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a AUREL ILLES A: IE NEE row THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY PY ROMRIDS tste 28, 1900. | | old friend, the gullant Mr, Smith, who {laughed as he heard the spring lock] papers, of nis precious money, but no sprang to her rescue and no j click. T safe until I come back." | one answered to his knocking he erfed, and shambled away, leaving | one came at his call save a janitress,| Already violent hands had heen laid his key# upon his desk insid: who was cleaning @ rug in au adjoining }upon her, “Let us tear her to pieces!” From drvg store 6 drug store he/ office, the door of which stood open. ried @ hideous negress, who stood tn }was turned away. “We can't let you) “Can you get a key to this office, my | the fo at ranks of the motley throng ption,”| food woman?” he asked’, My friends |that hemmed her in, “She was rich jhave morphine without a p One unscrupulous did bring| are all out, and I have left some most jout the drug, but when be found Chr.s| portant papers behind me!" |had no money he refused to Int him| “You were never in that |have the stuff, “Why, I have $10.00 in/#@ld the Janttress, susptctously. & fur overcoat in my office in the aky-Has been in there except the offlce-boy * shrieked Chris bui the drug-)4>4 poor Mr. Chris, who has been away |rist took his remarks as the ravings of #0 lone Li ie Ja crazy man and pushed hia out of the| “Open this Joor and | will give you 0 i T will go bark to the de pene The ence amet | Boe Ue et A et ee em, TAGe tte oes arimescine | renee Atti has gone to [229% Warren. She haw been erased, per- the good devils did!” eereames Chels, no strangers, hep, by the loss of her money tn this and he hurried to the Brenton mansion, | : ee erent mek e enem on Washington square, ae ia Hore he fell Into the hands of Rich-| ‘ 8 eee ae wine ike ard’ Brenton, | Janitress, nd inaide the building to the ose of the panera and the money, | mt, fine on the roof and wadt for + of the swindle, was known] acti enough, why did she want to rob us of what little we had?’ Mr. Smith had joyed in many a hard fought fight. He was now in the etrug- Ls * life, shielding the pale, but un- daunted girl from the cruel blows almed at her on every side. He cried aloud: Don't be fools I know this lady they sald ! even he's there, Here's F, enlling "Palle! lett che stalwart mith nM Brenton fell upon Chris and # hanicaly Rai weitlahaha, bad ihc araey. of (ron. 1k him until the poor, weak wretch's feaing the Fup mood at Wands, ott lerfington! he cried Colston. ot, rather, my head wos almost shaken from hia Wwe the toney shoulders was the thought ot we, Moxie McGinnia “ too, will destroy you could not resist the fasting. vat have you done with the money ou of coming back in your other self you » taken from the safe?” howled | to the scene of your swindle. 1 have Richard Brenton; “and the will, the 6) LEN Se eevare cewek Bet, Your Sanwe 1 fer, a8 td ot will?’ shrleked the elder scoundrel, Nad’ Heeeey BAe tie whey inte the ve me morphine! gasped Chris, | ————--———--—— — | sheiter of ihe akyscriper, Just aw the rc) orphine! Police, seeing milder measure was only ive mie. soreh adding to the Hot that prevaile Ite effect was in- charged upon the ctuwd with clubs The uproar was at ite height when a burst of flame and amoke beiched forth from a row of windows high up the fa cade and a shout went up from the freuzied mob: “It ls God's judgment! The skysera- per i on fire’ o 8 8 * @¢ 6 Jack Warren sat at his gesk with his head bowed In his hands, On his desk ay Beli urt note from the superintendent o! Hevue Hospital and it read Mr, John Warren: It was given him aneous, You have tried to make me lose my soul.’ he sald, sullenty, “but 1 have bat fled you! The forged will and the proofs of the forgery together with the money you robbed your foolish dupes of ts, ha! lum! in the possession of the International Art and Literary Bureau, with which I BY ROY L. M’CARDELL. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTER, Ret mention Hence the change quarrels with Mrenton, overbearin, and knocks gelate som, whom be meets siamming fm the sey Dear Sir: 1 beg to Inform you that we Fone Morzk hound to do geod with her have ascertained, from documents sewn millions, found ‘Self-Help pe et om id in the garments of the man oe died in ward 7 three days ago, that said patient Yo Raf My tm was John Warren, formerly of Leadvibie, ems, at length, and realis’ that der int ta ‘the Setlement is at an end, sbe reel and not James Magruder, as was i her own living. Driving erroneously entered upon our books, P en Warren's affray Thinking this Information may be of Brenton, tn the Bow Sersona! interost to yourself, I beg to femain, truly yours, &c., And so the tramp who had befriended him, who had suffered the wound that resulted tn bis death to save him—' his father! The long missing Joon War- ren, mining enginoer, wm this reverie he was aroused by ‘Ritart with mnereane, ting to a Menard favor, onry mill goes to emash, tmpoveriahing York parer < Cepestvars. A New ‘ite ted of backing the Te fount. Chris tales realtied by Brenton starts for the fg a Hoprright, 1900, by Roy 1, MOCARDMLL All rights reserved.) Matterhorn is on fire! Hustle, we'll broytf now if ikyscraper is fireproof or net!"* CHAPTER X1. | FIRE AND TRAGEDY IN THE SKY- On the ground floor of the skyscraper SCRAPER Jack encountered Scrappy. The badly battered Ralph Colston, alias Moxte McGinnis, was being ied through the fire ea by ollceman. nat's one of them,” sald Scrappy, “and now for the other, But fire we go to your wife! Poor girl, she has bad a tryin time of {t; she got caught In this crowd | and I sent her up to the roof Ho did not think it best ¢o tell Jack al! that be med or of Helen's synnee | dectaration, but Jeck interrupted him “O, Scrappy, and the Door {| ‘ou forget | ye most completely fireproof Srectore in the world. ‘ack only groaned again, and the two trends he elevators. Cx OW Chris reached the Matterhorn | Rullding and how he got throug the throng of frenzied depositors fn the now expored swindle of the Great Eastern Syndicate he never knew. But reach it he did, and mechanteally he made his way from the elevator down the corridor to the room of the Art and Literary Bureau He found the place deserted. Harry Hotspur Ripley was idly watching the 1 crowd from the window of a nolghbor- Ing cafe, Cobalt, prostrated at the loss of his money, had gone to the country for rest and recuperation, He had been i away for weeks, where no one knew, i and only Albert, the office boy, had stood by the now deserted bureau Hut Albert was down “watching the fun," as he called st. of the clamoring + “Investors” demanding thelr money back when there wat no money or no started for t re were droppl: the burning barred their wa “No one goes up there," he said; “not even any more firemen,’ “You don’t know us. id Berappy, and the two. jumped Into the car end lack pulled the jews de open. Before he policeman could move from his racks they had vanished through the rks and # an ginss in the weherner @ dit-) which the suspictous| t had gone. of flame upon the fifteenth HOW A WOM | SERVES PIPES “* Charlotte Nivison” Ex- plains Why She Excels in Calling. GOT DUKE OF MANCHESTER, After Men Have Scared Quarry Into Hiding She | Lands Them. if Process-Server Charlotte Nivison, of = Broadway, {s fertile tn resources, and when whe gets after any ore with a Summions or a subpoena the only se- curity for object of her attentions In In wome other State. That's what 0 well-known and wealthy Hoboken man discovered when, after beng permed up in his houre for nine da he ventured on a trip across the ferry. The woman proc rver emerged from the indies’ cabin Just as the Always Victoriot They Positively Cure DIARRH@A—CROUP iS the ferry-boat jouched shore on this COUGHS — COLDS Leap ey tec raked GRIPPE HEART FAILURE Mier Sinn i the. paman whe nang SORE THROAT | KIDNEY TROUBLE aed Kcramee’s hotwe $n Washington Haahte| | RHEUMATISM LIVER COMPLAINT for three days, aml then as the help- DYSPEPSIA weaver” \ ralytioc bet it in his care rhe ters dre dec « premey wnaer| | CENBRAL DEBILITY wnovenue CATARRH — ASTHMA | NEURALGIA BLOOD POISON| WHOOPING COUGH OUR PAIN PLASTERS GIVE INSTANT RELIEF, Sovereign Tonic for Mon, Sovereign Tonic for Women. sec “HOME TREASURE.” A SEPARATE REMEDY “on every DISEASE, Every Remedy 25¢, Each. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGQISTS AND MEDICINE DEALERS, “HOME TREASURE” FREE. A hook full of useful Information and hold receipts sent RREE to any a SOVEREIGN REMEDY 60, (237 Aroh Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. the collar of his coat, and telling him he was served in a sult bid him a cheery good-day and vanished “Charlotte Nevision” Isn't her name at home, which ts In a cosy flat in upper Wfth avenue. She is a short, plump spinster of forty, with brown hair. She! § has a man for working partner, and (he two invinetbi “How do we manage?” said Mis son, repeatifig the question of an Ing World reporter. “If 1 should reveal the secrets of my business my useful- ness would be over, People would be on the watch for a woman who ‘wants to look at the flat,’ &c. I'm in tt because it pays better than the needle, or keep- ing boarders, or anything elae that I could employ myself at “T'll tell you how we served the Duke of Manchester when he was here last month, though. “You know, the Duke put up at the Waldorf-Astoria, Well, we were em: ployed by a lawyer to serve a summons on him to appear in a London Court. | His tailor had sued for pay for His Tprdship's clothes for four years. The bill was for 43,00, our money, “The paper wns big, wide and long, and) =: bore the seal of the Queen, from which | blue ribbons dargled. “1 hung around the Waldorf-Astoria | three or four days, I would go in first! Rairoada ‘NEW YORK GTR ladies, Geow' ont Clothing ready 19 Geer or ty orde,, Jackets, Tatler CRED! and make sure the Duke was there Skirts ind ae rae. ae | a. Ni 4 outside. inted Watches, Jewelry pad Di . Then I'd wait outside, | got acquain feels pad Diamonds oa eaay Yo pen fe MANHATTAN CLOTHING CO. 3D AVE. @TH AND (ETH STH , FURNITURE,$80W ORTH ON $1 DOWN AND $1 WEEKLY. PRICES THE LOWEST, LEWIN'S, 48 WEST 14TH ST. 8 267 WEST 128TH ST. | DIAMOND, Watches, 1 with the carriage caller and the cab bles on the Thitty-fourth street side, and they all knew me as ‘the woman who wants to get a sight of the Juke “Twice he escaped me by taking a car-)| riage at the Thirty-third street on- trance, and once he came out in a hurry. Jumped Into a carriage and got away before 1 knew where I was “At last the chance came. He came ont leisurely and, into his car- riage, drawled to the coachman to drive him to that theatre he wi molng to Jol, “L signalled to my partner and he Jumped to the carriage ‘Your Lord- ahip,’ sald he, ‘here is « paper I have directed to give to the Duke of ter.’ ity, weekly payments: pooh guaranicen & Sikh ishthistnt eee EeREekitieRE ereeee ON CREDIT—Dismends ond waicdes; good are ML PAND for 6 conte at ne gives rellet “What ip it? asked the Duke with languld curtority, " ‘Open it and you'll wee, it Is from ohn England,’ mid my partner pigithaet He ibaenh fat? okie “When the Duke saw what it was he|** | Just crushed it in his hand nd with-| They are famous for their FINE) Patents. PATENTS—Adrice free. Send for tore’ iar TATE & COMPANY, 246 Broal-| fy York, out a change in his Uired air of his color| TONE and are warranted to be said DURABLE. “Delve on! and was off 5 “Oh, when the shertff and the marrhats| Let us send you our catalogue with | a TALE o F A PENEIL. have scared the life out of foks so REDUCED PRICES and TERMS on | they don't dare come out of door, then| our new 3-YEZAR SYSTEM, giving they have to id fo woman to serve | ” thar proccess Mr. Kramer cy | 00 TERRE YEARS time withont) | THis 16 THE Pence, This 1s He Kure tHat easier ins ceca | No pianos so celebrated as the| THAT was Dutt. SHARPENED THE PenciL, | WATERS are wold at such LOW| | PRICES aud on such EASY TERMS, Call and seo them or send postal for THAT was Dutt. COLSON OUT OF JAIL | ane left of the Momy MIlt's representa- tives to refund ft. moke and were running the Jet himself in the office with his i An elevator stopped for him and shot on up to the top floor. Chris 4 Momentartly losing his presence of! It was tw. ke~ch 4 some- | pass key. The place was Paige le4 na in hia fear of being detected In his) what singed hervea is caatita tes | unkempt. Papers, books villainy Richard Brenton wrong, 10 the! the roof just in ume see Helen in| door that led to the roof of the sky-|the-grasp of Ricuard Brenton, were scattered over the floor—decided!y the Art and Literary Bureau had gone | rhe ti down to his The trembling Chris sat Gesk and drew the bulky peckage from beneath his coat. A great mass of care- fully tied bank notes of large denomina “4 some letters and the forged scraper, Once on the roof hoe turned, and there, standing face to face wit the lost heiress, Helen Mer- tort in his hand. ber te| am prepared for you! What {Xp to question my speaking jereisigion?”" ia astonishment ton, noting h. en were with a jook of ‘eeter soliettu hai | at him with the knife. | were ee friewc, arn ui would-be i cal | “How sere. you, you scoundrel!’ | and a/ fs time 1) ht have Helen | ol te ied Brenton, “Th said the rilan of th peace. wuardian of the “Our’ orders are not to club the poor fevils who are crazed over the loss of thelr money, and we have a hard time handling them. I'm nearly dead with) 4. thelr jostling and their shoving. They’v« mobbed the place, and won't leave unt! they get some satisfaction of their) money back, they say. They won't get) ) either, to my thnaking,” concluded the brass-buttoned man. Heien paid (he cabro Shore's Cobalt, where's Albert! T ought to be drawing the pictures of the forg- ‘of the swindlere! Where's Jack ers, Warren? Why ‘en't he here to put on the fur overcoat, the swell fur over- eoat, and take this exclusive to the i beyond mean out with all bis might, ir teellag he and elvowed 4 § he that will pay: what it's worth?” her way through the cro 7" v 3 ee teal upon the fur coat hang- THE DOOMED MAN PLUNGED DOWN THAT] trombline witn exeitement, in tee stone Sirdies tag upon ite accustomed nail, he stag- Se Se pass,” whe cried ra oof, gered to it and with shaking hands 4!s-| office, our office, in the Matterhorn eky-||) | dented “one saseat acme” tt hi tribeted im tts capmcious pockets the , and It will te the making of an| particularly villainous | . T jeoaares © queney Colston hed given to the Bren-| exciusive sensational story that will star-| ‘With hie arm } Rae Seer ose | ror € moment hie body was hid tn the re ” “! a jon we j vk © me belehing from the win- . fom maasion the night before and the| tle the worid! the hoad of the swindle!” he ed. | the fifteenth flow evidences of the forgery, the will and) Richard Brenton struct him down, and Sere “the in; mebbe she. give us back |» fe nto. iy ag our money he frenaied wret he had imitated| with an oath rushed from the house. Ue the Merrington girl!’ shrieked | con y at the empty alr. swirl na, It the crowd. “Olve us our money! Gtve| t us our moner! The police endeavored to break through urning, down, down, down! A_scteam from the horror-stricken multitude below and then ellen He was at the door of the bareau In as short space of time as horse and cab could take him. It war locked, but throng. but the crowd closed in on] “God have mercy on him!” through the mail drop he could see the} {PC Chen it Meese bravely but aimith. “But ‘the head of the stat Mttered floor. He imagined among the); ‘and it w money swindle hag scaped us after al (To Be Continued.) rubbish he caught sight of his precious|have fared hard "| health and happiness. gone t my own halt tuna b's a elo clerk to have a i ear: in fact T mention that [ smoke a pipe spa’ end that I cannot get along with than 1 cents a wi for tobacco. The is at the office think | 8 be) I lose the frien ‘eh rasociate with them "and have. them D ‘and have think I am a “sponge.” } My wife inpiets that § is @ suffictent| 1 try to k times | | allewance for pocket money for me. |! 4 expel siege B) meyee biack We have no children and tive in a! things “thas many men pay for having | ASTORIA Yam | | fat in Brooklyn. My carfare is 19 cents nemiaiek | oe Always Deaght “9| Sousa for a day, except when 1 am compelied to pay a doubje fare because of the vaga- This fe at @ cents a lunches consist of jew Iv day or cents a week. 0 neceamary items use up $1.0 ies ree of the Rossiter transit yam. | and cverage, say. cents a Pes Ste are sige an Co Cantril mon fn Hoaph FRANKFORT, Ky gressman D, G. Colson wi moved from jail to the Kim to es a catalogue. moval? HORACE WATERS & CO., 134 Filth Ave, near 18th St. Hospital by permission of Circuit Judge West 49St, Cantrjil and placed in charge of 4 *P*- peg clal quard. The order was made on oR Thy, recommendation of Colson's physician, | Dr. E. BE. Hume, who advised that the bape Pr prison shattered arm and paralysis “R LE” rendered his condition suoh tha? his re- EL AB 3) would be on set of humantty CARPETS Cantrill’s action is taken MAGICIANS IN WOOL. Will probably be ri hange comm dodge € Jan, 9. -Ex-Con- last night re te | This 1s THE MAN. WHo USED tHe Hann, THAT USEO THE Kwite, roar SHARPENED THE Tos 1s tHe HaNo,THAT USED THE ANiFE THAT Swarrenen tHE Penci, Cured of Asthma ai-woot ar7 souaRes| DAVID SENNIG, 247 Jefferson St., Brooklyn. = ’ as. he 1 have been cured by the Koch! Yj" ts | | THAT was Duta. Pencit,tHat was Due. Asthma inhalation at 48 W. 22d st. 1 nearly smothered to death. Every other physician failed (Former prices $5.78, $1.75 and $0.40) Artistic furniture further reduced | 1 lost eleven pounds. ear the way for stock-taking : : | was getting very weak. one Cre is Of greatest help to 1 coughed and raised yellow matter. | ‘' pent th refined ta and moderate i My night sweats are cured and my life of torture and pain is changed ¢ CASH on CREDIT ERTHWAIT & 106 and 108 West 14° St. NEAR 67 AY. | (9) 1 publish my cure, as 1 wish to show my gratitude. 1 am now well and feel that | am doing a duty to my | fellow-man by publishing this state-! ment. 1 have met this great Dr. Koch at 48 W. 22d st., and I look upon him as the greatest physician for lung disease {n the world, and no more grateful than | am, beca Je he brought oe to the ¢ y for * vaporizing aside of the lungs with heating oils. Because it has cured me. Every one who knows me in my ORCES ighborhood will tell you that what;~~ [jmay in the truth. 1 know of others _ RAL=SuNDAYWoRLOWANTS WiL UP YOURBUSINESS EVERY TIME, JF I SUNDAY WORLD f ONDE Lawyere $30 entire ROMNE: \ have Leen .