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aby and the Boss' Kewalling “Cet Rich Quick Wallingford” pre By George Randolph Chester oF PRKORDI Ne Meee euarrens on be O00 8 eon Coo » hee ee Oe hme Tee Gee inte the back tom be Visiter amusing winige (has it tmore for him te edvonnle , right away, by m CHAPTER IV. (Continued) "LL have to see a lawyer first," suggested Rip- ley. “Who does your work?" “Bee Jim Driscol to-morrow," dl- ted Sledge, in answer to a glance om Bendix. “Certainly,” acquiesced Bendix. Nim. Driscol. and he gave another glance, this time of quick ap- probation, toward Sledge. “!'Il tell you to-morrow noon when you are to e¢o him.” “Very well,” agreed Ripley, rising. “I hope, gentlemen, that this ia but beginning of what will prove to long and a prosperous business Political connection between us.” Thanks,” returned Bendix dryly. ‘The same to you and many of 'em.” fm When Ripley had gone, Bendix turned to the Big Boy with a grin. “He's*@ good, hearty laugh, any- he commented. & mutt,” reported Sledge. @ piker, a crook, and a cheese, Go through with this, then tle a cook around his neck and throw him & well; but don’t let hin seo me more. right consented Bendix, with “Here's where I get the worst again. Who will I load that @teck onto?” “Armand,” said Sledge, and grinned the first time in a week. A Bentix ffodded his head and @uess I'd better go right up and Jim Driscol,” he observed. “He'll t us wise.” ledge gave 4 grunt of assent, and an hour or more he sat as mo- as@ turtle upon a sunny log, @nd allent, gazing sombrely ito that hand hole in the gate. Perhaps that little disc of light en- fn his fancy untill tt covered je circle of his power, and ‘his ambition, and was filled teemingly busy ecenes in which of his puppets were to part; perhaps concentrating his and thereby his faculties, upon white wafer, he forged in his thought, one tedious link after in bis chain of political and despotism; perhaps he gested; no man could say, for ‘man could fathom Sledge; least of probably, himself, There were y who declared that Tom Bendix the brain of Sledge; but Sledge more than a brain; he was a i Mean time, while Sledge sat raking somnolence and Bendix Bis head close to that of Jim , Ripley telephoned the tm- lant news to Dick. We're to go right to it tmme- tely,” he stated. “I shall be too 1 to come bact to the office to- , and, in fact, to come back to the at all. Gather up my tools for 4 won't you, Dick, and tell old ! that I'm going to quit?” EJ} “But he wants this work out by [Maturday,” objected Dick. Hi. What does his blooming little old nage plan amount to, anyhow?” ed Ripley. “We want this com- going immediately, and it's a I dollar corporation, The last Bendix said to me were, ‘Go to @nd you bet I'm going right where VY You tell old Polson that you're | to quit too, You might finish if you want to,” "t quit,” protested Dick. “Mr, had my promise that you and have these plans ready for of the vestrymen at Saturday wight, and Bnvermant to feteh them by You had + «." reproved Kipley On offlew for ue “| found » place whe eure dean few for t Dick, “tea rent op ‘Thd pou fad with fod © lebt eorne for jettor fies nd two chairs.” "You didn’t rent it, J hopet” ox ed Hipley, in deep pain. No.” “Well, all rig theme details to me tile aflernoon, abd Lelephone you be- fore quitting time, so that you can come down to our owe office in the morning.” You just leave 10) get ws located "TU do nothing of the sort,” de- jared Dick, although with « wimh. “I promised Porson this Job would be done on Saturday, and tt will be done if 1 have to work every t, You can come up evenings and help, can't ur’ it try my best to arrange t,” promised Kipley, in an earnest voice, and with an equally earnest determi. nation not to come near the place. He rang off immodiately, At two- thirty he called up Dick again “Take down this address, Dick,’ crisply directed. “The G. W, Beals ate, room four-o-two, Beals Bulld- Got it? Well, send them a check ner boy, for seventy-five dollars, “Por what?" asked Dick, “IUs for tho first month's rent of suite twelve twenty-six in the Beals Bullding, That's the address of the Allied Milk Dealers’ Company from to-morrow morning on, I've just leased it for a year.” “Very well,” eaid Dick doubttully, and phoned for a messenger, At 4 o'clock Ripley called him up again, “Send a check, by messenger boy, for $885 tu the Gaites Furniture Com- pany,” he ordered. “Office faxtures?” guessed Dick. “You bet; dandics, too,” Ripley re- plied, with the exhilaration natural to one Who is in the process of spend- ing money with a liberal hand. “Great Scott!" ejaculated Dick. “You're going It pretty heavy, aren't you?" “Am I a piker?” demanded Ripley. “Wake up, boy! This is @ millio: dollar company! Try to realise that At @ quarter to 5 be again called up. “I'm coming out to your place to- night to work on the prospectus,” he informed Dick. “What's the rush?” inquired his partner, “Won't Sunday do?” | “There is no time, always remem- ber, Dick, ke the present,” declared the solemn, voice of Ripley. “It will simply ha to go over,” insisted Dick firmly, “I shall not be at home this evening. I shall be here at work until midnight Come up and help mo.” “Impossible,” returned Ripley, with the quite natural impatience of an exasperated man of business, “If you will not work on this prospectus with me. I shall dig it out myself, By the way, I just engaged a stenog- rapher, 8 a@ peach! Fluffy yel- low hair, baby-blue eyes, two sassy dimples, and the classiest costuming I've seen ain ‘The Broadway Revue’ showed at the Grand,” A long silence followed this. “You should not take so many im- portant steps without consulting stated Dick, with rising anger. “I don’t intend to have that kind of @ stenographer in my office.” “You don’t intend to have her!" re- peated Ripley, hardly believing that he heard aright. “Exactly what I eaid,” Dick, “That's 80," @udden coarse laugh; d, didn't you?’ Dick's voice almost broke as he sald, with such atiff dignity as he could command in his anger: “That Je none of your business, and I'd thank you not to allude to it again; in fact, I warn you not to." “Oh, I say, old man," protested the shocked and abjectly apologetic voice of Ripley; but he found the phone dead, and looked at It a while in bewilderment, wondering, in the ab- solutely unfurnished room of his soul, what could have happened to render Dick so peevish t's the mone,” he finally concluded, after a thorough search of his own nature to find a parallel, “He hates to part with it.” At ten tho next morning he phoned Dick, “Send fifty dollars to the Acme Printing Company," he directed briskly, “And say, you'd better send fifty over to me at the office, I'll need it for sundries,” “What's the fifty to the printers for?” asked Dick, “Guarantee deposit on your print- ing bill, of course," responded Ripley, impatient that such a question should be asked. “I don’t want to refer all these people to Sledge. They'd call him up, and he don't want to be annoyed with such things.” insisted sald Ripley, with a ‘you just got ! | Can You Beat It? cua $A PERI FIT ” WHERE Swat Seno ir D f IT FITTED PERFECTLY WHEN | BOUGHT IT ) “What are you having printed?” “Letterheads, envelopes, prospectus, cireulara, and folders. I worked till one o'clock last night digging out the copy for these things. Tho cir- ‘s great. It begins: ‘To our nds, the Milk Dealers.’ das Mr. Sledge or Mr. Bendix approved these circulars?” inquired Dick, “Certainly not.” “Nor have I. I want to see and ap- Prove those things before they are printed, and they should also be sub- mitted to Mr, Sledge. “That's all said Ripley soothing! send that fifty over to the printers and I'll bring you @ proof sheet as soon as they have it set up. You can make any changes you want in the proof,” ‘T'll make the changes in the manu- script before 1 take another step in the matter,” announced Dick. “Look here, Ripley, I wish you'd take no further action until we can get to- gether on it. You're too hasty, Wait until Sunday.” “I'm not the kind to let any grass Brow under my feet,” declared Rip- ley. “We're wasting time, Dick, You Just put yourself in my hands and you'll be all right. Send that check over to the printer's in a hurry, won't you? I want to get some le! ters out, You'll be pleased with our letterheads, I've put Sledge on for President, Bendix for Vice President, you for Secretary and me for Trea: urer,” ‘Who made up that slate? Sledge?’ “No. I did. That's the way it will fussing around I'm not satisfied. I post- tively forbid you to go any further with this or anything else until we have ha jood wolid talk,” “Ah, come on now, Vale,” pleaded Ripley; “don't be a piker, and don't be so boyish! You're criticizing « man ten years older than yourself. Will you or will you not send over that check?" “I will not!" declared Dick, hung up his receiver, CHAPTER V. W he found Bendix awaiting him with a black brow, He walked Ripley atraight back into the little rear Sledge's name as President, and mina as Vico President of this dairy com- pany?" he demanded, “Who gavo you authority to elect oMfcers, any- porary use, Mr. Bendix,” explained Ripley, looking at a knot hole in the floor, and at the doorknob, and at the dangling electric light bulb. “Af- HEN Ripley went to the Oc- room, which waa vacant. how?" ter our talk yesterday, I thought and eldent Saloon for his lunch, “Who gave you authority to use “Well, you see that's only for tem- You Lt MAKE A HIT ALLRIGHT! that was about the way it would be.” “The next time you think, you want to ring a bel some one can come and look at | warned Bendix, “The Acme Printing Company called me up this morning to get my sanction on @ lot of copy you turned in to them. I was just up there looking it over.” “Did you sanction any of it?” In- quired Ripley anxiously, “With both hands,” returned Ben- dix grimly, “although the paper was tough. Some of the sheets I sanc- tioned twice, across and up and down, and I didn’t leave until I saw @ copy boy carry the waste basket down to the furnace room. Who le responsible for that article in the Courter this morning?” “Not mo," Ripley hastily advised him, glad to find bimeelf gulltiess of this at least. “That story has gummed the thing all up. The Courler beats us to our own game by one day, and makes it look as if Henderson had compelled us to enforce the slop-feed ordinance and go through with all the other reforms we've got to put fnto action to make this game atick. I want to know who tipped off our plans to the Courter.” “Wen, Henderson f engaged to young Vale's eister,” stated Ripley, aitting upon the arm of Sledge's bic chair and mopping his, round fore- head, “who's young Vale?” “Ho's my partner, The young fel- low I've allowed to help me done this out.” “Put muzsie on him," directed Pendix. “If the any more of these fool breaks, your whole dairy scheme will be dropped. I see you had an office address on that fine library of Mterature you sent up to the printers, Who's In suite 1226, Beals Building?” Ripley looked at the broken win- dow pane, and the liquor stains on the table, and the dorknob, and the knot hole in the floor, “The Allied Dairies Company.” he paid, rather feebly. "I finally settled on that, There's—there's a painter putting the name on the door now, But the first month's rent 1s paid for, in cash; that and the furniture.” “Furniture, too?” and Bendix emiled grimly, “Plush or willow ware?” “Mahogany and leather,” replied Ripley, thinking it now time to be- come deeply affronted, “You told me to go to it, Mr, Bendix; and I'm quite Now ('LL STUN THESE FOLKS uP My FITTED FECTLY edi Bouaur, gure that you will find both the furnt- ture and the name suMciently digni- fled and in proper keeping with @ mil- Hon-dollar corporation.” “I eee,” observed Bendix, almost with a groan. “I told you to go to It, and you went. It's upto me again. I ought to have sent a child along with you to show you the way. Now, you le down and play dead, hereafter, until I tell you to bark, or there'll be @ new Spitz In Curly’s kennel.” Ripley famed with indignation over this outrageous insult; but he kept the flame carefully concealed within hie bushel, for Bendix was a rough man and could be rude; and he looked par- Uculary viciows at the present moment “I'm gure I thought that I was*—— “There you go, thinking again!" enarled Bendix, secretly glad of such legitimate excuses for anger. “I had intended to let you consult with Drie- col about the preliminary steps in the incorporation; but it won't be safe. I'll see to it myself. Go ask Billy, at tl bar, for @ deck of cards, and go back up to your mahogany and leather suite of offices and play solitaire un- til I send for you.” He was #0 unreasonably brutal that ley walked right out of there, not even atopping to take lunch the Oceident. Instead, he went down to since unclassed Beals Hotel very eavage series of pool with the rack boy for ten cents a frame and the “chips.” In the midst of thie oe- cupation however he stopped to call up Dick. “Bay!” he began peremptorily. “You want to be careful what you tel Henderson. Sledge and Bendix are sore over that premature article in the Courier this morning. Another blunder like that and they'll be down on you for keeps. I haven't time now to tell you what they eaid; I'm as busy aa a pup with his first fleas. I Juat put over one good stunt. I per- suaded Sledge to have Bendix look after the incorporation preliminaries for us. It's sure to be done now with all the advantages that the strongest political pull in the State can give us, You can bet your sweet life I'm right on the job! I don’t let any grase grow under my feet.” He played one more game, and looked at his watch. By this time Bendix might be wanting him. He had won 80 cents from the rack boy, however, to eay nothing of six drink checks, and wae being challenge! for a double game. He ecratched his per- TAKE THE EVENING WORLD WITH YOU ON YOUR VACATION So that you will not miss any of the weekly novels and may continue to enjoy the dally magazine, comic and other special features, Include them in your summer reading. Order The Evening World Matled to Your Summer Address By Maurice Ketten HERE WiTH New Suit —— You ‘tt STUN THE FoLks uP HERE ALRIGHT! ¢ yy G 1 l/ eight dotiare wnt! tt comer tn.” dee elered Dick emphatically, “L won't pey i” Ripley looked at him more tn sare row than tn anger “Hometioes I'm “om you inte thie remarked madly, began Dick, with « flush upon Bis cheeks, and then he jeuddenly stopped and chuckied. “Ge eeu from me, Pm busy” CHAPTER VI. ENDIX sent for both Kipey and Vale on Monday morn- » 4 upon arriving et Drincol's office they found three other men waiting in the ante-room; @ red-faced man with « k mustache, @ equare-cornered man with @ equare-cornered head, 1 a thin-legged maa with abaor- ‘4 shoulders, with all of Ripley exchanged glares of balf-recognitioa, Bendis came out frowning from the faner office presently, and, seeing Ripley, frowned a shade more nacly “You may all come in," eald he, “Hello, Tim Thie special mark of favor being to the red-faced man, In the private office, at the head of the long table, eat @ gray-haired but alert-looking man with keen, beady cyes, @ hooked gose and @ pointed chin, “Gentiemen,” he began Ddriskiy, without waiting for them to take chairs, “you are met here to make application to the Secretary of State for a charter for @ corporation to be knowa ae the Allied Dairies Com- pany. The capital of thie company le to be $1,000,000; half to be 6 per cent. participating preferred atock and the other balf to be 6 per cent. participating common etock; divi- denda payable quarterty; the first ¢ per cent. going, naturally, to the pre ferred etock, the second 6 per cent | to the common and both varieties of FA XM! |atock participating equally in any dividends over 13 per cent. The pre ferred stock is to be invested im dairy Property et the rate of one and a te eee maid to Naif ahares » 1100 of property valu- u ation, The common etock ts to form had been @ three times victor. begpepr te bag the ight tle ag you know where I can get one?” oat th eotual aan 1s to eeoree: me “I got a kid brother ain't workin’,” . offered the rack boy, a needie-thia Tt to the holders of the commoa youth of nineteen, who was all neck stock in leu of preferred dividends. and lege and pimples. “What's in it 1 this thoroughly understood and for him?" agreed upon? “Three dollars a week to etart," Four of the five gentlemen who stated Ripley. “Where is he?” were gathered for the purpose apeci- “Right xt door at the Waldo fied, asserted, though very uncer- Bowlin’ Alley, tryin’ to ring in for an tainly, that this was thoroughly un- extra pin boy. Saeias. ot agreed upon, With He was already on his way to the Ripley there wae no uncertainty rear door, Presently he returned with Whatscever, He nodded emphatically @ particularly pallid youngster with &t every phrase, end in the end stated, brown lips and droop-cornered eyes, W!th much “isto, that this was pre Ripley engaged him upon the spot, claoly the © in of operation which he and gave him the key to the office, "4 purtuied ac@ fostered from the “Your Job ts to stay here til! 6.10, besinning, Tf anybody calls for me, you're to say), Lhe} wales mel Somaten took I'm out on business, but I'll be back ald, in an aside to “ick, ‘That's in half an hour, You're not to say", fe é where I am; but, as soon as whoever ig ' sont understand,” returned {t 19 19 gone, you're to skin right oe ~~ i down here, or wherever I may happen toot ‘" admonished Ripley. wu to be, and let me know. Come on, i a on, and rack them up for that double _ Mf. Driscol grabbed a typewritten gam Manuscript from the table, and, in a This was on Thursday. Ripley bine Jonah Voice, without pauses or apent Friday and Saturday vory com: \yivng an i SSY: Gtk, 908.88 18> fortably, on business for the com- doivevuamio ohresen of eiiaa ‘te pany, In the pool room of the Beals mouthed with pny Al prio. - Hotel without having heard from mediately upon finishing thi: 4 wuh Bendix. On Saturday afternoon he 6144 stopping for breath, prep bisoed Went up to Porson's office and drew ing numbly suffering ineopporaters me pay fee fra. ware and a belf. Then where te a a 2 tr amen and m while they it. ry “Here's that $5 you loaned me for the last one had attested the docu- the lduadry bill,” he remarked, hand- ment, he blotted it with apparent ing over t! money with almost an spite, and jerked it over to his desk. air of generosity, “UM Just send my own check with “There's no hurry about it,” replied this, Tom,” he informed Bendix, who Dick, with the usual polite fiction, patiege§ no part in the proceedings “Yes; but there ts," insisted Ripley, fUFther than to joke with the red- Gropping the bill trom his cramped ‘4 Tim Connors, “I'll have this finger, “We can't keep theae little Pack In four days, and then you may affatre too straight. By the way, D&Ve your incorporators meet for the Dick, you might make me out a check "4! Application, You understand, for $68. It should be $58.33 don't you, Tom, that while you're not We won't count the odd cents.” 1 Locparteryi Peay your peeks. iy rr 9 . formal sul ptions, you can go right was his recently abused check book. “Gomeen, teva” and he herded na ai ees pone care salary.” tncorporators out of the room as if he ahs ere eS hed were Griilag an apattetio slase 4 9 orphan asylum, In the outer o/ Dick's shoulder in friendly railiery. Fey be cal iy galled ere had fa ah nee 3 Wanted dially with the three who had been . n drawing ® waiting when Ripley and Vale had hundred @ week yourself in place of come in, and slapped them on the forty." shoulders, and joked with each one “But can’t you watt until we get individually, and asked about his organized?" objected Dick. ‘We're family. using up the money at a fearful rate, AS soon as the others were gone and It may be some days before yours Bendix came over to Ripley and wi is available, and before any money troduced to Vale, whom he studied comes Into the treasury of the com, Very shrewdly and briefly, “Its a of get right to work * reproved Ripley airtly. now," he announced, “Here's a list ML have all the money we can use of all the dairies that are worth tak- this coming week.” ing into the company. The quicker “Then you can walt for this Gfty- you get to them the better. because , the mith desters are scared ao att right now that they can't close thelr Aete tight enough to milk a cow. if you boye want to handle the sock. petting ond bie deal, you may take a try at it rent We'll give « week If you don't show results tn that time, some live ones will have to ge on the job Of course you'll have to have @ salary for thie work, Mow much bave you been making, Rip- ley? Mr Ripley looked at the bookeass, the pretty red flower in the rug, the calendar on the wail, and then out of the window “Well, we haured that we'd begin at @ hundred dotiare « week,” he finally anewered, in some trepidation, Hendia elevated hie eyetrowa, but to Ripley's eurpriee he 414 not ohriek for the police. “AN rial he aald briskly, “A hundred @ week apiece You tell me YOU spent seme money for office rent, furniture and eo forth, How much wee tT ‘Mr. Ripley waved fis hand - leasly in the direction of Dick, wm “Mr, Vale le acting as the of oUF preliminary organisation,” he explained. “He cas probably tell you to the penny.” Dick could, and did, by consulting hie check stubs, and gave Bendix an immediate grand total. “To that you may add fifty-eight thirty-three,” interpolated Mr, Ripley; “three and @ half days’ ecalary inst week for myself.” “What were you doing? demanded rh Ble pencil poised for the addi- in front of them. “Now listen to this: Opposite the name of each dairy on thie Mat te the best price you may pay, in ‘preferred stock.’ Remember that. It's called preferred stock be- cause it has to earn 6 per cent. dtvi- In the following two weeks the dairy business was in much the state of an ant bill which has been knocked over by @ bag of sugar. Dairymen, figuratively, ran around in circles, ‘The newspapers, led by the Courter, fired broadsides at them every morn- ing and afternoon. The dairies were to be cleaned up; the cattle were to be carefully selected; the cows were to wear green glasses and have their teeth scrubbed each morning; the babies were to be saved as they never had been before! According to the Courter, it was the Courier which was causing these eweeping reforms to be instituted; ac- coming to the other papers, Sledge, the humanitarian, was responsible; but, according to the dairymen, the devil was at the bottom of it, For the first time in the political history of the city, the dairies were to epend « year’s profits in a month’ housecleaning; and a pull wasp bet- ter than @ push. Public eendiment Was agitated to fever heat. Consum- era snarled when they received their milk, and barked when they paid their bills; and the condensed cream trade enjoyed a tremendous impetus, The Health Commissioners came, with inflexible faces, and condemned everything from the dent of a milk pail to the curl of a horn, The milk Inspector dumped whole lakes of Dluish froth into stable yards and then condemned the mud that made. There was no place of safety and a Dutch-tiled dairy, blue fences, and with the tails of all the vermillion cowa done up in curl papers and pink ribbons, had no better chance of approval than the reguiar ankle-deep variety. (To Be Contiaueds