The evening world. Newspaper, March 4, 1907, Page 13

The Evening World’s Daily Magazine, Monday ; March. 4 1907. _ By Thom (Copyright. 1906, 1907, by the Ridgeway Company,) sCopy.lgnt 1907, by Doubleday, Page & Co. Published Feb., 1907.) CHAPTER I. enter. the-Girl.— “OF RIDAY, the 13th; I thought as | much If Bob has started, there will be hell; but I will see what I can-do.” _ The sound of my yolce as J dropped the receiver seemed to part the, mists of five years and usher me into the world of Then as though it “had -never—passed—on I had been sitting ip my office, let- ting the tape sllde through my fn- gers while’ its every! gard spelled panic” in a constantly rising volce, when they told me that Brownley on the floor of the Exchange wanted_me. at the ‘phone, and “quick.” Brown- ley Was our Junlor yartner and floor “man. v e “Mr. Randolph, {t's sizzling over here and {t's getting hotter every} secon. Bob. If he keeps up| 1 as ]note to my wife, say ‘Virginia. The Newlyweds--Their Baby 2 W. La | be misehiet to pay on the floorsuire Cars wil | eae it wasia Weautttul July Saturday noon and Bob and T had just “packed | up" for the day preparatory to joining Mrs. Randolph on my yackt for a} th run down to our place at Newport. the clerks announced that a Iady had come {n and had particular seo Mr. Brownley, A Jady entered. “I am Beulah Sands, of Sands. Landing, Val people, Mr: Brownley, probably swell enough for you to place me." “Of the Judge Lee Sandses?” asked Bob, ashe held ont his hand, “J am Judge Lee Sands’s eldest daughter,” 5: yhad ever heard. definite as the evening star against the twilight sky. “Step into my office, Miss Sands, and all my ‘time fs yours,” sald Boh, ills daug After 1 had sent a, Reinhart jammed the st as he opened the door between his office and mine. ing we night be délayed for an hour or two, T settled; ne Author-of erenzied Finance.” Jeves suddenly shot sparks—'Mt those mtcrobes ever get unleashed there'll scems from what she tells that of Iate ha hav been very actlye in developing? ‘our coal mines and rallroads, and that- particularly he took a prominent j hand In the Seaboard Afr Line. haa recently been acting the Now, +you and J can understand his position. THE STORY OF A GREAT AND PASSIONATE LOVE. RIDAY, the 13th Jim, this poor girl, who, It eeeme s¢’s secretary, t coup of Reinhart and his crowd -has completely As we stepped-out of his office one of | The decline has swamped his own fortuno, and, what !s worse, a million y asked tO! to 9 milion-and_a half_of hia trust funds as woll, and the old Judge—well,! has just Iearned thas ruined her father, “Upto now the girl has stood up to the blow like a man and has been | Your people ew our! able to steady the Judgp until he presents an exteHor that holds down | suspicion as to his real financial condition, although she says Reinhart and lls, Baltimore lawyer, from the ruthless way they “put on said the sweetest yotce 1/fliake out his holdings {n tho Air Line, must have a Imeoon tt that ‘tho The old. gentleman can.kecp things going. for six Judge ts overboant. the rorews to Hnonths longer without Jeopardizing any of the remaining trust funds, of Beulah Sandws was beauty beyond eavll, superior to all analysts,.an which he has some two iniliions, and while bis wife, who {a an inyalld, judge is in some. r says that w. know: and_partners in the road atruggle to keep-her father from going Insane. that day of the p ute, trouble, she does, not suspect h{s real condition,) en the blow came, k out of sight and scuttled her ftathe ‘the Wilsons of Baltimore, when| ‘s bankers} she bad a frightful Sho’ told me that for three/ down to wult for Bob in the general offlce, and it was_a long walt. Thirty) qqya and nixhta she kept hini lockod In thetr rooms ,at thelr hotel in minutes went {nto an hour and an hour Into two before’ Bob and Miss| Baltimore, to prevent him from hunting, Refnhart and his lawyer Hetty- Sands came out. tone curiously Intent: “Judge Lee Sands, The her father, Judge, Beulah Sands's father, is close on to seventy. After he had put her in a cab for her hotel, he sald tn a: is the head of the old Sands familly ot together they have been planning.” “Now, what is !t she wants you to do?" I ‘peralsted, of our trying to title her father over?” You don’t know vel mo} ‘othing of, that kind, Jim. [bone and killing them both, but that at last aD) got him calmed down, and “Is {t a case of the proud Virginia 1S PAPA. this pace . for twenty minutes longer the sulphur will overflow ‘the Stroet’ ee country, and nd ‘man can tell how much! The boys have begged me to, le you to throw pouvaelt Into ‘the sane and stay him. They agree you) are the only hope no “ATS you-sure,-Fred, that-thta ts Bob's work ?—E asked. en him?” “Have-you, have just-come trom-hla office, and_glad I was-to get-out He's! gb ihe warpath, Mr. Randolph—uglier than [ ever saw him. The last time| he! broke Joose was child's play, to hls mood to-day. Mother sent me word _ this morning that she saw last night the spell was coming. He had been up to see her and sisters, and mother thought from histone he was apout} rot disappear again. When she told me of bis mood, and 1 remembered the aqday, I pyas afrajd.he might seek bis vent hers, ‘“Eitout town till long after midnight. The minute I opened his office doo-|} this morning he flew at me lke a panther. I told him I bad only Sroppedy on my rounds for an order, as they were running off right smart, ana) eo didn't know but he might Mice ta pick up some bargains, ‘Bargains!’ he | reh you-knoy the -day?—_Bon't-you-know 1s Friday, the 33th lo back to that hell-pit and sell, sell, sell.’ “Sell what and bow much?" 1 Soaked, Anything, everything. Give the thieves every share they will take,| vend when they won't take any more, ram as much again down their crops) ntl they spit up all they have been. buying for the last three month | Fred Brownley was Bob's youngest brother, twelve years his junior, He | d-been with Randolph & Randolph from ‘the day-he left college, and for } er a year had been our most trusted Stock xchange man, Bob Brown- | “hltiwelf, was as ene of Tits “baby: brother,” as he called him, ‘de! “inion SSteBSy cal nig? Bellen Tduring. tho: past fve years had. been vexar= titne—motherand-brother had_to take thelr place-with ali-the ‘nee of the world, for then Bob knew no kindred, no friends, All the wide | “World was to him during those periods a jungle peopled with savage ani-| papas and reptiles to hunt and fight and tear and kill. a j It-ts-hardly_necesaary—for_me_to_explain who Raadolph_& Randolph - For more than aizty years the name has spoken for_itsclf In every art of the world where dollar-making maclines are installed. ! 2 inctecn years ago Iwas graduated from taryard,. My,classmate and: Stiehum;-Hob-Brownler, of Richmond, Va,,-was- graduated with me, [> ®©° My people had money, and to spare, and with it a hard-headed, North- ‘ ¥: @7n horse-sense, The Brownleys were as poor as church mice, but they) i he-britiiant--vi biond-nt-the-ote-Sonther-ntperchs——— al ob Brownley was by all cdds one of the bandromest. meén I have’ y ee seen, but, besides that, he was a sterling, manly, unaffected fellow, as | ohive as steel,-as brave as atten, and the best comrade friend ever had, ~~ Perhaps it was because hin father’s death had saddled Bob's youth with — athe heavy rea bilitice of husbanding and directing his family's slim 4 finances that he tcok th-busalness-as-a-swatlew-to-the alr, We entered the | .eflico of Randolph & Randolph on the same day. ats } Jim Randolph it maybe here explained Inherits fn time’ hile -Hrcwajey, who through the elder Randolph's gener- tock Exchange seat, amasses a considerable: fortune. emains Jim's mos: intimate friend. : a: TP begged Bob to come Into the firm. e WNot yet, Jin,” he répica “Tve got my seat and about a hundred “Thonsana capital, and 1 wunt to feel that I'm free to kick-my heals until 1 haye raked together an even million all of my own making; then rm settle | down with you, old man, and hold my handle of the plough, and if some food girl Hippeis wong about that Cnie—well, then, It het ‘be ‘an Wy cov-) BEC Ie Cor for mine, ~tte laughed ant tlaughed,-top, Bob was looked upon by all his friends; ese “bad-case-of-woman-shy,—No-woman, young-or old, who-had-In-any- wey ‘ossed Bob's orbit, but had felt that fascination, m ‘A woul by honor schooled, A Teatt by passton rured= but he never seemed to see it. As my wife—for I had been three years mar- omled and had two Mttle Randolphs to show that Katherine Blair and I know | what marriage was for—neyer tired of saying, “Poor Bob! He's wonlan- “and {i looks “as though he would never yet hia sight in that /diréc- “phen again, Jin,” he continued in a tone of great serfow iess, “there's ake fittle secret I-bave never let_cven you_tnto. The truth {s 1am not safo yes. Snot safe to speak for (he old house of Randolph & Randolph. Yes, you may putauh—y ‘ou who are, and always have been, as stanch and steady as the old Sowrenze - ohn Harvard in the yard, you who know Monday mornings Just | Peiyhat you ure going to do Saturday nights and aii the days and piguts in be-! ke tween, and who always do Jt. Jim, 1 have found since I havé been over on “thts floor that the Southern gambling blood that made my grandfather on Steyne-of his trips back from New York, though he had more land and slavea “rhon he could use, stake his land and slayes—yes, and grandmother's, tdo— vn acard gam> and—lesd, and change the whole face of the Brownley .des- L.-tiny—those same gambling microbes are 1n my blood, and when they begin to claw and gnaw | want to-do something and, Jim’—and the big brown HINTS FOR THE HOME Escalloped Eggs. | hale of the egg and: one-halt of the § 3 sauce, one-half of the meat. Repeat and : IX Nard-bolled eggs, + cli then put the romainder of the ¢rumbs S one cup of an corned bef | On top. Bake in ahot oven flve minutes, -()-onoppea one cup eracker crambs, é i GO nrrcouer crunbe wisn one-| Amsterdam Sandwiches. (latter cup of melted butter, two cups | (¢ ‘T/atalo bread tn 1-tinch slices, Ided milk (not boiled), When milk} move crusts and cut slices In halves in weulddd’ haye ready two aven tor- crosswise. Heat 2 exge slightly, add ‘@pdoni of butter and two of flour 2 tablespoons sugar, 1-4 teaspoon salt thoroughly mixed. and free from lumps, {and 24 cup milk; strain into a shallow Sr the milk Krequatly into the thiok=] dish: — Sort breadin-mixture unter Bir until smooth, and season And soak In butter. Hpredd est pieces With Jat of duatmialade,-cover te. ; Asrange one-third of tho saute piece with ¢ eet z Sector cones caves. ait ene. Also I heardof his beings! ; | GOING FO SVE SUITS LITTLE BATH t WIS FACE 1S KTOR! AWFULLY. R SICK? FLUSHED! FEAR ree OH} DEART PNEUMONIA? TELL HIM Cont QuicRT TO HURRY! The Girl Who Loves Two Men. Mb WO young nen are paylnE Me attention, aye very fong of them oth. choose.” So runs a letter I recelved to-day. were the only one Of Its kind I should fancy tt-a-joke, 1 have tecelved dozens—or-Ime-Mame sort So let me otiee ANd for all thar the wrt Who thinks who ‘loves —inon at once really loves nelthor, Mead that state: and Warn Wa wense by heart, for itis the: truost epintons. ‘The old whist gulde used to, say: doubt play trumps.” Loye's manual should read: tn doubt marry neither, No girl can-truly love tio mon at Cnce,.nor can any.man almultansousl Jove two girls, One of the two loved ones—usually both—muat be given up. yourear onty feel mere fnfatuation for one of.the too-inéatuation that you. fool nd evan H you have a trier fooling for Oie other, PUTT TT phmrwiite acti teating arewn toward I don't know which to “When YOU LITTLE -{ RASCAL PUT FOOT IN THE TUB! NONSENSE! TAWE THAT “BLANKET OFt AND HEEL ty BEALL DOVEY eS BuT pocTOR | ‘You DIDN'T HEAR HE SNEEZeED! HIM SNEEZE? SE VS TALL RIGHT FOR ACHILD by TO-SNEELF ee By_George McManus. | coula feel no infatuation tor any other m Remember this. It will save yout f ne § lady whom I see every morning, but Todo snots know “anybody. wes wit How cand make} say} two =| intreduce-me to her: her-aoquatntancaz $ Go be no only decent way ts through on troduction," If she goes to church at ¢ same place of worsh she has a father or ry tomeet them ina He Broke the. Appo niment, ii ts ral For “MET a “young man a few weeks ago| and had an appoint last Sunday you te ANT ase Ble THEFT, A kor Of SUCKERS FiooRAy ij THE LE THER | G08 GALEA AGHER! wow! wow! Heel HAW! | angry and { am afratd he felt Insulted, heard from him since, {ould like ta sake tp aa 1 feel v Do you think I o HEARTHROKE have not T amt Du Would Like to Meet Her. puts It ie) Dear Betty: nesday night last, but [OULD = like to ayeak— 20k YOUN Lj e-tpelephorred; him" ly about Ie wrote and apologized arte ward, another appointment tor Wed- but did not keep It. trnt-T-thad =fott—to-meet- Tetfer, Hav id HO Write ~aRain: TY, MANS EA 18 HfRo_ 72 WIGGLE oubt made him very gat dtd not hear from x Tere ‘= from him before; tat E-was-verx and told him so in the letter, 1 You and JF he—wiit |} during the next ‘six ‘months ahe might not, in a few desperate ; Tr but | = BEULAH SANDS. This is the beautiful Southern girl who fough Wall strect singIe-handed, staking a fortune,-a soul and a country’s destiny. The heroine of Ehe greatest story of love and maduess. blood. Neither that girl_nor her father would accept money, help from any, one. They would go to smash and the grave first.” He paused, and then continued impressively; = “This js how she puts it: She and her father have raked «hed different Jegacies and turned them {nto cast,:a matter of sixty thousand dollars, and she got him to consent to let her come up ‘here and to see ig nt ni lesperate plunges in thi market, run it up to e at Teast regain the- tx funds. Y know it fs a wild fdea, 1 fold ber so at the beginning, but there was no’ need; she knew {t, for she Js not only bright, but she has tho beat Idea oy business [ ever knew a woman to have. But {t fa their only chance, Jim, and while I listened to her argument I came around to her way of thinking. “But how did she happen to come to you with this extraordinary! scheme?" I interrupted, “It's this way—her father, who knew Randolph & Randolph through _ your father’s handling of the Seaboard's affairs, learned of my connection with the house and gave her a letter, esking me to.do what [ could to hep his daughter carry out her plans. She wants to get a position avith us, it possiiie-_in-seme -sort_of-eapacity—eecretaty,—confdential clerk, or,as-sho. puts {t, any sart of pluce that will Justify her betng tn the office. She tells ms she is good at shorthand, on the machino or at correspondence, also nat ane Tax-bean-m contributor to the magazines. it this-can-bo- B. game, ature, nud, ol rds may than sixty thousand Tee Deerrun up to millions more than once, and that, too. without the ald she will have, for I'll surely do all I can to help her eter thia Just chancg into spong pi z “Rob, 1 don’t blame you for falling {mn with the girl's planus. Int were Hin 4our-stoes T-should, too; -Youmid-ty-with our’ position tn the market, can do lots of things to help run that sixty thousand to higher figures, but six months Is a short time and a million or two a world of money.” “She knows, that,” he said, “and the time Ja much shorter and the road to go much longer than you figure,” he replied. "This girl 18 as high-ten~ stoned as the B.string on n Stradivarius, and she declares she will have no charity tips or unusual fayors from us of any one else. But let us not talk about that-now or we'll get discouraged: Let's do ns she says_and trust.tol_ God for the outcome. Are you willing, Jim, to take her into, the office as a Bortof- confidential eacrs sil} U-take charge -of her necount, | and together we will do all that two. men can for her and her father, |; *rewaters Mitons, aaplendid, mp-to-date by-George Bare Mclutcheon, with bogin serial | Waturday’s Beening Wortd, March 9, iE aie oF over-walst has Become such a general favorite wit. each new design Is quite certain to find — a hearty welcome: Tt te never pretiter, however, than when by-young—eirt condingty exmmple that adapted alike to the purate walst and to the frock, As {hi fited the, mal ig cashmere trimmed {with velvet txt {and + with but nd the guimpe ts of simple all-over lace, But one of tha— great advantages- of the over-rTreist. ts that ft js entirely separnts from the gulmpe and cense- Quent}y can be worn over any watst that one may Uke, and can be varied In a per of WAYS, times worn 0 face, sotrettmes over Mngerio materinl, Again, thero ta a chotee alto: ‘ tern No, 5593, ar. 3 the wwalat, ves can bo fancy ort event Pattern LD MAY eel New A ordared. 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