRE sure pple eeeaes BB : & returned to the little bank and LUCKY JIM market. On the first of the month the mortgage interest became due on the cottage. Jim handed his mother the money to pay it with, and told her to notify Caleb Grudge that they wished to pay off the principal in thirty days. She called on Grudge just as he was getting ready to call on her. She told him that Mr. Cooper had notified her that he had assigned the mortgage to him, and that the interest was to be paid to him in the future, so he had called to pay him what was due to date. Grudge wrote out a receipt for the money and then told her that owing to recent losses he would be obliged to ask her to settle the princi- pal in thirty days, “Very well,” replied the widow calmly. “You shall have your money in thirty days. I shall,be very glad to have it cancelled.” rudge was extremely curious to learn how the little widow had come to be so well fixed all of a sudden, but he did not have the nerve to ask her. He was clearly disappointed to learn that she was in a position to liquidate the mortgage, for despite what he owed to her son, he was medi- tating turning the screws on her to win her con- sent to marrying him. If she was really able, as she claimed, to pay the mortgage at any time, he saw that his scheme of intended coercion had failed in the bud. So he attended Mrs. Baker to the door and bade her good-by in no cheerful frame of mind. Jim grew tired of walking around Wall Street when there was nothing much doing in the market, and decided to rent a small office where he could hang out. He felt that he would be a Bigs of much more importance if he had an office with his name on the door. So he looked around for a room and soon found one in a big office building adjoining the one where his late boss held forth. He fitted it up with a ose several chairs, a rug, a ticker and a second- safe in which to keep his money. He bought three or four pictures and hung them on the wall, together with a mining map of the Goldfield district. “This looks like business, though I’m doing none, only attending to my own,” he thought, as he gazed around his sanctum. On the door he had “J, Baker” painted, noth- ing else. It was pleasant to sit back in his chair and read the Wall Street omer, Yc at his ea or pull the ticker tape toward him and read o' the quotations as they came out. Sitting alone palled on him after several days, and he took to going out again. One day when he drepped into the little bank he saw that L. & D. stock was at- tracting attention. After watching it a while he went back to his office, took $15,000 out of his safe, returned to the bank and bought 1,500 shares of the stock. He held it only a couple of hours and then sold out at a two-point and a fraction advance, clearing $3,000. Duri the next two weeks he got in on three similar kinds of deals, making a small amount on each, which footed up $4,000 in the aggregate. When the thirty days’ notice on the mort was up, he gave his mother the $1,500 to pay it off and $500 extra for herself. ith the cottage free and clear, and her @lever son making all kinds of money, the future looked very 2 ful little widow. One evening, w famil Age at te Grudge ventured to sneak eir yard take up his position under

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LUCKY JIM one of the windows which was partly open for ventilation. It happened that Jim had made a coup in M. & C. that He had bought 2,000 shares of the stock at a low price and sold it at a ten-point advance, clearing ,000, and Grudge heard him tell his folks the story of the deal. The man was greatly astonished to find out that the boy was now operating on his own account in Wall Street, and he was worth considerable money. ae Aina too, that Jim had an office in the Galaxy Building. He went home more jealous than ever, and trying to think up some scheme by which he could bring about the boy’s ruin. CHAPTER [X.—Jim Has Visitors. Dawkins, alias “Smith,” the man who had swin- dled Mrs. Green and was compelled te make good, aaa a = otten Ping Baker, though he had to scheme for satisfaction, owing to cer- Sark eaten he had outside of Wall Street. On ihe ie) here Caleb Grudge visited the financial istri e he found that oe had shes. he h et to speak about the noremeptia ae hag was having asa “So you ecb that boy, eh?” said Dawkins, with a sour look. “T ought to, seeing that I live next door fo him,” replied Grud ge. “Where do you live?” Grudge mentioned the street in the Jersey City suburb. © “And Baker lives in the next house to you?” -*Yes, his mother owns the adjoining cottage. I held a mortgage on it, but she cleared it off money she got from her son.” “You wanted oe foreclose on the property and buy it in cheap, eh exactly, Song, I intended to do that if things didn’t come my way otherwise.” ~ “So you got left because the boy happened to be more prosperous than you supposed he was. You must think a whole lot of him on that ac- count, a ag ep like to get square with ative for spoil- ans.” ing my - on, too. did he do to” you 2 Grudge asked curi- ous re “lt doesn’t matter what he did, I’ve got it in r Sif I Giought you meant that, I’d be willing to __ help you if I could.” “I mean itall right. Do you know where the han out in the Street? Yes,’ he’s ida an office in ‘the Galaxy Building, = you? I owe him a grudge and would er: to get gyre tt Ai fle of his own” asked Dawkins, | surprised. — il lator can have his office in his hat as well as not and save rent.” “He may be doing something else in connec- tion with speculating, but I have no idea what it is.” “T'll find out, You say he’s in the Galaxy ; Building?” “Yes, Somewhere in the building.” “T'll look him up. What did you say your name was?” “Caleb Grudge.” “Mine is Bud Dawkins. Glad to have met you. Perhaps we can work together. Both our ob- ss seem to be identical—revenge on that boy, er.” “Revenge is all right, but as he’s got a lot of money for a youth of his age. I'd like to get some of it away from him. I don’t mean that I want to rob him,” said Grudge hastily. “I’d simply like to put up some job on him that would, in a business way, make a hole in his pile. You un- derstand me?” “Sure!” ovinned Dawkins. “You want to imi- tate our high fa financiers in a small way. Interest in somethin ing that will result to your advan- tage. That would suit me first class. I would consider myself sufficiently revenged if I could put my hand on his money-bag—in a business way, of course.” “Are you doing business in Wall Street, Mr. Dawkins?” “Occasionally, when I have the funds at oa! disposal. Just at present I am looking around for an opening.” “I thought perhaps vou had an office where we ‘could talk this matter over.” “No, but I have a room uptown. Of, if you prefer, I will call over to your house and we will put our heads together. “Tf you will come to-morrow evening I will talk with zee 3 ee % “Very go ive me your ress again. Dawkins wrote it down text then the two men. parted, Neither knew that they had been ob- served by the person been talking = —Jim Baker. Jim was hanging around the Curb when Grudge and Dawkins struck up their ac- quaintance. They were talking together “hen. his eye lighted on them. He was somewhat sur- prined to ‘see: Grudge: im Wall Gitect, asp.net never run across him Foe Pig ‘ore; but ot was more surprised to see old man apparently on friendly terms with Dawkins, whom he recog- nized as the rascal who swindled Mrs. Green, and st would have got away with the for his interference. ' If Da’ wasn’ a = insthe common acceptation of the term, he was next door to it. Jim cguld not see much dif- ference between a common and sional swindler and confidence a saw them shake hands and sepa looked significant of a friendly tel relationship, Jim had sou ie of getting in on peericns To- - bacco, was attracting attention "wing re = Curb, but he finally left the — without ¢ do x anything. ae He. returned 46° his “offic : Street mate. ad tit?

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12 can had = about him as a young eg formerly Trader Bramble’s messenger, who h come into mo. in some way and was operating on his own hook with considerable success. Jim immediately became an object of interest to the brokers Duncan had spoken to, and they deter- mined to know him better, hoping there might be something in it for them. They ascertained that he had an office in the Galaxy , and about four the three interested gentlemen started to y the boy a visit. They found Jim’s office— 7 ls 614, on the sixth floor—without any trou- they were strangers to him, and he wondered « > What their errand was. : “Mr. Baker, I beliee?” said the gentleman in advance, “Help your- Mr. Dual, also Curb brokers. Pardon our nerve, but Mr. Duncan, whom you are acquainted with, was i about you in such complimentary terms, remarking that you were a most unusual oung fellow, that we were curious to meet you. t is our excuse for calling. If we intrude, say the word and we will go as we came.” _— ’m glad to know you, gentlemen,” said Jim. “Allow me to offer Sa a cigar.” a He of choice perfectos and 2 passed it . : 4 - “Thanks!” said Brown, helping himself, the e others doing likewise. “We understand y m a business of ‘ou are making in stocks,” said Broker Dual. _ “Yes, that is what I am doing at present,” re- plied Jim. , “Duncan says you are very fortunate at the _—s- game,” said Harris. “As far as he knows, I have beea. I put a few to me. “Then he doesn’t attend to all your business?” Curb +; er to play a lone hand.” ae the advantage our experience done very well by relying on my own £ oa eek ua at a critical moment.” 5 through his office and they turned out profit- : LUCKY JIM “Don’t speculate,” replied Jim. The three brokers laughed. “You don’t seem to follow it,” said Brown. “I’m like the moth and the flame.” I will prob- ably fool around the market till I get well singed.” “You talk like a philosopher, young man,” laughed Harris. “And act like a fool, eh? Well, I’m only eigh- teen. I may improve with age.” The brokers tried to find out in a roundabout way how the boy stood financially, but they failed, and then they took their leave, after inviting Jim 2 call and see them individually at their of- ces. CHAPTER X.—A Put-Up Job. Jim was talking to a friend at the cottage gate an the following evening when a man sca whom he recognized as Dawkins. He was sur- prised to see the rascal in that neighborhood. He followed him with his eyes and saw him enter Grudge’s gate. Evidently there was something on the tapis between him and the old man. “Grudge is no match for that fellow,” thought the boy. “He'll be done up as sure as I stand here. Well, it’s not my funeral.” It happened that it was Jim’s funeral, but he didn’t know it. He never dreamed that he was the subject of the interview between Grudge and his rascally visitor. But there are others in this world in the same boat. He was at his office bright and early. His mother and sister had known for some time that he was no longer con- nected with Bramble’s office, but had his own office in Wall Street, g the Wall pom re: _ o’clock oe and the Exchanges open or business. quota- tions began coming in on the ticker. Jim wateh- ed them for a while, then put on his hat and went out. He had deci to in on F. & G, a Western railroad stock ch rumor said was about to consolidate with the T. & P. Jim went around to the little bank and placed an order for 2,500 shares of it at 70, the current market rate. Under ordinary conditions it was not a proposi- tion that promised results, but the consolidation rumor had caused unwonted activity in it, and the price had already jumped from 68 to 70. Jim hoped to realize $5,000 out of it, but it was a ure ae. on his part. He hung around the ittle till two o’clock, by which time F. & G. had advanced to 71 3-8. Something struck © him that he had better sell $e and bea making just $2,500. While he engaged in - this deal a ee was being held at the Lee concerning him. cis Saige Sat. Bad Dewicine. wile: peters with the two brokers. A plan of operati - Jecia : 0! ons was on, and no time was lost in getting down

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LUCKY JIM 13 to business. A few days later Jim received the following note through the mail: “Friend Baker: “ “T’ve just got hold of one of the finest gilt- edged tips of the hour, and I’m going to pass it on to you. A tremendous discovery of classy ore has just been made on the property of the Thun- der Island Copper Co. You may have noticed that the stock has advanced in the last two days from $8 to $10 a share. This has been due to the fact that the insiders are buying up. all the shares they can find, on the quiet, for as soon as the news is published the price will probably jump to $20, and they will reap a big profit, let- ting it back into circulation at that figure. I have been fortunate in securing as much as I could raise the money to pay for, and so I give you the chance to see what you can do yourself. I won’t guarantee that you'll be able to pick up much, but I heard this morning that a man nam- ed Caleb Grudge, who lives somewhere in the Jersey City suburbs, has ‘a block of 5,000 shares. Whether he’s got it yet, or will sell it if he has, I cannot say, but I imagine your chance is good, for it is said he is heavily involved in the failure of a manufacturing company in which he holds a _ large interest and needs money badly. At any rate, I advise you to call on him without delay and get the stock at the market if he has it yet. You stand to make 100 per cent. profit. “Yours in haste, as I’m going to Philadelphia on business, “Frederick Duncan.” This was the first communication of importance Jim had ever received from his Curb broker, and he was survrised and pleased over it. It was typewritten on Duncan’s office paper, and bore his signature. Jim was not familiar with Dun- can’s signature, but he had no doubt that the letter came from him. ‘He pulled his telephone to him and called up Duncan’s office. A clerk answered him, A clerk answered him. : “Is Mr. Duncan in?” Jim inquired. “No. He went to Philadelphia last evening, and we do not expect him back till to-morrow.” ~ “All right. Good-by!” and Jim hung un the receiver. , ‘He read the letter over carefully again. “Duncan would be survrised to learn that Caleb Grudge is my next-door neichbor,” chuckled the boy. “I must call on Grudge right away and see if he has that stock. If -he has, I'll buy it. I have just enough monev to pay for it. My luck still appears to hold. If Thunder Island Copper goes up ten points after I get that block, I’ll be worth $100,000 somewhat sooner than I expected.” As Jim reached for his hat, intending to start _ for the ferry, the door opened, and, to the boy’s surprise, in walked Caleb Grudge.. “Why, how do you do, Mr. Grudge?” said Jim. “Take a seat. I did not expect to see you here.” “Good-morning, Baker!” said the. old man, with a sickly kind of smile. “I heard you hau an of- _ fice in Wall Street, and I thought I’d call and - See 3 ™ “I haven’t a very large office, Mr. Grudge, but such as it is, it answers my present require- ments,” replied the voung speculator. “It looks as if you were doing business, at any rate,” said Grudge. “You are young, it strikes me, to be in the brokerage business.” “Oh, I’m not a broker,” laughed Jim. “No? I understood you were,” said the old man, with simulated surprise. E Grudge was lying, for he knew that Jim was merely a speculator in s It was his pur- pose, however, to pretend he thought the boy was a trader. “No, sir; some day I may be, when I have learned the ropes,” said Jim. “Well, well! I came here to get you to sell some stock for me. Seeing that I knew you so well, I thought I ought to patronize you. “What stock is it you want to get rid of? “Thunder Island Copper. I’ve got 5,000 shares. It’s gone up $2 in the last day or two, and as I need money to meet certain pressing obligations, I’ve got to dispose of it right away.” “I'll take it off your hands, Mr. Grudge, but you'll have to stand the commission I’ll have to pay when I sell it,” said Jim. : : “Have you $50,000 in cash to pay for it?” said the old man, tickled to death at the boy’s offer. “I can get it if you have brought the certifi- cates with you.” i “’ve got ’em in my bag,” said Grudge, lifting. his grip on his knee and opening it. “There’s fifty of ’em, each good for 100 shares. They’re in my name, but you can get them transferred at Peck & Pollock’s office, on Broad street. They’re the company’s agents. Ill pay the commission. How much is it?” “Twelve dollars and a half a hundred shares— $625 altogether.” : “You can deduct that from the $50,000,” said Gruber, his e twinkling with satisfaction. “I suppose you have to borrow some of the money, so I’ll come back in an hour. If you make a small payment on account—say, a thousand or two—I'll leave the stock with you and take your receipt for it.” “Very well. I can let you have $5,000, and T’ll give you a receipt for the shares,” said Jim, quite delighted at getting his grip on the copper stock. “It is understood that you are selling them to me at the present market price of $10? If the price should go up, you mustn’t kick; if it goes down, I will pay the $10 just the same.” “Yes, that’s understood,” agreed Grudge, also well pleased. ; So Jim got the money out of the safe and made out a receipt for it, which the old man signed. The boy handed him the receipt for the 5,000 shares and Grudge departed. He headed for the office of Haggard & Lee, while Jim started for the safe-deposit yault where he kept the bulk of his funds. “Lucky Jim” didn’t know that he had walked into a big trap, and that his title was in danger— in fact, he stood on the brink of a heay loss, but his enemies had miscalculated his financial stand- ing. Their intention was to drive him to the wall. As soon as they got hold of the money they in- - tended to first withdraw their support, which had - buoyed the stock from 98, and let it drop as far as it would, say to $7. Then they intended to «~

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by many tal, $60,000 in round n "per to will add, say Bix 31” 14 3 LUCKY JIM jump on the price by selling short and create a panic in it, and so beat it down as low as they could force it. Haggard and Lee had organized a syndicate among their friends to do this, and had a bunch of money at their back. Jim was a mere pawn in the game and didn’t count for a whole lot. The letter he had received that morn- ing apparently from Broker Duncan had been prepared in Haggard & Lee’s office, and the sig- nature cleverly forged by Dawkins, Caleb Grudge had been taken into the syndicate in a small way, and his deposit and anticipated winnings were to - be paid to him in cash, after which Dawkins was to take him i in tow, volunteer to see him home in a cab, drug him en route, rob him of the money, and take a train for the West. Thus the old man’s scheme for revenge on Jim Baker was to act as a boomerang against himself, for Haggard & Lee had no use for him after the game was played, and Dawkins intended to skip the city, anyway. Such is the game of life. - CHAPTER XI.—Jim Gets the Shock of His Life. Caleb Grudge returned to Jim’s office in an hour for the $45,000, less the commission of $625, and got it. He gave up the receipt for the stock and signed one for the money he took away. was waiting for him in the corridor outside, for the firm of Haggard & Lee did not intend to so much money in the old man’s hands— not that they feared he would run away with it, but because they did not care to give Dawkins, whom they knew better than to trust, a chance to waylay Grudge, as he might have figured on doing. re may be honor among thieves, but Haggard & Lee didn’t believe it. Jim carried the Thunder ene eee stock to Peck & Pollock to have it transf to his name. The Haggard & Lee syndicate, not having completed all their plans for the slump view, made no move against Thunder Island Copper that day, and the stock, under the impetus of the late rise, was dealt in ers and the price ced to $11. advance was naturally seen by Jim, and it ey him feel good. Things were evidently com- way. ‘ Z “I tell you I'm ‘J Jim,’ all right,” he told his mother and sister that evening at the supper table. peut $100,000 I told you about is already in “Is it?” said his sister. “Why, I thought you had only about_$50,000.” “I have 5,000 shares of Thunder Island Cop- per which are worth at this moment $55,000. In addition to that, I have $6,125 in my safe. To- yikes pasie wine, Unt go may points more, t $50,000 to the above. Grand total, Allowing a leeway of $10,000 in my stock $110,000.. calculations, there you have the hundred thou-. sand, sis.” “And to think you will have made that in about his sister. “Why, it’s just hing like Aladdin’s Lamp, isn’t it?” “Tt is, : , indeed. Jt is never well to shout before you're out of the woods, That’s an old saying, and it has its significance. Jim didn’t know how deep in the woods he was at that moment, but he was shout- ing as if he were on the fringe of them. He put so much dependence on his luck that the last thing he would have thought of was his luck going back on him. After all, Dame Fortune is a fickle jade, and you have got to keep your eyes on her all the time or she may give you the slip. When the Curb Exchange opened next morning Jim was there, feeling like a fighting cock. The morning sunshine bathed Wall Street in its warm rays, and-Jim appropriated it all to himself, in his mind. He felt as if he were the King of -the Curb, as Thunder Island Copper opened at $11.25. “It will go to $11.50 presently,” he thought. But it didn’t Somebody offered $11 for it, and then somebody else was willing to sell for $10.75. Jim didn’t like that. However, he figured that it was only a slight reaction. The reaction kept on till the price dropped to $8. “I’m $10,000 out, but I’ll get that back pres- ently,” thought Jim, as he saw that the down- ward move had stopped. He walked up to his office to give the market time to recover. —When he got there the tape told him that the price was down to $7. The next quotation was $7.25, and he breathed easier, but for the first time in his speculative career he felt kind of anxious. What if a screw had worked loose in Duncan’s tip? He called up Duncan’s office to see if the broker had got back from Philadelphia. “He has,” replied the clerk. with him?” : To talk about so important a matter as the Thunder Island Copper tip over the wire was not os poe so Jim = clerk to tell Sarge ie was coming right over. e grabbed his hat’ and inside of ten minutes walked into Dun- can’s private “Want to speak — “Hello, Baker. Glad to see you. Sit down,” ror re broker. “I’ve just got back from Phila- elphia.” “So I understand. I called in to thank you for that tip and to talk——” “Tip!” exclaimed Duncan. “What tip? I don’t understand you.” Jim s at him. “Why, you wrote me a letter, giving me a tip on Thunder Island Copper.” “T did?” ejaculated Duncan, evidently surprised ac ae : “Yes, I’ve got the letter in my pocket.” “Let me see it, please. I know nothing about the copper mine .and therefore could not have written you anythin. about it.” With a blank Jim handed out the letter. opened it. He stared at the printed head- ~ “To begin with, my dear fellow, some rascal bar econ bo Bm ! Ag tng let- ng ! t ter-head ?” sald Jim, . ae “No. There is one of my letter-heads. You Gan pos. Ciare 15 quite 5 diterence te theaigls of e type ‘Then Duncan read the note. “That signature looks something like mine, but f f

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LUCKY JIM it’s a rank forgery, just the same. Somebody is trying to get you to bite at Thunder Island stock. You Saven’s bought any, I hope, on the strength of that bogus letter?” “TI haven’t? Why, I’ve gone the whole hog. T’ve put in nearly every dollar I have in the world. I bought it at $10.” “The dickens did!” exclaimed Duncan, mak- ing a grab at bee tape of his private ticker and running it through his fingers. Suddenly he stopped. : “You say you paid $10 for it?” "¥ex* “It’s $7 now. You’ve been taken in badly by some clever schemer. Who did you buy the shares of?” : “My neighbor—Caleb Grudge.” “Your neighbor, Caleb Grudge, eh? Did he know you were worth $50,000?” = shouldn't think he .did. I never told him, and I’m sure my mother wouldn’t.” “He must have found out in some way, then, or he would not have taken the trouble to try and sell you $50,000 worth of stock. How came you to pay $10 for it? That stock hasn’t been above $8 for months. The recent rise was only a temporary jump that ought not to have deceived ” “It was this tip that I supposed came from you that deceived me. Well, I suppose I’m stuck. But it ought to go back to $3, and let me out with a loss of $10,000,” said Jim gloomily, who ~ -was. more shaken by the shock to his luck than the loss he was up against. Tf his luck was on the turn, his chances of making that $100,000 were not very bright, and that almost gave him a fit. “This bogus letter seems a part of the game worked on you. As Grudge sold you the stock, and this letter clearly steers you on to him, he is more or less responsible for your loss. What you want to do is to ferret this thing out. I'll help - you, for my name has been used and counter- feited. If we can nab the conspirators, they’ll go up the river, if I can send them there. They were playing with edge tools when they went into this game.” “l] put a detective on to Grudge. If I find him responsible for this skin, I’ll make him dance for it. I'll bet he worked this thing out of re- venge because he was unable to foreclose the i. mortgage he held on our cottage.” ~~‘ Jim told the broker how the old fellow had taken a shine to his mother and wanted to marry her, and how, when she turned him down, he had t the ired are on the cottage, poe it would give him a hold over her, Dun- = agreed that matters looked suspicious against 2 ese a detective, Baker, and I’ll pay half the expense. , we'll get at_the bottom of this thing, somehow. - He looked at the tape and saw that, Thunder Island Copper was down to $6. rat an id, was at the back of lump. “The fact that Beker had been taken io. at $10 "Was no reason, in his a big fall Sa Sea 15 in the price. Baker’s 5,000 shares were a mere drop in the bucket. “Look here, Baker, I think there is a colored man in the woodpile,” he said. “What do you mean?” asked Lucky Jim, who felt decidedly unlucky at that moment. “There are moneyed interests at the back of this slump. This tip you got is a mere side issue that probably only concerns Grudge. He's been tipped off to this slump by some broker he does business with. Maybe the broker suggested the scheme to him when he learned that the old man was down on you. Only somebody in Wall Street could have got that letter up. Grudge probably got some cheap printer in Jersey City to strike off a few letter-heads from the copy furnished him. The broker had the letter typewritten in his office, but he wouldn’t be fool enough to forge my signature. Grudge must have got somebody he knows to do that for him. I think that’s the way the trick was worked. Give my deductions to the getective and we'll see what he can make out of em.” As the broker spoke, Jim suddenly recalled Bud Dawkins’ visit at Grudge’s house. A light began to break through his brain. “Til bet I know the man who helped Grudge,” he said excitedly. Then he told Duncan about Dawkins—how he had swindled Mrs. Green, his former landlady, and how he (Jim) had helped to block his game. “That fellow is down on me for queering him with Mrs, Green. Maybe he is the man who put Grudge up to this crooked game on me, to try and ruin me financially.” _ “Very likely,” replied Dunean. “We are get- ting light on this thing by degrees. As this Daw- kins is a rascal, doubtless he is the party who forged my signature. The detective may have an easy job bringing these two men to book. If the forgery business can be brought home to Dawkins, I’ll send him to Sing Sing for it.” : “And Grudg? will, in that case, be apt to suf- fer a his pecomess” said Jim. “Quite likely. ou may lose ten or fifteen thousand dollars through this, but your enemies are likely to fare much worse.” Then he looked at the tape. Thunder Island Copper was down to $5, lower than it had been for five years. CHAPTER XII.—Made a Prisoner. “But I’m not anxious to lose $10,000 or $15,000, 5 cana 2 i Jim, fee “No one is, but we 0: ve to stand squeeze in Wall Street.” “What is Thunder Island Copper at now?” “I hate to tell you, for it hasn’t been so low since the mine ea regular producer. It’s down to $5.” ; <3 ane gracious! It seems to be going out of sight.” 4 What need you care? It will recover. You tg ht stock clear, don’t you?” + sae =. *Yes. a Bae “Then you can’t lose it. It’s worth $8 and will _ o back to that e in a day or two, or per- = a week. 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16 The thought that there might be a boom be- hind the slump made Jim feel better, and as ‘Broker Duncan had to go out, the boy took his leave. When he reached the corridor where his _ office was, he saw three men standing at his door. ie a r es They turned and looked at him as he approached. One of them he recognized as Dawkins; the sspore were strangers to him. Jim walked up to em. “I see you are standing in front of my office. Do you want to see me?” he asked. : “We wish to look at your ticker,” replied one The speaker wore a silk hat, had a silky mus- tache and looked like a broker. Under some cir- was and Dawkins was Lee. d ; themselves, but followed Jim into his of- Wondering who Dawkins’ companions were, they wanted to look at his ticker, he the way to his desk. Dawkins, who was right said Dawkins, “you'll gents make use of your Jim could not understand the meaning of this assault. e two brokers did not give him the least attention. Technically, they were as guilty of the outrage as Dawkins, though they had not laid a finger on the boy, because they should have it, but "t. t, didn’t. The three were there prevent Jim from watching the tape and not- ing the conti fall of Thunder Island Copper. the brok a pee with them. They believed that when it ed $3 Jim would be wiped out by reason of the loan Grudge had intimated to them that the boy was obliged to t in order to pay for the stock in full. Daw- ins, taking advantage of Jim’s helpless condi- shook his fist in his face and abused him with his cowardly tongue, while Haggard and Lee stood over the ticker, waiting for the quotation “come out which would mark the boy’s ruin. Jim had to stand f things, but was incomprehensible to him. owered on his head by Dawkins was ok aie fr : suspec watching the quotations of Thunder Copper, but he could not understand why had come to his office for that purpose. : something behind it all which (fe 7 E a LUCKY JIM “Tt’s down to three,” said Haggard. “Wait till we see if it goes any lower. We'll make a raft of money out of this,” said Lee. “Two seventy-five,” said Haggard, after a lapse of five seconds. “Come on. No use remaining here any longer.” The two rascally brokers walked out of the office without paying the slightest attention to either Jim or Dawkins. The latter locked the door after them, and pulling a cigar out of his pocket lighted it, sat down and began to smoke. “Young fellow,” he said to the young specu- lator, “I s’pose you don’t understand the meaning of this here incident. You recollect me, though. You helped to land me in jail, and I ain’t for- gotten it. The gents who were here came to look at your ticker. I took advantage of the fact to pay my respects to you. The gents saw me do you up, but they knew better than to interfere, that’s why you got no help from them. If you try to make trouble for them, it won’t do you any good. They’re not responsible for my ac- tions. If you try to“get back at me for this, you ill only get into more trouble.” Jim listened to him because he couldn’t very well help himself. He couldn’t reply, because he was gagged, and didn’t care to, anyway. Daw- kins added a lot more, expressive of his opinion of the boy, but it would not interest the reader. While he talked he smoked. When he finished his cigar he got up, examined Jim’s bonds and then walked the door. Unlocking it, he re- moved the key and inserted it from the outside. Bidding the boy a sarcastic good-by, he stalked out, locked the door, put the key in his pocket, and departed from the building. That left the young speculator in a bad fix, for even if a vis- itor called he could not call out to notify him of his predicament. Unless he could free himself by his own efforts, he was likely to remain a pris- oner until the janitor came around to clean up after five o’clock. Jim was not a youth to givo-up easily simply because he was face to face an awkward situation that at first sight appeared to stump him. Dawkins had bound him pretty securely, so far as his hands and body were con- cerned, to his pivot-chair. He was able to get up and walk around if he chose to carry the chair with him. He determined to free himself, if that feat was possible. After wrestling with the bonds ten minutes, he found he wasn’t making a whole lot of progress. Then he thought he would try and relieve himself of the gag. He dragged himself and the chair over to the ticker and began an effort to tear the handkerchief from - his mouth by rubbing it against the corner of the ticker-stand. His perseverance was finally | rewarded, and he got the ioe Weew his lips and as far as the point of his chin. Then it occurred to him that by walking clumsily around the room, shaking the chair, that its weight would strain the cord and loosen it. He tried the plan and found that it worked some, but it was tiresome. . He persisted, however, and in the course of an hour he drew out one of his hands. The rest was . The other hand came free in a moment or two, and then he pulled out his knife and cut ld him to hair. Ali that

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peperte Be LUCKY JIM - him and was answered bv the switch operator on the ground fiocr. He told her that he was locked in his office and the key was g He asked that somebody ibe sent upstairs to Telease him. In a few minutes the janitor appeared and opened the door. Jim explained that a rascally visitor had locked him in and made off with the key. He said nothing about what else had oc- curred. The janitor loaned him his key to get another made and went away. Then Jim went to the ticker and looked at the tape. He saw that Thunder Island Copper had been down to $2.50 a share, but had recovered somewhat, for it was now going at $4. ~ “Tf J had bought my 5,000 shares on a five per cent. margin, or had hypothecated it on a sixty _ cent, is, I would have been wiped out, but ving nurchased it outright for cash, the stock would still be my property, even had it gone down to a cent a share. At the present moment I am $30,000 out on my deal, byt I mean to hold on to the stock till I get as much of that back as the market will permit. It is also possible that some syndicate is behind it and hopes to m it, In ~- case T’ll come out ahead, but I think that is 3 for Caleb Grudge would not have sold it to me under such circumstances, unless he was onl to the slump,” said Jim to himself. an ker was out. His watch told him that it was half- Past twelve, so he put on his hat and went out. f CHAPTER XII. Thunder Island Copper Begins to Recover. - Office. He was the man who sported the silk dicer. _ He pointed him out to a broker and asked who Fad ia if he is — with Caleb eG perhaps helped him to pull that trick ‘oe m thought Jim, : y Then os called up Duncan’s office, but the bro-> makes a bunch of meney or loses it. Jim’s con- fidence in his luck was somewhat shaken. Still, on sober reflection, he had to admit that a person cannot enjoy such phenoménal good fortune as had been his without running against a break in it. Next morning he started for his office at the usual time, hoping that Thunder Island Copper would go higher that day. Between nine and ten he dropped in to see Duncan. He told him about the experience he had had in his office at the hands of Dawkins, and that he had subsequently identified one of his visitors as Hopwood Hag- ward, of the brokerage firm of Haggard & Lee. “Haggard and Lee are .a pretty foxy pair,” said Duncan. “Very few Curb traders will take any chances with them. They keep their engage- ments, all right, because they have to or quit, but they are as tricky as the Old Nick. You don’t er the man who was with Haggard and Daw- ins ?” Jim described him pretty accurately. F “If-that wasn’t Lee, I’m no good at guessing,” said Duncan. “What do you suppose brought them to my office?” “I couldn’t tell you. What did they do?” “Nothing but stand over my ticker with the tape in their hands, watching the quotations as they came out. [I judge that their interest cen- tered in Thunder Island Copper, from the few words I heard them let out.” “And they didn’t do anything else?” “Not a thing. They paid no attention whatever to the treatment Dawkins handed out. to me. cw 2 might just as well have been blind leaf. Fae you seen a detective yet?” I don’t know ‘more or not.” ‘ : “Dawkins has done enough to warrant his ar- rest. As for Grudge, evi will have to be found against him before he can be touched, It’s up to the detective to get that.” “That’s right,” nodded Jim. “I suppose you no- ticed that Thunder Island Copper went as low as $2.50 yesterday?” “I did, It was an unprecedented drop for such a stock. However, it recovered to $6.50, and should go higher to-day.” That ended the interview, and Jim went out to got 2 Opening prion a. Bis Stock when the Com xchange began business. It opened at $6.50 and in the course of an hour'went to $7. It anchored — pay =. et

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2 a - rive here as fast as he could. 18 LUCKY JIM where they were going. The boy went on to his Office, stayed there a while, then shut up shop and hicd to a lunch-house, where he got alight repast. After that he took the boat for Jerséy City. When he reached the other side he saw a cab stop at the depot entrance and out of it sprang Dawkins, with a grip in each hand. “He’s going to take a train.” thourht Jim. “If he gets out of the State he’ll make his escane f~- good probably. { must stop him if I can.” Dawkins paid the driver, grabbed his grips and entered the station. Jim followed him, looking for an officer, Dawkins went up to the ticket- window. ‘The boy determined to find out where he was going to. ; “One first-class for Chicago,” said Dawkins to the agent. - Jim hustled over to an attendant. He inquired about the next Chicago express. ; “One-ten,” was the reply. “If you’re going, you'll have to hustle. You'll find it on track fifteen.” Jim hardly knew what to do. Dawkins was passing through the gate. - “I might go. to the police headquarters, state my case and have Dawkins arrested at some in- termediate point in Pennsylvania—say, Trenton or Philadelphia,” he thought. He did not see that he could do any better. As he was leaving the 'station it occurred to him to get into communication with the Wall Street De- tective Agency and post the chief, or his deputy, concern hg Dawkins’ movements. He went at once to a public telephone booth and was soon talking with the chief. That official, after in- quiring the time the train left Jersey City with Dawkins said he would attend to the matter. There was nothing more for Jim to do but home. As he passed.Grudge’s house he saw the gardener at work on the lawn near the gate. Jim knew him and said, “Good afternoon!” The gardener looked up and then came toward “him. The boy stopped to hear what he had to say. “A strange thing happened to Mr. Grudve this afternoon,” said the gardener. “What was.it?” asked Jim curiously. “He was brought home unconscious, in a cab.” “He was?” : _ “There was a smooth-faced man with him, who said he went off in a faint in the vehicle and he wasn’t able to revive him. He got the cabman to ‘ I helped carry ‘him.to his room and lay him on the bed. Then I ran off for a doctor. When I got back with the ysician the smooth-faced man had gone away the cab. The doctor examined Mr. Grudge and he said he had been drugged.” + foo and robbed him of his valuables, as a final act villainy before taking the train for Chicago. -At that moment the housekeeper came out on ge $30,000 in cash, which he had from Haggard & Lee the day before, in - 29 FE connection with some deal he had been in on. The old man said that Dawkins, whom he sup- posed was a friend, had taken the money, after drugging him, and had clearly decamped with it after fetching him home in the cab. “Tell Mr. Grudge that I saw Dawkins at the Pennsylvania station at one o’clock yesterday afternoon, and that he bought a ticket for Chi-~ cago,” said Jim. “You can also tell him that I don’t think Dawkins will get to Chicago.” The gardener hurried away to carry the news to the old man. Inside of ten minutes Grudge came rushing in at the Baker gate. Jim was sit- ting on the veranda, “Did you tell my gardener that you saw the man Dawkins, who robbed me, at the Pennsyl- vania station yesterday afternoon?” ; “T did.” “How did you know him?” “You ought to know how I came to know him, for it is quite likely he told you how I helped put him in jail for swindling a neighbor of ours named Mrs. Green.” “He told me nothing about you,” said the old man, to whom a lie counted for very little, “How long have you known Dawkinsj® Mr. Grudge?” : ae “Not very long,” replied Grudge evasively. _ “You must have taken a great shine to him to invite him to your house on such a short ac- quaintance.” 2 : _. “I didn’t invite him. He offered to see me home in the cab yesterday, because I carried quite a sum of money.” “Tm not referring to yesterday, but to several nights ago when he called on you at your house.” Oh, yes!” admitted Grudge reluctantly. “You saw him eall on me?” “I happened to be at my sate at the time and I saw him come along and enter your gate. ~ That’s how I knew he called on you. As I acquainted with his character, I ot sonepstaad tp think you would have anything to do with him.” a1 supposed he was a perfectly honest man.” -~ Now look here, Mr, Grudge, isn’t it a fact that you and Dawkins put up that Thunder Island Copper job on nage up a job on you? Certainl ! — do ibe a thine to you.” pe ee ow came you to call at my office and ask to sell those 5,000 shares of Thunder Island Cen per?” “Because I heard you were a broker, and I ~ thought, as a friend, I ought to put something in ~ your way.” : “Then you had nothing whatever to do with ‘the job that was put up on me?” “Of course I didn’t.” “But in that letter I was told that you had 5,000 shares of the copper stock. How do you account for that?” “T can’t account for it.” Jim told him how he happened to see the man ride up in a cab, and then enter the static buy a ticket for Chic = _ " He must be more Me halfway there by this : _ time,” said the old man nervously. “I must = into town and tell -the-police. a. that he can $e. arrested on ival.” Sone on his arrival. : s> “I don’t think you need take that trouble, Mr, =i 4

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~ < - The $30,000 LUCKY ep He is probably in jail in Philadelphia Fro la lig ser | am in in his arrest myself, _ I rere bees walt Street Detective Roney ample time to get him arrested on a telegraph erder when he reached Philadelphia.” : 4 gaan XIV.—Grudge Brought to Terms. e old man tried to find out the particulars from Jim, but the boy had nothing to say on the subject. Finally, Grudge took his departure, not very well satisfied with the look of things. Soon after Jim reached his office on the following morning a messenger arrived from the detective bureau with a note from the chief. The note conveyed the news that Dawkins had been ar- when the train reached Philadelphia, and that he was in jail in that city, where he would remain until he could be legally brought back to New York. The extradition proceedings would take time, as he refused to come voluntarily. hie he stole from Grudge was found on — and taken possession of by the Phila- del authorities for the time being. Thunder Island Copper showed no disposition to rise even as high as $8, and Jim hated to sell out at a But he had to have money to go on with his ss, so he was about to effect $20,000 fs) a loan of “Pye got all the proof I need to send you to Jail, Mr. Grudge,” he said. “But you wouldn’t do that, Baker,” whined the old man. “You wouldn’t send your neighbor to ~~ ~~ “Why not? Pm out and injured to the amount of $12.500 on that stock you worked off on me at a fictitious valuation.” _ . “But I didn’t hat g ask you any more than the mar- was not going to ind. ordinary run of Wall Street oper- 01 ee eed ana hen ae pont cae . , our case because you and Dawkins con- Now the JIM 19 Two days afterward Grudge paid him the money ane then Jim assured him that he was safe from prosecution. On the succeeding Mon- day he began speculating again, buying 2,500 shares of S. & T. on the usual] ten per cent. mar- gin at the little bank at 8. S. & T. was gilt- edge stock, and it was going up on the strength of the rumor of a special traffic agreement with a big Western line. In a few days it had ad- vanced five points, and then it stopped. Jim thought he’d be wise to sell, and he did. He cleared a matter of $12,000. Scarcely had he settled with the little bank on this deal than he learned that the Union Traction of New Jersey was being cornered by a big syndicate of cap- italists, who intended to boom it and make a raft of money. : Accordingly, he got Duncan to purchase 5,000 shares of Union Traction for him. The price went up and down for a week, never going much above 110, what he paid for it, then it began to rise steadily but slowly. It was during this time that Jim heard that Caleb Grudge was trying to sell his property, as he wanted to get out of the neighborhood, It was good property, and he knew it, and as the house was well built, with modern improvements, and there was a first-class barn on it, it was worth about $2,000. Jim valued his mother’s cottage and quarter-acre at about $5,000. The boy thought it would be an excellent idea if he could buy Grudge’s place and add it to his mother’s. But after finding out the old man’s price, and learning that the road or rough street, the cutting through of which had made the Grudge property a corner pi¢ce, was going to be Sacrena, which meant one or more good-sized assessments, and which Grudge wanted to avoid having to pay, though naturally it would improve his place, he concluded not to buy unless the — owner would make a substantial reduction. Aft ter figuririg the matter out on a business basis, — he got Broker Duncan to make an offer through the real estate agent Grudge had emploved- to sell his property. The agent replied that he would submit the offer to the owner, but as it was much below his price he could not say whether Grudge would accept it or not. Jim told his mother and sister about the matter, and they were inclined to think that the little property they had fully answered their requirements. “I admit that it does,” said the boy, “but I’m figuring on the future. If I buy the property you will own it, mother, for I cannot hold real es- tate in my own name until I come of age. but I shall expect you, if we live, to transfer it to me Remember, I am engaged in successful luck will at the proper time. a risky business. I have been very how long m <4 went up to 118, A strong opposition had developed syndicate, which had failed to corner the 4 oe : rates ee apt Sake fia aaa

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=; ah care to pay. - 20 LUCKY JIM Bay at 115, and sell in half an hour at perhaps 115 1-2. Thus, thousands of shares were contin- ually changing hands jn the board-room all the time. Jim could only hold on, hoping the price would go higher, or sell out and take the profit that was in sight. At that point he stood to win about $25,000, but as that wouldn’t raise his cap- ital to the coveted $100,000, he held on, watching the up-and-down run with the keen interest of a true sporting man. The price was only a point and a half shy of the figure that would | the necessary $32,000 profit that Jim lacked to make up his $100,000. It would seem that that was a smal] matter in such a-heavy game that was be- ing played between the two syndicates. The o posing interests, however, had locked horns in the struggle, and being very evenly balanced, the rise and fall each day never even reached a full a Under ordinary circumstances, Jim would ve sold out, for the longer the fight lasted the more interest he would have to pay on the ninety per cent. of money that Broker Duncan had been compelled to advance to carry the deal for him. Duncan wesn’t making much out of that, for he had been compelled to hypothecate the shares to pay for them, and he was just as anxious to have the deal concluded as Jim was, for he could use the money in his business to considerable ad- vantage at that time. At the end of another week Jim found that the interest charges had- eaten up about an eighth of one per cent. of his profits in sight. As the commission for buying was an eighth, too, and for selling another eighth, he had allowed a margin of three-eighths of one per cent. for expenses. Practically the stock would have to sell at 117 to make the sum he wanted. The syndicate which was trying to boom the price managed to get it up to 116 and hold it around that, but the fight to maintain its advan- tage grew hotter and hotter as the days passed. In the meantime, Duncan received word from the real estate man in Jersey City that Grudge was willing to take half of the reduction in price offered. The broker turned the letter over to Jim, and the boy took it under consideration. He was more interested in making the $100,000 mark than in buying the Grudge property, so he allowed the matter to harg fire. The agent, anx- ious to make a sale, especially in dull times, sent another letter to Duncan, and that reached Jim in due course. He had just finished reading it when Grudge walked into his office. Jim was surprised to see him, as the old man had avoided him since he had to pay the $12,500 difference on the Thunder Island Copper shares. “That’s right. We’ll let the dead bury its dead. “What ean I do for you?” “IT suppose you know that my property is in _ the market?” ee = fmt _ Why don’t buy it?” _ “You have money. on y it? i fasted tie qeice snk consider: 1 mice: thie Grudge mentioned a figure somewhat above what the agent had offered it to Duncan. Jim shook his head. “T’ll give you $18,000,” he said. “Pll tell you what I’ll do. [ll call it $20,000 if you will pay the agent’s commission and other small expenses.” “Nonsense. You won’t have to pay any com- mission if you sell it yourself. If you had placed the property in the ae of three or four, or half a dozen agents, as is often done, you would not expect to pay them all the commission if one of them made the sale. An agent is only entitled to his commission where he makes a sale. If you will take $20,000 flat, perhaps we can come to an agreement.” “How much will you put up on the contract?” “Five per cent.” *T'll let you know this evening, perhaps.” “All right. The business will have to be done through my mother and our lawyer, as I am under age. If I buy, the contract must be made with my mother, and she will take title if every- thing is all right. Did you get a title guarantee ae when you bought the property originally?” “No. “Well, that will cost mé something over $100, not speaking of the survey. Let me know to- - night.” ; That afternoon Union Traction jumped to 117. Jim was in Duncan’s office at the time, and he told the broker to make tracks for the Exthange and sell at that figure. The broker got a move on and sold at 117. Other sales followed in rap- id succession and the price fell at once to 115 1-2. zim awaited Duncan’s return with great impa- ence. “Well,” he said, as the broker came in, its. dropped again.” “You needn’t care. I got your price.” “Hurrah!” shouted Jim, in great delight. made $100,000 from stocks at last!” And so he had when all the expenses had been settled. That evening Grudge called at the cot- tage and agreed to take $20,000 cash for his property. Jim closed with him and turned the matter over to his mother. In a day or two the contract was signed by her in the presence of her lawyer, and the New Jersey company was employed to pass on the title. Their report was favorable and thirty days later Mrs. B title to the property and Grudge got his money. About this time Dawkins was browght back to_ Jersey City, Jim and Duncan waiving their right to prosecute him in favor of Grudge. The old man charged him with highway robbery in the cab, and the rascal was duly tried and convicted. He got fifteen years at Trenton, and Grudge re- covered his $30,000. As for Jim, he had by this time opened a regular brokerage with an experienced old cashier in charge, and he decided not to speculate any longer on the risky plan he had been doing. ving made $100, stocks, he did not maew to risk losing it the same way, even if still regarded himself “Lucky Jim.” Next week’s issue will contain “MILLIONS IN IT; or, A BOY WITH IDEAS” = = - ?s 2 : ; from — “T've r took -

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY 21 CURRENT NEWS THEY BRING IT IN EGGS Fresh CANADIAN eggs—$2 a dozen. Laid by * Canadian Club hens, Scotch Plymouth Rocks, Brandy pullets, Martini Leghorns, Bronx Min- _ oreas, and Gin bantams! Strictly fresh—with a Kick! - Take it from D. A. Sawyer, who has just ar- = from Detroit, there are more ways of get- ting liquor across from Canada than shooting it in torpedoes. At the Waldorf-Astoria the other night, Mr. Sawyer said the stuff is being smug- gled into this country in eggs diable. _ “3t was discovered in Detroit, when a man with a big market basket, just off a boat from the ~ Canadian side, was run into by, a taxi,” said Mr. The unmistakable odor of good old _ Sawyer. _ Scotch pervaded the air, and a crowd gathered. - The man did not wait to explain, but left without ceremony, deserting his eggs, basket and all, when the traffic policeman approached. _ “The eggs proved to be filled with liquor and =o sealed. The customs inspector after- - Wards testified that he had potions a great in- crease in egg imports, an at a great many Sen end Section had seemed to be doing this branch of their marketing in Canada.” : - at Alexandrovsk, where. their : it were esos BG newt _Japanese Ss, every effort made to confirm what was said, and the stories of the refugees are still classed as ru- mor. The port of Nikolaevsk is completely closed _ at this season by ice. eh y in March, according to the refugees, we Bolshevist army appeared in force at the of the Amur River and occupied the port Nikolaevsk, making prisoners of the nearly 00 ani-Bolshevist troops. Cutting holes in the k ice of the river, the Bolsheviki thrust the ers under the ice, some civilians also be- fhe commander of the small Japanese garri- sted, the refugees said, whereupon the commander demanded that he sur- arms of his own soldiers. When this refused, ese were attacked and se: urt-payment investments among their em- BANKS TO CONTINUE PART-PAYMENT PLAN Thousands of people in the United States hold property and sound investments to-day who never held anything before but a job and who did not even have a tight clutch on that. These holdings are the result of their having bought Liberty Bonds on weekly or monthly payments during and after the war. That practice made capitalists out of millions of Americans and accomplished the result without appreciable inconvenience, dis- comfort, or self-sacrifice. Banks aided in the work by carrying bonds for the investor and allowin them to make partial payments, and thousands 0 industrial concerns and employers did likewise. The custom of making regular payments on safe, sound, profitable, Government investments became a fixed habit and a desirable one. Those who saved and invested in this manner found to their elation that they had something besides a _ tired feeling to show for their labor and they desired to continue the habit. Emplcyers discov- ered that the prosperity of their employees was reflected in the prosperity of the business and de- sired it to continue. Banks found that they had acquired thousands of new customers and sought to retain those relationships. The ending of the Liberty loan issues, for a time tended to check the continuance of the habit so favorably formed, although many continued to save and invest in the shorter-term issues such as War Savings Stamps and Treasury Savings Cer- tificates. The $100 and $1,000 certificates, how- ever, did not at first lend themselves so readily to partial-payment purchase as did the Liberty Bonds, as each year’s issue of these obligations is separate and distinct, and there was a problem connected with delivery of the certificates on com- pletion of payment. P The difficulty has just been obviated by an ar- rangement approved by Secretary of the Treasury Houston, which provides that Treasury Savings Certificates of the series of 1920, sold under par- tial payment plan, may be carried in stock b cash agent banks up to October 31, 1921. This will afford all necessary protection to the banks in respect to the of unsold stocks and will provide time for completion of the payments begun in any month of this year. The Government or the Treasury Department is not connected in any way with the ‘transaction until payment has been completed and the cer- tificate delivered to the purchaser. The transac- tions up to that point are solely between the in- vestor and the bank, and even after delivery the United States is liable only on the certificate it- self. But the department has approved the ruling in order to facilitate for many thousand investors. the continuance of the habit of savirg and safe investment in Government securities so a=spici- with the Liberty Bonds. — ; Thousands of concerns throughout — ents oi

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Lost On Mt. Erebus S251, BS ; A Boy Explorer At the South Pole By GASTON GARNE (A- Serial Story) CHAPTER V (continued) “It may be Mt. Erebus,” was Hawley’s sugges- tion, after one of the frequent talks as to what had best be done. “We can see a long distance here when the air is clear.” “T’ll tell you what we ought to do,” declared Madge at last. “We have come to explore for the South Pole. Father is disabled. While some of us wait here for a possible rescue ship, let the able-bodied ones take sleds and ponies and dogs, and go on with our explorations. 4 “Madge, you little know what that means,” said the captain. “You with me, warm in camp, and our best men fighting cold and perhaps star- vation on some terrible journey somewhere.” — ~~ “Set your mind easy, father. I am going out’ with the first party myself and—and—Joe Haw- oa ley will go too. Yes—don’t scold. We have 4 talked it all over.” Strange as it may seem, all this had been ar- . Yanged between Carr, Lieutenant Ord and Ensign Hawley, and Madge herself was the one fixed on to break the news to the crippled captain. Two sleds were to go, one pulled by one of the ponies, the other by two of the dogs. Ord, who was a most companionable man, and Boatswain Jey, took charge of one sled. ; Hawley, together with Madge and Dr. Carr, % went with the other, Carr, an old married man ; and the father of daughters at home, was a dis- tant relative of Barclay’s, and the father con- 3 signed his daughter to the surgeon’s care with al- = mest the same confidence he felt in his own lead- —/ ership. : Bae, The captain’s leg was broken, and he had re- ceived internal injuries. Madge excused her go- ~ sing. ~by saying: ; of 2 _ “Iam your only child, and mother is dead. If 3 ao cannot go, it is = I should, provided I _ leave you in hands.”. : > ‘This looked probable, for a good winter camp had been established, with lots of food. Two sailors, and the remaining stoker also kept bring- ing up more Wood and supplies as the wreck grad- ually broke up. ; t A rescue ship was expected, in case the ex- _ pedition did not return within a given length of time. . ae y rning for leaving came. All this time, ee eee eee eae 3 ye 1 ually c at. ro ; FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY .- tain’s party at the camp. Good-bys were said. Barclay, from his invalid chair, waved. his cap. “Cheer up, father!” called back the girl, smiling through her furs, for her dress was much like that of the others. “Summer won’t wait. After we have found out all we can, we will be back in Bi weeks. I want to see you up and about en. “Good-by, Madge. My mind misgives me. Take good care of her, Carr. And you too, Haw- Tey. You have the apple of my eye with you.” “Both promised, of course; but Madge shouted. back we, a 8 “The ‘apple of your eye,’ as you call her, ma find the South Pole yet, and live to bring beck the news.” F ’ There was a general laugh at this- attempt at a joke, for none of them reaily expected great re- sults, unless it was Hawley. “He, however, said nothing of his real~ambi- tions, only to Madge. “All right Joe. What you believe in Ido. If you try for the pole I will be close te you. Re- member that.” , - He pressed her hand as they trudged on, for Madge would not ride, insisting that Dr. Carr, who was yet hardly recovered from his fall, should ride the spare pony when tired. For several days they traveled over a rough expanse of snow and ice, trending mostly upward to the more broken foot-hills in the interior. Long hours of trudging wearily, urging the dogs, or the peny, with occasional wind storms bring- ing flurries of snow. , : “How well you stand the snowshoes and the tramp,” said Joe, more than once, encouragingly. “I did not think that girls were so good at this kind of thing before.” _ ‘Most of them are not,” volunteered Carr, who tired sooner than Madge, perhaps because of his lameness. “But Barclay always took his daugh- ter along on his cruises. At home she was ath-- letic in her tastes, eh, Madge? It stands in good stead for you now.” “Yes. And now that father is laid up, I feel that I must sustain his honor in following out as best we can all that we wished to do before the Discovery’s wreck crippled him and nearly de- stroyed our hopes. If we have saved our stores, I must take his place in doing the most that can be done,’” The spare pony was usedfrom time to time in relieving the other and also the dogs. At times it was hitched ahead, or at others~put in the place of the creatures it relieved. =. With the increasingly broken country, the high- er altitude, the lowering temperature, fierce snow blizzards grew more frequent. = led requiring human pilotage, — wid ¥ tenis ie gad 5 den sone, co lene an See eed

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Ot XIN to | Oe. aN FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY 23 THE NEWS IN SHORT ARTICLES. AN ADHESIVE FROM SNAILS _ Many of the larger kinds of snails have at the extremity of their bodies small white bladders filled with a gelatinous substance. It has been discovered that this is the strongest adhesive known for the repairing of porcelain, glass, etc. The substance is applied thinly to both sides of the fracture and the broken piece is tied firmly together so that all is held in place. A rather longer time for drying should be given than in the case of ordinary adhesives so as to allow the natural glue to acquire the greatest degree of strength. When it is once really set the tenacity of this remarkable adhesive is astonishing. VAST FORTIFICATIONS OF METZ An article by Colonel E. M, Blake, C. A., in - the Journal of the “United States Artillery,” =~ ing of the modern Metz fortifications, says that the turrets containing the Krupp guns can be manned and supplied without ever exposing a -™an, as all batteries are connected with other - works of the “Feste” by deep subterranean gal- leries. Miles of these galleries have been cut, - with a cross section and grade to allow men to Circulate rapidly when needed, and one finds - complete kitchen, bakeries, bathing and toilet _ Yooms for the garrison, large recreation rooms, electric lighting and power, and a complete sys- _ tem of forced draft ventilation. TRYING TO SALVAGE CARGO OF MILLIONS _ A maritime romance of absorbing interest is attached to the voyage of the Government saly- _ age steamer Racer, which has sailed from South- ; Fpton. She was bound for the north coast of land, where, twenty fathoms deep, lies the of the White Star liner Laurentic, with to the value of 3,000,000 pounds sterling buried in debris that was once her bulk. The _ epient of the Racer’s. request is to recover this cargo. _ The Laurentic was sunk—whether by acci- dental contact with a mine or by a German sub- Marine never has bg Be remind cenit Ww on a voyage erica in the early part Segal She eae a ca in gold and sil- ver money 1n or -payment of muni- tions supplied by United States firms. a ee ——_—___——_ “ BEATS HIS CHILD WITH FIST _ After pleading guilty the ates day to severely — had awakened him from his sleep. In court he said the boy had not obeyed him. In passing sentence Justice Freschi said it "vas too bad the law did not give the court the priv- ilege of letting Gray have a dose of his own medicine, BRITISH WARSHIPS FOR CHILI _ The Chilian navy is to receive a substantial increase in ships from Great Britain, the latter power having agreed to turn over to Chili one battleship, one transport, and three torpedoboat destroyers of 1,800 tons each. The only battle- ship that Chili has at present is the antiquated Capitan Prat (1888), reconstructed in 1890, During the World War. Great Britain requisi- tioned two battleships building for Chili, one of them, the Almirante Latorre, being renamed Canada. This vessel is a powerful craft with a full load displacement of 32,000 tons, a speed of 22.75 knots, and burns both oil and coal. Her main battery consists of ten 14-inch guns. This vessel is probably the battleship allotted to Chili, and the destroyers and the transport are taken over by Chili to replace the second battléship. ROWBOATS LIKE BOWLS The goufas of the Tigris are wonderful! And I suppose they should remind me of something besides the “three wise men of Gotham who . went to sea in a tub,” writes Eleanor Franklin Eagan in the “Saturday Evening Post.” That is exactly what they remind one of. They are perfectly round reed baskets, “covered within and without with pitch.” They have curved-in brims and they look for all the world like enor- mous black bowls floating uncertainly about. They are the only kind of rowboat the Bagdad "people seem to know anything about, and the river at times is literally crowded with them. They roll around among the larger and more possible looking craft like a thousand huge in- verted tar bubbles; and the way they are laden is a marvel and a mystery.

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_ of the oxen. 24 © AN ENCOUNTER WITH SAVAGES By Alexander Armstrong. Ten years ago, or thereabouts, I encamped by a lake near the Caffraria Mountains. <3 I had been engaged by a party of Portuguese to guide them from the coast up into the country towards the homes of the Bechuanas, where a Catholi¢e mission had been established. There were in the party two priests, called Father Anselmo and Father Ambrose, and four merchants. I told them that they were going to travel a dangerous road, for the Caffres had been at war with the “English, and had a deadly hatred of all white men. But the two priests were not to be put out. They said they were at work for a Heavenly Master, and their work must be done: As for the merchants, I could understand them easily. They were going with the missionaries in the hopes of making large sums of money. The priests were really the leaders of the ex- pedition; but one of the merchants a large, pow- erful man, called Don Gomez, assumed control of affairs. <. They had six Hottentot servants when we start- ed; but before we had traveled a week four of these Hottentots d However, the priests willingly cooked for the as the runaway servants were not much missed. In twenty days we had ‘crossed the mountains to the great basin where the water commences to flow to the west.~ : As yet we had met with no trouble, and the merchants laughed when I spoke of the Caffres. I told them if the Caffres did not come they might laugh, and weleome; and, too, they might laugh, if they could, if the Caffres did come. I knew that We had the e a goods being carried by ay 3 Gu ne ; ; iH F iF 2 bel i iy E i EE 25 g 4 ‘FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ran my eyes carefully over the shores of the lake. I had not been mistaken. Upon the opposite side I plainly saw men mov- ing in the bushes. I made no sign, but pretended to be only busy in watering my oxen; yet I kept an eye upon the suspicious spot, and ere-long saw a huge Caffre warrior upon his hands and knees looking earn- estly towards our camp. As I walked back to the tether I thought the matter over, and was not long in coming to a con- clusion. In the first place there was a party of Caffres upon the opposite side of the lake, and the very fact that they kept themselves concealed was proof enough that they meant mischief. What was to be done? In the judgment of the merchants I had little confidence. Father Ambrose, the elder of the two priests, was the man to advise with. I drew him apart, as though I wanted him to look at the oxen, and when we were far enough away I told him what I had seen. ‘. He was very thoughtful, but did not seem to be frightened, and I soon found that he knew as much of the Caffres as I did. é ‘ He told me to wait while he went down to the water, and not to speak of the matter to any of the others. He went to his pack and took out/an old shirt, which he carried down to the water to wash. _He worked away until he had removed as much dirt as he thought necessary, and then he came back and joined me again. “You are right,” he said to me. “There are Caffre men hidden beyond the lake, and I hava seen some of them. ey are warriors, and ere of a savage, blood-thirsty tribe, and I know that we aan to attack us. em Avd then he asked me what I thought. I toid him that we had tosatpet- tes Caffres “There cannot be many of th ” he id, “or - they would have attacked usere thix They ties to set upon us by De at ea heed a0 ess. said e en he , but he was ready to do his part.

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RR ex y FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY I found the old priest just explaining to the mer- chants what had been discovered. At first three of them were for instant flight, but Don Gomez soon put the idea out of their heads. However, they. were not cowards—if they had m they would never have ventured into that country—and it was finally arranged that we ~ would make a bold fight of it under the lead of Don Gomez. As soon as we had eaten supper we moved our ks all out into an open space, and when it was™- as irly- dark we threw our blankets down upon _ the ground close by them. After this we took our station behind a clump ~ of bushes, where we had planned to wait for the Caffres. We had two rifles each, and four of those, in the hands of the merchants, were double-barreled. We also had pistols and swords. The two servants, in addition to their rifles, had long boarspears, which they could use with Much dexterity. Within half an hour after we had taken our ‘stations, we could see dark objects moving upon the shore of the lake. ° just hanging ee e. There was a very small moon and it gave light above the tops of the trees, - enough to help us. ! - Had the enemy waited half an hour longer, they “ would have gained an advantage by it; but they . Probably thought they had us surely enough, ‘and wanted the light to help them. In a little while they were lost to our sight _ behind the trees between us and the end of the lake, and when We saw them again they wery within a hundred yards of us, with nothing but, pen ground between us. _ There were eighteen of the Caffres, all of m stout, powerful warriors, armed with clubs i, “ieee OO LAM Ae ets YC Pee : stopped a few seconds when they came n sight of our camp, and Don Gomez had just 2d to speak with me, when they sent forth a ut, like the roar of bull buffaloes, and ished towards the spot where our packs were Dp. = : thicket in which we were posted was upon r i and about twenty yards As the shout of the Caffres broke upon the air, n Gomez gave the word for us to fire. We poured in a well-directed volley upon the stopped in 1 what I knew of z te that the rascals would draw off at , but in this I was m n S istaken. Ps anne rl ,, who was probably theil shout, . Was an- the Caffre c' 25 more as many aS a dozen of them came rushing through the smoke, with their spears aimed di- rectly towards us. They had discovered our cover, and were bound to make an assault. It was fortunate for us that Don Gomez was cooler and braver than I had taken him to be. When he saw this movement of the Caffres, ~ leaped to his feet and ordered us to follo im. ' He told us to leave our empty rifles and take to our pistols. As he spoke he sprang backwards from the thicket, and ran around so as to come up on the enemy’s fiank. . His three companions followed him closely, while the two priests and myself brought up the rear, pushing the two sergeants of us. The Caffres were charging upon the bushes, thrusting their spears into the cover, when we came out on the other side; and before they could fairly turn. we had discharged our first battery of pistols, holding another battery still in reserve. The Don ordered us to keep the other pistols till we should come to close quarters. This new fire seemed to startle the Caffres, and they hesitated as they turned towards us. Don Gomez saw his advantage, and with a load- ed pistol in one hand and a sword in the other, he gave the order to charge, and dashed forward. I don’t know but that those Portuguese mer- chants yelled as loud as the savages did. At any rate, they sent forth a terrible warcry as they dashed to the charge, and I could not help joining them. I-yelled with all my might and when I dis- charged my pistol I had the satisfaction of knowing that I had subtracted one from the mum- ber of our enemies. And that was the last fighting I had to do on that occasion. I thought I. had seen smart warriors before, but I have never seen sayhieg *° equal the manner in which Don Gomez used his sword. Three spears were aimed at him as he advanced and he cut them in twain as though they had been reeds grass. A And with his own sword he cut down three of the Caffres in quick succession. And Father Ambrose was not a coward. I saw him hew down two of the enemy and when he had done it I heard him muttering a prayer. 7 Four of the Caffres lived to run away before our eyes. : ; Don Gomez started to give plunged into the lake and he let x By a strange none of our party was —_ though two of merchants were wound- chase; but they them go. : In the morning we had the labor of burying twelve dead Caffres, so that there must have been six esca teen of them at first. ped, for I know that I counted eigh-- * yy wi ee ) eibom tek fe We aes

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26 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY NEW YORK, JUNE 11, 1920, TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS Sipgle Copies.............-- Postage Free.... .07 Cents One Copy Three Months... eee 90 Cents One Copy Six Months...... + Fe OLS One Copy One Year....... = sew eher S| HOW TO SEND MONEY—At our risk send P. O. Money Order, Check or Registered Letter; remittances in any other way are at your risk. We accept Postage Stamps the same as cash. When sending silver wrap the Coin in a separate piece of paper to avoid cutting the envelope. Write your name and address plainly. Ad- dress letters to HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher. 166 West 23d St., New York ITEMS OF INTEREST 380 POUNDS OF BRANDY DROPS ARE SEIZED IN HARTFORD. Seizure of 380 pounds of a 500-pound con- signment of brandy drops from New York to Hartford was reported by H. H. Spooner, State Secretary of the Connecticut Temperance Un- ion, who for years represented the union as leg- islative agent during the sessions of the Gen- eral Assembly. In four months, Mr. Spooner says, he personally made 150 complaints of al- leged violation of the Prohibitory Amendment to the Federal officers. ROBBER PLAYS CRIPPLE On crutches, a well dressed man entered the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa., May 10, registered as “Charles Duboise and wife, Bridgeton, N. J.,” and was assigned to a room. He said his wife would arrive later. He asked for the name of a jeweller. Shortly after 2 o’clock in the afternoon Bailey, Banks & Biddle reported that Duboise had tele- phoned and requested that they send a salesman to his room with diamonds. Hiram McDade was sent with jewelry valued at $25,000. He later was found in the bathroom, trussed up with straps taken from a suit case. The man had suddenly drawn a blue steel revolver, commanded McDade to put up his hands and had then backed him into the bathroom and fastened him to a chair. TIME IN THE STATE : ; ‘OHIO. Ohio will have four different names for its clock time this summer and three different kinds _ of time. They are: Eastern standard, sun time, -. central standard and advanced central standard. The last mentioned is a name only, for it co- incides with Eastern standard time. The name - eame through action of communities in Western a deciding to advance their clocks one hour. - It was the same as Eastern standard time, but they preferred to call it advanced central stand- it half of Ohio is on Eastern standard - = ~ THREE KINDS OF <= OF FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY time because the regular dividing line runs mid- State from north to south. When it is noon at Youngstown it will be 11 A. M. at Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo, but it will be noon at Hamilton and Springfield, which are only a few miles out of Cincinnati and Dayton. At the same time it will be 11.30 o’clock sun time in some other places. LAUGHS “What made her family think she’s succeed in hospital work?” “She was always the kind of girl who rubs things in and nurses an injury.” _ Teacher—If you wear one pair of shoes three months, how long will two pairs last? Jimmie —A year. Teacher—Oh, no; how do you get that? Jimmie—I don’t wear any in the sum- mer. A woman went to a bank. She noticed that there was a new face behind the window. “Has the cashier gone away to take a rest?” she in- quired. “No,” replied the new man; “he has gone away to avoid it.” “T trust, Miss Smith,” remarked a persevering young man, as he rose to depart, “that I have not taken up too much of your valuable time?” “Not at all,” replied the girl. have taken up has been of no value to me what- ever, I assure you!” Old Lady—Well, my boy, and what do you want? Boy—l’ve called for the reward of five shillin’s wot you offered for the return of your canary. Old Lady—But that is a cat you have there! Boy—yYes, I know, mum; but the can- ary’s inside of ’im. I just seen ’im eat it. Benevolent Old Gentleman—‘My little boy, have you no better way to spend this beautiful afternoon than by standing in front of the gate - idling away your time?” Little Boy—“I’m not idling away my time. There’s a chump inside “The time you. with my sister, who is paying me a dime an hour to watch for pa.” " “Say.” said Baitman, as he passed the fish dealer’s stand, “send up a couple of nice bass to the house to-morrow. “All right, sir,” an- swered the dealer. “And be sure they are bass,” continued Baitman. “You see, I’m goin out of town for the day, and—er—the last time — I went I told my wife I was going trout fishing and you sent up a salt mackerel. . relations in my family. See?” “Moving Picture Stories,” No. 308, contains an — article entitled “HOW BECOME A MOVIE | ACTOR.” Buy acopy. Price 7 cents; postage free, _ HARRY E, WOLFF, 166 W. 23rd St, N.Y. Another error like that on your part and there will be strained

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY =e A FEW GOOD ITEMS ; FEW BLACK SQUIRRELS . Tm various parts of the country a coal black _ squirrel is met with; it is but a melanistic variety ’ of the gray, and it is now becoming quite rare, ~ says the American Forestry Magazine of Wash- - ington. They are about the same size as the _ gray squirrel and have similar habits. *ANNOYED SHIP CREW The Pacific Mail freighter Haleskala arrived at San Francisco, Calif., recently from Calcutta, => yr having a lively voyage, according to Capt. Fleming and members of the crew. > . . _ the engines while the engine room crew took pot : shot and finally killed him, a monkey scurried aloft and nearly deafened all hands by swinging _ from the whistle cord, a 100-year-old elephant, which died aboard ship, became a derelict in _ mid-Pacific When the carcass failed to sink after - it had been weighed with iron and heaved over _ the side, and caged tigers took bites out of all - who approached too near. _ Four men were in the sick bay when the ship made port, three suffering from tiger bites and one with his arm torn from wrist to shoulder by an monkey. The animals are consigned an - to American z0os. inthe plane est before the flight was resumed to where Cushing and Lamb were sta- t : g,action by the Navy Depart- ment on the report of the board, the two officers are being held way. SNAKES making a thorough study practical uses to eee in ratory wi , Singing toads and her.. . An orang outang worked the reverse gear of\ that this device, if it left him defenseless before his enemy the snake, yet defended his race, since no snake could eat two newts. He dies from the effects of the first. : Mme. Phisalix is the only woman engaged in research work at the Paris Natural History Museum, and she holds a unique position In the scientific world. She took her degree at Sevres Women’s College and was a professor of natural science in different lycees, which she obtained in 1900 with a thesis on the salamander and poisons from the medical point of view. MUSK FOR PERFUMES A CHINESE EXPORT A newly discovered perfume exttacted from seaweed was sold in France recently at $5 a drop. It is said to take one ton of seaweed to produce five drops. Musk, so important to the perfumery com- pounder, is a secretion of the male musk deer, Three kinds of musk are distinguished in com- merce, the most important valuable being the Chinese or Tonkin musk, imported princi- pally from Shanghai. » It is put up in smail tin- lined caddies, each containing two or three musk pods, These are generally adulterated with dried blood, fragments of leather, leaden pellets, peas, etc., so that often little more than the original scent remains. The Chinese pods vary greatly in value, ac- cording to quality and genuineness. Some musk collected from the western Himalayas is ex- ported from India. It is much less prized than genuine Tonkin musk. The third variety, known as Kabardine or Siberian musk, is exported from Central Asia. It is in large pods, said to be yielded by a distinct species of deer, and is very inferior. Good musk is of a dark purplish color, dry, smooth and unctuous to the touch and bitter taste. : A Shai of musk will distinctly scent millions of cubie feet of air without any a jable loss of weight, and its scent is not only penetrating but more persistent than that of any other known substance. As an ingredient in perfumery its powerful and enduring odor gives strength and permanency to the vegetable essences, so that it is used in nearly all compo perfumes. Musk, or some substance possessed of the musk odor, is also contained in glands in the- jaws of alligators and crocodiles, ee a5 oe ex- tracted for use in perfumery in gypt. ‘The musk ox and the Indian and Eu ropean — muskrat are, as their names indicate, remarkable 3 <3 i

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST RAILROAD PROTECTS BABY ROBINS A pair of robins built their nest in a freight ear and just as the brood was hatched the order came to send the car on to Chicago. The yard _men, after consultation, telegraphed the situation to headquarters, and the order came instantly to agen the car till the babies were able to leave nest. * 18 CENTS FOR ONE POTATO It is a far cry from the old time grocer who ased to place a potato on the spout of his cus- tomer’s kerosene can as a stopper to the grocer who sells a single potato for eighteen cents. A to weighing two pounds was sold in Munice, d., by Clarence E. Frees, a grocer, for that amount. It cost him sixten cents, so he believes he is not a profiteer. Muncie housewives in many neighborhoods have established an ‘unorganized boycott” on potatoes, and many restaurants have stopped serving them with dinner orders. A NOVEL MAIL ROUTE The most picturesque rural mail route in Ore- gon is a 30-mile stretch of the Rogue River, which empties into the Pacific near the State’s southern boundary. A motorboat is the carrier’s “mail wagon,” and in it he makes the 60-mile journey every other day. Wooden uprights at the river’s edge hold the mail boxes. To make this non- stop delivery possible the year around, the car- rier’s clientele obligingly move the posts farther into the stream during summer-time’s low water, and back again during the floods of spring. SQUIRRELS BIG AS CATS There is no country that can rival North Amer- fea for the great number of squirrels, both spe- cies and subspecies, represented in her fauna. In so far as brilliancy of color and size are con- cerned, however, says the American Forestry Magazine of Washington; the handsomest and largest squirrels in the world are found in the Orient and the East Indies. Along the coast of Malabar is found a squirrel as big as an ordinary cat. This animal is bright red on the upper part of its body, offset by the most intense black, while all the lower parts are of a clear yellow. MOTORCYCLIST BRAVES DEATH VALLEY An achievement that is unequaled in motoring ‘history was performed this month by John E. Hogg of Los Angeles when in the interests of three large railroad companies he made a tour of Death Valley on a middleweight machine. The trip, which is a hazardous one at any time of the year, because of the utter absence of distinguish- able trails, the great distance between water holes and prowling eg of coyotes, was accomplished by Hose and his little machine without a single mishap. He covered over 800 miles on the floor of Death Valley itself, which is the greatest de- pression on the face of the earth, with the excep- tion of the Dead Sea region in Palestine. HOW RUGS BECOME “ANTIQUE” How “genuine antique rugs” are manufactured and prepared for European markets and Ameri- can markets is told by an American who visited Bagdad. The shopping streets seem like tunnels, They are arched overhead with brick to keep out the heat; thus they run, like subways, up and down the bazar quarter. Through those long, stifling, faintly lighted tunnels throng the eternal crowd of men; mules and camels. Often one will see a fine rug lying flat in the filth of a narrow street, ground beneath the tramp of men and beasts, but there is method in this. Foreigners make Oriental rugs, bright and new, in Persia and sell them through Bagdad. Since an “old rug” is worth more, wily brokers have hit on this way to make a new rug look old. LIVED OVER 114 STICKS OF DYNAMITE 11 YEARS John O’Rielly, of 22 Carson Street, Dorchester section of Boston, learned that he has lived for eleven years and brought up his family in a house built over 114 sticks of dynamite, But nothing happened and now nothing ever will, as the stuff has been discovered and carried away. O’Rielly says it is too late to be seared now, but his wife and four children were victims of an attack of “nerves.” ; O’Rielly was digging an excavation for a foun- dation under the L of his house when the shovel struck into a rotted board about thirty inches be- low the surface. Prying it up, the collection of dynamite sticks, each about six inches long and packed in sawdust was exposed. State explosive expert Walter Wedger declared it the largest lot of dynamite ever discovered in one place in his experience. How it came there is a mystery. A widow lived in the house before the O’Riellys moved in. GIANT DINOSAURUS STOLEN Who stole the great Patagonian dinosauras? This is a question the newspapers are asking and | it is also a question which Dr. Carlos Ameghino, Director of the Buenos Ayres Museum of Na- — tural History, would like to have answered. The dinosaurus, or rather its skeleton, was stolen from the soil of Patagonia, near Neu- quen, where it was discovered by English engi- neers a year ago. Dr. Ameghino at his own ex- pense, sent an expedition in charge of a young naturalist, Augusto Tapia, to bring the skeleton to Buenos Ayres. > of ration an nown person had ‘ the place, collected all the fossils and sabes wee rested him, including the dine a r ; a Biss,

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FRENCH TEND GRAVES On the wooded slope of a_ hill t rises in a bend of the Seine just on the edge of Paris there is a little cemetery that is doing much to weld an- other link in the chain of friend- Ship binding France and America. Among the 700 graves of soldiers in this cemetery are many graves of American boys who have suc- cumbed to their wounds in the hospitals in the suburbs of the city. _ Almost every one of the Amer- ‘ican graves has been “adopted” by some French ‘family, which - takes care of the grave as though one of their own dead lay there. Many families have adopted from three to five of the little mounds, and one prominent French professional man Paris has and insists upon tending them with his own hands. The duties of the “foster-par- ents” include be- . the care of ‘, grave an ef- to t in fort _ touch with the Telatives of the € hero in erica’ to tell _ them phos wer Yesting place o _ their fallen sol- -dier. , On Sundays it ‘is not unusual to Wonderful Victory Over Baldness HAIR GROWN ON MR. BRITTAIN’S BALD HEAQ BY INDIANS’ MYSTERIOUS OINTMENT My head at the top and baek was abso- futely baid. The scalp was shiny. An ex- pert said that he thought the hair roots were extinct, and there was no hope cf my ever having a new hair gro . et now, at the age of 66, I have a luxuri- ent growth of soft, strong, lustrous hair! ° trace of baldness. Indians’ Secret of Hair Growth At a time when I had become discouraged at trying various hair lotions, tonics, apecialists treatments, ete., I came across, in my travels, a Cherokee Indian “medicine man” who had an elixir that he aran- teed would. grow my hair. Although I had ne faith. | gave it a To am amarze- fuzz soon appeared. It devel- a regular healthy my hair was as pro- in my youthful days. That I was amazed and happy is express- inf; my state of mind mildly. Hair Grew Luxuriantly Obviously, the hair roots had not been dead, but were dormant in the scalp, await- ing the fertilizing potency of the mystert- ous pomade. It became my sudden determination to is the rectpe or secret if I could. Hav- < used my most persuasive arguments which convinced the a savant of my sin- cerity and that he had only fairness to ex- pect from me, I succeeded in gaining the se- cret recipe by giving him a valuable in exchange. I Put the Secret Away My regular business took all my time, however, and I was compelled to forego my | & lans to introduce e wonderful kc- talko) and I put the secret de for some years, That my own hair growth was permeaest has dry- other I am ness disorders, convinced, and am sure many scientists will agree, that the hair roots be- come imbedded within the scalp, covered by skin, so that they are like bulbs or seeds in a bottle which will w when ertilized. Shampoos hich con- tain alce- hol are enemies to the hair, as they ary it, making it brittle. The Secret Now Revealed Recently I was induced, while on a busi- ness trip to London, to introduce Kotalke, the Indian hair elixir. It met with an im- mediate demand and has since been tintre- duced throughowt England and Franee, where, despite the war, it is having a great sale. Its popularity comes chiefly from the voluntary endorsements of users. Many per- sons—men, women and children—are report- ing new hair growth. Some cases Were really more extraordinary than my own. For instance, a lady reported that Kotalke rew a beautiful supply of blond hair (her natural sbade) after her head had been com- gittely bald since a fever nine years EE ously and she had worn a wig ever ce. A military officer had a bald spot which bad been growing larger for some time. Within a few weeks it was completely cov- e I could mention numerous examples. Now, having made¢ arrangements here, | intend to supply Kotalko, according to the — een &MDIY|indians’ formula to whomsoever w: aii pa ee obtain it. belief is that * air Foote Recipe Given Free rarely dle even when| The recipe ~ shall be pleased to mall, free, e hair|Address: Joh. Hart Brittain. BG-103, Sta- falls out|tion F, New York, Y. When you have WARNING RNI In keeping your bowels rewular do not ootsitersl’ Latina: Just try -KERDLAX: farthest. Ovtainabio ap bury Grax ome eae pee beartburn. torpid ion, obadlty, masntal and ptosical” A. C, Liepe, 1457 Green Bay Av., Milw Goitre === SORENESS HEALED en legs, ulcers, enlarged veins, pa Sigs a while you work. Write for book and describe your own case. aukee, Wis,

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