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> oi tS RA a Pid Pre q righ: jigs Hlbidta A Romer Pi ind ie MAES 8 Ge “The Evening World Daily Magazine Thursday, October 8, 1914 Next Week's My aged a in THE EVENING WORLD RED ROSES e Intrusion of Jimmy}: Gash and a Peer a “Punch 1" . ‘ aE By P. G. Wod@eheuse we i.) B \ ‘ « . s &, 5 GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER i ? x8 This Book on the Stands Will Cost You $1.25, You Get titer 6 of “Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford,” é&e.) oMcial interview, admitted the truth he vwaingt@riousty < of thia, and pointed out, at great with the inrportance of ‘ . " 3 i nm and 7 bol nde heat, a why ba al Gay pry wate BS = Fae . bn ncaa legislation was iniquk on what We ought to have for our. work, : 4 * . ’ he con- Mven if I Sisdae gets the hook, and your atock ‘ < ‘ y . “upon the already overbur- Lwiah you'd Big up to par. Why. nwa hh it ” ‘ ‘ : ‘Punsportation companiés, and Pimwow sheagel™ bus yout ‘an up one at red er = would reduce the inducements for tn- y but 3 lean up olor et mand j . a \ s Se ee Vestunent In this form of much needed CHAPTER XXiI. jp a lin Aaa i they can A Friendly Chat on the we ae ps T's 6 8 8 ae . Bot have the improved street ear fa- Sledge, in’ the luxurious tittle room . : 3 gee ae ae — wales dey is Brean eee PT : SS be attractive to Investors.” lay as president o! 1e jation - Bend: 3 Now that the bare were down and roy BoM ariady | out by oar Lage cre in “heir defiance, wo = what the ultimate purpose of the bill, tion of atreet car jety day! a ~ whether Yor buntombe or binckmail, WS #0 full of business that four payments, o $%, “Pes ae ‘ they meant to fight it tooth and toe- atuffed like a sausage, To his nail, and they even allowed the re- the fund they had raised to fight 1a answer to the bell Cashier Davis Rane © seat at one of thelr meet jerton's iniquitous : came in, with the pomposity of ti r Inadequate, end howd owner of the mint mingled with the ‘ Mr. Marley presided, and half a wis ies hi be ; obsequiousness of @ messenger boy. dosen atroet car es made in- Who should have been meme with @ splendid assumption “Frank Marie rumbled Sledge incing the were strangely optimistia Be of perplexity. “You know, ingly. “He it Where ‘unfairness of the mensure, which Was gested to eeveral of them tha¢" T find it very ai Moutt to w id ye cat itt” iiaanitans < ae Grand material for the literary “ aniled Mr. Davis, ’ Tavel the personal, political ‘ot here, att,’ Riuseswho had to have news whether Sppolmt © committee to se and commercial relationships of aij TUDving his fish-tat hands together in there bh aA It was a olear perttgtdrgodlgcss eort ofa the satisfaction of deeds well done, cane. e oar magnates were mi ut again he found you fellows, Frankly, I have believed ind out,” directed Teage ‘and @gainst Benator Allerton’s stern but expected lukewarmmess, uni. now that you were in on the Davis took hie sleck white sideburns Jatt pall For the Frovsstion of Mumicl- seemed to atk that Allerton @ me.” and bis white waistcoat out of the Perel of Rite! Gor COG an, th “Tene” and iit vebiaied ide 750m Detuity of Street Oar Companies, the ” and, as @ matter a 7. ‘9 using cash, even in the pay- hewspapers were for iton behalf of fact, every time te broached ‘T mean that I thought you were to ment of bis grocery bill . the people! Sledge eat im the back subject he found his fdlow benefit by the formation of this new mented Bendix. “Youn ne ti Kee: corner of the foom and listened in ex. eompany,” exclaimed Boszam, with me that ho saw into Marley's ion. le @n apparent trace of confusion. book, and it was stuffed with i thousands and fi “Benefit!” exploded Marley. “Why, Keone estimates that he must have bang went hom: it has all but broke me, Do you think had thirty thousand dollars wits Ne One PRIeGGn Ce tae REED Of & publialty euee f’e gay, benefit to a man to have his him.” 5 Though diotee shee trenneenttaas fur the services tee enly valuable holdings reduced from Why don't the ntyckgo down? though Sledge made a few very brief 1° one iar to thirty-fiver® demanded Sledge, the accusing look and dbere wore ne reportere mate lobbyist. who pe if is time boring into Bendix, ‘By George, i'm shocked!" sym- ‘I pass,” declared Bendix, turning ‘ we ity fouacs Hoazvan, “Why, 1 thought both palms upward. “I've had stuff > him, and he and Sledge were in perfect un- in the payers every day about the - 3 ‘ In the den when ratanding; that he was Working for new equipment and better schedules, 4 * ‘I've Your tntere sts, and you for his.” and the general erippling of the old “I don’, know where you acquired line, but in place of going down to that absard impression, but it is en- 25, the stock’s around 37 now, and at ely wrong,” asserted Mr. Marley that I can only find a little of it. After much vehemence. “Mr. Sledge a hard day's work chasing it down do everything in his power to yesterday, I picked up less than a iré me, as he has proven to me in hundred shares. We started after the DA last week.’ control too late.” ;,"And 1 presume that you would do = Sledge was silent for a moment, film a like favor if you had the op- | “Bozzam's in it," he stated dects- grinned Bozzam ively. hastily Full of thought, he went over to eee Mar! Bozzam, Mr, Bozzam entered, with his bair read fifty thousand in place of two ter under advisenzent ‘and confer dete techs’ ca hin Gasae: ne ee Ready tor the ‘mesting’ teimors nck too smoothly brushed, nor bis hundred and fifty!” he shouted. again with my princinayes any more by fool remarks, ow?" he inquired. clothes not so immaculate but that “Second the motion!" yelled a pig- Again the Vaca of & twinkle it, though,” wth ee " replied Bozzam, abo, wren he looked businesslike, and sat, down mouthed young man sitting next to coped Mari 's 2 ledge, was sparing of words, quietly in the seat courteo im. oo “There 1s & Ame Mmit on my ulti- “We et iy Understand’ hed slightly, but “Is the slate fixed?” - ‘Mr. President!” sxclaimed Mr. Boz- matum,” ty) geturned. “You stated wwe Gone a no tobe Wonulnely. dat movi, towoverel at wqurg!, Bozzam, 1 got your record.” was a wide-shouldered man, ae ie eae See > that you wipe empowered to act. I'll “Not at all?” asked Bowsam, re- don't mind telling you t Boszam chuckled. “Xs?” returned Bozzam careleagly, pleasant countenance and ment is LS yee wive you re ey to make UP vealing the secret worry under whioh pan: Thi become | ‘WhMr. Marley, how much of the atock , ,"¥0u served two bits before you got forehead, who looked as if h ge seat, hubeud arcge, The hall your ming “After that my Ofer Is pened iste ar re a meeting. lute contrelier af it, haw @ ‘af the reorganized company do you ¢ducated. <A one-year and a two . “I wish you would sell your stock ag, to this syndicate immediately,” he urged him. have you satls- “if I were you I would not attempt arn. to mix into affairs which I could net was a sea of open mouths. Wwith@ray gy» ix!" replied Sledge. “We keep ture than ever, and it wor ‘qwn' stretch, well liked by the concourse, Pregdent Marley tapped his gavel Mr. Ppssam quite obviously strug- gg Mac me Serle te wre te! quviwo thousand etx bundred and ,,,0% S#reed Borsanl, stilt care. "air, Marley introduced the caller west percelve that tt ip useleas to waste “10,7 AB Dis Bride. Hossam merely’ biinked: This ee at the trementows ‘wrenty-five shares.” Avail. t¢ pam tev to pull anything tn 8 few neat aseptic worda. He had i Dercelve that it 12 usolees to waste “Acopt.” wid he, tirning both his 9 ‘bow so unexpected thas he sould would ental at tia oMA lit over @ fourth,” commented oH ” ~ Bozzam . ” “ of sca! comprehend it. Moreover, it Secure tak draws sei or write pets. ‘Borsa iatd down the perett Noped that he would prove. as pleas- FecuAthe: to Bo arate tas renee ne od gather loud and prolonged, ereet- Sane blow beneath the balt 4paper toward him on which he figured with’ which he had been tapping *2t commercially. The chats wilk Ave minutes for t) gm smidat of ft the Kime tion. In “Dig up?” he faintly repeated. fr a moment. “To gain control You lightly on his desk, and-leaned slight. , Lateebing gracefully at thie clever 9.0, Greument.” He walted omomene, mere bulk'a aymibel of diseater’” “Two hundred thousand cash,” eee ena would need two thousand three hun- jy forward, turn of speech, Mr. Bozzam continued wo ong ‘arose, Attorney Tucker stood MNix!” he thundered, wrod pre coer ‘Pledge rumbled. “I dug.” He tossed “You owe pe hy “dred and seventy-six rea addl- “Look here, -yow big stobi" he'gen- the introduction himself, stating ex- yp, Arrived Rt his office, No found sy Bosmam « receipt from Johmeom, the more than that, don't you?” ee owe ‘Son be announced. “How many tly observed. “You can't “bully me, actly who and what he was—an or. “re the chair please”— he began. envelope awatting nine secretary of the Ring City Hapid “I meant fifty, thousand, clear of all Swyotnns ot the stockholders would vote with and you can't bluff me, When you SAabiger, representing a group of i ‘Transit Company, #howing that Ben- my obligations,” he exp! been speak bs “Are you about to in fav @ — Bledge opened it mechanicany and jE lt oF ined. “Was laughed her father. ‘feu in an emergency?” ket the goods on me is the time for Eastern dapitalists, devoted to the of this amendment?” interrupted ' ge arew “oat tt ‘4, Jamin F. Sledge bad paid $760,000 cash Bert here to-ntgnt 2! “Not very many,” confessed Marley, you hy get buay, but, until then, you Promotion and extension of the street ae hd ® neatly engraved car ch read t for 7,600 shares of stovk in that live Father, Mr. Sledge will never Naturally, a share of our trouble Is keep your trap ‘closed. I'm not one Failway industries. Back of bis back- 0," replied Attorney Tucker. en ea rranklin. Marley corporation. “Hore'a the stock,” added stop, until Be has absolutely rained , 1 am not very of your village pikers.” ers were certain huge electrical, steel chair refuses to recogni? gy the devs to announce the Bledge, throwing 4own ome lone ver- YOU 1 a ta'tt?’ he laughed, Sledge rogarded him fixedly for @ aad car-building industries, It had gentleman,” ansounced the Pr: pacer . ; tificate for the entire amount. relieved. “Bledne has Sorat moment. heen his ploasure to organize and to “The secretary will take a faint engagemen “You don't mean that you're going Telleved. 6) ee ae sores 4 “You're in {t, all right," he decided, put In shape for Immediate construc- vote on the amendment,” of hts daughter, to make a bona fide company out of 8nd i ‘ou’d better buy the stock. “Hunh!" and he walked out. tion operations a new company in They endured that e@ mer, do, only Ethelyn, this?” Bozsam imeredulously quea- “Mr, Sledge hag never do -Bledge has very kindly made it cheap eee their own thriving city, They were thelr emotions by the vehe- To Mr. Albert T. Glider, tioned, : worst,” she rs lated, aor you. CHAPTER XVIII. ready to begin laying rails at once, monce of their “N nt Ate roll-call cage sll that announcement | ‘The money's tn tte Belk. Make Tone ie ee ved mi “Buy it!" protested Marley. “Great - but it had been earnestly represented vote. A scant few had Me temerity calmly in pocket and turned good, or let P@eott, man, what do I want with more The Stockholders. to him that the manufacturing in- to vote “Yes,” itm gO. nearly slowly to his pitoher on the table, Bozzam felt his Girculation LJ and were u stopping. terests of his group of capitalists mobbed for their daring, The most Whatever his idea concerning that ‘We can't let go!” he blurted in ‘Did he make any threats? ted,” F a alight feeling of panto would be just as well served by per- of them kept thelr ey ¢¢’on Bossam, may have been he changed ft, for, "No; he jist amt ona Mofy shuddered. “He is awful.” pe rc) =! “Would you like to win out on this acute pain. pony your Uttle ‘game of SI Ly threatened Sledge when Re mitting the now lines to be erected in fearful anxiety le gt, offended by his eyes slowly dtwtending, he reached ‘Sure not!” sald Sledge, Nfting his heres ease most of t ‘aces extend “Bhow me how,” demanded Marley; stepped into the stock- ie proceeding, he ¢ight withdraw out and grabbed the pitcher, and aud- heavy upper lip to wnarl at Him Vin- his company and we're ei depends “How active are you willing to be? holders’ meets of the c his generous offer, 4 Ad walk out, leav- denly there wan a pplintering crash, dictively."YOU cheap crooks thought gether for the common avenue inquired Bozzam. “Are you willing [= jolders’ meeting if tho Ring City ing them doomed t 4 extinction by hie He had thrown the pitcher, with {ta you could double. me, OU Street car business, foreak “f fast it. to jump through @ hoop?’ reorganized street railway street Railway Company wished to mighty rivalry. contents, straight through the win- bought stock in Bert Gitdera name. Yortea very heavily im new com. ¢ ‘Thay “I'll do anything that ts lawful.’ company nobody knew it, monopolize their legitimately anticl- ath called the secre- dow, glass and all! You loaned Marley enbugh to buy oany and te ts not $0 foolish ee to earth, “ta “Then you'll go the limit,” # Up rose Attorney Tucker, @ sharp- pated profits this could be done by the tar nd shares.”" “All off with the roses, eh?” sur- control. Any way you fix ft, you lose. para ] my Hines merely to rula my P' ana oven Bozzam. “Your first step will be to 1 ig purchase of their franchises and good 4 Hert, and curled both mised Bendix, considerately conceal- oon after Sledge’ departure Mar- usiness when there is eo mush better Logie Ridgewood buy those two thousand odd shares, nosed little man with beady eyes, and Yin at m purely nominal figure. sides of his !Austache, looking across ing his #ympathetic knowledge of the ley telephoned to Bouam. terri . won) bring mere at thirty-five. Leta see.” He figured the crisp business air which frowns "Mr. Marley turned to Mr. Bozzam at Sledge oq griming. He ned the hurt which had been inflicted. “T'm rised to hear your votce,’ it out, “They will cost you a little on 9 smile and hates a holiday. with the frank emile of tleman. intense 39 tion of seeing Sledge “Naw!” roared Sledge, “They sent Bozsam hailed him. three thousand dollars.” °" A & pa he truth!" he “And how much would your com- turn, but, was disappointed, after sil, mo some pioke cuest™ “Why ?* inquired Marley, StHtty. . t the money,” weitell you the ty © pany consider a merely nominal Sledge “Ad not lock at him» but st —————— Beomuse you're dead, not y. shouted. “We have with us to-day, figure?” inquired with smoothness, Hunt. CHAPTER XIX. formed him. fjadn't you heard of both cash and credi Fi at this very meoting, @ man of tre- “Two hundred and fifty thousal Thete followed another wilderness yet = a i “Borrow it on your stock. t, mendous power and influence; a poll- dollars cash,” stated Bozzam lightly. of !" voted by holders of from The Quarrel. ! don't underétand you,” reproved s ean's Coreow ares. twene OP it clan of nats : Young Daniel B. Atkins immedi- fiv4 to a hundred shares each, LEDGES firat step towara Marley is aaeiih ean ies I couldn't raise ‘enough on my total tician of national renown; one who ts, ,,) URE Daniel B. Atkins tm “B. Frankfin, Marley,” called Hunt, a " What's, the user” Tae ‘do will ‘Qnincumbered stock. at this moment, under the searshing Y ] Bert, Glider. @nd this time he caught Sledge's eye. “picking up the beans” was tieman. “Nothing you = 2. = Bozzam walked to the window, amd eye of the law; au omnipotent frien: announced “four thot 4 and twenty to tnd Bendix down to save your scalp, fetes an by 24 ‘Gon't ‘wee thet looked down Into the street foe Songs and 4 relentless foe; and this man attorney Tucker. * Yes!" v Marley, with a ena - round up the third ward, 1 not to aell those franc! with ft.” @he acknowledged. time, during which (rug. a8 chosen, for reasons of his own, to “ “It has been moved an@ seconded ingly triumphant jaugh at Sledge, a and then to lock himself in price. . ‘whows how litte you know 4watched him in allent wonder, strug- wreck, and devastate, and turn’ to that we purchase the franchises and taugh whigi showed bis teeth, and 5 her. thought you were the duly au; 4° pines,” he informed on TH tall you ® Little secret. glo down ‘8° President's room of the First Na- empowered to act,” can raise a loan for you, e@ling against his rising hope, useless rust the Ring City Street Rail- good will of the street cat company made tis gone an acute tri Flak Gah Fane & Jone foe Fae way Company.” represented by Mr. Bo: for the over theny, like the point of pen. tional for an hour, at the end of ry 4 ; tt was e phony @f ordinance which etree! Every eye was turned to Sledge, but sun of two hundred a1 tho Sledge walked acroas to thé secre- which time he sent for Davis, long as oar pompanies to pay half the cost of Fowult of his deliberation. | "It that 18 cat omnipotent friend and relentless sand dollars, cash stated President tarwacanse nei Te beats of the "1 want seven hundred and afty SMP.” explained Homan Vnu whesever f nta are made on (Pe i Sieten, ceo me needed: end wots £08, without moving a corpuscle, gased Marley, looking about him with cool rabble wers sronting “Net ond cone deausan® Sollaze” he a) we hes otrecta tines one ake Ne thy fect fo buy the balance needed, and vote oi tent ahead at ‘nothin tn ‘Are there any remarks?” ferred with Hunt @ moment; then he ‘#owsand dollare, directed, tho eld he? What has he Well. when Sledge @ sor” cvareagyon at with you! he plan?” demanded A if infuriated by his impaasive- There were, a perfect pandemonium went back to his chair, ‘Yea, ali hesitated Mr. Davis; y ‘to bull: Miafley.” "I don't see what good con- Attarney Tucker, who was paid of them, and out of the battle Presi- stea/illy , by Sledge for the purpose, figurative- dent Marley recognized § Attor: company |p Rong to 1 ripped the big boas up the back, ‘Tucker, nd gazed new street car “Nothing,” traight ahead at nothing. then he added apologetically: “You 45¢ . thone stresta paved firs, at the city’s ras J Biv ake Se ret hat’ eas othe eeanly: You “Put up his money. Made the com, *e Streets smiled. f felt ae Ett “Same know we expect the bank inspector pany legitimate, He's going to bufld.” ®pemse. As goon as m in them than a dusty marble, Cj are paved, you'll read some morni: ” be de me: y nlen atockee WY" skinned hém alive, hung up h Attorney, Tucker dogged leave of © Hunt announced the met renuit”ot ‘0 Surprise us day after to-morrow.” "Marley surprised Tomeam, thatrene Clie’ ConhaG We wraeiel Jey tanta ey Senerinen eee eet buying wo; thlese, 9t5c} cdg? end acattored his ashes to the the chair to suk Mr. Bossam Just on® the vote, but Bladge paid no attention “Wire him to put it off ten days,” ._ 1 had, expected, franchises over theag routes f0F of paticnoe’ “T cen metermant A ¢s "Because Sledee tans tery Why, Winds, paluting him as an insatiable question, and received it. ‘to the figures, The two votes of Mar- ordered Bledge, “Oh, nothing,” answered Boszam. Sledge'’a new company. taking a whimsl fright a atlas don't you ave that this con: monster, and chiefly calling attention “Have you named your bottom fig- ley and Bore Gilder bad been suiliclent “1 suppose you'll Ax us up with a He ''turned from the. telephone. In ahoonel t* Stoile fastraamcene nothing, but I didn’t expect ', " ruthless station. ure’ © wan! A 0 oar ye amendment against th . condu naked, aghast Bag Ot out ie tae gasped Mar- Daniel B. Atkina, a rising young “"SPoslGvely!® deciared itr, Bossam, {2,cM7, the amendment ag .. EEE SY Acknowledgment of some NUZD SISNET soauntt wnow hee sre World Of epecuiation’ Wee thts Pettit MAN dey. “TDld Bledge have you start this lawyer, with no capital but an empty with vast firmness, “We will now vote on the original S¢'L and be ready to t! n over BOMO Hurt he purzied, “He's been Prest- rather decent in the last few deca: an@ I am only 3 50) ny : wu em.- " securities in that tim eompany in order to break me # conscience and a silver tongue, was ‘One more question Frans ad *@- motion as amended,” observed Marley, t dent’ on hits own vote just long he replied, with the pom- Goes not seem to c mat" 4 Bozzam. the first individual since Marley to powered to close this lessly, with a glance in the ‘Any way you pay,” agreed Sledge enough to get enlargement of the ing fatuity of the man using his influence with “Fae ee Berd Company our offer a gleam of hope “I am,” replied Mr. Bozsam. “T direction of Sledge, and he forced that !ndifferently, and fell again to sucn °”°04! who believes such an absurd sup- rail Te ae ee ae ee aise Tite azaster He admitted all that the preceding have Stree Nonse farce to be carried out, while Sledge @eeP musing that he did not hear Sledge started that same day for eT doltara the public has just enteman had said, and believed him- sledge almost looked at the «ymial quietly thought things over. ris's elaborate explanation of how ition. bare don't like men very well,” she 44% the State capital, where, with bril- Bi for stock in your reotganized Self that the company was reduced promoter. “The motion carrita:" Marley was ‘He thing would be managed. Mant succes, he proceeded to confer decided. ‘I euppose, though, th 5 a ol Poca tego phony: atrict- ‘© pauperism unless something radical — Then we must pay the price” fer- pl to state, after the dazed stick- vesontly Davis, who carried a with “the right man.” One of these alnce they're all alike, the stron; heppy idea, ‘the ‘J y bilo has been allowed to COuld be done. He had believed this vently asserted Attorney Tucke ers had shouted “No!” heir Donitentiary sentence to be: with him mon wag State Kenator Allerton. A one ia the most’ sat factory after president drove out to Allerton’s Fi Thousand of it, we ket two *° thoroughly that he had lain awake “This is a gleam of hope in thé darke matnese “Gentlemen, it is useless for @Very night In case anything hap- tr their salvation, solution to our troubles. We ve the of formal record, over such mat- papers to align, and — copting that as a compliment. Ho easy slippers and loungii wendred and Bfty, The Doecp any He had evolved it—e scheme Solution ‘0 our troubles. Wa have tne as this, Heretdfore I have been the felony waa committed—simnply, CHAPTER XX. paused, und picked up an engraved an extravagant confusion of senly person Ny od te his back, The by the company could not only which will give us a prnotical mon- helpless, but to-day, for the frat timo Beatly, and with no apparent effort card from the table. It was@ sample papers. At his right hand was money; and ho Rote ie ae cue raise its stock to par, but place it at Eas Olstory of the company, I con- Sledge, bearing his certificate of de. President Marley Presides, of Molly'n wedding announcement. ore, on which Coptic -anly busine: St ees ad The public bremlum; whereby the company trol the majority of the stock, and my posit, went over to the Merchants’ DERRET-EYED and restieas “These are vory neat,” he commented, @ranchises and dis! Oe cioumeie ae uld become & monopoly, and ex- tion or issue bonds to pay for our vote is sufficient to carry or defeat Bank, where he transacted a little * *6 . “Thanksgiving Day. Are you going gets twelve and i h Rags ny are 1 its business to mect the growing extensions, and, in the meantime, the any question. ‘To begin with, I refdiwe e@aually expeditious business with reporters discovered the sat fifty, and Sledge eeiite: demands of the city, and become moment we conclude this deal our to be held up, I am willing to pay President Johnson, who, with his great secret of the clan- a of your quarter of a 7 Mhe beaut ot #8an a 7 per cent. dividend concern, stock jumps back to par. for the fran- forehead corrugated like a wash- destine street-car conven- fo," whe pastily assured him. *="He paused to let a iy. capable of piling up again a tremend- Loud cries of “Question!” came worth fifty thousand dollars board, took Sledge's check, and gave ned to. Sled; be drastic street railways bill was the all." , house the next morning, and nd, and Sledge seven !'shts trying to evolve & plan for ness, a way out of our diMfigulties, a us to waste time, except for nee ei ie fore morning, result of thelr talk. “L think #0," smiled her father, ac- the Senator in the luxu ies PB w was a comfortable «1 clxarettes. In front of him Sledge, Cpe “Father, I don't want to my a “Hello, Marley," greeted the 4 ‘what gral little plan sink into Mr. ous conatruction surplus. On his owa fran all over the halt ut I won't pay @ cent more, him a receipt for it; then the boss tion, There was no fooling wont about the dete PaCS wedding, . toute Just in time far Marley‘s inner being. Mr. M. responsibility he had gone to the or- Young Daniel B. Atkins wanted to fat.” Went to see Bozzam. them! ‘They besteged the delegates | am confident that if Mr. Sledge find: “Had mine hours ago,” t ee “Great wecrtl Sree 5g ganizeg of the rival new company, peech, Qa.’ wag granted that Boszam took the chair next to ‘You sold those franchises yet? be in thelr rooms, waylaid them in oor- it out he will create trouble. I don't Murtey, vodding bis return ‘to ‘Sey, and wip ” TOW, and had labored with him for hourt Sledge. demanded, ridors, followed them in the streets, Want him to know it, anyho' nt MPave control cf the company, Can {0,Perauade tim tocome to thin mest- "'He was more en'Tusiastio about — “It looks. ike Py 5 erunt. ui inst 11," “Not yet,” repiiec Bozsam. “But I’-: “There tan’t very much that he can ‘Then it’s time again,” insist fitty thousand’s golng to. Look here, Sledga why not bent over them unexpectedly at table, ay now, told her, laughing, man- Senator, pleasantly, ringing ie 8 but life-saving proposition. Would and, being @ profeasigu'| whooper-up, the best we can da’ be reasonable about this thing? Fifty and pursued them almost into the lik at her foolish feminine fears. her ., ises, stand pat and the stockholders permit him Intro- he used his clarion w.'6 aad ailver ‘Sunni grunted Sledge. thousand js all we can get. Why not privacy of their baths. The iniquitous “ jown the house if he duce the eminent promoter and or- tongue to such goof muantage th “Mr. President,” a Bossa, ria- take ft, give us our fifth, and let Ua controllers of one of the most indis- ganizer, Mr. Bozzam, who would pre- the throng was with a'ficulty re. ing to feat, “since the matter get away? We're disappotsted, but ney ly Bd make proposition ‘in peyéon? strained from rushing up to Bozzam seems to be, entifely In your hands, re not saying anything.” Densadle public utilities had banded with a mere smile,” he cl aed hee. out Well en you dere rout sanag onid end paying him the money en the allow me to ask if that is your ulti- w, hang up!” raaped Sletige, “You to fight the fine bit of restrictive | “A short time ago he cared you to a won't. accept oe us and. it. spot. : matum told Bendix ee te aE it, ialation prgeceen, by that ster! death with * mere Meter, was going to. Why T friend of » dete Benater Be aha oa rise : 4 e and I ther j : tal meeting, When we ofter to (UM: nd lay before it a rather novel, paying out that $260,007) than anybody, he stated “Tg och!