Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 955) (1924 01 18)

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BOYS, READ THE RADIO ARTICLES IN THIS NUMBER No. 958 JANUARY 18, 1924 Price 8 Cents nites Sy. 9 i fORTN Wen BOYS who MAKE MONEY. GOLDEN FLEECE; OR, HE ROY BROKERS OF "eg DIREET. Bae ALLL MOLE WW. ANQBGRHER STORIES Wve, d Pi O’Togje,as the young brokers seized and raised him from the floor by his arms P yell sy 0 oye hat shall we do with him?” asked King, stifling hy cries. “Fire him out,” grinned Seymour, nodding at the window.

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Interesting Radio Articles on Pages 24 and 25 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ly—Subscripti rice, $3.50 per year; Canada, $4.00; Foreign, $4.50. Harry ©. Wolff, Publisher, Inc., 160_ asec "Went 28d Tateest Non toee N. ¥. Entered = Second-Class Matter, October 4, 1911, at the Post-Office at New York; N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. On account of the increased cost of labor and mat reluctantly compelled to raise the price of this publication. to, Cents a copy, beginning with this issue. , GOLDEN FLEECE ©: OR, THE BOY BROKERS OF WALL STREET By A SELF-MADE MAN CHAPTER I.—Bob Seymour and His Sister, and Other Matters Connected With The Story “What's the matter, Carrie? You look as if you’d been crying,” said Bob Seymour, mes- senger for Mortimer Judson, stock broker, of No. ‘ ——— Wall Street, to his pretty sister, who was employed as stenographer for Edward Stinson, also a stock broker, in the same building. “T have. Mr. Bunny has been annoying me again with his attentions.” E “He has?” exclaimed Bob, indignantly.. “Why don’t you speak to Mr. Stinson about it?” “[’m afraid to do that, Bob.” “Why?” asked her stalwart, seventeen-year-old brother, in surprise. “Because Mr. Bunny does a lot of legal busi- ‘ness for Mr. Stinson, and they’re very friendly.” “That’s no-reason why that lawyer should make himself familiar with you.” “That's true, Bob; but he does, just the same.” “You leave it to me, sis,” said Bob, in a de-. termined tone. “What that man needs is a bit of advice straight from the shoulder, and I’m the boy that’s to give it to him.” : _. “No, no, Bob—please don’t,” she cried, earn- estly, grasping him by the sleeve of his jacket. "Why not?” asked her brother, in surprise. | “You might get into trouble.” _. ‘What! For protecting my sister against an - gntiquated old masher? Don’t you worry. “But I would worry, Bob,” she said, anxiously. Mr. Bunny is also legal adviser to your employer, “and he might get you discharged. “ "J don’t-think,” réplied Bob, with a short laugh. ~*You don’t know, Bob. | You’re only a mes- senger, while, Mr. Bunny is a lawyer with in- uence. Your employer, being his client, would ~ with him. This was saying a great deal, for the listen to any complaint he might make against ~ you. : “But I won’t stand for having you continually z pestered by Christopher Bunny.” a The offices of Stinson and Judson were on the ne same floor, so that Bob often met his sister go- te ing to or coming from lunch, This day he met - ~ her going out as he was returning to his office after delivering a message at the Mills Building. He saw right away that she had been erying, and, of course, wanted to learh what was the trouble. It wasn’t the first time she had told him about the persistent and undesirable attentions forced upon her by Mr. Christopher Bunny, the lawyer, who had an office on the floor above. His age was anywhere between fifty-five and sixty, but he tried to appear very much younger. He wore garments of a fashionable cut, carried a light gold-headed cane, and was an antiquated dude in his general make-up and bearing. Apparently he had taken a great fancy to Carrie Seymour, | and the bright pretty girl couldn’t shake him off, notwithstanding that she offered him no encour- agement whatever and was, as a rule positively chilly in her deportment toward him. Bob Seymour was one of the brightest boys in the Wall Street district. During office hours he always attended strictly to business, and Mr. Judson never had any particular fault to find broker was something of a crank, and noted for _ yanking his clerks pver the coals upon the slight- est pretext. The general impression in the office was that Judson was badly troubled with dys- pepsia. Bob and his sister lived with their widowed mother in a quiet Brooklyn street not — far from the bridge entrance. Mr. Seymour had! been a carpenter and contractor, but he died ¢com- paratively poor, so that after his death the sup

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2 GOLDEN ; : port of the family was shifted to the shoulders of the two children, and they met the issue brave- ~-ly. Bob’s particular friend was Howard King, - who was employed as messenger by Mr. Stinson. ' King lived in Brooklyn, too, not far from Bob’s home, so that the two boys were nearly always together outside of business hours. Howard was an only child, and after he got acquainted with the Seymours he often wished he had a sister like his friend Beb. He made up for the deficien- cy by making himself as agreeable as he could to Carrie Seymour. As he was a gentlemanly boy, of good habits, he found no difficulty in im- pressing himself favorably upon Carrie’s notice, and the two got along very nicely together. He had noticed the persistency with which Mr. Bunny intruded upon his employer’s stenographer, but, as Carrie never said anything to him on the sub- . ject, he didn’t feel that he had any right even to mention the matter to Bob. Had she stood in need of a protector, he would have been the first : to have volunteered his services. 3 se The appearance of Mortimer Judson. in the *-- eorridor, with a jaundiced look on his counten- vance, terminated the interview between Bob Sey- mour and his sister. She continued on to her mk Junch, while her brother hastened to enter his i office. Mr. Judson had found himself on the tog wrong side of a stock investment that morning, * which had depleted his bank account to some ex- tent, And he was in a particularly bad humor. To ‘make the matter worse, Edward Stinson, whom ' he didn’t like, was on the winning side in the ‘same stock deal. He had fondly hoped to squeeze Stinson out of a few thousands, and his disap- pointment was great. He had observed the tri- umphant smile on Stinson’s face at the Stock “Exchange, and that didn’t improve his feelings any. “What do you mean loitering away your time in the corridor?” he snapped out, when Bob fol- lowed him into his private office. : “T was talking to my sister sir.” “Don’t you see enough of her at home?” snarled -the broker, flinging his coat and hat at his mes- -senger to hang up. “She had something special to tell me, and I didn’t think there was any harm in listening to her,” replied Bob, respectfully. : package of bonds down on his desk with force enough to make the ink fly up in his inkstand. “Tell Mr. Brown I want to see him at once,” he said, sharply. : : The boy hurried out to notify the cashier that _ the ‘boss wanted to see him. “He’s in a pretty bad humor, Mr. Brown,” he remarked, after he had delivered his message. “That’s nothing unusual,” answered the cashier, dropping his pen and hurrying into the private pitched in a high key of anger. - “—-never saw Judson in a worse humor,” mut- tered Bob, as he took over the previous day’s The broker made no answer, but slammed a- office, whence presently issued the broker’s voice, FLEECE favor—he Peis his employees well, and none of — them cared to Jose their jobs. Mr. Stinson, on be the contrary, paidrhis help little as he could get — them to work for, but, to make up for it, was re- markably pleasant to them, even when the mark- et went against him, which, however, wasn’t often, as Stinson was as foxy as they come. Stinson did quite a mail-order businesss, which gave Carrie considerable work to attend to, often obliging her to work overtime, for which she got — no extra pay, but lots of promises from her em- ployer that he would take care of her. The promises didn’t materialize, much to the girl’s disgust. Judson sneered at Stinson’s method of — doing business, which was no secret in the Street, — while Stinson made occasional references to Jud= — son’s irascible disposition. Neither spoke to the other, except wher? business compelled it, on — which occasion Judson, who was a big man, — nearly always tried to pick a quarrel with his business rival; but such an unpleasant issue was always evaded by Stinson, who was a small man, with great diplomacy, no doubt from politie reasons. While Bob was engaged with the paper, Mr. Brown came out of the private office with a very red face. As he passed through: the re- ception-room, Bob’s bell buzzed several times, like a swarm of angry bees, and he hastened to answer the call, Ps ¥ CHAPTER U.—Bob Has A Run-in With Chris-- topher Bunny And Loses. , “Go up to Mr. Bunny’s office, on the next floor, and tell him I want to see him right-awa $ snapped Mr. Judson, glaring at his messenger “Yes, sir,” replied Bob, briskly, turning arou and making for the door. Weg Christopher Bunny had two rooms on the floor above—an. oute¥ office, presided over by a ta thin, shabby, genteel clerk named Muggins, a small, red-haired boy, who answered to the name of Piggy O’Toole, and a private room. where the lawyer received his clients. ins work when. he could, and was talkative an cheeky. When Bob entered the outer office, Pig- gy was. the only occupant of the place, the clerk having gone to lunch, The red-haired boy was amusing himself by trying to stab a solitary fly which had just alighted on the corner of clerk’s desk, “Td like to see Mr. Bunny a moment,” said Bob, stepping up to the railing which divided the room in two parts. as “Well, yer can’t see gy, insultingly. : “Why can’t 1?” demanded Bob, angrily. “*Cause yer can’t,” grinned Piggy, mak another effort to transfix the poor fly. e “But I must see him, do you understand?” er Bob, raising his voice so that it could be heard the private office. ra “How yer goin’ to do i him, see?” answered Pig-

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GOLDEN _ “Aw, cut it out!” retorted Piggy. “Youse make -me tired.” ; __ Bob vaulted the railing in a twinkling and had ‘his hand on Piggy’s collar, when the door opened and Mr. Bunny entered the office. _ “Wh-what’s this?) What does this mean?” ex- - ¢@laimed the lawyer, holding up his gold-headed ~ eane aghast. : “He’s assaultin’ me, sir,” gasped Riggy, break- ing away from Bob. and dropping the half-con- sumed cigarette into the cuspidor. - “fT brought a.message for you, Mr. Bunny, and this boy of vours ” began Bob. ~ “Nery well,” replied the lawyer, testily. “You brought a message, you say—-from Mr. Judson, , I suppose. You’re his messenger.” “He wishes to see you in his office right away.” “J will be down in a moment. Your name is ~ Bob Seymour, I think,” added the lawyer, screw- ing his ancient features into - friendly smile. “Yes,” replied the boy, shortly. “And that’s yovr sister who is stenographer for Mr. Stinson, eh?” - "Yes, it is,” answered Bob, coldly. *& most engaging person—quite charming, _ upon my word.” - “My “sister would take it as a favor if you wouldn’t notice her hereafter.” ; -. “Wh—what’s that?” ejaculated the lawyer, evidently much surprised. _ T said my sisted would prefer that you leave hher alone after this. I hope that is plain Eng- - Tish,” cried Bob, angrily. “She cught to consider herself highly honored ‘py my noticing her. What is she, anyway?” leer- ingly. “Why—” e That was as far as he got, for Bob turned upon him quick as a flash of lightning and struck him full in the face, knocking him into a heap against the railing. 7 “Take that, you fossilized dude, and the next mé*you say a word against my sister in my presence I’ll knock you into the middle of next “week.” ~ “The boy slammed the door behind him and went downstairs. When Bob re-entered the re- ption-room of his own office he found he had skinned his knuckles, and he went out to the lay- tory to. wash them. While he was there, Mr. runny rushed into the office like a small cyclone nd, without the formality of knocking, dashed nto Mr. Judson’s private office. In about one ‘minute the broker’s bell buzzed furiously. “You're wanted in the office,” said one of the erks, looking in at the washroom. “Aj right,” replied Bob, coolly. : “He answered the summons with more delibera- ‘tion than was his wont, much to the surprise of clerks, who, had they been wanted, would lave tumbled over themselves in their haste to ach the private room. _ a ; He found, as he expected, the lawyer with his ployer, and easily guessed that a storm was out to burst on his devoted head. Mr. Jud- 1 was white with anger. “Did’ you strike Mr. Bunny in his office a few ments ago?” he demanded. — did. He——” atv’ll do. You’re discharged. Go to. the d get your wages and then clear out. you around here again.” could. \ jacket for you.” he said, giving the little imp FLEECE “T should like to explain ” began Bob. “T don’t want to hear another word from you. Get out of the office.” M4 “All right. If you won’t listen, you won’t I should like a recommendation, sir.” 3 : “What's that?” easped Mr. Judson almost par- alized at what he considered the. nerve of his — late messenger. : Roe “T should like you to furnish me with a recom- mendation, sir,” repeated the boy, coolly, ad The broker almost frothed at-the mouth with — rage, and finally something that wouldn’t loo well in print. : ee “Get out before I kick you out,” he roared, — swinging about in his chair, whereupon Bob — thought it prudent to retire as gracefully as he “T’ll take my week’s wages, Mr. Brown,” he — said, stepping uv to the cashier’s window a few minutes later, vith his hat and coat in. ~ _ “Why, what does this mean?” asked Mr. Brown, in surprise. “My. Judson has decided he has no further use for my valuable services,” replied Bob, calmly. — “So he told me to get my money and do the 23. “The deuce he did!” replied the cashier, with a look of sympathy. I’m sorry to hear it, for I~ like you: Bob.” We “Thank you, sir. The feeling is reciprocated.” “Judson must be in an awful state of mind to- day.” said the cashier. apprehensively. = :. “This affair has nothine to do with the office.” “Hasn’t it? Why=—” . % “Fle sent me upstairs with a message to Bunny, the lawyer. That old fossil has lately been mak- ing a practice of annoying my sister, who works — for Stinson, you know. Well, I gave him a eall- ing down for it as he referred to my sister in terms I didn’t like, and I knocked him down. rushed down and told Mr. Judson, and that’s why I’m out of a job.” : = “Ym afraid you were a little rash, Bob,” re plied the cashier. countine out the boy’s wages. “Perhaps; but I’m Carrie’s protector, and any body who says a word against her is up.against me.” : : “What ie = “It was unfortunate,” said Mr. Brown. are you going to do?” “Look up another position, I suppose.” “T hope you'll find one right away.” “Thank-you, Mr. Brown. Good-by.’ He then bade all the clerks and the typewriter good-by and left the office. ; a ae CHAPTER IIL.—Bob Makes pee ‘Acquaintance of John Baxter, . . " The first person Bob saw when he came o the-corridor was Piggy O’Toole. bs _ “Lost yer job, have yer?” grinned Piggy, liciously, as soon as he saw Seymour. ; .Bob grabbed him by the neck and the slack his trousers and made him walk Spanish to Stairs leading to the next floor. . ES “Now, get up to your den, before I dust yo shove. - : = “Yah! Yer big stiff!” retorted Pigg:

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ae \ placing half the stairway between them. “I’m glad yer bounced. Yer ain’t no good. Me boss ought to have youse pulled in for hittin’ him. Don’t ask me for the loan of a nickel if yer get hard up, ’cause yer won’t get nuttin’, see?” “What’s the trouble, Bob?” asked a cheery voice behind him at that momerit. “What’s Pig- 5 gy been doing to you?” en Bob turned to find Howard King at his elbow. ; “Giving me cheek, as usual,” renlied Seymour, § accompanying his friend down to the street. 4 “He’s a hard case,” replied Howard, with a laugh. “I stood: him on his head this morning for giving me back talk, but it won’t cure him. It’s bred in his bone. I wonder Mr. Bunny tol- erates him.” : “He’s good enough for that fossil. Now, don’t fall down, old chap, when I tell you something. I’ve just been bounced.” ; “You’ve been what?” gasped Howard, starting back in dismay. : “Wired.” “Ts that really a fact?” STt) Tse" “Why, I thought Judson couldn’t get along without you. I heard Stinson say you were too good for him.” 3 “Stinson just said that to get a.crack at Jud- son. Those two are always knocking each other.” ; “What did Judson bounce you for?” “ “Because Bunny asked him to.” “Why did Bunny want you discharged?” “Because I knocked him down.” : “You knocked Mr. Bunny down?” in astonish- ment. eS “T did. _ ~ time, and I thought I’d put a stop to it.” i - “Great Scott! I don’t see how you could do it, though I guess he deserved it. Every time he _ €ame into.our office for the past month he’d make -_a-bee-line for your sister’s desk. I wondered _. how she could put up with it. I felt like laying him out myself, two or three times, but, of course, I had no right to interfere.” “It’s a good thing for.you that you didn’t. Bunny would have made Stinson fire you.” ; | “Tf he had really insulted your sister I would have taken those chances, bet your life! I wouldn’t stand for anything like that. If I had a sister I’d expect you to do the same thing, if * necessary.” : : ; “Thanks, old man. I know you’d stand by Car- rie, just the same as J would,” said Bob, grasping - his chum by. the hand. : “Bob walked up the street with King and told him the story of his brief run-in with the lawyer. “So Judson wouldn’t give you a recommend, eh? Well, Stinson will, if only to get back at ~~ your late boss. Shall I tell him you’ve been dis- charged?” ’ 5 ‘ i “J'm thinking’ Bunny will tell him. » 1 wouldn’t _be surprised if he’ll try to get my sister out of her job, too, out of revenge, you know.” “Tf T hear of him trying such a game I’ll bust ~him.in the snoot!” cried King, indignantly. “Don’t do anything rash, Howard. One of us at_a time is enough to be out on his uppers.” The boys parted at the corner of Broadway, fter Bob had cautioned his friend not to sa ° eee to Carrie about his losing his job. Bo . t ha He’s been annoying Carrie for--some ae A as GOLDEN - rushed forward and. assisted them to their feet. - for this boy you would have been under the — effort to save me. ‘his lunch, so he stepped in at the near- : FLEECE est restaurant and had a sandwich, a cup of cof- fee and a piece of pie. Then he walked up as far as the post-office. Some men were repairing the pavement below where the Third avenue cars loop the loop, and Bob stopped to watch them. Happening to look up, he saw a man with a wide, — soft-brimmed hat and clad in a new suit ‘of : clothes leave the sidewalk near the corner of Ann street and Park Row and start across the — Street, apparently bound for the ppst-office. At that very moment a car came around the curve at a rattling good pace. - The motorman for a — moment turned to glance backward into the car, | and consequently did not notice the man he was _ bearing down on. The man himself did not — seem to be aware of the nearness of the car. Of — the hundred or more persons in the immediate neighborhood the only one who saw the impend= ing tragedy was Bob. , Acting on the spur of the moment, he dashed forward, grabbed the stranger by the arm and pulled him back just as the whizzing car brushed them both aside. The end of the car struck the man a glancing blow, and he went down, drag- ging his brave young rescuer with him. <A doz-— en people who had observed Bob’s gallant act “That was a mighty close call you had, sir,” said a gentleman in a silk hat. “If it hadn’t been — wheels.”~ ; 3 me “T guess I would,” admitted the stranger, be- — ginning to realize the narrow shave he had for his life. “Young man, you’ve been uncommonly good to me, and I shan’t. forget it.” aes “Don’t mention it,” replied Bob, cheerfully. nae “Well, I. guess I will mention it. Come, let’s cut loose from this crowd and get over to the post-office, where I’m bound,” and seizing the bo: by the arm he led him away from the small mob which was beginning to congregate about them. “Ym a stranger in New York,” continued the man, whose face was sunburned and tanned by the weather. “Only arrived in town last night, I’m stopping at the Astor House.” ty They stepped onto the broad walk in front the main entrance to the post-office. “You're not in a hurry, are you?” asked stranger. you.” “No,” replied Bob. “I’m in no particular h DH : ; the “Because I’d like to have a talk wi “Then step inside with me till I see if ther ay letters for me at the general delivery wi ow. : _ He gave his name as John Baxter at the win- dow, but there was nothing for him. iene “What is your name, my lad?” he asked hi companion. : 2 “Bob Seymour.” : “Well, I’m, glad to know you, Bob. Mine is Bax. ter, John Baxter, as you heard me tell the clerk ¢ the window. You’re a brave boy to take the ris you did to help a total stranger.” ae “You don’t suppose I could look on and se run down, do you, sir?” asked Bob. “You seem to be the only one of all t of people who noticed me, or, at least, It takes

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one appreciates that fact more than me. Might YT ask where you are employed?” “T’m not working at present. I lost my job asa Wall Street messenger this afternoon because I resented an insult to my sister.” _ “hen maybe you wouldn’t mind showing me to the office of a Wall Street lawyer I have arranged tto call upon?” : “T'll do it with pleasure. What's his name?” “His name is—let me see,” and he pulled an envelope out of an inner pocket. “Ah, yes, his name is, Christopher Bunny, No. — Wall Street.” “Why, that’s the man whom I had the run-in with about my sister, and who got me discharged _ 4n consequence.” ~~ You don’t say!” said the stranger, with a whistle of astonishment. ‘OHAPTER IV.—Howard King Takes Carrie Sey- mour’s Part. “Vl, take you down to Wall Street and show you his office, as you want to go there,” said Bob. ~ “Hold on, my lad. What kind of person is this Christopher Bunny?” asked Mr. Baxter, with evi- - dent interest. Bob described his outward appearance. - “Kind of dude, isn’t he? What is his reputa- tion as a lawyer?” be ~ “Sharp and slick,” replied the boy. ; ie Bob went as far as the entrance to the building, pnd then directed Mr. Baxter to the third floor back. ‘ “Thanks, my lad. Now, I want you to dine with me at the Astor House to-night. As you’ve Jost your position, I’m going to see if I can’t put ‘ou in the way of doing something that'll put e dollars into your pocket.” : - With these words they parted, Bob taking a stroll down Broad street to pass away the time _ till three o’clock, when he expected Howard, and perhaps his sister, would be free for the day. Ris leisurely stride, so different from his custom- bc - ary rapid locomotion, attracted the attention of _ the janitor of a big office building who knew him. - “Ffello, Seymour,” he said, grasping him by the arm, “you seem to be taking the world easy all of a sudden. Anything the matter with your ’ shoe leather, or are you going into business for yourself and are inspecting the neighborhood, with the view of picking out a suitable office? If you are, we’ve got just what you want—a back office on the steenth floor, just vacated, with a safe, rug and.all the furniture complete. It’s a bargain at three hundred dollars per annum, pay-* ~ able monthly, in advance. What do you say?” and the man grinned all.over his face. __ “Thanks, old man,” laughed Bob. “I'll keep your offer in mind.”. : "At three o’clock Bob was hovering about the vicinity -of his late office. In fifteen minutes he - saw Howard King come out and look up and ~ down the street. He whistled to him, and his ‘ghum crossed the way to meet him. _ “Haven’t looked for another job yet, have you?” asked, interestedly. ; : ‘No. But I have something on the string that pan out to my advantage,” whereupon he zr lated the adventure he had had in front of the time, to which was added the knowledge * Nays ies ome ? ag " , yer Fs ae ; - Sate GOLDEN FLEECE ee post-office through which he had become acquaint- ed with Mr. John Baxter. I’ve got a date to dine with him at the Astor House to-night, and he’s - romised to do something for me,” concluded the oy. “Well, he ought to, after what you did for him. Does he look as if he had any money?” “Looks don’ count. He’s from the West, and the new suit he’s got on fits him kind of strange- ly—just as if he wasn’t used to wearing such ~ things. He is as.brown as a berry, and I should say he’s been working out somewhere in the min- ing districts.” ‘I see ” . “Well, run along. Then you can meet me at - Ee the corner of Nassau street.” Howard King returned to Stinson’s with his message. “As he reached the corridor he saw Christopher Bunny come downstairs and make a- bee-line for Stinson’s office. At the same mo- ment Carrie Seymour, with her hat and jacket on, came out at the door. The lawyer walked right up to her and said something. She made some reply, and then attempted to brush. by him, but he headed her off. : “T should be pleased to have you dine with me, Miss Seymour,” the lawyer said, with what he intended to be an engaging smile, “Sir!” exclaimed the girl, indignantly. “Your brother insulted me to-day, for which conduct Mr. Judson discharged him. But for your sake I shall intercede for him and get him taken back.” ; “My brother discharged!” she gasped. - “Don’t worry, Miss Seymour. Remember, I’m your friend,” he said, with a simper. “I have in- fluence with Mr. Judson. oblige me. I assure-you I can easily persuade him to reinstate your brother. I trust, there- fore, you will permit me the pleasure of your company at dinner and the honor of seeing you to your home afterward.” “T beg you will let me pass, Mr. Bunny. You ; ought to know better than to make such a request You have no right to force attentions of me. on me. I don’t want anything to do with you.” “Think of your brother, Miss Seymour,” purred the lawyer. Unless I interfere in his behalf—” Carrie made no reply, but made another at- eer to srt from the legal persecutor, which he deftly blocked. Howard King, from the shad-. ow of the stairway, had been an impatient ob- server of the interview, and his blood began to © boil when he saw that Christopher Bunny was — clearly bent on forcing Carrie Seymour to listen to him, whether she would or not. When he de-- liberately placed himself in her path for the third time, Howard concluded it was time for him to ~ interfere. So he walked right up to them. Howard looked at Bunny scornfully, then turn- ‘ ing to the girl, said: “This way, Miss Carrie.” Christopher Bunny worked himself into a rage on seeing that his carefully matured plan was about to miss fire./ , sat Eat hd that hehe Clechanaet Bartel you puppy. e cried, furiously, striking the boy on the shoulder with his cane.” Ieee _ Howard, who had it in for the lawyer for some ~ aes He’ll do anything to — a

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e _ GOLDEN he was responsible for his friend’s discharge that afternoon, threw prudence to the winds, and, turning suddenly on Mr. Bunny, gave him a punch on the chest that sent him staggering back against the wall, Then taking Carrie by the arm, he es- corted her downstairs to the street. At the corner of Nassau street Bob joined them. “Hello, sis,” he said. “I didn’t expect to see t vou so soon; that’s why I sent Howard up to tell -* you I shouldn’t be home till some time in the evening.” ieee “T’m glad you sent him. He was just in time to save me from that horrid Mr. Bunny,” and she gave her brother an outline of the affair. : ~~ “Gee whiz!” cried Bob. “So you hauled him out a crack, too, did you, Howard? I’m afraid I see your-finish to-morrow.” ; : “Tm not worrying about it,” replied King, lightly. “I don’t get so much at. Stinson’s that Ym stuck on the job.” : The boys escorted Carrie to the bridge cars, and during the walk Bob told her how he had got acquainted with Mr. Baxter. Howard kept Bob company until half-past six, when they separated, King going home and Bob to the Astor House. CHAPTER V.—Dame Fortune Flirts With Sey- mour. “Well, my lad, I see you’re on time” said John Baxter, the man from the West, as Boo stepped to him in the reading-room of the Astor House. _ “Yes, sir. I always try to keep my engage- * ments,” 1 5 = ) “They say promptness is a virtue, Bob,” re- plied the Westerner, clapping the boy familiarly onthe shoulder. “Well, let’s go in to dinner. During the meal Mr. Baxter informed Bob that he had seen Christopher Bunny. i “The lawyer was expecting me, having received word from the party who gave me the letter of introduction that I was coming on. He’s a pretty smooth talker, Bob, and I’l) warrant he’s as sharp as a new razor. I don’t fancy him, though I didn’t tell him so, of course. He expects me to eall to-morrow, but I don’t think I wiil. I’ve got a lot of first-class Western mining stock I want to sell, and he says he’ll introduce me to a broker that will handle it all right.” “That'll be either Stinson or Judson.” “You've been working for Judson, I think you said.” Ves,” “Well, I’ve an idea that I hope will work, ‘as it’s for your benefit as well as my own,” said Mr. Baxter, beaming upon his young guest., “How long have you been working in Wall Street?” “Nearly three years, sir.” : : “Are you pretty well acquainted with Stock ‘Exchange methods?” ; “Yes, sir. I’ve been studying the market pret- ty closely for the past year, as I mean to bea - broker myself one of these days, if I ever get enough capital to make a start.” : : ‘ Come, now, that’s encouraging,” said the West- erner, looking at the boy with a fresh interest. - “Wave you ever done any ee ee “4 little, sir. I’ve got a hundred dollars in the FLEECE bank I cleaned up on a couple of small ventures this year, and I’ve been on the lookout to double it, but haven’t seen a safe chance yet to do so.” “Your’re a bright boy, Bob. That’s why I kind’ of cottoned to you right off, not speaking of what. I owe you for saving my life, as I feel confident you did. Now, Bob, supposing I fitted you out with an office, do you think you could do any busi- ness?” . “I’m sure I could, if I got a customer or two to begin with,” replied the boy, eagerly. i “Well, I propose to be your first customer, and I ought to be a good one, as I have many thous- ands of shares of stock listed on the Goldfield and - San Francisco markets that I want to dispose of.” “If they’re good stocks I can sell them all right.” ; “As well as any of the regular brokers?” smiled Mr. Baxter. ¢ “Yes, sir.” “That’s all I want to know. Bob, you shall be my broker.” "2 .“Do you mean that, sir?” asked Seymour, hard- ly believing his ears. “T certainly do. In addition, ’m going to give you a chance to make a stake for yourself, be-— sides. As a slight acknowledgment of the debt T owe you I’m going to present you with a block of five thousand shares of Bullfrog-Denver, worth to-day one dollar per share. You're at liberty to sell it as soon as you feel like it and use th money as your working capital.” i “T don’t know how to thank you, sir.” ; “Then don’t try to do so and you will please me better.” : 3 “You're very liberal.” “Oh, I haven’t got through with you yet, Bob,” laughed the, Westerner. “Have you heard about Palmetto, the new mining district of Southern Nevada?” “Pve read about it in the papers, sir. another one called Manhattan, too.” ; “That’s right. I see you keep abreast of the times. A great amount of attention has been diverted to those districts during the past few weeks, which shows that they are rapidly spring- ing into prominence. I’ve been right on the ground, so I can tell you something about them. In my opinion, they’re going to knock Goldfield’ and Bullfrog in the shade, and even give some of the best Tonopah mines a run for their money. I am largely interested in Palmetto claims my- _ self. Read that, Bob,”»and he handed the boy a clipping from: the Goldfield Review of February 20.. Bob took it and read as follows: | : « “Tf the encouraging reports coming in almost daily from the Palmetto country are borne out by facts—and there is little doubt but they are—the name Palmetto will soon have as magical a charm as have Tonopah, Goldfield and the rest of Neva- da’s mining’ camps.” Be “Here’s another,” said Mr. Baxter, passing it over and Bob read: “Not less than a dozen of our wanderers have returned from Palmetto, some — to recuperate from their labors and others te — pieaye supplies and implements. Some of these ave gone back and the rest are preparing to go. But all are of the same opinion, namely, that Pal- metto, with its wonderful deposit of mineral, is the coming wonder of wonders.” i: aoa There’s

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GOLDEN . “Tt must be a great place,” said Bob, with ~~ sparkling eyes. ~~ “Bob, I’m a half-owner in the Golden Dream - Mine in the Palmetto district, about twenty miles south of Goldfield. It comprises forty acres— “that is, two claims. A few days before I left for the East, ore which pans and assays as high as twenty thousand dollars to the ton was opened up. The ledge from which such phenomenal val- ues are being obtained is about five feet in width and was uncovered at a depth of twenty-five feet. The high-grade streak was two inches in: width and lay along the foot-wall of the vein. There is also a twelve-inch streak of fine shipping ore which shows free gold in both cubes and spirals. - The quartz is milky white in color and forms an ‘attractive background for the rich luster of the _ precious metal.” = *T wouldn’t mind owning an interest in that ~ mine,” said Bob, eagerly. : : “Only a few thousand shares were sold at the outset for development purposes. They were ' eagerly taken at five cents a share, and I doubt if the present owners would dispose of them at any figure, notwithstanding that the mine has not yet been listed on the Western excHanges. Now, Bob, in addition to that block of Bullfrog- ~ Denver, which has a tangible market value of “one dollar per share,’ I’m going to make. you a present of one thousand shares of Golden Dream.” “I think Christopher Bunny did me a favor to- _ day by having. me bouncéd from ‘my job. If he ~~ hhadn’t, I shouldn’t have met you.” “And if you hadn’t, DP should now be either in _the hospital or the morgue. Well, let’s go up to * my room, and I will let you have that stock.” ~ Bob followed the man from the West out of the dining-room and up to the desk, where he asked the clerk for a tin box which was in the safe, His room was on the third floor, and an elevator took them quickly there. Untlocking the box, Mr. Baxter took out package after package of mining stock. After selecting the certificate of five thousand shares of Bullfrog-Denver, and a certificate of five thousand. shares of Golden Dream, both made out in the name of John Bax- ter, he returned the rest to the box and relocked At; i oe _.“There you are, Bob,” he said, placing the two certificates in a long white envelope and handing it to the boy. “The Denver you can realize five - thousand dollars on to-morrow, if you choose. As to the Golden Dream, take my advice and hold on to it like grim death. There’s a fortune in it for you in the future, as sure as my name is ohn Baxter.” Be “TI am very grateful to you, sir, for your lib- erality, and I assure you that as your broker your interests will be my first consideration,” said Bob, quite overpowered by the streak of luek which had come to him. “Well,” laughed Mr. Baxter, “I may say that I shall have the utmost confidence in you, which “more than I could say with reference to any ‘oker introduced to. me by Mr. Christopher Bun- , whom I heartily distrust. I am satisfied he as been informed about the uncommon pros- s of the Golden Dream, and that it is his pur- . to get in on the ground floor with the pro- ers, which I am one, if he can. I apprehend 4 o ree FLEECE: Sus that he will be disappointed. Golden Dream” — stock is not for sale just at present. You are one of the lueky ones, Bob. You have-not only: ~ come in on the ground floor, but by the cellar window, for the one thousand shares haven’t cost you a cent.” 5 ; : _“For which I have to thank you, sir.” “Say rather the courage and presence of mind ~ you exhibited to-day in front of the post-office,” smiled Mr: -Baxter. “Now, Bob, you must rent. an office to-morrow in the Wall Street district, have it fitted up, and then notify me at the hotel here as soon as you are ready to do business. Have you money enough to do that? If not, I will loan you’some,” and the mine owner took out his pocketbook. : : “Y’ve a hundred dollars,” said Bob. : “Well, here’s another. You can deduct it from your commission account.” Bo “Thank you, sir,” replied Bob, accepting the money, and soon after he took his leave of Mr. Baxter and went home in high glee. - CHAPTER VI.—Bob Seymour’ Hires An Office In Wall Street. : It was close on to ten o’clock when Bob Sey- mour reached home. He found his mother and igs sewing in the dinning-room of their little a im . 5 “Howard has just gone,” said Carrie, as he © took off his overcoat, “He spent the evening with us. “T suppose you kept him well employed,” re- plied Bob, with a grin. > “Why, what do you mean, you silly boy?” ; “You usually make him hold your worsted or something of that sort while you wind it ap.” “The idea! Did you ever hear anything like © that, mother?” cried Carrie, with a rosy blush. ~— “You’ve-been dining out with a gesijJeman, I understand, my son?” said his mother, looking ~ at him inquiringly. - “Yes; I took dinner with Mr. John Baxter, a Western mine owner, at the Astor House,” he answered, with a glowing face, for he was just bubbling over with eagerness to impart the news © of his good fortune to the dear ones at home. “At the Astor House!” mimicked Carrie. : ““I presume you had a good time, Robert,” said Mrs. Seymour, but her son could see there was a _ troubled look on her gentle features. “I am sorry to hear that you lost your position with Mr. Judson. I’m afraid you acted indiscreetly in attacking that lawyer, my son.” Sales “He’s been making life miserable for Carrie for the last month, mother, and as good as insult- _ ed her before me. You don’t suppose I could ~ stand for that, do you?” cried Bob, his eyes — sparkling with indignation. Prgeis “I’m not blaming you for defending your sister, — es Aa know the easiest way is always the best.” _ “There are exceptions to every rule, mother.” The little, pleasant-faced mother shook her - head as if she didn’t agree with him. ; espapee “It was very unfortunate, Robert. You know how I depend on your wages as well as Carrie’s. She gets very little for the work she does.” : , “I agree with you there, mother. Stinson i +2

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a geil “> GOLDEN He doesn’t half pay his em- stingy old hunks. You -ployees. But don’t worry about my wages. shall have all the money you need.” “Have you got another position?” asked Car- rie, looking up quickly, and searching his face for a favorable indication. “T’ve sot something better than that,” replied Bob, with a thrill of exultation in his tone which did not, escape mother and daughter, who re- garded him expectantly. ein “What have you got, Bob?” asked Carrie, eagerly, “Did you tell mother how I saved Mr. Baxter from being run over by a Third Avenue car at the post-office loop this afternoon?” “Certainly.” * “Mr. Baxter is a big Western mine owner. Owns half of the Golden Dream Mine at the Pal- metto diggings in Southern Nevada.” “Well?” said his sister, eagerly. : “He’s brought on a box full of stock to sell here - in the Hast.” é “He must be wealthy. “Well, if he isn’t, all signs go for nothing. What do you suppose he gave me?” “You don’t mean to say that he made you a present?” cried Carrie, in a flutter of excitement. _“That’s what he did,” replied the boy, coolly. “What was it?” “Guess,” tantalizingly. “A gold watch and chain,” she cried. ed “Better than that.” “Five hundred dollars in money,” she said, doubtfully. “Better,” laughed Bob. “One thousand dollars,” screamed Carrie, though she didn’t believe any such thing. “Keep on,®and maybe you'll strike it right by and by.” 7 ““You ridiculous boy! Tell us what he gave you. You know I couldn’t guess.” “Well, don’t faint now when I tell you. He gave me five thousand shares of the Denver Min- 7jng Company, of Bullfrog, Nevada, worth one dollar per share.” The little mother looked her astonishment, while Carrie exclaimed: Ree “Bob Seymour, you don’t mean it.” ” 3 The boy put his hand in his pocket and pro-— duced the envelope. : ; . “Allow me to show you the certificate as evi- dence. We will call this exhibit No. 1,” he re- ~ marked, gleefully, as he showed them both the engraved document. “Oh, my! And is that really worth five thous- and dollars?” exclaimed Carrie, incredulously. _ “Taking Mr. Baxter’s word for it, it is,” . answered Bob. : = “Can you sell it for that amount?” she per- ~~ sisted. ; zs “He says I can,. The stock is not quoted on _ the New York Exchange, but on the Goldfield and San Francisco. exchanges.” “Why, you're a rich boy, aren’t you?” “That isn’t all.” “Isn’t all?” opening her eyes very wide. “He presented me with a certificate of one thou- ~ sand shares of the Golden Dream, a new mine, of Palmetto district, Nevada, the value of which annot now be estimated, as it is yet unlisted, but re FLEECE which Mr. Baxter assures me js a coming bonan- — a? ; “Good gracious!” cried Carrie, drawing a long breath of bewilderment. “Anything more com- ing?” with a roguish smile. fae “Yes. I’m going into business as a stock — broker, chiefly to sell Mr. Baxter’s bunch of Western stocks as a start-off.” ; SF. “Oh, come, now, Bob, you surely don’t mean — that?” “Yes, I do.” “Mother, do you believe that?” ; “Robert, aren’t you just stretching the truth a little bit?” : “No, mother,” replied the boy, so earnestly that she could no longer doubt him. “I am really go- ing into business for myself.” : = “But you’re not eighteen yet,” cried-his sister. — “That has nothing to do with it, sis. I’m go- ing to hire an office to-morrow in some office building in Wall or Broad street, and when I have had it fitted up you and mother must call and — see me, and maybe I'l} take you out and blow you to a swell meal at Delmonico’s. : “Oh, my, I wouldn’t miss that for anything,” laughed Carrie. “Don’t you want to hire me for — your stenographer? If you'll offer me more — than I’m getting from Mr. Stinson, and guarantee — me a steady position, I’ll consider the offer.” with ~ twinkling eyes. am “Tm afraid I shan’t have any use for a sten- ographer right away, but as soon as business _ warrants jt, Carrie, you may be sure you'll hear from me.” Z “Won’t Howard be surprised?” ia “Don’t say a word,” grinned Bob. I’m going— to offer him a job as my messenger.” ay “Youre not going to do any such thing,” in- dignantly. : ve “Well, if he won’t accept, perhaps I’ll offer him — a partnership.” “That’s more like it. ‘Seymour & King, the Boy Brokers of Wall Street.’ That would soun fine,” cried Carrie, clapping her hands. = “And one of these days I suppose you expect to go into partnership with him for life?” chuck- led her brother. Ba “Aren’t you awful!” and she hid her burning | face in the red table cover. <4 cent “You shouldn’t tease your sister so, Robert, said the little mother, shaking her finger at her salwar son, of whom she was very proud, in- eed. - : Next morning Bob started out to hunt suitable office. _ “I wonder if that Broad Street janitor was jok. ing about that office in his building. If he wasn’t, {<3 up T’ll give him the surprise of his life.” So he went down to the building in questi and, running across the superintendent, asked him if there was a small office’ for rent in th building. “T believe there are one or two. tor.” . He hunted the janitor up. si “T came to look at that office you were tel me about. Will you kindly take me up an me examine it?” s as “What are you giving me, Seymour?” grin the man ; \ 72 ie oie ‘ See the je

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“Ym giving you nothing, Morrisey. If_the office is anything like you describe it, I’m ready to - take it and pay you three months’ rent in ad- vance.” “Gwan. You’re joking.” “T never joke on matters of business. going to show it to me?” The janitor shook his head. “All right; I'll see the agent.” = Bob turned on-his heel and sought the agent of : the building, whose office was on the ground floor. F 3 Are you “Who do you represent?” asked the agent, _after he had made his request. “T want the office for myself.” : ;, “We don’t rent offices in this building to boys,” replied the man, shortly. “Y’]] pay you six months’ rent in advance,” said Bob, flashing his wad before the agent’s eyes, “and furnish satisfactory references as to my reliability.” i f --'The man hesitated. “What business are you going to engage in?” “Stock broker.” The agent stared at his applicant as if he - thought he was making game of him. : “Young man, is this a joke of yours?” he ask- ed, severely. . “No, sir,” replied Bob, in a businesslike way. The agent considered a moment, then said: “Con you furnish security for a year’s rent?” Vist cint ~. “Very well,” he ‘answered, pushing a button. In a few moments the janitor appeared. ae “Show this young man the small office on the gighth floor.‘ If he likes it, and is prepared to purchase the fittings at a fair valuation, with or without safe, send him back to me.” “Well, upon me word, you're a bird,” exclaimed _ the janitor, as they made their way to the eleva- tor. “Have you come into a boodle, and are try- ng to see how quick you can spend it?” “What a good guesser you are, Morrisey!” inned Bob. “T thought you was a messenger for Judson?” ; “Well, you’ve got another think coming, old man. Judson and I are now business rivals.” ~ “You are? Upon me word, that’s a good “ene.” - Tn a few moments Bob had the opportunity to look at the office. It was not very large, but still seemed big enough for his requirements. It was furnished ready for immediate occupancy. Mor- risey said the former tenant had defaulted in his nt and the agent had levied on the furniture. _. “Yl take it just’ as it is,” said Bob, who then eturned to the agent’s office, gave his name and ference and planked down one hundred dollars “eCall this afternoon.” said the agent, “and if rything is satisfactory I will have a lease out ‘one year.” : ‘ob called at two o’clock and was informed + he could take immediate possession on pay- certain sum for the furnishings and furn- ¢ a guarantee that the rent would be-prompt- y paid for twelve months from date. These con- ions he met, and the key of the office was GOLDEN FLEECE — ae _ sign ought to be on the door by that time. At si sae " gee - af + CHAPTER VIl-dawnow: Takes a Partner. Bob ran across Howard King at the corner of Broad and Wall Streets. = “T’ve just been aching to see you,” said Howard. “Carrie told me you have run up against no end of good luck, and that you’re going into busi- ness for yourself. Is that a fact?” looking at his friend almost enviously. “She told you the truth, all right. I’ve hired an office, already furnished, in the Bullion Build- ing and am going up Nassau Street to get a sign painter to put my name on the door.” “Gee whiz! You aren’t losing any time. Yes- terday you were a common, ordinary messenger like myself; to-day you’re branching out as a real stock broker. I never heard of such hog luck.” “T hope you’re not jealous, Howard, though I suppose it does hit you kind of hard.” “I’m not jealous, Bob. I wish you luck, old man. Only I wish I had a chance to go in with ; you. I’m going to quit Stinson Saturday.” . \ “How’s that? Get a ecall-down for what you did to Mr. Bunny?” “T should say so. Stinson has given me till Saturday to make up my mind whether I’ll apolo- gize to the lawyer or take the bounce. As I don’t intend to apologize, why, ’m going to leave,” “You mean that?” “IT do,” replied Howard, in a determined tone. “All right,” said Bob, in a decisive tone. “Come in with me.” i “As your messenger?” Et “No, sir. As my partner.” ; nia on. I wish I could,” replied Howard, wist-_ ully. “Wish you could? offer?” . “Sure you are; but I can’t accept it, for I haven’t any money to speak of.” “How much have you got?” “TI might raise a couple of hundred; but Car- rie told me you have five thousand dollars which that mine owner gave you.” ; : “Never mind the five thousand dollars, Bring along your two hundred dollars. That will match the two hundred dollars I have put in so far. When the firm needs more money I'll lend it, see? We'll start on a capital of four hundred dollars, with Mr. Baxter as our first customer.” “You really mean that, Bob?” cried Howard, eagerly. : ; ‘ “Sure I do. You’re my chum.. It would just: suit me to have you in with me. I'll have articles of co-partnership drawn up right away. Glad I met you, for the sign painter can make it Sey- Am I not making you the mour .& King now. Stocks and bends: How does that strike you?” Z “Fine,” cried Howard, tickled to death. “Bob, — I shall never forget this. We'll stand by each other through thick and thin.” Hee “Just as we always have, eh? You’re lost your . job by standing up for Carrie; why shovldn’t I take care of you when I have the chanee?” “On what floor in the Bullion Building is your office.” ; i “Wighth floor, in the rear. Come around after three o’clock. I'll be there waiting for you. The . Gea aie Sines

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10 any rate, you can’t miss it, for the number is 826.” \ “All right. You can bet I'll be- there,” said Howard, with a beaming countenance. Then the two boys separated. The sign paint- er was Jettering the door of No. 326 when Howard King walked up. The firm name of Seymour & King, in semi-circular shape, stood out with re- freshing prominence, and the man was working on the word “Stocks.” “Gee! That looks great,” breathed Howard, with an expansive grin. “I wonder what old Stinson would say+to that? Knock him silly, I guess,” Then he entered the room and found Bob seat- ed before the desk writing. Howard. saw that there was a nice rug on the floor, and several water color pictures on .the walls, with a, big map of the city of New York. Besides the desk, there was a fair-sized safe, three chairs and. a small, substantial writing- table. ; “You’re right in it, Bob,” he remarked, as gay as a mud-lark. “You mean we’re right. in it,” corrected his chum. : “Of course. But I can’t quite get it through my head yet that I am actually in business. You don’t know how funny it-seems to me.” “Oh, you'll get used to it just as soon as you have cut loose from Stinson. All that bothers mé now is that Carrie won’t have any one around to look out for her.” 2 “Bunny hasn’t been near her to-day for the first time in three weeks. I guess we’ve put a flea in his ear.” “Glad to hear it,” replied Bob, in a tone of satisfaction. “Well, if he doesn’t haul in his horns for good, - we'll both go around to his office and have a heart- to-heart talk with him. He won’t be able to get pack at us through either Stinson or Judson now.” “That’s right. So you like the office, do you, ’ Howard?” ; “Sure I do. It’s all to the good.” “You can tell your folks to-night. that you and I are in business together.” “Of course. I’ll bring around my two hundred dollars to-morrow.” “All right. ‘Just sit up here, and I'll show you what I’ve spent so far,” said Bob. “This is one of our’account books. You can do the bookkeep- ing, if you wish. One of these days I hope we’ll do business enough to have a larger office and he able to hire a clerk to attend to the details.” “And a stenographer to write our letters, eh?” grinned Howard. : “Sure. Why not?” ; - That afternoon Bob gave an order to a printer for business cards, memorandums, letter headings, envelopes and other stationery which the business required. Then he went up to the Astor House. to see Mr. Baxter. That gentleman was out, so the boy left a note for him, stating that he had - gecured a furnished office in the Bullion Build- - ing and was ready to execute business for him at once. His office hours, he said, were from nine- thirty to four, and he would be glad to see Mr. Baxter as soon as he was ready to call Ae em cere ao , see z ne ae 4 . ey GOLDEN FLEECE. lL The Western mine owner appeared promptly at room _ 826 at ten o’clock on the following morning. “You’ve a cozy little den here, Bob,” he re- marked, as he placed a small package on the young broker’s safe. “T think so, sir.” “T see you have not forgotten the necessary safe.” % “Tt was in the room when I took it.. I hayen’t bought it as yet. The agent said I could have the use of it till further notice, with the priv- ilege of buying it later on.” “You’ve taken a=partner, I notice.” : “He’s a chum of mine, about my age, who also” lost his position by taking my sister’s part against — Mr, Christopher Bunny.” Z : : “This man Bunny seems to have taken a great — shine to your ‘sister. I sized him up as a sort — of ladies’ man. I should be pleased to meet your — sister some time, Bob.” — =r “Y’ll see that you do, Mr. Baxter. She and» mother will be up to see my °*'>2 on Saturday ~ afternoon. If you will make it< venient to drop — in here any time after one o’ciock that day I. shall be glad to introduce you to them.” » nes By. “Thank you, Bob. I'll try to be here. Now, — if you’re ready to talk business, I'll give you your first commission,” ; oy “Pm all ready, sir.” ies “T’m going to bring my box of steck certificates _ around to-morrow morning, and you can put them in your safe.” : 4 ; 3 ey ER de “It might be better for you to rent a box in a 4 sate deposit vault.” ; Brey “Possibly. I’ll-consider the matter. Well, I’ve got here four five hundred share certificates of — Tonopah-Montana, for which I want two dollars : and eighty cents! also ten two hundred share cer- _ tificates of Goldfield-Florence, worth three dol- | lars. See what you can do with these. They’re — good, salable stocks, and you ought to have no ~ difficulty in disposing of them for me. With the — proceeds I shall want you to buy me certain rail-'— road bonds, to be selected from a list of the best. gilt-edged securities you can find for me.” Bob took the certificates and made a note of the transaction. ‘ Soctee “As soon as you bring me all the stocks you — want to dispose of I’ll make a list of them to take © around with me.” : ee, “Tl bring them down here after lunch, if you wish,” said Mr. Baxter. ey os “Just as- you say, sir.” 5 After the mine owner had gone, Bob went around to a Wall Street daily and inserted a. card which stated that the firm of Seymour & King, room 826 Bullion Building, dealt in stocks ani bonds, and had for sale a line of gilt-edge Go field, Bullfrog and Tonopah mining stocks. then made arrangements to have a stock tic put in, and subscribed for a couple of finance and stock papers. Bob had a large casual acquaintance’among thi brokers, all of whom liked him and regarded hin as a smart boy. He met quite a number ae that morning, told them he’d gone into bu S| for himself, and that for the present he 1 making a specialty of. Western mining Most of them Drought the iden’ of a boy bro aT (0) J was a good joke, z ntly

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GOLDEN eulated throughout the Street, and several of the — brokers made a call upon him at his office. CHAPTER VIII.—King Provides the Pointer and Seymour the Money for the Firm’s First Deal. Bob was holding quite a levee in his office when a stout broker, known as Commodore. Griscom, accompanied by another broker, walked into the room. _ “Well, upon my word!” exclaimed the Commo- dore, ‘‘is this the ‘Amen Corner’ of the Stock Ex- change, or a political caucus, or what?” Matters were rather dull in the Exchange, which accounted for the gathering. “Hardly,” replied Broker Greene, who sported @ goatee in addition to his heavy mustache. “A ~new firm of brokers has invaded the Street, and we’re making their acquaintance, or at least one of them. The other, we understand, is abroad rounding up a few lambs for the shearing ap- liance. Commodore, let me introduce you to the ead of the boy brokerage firm of Seymour & King. Bob Seymour, this is Comodore Gris¢om.” “Happy to make your acquaintance, Commo- _dore,” said Bob, offering his hand. “Sorry I - can’t offer you a seat, but all the chairs are oc- - cupied.” : “You can haye mine, Commodore,” cried a -smooth-faced young broker, hastily vacating his t “Don’t disturb yourself, Benson,” said the Com- modore. ‘Glad to meet you, Seymour. So this is your sheer Aheee den, is it? Quite: cozy, ‘upon my word. You want to keep your safe lock- ed when Greene is in here, and don’t leave any- thing valuable exposed upon your desk.” : “You’re giving me a hard reputation, Commo- dore,” laughed Broker Greene. All the other brokers laughed, too. oh “You deserve it, I guess,” replied Griscom, __who got his title from the fact that he was com- - modore of the Neptune Yacht Club, against a friend?” “Tt would be anywhere outside of Wall Street,’ replied the Commodore. “But I deem it my sol- emn duty to put young Seymour here on his guard against him. You are known to have the sharpest pair of shears in the Street, and very little gets by you. Under these circumstances your presence in this room is suspicious, to say the least.” A roar of laughter followed this sally. “Oh, I’m not afraid of him, Commodore,” said Bob, briskly. “I’ve got a pretty good pair of Shears myself up my sleeve. I’ve got a tidy lot of Golden Fleece in my safe. Anybody who thinks can do me out of it is welcome to make the vttempt, but I won’t answer for the conse- quences.” . __ “Do you carry a gun?” asked Broker Newcomb. “Oh, I’m not giving away my plan of defense. “may have a whole arsenal. You’ve got to tackle ‘to find out where you’re at.” : “There doesn’t seem to be anything slow about * spoke up another broker, who was wrestling fat Havana nerfecto, = S 2 FLEECE ee “T hope not. A fellow wants to have cut his — eye-teeth before opening up an office cown here. The way you gentlemen size up one anviher’s piles and then lay yourselves out to get possession of your friend’s money is enough to make the an- gels weep. If you succeed, you grab him by the hand, sympathize with him, and tell him how sorry you were to learn that he was on the wrong side of the market.” The brokers all thought Bob was quite amus- ing, and they laughed till their sides ached. “Well, young’ man,” said the Commodore, “I hope you don’t include me in that category. I have no doubt but the hat fits Greene and a few’ more of your visitors, but I make it a point never to do any of my friends. When you’ve got any cash you want to invest, you can walk right into my office with the serene confidence that your ’ uncle Griscom will take»the most fatherly care of you.” “Seymour,” chipped in Greene, “my ad¥fice to you is, never let the Commodore take you in tow. If you do, it’s dollars to doughnuts you'll be liv-| ing on snowballs before you know where you are.” . “Young man,” said Commodore Griscom, point- ing his fat finger solemnly at Bob, “you are no doubt flattered by the presence here in your of ; fice of so many of the shining lights of the Ex- change. Don’t be deceived in their purpose. -Every one of them has come here to size you Ui When they go away it will be with the object of laying some trap for your inexperienced. and un- wary feet.” zy : “The Commodore seems to see the worst side of everybody,” grinned a tall, thin broker. a “He can’t help it,” chuckled Broker Greene, “He’s an amateur photographer.” “I must be going,” remarked the Commédore. “Any of you gentlemen who feel: equal to the strain of accompanying me to the. nearest cafe will find a mint julep ready for him on the coun- -— ter. I wish you success, my young friend,” to — Bob. “Here is my card. I shall be happy to as- sist you in chasing the elusive eighths and quar- __ ters when you have any little deal on hand. But “ “Isn’t that a rather tough accusation to make “I warn you against devoting yourself entirely to the accumulation of money. Health and peace of mind beat money any day.” : “I am agreeable to the Commodore’s state- ment,” said Greene, walking to the door on the — strength of the formet’s invitation regarding a — mint julep. “But I-must say that the jingle of — money will set a broker with the rheumatism to dancing a jig any day.” ae ‘The rest of the brokers laughed and started fo the door like a drove of.sheep, but whether it was a mint julep that attracted them, or they thought © they had stayed long enough, we are unable to say. wat any rate, Bob was left alone, and it wasn’t long after before Howard walked in, and the two young brokers began to compare notes, as the saying is. ae “Gee!” exclaimed King. “There’s an awful smellof tobacco smoke in here. You've been hay- _ ing visitors, haven’t you?” : “If you’d come in fifteen minutes ago you'd’ have thought all the members of the Exchange were crowded into this office.” sey “You. don’t say!” , =A “And voy may gamble on it every one of the

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GOLDEN } “was up here with a view of ultimately annexing -— our little bunch of fleece.” “Tt’s a mighty little bunch we have to lose just at present,” laughed Howard. “They haven’t any idea of the extent of our capital. At any rate, they’re not letting anybody _ get by them if they can help it. You know Ed- win Greene?” “Sure I do.” “Well, he was my first wists: -, of Lige Warris Treasury Mine certificates, of the a; " Bullfrog district, which he wanted to unload-on us at six cents. JI told him I was selling, not buying, just at present, and he was rather dis- ' appointed:” “Fe’s one of the sharpest brokers in the Street, I’ve heard.” “You het he is. He soaked Judson twice to my knowledge, and Judson isn’t so easy, either.” “I know he got a slice of Stinson’ s boodle, too, and Stinson is as fly as any one.’ “Well, to hear those fellows talk in here you'd think putter wouldn’t melt in their mouths.” “T suppose they wanted to know all about our - business?” “Well, say, they tried to pump’ me for all they \ were worth.” _ .“Tt didn’t work, did it?” grinned Howard. “J should say not. I’m right on to those gen- _ tlemen. I haven’t knocked elbows with them for ‘three years without picking up a thing or two, bet your life. All they got out of me they’re- - welcome to.” ' “What's this?” asked Howard, picking up a aper. “That’s a full list of the Western mining stocks - in the safe belonging to Mr. Baxter.” “Oh, I'see. Well, I’ve got something to tell you, Bob. e “Ym listening.” “4 combination has been formed to boom F. M. & ‘G ” _ “How do you know that?” asked Bob, in a tone of interest. ~ “Cause Stinson is one of the brokers that’s go- ing to do the buying. I overheard part of a conversation between him and Horace Wells, the big Exchange place operator. He was in our place this afternoon in consultation with Stinson about the deal.. Bunny is doing some business for - Wells and. steered him into Stinson’s.. Which - means that Bunny, of course, expects to get a rake-off.” ~~ “Pl bet he does.” * “Stinson never did any business before “for “Wells, sono one will suspect he has any dealing with the millionaire. He’s got, an order to buy “every ‘share of F. M. & G. in sight, the ruling figure of which is 38. Now, it struck me that if ~ you would buy td the extent of your five thou- sand dollar pile you would be able to unload: it on Stinson later on at a profit. I don’t expect to make anything out of this, as the five thousand is yours and not-the firm's s, but your interest goes ith me every time.” “Thanks, old man; but you forget you are pro- ng the pointer, and that entitles you to a half- rest in the deal. That's the way I look at it.” th, I don’t want pre ae as that. 4 t 5 Had a bunch T’ve no doubt it will go up ten or twenty Boltits * . mour & King that the stock had been bought and Just put FLEECE “Nonsense! We’re partners. We divide “ale ways even. I'll sell my Bullfrog Denver to-mor- row, if I can. I see it’s quoted to-day in the San Francisco Exchange at one dollar and ten cents. Vl let it go at a doljar. Then I’ll buy twelve hundred shares of F, M. & G. on a ten per cent. margin on the strength of your tip.’> “Ail right. We’re bound to make something. within the next ten days.” Next day Bob called on Commodore Griscom an offered to put up his five thousand Denver as security for the purchase of twelve hundred shares of F. M. & G. at 38, and the Commodore, after looking up the Western quotations, accepted the order. Half an hour later he notified Se that he held it subject to their order. . The next day, it being Saturday. Mrs. Seymour, Carrie and Howard King entered Room 326 of the the Bullion Building and found Bob wait- ing for them. All were delighted with the pcintments of the office. In a short while Baxter came in and was introduced all aroun Some time was spent in conversation and aroun 12 o’clock it was nroposed ‘that they go out dinner. As Bob suddenly openéd the door lead- igg into the corridor who should he see backing away but Piggy O’Toole. He had been listening through the keyhole. Bob grabbed him and ran him out to the nearest elevator and shoved him inside after giving him a box on the ear. The Bob went back into his office. It was supposed that Piggy’s boss, Christopher ‘Bunny, was . sponsible for Piggy’s spying. Baxter then admitted that Bunny was t hard to get control of the Golden Dream Mine, CHAPTER IX.—The-Boy Brokers Realize a Profit of $33,000 on F, M. & G It was after ten, Monday morning, and ‘Bob was alone in the office.. Howard had gone over the Exchange to watch from the gallery the M. & G, stock, which had closed Saturd 38 3-8. The knob of the door turned and Bre Greene entered. “Good-morning, Mr. Greene,” said Bob, cheer fully. ‘Take a seat.” - “Fine morning, Seymour, ” remarked the bie er, as he seated himself alongside the desk. ‘ the way, you told me Saturday that you had som Western mining stocks for sale.” “Ves;-sir-” “Will you let me see your list?” v “Certainly.” : Bob took the list out of a pigeon-hole and 1. it before the broker. f “What are you asking for this Red Top?” as Greene, after he had gone over the list carefully, “The market price,” replied Bob. “That’s two. dollars.” Bob- took out his daily market list of Wes’ quotations. Red Top closed at two do Yr fifeen cents on. Saturday. : ‘Tll_ give you it yenaes and t Sheunand shares.” -Bob. sho

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*OLDEN “What makes you think so?” “T can’t take less than two dollars and fifteen cents, Mr. Greene. I believe it will go higher this week,” . 4 “A dividend has been declared by the Red Top Mining Company of five cents a share, to be paid February 20th, and the conditions in this mine are reported to be highly satisfactory.” “Well, I’ll give you two dollars and ten cents.” “My instructions are not.to sell Red Top under the market.” Mr, Greene pondered a moment or two, and fin- ally said he’d take the shares. i i “Where did you get all this stock, Seymour?” he asked, curiously. “You seem to have only the top-notchers.” “A gentleman from the West left them with us for sale.” “Your list represents quite a comfortable total. You might influence your client to go into some of ‘the railroads. As you’re not a member of the Exchange, you will have to do business: through a regular broker. Now, look here, Seymour, I’ll ~ make it an object for you to throw your business my way. J’ll allow you a percentage on the com- missions. I’ll do better by you than anybody else. You know where my office it.” “Thank you, Mr. Greene. I’ll remember your offer.” : *“Don’t go near the Commodore,” continued the “broker, as he took out his check-book and filled in the price of the Red Top shares he had just pur- chased, making # payable to the order of Sey- -mour & King. like you. Come to me, and I’ll do the square thing by you every time.” Soon after Greene had taken his departure John Baxter came in, and Bob told him about the sale of hig Red Top. The boy endorsed the check and handed it to him. : : “You haye an account at the Republic Nation- al,” he said. “It will simplify matters if you de- posit that to your credit yourself. I will enter - the transaction in our books and charge up the ‘commission against you. : Mr. Baxter nodded, took the check and put it ‘in his pocketbook. “Do you know,” he said to the boy broker, “I think I’d like to take a little flyer on the market. ‘Could you recommend any particular stock to my attention?” ee, “What put that idea into your head, Mr. Bax- ter?” asked Bob, in some surprise. “Oh, I want a little excitement—that is, some- hing to occupy my mind. If I had a few thou- sand at stake, say on a ten per cent margin, it would kind of add an interest to my present stay n New York. I have to remain here some little time, as I am having certain improved mining machinery built for the Golden Dream Mine, and hat can’t be done in a day.” “Well, Mr. Baxter, there is only one stock I would ask you to put your money in, and that is F. M. & G. Railroad. I have strong reason to “pelieve that it will make a decided advance short- 3 It was 88 8-8 this morning. I can’t tell you what it rules at now, as our ticker hasn’t been put in yet, but I think it may be a little higher. is safe to buy it at 89 or even 40.” You'll have to get it through another broker, oul! x z aE: “He’s too slick for young fellows . _ dollars, less one hundred dollars x FLEECE 13 “Yes; but I'll be able to make a small commis-_ sion, One well-known broker has already made arrangements with me to that effect, and I have a similar offer from another.” “Well, then, you can buy me’ one thousand shares of the stock.” “Wait a minute. I’ll run in next door and see what it is going at.” é Bob found that quite a number of sales had been made that morning of F. M. & G., as he ex- > pected, and that the last figure was 38 7-8. 5 “The chances are I'l] have to pay-39 for it,” he said to Mr. Baxter, when he re-entered his of-' fice, “so you’d better give me your check for three thousand nine hundred dollars.” : The Westerner wrote his check for that amount and handed it to the boy. “There you.are. Now I feel a sort of personal interest in the New York market. T’ll keep my eye on F. M. & G. after this. If it goes down, and your broker calls on you for more margin, let me know, and I’ll make good.” “All right, sir,” replied Bob, as he made a note of the transaction; “but I don’t think there is any danger of that. I should advise you to hang on to it for a twenty-point rise, at least.” “You speak with great confidence,” smiled Mr. — Baxter. “If you were one of the big brokers I should be inclined to think you possessed inside information about this road.” , aoe “Well, my partner heard something about the _ stock which leads me to feel almost sure that it’s going to boom within a very few days.” Wed oe “What did he hear?” asked Mr. Baxter, with interest. : Ror: “Well, he heard on what I consider good auth- ority that a combinations has been formed to cor- — ner the stock. At any rate, we know for certain that Stinson has an order from a millionaire op- ~ erator to buy in all he can get as quietly as pos- sible.” - < “That lgoks like a good tip, Bob. Why don’t you go into that yourself?” with a twinkle in his Se eye. : a “I have already done so, sir. I have bought — twelve hundred shares at 38 on a margin, and I’d buy more if I had the money to put up,” said the boy, confidently. oh “Give me that check back, Bob. I'll risk buy- te ee thousand shares instead of one thou- sand.” aes He made out his check ‘for eleven thousand — seven hundred dollars. Bob altered his memoran- dum and put on his hat. ‘oie: “Tl rush around to one of the those brokers and put your order through,” he said, oe ee _ Locking up the office, he carried the order this time to Broker Savage. That afternoon he sold — Baxter’s two thousand shares of Tonopah-Mon- — tana at two dollars and ninety cents and his two thousand shares of Goldfield-Florence at three dol- lars and twenty cents to a well-known brokerage’ ~ firm, receiving a check for twelve thousand dol- lars, which he -handed to the mine owner next morning when he appeared at the office. : “How much commission do I owe you now? asked Mr. Baxter, as he took the check. as “Well, you owe us six hundred and twenty-fiv: which you a +4 r boa se ;

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14 ge GOLDEN FLEECE vanced that evening at the hotel to help me fit out the office.” Mr. Baxter handed Bob his check for five hun- dred and twenty-five dollars. “That squares us for the time being,” he said, smiling, “and gives you a little cash for your- selves.”’ : “Thank you, sir,” replied Bob. “Howard and I wouldn’t have made that much in a dog’s age as messengers. I guess Christopher Bunny did us both a good turn by securing our discharge from cur former occupations.” “T guess he did,” answered Mr. Baxter. “By the way, I see F. M. & G. has gone up to 40. I am, therefore, three thousand to the good, less commission, on that transaction.” “Yes, sir. And the firm of Seymour & King are two thousand four hundred dollars ahead of the game on the same principle.” ° During the balance of the week Bob had sev- eral customers, attracted by his advertisement in the Wall Street Indicator, for. Western mining stocks. He also received a number of letters of inquiry from out-of-town people. The result was that he sold about fifteen thousand dollars’ worth of Goldfield and‘ Tonopah shares for his client, and received commissions amounting to one thou- sand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars. In the meantime F, M. & G. went up to 45, at which figure Bob bought three hundred more shares, on the usual margain, from the Commodore. This gave the firm control of fifteen hundred shares of the stock, which was attracting considerable attention in the market. On Monday the demand for F. M. & G. on the floor of the Exchange set the stock booming in earnest. There was a rush on the part of the brokers to get some of it to meet an influx of or- ders from their customers, who all wanted to buy it, now it was on the rise. It closed at 52 ‘on Monday and opened at 52 5-8 Tuesday morn- ' jing. Both Bob and his partner were very much ex- cited over the prospect of raking in a big wad on the deal. They spent a good part of’their time watching the quotations which appeared on the tape, for the indicator had been put in their of- fice. Every time the price jumped an eighth they shook hands, and, as this thing occurred with great frequency, they presently got tired of the exercise. When the Exchange closed on Wednesday F. M. & G. had reached 63, an advance of 25 points over their first purchase, and Bob began to con- sider the advisability of closing out the deal. He called on Mr. Baxter that afternoon at the ho- tel, but found he was out. ; “Y’m not going home till I see him,” he said to Howard. “Drop in at the house as you go by and tell my folks I may not be home to supper.” “All right,” replied his partner, starting for the Bridge cars, : ' Bob went to the Astor House again at six o'clock, - Mr. Baxter was in his room, and Bob went up. “Hello, Bob,” said thesWesterner, in some sur- ' prise. “I didn’t expect to see you again to-day. You look as if you had something to tell me. It * will keep till after dinner, won’t it?” : i o° On, yes.” ‘decided that the small quarters on the eighth floo: : “Well, brush your hair, and we’ll go down to ~ the dining-room.” i ; After dinner they returned to Mr. Baxter's room. i “Now I’ll hear what you’ve got to say, Bob,” seating himself comfortably and lighting a cigar. “JT want to speak to you about IF’. M. & G,” “Go on. It seems to be booming finely. I no- ticed that it hit 63 this afternoon; that indicates a profit of seventy-five thousand dollars on my side of the house. How high do you think will go?” ahi “T don’t know, sir. I am thinking of selling, and would advise you to do the same.” “Do you think there is any danger of a col- lapse?” asked Mr. Baxter, taking the cigar from is mouth and regarding his young broker fix- edly. “The danger is always present, sir. F. M. & G. is ’way above its normal price just now, and may go on the toboggan at any moment. Some- body who has a big block is likely to throw it on the market unexpectedly, and if the clique that has been booming it can’t or don’t want toe take it in, the stock will go down in no time.” “Then you advise me to sell?” “T do. I’m getting kind of nervous. There’s a big profit coming to us, and I want to realize, If it should go to pieces before you got out it would be tough.” “All right. Use your own judgment. out if you think best.” Accordingly, next morning the first thing Bob did was to call upon both Greene and the Com- modore and order the stock sold. The shares were disposed of to eager buyers among the first of the morning’s transaction in the Exchange. — Then Bob and his partner figured up what they — had made by the deal. oy The twelve hundred shares they had got at 38 turned them in a profit of twenty-five dollars per share, while the three hundred shares they had purchased later at 45 netted them eighteen dollars per share. Altogether, after deducting expenses, the found they had made thirty-three thousand dol- lars. Mr, Baxter had made, all expenses de- ducted, seventy-one thousand dollars. An hour later the very thing occurred which Bob had feared. . Three blocks of five hundred shares were unloaded on the market. The syndicate took in two, but the third floored them, and F. M. & G. went to the wall. “Gee whiz!” exclainied Howard, when the boy ~ brokers read the signs of disaster on the tape. — “Weren’t we lucky to get out in time?” oa “Well, I should smile,” grinned Bob. And then they shook hands. A dere De ae ne oe aD ee Sell me Visits the Boy Brokers. With the sum of over thirty-five thousand d lars to their credit in the bank, Seymour & CHAPTER X.—A Bogus D. T. Messenger Boy ub of the Bullion Building were altogether to cramped for their business. ack “It is true we have only one client,” rem. Bob to his partner. “But I’m afraid we

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SOLDER FLEECE get any more in a hury unless we get nearer to to see their new quarters.’ While they were show- ‘the sidewalk and throw a bigger bluff.” ing her around the two rooms a District Tele- “That’s about the size of it,” agreed Howard. graph boy entered with a message. “We're lost up here. It’s well enough when “Who for?” asked Bob. - 5 - you’re. known and people get into the habit of “Mr. John Baxter. Jest sign dis paper, will calling on you. But this office looks awfully youse?” skimp lately. -There’s nothing about it to inspire The boy’s voice sounded familiar to Bob, and confidence. Gives the impression of here to-day he gave the messenger a sharp look. Clearly it and gone to-morrow. Nothing like putting on a was the freckled face of Piggy O’Toole, although good front, even when you can hardly afford it.” his hair appeared to have turned from a brick-red _-“That’s right,” said Bob. “Appearances go a to a curly blond blue, and his uniform pretty - long way, especially among the lambs who flock well disguised him, ~ this way when times are good. We've sold most “Say, Howard,”.said Bob. ‘Who does this kid of Mr. Baxter’s mining stock, and it’s high time put you in mind of?” ‘ : - ‘we were angling for more customers. We must “Why,” said Howard, in some astonishment, af- _ get right down to business after this, and to that ter giving the-messenger a square look, “it’s - _ end I suggest that we take the suite of two rooms Piggy O’Toole, isn’t it? But what has happened on the ground floor back. I was speaking to to his hair?” the agent of the building about them this~morn- “Well, Piggy, what have you got to say for ‘ing, and he agreed to allow us to make the change yourself?” laughed Bob. ‘What are you mas- after I showed him our bankbook.” querading for?” “Take the rooms, by all means, Bob. What’s “Youse it awful. smart, ain’t youse?” retorted the rent?” : Piggy, in great disgust at his exposure. ere His partner named the figure, which looked “You'd better get a new voice and a new face steep beside what they were paying for their the next time you work the Old King Brady ‘present office, but the boys considered that from a ‘racket on us. Did you imagine that a ‘blond wig _ business standpoint it was easily worth the dif- and a borrowed messenger uniform would deceive ference, and as long as they could afford it they us? I thought you were smarter than that, Pig-_ thought it good business judgment to make the gy. Well, what’s your little game this time? change. What’s that one-eyed boss of yours up to ‘now, - -Aecordingly, Bob arranged with the agent that anyway?” : 5 Ot : afternoon, and the next day they moved down- “Nuttin’ dat I knows of,” replied Piggy, sulkily. ‘stairs. -The fitting from room $26 they put in the He sent you ‘round with that letter for Mr. ~ small room, which was to be their private sanc- Baxter, didn’t he?” “ eens tum. Mr. Baxter was naturally their first visi- Youse wants ter know too much,” replied Pig- tor, and he gave a nod of approval as he looked &Y, edging toward ‘the door. the new office over. _ “Are you going to tell us why you came here ~ - “Well, boys,” he said, “I’d like to start you off in that disguise with a letter for Mr. Baxter?” a, mith an order. Have you got any more tips up Youse had better let me go, if youse knows your sleeves this morning?” when youse is well off,” replied the boy, with Eh te “Sorry to say that we have not, sir,” replied Ugly look. ‘Bob, with a grin. You refuse to tell, do you?” ON “Perhaps you could recommend something that | 2he boy remained silent. See SEES Ste itatie Foes Grab him, Howard, ee you think to be a safe investment? “Help!” yelled Pi ; ; “Well, you might buy a few shares of D. & G. eip, ~ yeile iggy O’Toole,-as the young — if you’re anxious to get in the market again,” ham cee Faised “hier from. (he -Hoon By ene ae eho. x ‘ ere shall we do with him?” asked King, stif- Baineiya ey ae aa : ing Piggy’s cries. ; ‘ eee you: could: tackle: just now. fee out,” grinned Seymour, nodding at — ey 999 e€ window. cog a The tough youth struggled desperately as they ; * carried him to the open window. They landed é ‘Well, buy me a thousand shares on margin.” Piggy with a bump on the window-sil eae _ He sat down at Bob’s desk and wrote his check “264+ with him.” . for eight thousand dollars. Pee es eee Fees cae $ j I sin feet first into. — Use your own judgment about closing the deal edge eT OL OR j IT shal probably aos er Snyhine aoe it, foot eight feet below, where he landed in a ’m just giving you the order for luck. 2, SE aI oe till so = ; “T wish we had a few more customers like you, ..:4~ y= wae me-one lets you out, ir, Baxter,” said Howard, : said Bob, slamming down the window, - a Oh, you'll build up a business in time. You cee Pe aeeep gs are too smart to get lost in the shuffle.” ob put on his hat and started for'Commodore CHAPTER XT— . oe Mason's office to give him the order for the one ae. si Peseta a Surprise at “ fe aa 2 =} fon 2 =a rs) 8 ° a ° Fh. 9 & p co l= = site bo] fs) nm cot ©) C) a ro) 3 Pa morning Bob met Carrie on her way to an Piggy O’Toole didn’t remain very long in the _ : ; She area behind the big office building. When How- h he and Howard had been praising it up ard looked out five minutes later to see how he at the band the evening before to Carrie was amusing himself he was nowhere in sight — er mother, and the girl was full of curiosity ~ “Piggy has got away,” he remarked to Bob.

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aR _ GOLDEN “Has he?” replied his partner, carelessly. « The boy brokers were alone, Carrie having de- “parted right after Piggy’s undignified exit through the window. _ “Sure thing. He’s about as slippery as they come, I guess.” “That letter he brought is evidently from Chris- topher Bunny. He still persists in following our friend Baxter up. Well, it won’t do him any good.” At this point the letter carrier entered with a couple of letters for the firm. “Here’s the first fruits of our new advertise- ment;” said Bob, after opening the first. ‘It’s from a lady, too. Asks us to buy her twenty-five shares of L .E. & W. at 40, and encloses a draft for one hundred dollars. She signs herself Flor- ence Drew.” “And the other?” asked Howard. Bob opened the second letter. “*Gentlemen,’” read the young broker, “ ‘I am an invalid and cannot call on you personally. I am interested in Western mining stocks. I have just received a legacy and would like to invest it in some good Goldfield stock. Would consider it a favor if a representative of your firm would call upon me, so that I might confer with him on the subject. Take a New York Gentral train to Dobbs Ferry. A conveyance will be on hand to meet the three-thirty train Thursday after- 997 } ; fs noon. ° “That’s to-morrow,” said Howard. “Yes. I suppose I’d better go up there and see the gentleman.” “Sure, What’s his name?” y, “Thomas Hardy.” / “If his legacy amounts to much, and we can do business with him, we ought to make a stake,” grinned Howard. “Well, we’ve got a lot of Goldfield, Tonopah and Bullfrog literature, which, with what I have picked up from Mr. Baxter, will enable me to give .the gentleman a good insight into the southern ‘Nevada gold fields., I have got all the really. good mining propositions Shoetat off. There are a whole flood of wildecats, but Mr. Baxter has put me wise as.to them, and so I will be able to - warn our correspondent what species of invest- ments he should steer clear of. Of course, I shall try to se}l him a portion of the balance of Mr. Baxter’s holdings still in our possession, They are as good as anything he could select—Jumbo especially, which is quoted this morning at 144, which Western advices say is low.” “Why not sell him your Bullfrog-Denver, Bob?” suggested Howard. “You’re still hanging on to that.” aria “That would cost him a little over five thousand dollars, and he may not have so much to invest. However, I’ll mention it to him.” Bob put on his hat and went out to see the Commodore about the twenty-five shares of L. E. & W. for their lady customer. Commodore Gris- com was busy when he entered the outer office and Bob had to wait. He took a chair in a cor- _ ner and picked up a copy of the Herald. He got interested in a report of a swell marriage of the afternoon before at a Fifth avenue church and d not observe the entrance of two gentlemen, ' FLEECE who took up his position a few feet away and carried on a conversation in a low tone. ae At length Bob finished the story, and was about — to turn the paper, when one of the callers said — something in a louder tone, in which the name — Judson figured. This attracted the boy’s notice, — and he glanced over the top of the paper at the © speaker. He recognized Stinson. oe = _ “Arve you sure?” he heard the other gentleman say. ; Fes “Positive,” replied Stinson. “The pool has been formed and Judson is buying the stock.” ee “What is it going at to-day?” asked his com-— panion. \ Ee _ “Around 50, but within ten days it will be sell- — ing at 80, as sure as you stand there. If you'll go in with me on this, we ought to clear a quar- — ter of a million without any trouble. I got the tip by the merest accident, through a legal friend — who doesn’t realize the value of his information. — I am sharing this pointer with you because I haven’t enough money at present to: work it alone.” An “All right,” said the other. “I’m in.” ~~ 4 Just then the attendant stepped up and said — the. Commodore would see Mr. Stinson, and so Bob heard no more. He had heard enough to set him to thinking, however. As soon as Bob had — transacted his business with the Commodore he made a bee-line for the Stock Exchange. He went into the gallery and looked over the floor for — Mr. Judson. At length he spotted him passing here and there among the brokers who were con- gregated in the vicinity of the Iowa C. post. : stopped and spoke to several brokers with whi Bob was acquainted, and made pad memorandums — indicating transactions. ee Later:on Bob followed these cues up and found — that Judson appeared to be buying Iowa C. ex- clusively. This stock Bob ascertained was going at 49 7-8. As soon as he was certain of Judso: purchases he. returned to the office and hac consultation with his partner, the result of which was that before the Exchange closed for the da he had placed two orders for three thousan shares of Iowa .C. with Brokers Griscom an Greene, paying 50 for the stock, and’ depositing - in each case fifteen thousand dollars as a margin — security. ae Mr. Baxter hadn’t called that day on them, which was something unusual for them, and so Bob went around to the Astor House to find hix and tip him off on Iowa C. The clerk told the boy that he hadn’t seen Mr. Baxter since th preceding day at noon, : Bob went to a restaurant and took his suppe strolled around City Hall Park, and at ei o’clock turned up at the Astor House again. But Mr. Baxter had not appeared. . “He must have gone out of town on busine thought the: boy, who then started for his h Bob called at the Astor House next mo before he went to the office, but with the result as before. Mr. Baxter hadn’t turne for the letters were still m his box. ieee ““T guess he’s gone to Philadelphia,” thou: young broker. “I now remember he spoke going there.” ; Several letters of inqury were reveivec young brokerage firm that morning, w.

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GOLDEN ed that their advertisement was attracting notice. Howard answered them. After lunch Bob took a subway express for Grand Central station, where he boarded a train that stopped at Dobbs Ferry. Arrived at his destination, he stepped down on the platform and looked about him for the promised conveyance. There were several ve- hicles drawn up before the station,-and Bob ad- vanced to the nearest—a buggy in which sat a young man of twenty. “T am looking for a rig from Mr. Hardy,” began Bob. ' “Right here,” replied the young man. “Are you from Seymour & King?” - “fYes.!* : “Jump in, then. Mr. Hardy lives about two miles from here. He is expecting you.” ‘ Inside of twenty minutes they entered the yar _of a neat-looking country home, and Bob was at once conducted into the sitting-room and the pres- ence of the owner of the house—Mr. Hardy. He was a pleasant-featured man of thirty-five, with an intellectual appearance and a studious air which corresponded well with it. A pair of clutches leaned against the chair. He introduced himself as Thomas Hardy. “You are connected with the brokerage firm of - Seymour & King?” he said. “J am a member of the firm, sir. Rebert Seymour.” ; “Indeed!” replied Mr. Hardy, in surprise. “You look rather young to be a stock broker.” ' “fm afraid I can’t help that, sir,” laughed Bob. “No, I suppose not. Well, your firm received my letter, and I am prepared to hear what you have to offer in the line indicated by me,” — Bob got right down to business, and, being a convincing talker and pretty well informed upon his subject, he soon interested Mr. Hardy. He - showed the gentleman plans and data regarding the various prominent Nevada mining camps, laid before him all the points he had got from Mr. Baxter, furnished him with statistics about. the really. good mines in Goldfield, Tonopah and Bull- .~ frog, and pointed out those which seemed, in his ; opinion, the most likely to yield a steady dividend income. “How much do you wish to invest, Mr. Har- dy?” he asked, finally. : “Between five and six thousand dollars.” “Well, if you would like to purchase a five- } thousand-share block of Bullfrog-Denver at one dollar and five cents I can accommodate you right away, as we have the certificate in the office, with those other mining shares on that list. If none of those stocks suit you, we will have to : send to Goldfield for such other selections as you make.” : 3 PF eH “Set me hear the particulars of the Denver, said Mr. Hardy. ——s- *Tt is A very stable stock, sir, and shows every sign of an early advance in price. According to late reports of a reliable character, it is go- ing to make one of the biggest producers of Southern Nevada.” * Bob talked up his Bullfrog-Denver to such good effect that Mr. Hardy finally decided to buy the plock, and the boy agreed to fetch the certificate to him next day. He accepted an invitation to take tea with Mr. Hardy, after ascertaining that Thomas My name is y FLEECE a train for New York stopped at the ferry at . seven-thirty. ; Mr. Hardy was about to order his buggy to b brought around, when Bob told him he would just as soon walk to the station, as he enjoyed the ex- ercise. He left the house at six-thirty, in the gloom of early evening, and had covered half of — the distance to the railroad station, as he thought, — when he realized that he must have made a wrong _ turning, for he could no longer recognize his bear- ings. He had walked into a rather lonesome dis- trict. Looking around, he saw a light shining — from a window of a house a short distance away. — “T shall have to stop there and have those peo- a ple put me right,” he said to himself. a He hastened his steps, for he did not know how; far he might have to retrace his steps, and he =} did not want to miss the train. Had it been day-!— light he would have seen that the house was a! very shabby affair. : - It “was surrounded by a straggling, disreputa-_ ble-looking picket fence and a-superabundance of shrubbery. Bob stepped up to the rickety gate, which seemed on the point of parting from its hinges, and as ‘he passed through the ill-kept — front yard he heard the sounds of wheels in the — road fgom the direction he had come. ead Before the boy reached the front door the ve- | hicle stopped before the house and a man and a boy alighted. After tying the horse to the fence, - they entered the yard, walking rapidly, and bepstied past Bob in the gloom without observing | im. : The man knocked smartly on the door. The! light presently disappeared from the window, and soon after the front door opened and a rough- looking individual appeared with a lighted lamp: in his hand. ea. Bob stood less than a yard away, and when the ~_ light flashed upon the faces of the newcomers he > started back with astonishment as he recognized them. They were none other than Christopher ies Bunny, the Wall Street lawyer, Piggy O’Toole. y Soe and his office boy, CHAPTER, XII.—The Absence of Mr. Baxter _ - from the Astor House. ; 2 s “What the dickens brings those two out here?” breathed Bob. ‘ oe The boy was soon to find out. “Well, Hernon, here I am,” said Christopher | Bunny. “So you’re managed to get our man Bax-. ter at last, I see.” Sa “Yes,” replied the rough-locking man wha held; the lamp. “I’ve got him all right. Step in, =e Bunny. Who have you got with you?” “This is my office boy.” - The lawyer pushed Piggy forward, and both en-. tered the house, the door closing behind them, ee “Well,” muttered Bob, “if this doesn’t beat any- thing I ever heard of. Looks as if Mr. Baxti is in the hands of ‘the Philistines. i for his absence from the hotel. t kind of game he’s up against. Apparently tha one-eyed lawyer is at the bottom of it. Now, I ,remember Mr. Baxter said that Bunny had | eye on the Golden Dream Mine, in the Palmetto district, and was working in the interest of — Sea

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eo ee GOLDEN combine in Goldfield who are anxious to get con- © trol of that property. This must be some sort of +» gqueeze game they are working on our friend Bax- ter. How lucky it was I came to Dobby Ferry this afternoon. And it was most fortunate that I happened to lose my way back to the station, -. otherwise those rascals would have had a clear field before them. Now there’s a chance for me to butt in and save Mr. Baxter from being done out of his rights. I-wonder what they propose to do to him. It’s up to me to find that out. But - I guess I’ll have to go slow about it, or I may - find myself in a tight box, too. Piggy wouldn’t _ doa thing to me if he got a chance. He’s down ~~ on Howard and me like a thousand of bricks. And Bunny hasn’t any love for me, either. I -- must be cautious.’” : Bob’s first move was to reconnoiter the prem- “-ises, which he did with due care. It was a two- « story frame building, with an attic and a single story L. From the stovepipe which protruded through the roof the boy judged that the L was used as _-a kitchen. Jt had two windows and a door. The _ windows were dark, so Bob was encouraged to try - the knob of the door, and found, as he had more - than half expected, that it was locked. ~ . “7 can’t make an entrance that way, that’s cer- - tain,” he muttered. “If I can get on -the roof of the wing I could reach one of those back second- -- story windows. If they’re not secured I could ~ -gneak inside that way.” -.~ .Herlost no time in carrying this plan out. He ~ looked around till he found a tall stick of wood, whith he placed against the side of the house, ~ next to the drainage pipe which ran down from the roof. Mounting it, he shinned the rest of the way to the low roof with the assistance of the ipe. 4 gee far so good,” he thought. “Now to try one of the windows.” _ Much to his satisfaction he found that the sash was not secured in any way, and he had-no dif- ficulty in raising it, though he did it slowly, and with as much caution as if he were a burglar, with evil intentions upon the interior. He found himself .looking into a small bedroom. = “Well, here goes,” and in a moment he was standing inside. The door of the room was not locked, Bob found, when he tried the door, and he stepped out . into the darkness of the upper landing. The sound of voices in conversation came up to him, so he judged that the lawyer and the man who had admitted him, and who doubtless lived in the house, were in consultation in the room where he had originally seen the light shining. “Well, where will I go next?” he mused. “I suppose Mr. Baxter is imprisoned in one of these - upper rooms. I must investigate.” eae. - He removed his shoes, leaving them inside of - the small bedrooom, and started on his tour of nspection. The first door he tried yielded to his touch. The room was dark and the boy judged 4t was unoccupied. } “J wonder if it’s safe to strike a match and make sure Mr. Baxter is not tied up in here?” He decided to take the risk, entered the room, and, taking a match from his pocket safe, which 16 always carried about with him, though he idn’t smoke, struck it upon his trousers leg, after + ie able.” ; gers FLEECE closing the door behind him. The room was a poorly furnished one, but there was no sign of Mr. Baxter or any one else there. : = “That settles this room,” said Bob, dropping the burnt match on the floor and returning to the landing. - “Now for the front room.” He found no trouble getting into that, either, and found it empty of anything but the plainest furniture. ; “I wonder if they’ve got him in the garet?- If not, he’s somewhere downstairs, which would rather complicate matters for me.” Bob mounted to the garret. Standing on the topmost stair, he struck another match and look- ed carefully around him. He was in a region of dust and cobwebs and unfinished woodwork, The place looked as bare as an alkali desert in the far West. He was about to turn on his heel to return, with a keen sense of disappointment in his heart, when some movement in a distant cor- ner attracted his notice. Striking another match, he advanced across the floor. Before he had covered half the distance he had recognized the object, now sitting with his back against the bare and sloping roof of the_ house, near a single-pane window. é “Mr. Baxter!” he exclaimed, darting forward. “Bob!” cried the Westerner, in amazement. : The match went out and ‘the boy felt his way forward the rest of the distance. “T have come to free you, Mr. Baxter,” said Bob, as he reached out and felt his friend where he ‘lay crouched in his unpleasant situation. oe how did you ever locate me here, my ad? “There is no time for me to go into particulars now,” replied Bob, drawing his jackknife. “Chris- topher Bunny is in the house, and there’s no tell- ing but he and the man who lives here, Héron, I think his name is, may be up here at any mo- ment. There will be time enough to talk when we’re out of the woods, as the ‘saying is.” He, He began to saw -away at the cord which se- cured the mine owner’s wrists together behind his — back. Bob’s knife was sharp and he-soon accom- «© plished his object. : i “My feet next,” said Mr. Baxter. : cy ca In two minutes more the man from the West was free. Steps sounded on the lower part of | the stairs. : 5 Bob felt that discovery was almost certain. He ~ had only time to glide hastily across the dusty floor and sink down among the rubbish of a dis- _ tant corner when the beads of Mr, Bunny and Heron appeared above the level of the floor, se CHAPTER XIII.—Christopher Bunny Makes His Terms Known to Mr. Baxter. : Heron carried an old tin candlestick with a lighted candle in it. They crossed the attic floor — to the spot where John Baxter sat, still appar- ently bound, and Heron pu the candle down on the floor. f Sel 2 “Good-evening, Mr. Baxter,” said Christofher Bunny. “You don’t seem to be very comfort

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ie GOLDEN aM “T suppose I can blame you for this, Mr. Law- | yer,” replied the Westerner. “You needn’t remain up here, Mr. Baxter, if you will act reasonable.” “What do you call acting reasonable, Mr. Bun- ny? I have been enticed to this house for a pur- pose that I can easily understand. There is a plot on foot to deprive my partner and myself of . the control of the Golden Dream mining claims _ in the Palmetto district of Southern Nevada, and you are working at this end in the interests of those schemers. The letter of introduction I brought you was from a man I thought my friend, but who I have since discovered is one of the ring who are working against me. But I tell you now, Christopher Bunny, respectable Wall Street law- yer that you claim to be, that ie will not suc- ceed in your designs. Nor will this gang out - West get the better of my partner. We are in this fight to stay, and unless you are looking for trouble I advise you to draw off before I take measures to expose you.” “What measures can you take, Mr. Baxter?” asked the lawyer, softly. ‘You are safely housed here, many miles from New York City. No one knows where you have gone. No one will ever know what has become of you unless you agree -to my terms. Hundreds of people, many of them .well known, disappear every year in New York City. There is nothing wonderful that you, a comparative stranger, a man from the West, should vanish and leave no trace behind you. Some of these people are afterward found in the morgue,” added the legal gentleman, significant- ly. “Mr. Baxter, the game is wholly in my hands. IT am too old a bird to be caught napping. I have figured up the chances for and against my- self and my clients. I have carefully laid my plans, and this is the first act in the drama. As Pa PR a RN, eNO PT AN Se NT ting your head against a stone wall. You can’t help yourself; therefore, I expect we shall soon come to a satisfactory understanding.” C “What are your terms, Mr, Bunny?” asked Mr. Baxter, with a suspicious glint in his eye. “You have asked for. terms. Very well, I am prepared to state them. You and your partner, - William Wren, located two full claims, forty acres, in the Palmetto mining district of South- ern Nevada. You took the. title and formed a company to develop the ore possibilities. This ‘company you incorporated under the name of the Golden Dream Mining and Milling Company, with a eapital stock of one million shares, at a par value of one hundred dollars. A certain amount of the stqck was put on the market at three cents a share. A portion of this was sold to certain Goldfield people, after they had gone over ‘the ‘property and were satisfied there was a future in jt. The money thus secured you used for devel- opment purposes, and before long you discovered ore of a certain richness, which caused you to withdraw all the unsold stock from the market. The Goldfield people to whom I have referred then offered- you and your partner ten cents a share for a good-sized block of the stock.) They raised the price to fifteen cents, but it was no nducement for you to’sell any more.” “J should think not,” interjected Mr. Baxter. “A few days before you started East to order or: a sensible man you will see the usclessness of but-. FLEECE 19 machinery for a mine a fresh discovery of still richer ore was made, which caused the Goldfield gentlemen to make you a flat offer for the mine as it stood.” “A most ridiculous offer—twenty-five cents a share,’” said Mr. Baxter, impatiently. — < “Tt amounted in round numbers to two hun- dred thousand dollars cash,” replied Christopher Bunny. “That offer still stands. I am instruct- ed to obtain your half-interest for the sum of one - hundred thousand dollars at any hazard. It is up to the-gentlemen in Goldfield to purchase your partner’s share for a similar amount, and if haven’t already succeeded, they soon will, as have been assured by my corespondent.” “Your correspondent will find that he and his associates have bitten off more than they can chew when they tackle William Wren,” replied Mr. Baxter, significantly. “I have nothing to do with that end of the transaction. I have only to deal with you.” “And you will find me about as tough a propo- sition as you have ever been up against.” “T don’t think so. We don’t use Western meth- ods in this part of the country. Everything runs smoother here; the wheels are nicely greased and make little or no noise. When we deal with a ~— man we deal with him thoroughly. We use dif- ferent methods with different men. You are an- unusual kind of man, and I am treating you in an unusual way. Are you ready to accept one hun- dred thousand dollars for your interest in the Golden Dream?” : “I am not ready. I never will be ready to do that. I expect to make a million out of that min.” “Bxpectations are all you will ever realize un- less you accept the sum I have mentioned.” “That is your opinion, Mr, Bunny?” chuckled the Westerner. “Heron,” said the lawyer, sharply, “I think Ill leave him a while to ponder over the outlook, You can show him in the meantime ho weasy it is for a man to be found mangled upon the railroad track below here. I was reading in this morn- ing’s paper about a man decapitated by the rail- road within a few yards of the signal tower in the freight yards some miles north, and the mys-» tery of it all is that no one knows how he came to be on the track. The discovery was not made until a train hand, helping to make up a freight train, stumbled over his dead body. Such things often happen. The mystery seldom is unravel- | ed. A man is drugged and laid upon the rails at the right moment. Presto! In ten minutes it is all over with him.” The lawyer winked his one good eye at Mr. Baxter in a significant way and rubbed his wrin- kled hands one over the other. i “Come, Heron, let us go. You are sure he is quite safe up here?” ne “As safe as can be, Mr. Bunny. I tied him © myself, and I made @ thorough job of it.” : a The lawyer took the candle and examined the — bonds about Mr. Baxter’s feet. 5 ! te “Why, how’s this?” he cried, in some alarm. — “They’re cut.” “Cut!” exclaimed Heron, possible!” ~ with an oath,” “Im- i Pugh = Bo Sh ao on ar.

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Beer. tk *\ “= +20 : Christopher Bunny stooped down and touched ‘the rope. It fell apart in his fingers, and his ‘face turned ashen. é “What does this mean, Heron?” he gasped, in an unsteady voice. Heron appeared to be staggered by the dis- covery. “T tied him as tight as au “Look at his arms. He must have——” Mr. Baxter, seeing that discovery was at hand, had been preparing for the struggle he knew was to come. Now he sprang to his feet and jumped upon Heron. The lawyer fell back and dropped the candlestick. Heron and Baxter clinched. “Get hold of him, Bunny,” cried his associate in villainy. “Grab his legs.” : The lawyer started to do so, but just then some- thing happened, /CHAPTER XIV.—The Boy Brokers Acquire a Plentiful Supply of Golden Fleece. ~f Something happened to Christopher Bunny, and ‘Bob Seymour was the cause of it. Crouching in the distant corner, the boy had been an interest- ed listener to the conversation between the Wall Street lawyer and the mine owner. When mat- e corner, and appropriated it as a serviceable _ ‘weapon, either for attack or defense. . _. As soon as Mr. Baxter sprang upon Heron, Bob _ darted forward to attack the lawyer. Mr. Bunny | was reaching for the Westerner’s legs when the - boy got within striking distance of him. Bob was taking no chances, and he brought the iron pipe down upon the lawyer’s head with a force sufficient to stun him. Christopher Bunny rolled over on the floor and then lay still. Bob then attacked Heron. The man, taken by surprise, and placed at a disad- vantage, was soon overcome. They bound him . with the ropes which had been used previously to secure the mine owner. ‘Then Bob picked up the ~~ eandle, which had not gone out, and they sur- veyed the situation. “Tt’s a case of turned tables, isn’t it, Bob?” asked Mr. Baxter, with a smile of great satis- faction. : ; “Kind of looks that way, sir,” grinned the _ plucky boy. “ a “What did you 3 to the lawyer? E “T gave him a clip with this piece of pipe.” “IT hope you haven’t killed him,” said the mine 7 owner, stooping down and examining the uncon- ” scious man, whose nice clothes were covered with dust. : ~. - “J guess not, sir. I didn’t hit him hard enough for that.” A “No; he’s merely stunned. We must turn these irascals over to the police at once. Who are we likely to run against downstairs?” i “T don’t know, sir.. All I know is that Pi )O’Toole, Bunny’s office boy, is down there. He d the lawyer drove up in a buggy that they left ading close to the fence.” GOLDEN FLEECE “his release, on heavy bail, he got Heron out also. — _By.that time the boy brokers had acquired an en: thought I'd wait a few years till thi eg Se ar eae ee “A bubby, eh? That will be handy for us, We'll go downstairs now and secure the boy, and — any one else we find there. Then, while I remain in the house, you can drive to the nearest house, —- get somebody to come back with you, and find out — what the police arrangements are of this place.” Piggy O’Toole was found asleeep in a chair and | was not disturbed. There was nobody else in the house. The nearest house was an eighth of a mile away, and the man who lived there readily agreed to take the buggy and hunt up one of the ~ constables. : Bob returned to keep Mr. Baxter company un- til the officer arrived. In the course of half an hour, Heron, Mr. Bunny and Piggy were taken into custody and lodged in the lock-up, pending their examination before a justice next morning. Mr. Baxter charged the lawyer with conspiracy to defraud, and Heron as his accomplice, while — Piggy was detained on general suspicion. Bob - and the mine owner took a late train for New : York. x = On reaching the Grand Central Station they — took a subway train for the Brooklyn Bridge, © where they parted for the night. Next day they both went to Dobbs Fery, and after Bob delivered _ the Bullfrog-Denver stock to Mr. Hardy, receiv- ing his check for some, they appeared against — Christopher Bunny and his associate. The re- sult of the examination was that the priooners — were committed for trial and taken to White — Plains that afternoon, where Mr. Bunny made ap- plication for bail, sending to New York for a couple of sureties. ! Piggy O’Toole was allowed to go free from es want of evidence. After Mr. Bunny had secured — Subsequently, when the case came-to trail, they did not appear and their bail was forfeited. The ie! Wall Street office was closed for good, and it wag | found that Mr. Bunny had skipped out with every dollar he had been able to realize. In the mean- time business began to pick up with the boy brokers. In the early part of Mry Mr. Baxter returned to Southern Nevada. Before he left New York, however, he presented Bob with nine thousand shares of Golden Dream stock out of his indi- vidual holdings. Next fall the boy brokerage firm had business enough to employ Bob’s sister. — Bob had tried to make her give up business al- together, but she wouldn’t. ‘ : Carrie stayed with the firm two years, at th end of which time she became Mrs. Howard King, — viable reputation in the Street. They had als been quite successful in their speculative ven tures, and were said to be worth half a million, Next week’s issue will contain “A MADCAP | SCHEME; OR, THE BOY TREASURE HUNT ERS OF CICOS ISLAND,” “Johnny, I don’t believe you've studied yc pests “No, mum. I heard pa say | map of the world was changin’ every d

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22 Wrecked On The Desert : OR — THE ADVENTURES OF TWO BOY ( PROSPECTORS By GASTON GARNE (A Serial Story.) CHAPTER XVIII.— (Continued). Arthur was in despair. It was impossible for him to make up his mind what he ought to do, Pedro now declared that all the cows would have to be milked, or they would die, and he went © at it, bringing in great pails of milk to what he -ealled the dairy room, where there was every fa- cility for making butter and cheese. Arthur, took hold, and, working a patent churn, made butter, while Pedro made cornbread, there being a bar- rel of Indian meal on the premises. He informed Arthur that nearly everything eaten at the Desert Home was raised on the farm, although Manuel occasionally went to Gillis in the car, and brought over boxes of canned goods. Three o’clock came, and still nobody appeared, but at a quarter to four they saw a man walking along the lake shore. It was the doctor. They knew him by the battered old plug. Pedro de- -elared that he had always refused to wear any other kind of head covering. : ~“T hope we are not going to have trouble with - him,” sighed Arthur; “all the same, I’m glad he is coming.” : “Ye hasn’t got his sword,” said Pedro. “I’m afraid of him. I won’t stay here.” Arthur did not attempt to urge him. He had ~ long since discovered that the boy was a perfect coward. Pedro ran down into the garden and promptly vanished. ; Arthur stuck to his chair on the piazza, and, as the doctor drew nearer, he preceived that his face had lost the wild expression of the night be- fore. He nodded, as he approached, and asked '- Arthur how he felt. : 2 “Terribly worried,” was the reply. A look of surprise came over Dr. Glick’s face. “About what?” he asked. “About Dr. Furman, Miss Edna and my friend.” : - “Who told you our host’s name? What do you - mean’” cried the doctor, in an indignant tone. “Why, you did, sir!” : = “Boy, you lie! I would sooner die than disobey my dearést friend.” He had seated himself and removed his hat. Now he clapped it on and began pacing the piazza in an aggitated way occasionally passing his hand over his forehead. , “What new twist has he taken?” thought Ar- _thur, who had not answered. “Does he forget?” - $uddenly Glick turned and entered the house. He presently came out again, looking as pale psa ghost, — [where What does all. this ia everybody? FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY mean?” he cried. “Speak, boy! There are times when my memory slips a cog. What has hap- pened here? I don’t see the men in the fields. I — can’t find any one inside but the dead. Merciful heaven, has anything happened to Edna and her father? Am I in any way responsible for this?” He was terribly excited. Arthur began to un- derstand how the case really stood. : ; “Sit down quietly, doctor, and I’ll tell you what little I know about it,” he said, “but, until I am a finished, please don’t interrupt,” and, to his sur- prise, the strange man meekly obeyed, a despair- ing look coming over his face, as Arthur’s narra- - tive proceeded. x “And he accused me of robbing him and in- citing this mutiny!” he exclaimed, at the finish. “Tt is terrible! Believe me, boy, of all that has happened since I went to bed night before last, until I found myself asleep on the sand ‘at the foot of the range this afternoon, I remember noth- __ ing! Oh, why didn’t he kill me long ago? Why didn’t I kill myself? In my madness, I have been — the ruination of our Desert Home!” ae CHAPTER XIX. The Doctor Locks The Door. 5 The place in which Jack Fennister now found himself was an inner chamber of the cave, so to speak. It was perhaps’ twenty feet in length, and a ~ little less in width. A mattress and blankets lay in one corner, and another blanket had been hung - across the opening which separated it from the main cave beyond. The place was lighted by a small hand lamp. 5 All this Jack took in at a glance, as he threw his arm about Edna, and, before the girl had — time to reply to his assurance of protection, he saw something else which raised hope in his sink- — ing heart. . It was a big, brown, hairy hand which pro- jected itself under the blanket, and that hand held ~ a revolver. eX s Instantly the hand was withdrawn, but the re- volver remained, and Jack jumped to pick it up. — & “Whose hand was that?” he whispered, reecog- _ nizing Arthur’s revolver, as he spoke. ¥ “Manuel’s,” breathed Edna. “I know it by that big, silver ring on the third finger.” sso te: “Then evidently Manuel means to stand your friend.” = “It looks so. Oh, Jack, I am so frightened!” “Calm yourself. -I am here> Don’t forget that, — I stand ready to die for you.” tee “But I don’t want you to die any more than I want to die myself.” ; = “What are they saying now?” 3 <= “They are quarreling, Ask me no more. Juan said that Manuel was dead drunk a moment ago, pee some one fall. I think it must have been’ im.’ : é “Probably he is no drunker than the others, but | just pretended to keel over so as to get a chane to give you the revolver.” : “Hush, Jack! Here. they come!” pee The blanket was pulled aside, and the big, u, face of Juan, the gardener, peered in, = (To be continued.) —

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BALSA-WOOD FOR REFRIGERATORS -Much lighter than cork, and composed of thin- walled air cells, balsa is an ideal heat insulator. This wood is shipped from the tropics as a deck- ~ An hermetically sealed botile filled with what -‘Jooks like a mixture of red sand and yellowish . liquid, known to be at least three centuries old, it attracting the attention of French scientists, as jt is reputed to be the only infallible weather prophet extant. The bottle is in the possession of an aged Brittany farmer, in whose family it has been handed down from father to son for ten “generations. : : : When it is going to rain, the solid particles ; ather in round clusters, and when snow is com- - 4ng white flakes appear, while if hail is on the way, the entire mixture becomes viscous. = _ These auguries are so accurate that farmers ‘for miles around telephone the owner of the magic ‘bottle when they wish to make certain that their crops will not be damaged by another day’s de- lay in the fields. : : é - The French Academy of Science is sending a committee of chemists to study the strange vial, put the farmer says he will not permit it to be opened, fearing that exposure to the air may change the chemical nature on which the phenom- ena depends. e ; ’ A similar bottle owned by the man’s grand- ther burst with a loud report forty years ago _a September h : “ial Mh into a light drizale. FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY GOOD READING floating islands which the dredges were remov- ailstorm was followed by a ANCIENT CANOES. FOUND IN JERSEY : A dredger at work on Lake Witteck, near But- — ler, N. J., brought to the surface recently three ~ well preserved cedar bottoms of sunken canoes, which, when examined recently by Prof. Foster H. Saville of the Museum of the American Indian of the Heye Foundation, were attributed to the — ancient. Ramapo Indians and were believed to have belonged to some pre-Colonial period. Pro- fessor Saville said that the canoes might easily . be more than 1,000 years old. - One of the bottoms was intact, the other two were incomplete. The sides and inner structure on all were missing. From the: proportions of those parts found Professor Saville estimates that the canoes would transport about twenty-five per- sons and were probably for war purposes. One argument advanced for their antiquity is that the cedar used in the canoe bottoms vanished from’ New Jersey long before the advent of the white man. : Lake Witteck originally covered but about 50 acres. It was probably used. according to Pro-— fessor Saville, as a portage station by the Ram- apos. When a dam was built it: increased the size of the lake several times. Lake Witteck is in the New Jersey peat belt, and the raising of the water‘level in the lake caused portions of the peat bed, which formed the bottom, to break loose” and rise, forming floating islands. ; The canoe bottoms were found oe in one of these— ing from the lake. The peat has a great preeet ve ative quality, according to Professor Saville. “Mystery Magazine” ee SEMI-MONTHLY 10 CENTS A COP’ —— LATEST IssuES — a s “VELL WIN! ULL WIN!” by Arthur B. Reeve and > 143 on s Margaret W. Reeve, irae: 144. PHANTOM FINGERS, by George Bronson-Howard, 145 ON THE YELLOWS. by Frank Blighton. res 46 = ARGENTINE RUBY, by Beulah and Shirley oynter. 147 THE Panacea ARMS CASE, by Jack Bech-— or 7 — 1448 HOUNDED, by Frank Blighton, The Famous Detective Story Out Today in 119 Is DIRECT ACTION . By DR. HARRY ENTON HARRY E, WOLFF, Publisher, Inc. pees 166 West 23d Street, New York Olty “Moving Picture Stories” A Weekly Magazine Devoted to Photoplays and — PRICE SEVEN CENTS PER COPY Each number contains Three Stories of the Best Pins on the Screen—Elegant Half-tone Scenes from the | —Interesting Articles About Prominent Peopie in th Films—Doings of Actors and Actresses. in the Studie and Lessons in Scenario Writing. rsh tee HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, 166 West 23d Street — he ae

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24 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY INTERESTING RADIO NEWS AND HINTS — GROUNDING If you haven’t water pipes in your house, a good “ized pipe four or five feet into moist earth. MOUNT TUBES IN A VERTICAL POSITION Always’ mount vacuum tubes in a vertical posi- tion. If they are placed horizontally the heated filament will have a tendency to sag and come in contact with the grid, making the tube yee BEWARE OF PASTE Never use acid paste as the flux for soldering taps to coils. When heated, the paste will flow between the turns, penetrating the insulation and form a high frequency leak between the turns. In many cases it has short circuited the turns. Use rosin core solder throughout. CLEAR RECEPTION ‘Here is a wrinkle worth trying. Did you ever listen in for a few minutes be- fore breakfast? If you never have, try it some morning when the alarm clock was a little early. The air is remarkably clear, and there are just enough stations working to make it interesting. There is a sprinkling of 1’s, 2’s and 8’s, an occa- sional 8, and even some distant boiled-owl of a 9 saying “GN go to sleep now.” LOOPING FOR TAPS - When forming loops for taps two or three tight turns are sufficient. Excessive twisting might cause a break at the twist, and it would be hardly noticeable until the coil has been wired into the circuit. When soldering leads to the loops, do not ex- ert an unnecessarily heavy pull on the lead. The wire on the winding form will stretch, and the adjacent turns will become loose, Always test a coil for continuity after the winding has been completed. This will preclude _ any possibility of wiring a coil with broken leads into the circuit. VIBRATIONS CAUSE INTERFERENCE When some sets are in operation a ringing sound is heard in the phone if the least jar affects the cabinet or the table on which the set stands. The ringing continues for some time after the ' table has been jarred. Such a noise makes tun- ing impossible, especially when the signals are faint. ? i These microphonic noises, as they are called, are caused by the tubes amplifying the mechan- jeal vibrations, and the elements of the tubes, - chiefly the grid, are also set in vibration by the . jar. The practical way to eliminate this ringing annoyance is to cushion the tube socket and - mountings on strips of sponge rubber or light _ springs, so the mechanical shocks will be ab- : Eovbed and not be transmitted to the tube. Heavy felt is sometimes used in place of rubber. Never ound can be made by driving a galvan-~ mount the detector or amplifier tubes directly to trouble in this respect, depending upon the sup- port given to the grid plate and filament. The cushioning effect is likely to be lost if rigid wire is used to connect the tube sockets. Flexi- ble wire should be employed because it will not transmit vibrations like a solid conductor. Many of the new tubes on the market aré very suscep- tible to mechanical vibration, and in some cases even a pencil dropped on the table will create the ringing noise, \ RADIO WAVES TRAVEL WESTWARD A In the two-way transatlantic broadcast test just concluded the complete programs of several American stations.were heard each night in Eng- land, but the reception of English ‘stations here — was weak and in most cases so uncertain that ~ ecmplete proof is lacking. Because the real rea-- son for the difficulty in getting messages from England is not fully understood, conjectures have covered every phase of radio theory. The reason given by the greater number of engineering au- thorities can be found in the quality of equip- ment used in England. It is worthy of note that the United States stations heard across the Atlantic were all equip- ped with a high grade of transmitter, the result of years of intensive research work by eminent engineers. Some broadcasting in this country has assumed tremendous proportions. The develop- ment of the transmitter has been altered to keep pace with the quality of programs and the de-- mands of the radio audiences, In England, on the other hand, broadcasting is a much more recent industry and because of the stringent laws there, has developed much less rapidly and decisively. As a result the transmis- sion of the concerts is not carried out as efficient- ly as here and the quality of both programs and the transmission are far below those enjoyed nightly by radio enthusiasts in America. Yet even in this statement there is a contra- diction for station 51T ‘at Birmingham is com-" pletely equipped with apparatus of American de- sign with microphone to antenna switch. The same transmitter is used at 51T that is being used nightly. and with such satisfactory results at WOR, WEAF, WHAB and WDAR. These latter stations are heard regularly in England, but the same set does not cross the Atlantic from éast to west. : These peculiarities of radio transmission and reception which make the industry so interesting to the army of “fans” are no more strange than the discoveries of engineers of Marconi in the _Antipodes. Equipped with special direction find- ing loop aerials, these experts stationed in New Zealand, eight to twelve thousand miles from the high powered transmitting stations of Europe and the United States, were surprised to note that the code signals had their own preference as" ee to the direction of travel. Some of the messages preferred to travel several thousand more miles around the world in one direction rather than

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take the shorter direct route. Whether this henomenon is caused by the action of the sun as it travels around the earth, or can be laid to deposits of metal, is a problem that the engineers are even now working on. Perhaps in the answer to their problem will be found the solution now interesting the amateurs in this country and Europe: Why do. concerts travel west to east easier than from east to west. : RADIO PARTS Some of the terms used in radio are long enough to frighten the begiriner. He hears words like “potentiometer,” “rheostat,” “variometer,” and is sometimes discouraged at the very start. They are really harmless. He hears others talking about radio frequency and audio frequency and promptly becomes sub- merged in a sea of words that he cannot even begin to comprehend. The word “potentiometer” is probably the longest and most confusing word of the lot, The word sounds a lot worse than the actual instru- ment, which is nothing more or less than a very high resistance, which is used sometimes in cir- cuits. It frequently comes in handy in the set, and is also called a stabilizer, because it actually will stabilize the circuit, It balances the current to the best advantage, and a slight change will _ sometimes improve the received signals much. } Every battery, be it a dry or wet cell, furnishes \ what is called direct current. The other kind of current, usually in the electric light circuit, is - alternating current. Direct current means the current all flows in one direction, while in_al- ternating current it changes at intervals. This is ealled frequency.” Thus we have in your light- ing circuit, “110 volt, 60 cycles A. C.,” which means that 110 volts is given at 60 alternations ‘a second. The frequency in this case is 60 cycles, the words meaning the complete change from positive to negative and back again. Positive and negative are two terms which denote in which direction the current fiows and, as explain- ed above, in alternating current it flows alternate. ly in both directions, while the battery has a ov of one direction only. Because alternating current flows in both di- _ rections, ,it cannot be used in the delicate ap- _ paratus used for receiving radio signals and music, and it cannot be used for charging up a run-down battery. In the former, case, unless - elaborate apparatus is used, it will cause a loud hum in the es receivers and the set will not operate, while in the case of the battery, it will take out just as much as it puts in and will in time ruin the battery. For this reason use a battery charger or rectifier, which changes the alternating current into direct current. A tent for determing the polarity of a battery js to connect wires to the terminals and immerse ~ the ends in a glass of water containing a small amount of salt. The wire that bubbles is always the negative or minus side. If this is done with the lighting current, connect an electric light in - geries with one wire, otherwise a fuse will be - plown out. If bubbles form on both wires equally the current is alternating and cannot be use for charging. : FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY 25 RADIO FREQUENCY GIVES DISTANCE Ordinarily there is little to be gained in the | addition of one stage of radio frequency amplifi- cation to a regenerative receiver, but in some instances such as the Reinartz tuner, the added stage appears to give the set the final touch to © make it the most selective apparatus of its type. Amateurs have been reluctant to try radio frequency in conjunction with regeneration since usually the two have refused to combine with am great success. Particularly was this true with © the transformer type of coupling. With the improvements in tuned radio frequeney and es- ecially in the apparatus developed for these interstage couplings the usual drawbacks have disappeared. Many radio enthusiasts have read that radio frequency amplification could not be added to a Reinartz because the latter circuit was based on a periodic or or untuned primary. The premise was wrong, although the latter fact was cor- rect. The primary is untuned, but the second- ary is sharply tuned by tap switches and the 28 plate condenser. If the argument had held any weight the conclusion still would have been wrong for the simple reason that the radio fre- quency ‘coupling device handled the output of the tube and not the input. : : An excellent receiver with a high sensitivity and an unusually high degree of selectivity can be assembled by combining the plain Reinartz. tuner, one stage of tuned radio frequency am- plification and one stage of good audio frequency amplification. - The interstage eae ne by which the tuning is accomplished should consist of a variometer containing at least sixty-five turns on rotor and stator respectively, The variometer should be selected by its radio characteristics. The clear- ance between rotor and stator should be as small as possible. The wire should be as large as will allow the required. turns to be placed within the availble limits and the substance out of which © the frame and rotor ball are made should be either of thoroughly dried nonresinous wood, He composition having low high frequency osses. If it is found impossible to secure a variometer with the full number of turns it is not advisable to attempt to increase the tuning range by in- serting a condenser across the entire instrument: _ In general it would be best to give up the idea rather than work with the makeshift. The tube for the radio frequency stage plays a far more important part in the action than is usually credited to it. Not every type of tube and not eyery tube in a’ suitable type will be ~ found to work properly. Instead of amplifying the high frequency impulses fed to the tube | through the secondary of the Reinartz, the tube’ elements being so close together act -as con- densers and merely pass the impulses straight through, short circuiting the regular tube action, If this circuit is worked out, it will be wise to experiment with an assortment of hard tubes — until the best one is found. Then and only then will the full measure of results be secured | from the single radio frequency stage, .- ron}

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96 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY NEW YORK; JANUARY 18, 1924 TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS 8 Cents $1.00 2.00 4.00 Postage Free 7 “ “ “ “ “ — | HOW TO SEND MONKY — At our risk send P. 0. - Money Order, Check or Kegistered Letter; remittances _ in any other way are at your risk. We Cer Postage Stamps the same as cash. When sending silver wrap ; the Coin in a separate piece of paper to aveid cutting ' the envelope. rite your name and address plainly. _ Address letters to : ; Harry E. Wolff, Pres, HARRY E: WOLFF, Publisher, Inc., ‘Oharles E. Nylander, Sec. L. F. Wilsin, Treas, 166 ‘W. 23d St., N. ¥. ———————————— ITEMS OF INTEREST A HUGE RUBBER TREE What is believed to be the largest rubber tree in the world stands in the Brazilian territory of Acre, on the frontier of Bolivia. Its stem is 27 feet 2 7-10 inches in circumference at the base. For 120 days every year this colossus gives twen- ty-two pounds of rubber a day.. At present prices _ this brings in a fair interest on about $50,000 to - its owner, a family of seven Seringueiros. ee WAS PAID FOR BEAR’S BITE oo Frank B. McDaniels of Corcord, N. H., a for- t mer policeman, received $1,050. in settlement of a suit he had brought against Raymond W.. Gor- ‘don of Indian Head for injuries received when a trained bear owned by Gordon bit him. The case was marked for trial in Merrimack County Su- » perior Court but was settled out of court. ay McDaniels asserted that he was among others - watching the bears and that a small girl offered _..one a bottle of “pop,” that the bear sprang at “her and he jumped in and pulled her out of reach, whereupon the bear turned on him and bit him severely on the arm. GOOD ACTING WINS PARDON ’ Because W, A. Reeves, a British veteran of ‘the World War, proved to be a good actor in the recent musical comedy given in Sing Sing to the outside public, the State Board of Parole, which had refused to release him last month, decided to set him free. _Warden Lewis E. Lawes, who liked the talent shown by Reeves in the prison show, -_-was among’ those who urged his release. In the show Reeves played the réle of a former Sing Sing prisoner who had just been released _ from prison and who, when tempted, not alone de- - cided to reform himself but tried to reform other crooks. He has overstayed his minimum sen- “tence for embezzlement of funds of his employer. Es BLIND JESUIT INVENTS WAY TO TRISECT : = ANGLE - _ Credit for working out the simplest method yet devised to perform the feat of trisecting an an- a 3 : he FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY gle goes to Rev. Henry J. Wessling, S. J., ac ~ cording to the professor of mathematics and as- — tronomy at Woodstock College, Md. The trisection of any angle presents some dif- ficulties even to the experienced geometrician, and there are. several methods now in use to accom- plish it. The Rev. Edward C. Phillips, 8. J., the professor who made -the announcement, aroused much interest when he added the fact that Father Wessling, the inventor, is totally blind. The exact method by which the trisection is — obtained is rather technical and difficult to ex-— . plain. The fact that it was developed by a blind, — man makes it sufficiently remarkable in itself. ) Father Wessling lost his eyesight while a stu- dent of chemistry at Canasius College, Buffalo, when an unforeseen explosion blew out his eyes, LAUGHS Visitor (lifting little Irene)—Goodness, Irene, but you are solid! Little Irene—Course I am, Did you think I was plated? - Host—Why did you strike my dog? He only : sniffed at you. Visitor—Well, you don’t expect me to wait until he tasted me, do you?” : _.“Yes, I was awfully fond of that girl, and I be- — lieved her to be perfect; but I saw somethi about her last night that made me ill.” “What ~ was that?” “Another fellow’s arm.” x par Doctor—Well, Matthew, did you take those pills I sent you yesterday? Patient—Yes, doctor; but couldn’t ’e do ’em up in something different? — Them little boxes be terrible hard to swallow. — He—I’m going to Morienbad to take the waters’ and thin down a bit. She—Why, aren’t you thin enough? He—No; I’ve just had a dozen shirts made, and they fit me too tightly round the neck, _ Sachs (to friend in restaurant)—-Well, and how’s. business? Friend—Splendid; splendid! Why, I can’t even get my meals at the right time, Just see what I’m eating now. It’s my breakfast of yesterday. : A boy who had been-absent from school for sev-_ eral days returned with his throat carefully swathed, and il this note to his teacher: “Please don’t let my son learn any German to-— day. His throat is so sore ; oF ise he can hardly speak “T don’t see why people come here for ¢heir— health!” growled Barker. “It strikes me Phage ing very unhealthy!” “It is’ now,” said the lan lord. “So many people have come here for health and got it that our supply has been exhausteu.’ — “Johnny, here is another note from your teacher. He says I might as well take you out of school, You are quite hopeless.” “It ain’t me, mamma. I hope to be big enough some day lam the everlastin’ daylights out of him!’ “4 > a i

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i JAPANESE LIKE ICE-CAKED MORSELS An American steamship captain recently pre- sented Japanese royalty with a large salmon frozen in a cake of ice. Greeted with awe and wonder by the thousands of daily visitors to the imperial household, the idea has developed into a fad throughout Japan. Butchers, fish dealers and grocers display in their windows various forms of sea life encased in a solid ice cake, WORLD’S BIGGEST FILM STUDIO The largest moving picture studio in the world soon is to be erected in the borough of Queens, the ownership to. be co-operative. : Arthur S. Friend, president of Distinctive Pic- - tures Corporation, who is the principal promoter - of the new plant, after a careful survey, has decided that pictures can be made here cheaper and more effectively than in Hollywood. Richard A. Rowland of the First National Com- pany will take part in the project, and Samuel Goldwyn, E. L. Smith of Inspiration and Henry _ M. Hobart of Distinctive will be part operators. The site of the plant, not yet made known, will be “within twenty minutes of the theatrical dis- trict,” and it was added it would allow the erec- tion of a series of studio units providing at the outset for nine stages. j ae 3 Actual construction will begin within sixty days. William O. Hurst, studio expert, has com- pleted the plans. : 2 INTERESTING ITEMS ~ Sapphires comprised nearly two-thirds of the value of gem materials produced in the United States last year. re A German aviator with a gigantic monoplane plans to attempt a transatlantic flight from Spain to Halifax with a stop at the Azores. F Before a fire brigade can start for a fire in Ber- lin, Germany, the members must all fall in line - in military fashion and salute their captain. Glasgow has begun to provide its policemen with warm food and tea when on night duty by ‘installing a number of electrically heated plates in signal boxes at a number of points easily reached. . ; A watch made entirely of ivory—works, hands and case—is the production of M. Henri Hou- yiet, of Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. The ma- terial employed was taken from a billiard ball. - The watch keeps good time, varying only about a ~ minute a month. A Windsor, Kansas, man found a swarm of pees in a locust tree in his yard. He sawed off 4 limb and fastened a hive there, but the bees declined it and continued filling the hollow tree with honey. Wishing to secure the crop, the : ner cut down the tree eighteen inches from the ground. The stump was full of honey. Then he wed the tree three feet higher and got a barrel of honey. He sawed again four feet higher and the honey extended almost to the end. Recently, while the chief of police was hunting wood-near Szatmar-Nemeti, Austria, he dis- vered ave, and, after proceeding some way , Sea ge: ne FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY “is ss INTERESTING ARTICLES Xx ‘pieces of cut. glass called prisms. in comparative darkness, almost stumbled over aman absolutely covered with hair. There was semething so unnatural, so weird and other-world- * like about the man that a feeling akin to fear seized the police officer. The man looked for all the world like a beast. Immediately the gen- darmes were summoned, and they proceeded to’ drag the man by force into the daylight. He fought like a tiger, scratching and biting the gendarmes dangerously. At last he was con- veyed, amidst a scene of the utmost confusion, to : the hospital. Here it was discovered that his name was John Labanez, and that he had lived for twenty-seven years in the eave and fed upon plants. The discovery awakened considerable fear -among the superstitious country folk. HOW LIGHTHOUSE LIGHTS ARE OPERATED When you see a modern lighthouse flashing its ; pencil-like beams many miles across the sea you instinctively remark: pe ie “What a powerful light a lighthouse must have!” pa But if you looked inside the lamp-house at the top of the white tower you would be astonished to see only a tiny silk incandescent mantle, no larger than four inches high and only three inches across. _ The mantle is made of the finest silk it is pos- sible tg produce. with this tiny mantle it is possible to get a. light equal to 2,100 candle-power. The fuel which is used is shale oil, which comes from Scotland, and is specially prepared for the purpose. The oil is vaporized into gas by means of heat and air pressure. So economical is the apparatus that it gives this tremendous light-power for an hour on two and a quarter pints of oil only. Although 2,100 candle-power is very powerful, it would not be strong enough to penetrate thirty miles across seas, and to do this powerful reflec- tors must be used. These reflectors are built up of hundreds of These are each of a triangular section, and are long and curyed in shape, something like the ribs of a human be- ing. The gas-mantle is surrounded by these = prisms, and they are arranged so that they re- flect every particle of light through two bull’s- eyes fixed at the opposite side. So cleverly are : they arranged, and so intensely do they magnify the light, that the illumination -has a strength of 700,000 candle-power when it passes out of the — bull’s-eyes and is thrown across the seas.’ This _ vast mass of cut glass is cemented into a cir- . cular steel frame, and the whole weighs 3% tons. : This steel frame revolves slowly when the lamp is lighted, so that the lighthous flashes one or two. beams every minute or so. This is done by an au- tomatic machine. = (eee This 3% tons of glass and steel runs ina bath _~ of solid mercury or quick-silver. Mercury is -~ used to make it revolve smoothly, and so easily — does it revolve that a girl can push this heavy — mass around with the strength of her little finger. _

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-» this feat. *, FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY : HERE AND THERE — EYES SHOW STATE OF HEALTH The latest method of determining the condi- tion of a patient’s health is through a close ex- amination of the eyes. A prominent physician _ recently lectured before a group of students dur- - ing which he told them that he could always de- _ termine the condition of a patient’s blood by the * eolor of the iris, the lighter the color, the clearer the blood and vice-versa. Various other parts of the body had a given area in the iris and the con- dition of the various parts of the body could be ascertained by the eye. POTATOES IN GERMANY GOING BAD Frederick William I had a hard time introduc- ' ing the potato into Prussia. He forced the: in- valids in the charity hospitals to eat them, and ~~ used his army in compelling the peasants to plant the tubers. And to-day the government is hav- ing a hard time holding the republic together be- cause of the lack of potatoes in many sections, and their extremely high price. Many Germans. who have provided themselves. at great cost with enough potatoes for the winter are horrified to find they are not keeping well, Agriculturalists predict all the potatoes will spoil. CAPTURING THE HUMMINGBIRD’S SHEEN The brilliant metallic lustre and beautiful iride- scent colors of the hummingbird’s throat, long the - _ despair-of artists, have been captured at last and transformed to canvas. Frank Bond, chief clerk in the Land Office in Washington, is the man who has accomplished His process is patented. His invention “relates to a process of repro- ducing in pictures the natural lustre or sheen of the feathers of birds or other objects, so that such - pictures not only will be faithful reproductions of the natural colorings of the birds, but also of the lustre of their plumage.” Mr. Bond has given several private exhibitions of his paintings and has attracted the attention of many artists. He has painted seventeen species of American hummingbirds and the most difficult arts to picture, the throat and certain areas of the crown, were brought out in all their natural beauty. : Broadly speaking, the process is based on the reflection of light: through properly colored trans- parent material laid on the canvas and afterward ‘traced with characteristic feathering. By this method the metallic sheen is reproduced almost perfectly. ‘ _. HOW PRISONERS ESCAPE There never has been so good a foundation as people suppose for the stories that abound in ro- - qance about prisoners tunneling through stone -mvalls and under the ground with no tools but a Aull case-knife or something of the kind. Of - ‘@ourse such things have happened, but they are as much out of date as the other incidents of the Monte Cristo school of novels. The boring | _ ;#hrough or under-the walls of a well-built modern prison would be about as possible as to go gold- mining successfully in a quartz ledge with no tools but a steel pen. The only practical method now is to get past the guards, either by an arti- fice of bribery or by a bold dash. This is occa- sionally done, even now, when prison discipline has been carried to that point where it is almost impossible to outwit the guards. . It is exceedingly difficult for prisoners to estab- lish. communication with outside confederates, though there may be other convicts whose terms are just expiring, in which case of course, it is ‘comparatively easy. To smuggle clothing into a prison, however, is almost an impossibility without the connivance of some keeper, guard or citizen, for everything that is brought inside the place is examined care- fully by one or more of the keepers, and the con- victs are not allowed to see it until it is ex- amined. Then, of course, anything like proper watchfulness at the entrance of a prison would block such a plan. ; One case. of this kind, however, was plotted ~ — carefully and carried out successfully. It caused a great hue and cry at the time, and no similar — case has been known since, ; re An obvious expedient, which seldom succeeds for a number of reasons that are equally obvious, is the bribing of a keeper: It was tried success- fully, however, in 1878, by “Jim” Brady, alias “Albany Jim,” and by “Billy Miller.” Brady was a bank burglar who had returned from prison, ~ and- Miller was, at the time mentioned, serving © a ten years’ sentence as a hotel thief. They of- fered one of the prison guards a one--thousand-— dollar bill to aid them in escaping, and he took the bribe. They got away successfully and were _ out for considerable time before they were rear- rested, which both were eventually in New York City. Brady was caught by a detective from head- “a quarters, but he would not surrender when called on to,do so and jumped through a window in the effort to escape again.. The detective shot him as he jumped, and then captured him without dif- ficulty. The keeper’s complicity with the escape had already been discovered, and he was tried and — convicted of the offense and sentenced to five years in the State prison himself, :. 7 4 cS They were all caught and returned to prison. was Peter McKenna, a “life man,” and anothe1 was William, alias “Shang” Hawley, who was serving a five years sentence for burglary. The other two were Steve Boyle, a “butcher cart chief,” and Charley Woods, a burglar. °

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KANGAROO BIRTH PUZZLE SOLVED A kangaroo at birth weighs about eight or nine grains, is a trifle more than an inch long and not much thicker than an ordinary lead pencil, ac- » cording to George F. Morse, Jr. How the_ baby kangaroo was porn was until re- cently a mystery to zoologists, Mr. Morse said. “One day I no- -ticed that one of our kangaroos was actin strangely, so got the head keeper to put it | in separate room used for ~ the observation of animals,” Mr. Morse declared. “We watched closely for a long time and finally were rewarded by the appearance of a tiny thing not more than an inch long on the tail of the moth- a er kangaroo. It was a baby. “We secured it and found it weighed about nine grains. It was an inch anc one - sixteenth long and not proader than a lead pencil. it was a_ perfectly formed kangaroo with the excep- tion of the hind legs, the matured kangaroo’s pow- erful propeller. These developed later as the baby animal grew. The front legs, how- ever, were per- fectly formed and were used by the baby to climb back into the mother’s pouch, where it remains for a period of seven months.” PIMPLES Your Skin Can Be Quickly Cleared of Pimples, Blackheads, Acne Eruptions on the face or body, Barbers Itch, Eczema, Enlarged Pores and Oily or Shiny Skin. Write today for my FREE BOOKLET. FREE “A Onmar-Tone Skin,” telling how cured myself after being afflicted lb years. $2000 Cash says | canclear your skin of the above blemishes, £.S. GIVENS, 186 Chemical Bidg., Kansas City, Mo. $-————- OLD MONEY WANTED ——— $ $2 to $500 HACH paid for hundreds of old coins. Keep ALL Old or odd money, it may be VIEORY valuable. Send 10 cts. for ILLUS- TRATED COIN VALUE BOOK, 4x6. Get | Posted. We pay CASH. | CLARKE COIN CO., Ave! 13, LeRoy, N, ¥. Pie ae BOYS AIR RIFLE is fine Rifle free for selling only 16 pkgs Colored Pont Cards at 1 if yi Pi ‘ds today. Columbia Novelty Con. E opt: a4. East Boston, Mass. BROS.& CO. f58° 101 ght moi in Pelle Cie i n fold. Bria Wodding Rinse to match. rm. WATCH 1d Rin Gold, Di : a mond set. Blossom design. ( Gcld:16 Jewels; Y LOFTIS BROS. & co, Dept. F-18 108 N. State Street, Chloago, Ill. Earn Big Money DETECTIVES Travel. Write Dept. K, American Detective System, 1968 Broadway, New York City FRONTIER SPECIAL FAMOUS SIDE SWING 1 Ke ae M) Bae 15) NEW 1924 model, blue steel, ‘a 6-shot famous Frontier Special, swing-out hand-ejector revolver with 5-inch barrel. Im- ported from Spain, the equal of any $35 model, and specially priced for limited time to add new_customers. LOW PRICE SPECIALin32,32-20, or 38 cal.,our No.35A » « = « $12.65. EXTRA SPECIAL our No. 260A latest 1924 blue steel. Hach revolver has passed strict rope ene 3B2-cal.-6-shot « $14.95 32-20 or 38 cal.-6-shot $15.45 20-SHOT “PANTHER” RAPID FIRE AUTOMATIC tity of brand new, 32 cal. ¢ th 4 Lae 10 aoe path raat re et + 1 ow i i id fire shots. Spectat at 5 pe any standard American cartridge. PAY POSTMAN ON DELIVERY plus stage. back promptly if sot oeiatled: CANSUMERS CO... Dept. BP 1265 BroadwaysNe FAMOUS SECRET BRE Z t Speciai Overstock Sale of brand new, latest . raode!l famous “Secret Service” Top-Break Reyolvers of finest gun steel, handsomely finished, 32 Cal. 5 Shot . ee + $7.45 38 Cal. 5S Shot . - « . $7.95 Both guns shoot any standard American cartridge. PAY POSTMAN ON DELIVERY plus postage. Money back promptly if not satisfied. Order Now! Paramount Trading Co., Dept. K2W,34 W. 28th St., N.¥. Handsome, guaranteed time keeper, givén for selling only 40 packs of vegetable or flower seeds oy (mention which) at 10c per large } pack. Easily sold*- EARN BIG ) MONEY CR PREMIUMS. Get samplelottoday. Sendnomoney, We trust you till seeds are sold. AMBRICAN SEED CO., 20% 4-127,. FORD. RUNS 57 MILES ON GALLON OF GASOLINE ~ A new automatic and self-regulating device has been invented by John A. Stransky, 2100 Fourth St., Pukwana, South Dakota, with which automobiles have made from®40 to 57 miles on a gallon of gasoline. It removes all car- bon and prevents spark plug trouble and overheating. It can be installed by any one in five minutes. Mr. Stransky wants agents and is willing to send a sample-at his own risk. Write him to- day.— Adv. Big, Handsome, Dressed, Sleeping Doli sent prepaid for selling ONLY SIX PACKETS new Highly Per- fumed Sacket Powder AT’ 0c. This is a Special Offer to introduce our sachet, We also give Mama Dolls, Walking Dolls, and premiums for boys. Lane Mfg.Co. Dept.371 Mt. Vernon, N. Y. ig SEB EES cit a a ee a ts pha TREATMENT FREE TRIAL. ares oils tara, tod i $44 Ohio Ave sidaesn Comics, Cartoons, Commercial, Newspa and Magazine Mustrating, Pastel Capon Portraits and Fashions. By Mail or Local Classes, Kasy method. Write for term: List of successful students. — ASSOCIATED ART STUDIOS A-92 Vlatiron Building, New York i i]

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