The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 2, 1903, Page 5

&2 S 1/ £ Z P 4, ,,.,'/a, dollars in my I, “but what he - ok m out of the tirst nu, the Early Bird mine way: ! when tell where 1 wa sd durned hot, de Peter was knock- =tly, 1 _didn’t know ill'T_had & chanst to 160k clothes - -and hands ‘£m “before, somehow. - to my§el ventute Uxcle i him of an evening: don’t: stay- out late. If t been gone through by eleven, d - what you . got on you over first you ~meet—none 2k’ a and then pike mie. The ht it ‘gets in ex Y ve harder it 1s fur strangers stay 4 You're all right {n. Ward. ror- He Billy, but in _this here p you're fest a tender little bed of by the wayside, and these New s are-terrible careless where they after dark.” fwithstandiag ‘which, 1ed_to behave unjformly in & manner make -all_judicions ‘persons grieve: His place ‘of- supreme- delight_ was the. High- tower.. . 1ts -marble splendors, its myriad lights, the throngs of men and women in evening-'dress, ‘made.for him a scene of urifailing fascination.. The evenings when he’ was -irivited ‘to” sit in' the ‘cafe’ with Upicle ‘Péter and Percival made memories Jong to be cherishéd. He- spent such an evening 1}~ere at the end_of their first month ‘in v Haif -a dozen of Pércly the Yable with them fro There had been young Beve del,”who. Perct d, was helr to all: the’ Van -Arsde , and no end of & #well. And er had treated him £habbily two g gentlemen Peter - % ve. landgone, N Mr. Brue con- Slorious” Land of . Fresdon— gs from horses to wine The v becoming, they r.a gentleman to live. nfassed that, from had been ‘beguiled can claret he explained to do for an of even recent vin- the very best Varn Arsdel having fancy an American wow! ‘or. & Chablis!” Uncle treved the first sign of “irritation detected since his coming £€e, young men, we're not ages in Montana. Whisky nk—whisky and spring strong, - it's When wé wantito test a t three drops.of it into . and if ‘he doesp’t lick a ix seconds” we turn down the 'S as far's our education has n vintages like the old - T'nrle Peter, afterward so good-na 1 uded . ‘the momentary. cohc et but CHAPTER XXIX. e t 4l Brue Jleft the ower Billy Brue their hotel, ‘on ey might see a fight or a somethin He never ceased cheated \l“efl be was obliged to New York. But Uscle Peter in- he cah. cle Peter,” he. sald; as they ‘1 got a good notion to get first-part suit ih the grand fi Hig the plea that t to fee to the track without a hostler to har- me and see to all the buckles snd They're mighty £ Uncle Peter uncommunicative, | mused during the .remainder of -the ride, envying the catelpss ease with which Pércival and-his frier and even Uncle Peter, wore the prescribed evening re- lia of gentlemen, and yearning for the effect of its black and white elegance udon himseélf. They went to. their conmecting rooms, d Billy Brue regretfully sought his bed, arveling how free people in a town like New York -could ‘ever bring themisclves to wasté time In sleep. As he dozed off, he coy'd hear the siow, measured tread of Uncle Peter pacing the floor In-the next room. }’e was awakened by hearing his name called. Uncle Peter. stood in ‘a flood of light at the door of his room. He was u dressed. “Awdke, Billy? “Is it gittin®-up time?" The nld man came into the room and ghted & gasjet.”He looked at his watch. No: only s quarter to ‘four. I ‘ain't n-to bed yet. 1y Broe sat up and rubhod his eyes. heumatiz again; Uncie Peter?” T been thinkin’, Billy. How do you lke-the game?:’ He: began to pace the floor. l:lln from one -room to- the other. “What -game?” - Billy Brue hnd encoun- 'or‘d 2 number . in New York. ““This: whole game—livin' in New York."” Mr, Brue became- judicial, “It's a° good. game ns long as you got money to buy chips. T'd hate ke darha- tion to g0 broke here. - All the bsy-cll.lml have been located, I guess.” 35 “I -doubt, it's bein' a good gamie" -.ny time, Billy. T been .actin’ as kind of a - lookout’ mow- fur about forty days and . forty. nights, ‘and. the ~chahces is all in .favor of the houss. ‘You fon’t even get halt. your money on- the :high card 4 the splits come.” Billy Brue pondered this sentiment. It was not ‘his. cwn. ‘nited’ States of America is all s safe ground.. Fis mind reverted td the even- past. > “Of course thére was'a ¢ ollars there -night made " out dke -they was throwin® it down: byt they ain’ g the whole thing, not by 4 long shot” %, and that youmg shrimp that was intages’ and’ ‘trouser- 'r}u old man paused in his walk. “YWhat are ‘trouserings.’ Billy Mr. Brue had not.Jooked into-shop win- dows day efter day ‘uhaut enfarging his knewiedze “Trous: ringe, mportantif. parits out of. z ‘Oh! is that all? T didn’t know but it might be some new kind of duds. And thet fellow don’t ever get up tilf 11 o'clock a..m. ] don't reckon 1 would myself if he prnc‘.:lm»d. rather the cloth they - make \\“ @ Y1 - ing Mr. - will v— = av::fiv /// have anything but’ trouserings And that W57/ o didnt Aand viutages ta WUH) about.- Van Arsdei boy! “Say!".said.Billy, with enthusiasm, *I never thougat 1d be even in the same room with one of that famfly, ‘less I prizes open the duor with a jummy. *Well, who's he? My father kaew his grandfatiier when he kep' tavern over on the Raritan River, and his grandmother!. ~ihls shrimp's grandmother!—che tended és. they kep' tavern, and the old lady passed the rum Doitie over the. bar,” and sy money: ‘i here fe low, ke bet -you. breeder. wauld sdy—got-a- pedigres, bi not-the points."” % Mr. Brue emitied a liigh, throdaty “pit they ain't ail like that here, Uncie Peter. Say, you come out with .me some night Jest In your workin' ciotiies: I can show yOua peopie all right that won't-ass to-see yOur. Union card. Say, on the dead; LUncte:Peter, 1 b you'd come. There's a lady professor in .a dime Guw Vi F ourteeiit fire - and jugg €s big snakes—say, got a compiexion—=" “There's- enough . like though,” interrupied = Uncle couta take a dotvie batre sue's that - kind Peter. .k Kuu Up tu barrel in them haliways; W't have to be rammed, either: “twouldu’t have to atter 80 biameéd amuch. O, -weli, them soclety sports—there’s &ot_to be some of them——" “Yés, -ana the. wdy they make sht ‘e re- minds. me of ‘what Dal Mutzig:tells ghout . ‘What you thie ‘tinie they’ started Pasco * - Dal feliows - makin’ @& town -here fur says he asked ‘em, and he says ‘Well, why not? The land ain't /thing else, is it? ~That's the way Wwith these snrimps; they air't goud fur anjtbing: else: There's that Arie the 1ad. that keeps his. mouth ‘hangin’ open all the time hé's iookin’ &L you— he'll: cateh ‘cold in his works, firét thing lie knows—with his gold monogram on his cigarettes.” *He said he was poor,” urged Billy, who had- been ruther taken with the ease of Arledge’s manner. T “Fine, big, huudseme fellow; ain't he? Strong as.an ox, active, and perfectly healthy, gin’'t:he? Well, he's a pilll -But his old man.must ‘a’ been oi Lo him. Here, here's a piece in the paper about that fine big strappin’ giant—it's. partly what got me . to thinkin' 1o-night, so- I couldn’t sieep. Just listen to this,” and Uncle Peter read: Wadswortn Arledge, son of the late Jamés - Townsend Ariedge, »f. the. dry guods tirm’ of ‘Ariedge & JacKsén, present- ed'a fong aflidavit to show Justice Dutch- er of the. Supreme -Court yesterday Lo show why his iticome of $6000 & year itom his father's estate should not be abridged to pay a-debt of $:89.32. Henry T. Gotieib, a grocer, who obiained 2 judgment for that amoynt against him in 184, and has been unable to collect, ask the court to énfoii. Judge Henley ‘P. Manderson and the Union Fidelity lrust Company;.as ex- ecutors of the Arledge estdte,- from pay- Arledge his fuil income until the deut has ‘been discharged.. Gotlelb_ -con- tended that Arledge could sustain vle re- duction required. “James T. ago, leaving an estate of about $3,000,000 He ‘had disapproved of the. marrjage of his son apd evinced his displeasure in -his - The son had married’ Flora Flofen- za, an.actress. income of $6u00 a year for-life. The res: of the.estate went to the testator's widow for Jife, and then to charity: “Here.is the affidavit of £. Wadswqrth Arledge: 5 “ ‘I have been bmusht up in .idleness, under the idea that )} was to Inherii a lerge estate. I have never acqiired. auy business habits so as to fit me 16 acquiie propeirty, or-to make take care of it. "4 have never been in business, except - many years ago, when 1 was . boy, when I was for & shost tithe employed in one of the stores owned by my father. © muny years prior t6 my' futher's death I wus rot employed, but lived on a liberal ai- lowance made to me by nim. -1 am a married man, and in addition' to my wite have a family of two children to support from’ my-income. ** ‘Al our friends are persons of wealin and 6f high social standing, and we- are compelled to spend money. in entertaining the many friends who entertain us. 1 am & ‘member of many expensive clubs. I have absolutely na income: except ihe ai- lowance I freceive from ‘my father's es- tate, and the same is barely sufficient to lupporl my_ famHy, * “F have received no techrnical or scien: tific education fitting me for gny business or: profession, and should I be:deprived of &ny, portion of’ my. income :1 will be plunged in debt anew.’ “The court reserved its deglsic You hear’ that, Billy? The vouft re- seryed decision: Mr. “Arledge has to buy many gold cigareties and vintages and trouserings, ‘and -belong to so many clubs, that he wapnts :the - court- to. Help . him chouse a poor grocer out of :his money. ‘Bay, Billy, that Judge could fine. e conjempt of court, right now,- fur-reserv- in’ -his decisfon. grigdle. . I'd’ toid. - him, ‘You're the meanest kind of a crook 1 ever heard of fur . wantin’ to lle down:on your fat back ~and Whine out of payin’ fur the grub you “put’in ‘your ‘big gander baunch,' I'd-tell ‘him, ‘and now you ean march:to thelock- up till you carf look honest folks 1ii_the face,’ I'd tell - him. Say, y, ' ‘somé crooks are worse'than others.: Take Nate Leverson out there. and day ~lor, six years inventin’ a process . tur:sweatin’ gold into ore; finklly he gets 1t; how. be does it, nobody knpws; but he sweat gold eighteen inches into the solid rock. ‘The first few. holes he .salted- he gets rid .of all right, then.of ourse they catch him, and "Nate's doin’ time. now. But, say; I got respect fur Nate. since ‘feadin’ nul plece. There's a good deal of a man about him, or about any common burglar or sriedk "thief, compared to- this Auck. They take chances, say nothin" of the.hard work they do. This fellow won't take a chance and won't wpbrk a day. ‘Billy, that's the meanest specimén. of <crook 1 ever run against, bar none, and that crook I8 produced and tolerated n a plage that’s said-to be the cedter of ‘cul-. ture and refinement and practical achieve- mendt.’ Billy, he's a pill!"” % “That’s right,” said Billy Brue, prompt- 1y throwing the.recalcitrant AR edge over- board. “But 1t ain't none of my busjness. What 1 do spleen again is havin’ a grandson of mine livin’ in a community where a°man that’ll act like that Is dctually let in their houses by honest folks l'ke that as if they was his equals. Say, Dan’l had a line of faults, all right—but, by God! he'd a trammed ore fur two twenty-five a day any time in his life rathr'n not pay a dol- lar he owed. And think of this lad mak- In( +his bed In this kind of a place where re brought up to them ways: and thn name; think of a husky, two-listed boy like him lettin’ himself be called by & measly little gumdrop name like Perci- 1, when he's got a right to be called “. ') thiey Arledge died about two years’ To the son was given un . You' bét: Mr." Arledge . would 'a’ got-my -decision right hot off-the.- Na'te st -up night _ va Vs il s 7Y, ’///15 ‘ «4//’/ 75N /‘ And he's rlght in with ‘em. lle'd ad—give him a littie time; and Pishy chgaged to a damned fortune- hunting nwuhman into the bargain. It's all Higlee said it.-was, only it goes double, Suy, Billy, I -besn thinkin" this over all night.’ “Tis mgoly worryin', ain't it, U'N"G Péter ©‘And I got-it thought out.” Sure,. you must 'a’ got it down cases.” X “Billy, listen down in Wall street. ler, Rulon Slevler. est man'down there." “Sure! 1 heara of him ‘Listen! I'm goin’- o, béd. now. 1 carm sleep since 1 got my mind made up. But 1 warit'to see Shepier In private’ to-mor- row.-‘Don't. wake me up in the morning. But' get up yourself, and go find his of< fice=look i a directory,. then ask a po- Hceman. -Shepler's -a. busy man. You tell the c.erk or whoever ‘holds ‘you up -that My, Peter Bines warts ‘an appuintment with Mr. 'Shepier. as soon. as he ¢an ma'e iL=Mr. Peter Bines of Montana City: Be there by 9:3) so's (o get him soon as he conies,; He knows me:. fell him 1 wait to sée Inm on Dusiness soon. as. possible, and find out when -he ¢an ‘give me Lime: don’t .you say to any ne else that I ever seen”him or.séiit you there. Lndustund’ Don't ever say . Re- member, now, be there At 9:30, and don't : let. any. clerk’ put: vou off, apnd ask ‘him what hour'll be convenient for i, Now, get what sicep's cumln it's -5’ o'clock. At noon Blily Brue rgtumed to the hD(Gl to fiid Uncle -Peter * tinishing a hearty breakfast. * #1 found him all right, Uncle Pater. The lookout ‘acted - suspicious, but | saw, the main guy himseif come out. of a door— like I'd seen his picture In the papers, so I just called to him and-<aid. ‘Mr. Peter Bines wants to.see you,' like that: . He tock me right Into his -office, and I to.d tiim what you sald, and he'll be ready for you at-2 o'clock.” He knows mines, all right, out our ‘way, don't he’—and be’ crowded a handful of these tin-foll cigars on to me, and acted real sociable. Tod me to’drop in any time. Say, he'd .ruh tuff «li right.” e/ 7, J Pete. be jest to now. There's & fellow His name is Shep-’ He's_ most . the big- what's his number?"” - “Gee, | forgot: I can’ tell you, though. You go. down Broadway to that old. church—say,” Uncle Peter, theie's folk in that biryin*-ground been desd over (wo hundred years, if' you can. go by -ther gravescones. Gee! .I.didn’t. s'vodé any- body’d" been dead that long—then ' you turii down the guich right opposite, intil you come to the’ Vandevere building, a few rods down’un' the lef(. Shepler s there. Git into' the bucket and go up to theé sec- ond-level, and you'll find.him {1 the-left- hand back zluus—ms name's on_the door’ in_gold letters.” “All right. And look here, ‘Billy, REGP your head shut about all I sald last night about anything. Don’t you ever let-on to a- soul that 1 ain’t stuck. on this ulacs and us ueuple—nu matter what. 1 do.” g Sure.not! What are you going to ‘do, Uncie Peter?” The -old man's faws wére set' for some se€conds-in a way to make Bill Brue;sus-- pect he might be suftering trom’ ¢ramp. 1t setmed, however, that he had-merely been |hinking m\emly. Presently . lie said: 'Xm goin’ to_ralse hcll Bl“y rel” -sald Mr, ' Biue—apptovingly, on general principles. . “'Sure! Why ot CHAPTEB % LNCLF 'PETER I\SPIRES uIB GRANDSON TO WORTHY AMBITIONS, | On - three successive days the old man. held lengthy interviews . with - Shepler ‘in the latter's privaie offite. At the close of the third day’s interview, Shepler sent for: Relpin, of. the. brokerage firm of Rel- pin - & Hendricks.” A few. daye after thifs - Uncle ‘Peter -sald - to Percival .obe morning: . - want té have a talk with you, son.” | All right; Uncle Pete#,” ‘was-the cheer- ful afhswer.. He suspécted the. old man’ might at. last be golng to preac bit, since.for a week past he had-®een. rnh-r less expansive. ‘He resolved to. listen with good ‘grace to -any - homiijes -that might _issue: . He took his Suspician .to be confirmed when ‘Untle Peter hegan: “You foiks ben cutsin' a pneuy wlde swath here in Néw ¥York' - -~ g Uncle Pelsr—vflder " than we -céuld have cut.ih Montana City.” "Beeh spendin’ maney pufl) free for a . I ‘reckon you -can't’ say about hoéw’ much, now? . %Oh, 1 ghouldn’t wonder . Perctval.an- swered,, gbing over to the escrllolre i taking out’ some. folded ~sheets and & eral check-bdoks. . “Of course, it ‘all hege: but, I hfl\e' the, bulic- of 3 Let.me ngu_re a iittie” - _He began to work with'a pem:fl on-a sheét of paper. He was ‘busy almost half . while Uncle Peter’ _smoked_in “It struck’ me the other nl;ht wn rn)ght hazve been’ getting a: Ifttle near to the limit, so I figured a bit then, too, and. I7 guess- this will give xou sowme idea of. it.. Ot course this isn't-all mire; 1t Includes ma’s.and Psyche’s. . Sis has-béen.a mark for evéry_bridge-player between. the Bat- tery and thie Bronx,.and the way ma.has been -plunging ori tier indjgent .poor: fs. & caution—she certainly. does ‘hold. the large golden-medal for amateur cross: cuunle philanthropy: -Now ‘here’s: a. rough- ex- pense ‘account—of ‘course only ‘approxi- mate, except some of the items' 1 hap- pened. to have.” Uncle - Peter ‘took the stgtement and studied it carefully.. Paid Hightowdr Hotel ... $42.953°78 Keep. of Jrorsek, and extra -horse. and - carriage hire 5 i X Chartering three montl ‘e Emrensu runn ntcy-em -§1,002,250°08 ‘His sharp old -eyes ran up- and “down the column-ot’ flsureu Something among the items seemed to annoy him: * “Looking at those ‘Incidentals'? T took those from !he check-books. They are pretty heavy.!” “It's an outrage!” ‘ekclaimed the. old” man, indignanty, “that there $32 50 to the . telegraph company. - How's it «yime you dign't have a Western {Unlon frank this- year? I posed you had oné. They ‘sent h, well, they dldm't -send me ore. and 1 didn’t bother.to ask.for it,” the young man answered in:a tone of rellef. “Qf course'the expenses-have been pretty heavy, eoming hére -trnn;en as we did. Now, another year- “Oh, that ain'f .anything. Of course you got to spend monéy. .1 see: one of them high-toned -gents that died the other day sald a gentleman couldn’t pos-- - &ibly get along on less'n two thouund dollars & day and expenses. to see you ain't cut under the llmlt none’ —you_ got right Into his class jest like you'd always lived here, didn’t you? But now, I been kind of lookin’ over the “in Montana -won't’ Believe ‘em. -And. th - wonder, l:'nclc THE SUNDAY CALL. Bround since I come here, and It's struck me you ain't been .gettin’ enough for your money., You've spent free, but tbe £00ds . ain't; been- delivered. I'm talkin’ about yourself. ‘Both your ma and Pishy has got more out of it than you have. hy, ‘your ma gets "her name in the pupers as a. philanthropist along' ‘with that — how do- the ‘.papers cxll her? — - man’—that Mrs. 'Helen Wyot Lamson that always has her name spelled out in full. Your ma s getting public recognition fur her money, and look at Pishy. \ihat's she gone and done while yeu been laxin' about? ‘Why. she's got. ehgaged to.a lord, or just as good. " Lok 21 the prospects.she's got! She'll enter lhe aristocracy of England and have a title. . But. look at you! Really,-son. I'm ashamed’of- you. - People over there'll be gayin'-“Lady What's-her-name? Oh, yves! She has got a:brother, . but . he: don’t amount shucks — he ain't \murh more'ii a- three-spet.” He can't do ‘any- Lg but play bank and drink like a fish. throwed away -his’ ‘opportunities’= that's ‘what thém .dukes and counts wm be sayin' ahout you behind vour Back.’ - T understood: you didn't think much of sis’s choic . of course, -he Wouldn( be much “ity, but he’s all right in his. place, and- he scems to be healthy knocks me is how- He ever, got. all them :freckles. He never Lom( by ‘ém_honest- lys I Let. He must 'a’ got. caught in an €xposon -of freckies some. time..- But that ain’t rieither here nor. there: “g60ds and Pish'll get ‘em delivered. .She's 8ot something to. show fur. her dust. But ' ‘what you' got to show? Not.a blamed :thing but a.lot of stubs in a check-book, and a little fat. Now [-ain't makin’ any kick. I'got no right to; but ¥ do hate to see you leadin' this life of.. (dleness and dissipation when you might be 'makin’ something of yoursef. " yovur’ pa was quite a.man. He left his mark ot there ifi' that. Western country. Now you're here settled in the East among big peo- le,” with: a. bartel of. money- and fine chances to do something, and you're jest layin' down on the family’ name. "You wouldn’t think néar o' much-of your pa if he'd lajd down bafore, his time; and . your children will. always- have to say “Poor, pa~hé ‘had a good heart, but he never .did amount -to anything more'n a thrée-spot; he: didn't-have any stuff in him,’ they'll be savin’. Now, on the level, you don’t want to go through life bein’. just known as a géod thing and easy mcney, do you?' : “Why, of course not, Uricle Peter; only 1:had to-look around-some at first: year or so. - 'Well, | if ‘you ‘need to look - any more, then your. eyes aip't right. That's my =2 I ain't askin' you to go West. I don’t expect: that! ‘Perciyal brightened.. =~ : “But I'm Gryin’ to nag you sty doin’ | somethilng here.- People. can .say - what they want to ahotit’ you,’ "’he continued, stubbernly, as one who confesses the most arrant bigatry, “‘but 1 know you have got some brains, some ability—I really. believe You got a ‘whol€ lot—and -you got .means to take your place right.at .the top. You' all in "this couptry or, any can head other. Now what you ought to do,’ you ought . -to " “take" your: .placé. -in - the world of ‘finance—pyt . your mind on night-and . day—swing -out-sget ~-ard “set 1he :ball: to rolling. pa. ‘was' a - big . man in. ihe and: there ain’t any reason-as I can aae of why you can't'be just as, big a mam in. proportion hiere. -People can talk-all they want to about your bein’ just a dub—I London.” You gin't been. ambitious enaugh. Get a down-=hil} pull on- New York, anpd ' then: bnnch out. ‘Be a man of :murs like your and ltke’ that' fellow . Shepler: Let's :..mohudy If Montana City wds too small ur shoul m actton our, Pereival had- w.lksd the ‘flaor in deeb atténtion to the old man's words. : “You've got me ight. Uncle Pater,” He “Amd youire right about bat I-ouzht to’ do. Tye oftenthought 1'd %o into ‘someé of these:biz operations heére,’ But -for. 6ue thing- 1 wgs afraid of what you'd say: “And then,.T didn’t | {ue game very well. ‘But.] 'sea I ought to do. somgthing. You're And we tieed more m *urged the old man; **“I.was rclding a piece the other-day about the btg: for!une in New York. - Why, we - ain’s with - the ‘dfnRy 1iitfe. tws millions .we could swing. . You- do to- be a piker; -do yvu?~ I1f' you go-in the gamie at all. pliy her: open -aud high. Maké ‘emtake the celling: off. “You can st-as well get_Into the hundred million ciass’as not, and I-Know it.. They talk to me—I, know -vou -hav brains. was to go in néw it would .and tike you “You're &ll righit, ‘Uncle Peter“ ‘tainty. did’ need you to come -along flght now and set ‘me Btraight. You founded the fortune,.pa trebled *it, and ‘now Il the well-known club wo- . “was reduced. He has the, -t thats no Jleason why. New - York - now - lv, 0 as not fo start any boom prema- turely. Consolidated is 110 now, and-it'll: be up to 150 by April at the luiest. The others may go beyond that. | wasn't look- ing for the game at the time. so 1 didn't give it any thought, but ‘now, vou see, there's our chaiice.” We'll piunge in those and he ein g0 to his speed in ten lengtlis any. time.” . Tn. the nl(ernofln they “tell tnto the pro= cession of ‘carriages streaming toward - ‘the park. The day was pleasantly sha ‘three lines befure. they start (o rise, and * be in on thé ground floor. ow don't you be rash! That Shep- ler's. old enough - to suck "eggs and hide the shells. 1 heard'a man siy tire other day copper was none oo good. AL 180" , “Exactly. You ' .van - hedf - any thing Vou're looking. to. héar down. there, But 1-tell. you .this. was_straight.. Den't you suppose- Shevler. kno' ‘hal he's about? “there’s 'a boy thal, won't' be. peddiing §hoé-laces and' gum-draps off one of ‘thesa neat -little. bosom-trays—not for - efghty- five or ninety thousand ‘years yet—and Relpin; -even: 1 he. was drunk. knows .Shepler's deals ‘like you know Skiplap. They'I] bear the 'stocks all.they can while they're .buying up. .1 wouldn't be 'sur- prised. If the next Consolidat=d ‘dividend. That wouid send her down & “few poins; and.throw. more stock on the Ket. . ‘Meantime, ° they're ‘quistly work to et _control ‘of the Buropean nilnes—and ‘as to Western Trolley ‘and Union. Cordage—say, Reipin actually got to -crying--they re, so good—he . had -one What :of those loving dnes, the kind where you .want. to .be good :t6. every .one in the world. ‘I'm-surprised he didn't get into‘a sandwich sign and patrol Brmxdwly. glv- ing those tips to everybody.” “Course, we'Te on_ a. proposition’ now. that: you know more about it than T du; you certainly. do take right hold at once— that was your pa's way, too. Daniel J. ‘could ' Took farther ahead in a minute than most men ctould in a year. I got to trust you wholly in-thesé matters, and I know I-can do it," too. 1 got confiderice in you, no matter what other people say. They -don’t. know you like [ do. And if there's any other things you know about fur sure—"" ““Well, there's Burman. He's plunging in corn- now. His father has staked him, and he swears he can't lose. He was after’ me ‘to'. put -aside a millun. Of course, if he does win out it would be big_money.” ‘““Well, 'son, I can’t advise you none— except I know. you have got a head on you, . no how talk. You know. about this end of the game, and I'll have to' be led entirely by you. If you think Burman's got a go6d prop- osition, why,. there .ain't anything. like gettin® action all along the layout, from ace down to seven-spot and back to the king card. ‘“That’s the talk. or to-morrow. on what he said. ‘But I-got him too straight—let. 'a ~drunken ~man alone . for téiling the truth when he's got it in him. . We'll start in‘buying at once.” “It_does sound good.. 1 must say you take. hold of ‘{t considerably llke Dan’L J. - would done—and. use my money jést like your own:. I do want to see .you takin’ your place where you belong. This life-'of idleness you been Teadin'— ‘one.-continual. potiatch the. whole time— it ‘wasn’t ‘doin’ ‘vou'a bit of good:' “Sve’ll gét .action, don't you worry. -Now. let’s have :lunch down-stalrfs, and them go for. a drive. It's ‘too fine a day to stay.'tn. -I'll order thé cart around ard - show .you - that -blue-ribbon. cob I bought: at the- horse ghow.. 1 just want Yyou .to .see “his action. . He's a beaut, all right. . He's been worked . a* half- in I'll see Re'pin .to-day . way l bn‘ Y'll ‘bet he-tries to ‘hedge | the clear sunshine enlivening and the cod was-one With the. spirit of the occasion, .. alertly active, from lis .rubter-shiod, nisived hpots’ lo tlie ll'm bf his sensifive ears.. L.enlml Park.”” said Uncle Peter, tal- ways Seems. to. me just like-a- tidy “lle parlor,” u\m uound “in. them hills the glintihg . of * varnistied yth- with its accempany g jiiig.c ot stiver har- riess - trappings. - 7 - peoplé * he obsery must have -lots "BU\ you'll gé 1p “TFhat's what!" Uncle .Pster. Toward: the upper end of the éast arive they. passed- a victoria: fn, Which.-were Miss’ Milbreéy and her ‘thother with Rulon Sheépler. The men raised tHeir hats. Miss Milbrey flashed ‘the blue of .her ‘eyes .to ‘them and. pointed-down her ¢hin in fhe - least bit of-a baw.. Mrs, Milbrey, stared. “Wa'n't that-Shepler?” “Yes, Shep.er ‘and. the Milbreys. That woman. . certalnly - has.- the haughtiest loranon, ever .bullt.” “She didn't speak to us:. Js h.zr eyes ever- since that time -at New- None of them: has. spoken to .me but the girl—she's engaged.to Shepler.” “She’s a right nice lookin’ little lady. T thought. vou was kind of taken there.” “She wouldn't have married ‘me for my roll. 1 got far enough along to tell that. But that: was before Shep'er proposed. 1'd_give long odds she wouldn't consider me now. 1 havep't enough: for her with Rim n the game:" “IWell, you go in- and.make her wish she'd waited for you.” “I'll ‘do that;" I')l. make Shedler look Hke a well-to-do business man from Pon- tiac, Mich.” “Is that ‘brother of hérs you told me about still makin’ up.to that party “Can’t say..T suppose he'll be a Httle more . fastidious as the brother-in-law of Shepler. In fact I heard that the family had shut down on any talk of his marry- ing: her.” “still, she ought to be able tof.do well here. . Ary man _that .would marry-a woman fur money wouldn't oblect to her. One of ‘these fortune-hunting Englishmen, now, would snap her up.” “She hasn’t. quite enough for that. Two millions. 1snt .- so much -here: "you know, and she must have spent a lot of hers: [ hear the has a very gxpensive.suite back there at Arlinzham. fnd lives high. I ¢ hear, too. that she takes a fiyer in-the street now and. then. She'll be broke soon If she keep that up.” 2 “Too bad she aln’t got a few mors mil- Maong,” sald. Unele Peter ruminantly. “Take ‘one of these .titled Englishmen leokinig- for an-heiress to keep ‘em—she’d make just the kind of a wife he'd ought to’ get. ‘She certalnly ~ought -to- have. a fow more millions. 1f ‘she had, now, she mnight cure some decent ‘girl- of her in- fatuation. Where'd you say -she was stopdin’ 2 “Ariingham—that big private hotel I showed ‘you. back “there." “Percival® confessed. to: his mother ‘that night that he had wrongeéd Uncle Peter. Continued Next Sunday. SOE BOSENBEBG S. Fa,‘t-viWomen Made Thin by get't work and roll it up uke 3 hA( mowv 3 ball “That's the talk. Get 1nto. the. hund:ed mll]km class, and 1how these: wise folks you got seméthing in” you ifke the sayin® is. Then they won't be ‘askin’~ who your: pa was—they'll: be “wantin® to Kk hen you c yacht afloat. two: ot three,of “em;” best Louse-in New:York, and patacés over in’ Erigland: and- Pish'il . be: able. to hold up- her head fn cémpany over there.* can_finance" that 'rondgman flgh( up- | the nires.” ‘By Jove! but ‘you're right. Peter. And that n-.mmdx * e ; He ‘stopped In"his walk; - n. T\nve the ~biggest 'steam -You're 'a . Iways nd.the You. “1 gave it:hardly any mougm at thie -, - time, but: pow It. looks ‘ bigger tharn a . ‘mountain. . T-know- just the ; things start .in- on syvstenrdtically. .Now don't ‘breathe a word. of this. but there’s a big QGeal on 1h Cnn-olldn!ed Capper. - 1 -hap: Pened on ‘o' the fact in ‘a eueer way-the . other night. braker I've known down towh—fellow by the name of Relpin, - “Meét, him last summer.. He.does most of ‘Shepler’s -busfnes closer to Shepler . and -know more dbout the |n-'|d¢ of his delll-thln any . ‘man in. the et. Well, I ran across. Rel- ‘pin down- .in " the ~ cefe ‘the. njght and he .wa gents' nobby three-hmwn souses. Nathing Would do but I should dine withi himl, so Tdid. It was the night-you. and the folks went ‘to the opera with .the Oidakers; Relpin -was-full' of lovely talk and .dark hints about a rise.in copper stock, and another rise in Western ‘Trollev, and a bigger ‘rise than sither of them in Union * Cordage. How that fellow can do Shep- ler's business ‘and. drink the stuft that | makes you, talk I don't see. Anyway he. -sajd—and you can bet what he-says goe: —that the. Consolidated is going to con- trol the world's supply of copper Inside of three -months, dnd the stock Is bound to kite, and so are these other two stock: Shepler's back of all three. Inside: are buylng up now, slowly and cautious- he’s supposed to be-: other - wearing onie of those to . 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