The evening world. Newspaper, July 12, 1916, Page 15

te the wontidens of the tmpatiewtiy to Kur er whee be gore into the b el lt ering i gfe, ui ‘ t i i F ; | lt reg ily CHAPTER III. (Continued) 'D ke to meet bin,” eagy Geated Ripley. “Of course I Rave soon him frequant- ly, and be probably know. but, strangely @nough, I have never had the pieas- fare of an introduction.” “T'll attend to that as soon as he @Oties out,” offered Dick, with a re- *Tuctance for which he was at @ loss to account. “He's a hot member,” atated Ripley, jth enthusiasm, “In the year since came on the Courier he's wakeu p that dead old paper and made a e one of it, They say he's the only n who ever made 8S. ‘dge sit up nd take notice. Only a young kid, He can't be over twenty-five.” To Dick, who had attained to the 11 degree of middle-aged manhood Odtainable in twenty-two yeare of Q@xistence, it seemed strange to hear nderson spoken of as a kid, and he Woes about to expostulate when Hen- @erson rearrived briskly upon the porch, having been thrust from the doorstep by Elsa herself. “No, Bruce," she berated that young man, repulsing his attempt to re- ‘enter, “you were here fifteen minutes before the time 1 told you you might % come, so you muy just stay on the “Sorch and smoke until that quarter \ * of an hour is up.” \ “1 don't want to smoke,” he pro- ) tested. “I can talk to you just as DUN Well in the kitchen as any place.” “Dick, tell Bruce about your milk h of me; “That's exactly the trouble,” she Sessurcd him. “You talk too well, and other and I would not be done for p hour. You stay on the porch and poke,” “1 won't emoke,” objected Hender- stoutly, “Wait just a minute,” she told him, and rushed back into the dining room. Im another minute she emerged with Sm cigar, a pair of scissors and a ma’ With the scissors she clipped the end of the cigar, which she poked into Henderson's mouth, then ehe lit the match and held it up. Hender- on mechanically puffed. “Anyhow, I won't stay on the porch," he asserted. Taking his arm, she marched him over, introduced him to Ripley, and placed a chair for him. |, acheme," she directed. ! “Pleased to meet you, Mr. Ripley,” acknowledged Bruce; and, taking the rocking chair which Elsa had placed for him, he stepped off the low porch, put his chair upon the ground, and V peated himself in it very comfortably; hereupon Elsa, laughing like any ‘wise woman who is partly defeated, urried into the house. “What is your milk scheme, Dick?” ed Henderson, who nursed a keen dnterest in all the Vale affairs, “It's a big stunt,” replied Dick; ‘so ig I'm almost afraid of it; and yet it weems so plausible that Mr. Ripley ad myself are going to risk it, We're about to attempt to consolidate the dairies of the city and take for our profit the waste we save by combina- and again he pointed out the the same space to deliver seven Pints of milk. “You ha plenty of nerve," com- nted Henderson, with a laugh. “What do you suppose Armand will @ay to that? He tried the same trick fifteen years ago, and he worked up a tremendous business; but he by no M@ans controls the dairy interests of te city.” Get Rich Quid The E ‘allingford” es “Perhepe Mr Armand 414 get poe orm the trae genius fer organise. ten,” sold Fipley, with greet com. viacency Henderson 6 joot im thet Oued 1 don't know, Jn presaion © quick quission! direction, and then ” be observed. “My ie thet Armand the cutest and handiest Mite am- bidestrous thief that ever Ineerted @ @tfletto into the @oesie of a@ tamecent stockbolder, 1 consider thet ebiity the Gret requisite in @ gentas of or. fanization, How do you tntend to go and do likewise? “Organise & million-dolly stock company, purchase the dairies with stock tn the concern, save the present fed partner, “There'll be ao tremble about pull,” declared the friend and ner with serene confidence, “My Gret step to-day, when my young friend Vale broached the subject, was to go straight to some highly influential friends of mine and secure backing for the project. It ts, as you ea very large undertaking, but the gen- tlemen with whom I took up the mat- ter would scarcely lend their atten- tion to @ more trivial affair, With- out mentioning the names of the par- tles, 1 may gay, I think, that there ts no more potent influence in the city.” “Well, of course, if Sledge is in on it, I have no flaws to pick with your plans for Sledge’s future;” and again Henderson smiled that inscrutable emile which was composed of amuse- ment, good-natured cyniciam, and a suggestion that he had tn his mind, concerning the subject under die- cussion, a better joke than he cared to tell. “I did not say it wes Sledge,” Rip- ley hastily reminded him, panicky thought that might end some one to Sledge for an interview. “Too bad," condoled Henderson; “tor Sledge is bound to be in It, upon one aside or the other. You know he owns stock in the Armand Company, don't you? You'd better have him for you than against you.” “I don't eee any reason for conceal- ment," objected Dick, turning to Rip- ley with a puzzled brow; “it’s all ar- ranged.” “There are excellent reasons, which I will explain to you later, for keep- ing in the background, at this juno- ture, the name of our backer," chided “All granted Henderson lightly; ‘only hand the Courier @ scoop on It, if you can, when you are ready for publicity.” “We certainly shall,” promised Dick very heartily, for be had « huge ad- miration for the firet young man who had ever been able to stop Elsa from going with all the boys at once. “You're really going into this thing, are you, Dick?’ asked Henderson, after a moment of thought, “Immediately,” replied Dick, with & businesslike decisiveness of which he was very proud. “Maybe I can help you,” and Hen- derson’s mind, which worked auto- matically and with no effort upon his part, began some instant planning. “If you are going out shopping for dairies with a bundle of stock in one hand, you want a club in the other, The thing to do is to depreciate the value of your dairtes before you start to dicker for them. Make dairtes so cheap that the owner of one will tuck it Into a cotton-lined basket and try to leave it on @ neighbor's doorstep.” “Very true,” admitted Ripley, in- wardly highly sarcastic and outward- ly mildly ao, concerning this glitter- ing impossibility. ‘So long as we're going to use hypnotism, however, we might hypnotize the bankers of the city into giving us all the money we wanted, and then we wouldn't need to fuss up with this dairy scheme: and he laughed rather unpleasantly. “Have everything your own way,” invited Henderson, with extreme cor- diality, “Heaven forbid that I should force the humble aid of the Courter upon you.” Once more Dick felt a regretful thrill of dislike for bis partner; but reflected that probably all successful human intercourse was the result of creating an artificial equilibrium, “That was an unfortunate speech of yours, Ripley,” he charged, venting his annoyance very frankly, ‘I'm quite sure, though, that you could not have meant it in exactly the way tt sounded, What was your idea, Br “Sort of a combination of two dol- Jars’ worth for me and one for you,” Teturned Henderson, with @ laugh, oe ven ~~ in a Spe Aare pore ve iCan You os 4 eat > e5ti | Beat It? Down M® Jou ane LET ne NE A SNAPSHOT OF You DNILE . LOOK PLEASANT Yes, THANK ‘Yo 1 WILL SEND “You ONE oF Tue Pictures Bara (A being far too glib to hold resentment where it affected his ‘unoffending friend. “A year ago, when I was Promoted to city editorship of the Courter, I made such a hot fight on the slop-feed dairies, that Sledge's harne: nd-saddie-broke City Coun- cil had to pass an antl-slop-feed ord!- nance more atringent than alum. They engrossed that drastic mu- nicipal law on a nice clean sheet of legal sized paper, and locked it up in the safe, because Armand was using slop feed, and Sledge owned stock in the Armand Company. The sap- headed public was perfectly satisfied, however, because the ordinance was passed; and the Courter was satisfied because it had won ite fight. In the mean time, every baby that tucks its pink thumb under the neck of a bot- tle, sucks into its little system a quart of poison @ day, and the little white hearse has to have a new pair of rubber tires every spring and fall.” “That's one thing we overlooked,” waid Ripley, surprised into the confes- sion that, by any possibility, he could have failed to traverse any avenue of thought. “We'll correct all the un- sanitary features, supply nothing but wholesome milk, and gave the Dabies!" “Greatest circulation builder in the world,” asserted Henderson, “The Courter added fifty thousand sub- ecribers by saving the babies while it was conducting the anti-slop-feed campaign. A let of the babies have died since then, and the fittest have survived beyond the bottle stage; but there are always more babies to save,” “Bay, there’s one thing you could do for us!" exclaimed Ripley, smitten by a brilliant idea, “You might start 4n agitation for the enforcement of that slop-feed ordinance,” “Clever thought,” approved Hend- erson dryly, suppressing an impulse to throw something, “It just happens that the time is ripe to start that agitation, I have it on my hook now to interview Armand about a new sys- tem of feeding which he has in suo- cessful operation. In place of that, Til start this slop-feed agitation again, Sledge and Armand would have the ordinance enforced very shortly, anyhow, to cramp the other datries and increase Armand'a bust- ness. I'll simply beat them to it, and make it look as if the Courter had forced the reform;" and he stopped to rub his knees and chuckle for sheer joy in the thought of ateal- ing Sledge's political thunder, “Then the Courter will insist upon the appointment of a milk inspector, to which we are entitled by the re- cent law, and upon the thorough san- itation of all the dairies, a process which will cost each dairyman from $100 to $500, The Courier will gain credit for performing a great public service, Life will be made a burden to the dairymen, certain diseased and despondent cows will bow grate- fully to the grim reapor, a lot of the filthy Mttle dairies will be compelled to suspend business, and you oan buy the rest of them in bunches Hke radishes, for @ song—or maybe two songs—a bunch.” “That's glorious!” declared Dick, in delight. “I believe I could trade our stock for dairies myself with that sort of help. If I were to go to a dairy- man just after he had been told thas he could no longer use slop feed, that he would have to spend a lot of money in renovating and, perhaps, rebuilding his place, and that possibly eome of hia cattle might be killed, it seema to me that he would be very glad to come into @ company which would take all this risk and expense off his shoulders. I don’ know just what plan of organisation you had in mind, Ripley, but this looks as if it should be an invaluable aid to us.” “Ne doubt,” replied Ripley conde- ecendingly, “No doubt of it whatever, Tt fite exactly with the programme I had tn mind.” “It'a @ good enough trick for the Courter to perform upon its own be- half,” etated Henderson dryly, strug- sling to repress hia intense dislike for Dick's guest. Elea came einging through the hall and tripped out upon the porch with a little lace scarf about her shoulders. She was charming tn it, and the gal- lant Mr. Ripley was bold enough to say a0, which was exactly the straw needed to complete his personal atand- ing in the graces of Bruce Henderson. “Ia my fifteen minutes up so soon?” asked Bruce. “Just exactly," she answered, with @uspicious sweetness, “but you may have anuether one if you like,” “TI ought to take it,” Bruce asserted, with an idea of out-bantering her soft- ly vedled threat. “I think I'll sit here @nd finish my emoke.” “All right,” she agreed, etill more sweetly, and tripped, entirely care- free, down to the sidewalk. “I'm go- ing to run up to Dunstan's for two or three fAfteen minutes, Dick” ghe called, and swung away, humming her Uttle song in the clearest and most untroubled of voices, Bruce Henderson tore @ pocket get- ting through the gate, “Bring Betty back with you,” ealied Dick, “I never saw & more charming and delightful girl than your elster,” avowed Ripley. “Speaking as an art- ist, I should say that she te etartling- Jy beautiful and well proportioned.” The involuntary growl, which rum- Died suddenly in the throat of Dick, gave the unsensitive Ripley an im- pression that young Vale did not euf- fictently appreciate his higbty Gesim able sister. “I've been thinking over the name of our company,” said Dick, unable to keep the harshness out of his tope. “T should imagine that the name and the purpose it suggests might have considerable of influence upon the dairymen whom we want to interest, Why would not the Allied Dairies Company, as @ ttl, tntroduce the purpose of the conocer to the dairy- men in @ much more attractive Nght? “1 don't Uke the name at all,” pro- nounced Ripley, as if uttering a death warrant. “By the way, Dick, while T'm down disoussing the details with Sledge to-morrow noon, suppose you rush around and rent an office; also, you might dash up the next morning and see a lawyer about the initial steps in forming a etock company. Til @ive you @ note to a good one who attends to eome of Bledges af- fairs, There's nothing like throwing all your favors to your friends.” “Gounds lke business,” approved Dick, glad to return to his admiration for Ripley’e commercial promptness. “I never let any grass grow under my feet,” declared Ripley, with proud insistence. “Procrastination, Dick, is the thief of time,” and he repeated qreat truth as tf with the pardon- able pride of having invented it. “That's a crime of whioh I have never been guilty except in one instance, for which I am now eorry, I've been keop- Ing my funds in a Philadlephia eav- ings bank. When I came from there two years ago I intended to transfer my money to @ local bank, but have neglected to do ao. I'll see to that at once, In the moan time, during the transference, my funds will be tied up for @ few days, and we shall have to rely upon your eight hundred for our initial expenses, When I have my account opened here I will put up @ Uke amount.” “All right,” agreed Dick uneuspl- clously. “And then if we need any more, I ehall take it as @ favor to be allowed to advance it; as @ loan, not to you, but to the company. You really must allow mo to do this, Dick, my friend; a4 he laid his hand pleadingly upon Dick’s arm, at the same time begin- ning to figure out future explanations as to why those tmaginary funds never camo. To begin with, he would — _ es So that you will not miss special features, Include them TAKE THE EVENING WORLD WITH YOU ON YOUR VACATION may continue to enjoy the daily magazine, comic and other Order the Evening World Mailed to Your Summer Address any of the weekly novels and in your summer reading, ing World Daily Magazine, Wednesdsy: July | watch the papers for bank fallures. Later on, Betty Dunstan i with Henderson end Disa and Dick suddenly grew weary of the discussion of the milk business with the same Dereon all the time, A Gifferent mind might throw @ different light upon the subject, #0 he discussed {¢ with Botty, taking her down to the gate for the purpose, and leaving Ripley to be entertained by the thoroughly unwilling Henderson and Kise. Betty was a girl who merely slender, and whose wonderfully rounded shoulder, Dick had often cal- culated, was et precisely the proper height to ft enusty into his armpit; ond she was instantly interested tn the milk business. In the first place, Dick had an entertaining way of in- troducing the aubject. He began after this manner: “Betty, te your eunt oti effioted with her coven Gaily devils?” “I don't think she hes quite as many as that,” responded Betty quietly, and then ehe laughed. “Let's don't talk about it, Dick.” “T bave to talk abou #, end especially now,” he returned. “I think about it @o often. I don't want you to have to endure her.” “I'm not complaining,” sald Betty, with @ sigh. “I have no right to complain, She sees to it that I am neatly dressed and have everything that I need.” “It's not necessary for you to com- Plain,” retorted Dick Angrily. “I have eeen how she treate you. I said seven devils, and I mean seven; the devils of bad temper, mean temper, ugly temper, nasty temper, hateful temper, spiteful temper and rotten temper;” and he checked them off on his fingers as he named them. Betty laughed #0 ripplingly that Blea, up on the porch, joined in heart- ily without even asking what it was about. “Bince you {nsist upon calling them by name,” observed Betty, demure- ly, “there are really eight. You lett out the most important one,” “What te that?” Pi She pulled down his ear, - “Devil of a temper,” she whisporod Into 4t, and then pretended to bo bighly shocked at herself, whereupon Dick ecftatically squeezed hor ara with bis own. “I shouldn't wonder but that Elsa and Henderaon would have rice drip- ping from their bonneta one of these days,” wae his neat approach toward the discussion of the milk business, “Of course they will,” Betty jp- etantly returned. “Everybody knows that." “Well, neither one of them has mentioned it yot," retorted Dick; “but I saw Henderson looking over the ‘Houses for Sale’ columns in bis own paper the last time he was out here, and it set me to thinking. Mother will miss Elsa tremendously.” tet 0 Mind that GEGING IN WEXT T HAS ALL The Deutch ands Unprecedented Vranmevany Feat Brings Praghe te, Work Demenua € 20,000 LEAGUES ~ UNDER THE SE By JULES VERNE The Kemarkatle Thing About This Tale of Marvel Thrilling Adventures la That yes ak “We ell shail wowly “I have @ dandy prospect, Ne | thal be eer onty five @ week, have every aesurence that will grow tnte « fortune” That's tful,” ane anid, in ate. core congratulation, glad indeed to earn of bis eplendid prospecta. The boy deserved good fortune, “That will be ample to marry on with ue all three Uving here to at woberly con widering the matter, and, for the fret time, tried bie armpit upon that shoulder, It fitted ae perfectly aa he bad tmagined tty moved about an inch, bet tm exactly the opposite direction from that in which aa outraged dignity would have urged her, “Well, I'm waiting,” she stated, sereed Metty, ea @ bot lene than eer naybe more; and f be thing | after the ailence whiok both needed to readjust themaestves, * “Oh, I beg your paren,” eatd Dick, leaning over and turning her head te- ward him with Bis hand upon cheek. “I wae watting, too, for you } j 3 k rH i i by 5 j | | HI EF =HiEE li eal jit Ki e XPREEE | i : : i I | | i | | F 3 ; t i s i 3 j ; i zg i 4 i i i i i f : | Ege a§ j i E i i i f it ii ll ee i $3 i j I also there was a front porch who must, the circumstances, feel pastioulasty alone in the world. “Dick!" she gasped. ‘You must go right around to Mr. Ripley;” then #he giggled in fubilation, “Not on your lifel returned Dick, who had one arm around Betty and ten fingers knotted into the mesh of the hammock, “Oh, Ripley,” he call- ed, “Ripley! Bring your chair out here!" Ripley slowly waddled around the corner of the house, but without his chatr, “I think T had better go home,” he yawned. “I'm turning in quite early these nights.” “Oh, I'm ao sorry,” Dick pleasantly Med, and arose, There was an instant shriek as the two etruggling girls fell under tho hammock, Dick looked back just long enough to see that Henderson was r maining awkwardly neutral, and then, quite watisfed and relieved, he walked around with Ripley, after that gen- tleman made his brief adieus, to hand the visitor his hat and see him to the ea ; z i E i t i E ‘By the way, Ripley," said Dick, wrenching himself away with an ef. fort, from contemplition of his new- found happiness to consideration of the thing which was to make that happiness possible, “an 4 occurred to me to-night while we wero talking to Henderson that I almost forgot to mention, If we go td these dairymen with a proposition to take all the ex. pense of sanitation and the possible loss of cattle off their hands, we must have some money, I suppose wall have to ley amide © re cate & Stock to sell for that purpose. "Coriainiy!” agree Popley “Ot course, To to wre 1 hed thought in mind al along thing 1 have beow thie eur company teresting the a Nea Milk Dealers Co eager “Delighted, I'm gure, Mr. be gushed, with his movt’ it it fi i Sedge the {Re window of Rie itttle back wngm @ bie favorite hole in the qurned bis beavy bead tm the tee ten ef the interesting Ripley, and looked him ever coldly. Just one Wrist fey to make his big band, Then, took dig then, theateaity away, and revunalY tis @mall cutioek upon the wortdsi0”” “Hem, Mytpy ostd Bendis, “well bear about your milk sobeme. Tell us fest en briefy as you can abéut tt. ‘Whee te your ptant” vt “Te tmeceperate the Allied Milk Deaters Company for $1,000,000, buy out the datties with tock of the eerporation, sell some of ft for cash fer epereting expences, ant keg Si Der cant, of 10 among eureeives,” an- owere Ripe, with business-like promptness, having studied both his ‘words ead MMs delivery mest carefully “poet wen hep af tuur 6: mentee ie manted. “Thefe where poe ep Feed Ordinance, inapectes, threaten es venodsl all their cheds of money tm Oxing ot cown end put en Ge tinh = ‘Then wo ofthe them pane, end worry oem ‘The tittle ones Itt Oo cheaper them out of are organized, our managers thetr plants end ere; then we can the old sheds, mvik cattle, or do money tn.” Bendiz glanced ot Sledge and ttew | @ emile through his nostrila Ghdge Grunted, The two men seemed to need no further means of communtoas ton, “Who all is tn this?” asked Bendix, “Nobody,” said Ripley promptly. “There is « kid up at our office, young fellow by the name of Valo, with whom I have discussed the matter, and who has so identifled himself with my suggestions, besides making one or two triffing ones of his own, which I have adopted, that I shall. have to share @ portion of my stock with him; but outside of that there'is no one interested.” Bendix, after a glance at Sledge, nodded his head. “How much of the stock did you expect to sell for cash?" “About twenty-five thousaid “@ole lars’: worth." “We'll need about fifty (pousand,” Judged Bendix, "1 think, Chay tip tyat ot 1 had better arrange fog the cash stock myself, Wrgredllgg@n futend to get the money ga, slang dhe thing?” i “Oh, young Vale and I will put, that up,” promised Ripleys in a con tomptae ous tone, as if the mere gages lok money for initial expenses were & trifle too small to be considered We won't need over about elgtiechut Bendix again sought the eye 0 chi¢ “XL right,” said he briskly” “Qe it” (To Be Continued — 4