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A Vital, ‘Uumerous end hore OF Fre emine C@arreRe Det Fee wong ee ee © an othen tot O60 6 ree, wee of eden Fee on tor made " paid back sic hla “Aan hows CHAPTER VII. (Continued,) HE cool, even voice of Sledge stopped him, and stayed [ the blacksmith's blow, which he would have flung upon the man whose pretensions to culture he hated, “Aw, cut it!" Tumbled Sledge. “Move we adjourn.” It was at this juncture that the dramatic moment of his entire ex- istence was seized by W. J. Ripley. Advancing to the table, he po'nted his puffy right forefinger to the atars. “I agree with Mr. Armand!" he de- claimed. “I agree with him, and I sympathize with him, although his wrongs are less by far than mine, for I am the parent, the discredited and disowned father of this company. Mine was the brain that conceived it, mine and my friend Vale's; and mine ‘wae the energy that gave it life. And I-I, gentlemen, have been cast off and disowned; outrageously swindled, I may add; cut looses with a paltry five shares of common stock! See what I do with this dastardly insult!” And he shredded his certiticate to bits and cast them upon the table, “I warn you that I am not through, and that I never let any grass grow under my feet. We shall see whether there fo law or justice in this land!" And be waited for applause. paid « salary for stock soliciting, and CHAPTER VIII. T order to prove to himself straight home to his womenfolk for pale-blue ribbons and pale-lavender mother blushed into the bargain, but look, nor you mustn't ask questions, of which she had warned him. He Ags mother, with such quick certainty “Driscol, mark Ripley's certificate stub void for non-paymont, and make out a new certificate for Mr. Sledge,” given a five-hundred-dollar stock bonus, which you have refused, for your help in organizing. You are di HB end of the world had come! There waa no faith, no hope, no justice; no good that hereafter it would be he alone against the world, and that he placed Bo reliance upon any living human comfort. He found Betty Dunstan with bis sister and bis mothor, all of them perfectly happy and busy amid a ribbons, and billows upon b'llows of lace and duffy white garments, some of which they hastily concealed upon Elsa received him gayly. “Not fair, Dick!" she protested, “You've no right to intrude in busi- nor you mustn't wonder how much anything cost!” Dick almost blushed with guilt as was counting the cost of all this pretty finery, now that there was such need to count It, wt he was startled. He had imag- fmed that his face told nothing; that he could concea! his hurt from her @irected Bendix. “Ripley, you were cbarged; you and your friend, Vale.” thing in all human kind! In creatures other than himself, he went frothing lake of pale-pink ribbons and the entrance of Dick. Betty and Dick's ness hours! No, and you mustn't he found himself doing the very thing “What's the matter, Dick?” asked Deneath @ smile; that he could carry The Eve (Germ © ee ee Kewaliing et Mich Quick Wallingford” y allt * Tomedy Busi nese Romance ever pt home They need 4 the eet mation’ Dok * amiling "ON Just business All three of the women looked ~ frightened 6 “What has that I manded Wise “Hipley thet she tiing “Kipley went up in a blage He tore up hie half of our share of the bust threw it y” hed Hetty, studying him ae pley dome? repeated Dick, grateful i him of could truly laugh wiory reminde ome f which he * announced Dick a “Il bet jerved as it “The id he got more than he 4 womuch did he gett asked Betty, wttll dying him soberly. What mystery there was behind that face it was her task, forevern how, to solve, as tt had been his mother . ue ast did. Five hundred dol- Jare’ worth of stock, and the loss of his position with the company, He was very quict about it, quiet and almost careless; but all three women saw that the hand which held his hat was trembling; and his was nd which never trembled, It was d now, and the first mortal hurt, which turns a boy into a man, lay a bare before their feminine insight as though he had broken down and erted, | “Dick! It'a impossible!” eried Betty, advancing to him, Hoe tried to answer her; but, from somewhere or another in his anatomy, there popped into his throat a curious, hard, aching lump which prevented speech. Both his mother and Betty were i, with him now, one upon either aside. It had become positively necessary to these two women to put their hands i upon him somo place or other. “It isn't fair!” cried Elsa, her cheeks flaming red and her eyes snapping, “Tell me, Dick, did Sledge ateal it from you?" He nodded dumbly, and then he suddenly smiled, “Sledge!” he repeated, finding his voice at last through surprised amusement, “You seem to know all about him." “Of course I do,” she returned. “Bruce told me. Let me hear just what happened.” “I do now,” Dick replied, laugh- ing at his own tragedy. “We held a directors’ meeting and, when we got through, Sledge owned all the stock, and wouldn't give any of it up.” “Just what Bruce said would hap- pen,” declared Disa triumphantly. “Dick, you must go to Bruce right away and have him make Sledge give you your share.” Dick laughed heartily; and bis mother joined him, Betty looked at Elsa with hopeful eyes, Elsa was pausing to waste just one minute in a pout. “Really, Elsa, it is funny,” said Mrs, Vale, “If Dick could not protect him- self against these awful politicians, what would Mr. Henderson do?” “How do I know?" returned Elsa, “That's Bruce's affair; but he'll do something, I know.” Dick shook his head in kindly pity of her ignorance, “Impossible, Snapsy,” he informed her. “Why, even Armand, who knows Sledge like a book, and who has been engaged in political deals with him for years, was helpleas. He put more than Sfty thousand dollars into the company, and in the end he had only five shares of the voting stock himself; exactly the same amount that I have; and he ts even worse off, I believe, for they threaten to ruln the Armand Dairy Company for him. No, Elsa, the case la hope- les Not even your Bruce could help m “How little you know Bruce!" flared the flancee of that miracie, For a moment she stood in thought, and then, with sudden determination, she strode swiftly to the door, “Where are you going, Elsa?” in- quired her mother, who felt herself lost in a whirlpool of distraction, “Down to the drug store to tele- phone my Bruce;" and she was gone before she could be recalled, leaving the three to speculate miserably and silently, while striving to keep up a cheerful outward appearance and cover fear with light chatter, upon the probability of having to postpone a certain important double event, In the meantime Elsa obtained oon- nection with the Courier office, “Helloaw!" @ raucous voice eplit into her eal “Is this the Courler office?” asked Elsa sweetly, “What do you want?” barked the voice, “I'd ke to speak to Mr. Henderson, please.” o ‘There was the sound of a slam, and then another voice; this time In a hoarse shriek, yelled: “Helloaw “I'd like to speak to Mr. Hender- son,” demanded Wisa; and then pleaded: “Plea: There was the sound of @ slam; Boss Such Is Life! How Bo You Bo MRS Pru | MOUGNT You WERE ~ T® CounTey c See SWE Looks EXACTLY Like Mes Bie a SHE DID Look EXACTLY Like HER | TELL You then another voice, this time a deep- toned one, with, however, a decided Fasp in it: “Helloaw!" “I'd like to speak to Mr, Hender- son.” ‘This ts Mr. Henderson,” hurried the voice, “What is it?” The tone on this question was a little softened in consideration of the fact that @ lady Was at the other end of the wire, “Please,” finished Elsa, with her own trick of intonation, “Oh! Hello, Eli and she could see his smile in the suddenly honeyed cadence of his voice, “What color of silk thread shall I bring to-night?” “Two more spools of lavender,” she told him, being orderly minded enough to weizo that opportunity before it passed. “Say, Bruce, I want you to wo right over and seo Mr. Sledge, and tell him to give Dick back the share he ought to have in his milk busi- ness.” “Certainly.” Henderson grinned at the clock, then let his troubled eyes rest upon a neglected proof sheet. “Anything else?” “You might tell me somethin, “I do," responded Bruce guardedly. The foreman of the composing room, @ bald-headel man, whose face at this particular hour always wore a snarl that would not come off, was walting at Bruce's desk; in the cor- ner, at the typewriter which refused to space except upon temperamental Impulse, sat Blyson, the most cynical of all the reporters; just in front of Bruce stood a fiendish copy boy, who was a thousand years old in widsom. “Do what?" insisted Elsa, Bruce drew a long breath, “Love you,” he stated herotcally, and glared stern and haughty defiance in turns at each of his three execu- tloners, They were all grinning most cheerfully; and they kept right on at it, Heavens, how they did grin! The hands of the clock moved mercilessly on, The foreman of the composing room picked up the neglected proof sheet and rattled It, and laid It down, I'm coming out early to-night,” Bruce said, in desperation, “I judge, from what you say, that Dick has met with about the finish I predicted, ‘We'll talk it all over to-night, and see what can be done.” “There ten't anything to discus: she told him, “They held a stock- holders’ meeting to-day and gave Dick five hundred dollars’ worth of stock and turned him out of the employ of the company, Mr. Ripley got five shares and tore his up, Mr, Armand put tn a whole lot of money, but he only got five shares. Mr. Sledge owns t of it.” “L see," returned Honderson, frown ing, “Is @ worso deal than I thought. I tell you what you do. We're just putting the afternoon edi- lo” to prewa anc everything bere ie COULDN'T HAVE ee Nels ) Excuse me! I MUST Mave } Ape A ( *sTawe rt BEEN NRs BILL. SHE y in @ tremendous turmoil. You call me up in about half an hour and give me the rest of the details, The Cou- ner will be on the street two or three minutes late as it 1s, I'm afraid.” “Oh, well, if it’s only two or three minutes !t won't make any difference, will it? she cheertly encouraged him, “But I won't have to call you up again, for there isn’t anything else to tell, Old Sledge has simply gobbled up Dick's stock, and all you have to do {s to go over and make him give it back, You will, won't you?” Desperation drove Henderson to a wild promise, “That looks to be the only reason- able plan," he agreed. “I'll see to it right away.” “Oh, you may wait till your paper ts out,” she was gracious enough to grant him. “Sorry if I kept you away from your work, Goodby.” “Goodby,” he answered, with a sigh. “Goodby,” she repeated. “Tell me something.” Henderson beat the rest of them to it, He grinned before they had a chance, “I love you devotedly," he was courageous enough to say in precisely as fervid and well-modulated tones as « 4f they two had been alone; and then, released at last after another goodby, he hung up receiver with no trace of a siam, “Now laugh your damned idiotic heads off!" he blurted. “Bly- son, do you expect to run that intro- duction in to-day’a ‘smue or the Weekly?” Blyson, showing every tooth in his head, belted his temperamental type- writing machine upon its grimy side to make it espace, finished one line, Jerked out his sheet of paper, laid it with three others, and began stabbing at it with @ blunt lead pencil, “Mat- rix, I distinctly marked on the copy of this Jameson murder that I want- ed it all set in twelve point, dlack- face introduction, You've set it in eight point, Split your takes among twenty machines and get me down a fresh proof in as few seconds as the Almighty will let you.” Matrix, dis eandy mustache etill bunched up ‘on both sides Of his nose, was out of the door in three strides and up the composing room etairs in seven, “Scabs, tell Hillary that we'll close the forma in just seven minutes and then go take poison.” “Yes, sir," @aid Scabs, and shuffied out of the door, quite humbly to the eye; but when be got outside, he had a Collars Worn by Noted Men < Preserved in Odd Museum By Albert A. MacNaughton NE of the notable show corners of the great collar manufactur- ing firm of Cluett, Peabody & Co,, in Troy, N. ¥., 1s its collar muse- um, which occupies a room about thir- ty feet square in the main building of its big plant. The most interesting fea- ture of this museum is @ case con- taining collara worn by illustrious Americans. This case will very short- ly be graced by & collar worn by Charles Evans Hughes, the Repubil- can nominee for President, A feature of this particular phase of the collection is the fact that all collars shown have actually been worn by the men whose names they bear, collars bear on the inside the auto- graphs of the men who have worn Almost without exception these; States Senator Atles Pomerene, drafter of the new Currency Bill,’ reads another inscription, while be- neath it f# a collar signed by Admiral George Dewey, U. 8. N,, retired, By the side of the Dewey collar 1s one which was worn by George W. Goethals, Governor of Panam Another collar, size sixteen, tains the information that It wa worn by “Duval West, who rep! sented President Wilson in trying to solve the Mexican situation,” Bradley W. Fiske, Kear Admiral, U. 8..N,, sent a collar to the museum under date of May 15, 1015, while Kobert Shaw Oliver, former Assistant Secretary of War, sent one in 1909, A rather low cut collar bears the inscription that tt was “worn by Gen, W. C. Gorgas, U, @. A., who broke up the yellow fever plague in Cuba and Panama." Secretary of Btate Robert Lansing recently sent in one of his collars, con- them and many a familiar name Ie to | while Josephus Daniels, Secretary of be found there, At the top of the case 1s @ standing collar, size 19, which was worn by former President William H. Taft, the collar bearing the date of Sept. 24, 1912. Mr. Taft en one of his campaign visita to this city was taken through the big factory and it was then that he se- lected the style of collar represented by the exhibit Directly under the Taft collar may be seen a collar worn by William Jennings Bryan, This bears a fine autograph of the former Secretary of State and is dated "4—27—16." “This collar was worn by United the Navy, is represented with one of his characteristic low-cut, turn-dowao collara, alge 171-3. There are acores of lesser lights in the political world represented in the collection, including former Governors of States, Congressmen and Senat as well as just plain American citl- zens whose names are well known The sporting fraternity is not over- looked in the collection, as one of the collara shown once graced the neck of Jack Curley, who was the promoter of the Willard-Johnson prize fight. fter Curley’s affair, of the turn-down variety, you may get me fret or beat up but that's a far as you ge 1 oon #tand anything you can do. 1 wont this for friend of mine” ‘Armand? Nothin’ yi” Bledge “Ne; mot Armand,” quickly dented Henderson, though making @ mental ote of the fact that Miedge had Ar- mand very much in bie mind, “Ite Dick Vale” “That kid?" inquired Medge, “Who | eave him « member's badger” | “Himeesit,” replied Henderson. “He's entitied to exactiy what I ask, not more; and 1 want him to have it.” Biedge chuckied tn bie throat. “You surprise me by the extray- agance of your demands,” announced | Norden tn bis deepest chest tones, [and Metened with pleasure to the re- jerberations of his voice, “I don't think you've taken the trouble to inquire into Vale's part in this company,” went on Henderson, |lenoring Borden completely, “He's « | modem kid, and I know he hasn't pushed himeelf forward. The dairy consolidation was his idea from the first. I was at hin house on the night he planned It; and I even helped him by suggesting that the Courter open fire on the alopfeed ordinance, worry the dairymen to death, and make dal- | rles @o cheap they could be bought | Mke peanuts, Outside of that, he worked out all the details of organi- jsation; and he busted like @ steam | carpet beater to perfect tt I know | Ripley too, I suppose that Ripley four-flushed that he'd had something to do with the plan. He didn’t do anything but play pool et Beals Hotel, He didn't even sell any stock. Look over your applications, and you'll find every one of them made out in Dick's writing. He bought up every one of your dairies.” “A wooden man could Rave done that,” Sledge inalsted, with some truth, “He got three hundred dollars fm cash and five hundred dollars in stock for three weeks work. That's Soe net mmceeey, Be <Yee pterde: Rte fo.” “You got half @ million dollars’ worth of stock, control of a miliion- dollar company, and the power to take every dollar the company earns and call {t salary, for about an hour's work,” retorted Henderson. “You don't count time or labor when you consider yourself, You're paying yourself for your influence; but you've neglected to pay Dick for Bis idea. The proportion tan't right, and you'll have to adjust it. He'll have to have a fat chunk of the stook and a 00d alice of the salary.” “He don't know anything about the dairy business,” objected Sledge. “Neither do you,” charged Liender- eon, with a grin which Sledge came IN THE CITY, SHE 'S IM THE CounTRY the infernal impudence to stoop dows: and laugh through the keyhole. Henderson mopped his brow and heaved a mighty sigh of rellef; but, nevertheless, grinned to himeelf as he plunged into his work. Among his rapidly dwindling pile of proofs be found a polite item con- cerning the first stockholders’ meet- ing of the Allied Dairies Company. He laid that proof aside, and dis- missed the whole matter from his mind until be had put the paper to ded. ‘The moment that was done, how- ever, read the proof again, and called in Rumaey, who had brought in the item, and questioned him, then eat allently alone for about five min- utes pondering the matter. Under or- dinary circumstances, the task which confronted bim would have seemed to be @ large one; but, since Elsa bad demanded nd confidently pected him to “deliver the goods,” he made up his mind that he might as wolng to be one of the biggest business men here, Maybe by that time you'll be dead, and your money rotted, and your inftuence scattered among @ score of pikers, and your name chiseled off of the achoolhousea you've had the gall to Well do #0. In consequence, though put ft on.” he smiled at his own temerity as he) .. put on his hat, he started out to hunt pone Upon my word!” gasped Mr. n, Sledge with @ determination which amounted almost to assurance, This was Sledge’s hour to be prest- dent of the First National Bank, where he was less accessible than any place else in the city; but since Hen- derson would rather talk to him there than anywhere else, to the First Na+ tional he went, and gained access to the Presence with @ message 40 per- emptory that, as he put it to himself, it should have had gongs on It, like & fire engine. Ho found Sledge clos- eted in the president’s sombre ma- hogany room with Borten, the cashier, Bledge, as gloomily impaasive as the gloomy apertment, looked up without turning his head; but Borden, his ac- ond chin quivering nervously, like the gills of @ captured fish, stroked hia white mutton-chop whiskers with a puffy hand, and was very severe with Mr. Henderson, “I trust that your errand ts urgent enough to warrant your forcing your way in upon an important confer- ence," he stated, with vast pomp and circumstan “You may even live to see ft, though you're almost due,” Henderson went on, trying to impress Sledge with the fugitiveness of things earthly; “but young Vale will be there with both feet, for h hummer; and his start will be this fifty thousand dollars’ worth of stock you're going to hand over to him.” Sledge chuckled, He would not have talked to another man five minutes upon so absurd a proposition; but he both feared and respected Henderson; and, moreover, in his heart he liked dim. “Don't make me laugh,” he said. “I'll give him another five hundred tf you say #o, though I ain't in the habit of givin’ up anything, But tha far as I go, Why, every share of that stock cost me & hundred dollars cash,” “{ wouldn't call you a Nar with a witness present,” responded Hender- won pleasantly; “but I can think it if { want to; and I do, You bought an approximate five hundred thousand dollars’ worth, gave away an approx!- mate one hundred thousand and kept an approximate four hundred thou- and; and not a share of it cost you a nickel to buy, although you paid cash for the whole lump, You're carrying the entire deal with the people's money. You bought the works with money borrowed from the First National at five per cent, and “It certainly 1s," Henderson cheer- fully assured him. “Mr. sledge, I want fifty thousand dollars’ worth of common atock in the Allied Dairies Company, and the job of working manager for five years beginning at five thousand a year and increasing to ten.” “That's easy,” grunted Sledge thought you couldn't be reached.” “Well, upon my word!” gasped Mr, Borden, to whom neither sledge nor Henderson paid @ particle of at- tention, “I can't be reached,” repiied Hen- derson briskly, “You baven’t money enough wor infuence enough. tome Put It Inte the so-called sinking of thé company The company, fe you, turns ite half-a-mitiion inking fund beck to the First tonal for reinvestment, and 1 pose they'll get you about ote cont, for it, holding those securttios — to protect This whole sinking fund te whieh enables you, without ite you ® penny, to make @ thou devils of dairymen put their vestments, which represent inge of @ lifetime, into your whise they work for you in themacives, Now, Sledge, come here to ask you as 6 five thie stock to my friend Vala came here to make you do iti” “Well, upon my word!” gasped Ma, Borden, “Get busy,” Girected Mr. “I'm here.” “Well, here's what's going to hape pen,” rejoined Henderson, the invitation with alacrity. “I cam eee the fine Italian hand of Jim Dries col in thin scheme; and Jim I consider to be the finest little fer that ever tried to make people believe « trey was an ace by covering: the two end spots with his thumbs, He's worked more shady corpo into @uccess by sheer weight and front than any thief pilot in Amerjea; but there's always a flaw in his Usually it'e eo big that eee it; but in this case 5a F lt c yaliels F 3 rE i Pe ag bei bee | eldentally attract the ad) amo g efie 2 t ? 23% 2 as pu = § H [ E 8 $ i i i if pes og br BEE i I . s : z i i as ze E é : ‘eo afraid take away from him man who won't curry favor because he's lost it; by a who ecrube his palms with i Fs i ‘Thirty minutes later, Bruce Hen- rson strolled nonchalantly in at he mato of the Vale cottage, enjoying one of Gledge’s long black cigars. With the most aggravating procrastination Possible, he rummaged among the fluffy things, demanding to knew what each one was, and threatening to drag them out and determine for himself; resisting, meanwhile, the tmportunities of Elsa, who finally clutched him by the lapels of his coat and ¢ried to shake him in her vexa- tion, though she only succeeded tn shaking herself, Finally, @ grudging little piece at @ time, he told them the great news, and assured them eight times that it was true, and received his kiss of reward from Elsa and Mra, Vale, and his spasmodic handshake from Dick, and the quiet but sincere thanks of Betty. It was after Mra, Vale voiced the unexpected dread which had op- pressed all of them throughout the double wedding could take place as acheduled, that Elsa took the floor for the final word. ae “1 told you Bruce would do it!" she declared, (The End) 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 Mailed to Your Summer Address * sh Fi afternoon, by observing that now the J a al