Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 785) (1920 10 15)

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OCTOBER 15, 1920. ; zat [nye Mr Simms.” ob. of his band against the broker's ripe jevttog him violently backward. “Get away pow. or I'll be tempted to knock the daylights out of you~ ,

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY oa fo hee oy orks - aes ana Issued Weekly—Subscription price, $3.50 ad year; Canada, $4.00; Foreign, $4.50. Harry E. Wolff, Publisher, 160 a : } West 23d Street, New York, N. Y. Entered as Second-Class Matter, October 4, 1911, at ; 4 y, the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. aes a No. 785. NEW YORK, OCTOBER 15, 1920. Price 7 Cents 3 ; ~ el 3 2 BOSS OF WALL STREET 4 . : Or, TAKING CHANCES ON THE CURB a ig BY A SELF-MADE MAN = . ‘ ad : CHAPTER I—Bob’s Unsatisfactory Mission. bse bcd ih ana Sgr ae Grimes, shaking 4 . s dir Ss r the tr ; a : ‘ <s yt rted Broker “What’s the matter, Jimmy?” asked a cheer ES * ond pecatic Thies eid senticnaan, of voice, and a well-dressed, cinast-loniine boy | 4 perhaps forty-eight years, to a small, ae . Be ant stopper. = front of = newsboy. 55 “6 : faced, toughskinned ncaaryge 4 ae suddenly sees you, ue Granger’ ov ere $s everyt’in’ de } z 2 es John egal nize too large for “You a Broker Simms? I know him slight- “a = him, Swere hold up by one suspender that was ly. I used to call at his office when I worked for Ei AN partly visible through a ze} 2 his ragged jacket, = ae ae a nde ‘Turn you down ; 4 my, ae eae Si mgs % it?” he said, ag- i didn’t offer him no Res “I wanted him to ng ea te : do de right ting, but he wouldn’t do not’in’.” 4 gressively. “ - . i ou ge booker glared at the tough youth. aut pebin dee a enn the right thing? What “ “I to you a = 5 “ Go. 5 a D4.’ T ve got sometiit? to say to yer, mister, Youre — wyour mother a chance! In what way?™ = ie owner of de tenement on Pike s r ; : . way? 7a Lc toe mudder lives, » proceeded the boy, hens eS ae de tenement where we live.” 4 more aggressively. e agent of de buildin’ stuc ke oe a notice on our door dis mornin’ ’cause we're be- te: Pte a mont’s rent on de fifteent’. Dat’s 2 3 hind in de rent. ag rege if me a don’t Yes olars. a pay up in t’ree days dat de marshal’ll dump our St Te SI fon ; es _Pinge'on de street. De cight dollars ain notin’ "Me mudder is sick in bed and can't work, and 7 7 to youse, ’cause yer rich and don’t need it, but it’s iE She WE: wag aalned Ses 4a nisi: eer thea =£ more dan we kin raise, ’cause me, mudder is sick “Dat’s it give y : Pe and can’t take in washin’ dis week, nor do any serubbin’ at de office where she works in de after- noon. Dat bein’ de case, I t’ought I'd put it up to yer to give us a chance. Youse kin tell de agent to cut out dat notice, and me mudder’ll pay as soon as kin get to work.” : If Andrew Simms hadn’t been feeling pretty that afternoon he wouldn’t have allowed the boy to finish his speech. ; - If there was one thing he hated it was to come “into contact with what he called the dregs of ‘ As a rule, he wouldn’t patronize a street boot- TN a ie. " serie e J ” ¥ SS as ---In fact, he didn’t like boys, anyway, and ,tol- aS grated only the welkdressed seions of his wealthy _ ° friends and acquaintances. __ Having heard the boy’s speech, and compre- __hended it in a general way, he said, impatiently, as he was accu to dismiss a disagreeable ‘Matter: “Don’t bother me, boy, I never interfere with the doings of my agent. He made a motion to proceed, but the boy ed his position and him. ; , way’ ‘will you?” roared the Ve smart, but small for his age. De agent stuck a notice on de door dis mornin’. It’s an order from de court for me mudder to appear and show cause, or we kin get out wit’in t’ree days, see? If we don’t get out, our t’ings’ll be t’rown out on de sidewalk by de : marshal.” ; “That'll be tough, but if your mother is sick in bed—-——” . “Dat don’t make no diffrence. Dey’ll carry her out on de mattress even if it wuz rainin’. seen de marshals once dump a little gal out dat wuz dyin’ wit! de consumpshun, and she laid in de Street till dey sent an ambulance and took her off to de hospital. Dem marshals ain’t got no feelin’s. If dey had any dey wouldn’t be in de business. Dey got to do dem t’ings anyway, ’eause de law says so. I tink it’s a bum law, but, den, poor people ain’t got no rights, any- way. Bob Granger looked at Jimmy’s tough and half- fed physiognomy and felt sorry for him. ' He had known the newsboy for a year or more, and had found him a very interesting specimen from the slums. : He was about fourteen years old, bright and — One thing that commended Jimmy in his was that he had never heard the lee oath or vile expression, even when ry, otherwise there was little to distin lads of his low station in life. s .

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~~, | ei 2 BOSS OF > Bob, who was an ex-broker’s messenger, but now in business for himself on the Curb, though he had to operate under certain difficulties be- = cause his age debarred him from membership in = the Curb Exchange, liked the little street Arab and always acted in a friendly way toward him, E while, Jimmy was willing to swear by Bob, and iy would have done a great deal for him had he been asked. “Jimmy, do you really expect to be put out of your rooms?” he said. “Do I expect dat to-morrer is Sunday? Youse kin gamble on it dat it’s a sure t’ing we’ll be put out.’ , = “Even if your mother is sick in bed?” “I told yer dat don’t make no diff’rence.” “You explained that to Mr. Simms?” et “J told him me mudder wuz sick, but he said dat he never interfered wit’ de doin’s of_ his agent. Dat’s jest de way wit’ dem rich landlords. . All dey is lookin’ for is deir rent. If yer can’t A pay youse kin sneak wit’ yer stuff, and anudder coat wot kin pay moves in. Dat’s all dere is to it.’ “So he wouldn’t do anything for you?” = “Not a t’ing.” “Well, ’'m not surprised. Landlords who em- ploy agents always leave the management of their property in the agent’s hands. You can’t blame them. They have the right to do that if they want to. It is up to the agent to collect the rents and run the property as economically as possible. Still a landlord can request his agent Mr. Simms would hardly be impressed by your request, so it is not singular that he turned you down. I'll call on him myself and state the case. _ Perhaps he’ll be willing to waive the dispossess - considering that your mother is sick. You know where my office is, Jimmy. Call there in an hour and I'll let you know how things have panned out,” said Bob. ; -. “T’anks, boss. You’re a gent. If I kin do anyt’in’ for yer, let me know,” said the newsboy, _ gratefully. 7 Bob called in at Broker Simm’s office on his _ way to his own. ay ‘He was admitted to the. broker’s private room. “What can I do for you, young man?” said _ Simms, whose dislike for boys extended to those - of Bob’s age and growth. __. He kmew Bob well when he was messenger for the late Mr. Stark, and he knew that the young fellow was now trying to make a living on the rb. : As he had né sympathy for very young traders, yhom he was accustomed to denounce for their erve in trying to imitate their elders, he felt gtouchy toward Bob, = : ~ Bob at once introduced the object of his visit. S$» that’s what brought you here, is it? owied Simms. “By what right do you pre- = to butt into my business.” trying to butt into your business, sir. led in the gine Sod of Phan pp ’s a poor scrub-woman who is trying é yesear over the head of herself , I dare say she has a hard job d that the united earnin Di make ends meet. How- to do with the matter. I oe yn os WALL - to be lenient with a tenant who is in hard luck.. had been a anes ee b ‘Sporting men, gamble STREET understand that she is ill in bed, and that is the reason why she cannot pay her rent when called on to do so. I think under the circumstances it would be a graceful act on your part, Mr. Simms, not to haye her turned out on the street.” “Do you propos? to read me a lesson as to my duty?” roared Simms, angrily. “I have busi- ness to attend to, so I think you’d better cut your visit short.” a “Then you won’t do anything?” said Bob, ris- = ing. ENo, I won’t; and let me tell you, I think you have great nerve coming here and interfering in my affairs.” “Good afternoon, Mr. Simms!” “Good-afternoon!” said the broker, shortly. Bob walked out and went on to his own. office. CHAPTER I.—Bob’s First Customer. Bob Granger had a small office on the fifth floor of the Baker Building, on Wall Street. It was suitably furnished for the business he fol- lowed. Bob had no customers, and operated on the market solely on his own account. Starting with a limited capital, he had been sucessful, as a rule, in his deals and had now accumulated © $6,000.. The sign on his door read: “Robert Granger, stocks and bonds, mining shares a spe- cialty.” He lived with his married aunt in the Bronx, and went to and fro-on the Third avenue elevated, as the subway was at that time in the course of final construction. He advertised his business more as a matter of form than anything else, in two of the Wall Street papers, but though he had received many letters from out-of-town people he had done no actual business with*out- siders. ; When Bob entered his den, as he called it, for — that is about what it looked like in point of size, — he seated himself at his desk, which overlooked a wide air-shaft or court, and leaning back in his chair, looked idly at the indicator which was ticking merrily away. He was not interested in any deal just then, and the market was rather off — _ —that is, prices were weak and business’ slack. We are referring to the Curb, and not to the big ~ Stock Exchange. Bob sometimes dabbled in rail- road stocks, but as he had to do that on margin. — altogether, which is always a risky operation, he didn’t take the same interest in them that he did in Curb stocks which, inthe majority of cases, he could afford to purchase outright. He took an afternoon paper out of his pocket and began reading it. His eye was arrested by the story of a tratedy which had happened some time be- tween midnight and that morning. The police had got wind of it during the early forenoon, and the reporters were soon busy at Suir heels. An old man, who lives in an antiquated mansion i the Bronx with his niece. was the victim of an unknown assassin. In addition to the niece, had kept a cook, a charsbermaid, and a man- all-work on the prem‘ses. 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- barrassed sons of rich men. He also numbered several Wall Street brokers among his clients. : At the time of his death his big safe was filled with diamonds and other valuable jewelry, gilt- edged bonds, orders for royalties guaranteed by ‘responsible publishers; and a few notes endorsed _ by divers well-known persons. Apparently rob- -- bery was not the motive of the crime, for the niece who made the discovery found her uncle lying beside the open safe, with thousands of dollars’ worth of pledges within easy reach and t, so far as had®been ascertained, nothing had = stolen. There was no signs of a struggle, ‘the old man having clearly been struck down from behind before he had any idea of what was threatening him. . The foregoing facts were sprin- - kled through the graphic story which the re- '. porter on the assignment had spread himself upon, and after Bob finished it he turned to other news; for the murder had no special interest for ‘him. He was reading the latest Washington news when the door opened and Jimmy Grimes [= stuck his head in, a habit with him, before fol- ¢ Towing with the rest of his body. ry “Come in, Jimmy, and take a seat,” said Bob. _ *And Yl bet: he wouldn’t do a ting,” said - Jimmy. * “Pm sorry to say you’re»right. I couldn’t do - anything with him.” “Aw, an wot’s de diff’rence?” said the news- - boy, in a tone of resignation. “Me mudder’ll have to stand de racket. When yer down, every- oH kicks yer.” : -, Everybody, Jimmy?” aan “Not youse, at any rate. You're a real gent, .* and I t’ank yer for doin’ wot yer could.” ___ *Since Mr. Simms tvon’t help your mother out, _* Yl have to do it.” >. “You, boss?” “Yes. I'm going to give your mother $10 to - pay the rent with, and then the agent will can- _+ el the dispossess proceedings.” : ee “Do yer mean dat?” cried the newsboy, jump- oS ® = fy ertainly do, Jimmy. [ll go up to your - Yooms at half-past four with you and see if I ae re ata wes the D. & G. road as security on the deal, which you will be at liberty to sell if the price should drop enough to wipe me out; but I am not afraid that it will,” said the man. “I can only accept your deposit at 70 per cent. of their face value,” said the boy broker, taking the daily bond list out of a pigeon-hole of his desk and looking at it. “D. & G. first mortgaze bonds are worth 102. The ten bonds, therefore, are worth $10,200. -I will accept them as a de- posit of $7,000. “Very well,” said the visitor, “that is fair enough.” Bob looked the bonds over and saw that they were all right and were made out in the name of Reginald Smith. He wrote the order for the purchase of the copper stock and asked his cus- tomer to sign it. He wrote out a second paper, which authorized him to sell the bonds if such a course were necess to protect himself, and 5 the man signed that, too. In signing the papers, F Bob noticed that the man wore a peculiar snake S) ring on the little finger of his. left hand. He :, wrote with that hand, which showed that he was left-handed. “You will hold the stock subject to my order,” oad said the customer. “Certainly,” replied Bob. The visitor gave his full name as Reginald Smith, and his address as the Grand Union Hotel. = He said he would call Monday, or the day after, dee and then took his leave. “So I’ve got hold of a customer at last,” said \ ul a ,Bob to himself, as he made an entry in his ac- < count-book. “I wonder how that man came to patronize me? By accident, I suppose’ I’l] make a_ nice little commission out of this order, but ae I'll have to divide it with my friend, Broker i Brown.” ee ‘ ind He put on his hat and went down on Broad street to see his friend Brown. He was shown - into that gentleman’s private room. “9 “I’ve got hold of a customer at last, Mr. Brown,” said Bob, as he took a seat close to Brown’s desk. “Good!” laughed Brown. “His name is Smith.” “An excellent name to begin with, for the family is a numerous one and may be taken as an omen that some day you'll have“ numerous customers.” “T hope so. good one.” “That’s encouraging.” “Five thousand shares of Idaho Copper.” “Very. good, indeed. Who is this angel who appeared to you?” — : Y : “His name is og oe Smith, and he is stop- nio: y , ay arte A “You’re coming on.” ¥ At any rate, my first order is a security.” r: “You didn’t accept them at their face value, did you * jig _ oe | ae ee, Se <s

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? Brown Jooked at the bonds and saw that they =e were genuine. On the back of one of them was = an indistinct impression in red of the coils of a snake. He showed it to Bob. “That must have been made by the ring he yer see dat?” said Jimmy, pointing to the notice. sa _- Bob saw it, but owing to the gloom of the dimly lighted floor, he could not read the writ- ing. However, he knew what it was. “Take it down and carry it inside,” said Bob. _. “Why didn’t you remove it when you saw it this $3 ni 72. orning ? “T was afraid to, boss.” “You neédn’t hav . It had served its ‘purpose the moment it was put on the door, fhouzh if your mother intended to contest the ase she would have had to take it to court with sy ~ ‘The. newsboy pushed the door open. and admit- fed Bob into the living room of the Grimes’ apart- remeron Se gn , Ys there? asked a voice’ of uncertain “in which the Irish accent was promi- dle,” said Jimmy. early | ~r 3 zs — S a “ 3 Bo BOSS OF WALL STREET . .almost sarcastically. - _sure me that you’re a deserving woman. .turned out of your rooms, Mrs. Grimes, and to : Pe oe “Very ‘ve got home, ain’t it?” said — oe “Don't yer worry “bout dat. How are yer feel- in’ ?” : “Better,” said the woman. “But it’s up in the air I am over that notice on the door and me here unable to lave me bed.” “Don’t yer worry ‘bout bein’ put out, mudder. There ain’t no danger of dat.” “Why not? Don’t I know what that notice manes?” “You're goin’ to pay de rent.” . “I am? Faith, where wil] I be after gettin’. it? Do yez think I have a bank account?”. “No; but a friend of mine has money to help yer out.” ; “A friend of yours, is it?” replied the woman, — “Sure. I didn’t know be- — fore that ye had wealthy fri’nds at yer back. Is it the prisidint of a bank or wan of thim trust magnates?” ; “No, mudder; it’s me friend, Bob Granger, a — Wall Street broker.” > “A Wall Street broker a fri‘nd of yours! Arrah, what are ye talkin’ about? Is it a fool ye take me for, Jimmy Grimes?” Bob thought, it was time for him to chip in, so he stepped to the door and said: “Mrs. Grimes, I’m sorry to see you under the weather, though I’ve never met you before, but you’re’ Jimmy’s mother and that’s enough to ae So when I heard from Jimmy that yeu were go*ngz to be dispossessed because you covldn’t pey your $8 rent. why, I took the liberty of coming aro’ x: here with your son for the purpose of helping” you out.” oF Mis. Grimes was nearly petrified with amaze- — ment. For some r:oments she couldn’t find her — tongue. then she managed to say: ae “{s it dreamin’ I am; or have ye really come to ‘= hilp me?” ay q “I have really come to prevent you from being ae you~any other way I can,” replied Bob. * “But sure ye look like a bye, and Jimmy said — yez was a Wall Street broker.” as “I am a broker, Mrs. Grimes, probably the - youngest in the Street, so Jimmy didn’t tell you _ an untruth.” =“ Pas “Is it possible! Faith I thought thim brokers — were all min, so I did. It’s kind of ye to think of wan like mesilf who is only a poor scrub-woman tryin’ her bist to earn an honest livin’ and pay — me rint wid what me bye makes sellin’ papers _ on the strate.” a ? “Don’t mention it, ma’am. I’m glad to be of — service to you.” : a “Are yez now? Hivin be praised what a fine 5 bye ye are!” eiecaeee. “Here is ten dollars, Mrs. Grimes. The two | dollars extra will come in useful to you with = SN gh a i taal — what Jimmy pes up in the next few days.” “Thank ye kindly, sor. I'll pay it back whin I can.” +. ; a ..“Don’t worry about paying it back. [ll never — miss it,” said Bob. s : > “Sure, I must, sor. As long as I can work, don’t like to accipt charity.” Stes es well. Suit yourself. Consider it a si months’ loan, then.” a ee “I can’t thank ye enough,” said the - earnestly. tee: Sat sed

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a i a, een aie i het hy ee ary A Wath Ak ner Roan ee Ay Bes OF “If the <‘s c rthing else I can do for you, I hope you will let me know.” After some further talk with Mrs. Grimes, Bob took his leave, followed by the scrub-woman’s repeated blessings, and Jimmy went with him, though it was too late for him to return to Wall Street to resume selling papers. Bob left him at the corner with a crowd of his friends. CHAPTER IV.—The Marks of the Snake Ring. Bob walked into Division street and followed that thoroughfare to Chatham Square, where fe ascended to the Third avenue station and got an express for the Bronx. Before boarding the car he bought a paper. As all the seats had been taken at City Hall station, where the train start- ed from, Bob became a strap-hanger, holding.on with one hand in the crowd while he held the newspaper under his nose with the other. There were more details about the murder in the Bronx, and Bob read them. The detectives had found a elue in the room where the money-lender had been killed, and this clue was the bloody imprint of a snake ring on a handkerehief thrown behin¢ the desk. Another fact had apparently been elicited by the coroner when he viewed the body; he said the man who killed the money-lender was undoubtedly left-handed. These two items rather staggered Bob. They seemed to point directly at his first customer—the man who introduced him- self as Reginald Smith. The red imprint of the snake ring on the bond which Broker Brown had called bis uttention to recurred to the boy. That added a still stronger . ape ge between Smith and the clue in the s of the police. ; ~ “T wonder if it isn’t my duty to notify the au- thorities of my suspicions concerning Smith?” he thought. “And yet if the man ean prove a clear _ alibi, I will have put myself in a mighty bad light in his estimation.” Bob thought of little else on the way home than his customer’s possible connection with the Bronx murder. He concluded to do nothing till he had talked with his friend, Broker Brown. When he got home he cut out the newspaper story and put the clipping in his pocket. Next day was Saturday, and Bob was downtown at his a hour. ee was. reading the paper when immy appeared. °2 , - “How is your mother this morning, Jimmy?” “She’s a lot better. I reckon dat she'll be up ‘to-morrer. Dat ten plunks you gave her wuz as _ good as medicine.” “I’m glad to hear that, Jimmy.” . “Me mudder t’inks dere ain’t nobody like yer, ain't. I t’ought I'd come “up and tell yer dat everyt'in’ wuz goin’ all right, down to business. ‘IL mose d — expt ow ers and took his de- get -. Jimmy picked up his pal Aroun: . “After a little while: +e WALL called on Broker fice, and then.Bob STREET a “T’ve got the shares for you at $9.95,” said Brown. “All right. Jd like to speak with you about . something else.” “What is it?” “Wait till we get to your office.” When they were closeted in the private room, Bob pulled out the clipping telling the additional facts connected with the Bronx murder. He had underscored certain words and called Mr. Brown's attention to them. “Well, what about these things?” “Don’t you_remember that you saw the im- print of a snake ring in red on one of those bonds I brought you yesterday?” ai | do.” ; “And I told you that my customer wore such a ring?” . “So you did.” ; “But I didn’t teil you that he was left-handed, 00.” “What are you trying to get at? customer with the murder?” “What would you think under the cireum- stances? The police have found the bloody im- print of a-snake ring on a handkerchief thrown behind the dead man’s desk, and the coroner as- serts that the man who committed the crime was left-handed. Well, my customer, who is left- handed I know because he signed the memoran- dums with his left hand, handed me ten bonds, on one of which we have found the imprint of a snake ring. As he sports a snake ring, the infer- _ ence is that in some way he made that impres- sion on the Bond while the security was in his possession. Now, the important question is, Was that impression made in blood or red ink?” “A strong magnifying. glass would probably solve that,” said the broker. “The next question is, whether the impression left on the handkerchief is identical with that made on the bond—that is, was it made by the- same ring?” oe could be demonstrated by comparing the 0. “Have you still got the bonds?” “Yes; they’re in my safe.” “T’ve been giving the matter considerable thought, and I can’t get the suspicion out of my mind that there is a real connection betwe2n the two marks. What I came to ask you is whether it is my duty to call the attention of the police to the facts I have stated? Suppose I do, and my customer turns out to be entirely innocent of any paiticipation in the crime; won't it be natural for him to feel pretty sore against me?” “Quite likely he would.” nodded the broker. “On the other hand, if he is guilty of the mur- der, I may defeat the ends of justice by with- holding the facts that have come under my ob- servation.” “That’s true, too. You are in a predicament. Was there anything in the appearance of your, = customer that would lead you to believe him ca- gids ee can’t say tha ere was. e2 to table.” tae Connect your comnuimicatin take-the m be Seta er

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right away, but do not’ give up the bond until a ; _ comparison of the marks have been made. If “ they are found to be identical, and the police in- -sist on retaining the bond as evidence, be sure and get a receipt fully describing the bond for your own protection, for you have given your : customer a receipt for the ten bonds, and you a are responsible for them, just as I am respon- Fe sible to you for the bonds,” said Broker Brown. He went to his safe and got out the marked bond. Then he wrote out a receipt descriptive of it and passed it over to Bob to sign, thus releas- in» him frem any responsibility concerning it. Bob put the bond in his pocket and took a car : uptown en route for the headquarters of the po- : lice department, then located at “800 Mulberry street. The young broker was admitted to the cilice of the chief of the detectives, and to him =e he told his story. The handkerchief with its ie: bloody imprint and, other things that were sus- pected to have some bearing on the murdef were at headquarters, so the comparison of the two snake ring markings were made under a micro- Scope and found to be the same. BAS shall have to retain that bond,” said the ef. “All right,” said Bob. “Give me a proper re- eeipt for it, fully identifying it, and you can keep it as long as you need it.” The chief called in his stenographer and Bob dictated the receipt; which was typewritten and afterward signed by the chief. “Now,” said the officer, “I shall want you to go gver your story again so that it can be taken Joris wn in the form of a statement, which I shall _-—_—s require you to sign before a notary. This is a __—.:- necessary precaution in the event that anything should happen to you before your testimony can be taken in court.” - Bob had no objection, and the matter was put through. Having supplied the name and address of his customer, Bob was allowed to go, and he ‘returned to Wall Street. “ CHAPTER V.—A Tip on Copper. '“ That afternoon Reginald Smith was arrested, fn the public room of the Grand Union Hotel. The arrest was made so quietly that those around were not aware of what had happened. He was - taken 1 third -- All he could be made to admit snake ring to appear on the bond. His explana- tion was that he had cut his chin while shaving. ~The wound, though a trivial one, had for a time bled profusely. “In some way the blood had got the ring, and when shortly afterward he took fice he bed, vithect thowing it lett. 9 slight ; , he , Without knowing it, left a slig mark of the ring on the back of one of the _ He noticed it afterward, but he did not ‘the niatter worth botiering about, so he o effort to scratch it out. He denied pos- y that he ‘at the house.of the mur- n on t of the murder, or, in fact. of e-also denied that he had police headquarters and put through the - > was accidentally causing the impression of his ~ 6 BOSS OF WALL STREET by the statement that he had purchased them in Chicago some. months since, and had the breker’s memorandum in his trunk to prove it. Although a stranger in New York, he said he was well known in Chicago, and referred not only, to the broker from whom he claimed he had purchased the bonds, but to many other people of responsi- bility in Chicago. As for the ring, he said it had been made to order for him by a prominent Chicago. jeweler, whose name he mentioned, and he was sure there was not another exactly like it in existence. He made this statement without having been told about the facsimile impression of¢the ring made in blood on the handkerchief in the possession of the police. The chief believed that he had trapped ‘the man into an unconscious incrimination, though the fact had been printed in the papers, and he could easily have read about it, the same as Bob Granger did. The in- ference was that if he was the murderer he would naturally have read everything printed about the case in order to see what the police had found : out, consequently he would be aware of the snake ring clue and.would regard the ornament as too dangerous to retain in his possession. Instead of : that, the ring still glittered on the little finger of his left hand, and he was quite frank in his avowal that he did not believe it had its dupli- cate. His arrest was printed in the Sunday morning papers and Bob saw it. The boy was not surprised, for he was looking for it to hap- pen. The coroner had held the inquest en the dead money-lender and the verdict reached by — the jury was that the old man had his death : at the hands of some person abt, the said peer being a left-handed man, who wore, or ad worn at the time of the crime, a peculiar — snake ring. Whatever facts the police let out were printed in the Sunday papers, but they did not greatly enlighten the public. .The -prisoner was in the — Tombs, held without bail, and his examination was postponed to await an investigation in Chi- cago, which the chief had requested the Windy City authorities to make. Reginald Smith se- ~~ cured’ a well-known lawyer, familiar with the — criminal law, to defend him against the charze. Bob reached his office at his usual time. About tern o’clock *he door opened and a gentleman of — somewhat imposing personality walked in. 7 ae “Am I addressing Robert Granger?” he inquir- ed, in fuil, mellow tones. : = “Yes, sir. Take a seat.”, ‘ : az “My name is George Stanwood, of the legal — firm of Stanwood, Rixon & Sharpley, No. — — Broadway.” s bo Bob nodded. eet “You have doubtless read about the arrest, on — the charge. of murder, of Reginald Smiuh*” "Yes, sir.” eas “I have been retained by Mr. Smith to look He has informed me that on oe 5 iii Tail be A Pride ie Nor ary der with you for the purchase riday he left an o with you for | rek eae of 5,000 shares of Idaho Copper stock.” = “H He eet he i trusted vith ten says that he int: _you wi ; boinds’ Gf the D. & G. Railroad Co. as st the stock, which you accepted at a 7

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a Boss OF WALL STREET 2 “Yes, sir, at $9.95 a share; and I am holding it subieo* to Mr. Smith’s orders.” “Will you give me a memorandum to that effect ?” cs tainly.” Bob wrote it out and handed it to the lawyer. “Thank you. Now, Mr. Granger, it appears that it was through the information and one of the bonds you furnished the police that Mr. Smith was arrested.” “I'am sorry,” said Bob, “but on discovering that the bond in question bore an impression in red of the curious ring worn by Mr. Smith, and the fact that he appeared to be left-handed, when taken in connection with the discoveries made by the police in the room where the money-lender was murdered, I deemed it my duty, after advis- ing with a broker friend, and without any feel- ing against Mr. Smith, to call the facts to the attention of the pass on the m fo _ “I presume you will be a witness in the case?” “It is quite possible I will be called on to swear to the dealing that Mr. Smith had with me.” “Your action in the matter was wholly influ- enced by what you read in the newspapers, was tt not?” “It was.” . “At the time you talked with the police you did not know that impression of the ring on the bond and that on the handkerchief were identi- : cal?” “No, sir.” “But snake rings are common enough.” “J dare say they are, but when Mr. Smith ‘proved to be left-handed, you must admit that ‘the two facts appeared to have a bearing on each other.” “That is why you went to the police?” “Yes, sir. I suppose Mr. Smith, if he is inno- he is, will have no difficulty in ” with Mr. Smith, though le circumstance is in his favor, t believe the police will be able “to make a case against him. They have the au- ~ “thority to hold him as a suspect on the evidence they have secured until it is shown that the evi- dence is not strong enough to base an indictment ” “In which case he will be discharged from cus- — tody?” The lawyer nodded and got up. That closed er went away. Short- the interview and the law is hat and went down ly_afterward Bob put on 3 to the Curb. There he noted the fact that Idaho Sa seen ruling at 10.10. Other stocks were looki “up, too, which indicated that the market as recovering its tone. This was interesting to boy, and he watched the course of matters for he ing promising he could get in on himself. During that Idaho Copper went to 10.20. His customer ‘already over $1,000 ahead on his deal. The the copper company was on the tenth a big Wall Street office bu'lding, and Bob te'd xan up there to se* if he could pick our to see if there was anythin i wad: . = & _— rar se. ‘ee, leaving the authorities to’ ” ‘room. In a moment or two she ock. The elevator — took him up to the floor. As he stepped out, a stout, well-dressed man stepped into the next elevator, which was going down. very observing, noticed that he wore a huge seal ring on the pudgy little finger of his right hand. On his way to the copper office Bod saw, lying in his path, a small pocketbook. He picked it up and, opening it, he saw a $10 bill, various memo- randa, and a card. He looked at the card to see if it would reveal the identity of the owner of ~ the wallet. It bore the name of Harvey D. Wil- lett, and in the lower left-hand corner the words, “Secretary, Idaho Copper Co.” The address of the company was in the other corner. Bob turn- ed it over, mechanically. There was writing on the other side. He read the following: “Dear Faxon: “The powers that be have decided to boom Idaho to 20, or higher, if it will respond. As it is now just below the $10 line, I need hardly ad- vise you to go the limit, for it’s a sure winner. “Yours, H. D. W.” (Date here.) Bob noticed that the date was that of the previous Thursday. There seemed to be no doubt about his having caught on to a gilt-edged tip. CHAPTER. VI.—Bob Makes a Big Haul. Bob read the ecard over the second time. It > seemed clear that a man named Faxon was the owner of the wallet. As the secretary of the Idaho Copper Co. was evidentiy a personal friend | of Faxon, by handing the pocketbook over to him its return to the owner would be assured. But if Bob did that, it would show that he had looked at the name on the card, and Willett would sur- mise that he had comé into posesssion of the information on the reverse side. Although the secretary probably would not question him on the subject, Bob preferred to avoid bringing the matter to his notice if he could do so. With that idea he examined the memoranda to see if he could find Faxon’s business address. One of the documents proved to be a business card of Charles Faxon, insurance adjuster, No. — Pine street. Bob decided that was his man, and having. no ‘further interest in calling at the copper com- pany’s office, he put the wallet in his pocket and started for the Pine street address. It was a large, though not a skyscraper, office building. He asked the man in charge of the elevators on what floor Faxon’s room was. “Room 436, fourth floor,” was the reply. Bob went up and soon found the room. He walked in and asked a young lady at a type — writer if Mr. Faxon was in. , “He is.” “[’d like to see him,” “What name?” 6g “Robert Granger.” = The girl knocked at a door and then entered a told Bob to go in. The boy did so and recognize i at the desk the stout man with the seal ring on his little finger he had seen entering the de elevator in the Wall street building. — Bob, who was° came back and

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8s BOSS OF WALL STREET clear to Bob that/Faxon had lost his wallet be- idea it will, I shall make a considerable addition tween the office of the Idaho Copper Co. and the to my capital, and that will be very welcome, elevator.” _ for $6,000 is too little for me to do any real “Well, young man?” said Faxon inquiringly. business with in the way of customers,” thought “You are Mr. Charles Faxon, insurance adjust- Bob. er?” said Bob. On Monday Idaho Copper made a rapid advance “Yes.” to nearly 21. "Bob immediately sent word to “You have lost. your pocketbook, I believe?” Smith by messenger and asked for instructions. “Eh?” ejaculated Faxon, clapping his hand to While’ awaiting a reply, Bob instructed Brown to his pocket. sell his 5,000 shares of copper stock. Brown did Evidently Mr. Faxon was not yet aware’of his so at 20 3-4. Smith sent word back to sell his loss. But his ignorance on that point was now shares at once and hold the money subject to his of short duration. order. Bob handed the order over to Brown, and “My gracious! so I have!” he exclaimed, in Smith’s stock was sold. During the day Idaho some trepidation, after feeling all his pockets Copper went to 22, and then began to fall back hurriedly. to 20, where it roosted for the rest of the day “I found a wallet on the tenth floor of the and the following one, after which it dropped to Mason Building. I looked into it and found your 18 and subsequently went lower. Bob cleaned up business card. From that fact I inferred it was $50,000 on the deal, while Smith made more than yours. Was there any money. in it?” that. “Yes, yes, a $10 bill and a lot of memoranda.” “Well, what do you think of my tip now, Mr. “The wailet is evidently yours, sir. Here it Brown?” Bob said, when he collec what was 2 coming to him and Smith. Bob produced the article, which was immedi- “T have to admit that it was a good one,” re- ately recognized by Faxon. He thanked Bob for plied the broker. “Who gave it to you?” returning it and offered him a $5 bill, but th “Nobody. I just got hold of it by accident.” \ _ boy declined it. . “You heard some brokers talking about it, I “It is a pleasure to me to be able to return it suppose?” to you, Mr. Faxon, and it is not necessary to pay “No, I didn’t, I found it.” -me for doing so. Good day!” “Found it?” Bob bowed and took his leave. He returned at “Yes,” and then Bob told him about th 1 once to his office, got $5,000 of his money out of hook Trident. = ae AuCnt Ce See a amine gh around to Brown’s office. The “You were tae pare a thing wouldn’t hap- c 2653 en twice in a thousan ee “T've Bot another commission for you to fill P “That's wight. - “Ani Smith has made $53,000 for me,” said Bob. = out of the stock. Do you know, I think he was Peay Sa la sna: igs ELT tipped off by somebody to get in on it.” “Ohi Going ‘e x aie aoa yourself 2” “What makes vou think he was?” “Yes - “ “The confident way in which he made the deal, ni ahi dae you?” = the fact that he held on for almost the last ~«“ o ” ar.” "art = poe agape / “That might be so. I haye heard that he hasn’t “Yes wits BEL ES | z “es been brought up for examination yet.” . ; “How do. you know it is?” é “He hasn’t. The police are looking for further “A little bird told me so,” laughed Bob. evidence against him. ; “T see. Somebody has been handing you a tip. eels think they have enough to hold him on.” You ought to be careful how you put confidence Probably they have but if. they can weave a in such things.” « stronger net around him they will feel more “[’m willing to take chances on this one. I’ve confident of securing an indictment from the brought you $5,000 as a ten per cent. margin. grand jury.” 20, as the secretary grey} = ~ E =

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2B — BOSS OF WALL STREET — as before, and Smith duly received it after it had = = through the hands of the warden of the Ps ‘ombs. CHAPTER VII.—Bob Hires Jimmy as Office Boy. With a capital of $56,000 to draw upon, Bob felt confident of getting on. As he was out about half the time, he decided that he ought to have a ‘boy to attend to any visitor who might call. He was liable to hear from Smith at any time, and it would not look good for his messenger to have to report that he had found Granger’s office shut up. He concluded to offer the position to Jimmy . Grimes. He didn’t believe that the youth made : over $5 a week selling papers, if he made that much, and he was willing to pay Jimmy $5 for his services. In any case, it would be an advance -*. in life for the boy. He could thoroughly depend - on the newsboy, and he knew that Jimmy would - srun his feet off for him, if that were necessary. Jimmy generally brought Bob’s paper a little after three. He turned up that day at twenty Minutes past the hour. “Sit down, Jimmy,” said. Bob. The boy did so, holding his papers on his lap. Bob looked at him critically and saw that his face and hands were dirty, as usual; that his hat had a big hole in it and that his clothes were as disreputable as ever, while his shoes were broken and showed a glimpse of his dirty stockings. “Jimmy, aren’t you tired of selling papers?” asked the young broker. “t dunno. It ain’t so bad,” replied the lad. _» “How much do you earn at it?” f “Some days I make a whole plunk; but gener- __ ally less.” ape *» I suppose?” : : “Yep, I guess so.” -“Wouldn’t you like to do something better than selling papers?” “Wot cud I do?” aicoee would you like to be a Wall Street office 4 Pust-rate,” exclaimed the lad, his eyes spark- __~ ling, “but dere ain’t no chance of dat for me.” Yes, there is. I want a boy to look after my office when I’m out, and carry messages and run errands for me. How would you like the posi- - tion? I'll give you $5 a week. It will bea steady jo’, with the prospect of rising in the world. “Do yer mean dat, ™ : : - *Gertainly, I do, or I wouldn’t make you the _ Offer. I’ve got to have a boy, and as I know you and like you, I'd sooner hire you than a _ stranger.” ges -=*Pll take it!” cried Jimmy, feeling as if he would like to turn’a’ ring from very joy. To become office boy to a broker was something he had eagerly coveted, but his wildest dreams ‘never suggested that such a thing was possible of attainment for him. Suddenly his face drop- can’t take it, boss,” he said ruefully. “I ‘no clothes. I couldn’t work here lookin’ . I'd disgrace yer, and I wouldn’t make rou look shanp fortveia’ SS ; ae tee toy eee ty re om get a good cheap suit on Division =. “Five dollars a week would be a fair average, “7 street, with collars, shoes, a hat, and everything else you need.” “I know dat, but I ain’t got no money to blow meself to dem t’ings.” “Tll furnish the money.” “Will yer?” cried Jimmy eagerly. “Yer kin take it out’r me wages.” - “Very well. I'll make out a list of what you are to buy, including a small, cheap trunk to keep your extra things in. I'll give you $20 to invest, and you had better take your mother with you, and she'll see that you get your money’s worth. You can repay the amount at the rate of | fifty cents a week. How will that suit you?” “Fine!” cried the boy, delighted beyond meas- ure.” “All right. Tl be here until half-past four. Come up at that hour and [’ll hand you the money.” P “When do I go to work?” “To-morrow morning. You can get yourself in shape by then, can’t you?” “Sure I kin. When do I show up?” - “Your office hours will be from nine till half- ae ard three or four, but, of course, if I need you ater you'll have to stay.” - 3 “T’ll stay. as long as yer want, boss.” . “You needn’t come before ten to-morrow. Then I'll give you the key and you can let yourself in after that.” a Jimmy left the office, promising to be on hand = at half-past four. He rushed from the office = huilding with a wild whoop. Inside of fifteen minutes every one of Jimmy’s newsboy cronies 3 a heard he was engaged as a broker's office oy. Promptly at half-past four Jimmy, after turning over the few unsold copies of his papers to a chum, appeared at Bob’s office. “Now, Jimmy,” said Bob, “here, is the list of things which you can add to if you want, that you are to buy, and here are four $5 bills. I'll _ them in this envelope and seal them up—so. at time does your mother get home from her ~ work?” “Bout seven o’clock,” Resto“ “Well, hand her that envelope and-.tell her that you are going to work for me at $5 a week, beginning to-morrow. Tell her to go out with ~ you, after supper, and fit you out with the ~— money. : - ‘ 2 “All right, boss.” ; be : “Report at ten or a little before, in the morn- ing. ae ~ *7Pll do dat, you‘kin bet.” : “T’ll expect to see you looking like a new boy.” “Gosh! dem clothes’ll make a new boy of me. I won’t know meself in the glass. Me mudder’ll t’ink dat she’s got a young gent in de family.” __ “T guess she won’t have any objection to you — working for me.” __ he “I bet yer she won’t. She’ll t’ink finest feller dat walks.” e “Now be careful of that envelope till you get home. ,, Here's a pin. Attach it to your inside — pocket. 3 him and — Sees OLE. PS Me * e ~ 4 a youse is de ’ Jimmy did so, then Bob dismissed soon afterward went home. CHAPTER VIII.—The Shearing of a Widow. Bob reached his office at half-past nine 1 morning. Several letters were on the floor, h gcd ms

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10 by the postman on his first round. One was from mith, acknowleaging ine receipt of Bobs note and statement, and expressing his satisfaction at the amount of his profit. He said that he expect- ed to be released from the Tombs on bail shortly. He was not guilty of the crime he was charged with, and knew no more about it than the man in the moon. The thing that puzzled him was the fact that a duplicate of his ring existed. He had supposed that his was the only one made. His arrangement with the jeweler in“ Chicago was that no copy of the ring, which was his own design, should be made for any one else, or put on sale. His lawyers were investigating the matter, and hoped to find out if the jeweler had gone back on his agreement. In conclusion, he said that he entertained no hard feelings against Bob for the action he had taken which led to his arrest and detention, as the boy’s course had beén justifiable under the circumstances. The other letters were from out-of-town people, one of whom inclosed a draft of $100 for the purchase of shares of a certain mining stock on margin. This was Bob’s second customer, and he entered his name on his books. The young Curb broker then took up a Wal! Street daily and was reading it when the door opened and in walked Jimmy Grimes—a transformed boy. Bob hardly recog- nized him, so vastly improved was he, with a clean face and hands and a new suit of clothes, with shirt, tie, collar, hat and shoes to match. # “Mornin’, boss! How do I look?” said Jimmy, - a bit shy. - “Upon my word, Jimmy, you look fine!” said Bob, with an encouraging smile. ~ *“Dat’s wot me mudder says. She’s dat proud of me dat she made a bow to me. We ain’t got fo glass bie enourh for me’ to see meself in, -*eeptin’ me face, so I cudn’t see how I looked till I _ struck a show winder en Division street. I could see me outline in dat. Gosh! I was dat aston- ‘ished dat I nearly dropped dead.” - “Did you meet any of your friends in your _ new suit?” f : “Yep. I seen two of dem, but dey didn’t know me, aud I didn’t let on,” yrinned the ex-newsboy. _ > “Well,. Jimmy, I’ve got an errand for you. _. Take this letter down to William Brown, No. — _ Broad street. I guess you'll find the place all right.” * , _ “Leave dat to me, boss.” _ dimmy departed and Bob went on reading. He _ noticed that the Esmeralda mine was reporting - good results, and’ he saw that the stock had gone up ten cents. It was ruling on the Curb at 70 cents. An hour later he called on Brown and left an order for any part of 10,000 shares, to be paid for on receipt of the certificates. That af- terreon he also bought 10,000 Jumbo Extension, at 28. Jimmy was the pend Ae the other news- _ boys when they recognized-him in his new togs. “Ye're_a reg’lar dude, Jimmy,” said one. “I reckon dat we ought to take off our hats to yer.” “Aw, cut it out!” retorted Jimmy, “I’m jest de ‘chap I always was. Yer don’t see me put- airs, do yer, Patsy O’Day 2?” e boys admitted that they couldn’t find any git i, bt still he didn’t seen to be te e y. e wasn’t one of them nger, for Slay were bers, be! an , hi 1 as mt a good fellow. »Aitho i - wrote to the broker about the stock, but received shares of the BOSS OF WALL STREET Jimmy treated them with his old-time friendli- ness, he felt that it wouldn’t do for him to main- tain the old standing with them. He was no longer a newsboy, but a broker’s office boy, and Bob had told him he must acquire a certain amount of dignity befitting his improved condi- tion. When Jimmy turned into Pike Street that afternoon he felt a bit uneasy concerning the reception he would get from his gang. He forgot that the gang didn’t show up numerically until atter six, as wiaay of Wicm \urked in fuunderies, printing houses and other shops. He hurried down to the tenement without encountering any of his friends, though plenty of youngsters who knew him well were playing on the street, but thev did not recognize him in his new clothes. Jimmy was sitting in his chair when Bob en- tered’ the office nex. morning. ; “Good mornin’, Mr. Granger!” he said. “Good morning, Jimmy,” said Bob, taking off his hat and then opening his desk. “Do you feel lonesome away from your newsboy friends?” “No, sir. I ain’t got no kick comin’.” “Did you create a sensation in Pike street when you got home yesterday?” smiled Bob. “Nobody but Mike Brady seen me in me hew’ clothes, and he nearly had a fit. I told de gang dat I had a new soot, and dat I wuz workin’ for a broker, and dey t’ought I wuz t'rewin’ a bluff till I said dat it wuz a fact, and took a couple of dem upstairs and showed dem me tings; os dey believed me. Dey’re all jealous of me now cause I’ve got such a fine job.” Among the letters that came in the mail that morning was one in a lady’s handwriting, post- marked from a large town up the State. The writer said she had seen his advertisement in a - certain New York evening paper, and took the lib- erty of askinz him to do her a favor. “lm a widow, with a son and daughter, and we were in good circumstances until my husband died-a few months ago. He had invested nearly all of his money in a mining stock called the Hia- watha, at the suggestion of a New York broker a” diese a 7 : 4 _with whom he was on friendly terms, and who assured him that the stock would more than double in value within a few months, Having great confidence in the broker, he left the cer- tificates in his charge, with directions to sell the stock when he thought it would be most advan- tageous to do so. After my husband’s death I no answer from him. Recently, feeling the need of the money, I wrote to him again. I received a reply in which he informed me that the Hia- watha mine proved a failure and that the stock is of no value at all. This news was a great shock to me, and I did not know what to do. «A friend, however, advised me to send for the stock on the chance that some day the mine might — turnyout not to be utterly worthless. He said that, to use his expression, ‘dead mines some- times come back to life.’ So I wrote to the bro- ker and asked him to send me the stock. — wrote back, saying that he had been compelled sell the stock at ten cents a share just be the mine failed to ae himself for money he had loaned my husband. I remembered then that my husband had borrowed $500 from the broker, — but as my husband paid $1 a share for stock, it seems strange to me tl = ie

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' the broker could only get ten cents a share for it, or just the amount my husband owed him. Will you kindly tell me if the Hiawatha mine roved a failure; as the broker wrote me? By oing so you will do me a great favor.” “Respectfully yours, “MRS. EDWIN GAGE.” As Bob knew that the Hiawatha mine, instead of-being a failure was a great success, and was paying a regular quarterly dividend of five cents a@ share, while its quoted price on the Curb was about $4 a share, the contents of the letter much surprised him. , “st doesn’t seem probable that any real broker " * would be implicated in such a skin as this ap- pears to be,” he thought. “I will write her the true facts concerning Hiawatha, and ask the lady to send me the name and address of the ; weged broker, offering to see what I can do for er.” Accordingly, Bob wrote the letter and mailed it when he went out. That afternoon Jumbo Ex- _ tension took a jump to 33 cents, and as Bob hardly expected it would go much higher, he sold : the stock, clearing a profit of $500. Esmeralda > also went up five cents a share, but he decided to held on for a higher price, believing it would go to 88, which was the figure it sald at two weeks before. Several days passed and it went up to - 90. cents. On the Jollewing morning, while Bob Was at his desk, the door opened and a boy, neatly dressed, with a pleasing face, came in. “TI called to see Mr. Granger,” he said. ' “That’s my name. Take a seat,” said Bob. The boy regarded him with some interest. a “You are a broker?” he said. i: “T am.” 2 «~My name is George Gage. I called with ref- erence to a letter you wrote to my mother in __ answer to one from her.” --—s- *Giad to know you, Mr. Gage. If I can be of es ‘any service to your mother in the matter she _ spoke about, let me know. The case, as she out- lined it in her letter, has the look of a swindle, “because Hiawatha never sold for less than 25 cents a share. That was when it was put.on the market. After it-reached the dollar figure the record shows that it never sold lower, but has advanced, as dividends were. declared, = un ee _ _._*T have » visitor. ~~ ‘hat’s right. “After ‘ou have seen him, come let the ow tes things came out be- think I will call on him right away.” pee Oe Se aig $5 BOSS. OF WALL STREET u “I would,” nodded Bob. Promising to return, George Gage left the of- fice. Ten minutes later Broker Brown phoned Bob to call at his office. Bob put on his hat and started for Brown's office. After a ten-minute talk with the broker, Bob started back. He no- ticed a gathering crowd near the corner of Ex- change place. He pushed into it to see what was the matter. To his surprise he saw George Gage facing Broker Simms with a flushed face and excited manner. The boy was denouncing the trader as a swindler and a cheat. Simms, purple with rage, jumped.at Gage and knocked him down. Bob, who had no great respect for Simms % - anyway, felt a thrill of indignation at the trader’s action. aa “That’s enough from you, Mr. Simms!” cried Bob, stepping forward quickly and shoving the palm of his hand against the broker’s face, fore- ine him violently backward. “ away, now, or Tl - tempted to knock the daylights out of you CHAPTER IX.—Bob Adjusts a Delicate Business. 7 Bob’s action created fresh excitement, and the crowd grew denser. When Broker Simms recoy- ered from the shock which his face and dignity had suffered, he glared savagely at the boy bro- ker. There ‘was an aggressive air about Bob i: that restrained him from attempfing to treat. ~ him as he. had treated thé widow’s son. George Gage was not a strong lad, and the terrific blow he got from Simms had Kurt him so much that he was compelled to seat himself on the edge of the curb till he recovered from it. “How dare you strike me, Bob Granger!” cried Simms furiously. “I’ll have you arrested.” a on and do it, you big coward!” retorted ‘ob, “What right have you to interfere?” snarled the trader. ; “When I see a big man like you smgsh a boy like Gage in the face in such a savage way, I think it’s time for an outsider to chip in. At any rate, I happen to know that the laying out the boy gave you was no more than you deserve. I have seen a letter signed by you that proves it. You have swindled his mother out of five thou- sand shares of Hiawatha stock, but if I have any- thing to say about it you’ll come up with the full price and the dividends you have received on it, which rightfully belong to her.” “You're a liar!” hissed Simms, “Look here, Mr. Simms, I don’t allow anybody to call me a liar. If you utter that word again I'll pound: you till you yell for mercy, even if I am arrested for doing it.” y “Here! What’s the trouble?” asked a Wall Street detective, coming to the front. : “The trouble is, that broker knocked that lad down because the boy told him some unpleasant truths.” said Bob. “I jumped in and pushed him back with the flat of my hand. If I had used my fist instead, I wouldn’t have handed him any more than he deserved.” _— : ; a “What have you to say about it, Mr. -Simms?” ba rent th fellow arrested for assault,” aid “T wan is ari or oe the. angry: trader. 20.9% j= tig 2 he es

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ay 12 “And I want that man arrested for knocking me down,” said George Gage, coming forward. “Tf I can find a policeman, I’m going to have him iaken in.” “That’s right,” said Bob. “I’m a witness of x the assault, and many of these people saw it, too.” 4 “I saw him strike the boy,” volunteered a by- S¥ stander. Z “So did I,” said another. “It was a cowardly eS blow.” “I’m an officer,” said the detective. ‘I think the three of you had better come to the station with me unless you're willing to compromise the S, matter among yourselves.” “I won’t compromise,” said Gage. “If you're He’s a swindler, anyway, and I will see that my mother prosecutes him in court for cheating her out of over $20,000 worth of mining stock.” Simms _ be to realize that matters were getting decidedly hot for him. He saw several brokers in the crowd who knew him, and the charge made against him by George Gage, which he knew to be true, would hurt his. reputation. He realized that he must compromise. : “Come to my office, young man,” he said hoarsely, “and I will fix this matter up with you.” - “You won't fix anything up with me,” said Gage. “You'll answer to my mother for your swindle. BGt I’m going to have you punished for knocking me down. If this officer won’t ar- rest you, I'll go before a judge and get a warrant eut and-have you hauled into court.” “Do you ‘want this young man arrested for assault?” the detective asked the broker, laying his hand on Bob’s arm. 2 “Let him go,” said Simms, clearly all up in the air. “Come to my office, Gage, and let us settle _ this unpleasantness.” The boy was about to make another hot re- fusal at compromise, when Bob said: =, “Better take him up, Gage. I'll go with you and back you up, if you wish me to. “Very well,” acquiesced the boy. eae | cat have you in my Office, Bob Granger!” - yoared Simms. “You have nothing to do with this matter.” '_ “This lad’s mother wrote me a letter about that Hiawatha stock, Mr. Simms, and I know considerably about it. If Gage wishes me to accompany , you'll have to consent to my presence, otherwise he'll probably prosecute you - {ier unprovoked assault. You're bound to be con- - wicted of it, for I will swear I saw you hit him. our name will get into the papers, and with it will come out the history of the Hiawatha mat- ter. If you think you can stand that, go ahead. - It is my opinion that you will be thrown out of the Curb Exchange for actions unbefitting an honest broker.” under Bob’s words and ; is fi him, but the detective terfered. At that juncture _a uniformed po- n ae ping ee = him and the sight to his feclings. To avoid- him- > sudden! scares that arrest es it Bob could be pres- inh ee and accordingly the three made ve, accompanied - vr >. an officer, I demand that you arrest that broker. . the entrance of BOSS OF WALL STREET the building by the detective, while the police- man busied himself dispersing the crowd. ; “Well, what do you want me to do?” growled Broker Simms, when he had seated himself at his desk, addressing George Gage. “T want the 5,000 shares of Hiawatha mining stock that you purchased for my father before. his death, and for which he paid you $5,000,” | said Gage. “Suppose I haven't got them? Your father owed me $500. { had to recoup myself out of the stock,” replied the broker. “We admit the debt, but you wrote my mother that you sold the stock for ten cents a share, which sum’ just covered the $500 owing you. Now we have been infermed by this broker,” nodding at Bob, “that the stock was never lower than a quarter a share, and that after it reached the price which my father paid for it, it was never sold for less than $1. Phat shows you lied to my mother when you wrote her that you only. t ten cents a share. At any rate, you had no- egal right to sell the stock without an order from my mother, and without first demanding the payment of the sum due you,” said Gage. Simms glared at Bob, then he said: “Have you got my letter containing the fact you have stateg?” “T have,” replied Gage. “Let me see it,” said Simms. The boy produced it. The over, “That is an error on the part of my stenog- ~~ rapher,” he said blandly. “Oh, it was! What did you intend to say, then?” said Gage. ; “T can't recall. now, but I judge that I dictat- ed one dollar in place of ten cents, or it might have been one dollar and ten cents. I will -@ — = bookkéeper look the figure up, and if yo tos call after three I guess we can fix the matter up to your mother's satisfaction.” — “Then you sold the Hiawatha stock for a dol- — ‘lar, or a dollar and ten cents, or whatever price _the market stood at when you made the sale?” said Bob. “I. am not answering any questions from you, _ Bob Granger!” replied Simms tartly. “You have — no authority to interfere.” es “Yes, he has,” said Gage. “My mother told me s broker looked it .to put the matter in hi ds, but I thought ’d see you first about it. Now I draw out. You will settle this matter with Mr. Granger. He — understands the ins and outs of the stock mar- ket and I don’t. I judge that it would be more to my mother’s interest to pay to have the thing - settled properly than try, to do it myself, espe- cially after the way, you treated me on the street”; : oan “You fonget that you insulted me. Had you ~ called at my office——” . “<

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BOSS OF yourself. The way you treated me made me mad, and I said things that caused the row.” : “Well, I don’t care to deal with Granger.” . “All right, then I will have Mr. Granger in- vestigate the matter and my mother will sue you for her rights.” You are foolish to put your business in the © hands of a boy who is only learning the broker- age business. Six months ago he was a broker’s messenger.” “Nevertheless, Mr. Simms, I have done pretty well at the business,” said Bob. “If Gage has _ any doubts about my ability to bring the matter te a successful enlist I shall take him down to Broker William Brown. He will guarantee me, and if that isn’t enough will take charge of the case himself.” __ “What do you propose to do if. you act for Mrs. Gage?” asked Simms. ‘ “The first thing I shall want from you is a statement of the sale of the Hiawatha stock in full. The price you claim you sold it for, the ; person to whom you sold it, and the date of the _ transaction,” replied Bob. “I shall also want to __ $€e your authority for selling it.” ‘ “J have Mr. Gage’s written order to sell the _ stock whenever, in my judgment, I thought it advisable to dispose of it,” said Simms. “Very well, if you have that, it may save you _ from certain unpleasant contingencies, but as you _ told Mr. Gage that the stock would double in _ -value within a few months he did not expect yo ~_- to sell the shares under $2.” : y “J made no such statement to Mr. Gage.” <¢ “Mrs. Gage says you did. However, we will not discuss that. Perhaps you will explain why ‘ou wrote to Mrs. Gage the information that the awatha mine had failed? You know that the mine never was in danger of becoming a dead “J don’t remember writing such a thing.” “You have a letter, Mr. Gage, signed by Mr. Simms, to that effect, haven’t you?” said Bob. - *Yes. Here it is.” . ~~ “You are at liberty to read it over, Mr. Simms, and see what you evidently did say to Mrs. Gage, said Bob. = | The broker read it and looked uneasy. When = oS deed pee various hares “ the ww, it _ probable he never expected them to turn up - Kea t against him; but Mrs. Gage had pru- oa ‘tly preserved them all. : fi “f must have been thinking of some other mine at the time,” he said lamely. : * _ *f dare say,” said Bob sarcastically. ~ Then *& when you wrote that letter you were under the a: ion that it was some other mine and not the ponents. that cite’ Gage was interested in? Simms made no : _“Mr. Simms, ien't it 4 fact that you never sold the Hiawatha stock, but have it in your posses- _ sion now?” said Bob. ~ ad ns it tent =e Simms sourly. : Ss easy be be Hiawatha office in this city. If. find out by the transfer. WALL STREET 13 “Very well. Mrs. Gage will settle with you for the full market value of the stock at this moment—say, $4.10, plus all dividends which you must have collected, less $500 and your commis- sion, and a reasonable percentage for collecting the dividends.” - “Do you want to rob me?” snarled the broker. “Not at all. All the lady wants is what she is entitled to.” “T’ll pay her $10,000 in full for all demands.” “No, you won’t. I have ascertained that two dividends of five cents a share have already been declared, that of itself amounts to $500. On the whole, I guess the lady. would prefer to have a dividend-paying stock to the market price. . The chances are it will continue to pay dividends. I don’t believe that 5,000 shares of Hiawatha could be bought for $4.10; more likely $4.25; so I think you had better turn the stock over to Mrs. Gage. If you haven’t got it, you'll have to buy it. The two dividends she has lost will pay your original demand ‘on her late husband. Any bal- ance will be paid to you. If you decline this proposal I shall advise the lady to sue you for the stock. Your letters, if produced in court, would rather hurt your reputation. What do you say? “I'll turn over the stock with a statement!” al- most hissed Simms. “Very well. Send the certificates to my office and anything rightfully due you will be settled. Come on, Mr. Gage. We will take our leave,” and the two boys did, leaving the broker pretty badly demoralized over his setback, which had er forced upon him by Bob’s coolness and reso- ution. CHAPTER X.—Reginald Smith Admitted to Bail. George Gage was tickled to death over the successful end of his mission to New York, and he gave Bob full credit for bringing Broker Simms to terms. “I never could have made him come up the way you did, Mr. Granger,” he said, when they were seated in Bob’s office. “That stock appears to be worth over $20,000. We'll be rich. Mother had no idea of getting back more than the origi- nal $5,000 my father invested in it, and wasn't at all sure that she would get even that. We are under great obligations to you, Mr. Granger, and you shall be well paid for your services.” “What I have done for your mother I volun- teered to do. without, stipulating any particular remuneration,” said Bob. “I really couldn't set any price on it, for it hasn’t taken much of my time. ; . - “I think $1,000 would be about fair,” said Gage. “Nonsense! You mean $100.” recei * A That man thought stock. He that as we are living ” hundred miles up the State that he could pull the wool over my mother’s eyes and get away showed him that he couldn’t, and : ae

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“44 At half-past twelve Bob invited George Gage to take lunch with him, and the visitor accepted, after which he went uptown to the Bro Central Hotel, where he was stopping. That - afternoon Broker Simms brought the 5,000 shares of Hiawatha mining stock to, Bob’s office with his statement. He was not in a pleasant humor, for he felt that the boy broker had been too sharp for him. He thirsted for revenge and ore to get it some day in the near future. Bob went over the statement with him and made him cut out a couple of items which were clearly overcharges. He had down his commission of $625 for the original purchase of the shares. Bob doubted if this was really due him, but could not successfully dispute it. Simms-claimed in- terest on the $500 forea year, and Bob allowed it at current rates. He admjtted’the collection of _two dividends, amounting-to $500, and Bob said ‘that Mrs., Gage was entitled to interest on that, but he’d let it go,-as it was a small matter. In the end Simms agreed to take $675 in full for what was due him. Bob paid him that and took his receipt. Broker Simms then went away with- ‘out saying good-by. That day Esmeralda closed at $1, which gave Bob a prospective profit of x $3,000' on the deal. He made no effort to sell at .- that figure. Next day, when Geonge Gage ap- peared at the office, Bob showed him the stock. “T settled with Simms for $675 and there is his receipt in full for the money. [I shall take these certificates over to the transfer office of the Hiawatha mine and have them put in your mother’s name. Her address will be entered on the books, and the next dividend will be mailed to. her by the company. In the meantime you had better go home and take this statement with you: Your mother can send me a bank draft for the $675, plus any sum she thinks my services are worth to her. Then I'll send the certificates to her by express. Or if she wants to dispose of any of the stock I will sell it'for her at the mar- ket price, which will probably be above $4 a share.” . : : “All right,” said Gage. “I'll take the after- ‘noon express-and you will hear from my mother in a few days.” pee Gage then invited Bob to lunch with him, and e boy broker accepted. After the meal eer “tes parted the best of friends, That afternoon Bo ropped in at Brown’s office. He told the broker about the Hiawatha mine incident. - - *J know Simms is a foxy trader, but I never a him capable of working such a trick = eR } _ -* as that.” said Brown. ” “Well, you see he is. I guess I broke his heart ‘when T pinned him in a corner. I dare say he. hates me like poison,” laughed Bob. } _ “You'd better look owt for “him. He may try to work some trick off on you to get “square. ie ’s the kind of man he is,” said Brown. _ oS rod can he play? I have no dealings are more ways than’ one of killing a _ has “Gone up. several brokers, to my gucty2 way -: BOSS OF WALL STREET : he watch out for anything that savors of a job.” “The trouble is, you won’t be able to spot the trick if any is worked on you. It may fail, buat it will be because you don’t take to it. But - enough of Simms. Do you want to get in on a good thing?” “Sure I do. We’re all looking for a good thing in Wall Street, but it isn’t often we catch on to the opportunity.” “T was tipped off to buy American Writing Pa- per preferred. I’m ineon 1,000 shares. You’ve got money enough to match me. I advise you to do it. It is going to take on a rise.” “Buy me 1,000 shares, then. I'll go out and get vou the money. What is it going at?” “Twenty-three.” “All right. That will be $23,000.” “You can fetch the money around any time to-morrow, or wait till I notify you that the shares are ready for you.” “Tl bring the money in to-morrow.” “T see you are $3,000 ahead on your Esmer- alda deal.” “Yes. How high do you think it might-go?” “Haven't the least idea. It may go to $1.25. It’s'a pretty safe stock.” They talked a while longer, and then Bob re- . turned to his own office. Brown bought the stocle ‘for Bob and delivered it inside of three days. — By that time it had gone up $3.a share. About | this time Bob got a.letter'from Mrs. Gage. She expressed her gratitude toward him for his sue- 9” cessful efforts in bringing Broker Simms to — ‘terms. She said she was surprised to learn | that the Hiawatha stock was so valuable. Hs — present market value made them: feel quite well - off again. She said she’d like Bob to hold the ~ certificates in his safe deposit box. He could — send her his receipt for them. She inelosed a draft for $1,675, the $1,000 being her estimation | of what she considered he was entitled to for — his valuable efforts in her behalf. In conclusion, she said that she thought it likely that she and her children would shortly move to Bracklyn, _ where she had lived before her marriage Al- though Bob felt that he had been an important factor in getting the Widow Gage a square deal with Broker Simms, still he thought that $1,000 was altogether too much pay for his seryices. It looked like the retaining fee of some noted 5 CA : = “Any reputable broker would have done much for her as I did, and I am sure would se have expected so munificent a reward,” he —

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BOSS OF WALL STREET him with the murder was the two impressions, both made in blood, of the snake ring. In his own defense he capisinrd the cause of the ring impression on the bond, exactly as he told it in his “third degree” examination at headquarters. He was utterly unable to say how the bloody impression of what appeared to be the same ring had come upon the pocket handkerchief found at » the scene of the crime. His lawyer then present- : ed a bunch of affidavits from various people in "5 Chicago. The majority referred to Smith as a _. _man of excellent character and integrity. That “< the ten bonds were his property was proved by ‘two facts—an affidavit from the broker who sold | them to him, and the sworn statement of the - aecountant who had been called in to examine the dead money-lender’s books and see if any of the articles pledged on loans were missing. i The statement of the jeweler who made the iz ring for Smith under a guarantee not to repro- “i duce it under any circumstances was not pre- sented by the lawyer because he said he had kept his word and had not made a duplicate. As Smith and his lawyers were satisfied that a sec- ond one had been made, presumably without the knowledge of the jarcier, a detective had been assigned to the job of following up the record é of the workman who made the original ring. The a clerk of the Grand Central Hotel swore that = Smith asked for the key of his room at half-past x = re ? a 4 ten on the night that the murder had taken place, presumably to retire for the night. _The elevator boy swore that he had taken Smith up ; to his corridor and had not seen him again until he came on duty next day. A bellboy swore that pe he had answered a call from Smith at eleven and found him partly undressed. From that hour until eight next morning Smith swore he was in bed and asleep. The police could not show that he wasn’t... At the close of the proceedings, Law- yer Stanwood asked for the discharge 0 his cli- = ent, on the grounds that the only evidence i against him was the purely circumstantial fact of the impression of the snake ring, admittedly a facsimile of the one worn by Smith, on the handkerchief at the scene of the crime. A rep- resentative of the district attorney’s office op- poeed the motion. The magistrate said he would old the prisoner and admit him to bail in the sum of $5,000. This was immediately furnished and Smith was released. Bob was glad that Smith was let out of jail, for it angued well for his innocence, and he had a ce, for the man as his first customer. ook was cheerful for Smith, because unless the police got hold of e 3 new and tangible evidence against him, the = dj would never indict him. If ; they didn’t do is within a reasonable time, Smith’s the magistrate and ask r his discharge, and their request would be ted. : er with a copy of th one. He was very fsed to trade with him - Se er.” | The fact that Simms wore, or had v 15 a hand in dat murder?” asked Jimmy, after the man accused of the crime had gone away. The boy had been deeply interested in the murder ever since he learned that his friend Bob ‘Granger was mixed up in it as a witness, and he had x,ead everything tne newspapers printed about it and the accused. “No, I do not, Jimmy,” replied Bob. “Yet if it hadn’t been for youse he wouldn’t have been arrested.” “I merely acted as my duty suggested.” “How d’ye s’pose de impression of his ring got on dat handkerchief dat was found in de room where de money-lender was murdered?” “If I had any idea, I should certainly hand it to the police.” “Smit’ says dat he has de only ring of de kind in de world. If dat is really so, it stands to rea- son dat he must have killed de old man. But it’s my idea dat somebody else has a ring jest like his.” 42 “It would certainly be a curious coincidence if / another pa designed a ring exactly like Mr. Smith’s, and had one made, the story of the ring has been so prominently printed in all the papers that I should think if any New York, or neigh- boring city jeweler had made such a ring for somebody other than Mr. Smith, that he uld A recall the fact and have notified the police about - it.” \ ““Do youse know, Mr. Granger, dat I’ve seen a snake ring jest like de one printed in de papers on de little finger of a broker who bought papers from me regerly.” “Ts that so? I guess it couldn’t have been exactly like it. Did you get a good look at the ring’ you refer to?” “T reckon dat I did, many times.” ; “There are lots 6f snake designs in rings, but % Mr. Smith maintains none exactly like his. The = fact that he stuck to that admission in face of — r- so damaging a piece of evidence against him sat- isfies me that he is innocent.” Who was the bro- — ker who bought papers of you and sported a snake ring like the one in the case?” * “Mr. Simms.” fs, “What! Andrew Simms?” exclaimed Bob, pee rather surprised. Pe “T dunno what his fust name is.” ee “Do you know where his office is?” “gs “Down on Broad street, near Exchange place.” pO “That was Andrew Simms.” mee” “A broker like him wouldn’t commit a mur- x der, dough, would he?” ‘ “It is possible, but not probable. The money- lender had several broker clients, though. It would be interesting to learn if Simms was one of them. If he was, your description of his ring might give him trouble. That reminds me that when I saw him last I am sure he did not wear ~ a snake ring.” “He wore it, all right, when I sold papers to him.” : ; < “Did you see the ring on his finger after the _ murder ‘was committed?” : ae “I don’t remember dat I noticed it.” iy, eae “Well, I wouldn’t speak about the matter to anybody else, Jimmy.” rs &= “Wotever yer says, goes wit’ me, Mr. Gri 7 Beat

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A : 416 snake ring similar to the one so prominent in the Bes murder case held Bob’s attention to such an ex- E; tent that he called on Smith at his hotel that ‘ nfternoon and told him about it. _° = _ “Jf I were you, I’d have your lawyers find out if Simms was ever a customer of the money- es Jender’s. It might lead to results, who knows?” * said Bob. “Have you any reason to suspect this man Simms?” asked Smith. . “T have not, but I have told you this statement of my office boy’s because I feel an interest i you and believe that a man in your unenviable situation should investigate every possible clue that might lead to your ultimate absolute ac- quittal.” “Thank you! on.the subject.” ; Next day Esmeralda stock went to $1.27 and Bob told Brown to sell his shares. Brown did so and the boy cleared $5,500 on the deal. mow worth $62,000, independent of a profit: of $7,060 in sight on his American Writing Paper — stock, which had gone up 7 points. t same day Bob heard that a syndicate had been formed to boom L. & M. R. R. on the Stock Exchange list, which was ruling at 90. Having satis himself that there was good foundation for the report he called on Brown and gave him an order to buy 5,000 L. & M. for his account on _ a ten per cent. margin. Two days later American Writing Paper preferred went to 35 and a frac- tion. howe sold Ais holdings and advised Bob to do the same. .. “All right. Sell me out,” replied the young broker, : ” f - Brown complied and Bob added $12,000 more to his capital. When Bob returned to his office Jimmy had news for him. ; : - . “Wot d’ye tink, Mr., Granger, a ’tective wuz here while yer wuz out to see me.” _ _“To see you?” eried Bob, in surprise. “What about?” _“’Bout dat ring I seen on Mr. Simms’ finger. - He showed me de bloody handkerchief and asked if Simms’ ring looked like dat. I said it did, as far as I cud remember. He asked me a lot of es, and \den went off. Wot do yer t’ink it? _ »“] think the police are investigating this new clue.” I will’see my lawyer to-morrow He was ° _T'd like to sell it to some broker for spot cash at _ BOSS OF WALL STREET and selling and then rebuying. Just before the Exchange closed the price fell to 98. Next morn- ing, instead of falling further, it went up to 105. The excitement was intense. Everybody recog- nized that a boom was on, but nobody could guess how long it would last. The price might go to 110 or 115, but the knowing ones didn’t believe it would. Bob heard a bunch of traders shaking their heads over it, and predicting a smash at any e moment. They were solid men and their opinion was worth something. At that time L. & M. was going at 106 and a fraction. Bob decided he would sell, for he didn’t believe in holding on for the last dollar. So he walked into: Brown's office and ordered his shares sold. Brown sold them in small lots without any trouble. When he reported the closing of the deal to Dob, the boy figured up his profits at $80.500, which raised his capital to $155,000. ~ - ‘ | CHAPTER XII.—In Which Bob Is Trapped. A day or two later Bob dropped in at Brown’s office. just to have a few minutes’ talk. ,As he got up to go, Brown said: “As you are putting in your time mostly for your own interests, I think it would be a good idea for you to keep your eye on A. & C. Leasing Co. I got a tip that the price of the shares would soon advance on the market. The reason given was that the Atlas mine, which the company is working, is turning out a righer grade of ore and the company will make a lot more money in the immediate future than it has in the past. If I | had any money to spare I’d look around for some of the stock, but just now I need all my cash in my regular business.” . “Tl look it up,” said Bob, and then he went away. When he got back to his office, he looked up the A. & C. Leasing Co., the company which had an eighteen months’ lease of the Atlas mining prop- erty, and was developing it as leasing companies operate. The Atlas mine had proved a good proposition to the leasing company, and the com- * pany’s stock was hard to buy at $4 a share. Bob found that there had not been a sale of the shares on the Curb for two weeks, and then 1,000 changed hands at $4.15. As it was not improb- able that the price would advance, Bob decided — to buy some of it if he could get it. He had over $150,000 lying idle in his safe deposit box, and he was anxious to put some of it to work. . While he was.thinking about it the door opened and a stranger entered. 4 ; pose Granger?” he said inquiringly. “Curb broker, I believe?” : : Bob nodded. = “J have a bunch of stock to sell,” said the stranger, “but as I’m in a rush to leave the city the market, or a little below, to make it an ob- | ject to him. for I can’t wait for the usual course — of an outside sale.” eRe

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- “That isn’t bad stock,” said Bob. 3 “T should say not. You can’t buy a share of it on the Street under $4.25.” ~ ‘ “What do you want for it?” cz “Will you give $4.20, less your commission, for selling? That will be a bonus of $250. That ought to pay you for paying the money in ad- So) Vale.” . ; “I don’t know as I care to give that,” said Bob. “I don’t know that I can get $4.25 in the _. market for it.” S “If I had the time, I’d rather let you sell it for = “me at $4.25 than take $4.20 cash, because I know it is not likely to drop any.” E * “That is impossible to say.” = “Well, I’ve got to have $20,000 to close a deal this afternoon in Philadelphia, so I suppdse I'll have to make a sacrifice. Take it at $4.15.” Bob hesitated. “Wait a moment,” he said. He called Brown on the phone and told him _ there was a man in the office who offered him 5,000 A. & C. Leasing Co. for $4.15.” “Is it a safe risk to take it?” he asked. “Take it,” said Brown, “and bring it over here. 7 There was a man in here a few minutes ago who _ was looking fér some of it. Said he’d give $4.30 ter any part of 10,000 shares. I was just going -. ut to look the stock up, as_he said he’d call in - an hour to see me about it Spain. He put up a deposit of $100 to show thatshe meant business.” “All right,” said Bob. He immediately closed with the stranger, who - said his name was Webster, at $4.15, less his commission for selling the block. Altogether he had to pay $20,125 for the stock. Asking Web- ster to wait, he ran around to his safe deposit yault and got out $20,000. The balance he took He took Webster’s order and a pt for the money, and the men went away. to consider whether it would be to sell it at $4.30. Brown, under the cir- ould make a at was just But there was t a tip that the stock was going to advance, and the fact that a customer had cailed on him and offered $4.30 for ed as if there was going to be a rise, and that the man who called on Brown had a line on it. After some reflection, Bob decided to hold on to the stock. He called Brown 3 and had a talk __ with him about the matter. e broker admit- ted that he might do better by keeping his pur- Se Bob decided to keep the stock. The leas- ing company had no office in New York, so it s necessary for Bob to send the shares to the ‘in Goldfield to have them transferred to his ~~ He could_do this through one of the big press companies with perfect safety. His in- ention was to send it away that afternoon. At ized one of the cheap quick-lunch nei, : On his way he passed the ® Cafe, where brokers and upper clerks bite at noontime. Jimmy twas and Broker Simms wuz anudder. De udder two : sal and he judged that never seen before.” ~ age: SANA ed there. It often made. . Bob looked serious pare 10,000 shares, or any part of that number, look-_ past twelve Jimmy went to lunch. The boy houses BOSS OF WALL STREET 17 his mouth water to think how well people with money could live. On the day in question it happened that Jimmy found a dollar bill in the gutter on Nassau street. That dollar looked mighty big to him and he spent half the morning thinking how he would spend it. One thing was certain: he intended to go to a show that night at the old Bowery The- ater, which at that time was devoted to lurid melodrama, presented by traveling combinations, a new one every week. When Jimmy was pass- ing the Empire Cafe that noon on his way to lunch, a longing came over him to spend part of his dollar on a feed there. It was a chance he might not have soon in. A sign outside the door read: “Business men’s lunch from eleven till three.” Jimmy walked in and found the place pretty well crowded with well-dressed men. He saw a little round table in a retired nook and he glided _ over to it. A waiter came up to him and asked him what he’d have. “Wot yer go” asked Jimmy. * The man pointed to a written bill-of-fare. Jimmy picked out fifty cents’ worth and the food was soon before him. He ate it with the biggest kind of relish. He had never spent half as much on a meal before in his life, and as he was re- solved to get his,money’s worth he ate fa Mages thing in sight, including all the free pickles and other relishes. : “Gee! Dat wuz fine!” he ejaculated, in a tone of satisfaction.” He was about to leave when he heard his boss’s name mentioned. He was all attention on the in- stant. The conversation came from a box behind him. What he heard made his eves grow as big as saucers. In a few minutes the men left the box, paid their score, and walked out on the street. - : “Gosh! Mr. Granger’ll have a fit when I tell him wot I heard. Maybe he kin save himself, for de news ain’t out yet. Jimmy hurried-back to the office as fast as he could go. “Say, Mr. Granger,” he exclaimed, bursting into the office, his face glowing with excitement, “T’ve got somet’in’ important to tell you.” “Have you, Jimmy? Let’s hear it, then. The Stock Exchange hasn’t collapsed, has it?” he added, with a smile. “Not dat I knows- of. I found a dollar dis mornin’ on Nassau street, and when I passed de Empire Cafe I t’ought I’d blow meself to a swell - lunch.” “And you did, I suppose?” aS “Bet yer life E did, and it wuz fine. I had just got t’rough and wuz pickin’ me teet’ like a real gent, when I heard a chap in de box be- hind me menshun yer I I listened and wot d’ye s’pose de men wuz talkin’ ’bout?” “T haven’t the least idea.” “Dey said dey had squeezed yer out’r twenty a t’ousan’ dollars!” » “Squeezed me out of twenty thousand dollars!” a excleimed Pob. “Dat’s right. De feller dat wuz in here dis - mornin’ ana sold yer some stock wuz one of dem we ¥@ 4, rAd Si De. al Rieke Vit oli «| ” reise §

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I ee bs eee we Ady. ee bya ‘ ie ie Pein £ a “A pee a is yh View Ms - AY 4g = € * 18 “Tell me all you heard, Jimmy.” “Dat’s wot I’m goin’ to do. Dey said dat owin’ to some fluke de A. & C. Leasing Co. had lost its grip on de Atlas mine and had received notice ~to quit at de end of de week-and take away all deir machinery. De noos would be all over Wall Street first t'ing Monday mornin’, and dem folks wot owned de leasin’ stock wouldn’t be able to give it away. As soon as Simms got de noos by a cipher dispatch from a friend on de inside he Said he saw de chance to get square wit’ youse fer somet’in’ dat he owed yer. He had 5,000 shares in his safe, and he sent one of his friends to Brown to tell him dat dere would be a boom in de stock in a few days. He said he guessed Brown would tip yer off, and den yer would want some of de stock. After a while he sent de same man to yer wit’ de 5,000 shares, and at de same time anudder man to Brown who wuz to pertend dat he wanted 10,000 shares bad enough to pay $4.30 for it. T’ings worked better dan he ex- d, for yer bit at de bait so easy dat he said, wid a laff, it wuz almost a shame to rob yer. Yer ponied up $20,000 and took morrer and Saturday he and his friends are goin’ to make some wash sales dat will put de price of de leasin’ company up to $5 a share. Dat’s all for yer benefit, to make yer hold on to wot er bought, t’inkin’ yer have a puddin’. Den on Sronday yer'll wake up to find de bottom out of de stock, and yer twenty t’ousan’ gone up Salt River. Dere yer have it now,” concluded Jimmy. Bob was staggered by the news. He would have doubted its truth but for the fact that Broker Simms appeared to be the man who had engineered it. He stared at Jimmy a moment or / two and then drew a long breath. ' He put on his hat and walked out of the office. CHAPTER XIII.—The Mills of the Gods. Bob went straight to Brown’s office and found the broker in. : “Did that man come back about those 10,000 Leasing shares?” Bob asked. foe - “Not yet he hasn’t. I guess he’ll be in, though, for I’ve got his hundred dollars as evidence that he wanted the stock,” said Brown. -“You can consider yourself $100 in, for he'll never show up.” ae na -. “How do you know-he won’t? Want to bet on =H?" _ “Yes. T’ll bet you $10 he won’t come.” “:m sport enough to cover you, but I'd like to ncw what makes you so positive about him.” | ‘Put up your ten and J’H tell you,” said Bob, laying down a bill. ’ wn matched it. _ ‘ Now explain yourself,” he said. ; Bob told him Jimmy’s story. It certainly as- tonished Brown, . _ “Must be some mistake,” he said. “The A. & -C. Leasing Co. is a fine proposition. One of the leasing companies.” a , I believe that it’s run up against a snag : going to. play the mischief with its stock- ry if = ‘Bob. “Jimmy wouldn’t bring me he hadn’t heard every word of it. oar e stock. To- + y er* y collaj with. tonishment Liege’ the five $20 pills. H ts BOSS OF WALL STREET Monday morning I would wake up to find my money up Salt River. In the meantime, he and his friends are going to work some wash sales, with the view of forcing the stock up around $5 to make-me think that I have got hold of a good thing.” ; “Well, your story gets me, Granger,” said Brown. “Jimmy heard Simms say that he sent a man around to your office to look for any part of 10,000 shares of the leasing company. I didn’t tell Jimmy that pou phoned me about the man, so how could he know the fact if he didn’t hear it as he said he did?” Brown had to admit the force to Bob’s reason- ing. “Then I ae you’re going to try to sell the stock?” said the broker. “Most decidedly. F’ve got this afternoon, to- morrow and Saturday morning to do it in. [f want you to offer it around quietly on the Curb, - but be careful not to let Simms, or those you believe to be his friends, get on to you.” “7 don’t know many of Simms’ friends. The best thing I can do is to keep out of it. Ill place the order with a broker: I’m acquainted with. Simms and his crowd won’t suspect him as be- ing any way connected with you.” “That’s right. Go ahead.” Brown put on his hat, after Bob gave him his signed order, and went out to see his friend, while Bob went to lunch. At half-past three Brown ree Bob that the stock had all been sold at On the following day Bob hung about the Curb a good deal, and while he was there A. & C. Leasing went up to $4.60. Once he encountered ~ Simms’ eyes, and he detected a triumphant gleam in them. “He thinks he has me dead to rights,” thought the boy. “How some people fool themselves! But he would have had me but for Jimmy, Well, Tll make it all right with the boy. e's a. jewel.” The leasing stock closed at $4.75 that day, and — next morning it was forced up to an even $5. Bob had been watched by the conspirators to see _whether he made any effort to sell his shares. Of course, having taken time by the forelock and got rid of them within a few hours after he — bought them, a fact they had no suspicion of, - Simms felt certain that the boy would lose his $20,000, for the bad news would be known to all Wall Street early on Monday morning. Bob handed Jimmy his pay envelope at hali-past twelve on Saturday. i “Be careful of that, Jimmy, there’s $105 in it,” he said. == ae hundred and five dollars!” exclaimed the — = “Yes. The hundred is a present for bringing — me that information on Thursday that you picked up in the cafe.” . > ; “T don’t want no pay for dat,” protested Jimmy. — “Mavhe not. but you will take it, just the same. Remember, it’s bad luck to refuse money. Fur- ‘thermore, the balance you owe me 01 yous clot! = is cancelled—wiped. ond ou understand?” ° Jimmy went home, feeling $20 b

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“how he came by them, and she said she would : open a bank account for him with the money. 3 On Monday morning every Curb broker learned = of the trouble the A/ & C. Leasing Co. was in. _ The Atlas mine officials had found a flaw in the tease, and were delighted at the chance it af- > forded them to terminate their connection with - the leasing company. Their action was not fa- votably looked upon by the general mining com- . munity, a8 it was regarded as a piece of sharp - ractice. They stood upon their legal rights, * ‘however, and the leasing company was obliged to Iguidate. As the assets of the company con- + sisted only of ore on hand, a cash balance and its machinery, the prospect of the stockholders get- ting a great deal was not bright. The stock 4 dro to 50 cents a share before Monday noon, and Simms wondered how Bob Granger was feel- ing. He rubbed his hands with satisfaction. “Pye got back at him for doing me up with 5 the Widow. Gage,” he said. “I never fail to get square with any one who does me an injury, The grin faded from his face 2s his thoughts went back to some incident not long since, and he sat for some time ‘looking at his desk with a - scowl on his countenance. At that moment Bob sat at his desk in his own offic®, wondering if Broker Simms was holding a high jinks with his friends over his supposed predicament, ” “1¢ Simms could only look inside of his trap, he = would see that the victim was_missing from it. Then he wouldn’t feel quite so happy as I imag- = ine he now does,” he chuckled. ‘I'd like to let him know that he slipped up. How wil] I do ite Suddenly he had an idea. He was acquainted ith ewspaper cartoonist. That evening he ated at his ase and told him that he wanted him to draw a picture for him. : “I'll pay you whatever you think it’s worth, id. “What do you want me to draw for you?” ask- ee shale a abl ctu Draw a nice rat _ *& sort of double picture. v = are po Sing arm ep open, with a large piece of soreee inside, labeled ‘A. & C, Leasing Co., 5,000 s — ~ the initials ‘Ry $.,’ with a package of money ti to his neck, marked ‘$20,000.’. hen draw a ver- = ticle line and on the other side show the en 2 trap, sprung, the cheese gone, and the rat bed ing out through the hole in the top with a a. ‘gee of money tied to his neck, marked $21,125. Understand?” =~ ' The artist had re rap s accustomed on in smaller ped “the idea and proceeded fily in the usual way that a It took ds, ‘The Scheme That ailed.’ ” * The artist aig “How much i BOSS OF WALL STREET .reason at present a mystery, had killed the ol} “Now put over the top the . iy a 19 broker who had tried to do him up on a foxy deal and had failed to catch him. Before he mailed the drawing to Broker Simms, carefully wrapped, he showed it to Brown. That trader saw the point right away and laughed heartily. “What are you going to do with it?” he asked. “Mail it to Simms. I think it will spoil the satisfaction he is feeling at this moment.” . : But Broker Simms wasn’t feeling very happy at that moment. The police, however, claimed to have evidenc2 =~ to prove that he had returned ata later hour, effected his entrance by way of the porch roof _ and one of the second-story windows, and hada second ‘interview, unknown to the rest of the | household, with the money-lender and, for som> man at an unguarded moment. Hardly anythin= else was talked about that day in Wall Street — but the arrest of Simms and the allered evidence on which he was béing held in the Tombs. with- _ out bail. ‘ The foxy trader had very few, if any, real friends in the Street, but, nevertheless. no one appeared to believe that he was guilty of the crime. In fact, brokers generally were averse to accept the opinion that one of their number could be capable of committing a murder. Rob — read the news in the paper and was probably the Sng ee fee om vs any one in mes Street; H2 s suspicions.ever since Jimmy spoke to him about the shake-iie he had seen so often : Simms’ finger, and which he found out the bre ker no longer wore. He went over to see E and tell him the news, but found that Bro about it . it in the

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first customer was arrested and held for several weeks?” “The police appear to think they have the right man at last,” replied Bob. Here the office boy announced a visitor, and Bob took his leave. Simms lost no time in engaging eminent counsel to defend him. The lawyers waived examination and applied for bail. The district attorney produced reasons enough to cause the magistrate to refuse their application, so Simms was compelled to remain in the Tombs. He was never indicted. A week later he was found dead in his cell from heart failure. That left the question of his guilt or innocence unrav- eled. In a few days Wall Street ceased to think : about the broker. A boom in one of the big railroad stocks kept things humming for a week, and this was followed by a rise in copper on the Curb. Bob bought 10,000 shares of a prominent copper stock and cleared $100,000 off it, making him worth a quarter of a million. One day, not long afterward, Bob was walking home from the elevated station in the afternoon when he saved an old man named Adams from being run over by an automobile. Bob assisted Adams to the home where he was passing the last of his days and left him there, after furnishing the old man with his name and address. ,In a few days the ~ yourg broker received word that Adams was dy- - ing and wanted to see him. Bob called and was - shown to his room. The ol¢ man told him a - singular story. Many years since, he said, five _ eapitalists had secured, through politics, a fran- _ chise for a street railway on a certain street, _ from Broadway to the East River. It cost the pool half a million dollars to put the scheme through, but after the franchise was secured, in the name of the B. & F. S. Railway Co., nothing further was done. Once a year the capitalists held a meeting of the company, elected them- j selves directors and, as directors, selected a _ president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer. and then adjourned. Thus several years elapsed and_ still the franchise slumbered. Finally the 2 syndicate found they had milked the traction sys- tem to the limit and a reorganization became nec- je. . The five capitalists took advantage of See chatice and arranged that the system should take over the B. & F. S. line for the modest sum - of ten millions, the said money to be divided be- 4 ween the five astute capitalists. Unfortunately the success of the scheme, the press of the city got on to it and denounced it in such unmis- 5 able terms that it failed te go through. To extricate themselves from the roasting they got » capitalists called a meeting of themselves . franchise was temporarily transferred to for the sum of one dollar. He had been BOSS OF WALL STREET r “You are the person to whom Mr. Adams trans- ferred the franchise of the F. S. Railways Co., I believe?” he said. Bob admitted the fact. “Do you know that Adams held that fran- chise merely as a matter of form?” “That may be, but still he held possession of it legally, and he transferred it to me legally.” “T shall not argue the matter,” said the visitor pompously. “I shall require you to transfer that to a person I will select for the purpose for the same consideration, and for your services in the matter you will be paid the sum of $1,000.” “A thousand dollars won’t pay me. I am a high-priced person. My charge when dealing with. millionaires is in proportion to the benefit they expect to realize from my efforts. In this case I think a quarter of a million would be the proper figure for us to consider,” said Bob coolly. The multi-millionaire visitor gasped at the boy’s nerve. “What good is the franchise to you?” “There are five of you gentlemén who are in- terested in this franchise. I know each of you by reputation. you have accumulated a large part of your mon- ey. Let me state a case in point.” and Bob took a paper from the pigeon-hole of his desk. “Ten years ago the five of you. with other Wall Street magnates, had the traction interests in your grasp. You had capitalized a fifty-million dollar enterprise for six hundred millions by means which would take me an hour to describe and which youeare familiar with. Five-sixthd of it was watered stock; then the authorities got after you. Well, here is the record of the way you held the law up—the way you people kept out of jail for stealing $550,000,000 from the public, while in the meantime many a poor man has been sent to the penitentiary in short order for steal- ing $26 or to the Island for stealinr a loaf of broad. You people practically control Wall Street, and they say Wall Street controls the country. Well, I’m the boss of Wall Street just now, be- ‘ cause I control your movements on this fran- chise.” _ “Young man, do you intend to fight us?” “No, sir, I leave you to do the fighting, if you think it’s worth while. What is a quarter of a million to you five gentlemen? A mere bagatelle —$50,000 each. If you refuse to buy me out. I will, in three days, advertise the franchise for ke ” : sale.” _ “You will hear from us later,” said the-visitor stiffly, taking his leave... On the following after- noon a big corporation lawyer called on Bob and tried to intimidate him with the specter of legal was: be I know, in a general way, how” In the end,

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sett te A - ‘a f = e _ _ © massino, Ita +> “already ceased to _ - slid into the FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY i ahd CURRENT NEWS ND $100 BILLS me AS Cae. acting governor is announced by J. : Ge tie Seudexal Reserve Bank of New York, in irculars just sent to trust companies and savings beuks that 1 new counterfeit Federal Reserve bank notes have been placed in circulation, and ex- treme care is urged in the attempt to find them and prevent their further circulation. ere The warning says the notes are of $ ae $100 denomination, the $20 notes having ac “ letter “F” plate number indiatinet, apparent y “55,” bearing the signatures of William G. Me- Adoo and John Burke, with portrait of Cleve- land. The $100 notes are on the Pederal Reserve Bank of New York, with check letter B ‘om plate number “10,” bearing portrait of Franklin. ERS. tae SCENTED LETTERS A RUSE Some clever business men are using penned notepaper to make sure that their as sone will reach the proprietors the thrift club for sums ranging from $1 to $10 a week, Not a one refused. They didn’t even argue. It was enough for them that their fore- “? #4 oe man was a thrift-club man. Bili himself is the better for it, and those men are saving . now they never tried to save before.” : BUY. -W. SS

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* Lost On Mt. Erebus aa, a A Boy Explorer At the South Pole By GAs!ON GARNE . (A Serial Story) CHAPTER XV. (continued) Hawley’s voice was receding and the ‘girl stood trembling, but obedient to the other’s orders. If paything happened to Joe, what would she do? ut presently Joe pulled out all right nearly , a hundred yards away. She hurried cautiously . forward, but when she reached him he was point- ing excitedly at the last cliff on their right, the n one where the detached cliffs ended. - rch Coming up, the girl looked, then clapped her mittened hands. ; a “The Owl’s Head! Do we see it, or do I dream yr the likeness?” Y Sure enough, from the point where they now were, the upper face of the cliff strongly re- Y sembled an owl’s head, even in the uprig t ears. ~ Full of suppressed excitement the two hastened Z to the point in question, giving little heed crevasses or other snow-lided perils. . a For half an hour they searched, and Madge . > was for giving up in despair, when Joe discovered . the outline of a staff imbedded in the ice formed av oy drippings from the overhanging rock wall. ‘ This was close at the base, where the snows - oi years had less force to drift, being wind swept * further on. ee “Excelsior!” cried Hawley.. rt Madge. We'll use our axes and picks. Never «ive up. I do believe we've it-at last.” To make the story of the discovery short, in two hours time they found the old Arctic sled, the staff of which, encased in ice, Joe had first seem In the cache was a supply of Arctic pro- visions, together with spare clothing and more sleeping bags, such as’ made their hearts glad. Eatables to last weeks and weeks for the two were there. “Madge, what say you?” said Hawley. “We’re ' on the south side of thesc mountains; we have-a » good hand sled, and plenty of grub. Let’s you and I start for the pole from here in good earn- ~, est.. Will you go?” Madge’s answer was like that of Ruth to B in the old Bible story. As they shook hands ‘on '. -it she replied: E 4 i2¢ “Where “Tt is. Be i Gel ot ae a zoI will go. . Is that enough, Joe?” erhaps with good luck we may land ~ the old yet.’ - “AD » we will try our best.” And they did,.from then on. Erebus was al- ready theirs. e pole should be. To make as- __-_ gUrance more-sure, they piled three months’. pro- ag en ao that hand sled and started early in Ne , the May of southern latitudes, on their quest... ie Lk _ Crevasses bothered them somewhat until the t_ mountain range was passed at 84 degrees a a 2 _ FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY “Get to digging, . The last three hundred miles were over a gradually ascending snow plain, swept by occa- sional snow blizzards, but measurably. safe un- - ‘der foot, : With plenty of grub, and being favored much in weather, they sped tiresomely but gamely for- ward. Hawley took daily observations when the sun permitted. They cached part of their sled load at 87 de- = This was to lighten their load, mainly on adge’s account. November had given way to December., Decem- ber was well on, when one morning they saw the sun for the first time. Joe instantly got out his sextant. Madge helped him and stooi expectant -as he figured out the latitude. Suddenly he jumped up and seized her hand. Then he hugged her and danced about crying wildly: “We have reached the pole at last! Look, Madge!” thrusting the figures under her eyes. “Ninety degrees, barring a very small fraction. “Don’t be so ridiculous, Joe. I’m tired.” -“But the pole is ours. Erebus is ours also. Oh, we've found it all—good and plenty. Whoop!” “Do stop—please do! If you can look at any~ thing else, tell me what that is coming toward us, off yonder.” : : Far. out on the snow plain, hitherto lifeless but for themselves for many days, were certain dim, moving objects. ; CHAPTER XVI. Mysterious Appearances. The last words of Madge Barclay caused Joe Hawley to suddenly cease his merrymaking over their great discovery. be Something seemed to be stirring out there, though they could not see what was doing, or whether human og animal life was the cause. Suddenly Hawley made a wondering exclamation. ‘“Look here, dge,” said he, pointing to their own tracks and the sled, which lay nearly a hun- dred yards off where they had left it after Joe’s announcement. . lo what og Joe? ary everything looks.” . “Yes, it does. But you see that yonder are our tracks and cur sled. How comes it we see those objects in an opposite direction?” 4 “T do believe are right. What can it mean?” “Stay right here, Madge. I’m going to find cut.”* Hawley started toward the confused glimmer of moving objects that had first attracted the girl’s attention. “Don’t go alone, Joe.” Madge was suddenly alarmed. “Those objects look vague. We don’t know what they are.” “TI am going to see, Madge. Don’t worry. One of us must stay here, so as to mark our relative position. You see, at the pole, all outward dis- tances are north. Our sled is north; but it is not the same way north as those struggling, mov- ing things off there.” How shimmery and ‘ > oe started at a brisk pace toward one ee 1 manifestati vut yonder, while Madge, rifle in hand, watched him Tactousie: (To be continued) - ) eee

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FAME AND ELECTRIC HATCHING OF CHICKS A third of a million chickens a season is the . proposed capacity which a customer of the Elec- tric Power Company of Portland, Ore., intends tg attain irr his electrically-operated chicken farm His output this season and now is equipped to operate on a large seale, having a single incubator with a capacity of 20,- 000 eggs. The total connected load for this plant consists of 33.5 kilowatts of heating and 3 kilo- watts of lighting. For emergency service, con- tinues Electrical Review, a 20-kilowatt direct cur- rent generator is installed at the farm and is so " arranged that it may be driven from the owner’s truck. Sse, ia Se ORIGINATED 5 The strawberry, says one of the Government __-€Xperts, comes from a cross between the native _ strawberry ci Virginia and that of Chile. The raspberry is native in temperate Europe and in ‘Asia. The apricot originated in China. The “peach was originally a Chinese fruit. The cherry \ originated around the Caspian Sea. The plum comes from the Caucasus and Turkey. ; The pear is native in temperate Europe and Western Asia. The quince comes from South- eastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Caspian region. The apple is native all over Europe, in _., the Caucasus, around the Black Sea and in Per- sia. The almond comes from Transcaucasia, Mesopotamia, Persia, Turkestan and Algeria. The fig seems to have~ originated around the Meciterranean, particularly in _ The grape is native in Southern Europe, Algeria, Mo- rocco and Western Asia. The red currant grows in the Caucasus, the Hima- layas, Manchuria, Japan and arctic America. The ralnut comes from the Caucasus, Persia and northern India. The sweet orange originated in ‘Southern China and Cochin China. The citron 1s of Indian origin. RELEASED FROM PRISON, FINDS HE IS : MILLIONAIRE “Uncle” Bill Edwards, who was sentenced to the penitentiary from Castland, Tex., about ten years ago for the murder of a neighbor, G. A. ‘Rogers, eritered upon his term of thirty-six years mprisonment a poor farmer. He was re'eased a ew weeks ago upon pardon of Governer W.-P. ‘obby, and finds himself a millionaire, due to the discove (ae wild all cver Europe, ramet FORTUNE WEEKLY THE NEWS IN SHORT ARTICLES. “or in weekly installments extending over 48-4 per cent on all ins In both these instances Edwards refused the par- don on the ground that he had not yet suffered enough for the crime he had committed. It was only a few days ago that he arrived at the con- clusion that he had atoned for the deed. He wrote Governor Hobby: : “T feel in my mind, conscience and heart that I have paid the penalty of my crime.” During the time Edwards was in prison his farm and other business affairs were looked after by relatives. When oil was discovered in the Eastland region the 320-acre tract of land was leased for a big price. Then oil wells were brought in, and the fortune of the aged man be- gan piling up at an enormous rate. It was al) held for him, pending his release from prison. A GROWING HABIT The 80,000 employees of the General Electric a Company are fast getting the thrift habit. Esti- mates based on results fer the early months of this year indicate that thcse habits will result in the accumulation of several million dollars over the savings of last year. At the Schenectady plant alone, where approximately 25,000 workers are employed, 12,000 employees saved $1,700,000 last year. It is expected that this year’s savings at this plant will exceed $2,225,000, according to the Wall Street Journal. ; The $1,700,000 of 1919 savings were invested in the company’s guarantzed employees’ bonds, a building and loan association, and Liberty bonds, war-savings stamps and Trersury savings certificates. This year the company has arranged — a plan whereby employees who have been one™ year or more with the company may purchase de- benttire bonds of the company or Liberty bonds at current market prices on long-time payments. The company has made it clear that these in- vestment opportunities are purely voluntary and thet no pressure will be brought to bear on any employee to secure subscriptions. These oppor- tunities have been created because the corporation has realized the danger to the habits of saving which are opened by insecure and unsafe invest- ment. : . cs In a letter recently to the Savings Division cf the Treasury Henry W. Darling, treasurer of the company, declares that in the first fovr — months of this year 1,749 employees of the com-. pany subscribed for the 43-4 per cent Victory notes for an aggregate amount of $182,000. Tk. — company, according to the plan, purchases these notes‘at the market price plus accrued interest for ~ any employee in service for one year. MES Payments may be made for these notes in equal morithly installments over’a pediod of ten months — weeks deducted from the pay roll or in equal installments, monthly, bimonthly, er. terly.. The notes are delivered to the- -as soon as they are paid in fall with in tallments, — ae

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‘> mi qe Re. ‘ sty Bae) oO fart re ee +t PSY Seen ey aye) — oe = a > Me ie es oe at of day and dance in _ jong as the sun shall remain above the horizon. THE SQUAW’S DOOM By D. W. STEVENS High, frowning over the dashing waters of the Red River of the North, at a point where rapids flow over jagged rocks, there yet stands a high _ cliff of rock. It is called by the settlers of to-day the Squaw’s Leap, and connected thereby is an Indian legend which, true or not, is most romantic and strange. q A branch of the Assinaboin tribe once had their village upon the banks of the river here. Tt was a famous place for fishing, and this, no doubt, was one reason why it was chosen as the site of the village. Black Panther had been the chief for many years, and had followed the war trail and the chase until age had broken down his strength and iron will. A tottering, feeble old man, death one day terminated his rule. Black Panther had a daughter, the fair Prin- cess Manotomah or the Laughing Rose. She was a stately and beautiful young girl, and not with- out suitors for her hand, _ The only favored ones, however, were the two most prominent young warriors of the tribe, Lit- tle Bear and Red Antelope. The latter, as was well known, enjoyed the preference. 4 Another law of the nation stipulated that the ‘aspirant to the chieftainship, if successful, must claim the princess as his squaw. So it happened that Little Bear and Red Antelope were the rivals ‘for the favors of Laughing Rose and the honors _ of ruler of the nation. Only the hardiest of courage and the most confident of hearts could have undertaken the ordeal which the old chief required. When it was made known, great excitement was created in the town. r First was the terrible sun-dance, well known for its horrid details. Just as the sun reaches the meridian, the dancer must take his position _ beneath it, entirely stri , and with a hundred _ euts and‘gashes upon his body, self-inflicted, he - must rivet his eyes upon the bright, blinding orb the most furious fashion as ‘Should he remove his gaze or cease the dance, or sink from exhaustion, or close his eyes to the blinding light, it should be esteemed a mark of cowardice, and he would be disqualified for the position of chief. i Secondly was the arrow test, in which an ar- row, ‘driven deeply into the flesh of the thigh must be unhesitatingly cut out and the woun dressed by the contestant. This was to demon- strate the aspirant’s power to stand pain with- » waist, given long knives an blazing FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY sa the fearful nature of these tests, but neither shrank from them. Indeed, both were eager to undertake them. Now, it chanced that the heart of Laughi Rose had long belonged to Little Bear. She hod ‘ held many a tryst with the handsome young chief, and her prayers to Manitou were for his suc- cess in the ordeal. : Meeting him clandestinely in a wooded dell, she - clung to his breast, sobbing wildly: g “The Great Spirit will. give you strength, m3 own, to win the dance. I can never go to the wig- wam of Red Antelope.” “If Little Bear faces not the Great Sun until it shall have gone into the dark beyond, then he will lose, and Laughing Rose must go to the wig- wam of Red Antelope. It is the will of Manitou ~ and the law of our people.” Then Manotomah, the Laughing Rose, looked at her handsome, noble lover, and a new inspira- tion seized her. Ah! strange that she could not have partaken of that lofty, noble spirit. But she loved her handsome Bear. She inherited a spirit of craft and subterfuge which one would never have dreamed of her possessing, and she compressed her lips, while her dark eyes flashed and her bosom rose and fell with a deadly reso- lution. When she went to her couch that night she murmured before closing her’ eyes in.slumber: | “Little Bear must be chief! My life is lost if he becomes not chief of the Assinaboins. I can do it. Manitou, the Great Spirit > Then she hid her face in affright as she re- fiected that the Great Spirit would never approve of her plan. She would dare his will and pleas- ure.- For a little time this caused her to waver. — But desire and a mad infatuation were upper- most. S ‘ “Manotomah shall never dwell in the wigwam of Red Antelope,” she murmured rigidly. Ae The next morning Laughing Rose stole out of : the village unobserved. She was equipped with a a long pale and a bit of deer’s meat. She well knew where to look for that which she wanted. ; In a deep dell among the rocks she halted. Puckering her lips she made a strange kissing noise. This she continued for some time until | an answer came. Then from a crevice in the _ nt two large and venomous rattlesnakes crept _ ou % . The creatures bristled with anger and alarm _ at sight of Laughing Rose. But the Indian maiden fastened the meat to the end of the pole and ex- tended it toward the reptiles. They struck it savagely several times. : _. Then she removed the meat, carefully saw that — it was ae putrid yreen and wrapped itin a = of deerskin. She stole back to the village — quietly. ps: It was near the hour of noon, and preparations _ were being made for the sun dance. a The two participants were stripped ‘to the ; d led to the spot whe the horrid dance was to. begin. ES Just as the shadow from the medicine wand showed that the noon hour Ted pala : ‘signal was given, the Indian drums began to ae and the two contestants fixed Nn = CN a their eyes” azing orb of day.

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in the swaying motion of the dance. With the knives they gashed their limbs and body until the ground was red with blood. At a distance Laughing Rose stood and watched the awful ordeal. Her hands were clasped about her forehead, her gaze strained and tense was a _ fixed upon, not the form of her lover, but that of Red Antelope. : erate at ___ She sought for some sign of weakening in his _ frame, for some evidence that he would succumb to the fearful infliction. In her heart she prayed and hoped that he would break down. ; But he did not. The grim dance went on. Time passed. The red sun crept, oh, so slowly, to the __ Western horizon. Would it never descend? Now their limbs tottered. The strain was beginning to tell. Yet the face of neither showed the agony of their sufferings; they were mobile and calm. Oh, _. what mighty command of the nerves was there! PS But it could not last forever. The end came. _ The sun settled rapidly below the horizon line, the drums began to beat and the dance came to a stop. - : For a moment both warriors tottered and seemed to fall. The eyes of both seemed sunken and expressionless. Were they blind? A great: ery went up as Red Antelope, with stateliness 3 .and firmness, walked from the circle. Laughing - Rose clenched her small hands and set her thin _ lips in a half-spasm of agony as her le was fastened upon Little Bear. Would he bear up? ; a trembling ery of joy escaped her lips. _ Her lover suddenly regained his erect attitude and walked with stately grace from the circle. . : Not a word was spoken by the-stoical circle _ of Indians who sat in judgment near by. A war- ‘rior with-a bow and quiver of arrows now ad- vanced. The arrow test was’ now about to “be _ Made. i Bs, ughing Rose sprang up and, with glittering = eyes Saar ater. The jo Di. had already strung _ h's bow with an arrow. es _ The quiver lay upon the nd. The secon arrow had been drawn and lay across it. i ittle Bear, with folded arms, stood awaiting abe sietging of.the steel tip into his flesh. His nerves were rigid and set. ; eye was on Liitle Bear. Consequently d not notice Laughing Rose when she the arrow intended for the next shot. = en The act him who received the arrow, = Every ittle Bear. e arrow ped fee t0 eget 2 tet se imbedded in the h above the keen barbs. True to his Indian oo sedragg E genet veig Sere ty get ee is lo ithou' ion a muscle of his face, de- ately cut the. x flesh. arrow tip from the bleeding, * 4 A v ; a wonderful example of nerve, of hardi- d probably a strength of wil! possessed “ot race on earth so forcibly as by the Indian. ae : 4S 7 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY # hr when she saw that her lover had passed this ordeal. assured. But now Red Antelope advanced. The aréher stepped back and picked up—the poisoned arrow. Laughing Rose drew a fluttering breath. A sickening faintness came over her, succeeded by a species of irresolution. Half repentant, she had stepped forward, but—too late! The arrow was quivering in Red Antelope’s thigh. The noble young savage had not flinched. With quick action he seized his knife, and as skillfully cut the arrow from the flesh. : He held up the tip triumphantly, and a great cry went up from the whole tribe. The silence was broken, the ordeal was over; both had stood the test. But what is this? Red Antelope suddenly reels and falls. His face and neck swell, his tongue is . thrust from his mouth, he clutches his heart. Sympathetic hards seize and support him, but no one guesses the truth. He is sick—aye, even dy- ing. They attribute it to the fearful action of the sun. Such a thing as poison in the arrow tip is not thought of. Red Antelope is dead. MUnsuspecting the real cause, his friends bury him. Only the grave and the breast of Laughing Rose hold the fearful secret. > Little Bear is chief of the Assinaboins. Laugh- ing Rose becomes his bride. There is feasting and merriment in the Indian village for many days. .Manotomah throws herself with wild aban- ~~ don into the, joy of the occasion, and drowns for a time the black nightmare of her life. But of a sudden a wild report rouses the vil- lage. The Sioux have come to attack them, © All the warriors fly to arms. Little Bear embraces his squaw of a week and takes to the woods with his warriors to meet the foe. Days pass. Every evening Manatomah, the Laughing Rose, whlks by the bank of the river, waiting. for her liege lord to return. But one day at dusk, walking there, a strange spell comes over her. = Looking up with startled manner, Laughing ™ Rose sees a wondrous ‘and terrible sight. Slowly, — mystically floating down the river current but a few yards from the shore she sees a canoe white and shadowy, and standing in it, with spear in one hand, tomahawk uplifted in the other, white as driven snow in form, feature and dress— merciful powers! it was the likeness of the dead chief, Black Panther. “Oh, my love,” she sobs and moans wildly. “O) the light of my wigwam and my life. For ye I have sinned, I have broken the vows of my péo- ; ple and the laws of the ‘Great Spirit. He is : angry at me. My heart is in great darkness, but Victory seemed where thou art so must I be. Le fies + love. - Ha-ha-ha! I go, stay not the ughingt m2 With wild maniacal laughter she springs to _ her are a sro. up raek ae rock overleok- ing the foaming torrent she climbs. On the top — the sane Indians behold her. It is too late to stay her. . ; : ; Me With one wild, despairing pA she has taken — the awful leap. Down, down half-hour later her , fri on om 4 : found upon thi » the was shallow and slu

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Ue (es oP et - ae & S 2k OME he oe at 4 - + ee * inches. _¢rophone and the micro - scope does t FINDS AN ALLIGATOR Tt is not often that. alligators are found along e creeks in this part of Pennsylvania, but Ells- worth Hutton is exhibiting one 18 inches long which he- found along Nescopeck Creek. The Sa#urian was crossing the road near a bridge when he caught it., It was very active and made every effort to get away. - TEAKETTLE LIFESAVER Surrounced on all sides by hissing - topper heads, Joe Leonard, watchman at the Fulton tunnel, on the New York Central Railroad, Clearfield, Pa., owes his life te a kettle of hot water which he always has on the top of the lit- tle cast-iron stove in the shanty which shelters him from the elements. The other morning after completing his inspection of the tunnel, Leonard returned to his -watch box, ‘and on entering fevnd six big copperheads had taken possession. The biggest reptile in the bunch struck at him from beneath a bench, fastening its fangs in a lee of the watchmen’s overalls. Leonard sprang on to a small bench, permitting the copperhead to dangle over the side. Realizing that he could not battle the snakes without weapons, he seized the teg kettle and began pouring boiling water on the snakes, which were striking at him’ from all sides. Leonard then sprang outside with the biggest fnake still hanging to his overalls, evidently unable to release its fangs. With a big rock the watchman soon despatched his closest enemy. It measured thirty-one inches in length and was as thick as a man’s wrist, while the other five ranged in size from two feet to eighteen SCIENCE BAFFLED BY SCENTS Some time ago there was held in England a “Wonders of Science Exhibition which’ served - to reveal many marvels to e public unfamiliar with the work done with the microscope, the mi- aph. : The microphone magnifies sound as the micro- ings seen. The micrograph is the =v instrument used by the scientists in taking pic- ~ _- microscope than with the microphone. They know tures of things shown by the microscope. More ‘people are familiar, to some extent, with. the it is possible to make objects entirely outside ‘of the range of natural human vision visible by use of the telescope for great distances and + the microscope for minute things close by; but few have any knowledge of the device by hich it is possible to hear a fly walk or a pillar crawl. hen y other wonders of science were shown at it tae neither soft ae, Sa were else of smell, It can do area tee sight, : not for the humble_and use- pl, pa . be £ fs touch, but FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY INTERESTING NEWS ARTICLES “4 Weekly Magazine Devoted to Photoplays and Players to Oe Rend ear- , , ful nose. In that.-field the accomplishments of science haye been nil. Let a man stand two miles, say, to windward of the point where a herd of caribou will cross an open plain over which a fresh breeze is sweep- ing and it must be apparent that only an in- finitely minute particle of whatever matter may be ‘given off from his body or clothing can pos- sibly reach the nostrils of any one’ deer in the herd. Yet, if the man is completely screened from sight by a rise in the surface of the ground the caribou will nevertheless catch the taint in the air. They would be warned of the presence of a wolf in the same way. Yet science is utterly unable to detect anything which the olfactory nerve of_the deer senses and identifies. It cannot see with a microscope any- thing in the air which came from the man. It cannot find any such substance with a chemical test of any kind. Instead of aiding the sense of smell, it is entirely incapable of matching it, Here is another realm for science to invade and subdue; but would the conquest be altogether desirable? It is a question whether the average man needs to smell more things or sense more acutely the. things he smells already. © It is thought that the eains would not offset the losses under the prevailing conditions of life. ————lllESESESESESESSESESSESSSS “THE WAY TO BECOME A MOVING PIc: TURE ACTRESS” is in “Moving Picture Stories,” No. 326. Get a copy. Price 7 cents; postage free. HARRY E, WOLFF, 166 W. 23rd St., N. Y, “MYSTERY MAGAZINE” SEMI-MONTHLY 10 CENTS A COPY ~ — LATEST ISSUES — ¢0 CAUGHT WITH THE EVIDENCE, by Ethel Rose? mon. A LITTLE GOLD SPIDER, by ¢ THE VELVEL TOUCH. by Jullen Darrow. THE SCHEME OF SOLOMO a eA erie 2ME N SNA Wail QUICK TNR, OOO a teams cme Ss - c E * R 1 I g: THE CLUB IN THE DARK Oo, oe “Hamilton Craigie. THE TONGUE OF OSIRIS, by Mare Ea ; DETECTIVE WADE’S BIG CASE, by Ethel oct mon. THE SPIRIT BELL, by Charles Fulton Oursler e Famous Detective Story Out To-day in No. 70 I, THE HOUSE BEHIND THE WALL By Julian Darrow PRANK TOUSEY, Pub. 168 W. 23d St, N. y, “MOVING PICTURE STORIES” 32 #3 Sa & e828 PRICE SEVEN CENTS PER COPY

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; - —_ 28 * aged negro in Indianapolis, Ind., recently. ' it for a long time. = absorbed by raindrops or FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY GOOD READING BRICKBAT KILLS MAD BULL An infuriated bull was killed almost instantly when struck between the eyes by a brickbat thrown by a small boy as it was about to gore. = e lad, apparently frightened when he saw the ani- . mal sink to the ground, fied in a panic, and em- ployees at the local stock yards, where the inci- dent occurred, were unable to learn his identity. The bull escaped from its pen and charged at Robert Williams, an aged negro employed at the yards. The lad, who was near by, seized a brickbat and hurled it at the attacking animal. When it fell to the ground he ran. ° % WHY IS THE SKY BLUE? This question puzzled everyone who thought of Even astronomers, the men who make a business of studying the skies, and other learned men puzzled their brains about it and searched for the answer long ago, until final- ly, as always happens when a lot of people study a subject, Prof. John Tyndall, a noted scientist ‘of the last’ century, discovered the answer. The explanation follows: Ail the light we have is sunlight, which is pure white light. This white light is made up of rays of light of different palaeé: These rays are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. It takes all of these dif- ferent rays of light to make our white sunlight, and when you separate sunlight into its original rays you always produce the rays of light in the above colors, and in the same order, This is only true, however, when the sunlight is passed through an object which does not absorb any of. its rays. This is the arrangement of the different colors of light found in the rainbow. The rain- bow is formed by sunlight passing into rain- drops or vapor in such a way as to divide the sunlight into the different colored rays of light. When the rainbow is formed none of the rays are apor through which the sunlight passes. Some of these rays of light known as short rays and others as long rays. A FIGHTING SNAKE “Don’t wake up a moccasin,” was the lesson learned by a Northern man while fishing in a bayou of the Pearl River, Fla. His end of the boat had turned toward the near- est bank, about thirty feet distant, and ity-ug asleep on a log at the water’s edge he noticed a moccasin of very fair proportions. Signalling to his companion, he pointed to the snake, that he might hold the boat steady while the tisherman tried a shot at the serpent with a small pistol, in the use of which constant practice had made him very expert. The snake’s head was not visible so the fisherman decided to try a shot at the thickest part of the body, which showed clear on the highest part of the log, pre- senting a fair mark, that he could hit nine times -in ten. As he fired the boat must have moved slight’y, for his shut struck one-haif inch lower than he intended. Instead of going through the snis- body, it went between it and the log and must have felt very much like a hot iron, to judge by the creature’s actions. After a qu:ck quiver and a full length squirm the snake began to bow his back and spit lke an angry cat. ‘his was so unusual that it amused the man very much and they sat laughing heartily for a moment or two, expecting every instant that toc snake would-take to the water and disappear. Suddenly the snake swung around, with its head stretched in their direction, and plunged into the water, but did not disappear. Threshing through the water like mad, he made straight for the fisherman with an air of business that cured the attack of merriment promptly and effectual! y. Straight on he-came until he was but a few feet from the man as he sat in the boat, and then the fisherman recovered his powers of locomotion and most ingloriously fled. The was no choice of routes, so straight down the long, slender boat he dashed toward the end his companion occupied clearing the middle seat with a jump that nearly drove the bottom out. His companion had started up with a startle! cry to “Look out!” and had grasped a heavy dle. But seeing the fisherman bearing down upon him in a wild flight that was certain to carry both of them over the end of the boat into twenty | feet of water, the other dropped the paddle, stooped low and caught his friend with an ap- proved football tackle just above the knees, and together they fell with a crash against the en seat, the fisherman’s head striking with such force that he was rendered well nigh unconscious. Springing to his feet, the second man snatched ddle and ran to the end of the boat from and found and crawled out | the » Joy ae ft

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: BOTTOM DROP- a PED OUT OF = DEEGAN’S 2 PASTURE Twenty - five acres of Charles Deegan’s farm Suddenly sank . thirty feet one night recently, and where once his best pasture lay he has noth- ing but a lot of not very beauti- ful scenery. It dropped straight downward, leav- ing here and j there pinnacles ten feet in diam- eter and_ thirty feet high. Geol- ogists say that the land was probably support- ed in the past by a subterranean lake that has been 3 emptied in some mysterious man- ner. They base this on the fact that a number of low-lying surface B= -3 ag and lakes = ve lately filled up. > The sunken : Piece was the fa- = Vorite part of the Pasture, and the night before the » big drop the cat- | tle that usually occupied it re- fused to leave the Shelter of the farm buildings, bellowing might- ily and* running back every time they were driven ~. to that corner of _ the field. The Deegan farm contains a deep protected canyon in which there are boiling _ Springs, and flow- ers bloom in the _ anyon all the @€ar and the Abe is always thousands of them go there. | Z0¥AL BOOK CO. Wonderful Victory Over Baldness HAIR GROWN ON MR. BRITTAIN’S BALD HEAD BY INDIANS’ MYSTERIOUS OINTMENT My heed at the top and baek was abso- futely bald. The scalp was shiny. An ex- pert esid that he thought the hair roots Were extinct, and there wes no hope of my ever agen Me new hair growth. Yet now, at the age of 66, I have a luxuri- ant growth of soft, strong, lustrous hair! No trace of baldness. Indians’ Secret of Hair Growth At a time when I had become discouraged at trying various hair lotions, tonics, ipecialista’ treatments, etc., I came across, B my travels, a Cherokee Indian “medicine nan” who had an elixir that he guwaran- ed would grow my hair. Although I had no faith 1 gave it a trial. To my amaze- ment e« light fuzz soon appeared. It devel- oped, day by day, into a regular healthy growth and ere long my hair was as pro- Mic as in my youthful days. That I was emazed and happy is express- in- my state of mind mildly. Hair Grew Luxuriantly Obviously, the hair roots had not been dead, but were dormant inthe scalp, await- ing the fertilizing potency of the mysteri- ous pomade. It became my sudden determination to ossess the recipe or secret if I could. Hav- - used my most. persuasive arguments which convinced the aged savant of my aln- cerity and that he had only fairness to ex- pect from me, I succeeded in gaining the se-. eret recipe by giving him a valuable rifie n exchange. I Put the Secret Away regular business took all my time, at ferego my y 2 I was compelled to aowever, and plans to introduce the wonderful! k-- ut secret aside for some years, That my own hair grewth was ermanent has een amply proved. out through dan- druff, fever, HOW TO MAKE LOVE K) Tells how to Get ow to Begin Courtship excessive dry- ness or other disorders, I am convinced, and 4m sure meny scientists will fgree, that the ir roots be- Come imbedded within the scaip, covered by hard skin, so that they are like bulbs or seeds in a bottle which will gtow when fertilized. Shampoos aie con- lotions which con- tsin alco- hol are enemies to the hair, Making it brittle. The Secret Now Revealed Recently I wus induced, while on a busi- ness trip to London, to introduce Kotaiko, the Indian hair elixir, It met with an fua- mediate demand and has since been intre- duced throughout England and France, Where, despite the war, it is having a great sale. Its popularity comes chiefly from the voluntary endorsements of users. Many per- sous—men, women aud clildren—ere report- ing new hair growth. Some cuses were really mnore extravrdinary than my own. For instance, a Jady reported that Kotalke grew a beautiful expply of biond hair (her natural shade) after her head had been com- vietely bald since a fever nine years previ- ously and she had worn a wig ever since. 4 military officer had a bald epot which We ee gtowing larger for seme time Wit few weeks it was completely cov- I could mention numerous examples. Now. having made arrangements here, Tt intend to supply Kotalko, according to the genuine Indians’ formula to whomsoever wishes te obtain it. Recipe Given Free The recipe ~ shall be pleased to mail, free. Address: Joh Hart Brittain. BG-103. Sta- tion F, arg aa N. LET sagem, you have grown new hair please send me a lett - ing the facts for my filés. . aes as they dry it. How to Court a Bashful Girl;toWooa

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