Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 789) (1920 11 12)

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NOVEMBER 12, :1920. No. 789. 7 Cents SPORTORE WEEMLY. STORIES OF ee ee oe 1H Reaching the door of his office, Dick dropped his book, money bag and umbrella, and stuck the key in the keyhole. The pursuing crowd came running down thé “hall shouting to him to stop. But the young banker opened the dovr

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1957 - 1968 RALPH P. SMITH BOX 985 LAWRENCE, MASS.

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Issued Weekly—Subscription price, $3.50 per : West 23d Street, New York, N. Dick Dalton, ATL ee CHAPTER I.—What Dick Found at the Bank. “Is dinner ready, aunt?” asked Dick Dalton, coming into the sitting room where Mrs. Harvey, _ wife of John Harvey, a Wall Street banker, was standing at the window, looking anxiously down the street. : “Yes, it’s ready; but I’m waiting for your un- cle,” said the lady. “Hasn't he got home yet?” said Dick. “No, and I can’t imagine what is detaining him. Do. you know any reason why he should be late to-night ?” “Yes, I meant to tell you when I came in, but _ forgot after I went to my room. He usually _yeaves the bank about four, you know, but at f a messenger brought him a tote from a Captain Baxter, who arrived this morning in his ship from Cape Town, South Africa. The cap- tain informed uncle that he had.a large sum in English gold notes which he wishes turned into American money and deposited to’his credit in _ our bank. He said he was recommended to uncle _ by an old friend he met at Cape Town, Captain r said that owing to business connected with ‘his vessel, which is at Quarantine, he would be _ ‘unable to reach the bank until about five o’clock, and asked uncle, as a particular favor, to wait _ for him, as he would bring the money with him, and he didn’t want to take the risk of carrying it _ on his person until the morning. Of course, un- cle was willing to oblige a new depositor of such importance, so he remained at the bank to meet ‘the captain. As the cashier leaves at five I told Age uncle that I would stay till he was ready to et Bae Bibs) ab Bt “ia © bj 3 4 bee | w - or ¥ go home. He said it was not necessary, as he _did not expect to remain longer than half-past five if the captain was.on time. As he hasn't got home yet, I should judge that our new depositor was considerably behind time.” > “I don’t like to have him stay downtown so late.” iy SACS : Dick enjoyed special facilities in learning the and outs of the banking business, so far as : and he was pretty effi- all ea considered. He is relative in the = Or, CORNERING THE W BY A SELF-MAD FAME AND FORTUNE. WEEKLY .. Entered as Second-Class Matter, the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 12, 1920. October 4, 1911, at ‘st Bre leisurely, and thirty e sat down, yet his uncle minutes p failed to co é rs. Harvey never left the window. iheeh red the sitting room his aunt said: om “Something ned to John. He never would re ong as this without notifying me. You ; go down to the of- fice, and if he isn’t uu must try and trace him up.” “He wouldn't be a€ the office up to,this hour, aunt! He may have taken the captain to some restaurant and treated him to dinner. That would delay him more than an hour in addition to the time he put in at the office with the new deposi- tor,” said Dick. “If he did anything like that he would surely have sent me word,” said Mrs. Harvey. Dick had to admit that such would naturally have been his uncle’s course. The fact that Mr. ey hadn’t done so looked strange even to him. The only conclusion he could reach was that the messenger must be on the way, and he sug- gested as much to his aunt. “How long ought it take a messenger to come here from Wall Street?” she said. . . “Not over an hour. I could make it in three quarters.” —“Tt is seven o'clock now. Don’t you think the boy ought to have been here before this if he was coming ?” “Tt all depends on when uncle sent the message, if he did send one.” “Surely he would have sent it before six.” “T guess I’d better go downtown and look for him,” said the\boy. ~ “J wish you would. You'll go to the office first, won't you?” z - “Yes; the janitor of the building, if he is still there, may be able to give me a line on how long uncle remained in the office, but, of course, he would have no idea where he went after leaving the place.” ; “Tf he isn’t at the office where will you go to look for him?” - : * “To the various restaurants in the neighbor- hood I think he would be likely to patronize, and _to the Astor House.” Mrs," Harvey said no more, and’ Dick, putting on his hat, left the house. He hice to the nearest Third,avenue elevated station and took a _ South Ferry train, Inside of half an hour he ~ got out at Hanover Square station, which was . uite deserted at that hour, and walked 1 = all Street. A walk of a block and a, halt expected, the brought him to the office. As he

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2 door was locked and the bank appeared to be de- serted as it always was after five o'clock. Dick leoked through the big plate-glass window, but the sereen that shut off the counting-room, where he and the white-headed cashier named Matthew Bramble worked, from the passersby prevented him from seeing anything beyond, except the gleam of the electric bulb Which hung in front of.the big safe vault. Now, this screen should not have been up after five o’clock. Dick knew that the old cashier was methodical and exact in all his doings. Never, during his three years’ experience at the office, had he known Matthew Bramble to fail to leave the screen down. He had take it down to re- move the collection of money, and there was no reason at all why he should replace it. The fact that the screen was up struck Dick as decidedly queer. He determined to enter the bank and take it down, and then make an investi- gation, though he searcely expected to find any- thing wrong. He tried the door first and found it locked. He unlocked it and walked in. Then he looked through the.cashier’s. window at the safe. The door was shut and it appeared to be all right. The.door of his uncle’s private room at the back was shut. Dick knew that the jani- tor usually shut it when he got through cleaning up. = From the appearance of the counting-room it was clear that the janitor had swept and dusted the place. The door leading into the counting- room was locked, as it should have been. Dick let himself in with his key, and as he was close to the private room door, he opened it and looked ‘in. The place was dark, yet not so dark but Dick So ot 3 4= Central and gave the could see something like a human form in the ivot chair before the closed desk. Could it be is uncle? Dick hesitated but a moment, then stepped forward and turned on the electric bulb, throwing a flood of light about the room. His worst fears were realized. His uncle lay back in the chair and, what was worse, there was an injury on the side of his head. Was he dead—murdered—right in the heart of Wall street? It looked like it, for his face was white and ghastly. : “My heavens, this is- terrible!” exclaimed the boy, and he instinctively thought of his aunt, whom he loved dearly, waiting anxiously at home, for the belated return of the husband whom she might never look upon again alive. ~ CHAPTER II.—Beginning an Investigation. Dick placed his hand on his uncle's heart. He _ expected to find no response, but he was wrong— Mr. Harvey’s heart was beating, though very intly. In a moment the boy was full of action. He rushed ics the i fo ya eee ie electric light, opened é one directory ue Pa the Geninee of the Chambers Street Hospital. the number. He 3 ‘ant told a wagon would be sent immediately. c : 5 hicle was. always kept hitched surgeon and driver to jump on p, ready for the -it, and expected it would soon arrive. As soon as he found it he called up - DICK DALTON, YOUNG BANKER : : He re- turned to his uncle and, lifting him up, placed him in an easier position, then he got a towel and gently washed the clotted blood away. This— resulted in the wound bleeding afresh. His uncle moaned and showed other signs of life, but none of returning consciousness. up with the towel and then went to the telephone again. He called up police headquarters, notified the officer who answered him that his uncle, Banker Harvey, had been perhaps fatally wound- ed in his office, some time between five and half- past seven o’clock, and asked that a detective be sent right away to look into the case. As he hung up the receiver he heard the galloping of a horse, the clang of a bell and the rattle of wheels coming down the street. He ran to the door and saw that it was an am- bulance. He stepped out on the sidewalk and shouted to the driver. That individual steered up alongside the curb and the surgeon hopped off from behind, with his bag in his hand. “Follow me,” said Dick. He took the surgeon into the inner office and told him how he had found his uncle. The sur- geon carefully examined the wound and pronounc- ed it not dangerous of itself, but said other indi- cations showed that the banker was suffering from concussion of the brain, or something akin 1 i 2 ete “V’ll have to take him to the hospital, for I can do nothing for him here. The house surgeon must examine him at once, for he looks to be in a critical condition.” “T notified headquarters and an officer is com- ing down here to investigate the matter. Doubt- less he’ll call at the hospital after he has inter- viewed me,” said Dick. : “T’ll bring the stretcher in to carry him out on,” said the surgeon, starting for the door. In.a few minutes -he returned, accompanied by the driver and a stretcher. They lifted the un- conscious banker on it, placing an air pillow un- der his head, and wrapping a blanket around him, after which they carried him out and put the stretcher, with its burden, into the ambulance. Then the vehicle drove off after Dick had sup- plied the surgeon with Mr. Harvey’s name, home address, age and one or two other particulars. Dick stood on the sidewalk, decidedly down at the mouth, and watched the wagon disappear at a Dick bound his head . moderate pace up the street. At that moment a man came walking down Wall street. He was be- low the average height, thickset and was dressed in a business suit. He stopped in front.of Dick and the night officer. ce is Banker Harvey’s place, I believe?” he said. “Yes, sir,” replied Dick. “Are you from 300. Mulberry ?” “IT am. I want to see the party who telephoned headquarters about an assault on Banker Har- vey. “T am the person.” “Your name is Richard Dalton, then?” “That’s right.” ; “You are the nephew of the banker?” “T am.” : s : “Ts he dead?” Hier ear He was taken to the hospital a little while ago.” » vis = “Chambers Street?” ~ >

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we | DICK DALTON, <Ven.” ; “We will in the office and I will hear the facts and look at the.place where the assault was committed.” After the usual search made by detectives, he asked Dick to accompany him to the hospital At the hospital they learned that the wounded man’s condition was very critical, but beyond saying he was still unconscious the house surgeon would express no opinion on the case. The detective ~_ took him aside, revealed his calling and got cer- tain particulars. When they came out on the street the officer told Dick that he had better go _ home and break the news to his aunt, : ; “l’'m going to investigate this sea captain,” he said. “We have no evidence so far that he kept his engagement with Mr. Harvey. I must see “what facts I can get from him. It is quite pos- sible that somebody learned that he was bringing ashore a large sum of money and followed him, with evil intent. Falling of a safe opportunity, _ the man shadowed him to the bank. Judging that the captain had turned the money over to the banker, he altered his plans, suffered the tain to depart, and then entered the bank and at- tacked Mr. Harvey, possibly securing the money before your uncle could | it up for the night. That is merely a theory, and there may be noth- ing in it. The captain, however, appears to be a _ very important link in the matter, and I propose -. to see him next.” , ‘ “S The detective bade Dick good night, told him - he’d see him at the bank in the morning, and went away. Dick went home with’a heavy heart - to carry the bad news to his aunt. - a - CHAPTER III.—The Missing Bank of England ; ~ Notes. Dick found his aunt in a fever of anxiety over her husband. She | ess at him ae in her eyes when he enteted the sitting room. E “You have learned nothing,” she said, the tears _ gtarting to her eyes. : ; “You are wrong, aunt,” replied Dick. “I found uncle at the bank.” : “Ah!” she cried, with a look of great relief. es oo I regret to say that I found him uncon- —: ” “Unconscious!” she exclaimed, her face paling Pe _ ‘/“Frori a wound inflicted on his head by some a — unknown. He is now in the Chambers Es + Hospital, and the house surgeon’s report is not encouraging.” ss. : ; = Mrs. Harvey was overcome with grief. Dick did his best to comfort her, but did not succeed well. She insisted on going to the hospital, ~ ugh the boy said she would not be admitted beyond the office. ; Dick accompanied her and they reached the _ hospitable about eleven. Mrs. Harvey had con- = siderable trouble in getting an interview with an << YOUNG BANKER 38 collapse, and he deemed it best to stop at the family doctor’s on the way. Dick reached Wall Street at half-past eight next morning. A brief story of the assdult on Banker Harvey was in all the morning papers, and Dick found several ople standing in front of the bank window, looking in. It was the usual morbid curiosity that certain people exhibit on such occasions. The boy let himself in, took a general survey of the counting-room and then entered his uncle’s room, He sat down in the pivot-chair to await the ar- rival of the cashier. If the detective had not called on Mr. Bramble at his home the cashier would learn the unfortu- nate facts from the morning newspaper, and Dick knew he would be greatly disturbed over the af- fair. While he sat swinging around in the chair, Dick noticed a small, bright object peeping out from under one end of the desk. picked it up and found that it was the stone from a seal ng. In color it was a deep pink, and the flat side bore the sunken letter B. Dick wondered how it had come there. The man who had as- saulted his uncle might have lost it in the room, or some visitor might have drop it during the day. After studying it for a while, Dick put it in his pocket. He intended to show it to the detective when he called again. In a few min- utes the cashier came in. be “This is a terrible matter, Dick,” he said, in a disturbed tone. “Yes, sir, it is.” “The paper states that it was you who discov- ered your uncle in the office?” “Yes, sir. I came downtown to hunt him up when he failed to reach home in time for dinner. My aunt wag naturally very anxious over his absence.” “I left him waiting for Captain Baxter, the new depositor, who was bringing quite a sum of money to deposit with us.” “You went away at your usual time.” “Yes. I told him I would remain and help him with the business, but he did not think it was necessary.” Be “Everything is all right with the safe, isn’t it?” added the boy. “Yes, though the time-lock was not set. I left that for Mr. Harvey to do after he locked up the money he expected to receive.” “I thought it wasn’t set. However, I’m glad no robbery was committed. That would place us in an embarrassing position, and would cause uneasiness among our depositors. are likely to have a bunch of visitors to-day, in- quiring about the matter, for the natural im- pression will prevail that robbery was the motive of the attack on my uncle.” “Tf it was, it failed,” replied the cashier. “So far as our own funds are concerned, yes, but the detective who is oh the case has a theory that perhaps the new depositor was followed here from his vessel by some one who contemplated robbing him on the way, and failing’ to do so before the money was turned over to my uncle; that he slipped into the bank, struck Mr. Harvey’ down before he locked up the cash, and got away with the plunder,” said Dick. E The cashier looked grave at that. “The bank would be responsible for the money, As it is, we - i Ve * ¥ ar Jie Wi VAT Ge

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mm 4 DICK DALTON, YOUNG BANKER and if it was a large sum, its loss would put us in a serious predicament,” he said. “That’s right,” nodded Dick. “I trust that the detective’s theory will not prove the right one.” He started in to lay out the display of notes and gold coin in the window, -meeting the curi- ous gaze of many idlers, and when he had it all placed he put up the screen, which was fitted with a sliding door. When Dick took up his duty at the books he found the cashier in conversation with one of their depositors whom he was assur- ing that no robbery had been committed. The gentleman went away satisfied. Business was in full swing when the detective came on the scene. Dick admitted him to the private room and in- troduced him to the cashier. “You'd better attend to him, Dick,” said Mr, Bramble. “I can’t leave the counter.” “Have you seen Captain Baxter?” asked the boy of the officer. : “J have. He says he called at the bank a little after six, met Mr. Harvey and deposited with him the sum of $20,000 in English Bank of Eng- -land notes. He showed me the bank book with the entry, which he says Mr. Harvey figured out according to the prevailing rate of exchange.” “Gosh!” exclaimed Dick greatly taken back by the news. “We found no English money with a deposit slip in the safe when the cashier opened it. If my unele received $20,000 from the cap- tain, then your original theory seems to have some foundation in fact. Captain Baxter must have been followed to Wall street by some rascal who afterward succeeded in getting into the bank before my uncle could lock the money, up. He then attacked Mr. Harvey, struck him senseless, and got away with the Bank of England notes. It is very important/that we should get the num- bers of those notes with as-little delay as possible. The captain ought to have the list.” “T mentioned that fact to him,” replied the de- tective. “He acknowledged that he had had the numbers, but said that he turned the list over to Mr. Harvey with the notes. He said that was customary.” “By the way, I found this under the edge of my uncle’s desk this morning,” said Dick, produc- ing the stone seal. “It is the setting of a seal ring and bears the initial B. It must have fallen out of .2 ring, and belongs to some visitor my --unele had during the day. It might possibly be the property of Captain Baxter. The letter stands ‘\ c. 7 ~~ * for his name.” ‘The detective looked at it intently, a curious smile flitted across his: face for an instant, and he put the stone in his pocket. Without knowing it, Dick had furnished the officer with a valuable --¢elue. — : ~ “Where did you meet the captain? Aboard his --weesel?” asked Dick. “No: at the Astor House, where he stopped last ~ night.” . ; ~ “]- suppose you'll try and find the rascal you i ve tetloared the eaptain to the bank?” =f Phe datestave smiled enigmatically, but made ‘no reply. After’a moment's silence he said: | “T think you had better come with me to the hospital. I would like to ‘earn if that ish notes is in his elothes.” = | wi with you. Excuse me a moment,” ato the coun ood list of the turned in have disappeared is the b ting-room and told the cashier the news about the missing deposit of $20,000, proof of which Captain Baxter had in the bank book given him by Mr. Harvey. : “That’s bad,” said Mr. Bramble, shaking his head. “Very bad indeed. The captain can legally hold the bank for the money.” “IT am afraid he can,” admittedly. “Twenty thousand dollars is a lot of money for my uncle to lose. I hope, however, that the guilty man will be caught and his plunder recovered. I am go- — ing over to the hospital with the detective to get the key of my uncle’s desk and also to see if the list of numbers of the stolen notes is in his pocketbook.. If it is, we'll have it printed and sent all over the country, and also to Canada and England, which will make it difficult for the thief to realize on the notes. That’s an advantage one has in tracing English paper money that-does not exist with our currency.” Dick and the detective went over to the hdos- pital. Mrs. Harvey was there and had been ad- mitted to the ward where her husband lay un- conscious. Dick and the officer got no farther than the office. The boy stated the object of his visit and an attendant was sent to look up the articles, He returned in a little while with the bunch-of keys and the pocketbook. Dick searched the latter for the list, but it was not to be found. ; “T didn’t think you'd find it,” said Detective Dolan. : Dick signed a receipt for the articles and took them away. He and the detective parted on — Broadway, the boy returning to the bank. | = = é J ‘CHAPTER IV.—The Arrest. When Dick reached the office he turned the © keys and his uncle’s pocketbook over to the cashier and returned to his work, after telling Mr. Bramble that the list of English notes he — had hoped to find was not in the latter. When Dick got home that afternoon, late, he found his aunt very much depressed, although the house surgeon at the hospital had told her it was pos- sible that her husband would not die, after all. An operation had been performed on him that afternoon and a piece of bone which had been pressing. on the brain removed. The result of this was that the banker came out of his coma-~ tose state, but he did not recognize his wife on — her afternoon visit, nor did he appear to be sen- — sible of his position., About eleven next morning, ~ a man with an indefinable smack of the sea about _ him came into the bank and introduced himself as Captain Baxter. a Mr.-Bramble received him in the private room, © and during the interview, in the course of which the captain produced the bank book given him — by Mr. Harvey, the cashier admitted the liability _ of the bank with respect to the sum of $19,500 odd credited on the book in Mr, Harvey’s hand- writing. - $. er oe ~The fact. that the Bank of England notes you — ank’s loss, not yours, Captain Baxter, so I will honor any cl aoe Ls. of yours up to the limit of your deposit,” . Bramble. Re ee a Spe ay “AML right,” said the captain, with a smile~of --

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as satisfaction. “Then you will oblige me with one __-of your check books for my convenience.” s SS sir,” and the cashier got one for The captain put the check book in his pocket and went away. “J can’t say that I Sass - our new depositor ss much,” said Dick, to the cashier. J “Sea captains are different from shore folk,” said Mr. Bramble. _ The cashier went over to wait on An hour later the detective appear “Do you know,” said Dick, “that ‘I think the é; man who dropped that seal stone out of his ring was Captain Baxter?” -- “How came you to fix upon the captain?” said ~ the officer. - “He wears.a similar kind of ring on his scarf.” Zs “JT observed that fact during my interview with hi So he has been in here?” customer. “Yes. He came in to establish his right to the -_ $20,000 and to get a check book.” You have admitted his right to the money, I - suppose?” “We were obliged to, as he showed Mr. Bram- ble his bank boo with the credit entered in my ‘uncle’s own handwriting.” os — was pretty good evidence,” chuckled the bie = Z “Tt ‘would stand in any court. Well, have you ae any clue yet to the man who struek my uncle ? = “He'll be in jail probably within tirenty-four ~ “hours.” ~ “Ha!” eried the boy. : is?” “Pye got him spotted,” said Officer Dolan. Bey call that going some. It will be fine if we get those notes, or a large part of them, ae ~ “Don’t worry about the notes,” said the detec- ___ tive. “You'll never recover them. That, however, is ones a if you are not called on to make _ them good. “Why won’t we have to make them good when yess admitted the bank’s liability to Captain = “Probably you'll know why by this time to-mor- “Shall we?” “When the hand of the law is on the guilty 's shoulder.” - ~-*You. seem certain *of your man.” ~ *J wish I was as certain of making one thou- dollars.” ick went into the telephone booth connected “Then you know who he was doing. He learned that his uncle was stron- 5 Sire that the head surgeon expected to pull By Harvey at the hospital?” Dick ae - “Has Mr. Harve recognized her?” _ His mind r y a perfect blank.” c told the cashier “Fg latest news from the le seems to be coming on all right, awhis heads” he said. : dare. his mind will reassert itself in’ aus DICK DALTON, YOUNG BANKER the hospital and asked how Banker Harvey” 5 cash a check. There was a line of people at the window, waiting either to draw money or deposit it, and the captain took his place at the end of it. At that moment . Detective Dolan walked in, knocked at the counting-room door, and was ad- mitted. “T see your new depositor, the captain, is wait- ing in line to draw some money,” he said, in an offhand tone, “Is he?” replied Dick. “T think you had better invite him in. I should like to see him in the private room.” Dick walked out imto the corridor and beckoned to the captain of the Fleetwing. “Good morning, Captain | Baxter!” he said. “Come to draw some money? “Yes. <A few dollars,” oo ed the skipper. “Step inside and Ill attend to you,” said Dick. Captain Baxter walked in, and Dick asked him to step into the office. “Take a séat, captain. You've met this gentle- man before, I believe?” he said, indicating the detective, “T have,” answered the captain, with a frown. “Let me have your check and I will get the money for you,” said Dick. “Endorse it, please. Paar Baxter did so and handed him the check. “Nice day, Captain Baxter,” said Dolan, as Dick left the room to get the money for the new depositor. “Yes,” replied the skipper shortly. “T suppose you will be glad to hear that Mr. Harvey will not die, after all, from the effects of his wound.” “T thought——” he began. “He was slated for a coroner’s inquest, eh?” ~said the detective. “He has escaped it by a very narrow margin.” “Has he told——” “Who struek him down and took the notes that you had just deposited with him? No. I fear it will be a long time before he will be able to do that.” “Why By 4 eBecnaee the cowardly blow has made a blank of his brains.” oe ejaculated the skipper, with a look of reli “Nevertheless. I expect soon to lay my hand on the man guiltof the crime.” “Have you a clue to him?” asked Captain Bax: ter. “Pye been working on a clue. for several days,” said the defective. “By the way, that’s a hand- some ornament you wear in your tie.” ~ a said the captain. “You had the mate of it, didn’t you, when-you called on Mr, Harvey?” “What do you mean?”. ize “You had a ring on your finger exactly like it.” ut at Pa St.” ae s en this stone isn’t your property? Dolan, showing him - picked up from under his uncle’s desk on the morning after the crime, - “Tt matches the one in your tie exactly.” The captain ¢ drew a long breath as he looked at - - “No, I never saw it before,” he said. said the detective. 9” it. a oo “That's ee the seal stone Dick had Ee

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6 minus its setting, was found in the room you oc- cupied at the Astor House by the chambermaid, and the stone fits in it as though it belonged there.” “What have I got to do with that?” snorted Captain Baxter. “I thought maybe you abandoned the ring when you saw you had lost the setting. I supposed the stone belonged to you, as it was found in this office after you at been here, and it bore your initial, and matched the one in your tie. If I have made a mistake, jt is quite a natural mnder the circumstances.” * At that moment Dick came in with the money. “Here is the money, captain. Count it and see that it’s right,” said the boy. _ “The amount is correct,” said Captain Baxter, & yutting it in his pocket. “Good day!” “One moment, Captain Baxter,” said the de- ; tretive. “What do you want?” snarled the skipper. “You!” “What’s that?” “I arrest you on the bench warrant I have in my pocket for murderous assault on John Harvey, and the theft of $20,000 Bank of England notes, the property of the owners of the Fleetwing, which. you had previously deposited in his hands to your own credit.” The captain stag gasped with astonis. red back, aghast, while Dick ent. CHAPTER V.—Dick Wins in the Market. - With a snort of rage the captain raised his derous fist to strike the detective, one blow rom which would have laid the officer low, but Dick jumped forward and caught him by the arm. With a quickness born of long experience with dangerous men, the officer whisked a pair of handcuffs from his pocket and snapped them ‘about Captain Baxter’s two wrists. : “I guess you'll go quietly now,” he said. ; “Is it really true that Captain Baxter is the guilty man?” asked Dick. . - “There’s no doubt of it. I was satisfied he : was the man within twenty-four hours after the 2 erime had been committed,” said Detective Dolan. Bb “The improbability of an outsider getting into ‘i - the bank ‘ith the door locked led me to sone him. It was a put-up job from the first. The ss Bank ‘of England notes he deposited with Mr. Fs Harvey were not his property, but belonged to the owners of the ship. After placing them in ‘ the banker’s hands and getting credit for the de- posit, he intended to recover them by doing up Se your uncle. He planned the scheme well, and ; circumstances favored him, but he didn’t calcu- ~ Jate on the sagacity of the American detective. _ __ It was really an easy job landing him.” ; “What haye you got to say to this, Captain Baxter?” asked Dick. . The mit made no answer, and Dolan, throw- ing a handkerchief over the steel bracelets, led a ( m with the news. _ *T never would have suspected him,” said the old man, when he had recovered from his surprise. DICK DALTON, YOUNG BANKER “I knéw I didn’t up to the moment of his ar- rest,” replied the boy. “I’m mighty glad the guilty man is caught.” “So am I, and the bank won’t lose a cent now.” That was a pleasing reflection that kept Dick in good humor all the afternoon, not but he was in good humor most of the time, anyway. He carried the good news home to his aunt, but be- fore he broke it to her he recollected that she hadn’t been told that the bank was in danger of losing nearly $20,000, so he confined the good news to the statement that the man who had assaulted her husband had been taken into cus- tody and was in jail, with eS ee of paying the penalty for his crime. rs. Harvey was pleased to hear that the rascal had been appre- hended, though that fact would not undo the damage he had done to her husband. Next day Captain Baxter was brought before a police magistrate. Dick was present in court and told how he discovered his uncle unconscious in his chair at half-past seven on the eventful eve- nine of the assault. His testimony was merely a statement of facts connected with the case, and not with the prisoner direct. The chief witness against the accused was Detective Dolan, who ~ stated the grounds on which he arrésted the cap- tain. Beyond a plea of “Not guilty,” the skipper had nothing to say in his own behalf. The magistrate held him, however, and he was sent to a cell in the Tombs prison. Dick returned to his duties at the bank and stayed until after six o’clock in order to pull up his routine work. The brokerage firm next door was in the habit of hypothecating stock with the bank, but owing to a slacking up of business in the Street, due to a recent slump, had not had any dealings with the establishment since Mr. Harvey was put down and out. On the following morning Mr. Smith, the senior broker, came in with a bunch of stock on which he wanted to raise a loan as usual. Such matters had always been attended to by Mr. Harvey, and it now fell to Dick to pasz on the matter. - The broker first asked how Mr. Harvey was getting on, and having been told that while his mental condition was unsatisfactory he was oth- erwise getting along as well as could be expected, he stated the object of his visit. “J want to raise a lban of seventy per cent. on this stock,” he said, laying the ‘certificates on Dick’s desk. “It is ruling at 80 now, and the market is growing stronger every hour, so you will find the security quite. safe.” Loans on stocks are subject to call on demand, owing to the fluctuations in the market price, or may be continued by the deposit of additional se- curity when the margin of safety is threatened, but it is optional with the party who made the original loan to continue it. Dick was well up in the market prices of the standard stocks, for his uncle had made it one of his duties to keep track of all quotations. The boy had a list of current loans made by his uncle always under his eye, so as to keep a line on them. There was a ticker — in the counting-room by which he was enabled to keep tab on the quotations, and the moment he — saw that a stock on which a loan had been made was dropping steadily, he notified his uncle at once. Dick was, therefore, well up in that par- ticular branch of the bank’s business, and he could — ; i

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DICK DALTON, make a loan as safely as his uncle had been in the habit of en ; : He looked at the stock submitted and found it _ was O. & M. He knew that it was going around - 80, and that the market appeared to be stiffening, _ but he had read that morning in-a financial daily ~ certain facts about O. & M. that led him to believe that the stock was not going to hold its es t price. : “We can’t let you have over sixty per cent. on __ this stock, Mr. Smith,” he said. “Nonsense!” said the broker. at 70 on a call loan.” “Jt is at this moment, perhaps, but before noon it may not be quite such a satisfactory collateral,” _ replied Dick. 3 -. “Tf Mr. Harvey were here, he wouldn’t hesitate "a moment in letting me have all I ask,” said “It’s quite safe th. “I won’t dispute your word, but Mr. Harvey _ isn’t here. I am running the bank now, and I’m - not taking any chances.” , _ “Then you won’t advance more than sixty per ~ cent.?” said Smith, rather annoyed at the stand _ taken by the boy. -__ “That’s all, Mr. Smith.” “Then I’ll have to try another bank.” _ *That-is your privilege, of course.”. : Tt seems to me that you will turn business _ away by being overcautious. Since your uncle’s _ misfortune had placed you in charge here, you _ should strive to make a record for yourself in- stead of doing the opposite.” * = “Whatever I do is nobody’s funeral but my - own. As I consider myself competent to conduct - our business, I don’t think the bank is likely to suffer on my account. If you think you can get a - larger loan somewhere else, I would advise you to try for it if you need the money. I won’t ad- vance more than sixty-per cent. on O. & M. It _ is my opinion it will be selling at nearer 70 than ~ 80 at this time to-morrow.” _ “What do you know about the stock market?” snap Smith. - “] know enough about its workings to try and ep on the safe side of it. If I owned that at this moment I’d sell it, and sell it quick, too,” said Dick. ; “You would?” “Yes, sir, I would.” ae “Have you the courage of your convictions?” “In what way?” “I dare you to give me an order to sell for ur or the bank’s account any part of 1,000 not less than 100, at 80.” Fs go you,” said Dick. “Sell 1,000 at 80, and = "ll bet you a lunch at Del’s that to-morrow or . e day after I'll be able to cover the sale at a Profit.” 'S a go, young to loser man,” said Smith. “You are ‘only think I am,” said Dick, getting up going outside to the safe to get sum of 000 to deposit with Smith as. security on the cidentally, he looked at the ticker before he back and saw that O. & M. had already ped to 79 3-4. ee paid the money to the 21 received his memorandum. will have to take these certificates to another aid — ; gathering them up. “I er'do = business with you; but T YOUNG BANKER yf must raise seventy per cent. on the stock to car- ry it.” \ . “I wish you success in your efforts, Mr. Smith, but I hardly think you'll raise as much as you want on the certificates. The price has fallen since you came in here, a quarter of a point, and I wouldn’t be surprised but it will-be lower by the time you get to the next bank.” How do zea know it’s fallen?” asked Smith quickly. “I looked to see it go the other way.” “We have a ticker outside, and L gianced at the tape after I made that deal with you. It then registered 79 3-4,” replied the young bank- “The dickens!” exclaimed the trader, jumping up. “Good-by!” —~ He rushed into his own office to confirm Dick’s statement, and found the price of O. & M. down to 79 5-8. , “Hang that boy!” he muttered. “If he should win this bet I’d feel like kicking myself around the block. I wonder if he has inside informa- tion? He seemed to be mighty confident about a slump in the price. I must hustle out with those certificates before it goes down any lower. If the stock were mine, I believe I'd be inclined to follow the boy’s tip and sell.” While he was communing with himself, Dick was looking at the ticker in the bank. He saw the second drop and smiled confidently. “Smith “will have to treat to that lunch,” he chuckled. “I guess after I’ve closed my deal through him he'll have a higher regard for my spieion of the stock market than he has at pres- ent.” > Dick was right. Inside of forty-eight hours he walked into Smith & Brown’s office and ordered 1,000 Shares of O. & M. bought at the market price of 69 5-8 to cover his short sale. At the then ruling figure he had cleared $10,000 profit on the deal, and that afternoon Smith treated him to lunch at Delmonico’s, and congratulated him on his long head in being able to outguess the market of two days before. CHAPTER VI.—The Raised Cheex. “What's this for?” asked Mr. Bramble, whea Dick handed him Smith & Brown’s check for $20,000, which included his deposit and his profit on the short deal in O. & M.: “I understood Mr. ~ Harvey to pay on the day he was hurt that our a withdrawn all their pledged col- ateral. “So they had. This has nothing to do with the loans we have been making to them. I handed you a Memorandum two days ago to account for 7 sum of $10,000 I took out of the safe,” said : The old cashier nodded. A “I put the money up with Smith on a stock deal on a dare he made me, and the transaction has turned us in a little over $10,000 profit. Now _ i destroy my memorandum, and add the difference to the check to the day’s cash receipts, crediting — to a short deal in O. & M. That will make your — eash balance.” - Pag: - Dick then told Mr. Bramble all about his trans- _ action with Smith, and how i to profit he had won a lunch xe

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s and Li = “Tf I thought he that ” th 8 thought he knew it all. The cashier smiled, and his opinion of the young banker’s smartness rose considerably. Smith & Brown was not the only brokerage firm that borrowed money of the bank. Fully a score of small traders patronized Mr. Harvey, off and on, when they needed funds and had securities to hypothecate for it. Several of these brokers were regular depositors of the bank, and, of course, it was the bank’s policy to accommodate them in return for their custom. One day Dick, when out at lunch, had occasion to call on one of these brokers. The trader was engaged and the boy had to wait a few minutes. Presently the inner door opened and Dick heard a voice say to the broker: : “Now, Dilworth, remember, buy all the shares of A. & B. you can find on the quiet and have them sent C. 0. D. to the Blank National. We have a raft of money behind us, and things will go through all right if you do your part up brown.” “You can rely on me, Mr. Dodson. I'll get on the job at once,” said Dilworth. The two men stepped out and the broker saw his visitor to the door. Dick, conscious he had got on to a-fine tip on the market, glided over to the window, lest Dilworth should suspect he had overheard everything. When the broker started back for his room the young banker turn- ed around and Dilworth recognized him. “Want to see me, Dalton?” he asked. “Yessir.” “Come into my room.” It took only a few minutes for the boy to trans- ‘act the business that had brought him, and then .. left. Dick went on to lunch, and while he was eating he thought over what he had heard rela- tive to A. & B. The indications pointed to a cor- - ner that was about to be engineered by Dodson, whom Dick recognized as a big stock operator. The young broker judged that it would mean a lot of money in his pocket if he got hold of a bunch of the stock at that early stage of the me. ene could sell it later, when the price had ad- vanced, as it surely wound, and reap all the ad- vantages of the possessor of inside information. When he got back to the bank he took $20,000 out of the safe and walking into the office next door told Smith, who received him, to buy 2,000 A. & B. for his account, at 90. - Z “So you’re going into the speculative business, eh?” said Smith, witha grim smile. cess in O, & M. has given you the fever.” “Not at all, Mr. Smith; but I can’t afford to thing get away from me,” replied let a good Dick. “Call A. & B. a good thing?” *T do.” - “How do you know it is?” asked the broker curiously. : SS : “I can’t afford to give my business secrets away.” . i : Re “Got a tip on it?” “If I have, I’m not saying anything about it.” - Smith tobk down hfs order, at oo the money gave him a memorandum. had a tip I’d buy some of that myself,” thought the broker after Dick went away. “It’s too risky chancing it, haven’t noticed that A. & B. has sho dency to go up.” any ten “Your suc- ' fiaud, who has ‘bank in a hurry. Then he wrote on a t h, and I. DICK DALTON, YOUNG BANKER Dick reported to the cashier what he had done. Mr. Bramble looked at him rather dubiously. “Twenty thousand dollars is a lot of money for you to risk on the market,” he said doubtfully. “T hope you are not getting the speculative fever. You might put the bank in a hole.” “Don’t worry. I' consider this deal_a winner.” He then told the old man what he dverheard in Dilworth’s office, and that kind of satisfied the cashier, for it looked good to him. “T’ve saved up a pape of thousand dollars. It’s in a bank. Do you t me to venture half of it on that stock?” he said. “Put it all up, Mr. Bramble, and [ll guarantee you'll double your money,” said the young banker. “Will you make the deal for me if I give you = or the money?” “Yes. ” _The old man drew*the check for the bulk of his savings and Dick put it up at another broker- age house in Bramble’s name. That afternoon a man came in the bank and presented a check, drawn by their largest customer, a Pearl street importer, for $10,000. It was not unusual for the bank to cash checks of that size for that depos- itor, whose name was Wood, and as the signature was apparently all right, and the indorsement was ees by Wood, the cashier prepared to pay it. : “Sign your name on that piece of paper,” he said to the man. 2 Dick came out of the office at that moment and the old man showed him the check. “Have you paid it?” asked the boy. - “Not sw ‘The man is over at the .counter, writing his signature for me to compare with the endorsement.” “Give me the check and delay the payment till I telephone to Wood. Wait on the other people first. There are a number in line. Take your time, and make a bluff of looking up the next check so as to give me plenty of leeway.” Dick entered the telephone booth and commu- . nicated with Importer Wood. He asked if the check was all right. “How much?” asked Mr. Wood. “Ten thousand dollars.” “Haven’t given any check for that sum lately. Who is it made out to, and what is the number?” Dick gave him the information. “Hold the wire.” “Rush things, please, as the man is waiting,” said Dick. = In three minutes Wood told him that he had drawn a check to the person indicated for $1,000, but had not guaranteed the indorsement, such a thin E.not being necessary as the man a bank in which he could have deposited check. “The party who has presented it is doubtless a got possession of the check in some. way and raised it to the sum shown. Have eo pret at once. I will be right over,” said ood. - Dick rattg off and then called up the police sta- tion and asked that an officer be sent to the = of pa- per the words, Pay the man in large bills,” and sed it to the cashier. Returning to his office took the revolver out of the desk and walked outside into the corridor. The man was at the window and Bramble was slowly counting out ten $1,000 bills to him. The chap grabbed the mon- — ink it would be well for —

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r 2 ees it into his pocket and started for the _ door. — 5: “One moment, please,” said Dick. “I'd like to see you in the office.” “What for?” - . “About that cheek you've just cashed.” te “What about it?” cried the man, his face dark- “T have a few questions to ask you about it.” “T’ve i = got no time to answer questions. I’m in =~ ia hurry. ir “Sorry, but you'll have to delay your ddpar- ” be ture, = “T will! Pa wively. ° : - He attempted to push his way out, when Dick shoved him back and pulling the weapon out of his pocket covered him with it. “If you attempt to leave, I’ll shoot you,” Se the young banker, in a determined tone. ___, “What does this mean?” gasped the man. 2 “Jt means that I am not sure you are the party the check was drawn to.” “Who are you) anyway?” ‘iene _ . “Never mind who I am. Just step inside that ad “How dare you act in this way?” roared the I guess not!” said the man aggres- said os t, I will apologize and ; “If I am not acting ri = give you satisfaction. All I want you to do is to _ wait till Mr. Wood comes and looks you over. If A he says you are all right, there will be no fur- £ ther trouble. If he denounces you as a fraud, = you know what will happen.” BS - J give in. Take back the money and let me = iy + “Then you admit that you are a fraud?” is want to get out of this trouble.” ame. can’t “ast out of it. You walked delib- Ba into it yourself. It is a felony to raise a __ check, to begin with. It is a second one to forge the name of a man on the back of it as the guarantor of the indorsement. It is a third one _ to present the check and receive the money on it. You are up agaifst three counts. I am afraid you are in a bad box.” - At that moment Importer Wood came in. _ *fere is the man who presented that check, Mr. Wood,” said Dick. , don’t know him. Never gave him a check ime of raising the original soe: Eee a Ww th “excitement which the incident created faded away. Mr. Wood complimented Dick on his : way we do business here,” replied j Pate “We are taking no chances of ¥: S 4 > 7 5 a i“ Re DICK DALTON, ¥OUNG BANKER g getting nipped or having our depositors nipped, either.” — CHAPTER VII.—The Lady with the Check. Of course Dick had to go to court again on the ollowing morning to appear against the man. He met Mr. Wood there, and their evidence eas- ily caused the man to be remanded back to jail. A few days afterward Mr. Harvey was declared well enough to leave the hospital by the head . surgeon, but as the banker’s mind was in the - same blank state, he suggested another opera- 7 tion. Mrs. Harvey declined to permit such a thing for the present, and had her husband taken to a sanitarium for rest and recuperation. Dick made a sort of informal report to his aunt every evening of affairs at the bank, but he said nothing to her about the deal in A. & B. that he had gone 4 into. He told her about the $10,000 he had made on the deal with Broker Smith, and she smiled to hear of his success. * Although she might have looked upon that as p a lucky accident, nevertheless, it gave her even greater confidence in her nephew’s ability to run her husband’s business, and she never asked him for particulars concerning the bank's routine | work. When she required money for herself or ; the expenses of the house she asked him for what she needed*and Dick passed it over, taking her receipt for it. Nothing happened in A. & B. for nearly a week worth mentioning, It went up a point or two and dropped about the same, just as it had been doing for the past month or two. Then it began to advance steadily, as Dick looked to see it do. Inside of three days more it was at par, and the speculative public began to take an interest in it. On the following day it made a jump to 105 and a fraction. That was good enough for Dick, who called on Smith and ordered the deal closed out. “You’re a lucky chap,” said Smith. “You must have had a tip t it was going to boom.” , “How would I get a tip on the market?” asked the youre banker. ae “How? By having a good friend on the inside.” - “[;haven't any friend on the inside of A. & B. that I know of.” “Well, you’ll clean up $30,000 on the deal.” “I expect to if you don’t delay the sale of my shares.” : “Tl send word over right away to Mr. Brown at the Exchange to sell.” As he started to write the note, Dick walked back to the bank. “I've ordered my A. & B. shares sold, Mr. Bramble,” he said to the cashier. “I had better have yours sold, too. You stand to make $3,000. er That’s $1,000 more than you risked. Instead of —_ being worth only $2,000 in the bank, you are - practically worth. $5,000. You did well to get in on it.” Race “Yes, yes, sell my stock!” said the cashier eagerly. “ ee “Write an order to that effect and I'll take it to the broker I left the order with in your name,” “ire one nhs pskt te young bn i order in his e young went out, and when he returned he announce that Mr. Bramble’s x that time. The eashier was | ~ te

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10 Zz DICK DALTON, that his savings had grown to more than double : its former proportions, and within two weeks at) ~- + that. It seemed too good to be true; a kind of - _. fairy gift, as it were. He felt that he could buy = a house now for himself and his family and be quite independent in his old age. ~On the follow- = ing afternoon Smith & Brown’s check added Ss $30,000 tos the private resources of the bank. 78 That made $404,000 Dick had earned for the es- =. tablishment, over and above the regular business profit, which was steady and satisfactory. He _ eoncluded to say nothing to his aunt about the Z matter, He wanted to surprise her some day, : and his uncle, too, if the latter recovered full possession of his reason. He was satisfied that if his uncle was ever able to resume the active direction of the tn that he (Dick) would be made his eee Se was about this time that Captain Baxter ei indicted by the grand jury. He was not tried till some time later, but enough evidence was brought against him when he was tried to bring about his conviction. The most important wit- . ness, Banker Harvey, did not appear, as he was still in the same mental state as when he was discharged from the hospital. The captain got five years, which meant that he would be released at the end of three years and four months if he behaved himself in prison; so, after all, he got off easy for the damage he had caused. A month after Dick’s deal in A. & B., he learn- -/ -ed that a syndicate had been formed to corner _-and boom 0. & H. shares. The young banker lost no ‘time in buying 4,000 shares at 85 with the _ $40,000 he had so far made in the market. If ‘through any slip the deal went wrong, the bank would really lose none of the resources it had when he came in charge of its affairs. Dick had - hired a bookkeeper to do his routine work, as he found it quite out of the question to work ‘in _ the counting-room and run the bank, too. He __had made a bid in the neighborhood for addi- tional depositors, and succeeded in securing a number by means of neat circulars, showing the bank's long record of ¢fficiency and security, In- deed, Mr. Harvey stood high. as a Wall Street banker, and Dick Dalton’s name appeared simply as “Manager.” Once“in a while some depositor or broker would inquire —. Mr. Harvey, but ° = the main he seemed to a yaroeped out of the running as an individual e majority of callers now asked for Dick, ‘and only strangers asked to see Mr. Harvey. It was around this time that Dick had to get a new office boy and mes- ( The old one was giving up Wall Street or good and going i his parents to Chicago. Dick, instead of advertising for a boy, decided ‘try an ambitious newsboy who had been serv- the bank with papers for more than a year. had had his eye on the lad, whose name ‘as Jimmy Watts, for some time. Jimmy wanted get out of the newspaper business and break the Wall Sarees ‘ranks the worst way. Dick. Was on terms with him, sympathized his desires, and offered him the opening in bank. | a accepted as = as a winks ”d make good or break a leg. YOUNG BANKER : bank with a check made out in her name ; signed by a depositor. The check called for $5 and she presented it at the window. Mr. Bramble locked at it and then.at the ee Fr you Araminta Peabody?” he asked pleas- antly. “That’s my name.” “You will have to*get somebody to identify you, madam.” “What for?” she snapped. “Didn’t I tell you who I was?” “I am not doubting your identity, but we don’t cash checks for strangers unless they present some tangible evidence that they are the right. persons.” x “J like that! Perhaps you’ say next that this check ain’t good?” she flashed. “No, madam. The check is perfectly good. Don’t. you know anybody in Wall Street who could identify you?” “No, I don't, and I don’t see no need of so teh red tape. That’ s my name, and [ want the money in $10 bills.” “I’m afraid you'll have to go to Mr. Harley’s store and get him to guaratitee your indorsement. Then bring the check back and I’ll give you the money.” “JT ain’t going on no such fool errand. I want = money, and I’m going to stay here till I get “The line had been yeep behind the lady and the cashier reached out toward the first man. “So you ain’t going to pay me that. money?” - snorted the lady. oe told you that I cannot till you are iden- = ifie “Are you the head of this bank?” she snapped. “No, madam. I am simply the cashier.” “Then I want to see the president or the head man,” -~ “Go to the door at the end of the corridor and walk into the reception room. You will find a be there who will attend to you.” he lady marched back into the waiting room and Jimmy confronted her. “#: “Are you the boy?” she asked, glaring aggres- sively at the office | “Who do you want to see, ma'am?” asked ~ Jimmy. ist “There ain’t no president. Mr. Dalton is man- ager. What’s your name?” “My name is on that check,” she said, holding it under Jimmy’s nose. SPe'- . a seat, ma’am, and [ll take your name in. She sat down, but a moment later Jimmy asked i her to walk into the private room. She ‘strode 5 in with the majesty of a Juno, though her figu — was not in line with that statuesque goddess des of = ancient mythology. ae ‘aké a seat, madam. What can I do for you?” eshnd Dick politely. ol “T asked see Ne ee a eee 86-2 said acidly. = =I = em head, madam.” a You're only a “boy.” she sniffed con= 5 PR 23 “That’s true, madam, but I am the head of this cs nt T'd hate to ke it tae eep any money in ii a le ata a can’t be safe. ee sleep a wink if I had cagiiies hasnt

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£ DICK DALTON,. “That’s kind of a hard shot you’re giving us, madam,” smiled Dick good-naturedly. “But I can assure you we have a great many depositors, some of them large ones, who have been with the bank as long as twenty years. They certainly must have confidence in us or we would not have their money here.” “Men ain’t always got good sense.” “Nevertheless, Wall Street is run by men.” “I know-it is, and a lot of cheats most of E them brokers are, too.” “You wrong them, madam.” : = “No, I don’t. My nephew lost $100 in a buck- -_ etshop’ run by brokers. He said they buncoed ' him out of his money.” “Bucketshops are irresponsible institutions and : are not run by regular brokers. But may I ask your business?” : “Well, if you’re the manager of this bank, I want you to tell me whether I’m going to get the money for that check or not?” ‘ - Dick looked at the check. -*“You are Araminta Peabody.” “I am Miss Peabody.” “Did you present it at the window outside?” tt did, and the white-headed old man wouldn’t pay me. He said I had to be identified.” “That is customary, madam, when a person is ' not known to the bank.” i > “Then I suppose you won't let me haye the ge 4 ithe? 5 i ooked ‘keenly at the lady. His survey - satisfied him that she was the right person. — “Madam, if we paid you that money, and it afterward proved that aie were not the right person—that you had picked that check up on the street, or found it somewhere else, the bank would lose the $500,” said Dick, in a conciliatory tone. : aa Jif w “But I am the right person.” : -“T fully believe you are,.madam,” said Dick, whose sharp eyes had noticed the initials A. P. on the lady’s bag, “and I’m going to let you have the money. You must not blame the cashier. He is responsible for all payments he makes, and it is his duty to know that he gives the money to the proper party. Did he send you in to see me?” -*“T told him I was going to see the head of the bank and he sent me back here.” a “Well, write your name on the back of the check.” —. _ He handed her a pen and she did so. Dick ‘wrote “O. K., R. D.” under it in pencil. crc SNOW, madam, present that to the cashier and + he will pay you.” : “T can show you letters provin Sanderson.” - x cn “Letters are by no means conclusive evidence of a person’s identity.” at-g “T thought they were.” z “Not at all,” said Dick, noting down the num- ays pha bonds. os ; ; ’ that moment. the cashier appeared at the door and said: = ss : “May I see you a moment, Mr. Dalton?” "3 __ “Pardon me a moment,” said Dick to the vis- itor, at the same time pushing an electric but- ton in the side of the desk twice. Then he up the cashier, as Jimmy ap at the opposite c the room and made‘a bluff at look -igs for something in the letter-file cabinet. T cashier wanted to know if he should honor a check which had just been presented, by doing 2 ts the memorandum he had just made and joited

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12 - which the depositor would have overdrawn his account by about $100. As the depositor was re- sponsible, Dick told the old man to pay the check, He then went into the telephone booth and called up the New York office of the L. & M. road. “This is Harvey’s bank,” he said. “A stranger has just brought in five $1,000 first mortgage bends of the L. & M. road and wants to raise a limit loan on them. Have any bonds been report- ed as stolen or lost?” “Give me the numbers of those bonds,” came Bal % ‘ Ts: back the reply. = Dick did so and was told to hold the wire. = Presently there came a “Hello!” z “Well?” said Dick. i “Hold those bonds. They were stolen, with es other property, from the residence of George a Wilcox last night. Detain the man who brought - * them until I can reach your bank with an offi- 2, cer.” pants That was-all, and Dick hung up the receiver. ae Returning to his room, Dick said to Jimmy: a “Did you find that letter?” = “No, sir,” replied the office boy. a “Well, keep on looking for it.” a Jimmy understood that as a signal for him to remain in the room. “Let me see those letters you spoke of,” said Dick to his visitor. Sanderson handed him three. He opened them leisurely and read them slowly. said. “They throw no light on the bonds.” ’ “Then you don’t care to lend any money on them?” said Sanderson, zB. “Why, certainly we’re willing to lend money on them. They are first-class securities, but wé want to be satisfied that you are entitled to bor- row the amount you ask. Now, without making : reflections on you, Mr. Sanderson, let us sup- pose those bonds you offer me were stolen ones, and you_were the thief, or the accomplice of the thief. If we let you have $4,000 on them, and the rightful owner subsequently learned we had them, proved property, and demanded we should give them up, ess we could find you and get “Beck the money, or a considerable portion of it, - we would be out and injured by the transaction. - See the point?” visitor. _- ? “To say the truth, I don’t believe you have the right,” said Dick coolly. “Do you mean to insinuate that they are not ; 9” ejaculated Sanderson, with a dark look. When and of whom did you buy them?” - “What has that got to do with the matter?” will give the ‘broker’s name, to: show that re will let you + ve the money.” « 2 ’ tered,” he said, after recovering his nerve. “I’m afraid these won’t do you much good,” he - he will beckoned ‘to a man outside, who was a detective: io are the real owner, and™ “0 ro - DICK DALTON, YOUNG BANKER “I bought them of a broker named Jones, in Chicago, several months ago.” “Did you keep the memorandum of the trans- action? “No; what use was it?” “Tt would be evidence that the broker sold the bonds to a man named Sanderson, though it wouldn’t prove that you were the said Sanderson. It would reduce the matter to a question of iden- tity, and every man ought easily to be able show who he is.” “If I knew there was so much red tape about Ls ig I wouldn’t have put my money in onds, “The red tape is largely due to the fact that you had them registered,” said Dick, watching the man closely. The bonds were not registered ones, just ordi- nary coupon ones, but the yipen, Baas hazarded the statement to try and catch his visitor by sur- prise. Sanderson fell to the trap. “The broker advised me to have them ee e said I’d have less trouble in selling them.” “He said that, did he?” replied Dick, with a grim smile. “It is just the other way, unless you are known, in which case there is no trouble.” At that moment Dick heard the sound of feet in the corridor outside approaching the waiting- room door. ; = “Jimmy,” he said, “I think there are visitors outside. Go and see.” © Jimmy Watts glided outside and shut the door. “T see I am only wasting my time here,” said Sanderson. “I'll take the bonds and go some- where else.” ; “Very well,” said Dick, taking up the bonds and placing them in the envelope. The door opened and Jimmy announced that a Adams, of the L. & M. road, wanted to see im. “Show him in,” said Dick. Z Sanderson jumped up and reached for the en- ares “Wait a moment, Mr. Sanderson. This gentle- man is the manager of the New York office of ~the L. & M. road. He may be able to fix you up,” said Dick. “t don’t care to make the loan of you. I'd rather go somewhere else,” said Sanderson, reach- — ing again for the envelope. Mr. Adams came in. : “Here are the five bonds, Mr. Adams,” said Dick, “and this-is the man who wants to raise a loan on them. His name is Sanderson.” Sanderson glared at the newcomer. c Se “How came you by these bonds?” demanded Mr. Adams, after looking at the numbers. “What is that to you?” snarled Sanderson. ~~ “These bonds were reported at our office this morning as having been stolen from the residence _ +: of George Wilcox. You are not George Wilcox, their owner, so it-is up to. you to explain how the bonds came into your possession.” : “J decline to explain anything. Give me the. bonds—I want to go.” 23 Adams stepped to the door and opened it. 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s. . e — I will follow and make the charge,” he -Sanderson was alive to his peril in a moment and he acted so quickly as to take the detective by surprise. With a swinging blow he stretched the officer on the floor, then pushing Adams aside, he dashed out of the room. Dick, who felt there was going to be trouble, for he had sized Sander- son up as a dangerous chap, jumped up and dashed after the rascal. He caught him as he reached the other door and was passing through it. ; “You don’t get away so easily,” said the young - broker, gripping his arm. we With an imprecation Sanderson pulled a slung- oF shot out of his pocket and swung at the boy’s -~—jhead. ~Dick ducked, but caught half of the blow, which ‘somewhat dazed him, and his grip was relaxing on the man when Jimmy flew to the rescue and grabbed Sanderson by the wrist of the hand that held the weapon. The man made = a desperate struggle to get away, but Dick, re- --—s eovering himself, got a fresh hold on him, and z then the detective, coming up, he was speedily handcuffed and reduced to sullen helplessness. = “You are the cause of this!” he cried, with a : malevolent look at the young banker. “Some Z day I'll get square with you!” Take him away,” said Adams to the officer, and he was led out. E _ Adams thanked Dick for sending him the in- - formation that resulted in the capture of the -_xaseal and the recovery of the bonds, and said he : had no doubt but Mr. Wilcox would call and thank him also. A few days after the foregoing incident, which duly figured in the newspapers ~ and brought Dick Dalton and the bank once more 4 in the limelight, 0. & H. stock began to advance. F Inside of a week it went up ten points, and in - three days more five points additional. Dick sold at a fifteen-point advance and cleared $60,- ; He had thus made $100,000_since he took charge of the bank. -> 4 re CHAPTER IX.—In the Hands of an Enemy. 2 : ing Mr. Harvey was still an inmate of the River- 4 S ‘side Sanitarium, Long Island. He had improved ‘greatly in general health sinee his enforced re- tirement from the bank, but his mind remained He couldn’t even remember from and sometimes twice a week. Dick occasionally accompanied her, when she went on a Sunday. The banker talked with them in an aimless way, just as he talked with the doctor or any other ‘attache of the institution. He only answered when spoken to, and never addressed any one on his own account. His case had attracted con- siderable attention with the brain specialists A he ape the country, and many of them vis- i the sanitarium and examined him as far as r were permitted to do so. His condition was il and unexplainable that numerous pa- were read before medical societies on the _and hardly a medical journal of any stand- ted a technical review by some prom- ; to get her per- per x DICK DALTON, YOUNG BANKER - end of Great South Bay, a mile away. _surprised to see him recover 13 mission to allow a clinical operation to be per- a formed on her husband, but she refused all such ~~ requests. So matters stood one Saturday afternoon when Dick, with Jimmy as a companion, started for the sanitarium, Mrs. Haryey being indisposed and not able to go herself. The Riverside Sanitarium was situated on a bit of rising ground oyerlook- ing a small river that emptied into the easterly It was a delightful spot in the summer, though rather bleak in winter, but as the building was provided with steam heat and other up-to-date improve- ments, the weather had no discomfort for the inmates. The grounds were commodious, and ~ thickly covered with trees, the whole being sur- rounded by an iron-spiked fence, eight feet high. E There was a carriage gate in front and a smaller ¥ one beside it next to the porter’s lodge. Dick 2 rang the bell at the small gate that afternoon and was admitted, with Jimmy. They had walked from the village station, half a mile away, after a two hours’ ride from New York. Dick led the way to the front door of the building, passing several of the patients on the way, and seeing others basking in the sunshine on the porch. He was admitted to the office, and was there received by Dr. Jordan, the proprietor, who shook hands with him. “You'll find Mr. Harvey on the porch or some- where about the grounds,” said the doctor. “He is allowed to do pretty much as he chooses, for he gives us no trouble at all, except to call him. to his meals, for the bell hasn’t the slightest sig- x nificance to him, though he has been here over three months. He Has a good appetite, and sleeps like a top. As you know, he is the picture of health. Mrs, Harvey says he hasn’t looked so well in years. His is a most remarkable case— most remarkable. To use a slang expression,” added the doctor, with a smile, “he has got my goat.” > y “Do you think he will always remain this way, doctor?” asked Dick. 2 “It looks that way, but really I wouldn’t like to” hazard an opinion on the subject. I wouldn’t be — i is full mental fac- ulties at any moment. It might require a sud- den shock to-bring him around. He is physically able to stand a shock better than most men. His ~ heart is strong and his nerves steady. His stay at this place is going to add many years to his — life, provided nothing unforeseen happens to him.” “Well, we’ll go out and look for him,” said Dick. : He Dick and Jimmy walked out on the grounds. It took them ten minutes to find the banker. He .— was seated on a rock, throwing bles at the — small birds that- hopped about on the ground and flew near him. Apparently this occupation inter- ested him. ste “Good afternoon, Mr, Harvey!” said Dick. _ The banker recognized his name as a part of himself and said good afternoon without pausing in his amusement. ti * ae “He looks fine,” said Jimmy, who hadn’t seen 2 Mr. .Harvey since he was ed out, and ' i surprised in the improvement which _ had place in him. = Bie Fee Se “That's what he does. If he only got his mind back his friends in Wall ‘Street would rardl;

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14 know him. He looks ten years younger than be- fore the assault.” “J s’pose that’s because he’s got nothir® to do and is livin’ on the fat of the land,” said Jimmy. “Very likely. The rest cure is the best thing in the world for a tired business man.” “You'll need it one of these days yourself if you keep on runnin’ the bank,” grinned Jimmy. “Not for a long time, Jimmy. When I make-a rfillion I'll lay off and go on a trip to Europe.” ~ “A million! Gee! I wonder how it feels to be worth so much? A feller can have everythin’ he wants with that. If I was worth a thousand I'd feel rich enough to buy a bank.” a They stood and looked at Mr. Harvey. Occa- sionally Dick addressed him and got some sort Ps. + ofa reply, but he never stopped throwing pebbles. = At the end of half an hour Dick said he guessed = they might as well return to the doctor's office and say good-by. Dick reported to Doctor Jor- dan how they found the patient occupied. “He seems to have taken a fancy to that amuse- ment,” said the proprietor. r I’ve heard of him doing the same thing twice within a week. It may mean some change that is i on his brain, or it may mean nothing atalk” ~- : “Well, let Mrs. Harvey know at once if any change takes place in him.” “T certainly will. You and your friend will stay to supper with me, eh?” ; - “Thanks for the invitation, hut we expected to take the five o’clock train for the city,” said Dick. “There is no five-o’clock train now. The time- table has been changed since the 15th of the a _month. The five o’clock train stops at the village at four-forty. You couldn’t catch that, for it’s ; half-past four now. You'll have to stop over for the eight-o’clock train.” “Tf that’s the case, we’ll accept your invitation to supper,” said Dick. So the boys stayed and amused themselves about the grounds till the supper bell summoned the patients to their pamte They then took seats on the porch, and shortly afterward a serv- ‘ ant came out and conducted them to the doctor’s - private dining room, where they were introduced + 40 his wife and daughter. It was dark when they left the sanitarium for the station, but the oad! though lonesome, went straight to the village, - go there was no danger of them losing their way. | hey had covered about half the distance when thé form of a man suddenly came forward - through the hedge and hailed them. “What do you want?” asked Dick. “Our boat is stuck on ‘the river bank and I'll pa you each a dollar to help us get her afloat,” he stranger, : a aes help you without pay if it isn’t too much : eae ),” wad. Dick. ; +i8Fo Sie me, then.” - “How far is the river from here?” : jy you know?” asked the man, looking hard c ms Nos but I judge it isn’t far. We're strangers neighborhood.” : gers!” oh “Yes, Been visiting a patient “Oh! Well, come with me.” w came your boat to get aground?” “tthe tide wae low and we ran on a muddy flat.” at the sani- : DICK DALTON, YOUNG’ BANKER ., “It is the first time . * “You can’t be well acquainted with the river, then.” ; “We're not. We sailed up from the bay to call on a friend and were going back when we ran aground.” In a few minutes they reached the river. “Hello, Golding!” cried their conductor. _ “Hello, yourself!” came back a voice a short distance away. “I’ve brought a couple of boys I met on the : road to help push the boat off.” Sap vee get busy, then.” e speaker picked up a lantern and ste ashore from the bows of the beat. He ince ned lantern on a near-by rock and pulled a boat-hook off the boat. Tying a mooring-line to a‘tree and leaving plenty of slack, he stuck the hook against the nose of the boat. “Now, then, Quig, get behind me and shove, and you chaps get ohne Quig and push for all you are worth when I say ‘Now!’” This ang was carried_out, at first without result, but on repeated trials the boat started, and was peeenty afloat. The man called Gold- ing seized the rope and brought her close to the rong where the water was deep enough to float er. “Step aboard, young fellows, and we'll give you a couple of dollars for your trouble and treat you _to a drink into the bargain,” said Golding. “We don’t drink, and it isn’t necessary to pay us for what we’ye done for you. You’re welcome to our services. Come along, Jimmy; we'll have to step out lively to catch the train.” ; “Where are you bound for?” asked Golding. “New York.” : “What brought you out here?” “They’ve been visiting somebody at the sani- tarium,” said Quig, which was short for Quigley. Golding took the lantern from his companion and flashed the light on the faces of the boys. Then' he uttered a savage imprecation and seized © Dick by the arm. i ores that fellow, Quig, and hold him!” he said. “What for?” asked his friend. “Because I tell you to. This is the boy man- ager of the Harvey Bank. You know what he ~- done to me. That’s the office kid who stopped — me from getting away. I’ve sworn to get square with them, and I’m going to do it right now.” “What does all this mean?” cried Dick. “Who — are you, anyway?” 4 Golding’s answer was to trip Dick up and fall on him. The boy segues to get free, but all the advantage lay with his aggressor. ~ “Take that kid aboard the boat and tie him, — then come back with a rope and help me secure — this chap,” said Golding. 5 Jimmy now woke up and gave Quigley a tus- sle. The man was too husky for him, shov- * ed him into the cockpit of the sailing craft Picking up a line, he wound it half a dozen times around Jimmy’s arms and body and tied it. Tak- — ing another piece of line, he perece ashore and bound Dick, while Golding held him. They then — carried the young banker aboard the boat, shoved off into the middle ofthe stream, and while ee \ ley hoisted the mainsail, Golding steered throu that was unfamiliar the darkness over a course to him. ;

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.. “Open the scuttle forward and drop these fel-_ __ ows into the hole,” said Golding. ; = Quigley obeyed orders by ahoving Jimmy down first and tumbling Dick on top of him. Then he closed the scuttle and secured it by means of a ee hasp and a wooden pin. At that moment the whistle of the eight-o’clock train approaching the station sounded through the night air. It was = the last train that stopped at the village that night en route for New York, and it was quite certain that the boys wouldn’t take it. Instead, they were prisoners in a very contracted space in the bows of the large sailboat which was sail- cy ing down the narrow river toward Great South oe. y- CHAPTER X.—What Dick Discovered. “Say, Mr. Dalton, this is fierce!” said Jimmy. “What are we up against, anyway?” =a = - “We're up against hard luck, for one thing, replied Dick. ; “Who are those men? They appear to know : “No.” - _ “Jt?s the party who visited the bank to raise _ ‘money on those stolen L. & M. bonds, and gave his name as Sanderson.” ~- “Why, he’s in jail!” ; “He was; but he got out on bail.” “And who is the other man?” : “I couldn’t tell you. “He’s a stranger to me.” -. “What are they doing ’way down on Long Is- land?” < “Engaged in some crooked enterprise, I should pw gidge.n. 2. ; “What do you s’pose they mean to do with _. “Pm not a mind-reader, Jimmy, so I can’t tell you; but the chap named Golding, alias Sander- - son, appears to have it in for us, me in particu- Jar, for getting him jugged in connection with ____ those bonds.” : “Tf they do anythin’ to us, they’ll get into _ more trouble.” ; aes _ “Golding strikes me as a man who's willing to take chances to get revenge. ‘ “It’s tough, then, that he’s got the bulge on —s us. : 2 _ “Do you think you ean wriggle yourself loose? Fes “Not in a thousand years. The chap tied about a mile of line around my arms and body.” "Pm tied pretty tight, too, but I’m going to try to get free if I can. they wouldn't be abl re propeied Xe Sackle 3 wouldn’t be able to do us up so easy y did when they captured us off our guard, SA DICK DALTON, YOUNG BANKER ed to make a strong effort to get one?” j uae “I should value them at $250.” 2 oe Fe Breet locket looks to be v: “It’s worth over $100." _ ee ag pers 15 made to starboard gave the young banker the idea that they had passed out of the river into Great South Bay. It-was about this time that Dick got one of his hands free. He announced the fact to Jimmy, as he shoved his hand into his pocket for his knife. In two minutes he was quite free. Then he struck a match to see how his companion was triced-up. He had oaly to cut one strand and unwind the line to free him. Dick then tried the scuttle over their heads and found it secured. He could lift it about an inch, but that was all. “I told you we were stuck down here,” said Jimmy. ‘s “Hist! I see a light through a crack.» It’s the man called Quig, with a lantern. He’s put it on a table. This partition separates’ us from the cabin. Don’t make any noise. I’m going to watch him,” said Dick. Golding, otherwise Sanderson, presently fol- lowed Quigley into the cabin. aes : “The wind is light. and there isn’t a sail in sight,” he said, “so I have tied the tiller. She'll hold, and the boat will go along just as well as ~ if I was steering her. Dump the swag on the table and let’s sort it out and see what we've got.” Quigley pulled a large black grip from under the table, unlocked it and turned out its con- tents. It consisted of small silverware, silver ornaments, and a lot.of jewelry, with to watches - and other odds and ends of value. Clearly, it : was the plunder of a burglary, and the crime had ~~~ doubtless been committed somewhere in the vi- cinity of the village of Riverview. Dick watched =: the two rascals through the small slit in the par- tition or thin bulkhead. They divided the stuff _ into lots, according to its character. va ‘ “These spoons ought to be worth $3 each,” said Golding, hefting one of the silver tablespoons. = “Solomon wouldn’t allow us a dollar on them, so the best thing we can do is to melt them and sell them to some dealer in old-gold and silvez,” said Quigley. = “This watch I judge is worth $100, and this ong about $35.” ae “And Solomon would allow about $20 on both. _ He’s an old robber, but what can weado? He left for the last. oy ek “It's worth $500 if it’s worth a cent,” said Golding. - es “And these two diaméi’ Sings and that ~ fees Fo he ae eae =

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bah? 16 Golding appraised each article in turn. He seemed to be well acquainted with the real value® of everything the pair had got possession of. Altogether, their swag footed up a matter of $3,000, and Golding said that they ought to get about $1,800 for it out West. They wrapped the } various kinds of plunder in different packages, “ and replaced all of it in the black bag which Golding locked and put the key in his pocket. He then went into the cockpit and took a look around, after which he came back into the cabin. “What do you intend doing with the priSon- * ers?” asked Quigley. aoe _ “Maroon them on one of the small islands at = the western end of the bay.” ie “But if they should get away before we can leave New York we may be caught.” “No fear of them getting away. There’s an old fishing house on one of the islands. I intend to tie them up inside that and leave them,” “That won't do,” said Quigley. “Why not?” “They’d starve to death.” “Let them! Who cares?” “But that would be murder.” _ - “Nonsense! Self-preservation is the first law of nature. We've got to prevent them. from reaching New York and informing on us.” ; “We must give them a chance of saving them- _selves, There is nothing to delay us from taking _ the first train West as soon as we get to New York.” : ; * “Yes, there is. [I must see Barney and arrange with him about nce ag Sag bail. If I don’t, he’ll | think T’ve left him in the lurch.” =< ed “How long will that take you?” f’ = “T don’t know how long it will take. I may not be able to find Barney right off the reel. — l pack the swag in a box and send it to Cincinnati -—s or St. Louis by express, to be called for. That is the only safe way to get it off.” : ctr _ After some further talk Quigley said: “Tl tell you how we'll fix it with the boys. : We'll tie them up as you said. Then we'll ar- E range with one of our pals to give the police -_ notice that they’re on the island, but he mustn't ; do it until we have had a full day’s start. That will save their lives, and the police won’t know bs see ya ce ee get ae & wg Mg day = i i ou pin k e boys are ey nine orur they pie ew on us the moment ve =e chance. Besides, I’ve ate for doing me up at the bank. at young man- one to the railroad company about bonds, and as they had been rted as sto-_ Golding turned on his heel and igley took out a pipe, filled it Tocest Dick then turned to Jimmy gave him . had We'll , DICK DALTON, YOUNG BANKER It occurred to the young banker to investigate the scuttle cover and see how it was secured. As he could push it up an inch or so, he guessed that it was held by a hasp, and he wondered whether he could F aape out the plug. that was used with hasps. e opened the large blade of his knife and shoving it through the slit between the comb- ing of the scuttle and rim of the cover when it was pushed up, felt around for the hasp. As soon as the knife blade met with an obstruction he began work. By good luck he hit the right end of the wooden plug, and after some effort pushed it out. Then he raised the scuttle and looked aft. The mainsail was out to the leeward, drawing lightly, while Golding sat on the weath- er side of the helm, smoking. That gave the rascal a clear view forward, and Dick saw that they could not get out of the forepeak, as the hole. was called, without attracting his notice. The night was not bright enough for him to observe the partial raising of the scuttle cover, but he would certainly see the figures of the boys if they crawled out of their prison. As Dick did not think it prudent to take any more chances than they could help, he decided that it was advisable to wait a while for some change of conditions in their favor. CHAPTER XI.—Dick Gets on Top. While Dick was furtively watching the figure of Golding lounging at the tiller, that rascal was joined by Quigley, who had tired of his own company and the solitude of the cabin, and took his seat on the weather side of the cockpit. The young banker could hear their voices in conversa- tion, but could not distinguish anything they said. So another hour slipped away, and the boat glided at softly on the almost calm waters of the big bay. Dick made out the scattered lights of a distant village near the shore,.and he wondered what place it was. On the left, or port side, he could distinguish nothing but deep obscurity. He knew the long, slender tongue of beach which separated the bay from the broad Atlantic stretched there, pointing east and west. The first break in it on their course was Fire Island Inlet, where there was a lighthouse. If the light ~ was in sight he couldn’t see it owing to the jib being’in the way. Dick varied the monotony i“ conversing in guarded tones with Jimmy. The plucky little ex-newsboy was ready to back up any move made by his boss. ly Quigley returned to the cabin, took off his coat and vest and lay down on the starboard ——

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. DICK DALTON, YOUNG BANKER ward the larger one “Golding was holding his “Go aft!” said Dick authoritatively. qusiey obeyed without a word, ow, Mr. Quigley, a word or two with you. I suppose you realize that you, as well as your friend Golding, are our prisoners?” said Dick, senting down at the crook from the roof of the cabin. Quigley said nothing, “S’pose I can—what then?” growled the man. Now, if you’ll take us across the bay to one of the shore villages where we can land, I’ll agree, in return for your services, to let you make your escape. What do you say?” I'll do what you want and trust to your word.” “All right. We'll hel we are not sailors or Gig 4 a what to do.” “The first thi ow'll havi do is h her Led or beach.” t = se “Take this gun and watch him, Jimmy,” said Dick, handing the weapon to his office boy. He then picked up the boat hook, went to the ~ bow and proceeded to pry the boat free. As only her bow rested lightly on the sand, she came ga enor AS — as —_ bag off, Dick pushed r he around, assi igley at the helm. The crook then told ees hoist the mainsail. This was accomplished and the lines made fast to cleats at the bottom of the mast Quigley steered for the opposite shore under ~ Dick’s watchful eye. When they got close in, % the boat’s course was altered to parallel with the ™ shore and they ran along, looking for a village landing-place. It was midnight when they ran in and made fast to a small wharf. ‘ “Now, Mr. Quigley, you can make yourself — Scarce as soon as you please—the quicker will probably be the better for you, if you hope to — e officers who will soon be looking for Quigley walked off and was soon lost in the ote 11 . guess we'll lie here until morning, Jimm for it's prett late, and I see only one Chaise, the you all we can, but as oatmen, you'll have to Tht , That suits me,” replied the boy. ~ ; Dick said he’d stand the first watch and tol = oo al = * one ms, the lockers. i er let Jimmy sleep till the’ first Lae, of daylight appeared in the eastern sky, when he aroused him, handed him the revolver, and lay down himself. As it was Sunday morn- ing, nobody came near the wharf before half- past seven, when a couple of boys appeared with “a fishing tackle. J immy called Dick, and the young banker asked the lads if there was a village near 2 by, and how far the nearest railroad station was. “Babylon is the nearest place on the railroad,” — said one ot the boys, “It’s ten miles in that direction. ie e of the boat, — I'm going,to see inmate of which wouldn’t thank us for waking 7 ee

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yA -1S mitted to return to town and take the first train, with Jimmy, for New York. The Babylon police had no great trouble, with Dick’s information, in finding out the persons who had been robbed. The matter had already been reported to the Riverview constables, who were out looking for the thieves. They were well-to-do people who lived in a sort of manor house outside of the village, in the opposite direction from the sani- tarium. The New York authorities were asked to be on the watch for a man answering Quigley’s description, but he was never caught. The frand jury of Suffolk County found an indictment = Golding, but as he was indicted in New ork for the rob of the L. & M. bonds and other property, he had to be tried there first. He was convicted and got ten years, with the prospect of ten more when tried for the burglary on Long Island after his release at the end of his term. The family that was robbed made Dick a very handsome present which they sent him with a letter of grateful thanks and the present carried with it $100 in cash for Jimmy. CHAPTER XII.—Cornering Wall Street Sharks. 7 One day a man came into the bank and asked 5 to see Dick. He gave his name as Simpson, and a Jimmy showed him into his office. Dick recog- al nized him as a man who had been pointed out : to him as the managing partner of a big bucket- Ba shop. This bucketshop was a regular gold mine, Bc and Dick had heard that it was financed by a - elique of brokers who bore a foxy reputation. So _ far as appearances went Simpson was proprietor of the bucketshop business, for the brokers knew better than to have their connection with the concern established in the eyes of Wall Street. The penalty would be the loss of their seats in _ the Stock Exchange, and otherwise they would ee black eye. It is hard to keep a secret in all Street, and so the suspicion prevailed that some of the foxy brokers at least were behind ‘Simpson’s bucketshop. Nobody, however took the trouble to investigate the suspicion, and so the brokers avoided the trouble that might have been theirs. Dick was surprised to receive a visit from Simpson, and wondered what he wanted. _ Simpson didn’t keep him in doubt about the mat- - ter. He warited a loan of 10,000 shares of P. & _ Q. stock. As P. & Q. was worth $75 a share, the bunch of stock offered as security had a market value of three-quarters of a million. Mr. Simpson wanted to raise half a million on_ it. _ The bank had no such sum to advance, and Dick _ frankly teld his visitor that he couldn’t accommo- ; pa ads looked meg Seton “You do a con- siderable business with brokers,” he said; “that’s why I called” ; - “It is beeause we are doing a large and steady business in call loans particularly that we cannot loan you or any one else half a million at one ~e replied Dick: “Why don’t you go to some e one at present,” said Simpson. iI, I don’t think’ you'll be able to make the are after sea DICK DALTON, YOUNG BANKER ; amount?” “No, sir, for with a quarter of it,” said the - young banker. This wasn’t strictly true, but Dick didn’t care to make a loan to Simpson, though the security he had to offer was all right. He didn’t like to have any transaction with a bucketshop, and the Simpson place had a hard reputation for fleecing its customers in a legal way. So Simpson went away to try some other banker. Dick wondered why he wanted to raise such a large sum of money. “Tll bet he and his backers have got some scheme on foot. Perhaps they’re raising money for the purpose of cornering some stock and then unloading on the public at an advanced price. The chances are that crowd wouldn’t tackle such - — a proposition on its merits, for such ventures are y extremely risky. The sharks who stand behind ‘ the bucketshops always gamble with loaded dice. Tte people who buck against them come in for the short end every time. It is too bad they can- not be driven out of the speculative field.” At that moment Dick saw a folded piece of paper lying near the chair just vacated by Simp- 7 son. He picked it up and looked at it. This is : what he read: “Can you accommodate me with half of the “James Simpson, Esq.: “We have secured Room No. 911 in the Burrell Building, and will hold our first meeting there on Thursday at five sharp. Don’t fail to be on hand, as matters of great importance will be brought Betty ne syndicate. “Yours truly, JOHN D. FLEECE, “Secretary to the Syndicate.” ; The young banker put the note in a pigeon- hole of his desk and went on with the work he had in hand. When he went to lunch, curiosity induced him to ride up to the ninth floor to see where Room 911 was. He found it. The adjoin- ing room door bore a small sign reading, “To let—inquire of the Superintendent, Room 16.” When Dick saw the sign a luminous idea oc- curred'to him. He would call on the superintend- ent, whom he knew well, and get the use of Room No. 912 for a few days. By going to the room on Thursday afternoon, with a short step-ladder, he could observe through a crack under the tran- som all who called at Room No. 911, and the. visitors themselves would be unaware that they were being piped off. It was a great idea, and Dick determined to adopt it. Accordingly, when he returned from lunch he called on the superin- tendent and easily obtained the use of the room for a few days, provided, of course, if was not rented in the meantime. That afternoon Dick © visited the room and to his great satisfaction he saw that there was a door between the room and No. 911. The keyhole was clear, and mgood through he caught sight of a long table sur- rounded by a dozen chairs. That was all the furniture the room contained. : .. The following day was Thursday, and the young banker impatiently waited for the afternoon to — wear away. He judged that it would be well for him to be on hand some time before the hour set for the meeting so as not to be discovered going into the room. Accordingly, he left the bank four and went up to the room, letting himself

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3 : DICK DALTON, YOUNG BANKER quietly with his key. Locking the door, he re- paired to the other door, looking into Room No. 911 and saw that no one had yet arrived. The first person came at half-past four. He brushed off the table and arranged the chairs evenly. Soon afterward well-dressed men began dropping in, singly and in pairs, and Dick got 4 good view of their faces through the ia, aig He recogniz- ed a number of them as brokers whose faces he was familiar with. One of the last to arrive was Simpson, and five minutes later one of the men took his place at the head of the table and called * the meeting to order. The meeting lasted a full hour and nothing that passed at it escaped the young banker’s ear. The syndicate was formed to corner and boom X. & Y. stock. The necessary money had been pledged to see the deal through, with the help of the funds they intended to bor- row on the shares as they secured them., Archibald Fox had been selected to manage the operation, and all funds were to be made payable to his order. Dick learned enough to make him as wise as any member of the syndicate, and he saw at once how he could turn this information to his own advantage. When the meeting broke _ up it was arranged to hold another on Saturday, at two. Dick waited till every one had geome and . the corridor was deserted. en he let himself out of Room 912 and went home. } ; Next day he went to a brokerage house where ~ he was not known and ordered 10,000 shares of X. & Y. bought for his account on margin, put- ting up $100,000. He gave two other brokers on the same floor orders to buy 5,000 shares each. ‘The 20,000 shar@s were secured by him at_75. On Saturday, at two, he was back in Room No. 912, listening to the report made by Archibald Fox 2 to the members of the syndicate. That gentleman = stated how many shares of the stock had so far 7 been bought by his firm for the syndicate, and ce what had been paid for them. Other matters connected with the scheme were discussed, and the meeting adjourned at the end of an hour to reconvene on the following Wednesday at five. aes A few days after X. & Y. began to advance in ‘price, soon reaching 80. Two days later it was up to 85. Dick might have realized $200,000 ear profit if he had sold. He held on, however, I See a aay ; oo me the syndicate and waited for the combine to be- - gin to unload. The syndicate continued to force the price up until it reached 5, then Fox stated at a meeting that he would start in unloading _ next day, as the syndicate was in for all it was worth and it was dangerous to go any further. Soon after the opening of the Exchange next wning, Dick instructed the broker who held the mo -- 10,000 shares to offer them in five lots of 2,000 h in quick succession. The syndicate had to take them in at 95 3-8, the price asked. That - ealled for nearly a million, but the combine, though staggered by the demand on their re- aon cae to realize presently on their oldings. ‘ a pause Dick ordered one of the other Se cieas Vee cae nethinged. dor te et. ‘ox was paraly ‘or the : dicate was in up to its head and ears. With Ten min- somehow, he accepted the stock. er Dick threw as he was perfectly familiar with the plans of: e desperate hope that he would weather the his remaining block at the 197-23 combine. That proved to be the last straw. Fox couldn’t take that lot and the cornered syndicate of Wall Street sharks crumbled up like a piece of burning paper and went to the wall. <A panic set in.as the broker began offering the shares in small lots, one after the other. When the slump was finally arrested, X. & Y. was down to 80, and Dick had made a clear $400,000, while every mem-' ber of the combine was badly hit in pocket. . yielNeeurg CHAPTER XIII.—Conclusion. It would be hard to explain the feelings of the individual members of the combine of Wall Street sharks when they realized how badly hit they were by the unexpected boom on which they had confidently expected to reap a fortune. Archi- bald Fox was bombarded with disgusted inquiries, some of the brokers roundly abusing him in their wrath, and blaming him for the failure of the scheme. He notified all hands to meet at Room 911 next day at five and he would make a full report. He added that he was investigating the matter to see who was responsible for throwin 20,000 shares of the stock, which they suppos were held by at least one hundred people, on the combine at the critical moment. In some way the information leaked out that Dick Dalton, manager of Harvey’s bank, was the party, but as the boy was not known as a speculator, and was so young, Fox gave little credence to the report. The rittmor, however, gained ground in the Street, and many —— —— Dick on the sidewalk, when he was out, and asked him if the report was ‘true. Dick would not confirm or deny the matter, and because he wouldn’t actually deny the report, it was accepted as a fact. The result was the com- bine members began to regard Dick in no pleas- ant light. They wondered how it was that the boy came to get in on the stock. Simpson re- membered that he had lost the note containin the notice about the first meeting, and where an when it was to be held. The suspicion prevailed that he lost it in the Harvey bank when he went there to try. and negotiate the loan on P. & Q- stock, and that Dick found it. On the day that Fox had called the meeting to make his explana- s tion one of the syndicate learned that Dick had = been seen entering. Room 912 on a certain day ie and at a certain hour. “ The broker, after hearing this, rushed around to tell Fox about it. The two put their heads to- gether and a luminous light filled their brains. Inside of an hour Fox had notified every mem- ber of the syndicate of the facts, and added that they must consider that afternoon how they were to get back at the young banker. They talked the matter over with some of their associates, and the result was that when the foxy traders started’ for the Burrell Building to attend the meeting __ called by their manager, they were in a mighty — humor. A bunch of them went up in the — elevator together, which stopped at the seventh - floor to let a tenant out. At that moment Dick Sita: the slevetoe with » bag-ot mols i bis Sean si elevator, with a bag of gold in hi id In the other hand oo an umbrella, for it: Pe ge ee ie ae Nee

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yy 20 “There he is!” eried one of the syndicate. “Let’s corner him and knock the head off him!” Spurred on by their angry feelings, the whole bunch rushed out of the elevator and made for Dick. He saw them coming, recognized them, and suspecting they were going to handle him roughly he made a dash for the staircase and started up- stairs, intending to enter a down cage at the next floor. The pursuers were too quick for him 2 to chance it, so he continued on up to the ninth floor, resolving to take refuge in Room 912, of which he still carried the key. Reaching the door of the office, Dick dropped his book, money-bag and umbrella, and stuck the key in the keyhole. The pursuing crowd came runrfing down the hall, shouting to him to stop. But the young banker opened the door. He had barely time to reach for the money-bag, secure it and slam the door when the bunch came up and began to pound on the door for admission. : Dick gave them the merry ha! ha! through the ; keyhole, and they danced around the corridor Z with rage. Some of them entered Room No. 911, “ and then one of them suggested that the key of the connecting door be sent for. Dick heard the man make the proposition and he saw that if they got the key they would catch him. He raised the window overlooking the court and shouted to a bookkeeper in one of the rooms opposite. The = man raised his window and asked what he wanted. S “There is a crowd of lunatics in the corridor outside this office trying to get at me,” replied _ Pick. “Telephone the janitor to come up with a couple of men and clean them out.” The bookkeeper said_he would. In the mean- while the excitement continued in the corridor, _ the syndicate members making Rome howl. Dick climbed up to the transom, supported himself there by one foot on the knob of the door, and surveyed the mob outside. “There he is, the young scoundrel!” roared a syndicate man. “Gentlemen, pray calm yourselves one moment. __} know every one of you, both by face and name, - and I know that you are all directly connected -with the Simpson bucketshop. If you don’t re- 7 Se a ietly and leave me alone, I assure you that one 1 prepare an affidavit and submit it to the governors of the Stock Exchange, that will make _. things warm for you. I will then, if requested, ‘go. before the board and swear to facts you: will find hard to disprove. Under these circumstances, ' gentlemen, I think you will perceive the advisa- Sitity of calming your angry passions toward me and relinquishing your purpose of attacking me =~ for my coup in X. & Y. “ ~ Dick’s words produced a sensation in the ranks of his | ssors. They all saw that the boy _ had them where the shoe pinched, and was in a position to make good his threat. The riot ceas- ed as if by magic, and they gathered together yr a hurried consultation. The result was Fox ressed the young banker. peta at “You can come out, young man, without fear; “we would | room,” he Ie yight. Anything to be agreeable,” ‘ed of himself. ‘ ike to have a talk with you in the. yy FP sgee Dz me; | DICK DALTON, YOUNG BANKER . made no effort to assault him. As he walked into Room No. 911 with them, the janitor and two husky assistants came on the scene. “What’s the trouble?” he asked. the lunatics ?” “The lunatics*have all recovered their reason, Murphy, 80 I shall not require your services. Here is a-bill to divide-with your men to pay you for your trouble,” said Dick. “Now, young man, we want to know how you beat us?” said Fox, as the bunch gathered about the table and glared at Dick. “T beat you by possessing a longer head than yourselves,” replied the boy. “We have learned that you got temporary pos- session of the next room for the purpose of spy- ing on us through the keyhole. of yonder door. Do you call that honorable and manly?” “Perhaps not, Mr. Fox, though they say all is fair in the Wall Street game,” answered the young banker, apparently not in the least asham- ad you been ordinary brokers, I might have hesitated at enacting the part of a Paul Pry. but you are not ordinary brokers. Ev- ery one of you is directly interested in the buck- etshop, business under the rose, and that is con- trary to the regulations of the Exchange. Still, if your bucketshop operations were on the square, I should be the last to find any fault with them. But they are not square. Simpson has been ex- posed in one of the big magazines and his meth- ods shown up in all its crookedness. You are responsible for Simpson, for he is ee 3 your active manager. You get the profits that he wrings from the purses of foolish widows, boys and small speculators who have not capital enough to trade with a regular broker. If all. the lambs you have ruined were to pass at one “Where are time in front of the Simpson bucketshop, there : would be a parade that would attract a whole lot of attention. That’s all I’ve got to say at pres- ent, so J’Jl wish you good day, gentlemen.” Dick went straight to the bank, feeling mighty good, but there a great surprise awaited him. ated in his office was his aunt and Mr. Harvey, who had regained full possession of his reason. - We will pass over the scene that followed. Dick was mighty glad to see his uncle restored to the mental faculties, though it meant his own abdi- cation from the boss-ship of the bank. This, how- ever; didn’t really happen. His uncle was so well poems with his manage- | ment of the bank and the fact that his-shrewd- ness had added half a million to its résources, that he decided not to resume the active direc- — tion himself. and Mr. Harvey made him its managing head for paid the debt of nature, and it is regarded, con- sidering its capital, as one of the most solid finan- — _cia] institutions in Wall Street: And so we draw ~ the curtain on the banker who cornered the Wall Street sharks." ; : Next week’s issue will contain “A POOR LUCK; or, THE RISE OF A YOUNG 2 Papers were at once drawn up _ which made Dick an equal partner in the bank, — all future time. To-day Harvey’s bank is entirely = owned by Dick, his uncle and aunt both having te ee te a i + J : 54

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CURREN ees MONKEY BITES A KING. - S&S ae Alexander, who has been suffering for several days from a monkey bite received when he - ‘went to the rescue of his pet dog, who. was being + worsted in a battle with the simian, is in a very Be critical condition. — He had two attacks of fever, it is stated, and a. intestinal complications and jaundice are de- - elared to have set in. : > eps: SS ae 3 BUYS MONEY MACHINE _Dazzled with stories that he would become a pei second Ponzi in no time, Bertholen Fargo, a Hungarian living at Elliott Heights, Bethlehem, zs =

-but-lost her maid. been found. Invited by her former employ- ‘to return to his household, she quit the aher —_—$—$— CHECKERS CHAMPION IN AMERICA J. F. Herr of Buffalo, N. Y., is the new Amer- n checker champion. He succeeded to the le—held until his death last Nag by the Hugh Henderson of Pittsburgh—in the Amer- ker Association’s fourth annual major ournament just concluded at ~Cedar Point, a » Erie shore summer resort near Sandusky, gained the tournament final b defeat- Alfred Jordan of Los Angeles, Cal., former champion, who had been a by 90 eent. of the experts attracted by the Cedar : win the American title. - - Yorker and the Californian SA: rr played L twenty-second the former ed an advantage that netted him his win. two were opposed fourteen hours and twenty al Horr disposed of J. P. Bradford of h man of the opposing group, :n oe Met ais z eee — os nS. i GIRL WINS SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION ‘Miss Dorothy E. Hollowa f Willi Pa., is the first woman to wind schalatehin aks 5 lished under auspices of the Pennsylvania Rail- — road. The award has just been announced b ae ae Soe see Wright, chairman of De partment No. 3, Pennsylvani i ch ? Division for But +9: Alpen Railroad Women’s e scholarship was established thi vies commemorate the work done tabs sens war by the members of Department No. 3 in ~ making surgical dressings for the American — troops, and also as a memorial to the men of the j= coe ae range regi of the Pennsylvania bei peso o gave their lives for their country in iS Under the terms of the scholarship, the winn Miss Holloway, is entitled to ca an ecueae a pg 2 to | of Fehnayivenss to which wom- mitted. # educational course. Speer to antgate ss 2. The competition was open to sons a rag ters of present or deceased cor aa < freight traffic department of the Pennsylvania _ system and to the sons and daughters of members « ; of Bos No. 3. _ Miss Holloway, who is 17 years old, was born in Williamsport and was graduated from the high school in that city, where she received mark- _ aces for rag antag Her father, Wil- iam H. Holloway, has | in the’service of Pennsylvania Rail ‘at iamsport | 1874. He is at present chief clerk 1 f * gh t a ss 2 } ~

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ge PASS 22 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY Lost On Mt. Erebus ORs A Boy Explorer At the South Pole By GAsI'ON GARNE (A Serial Story) CHAPTER XVIII.—(Continued) One was a growing liking for the captain’s pretty daughter, that increased with absence, and fed upon bee FA oa which had hitherto been iven him by Madge. othe other was a real desire to go furthest south himself. When he now learned that Haw- ley and Madge had been to the pole, his anger knew no bounds. He ate and glowered at Joe, -who was modestly telling what he and Madge had done, and with difficulty restrained himself. Finally, when Joe concluded, he broke in before Madge could add her confirming word: “Tt’s all a lie. You go to the pole? I don’t be- lieve it. You did not have grub enough, in the — first place.” “We seem to havé enough so that you can fill up from it, and gain strength to be more insult- than usual.” his from Joe decisively, while Madge added: “You always were a brute, Rucker. You be- lieve us, don’t you, doctor?” “IT am glad to be able to say yes,” said Carr promptly. “We were on our last legs for-food when we struck your trail. You have sdved our lives, instead of our finding that you and Haw- ley had perished in that awful flare-up on Ere- bus. We had given you up for lost before that, sure.” While they were eating, Joy explained that he had joined the search party which Dr. Carr. pro- d, because Lieutenant Ord was sick at the time. He also released Hawley and Madge, not- withstanding Rucker’s scowls and Shouse’s remon- strance. ie ; “I’m not-going to eat their grub,” remarked the boatswain, “and see them, we come after, lockin’ cn bound. Eh, doctor?” i “J should say not,” was Carr’s response. “I’m not strong, and have been ill. But when we de- termined to look you two up, I felt that I must - go along. “Our grub supply was scarce. But we did not expect to go much beyond Erebus, until we came on your-trail heading southward on this side of the volcano.” “Strange you did not pass our cache,” began Joe, then stopped after noticing Rucker’s sudden, eager look, _ “What cache?” demanded the chief mate. “In lati about 87 degrees south we thought we ‘had discovered a cache, but it turned out to be ice cap. Where should you have a y 2 : “eache, and us h all but starving? We dug into that ice like bears, didn’t we, Shouse?” e did that. There was the trail going south, and it skirted.the piled ice, and we said to each other—what if there is grub here?” Hawley nodded at Madge, then asked: : “Was the sun visible, low in the south, over a rosy haze?” “Come to think. I reckon it was. does that signify?” “When did this occur? Day before yesterday?” “Come to think I reckon that’s so too. But what——” “There you are, Madge!” cried Joe eagerly. What we saw at the pole was not an optical illusion, but a sort of a reflection of that scene going. on over a hundred miles back on our own rail.” “Tm glad they didn’t strike the real cache, aren’t you, Joe?” exclaimed Madge, frowning at Rucker, who was taking all this in with a scowl of astonishment. i “Then you have a-real cache—somewhere?” said the mate, fixing her with his evil eye. “Of course we have—two of them, for that matter——” ; “Madge!” called Hawley, slightly shaking his head. “Don’t. Let’s keep an ower aioe fel- But what ‘ lows like Rucker, who are hostile to us. We can confide in the doctor, and, perhaps, Joy.” “Oh, I forgot! Please, Joe, forgive me. You are always right.” : “And I always try to be right, Miss Madge,” threw in Joy, eager to make his own position clear at the start. “Where you are concerned, and Mr. Hawley and the doctor, I’m with you three afl the time and every time—see?” But Rucker and Shouse, foreseeing that the odds would soon be against themselves, drew to- gether and whingexes . “Men,” remarked the chief mate at length, “no matter what our individaul sentiments may be,-we are here in this desolate country to stand, if we stick together, or fall, if we part. I move that we shake hands and quit our quarreling.” “You are the quarreling one, Mr. Rucker,” said Madge quietly. “You have always been the quar- reling one. I won’t shake hands with you, for I do not like you. But I join in saying that it is worse than foolish for us to quarrel now. It will take our best to save our lives and get back to the coast again.” “IT think you are right, Madge,” said Carr. “We've found you, and you and Joe have found the pole——” : “They say théy have,” doubtfully; but Carr went on as if Rucker had not spoken, ; “What we want now is to reach-the coast alive. Our own grub supply had about given out the day before we met you here. Hawley have access to caches, of provisions that we do not know of, in heaven’s name let us all try to reach them.” “T am agreeable,” said Joe promptly. “We can tell our different stories, and produce our proofs later on. I am willing to shake hands all round, on Mr. Rucker’s proposal. Then we will do our best to reach the first cache. (To be continued.) interjected Rucker. If you and Mr. —

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LAST BUFFALO HERD ROAMS M’KENZIE BASIN A herd of wild bison, numbering more than 1,000 animals, said to be the last herd on the _ American continent, has been discovered roaming ~ in the country of the McKenzie River basin. F. H. Kitto, exploring engineer of the National Re- sources Intelligence Branch of the Department of the Interior, Ottawa, is the discoverer, and he states that he feceived reports of another herd, equally as large, further north. BEST BOY ; Wesley Sheldon, of Ashburnham, Mass., aged _ twelve, is said to be the best boy in the United - States, according to farm bureau officials. x In three months Wesley made fifty-eight loaves - of bread in nineteen bakings; did seventy-six _ hours of housework; spent forty-eight hours run- ~ ning errands for his mother. In addition to this ~ he found time to.deliver 124 papers nightly; go to school: make a cake or two and sometimes bis- - cuits; wash dishes, play baseball; take long _ Yides through the hills on his bicycle; go swim- ming frequently. Despite his housewifely tal- ents, Wesley is all boy, red headed, freckled and full of pep. He can twist a*curve over the plate better than any of the neighborhood sandlot ball his money to go to ~ players, and he is saving — college. MAN RETURNS : - A man came to Salem, IIl., the other day an- Nouncing himself as Ledwick or Lederidge of - South America. A number of, the older citizens Were positive that he was Presley Goodnow, ab- sent from Salem twenty-eight years. The stran- ~ ger, however, maintained he was a distant rela- tive of Presley. His purpose in coming, he said, _ ‘Was to settle an old estate. ‘ Several days later Judge Charles N. Goodnow came down from Chicago and recognized the stranger as his brother Presley and then the ies _ ter laughingly admitted that he was Presley an mat accompanied the Judge to Chicago. = ; _ Presley said he had been sete, foreign. countries since his disappearance. His mother, __ who had refused to believe that he was dead, died __# few months ago. The last heard here from ley before his disappearance was a letter in which he stated that his partner in Arizona was ~ ill and that he feared he too would become ill. ¥ + ~ FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY | THE NEWS IN SHORT ARTICLES. . tive against decay, trees, gum and insects have named it electron, whence our with the most limited first class accommodations, usually taking a week to secure, they always have the choice compartments at a moment’s no- tice, and in hotels with long waiting lists in War- saw, Prague, Vienna, Belgrade, Bucharest and other cities they find rooms waiting them. They travel from country to country on smoothed ways and frontiers present no terrors to them. The newspaper belief is that they are princi- pally smugglers of valuables and securities and foreign money under high protection, if they are not spies or both. Even a first class hotel in Vienna has its co- terie of these mysterious persons who come and go irregularly and can be seen first in one city_ and then in another. : * PREHISTORIC MOSQUITOES IN AMBER Nearby States have long \suffered the oppro- brium of producing large crops of vicious mos- quitoes, but happily that notoriety is diminish- ing through the use of modern. methods for their extermination. If the improvement continues there is ground for believing that it will be nec- essary to visit a museum to find out what the insects looked like. There are specimens still to be found, however, and some were recently discovered in a very un- usual manner. In New York, on the most fa- mous street in the world, is a curio shop where among other strange things sold as souvenirs are small pieces of amber cut into squares and rectangles of different thickness and suggesting diminutive blocks of brown sugar. The odd feature about these little pieces of amber is that each one contains an insect, pre- served in the amber and so nicely displayed that it is almost uncanny to see them delicately poised in the glassy, translucent material. Every one knows in a general way that amber js a rosin found in the ground of various locali- ties bordering the Baltic Sea. Perhaps it is not so well known that its origin was similar to the m that exudes from cherry trees; but amber elongs to a bygone age and the trees that pro- duced it disappeared long ago. The vegetable origin is proved by its being found with coal, or fossil wood, and also by the insects found in it. In some of the specimens insects with wings and legs separated from the bodies would seem to indicate their struggles to free themselves from the then viscous fluid. As more gum exuded the insects would become completely encased, and as such gums are aromatic aud therefore preserva- become buried-in the earth by convulsions of na- ture and fossilized in time by geological pro- 3 cesses. The specimens of prehistoric mosquitoes ~~ thus preserved bear a striking resemblance to ¥ those of to-day. : , a dtacovered Be: clactiient inapertaany th, nck tae scovered its prope: 3 in t So cpa word elec tricity. = — £ He

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STRATEGY 6 By Paul Braddon It is a singular thing—one of the most singu- lar in the world—to think of what results hinge on the most trivial circumstances. And in no walk in life is this truth exemplified more fre- quently than in the detective’s profession. As an instance: I had of late frequently heard extolled the beauty of a woman bearing the stage name of Lola, who was a singer: of ballads at an east side variety theater. Happening to pass the theater one evening I dropped in just prior to the moment of her ap- pearance. Truly her beauty had not been spoken of in terms of exaggeration. She was, indeed, very beautiful. At the conclusion of her song a large bouquet was hung on the stage. It came from a private box, in which was sea an elderly man, whose dress‘and appearance betokened his She was. recalled and sang again, and I saw her smile an acknowledgment toward the box. A fancy struck me to see what Lola looked like when off the stage, and I made.my way to the stage entrance. I noticed a’carriage drawn up near by, and it struck me that it belonged to the gentleman in the box. .I found the stage entrance guarded by a door- man. I was, however, well acquainted with him, and he permitted me to enter, and I posed my- _ self in a position where she must pass near me in going out. ; I had not been there long when I heard foot- steps slowly drawing near, and voices in low con- versation. “Well, what do you say, Harry?” “You say he has proposed?” “Yes.” oad e is rich? There isn’t any doubt about it?” 0.” “Then——” he paused ot “I hate to give you up; Lola, even for a week. But I suppose you’d best him, thou They say he’s got heart disease—and ‘ll be a rich, young widow before a great while.” “And then it will be plain sailing for us,” said the woman. “T’ll tell him yes, then.” And with a parting he hung back, allow- ing Lola to pass out alone, where she was met by James Bristol, a wealthy retired dry goods = merchant. Instantly I comprehended the situation. Bris- tol had become enamored of Lola and wished to _marry her, having no we of her true char- acter, or that this man, Harry Evans, was her Tr. I saw her enter his carriage to be driven to her Thinking it all over that evening in the privacy _of my room, I wondered whether I had best at- “tempt Bristol. to enlighten s FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY announced in the papers. They had been married the day following the conclusion of her engage- ment. These circumstances, which the lapse of time had nearly obliterated from my memory, when they were recalled one day, about a year later, by seeing a notice of the death of James Bristol. He had died of heart disease, the announce- ment stated. » It would be impossible for me to say why I so far interested myself in the matter as to take the trouble to ascertain the precise circumstances of his death. I had a vague desire to know—that was all the incentive I ever knew. I learned that Bristol had bought an e t house and grounds on the boulevard, near Fort Washington. He had been found dead in a small summer house on the grounds by the coachman— stricken down by heart disease. Wandering about the grounds, I finally ap- proached the stables and struck up a conversa- tion with the coachman. “T fancy she won’t break her heart,” he said, ra mies Rid Mrs. Bristol. “Well, she didn’t love him any too well,” said the loquacious fellow. “He worshipped her, though. There’s a younger and better-looking man who comes sometimes that she likes a heap Tr. \Instantly my thoughts reverted to her old lover, the variety actor—Harry Evans. “Oh, well,” I carelessly said, “that’s not any- thing. There’s many a woman who thinks more of another man than her kusband. But it doesn’t follow that there’s anything wrong.” “No,” he answered, and then winked knowingly —as much as to say: “But in this case it’s differ- “Did you ever see anything out of the way?” “Not myself. But you must know that the cook and me’s a-goin’ to be married, and she can be kind o’ free, you. know, in telling me what goes on in the house; and she says she’s-seen-the same fellow about the house when he shouldn’t been—that’s all.” Now, all this amounted to nothing. Had I not overheard that short conversation in the atre, I should not have given this idle gossip a second thought. But the trifling matter of over- hearing that short discussion was destined to be the unimportant circumstance on which weighty matters were to hinge. I determined to obtain a look at the body of Mr, Bristol, and, finding out who his unde rw. I gained admission, with him, to the house. yes] I made a discovery... Less than a week after the burial of Mr. Bris- tol I saw an advertisement in the paper for a man as coachman, and his wife as inserted by the young widow. Ha! I ean understand this. She wishes to get rid of her old servants and take new ones, who have no idea of what has occurred. . Ten minutes later I was at my house in n= aes with our cook Kate, an intelligent r Dressed up in her best, and I attired in a very loud suit, we presented ourselves at the residence of Mrs. Bristol, As we entered her presence I eS

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piety, 4 2%./ , FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY “There’s no great sorrow in her face, anyhow.” She had an album in her lap, looking over some picturse: : see : “Ah!” she said, glancing up, “you’ve come in answer to the advertisement?” “If you plaze, mim,” I answered, and, stoop- ing, I pretended to pick up from the floor a man’s love, which I extended to her as I said: May- ih as how you know the owner. *Faith but it’s stained with something—blood, isn’t it? She snatched the glove quickly from my hand, glanced at it, and then, recovering her com- ure, tossed it carelessly on the table beside her. But I saw she never took oor Sat Bes it or ve me a chance to carry it awa Be she questioned Katy and myself at Roee eres eae sgeeit appear exceedjngly stupid, an did the same. . When my work was finished for the day I sat with Katy in the kitchen, pretending to read, but in reality with my ears wide open to hear what transpired about me. The doorbell rang. Bs Coming into the iditchen afterward, the waiting maid said it was madam’s cousin. — 5 “Her lover,” I thought, but said nothing. Sr began to furtively eye the girl. It would : next to impossible to take up the espionage roposed without her being aware of it; and yet 4 hardly liked to take her into my confidence. “Tf you will go to the door in case aeeiy rings, I'll go to bed,” she said to Katy, who, neing at me, and correctly interpreting my Ook, answered in the affirmative. Once she was fairly out of the way I took off my shoes and softly went upstairs. They—Lola and her cousin—were in the sitting-room where Th her. t Pe oecs ts ¢ near enough to hear what Was said, eventhough they conversed in very tones. “You’ve got your new help?” he said. “Yes.” = “Have you done well more. " I hurried to the nearest a dispatch to headquar- - his brain 2b We heard them kiss each other, and when we entered the room suddenly she ‘was sitting be- side him, his arms around her waist. ae start- ed up at our entrance, and both turned pale. “John,” said Mrs. Bristol, angrily, speaking to me, “what does this mean?” “Simply, madam, that you and this man here are prisoners.” “How? What for?” she said in fakering tones. “For murdering your husband!” I sternly said —“for murdering the kind old man who rescued you from a life of misery and shame and made you his wife, unworthy as you were.” Harry Evans at first laughed scornfully and seemed disposed to brave it out.’ But as he heard my calmly spoken words, and realized that I onl spoke what I knew to be the truth, a change oak place in him. He never thought of the woman now; he only thought of himself, of how he could escape the penalty of his awful crime. I saw him glance about Mim, and towards an open window, and I uttered a few words to my companions. His face took on a desperate look, he snatched out a revolver and fired two shots point-blank at the officers, and then flung himself headlong through the window. After him sprang two of the officers. Evans had fallen awkwardly, and lay sprawling on the ground. One of the officers lighted squarely on him, driving the breath from his body, and plac- ing him hors de combat. With the handcuffs on him, he was marched around the house, through the front door, and into the sitting-room again, where one of the two officers was stanching the flow of blood where one of Evans’ bullets had en- tered his companion’s shoulder. , The body of Mr. Bristol was exhumed, and a coroner’s jury impaneled.. And there, while the guilty pair stood by, I sprang the mine, and un- raveled the-history of their dreadful crime. “Harry Evans was at your house, Mrs. Bris- tol, the day of your husband’s death. You sur- reptitiously ministered a small quantity of opium to your husband. He complained of feel- ing sleepy soon after, and you suggested fresh air. He sat down in the summer house, and there fell asleep.” Here I held up the handle of ‘a crochet needle, made of gold and bearing the words: “Lola; from your husband.” “Gentlemen, you observe that the needle has been broken. See if you can find it in Mr. Bris- tol’s head.” Instantly the defiant manner of Evans van- ished. He saw that the game was up. With a pair of pincers the missing piece of the crochet needle was drawn from the old man’s head." The present—the token of love he had given her—had been made the instrument of his death. While Mr. Briston was sleeping heavily in the summer BAe, es had a | the needle into and then at the point of breaking was peculiar; there could be no doubt that needle and handle belonged to each rr; : love was proved to be his very easily. It sold tases by A. Stewart & Co, The T. roken it off. The fracture _

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Fame and Fortune Weekly NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 12, 1920. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS 4 Bingle Copies.............+- Postage Free.... .01 Cents ‘= One Copy Three Months... s © ive .90 Cents = One Cepy Six Months...... “ st OS > One Copy One Year....... S ee | 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 " dress letters to Fr HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher ——- 166 West 23d St., New York be a ITEMS OF INTEREST + X-RAYS AND THE SHOE ae A leading New York store has recently in- al stalled an ingenious X-ray outfit which permits Ser its patrons to see just how their feet fit in any eS pair of shoes. In fact, at a glance the patrons ~~ ¢an_ note the position of the bones of their feet < in any given pair of shoes, and in that manner — = determine whether they are trying the proper - ~ Jast or not. PLOUGHED AGAIN FOR LOST POCKET- BOOK _ While ploughing a plot of about an acre near his home at Pealertown, Bloomsburgh, Pa., Harry Davis lost a pocketbook containing $25 in money and some valuable papers. He discovered his loss when he had finished ploughing the field and determined at once that he must have ploughed it under. He at once began ploughing the field over. After he had harrowed it thoroughly he _ ploughed it a third time. He has failed to re- _ cover the lost papers. aS ee FUEL VALUE OF WOOD The fuel value of wood has been the subject of more than one discussion and the following there- fore may be of interest. A ton of coal may be taken as the equivalent in heating value of one eord of heavy wood, such as hickory, ash, oak, ‘elm, beech, locust, birch, cherry, long-leaf pine, - gnd hard’ maple. One and a half cords are re- _ quired of short-leaf pine, Douglas fir, red gum, : soft maple, and western hemlock to Sat while in the case of cedar, catalpa, basswood. redwood, poplar, ‘ m of coal. for the fact that the pines and firs have more heating power per ton than non-resinous wood ‘It is to be understood that fuel value depen 0 2 upon heating power, but upon rapidity ease of ignition, minimum smoke, and Fines. giv depends oak and yet represent nothing but lumber when | gets there. = : ee FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ox OPPORTUNITY FOR MARINES TO ENTER Us SN. As A further opportunity for young men in the Marine Corps to enter the U. S. Naval Academy is announced by Secretary Daniels, who has add- ed to the courses offered by the Marine Corps In- stitute at Quantico, Va., a special naval prepara- tory course. In the past few years there have been sufficient number of vacancies to accommo- date all the young men of the Navy and Marine Corps who were otherwise eligible and who were able to pass the same entrance examination given to Congressional appointees. To be eligible for appointment from the ranks, the applicant must not be under sixteen nor over twenty years of age. The examinations take place each April, and the successful cafididates enter the Naval Aca- demy the following June. ° : LAUGHS Spindler—Have any of the machines that Gear- ing invented made money? Wheeler—Only the last one, and he’s sorry enough now that it did. Spindler—How is that? Wheeler—The machine made counterfeit money. “How does Slithers feel about that chauffeur who ran off with his car and his daughter?” asked Wilkes. “He’s mighty grateful,” said Bil- dad. “He says the poor idiot relieved him of his two most expensive possessions.” “Betrie,”. said the hospitable hostess at a Sun- day school treat, “won’t you eat some more cook- ies?” “I can’t. I’m full!” sighed Bertie. “Well, then, put some in your pockets.” “I .can’t They’re full, too,” was the regretful answer. Small Girl—Why doesn’t baby talk, father? Father—He can’t talk yet, dear. Young babies never do. Small Girl—Oh, yes, they do. Job did. Nurse read to me out of the Bible how Job cursed the day he was born! Teacher: “The object of this lesson is te in- culeate obedience. Do you know what ‘obey’ means?” Apt pupil: “Yes, ma’am, I obey my father.” Teacher: “Yes, that’s right. Now tell me why you obey your father.” Apt pupil: **Cause he‘s bigger’n me!” Tommy was at a neighbor’s, and in response to the offer of a piece of bread and butter, politely said: “Thank you!” lady. “I like to hear little boys say thank you.” “Yes, ma told me I must say that if you give me anything to eat, even if it wasn’t nothing but bread and butter.” ' “That’s right,” said the “Pa, is there any difference between timber and lumber?” “There is no necessary difference in kind, my son; they differ merely in degree or stage of be spoken of as good - for some high = development. For example, a man may : + Oey ee ae eee OB i ie ad ee Bite. ty Mii

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3 IRL’S RECORD PEACH PICKING . = Stoops, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. d. % Stoops, Yuba City, Cal., holds a record for peac 2 picking® this season, having picked 100 boxes in 91-2 hours in the Phil McNamara oxchart aia _~ here. She is twelve years of age. Under via able conditions an able bodied man picks less = 100 boxes in an equal length of time, grower state. For a girl of twelve to pick approximately two tons of peaches in 91-2 hours, which means not to asap ee i r to-day by This fact was made Pauses ba aos ch seems to exist re- i itizenship of Porto Ricans, Bk ; ee ear ta avoid becoming United States aa 2 zens under this law, Porto Ricans were ye as to appear before a District Court and Ec under oath their intention. Out of a popu! _— of 1,297,772, only 288 refused to become siti ae ' Of this’ number, many have since reconsictike their decision and taken steps to become citizens. NO WONDER _.. An elderly church warden, in shaving heres one Sunday before church time, made a slight ¢ with the razor on the extreme end of his or Quickly calling his wife, he asked her if me had any court-plaster in the house. You wi ne some in my sewing machine basket,” she 2 The warden socn had the cut covered. Af the church, in assisting with the collection, he ae ticed every one smile as he passed the plate, and some of the younger people laughed outrig b Very much annoyed, he asked a friend mae Was anything wrong with his appearance. » se , should think there is,’ was the answer. “Wha! is that on your nose?” “Court-plaster.’ Mos, : said his friend, “its the label of a spool of ¢ m. It says ‘Warranted 200 yards long INVEST YOUR . SHEKELS. SAFELY O ae RUSTLERS WILL GET’EM - When Bill Hart or Tom ay € gad! nec ‘ram rough four and a half reels, beige Bs Pi up trains and robbing orn hes, you may see the redeemed bad man rl : : ais “= boxes an hour, is considered quite _ e : feat, oi the large number of peach pickers in = the country look with envious eyes on the recor attained by the girl. eo os O RICANS U. S, CITIZENS 3 All parca of Porto Rico automatically became _ ¢itizens of the United States under the prov — ee of the act of Congress approved March 2, a ae tO farewell dl jt in the . FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY INTERESTING NEWS ARTICLES the Mexican border while a. 27 tonwood tree and moved the ground from under him. They took these steps more in sorrow than in anger, for hanging the hustler did not resur- rect the dead steer. Neither rustlers nor human nature has changed much since these days. Now the rustlers ®un off with your dollars instead of your cows. They work with oil stock prospectuses, promises of fifty percent dividends and assurances of enor- mous price advances instead of by blotting brands and stampedes. Sooner or later most of them run foul of the.law and are captured or chased across the border.. But if they have taken your money, putting them in the big stone house at = or Leavenworth won’t bring your dollars ack. Charles Ponzi may be sent to jail but the in- vestors to whom he promised 50 percent profit in three months have received neither money nor profit. Putting Ponzi in jail will not get their money back but putting their money into Liberty Bonds would have kept them from losing it. If you let your dollars run loose, the rustlers are mighty likely to get at least some of them, The one safe plan is to put them where the rustlers cannot take them from you. So long as you keep your dollars corraled in Liberty Bonds - and Government -Savings Securities they are safe. : ee “THE WAY TO BECOME A MOVING PIC. TURE ACTRESS” is in “Moving Picture Stories,” No. 326. Get a copy. Price 7 cents; postage free. HARRY E. WOLFF, 166 W. 23rd St., N. Y. —— “MYSTERY MAGAZINE” SEMI-MONTHLY -- id CENTS A COPY —— LATEST IssuES —— ‘ THE VELVEL TOUCH, by Julian Darrow. THE CLUE Of THE KED LAMY, by Cauuries Ful- Hamilton Osborne. ; QUICK PHAN THis nYE, by Ralph Cummins, THE CLUB IN THN DAKK KOOM, by Hamilton Craigie. THE TONGUE OF OSIRIS, by Mare Edmund Jones, DETECTIVE WADL’S BIG CASE, by Ethel ‘Itose: amon. ; ELL, sh 1 THE HOUSH BEHIND THE WALL. by taiian Darrow. ra The Famous Detective Story Out To-day THE ADMIRAL’S SPOONS By William Hamilton Osborne : FRANK TOUSEY, Puab., 168 W. 23d St, N. ¥, 33 €3 8&8 & ae “MOVING PICTURE STORIES” __ A Weekly Magazine Devoted to Photoplays and Players: PRICE SEVEN CENTS Ror BES Vriting. — Oursler. : THE SCHEM# OF SOLOMON SNARE, by William > in No. 71 Is +4) De A ris, TA me tae RD i Le ‘ to hho

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PAPER MADE FROM Pra Sa : long used in Great Britain and Ireland as a Alten for coal, now gives eqpererer se promise of taking the place of wood pulp for the manufacture of paper, according to an article in “Popular Mechanics Magazine. Experiments ‘yecently conducted in Manchester, England, dem- onstrated the possibility of making a apse grade of newsprint from bleached peat pulp, an the inventor displayed samples of other aes of various tints, suitable for wall papers, we - board, wrapping paper, etc. For better gra ned of stock, it is proposed to mix the peat pulp with wood pulp. VAST IRON DEPOSITS eae 2 finest unworked iron fields in the wor ear han discovered in the Philippines, meconiing to a report from government experts just receive by the United States Bureau of Foreign and Do- estic Commerce. The quantities of ore adjacent to good harbors, they state, will be sufficient to assure the future of iron and steel production in the United States for generations. : Already land believed to contain more. than 500,000,0000 tons has been surveyed. Deposits on ival. They contain 275,000,000 tons close to Hae 1 AP eof 130,000,000 tons within easy transportation distance of Daijkin Bay, perhaps the best natural harbor on the islands. — - ~ Only crude iron work in primitive smelters is being earried on at present. rs KILLED MANY SEA LIONS ~ William M. Hunter, known in Astoria, Ore., as “king” of sea lion hunters, recently collected $880 bounty from the State for 352 sea lion sealps, paid at. the rate of $2.50 each. Bounty paid on the sea lion because they are considered Pacific salmon’s ‘worst enemy. They gather off the mouth of the Columbia River to prey on fish bound upstream. © Sea lion hunting is dangerous, Hunter says, ‘and he tells of narrow escapes from angry bulls. - Seals, he asserts, are not as awkward as they appear, but can travel fast. Recently one chased i over ] 2 Sorpentod before it reached him. : - Hunter works from a smal! launch while at sea. Much of his hunting is done on rocky beaches where seals congregate. He learned his trade— he terms it—as a mountaineer hunting bear deer in the Caseade Mountains. addition to the Government bomsey, Hunter d_by salmon cannery men for destroying fan on the 1919 -eannery bounty would be about $2,000 for y 1,000 sea lions killed. aed the island of Mindanao are believed to be without _ the rocks; but was killed by Hunter’s pack, the rate of a ov. - FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ? GOOD READING AN ICE CAVE Two to three feet of ice throughout the cave for its entire length of about one-quarter ef a mile was found by Frank E. Spofford, Assistant Supervisor of Surveys, as a result of the investi- gation he was ordered to make by the Commis- sioner of the General Land Office of the cave lo- cated about twenty-five miles east of Dubois, Fre- mont County, Idaho. : 9 Mr. Spofford describes the cave as being about thirty feet wide over its whole depth, with a varying height of roof of from five to twenty- five feet. He penetrated its full length and found a great unevenness of the base, evidently caused - by falling rocks from the roof. — - The country in which the cave occurs is a series of lava beds and the cave is lava formation. There are no stalactites or stalagmites and Mr. Spof- ford suggests that the ice formations are due to seepage water that has frozen. Ice is present all year. Settlers in the region are taking ice and ’ water from the cave for domestic use. SAILS OPEN BOAT IN PACIFIC; MEETS d : DEATH i ; 3 Helgar Tortensen, aged mariner, descendant : of the Vikings, sleeps in the Pacific Ocean. ao Tortensen put out from Seattle, Wash., June bas 6, in a twenty-two foot open boat. His destina- > tion was San Francisco Bay: -His pu was ‘ the call of romance and adventure, of an over- _ = whelming desire to sail alone on the Pacific, as his far famed ancestors had cruised the Arctic seas. He had no fear of the high winds and rocky reefs that would beset his path. He knew — only the call that he had responded to since his youth. His wife’s and friends’ protests availed them nothing. ; A few days later Tortensen was picked up, against his wishes, and brought to Aberdeen, Wash. But the authorities had no law to pre- vent this old mariner from sailing as he pleased. __ So he slipped the moorings, sailed up Puget Sound, through the straits of Juan de Fuca and _ went out om to the wide, rolling wastes of the — Pacific. were Lumber vessels. that plied up and down the coast reported ae 2 a small boat out in the deep channels. The lone pilot refused to answer signals asking if he needed rg they said. And then the word went up and down the coast to watch for Tortensen. bs But the Viking lost in his adventure. The end came somewhere out in the vast spaces. That Tortensen fought a game fight, that he sailed bravely is told by the apy, ee > — ed The <A aoe 5 —_ aan 4 ys ago. e sail was gone, the supplies _ wrecked by the — were gone; the vessel had been vy seas of a Pacific storm.

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SAVING SHIPS AFIRE ; : Common enough : are smoldering ca r fires on board New Hair Growth ships. > many HAIR GROWN ON MR. BRITTAIN’S BALD HEAD BY, | compa tatively INDIANS’ MYSTERIOUS HAIR GROWER harmless, They arise mostly from spontaneous com- “bustion caused by piling large quan- tities of coal in close quarters. It is said there is not much dan- ger from such a fire; hardly any on an iron or steel ship. The first protective measure is to ex- clude the air, so that the fire can only _ smolder. My head at the top and back was absolutely bald. The scalp was phiay. An expert said that.he thought the hair roots were extinct, and there was no hope of my ever having a new hair growth. Yet now, at an age over 66, I have a luxuriant growth of soft, strong, lustrous hair! No trace of baldness. The pictures shown here are from my photographs. INDIANS’ SECRET OF HAIR GROWTH At a time when I had become discouraged at trying various hair lotions, tonics, specialists’ treatments, et¢., I came across, in my travels, a Cherokee Indian ‘*‘medicine man’’ who had an elixir that he asseverated would grow my hair. Although I had but little faith, I gave it a trial. To my amazement a light fuzz soon From recent photo. { appeared. It developed, day by day, into a healthy growth, and ere long my hair was as prolific as in my youthful days. That I was astonished and happy is expressing my state of mind mildly. Obviously, the hair roots had not been dead, .but were dormant in the scalp, awaiting the fertilizing potency of the mysterious pomade. . I negotiated for and came into possession of the principle for preparing fom this mysterious elixir, now called Kotalko, and later had the recipe put into far ven practical form by a chemist. = Then the bunker Pheto when bald. That my own hair growth was permanent has been amply proved. Many is flooded with men and women, also childrem, have reported satisfactory results from Kotaike. water, which ; y usually serves to How YOU May Grow YOUR Hair extinguish the ‘ fire. For women’s hair. JOHN HART BRITTAIN, BN-103, Station F, New York, N. Y. My honest belief is that hair roots rarely die even when the hair falls out through dandruff, fever, excessive dryness or other dis- nen 4 Po ae been —e by — “an rrr when hair out the roots become imbedde within the scalp, covered by hard skin, so that Ge E c* | P = they remain for a time like bulbs or seeds in 8 Tottle which will grow when fertilized. Shampoos (which contain alkalis) and hair Yotions which contain alcohol are enemies to the hair, as they dry it, making it brittle. Kotalko contains those elements of nature which give new: vitality to the scalp and hair. To prove the GENUINENESS of Kotalko, I will send the recipe FREE on request. Or I ; will mail a testing box of Kotalko with the recipe for 10 cents, silver or stamps, if vou mention ‘this publication. Satisfy yourself. You want to stop falling hair, eliminate dandruff or cover that bald spot with healthy hair. Get the dime testing box NOW, apply once or twice daily—watch in your mirror! Address: Even in wood- en ships the dan- ger from smol- dering fire is not half so great as has been pictured by landsmen. This is illustrated by the experi- ence of the cap- tain of the Twin Brothers engaged some years ago in the wheat trade between San Francisco and Liverpool. ° The vessel was BANISH—Sample Free! H returnin i : ; = g from TOBACCO Ee awtosindosomsend: ciieee Earn Genuine Watch the latter port HABIT 1! . . it SF: SEP ee: a bacco habit in 3to4 days.Easy totake. No craving for tobacco in any form after first fewdoses Simply send name for Free Sam- ee aaa comeing proof. + DR. it. WILL ELDERS, De>'. 629 StJosech, Mo. 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WE beau tomake him ——— show tomake our fellow or gir , before and after the wedding, « Tella other things necessary for Lovers to ig free 1 ; what todo B rices and liber- ates brings everything mail 10 cents, know, Sample co! orwalk, Conm BOOK CO., Box 9 with a thousand tons of coal in the hold as: bal- last. Just after she rounded Cape , Horn it was dis- covered that the coal was on fire. There was a steam pump on greatly improved; p: » DELIVER FREE to you on approvaland | (4 HOW TC RAKE LOVE board, and after ©. $0 days trial, actual riding test. . Oo closing the ! \ EASY PAYMENTS if desired, at 2 12 osing the .ower i small advance over our Regular Fac : hatches the crew : Se ae pate and Widow;to win an Heiress; how tocatch | flooded the hold bl supplies at half usual prices. a Rich Bachelor; how tomanage your | nti] the ship had (Continued on page 31)

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7 CREAT SAVING SHIPS AFIRE a BOYS-GIRL (Continued from page 30) settled about four feet lower in the No —- = = cxaxtthowe was frightened| Jundertho table, back of a door, into a trunk, dest and every one in Sehool, any old p'ace.. Big FU N fooling Peddlers, oF Policeman, Friends, anybody. This Claxophone is a was confident small device that lays on your: ton Se always : F ‘c, Claxophone that the ship| §rsst = s, 1Ac% would be safely brought into port at San Francisco. | Call was made at Valparaiso but not a man desert- ed the ship. The vessel was| seventy-two days in reaching San Francisco irom the Horn, and all that time the coal burned, and little} streams of smoke NTIFIC WOND }4 2 SILVER OMLY. BL G BOYS You States soo thru Stone, any A magic trick novelty Frex with each X Ray. MARVEL MFG. CO., Dent. 13, NEW HAVEN. CONN. “WARNING could be seen coming through ee oe + : In keeping your ..wels regular the cracks in the become addicted, (2. weal ning , Durestives Z rrivi or mineral Juxative $ deck. Arriving at gafe, gentle, wholesome. Best ges San Francisco the farthest. Obtainable at busy druggists, every 7 where, Kerolax is relief for many ailments, th Twin Brothers including constipation. headaches. dizzy sailed out on the spells, belching, gas, heartburn, torpld liver, bad breath, nervousness, dyspepsia, indiges- mud flats and ou, obesity, mental and physical’ dullness. Was flooded un- til she settled al- TO BOYS Most even with ; FREE Beal Bunty Footbal. _ her upper deck.| € eS Carer oe ates a FREE for This extinguished | \ F iconing Was at foe h. (ie rouble to fits present sf voq order Dow. the fire. singe bo Dept, 960 Binghasntan, B.Y. The appearance | - of the vessel af- : one and W : , or Wooing, Winnims edding ter all this was} Wepone tele moto beeis courting aod hom = pretty fair evi- [See esters ant bor to rip aie paver the _ dence what a ship way to put the dite, You should read this book 1 may survive in 9 7 When committing matelmony. : - the way of fire Mes Ward Pub. Co, Tilton, N. H. ~ damage. Ina LED dozen places the 2 bottom had burn- SORENESS HEA ins, n legs, ulcers, enlar ed veins, ed through, and seroma” peated ie sano ae ns, . 4 F k an escribe * : ee as tes a ©. Lieve. 1457 Green Bay Av., Milwaukee, Wis, # tween the crew and the deep sea Ouse ad baat; ; pain. No cost if it fails. the thin osed for 13 years. was 4 _— theet of copper 3 res ks ee otto f os = Gottre See Se rte osama Tob acco Blind ness _ of the water kept about equal strain} ithough tobacco does not seem to do any mn both sides of| parm to some, many are injured by smok- the copper sheet-| ing or chewing. One serious form is amau- - ing, and it had) ;osis, a nervous blindness, Heart failure, not broken cancer, nervous breakdown, etc., are at- _ through, although} trinutea to tobacco. A book telling how to “was little] overcome the addiction of smoking, ghewing thick than an or-| or snuff using, easily and quickly, will be y tin pan. | mailed free by the author, Edward J. Woods, . TE-103. Station F, New York, N. ¥. ~- Write the Words for a Song! Write the words for a song. We re- vise song-poems, compose music for them, and guarantee to secure publica- tion on a royalty basis by a New York music publisher. Our Lyric Editor and Chief Composer is a song-writer of na- tional reputation and has written many big song-hits. Mail your song-poem on love, peace, victory or any other sub- ject to us today. Poems submitted are examined free. BROADWAY COMPOSING STUDIO 165-E Fitzgerald Building Broadway at Times Sq. NEW YORK, N. 21 JEWEL fit ¥Y. TCH $9.75 JUST THINK OF IT—a 16 gold filled or silverine face Watch, screw size open - Plain back, or engraved, with a 21 jewel movement, for only $9.75—exactly half rice. Guaranteed for 5 years’ wear. Send no money. ust your name and and this elegant watch will be sent you by parcel-post. When ag receive it pay postman $9.75 and watch is yours. not satisfactory after five days’ trial we will cheerfully refund your money. .j Write for watch today. mM. BYRNE & GO., Dept. LD ., Chicago, Ill. WONDERFUL, NEW DEVICE guides your > corrects your writing im afew days. Big Ne fa llores, Complore out” o fa omplete out- line FREE, Write. J. Oxment, hk St. Louis, Mo. Dept. 39 Pay for U 2 Used A TOMOBI LE ¥ | ON THE INSTALMENT PLAN fo) All cars overhauled @ repaiutet. Tuclose 1@e for special Rergein Rulletin and expianstion, EUREKA AUTO CO., Rebuliders, Beavertown, Pa. VENTRILOQUISM Taught Almost Anyone at Home. Small cost. Send to-day 3-cent stamp for particulars and proof, Geo. W. Smith, Room R-703, 125 N. Jeff Ave., Peoria, Dl. ‘WONDERFUL Z Instruments & 2 Codes, with which you can Telegraph from house t¢ house witheut wires. 10 OT. UNIVERSAL CO., DEPT. P Stamford, Conn. BiG VALUE for (0 Gis. 6 Reads, woods and music; 25 Pic- tures ty Girls;40 We 3.1 Joke Book; =I Magic Book; 1 ik ane : Pole Gow, Bax 20, Bouth Norwalk, Comms ‘ ;

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>» i THE TURTLE’S NEST. = efhet 1ssuEs — : 761 Taking a Big Risk; or. The Dime That Led To Riches. One amner a lady | ton Beaten im ticks: of, Saved by a Wall Strect ‘Tick 763 Dealing in Stocks; or, Sav ya Wa ree cker. — aay easy is sae . y 764 The Sailor's Secret; or, The Treasure of Dead Man's Rock. living in western Maine noticed a 765 Capturing the Coin; or,_The Deals of a Boy Broker. ; turtle acting strangely in her garden. | 765 On His Own look 7% or, Making s Losing Business Pay. | Going out to it she found it had laid : aes rn aadag H It" ek Ber With laom a dozen or.more eggs under a bit of | 709 The Mystery of a Mining Chart; and, The Wail Street Boy Who i i / Solved It. > bank and was covering them with | --, Gcisping His Chance; or, The Boy Merchant of Me ; sand. Though the sand about the | 77; Winning By Pluck; or, The Deals That Made the Déliars. = ed he old turtle | 772 The Crimson Mask; or, The Treasure of San Pedro. — ens b apepatien tsi with her |7@ Frank Fisk, the Boy Broker; or, Working the Wall Street Stork arke : claws; then with her hind feet she} 774 Playing a Lone Hand; or, The Boy Who Got the Gold. uld sh it full over the 75 Will Fox of Wall Street; or, The Success of a Boy Broker. % wo pu ‘ carerully 776 A Lad of Iron Nerve; or, Little Joe’s Big Bonanza, a plang tent cay completely | 717 eo Lacks (oan be. es Tremours Ot the Corarect’ > - \ Stolen art; or, e e 0) ‘act. ered she depa to a str at cn A Game Young Speculator; or, Taking a Chance on the Market. the foot of the garden. She had} 79 Charite Crawieré s Salen; Rg, h Bebost to amaing Camp. * chose spot ove i 7 fice Boy’s Luck; or, 0 st the ~ n the well, for changing | ia ous Cor tie i hts; or, Starting a Business on His Sone ; turf effectually protected the eggs) 7x5 After the Last Dollar; or, The Wall Street Boy Who Saved His + : rom harm e feet Boss, ‘ z passe eh weather or by - 794 Fresh From the West; or, The Lad Who Made Good in New ; " =e Bes ore Wall Street Taking Ch the Curl 7 a reet; or, Dakin ances on urb, A guest to whom the secret of the bd Dick, She Runaway; or, The ecaaer® of the Isle of Fog. ” nest was revealed was much inter-| 737 In the Game to Win; or, Beating the Wall Street “Siulls.” * ested in it, and before leaving he ex-| 7s8 A Born Salesman; or, A Young Money-Maker on the Koad. acted a promise that he should be told | Fon pons — gg mayen ngg Me ed sent 5%. any Famer on whe ; receip cents per , or ¢ stamps, by m the eggs hatched. Meanwhile, | HARRY E. WOLFF, Pub., 166 West 23d St.. New York. - he asked various persons how tong | : turtle’s eggs usually incubated, t - got no satisfactory answer. : OUR TEN-CENT HAND BOOKS “=, On September 8, exactly three — a mow 70 BUNS AND = most, complete hunting : an shing gu er p » nstructions abeu months after the turtle laid the eges, guns, hunting dogs, traps, trapping end fishing, together with pa the gWest came again. Learning that) scription of game and sb. ee ae Pe ae . ai: Wo. 3% mk; N -—Heller’s second si the eggs had not hatched, he ea | explained by his former assistant, Fret! Hunt, Jr. Explaining ane cluded they must have spoiled. | the secret dialogues were carfied on between the magician and the moving a portion of the earth from) boy on the —s vr arg wenger = cena. the nest, he broke one of the eggs,| No. 23. MO EXPLAID -—This little book gives the a ; lanation to all kinds of dreams, together with luck : which were about three-fourths of an | Gays. i pase ses! BE 2 . z : d | No. 2. HOW RITE ERS TO GENTLEMEN. 4 inch in diameter, Jight cole and| talpipg full. instructions for writing to gentlemen on all sabia encased in a covering similar to that ©. 2%. HOW TO BECOME A GYMNAST.—Containing full in- ef a soft shelled hen’s egg. He found structions for all kinds of gymnastic sports and athletic’ exercises: : . | Embracing thirty-five illustrations. By Professor W. Macd id, 7 a live turtle, but it was not fully de- “Xo. %6. HOW TO ROW, SAIL AND BUILD A BOAT.—Fully jiius- veloped and lived only a few days. ltrated. Full instructions are given in this little book, together with Ge On November 12 the guest returned | “3i°H"OW TO RECITE AND HOOK OF GECITATIONS = © tw his home, after an absence of a few Containing, the most, nopalar seistiens in, we, comraing Dutch days, and found a small package in} many standard readings. pieces, tonether with yt his mail.. It contained a live turtle! “ Be Ie ee ch hatae vite bh tedden ne Nth is desirous ‘ot with a shell about the size of a sil- | K8Scyy "wealth or poverty. You can tell by a glance eee ae . ‘ver quarter. The little fellow had) book. Buy one and be convinced, been in the package three days. The| Fer sale by all newsdealers, or will be sent to any address om eggs, a note explained, had hatched heal - Eee SPR BOE O90 s GF 0 IS Ain. 25 RY Ae Seas at last, and all the young turtles, a FRANK TOUSEY. Pub. 168 West 23d St, New York SCENARIOS (Wrireceem their way to the nearby brook as soon as they were safely out of the shell. By JAMES P. COGAN Price 35 Cents Per Copy The period of incubation was a little more than five months. The lively little captive flourished ane: Daas. contain ot tee: weet recess een Ie Se method 3 z construction and submission of acenarios. Sixty Lessons, ‘ma vessel of water provided with an| | covering every phase of scenario writing, from the most ele: mental to the most advanced principles. This treatise covers everyth: a person must know in order to make money as a su scenario writer. For sale by all NewS-dealers and Se seatn is ntlel G0 posers npitgn uakiee will ell oes one re postage ps, and we you one, L, SENARENS, 219 Seventh Ave., Now York, N. ¥.