Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 788) (1920 11 05)

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7 Cents sTORIES OF _BOYS THAT MAKE MONEY. Hearing a creaking sound, Andy stopped washing his face, and looked around. The lid ofthe big packing box had risen. Two masked men. who had been hidden inside. scram- : bled out. The young salesman was terribly startled and recoiled. . > } *

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Issued Week! y—Subseription price, $3 23d Street, New York, the Post-Office at New Yorh wd a oe ; No. 788. NEW YORK, N “KLY Date October, “4 1911, . March 3, at Gb = ated. ak 420. __ 1920, Price 1 Cents 7 Cents A BORN SALESMAN 5: CHAPTER I.—The Would-Be Boy Salesman. “Since when have you been a salesman, young man?” asked Meyer Klugfels, senior partner of _ Klugfels, Klinder & Co., wholesale dealers in , silverware, etc., at No. — John street, New York City, addressing a good-looking lad who had called upon him with a letter of intro- _ duction from one of the buyers of a big uptown _ department store. ». “I haven’t been a salesman_yet, but I’m took- ing for a chance to learn the business,” Andy Briggs politely. “You are looking for a chance to learn the ~ business?” said Mr. Klugfels sharply. “And ~ Louis Goldsmith sent you here that we should _ teach you how to sell’ goods. I wonder what he | thinks we are—a kindergarten, that we make _ $alesmen out of the raw material? A feller ~ which he expects to sell goods, understand me, should not have to be told how to go ‘about it. That is the kind of salesmen we hire here when we want one, which at present there is no open- -. “Then there is no chance for me at all?” said E Sheiy. a bit crestfallen over the blunt way Mr. 7. 4 Mlagtels spoke to him. : "Tf there was a chance it should be for a teller ; Satie understands his business already yet. Did - Mr. Goldsmith told you that we took boys here, which they are not relations of the firm, under- = eel me, and right away make of them sales- = ‘ <= “said that he thought as he bought a lot of goods from your house that you would be glad to do him a small favor in return,” replied Andy. ‘once in a while, which he makes it his ess to see that we knock off all our profit x Gf amen: he puts his name to the order, is that a "reason that we should took over from him a Baecera which he shall he of no u _ asked Mr. Klugfels, with a frown. a Pah ‘there isn’t any harm done by my call- If you can’t make any use of me, I Wek I rec- you. see Mr. Wei which he a ag -down ‘the block, twe igh up, on replied | nN. , he ‘didn’t tell me any such Sitio: but he. “Well, suppose he does buy from us a bill of | Shent , BY A SELF-MADE MAL. x 7 to us?” ~ -he get rid,of them?” Or, A _—— MONEY MAKER ON THE ROAD HAY t ni Aa risner ass can-pay for a line of hasttel which he is tends to take out on his own hook.” As Andy had no great amount of capital, he was not particularly impressed with the idea of calling on Mr, Weinberg. Still, as he had noth- ing else to do that morning, he ‘thought he might as well drop in and see Weinberg. So he bade Mr. Klugfels good-day and -passed out into the street. He had no difficulty in finding Weinberg’s place of business. The sign read: meee Weinberg, Wholesale Dealer in Nov- elties A pasteboard card marked, “Salesmen Wanted,” was tacked underneath. Andy marched upstairs to the third landing, where he saw a tin sign on the nearest door, with Weinberg’s name on it. He opened the door and walked in. Mr. Wein- berg, in his shirt sleeves, was waiting on a cus- tomer. The customer was a local dealer from the Bronx, and he was buying three, six and twelve articles of such varieties as he wanted for his small store. “What can I do for you?” asked Weinberg, as soon as he was at leisure. “Mr. Klugfels, of Klugfels, Klinder & Co., told me to come around and see you. He said maybe you would give me a chance to learn the salesman business,” said Andy. f , Weinberg logked at the. boy sharply. “T-don’t- know Klugfels, except as head of a large wholesale place up the street. Why did he send you to me?” “T guess. he thought it was the easiest way to get rid of me.” “Get rid of you?” “Yes. A buyer of a large department store on Sixth avenue sent me to him with a note asking him to put me in the way of learning to be a salesman. Myr. Klugfels didn’t care to undertake the job, so he told me I’d better call on you. He said you were not particular as to whether a person was experienced or not, as long as he had some money, and could pay for a small line of goods,” said Andy. “He said that, eh?” said Weinberg, with a frown. “Yes.”" “Well, ie. had no business to say it. What good would it do for a person who had no experi- — es ence as a salesman to take out a line of goods? If he didn’t know how to sell them, how would - fee Nag Peatgecbaree ge ready- e. I thoug ey business; same as a person has to learn a trade.” - “So, they. do, but to begin sites they ET the . must be, .

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specially fitted for the occupation. The knack must be born in them. If a man is not adapted ee poll goods, he will only waste his time trying “Mr. Goldsmith said he believed I was a salesman.” ~ “Who is Mr. Goldsmith ?” “The buyer of the department store who sent me to see Mr. Klugfels.” “He said you was a born salesman?” “He said I had many of the qualities that go to make up/a star salesman.” “He is a good judge, is he?” : He ought to be. He is dealing with salesmen es Why dada “Why didn’t Mr. Klugfels give you a chance, then? His firm uses a good cate nleothen” “He said his place wasn’t a kindergarten for salesmen.” Weinberg grinned. : a “Do you think you can sell goods?” ; “Yes, I think [ can.” ; “Got any money?” “None to spare.” “Then I can’t do anything for you. Go and borrow $15 or $20, and I'll talk to you about sending you on the road.” born “What’s the matter with hiring me to help you . around this place? I’ll work cheap,” said Andy. I've got a boy. I sent him out just before you came,” ; ; There was nothing for Andy to do but take his eave.” . CHAPTER II.—Andy Saves a Gentleman. “I wonder how soon I’ll be able to strike a job of-some kind, and how long it will take me to : aate P02" thought Andy, as he walked up John _ At-the corner of Nassau street a crowd was" gathered around a man who had been taken with _ a fit. Andy was about to join the crowd when he _ Saw a smooth-faced young man, of very genteel _ Sppearance, lift the tail of a stout gentleman's, coat and extract a red wallet from his hip pocket. The audacity of the theft almost staggered the boy, who was not familiar with the fact that thousands of enterprising individuals make a liv- 2 New York City by just such risky and ___ dishonest games. In another moment he saw the “thief deftly pass the wallet to a respectable-look- _ing old man, whose-eyes were hidden behind a _ pair of green goggles. _ The light-fingered crook then coolly proceeded to steal the gold watch of another man on the ve wd, came up Saal thie thief and tarted to walk leisurely arey: up to officer and hurriedly told seen, pointing out the two men asked the cop. = L y,” said ve SEH vou want me to while you oO A BORN SALESMAN sight of them. He was rapillly nearing them when they left the sidewalk and descended the stairs that led to a cheap restaurant. The boy followed them down and saw them seat them- selves at a table. A waiter stepped over and they gave him an order for something, which proved to be two cups of coffee and two plates of doughnuts. After a cautious glance around, the man with the goggles produced the red wal- let, opened it and taking out a fat wad of: bills, proceeded to count them. Andy had seated himself at a table, and when the waiter came up he ordered coffee and dough- nuts, too. While the waiter was getting the or- der the bey suddenly ran up to the sidewalk and looked for the policeman. -He saw him conte rapidly along, accompanied by the men who ha been robbed. Andy stepped forward and showed himself. “Oh, there you are!” said the cop. “Where are those rascals?” : “Down in that restaurant, at a table age doughnuts and coffee. One of the men is well _ dressed and has a smooth face, and the other is an old man with goggles. He is the chap who received the goods.- I’ll run down first and you can follow me.” : When Andy reappeared in the restaurant the ‘waiter was looking for him with the coffee and plate of doughnuts in his hands. “Put them down,” said the boy. Then he saw.a sudden movement on the part of the two crooks. The man with the goggles, who was facing the entrance, saw the policeman coming down the steps, followed by the victims _ of the robbery. He said something to his com- panions and Andy saw him pull out his wa and drop it, with the red wallet, under the table before him. “Come here,” said the pollogaen to Andy. The boy got up and followed him. “s “Are those the men who are implicated in the — two thefts?” said the cop, pausing before the ~ table where the two crooks sat. 3 : “That is the man who did the stealing,” said Andy, pointing at the well-dressed and smoothly shaven individual. “The other man took the goods from the theif.” 3 ~. Both crooks put up av indignant protest. ~~ | “Stand up and I'll see if you’ve got the goods ~ on you,” said the policeman. es The rascal stood up willingly enough and per- — mitted the officer to search him. Andy said noth- — ing while the policeman went through the clothes — of the crook, in vain. a nd “You see, you are mistaken,” said the man in © the green goggles. - apes The officer was much disconcerted over the re- — sult, and he looked at Andy. ae aa “That chap dropped the watch and wallet un- © der the table behind him,” said the boy, i the table and saw | ; e policeman looked under / the_articles, 3 ¥ ; “Pick them up,” he said to the boy. as The crooks, seeing that the é was up, made a sudden effort to escape, but the officer headed — them off. The policeman had hold of each crook — y the arm. 2 fas aaee come to the station-house, both of you,” — e sai oy Se ae The rascals sullenly resigned themselves to : = “- h * 9 i

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ite genet oe ae ins fe : a 1" == > 4 A BORN SALESMAN 8 * «their fate, and cast a look at Andy that boded him no good. The entire p proceeded to the police station, where the, rascals were lined up at the desk and with being pickpockets. ; Their pedigrees were taken and then they were ' locked up. The police kept the stolen articles, to be produced as evidence against the prisoners. The names and addresses of Andy and the men who had been robbed were taken by the Officer at the desk, and they were told to appear. against” the prisoner at the Tombs police court the fol- lowing morning. Outside, the two victims thank- t ed Andy for his services in detecting and causing : the arrest of the rascals, and said they would | meet him at the court. Then the three separated. > Andy’s adventures, however, were not over for = the day. When he reached the corner of Ann street and Park Row he started to cross to the ; post office. At the same moment a fine-looking, : well-dressed tleman started from the walk in front of the post office, directly toward him. As : the gentleman stepped into the center of one rn of the several street railway tracks a car’ came '_, ‘swinging in a curve to him and he would have been knocked down and run over but for rapid action on Andy’s part. The boy saw his i danger, jumped forward, grabbed him in hiS arms around the waist and swung him clear of the 7 mony el but withott much margin to spare. The ‘ gentleman was badly rattled by his narrow es- cape, and suffered Andy to lead him over to the _ Park Row sidewalk, where he recovered his self- _ possession. j 3 “Thanks, my lad. I am under deep obligations to you. I Believe you saved my life,” said the "gees grasping the boy warmly by the - *You’re welcome, sir.” “What is your name, my lad?” 4 Andy told him. . ‘“Where do you live?” rad __—- *Mills House, sir.” s _. The gentleman seemed surprised. a ’ “Haven't you any parents?” * been. SND; Bir.” " ' : __ - “What are you doing for a living?” - ®Nothine at present, sir. I am looking Yor work.” “Here is my business card. Call at my office to-morrow, any time, and I will see what I can do _ for you,” said the gentleman. . __ Andy looked at the card, which ran as follows: “John B. Dexter, dealer in watches, edpirs 2 en ‘and silverware, Manufacturer of novelties in go _ gilver, aluminum and plated ware. No. — Maid Lane, New York.” es thts. “Thank you, sir,” replied Andy. “f will call.” me when you enter the store and you into my private office.” : Mr. : pare pe once more a his eer iee to him an e him good-by. en Andy he went down in the big ‘Te t and had his supper; spent ing-room and : P as they were descending the wide steps facing on Center street. ‘The man handed Andy his business card and asked him to call on him. Andy took the card and assured him he would not fail to keep in touch with him. “Are you in the jewelry business, too, Mr. Pres- ton?” he said, moticing ‘that the card read, “Wal- ter Preston, tehes and jewelry,’ No. — John street.” “Yes,” replied the gentleman; with: a smile, Me a do you mean by am I in the business, “Because I have made the acquaintance of sev- eral iar in your business since y, who have places of business in John street, and one in Maiden Lane. I am going *to eall on the latter right away. His name is John B. Dexter, and I thinkshe means to put mein the way of a situation.” “I am acquainted with Mr..John B. Dexter, No. — Maiden Lane, if that is the persom you refer to.” c “Yes, that is the gentleman,” replied Andy. a Y “If he promised to do something for you, de~. pend on it he will, for he is a ioe of his rd. Tf he finds himself unable to place you at call and see me and maybe I'll be able to” you out.” ce F ~~ ~ '

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s “Thank you, sir. I need a job badly at present.” “Come around and see me, anyway, after you call on Mr. Dexter.” “J will.” The three walked as far as Duane street to- ’ gether, and there the man who lost his wallet re parted from Andy and Preston. The boy and the ie _John street jeweler then walked on down past the = “Brooklyn Bridge entrance into Nassau street, and is so on to John street.- There Preston shook hands ‘ with Andy and turned down the street, while the . boy continued on to Maiden Lane, one block far- 3 ther on. It was about half-past eleven when -. Andy walked into the store of John B. Dexter and inquired for that gentleman. “Follow me,” said the clerk, starting for the back of the store. Andy was shown into the private office, and Mr. Dexter greeted him cordially. The boy told him he had just come from the Tombs court, where he had testified against a couple of pick- pockets. He described the incident of the pre- vious afternoon, and how he was the cause of the capture of the oks. The merchant con- gratulated him on having rendered the public a _ service. “Now, you said you were looking~for a situa- tion,” he went on. “What do you think you are best adapted for?”- Andy ST elrabely told him of his ambition to become a salesman. “Mr. Goldsmith thinks I would make a good one, and I believe, myself, I could do better at it _ than anything else, for I feel I should take a great interest in selling goods to different mer- pore said the boy. <s one cannot be a salesman all at once,” said -_+ Mr. Dexter. “The salesman I have on the road i = have all graduated from the store, after serving - seyeral years waiting on my city trade.” Andy admitted that to become’ a success as a ’ drummer it was necessary to have some prelim- - jnary training. Mr. Dexter had quite a long talk with Andy. He sympathized with Andy’s ambi- a to become a salesman, and if he found the boy really was adapted to that business, he oe he could help him realize his desires. So called his head store- salesman and turned _ Andy over to him. » '. “He wants to learn to sell goods,” said Mr. a Dexter. - _ in the silverware department and give him a fair -try-out. If you think he has the qualities that wil a yreipe ie salesman, let me know and I “put him in our novelty department, with the pag sl his ultimately becoming a drummer for ‘our ine.” -- Thus Andy secured a job that was very satis- factory to —— “Make him acquainted with our prices ~ Allen, I think Ican pass the time pleasantly - “speak of. ferior goods. Allen is forever Pekan to “ick me ae * ; Se - A BORN SALESMAN store. As soon as possible Andy notified Walter Preston that Mr. Dexter had hired him to work in his store, and that he expected to move from the Mills Hotel to a boarding house on 39th street. off Broadway. In the course of a week Andy was perfectly familiar with his new liné of duty and he helped the two clerks of his department wait on-customers. An old and valued customer of the store, a Southern buyer, came in one day to look around and make some purchases. The head salesman always took him in hand, but happened to be out at lunch at the time, the other salesmen were engased, and so it ‘fell to Andy to attend to him. This customer had his peculiarities and always had to be handled with gloves. “T want to see Mr. Allen,” said the customer, whose name was Breckinridge, to Andy, who stepped forward when he came in. The visitor spoke dictatorially, as if he owned the store. “Mr. Allen is out at lunch,” replied the boy politely. ; “Out at lunch! What right hes he to be at lunch when I call?” he snapped. “Had he known you were coming, he would have waited for you.” “How soon will he be back?? ridge, glaring at Andy. “Not for probably twenty minutes, sir.” a “And have I got to cool my heels in here for twenty minutes waiting for him?” roared the customer. snorted Breckin- street. I dare say their steck is much superior to what you have here, anyway:” “Perhaps you'll let me show you the samples of a lot of new ponte which have just come in, sir?” Andy said eagerly “Let you show me!” snorted Breckinridge. “I don’t permit anybody to wait on me but. Allen. Do you understand ?” “Yes, sir. I think you are quite right, sir. I’m only a poy and a new salesman, anyway. I am sure that your judgment is so superior to mine that I couldn’t explain anything you are not al- ready familiar with,” replied Andy, with a cheer- ful smile. The compliment and the smile fairly caught the cranky customer. grouchy expression. “Young man, how long have you been working here?” he asked. “About two weeks, sir.” “Learning to be a salesman, are “That is my ambition, six. depend largely on how well I make out -in the store. If I am able to sell to customers in this department then I will get the chance to’ go ox you?” the road.” “That is what you are atming for, is it?” Ss “Yes, sir. Now while you are waiting for Mr. you by showing you our latest samples. fancy any of them, why you_can a them over with Mr. Allen. Just consider me as an exhibitor merely. I won’t - $4 sell you thine. because I know you will deal only wit Mr, Allen.” l “Humph! Show. me these you I dare say I shall find them ve for ard talk — w samples you , a “{ think I see myself doing it. I shall carry my order to Davis &*Co., down the — His face suddenly lost its My prospects ie = ee h te

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A BORN SALESMAN 5 - with something I don’t want, so don’t you try - — that game, young man.” ‘ Andy took him to the showcases where the * latest samples were on view. He took down the first article and handed it to Mr. Breckinridge. The buyer looked it over carefully, while Andy inted out its best points. To say the truth, kinridge was quite taken with it, but for all that he found a dozen faults with it. Suddenly he stopped his kicking-and looked at Andy. ; - “I thought you were trying to be a salesman,” he said. “J am, sir, but as you are Mr. Allen’s customer I told you I wouldn’t try to sell you anything. simply want to show you our new stock and get your opinion of the samples.” ; “I’m not going to wait for Allen. If he thinks = I am his customer, he’s much mistaken. “I'd rather buy from somebody else. In fact, I intend to buy from you this time, young man. I think _ Tean get along better with you. You heard what T said about this sample, didn’t you?”. _ “Yes, sir?” . “Then point out where I’m wrong.” “You’re not wrong, sir. You have realty been pointing out new beauties in the article.” “J have?” fairly gasped the buyer. — “Yes, sir, and when I state the price I think “else for the value.” =. ~~ “What is the price? I shall want three dozen.” Andy mentioned it. rm oe SF 35 4 “Too high altogether!” roared Breckinridge. _- _ Andy proceeded to show him that the price - was not really high. Breckinridge knew that ~~ John B. Dexter had only one price, and that it always was a fair one, so after growling and a ~ hhawing he told Andy to put him down for four - . dozen. At the end of half an hour Allen came in Be and was s to see the crank in Andy’s So “hands. Allen, fearful that the new boy would 2 queer their peculiar customer, rushed a3 ; “Why, how do you = ae ange! & as De- lighted to see you in town. So was out when you Sate but I'll look "after you now,” he said, ‘=F “T guess I’ve taken Allen down a peg or two,” = he laughed to himself. “Thought he was the : only one who could sell me goods. I guess he doesn’t think so now. I’ve taken the conceit out of him. That young Briggs is a fine boy, all right. I like him, and when J like a person I'll 3 do a lot for him. I’ve given him a boost at the Pe store. Dexter is bound to take notice of him now. Well, he’s a born salesman, anyhow, and is sure to make his mark in time. [’m glad if I have helped to make his road to the top easier.’ ; Then he hailed a Broadway car and rode ur own. CHAPTER V.—Andy Meets Jack Brag. When Andy left the store that afternoon a man stepped up to him. “Your name is Andy Briggs, isn’t it?” he said. “Yes,” replied the boy, regarding the stranger with some curiosity. ; : *“T want to talk with you.” “What have you got to say to me?” asked Andy. “I don’t know you.” > “IT know you don’t. I want to see you about that pickpocket case in which you are the chief witness.” _ = “What about it?” + “You'd like to make $100, wouldn’t you?” , “How?” asked Andy cautiously. 2 “You haven’t got any particular interest in® — convicting those men of theft, have you? They ~ are strangers to you, and both have large fam- ilies of small children who would be thrown on the street, penniless and starving, if they were sent up. Now, for the sake of their wives and families you ought to let upon them. We've raised $100 to give you as a further inducement. Take the money, and when you go before the grand jury give your testimony in such a way as_ to cast a doubt on the fact that the prisoners _ are really the parties you saw pinch the property — from the two men.” - ae ee “I couldn’t do that,” replied Andy, shaking his head. “I couldn’t go back on what I stated in the police court. A court stenographer took down my words, and to do as you say I’d have to make ~ myself out aliar.” : SG, “Not at all,” said the man suavely. “You could have a lapse of memory. It may be two months before you are called before the grand jury. ; that time you could easily forget a good many _ ¢. - nail things.” — zy ge ...“No,” said. Andy, shaking his head, “I’m n likelys to forget what I sar. Oides men oe. anything but the truth.” ;

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% - why cheap, a crook,” said ‘ 6 A BORN SALESMAN timony. A hundred dollars will give you a good time.” “You’d better save the money and give it to-~ the wives of the men, in case they are convicted.” “Then you won’t accept my offer?” “No. I couldn’t do it without getting into trouble, and I wouldn’t do it, anyway.” _ Seeing that he couldn’t do anything with the poy, the man walked away. That evening, after dinner at the boarding house where Andy was now stopping, a woman called and asked to see him. She was shown into the pe and Andy was notified by the upstairs girl. The caller in- troduced herself as the wife of the pickpocket, and in a tearful way proceeded to appeal to An- dy’s sympathies. She be him to have pity on her and her children. he boy said he was very_sorry for~her and her family, if her story was true, but he didn’t see that he could do any- thing to sg: her husband out of his fix. The woman did her best to move~him, but had to give the matter up and go away, disappointed. Next day Andy was sent up to the novelty de- partment to make himself familiar with the doz- ens of articles in gold, silver, aluminum and plat- ed ware that Dexter manufactured from designs made especially for his trade. The novelty trade was a many profitable part of Mr. Dexter’s busi- ness, and he kept several drummers on the road all the time, pushing it. Andy was enthusiasti- cally eager to go out with the goods, and he as- sured his boss that if he didn’t make good it wouldn’t be his fault. For a month he devoted his energies to learning all about the novelty line and the prices of the different articles. Finally a sample case, not too large or too heavy for him te carry around easily, was prepared for him. A few oe before his route was ready for him he made the acquaintance of a well-dressed, sharp- looking young fellow, a couple of years his senior, the restaurant he patronized. This chap, who said his name was Jack Brag, was.the smoothest talker Andy had ever run across. He was a kind of general salesman and worked for no house in bendy During their conversation, Andy ed from him that he had just returned from a tour of the country towns up-State, where he been selling some of Weinberg’s bankrupt had and second-hand goods. He had done so well that Weinberg wanted to erep him on steady, but after disposing of a part of a second consi ent, certain complaints made against his ods to _ the constables caused him to dispose of the bal- ance of his stock to a dealer and make tracks for New York. He laid the blame on Weinberg, call- ed the novelty dealer a crook, and told Andy he as pes i ta him. ae to know why he called Weinberg a croo “Well, I call any man who taps goods that he because he can get them rag. knows are stolen would be funny if we were to start out together.” “Who are you going out for this time?” “Sampson & Gridley, of No. — John street,” answered Brag. ‘ ~ As a matter of fact, Brag was lying, for he was not going on the road for anybody, but a suddenly conceived purpose suggested his state- ment. “As you are new at the business,” he went on, in a confidential tone, “I could put you wise te many kinks of the trade that would be valuable for you. I always like to help a brother sales- man. We drummers always lend a hand to one another, except when we are rivals for the same business, and then it’s every fellow for himself. I'll meet you here to-morrow at this time and we'll have another talk. I may be able to give you a line on my route to-morrow, as I’m going to see Mr. Sampson about it this afternoon.” Brag got up, took Andy’s: check, and said he would settle it with his own, which fie did, and they parted on good terms outside. Andy thought Jack Brag was a very‘clever sort of chap. He- certainly was, but his cleverness ran in a wrong channel, as Andy found out later. It was several days before Andy’s route was made known to him, and he was told to prepare to leave the city on the following Monday. Every day he met Brag at the restaurant, but didn’t learn that young man’s route, as the slick salesman said his firm was as. yet undecided about_it. “I’ve got my route at last,” said Andy, on Fri- day, when they met again. “Have you?” said Brag eagerly. “Well, where are you going?” “T start in at Pittsburgh and work west.” = you leave here over the Pennsylvania?” oy “When ?” “Monday morning.” “Good!” said B “I leave by the Penn my- self Monday. We’ll travel together as far as Altoona. That’s where I start in.” sz. it a - Be a Pay eS Le ee yt ety oe NP at

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A BORN SALESMAN 7 CHAPTER VI—Andy Bests Brag. When Andy reached the Cortlandt street ferry he found Jack Brag waiting for him with a well-w6rn grip in his hand. They passed into the ferry-house together and walked on board the waiting boat. In a short time they were across . the river and passing through the waiting-room of the station toward the door that opened into the train shed. Their train was waiting on Track 18, and they boarded one of the cars. In due time. the train started on its way. It was an express that made only two or three stops between Jersey City and Philadelphia. Andy had never done any traveling before, except from his na- . tive village to New York, and he was more in- terested in looking out of the window,at the fly- ’ ake necane than listening to his companion’s Brag finally got tired talking and went forward to the smoker, where he remained until the train approached the City of Brotherly Love. It was close on to ane when te cre pated into the de Andy, holding on to his sample case, went pak Brag to the restaurant to gét a quick lunch. In due time the train went on again. The _ yun was made to Lancaster on schedule time, and - fike result, “There was only one more, and that Sump tbe smoker. Andy entered that, and halfwa st as the train slowed up Andy went forward the car to get a drink of water. . When he got to his seat Jack Brag was missing.» Andy was staggered to discover that his case of sam- les was also missing, though Brag’s rusty-look- 2 grip stood where its owner had originally i placed it. _ “My gracious!” exclaimed Andy, “what has be- _ come of my ple case?” - He immediately suspected that somebody had _ stolen it the moment Brag left his seat, As the train was coming to a standstill he threw up the window and looked out. He saw Brag jump- ing off the rear platform with his sample case in his hand. Then he boarded another train. * Andy dashed out of the car, crossed the platform on the run and sprang aboard the other train _ just as it started. At the same moment the ex- : — out on its way also. Andy walked Raven the car he had seen Brag board and et. _ looked at the passengers as he passed, but the sé slick es into the next car and failed to find Brag there, salesman was not to be seen. Andy went He passed through the third car, with . the car he spied Brag seated by himself, wi s hat tilted back and a cigar in his mouth. The conductor was coming along Andy sat down and saw conductor approach- he inquired the name of the place where ied the conductor. “We'll be ook and his that See wont to buy a passage as far as ~ that moment Brag got up and went ahead to get a drink. As he did so, the locomotive whistled for Dillerville. Andy saw the chance to get hold of his property by quick action while Brag’s back was turned. He got up, glided to the seat just vacated by the over-smart Brag, saw his case lying on it, snatched it up and started rapidly for the door. He reached it and passed out on the platform before Brag had finished drinking. As ° the train began- slowing down, he jumped off, taking somewhat of a risk. As luck would have it, a train bound for Lancaster was standing on the other track. Andy cut across in front of the locomotive and jumped on the smoker just as the train started. He paid the conductor his fare back to Lancaster, and during the short-run he occupied his time looking’ out of the window. On reaching Lancaster, he found, on inquiry, that he would have to wait several hours for another through express to Pittsburgh. He learned, how- ever, that he could get a train shortly that would take him to Harrisburg, and he decided to take it. Accordingly, he.boarded the Harrisburg train when it came in and went on his way with a feel- ing of great satisfaction. He was seated behind a gentleman and a very pretty giv] who appeared to be his daughter. After watching the scenery till he grew tired of it, Andy bourht a magazine of a train boy and started in readins. The gen- tleman in the seat ahead got up and went for- ward to the smoker.. The girl, left to herself, ‘turned her attention to the landscape ovtside. After a time Andy looked up and noticed that the young lady was alone. ; “She’s a ch, all right,” he said to himself. “T wonder who she is?” After casting several furtive looks at the girl he resumed the reading of the magazine. He was soon engrossed in a thrilling short stery, and had reached the point where the hero, surrounded by a horde of bloodthirsty Africans, was about to be transfixed by a score of spears. “Then the unexpected happened,” went on the story. That is as far as Andy ever got with that story for at that moment the unexpected happened to him and his fellow-passengers. With a sudden- ness that prevented any one from realizing the meaning of what took place, there came a grind- ing shock, and the car in which Andy was riding, somctner with the one ahead, was hurled down an ankment some dozen or more feet in height, where the two cars piled up in a shapeless wreck with a hundred human beings, full of life and — contentment a moment before, caught fast in the debris. CHAPTER VII.—The Train Wreck. _ erie.

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Bee he dragged it forth, uninjured. Andy looked around for the fair girl, but did not see her ; among those struggling back to consciousness. A , portion of the top of the car lay over the tan- Z gled seats nearest to him. Andy raised up the : end after much effort and looked underneath. There lay the pretty stranger, silent and motion- less, with a streak of blood on her fair brow, now as white as the lily. The sight aroused all ‘ of Andy’s energies. With desperate eagerness he shoved the heavy fragment of the roof aside, and then getting -down on his hands and knees, he cfawled to the girl and raised her inanimate form in his arms. ith great difficulty he made his way out of the wrecked car and carried the girl to a soft, turfy spot under a big tree. Here he laid her gently down, and by every means in his power tried to convince himself that she was not really dead. His inexperience in such a case = prevented him from learning the truth. There . was not a sign by which he could reach a satis- res factory conclusion. Andy looked at her in alarm- ed perplexity. He was as much concerned about _. .. her as though she were a relative or a dear = friend. In a few minutes the girl recovered her ake . consciousness and stared straight into his face. =| Dazed by the shock she had experienced, she lay = still and looked at him without making another : sign. s _. “Are you much hurt, miss?” asked Andy, who o - feared she was, but thought that the most ap- * propriate thing he could say. E ; urt!” she whispered. “What has’happened “5 to me?” : x “Train wreck,” replied the boy. 4 = The girl seemed to pull herself together. = ~ “My father—where is he?” 2 ss “Couldn’t tell you, miss. He wasn’t with you : ; when the aceident took place.” . S As the fearful nature of the catstrophe dawned s upon the girl she struggled te rise, but fell back “3 ee nee, OS Soe ety arm!” she moaned. 0 ac “T fear it is broken.” though he had his doubts. ‘0 : father,” pleaded the girl. “He may be injured, or dead. What shall I do if anything has happened to him!” Andy stood up and looked around on the scene. _ His eyes at once measured the extent of the calamity. Only the two rear cars of the train had _ been thrown down the ; i weak voice. — “Then he is safe, for the smoker and two fol- lowing cars were not derailed, but were some distance. They are - ind my father and bring him to been good to me, and I shall with gratitude as long as [I live,” poe ba cae ’ U : t A BORN SALESMAN 7 assistance to the sufferers. Among them was the father of the young lady; who leaped frantically down t6 the wrecked cars and gazed in gtupefied horror aff&the mass of broken wood and twisted steel that confronted his agonized vision. Thus Andy found and recognized him. “Your daughter is over yonder, sir,” he said. “I pulled her out of the wreck and carried her over to that tree.” Andy led him over to the tree and thé gentle- man fell on his knees beside the girl. “My dear, dear child, how badly hurt are you?” he asked, in a trembling voice. “I don’t knqw, father. My left arm is ve numb. I am affraid it is broken,” she answere “My poor Nellie!” he exclaimed brokenly. “Please, thank that boy, father. He has been very good to me. He brought me here out of the wreck and.bathed my face till I recovered con- sciousness,” “Young man,” said the Sani “you have placed me under lasting obligations to you. I can never be too grateful for the attention you have given my poor child. My name is Baldwin, and we live in New York. Here is my business card. Now teH me your name.” , “Andrew Briggs. I am a traveling salesman for John B. Dexter, of No. — Maiden Lane, New York City. That puts me in mind of my sample case which J left in the car when I brought your daughter here. I think I had better bring it over here and then if I can be of any further service to you just tell me.” Andy returned to the car, found his case where hé left it, and brought it over to the tree. He could do nothing more for the youn: lady, jast, then, who was obliged to await the ar-i-7! « doctors and their paraphernalia. \ os CHAPTER VIIIL—Andy’s Debut as a 2 ean. The emergency train soon speeded in and came {to a stop, and a dozen surgeons, with nurses and male assistants, tumbled out with tools and ap- pliances for operating on such,sufferers as re- quired that treatment. The whole bunch was busy, and the scene presented the appearance an open-air field hospital when a battle was going on’ at a distance. A wrecking outfit was alread en its way to the scene to repair the dam track so that traffic, which was held up on west-bound track, could be resumed. ductor sent his crew around to notify all were able to take advantage of the first trip to get aboard the cars. The seats were turned into © impromptu couches, and the wounded able to be moved were taken to the train at once. The sur- n who attended to Miss Baldwin found that er arm was broken and set it carefully, during which operation she fainted. A few minor cuts -and bruises constituted the rest of her con- who __ 4 _ es ee oa

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i = = } * \ , A BORN where the station was filled with newspaper re- rters, and an anxious throng of relatives and ds of those known or believed to have been ~ on the wrecked cars. “What hotel are you going to put up at?” Mr. Baldwin asked Andy, as the train rolled into the station. “None, sir. I expect to take the night express for Pittsburgh as soon as it reaches here.” | “Well, don’t lose my card, and write me once in awhile, As soon as you return to New York, call at my place of business and I will have you come to my house and see my daughter, who is very grateful to you for what you have done for her. Andy promised to write, and to call on the gentleman when he got back to New York. A cab was got to carry Nellie to her aunt’s home, with her father, and the fair sufferer smiled gratefully on him at parting, and said she would expect to see him,in the fear future at her own home in Manhattan. It was nearly dark now and Andy was de ge A , for the lunch he en of in had ladelphia only partially = isfied him at the time. He made inquiries ? about the arrival and departure of the night ex- : ‘a bee-line for the restaurant, where ‘he ordered Pf 4 ” ealled for, he hunted up a vaudeville place and ed to the station, with a three-hours’ wait on his hands. It was close on to two o’clock when the _ night ee are antl tad mn ert be Was presen y spinning alon, e road is des- _ tination. He reached Pittsburgh on the follow- ing afternoon and went to, the moderate-priced hotel he had been recommended to. is name, handed his card to the clerk, and was shown to a room. After a wash- _- - guide and map of the city, which included Alle- —_gheny, across the river, and began to study the 245 iness section in connection with his list of _ houses he was to ‘call on to secure trade. He _* made his first call about noon and got an inter- ae view with the 2 gece out to sell a bill of goods. — . “It isn’t worth while pee your samples,” ‘said the boss of the store. “I buy all my nov- - elties of Gulick & Co, 1 expect-their drummer along any day.” ufacturers be- s attracts the displayed his in et Pt Ge reanet order in his pocket, Andy started for his next f * = ka . : Then he laid himself ~ SALESMAN . : ~$ customer. He was much encouraged in having landed his first one, and went at the next with fresh ardor. It happened that as Andy walked out of his first customer’s store the drummer for Gulick & Co. walked in. The Gulick man recog- nized Andy as in the business, but correctly judg- ed that he was a new hand. He did not suspect that the boy was a rival in his own line, and gave him but passing notice. When he tackled the proprietor and learned that instead of wait- ing for him he had switched over to the John B. Dexter goods, he was mad and disgusted. The drummer’s name was Bentley Cox, and he had quite a run of trade in Pittsburgh.- Andy, how- ever, made an inroad into it that day, and Cox was in a mighty bad humor when he returned to his hotel, which was the same house where Andy was stopping. After supper they met in the ing room. Cox recognized the boy as the young salesman who had done him out of several customers, and who was selling the Dexter goods. “You’re a drummer, aren’t you?” he said to Andy, in an unpleasant tone. ; “Yes; I’m traveling for a New York City house,” replied Andy. : ; “For John B. Dexter?” é “Yes.” “What’s your name?” “Andy Bri What’s_ yours?” “Bentley Cox.” “Oh, you’re’the'man who represents Gulick & “J do. You've been butting in on some of my customers.” “Well, that’s what I'm here for: to convince them that the Dexter line is in every way supe- rior to the Gulick line.” “You go and chase yourself. You can’t come within a mile of our stuff.” . “I think it is just the opposite. I don’t know what four line of samples,are, but I'll bet they're not in my class.” ~ “It’s easy to see that/you’re a new thing from the way you talk,” sneered Cox. - “I admit I’m new, just as new as my samples, It is better to be new and up-to-date than behind e age.” : , “How long have you been on the road?” “Not long;,but I’m getting my hand in fast.” ~ “How long do you intend to stay in the city?” «“Till I’ve visited every house t.deals in a similar line to mine.” “You'll find that ground is pretty well covered by myself and others. The Dexter line isn’t par- ticularly needed in this town.” “I think it’s greatly needed, from what I’ve seen so far.” : ’ ae * “You'll make a bum drummer, I guess,” sneered Ox. At that momerft he saw a man he was ac- quainted- with and he walked away, leaving Andy to himself. The boy spent an hour reading the papers, and then feeling tired after his first day’s experience, he asked for the key of his room and - i went to bed. = a ’ \ : = * CHAPTER -IX.—Andy Outdoes His Rival’ — . ..Andy started out bright and early next morn- calls and captured ing, and had made several ‘

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, Aue 10 A BORN more of Cox’s customers before that worthy, who had been to a show and afterward to a private gambling house, turned out on-his job. The boy salesman did very well that day. His samples took the eyes of those he showed them to, and the good game of talk he put up did the rest. On the other hand; Cox had.a rocky day, and he was ee in worse humor than the day before, when he > reached the hotel. He felt like scrapping with Andy, but as his face looked like three days of rainy weather, Andy gave him a wide berth. To avoid personal contact with Bentley Cox, Andy went to a theater that evening, and on his re- turn to the hotel went straight to bed. When he returned to the hotel the next afternoon, he found a telegram from Mr. Dexter, who had received his first few orders, congratulating him on his success, particularly in catching the man he had first applied to. One of Dexter’s salesmen had tried a couple of times before to win this. party over from Gulick & Co., and had failed. It was quite-a feather in Andy’s cap to have succeeded where a more experienced drummer was unable to make any headway. Andy sew little of Cox dur- ing the remainder of his stay in Pittsburgh. He did the town thoroughly, and Dexter was both surprised and pleased with the amount of busi- ness the boy turmed in. He took many orders in Allegheny, too, and then continued on his route, which took him to the towns on the north side of the Allegheny River. -This happened to be Cox’s route, too, and Andy met him on the street in Etma, a town of about 7,000 population, about five miles from Allegheny. - snarled Cox. rae : “Why not? You seem to be here for business * F also. “How long have you been here?” “JT arrived last night.” “Have you done any business yet?” ——"™* “Yes. I’ve got a $500 order from Stark & Babcock.” - : : Cox muttered an imprecation, for that was his best firm in Etna. ; “Tye also caught Brown Bros. and L, D.. Thomp- : son. You might have sold to these people had you come here on your usual time, but from what I hear you are month late and people have got ‘tired waiting for you to show up.” ; ; ~ Cox swore again and then Andy told him that he had no further time to talk, as he was in a hurry to finish up the town. Andy walked into - Roth & Granger’s, near by, and Cox, in an ugly __- there, at any rate. Both sent in their names to _ Mr. Roth, and the head partner came out to see th : said Cox, after he had shakenrhands with Roth. _*There’s nothing out arg 2 touch them. Let us go into your office and I'll show them to you.” “Refore you make up your order, Mr. Roth, like to show you the Dexter line. Then you decide whether you will carry the Gulick novelties this season or not,” said Andy. _ *] always buy from Mr. Cox,” said Roth. t those words Cox glared sardonically at the * “So you’re working this town, too, are you?” mood, followed him in, determined to spoil him - em. J es * “lve got a brand-new set of samples this time,” SALESMAN the Dexter line. They are the quickest sellers on the market in their line, and Ill warrant they’ll go off faster than ever this time. I don’t -ask you to take my word for that. I ask you as an up-to-date merchant to compare my sam- ples with Mr. Cox’s. I’ve just sold a large order : to Stark & Babcock. They are not going to handle the Gulick goods any more.” Cox gritted his teeth-as Andy spoke. “J have also sold a good bill to Brown Bros. and L. D. Thompson,” went on the boy. “I could not do that if my line wasn’t superior to Gu- lick’s.” Andy’s statement that he had sold to the three largest firms in Etna made a big impression on Roth. ~ “Pll look at your samples in connection with Mr. Cox’s,” he said. “Follow me, both of you.” The two salesmen engaged Mr. Roth’s attention _ for nearly an hour, and in the‘end Roth gave his order to Andy, for not only was the boy’s sam- ples superior ‘to Cox’s, but Roth was afraid of carrying a line different from the three firms Andy had sold to in that town. Cox was a wild man when he got outside. Andy had ‘cleaned up the place, having sold to every one of the four dealers in jewelry novelties, leaving nothing for Cox, unless he wanted to go around among the small fry, which he never did. “ll get square with you for this!” cried Gulick & Co.’s salesman, shaking his fist in Andy’s face. “Oh, all right!” replied the boy coolly. “If you want to do good business, why don’t you work for a house that turns out the right kind of goods?” ~ : Thus speaking, Andy started for the hotel to get his dinner. Bentley Cox shook his fist after him and walked off in the opposite direction, 2 which would take him to the station. Andy had = plenty of time to eat his meal and write a letter, inclosing his four orders to Mr. Dexter, which he registered, as usual, at the post-office, before the next local train from Allegheny came in. He boarded it, and so did Cox, who had been hanging around the station-for a full hour, nursing his wrath. A short run brought the train to Sharps- burg. Here Andy alighted, prepared to fight it out against his business rival. Cox, however, did yada’ i i "7. we NS i Ses re wy eae a NS) ' not stop. His purpose was to get ahead of the boy and try and keep his-trade that way. He went on to Aspinwall, a small place, where he =~ had one customer, leaying Andy full swing at ~ Sharpsburg, and the boy did well in consequence. — — Andy expected to run across Cox at the hotel, if not at one of the dealers, but he didn’t He =~ saw no sign of him while he stayed in the town, “which was not long, and then he started for Ta- rentum. 7 On the train Andy, by great good luck, made. _ the acquaintance of the chief dealer in his line of __ ve, business, and interested him in his goods. He — showed his samples and took a good order before the train reached the town. He learned that the — x3 other two dealers were wedded to Gulick & Ce, ~~ and decided to let Cox have them. He was satis- fied with having caught the leading house, and concluded that he would get on ah of his rival» So when the train stopped at Tarentum he didn’t get off, but continued on to Freeport, where he had the only dealer on his list. He sold this mz Ses a small order and then proceeded to Butler, which

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- “ed around. = aT ee, _ » morrow.” ae . you were new at A BORN © was about twenty miles-from the river by rail. This was a fair-sized town, much larger than those he had just been doing business in, and was the end of the Pennsylvania road in that direction. He put me at the Waverly Hotel, which was a second-class house and one frequented by drummers and theatrical people. f CHAPTER X.—Bob Spriggins Intréduces Himself SA ga supper that evening Andy went into the ing room, as was his custom, and picked up a copy of the Daily Eagle. After reading the news he looked up the amusements and saw that there was a play by a. New York company at the Majestic Theater. He asked a man sitting in the next chair where the theater was, and was told that it was in the next block. At that moment a sporty young fellow entered the room and look-. When his gaze rested on Andy he approached him: : . “I beg your, pardon,” he said, “is your name Andy Briggs? : “Yes,” replied the boy salesman,+loeking at him in some surprise. ; - “My name is Spriggins—Bob Spriggins. I was formerly a salesman for John B. Dexter, whom you represent, but I have gone into business~in this town. I got a letter from Mr. Allen, the head store salesman of your house, telling me you would be on here about time to sell to the merchants in your line. He said e business and he asked me to show you around and give you what pointers I thought would he of use to you, so I’ve been watching for your arrival,” said the sporty stranger. i S “Glad to meet you, Mr. Spriggins,” said Andy, hands with him. “I don’t remember that . shakin, Sin er: ny Be mentioned your name to me before I = left, but I suppose it did not occur to him to do So. - *As long as he wrote to me about you, it’s all right. Mr. Allen always treated me well, and I -eouldn’t think of’ refusing him such a small fa- “4 “Yes, Mr. Allen is a very nice man,” said Andy. “He spoke very nice about you. I'll show Fae his letter,” said Spriggins, putting his hand in his pocket. “By George! I’m sorry, but I left that letter in my other coat. I'll show it to you to- *All right,” said Andy. been in Butler?” ~ “Two years or so.” “How long have you \ ' Are you in the jewelry novelty business ?” said! - Andy, judging that Spriggins wasn’t, or his. name would be on his list. a - “No. I’m in the hotel business a pits a partner. outskirts. I 6 as 3 Andy, , SacsSMAN ul Andy got up and followed his new acquaint- ance out of the hotel. Truth to tell, the young salesman was not over attracted to Spriggins. Though Andy was not at all taken with Sprig- gins, he did not dream that the chap was a sham, so far as his pretensions were concerned. He had never worked for John B. Dexter in any ca- pacity, and knew no more about selling goods than an inexperienced boy. The fact of the mat- ter was, Bob Spriggins was a cheap sport and a friend of Bentley Cox. Cox, satisfied that Andy would stop at Butler, had written to Spriggins explaining that the boy was a rival of his an ing the sport to do him up some way. “T’ll make it all right with you,, Bob,” he wrote, “put in any case you tan help yourself to the best of the samples in his case. There are a number of valuable gold ones, and many of ster- ling silver. You ought to be able to e a good haul yourself while doing me this favor. The boy is a new thing on the road, and you should have no trouble in trimming him in good shape. The principal thing I want you to do is to get sample case away from him. He can’t do any business without that. As he has many Al sam- ples, he is hurting my trade, and I must side- track him at all cost.” As Spriggins had been quite chummy with Cox when the latter was last in Butler, and as he to make something out of the drummer when he came to Butler again, the sport was ite willing to do any reasonable favor for Cox. o he got on the job, and now had Andy in tow. He showed Andy up the main business street and invited him to take a drink at a gilded saloon, but the young salesman firmly refused to imbibe. Then they went to the theater at Spriggins’ ex- pense, and after the shéw was over the sport ‘took the boy into an all-night oyster house and they had a lunch. at “Now we'll go and see the elephant,” said Spriggins, when they came out. “What elephant?” asked Andy. Spriggins grinned. ie “You know what I mean. You’ve never been in a gambling house, have you?” he said. : “No,” replied Andy. - “Well, I’ll take you to one now. It’s called the White Elephant. There is a saloon and bil- li parlor on the first and second floors. Any- body can walk in there, but you’ve got to be known to be admitted the upper floor where the games are played. I’m known to the door- keeper and will vouch for you, so we'll have no trouble in getting in,” said Spriggins. “I’m much obliged for the invitation, but I don’t care to visit a gambling house. I’m not interest- ed in games of chance,” said Andy, who thought a = less of his companion for making the pro- posal, ~“T thought you said Spriggins. said Andy. s return to the hotel and go to bed.” “Go to bed! a good impression if I made my appearance - o- J + wanted to see_all the sights?” “No, I’m not particular about seeing them all,” ea “Tt is half-past eleven, and I’d rather® = ve ae FAT fg Oe Te. eee Oy SLU see ml ae. ae

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~ < fore a merchant looking as if I had been out most of the night. When a fellow looks seedy he feels “e seedy. One of these days, when I get old and seasoned, I may take more chances, but now I’m bound to take care of myself.” Spriggins had sense enough to see that Andy = meant what he said and that it would be useless to try amd force him to do what he did not want : to do, so he said: , “All right. Whatever you say goes with me. I was told to look after you and give you a good time, and I want to do it; but if you don’t. want to stay out any later, we’ll take a cab, call for your baggage at the hotel, and go out to the ouse.” : “No,” said Andy. “I prefer to remain at the hotel.” Spriggins reflected. It wouldn’t do to arouse i: Andy’s suspicions, so he decided to walk back to 7 the hotel with him and leave him there. Be- tween that and the next evening he decided to eoncoct some scheme that would get the young salesman in his power. “Well, let’s go back to your hotel. On thé whole, I guess I'll get home and go to bed my- self, as I have some business on hand in the morning,” he said. . - So back to the Waverly Hotel they went, and Spriggins bade Andy good night, and good luck with his next day’s business tour. The sport, however, didn’t go home and turn in, as he said he was going to. He never. went to bed much ' before three or four, for he was a regular night- hawk, and found more pleasure and profit in be- ing abroad during the hours of darkness than when daylight held sway. Where he went and what he did that night is a matter that does not concern this story, so we shall not follow him. Andy got his key right away and went to his room, and half an hour later was enjoying his first sleep, which would put him in good trim for his exertions on the morrow. ~ _ CHAPTE?, XL—Andy Falls Into a ‘rap. - Andy turned out at half-past seven, as‘ bright as a new silver dollar. He dressed and went to breakfast. Then he went into the reading room, read the Times for a while, and wrote a couple of letters. By that time he was ready to le business, so he got his sample case and started out. It was a bright, sunny day, and Andy felt confident of success., He was gat. that Bentley Cox had not showed up. Though he did not fear _ him as a business rival, still he would have a elearer field with that young man out of the way. ; caught two orders before his a hie beck to the hotel for dinner, and he did even better during the afternoon. He had only two more merchants to call on, who were on his list, and ae nothing to prevent him getting out town early next A Hes In the meantime, Bob iggins had not been idle since he got out of ed around .noontime.- He hustled out to the -and met the owner, who was a foxy to take chances to make the mighty and Spriggins were hand-in-glove piece of rascality was on the tapis, 2 a etite sent - 3 ipect A BOrenpw..ckSMAN and each could always depend on the other’s aid. Spriggins promised the roadhouse man, whose name was Toby Clincher, half of the pickings that resulted from the doing up of Andy, and the pair evolved a.plan between them that they hoped would work. ; Spriggins arrived at the Waverly Hotel about five o’clock in a cab and«asked*for Andy. The clerk told him that the boy was out; had, in fact, been out all day. Spriggins went out to the en- trance to wait for his victim, anticipating that he would soon show.up. He was right, for Andy shi Packs came along with the sample case in his and. “Say, I’ve been waiting for you, Briggs. got a customer for you,” said the sport. “A customer!” exclaimed the young salesman. “Yes. He doesn* belong in this town, but in Spencer, thirty miles from here. He used to have a store here when I was-on the road, and I Sold him Dexter’s goods right along. When I quit, one of Gulick & Co.’s men got him in tow and has held on to him ever since. I met him to-day and J had a talk with him and‘told him you had the finest samples in his line of any man on the road, and I got him interested. He prom- . ised he would look them over if I would bring you out to the roadhouse, where he is stopping. As he’s going to the theater to-night, we have no time to lose. I’ve got a cab here which will take us out to my place in twenty minutes. I'll help -~ you get his order. After that we'll have supper and then I'll bring you back here.” i Thus Spriggins put it to Andy, and as his story looked straight enough, the boy, fell into the trap and agreed to go withthe sport, for he was eager to sell all he could, and a customer not down on his list was a good thing to catch. : I've “What’s the man’s name?” he asked, as he got ~ into the cab, = “His name is Fowler.” “Ts he perfectly reliable and good pay?” “He always was. Dexter will be glad to get him back,” said Spriggins, nodding to the driver and closing the door of the vehicle. “How much do you think he’s likely to buy?”. asked Andy, as the cab started. : “You ought to land him for four or five hun-. dred dollars. He’s the only dealer in Spencer, and has a large store there,” said Spriggins. The sport kept up a rapid flow of talk all the way to the roadhouse, which was situated on the eounty road, a mile outside of Butler. In due time they reached the building, which bore the — name-of the “Old Homestead,” and Spriggins led. the way into the public room, where Clincher stood talking to his assistant behind the bar. “This is my partner, Mr. Clincher,” said the sport, introducing Andy. Clincher said he was glad to know him, and = invited him to drink. i “T never drink,” said Andy. “Where’s “Fowler?” asked Spriggins, with a = * wink. P “Lying down, I guess.. He was out fér a walle and came in tired. He told me to call him when — supper was ready. I was just going up to do so.” _“I£ supper is ready we can’t talk business until — after we've eaten. Fetch him down. Come on, -. TS eT eT - =m) Ee WL " a NeANOR? laa ois ipa Oi as a LV ph 1 = ited 1 + tii

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_eating-room of the roadhouse. A BORN Briggs, we'll go into the dining room,” said Sprig- Andy. who was feeling hungry, had no objec- tion to eating first and talking business after- ward, so he followed the sport into the small In a few minutes Clincher appeared. “He’s got a headache and he says he won’t come down yet a while. He’s not going to the theater to-night.” “All right; then Briggs will have plenty of _ time to talk him into an order,” said Spriggins. They sat down to supper, which consisted of ham and eggs, fried potatoes and coffee, with apple pie to finish up with, Andy ate heartily, _ but as the meal drew to its close he began to feel unaccountably sleepy. He was fast falling under the influence of the drug ‘which:had been admin- istered to him in the coffee. Spriggins seein’ his condition, stggested that they go upstairs and see Fowler. Andy got up and went upstairs with them, and they left him seated at a table in one of the second-story rooms while they went to bring the mythical Fowler. As soon as Sprig- gins and Clincher got outside, the former softly er the door on the boy. Then they went into the front room to wait for the drug to finish its work. Fifteen minutes later when Spriggins : fie through the keyhole he saw Andy with . he ad on his arms, unconscious- across the ta- S : ble. He opened the door, entered, and grabbing _ the sample case, carried it into the front room, jeaying the door unlocked, for he was satisfied ‘that the boy wouldn't recover for some hours, long before which he. and Clincher intended to drive Andy off into the country and leave him at an old, disused mill to recover and find his own _ Way back to town.- at the stuff in the case till you get back.” said the roadhouse man, who was not to trust the sport any further than he him. b e room where Andy was é him for the key: He finally found it and went ‘back to the front room. Clincher remained away so long that oy Has age ad im- » or 5 jent and went down to look e found in the of a couple of detectives, SALESMAN : 18 . the roadhouse propriector’s innocence in the mat- ter, and told him he'd have to come to town with them, as they had a warrant for his arrest, issued by a certain judge. Clincher put up a’stout kick, but it didn’t do him any good. Finding that he had~to go with the officers, he issued certain di-+ rections to his assistant and told the sport to wait for him till he got back. -“But you may be kept in jail all night,” said Spriggins. “No fear,” returned Clincher. “I'll send for «my political backer and he'll get me out of this.” Clincher went away im company with the offi- - cers, and Spriggins waited impatiently for him to come back. He visited the room where Andy re- clined over the table, dead to the world for the time: being, and was satisfied the boy was safe. He took the precaution, however, to get a key -and turn it in the lock, though he had no fear that the young salesman would come to his senses for hours. So time passed until midnight came around, and then Clincher came back. He had been bailed out after considerable trouble, and would have to appear in a magistrate’s court in the morning. He and Spriggihs went to the front room and the samplé case was got out of the ‘closet. Spriggins unlocked it and the two men began examining the samples with a great deal of interest. : = — ww, CHAPTER XII.—Andy Turns the Tables. It happened that Andy was fiot so badly drug- re ged as the men supposed he was, owing to a mis- take in the strengt ut in his coffee, and to the fact that the boy ad not drunk all the coffee, the strongest part of the drug which had-been |

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14 third one led into a narrow passage at the other end of which was a door. A light came under it, and Andy hearil voices in the-room beyond. The fact that the outer door was locked raised very disquieting doubts in his mind, especially when taken in connection with the disappearance ef his : sample case and what ‘had happened to him. or iad It looked very like as if he had been made a prisoner in the room: Under these dubious cir- cumstances he deemed it wise to act with cau- tion, though so far he entertained no positive con- viction of foul play on the part of Spriggins and v his mer. He removed his shoes and walking ? softly to the door at the end of the passage he _ applied his eye to the keyhole. The room beyond was brightly lighted by a lamp that stood on a mantel over a Baltimore heater, and at a table near by sat Spriggins and Clincher with the sam- 4 ple case between them. They were taking the = gold and silver articles out, one by one, and com- 2 menting on their probable value.. Andy gave a gasp when he saw what they were doing. There nah be only one meaning to their actions: They intended to steal the more valuable of his sam- ples. Why Spriggins, who was supposed to be his friend, should be up to such a trick, Andy could E not understand, but he soon found out the sport’s ze true character. He easily heard all that passed ; 3 a between the two men in the room, and as Sprig- erred quite frequently to his friend Bent- m, ley C and told how he expected to pull the :- drummer's leg for a “Substantial amount for car- rying out his directions to do Andy up, the scales which had blinded the boy’s eyes concerning the : euoxt fell away and he saw the rascal in his true colors. e . He also saw through the scheme of which he was the victim, and he determined at any cost to ea gins = put a spoke in the wheels of the scoundrels. —It ned would never do for him to lose his samples. . He bey couldn’t go on his way without them. It was a despicable game for he was not particularly surprised that ~ Co.’s drummer should i. i x to put up on him, but i Gulick & advantage. ving = understanding of the situation, the boy esman began to figure how he was to upset 2 the calculations of the two men in the room and “: ~. recover his property. The prospect was not very es OS gta ee Bo digas ale dp aged and the fact he was in ,the power of the raseals. Andy, however, was’a plucky lad, and in his own in- % softly tried the door and fo that it was not. 5 a bold yh He re- e the — he b there, oe heavil pape’ ae ; 5 pope poun on the door. i rushed back to the inde. siooe of the i | the*keyhole he saw table. One or both ~~ had gon the Feeling his way forward, with caution, he pres- : ently saw a lighted lantern, partially shaded by = = A BORN SALESMAN door a little and looked into the room. The two men were outside, He rushed over to the door, saw there was a key in the lock, and quickly shut and locked it. Then he resumed his shoes and went to the table. 7 There lay all his most valuable samples in two iles, as the men had divided them between them. e swept them quickly into his case and locked it. By this time the men outsidé had noticed, by the shutting off of the light which had shone on the landing through the opening, that the door had been shut. Feeling that something was wrong here, for they had already found the door of the other room barricaded against their entrance, they came back and tried to get in. Of course they couldn’t, and Clincher began kicking at the door with his heavy boots. Feeling that he had no time to lose, Andy glided over to one of the front windows and opened it. A couple of feet below was the roof of the porch. He was out on it in a moment. To slide to the ground down one of the posts was only the work of a few mo- ments. Then he made off in the darkness to- ward town, the direction of which he knew by seat. the big tree at the side of the road- house, which he had noticed when he came in the cab was on the town side of the building. “That was a narrow escape and a mighty lucky one,” he breathed, as he hurired forward. “Still ’m not out of the woods yet, for they are bound to follow me. If they do, I guess [ ean give them the slip in the dark.” _ . He looked behind every few minutes, keeping himself in at the side of the road. He had gone about a quarter of a mile when he;saw a house standing back from the turnpike. As he came abreast of it he looked back and saw two figures coming on behind. There could be little doubt but they were his enemies in pursuit. Of course, he must leave the road at once and let them by. He opened the gate and ran toward the house, taking shelter behind it. The two figures came up and stopped at the gate. “T wonder if they saw me come in here?” . thought Andy, watching them. The figures opened the gate and came in. “Then one walked along inside the fence one way and the other in the opposite direction. Each had to walk about fifty feet to a cross-fence, and they beat up the thick bushes as a proceeded. Fearing they would investigate the back of the house, on the chance that the fugitive was hiding there, Andy took time by the forelock and made a break for the barn. He scurried behind it. Then he thought they might even come as far as that. There was a fence behind the barn, and beyond an orchard of trees. “They'd never find me among those trees,” said the boy to himself. At that moment he noticed that the shutter of the shutter through which the manure was thrown was open. It was easy to reach, so Andy decided to climb into the barn and close the shut- ter, then he would be quite safe from his pur- _suers. He did so without much hesitation, and - found himself in the darkness of a strange place. He was about to strike a match so as to look around when he heard voices in the building.

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_ 4 3 r a mall a block of wood, standing on a bench. Seated on an overturned harrow, with their backs toward _ him, were’ two rough-looking men. They were eating some food they had with them in a paper, _ and drinking from a couple of liquor flasks. ~ NAndy’s first idea was that they were tramps who, seeing the opening through which he had himself 7 entered, had made free to come in themselves ’ for a night’s shelter. He judged that he had bet- : ter not discover himself to them lest they should = be tempted to take advantage of the chance to _. -Yob him of his sample case. So he held aloof and - . jistened to their conversation. He soon learned enough to convince him that they intended to . force an entrance into the house and rob the * place. It was clear that they were not merely |. tramps, but traveling crooks, out for anything that fortune threw in their way. yt . ; ay CHAPTER XIII.—Andy Frustrates a Burglary. As soon as Andy realized what their purpose was, he decided that it was up to him to frus- trate it. The men, or ae finished their lunch, got up and prepared for business. Leaving the Jantern where it was, they started toward the place where the boy was standing. Evidently they were about to’make their exit ‘by the route they had come in. As Andy had closed the shut- ter, though he had not secured it; he was afraid the rascals would suspect something was wrong. He thought it would be wise to get farther back, bat to move around in the dark, with the risk of tripping over an obstruction at any moment, was ing chances of immediate discovery, Un- der such conditions he concluded to remain where he was. The men passed so close to him that he could have touched them. Ss “Where in. thunder is the window?” said the aa - fellow in advance. aa “Tt ought to be before you,” replied the other. nr =. Tf it-ts; 1 can't see it,” ~ “That’s because it’s dark outside.” “It’s not so dark outside as it is in here, by a ae chalk.” - : : -. *Go forward and feel for the opening.” ’ ~ “You’ve got a match in your clothes. Strike it ~ and let us see where we are.” _ They had passed around the corner of the stall where Andy stood, otherwise they must have no- 5 'ticed him when the last chap lit a match at his E- -companion’s request. —« 223 : ~ _ “Why, the shutter is down!” cried the chap in -_ -advanee. “Who could have been around here? ‘Maybe we've been discovered in here.” ~ “The shutter might have fallen after we en- tered. It isn’t fast, is it?” —— : w= No,” replied the other, trying it. “Then it’s all right. Push it up and we'll get Lat See ee _A BORN SALESMAN him, of course, 15 “Why in thunder don’t you come out?” called the man again. His request was unheeded. With an impreta- ‘tion he ciimbed back and stuck in his head. ss “Where are you, Beaseley ?” he said. mee Beaseley lay right under him, but was dead to the world at that moment. “Confound you, where have you got to?” he ey roared angrily. t The silence still continued. Then he began te , suspect that something was wrong. He would have struck a match, Sut he had none himself. He started to scramble in, thought better of it, and dropped out again. He stood around an waited in vain for his pal to appear. Andy waited to see what he was going to do next. As he did nothing, Andy walked over to where the lantern stood and looked for a piece of rope. Ae There was lots of it hanging from pegs in the es wall. He.took down a couple of pieces and walk- : ed back to the stall. He intended to tie the un- conscious man With them. The fellow had recov- - ered his senses and was getting out of the win- dow. Andy had to let him go. “Look here, Beaseley, what kept you inside so _ long?” demanded his pal. . “Something fell on my head and knocked me out. My head is ringing now from the whack.” “Something fell on you?” _ “Yes. It knocked me_ senseless, whatever it was.” “I s’pose it was some implement that was hang- ing there,” said his companion. Andy heard what they said and saw that they did not suspect the true cause. They walked away and disappeared around the corner of the barn, the injured man caressing his sore head. After waiting a few moments Andy crawled out of the window himself and peered around the side of the barn. He saw the men standing at the back door of the house. They failed to force the door;.so they went to a window and succeeded in | securing entrance that way. Ss “Now, what shall I do?” said Andy. “I must Mig Asta te Py iT aes wi Lye rn AL AN ve te Nie, Pra Nps) ¢, r block those rascals somehow.” aa He re-entered the barn and hunted around for = — something that would answer as an effective wea- oO pon at close quarters. He didn’t want to use a a dangerous edged tool, so he finally decided on arming himself with a short cudgel, with a knotty end. ith this'in his hand he went over to the _ house and got in through the window opened and left so by the burglars. He found himself in the kitchen, and cautiously made his way through an open door into a passage that led into the main hallway of the house. All was dark, and he ~ guessed that the thieves were upstairs. He lis- tened for some sound that would indicate their whereabouts, but heard nothing. He opened both doors on either side of the hall and looked into the _ AF i rr" an die ge ESN in watch over them | ee ay?

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16 . the place. Already the fellow had a bag well filled with plunder. Andy decided that it was too risky for him to rush in and attack the pair. It would be better to ambush them as they came out and take them by surprise. In a few minutes the _ active man had got all that he considered worth while taking. “Now, Beaseley,” he said, “I’ll go downstairs with this bundle and see what I can pick up there. As soon as I am done I’ll give you the signal to come.” ' Andy’s original intention was to attack the men as they came out of the room, one after the other. The fellow’s words\caused him’ to change it. He slipped over to the stairs and ran down. At the ’ foot he waited for the burglar to come down with - the bundle. The fellow did not keep him waiting long. When he reached the foot of the stairs Andy sprang forward and knocked him senseless with his cl He searched the chap to. see if he had a revolver, but he had none. He dragged the thief out into the kitchen and tied him hand and foot with a clothes line. + : “That settles one of them,” said Andy, as_he shoved the mgn under the table.“ “Now for the other.” He walked u irs and saw that the door of the front chamber was open./ Getting down on his hands and knees, he'crawled inside. Rising suddenly when he reached the foot of the bed, he took the man called Beaseley by surprise and - knocked him down with his club. Another crack dazed him, and before he recovered Andy had him = bound with a towel. The boy took the gags from * the mouths of the man and woman, and then found that their arms were bound to their sides. : As he proceeded to release them, the man found ~~ his tongue. rag “How came you~to enter the house so oppor- tunely, young man?” he said. 3 Andy explained in as few words as possible, * telling how in trying to escape from two ras- cals who were after him, he had found a shut- tered window in the barn open and entered the building and there discovered the two men who had just enacted the part of burglars, and learn- ed from their talk that they intended to rob the house. He believed jit was his duty to block their purpose, and he was glad to say he had succeed- ed. The owner of the house, o said his name was John Moore, thanked him for his valuable services in his behalf and his wife’s, and said he would reward him for it. Then he asked Andy his nameg and if he lived in town. The boy told him that he did not live in town, but was a traveling salesman for a New York house. x “Then you are a stranger in this neighbor- hood?” “I am,” replied the boy. , . The man got up and dressed himself. Andy told him that the bag of plunder the other rascal taken irs was in the lower hall. Mr. : we and the boy carried the second burglar Z | to the kitchen, and Andy stood guard over beth while the man went to his barn and harnessed a horse i A BORN SALESMAN . trate’s court at eleven in the morning. Mr. Moore drove him to the Waverly Hotel and left him. It was three by the clock in the office when he asked for his key. He kept to his room per- fectly convinced that he had just passed the most. strenuous night of his life. ‘ CHAPTER XIV.—The Stolen Case. ‘Andy didn’t get up till nine next morning and was the last to enter the dining room for break- fast. There was nothing in the morning papers about the burglary, as the newspapers were on the press when the matter was reported to the police. The young salesman decided not to pro- ceed against Spriggins and the man he believed was the sport’s partner for fear it might result in his being detained in Butler in order to prose- cute them. He had recovered his sample case, which took him an hour to put in order, and he was satisfied to let matters go at that. At eleven o’clock he was in court and there met Mr. Moore. again. The prisoners were called to the bar and pleaded “Not guilty.” After hearing the testi- mony against them, the judge held them for trial. As Andy intended to leave town that afternoon, he reduced his own testimony to affidavit form and handed the paper to Mr. Meore. That man then ae the boy with $100 and told him when he next visited Butler he m call at his house. After lunch Andy visited the last two people on his list and got a small order from both. He wrote a long letter to Mr. Dexter. detailing all that had happened to him and mailed it on his way to the station. Andy took the B. & O. as far as Parker’s Landing on the Alleghen River, and there connected with the Pennsyl- vania road again and went on to Franklin, where he registered at the United States Hotel. Be fore going to bed he scanned the Evening News> and saw a paragraph referring to the burglary in Butler in which he had played s part. He secured two orders in this town and then took the Brie road to Erie,stopping over one day at Meadville to drum up business there. Be- ing ahead of Cox, he was not bothered with a sight of that undesirable salesman, and he put in two days ‘at thie with great satisfaction to him- so prominent a . self, and subsequently to Mr. Dexter. From Erie, ~ his route took him into Ohio, and he made his. first stop at Ashtabula, where he put up at the Chapman House. Picking, up the Beacon Record, after supper, he saw there was a show at the Ly- ae Theater, so he concluded to blow himse it. Reaching’ the theater, he was rather taken aback to see Bentley Cox and Spriggins standing near the entrance, talking. he sport was the = erson he ted to see in Ashtabula. As ‘or

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A BORN 7 =) not meet the drummer, nor had the chap pre- ceded him at the stores where he called. He took two orders and late in the afternoon boarded a Lake Shore train for Cleveland, the first large city on his route. He had a string of customers to call on at this’ place, but half of them used the _ Dexter line and would be easy for him to sell to. He put up at the Kennard. \ “Tll be sure to run foul of Cox here,” he thought, when he went to his room. “But what’s the difference? He can’t hurt me any. I’m go- ing.to tackle his customers first, and if I don’t capture a number of them I'll be greatly disap- “pointed.” . Andy felt that he couldn’t get square with Gu- “Jick & Co.’s drummer better than to do him out’ _.of several of his best customers. In any case, it -_ ‘was perfectly fair for him to do so if he could, 3 for Cox would certainly adopt the same tactits ~ toward him. had been doing first-class since he had been on the road. He knew that himself, and a letter he found waiting at the ho- tel for him from Mr. Dexter confifmed the fact. Mr. Dexter declared that he no longer, enter- “tained any doubt that Andy was a born sales- - man, and he intended to keep him on the toad= most of the time. That made the boy feel good, and encouraged him to greater efforts, for every one likes to be appreciated. The Maiden Lane ficer ef the law,” and he showed his badge, “and here is our authority for searching your house and taking possession of the case if we find it, here.» Your admission that the case is in your basement does away with the necessity of search- ing your house. We now demand it of you.” “You can have it. I won’t stand in the way of the law. Are you going to arrest the man?” she asked, _ ; “I. certainly intend to do so if he shows up. I shall require you to point him out to me. That will let you out of any eriminal participation in the matter,” said the detective. ““Tll point him out when he comes,” “Very well. Now show us the case. The woman took them down to the basement and pointed to the ease. It was marked in one corner, “John B,. Dexter, No. — Maiden, Lane, New York City.” : The shipping directions read: she said. » Fo Murray” Clearly it was the case indicated by the tele- . gram and Andy ¢laimed it. t “You won't be able to carry that away on the ~ cab,” said the detective. “You'll have to get express company to call for it.” . “There’s an expressman on the corner,” volun- tered the wornan. | wise fa eas

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ou 18 “Sle won't be there at this hour, will he, ma’am?” asked Andy. “You may find him, for he usually remains there till dark.” . “Go and see if the mig™m’s wagon is there,” said the officer. “If it is, you can get him to take the case to your hotel at once. I'll stay ‘here till Smith shows up and will advise you later if I have arrested him.” ; So Andy started for the corner: The express- man was there with his wagon~and the young oae salesman engaged him to carry ,the box to his ee hotel. At Andy’s request it was taken_to his : room. The boy threw off his coat and vest, poured some water in his bowl and started to wash his«face and-otherwise prepare’ himself to go down to supper. Hearing a creaking. sound, : e stopped washing his face and looked around. ~~ he lid of the big packing box hdd arisen. Two masked men, who had been hidden inside, scram- bled“cut. The young salesman was terribly star- tled, and recoiled. CHAPTER XV.—Caught with the Goods. ee, “Hands up, young feller, and don’t you make a z sound, or it'll be worse for you,” said the fore- eee

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=. I haven’t seen him. sat - A BORN -way of the packing case, or it couldn’t very well have been worked the way it was,” thought Andy. “The expressman, too, was probably paid to re- main at his stand after his usual hour in order to carry the case to the hotel without delay. It certainly was a great plot, but the letter, turning " <up accidentally, will enable the police to capture all concerned in it.” Andy rubbed his hands with satisfaction. “1 think I see Cox’s finish. The sample case will doubtless be found in his possession. That will enable me to prosecute him to the full ex- tent of the law, and I guess he well deserves all that’s coming to him,” thought Andy, beginning his meal with a much better relish than he ex- When he came out of the dining room a . ne from headquarters was waiting to see im. “Come up to my room,” said the boy. Lighting the Bayi he showed the officer the packing case. en he showed him the bogus telegram, and told the story of the affair up to the moment. he released himself from his bonds. “Up to that point it looked like a plain, ordi- nary case of robbery,” said*Andy. “But I found this letter in the case, and that throws a flood of light on the affair. Read it. The writer is a rival drumnier in my own line of business, and this isn’t the first sy i f trick he’s pulled off on me since I met him first in Pittsburgh. It’s the first that has been successful as far as it has gone, but with your help I think I shall be able to land him in jail and put/a full stop to any more of his c tricks.” The detective read the letter. 5 “Barney Mulligan is a well-known crook,” said the r. “We'll have no trouble in landing ibe the two men.” - Andy-did so, saying that one of the men was named Jerry. — - “I recognize the detective. I ; “They’ll be in the lock-up within an hour or so. ise the landlady of No. — Blank street. is y implicated. Now, do you know - where this drummer is stopping?” ' J do not. I didn’t suspect he was in town, for i He stops at a hotel of this “Then we'll go and look for him at the Hawley, both from your description,” said and if he isn't there we'll try the Forest City. ‘If we want to catch him with the goods we no time to lése.” have _ Andy and the detective started for the Hawley ‘House. y examined the register interro- the clerk, and came to the conclusion that so they proceeded to a =» wasn’t stopping there, - the Forest City Hotel. Here they found Bentley ‘Cox on the register. eman in?” asked the officer. at the key box and said that gE: drummer’s room. They The detective opened the knocking, followed “Mulligan’s pal is Jerry Atkins. » ~arms, so to speak, for he had made SALESMAN crooks recognized the detective, and Cox recog- nized Andy. They were taken completely ~ by gig and uttered exclamations of consterna- ion. ‘ CHAPTER XVI.—Conclusion. Knowing that the crooks were dangerous men when driven into a corner, the detective drew his revolver. “Hands up, all of you! name of the law!” he said. “What does this mean?” gurgled Cox, with chalky countenance. “It means that you are caught with the goods, Mr. Cox,” replied Andy, “What goods?” ; “My sample case. There it is on your bed. How do you account for it being in your posses- sion?” “I have nothing to do with that case. It be- longs to one of these men.” , “What!” roared Mulligan. “Are you trying to sneak out of this thing by laying the blame on us? We give in, Duffy,” addressing the detec- tive, “and we’re ready to take our medicine, but we won’t go to jail alone. That chap goes with us,” pointing at the cowering Cox. “He hired*us to pinch that sample case. I can prove it by the letter he sent me.” He felt in his pockets in vain. “I’ve lost it!” he cried. “And I found it,” said Andy. “The officer has it in his pocket.” “Has he? Good! Now, you white-livered sneak,” turning to Cox, “you'll get what’s coming to you. Jerry and me’ll testify against you whether we gain anything by it or not. We'll see that you get a striped suit, and when we get to prison with you, we’ll make the place so hot for you, you'll wish you were dead.” _— When crooks fall out, honest people come into their own. It so happened in this case. At the examination next morning, Mulligan and Atkins exposed the whole scheme, and their testimony was corroborated by Cox’s letter. The drummer had nothing to say in his own behalf. He was already convicted, and he knew it. “ventually the three were tried. Cox got the full penalty of five years, while the two crooks, in spite of their bad records, got ony See each in consideration . of their evidence. us Gulick & Co.’s rascally drummer disappears. from our story. Andy did a big business in-Cleveland and then dusky and from there to Toledo. I arrest you in the the York one mbdrnin He was expected ord for a first trip. nes 19~

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“T am glad you are pleased’ with my efforts. I tried to do my best, sir,” said Andy, his face glowing under the tribute from his employer. “You have done as well as any of my~exper- ienced travelers—better, in fact, than one or two of them. This is saying a great deal for you of itself; but you deserve more credit, for a part of your territory was pretty wéll covered by my greatest business rival, and you have captured considerable of his business, thereby laying a good foundation for future effort over the same route.” Mr. Dexter took Andy to Delmonico’s to lunch, and treatéd him just as he would his star sales- man. “You'll put in your time at the store till I am ready to send you out again over another route,” said Mr. Dexter, as they left the restaurant. “Report to Mr. Allen in the morning.” : Andy went to his former boarding house, found his old room just vacated and took it, giving an order to a transfer company to fetch his trunk up from the store. Next day he got off an hour for the purpose of calling on Mr. Baldwin, That gentleman gave him a cordial welcome. “My daughter is all right again, and is eagerly watching for your return to the city. You must call on us to-morrow night,” said the merchant. Andy promised to do so and kept his word. Nellie Baldwin was delighted to meet him again, and Andy thought she looked prettier than when > he first met her. He passed a pleasant evening in her company and was invited to call soon again. He did call soon, for he was greatly taken with the young lady, and his visits became regu- lar weekly events until he was sent out on a new route, south. During this trip he corersponded regularly with Nellie, and the letters that, passed between them afforded the recipients great pleas- ~ ure. . _ Andy’s southern trip took him through many States, and he met with many moré or less curi- ous experiences. On his way back he traveled through western Virginia... Laying over Sunday at a certain small city, he heard about a deserted old war-time mansion that stood near the road, six or.seven miles out in’ the country. He decided to visit it, as he was told it was well worth an inspection. The property had been put up for sale by the county several times to satisfy un- : ee taxes, but nod. seemed to care to bid on it, and so it stood a relic of former prosperity, _ without an owner, Andy hired a rig and drove out there on y afternoon. The ground had gone to seed and was covered with rank vegeta- - touch instead of by sight, so that a blind 1 and could do it as well as the owner of the sha A BORN SALESMAN man estimated that the total sum amounted to $60,000. Who did it belong to? Nobody, appar- ently, and he felt he could claim it by right of discovery. Accordingly, he removed the bags to his buggy and carried them to his hotel, stopping on the way to buy two bags to put his find in. .He secured a stout box from the steward of the ho- tel and nailed his treasure up in it. Next day he handed the box over to one of the big express companies to transport to New York. It arrived some time before he did and was waiting in the cellar of the store for him to claim it. He re- ‘vealed the nature of the contents of the box to Mr. Dexter, and told the astonished merchant how he came in possession of it. The merchant advised him to tell nobody else about the money, but to turn it over to a big trust company in exchange for several gilt-edged mortgages. Andy followed his advice, and thus came into an assured annual income of about $3,000, in addition to his growing salary as a suc- cessful salesman. We have not the space to fol- low Andy’s path up the ladder of success. What - he accomplished on his first trip showed his cal- iber, and each succeeding trip boosted him in his employer’s estimation. When he returned from his sixth semi-annual trip he asked Mr. Baldwin for the hand of his daughter and received a fa- vorable baal 6 Six months later he and Nellie were married, and with that happy event we will close the history of a born salesman. Next week’s issue will contain “DICK DAL- TON, YOUNG BANKER; or, CORNERING THE WALL STREET ‘SHARKS,’” =—a—a—a—_—a—a—eE_asasapya_)™aa=_aes==ay_eqampmpmEeEeE—eoee™yE™™™T™™E=™E=——="_ THE SMALLEST OF SCREWS The smallest screws in the world—those turned out in a watch factory—are cut from steel wire by a machine, but as the chips fall from the knife it looks as if the operator were simply cutting up the wire to amuse himself. No screws ean be seen, and yet a screw is made every third operation. - - The fourth jewel-wheel screw is next to invis- _ ible, and to the naked eye it resembles dust. With -a glass, however, it is seen to be a small screw, © with 260 threads to an inch, and with a-very fine glass the threads may be seen clearly. e These tiny screws are four one-thousandths of an inch in diameter, and the heads are double in size. It is estimated that an ordinary thimble would hold 100,000 of them. About 1,000,000 are made in a month, but no attempt is ever made to count them. Z i In determining the number 100 of them are %, r) ae Y placed on a very delicate balance and the number of the whole amount is caleulated from the — weight of this. All the small parts of the watch are counted in this way, probably 50 out of the — 120. : ee S- ' The serews are then hardened and put in frames, about 100 to the frame, heads up. i is done very rapidly, but entirely by the sense eye. Rag res ee then polished in.an a machine, 10,000 at a time yee | This.

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es; a ‘UMPIRED POLO GAME FROM AIRPLANE Kelly Field Texas, has produced the last word in umpires. “In a recent game of polo between a team from Kelly and one from Camp Travis a DH-4B machine, piloted by Lieut. Harry L. Spec, U. S. A., with Lieut. Benton A. Doyle, U. S. A., as observer, took off and after circling the grounds a few times sent a radio message to the ound asking: “Is the Camp Travis team wear- ng purple?” The answer was, “Yes,” and with this information the observer was able“to follow _the game from an altitude of 7,500 feet. The entire game was reported by Lieut. Doyle by radio to the und. Such team play errors as “bashing” and “failure to cover man,” together with other features of the play apparently un- detected by the authorities on the ground were reported by the air umpire, says the Army Re- _ eruiting News. This is probably the first time __-in the history of sports that a polo match has been umpired from an airplane. ~ * WONDERFUL STRENGTH - In proportion to size, man is one of the weak- est animals on the earth. ‘The muscles of a large- sized oyster will support a weight of thirty-seven ds. There is a crab that will lift 492 times its own weight. This is equivalent of an average - gize-man raising 73,800 pounds. Felix Flateao, a Belgian scientist, who made many experiments, _ found that the strength of a fly which was able to lift a match-stick compared with a man’s sup- SS hig with his feet a beam 14 feet long and 2 " 6 inches square. There is a little bug that PT eee AG y Ves me aa) Wie A ’ CRT ae ae (yb Oe Bits eit ‘ * ean six matches, equivalent to a man’s pull- ing 330 beams as big as himself. To measure the strength of insects Flateau constructed deli- Cen = harness to a’ weighing machine. g the insects he made them move. on weights until they stopped. he found that a bee, weight for weight, piled ‘was thirty times as strong as a horse. BOXED LUNCHEONS, BEAT RESTAURANTS The “Luncheonette,” a combined home-made, “store-made lunch box for'the use of office workers who are joining in the ants Seay vee fight against prevailing restaurant prices, has ap- : In P downtown store where office stp- ss are sold part of one window has been given to the use ~ = oe 9b baat gua ich prepares xXeS y cent lunches, n the midst ot a display of fountain pens and books a neat, white coated and capped 8 prod- is ‘ eatables, go into a box and form a thirty “Iyncheonette.” Different lunches are pre- d daily, but always they include two sand- a cookie, pie~or pastry, and some fruit. ere is the menu for’the first day of this week: “chicken salad sandwich, one ham sandwich, ‘sugar cookie, one large chocolate eclair and to pay a small sum for a’ than go to the trouble of se: AND, FORTUNE WEEKLY CURRENT NEWS .and, holds it to. its seat. den daily prepares the sandwiches which, with — at the pump. Paes 2 ah “Ae HIGH MOUNTAIN PEAKS ~ Colorado easily holds the record as being the = banner State in the country for the largest num- ber of high mountain peaks. According to sta- tisties recently issued by the Colorado Mountain Club that State has forty-two of the fifty-five highest named peaks in the United States. The minimum height of mountains included in the list is 14,000 feet. The highest peak in Colorado is Mount Elbert, which is credited by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey with a height of 14,419 feet, It is only exceeded by Mount Whitney in California, the highest peak in the country, having an altitude of 14,501 feet. After Mount Elbert comes Mount Rainier in the State of Washington, 14,408 feet. Mount Massive, in : Colorado, ranks fourth, 14,404 feet, and Blanco ~ Peak in the same State is fifth, 14,390 feet. =< eS Recent measurements, says the Colorado $ Mountain Club, have reduced the elevations of Mount of the Holy Cross and Buckskin: Moun- tain, placing them below the 14,000 foot. class. The name of Crestone has been given to the peak formerly known as Three Tetons, and Glacier Mountain has been named Mount Wilson,.these two peaks being respectively seventeenth an thirty-sixth in the Colorado list. : x THE WARNING WHISTLE (et The latest instance of ingenuity as applied to automobile accessories consists of a casing con- necting the pump connection with the tire valve. and having a sounding chamber communicating — S with the main air passage by a small opening — : which is closed by a valve... This valve is hel upon its seat by a graduated spring, mounted in — the sounding chamber, and the cover of the sound- ing chamber has an opening covered by a har- ae monic vibrating reed. ae In using this device it is first set to the re . quired pressure by removing the cover- of the Me sounding chamber and shifting the graduated a spring around its center until the section ad- a justed for the pressure desired .coyers the valve” os After replacing the = cover, the indicator is screwed on the valve of the mS E. tire and the air supply hose attached. The pump 3 is then started-and kept going until the reed.in the’ cover of the indicator sounds the warning wen that the proper pressure has been reached in the = tire. i: ae The actioh is simple. The spring having been — set for a certain pressure, the valve connectin; with the main passage will be held upon its seat by the spring as long as the pressure in the tire — is Jess than the predetermined amount. But as soon as the desired -pressure is exceeded, the pressure in the main passage will overcome 4 pressure of the spring, the valve will be lifted {rom its seat,.and air will pass into the sounding _ chamber and will set the reed into vibration, thereby giving the warning whistle to the person” : - : ig ES

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Lost On Mt. Erebus = A Boy Explorer At the South Pole é By GAsSYtON GARNE (A Serial Story) CHAPTER XVII (Continued) “J confess I don’t know what to make of it,” said Hawley. ‘After some debate, however, ebey the warning given, for writing would not have ‘ writer meant what he wrote. On they pushed, therefore, to an isolated ice _cap that uplifted itself above the plain level. This . was the first of other irregularities beyond that increased a& the first mountain range was reached. - From Hawley’s discovery it was found that the _ pole was located on an elevated snow plateau of unknown dimensions. In the direction of their ret route no mountains were encountered un- til fifty or more miles retreat was covered. They neared the ice peak and Hawley saw, as he half hoped, that other footprints than his own here joined the trail previously made by Joe and Madge after making their last cache. The wind which had risen again now whipped into their faces, making them draw down their hoods as the icy pellets of snow struck them not unlike small shot. The trail wound about the foot of the ice cap. As they pulled at their sled wearily, there came a sharp command in a heavy, hoarse tone: ’ “Halt! Hands up or we: fire!” Hawley was almost. paralyzed with surprise. Madge screamed slightly. In their path were three men in polar garb, who presented loaded rifles in a. menacing man- ner. 5 Somewhat to the rear was.a fourth figure. ; “Up with your arms!” sharply interrupted the _ middle figure, a huge, burly man, with rounded shoulders, and a face so hidden as to be practical- Jy masked. * 5a Looking into three leveled barrels, our two _ * friends =r. nothing for it but to obey. Up went - The big man stepped forward, ‘saying to his “companions: ; ' . “One of you watch the chap behind. Don’t let up on these two either.” 49 So saying he quietly took away all the fire- arms he could find on Joe and Madge, and also “All this time the three carefully kept their faces hidden, though Hawley already fancied he ~ could tell woh they were. ; “You are, Ben Rucker,” said he boldly. _ “What’s that to you? Your aig is to obey orders, and keep your mouth trap shut—see?” . The fourth figure had been sidling toward the p, and now wheeled suddeniy, snowing to Joe hey resolved to felt that the dropped unless the anes “ ts FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY and Madge the wasted yet indomitable face of Doctor Carr. : “Right you are, Hawley,” “Tt’s Rucker, Shouse and. “Keep still!” shouted the one who had turned back at the middle man’s command. With his back still toward his two friends he bestowed on Carr.a, laborious wink, managing to repeat it after noting the doctor’s evident amaze- ment. The latter said no more, but held himself ready called the surgeon. ~ .for any further emergency. Ostensibly he was still under the other’s leveled gun. .Having disarmed Hawley and Madge, the mid-_ dle man proceeded to bind their Hands, taking Joe first. But when he would have done likewise to the girl, she sprang forward and seized the flap of his hood. A quick jerk and pull, and the man’s head and face stood revealed. “T knew Iwas right,” said Joe quietly. Rucker, for it was the man himself, scowled viciously as he replaced his hood. But both Madge and Joe saw that the face of the overbearing first mate was strangely thin and gaunt, “I¢ I did not like you, Madge,” he groWled in a low voice, “I would resent your rudeness.” “Talk to me, you brute,” exclaimed Hawley. “Miss Barclay and L are in the same boat, so to speak. If you were a man, or half a man, you will untie my hands long enough to give you a sound thrashing for your behavior to a—a girl.” “T won’t untie you—see? T’ll untie Madge—. when I get ready. Meantime, I want a square meal. You’ve got grub, I know, though good- ness knows how or where you got it, or stole it. But me and’ my mates want our share. If the doctor is good, he may chip in for a meal? Is that all right, Doc?” Rucker’s manner was both sneerine and re- served. But his purnose was soon evident. Notwithstanding all objections, he unnacked the sled and presently laid out some eatebles, at sight of which his companions looked on raven-. ously. s ; ‘ “Come on, Shouse’ _Take down your hoods, you and Joy,” exclaimed Rucker, looking more like a ~ wild beast than ever. “We’ve trudged many a mile for this. Let’s eat while times are. good, and _ es jquestions later on, when our stomachs are a CHAPTER XVIIL The Starved Rescuers. The man who had winked furtively at Doctor Carr turned out to be Boatswain Joy. Nor was this the first time that Joy had secretly intimat- ed to the doctor that his sympathies were with — ‘fhe under dog—that is, the -surgeon. = When the eruption on Mt. Erebus occurred, and neither Hawley nor his faiy companion returned, _ they were given up for lost. - ile they were debating concluded to rejoin the ~ base of the volcano. Rucker came in, havin exploring party. This big, strong, restless man was, in This was at the oon Mle near the western Fatt, moved by two dominating motivese SEs (To be continued 1)

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| : DRUNKEN -+SWINE GIVE CLUE ; A drove of intoxicated hogs gave Prohibition -__ officers the clue that led to seizure of a giant still and arrest of two men in Letcher County, “Ky. - « Returning from an expedition through the Cum-~ -berland River headwaters, Officers James Toliver, _ Felix G. Fields and John G. W. Collins reportea destruction of six stills. The largest was found _ in a dark ravine near the mountain top. Officers _ Yan across a bunch of hogs cutting weird capers. A search revealed a modern outfit near by. _ Joseph Riggs was arrested at the still. Henry _ Sutgrill also was taken into custody. The hogs had been drinking beer and refuse from the still. BOY HANGS HIMSELF WHILE EXERCISING Henry C. Ware, Jr., 16 years old, son of Henry _ C. Ware, secretary of the Murphy Varnish Com- pany, Newark, accidentally hanged himself with ‘an exercising apparatus the other night in his ome at 5 Glenwood-avenue, Orange, N. J., while his family chatted with visitors downstairs. His body was found by his mother. The apparatus consisted of a strap which went around his neck, attached to a rope which led through ‘a pulley attached to the ceiling. The - yope was long enough to permit the other end of the rope to dangle within reach of -Ware’s hands. By pulling on the end of the rope with his hands the strap around his neck would lift him from the floor. The rope got caught at the pulley and left him dangling four feet from the floor, where he strangled to death. OUR LATEST BATTLESHIPS. AND - BATTLE CRUISERS Our latest battleships of the “Indiana” class, of 43,200 tons displacement and 23 knots speed, -earrying twelve 16-inch guns, will be electrically _ driven. The. turbines of 60,000 combined horse- power will Mevelop ‘their full rated load at 265 pounds pressure, degrees superheat, and 28 1-2 inches Scares The = Bast aoe selene of 3.500 horse-power and ots speed carrying ht 16-inch guns, will also be driven electric- Two of them, the “Ranger” and ‘the “Con- tellation” will carry four Westinghouse turbines bed 49,750 brake horse-power, the current from which will be developed on eight Westinghouse tors, each of 22,500 horse-power. E 7 & THE NEWS IN SHORT ARTICLES. _-. But I know of*all my relatives — bi 2 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY 23 1 hae ceived by the senses, and an almost innumerable number of lesser tremors which are too small te be perceived. Most of our earthquakes are due to the cooling of the earth and the shrinkage of its strata from cooling. The result-4s the breaking, folding and slipping of the strata upon each other. A slip of but a short distance will produce a large effect upon buildings and the earth’s surface. tion of a fifth of an inch, it is said, will throw chimneys down. A mo- : The greater part of the United States seems” a to be free from violent earthquakes, but in the f past there have been great.earthquakes in several ' regions. Lower Mississippi Valley which has been charac- In 1811-1812°a series was felt in the * The last terized as “of world-shaking order.” +3. considerable earthquake in the East was the — Charleston earthquake in 1886. These facts seem to indicate that severe shocks are not as common - as a century and more ago. The great earthquake regions of the earth lie in two circles, one surrounding the Pacifie Ocean an and thé other lying nearly east and west around- om the earth through the Mediterranean, Southern he Asia, the East and the West Indies. ~ ‘ HIS BEST RELATION = ated By Mary Leon = I’ve got lots of relatives, ana Uncles, aunts, and such, c Brothers, sisters, cousins, too, And like them very much, But the one I like the best of all Is one I never saw; t < I know it’s funny, but it’s ’cause — He’s so good to my paw. My paw, he calls him Uncle Sam; i Says he’s my uncle, too; — es That’s queer, but right I know, because My paw says always true, = Paw he gets letters from this man Most every once in a while; And when he sees the envelo It always makes him enie 5 For he sees straight through the lette-, _ . And says: “Well, I expec’ That this here letter now contains ~ Your Uncle Samuel’s check. : For interest on my Viet’ry Bonds; _And now, small son of mine, Put on your-cap and come along I'll get you something fine.” a I don’t know what a coupon is, Nor checks nor jnterest. My Uncle Sam

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ee oe Ai ~ 24 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY A SLIPPERY SCOUNDREL ‘ By JOHN SHERMAN. A few days ago I chanced to read a paragraph in a paper concerning a certain New York poli- tician who was once a prominent official here and who has since been compelled to seek a home in a foreign land. The man referred to was Slip- pery Dick. lL once knew another customer who was called Slippery Dick, but he was famed as one of the ablest burglars in the country. And wasn’t Dick Duncan a slippéry scoundrel—in more ways than one? He was an ugly looking rascal. Had he lived in the. present day he would be called a dude, as he generally aped the Cockney style of dress. ~ And wasn’t he a great favorite with the silly irls? When I first met Dick Duncan he was a kkeeper in a hardware store in New York and he was regarded as a respectable young man. The firm deemed it wise to investigate his ac- counts and Dick became so indignant that he left the city in disgust, taking some thousands of dol- _ Jars and a trusting young~girl named Jane Mor- ton along with him. Ten years after his disappearance a care-worn looking lady called on me. The lady was poor Jane Morton of other days. 2 “You recognize me, Mr.. Fox?” she said, and her voice shook. - “Yes, Miss—Mrs. Duncan, but I heard that you were dead.” “And I am dead to the world—to every one gave yourself. Oh, sir, will you not help me to avenged on one of the most infamous scoun- dreJs that ever lived?” “To whom do you allude?” : “To my husband—Richard Duncan—to the man who believes that he has murdered me and that I will never trouble him‘again.” \/ “What ean I do for you? State your case to me. z. : She soon set about telling me her story. When she ran away with Dick Duncan she did not know he was a thief and he made her his wife before they left New York. Asserting that he had a fortune left him by some relatives in Scotland, they set sail for Liverpool, but the rascal took he; to London instead of Scotland. Soon after arriving there she learned that he had joined a gang of burglars and/she left him, procuring a place for herself as seamstress in a wealthy Lon- don family who had a coun seat outside of the city. . Several months after leaving her husband Jane went out to the country seat with the fami- ly. Very soon after the house was entered by burglars, who made off with a large quantity of =s valuables. 4 __ The master and servants gave chase ‘to the burglars, and one of the rascals was captured _ and proved to be Dick Duncan. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to prison - for twenty-one.years. Jane saw her husband, in, *. the dock, but she did not pretend to know him. ‘Years afterward the former se s became the companion of the young lady of the house, who was very charming as well as a rich heiress. "Thay all resided at the country seat again. and the master of the house brought an officer, Cap- tain Cameron, down from London, who stated that he was formerly in the United States Army. Jane met him out on the lawn on the first evening of his visit and she at once recognized him as her pitas husband. And the recognition was mu- tual. : “J have been ,looking for you ever since I re- turned here, my dear wife,” he said, “and I now want you to go off to’ the Continent with me, where we can live in luxury.” 6 “T will never live with you again,” she replied, “Then you will die with me!” cried the villain as he struck her on the temple and hurled her into the deep river. Though half stunned by the eruel blow, Jane recovered her senses soon after touching the water. Realizing that if she made an outcry her villainous husband would sprin in after her and finish,;the work, she kept herse’ afloat and looked ie The cowardly wretch fled from the spot immediately. Swimming along with the current, she managed to crawl out at length. Having regained her breath she walked on until she reached a- farmhouse some miles from the villa. She fell fainting at the door of the farm- house, and the woman of the house placed her jn bed. Jane did not’ awake until next morning and then she heard startling news. The villa had been robbed again and the master himself had been murdered in his bed. : “Just think of it,” said the farmer’s wife, “that the leader of the burglars should come down there pretending to be a real captain, and who do you think was his companion in crime?” “Y’m sure I can’t say,” said Jane, trembling with apprehension. “His own wife, who was the trusted confpanion of the lady of the housey It all came from one of the villains, who was mortally wounded and caught. Hé confessed before he died.” Poor Jane made up a story that she lived in London and that she. was out in a small boat with friends when it capsized. She did not dare go back. to her. friends again, for how was she to disprove the grave charge against her? Fortunately she had her purse in her pocket and hired the farmer’s wagon to bear her to-London that evening. Changing her ap- pearance as much as possible she sought lodgings in the city. The savings of years were deposited in a Lon- don bank under an assumed name; she had no trouble in drawing the money. “After that, Mr. Fox,” she continued, “I had but one object in life. You must readily guess what that object is.” 4 “To bring your scoundrel of a husband to jus- tice, I suppose.” “That is what I live for. That is what brought me back to New York. “And he does not suspect that you are still alive?” “He hasn’t the slightest suspicion of it. Will you aid me in hunting him down? Ihave to warn you that he is a mgecty scoundrel, as well as a _ desperate fellow. can reward you, and my will also richly reward you for assisting punishment of her father’s murderer.’ young lady friend, who is in this city at present, in the — 2 *

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“Did the young lady or her friends ever sus- pect that you were the wife of a convict?” “Oh, no. I told them that I was the widow of an American mate, and that I had run away with him from home here.” “T see. Is Dick Duncan much changed in ap- - pearance?” - -“He js, and hé is very cleyer- at disguises also. I would hardly have known him but for his nose and his villainous eyes. Oh, that [ should ever care for such a wretch!” “JT will undertake the job.” “When?” “This very instant. Draw down your veil and come along.” Proceeding to a livery stable I engaged a car- riage driven by a cunning fellow named Jake Powell, who had often assisted me in tracking down evil-doers. Jake drove up Broadway to the neighborhood where the eager woman had last ~ cm = “ Bis 2 me ar seen her wicked husband. We drove up and down for over an hour but we did not get a glimpse of Slippery Dick Duncan. - Jane put on male attire, as well as a pair of whiskers. One evening, as we were passing along Bleecker street, whith was then inhabited by some of our old wealthy families, we heard a loud voice raised in anger issuing from a basement. I stopped to listen, as did Jane. It was a woman’s voice and she was crying out,in a harsh, shrill tone: “Do you imagine I do not know you, you scoundrel?” : ; “Indeed, you are very'‘much mistaken, my good woman,” replied a man’s voice in milder strains. “The impudence of you-to tell me that to my face!” cried the old woman as. she shook her clenched hand in the fellow’s face; “you are a robber and you are sneaking about here after Mary so as to get a.chance to rob the house. But I will denounce you; I will have you arrested. Police—police!” ; The old woman was about to spring to the Kt door, when the smiling rascal let fly with his left and, struck her a hard blow on the temple and knocked her on the floor. I sprang to the door on g the instant and I had my hand on his shoulder ten years ago, an before he could turn around to retreat as I ~ “You are my prisoner, Dick Duncan!” _ “Phis is toc much!” cried Dick. “Are you an Officer?” e a2 : ‘ = and my name is Fox. You may remem- I boarded in a house on Hudson street “Before I could utter another word the fellow ‘let and tried to kill me FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY “eonsigned to an insane fly at me with fearful force and I was sent * 25 didn’t see anything of him for a year after, al- though he was in the city during the time and working at his business-like a beaver. His wife never grew tired of hunting him down. ~ One day she ran into my office, fearfully agitated as she cried: “T have himeagain!” “Where is Ke?” “He is down in a yessel at the foot of Burling Slip, and he’s disguised/as a sailor. The vescel is about to sail for Liverpool. Hasten and dis- guise yourself or he will give us the slip again.” Hiring a small boat, we pushed out and I ad- dressed the~taptain at once, saying: “You have a sailor on board here who is want- ed on shore.” “Which one?” asked the captain as I showed him my badge. “The man came on board sober an hour ago.” I said as I took a rapid glance at the busy sailors. “Still the man we want is not on deck.” At that moment a cry rang out: “Man over- board! man overboard!” -I sprang to the side of © the vessel and my companion sprang with me. We could see a man in the water, swimming along =— the tide about twenty yards below the ves- se “Tis the slippery scoundrel!” cried the dis- guised. woman; “and he is trying escape us.” “Get into the boat and we'll go after the ras- eal!” I cried. We were-in the boat as soon as possible. We were gaining on him as he neared the dock, when the woman cried: “He’ll escape afain, the slippery scoundrel! ~I’ll shoot him!” Drawing a pistol as she spoke, Jane took aim and fired at her husband. The rascal flung up his_hands, uttered a ery of agony and disappeared beneath the water. We watched around for two hours, but he did not appear again, Still, the vengeful wife would not make up her mind that he was dead. As she became very crazy from her troubles I had her asylum near the city. One morning as I approached the asylum I noticed a crowd of people gathered around some objects in the grounds outside the wall. ter over there?” I asked a man me. ~ ‘ “Two of the inmates of the asylum,” he re- plied, “a man and a. woman, have just ~been found dead-over there. They must have mur- dered each other, as they were locked together in a deadly embrace.” : I looked at the woman and I recognized my old girl friend at once. I then turned to look at the lead man and I exelai : “Good heavens! but It/is her ra “What’s the mat- hastening toward Bee tie ¥ , mf er % 2 3 y husband!” It —

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26 ; Fame svi Horkane Weekly : I ————————— EW. +ORK, NOVEMBER 5, 1920. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS: Single Copies............... Postage Frée.... .07 Cents One Cepy Three Months... % SB iss One Cepy Six Months...... . Ono Cepy One Year....... - Save HOW TO SEND MONEY—At our risk send P. O. Money Order, Check or Registered Letter; remittances in any other way are at your risk. We accept Postage Stamps the same as cash. When sending silver wrap the Coin in a separate piece of paper to avoid cutting the envelope. Write your name and address plainly, <Ad- dress letters to 4 HARRY E,. WOLFF, Publisker 166 West 23d St.. New York Se EE ITEMS OF INTEREST FAMOUS VETERAN A FARMER“ Sergeant-Major J. Kelly, V. C. Veteran of the Afghan, Egyptian, Boer and great wars, aged 65 years, has taken a homestead on Cortez Island, B. CG. He won his Victoria Cross in 1879 in Af- ghanistan. He came to Canada in 1900, and went to Europe in the last war with the First Division. BIG WAGES FOR CORN CUTTERS Corn cutters in Waynesboro, Pa., are being paid from 15 to 18 cents a shock. With corn standing straight and unmarred by damaging storms, a laborer can and does cut anywhere from forty to sixty shocks of corn a- day, netting a daily wage oes $6 to $9. Some make as high as $12 a day. ay im Ath Pee gs ae ee Sateen et oe a 7 ys ae ts ada Hite eh } - +2’ : USED COWS TO CUT GRASS Residents of Bellefonte, Pa., have been greatly ~~ shocked to learn that cows have been pastured in the beautiful Union Cemetery, -where lie the re- mains of three Governors of the State, Scnators, Congressmen, Judges and many others of promi- nence. An investigation revealed that the care- taker, who is paid for keeping the grass cut in the cemetery. has been pasturing his cows in the home of the dead. _.. ENORMOUS QUANTITIES OF RED BOOTY = TAKEN BY POLES _ President Pilsudski is at the northern front - personally commanding the drive which it is an- - nounced has resulted in the complete defeat of sixteen Russian Bolshevik divisions, The staffs of the 3d and 4th Bolshevik Armies have been captured, and the staffs of the 21st, 41st, 55th and 57 Divisions and of several brigades and regi- ments also have been taken prisoners. The total number of prisoners is given at 42,000. _ Guns to the number of 166 have been captured, and in addition 900 machine guns, 1,800 armored cars, seven armored trains, three airplanes, twen- _ ty-one locomotives, 2,500 wagons, ten motor cars d great stores of ammunition and ‘other mate- which the Bolshevik had assembled for a fall against the Poles have been taken, fi a3 & é - _ married the plumber.” . _ FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY OKLAHOMA CLAIMS OLDEST WOMAN : VOTER Woman suffrage was received with no more delight by any woman in the State than by Mrs. Elizabeth Davison, Lake township, Comanche county, who is probably the oldest voter in the State of Oklahoma and probably in the United States. Mrs: Davison, who is 110 years old, registered for the. first time at the registration preceding the recent primary. : “Grandma” Davison, as she is better known, is taking an active interest in politics, especially in the candidacy of Elmer Thomas, candidate for Congress from the Sixth District, with whom she has been close friends for many years. “Grand- ma” Davison lives in the Wichita Mountains, a short distance above Medicine Park. he was born in Scotland in 1810. She came with her parents to the United States and locat- ed in Tennessee. Later she moved to Texas and at the opening in 1901, came to Oklahoma to . take up a homestead. Mrs. Davison is remarkably active for her age. She registered as a Demo- crat at the recent registration. eo LAUGHS © Mrs. Benton Holmé—Why, Tommy, you’re a perfect little pig. Now, aren’t you sorry you ate so much roast beef? Tommy—Yes’m; cause I ain’t got any room left-for another plate of ice cream. “So they threw cabbages and other vegetables at you in all the towns the company played. The tour must have been a failure.” “No, a profitable success. The manager converted us into vege- Les a and we didn’t have_a single restaurant ill. = A West Virginia darky, a blacksmith, recent- ly announced a change in his business as follows: “Notice—De copardnership heretofore resisting between me and Mose Skinner is hereby resolved. © Dem what owe de firm will settle wid me, and dem what de firm owes will settle wid Mose.” More than five thousand elephants a year go to make your piano keys,” remarked the student boarder who had been reading the scientific notes in a patent medicine almanac. “Ain’t it wonder- . ful,” exclaimed the landlady, “what some animals can be trained to do?” “Ha, my dear,” advised the old country woman,. _ “don’t you marry rashly. You keep your weather eye open, like I did when I was a girl.” “But IT love him,” said the simple village maid, ‘Pooh!” sniffed the adviser. “Now, you take example of me. You see this co’ of mine? it fixed up for practically nothing.” the village maid, without enthusiasm. She was thinking of Jeames. “And how did you manage 2% it?” “Why, dearie,” responded the good woman, aS “J was engaged to the carpenter till all the wood- — a work was finished, and Shae I broke it off — Py: Sere ait Soe Sa 8

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i FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY 2% ~ INTERESTING NEWS ARTICLES CAVERNS REVEALED BY BLAST - __ Caverns which may exceed in extent those of Luray were discovered on the farm of Edward Hutzell, ten miles from Waynesboro, Pa., by workmen blasting for stone to yepair the Keedys- Ville road. One courageous laborer entered about twenty-five feet, and came back with the report that he looked down into “a room approximately fifty feet in height.” wee oh RAISING TWO MILLION BABY TREES From the moment the tiny seeds are placed in beds until the bedraggled “monarch” of the forest yields to the storm and stress of years, trees are not impervious to the undermining depredations of insects and rodents. Mindful, of this fact, Uncle Sam establishes safeguards around the seed x _, bed as well as jealously guards the grown-up __ trees in the National forests. ~ . Acreage devoted to sprouting young trees for transplanting 7,000 acres of land annually is cov- ered with fine screening as a protecting influence against insects and rodents that would uproot = the otherwise promising crop. A type of screen - recently devised for this purpose is so construct- ed that the sides as well as the top are detachable, thus permitting of storage in compact space when - the screening is not in use. Seeds selected for perpetuating the National - forests are assembled by the U. S. Forest Service Sa previous fall for planting the followirg “spring. Germination tests are first made to de- termine the vitality of the seed, after which they are sown in beds at a rate sufficient to yield about 150 trees to the square foot. Nooo: © Ordinarily, Uncle Sam replenishes his dimin- ishing pre Ag trees in“the National forests at a rate of - this fact with the production of 150 trees to the - square foot in the seed and you can calculate the mileage of screenings used in safeguarding the plant life from its enemies. The seeds are brought to fruition in large nurseries, with a ca- >. pacity for producing about 2,000,000 plants. oh FIRST BATHTUB IN AMERICA in the human family, pes have. lived. nited States, an ex- was built in Cincinnati and installed in 1842. It was made of ma- and was proudly a luxurious, oacsscreie vanity. Then. and declared it a menace Y Fs = Ga ee et —— 1,000 young trees to the acre. Couple . Stites “eh Xi to health. In 1843 Philadelphia tried to prohibit bathing between November 1 and March 15 by ordinance. Virginia taxed bathtubs $30 a year. In 1845 Boston made bathing unlawful except when prescribed by a physician, and President Fillmore installed the first one ever in the White House. S These things seem-~incredible in an age when transient hotel accommodations include a bath- room, but sanitation is a recent development. A southern Ohio lawyer went to Columbus a few years ago, and when he registered at the hotel the clerk asked him if he wanted a room with bath.. The guest thoughtfully rubbed the stubble on his chin and replied: “No; I’ be home by Saturday.” The other is that of a newly rich lady who was showing a friend of her days of poverty the very elaborate bathroom in her new home. It was a sizzling hot August night. “La, chow you must enjoy that tub!” she exclaimed. “Indeed I do,” was the response. “I can hardly wait for Saturday night to come!” We are sufficiently civilized to be for the bath- tub—with reservations; the chief one being an in- stinctive sympathy with the Frenchm&n who thanked God he had never insulted his skin by putting cold water on it, / “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. cr “MYSTERY MAGAZINE” : SEMI-MONTHLY 10 CENTS A COPY _ —— LATEST ISSUES — 3 THE VELYEY TOUCH, by Juliaz Darrow. tHE CLUE. of THE RED LAMY, by Canaries Ful- THE SCHEME OF SOLOMON SNARE, by William QuICKE THaX THE EYE, by Ralph Cumm JICK ER 4 \ Pili EYE, by Cummi, THLE CLUE IN THE DAKK MOUM. by Mguyiicon raigic. THE LONGUE OF OSIRIS, by Mare Edmund Jones, DETECTIVE WADE'S BiG CASE, by Eibei ‘itose- mon. Z THE SPIRIT BELL, by Charles Fulton Oursler. f THE HOUSE BEHIND THE WALL, by Julian Darrow. The Famous Detective Story Out To-day “in No. 7| Is THE ADMIRAL’S SPOONS F ¥ By William Hamilton Osborne ein FRANK TOUSEY, Pub., 168 W, 23d St, N. ¥. Leen ne ar a aera » «MOVING PICTURE STORIES” A Weekly Magazine Devoted to Photoplays and Players ~ PRICE SEVEN CENTS PER COPY * Each number contains Four - on the. Screens—Elegant Half lays—Interesting tes About the Films—Doings of Actors and Actresseg in Studios and Lessons in Scenario Writing. — 32 @3 6 & 8B ried ot the Hest, Hila: = ‘ Films rh. a

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_ Harmon, Croton and nearby places. = _onators,” beeause they- 28 - FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY GOOD READING WOMAN WITH 14 DOGS TO FEED ASKS REDUCTION IN TAXES Mayor Frank Feist, of Steubenville, Ohio, has had a pathetic appeal from a woman who says she has to work hard to support fourteen dogs, for nine of which she pays license fees, and she feels financially unable to pay a tax on the other five, which are mennaced by the dog catcher. She asks that they may be exempted. RAILWAY ACCIDENT’S HAPPY END Quite a number of folks in Manning, Ia., who ordinarily could not have a supply of liquor on hand, because of the Volstead Enforcement Act, now are well supplied as a result of a railroad wreck near here several nights ago, says a dis- patch from that city. Wine ‘flowed freely from a tank car that sprang a leak, and news of the supply spread quickly. Pots, pans, buckets and other receptacles, hastily commandeered by Man- ning residents, were brought into play to catch the liquor as it ran from the car. In a fight that followed one man armed with an axe was seri- ously cut by another who used a knife as his weapon. 3 COFFIN PACKED WITH BOTTLES OF WHISKY Federal Prohibition enforcement agents wete reported recently to have sent out an alarm to try to catch the driver of an automobile hearse which, according to railroad employees in Har- mon, N. Y., has been carrying liquor through that section. For several weeks troopers of the State Con- stabulary have been searching automobiles in The result is that several loads of booze were seized. The traffickers have resorted to all sorts of tricks to move the liquor up-State. Railroad employees reported that they inspect- ed a motor hearse and found a casket inside with a wreath of flowers on top. Whén the chauffeur lifted the lid the casket proved to be packed with bottles of whisky. Railroad men notified Con- ductor William Gale that the authorities had seized the hearse between Harmon and Peekskill, but Lieut. Charles Broadfield of the State Con- stabulary declared he had received no notice of this so far. Whether Federal authorities seized a hearse could not be learned. > WHAT ARE THE SOUNDS WE HEAR IN A SHELL? The sounds we hear in the sea shell are really air waves or sounds made by air waves, because all sounds are produced by air waves. * The reason you can hear these sounds in a sea shell is because the shell is so constructed that it forms a natural sounding box. The wooden part of a guitar, zither or violin is a sounding box. They have the faculty of picking up the sounds _ and making them stronger. We call them “res- : se 1 make sounds resound. The construction of a sea shell makes an almost perfect resonator. A perfect resonator will pick up sounds which the human ear cannot hear at all and magnify them so that if you hold a reson- ator to the ear you can hear sounds you could not otherwise hear. Ear trumpets for the deaf are built upon this principle. Sometimes when you, with your ear alone, think something is absolutely quiet, you can pick up a sea shell and hear sounds in it. But the sea shell will magnify any sound that reaches it. It would be possible, of course, to take a sea shell te a place where it would be absolutely quiet and then there would be no sounds. : There are such places, but very few of them. A room can be built which is absolutely sound- proof.—Book of Wonders. bara No matter whether used in pipe, cigarette, cigars, chewed, or used in the form of snuff. Superba Tobacco Remedy contains nothing injurious, no dope, poisons, or habit form- ing drugs. Guaranteed. Sent on trial. If - ——e costs 7 Boe Seep om If it fails, or are not perfectly satisfied, costs nothing. Write for full remedy today. a: SUPERBA COMPANY, M21 Baltimore, Md, vaubevitie 9 LAG Big eal- soy Reece tect eet 3 erence, ai tay methods. 5) : ‘bout Vandeville, ” FREE: Send 6 cents postare state age occupation, FREDERIC LADELLE, Sta. 214, JACLSON, MICH, BIG VALUE for 10 Cis. 6 — words and music; 25 Pice tures Pret Waysto Make 3. 1 Book = 010. : on Love;1 Writing; 1 D tune Teller; 1 Cook Book; 1 Base Ball Book. , Magic A eet Conund: ;8 Puzzles: +80 Verses for Autograph Albums. All the above cts. mail for 10 cts, and 2- BOYAL So, hen. 0, Benth Narwaths Oeeas Paes, Sie Se { the and AnD oees| end 12 Games;

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