Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 790) (1920 11 19)

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No. 790. NOVEMBER 19, 1920. Cones FAME cae : A $50,000 DEAL {ARDY THE WA STR Wann R Si ORIES! f) Self-Made. an Loud shouting in the street brought Hal to the Sintoa: Deeking: ows he saw a man dangling from a rope. “Help! Help!” cried the imperiled one in tones of terror. As Hal reached out and seized him the rope parted.

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY : Issued Weekly—Subscription price, $3.50 per year; Canada, $4.00; Foreign, $4.50. Harry K, Wolff, Publisher, 160 fers ¢ est 23d ®treet, New York, N. Y. Entered as Second-Class. Matter, October 4, 1911, at the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Mareh 3, 1879. No.‘ 790. : NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 19, 1920 Price 7 Cents 2 A $50,000 DEAL Or, HAL HARDY THE WALL STREET WIZARD : ! Zs : BY A SELF-MADE MAN 4 CHAPTER I.—A Daring Daylight Robbery. “Yes, I have an office in the Redding Building, ae : on the fifth floor, room 551. I’m not much of a mn “*What a fine-looking boy! [I wonder who he broker yet—just making a start, but I hope to me - is?” said’Nellie Price to her cousin, Bob-Gleason, be a full-fledged one some day. If you have 3 who was a Wall Street fessenger, as the two time I'll take you up and show you my office.” _ Stood on the corner of Wall and Nassau streets “Is it far from here?” _ one morning about eleven. “Oh,.no; about halfway down this block.” “Why, that’s Hal Hardy, the Wall Street Wiz-_ “Thank you, I would be pleased to see it, but ard!” said Bob. ; : I don’t want to take up your time. Were you -~.. “The Wall Street Wizard! Why do you call _ not going somewhere when my cousin called “him that?” you? 5 “Because he’s a regular wizard at working the \ “I was going up to a little bank on Nassau _ stock market. Everything seems to come his street where I make my deals to collect some way. A little while ago he was senior messen- money the bank owes me, but there is plenty of : _ ger for Slocom & Co., stock brokers; now he’s time .to do that. We'll go to my office if you sere 2 fot an office in the Redding Building and calls say so.” Se elf a broker. Pil introduce him to you. “Miss Price was willing, for she was curious to Here, Hal—Hal Hardy!” eried Bob. see what kind of an office the boy wizard had. , : f _ Hal heard the hail and looked around. He The elevator took them up to-the sixth floor, and _ saw his friend, Bob Gleason, in the company of then Hal showed the way to Room 551, at the a pretty and sty ishly dressed young lady of end of the cross corridor. Opening the door, he ‘about seventeen. invited her to step in. In one corner, screened “Hello, Bob!” said Hal. off by herself, was a pretty but plainly dressed 4 ~ “Come over here, Hal,” returned his friend. girl, rapidly manipulating the keys of “a type- Hal approached. whiter. A visitor would have supposed her to = “Hal, I want to make you acquainted with my be Hal’s stenographer, but that wasn’t the fact, = aa Price—Mr. Hardy.” though she acted in a small way in that capacity & Se 1; to make your acquaintance, Miss for him. ce,” said Hal, raising his hat. She rented the nook she occupied from Hal, _- Nellie bowed and smiled. paying for the accommodation in-services. The Z __“J>was telling Nell that you are called the work she was turning out now was for a mining : Wall Street Wizard,” said: Bob. engineer in the office opposite. She also did a '“Do you really work the stock market, Mr. work for two other tenants on that floor who _ Hardy?” asked Miss Price inpocently. did not require the steady services of a stenog- ~“Do I work it? ‘Well, hardly.” - . ..* -vapher. Altogether, she managed to keep her- Why, my cousin Bob said you wére a wizard self pretty well employed between the hours of at working it. That everything came your way.” ten, and four, earning. about fifteen dollars a Be admit that things have been coming my week. Hal’s desk was beside the other window ~ , but that’s because I happened to have a run and faced the Japanese screen which hedged the ~ “luck. It’s rather unusual for a person to girl in. There wag a handsome rug on the floor, win a number of gests in succession like I have, a safe against the wall, near the desk, and a : why my friends in the Street have called ticker wit easy reach of the pivot chair. The | ' Wall Street Wizard. ‘If I were to lose _ walls were decorated with a number of water- - r three deals running they wouldn’t call me. color pictures in neat frames. Several chairs rd any more.” =~ and a letter-file cabinet completed the furnish- loded hoodoo,” grinned ing of the room. It was a comfortable and busi- back on the office. See nesslike Seg and. looked quite attractive to _ i y car, will you, Hal? — Price. It seemed Messe oes a that Hal — : oss and h ees y was no common boy, she was right. _ sh pleauro™ sald Hl, No common{ top "weal have tranchbd ob for , M a imself in way | id done. Nor would a_ Py o ee sym rca boy have been favored ie Hal’s xa be ose words, Bob hurried away. . _” luck, which was a combination of brains and good — Salt i eid. ea broker.” fortune. — Tees ; ee 3 taken with “You have an attractive office here, Mr. Har- oe dy,” said Miss Price, ss

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- “It is nice enough, Miss Price, as far as it ; goes, which isn’t very far when compared with the average broker's office. It answers my. pur- pose all right, however. I don’t need a suite of ¥ rooms to transact what little business I do. One of these days maybe [’ll have to enlarge my quar- ters and gradually acquire a force of clerks like the trader I lately cut loose from, but one must creep before he walks, I have lots of time ahead of me, and am in no hurry. The more haste the less speed, you know. It is slow and steady that wins the race,” sep Hal. = Miss Price acknowledged the logic of Hal’s = words with a smile. = “What an odd picture that is over your desk,” at she said, looking at it curiously. “A gentleman in fine clothes, with a silk hat,.cutting the wool off a lamb, with a big pair of shears. Dear me! the lamb appears to be covered with dollar- | marks. What does that mean?” = “Oh, it is merely suggestive of Wall Street.” =, In what way?” “The gentleman is supposed to be a broker. His name is Sharp. His methods are sharp, and his big shears are very sharp, indeed. The lambs represent a gullible s lator with a bunch of money. He has wandered into the broker’s of- fice, you see, and the broker is kindly relieving him of his winter overcoat—in other words, his bank roll, symbolized by the dollar-marks.” Miss Price laughed heartily at the whimsical idea. : “Do brokers really shear their customers’ that way? I think your picture is too hard on them,” she said, with dancing eyes. | : “A certain class of brokers do, just the same ‘as you will find men in all branches of business ‘who sit up nights trying to see how they can overreach their patrons. You must not take ‘that picture as a reflection on brokers as a body. It would be unfair to-them. [ had it drawn by an artist friend for the traders who occasionally drop in to see me to laugh at. Tassure you they appreciate the humor of the drawing very much, indeed,” said Hal. 3 “I see,” said Miss Price. - you to think of such a thing.” : ~ Miss Price remained a quarter of an hour, and - then the young broker escorted her to Broadway - and put her on a ear, receiving from her a warm invitation to call on her at her home, which Hal ~ promised to avail himself of. As he started down = Tepadway he saw Bob Gleason hustling toward “a certain bank with a black bag in his hand, in whieh he daily carried there the firm’s deposits. As it was not yet noon, Hal knew he was not engaged in his regular mission. From the weight of the bag it was not improbable that he was carrying a load of gold that had come into the “It was clever of "Phere he received a clout on the-head A $50,000 DEAL from his person and chucked into a waiting cab, the driver of which immediately whipped up and started down the street. The two men lost them- selves in the crowd and not a hand was raised by the thunderstruck onlookers to stay their prog- ress, Hal saw the whole thing, and instead of running up to his friend he started down Broad- way, like a deer, after the receding cab. CHAPTER II.—Hal Recovers the Bag. Ordinarily he could hardly have hoped to over- take it, but he took chances on it being impeded by the rush of traffic on the lower thoroughfare. He had lost sight of the cab in the maze of ve- hicles, but he had a picture of it in his mind’s eye, and had no fear of mistaking it for any other one. The driver wore a slouched hat, and the side of the cab itself bore a long scratch it had received in a recent collision. He sighted the cab again as it turned to the right of Bowling Green Park, just below Beaver strect. The driver was aiming for Battery place, a short str . which faced Battery Park on the north, ee to West street. Hal was close behind the cab when it reached Battery place. The driver was not paying attention to anything behind him. The cab and Hal came together at No. 1 Broad- way, in front of the Bowling Green Building, the main entrance of which was a few doors above. The yehicle, like many of its kind, had two straps — hanging from behind to which trunks were some- _ times attached when they could not be taken up on the seat beside the driver. With a spring, — the athletic Hal seized the straps as kere halted momentarily to avoid a loaded truck head- ed for State street, swung himself up and plant- ed his feet on the support underneath. So the ~ cab dashed on through Battery place, with the — young broker clinging on behind in a rather un- dignified way. _ It turned up Washington. street, Hal getting a good jolting as it swung around the corner. The way was clearer here, and the driver whipped up. : a And so the cab rushed up Washington street at a varying pace, according to the conditions en- countered. Finally it hs Cortland street and turned toward the ferry. It went slower, be- — cause there were many vehicles in the way. Hal surmised that the man who had the stolen bag, — or perhaps the whole oufit, was going across the river. He would then be in another State, and that would be a at advantage to him. Hal determined he should not get across to New - Jersey if he could help it. A policeman stood on the corner; trying to. kill time. Hal dropped = off and rushing up to him, hurriedly told his — story. By that time the cab was halfway across — West street, but was blocked by a line of trucks _that had come to a stop. The cop seemed only partially convinced that what Hal said was true. _ “You must arrest him,” insisted the boy, “or he is liable to escape with the bag.” | The officer said that Hal’s word, <— backed +

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He darted off, followed by the policeman’s a eyes. Rushing up to the door of the cab, he pulled it open and looked in. = - “What do you want?” demanded the man in- ’ side, turning a pair of jet-black eyes on the young broker. His complexion was dark, and he aes had a long, drooping black mustache. He sat back in the far corner and held the black bag - on his knee. As success depended on action, Hal _- wasted no breath on a reply. He reached for- ward and shoved his fist suddenly in the man’s face. As he rg ta the rascal put up both hands to defend himself. Hal immediately grab- bed the bag and jumped out of the cab.~ The man was after him in a moment. Hal didn’t go far - because he ran into the arms of the policeman. 3 “Hold on to him, officer! He’s a thief! He thas just stolen that bag of mine!” Thus cried the man of the cab, - ©Pake us both to the station-house, officer,” said Hal, “and then this matter will be cleared up.” ‘ that would be the proper thing to do, so with one hand on the boy’s arm he told the man to come ong with them. That was not‘to the man’s liking, and he protested\ that he was in a rush ~ to cross the river. All he wanted was to get oy “It’s got to to the station-house with the boy, fe 3 you'll cover it,” said the policeman. : = The fellow felt that he was in a serious di- st He suspected that Hal knew somethi -about“the robbery of the messenger on Broad- way, though he could not understand how the boy had, in that case, traced him to the ferry. _ If he went to the station-house, the visit might result in his own arrest. Better lose the bag than be pinched, so instead of following the po- iceman, he made a rush up~-West street and disappeared in the crowd of pedestrians on the sidewalk. The policeman did not stop him. _ “Who does this bag belong to?” asked the liceman. ee “Thompson & Talley, stock brokers, No. — ‘all street.” pet ot __ “It contains money, I capac 2% - “From its weight I should say there was over - $10,000. in in it, but I have no real knowl- edge about what is in it,” said Hal. “I was a roker’s messenger a while ago, myself, and on ag ath! —_ ag giving zs my guess. ie: m whom it was forcibly en was adi Pit the —— National Bank. In fact, asked him not to make any complaint against ‘im on account of the thief’s escape. . havé no wish to get you in trouble,” said “so I won’t volunteer anythiz yo The man is gone, and to have won’t do any Tell your own best excuse you tan for the | can give a pretty good de- The policeman, in view of Hal’s story, decided | ave to come if you want to re- . A $50,000 DEAL 3 scription of him, and he may be captured later on. It was too bad he got away, but I don’t blame you under the circumstances.” ~ Hal and the officer entered the station-house and the black bag was placed on the desk. The young broker then told the story of the robbery. The policeman at the desk called the captain and the story was repeated to him. He communi- cated by phone with headquarters and learned that the case had just been reported. Hal sug- gested that Thompson & Talley be called up and told that the bag had been recovered. The cap- tain did this, stating the particulars leading up to the recovery. He asked Mr. Thompson, who was on the wire, if he knew Hal Hardy. The broker said he knew him as a former messenger for Slocom & Co., and believed he was in busi- ness for himself. in the Redding Building, in Wall Street._ This coincided with. Hal’s business - card, and so the captain had no doubt the boy - was the person he represented himself to be. Hal was allowed to go, and he started at once for Wall street. CHAPTER I[I.—Golden Biant Mine. He went straight to Thompson & Talley’s of- fice and asked to see the senior partner. Bob was out at the time, and he did not see him. He was immediately admitted to Thompson’s room, s : : _ “Take a seat, Hardy,” said the broker. “I learned-over the wire that you were instrumen- tal in getting back our bag with the gold. We are under great obligations to you. Let me hear your story.” : Hal told. him all the facts. “Upon my word, it is fortunate you were on the scene where the robbery occurred. But for your alertness the, thieves would have got away with their plunder. There was close on to $15,- 000 in gold in that bag, which our messenger was taking to the —— National Bank to deposit. You are a pretty smart boy, You shall lose nothing by it, I assure you.” “You are welcome, Mr. Thompson. , The only thing I regret is that the cop did not &rrest the man who carried the bag off,in the cab when he had the chance to do so.” ; : es, it is too bad; but I suppose it can’t be ye ee We shall offer a rewa if the detectives fail to land him soon.” 2 Hal then took his leave and dropped in at his ¢ office before going to the little bank which he had originally started for, two hours before. - He opened his desk and started to read a Western newspaper. Among other things he saw the ac- count of the discovery of a new lead in an old ’ mine which had been practically abandonéd and that will’ hope that some day the mine might pan out, now _ - then taken over by new owners, who pushed a new tunnel in a fresh direction and found the ledge of quartz. Thus the stock of the old mine, which was much scattered and of which a great aay ve aie had = Rap Pete agate velopment pu eS, une acqui a real value. ose who had held on to it in the had reason to congratulate themselves. A considerable presumed that ing brokers would buy as much — bees 2 for his arrest _ : : ee chad been sold in the ee ae said, and the writer |

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4 | A $50,000 DEAL of it up at bargain rates as they could secure before the public heard about the ore find. The name of the mine was the Golden Giant, and Hal had 10,000 shares lying in his safe which he had bought a year since from a seedy man for a $5 bill. At that time the whole block wasn’t worth the price he paid for the certificates, and he only took them because the man was in real need. He immediately telephoned a well-known mining broker, and asked him if the stock was being bid for on the Curb? if so, what was of- fered for it? oe you got any?” asked the broker. “Yes “How many shares.” “Ten thousand.” “Th give you twenty-five cents a share for the “T’ll consider your offer and let you know.” 2 At that moment there came a knock on the oor. ~" i “Come in!” said Hal. The door opened and admitted a little woman, with a ee ig sweet face. She was poorly dressed but negt, a and appeared to be in straight- ened circum “I'd like to see the. brokér,” she said, in a low voice. “T’m the broker, madam. Take a seat.” “I have some mining stock I’d like to sell if I ean get anything for it,” she said. “Yes, madam. What is the name of ‘the stock ?” “Tt is called the Golden Giant mine. My hus- «band said it wasn’t worth anything, but I thought I’d bring it down and see.” “The Golden Giant!” said Hal, in some sur- prise. “How much of it have you?” “I haven’t counted it, but Ihave quite a num- gr - a ope her bag and teok out a fat bundle. ed over the certificates and found there a 100, representing 10,000 shares, You have 10,000 shares here, and I bought the same n a year for $5, and have kept them in my safe ever since. At no time could I _ have get the $5 which I paid for them,” said _ “Then they” are worth nothing?” said the wo- -man, her face showing her disappointment. “T don’t say they are worth nothing at this, ‘moment, but a week ago you could not have given them away.” “If I could get a cent a share for them—that would be $100, the money would help us greatly,” = she said. that instead of a cent I offered you five cents?” said Hal = ORE would be a little fortune to us, for we are - sadly in debt and know not which way to turn. ~ But aust ou would not offer as much as that.” - “No, el I would not offer you five cents hen by oa doing I should defraud you of a large part of their present market value. Mad- _ am, let me congratulate you on your forethought S aes tase i from destroying these certificates to th they were gr Si oN ae wing to the. unexpected of a e in the mine, the shares eer anna x respectable value for mining shares. Be- ge aay Resi parenting: of twenty-five cents a share for those I own myself.” “Twenty-five cents a share!” she said, hardly - believing her ears. “Yes, madam. I declined the offer on. ann chance that the price will go higher. If you will take that for them, I will sell them for you, or I might take them off your hands myself and hold them, at my own risk, for a higher price. Or you can sell me 2,000 shares and E~ will pay you $500 and hold the other~8,000 for you for a higher price. Suit yourself.” “You will give me $500 for 2,000 shares?” “Yes, or $2,500 for all of them.” The visitor seemed quite overcome. “You offer me so much money as that after I — told you I would sell them to you for $100?” “Yes, madam. Respectable brokers do not take advantage of the ignorance of their customers. If you accept my offer for the whole batch I will deduct only my regular commission of one cent a share, or $100.” “{. will accept your offer, but so much money dazes me. You are an honest broker, and may Heaven bless you for not taking advantage me,” she said. Hial made out the order for her to sign, then © he went to his safe and took out $2,400, which he handed to her, taking her receipt for the _ : money. CHAPTER IV.—Little Red Riding Hood. Next morning the Golden Giant was bid for on the Curb at 40 cents. Hal sold 10,000 shares in — lots of 1,000 at that price. He subsequently dis- — posed of the other 10,000 shares at a couple of — cents more. After a ‘week or two Golden Giant settled down to 25 cents, and remained at that — figure, fluctuating a few cents either way. A few days later Hal learned that a number of big brokers had combined to try and corner A. & © B. and then boost the price. Finding that his information was accurate, he went to the little ~ bank and putting up a margin of $10,000, bought 1,000 shares. The stock was then going at seiner With such a valuable piece of inside information, — Hal wished he had ten times as much money to invest. However, he had no cause to find Pewode because he had no more funds. He was a mi: lucky boy to be worth what he was. He =e practice of buying his afternoon paper of a li girl who stood on the corner of Nassau and Wall streets. She was the only newsgirl in the finan- cial district, and on that account was generally — patronized by the brokers. Ss a When she first appeared in the neighborh her presence was resented by the boys, who objected to a newcomer on their stamping ground and they annoyed her in one way or another and tried to prevent her from doing business. She had pluck and refuséd to be intimidated. Al- — though poorly attired, her clothes were neat asa new pin, and her pretty face, peeping from the folds of a red hood, attracted the attention of customers. ook Gleason nicknamed her “Li Red Ridin ce 5 ” and some newsboy, hea him so address ante ealled her that himself, soon all the kids in the street a her name. The newsboys finally let 538 alone, and some of t “|

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- the habit of helping her out with papers when = 3a ran short of any particular one, just as they = x She each other. : <, o ings were beginning to nicely wi er _ When-a tough lad named Micky Sweeney, who Worked for the Maritime Exchange, took a no- tion to try and make her acquaintance. -_ Wasn’t the kind of a boy to attract the softer a sex, so he found that Little Red Riding Hood, Whose name was Ruby French, had no use for _ him. As Sweeney didn’t relish the idea of a girl turning him down, he determined to-get back ~ at her. When he passed her he'd jostle her in a = a and guy her in insulting terms. Some- = she'd resent his conduct y telling him ~ what she thought of him; at other times she took Rio notice of him. This went on for awhile, and se Sweeney saw he wasn’t gaining much by this line of action. One soar eing when it had mS raining he came by and deliberately jerked __ the bundle of papers. out of her basket onto the _ Wet pavement. That was carrying matters rath- a * LN _ er far, but there was little that Sweeney wasn’t _ tapable of doing. It happened that Hal was ‘com- cing along when he did the trick, and as he walk- ; with a triumphant grin, the young broker m ied forward and grabbed him. : " : - “What did you do that for, Micky Sweeney? he demanded. “What yer talkin’ about?” snarled the messen- er, facing around. : ~ “You know what I’m talking about. Go back and pick up those papers and clean off those _ that are soiled,” said Hal. : “J will, like fun! What yer take me for?” re- __ turned Sweeney. ; “You do as I tell you, do you understand?” said = 5 the messen, with both hands and - forced him, struggling, back to the corner where _ Ruby had, with the help of two newsboys, re- . covered most of her papers. Several were very wet and muddy and practically unsalable. -_.. “Here’s the young rascal who did the damage, Ruby,” said Hal. “I was going to force him to ‘pick up your papers, but-I see you’vye got them all. How many are spoiled?” __ A _ Those six,” she replied, flashing an indignant kk at Sweeney. _ ; as her toy thdeo six, Sweeney,” said Hal. _~ “Naw, I won't pay for not’in’,” said the mes- rer, with sullen defiance. 5a right; I’ll have you arrested for malicious . There's a policeman coming down the “now. I'll see that your prosecuted, too, d sent to the Island,” said Hal, in a determined ~ree ogy te a icient A sie ggle to escape, th oung ry held him Z rad . or take the consequences,” said Hal. got no money!” whined the tough mes- every the sponge, pulled them. on the sidewalk. Micky... _boys picke’ , A $50,000 DEAL 5 you molesting this little girl again [ll report you to: the officer on the beat. Now get out!™ and Hal released the tough lad. “Tll get square wit’ you for dis, see if I don’t!” snarled Sweeney. “You t’ink ’cause yer puttin’ up a bluff as a broker and wear better clo’s dan me dat yer kin walk on me neck, Yer can’t do not’in’ of de kind. Ye’re not’in’ but a big stuff, anyway, and I'll fix yer at de fust chance!” Having thus relieved” his feelings, Sweeney walked away, with a scowl on his countenance. Ruby thanked Hal for his intercession in her favor and puree the pennies which the news- up and handed to her. , “You're weleome, Ruby. If he bothers you again, I want you to let me know, and J’ll have him. attended to,” said Hal. “I hope he won't,” said the newsgirl, “for I don’t want to give you any trouble on my ac- count.” “It won’t be any trouble for me to see that you are not imposed upon by a young ruffian like him. He’s afraid of me. I gave hima whipping once on New street, when I was a messenger, and he hasn’t forgotten it, I guess. He said, then, he would get square with me, but that was eight months ago, and he hasn’t tried to do anything. A barking dog doesn’t bite, as a rule,” laughed Hal. “Good-by!” That day A. & B. advanced to 90, and the next day it went to 938. While Hal was watching the ticker in his office Bob came in with a note, “Why, hello, Bob!” said Hal. ’ “Hello yourself! Mr. Thompson.” __ ; “I wonder what he has to say to me,” said Hal, tearing open the envelope. The note briefly informed the young broker that the police had notified Thompson & Talley that they believed they had captured the man who carried the black bag in the cab as far as the Cortlandt street ferry, and that an officer had been sent to bring Hardy to headquarters to see if he’ could identify the man. Hal told Bob the substance of the note. . “Think you can pick him out of a crowd?” asked Bob. “Yes. I’ve got his face and figure photograph- ed on my memory.” : Here’s a note_from my boss, “That cop was a dope to let the fellow get . away when he had him within reach.” -=“No, he wasn’t. He only had my word that the man was a crook, and he didn’t feel that he could arrest him on that.” “Well, you did mighty well to recover the bag even without catching the man.” “Yes, I think I did,” 4 a: “Thompson has a pretty high opinion of you since that afternoon.” “You haven't suffered any for losing the bag.” + “Talley gave me a raking over about it. He thinks I was careless.” - : “Refer him to me and Pll A him that y ci you took in the matter. I doubt **

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6 / A $50,000 DEAL if one other person in that crowd would. have doffe what you did had you not béen there.” “They would have had to be as lively on their pins as I am to have made a success of it. barely succeeded, and I took chances at that.” “Any answer for me to take back?” “Yes.” Hal wrote a reply, saying that he was glad to hear that the man had probably been. captured, and that he would go with the officer when he came for him. He handed the note to Bob and that lad departed. Fifteen minutes later the policeman appeared, stated his errand, and Hal put on his hat and accompanied him to head- quarters. After a short delay, Hal was taken into a room where a dozen men were drawn 2 in line and he was told to see if he could pic his man out. He looked along the line and in- ag dicated the sixth man. : “You are sure that is the chap?” said the offi- cer in-charge of the proceedings. “Yes, that’s the man.” “All right. That’s the man we arrested. He will probably have a preliminary examination before the magistrate to-morrow. An officer Fa will be sent for you when you are wanted.” Hal then returned to his office. When he look- . ed at the ticker he saw that A. & B. was up to ’ 96. -At noon next day-it was up to 93 3-8, and Pe Hal sold out. He cleared just $10,000 on the -- + deal, which doubled his capital. CHAPTER V.—The Huckleberry Road. 5 Aaa Hal appeared at the crook’s examination next ; day. So did Bob, with Mr. Talley. The pris- oner had given his name as Martin Daly. A cheap lawyer ,appeared in his behalf. Bob went on. the stand first and in a few words told how he had been robbed. * , “Do you recognize the prisoner as one of the men who robbed you?” oof Edo. not.” “Did you see the prisoner there at ali?” b had to admit that he had not seen him. “That’s all,” said the lawyer. __ Then Hal took the witness chair, He told - about seeing the robbery pulled off and the ba - handed to a man in the cab, which they drove off. __ He described how he followed the ¢ab to the -_ eorner of Broadway and Battery place, where he “att on the back of the vehicle and was car- ried to'the Cortlandt street ferry, or, rather, op- site to it. There he had appealed to a police- to arrest the man, after telling him the but the officer did not think his word suf- — fiei to act on. He then told how he got pos- ~ session of the bag, and found it in the hands of - the prisoner, who was in the cab. When the of- sie gel, cin A _ you gif for dem She servation, and identified the prisoner as the man who had been in the cab and who at first claim- ed the bag as his property and wanted the boy arrested for taking it from him. He said the asic ran’ away when asked to go to the sta- ion-house and back up his statements. Mr. Tal- ley identified the bag as the property of the firm, and said there was $14,500 in gold coin in it. He was asked to open the bag. He did so, and the magistrate saw rolls of coin. One was opened to show that it was gold. Each roll contained $500 in $20. pieces and was so stamped on the outside. The rolls were counted and correspond- ed to the sum stated. The bag was relocked and taken charge of by the-police, Mr. Talley keep- ing the key. The magistrate held the prisoner for the grand jury. That closed the proceedings and the witnesses returned to Wall street. Hal went back to his office. - In the course of half an hour Broker Halpin walked in, “Hello, Hardy! “T’ve no. kick co “Doing any specu Phar ga eal 3 “Well,I can put you on to a good thing.” “what is it?” . 55 “You've heard of the Huckleberry Road, haven’t you?” : “Yes. It’s an independent branch aline be- tween the O. & G. and G. & C.” “That’s right. I’ve got it from an inside source that the G. & C. is about to take it over and make it a regular part of its system.” “Is that so?” “Yes. You want to lose no time in getting hold of some of the stock of you can. You'll . double your money on every share you buy.” “T suppose you’ve been loading * yourself?” ~ “I’ve bought all I could pay for. There’s some left, but I haven’t the least idea where you'll find it. I am giving you the tip so that you can » hunt some up for yourself. I'll guarantee you won’t regret. doing so.“ “Thank you, Mr. ie Have a cigar.” The broker remained a while and then went away. Hal called Thompson & Talley up on the phone. e “Do you know anybody who has any Huckle- berry stock for sale?” Hal asked, _ 253 “We've got 1,000 shares, but our customer wants two points above the market for it, so I haven’t tried to sell it yet,” said Thompson. r “ll take it if you buy it for my account on — margin, I'll bring the money right over.” “Ali right. It’s yours,” said Thompson. How are things?” mg, y ng on your own account?” _ Hal got $10,000 out of his safe and went over ~ to Thompson & Talley’s office. The deal was made at 62. “If you want any more, I think Moses Pollack — has some. His office is in the Johnstone. Build- _ ing,” said Thompson. Hal went to see Pollack. ~ Ze “Got any Huckleberry shares, Mr. Pollack?” — ag Hal, on getting an audience with the bro- _ er. . . “Hat I got some, Huckleberry shares? Vat - ‘market price” “I can’t sell dem less dan 61. How wane eS ye>s Pe SS ae =“ = Ee a

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“ll give you 60 1-2 for any part of 1,000.” “You gif me 60 and von half? I make it | 3-4 if you take 1,200, all dat I haf.” “TH take the 1,200 at 60 1-2. That’s the best ean do.” _ “I vill make it 5-8. Dat is making you a pres- ent of my profits.” “All right. I won’t stand on an eighth.” “You haf the cash with you?” “No. I want to buy on ten per cent. margin.” “Dat vill cost you $12,000 deposit.” _ “Pll bring the money right jover*to you.” “Very good. I vait for you.” 2% is fifteen minutes Hal was back with the mon- * and the deal was put through. As Pollack tf him his memorandum his telephone bell ; evel, vell, vat is it?” said the broker, putting the receiver to mee ser Bs a 1d all I haf hand,” said Pol 0, I just so on, hand,” said Pol- lack, you call de Huckleberry aos The young broker shook his head. “J wouldn’t take $5,000,” he said. ' “For vy not? ‘Because I'm not letting a good thing get ay from me.” “Vat you mean by a good ting?” “The Huckleberry Road has been acquired by G. & e and the price will boom probably Points when the news has been confirmed.” Pollack gave a gasp. “How you know all dis?” Oh, I heard it a little while ago.” “You t’ink it vill go up ten points?” “You ought to know whether it will or not, the circumstances.” “Vat a fool I vas to shell you dat stock! You ake all de profit vat I ought to haf. May- you let me in on it, e No, a couldn’t oe it, Pi paid noth- to stop you going out an ing nd some for yourself.” nA - ves, I vill do dat at once. It vill go pp s, you say? Vy didn’t I know dot be u bought me out?” ‘said. and left the broker putting ; hat with e evident intention of trying Some Huckleberry for himself. PTER VI—A Spectacular Rescue. Pollack didn’t get any Huckleberry . he was looking for it, the news of iba Gis cdc by. Shee G. & C. leaked gan to circulate around Wall Street When the rumor reached the Ex- ) , stock began to rise on rs “went up five points and ext day the ‘was confirmed above. He had been pspandad from 2n upper ~ window by the ro «ie gan Me got loose and drop him to the level with | sroker A $50,000 DEAL 5 2 called on Thompson & Talley and ordered the 1,200 shares sold, Then he went around to Pol- Jack’s office. “Sell those 1,200 shares of Huckleberry, Mr, Pollack.” . : “Yes, yes, I sell dem right avay, Vat a lucky poy you vas! You valk im here and take more dan t’irteen t’ousand dollars’ profit out of my pocket! Some day you vill be vorth a million,” said the broker, who felt very sore over the deal he had made with Hal. “De boys nowadays know more as much as de men. It vas a pity dat I lose so much profit out of my business.” When both brokerage firms made a settlement with him, Hal found himself richer by $23,500. Hal got several orders from out-of-town cus- tomers in the first mail next morning, and after entering them in his book he took them down to — Halpin on the fioor below to execute for m. “Have you sold out those Huckleberry shares you were so fortunate as to pick up?” asked Hal- . in. Fe “I sold them yesterday and cleaned up a profit. of ,500. -I am under great obligations to you for the tip, Mr. Halpin.” “Don’t mention it. I didn’t expect you would be able to find more than two or three hundred — shares at the outside.” “Well, you see, [’'m a Wall Street Wizard, and when I want anything to come my way I make a few passes in the air, mutter some magical words in Latin or some other | dead language, and, presto! I have what I want,” laughed Hal. : “You don’t say! I know we have a number of financial»wizards in the Street, but I didn’t known you were endowed in that directién. You told me that you bought 1,200 shares of Pollack, He must have felt sore when the price took such a jump.” ; “He did. He.told me » yesterday that I robbed) him of over $13,000 profit.” = “Pollack can stand that. He’s worth a quarter 2 of a million.” “J guess he knows how to hold —- to it, too.” — Hal handed in his orders and Hal oa took them out to his margin clerk. While was away there was a commotion in the street below. Loud shouting in the street brought Hal to the win- dow. Looking out, he saw a man dangling from : arope, — oleae “Help! Help!” cried the "impesitled one, a tones of terror. ie As Hal reached-out and seized him, the rope 5 parted. His weight came on the boy’s arms, but the young broker brac raced himself and helped ‘the « man in at the window. He proved to be an arti- — san who was men a broken window cornice =f Halpin’s window, then the rope gave. way alto- gether, Had Hal not been in the room at the — time, the man would have been dashed to death — on the ecape wad <S Truly, he ERE narrow escape, @ was very teful to the boy for mire his life. Halpin was -astonishe to learn what had happened during his absence. — “Your abilities 2s a wizard must ex‘end life-saving, for that ; a peniaeetie 2

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gf “Oh, everything I do is out of the common, or epee be a real wizard, you know,” chuckled al. ; “T must admit that you have pulled off some astonishing stunts—the way you saved that bag of gold-belonging to Thompson & Talley; for instance,” said Halpin. + *f ought to change the sign on my door to read, ‘Hal Hardy, the Wall- Street Wizard,’ in- stead of ‘Hal Hardy, Stocks and Bonds’; it would attract a lot more attention, don’t you think?” “It certdinly would. This incident will surely be reported for the afternoon papers, and you'll be in the limelight again.” : _“T wouldn’t mind how often I got in the lime- light if it would attract a few more customers to os my shop.” : Hal went back to. his office and told Bessie _, Finch all- about the thrilling incident. “How fortunate for that man that you were at the window when he fell!” she said. % “Yes, and J was equally fortunate in Eating a good hold inside of the window, otherwise, when his entire weight came on my arms, he might have pulled me out and carried me down with him,” said Hal. “That would have. been terrible,” she replied, with a shudder. Hal was engaged with a financial weekly when ‘the door opened and a bright-looking young man came in. “Are you Mr. Hardy?” he asked. “Yes,” said Hal. I called to get _ “fam a reporter for the —~—. age ‘few particulars about the rescue you made from the window of Broker Halpin’s office,” the visitor said. * “Have you interviewed Mr. Halpin?” “Yes,” “Then you ought to have secured all the facts.” “But he wasn’t in the room when you caught she man as the rope broke.” - Ses ae know it; but I told him all about the inci- at? — “Tt is always better to get information first - aand, so if you have no objection I would like _» hear the story from you. “Oh, very well,” and Hal told him the facts. The reporter asked him a few questions, shanked him, and-withd drawn a crowd, as Hal had seen, and attracted 3 great deal of attention in Wall street. The srowd had dispersed, but quite a number of curi- ~yus people hovered around on the other side ,of _ che way and looked up at the window where the ‘escue was made. The incident reached the Ex- ‘thange and was the talk of the brokers, but of them knew that the episode had hap- _just outside Broker Halpin’s window, or Hardy, the young broker. was the chief or in the affair. It was not until the next edi- on of an afternoon paper came out and the -aewsboys began crying out about the accident the facts became generally known in Wall a's _ ee = “5 = CHAPTER ViI—In the Slums. that day to the Empire ar hé re for brokers. ight lunch between sa rew. The incident had | now all gone. A $50,000 DEAL # twelve and three, unless there were important doings at the Exchange, and for drinks at all hours before the Wall Street district was de- serted by them for the day. When Hal entered he found the -place fairly crowded. He sat down at a table in a corner and ordered what he wanted. The hour was two, which was late for the young broker. He ate this meal, picked u his check and sauntered toward the cashier’s desk. As he passed a group of four men, who appeared to be brokers, he heard one of them say: “You'll make no mistake, Smith, if you get in on L. & M. I'll guarantee it will go up ten points in a week.” | : Hal passed out of hearing, paid his check, and got out on the street. What he had heard some- what impressed him, and he thought about it all the way back to his office. He looked up the» record of L. & M. for a month back and found that it wasynow at low-water mark. - “Seems to me it is not likely to go much lower. It is a good stock, and generally rules five or six points higher than it is now,” he ‘thought. Finally he decided to buy a couple of thou- sand shares and see how he would come out. He — had $45,000 lying idle, and he guessed it was about time that some of it was put to work. He took $20,000 and walked in ta see Halpin. bea Sone to make a deal on my own account, Mr. Halpin,” he said. 3 “What is it?” asked the broker. ‘ .“T want-you to buy me 23800 L. & M., on mar- gin.” “Expect it will rise, eh?” : “It’s selling five points below what it did a month ago, and for some time before that. It ought to go back to 80. I see no reason why it shouldn't. The market is beginning to pick up.” “Well, you can’t tell. Still, I consider it a safé, venture, though you may have to hold it for a month to realize a profit.” So the deal was made and Hal returned to his office. Next day when he went to lunch he miss- ed Little Red Riding Hood from her post, and asked a newsboy where she was. “Dunno, boss; she ain’t showed up to-day,” was the reply. ; : When Hal went home the girl was still missing and he bought his paper from one of the boys. Next day Ruby was still missing, and Hal began to think she must be sick. An inquiry among the newsboys developed the fact that she lived ina poor locality somewhere off Rivington street, ~ but none of the, boys kmew the name of the — street, as Ruby had not given out where she lived. Hal hoped Ruby hadn’t quit her post for good, fof he had taken a certain interest in her , -and the corner looked bare without her and her basket. That day L. & M. went up a point. When Hal t back from lunch he found several letters on his desk that had been left by the — postman. One of them was addressed in a girl- ish hand, and his curiosity induced him to open _ it first. Looking at the signature, h > rised to see that it was signed “Ruby French.” — e note stated that Ruby’s grandmother, with _ whom she was living, was very ill. That was; the reason why she had ty en to give up her newspaper business for time being. Her having —— i source of income hz sane As she n { a —— —<”

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a“ grandmother, and some food for them both, she ‘thought she would ask Hal to lend her $2 for a couple of weeks. If he would do her that favor, he could send it to her by one of the newsboys from the tenement where she and her grand- mother had their two rooms. She inclosed her address for him to give the boy. ; Hal decided that instead of sending $2 by the newsboy he would call in person and help Ruby and her grandmother more than $2 worth. Ac- cordingly, when he left his office at half-past four he started for Rivington street. THe street runs from the Bowery to the East River, and the ~ eross street on which Ruby lived was not far ‘from the docks. Hal took an elevated train at a - Hanover Square and went as far as Houston ue street station, two blocks above Rivington. He __—-—« judged he would save some steps by going down <= tanton street, so he did so. It took some in- quiry to find the house he was looking for. It Was five stories high, on. a par with other tene- ments on either side. = - A narrow and dirty hallway, the door of which was always open and which formed a thorough- fare to a narrow yard inthe rear, which sep- arated it from another tenement more squalid _.,and disreputable than front one. A dark and narrow staircase poi&¥ted the way to the floors above. Hal started up to the squ re- -__ frain of the stairs, which had lost their sto idity under the tramp of a million footsteps or more, sy bably more. He had to go to the top of the house, and that meant four flights to be sur- mounted. me When he reached the top floor he made for pe the door at the rear of the’ landing, as Ruby’s - etter directed. There were three other doors, showing that each floor accommodated four dif- ferent tenants. He knocked. Whether his knock had any peculiarity to it or not, certainly it at- tracted attention from persons for whom it was not intended. Two doors opened almost simul- taneously and two disheveled female heads were , truded to see who was there. Though the light was not good, the women easily made: out a well-dressed stranger, and their wonder and curiosity was excited, particularly the latter, for the Frenches were not in the habit of having - yisitors of any kind, much less those above the grade of the house itself. : ~~ Hal did not relish’ the inspection he was forced to stand, but it only lasted a moment or two, for Ruby appeared at her door and uttered a sur- ised ejaculation on recognizing the young bro- ~ Tt was clear she was a bit embarrassed. “T-got your letter, Ruby,” said Hal, “and. I Sbactinied be better for you.” ae ~ “Come in,” said the girl, seeing the two Women eing them curiously, and the bey walked into a y furnished but fairly clean living room. “You mustn’t mind me coming here, Ruby,” d Hal, after the door was shut. “You asked : ae loan Abe two nega anegen two dol- rs en you have a sick grandmotner on your nds which prevents you from going out and ing the money you need so badly? I came & you and your grandmother.” a tin atone her eyes shining A $50,000 DEAL ee named Billy West, who lived not a great way - to call myself, as I thought it would. eS, e a friendly intergst in you, and I look Hal then went back to his office, “You wish to help us, Mr. Hardy?” she said, = “And yet how little you know about us!” : “I know you are a good, industrious girl, Ruby. Isn’t that enough?” “No. You-only know mé as a newsgirl. You : must have thought me very cheeky to write you that letter—you who are almost a stranger to me. J—I did it for, my grandmother’s sake. I would have died before I would have begged a _ cent for myself. But we had no money and—I couldn’t let grandma die for want of the medi- cine the doctor said she must have. And so I . wrote you, though my hand rebelled at the act.” a “You did right, Ruby. {[ will see that your grandmother has everything she needs. Here is $10. Use it as you think best. When it is gone you shall have more if you need it.” 4 “No, no; I cannot take so much as that!” pro- ee tested the girl. 3 “Yes, you can take it, and you will. I want you to understand that I am -your friend—a real friend. Since I have come here to help you in a your hour of need, you must not tif! me down. It isn’t fair to your grandmother, who looks to you for everything now that she is i!l. Ten dol- lars is nothing to me because I am prosperous a and can easily afford to let you have it as well " as ten times as much. What better use can I put, the money to than to help your grandmoth- er? oe “You are so good, Mr. Hardy! I knew you % were a gentleman. I knew you were brave when x I read how you saved that man from falling to his death. And now I know you are the best, the truest person in all the world.” : The girl looked at him with eyes that began to glisten with tears. Her bosom heaved with an emotion strange to her. Suddenly and impulsive- ly she threw her arms around his neck and kissed him. Then, as if realizing what she had done, she stepped back and covered her blushing face — with her hands. ae “Thank =~ for that kiss, Little Red Riding ‘Hood. It shows your gratitude better than words. — I shall remember it as cOming from the best little girl in the world.” : ‘ Then Hal opened the door and walked out. CHAPTER VIII.—Hal and Little Red Riding j Hood. Next. day L. & M. went up another point. __ “I see your stock is rising,” said Halpin, when Hal carried him a couple of orders from ecus- tomers about half-past ten. —* _ “Well, that is what I looked for,” replied the young broker. “I wouldn’t be surprised if jt went up ten points.” ' 5 * “T hardly think it will go up so much. It may ~ go a six.” °; “How much will higher than six?” ; “J think I would win if I bet-you, so as I'd ey ee take any of your moray that way, won't be : ey “All right. I don’t believe much in betting, myself. Still I'm always willing to back my opin- ion with coin.” oa” Snipe you bet that it doesn’t go NW showed the be

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ry z one-point advance of the day. That evening he made his third call on Miss Price. She certainly = “J will call again this night a week.” ; - ' J shall expect you,” smiled Nellie cooingly. ~~ “Good night!” said Hal, and he ran down the _, steps. ae Next day L. & M. went to 90, a jump of three __ points, or five altogether. Two days later it was Es almost up to 96. Then Hal decided to cash in, record as a Wall Street wizard had not suffered as yet. He had taken luck at the flood and it - was leading on to fortune. Would the tide last, that was the question. ‘ Iunch that day he wrote a note to Ruby Freak, asking her how her grandmother was, _and inclosing a $5 bill, which he begged her to aecept, and calling an A. D. T. messenger, he told him to take it to the tenement and deliver to Miss French, describing the girl and direct- ing him to go to the top floor, rear door. In the -eourse of an hour the boy returned, with an an- _ “swer in lead pencil. Ruby told him that her -- grandmother was much better and was sitting “up. She thanked him for the interest he took in her and her grandma, and also for the $5 bill, or which she was very grateful. She would re- yay the entire $15 at = ae ponent. 99 uld neyer forget his kindness and generosity. _ Pollack called at Hal’s office that day and tried to get him to purchase 10,000 shares of the ~ Harlequin silver mine. But Hal was shy of the broker's intentions to patronize him, as Pollack was his idea, and refused to have any- to do with the stock. So Pollack left _ looked to see Ruby French with and he added $20,500 to his rising capital. His~ A $50,000 DEAL the train, but by mistake got out at Grand street, That didn’t make much difference, as Rivington street was about midway between Grand and Houston streets. So he started to walk up the east side of the Bowery. On the way he stopped to look at the posters of a new “Moving Pic- ture Palace,” which had just been opened. One stood on either side of the entrance, and they were the usual kind furnished by the company that rented the films. In the center, standing against an iron upright post, was a hand-printed sheet which announced the appearance of “Miss Ruby French, the Little East Side Nightingale, in Her Bouquet of Songs,” as an added attrac- tion. Hal gasped as he stared at the poster. He could hardly believe his eyes. Surely this. girl couldn’t be Little Red Riding Hood, the girl newsie. As he looked, dumfounded,-at the bill and then at the box office window he saw a sign which read, “Performance Going On.” Mechanically he walked up to the glass window, planked down a nickel, got a ticket and entered the show. The house, a metamorphosed store, was fairly full at this, the second performance of the afternoon. ~~ He was just in time to see the beginning of a fresh picture, called “The Castaways’ Christ- mas.” Picture one represented a raft at sea, with three men and two women on it, with a big the- atrical trunk marked, “Costumes—The Pirates of Penzance Co.” The actions of the castaways in- dicated land in sight. The next picture showed the castaway actors and actresses ashore on a tropical isle arraying themselves in piratical cos- tumes from the trunk. They.start to explore the island, are seen by a reformed cannibal, who- takes them for real pirates, and rushes to the home of the missionary to give the alarm. The missionary and his family, who are just sitting down to their Christmas dinner, flee for their lives. The hungry castaways reach the house, see the dinner, sit down and eat. The mission- ary and his crowd rush to the shore, signal an American warship for help and a landing party ~ march on the house and the supposed pirates are commanded to surrender. Explanations in pan- tomime follow and everybody is happy. As soon as the film ran out, the lights were turned up and a young man at the piano struck up the prelude to a song. From a side door on a level with a narrow stage a daintily dressed little girl made her appearance One look assured Hal that this was Ruby, the girl he had befriended. In another moment she began her song. That she could sing, her very first notes showed. Young as she was, she would have put many a professional in the shade. Hal™had to confess that Miss Price couldn’t hold a candle to her. ~ Nor was her pose and actions amateurish, either. — She sang her song with the ease of an accom- plished singer, and was vociferously encored. She rendered a second selection, and was show- _ ered with-more applause. Then she came out _ and bowed her acknowledgments, and the last" = moving picture was thrown on the screen. In a short time the show was over and the

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nd touched her on the arm. She stopped ina ae startled way and then recognized him. ==... “Oh, Mr. Hardy, is that you?” she cried, with - ~a look of pleasure. “I am so glad to see you!” “Are you really, Ruby?” he asked. _. “Should I ndt be?” she answered winsomely. _~ Are you not the best, the only real friend grand- --‘ma and I have?” : “T hope so. You have given up selling papers, have you?” : She looked at him in an embarrassed way. ’ “Yes, for the present,” she said, in a low _* -~tone. _ _ “For the present?” he repeated. for good.” Z “Why do you say that?” she asked, with a - sidelong glance in his face. “Because I imagine you must be making more money at your present occupation.” : “My present occupation!” she said, with burn- ing cheeks. : : ~~ Yes. I see you are singing at the moving _ picture show in this block.” z - She hung her head and blushed redder still. ~*~ “Are you angry with me for doing so?” she ~~ said, catching her voice, while tears sprang into her eyes. ; with you, Little Red Riding Héod?” “You mean “Angry he = id “J am not the master of your actions. - I have no right to find fault with what you do. _ You are a free agent. If you prefer to adopt the vaudeville, what have I to say about it?” : “You saw my name on the bill as you came along,” she said, after a pause, without looking at-him. *to witness your performance, I entered the show - and heard you sing.” H = You did ? Had - stopped. “You are a fine little singer, Ruby, and an ac- complished one. You have sang before on the ted, in wonder. -“Why, you ‘ yourself like a professional!- You are _ born artiste.” : She showed no pleasure at his ‘compliment. _“T have a voice, and I act naturally; that is all. _ The manager of the place heard me sing at an entertainment some weeks ago. That was before he opened the Palace. Three days ago he came ‘to our rooms and made me an offer of $10 a an I would have refused, as I do not care m ithe stage, but I felt it was the only ‘could make the $15 loaned me, so I sing for him for weeks. This is As soon as the time ends, and I seen you, 5 pF she es, but——” : Bs / “But what, Ruby?” ase ‘She looked bets Oo = walk, Then she raised Son: to have’me sing in publi¢?” no if T had anything to say; but that displeases you.” oak Two not. A $50,000 DEAL = =< “Yes, and I was very much surprised. Curious * Cae : 5 5 aie Ee ae: 2 : = ie on £ a, . * 4 11. “Why do you say that?” “Because I think more of your good opinion than of any one in the world next to grandma.” “Do you mean that, Ruby?” “Yes,” she replied earnestly. “Let us go down the street. I want to talk with you.” : They went on together toward the East river.- “So you want to earn that $15 I gave you te help your grandmother?” he said. j “Yes.” “Suppose we call the fifteen off?” She shook her head. “We owe it, and it’s got to be paid,” she sail resolutely. , : “But I’d rather not kave you earn it singing on the Bowery.” ‘She- remained silent a moment. “It’s the only way I can earn enough to pay’ you. ‘ “Suppose you let me send-you to a commercial schoo! where you will be taught bookkeeping and ~ stenography. In three months you ought to be proficient enough to come to work for me. The young lady at my offiee is eoing to get married shortly. ‘That means that she is about to leave the office work for good. You will have a steady position with me, at good pay, with easy hours. will earn enough to enable you and your grandmother to mové from that tenement to a couple of rooms in a better part of the city. In fact, I want you to move right away and let me “stand the ex®ense./ You see, Ruby, I’ve taken a great liking to you, and I want to improve your condition in life and make a little lady of you. I am ready to do as much for you as though | you were my sister. It is up to- yoy to say ~ whether I am to have the privilege of looking out for you and your grandmother. “Why do you take so much interest in us, Mr. Hardy ?” = . “There are some questions a person can’t an- swer, and that’s one of them. Perhaps it’s for =: the same reason that makes you wish to stand ” well in my good opinion. In one way we are : nothing’ to each other; in another we seem to be ; a great deal to each other. Now, I want you to think it over, Little Red Riding Hood. I want — you to come to my .office, Room 551, Redding ; Building, to-morrow Torning or the next day; tae and let me know what your answer will be. You can talk it over with your grandmother, if you want to. You must act as.you think best. Of course, if you’d rather follow vaudeville than——” “No, no, no! I wouldn’t sing to-night if I could — 7 help it, now that you know and disapprove of it. -_ I will do anything you say.” —~ ee “You willigo to school, then, and prepare your self for my office?” 5 “Yes, since you wish it... : “aes “But do you wish it?” ~ 2 be. “I wish anything that pleases you.” “Why?” hee : : : “Because—I want you to think well of me.” “Very well. Give the manager of the Palace — notice that_you have to quit him Saturday and call at my office on Monday morning, — PS good-by, Ruby, and remember that hence L you are under my wing. That I have your inter-— est at heart and will take care of your future. = y Fat: ee ae act + a

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> He shook hands with her and they parted at the corner. CHAPTER IX.—Hal Gets Copper Mine Agency. Next day another broker called on Hal and proposed to let him in on a good thing in the shape of some Mexican Imprevement stock that was certain to make its possessor rich in time - if he only held on to it long enough. -Hal told his visitor that he didn’t care to tie any of his money up in unproductive stock on the chance of making a fortune out of it. The broker retired, =e convinced that the boy broker was no easy mark. = That morning Mr. Thompson called to see him. Ser “JT want you to execute a commission for our firm, Hardy.” : I shall be glad to. do some : “All right, sir. >= > business for you.” ; “Simon Pollack has been made the Eastern - agent of El Capitan Copper Mine—a new com- - pany lately formed to develop the property. He is offering a portion of the first issue of treasury stock at 50 cents. They have a par value of ~~ $10. They have no actual market value as yet as the stock is not listed, but they are worth 50 -._ eents.. I want you to buy all you can from him at that price. I will pay you for it on delivery, but if you are shy of funds I will make you any reasonable advance you need to put the - matter through,” said the broker. ' . “T guess I have funds enough @ start the ball rolling. Have you any idea how many shares My. Pollack has?” ... “L have not. He might have sold ber, though I have an idea: that he hasn’t, for a. new stock is not easy to promote. Pollack is a _ peculiar bird. It. would be useless for our firm, - or any regular trader, to buy more than a lim- ~ ited number of El Capitan from him, except at a _ price higher than he is offering to outsiders. You are not yet recognized as a broker doing any _ great amount of business, so I think you'll be’ - able to do business with him.” Thompson went away and Hal mad@ an entry in his book. Then he went over to the Johnstone ‘Building to see Pollack. YS _. “Vell, Mr. Hardy, vat can I do for you to- esc ANE con: the trader. - “Can you tell me where I can get any of the ne’ 1 Capitan stock? J heard you had sold me lately,” said Hal. é ; $ “How much you vant of the stock?” Mees iis ape ite a num- ge pre B S$ = jae aranti aoe tar teh S k made me agent for the | to ‘busy to look afte A $50,000 DEAL ‘young broker who was well able to attend to the — you $5 a week, w made agent in my place. Den you can shell the ~ stock at 60 cents. Dat vill give you a profit of $4,000. It vill pay your expenses for the year and vat you make on your other business vill be _ all profit.” : - F Hal, who was considering how he would get~ hold of the rest of the shares. without exciting ~ suspicion in Pollack’s mind, was delighted at his proposal. He deemed it prudent to hesitate and not show any eagerness to take up the offer.. “Twenty thousand dollars is a lot of money to put into a new mining stock,” he said doubtfully. — “Maybe so, but El Capitan is qa sure winner. - I vould advise you to keep dat stock yourselluf for a rise in the price.” ‘“Do you think the agency will be worth any- thing ?” : “Sure. If I had less business I vould be glad to keep it myshelf,” The fact was, Pollack had accepted the agency merely for the purpose of getting the large com- ~ mission which the company offered for the placing © of the 50,000 shares it had sent him to dispose of. He had got rid of 10,000 shares in small lots so _ far, but the stock had gone off so slow that he was sick of the job and he was looking around for somebody to take the stock and agency off — his hands whén Hal called on him. The boy took the second 10,000 he offered so readily that it struck him here was a chance to Work off the whole thing on the boy broker.. After some fur- ther talk, Hal agreed to take all the stock and — accept the agency, Pollack had his stenographer _ draw up an application for Hal to sign. After the boy went away he indorsed the paper and — sent it off to the copper company, with a letter from himself, saying that he had sold all the — stock, and owing to pressing business engage- ments he would be obliged to transfer the agency to some one else. He recommended Hal Hardy as a responsible _ affairs of the company in Wall Street. That af- ternoon Hal paid for the stock and delivered it — to Thompson & Talley, as per arrangement. He — received his $20,000 back and a commission of anges a Sig abate complimented him on — is shrewdness in gettin ossession of all ' stock Pollack had. shes a the “You may also congratulate yourself on the — fact that he is turning the agency over to wed Hardy. I will tell you privately that the mine is a come~ and that it will be selling for $1 and over a share within a month,” said the broker. “The name of the company on your door then — will be worth something to you. simply done himself out of a 1 ey guarantee to make a rapher and~bookkeeper of you. After t) can perfect yourself in my office. 1 will hile you are learning. A -

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elevated. -We will look for a place while we are uptown.” Hal then put on his hat and hémand Ruby ~ took a car uptown. While he was away a couple of brokers came in to see him about mining Shares they wanted to get him to take off their "hands. Pollack had told them he was easy on Some things. They told Miss Finch they would They came in about four, together, The inter- _ View was short, for Hal told them he had all the Mining stock he wanted to carfy at present. As a matter of fact, he wasn’t carrying any. - During the week he was called on to testify _ at the trial of Martin Daly, the man who had ~ Carried off the bag of gold in the cab. Daly was ' convicted and got five years in State’s prison. A few days afterward Hal noticed that N. & O. Was unusually low. Judging that it ought to ~ call again. and found the boy broker at his desk. advance shortly, he gave Halpin an order to buy - ___ 4,000 shares for his account at the market price, which was 80. Inside of two weeks the stock ‘Went up nearly four points and Hal sold out at - @ profit-of $15,000. He was now worth $80,000 Se-endl felt that he was on Easy Street. His customers continued to increase at a slow Pate, practically all of them being people he had ' Mever met personally. About this time he re- _ .eived his official appointment as agent for El Capitan Copper Mine, and was-instructed to get the transfer books and other documents from _ Broker Pollack. He was told that he would re- ceive 50,000 shares of a new stock issue shortly, Which he was to sell at not less than $1. _. As soon as he got the stock he was to put in _ the company’s application to have the mine listed _ ©n the Curb Exchange pe also at the Jersey ‘City Exchange. The président told him to put ‘company’s name on his office door and issue _ ‘the usual notice to the brokers that all the com- : Leap Eastern business would be transacted at and office. Hal presented his order for the books other things to Pollack and that broker _ turned them over to him, congratulating him on having taken charge of the copper mining com- _ Pany’s Wall Street office. A week later the news ~ Was. circulated in the financial district that El ~ Capitan had opened up a rich deposit of copper _ ©re. Pollack, who had expected nothing from ', he mine, nearly had a fit when he heayd about it. : me first thing he did was to rush over to see ; “I haf a customer who wants 20,000 shares of : “Maybe you have some of I gif you 60 price that I paid : _ You sold dat stock vithout making any you the truth, Mr. Pollack, I didn’t ‘stock for . I had an order to get that is how I came to visit you.” . * ; the man you sold it all to?” - business oe _. The affairs of my A $50,000 DEAL a favor ‘to 13 stock and had used the boy broker to secure it for him. In view of the unexpected development in the copper mine, he was intensely disgusted to think that not only had he let .the stock slip through his fingers into the hands of somebody who would make a’good thing out of it, but he . had thrown up the agency of a company which was likely to amount to something. “You haf none of the steck left, den?” he said, glaring at Hal. “Not a share,” answered the young broker. “Maybe you could get me some, eh? “T expect to have some new stoék for sale shortly, but it won't be sold for less than $1, and it may. go higher.” “T can’t pay no such price as dat. it sheap or not at all.” “I believe it won’t go cheaper than $1.” “You ought to shell it sheaper to me than any- hody else.” “What for?” “Because I put the agency in your way.” “You seemed glad at the time to get it off your hands.”. ; “Dat has nothing to do with it. I done you, if it to you. It is usual in dem cases to return the favor. Maybe you vill take dem Harlequin shares I spoke to you about? If you do dat, I yill call it square.” “Sorry, but I have no use for the Harlequin stock, It hasn’t any market. I can’t afford to tie any of my money up in unsalable stock.” “J vish you good day!” said Pollack, and he went off, angry. I must haf CHAPTER X.—Hal Gets a Big Customer. Hal got Ruby and her grandmother domiciled fh a small cheap suite of three rooms in a pri- vate house on a side street off Third. avenue, and had made the acquaintence of the latter. He. found the old — was a person who had seen. better days, and, like many people, once prosperous, had, by a reyerse of Fortune’s wheel, come down in life and, being handicapped by age, had drifted very low indeed. She was very grate- ful to the young broker for the interest he was taking in Ruby, who was the apple of her eyes and she assured him that neither of them would . forget what they owed him. Hal called once a week to hand them the $5 and find out what progress Ruby was making at the business school, and he was pleased to see that she was doing very well. The attractions of Nellie Price seemed to have lost their hold on, the boy, for, to her disappointment, he became‘a less’ frequent visitor. In due time the copper company sent Hal a batch of blank ‘certificates, signed by the president, ee-pemaient and treas- urer, with instructions to offer 50,000 shares of the new issue at the price, which was cause, the price dropped below discontinued . ~ -_

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14 inclosed a circular describing El Capitan. In is way he got many orders for the stock by mail. One morning a small man, with white hair . 5 and beard, walked into Hal’s office. eS “T called to see Hal Hardy,” he said, in a voice = _ that did seem to have been affected by age. eet es my name, sir,” said Hal, pointing to a ks : chair. “So you are the boy broker I’ve heard a lot about,” said the visitor, sizing Hal up sharply. “Yes, I’m a boy broker. What can I do for you?” ‘ “Do you think you could buy fifty or sixty thousand shares of a good stock without attract- ing a lot of attention to the fact?” The visitor didn’t look like a person who could pay for a large quantity of average-priced stock, therefore Hal looked at him narrowly, wondering if his visitor was a mild kind of a lunatic, or just joking. However, he replied that he was able to do business as well as any other broker and guessed if such a commission came his way “he could execute it all right.. : “Think you-could, eh?” said the caller, dryly. “Well, sir, it’s only a short time ago that I _ purchased 40,000 shares of mining stock for a eee = deni of brokers, whose client had special reasons for wanting to get hold of it,” said Hal. “The re brokers couldn’t get it themselves, so they put me on the,job. I secured it inside of an hour from the broker who had it and who refused to sell it in very large lots to regular brokers: I -~ guess that proves that I can buy in an emer- gency.” \ . “Young man, I am sorry you haven’t a private office, as what I have to say is strictly confiden- -. tial,” said the visitor, in a sharp, businesslike ‘tone that did not coincide with his white beard ~~ and hair. ; “T have perfect confidence in my stenographer, sir.” “That may be, but I have perfect confidence in : anaes: but myself. Send the young lady out for, -a wal: ae e Ss fos or eae : ‘ are making a rather unusual request, = sir” said Hal. } _ “Perhaps; but the cireumstances are unusual, as you will presently understand.” Hal, somewhat impressed by his visitor’s words, decided to humor him, though he determined to ‘be on his guard, for he was not thoroughly as- sured of the man’s sanity. He wrote a few words on a slip of paper and went over to Bessie Finch’s He her the slip. She read it, put er hat and walked outside. She did not leave corridor in the neighborhood of the office, ugh, for’ Hal had told her to remain within ‘of his voice. \ | “Now, sir, I in. nt your service,” said the > broker. ‘Oblige me by turning the key irf the door,” id the caller. “I don’t want any one to come unawares on me,” yi: 2 ag <2 —< and bray ate oe 7 ger put up his hands and gs white a and beard, which were e piece, and sat revealed as a shrewd, black- an = perhaps fifty - A $50,000 DEAL when I was a messenger, and once since, replied Hal. “I cant#say that-I] know who you are.” “There is my card,” said the man, handing a small piece of white pasteboard to the young trader, Hal looked at it. It bore the name and ad- dress of one of the biggest and most astute oper- ators in Wall Street. He was the Jay Gould of the financial district. “Are you Mr. John Gregson?” said Hal, im- pressed by the card. “Yes, young man, I am John Gregson. have heard of me?” : “Who has not in Wall Street?” Gregson smiled in a grim way. “I adopted this disguise to hide my identity. I did not care to be seen coming into this build- ing. If I had been recognized, I should probably have been traced to your office. My mission is a secret one, so it was necessary that my coming should not be noted.” “You wish to have me do something for you?” “I am going to place an important commission in your hands. Its success depends on the way - ~ you execute it. I cannot intrust the matter to any of my regular brokers for reasons that I deem good and sufficient. You have not had business dealings with me, and noj one would be likely to suspect you as hgvin y- I have heard about you, and have had you looked up in an offhand way. I think you will do. If you~ make good, it will mean a lot to you. But it will be absolutely necessary that our connection at any time should remain a secret to every one but our two selves, You understand?” = “Yes, sir.” “Very good. Now You rll Yell you what I want you to do.” . Gregson drew his chair close to Hal’s desk, reached for a pad and wrote an order which he signed with, his familiar signature that was good on a check for many millions. The order called for any part of 60,000 shares of the.Little An- chor Railroad Co. at\a certain latitude of price. “You will have the certificates made out to | different names, no two lots to be alike. Here is a list for you to select from. Take them at random. Have the stock delivered C. O. D. at the addresses attached to the names. If you are questioned, state you are buying for regular cus- tomers. Here is a list of brokers who have, or. did have, the stock. When you have exhausted © it, you must make inquiries for Little Anchor as you would for any other stock you wanted to buy. If you wish to communicate with m you can do so by letter addressed to me inel in a second envelope addressed to any person on _ my list of names. When I wish to see you, I will call in my disguise. Now give me your Jhome address. I may need it.” - 4 Hal gave it to him. : “I think that is all. Begin right away. You _ will charge the usual: commission, and at the proper time I will settle it in cash.” 5 og Gregson resumed his disguise, and told Hal he “could unlock the doot. Shaking hands iin the 3 young broker, he passed ow no one who was closely acquainted with the migh' would have sus i identity i

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down to congratulate himself on having secured Gregson for a special customer, and to map out his line of action. B CHAPTER XI.—Hal ‘Puts the Coup Through. In less than half an hour Hal was on the job, . ~ and that afternoon he bought 30,000 Little An- chor shares. Next day he secured 20,000 more. That exhausted his list of brokers. He needed 10,000 more to fill his order. That didn’t seem 7 like a great many after what he had already got, but he spent the best part of a day hunting al- most in vain for more. _By four o’clock he had bought only 4,000. He dropped in at Thompson ; & Talley’s to see Bob, and while there he asked the cashier if the firm had any Little Anchor. a “None for sale; but we have a block of 5,000 on which we have loaned money,” replied at er. : “Could I get the name and address of the _- owner of the stock? I should like to see if I can buy the shares from him.” : < “You'll have to come in about ten in the morn- “"™ ing and see one of the firm.” ; “All right,” said Hal. : Next morning he called and saw Mr. Thomp- -gson. He stated his errand and the broker said: *T’d like to oblige you, but it’s contrary to the rules of the office. However, I’ll see the gentle- man and make him an offer for the stock for z you. What are you paying for it?” — Hal stated what he would give, and Thompson ; told him he would send him word about the mat- ter some time that day. - *Very well, sir, If you can get the stock at that price, buy it for me.” . ~~. About two o’clock Thompson notified Hal that ~ ‘he had bought the stock and he wanted to know who he should transfer the certificates to. Hal sent him one of the names on his list,-and told him to deliver the stock C. O. D. at the gentle- man’s office. The boy, having secured 59,000 _ shares, ‘concluded he had filled the bill as near as he could, and he started a letter addressed to * Join Gregson to tell him. While he was thus S ged the door opened and Gregson, in dis- guise, came in. Miss Finch was out at the time, “so they had the office to themselves. Hal told -Gregson what he had eo aig and the oper- ator expressed his satisfaction, : - “You've done better than I expected vee woul ardy,” he said. “When the last 5,000 block shal ve been delivered to Mr. Andrews, I will have the necessary majority of shares to carry my point. Make out your statement now and I will ay you your commission.” __ ‘did so, and his commission footed up the e sum of $%,375, which Gregson paid in cash. seen Er Tl keep you in mind, Hardy, and will employ again when I have occasion for your sery- but remember, your usefulness to me will end entirely on the fact of you keeping our ness connection in the dark,” said the oper- ee 7 rn. from <4 hi: F have “oven toot you, poate a eee Begg at gia cs gee Hale sal = and took fi a few days Hal read in the ‘papers: mS a SS Ste es ea ees A $50,000 DEAL _the stock.” b= that Gregson, the financier and operator, had secured control of the Little Anchor Railroad line, and would control the board of directors at the next annual meeting. The news created Some consternation in certain quarters and a quiet investigation was started to discover how Gregson had got the stock, Brokers known to - - have had some of the stock were interviewed, and the fact was developed that in each instance they had sold it to the boy broker and delivered it C. O. D. to his customer. In this way the man who made the investigation found that Hal Har- dy had apparently been favored with orders from a dozen customers for the same stock. Of course, the customers were all acting for. Gregson. He called upon Hal and asked him if he. could buy him 5,000 shares of Little Anchor. Hal told him he would do so if he could get it. “Well, see what you can do,” said the visitor, who was pretty certain that the boy wouldn’t be able to find the shares. “Send me word to my office.” He went away and Hal tried to fill his order. He couldn’t get hold of a share. The price of the stock had jumped up ten points on the publica- tion of the news that Gregson had secured con- trol of the road. So Hal was forced to notify his latest customer that he could not get the stock. The man called around to see him again.. og you couldn’t find any Little Anchor?” he said. “Not a share. The price has gone up, and those who have it are holding on to it. At any rate, I couldn’t find any, though I sent a broker into the Exchange to bid for it,” said Hal. “I understand that you bought some of the stock lately for several customers.” “Who told you that?” “I heard so from the brokers who sold you “You mustn’t believe all you hear, Mr. Sharp,” smiled Hal. “You might as well admit it, for my informa- tion is to be relied on. ” Fee “Whether it’s so or not, I never give out any — business. connected with this office.” zie “J suppose you have read in the papers that John Gregson has secured the majority of Little Anchor stock?” said the man. A “Yes, I read about it.” “He’s’ been trying to get control of the road for some time. It was you-who helped him to,it.”._ “Me! Ridiculous!” __ a » “Not at all. I have traced the sale of at least 40,000 shares of the stock to you. Each sale you made you had the certificates made out in — the name of a different man. ~ These men are merely dummies in the transaction. If they gave _ you the orders individually, they were acting for __ Gregson; but it is my opinion that you received __ the entire order from Gregson himself. Do you deny that?” se “T have nothing to say on a subject that does not concern you.” = = “How do you know it doesn’t concern me?” _ “I don’t see how my private business should in- terest you.” : ¢ : _ “Well, Iam interested in learning how Gr got hold of just the amount of Little Ar “of. None of the pers

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son, or to any known representative of him. How eame Gregson to employ you?” “What do I know about Mr. Gregson? Who told you that he employed me? You are mak- ~ ‘ing assertions that you have no evidence of. If - this line of talk is all that brought you here, I _-, shall be obliged to you if you will go, as I have = business to attend to,” said Hal. 3 “Then you refuse to admit that you helped = Gregson get hold of over 50,000 shares of Little Anchor stock?” . a “J have nothing further to say on the sub- ~ * ject, except that I should be very glad to have ; Mr. Gregson on my books as a customer; but I don’t think that a big operator like him is likely to do business with a boy broker,” said Hal. The visitor, who had remained standing dur- ing the interview, walked up and down the room a couple of times and finally, without another word, took his departure. Hal immediately wrote a letter to Gregson, detailing all that had trans- = pired between him and his visitor. ee “The investigations of this man appear to es- tablish a business connection between us with respect to the Little Anchor deal. He has traced the sales of over 40,000 shares to me, and as the 59,000 shares I bought for you has placed you - jn control of the road, Wall Street is bound to _ believe that I helped you to the stock. In fact, no other conclusion’can be arrived at. I have made no admissions, but no one expects me to make them. If the brokers I did business with - had kept the matter to themselves, as I think they should have done, nothing would have been known concerning my agency in the case,” wrote son’s allies on the list, and the ae duly re- ceived it. He smiled grimly when he ‘ead it. He had accomplished his purpose and fie did not care a whole lot what Wall Street thou, ht ‘on the subject. By next day the financial dis- trict generally believed that the boy broker had acted for Gregson in the Little Anchor coup. Nobody doubted the report, for it was just like the big operator to take some unusual method of Pipe Fae out his plans. ; Dozens of brokers asked Hal about the matter, but he declined to affirm or deny his alleged con- nection with Gregson. ] : any admissions to Halpin, who quizzed him on bon subj At any rate, Hal got the credit for e deal in a clever way, and it gave him quite a reputation in the Street. The news- i commented on his presumed part in the coup, and as a result quite a number of people eame to his office and gave him their business. “also helped him to dispose of all the rest of El Capitan copper shares at the market 2 of $1.40, and the president of the company working is final remittance. - he APTER XII.—Is Harlequin a Winner? the end of three months from the date Ruby entered the business school the manager that she was competent to enter eit was unt _ she would 2. He had provided her - _ He sent the letter under cover of one of Greg- . He wouldn’t even make. him a commendatory letter when he sent A. $50,000 DEAL with new clothes, and when she came down to work at the office no one would have recognized her as Little Red Riding*Hood, the ex-newsgirl of Wall Street. Her chief duty was to prepare copies of Hal’s tri-weekly market letter and send them to his customers and all who wrote him for information. On the day that Ruby began work at the office, Bob Gleason dropped in about noon. Hal'was out. “Hello, Little Red Riding Hood!” said Bob. “So you are one of us down here in Wall Street! Hal told me he was going to take you on as soon as you were able to hold your end up.” “Yes, and I owe all my good fortune to him. He is the finest boy in the world,” she said, with emphasis. _“That’s what he is. He'll look after you, all right. You have got hold of a good job, because Hal is becoming more important every day. It won’t be long before he’ll have t6 branch out into a suite of rooms. A year ago he wasn’t worth much more than a couple of thousand dol- lars; now I’ll bet he’s worth anywhere between fifty and a hundred thousand,*said Bob. “T shall always be grateful to him,” she said. “Tll bet you will, You’re all right, Miss French. If you were not, Hal never would haye taken you up. Where is Hal—do you know?” “He went out on business an hour ago and has not yet returned.” “Well, tell him I was here.” E Bob then went away. Five minutes later a man came In. # “Mr. Hardy is not in, eh?” he said to Ruby. : “No, sit, but he may return at any moment.” “I wish to leave an order for him to buy 20,000 shares of Harlequin Mining Co. stock for — me. Can you take it?” - “T suppose so.” “Give me a piece of paper and I will make out the order.”» j Ruby handed him a sheet of the office paper bearing Hal’s name. The visitor made out the ~ order in- regular shape and signed it, It author- ized the young broker to purchase 20,000 shares of Harlequin for 25 cents, or even 30 cents, if he had to give it. “J will leave ten as deposit,” said the man. receipt for it.” ; He handed the money to Ruby, and she made out a receipt and signed it. “Tell Mr. Hardy that I will call some time to- morrow with the rest of the money, and I hope he will have the stock ready for me, as I want to go to Philadelphia by an afternoon train.” e man then took his leave, and Ruby placed the money in one of the drawers of her table. When Hal came. in he saw_an envelope lying on the floor near the door. He picked it up and looked at it. A part of the name and all the address was torn away. Hal wondered who had dropped it—doubtless some visitor who had been there while he was out. He pulled out the en- closure to see if he could get a line on the per- son. It was addressed simply, “Dear Jim,” and — went on to state that a rich vein of ore been discovered in the Harlequin. mine which was be- ing kept quiet until the insiders had bought in as much of the outstanding stock as they could find. The letter told Jim that there were only — ——% - P ér cent. of the purchase price “Please give me a ,

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eae t } = about 30,000 shares of the company held in the _ East, most of which was owned"by Broker Simon Pollack. ‘ _ “You want to get that stock and hold on to it. I advise you not to call on Pollack yourself, as he has the reputation of being a suspicious old _ fox. Get some broker who is not very well known - —some new man in Wall Street—to buy it for » you. Better not suggest that: Pollack has the - Shares, but let him hunt for them. Somebody - is sure to put him on to Pollack, for.it is known _ that he has Harlequin stock. Thus the shares ~ can bought without exciting undue notice. You /ought to get the stock for a quarter, but if you have to give 30 cents, or a little higher, it =, -wil pay you, for when the news comes out, Har- ee lequin is liable to jump to $12” = he letter was signed, “Your friend, Bill Rug- 3 , a It was dated a week previous at Goldfiel - Nevada. “Who's been in here, Ruby?” ‘Hal asked. Be _ “Bob Gleason, and a man who left an order for - you to buy some stock. He left a deposit of She took the money and the order out of the _ drawer and handed both to him. Hal whistled a5 he looked at the order. It called for the puf- hase, as the reader knows, of 20,000 shares of Harlequin stock. » _. “I gave him a receipt for the money,” said Ruby. “He told me to tell you that he would be - in some time to-morrow with the rest of the Money, and he hoped you would have the stock or him as he wanted to go to Philadelphia by an afternoon train.” - Hal sat d at his desk. The order was sign- d by James Carroll, and there seemed to be no doubt that’ it was he who had accidentally drop- the letter which conveyed him the tip that had evidently induced him to make the purchase of the Harlequin stock. - “Tf that tip is genuine, he’s a lucky chap, prob- ably,” ood F, Hal. “Well, I must enter the or- der in my books and go and buy the stock for him. I hate to deal with Pollack for it after sy arni ne him down before, but I suppose I’ll have = » He entered the order, counte nd taking $4,500 more from his safe, he went er to the Johnstone Building. Pollack was in, ie back in his pivot chair like a bloated spi- in his web, waiting for an unsuspicious fly. “Vell, vat can I do for you, Hardy?” he said. _ “L have concluded to buy those Harlequin shares offered me if you still have them,” said the brok gz er. x faybe I don’t vant to shell dem now. I don’t de money. Perhaps if J hold on to dem long zh, dey vill pay bétter to shell dem. Harle- alvays looked to me like a vinner, and I’m surprised dat it ain’t vorth $1 a share. I it vill be vorth dat some time,” said you don’t go ce -_ tango anyt’in: if somebody pays me Yeu tke dig desk maybe? ‘Vell, I ou for $75. I t’row in the shair, too.” 1 laughed Hal. “I don’t need another the money over, ' bua dem pictures on the wall? Soe ‘A $50,000 DEAL 17 “I haf some. Red Peacock shares for ten cents. Maybe you like dat better as Harlequin ?” Apparently, Pollack wasn’t anxious to dispose of Harlequin. AY see you don’t want to sell Harlequin, so I won t waste your time,” said Hal, rising. ‘I said I shell anyt’ing. Vat-you give for Harlequin?” - ee “Twenty cents,” said Hal, at a ies. Vat! Twenty shents! Oh, do you vant to rob me? My price is 30 shents.” _ “Why, you offered it to me for 25 cents some time ago.” “Dat is the time you ought to haf bought it.” _“T’m afraid we can’t do business, then. I won't give over a quarter.” “Vell, I let youd haf it for 29 shents.” “No. I won’t go a cent over 25 cents.” Hal’s customer had instructed him to give 80 cents if necessary, but the boy meant to buy it for a quarter if he could, for he had an idea Pollack would let it go at that. The broker came down to 28 cents, but Hal remained firm. After some dickering Pollack finally agreed.to sell the stock for 25 cents. So Hal paid him $5,000 and took the 20,000 shares. On his way back to his office he dropped in to see Halpin. After a short talk the broker said: : “Heard the news about Harlequin Mining Co.?” “You mean about the discovery of ore in the mine?” asked Hal. “Discovery of ore! I should say not,” “What, then?” ; “The mine has been token off the Goldfield Exchange.” “The dicken$ it has!” exclaimed the boy, in surprise. “Why so?” “Because the mine has been abandoned as a* dead one by the company.” . , “Get out—you’re fooling me!” Halpin took a Western mining paper off the top of his desk, glanced over it, put his thumb on a paragraph and handed it to Hal. “Read that,” he said. Hal read it. It was the announcement that all work had been abandoned in the mine, and that the property, machinery, outhouses as well as an adjoining undeveloped claim, was in the market for $50,000 cash. ~ “That looks mighty funny in the face of a letter I found in my office a while ago,” said Hal. “Here it is. Read it.” The broker did so. “You found that in your office, eh? Did Pol- lack pay you a visit to-day?” “No. e person who lost that letter called while I was out and left an order for the pur- chase of 20,000 shares at 25 cents. My stenog- ae took the order and $500 deposit from im " “He left $500 deposit?” ; “Yes. That looks as if he meant business.” . “It would seem so.’ Did you go and buy the = rig him of Pollack?” ; “You paid him $5,000 for it?” - “Yes.” the stock?” chad supntes he meget elite suppose he never Pons “He'll be out $500.” — ae “When do you expect your customer to call for —

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18 “And how much will you be out?” Hal stared blankly at Halpin. He woke up to =f the unpleasant possibility that if the paragraph rm in the paper were true, he stood to lose $4,500 Was his luck beginning to turn against him? = CHAPTER XIII—The Man from Nevada. “Look here, Hal,” said Halpin, “I’m afraid -you have been stuck.” ~ “Stuck!” *Yes—by Pollack.” “What has Pollack got to do with it?” “That stock has been unsalable for the best part of a year. Pollack has had 20,000 shares that he couldn’t get rid of. Some time ago he a tried to unload it on you, but you would not take it. Well, he probably saw that paragraph, real- ized that the stock wasn’t worth the paper it was written on, and his foxy brain suggested a last desperate attempt to catch you with it. He _ got somebody in his confidence to call on you and ask you to buy the 20,000 shares for him. He could afford to lose $500 to make $5,000. The customer then dropped that letter for you to find and read. It was probably written in Pollack’s office. Thé envelope ‘is torn where the post-mark is usually stamped. Generally, the receiving post office puts its post mark on the pack. “There is none there, you see. Without knowing positively, it is my opinion that the whole thing is a put-up job on you and you have fallen into the trap—as people will’ some- times, even the smartest of us.” » “My gracious! If that is so, I shall feel like king myself around the block. I don’t mind * the loss of $4,500 so much, for I can easily stand it, but it galls me to feel that Pollack has the h on me,” said Hal, with a look of disgust. “Oh, well, it can’t be helped now, if it happens - to'be a fact. You can solace yourself with the ‘reflection that you took the first fall out of him - when you bought those 40,000 El] Capitan shares from him and he kindly turned the agency for - the company over to you. That-agency is well -worth twice $4,500 to you.” “Yes, that’s so; still it riles me to think how ‘easy I was in this Harlequin matter.” -_ Hal got up and went back to his office. He locked up the stock in his safe, satisfied that it uld remain there indefinitely. He said noth- __ ing to Ruby about the affair, for he judged she ould think he blamed her for taking the order. _ Hal remained in his office the best part of the ts ext day, but James Carroll failed to call for ~ fila. stock: At four o’clock Bob came in. ~~ “Say, Hal, I’ve something to tell you,” he said, , low tone. : + “Tell it, then.” ; oe bemeve yon been caught in any kind of a stock at. > A $50,000 DEAL were not worth a cent. He was tickled to death over having taken you in.” “What did Mr. Talley say?” : “He asked Pollack if he thought that was a square thing to do.” “Good! What reply had Pollack to that?” “He said everything was fair in Wall Street.” “Well, you needn’t say anything, but he skin- ned me, all right. However, I’m not going to show him up. If he tells many people about the transaction, I fancy he will show himself up. He is doubtless so pleased with having done me that he fails to see what a fool he is making of himself by giving it away.” : “That’s right. He will do himself more than $5,000 worth of injury. The worst of it is that he will make you look like an easy mark. You’ll have all the harpies of Wall Street calling on you to see what they can make out of you.” “The first one that comes in here with any such proposition is liable to be thrown out,” said Hal angrily. ~ “That’s right. Fire him!” grinned Bob. “How is Little Red Riding Hood coming on?” 3 “Fine as silk. She’s the best little girl in the ~ world.” “IT wouldn’t be surprised but one of these days she'll be the best little woman in the world to you. - “What do you mean by that?” = “Why, you will probably marry her.” “What makes you think I will?” “Well, straws show the way the wind blows,” said Bob pointedly. “Perhaps I might do worse than marry her. I have sized her up and I know she is the real thing. She doesn’t act one way and have a sec- ond side behind. She is as true as the magnetic needle is on the compass, and that’s saying a ~ great deal for girls nowadays.” I don’t wish you to understand that I am hitting at girls generally, for I’m not. They are simply brought ~ up in an artificial atmosphere, and are taught to play for a desirable husband, as the gamester plays his hand to-win. That doesn’t say they are not all right, at that, but I’d rather not be played for as a good thing to catch. I want to. play for the girl myself.” _ . “You won't have any trouble with Little Red — Riding Hood, for she thinks there is only one real boy in the world, and that’s you.” . “How do you know?” : “Because she told me you were the best boy im the world, and when she spoke there was some-— thing in her eyes that told me she’d die for you — if that were necessary.” : Hal drummed on his desk, and made no reply. “She’s huang Sos" improved, old man, since ou took her in hand,” went on Bob. “You pulled — hex and her old dmother out of the slums _ taken them. di = ;

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A $50,000 DEAL _ When she gets a little older,” said Hal. oa: t’s talk about something else.” Several weeks* passed away and the agent of ‘ v8 nee asked Hal if he wished to renew his _ tease of Room 551. ' - _ “No,” replied the young broker, “I’ve got to _ have larger quarters. I need a private room.” 3 “J 25 give you two connecijng rooms on the floor below.” . _ “What’s the rent?” The agent told him. , “TH look at them.” = as" can’t get possessign before. the first of _ May. . E “That will suit me all right.” f ae Accordingly, the agent took him to the offices _ and the.tenant permitted their inspection. The result was Hal signed a lease of them. That See a popular drama. After the show they start- _ ed for a Third avenue station, walking along a side street which seemed to be quite deserted at eaeenst. hour. As they approached the corner of . Madison avenue they heard a man’s cry for help. "Hal dropped Ruby’s arm and rushed forward the _ few féet that carried him to the corner. The two men were attacking a third, whom they had down. The young broker dashed at them with a shout. Takenby surprise, the pair of rascals left their vctim and took to their heels, Gisepprerns down the street, Hal found the man bleeding from a scalp wo __ He didn’t look over-prosperous, but footpads do not always stop to size a man up. His face vas bronzed and covered with whiskers, and he poke with a Western drawl. _ “Thanks, pard,” he said to Hal. “You came in time to saye me, and I’m obliged to you. Ty name is Jack Brewster, and I’m from Gold- > porter es - “Let me have your handkerchief and I’ll tie up your head. Your wound doesn’t appear to be “very serious. The druggist on the corner of _ Third avenue will fix you up. We’re going that w vas a prospector and knew a the Nevada mining districts. “Come down to my office in Wall street to-mor- w. I'd like to talk to you,” said Hal. - *T'li do it. What’s your business?” _ “Stock brokerage. Here’s my business card.” be on hand, d. I'd like to see you | a matter that brought me to New York— mine. great deal about I should say I have. I was es on the day ‘the news came that it had been abandoned «That ogee Got th nvtock yeu?” ; “That so, ? at s yet? = have. 3; have’ charged it up to profit and eanin ss, of 5 t you worry about that. The mine is all I could find a man willing to put up buy the property, I'd make ot i eee you would!” cried Hal incredu- condition that he gave me e ¥ a ¥ Fs “Now ~> _ evening Hal took Ruby to a Broadway theater to’ d, and assisted him on his feet, Serna ie _ During the walk, Hal learned that Brewster Perhaps you’ve heard of it. It’s » : * a: 19 “What do you know about the mine that the men who want to sell it are not aware of ?” “Tl tell you all about it to-morrow, pard, and then maybe you can introduce me to a party with e spondulix.” “Come down around ten, if you can.” “Tll be thar then.” Hal and Ruby left the man at the drug store and went on their way. CHAPTER XIV.—A $50,000 Deal. At half-past ten next morning, Jack Brewster, the man from Nevada, walked into Hal’s office. “Take a seat, Brewster, and I’ll hear what you have to say about the Harlequin mine. All re- — in the Western papers indicate that it’s. a ursted prospect.” ‘ “That’s because they don’t know anything about the mine.” ce “The owners wouldn’t offer to part, with it and an adjoining claim if they had the least idea it was worth working.” “They don’t know anything about it, either. Anyway, they haven’t any money to do anything, and they can’t raise it.” ‘ “What do you know about it?” = “You'll promise to keep the matter secret if I tell rou?” ” “Very good! [ went down into the shaft and examined the indications in the three abandoned tunnels. I made some probings, and guess what I brought to Jight.” “Indications of silver, I suppose.” “A ledge of quartz which I uncovered enough to show me it was the real goods,. Had the owners kept on in that tunnel one day more, they would have found it, too. I covered4t up again after taking out a bagful of samples which I had assayed and found totedyup $450 to the ton. That’s ore for you!” “T should say so!” : Here are a few of the samples, and here is the assayer’s figures.” . hs, Hal examined both. , The samples spoke for themselves, but there was no evidence in the as- sayer’s report to show where the ore had come from, . “What proof have you that this ore came out of Harlequin?” : “No proof.” “You need something better tham your word to : “eonvince a capitalist.” r “IT expect to take him right to the mine and show him the silver ledge.” “Then I'll go out there with you and if I see the ledge I'll buy the property and give you a half interest in it.” “You've got the’ money to do it?” “I have. Enough to buy the mine and start the ball rolling if it’s all you say it is.” ore “You can you go as soon as I fix matters »I can stay away a couple of weeks. Say in three days.” vat a, aaa Gotaota sis Savina, 3 . ay, 2 Evo days later he and Brewster started for Ne take my word on that. When will | ? The sooner the better, before somebody else accidentally makes the ae te ess att “Tl so that

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3 k vada. They reached Goldfield in due time, and on the following day went to the Harlequin mine, | where Brewster soon convinced Hal that the : property was intersected by a rich lode of silver Fi ore. Hal then bought out the owners of the = property, and agreed to pay them $50,000 in five 4 equal instalments of $10,000 each, the first to be made on signing the papers. The deal was put through, Hal paid the first instalment down, and the sale was duly registered in the county clerk’s y office. He then returned to New York, leaving Brewster in charge. The purchase of the Harle- quin by Hal Hardy of New York, a Wall Street broker, was duly published in the Western pa- am and the fact was known in the city when al got back. “What in thunder did you buy that mine for?” asked Halpin, when the boy made his appearance >. in his office. “T bought it to get square on Pollack,” laugh- ed Hal... “What. do you mean by that?” Ss “T was joking, of course, Pollack sold me what ‘ne thought was a gold brick, but it wasn’t. I wouldn’t sell those 20,000 shares for $2 at this . moment. That mine is a winner, but the original owners didn’t know it. Only 100,000 shares were sold altogether. Brewster and. I hold 40,000 os each, which- leaves only 20,000 on the market. We picked up 60,000 for a song. Brewster puts =e in the sxperieaice while I put in the money.- When I go back, a meeting will be called of the few stockholders whose stock I wouldn’t buy, as I didn’t want to clean out everybody. I shall elect myself a director, and my partner another. The other stockholders will constitute the rest of the board. Then I’ll make myself president, and transfer the main office to this city, leaving the mine in charge-of my associate and the branch _ office, too, As soon as we begin operations on - the miné we'll have it listed again, and I caleu- late to start it at $1 a share.” “One dollarta share for the stock of a dead mine!” cried Halpin. _ “No, not for a dead mine, but a mine that’s come to life with paying ore.” - =~ Look here, Hardy, what are you trying to give me?” “Can you keep a seeret, Mr. Halpin?” “Tf necessary. : - “Then keep this one—before’ I purchased the Harlequin mine I was taken down into it and with my own eyes I saw a lode of silver ore ~ several feet wide and of unknown length, which - assays at $450 a ton.” - “Who discovered it?” “My partner in the enterprise—Jack Brewster, rospector.” : “Hal then explained how he made Brewster’s acquaintance, and how Brewster accidentally found the lode while inspecting the mine. broker whistled. That afternoon Hal met “lack on the street. : “How do pe do, Mr, Pollack!” said Hal, grasp- ‘ing the broker by the hand and asking it effu- sively, “I really don’t know how to thank you ” ’ ’ talkin’ about?” ejaculated the stout g the boy with a doubtful look. about! Why, the Harlequin mine, of ou sold me 20,000 shares for a quar- The Pol- at you er, A $50,000 DEAL “Vat of it? You bought dem vith your eyes . open. I didn’t press you to buy dem. I offered you Red Peacock and Atlas Consolidated, but you didn’t vant anything but Harlequin. It ain’t my fault if the mine vent up the spout and you got stuck.” “Not at all, Mr. Pollack. Harlequin is.a win- ner. Didn’t you hear that I bought the mine and everything on it, with an adjoining claim, for $50,000 ?” “You bought dat mine for $50,000?” “T did, and I wouldn’t take half a million this minute for my half-interest in it. Pollack, I am extremely grateful to you for selling me that stock and thus interesting me in the mine, In the course of a month you will hear news from it that will open your eyes. Good-by!” and Hal walked off, leaving the stout broker in a state of general perplexity. a In a few days Hal returned to Goldfield with a bunch of money to finance his new proposition. The miners of the district were rather surprised to see a large force of men put to work on the presumed dead mine. When the ledge had been ‘fully opened up the news of its discovery was ~ given out. The former owners were thunder- -struck and couldn’t believe it till they visited the property and saw with their own eyes what they had missed by a hair. The news of the rich lode reached New York, and, circulating around Wall Street, came to Pollack’s ears. Then he had a fit in earnest, and understood what Hal had meant when he told him on the street that he’d hear something from the mine that would open.his eyes. As soon as things were running smoothly, with the stock relisted on the Goldfield Exchange, and selling at 60 cents and upward, Hal returned to New York. A month later he took possession of his new offices on the floor below, and on the door placed the following sign: “Hal Hardy, Stocks and Bonds. Western Stocks a Specialty. Eastern correspondent for Hale, . Vale, Dale & Co. General Office of the Harlequin Gold & Silver Mining. Co. of Goldfield (Hal Har- dy, President). Eastern representative of El Capitan Copper Mining Co. of Wauseka, Wis.” Numerous applications were made to him for stock in the Harlequin, but Hal had none to put on the market as yet. Only 20,000 shares were out, and these were held first at a dollar, then at $2, and finally changed hands at $3. At that rate, Hal’s 40,000 shares were worth $120,000 which left him $70,000 ahead on his deal, while Brewster was the full amount to the good on his shares. Six months later Hal was offered half a_mil- lion for his interest, and he turned the offer down, just as Brewster refused a similar offer. On that basis the stock was worth its par value of $10 a share; and that was the price asked for it. Hal was reckoned a millionaire when he reached his twenty-third year, though not in actual money. . Soon after his birthday he led Ruby French to the altar as his happy bride, and their wedding trip Was made to the scene of his $50,000 deal. | Next week's issue will-contain “BILLY, THE / BLACKSMITH; or, FROM ANVIL TO FOR-_ TUNE.” : : ES +

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DEER DIG UP POTATOES Game authorities have been notified that deer are destroying crops on the country place of Chester W. Chapin at Lebanon Lake, afew miles from Otisville, New York. Tons of vegetables have been destroyed. “It is said the deer can dig : hill of potatoes almost as quickly as a farm- - hand. > RAISES BIG SWEET POTATO ~ : A last-minute entry in the agricultural exhibits of the country fair was made by the Escondid - Chamber of Commerce, a sweet potato weighing 20. pounds, grown by an Indian rancher, J. J a Paublo, on the Bernardo grant, a few miles south _of Escondido, California, t6 the west of the In- land Highway. Paublo says that it was grown without irrigation and with no special care in the way of fertilization or cultivation. “It just “+ grew,” says Paublo, “and that’s all I know about a? > PLANE SAVES FOREST a Airplane forest patrols in California were able - recently to reach the scene of a fire forty-five hours sooner than had they proceeded by train ’_and pack mule, a report to the Army Air Service shows. An aerial observer spotted its blaze in ~ Lassen forest while all foresters were engaged in - fighting another fire in the Merced forest. Planes ~ picked up the fire fighters in the Merced zone and _ rushed them to the Lassen fire. - “In three hours,” says the report, “the fire - fighting personnel was on the job fighting the - flames, whereas, had they proceeded by train and pack mule, forty-eight hours would have been consumed. The day will come when men and _ equipment will be carried by airships to the scene of fire, both men and equipment dropped by para- chute, while the airship will rain down fire ex- tinguishing chemicals from above.” PHONOGRAPH PLAYS AN HOUR AT A ¥é TIME : making records as interchangeable sections Site on a common mandrel, George W. Bowers, a mechanical and consulting engineer of Boston, has introduced a new phase in phonographic mu- sic, says the Scientific American. Whereas the 4 phonograph does not handle records than twelve inches in diameter, with a of four minutes, Mr. Bowers has a which plays for an hour without a > larger playing time = peoeerert - The new phonograph makes use of an excep- Shi : iia on which records, in the linders of narrow width, are ‘over one record and right on to the next-wvithout a break, according to the inventor. In this man- ner the machine can be made to play for one r, if desired; or, again, it can be adjusted to _ stop automatically at any pre-determined time : TP ipee iohe-arm arrangement of this machine is , si é \ s ingenious as it is interesting. It permits the FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY CURRENT NEWS of large 3 side by-side. The needle or stylus passes: taken. reproducer to cover the entire length of the man- drel without a hitch. The reproducer is arranged to play the hill-and-dale-cut records, which sys- tem, in this case, is far simpler to accommodate than would be the lateral-cut system, which pre- dominates in the usual disk records. ; GOES FRANKLIN ONE BETTER The National City Bank, addressing its clients _ on the subject of the new thrift, improves on the idea of Ben. Franklin that if the pennies are cared for, the pounds will care for themselves. The National City Bulletin declares that safe in- vestment is as necessary as saving. “Nothing can take the place of intelligent at- tention,” says the Bulletin. “Anyone can repeat after Ben Franklin ‘Save, save; take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of them- selves.’ They won’t. They will make themselves wings if they are not kept busy making money, it’s easy to lose money and just as easy to make it. Thinking prevents one and does the other. We have been taught that to make money js the gift of the few. It is the natural inheritance of the man or woman who will think. When one is really making money and not merely grab- bing what someone elSe makes, he is too busy to waste it.” The rewards of careful thought were never so profitable as at present. Liberty Bonds at pres- ent prices give opportunity to put your savings to work so that they will make money, net lose it. They are the safest and best investment in the world for they are backed by the whole credit’ and wealth of the nation. PLOT TO BLOW UP ONTARIO PENITENTIARY A plot to effect the wholesale escape of prison- ers in Portsmouth Penitentiary and then blow up the prison. with nitro-glycerin was thwarted at Kingston, Ont., Oct 14. Prison officials, acting on a warning that an attempt woula be made to free the convicts, tore down portions of the penitentiary wall and un- cove a store of rifles, shotguns and ammuni- tion, with enough of tle explosive to have de- stroyed the structure. Authorities who made the discovery declared’ their belief that the plot was about to be put into execution, prisoners freed, keepers slain and the prison itself blown up. a Although no official account of the conspiracy has been given, it is known that suspicions of the prison authorities recently were aroused, They began an investigation whi bare what is declared to be the most daring at- tempt at jailbreaking ever discovered in Canada. The investigation which has begun is being centered on discovering what agency succeeded in bringing in the arms and nitro-gylcerin. This could not have been effected by inmates of the’ - ki officials erik be ‘ ‘our convicts, known to exceptionally d. gerous, have been placed in soli ni on Several of these previously esca’ confinement, but were ror ch resulted in laying -

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ca aoe Lost On Mt. Erebus ES 5 > Pe A Boy Explorer At the South Pole By GASION GARNE (A Serial Story) + CHAPTER XVIII. (continued) “By allowancing ourselves, and using some control and pushing on_to our main cache, we may be able to reach the coast all right. But that main cache was not originally made by Madge and me.. We are now, and will be for some time, using the supplies of{ others.” Here Hawley’s manner grew solemn, even im- pressive. “We will owe our lives to the forethought of others, who need these supplies no more—who will never need them more, for they are dead.” be “Dead!” cried the others in unison. “How— where? Have others been here before us?” [ Though Hawley had explained previously much that had occurred, neither he nor Madge had be- fore alluded to the dead explorers, whom the erup- - tion had disentombed on the glacier near Erebus. He briefly related theit timely escape from the crater -of Erebus and the subsequent findings of ce the bodies of those explorers, together with the z brief death diary of James White, and so on. : Here Dr. Carr manifested unusual interest and 3 interposed with: “I have read of an American Antarctic ex- pedition that came to grief in the fifties of last - century. It was commanded by a Captain Wilkes. It is probable that this lieutenant and his ship = were a of that unfortunate cruise in the far south seas.” a eat Rucker here manifested unusual impatience. 3 “What’s the use of talking about dead men, when we are likely soon to be dead ourselves?” He turned to Hawley fiercely. % “What does this yarn amount to, unless you found their cache of stores? Did you find it?” ~ ‘ pe “You'll not know anything more from me.” : Hawley, boiling with anger, turned away to control his rising temper. Rucker glared at the ~ lad, then raising his ice staff, leveled a deadly blow at the young explorer’s head. at CHAPTER XIX. ; - Was Rucker Sincere? This gave Joy al chance to proye something of the sincerity of his professed friendship to Madge, Joe and Dr- Carr. intercepted the descending staff with his own. The clash of wood and steel made Hawley turn and duck in time ‘to avoid the mate’s burly br ar last reeled from the violence of his _ He stood nearest, and when Rucker struck, Joy / FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY : In a trice the boy explorer straightened up. The next instant his fist shot out, catching Ruck- er’s exposed jaw with a crack from Hawley’s bare knuckles that felled the big first officer like a bullock in the shambles. Then the others ran in and pulled the two apart. Shouse was holding up the reviving form of his ally, and shaking his head dubiously. Rucker, in reviving, saw clearly that the odds were against him, and muttered some excuse for his conduct. ; “You know, Shouse,” said he afterward, “that we had to kill our pony and the dogs to save ourselves from starvation.” : “Sure. We'd a-starved long afore now but for eatin’ of our dogs and pony. It’s enough to worry any one out of his mind at times.” “I think the best way,” said Hawley, “is for us-to go on and quit talking. We are hopelessly divided in opinions, I’m afraid.” “It is best, beyond doubt, that we push on back without delay.” This from\Carr, who was alarmed at this last outburst of the savage and vindictive Rucker. “T am sorry for what has occurred,” added -~ Hawley. “Hawley has expressed the same sen- . timents. Let that end it.” Madge had said nothing, but in the order of march she stuck by Joe, who in turn kept Carr and Joy mainly between Rucker and himself. They took turns at pulling the hand sled. After having to kill the two dogs and their pony, the other party, in their trip around Ere- bus, had discarded their sleds. ' ~ In this manner then they took up the weary march back to the first cache, which Joe pointed . out only when they were at last in sight. q When this cache was opened, it was seen that there would be hardly sufficient rations for the — increased party to last until the Owl’s Head cliff was reached, where Madge and Joe declared more ~ rations would be found. These, of course, were the stores of the dead lorers, so strangely | found and sadly buried on the slopes of the then active volcano. All along Rucker had declared his dishelief in — the truth of their discovery. Also he was disin- clined to acknowledge that Hawley ard the girl had stood on the exact spot where the geographi- cal South Pole was situated. But at the first cache when Joe unearthed the cumbrous sextant and compass belonging to the ~ unfortunate James White, even Rucker was shak- en in his disbelief. “I will say this,” owned the chief mate. “Cap- tain Barclay told me more than once that there was a Commodére White in the Civil War, who got Barclay into the naval academy. I think I heard, too, that Commodore White had a brother, or nephew, or something of that kind, who went _ with Wilkes to the Antarctic and never came . back.” pe “Tdon’t see why you should doubt Madge and me at all, Mr. Rucker,” Hawley was now speak-— ing. “There is no doubt but that we found these dead men, who were frozen in the ice. The same re ee id — loosed them put into our hands W ry.” = (To be continued.) ‘

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY SHORT ARTICLES. THE NEWS iN 33 POPOCATEPETL IN ERUPTION _ ™The yoleano. Popocatepetl, twenty-six miles ~ west of the City of Puebla, Mexico, is reported to in eruption with much steam escaping and Es p rumblings, according to despatches from - Puebla. There has been no damage as yet, the _ despatches say, but the population is preparing to TRAVELLERS SEARCHED FOR SMUGGLED ‘ COINS Stringent measures have been adopted by the _ Italian Government to prevent contraband leav- ing this country, especially for Switzerland. Cus- m guards at frontier posts have been instruct- to personally search passengers for Italian coms and to beat boxes and trunks with ham- '_ Mers to ascertain whether they have double bot- toms for the concealment of contraband. Enormous quantities of coins have been smug- gled_out of Italy in defiance of the Government’s Trees, : SN SHOT SISTER AT HER REQUEST _ Johann Strugger, of Constance, Switzerland, formerly a captain in the Austrian army, has arrested on a charge of murder for shoot- -itg and killing his:sister at her own request. The rv suffered a fracture of her spine in an Al- pine accident last year, knew her illness to be St rable and had repeatedly begged the physi- ‘cians of a sanitarium of which she was a patient to relieve her of her sufferings by an overdose f morphine. - Strugger delivered an ultimatum to-the physi- ians that if they failed to comply with his sis- er’s wishes within five days he would shoot her caimsels, This he did with the full consent of the LIND VETERAN FAST STENOGRAPHER - As an instance of how disabled ex-service men overcoming their physical handicaps, Dr. Jacnamara, Minister of Labor, related an inci- mt to the Aldwych Club lunchers. Within a block or two-of where he was talk- ing, said Dr. Macnamara, there was a blind man,- trained ae Dunstan’s. He was employed as a Ste er... _ He was now able to find his way to and from work unaided. He was writing shorthand by ie Brailie system at the rate of 100 words a minute, and was operating an ordinary typewrit- - sapped at the rate of 40 words a minute. ow the man did it he (Dr. Macnamara) did “understand, but he sorted-and filed his own espondence. And, when typewriting work ack, he acted as relief telephone operator controlled a switchboard of 20 extensions five direct lines. EAVIEST WOMAN DIES IN ENGLAND Luey Moore, reputed to be the heaviest woman a Sige has died in Bristol Royal Infirmary, “Moore was born in Kentucky, and had been in the show business for many years. In her prime she weighed 668 pounds. _ She had traveled all over the world on exhibi- tion, and was said to have received many offers of marriage. * Her sister, who is of normal proportions, has been in “Chu Chin Chow” from the beginning. Daniel Lambert, an Englishman~famous for his great size, was 5 feet, 11 inches in height and weighed 738 1-2 pounds when he died in 1880. His waistcoat, now in the King’s Lynn Museum, measures 102 inches round. Bright, a grocer of Maldon, in Essex, who died in 1750 at the age of 29, weighed 616 pounds. There is a medical record of a young Frenchman who died at 22 from excessive obesity, weighing 644 pounds. : ; BIG GERMAN EMIGRATION TO UNITED STATES COMING Emigration from Germany to the United States will be tremendous if no barrier is raised by the latter country when peace is finally signed, ac- cording to reports reaching’ Dr. Rupert Blue, Surgeon. General of the United States Public Health Service, upon whose staff of American doctors is-the responsibility of medically exdm- ining every emigrant bound for America. The Germans wish to emigrate, according to Dr. Blue’s reports, because of the high cost of living and the heavy taxes that will be levied for many years to come. Wholesale emigration from. Germany to the United States is impossible now because the two countries are Still technically at-war, but Com- missioner Dyesel at Berlin is allowed to vise a maximum of twenty-five .German passports weekly. “FLU” EXPERIMENTS ON MONKEYS Devotees of the theory that man is a remote descendant of the ape family will seize with avid- ity upon the scientific conclusions of medical au- thorities that monkeys, like folks, are susceptible - to the attacks of influenza. Under the direction of Major F. G. Blake and Major R. L. Cecil, the Army Medical School of Washington, D. C., re- cently completed tests with 22 monkeys to deter- mine the effects of influenza on the ape family. The monkeys were inoculated with B. influ- enzae by swabbing the upper respiratory tract with a culture of the’ disease germ isolated from a ease of influenzal pneumonia which had de- veloped in a man. The virvlence of the disease was subsequently raised. The period of incuba- tion embraced from three to six hours. The experiments indicated that influenza exer- cised the same influence on monkeys as on the human family with respect t6 its behavior, sym- toms, complications and pathology. The medical directors described the action as “an acute self- limited respiratory disease identical with influ-. _ enza in man.” Similar results were obtained when _ pursuing a different method of inoculation, intra- _ tracheally, with the exception that one nkey evidenced no signs of infection. ae ’

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"question. _ sumption, Forgive me, and his lips. ~~ In another moment he was = e% A GYPSY QUEEN By Alexander Armstrong. _ “Come, one more glass, and pledge me ere I go. Maiden with the earnest eyes, heaven send thee blessings now and hereafter. I may not tarry here, else fain would I linger a while longer beside thee. Ho, quick!—another bottle!” So spoke Count Viado, the Viennese, leaning over the rude table as he spoke, and tenderly re- : parang a young girl, whose downcast eyes and ushing cheeks proved her to be by no means un- conscious of the admiration she inspired. “You are most kind,” she said, “and I will not refuse to pledge you, since you wish it. Yet I would bid you be on your guard. The roads are lonely, and. 4 He stopped her with a laugh. “Nay, have no fear for me. I have been in lonelier places, yet never had traveler so fair and so gracious a guide as I.” The wine was brought, and the count re- sumed: . “Twas good fortune that sent you to guide me hither. May I ask your name?” “Tsmena.” The count surveyed her. “A: Paget name,” he said, “and one that well suits the bearer of it. Now for my toast.” He poured the wine out, raised the glass to his lips, and passed it on to her. She lifted it, then hesitated. “You have not given me your name. Who shall I pledge?” she said. “Men call me Count Viado,” he answered, smil- ing at the start she gave. “Count—Count Viado! Oh, had I known your rank I would ng have spoken so freely.” “Tut, tut, r Ismena. You have been most ' kind to me, and the hour I have been in your company is one I shall remember to the last day of my life.” The young man’s eyes kindled, and his cheek fiushed. “As for my rank,” he continued, “what is mine or any man’s rank compared with beauty and virtue?” ~ And aie | his hat he bowed. “Tf you will pardon my curiosity I would in- quire concerning your kindred and friends, and how it is that I meet so young and fair a maiden far away from her home?” ZF Simple as was the question it seemed to em- barrass Ismena. ss =~ “Count,” she faltered, “I—I——” _~ “No more,” he interrupted. “I have no right to , and am justly rebuked for my pre- farewell.” - He took her hand, and raised it respectfully to She wood watching him til- tis figure. di ‘She- watch: 1 s figure disap- ‘peared among the trees. FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY le ground. — coward that I am. Could I tell him that lama gipsy, that the men of the tribe are such pa A footstep startled her. It was the landlord. : r She arose and stole off in the opposite direc- ion. Ye Count Viado was thinking of her. se Never in his life had any woman made such an impression on him as this simple girl had done. * “Am I going to make a fool of myself after all?” thought the count. “I, with my thirty — years of life and the experience which has made me even older—I, to fall in love with a peasant’s daughter. Ridiculous!” j Count Viado laughed, and pursued his way. Suddenly he paused. He was now in a lonely part of the » the track which he had hitherto followed was no — longer visible. : ‘ “This is pleasant,” mused the count. “I do believe I’ve lost my way for the second time: My — friend won’t get me to pay him a visit at his country house again in a hurry. Ismena is not here now ‘to help me out of this quandary. What is to be done?” ae Phone situation was awkward, to say the least of it. : : He went on a little further, and stopped again. — Still the same loneliness, the same silence. The white outline of a tent in a kind of dell below met his gaze. He cautiously approached it. Hurrying on, Count Viado was brought sud- denly to a halt at the sight of a man : -awling on the grass with a pail of water beside him. “4 He was a good-looking fellow enough, and wore : a battered felt hat. 3 * ) ri Bak oe, © . E 3 — a % a of cupidity leaped to his eyes and then vanished. “J will pay you well, my friend,” continued the — count. se The man nodded. : a Not a word passed his lips. ; But he gave a loud, shrill whistle, and spring- _ ing to his feet, hurled himself on Viado, and — knocked the purse from his hand; a number of © men appeared, a So sudden and unexpected was the attack that — the count was taken by surprise. (see But he quickly recovered himself, and dealt one — of the ruffians a blow under the ear, which sent him staggering back against a tree. See He had no time to his purse. 7 ea He set his foot firmly on it, and drawing his — os prepared to sell his life as dearly as pos- — sible. ; ae Slowly, cautiously, the first man crept up to him till within reach of his sword. ~~ ; : thie made a sudden and fierce lunge at ellow : a It was a fatal movement, for as the ruffian nim- chest. | bly dodged aside to avoid thrust, the foot slipped, and he occebied

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‘The men gave a yell, and precipitated them- ves upon him. Pe; - Ere one of their deadly Viades could harm him, Viado rose on one knee, and supporting himself one hand, made a desperate lunge at the breast Hs nearest assailant. The man recoiled. re. ___The sunlight glistened on the bracelets that ‘Cireled her wrists. __ She spoke quick, hurried words in an unknown » which seemed half entreaty and half u ts. : __ The count sprang up quickly _and stood ready renew the combat. : __ But the men made no attempt to molest him. __As Ismena ceased speaking they turned, and ; Plunging into the recesses of the wood, were lost, _ Viado and his preserver were alone together. “You have saved my life,” said the former tefully. _, He held out his hand, but instead of taking ‘it, the girl retreated a step, and looked sor- ON y into his face. _ “Listen to me, count,’ she siid. “When you _ asked me who were my kindred and_ friends, I : ashamed to answer you. Now I tell you; Whey are these men who have just left us.” “Don’t misunderstand me,” resumed Ismena. “My father was the chief of a tribe of gypsies, Dut those men who attacked you have one of the irtues of our race, and are only gypsies in ne. Such as they are, however, the respect paid to him in his lifetime has happily de- nded to me. Otherwise I dared not have in- ered with them as I did just now.” ..“Why vex yourself by telling me this?” urged ido. “I see the recital pains you, and you may sure I see enough to make me respect and ; you.” ‘a [ must not keep you here, lest another danger eaten you,” she said hurriedly. “There may others lurking in the wood for all I know, I may not accompany you,” she continued.“I you depart, and be on your guard.” him as suddenly as she had appeared, nd he was once more alone. : _ The count sheathed his sword and resumed his y { lis second meeting with Ismena had given him sr for serious thought. " yuld they haply meet again he would let her | how much he honored and—loved her! | le . y were had attacked him, 3 a FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY oe He continued to walk on without quickening his pace. It was not the first occasion that he had en- countered more terrible foes than these. The doubt that disturbed him was whether po men might not have other comrades at and. He could not fight a crowd. Not till he had traveled some distance further did he venture to look back at them once more. The men had broken into a run and were close upon him. He knew the worst now. Every man must die once, let him die then as a soldier should, sword in hand. To prevent them from attacking ,him in the rear, Viado sprang toward a building a short dis- tance off. - It was one of the huts used by the charcoal burners of the district. There were no windows, and the door, though rough, was strong. The count loosened his sword in its scabbard, } and entering the hut, closed the door behind him. He drew his sword, and holding. the door to with his foot, awaited the attack. ° In a few moments the’ men came up to the hut, and one of them called on him to surrender. There was no reply. The man tried the door. - od single touch showed him that it was not fas- He whispered to his comrades, and then plung- ed his arm boldly into the crevice and fied to drag it open. Something bright and keen flashed in the air. © And the man reeleg. back with his arm gashed to the bone. The sight of their comrade’s mishap maddened the gypsies. They uttered fierce cries of rage, and hurled themselves at the door, which yielded. The sharp crack of a Lee rang out above their shout of triumph, and one’of the men stag- ge forward, and fell heavily on his face. Then as the others turned and fled, Viado sprang from the hut, and caught Ismena in shis : arms. ° “Saved!” she cried, dropping. the now useless pistol. “I feared for you after you had left pax, ¥ and I followed you, and——” i =. “We will never part more,” interrupted Viado, drawing her to his bosom. “My life henceforth is yours; my love you have had from the first moment we met. Shall it be yes, sweet one?” And it was yes. 7 > RATS AND HOGS HAVE OWN WAY Because the wholesale hardware concerns are

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Fame and Fortune Weekly NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 19, 1920. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS _ = Single Copies. ............-- Postage Free.... -07 Cents One Copy Three Months... ba ee -80 Cents One Copy Six Months...... fre ree ree | One Copy One Year....... = seen > 8.50 HOW TO SEND MONEY—At our risk send P. O. Money Order, Check or Registered Letter; remittances in ae | any other way are at your risk. We accept Postage =: Stamps the same as cash. When sending silver wrap the Coin in a separate piece of paper to avoid cutting the envelope. Write your name aud address plainly. Ad- dress ijetters to HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher avo West 23d St.. New York = ITEMS OF INTEREST DISCOVERS A PAINT MINE Prospectors who had been digging vainly for gold on Mullet Island in the Salton Sea of South- ern California have just discovered that the high- ly colored mud around the island consists of val- uable mineral pigments, from which paints of many colors can be made. 4 SOUTH AMERICAN GAUCHOS BUYING U. Ss. “COWBOY CLOTHES” South America has got acquainted with the - ‘Midd'e West and the guachos of the pampas have 3 begun to order “cowboy clothes” from Chicago ~ mail order houses, according to Ed Lewisohn, a “business scout” of a Chicago implement con- cern. He has just arrived from a tour of inves- tigation of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, Chile and several other Latin-American countries. PER CAPITA WEALTH OFVU. S. FIXED AT $51.06 2 Distribution of the money in the country out- side of the amount held in the Treasury and Fed- eral system was estimated at $51.06 per capita on September 1, or an increase of $13.18 over July 1, 1917, by the Federal Reserve Board re- cently in its monthly bulletin. The board put the general stock of moncy: in the country on September 1 at $7,997,080,820, the ‘amount held in the Treasury at $485,884,277, the amount held by Federal Reserve Banks at $2,- 081,514,938 and the amount held outside these Government agencies at $5,479,681,605, <a e cr _ COLLEGE OWNS FOREST Berea College, at the foot of the Cumberland Mountains, in Kentucky, has the unique dis- I 1 of owning two mountains, 4,000 acres of forest, its own sawmill, but never cutting a sound tree, writes Marie Dickore in the American For- estry Magazine. This wood is used for the col- for power, for heat and in the many cozy e dormitories and in the great ; "delights every traveler who FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY = The sawmill, as well as the 4,000 acres of forest reserve, provides not only ample practical experience for the students, but also actual labor for those students who work for their education. The sawmill is operated by steam, and, like every other industry at Berea College, is run by stu- dents, who work at least two consecutive hours per day under the supervision of a superinten- ent of labor, who in turn is responsible to the Dean of Labor. Students at Berea are given the opportunity to earn their ‘expenses, and they may select the work, which is paid for at the regular rates .ac- cording to the student’s ability and efficiency. As every student in the college must work the mini- mum of two hours per day, suitable occupation must be provided by the Dean of Labor, and in the Forestry Department the students are very happy patrolling the forest, marking the dead timber, hauling the fallen timber to the sawmill cutting it there for the required lengths, and then hauling the logs to wherever needed on the campus. No sound timber is cut, as there is enough of the other to supply all needs e LAUGHS - He—I could waltz to Heaven with you, sweet- heart. She—But I don’t want to waltz to Heaven. He—Let us reverse then, dear. Wife—Do you know, I think we ought to keep a diary? Husband—If we put in all the fights we have, it will look like*a scrap bock. '@ Gabber—You ought to meet Smith. Awfully clevey imitator. He can-take off anybody. Tottie ; (wearily)—I wish he were here now. The Poet—What misery, still unrecognized. ee Where can I find sympathy? Unsympathetic Friend—In the dictionary, under the letter S. Waiter (in cheap restaurant)—‘“Scrambled — eggs are fifteen cents and omelet is twenty cents.” — Guest—“What is the difference?” Waiter (yawn- ing) —“Five cents.” . Mother—I gave you a nickel yesterday to be good, and to-day you are just as bad as you can be. Willie—Yes, ma; I’m trying to show you that you got your money’s worth yesterday. eee srs Little Bob (just started to school)—Uncle Harry, what is the bird with the biggest bill? Uncle Harry (who is still thinking of the night before)—A quail, my boy, a quail—on toast. ies Jinks—Your dog bit my mother-in-law yester- day. Binks—Well, I suppose you have come to collect damages“ How much do you want? Jinks Nothing. I’ve come to buy the dog. at or Maude—Aunt Mary has a lock of George Wash- ington’s hair. It has been in our family eve since the Revolutionary war.’ Clara—Indeed! : wasn’t aware that one of your ancestors was = i, eos 3. rber. & Sie

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AGED INDIAN ' son, Tom Smith, to attend the State fair. has become blind since his last visit to Minnea- " polis a year ago. His health is still good, how- " ever, he maintains. He is said to be the oldest _ living Indian. “J don’t see any mpre, but I still like to travel,” the old Indian said. With him he brought his “Planket, upon which he sleeps, never having slept on a bed. JERKED BEEF Jerked beef is beef preserved by drying in the sun. The cattle are slaughtered when in good condition, and the fleshy parts are neatly sliced _off in such a manner as to resemble a succession of skins taken from the e imal. ;These sheets of fiesh, which are seldom more than an inch ‘in thickness, are at once exposed to the sun, and _ dry before decomposition commences. In this state ow can be preserved even for a year or more. beef is sometimes dipped into brine or rubbed h salt before being dried in the sunlight. Chili 3 said to have been the first country where beef was thus “dried, and in that region it is called i, which ifi time became coyyupted to ” - ~<a for chips built must be reduced for Great Britain by several hundred thousand tons, for the 150 vessels, including” pre-dreadnoughts which have been stricken from the list. Similar de- ductions on a smaller scale should be made for the other powers. - ’ _ FACTS ABOUT LODESTONES * Strange stories have been told about the lode- 8, and there are many persons who firmly ve that it confers attractive qualities upon ¢ who wear it. A lodestone is, of course, only ce of ga iron ore. . ‘ ene §. Todd, writing of lodestones in the cal Experimenter, says he knows a fa- at a lodestone somewhere about her. e makes her more magnetic and that she her audience with more ease, thus receiv- France, 247,050 85 for Japan, » for Italy, 147,250 tons. These actress who refuses to go on the stage, . FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY 27 INTERESTING NEWS ARTICLES ing more applause, which -incidentally increases her salary. There is an old saying in Sweden (where the lodestone is found), “Wear a lodestone over your heart and it will insure you heart’s desire; place it under your pillow at night and your dreams will come true.” Mr. Todd recalls the tale of the “lodestone mountains” in the Arabian Nights. A vessel was drawn toward it until when quite near all the spikes and nails were drawn from the ship and she fell apart—a total wreck, all the metal (iron or steel) parts of the ship flying toward the mountains and the ship itself sinking to the bottom. In Sweden (the most powerful lodestones came from Sweden), they tell how hunters have been unable to pick their guns from the ground, after™ | laying them down near lodestones. They also tell of cases where the person’s shoes liad to be removed, owing to the nails in their soles, which held them fast. ——_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—S—————————- “THE WAY TO BECOME A MOVING PIC- TURE ACTRESS” is in “Moving Picture Stories,” No. 326. Get a copy. Price 7 cents; postage free. HARRY E. WOLFF, 166 W. 23rd St., N. Y. “MYSTERY MAGAZINE” SEMI-MONTHLY 10 CENTS A COPY —— LATEST ISSUES — THE VELVEL ‘TOUCH, by Julian Darrow. TH ar tg Vos Kv Lame, by Caoaries Ful- ursier. THR SCHimMH OF SOLOMON SNARE, by William Hamilton Osborne. 2 QUICKER THAN THE WYK, by Ralph Cummins. THis CLUB IN THE DAKK KOOM, by Hamilton Craigie. THE fONGUE OF OSIRIS, by Marc Edmund Jones. | DETECTIVE WADi'S BIG CASE, by Ethel Kose- mon. . THE SPIRIT BELL, by Charles Fulton 0 THE HOUSE BEHIND THE WALL, by Julian Darrow. THE ADMIRAL’S SPOONS, by William Hamilton Osborne. ’ 72 THE CANINE CLUE, by. Thos, J. Lally, The Famous Detective Story Out %o-Day in No. 73 Is THE PSYCHIC ENEMY . By ARTHUR, WILLIAM ANDREEN FRANK TOUSEY, Pub.. 168 W. 23d St, N. ¥. “MOVING PICTURE STORIES” A Weekly Magazine Devoted to Photoplays and Players PRICE SEVEN CENTS PER COPY Each number contains Four Stories’ of the Best Half-tone Scenes ge 232 &€S €& £ €8 HARRY E. WOLFF, Pub. 166 W. 23d St. Ne Ye |

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BOY OF 12 A PRODIGY _ Edward Rochie Hardy, jr., twelve years old, son of Prof. and Mrs. kKaward R. Hardy of No. 418 West 118th street, New York, who is attend- ing Columbia University, is the youngest fresh- man to matriculate at an American college since William J. Sidis entered Tufts in 1909 at.the age of ten and the youngest ever admitted to Celum- 1a. - Among Edward’s antecedents were a college president and a New England Governor. His father is a professor at New York University, and his mother has taken three degrees. Har- yak made a bid for Edward, and Prof. Hard favored Harvard, while Mrs. Hardy preferre New York University. Edward himself decided “on Columbia. : “The boy entered school at three, and at eight ~ ‘was in high school, from which he was graduat- ed at eleven. He speaks twelve languages and is going to learn Chinese next. Notwithstanding his achievements, he is a regular American boy, -_ who likes to talk battingsaverages and play the usual] strenuous games. He weighs 143 pounds, is five feet three inches in height, and never studies at night. He has never been sick. j _. He was President of his class and editor of his school paper at eleven. The reason he is going to study Chinese is that he wants to be a mis- jonary in the Orient. ~~ Fem “Epite of the fact that Edward speaks al- most all the languages’there are and can lecture learnedly on the fourth dimension and similar ab- ‘struse subjects, he is a wholesome American boy with a fondness for the game of marbles when la for keeps. He likes to swim and exercise ' nasium, and, according to his mother, is perfectly normal in appetite, habits, pleasures recreations. as me year and to lump the seventh, eighth and nin de the same way. He has already. been picked as a subject for a school of journalism PASSING OF THE WAR DRUM ums and drummer boys, who for so many gns were the objects of much sentiment, drums sounded the retreat and the € . netrating the bugle, with its more ne dice, rules the field. ling snar ges, NOW and wider >, Where not so very many years ago the soldiers they wei with such 1 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ~ GOOD READING figure in the wars in which he took part. Chosen for his diminutive stature, he frequently was of ~ tender years, and always in the fiction of war he was pictured as a sweet faced cherub, wounded terribly, but beating the charge to the last. While this aspect of the appeal to sentiment became so common as to appear ridiculous, it originally sprang from a true premise. The little drummer boys, almost without exception, were brave little fellows. Many «a gallant youth did give his life and:many a heroic ceed was performed by the little salamanders. They were the favorites of the men and the pets of the regiment; nothing was too good for them, and on wet or cold nights they never suf- fered for warmth. If they sank to sleep un- blanketed some powerful trooper was sure to spread over them his own covering. The most thrilling,tales of the little drummers come from Napeleon’s campaigns. : On the retreat from Russia, when grown men died by the hundreds from the ravages of the cold and the Cossacks, a goodiy number of drums. were strung along back of the gruesome path of the fleeing i'renchmen. In the rear guard, which © was commanded by the gallant Marshal Ney, was a chipper drummer boy of about 12 years. The constant fighting and burden of keeping the human wolves oif the rear of the*‘army was ter- rific, and only the inspired drumming of the boy andvhis childish “Long live France!” saved them from succumbing time after time. During a brave stand, or when Ney halted his men and turned back upon their tormentors, young France would sound the charge with such a shattering roll of enthusiasm that the grena- diers waded back through the snow and scaitered the “Cossacks like chaff. Turning to flee to the refuge of the main body, some stalwart would throw the boy astride of his shoulders and bear ‘him off the field. / From this point of vantage the drummer would — beat the retreat and shout back street gamin 3 epithets at hg Basen. When they came toa river he was not ata loss for crossing. Simply _ mounting his drum and paddling, he went across _ in comfort. ee French archives are full of such heroism, and the drummer boys became the: most popular and ~ feted members of the French army, barring, of — course, the Marshals. _ 5 Our civil war too saw the dru nmer boy, but he ~ was passing even them, Toward the last of the conflict he had begun to go.out. The bugle did — the business better, and so the boy heroes had to go. et ; «es tling drum once perme practicall, “straig

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STRANGE MIR- AGE ON THE SIDEWALK A curious case of sidewalk mir- age is described by Prof. F. W. MeNair of Michi- gan Collegeof Mining. Prof. Mc- Nair writes in Science: “T was walking eastward on a ce- ment sidewalk on a street running nearly east and west, and moving up a . moderate grade which joins a nearly level stretch of walk. Onvreachinga point which brought my eye slightly above the level portion, and at which normally the devel stretch would have been seen in its entire length, but much fo r e shortened, observed instead what appeared to be a stretch of clear dark water _covering the en- tire width of the “walk and_ bril- liantly reflecting moving persons and other objects in sight beyond it. “The ‘Sky was c 4 ear. There was a moderate breeze. The an- gle of observation Was very small, probably not above three de- grees. A step or two either east or west, and the wa- ter was gone, but within the proper limits, the illusion 4was definite and continuing. 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x THROW Yuu GAVE UP PROPERTY AT “SPIR- ITS” CALL Making the astonishing charge that through spiritualistic messages, al- leged to come from the late Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, he was induced to turn over $62,000 to Mrs. Mabelle Rawson Hi- rons, Dr. James B. Hubbell has insti- tuted legal action for the return of his property, The plaintiff was secretary to Miss Barton for thirty years, and the defendant his. life-long friend. In his bill of complaint, filed in the Montgomery Court, at Rockville, Md., Dr. Hubbell asserts that, when Miss Barton died in 1912, he owned real estate valued at $50,000, costly house- hold*furniture and a claim for $5,000 against the town of Glen Echo, as well as other property. It was his cher- ished hope, he said, to establish a memorial for Miss Barton. Mrs. Hirons, the plaintiff alleges, visited him in May, 1914, and ex- pressed * great interest in his project. On this occasion, Dr. Hubbell states, the defendant simulated a trance, dur- ing which she pretended to be in com- munication with the spirit of the de- ceased founder of the Red Cross. - According to the complaint, Mrs. Hi- rons alleged that Miss Barton direct- ed her to, tell Dr. Hubbell she (the defendant) had come to help carry out his plan, and that he should turn over all his property to her. Dr. Hubbell, the petition states, was much affected, and, beliving that it was possible for departed spirits to communicate with their earthly friends through certain persons known as mediums, conveyed the real estate to Mr. Harons, together with $4,500 he. had received under Miss Barton’s will, $2,000 he borrowed from relatives, and $4,100 in Glen Echo bonds, all of which were to be used in furtherance of the memorial. S55 ee R VOICE FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY — LATEST ISSUES —— = 765 Capturing the Coin; or, The Deals of 767 Lucky. 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