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THE FOURTH
Novelized bjr
FREDERICK R. TOOMBS
From title Great Play
of the Same Name by
Joseph Medlll Patter­
son and Harriet ford.
CojxrrMht. 1909. br Joseph Me4ill
Patterson ind Harriet Ford.
"I would prefer you to set the fig­
ure."
"No."
"How about $10,000?" asked the
Judge.
"Yes," agreed Brand, rising—"in cash
tonight."
"Bather short notice for such a sum,"
protestingly, "Where shall I see you?"
"At my office."
"Your office—tl^e Advance! No, no.
I prefer you to come to my chambers
about noon tomorrow. We shall be
quite private- there."
"I can't wait that long for it, judge.
I've got to have it tonight."
"Oh, is it something of that sort?
Well, then, come to my house after
dinner."
"But I've got to be at my office," in­
sisted the editor.
"I hardly like to go there, Mr.
Brand."
"That's up to you, judge. But if you
don't come the story goes to press to­
night. Well?" with a rising inflection.
Judith Bartelmy entered.
"Will you come now, papa?" she
asked.
"Just a moment, my dear. I Intend­
ed to ask Dupuy to dine with vs."
"Oh, can't you take him to the club?"
she pouted.
"That wouldn't be convenient, my
dear. You know we're going to the
opera." He step­
ped back toward
the library. "Mr.
Brand, I'll see
you again before
you leave."
There was a
moment's embar­
rassed silence be­
tween Judith and
Wheeler Brand as
the judge disap­
peared.
"How do you
do, Mr. Brand?"
she finally asked.
"How do you
do, Miss Bartel­
my?" His man­
ner was awk­
ward and str&in- A moment of embar
ed. rassed silence,
"I haven't seen you all winter." She
placed her hands on the back of a
chair near a settee.
"No I haven't been, anywhere. I've
been kept pretty close at work." He
paused. "Won't you sit down?"
II
She moved to leit ana occupied
the settee. After few moments of
silence she said:
"It's strange I haven't seen yon all
winter. I suppose it will be another
hundred years before I see you again."
Brand looked intently at her.
"It won't be if you wish to see me
any sooner, Judith," and, thus speak­
ing, he leaned over the back of the
settee toward the girl he loved.
"Why, of course I wish~*r~ You
were having a talk with father when
1 came in, weren't you?"
"Yes," rising and stepping backf from
her.
"Wheeler, come here," the girl asked
wistfully. "I want to talk to you."
He moved to a chair close by her side,
"Aren't you beginning to realize that
you may have been a bit headstrong?"
she sai4 tenderly, looking into- bis
eye3. "l?n *(r*Wyou WW getting in
BOW ABOUT f10,0601'* ASKED TBE JUDGE.
very deep. Xour frien^js, most of
them, have been patient with you so
far, but there's a limit, you know, and
you'll lose them."
•Tm sorry."
"Oh, Wheeler"—she was intensely in
earnest—"is it worth while to let them
go just for an idea?"
"A man must act according to his
light, Judith."
"And a woman, according fo hers,
4
perhaps you don't realize It, but that's
what I've been trying to do. You
know I've been alone-a great deal of
my life. I've had more responsibility
than roost girls. I've had to decide
things for myself and the younger
ones and do the best I could for all
of us."
"Yes, I know that. There's! nobody
like you, Judith."
"I'm glad if you think that."
"I'll always think that, Judith," he
exclaimed passionately. "An4 I'll al­
ways feel all that I've-lost."
"Haven't you brought it on your­
self?" she asked quickly.
Bfland seized both her hands, and in
a tempest of emotion, long suppressed,
be rose and bent over her.
"Oh, dearest, can't we have this one
moment"—he was aroused to a pitch
she had never seen him reach befbre—
"even if we never have another, with­
out thinking of anything except—ex­
cept each other?" He seated himself
close to her.
"Wheeler, I've a little story I want
to tell you," she said fondly, yet sadly.
She spoke as one pleading in a vital
cause. "Once upon a time there was a
girl, and she rather liked a somewhat
gloomy young man. But one night
something happened and then—they
didn't speak for a long time—oh, a
very long time. But there were other
young men, and one of them has asked
to call tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock.
He was very serious about it. You
see, the girl has been waiting so long
that she's beginning to be afraid-*
afraid that—er— Oh, Wheeler, why
won't you drop it all? It's not too
late!"
She rose to her feet, still with her
hands in his, and In another moment
be stood beside her. He threw both
his arms around her and held her close
to his bosom.
"Judith," be whispered passionately
to her.
"Why don't you call tomorrow at 4?"
was her response.
As they stood there in fond embrace,
her lips raised to his, Judge Bartelmy
appeared at the extreme end of the
room. He gave p. sudden start as he
Saw their oblivion to all else but them­
selves. His cold blue eyes shone with
the satisfaction that filled him. He
had done a good day's work, be con­
gratulated himself. He had arranged
to buy Brand's silence for $10,000
when it was really worth twice that
sum to a man of the United States
judge's wealth and'Standing. Why, he
had originally planned to give Brand
twice that sum a& a wedding present
when he married Judith.
"Mr. Brand," the judge declared, "I
will call at your office tonight at 9
o'clock. Judith, I am ready to go
now."
The couple drew apart in confusion.
She walked away slowly from her lov­
er, her eyes wet with tears. She went
out of the room with her father, leav
ing ..Wheeler
Brand standing
in the middle of
the room, over­
come by the UDr
conquerable aoiv
row that filled
his soul.
The towering
figure of Nolan
appeared from.
the library. He
stepped .toward*
the editor.
"Wtell, did you
put It through?"
he asked.
Brand threw1
back his head,.
and his misery
was Imprinted In
•yel'y line of his face.. Yet by Bnjge^
humanwill power he „forced his voice
Into steadiness as he said:
HYe«--I put it through."
CHAPTER IX,
AiTeditor's
9 o'clock In the managing
I room in the Advance
building Wheeler Brand and
three other men, Howard
Hartley, Jeff Thome, staff reporters,
and Bill, their much browbeaten un­
derstudy, were industriously at work.
At one side of the office diagonally.
from the managing editor's desk was
a high mahogany desk which backed
against a wooden partition which cut
off a small room used as a "morgue,"
the place where newspaper and maga­
zine clippings are kept for reference.
Through the partition a round hole
about five inches in diameter bad been
cut with a handsaw, and on a table in
the morgue a camera had been rested
with the telescopic protuberance con­
taining the lens projecting through the
hole in the partition into a private
mail box directly above the desk. The
door of this box, into which were
placed letters arriving for the manag­
ing editor during, his absence, had
been unlocked. A line of shoe thread
had been, fastened to the door of the
box and extended down behind the
desk to the floor and across to the
left hand side of Brand's, desk. A
slight tug on the thread would cause
the door of the mail box to open, ex­
posing to the lens Brand's desk, his
chair and another chair which had
been placed at the right of the desk
next to the telephone.
For several minutes the mysterious
preparations went on. Just what they
meant no one but Brand could tell,
and he was strangely silent, except as
to directing what should be done:
Hartley was anxious to make cer­
tain that the lens aimed directly at
Brand's desk. He measured the line
with bis eye.
"Get it?" called Jeff.
"No, not yet, Walt a minute," How*
ard answered, dodging around quickly
toward the little "morgue." "I haven't
got the focus right yet. Hold on!"
Jeff lighted a match, held It up and
stood between the two chairs.
"How's that?" he cried.
The answering voice came back,
"yes that's the very thing. It's alj
right now."
Brand stepped forward from a cor­
ner of the room from whence he had
been watching the final preparations
for the strange event that was to occur.
"Are you all set now, boys?" he
asked. "Is your, camera in the right
place for the flashlight?"
"Yes, sir!" cried Jeff and Howard si­
multaneously.
"The flashlight is planted here, sir,"
said Howard, pointing to a narrow pan
BE
"I'm hungry
In a shadowed spot on top of the ma
hogany desk and close to the lens.
"Have you tested this?" asked Brand.
"Yes, Sir,"
"Be careful, sir, or you'll explode
the flash," warned Jeff as Brand light­
ed a match to ascertain the location
of the powder,
"Go into room 4, beys and wait till
I send for you," directed Brand.
Jeff and Howard went out. Brand
went to his desk as the office boy,
Durkin, entered.
"Joe Dillon's here," said the lad.
"Drunk?"
'•Just one pver."
"Broke?"'
"Sure!" The boy grinned.
Dillon, one of the "has-beens" char­
acteristic of the type that prey on the
newspaper men at night In the big
cities, would ordinarily have received
short shrift from a busy man like
£&U&, hut DiUon, an e*-newspaper
reporter, had once given Brand, when
a beginner, some valuable pointers,
which the now managing editor had
never forgotten.
'Tell him to come in," ordered Brand.
He reached for the office telephone
and called the night city editor. "The
Patriot has got the town skinned on
shipping," he said. "Do you know
who's doing it for them? Well, I think
you'd better hire him
Joe* Dillon wandered in.
"Good evening, Mr. Brand," he said
weakly. Durkin, who had summoned
him, followed him in.
"Well, Joe, what is it?"
"Walt a urinate. Durkin. Qot 'i
story for us, Joe?" queried Brand sym­
pathetically.
Dillonstaggered forward.
"Better sit down." cautioned Brand.
*$ame old story, ehr
"!*. I'm hungry."
.' "Uuflrtn. go. get one hot roast beef
sandwich and a big pot of black cofr
fee and nee that he gets them ,..
"Xe*. ulr," The lad sped away after
dexterou/siy catching a qu*rt$r which
^EABOR
I "I wish washing in there to work
with the 1x?y8 Instead of eating char­
ity grub,began pilion plaintively. "I
know you mean all right, Mr. Brand.
I've tried and tfied again tp fight it
off, but It's useless. 1 can't It'svfcoo
late. I'm a dead one. The hard stuff,
the five cent whisky, has got me. You
never heard how this thing started,
did you. Mr. Brand? If it hadn't
been for my wife"—
"Oh, cut it out!" cried Brand, and
Dillon shambled out of the room.
Down* hurried In. He h^d become
night editor wHen the shakeup oc.
curred at the time of Brand's promo­
tion.
"Young Bobble Doolittle pinched
again for speeding." he rattled off.
"Three show girls in the auto. AH of
'em lit up. Bobbie weeping because
the girls bad to miss the theater, and
his mother's at me ail evening to
keep it out. Whnt ll I do?"
Brand leaned back and smiled.
"WeH, it w&s on her account we kept
out his partial elopement with her
French maid and the time he kissed
the head waiter at the St. Honore hotel
in lieu of a tip. and I guess—well, print
this one. It may help brace him up."
"Oh, and that disappearance case,"
reminded Downs. "The girl's come
back—olji. gjag, visiting her friends In
Jersey, biiit she's been off on the suit
case circuit all right."
"Home now?" jerked the managing
editor.
"Yep."
"Think she'll stay there?"
"She might."
"Well, she can't if we print this, so
let's forget it."
"But we've hhd a man on it two
days," persisted Downs. "We're the
only paper that's got It"
"Well, we won't be the one to kick
her down," pronounced Brand, turning
his bead away to end the conversation.
"AH right, just as you say."
The telephone bell rang. Brand took
off the receiver..
"Hello! Tell Mr. Dupuy I'm busy!"
he cried after taking the message.
"What?. Send him in. That's all.
Downs. See that they take care of
Dillon, will you?"
The night editor nodded in the af­
firmative and gazed rather curiously
at Brand as be went out.
Dupuy came Into Brand's office with
a most circumspect and deferential air.
Dressed in evening clothes, carrying
bis silk hat in bis hand and with a
boutonniere of hothouse violets in his
lapel, he gave every indication of be­
ing the society figure that his name
and wealth b&d made possible for him.
The lawyer lobbyist walked directly
to the desk at which Brand was seat­
ed- In reply to the managing editor's
salutation lie bowed stiffly and leaned
forward over the desk.
Several moments elapsed before Du­
puy spoke. He was trying to put his
opening words in the most judicious
language, and well he might hesitate
when one considers the nature of his
evil errand.
"The gentleman who was, coming to
see you tonight,at last he said care­
fully, "has had to go to the Opera With
his daughter. He -has asked me to
come In his stead."
An expression of complete bewilder­
ment spread over the other's face.
"A gentleman? .What gentleman?"
he interrrogated.
Dupuy was momentarily nonplused.
"Why, the gentleman who—ah, with
whom you made an appointment for 9
o'clock this evening—here—at your of­
fice."
Brand still refused to show his hand.
"I should be very glad to hear what
you have to say, Mr. Dupuy, but,
frankly, I don't know what you are
driving at."
The visitor was annoyed. He was
positive that Bartelmy would not send
him on a wild goose errand. Surely
the judge and Brand had come to
terms regarding the silence of the Ad­
vance as to the Lansing iron case de­
cision. The editor-was playing with
him now, he knew—dangling blm on a
verbal book to tantalize him.
"Oh, come, you know who I mean-™
Bartelmy!" snapped the judge's despi­
cable tool.
"Judge Bartelmy!" exclaimed Brand
in surprise. "Well, what about him?"
Dupuy produced a card, which the
editor glanced at.
"What's this?", he asked. Then he
read 'Dupuy will represent mie.' In
what?"
He started to put the card in his
pocket.,
"Perhaps you would better let me
have that so can return it to him."
Dupuy reached eagerly for the card,
which Brand slowly extended, to him.
"This refers to that transaction of
which you and he were speaking this
afternoon," continued the lawyer.
Brand laughed loudly.
"Well. Dupuy, I'm a poor fcand at
guessing riddles. 1 give It up. What's
the answer?"
iTQ PE CONTIircnBP.J
WOMEN AS ALDERMEN ARE
COMMON IN OLD COUNTRY
Three women, Ivftdy St, Heller, Miss
Susan Lawrence and Miss Adler, rep­
resenting three political parties, have
heen elected 'to the county council ojr
board of aldermen of London. There
were six women candidates.
Parliament made women eligible as
mayors and councillors in 1907, and
since then one. Dr. Garrett Anderson,
Has be?n elected tnd re-elected mayor
of ^ildeburgh. A number have been
elected to the councils of various
pities, among them. Miss Margaret
Ashton, who ha* been twice chosen
for the council of the large city of
Manchester. Miss AsHton is a sister
of the wife pf Ambassador Bryce.
If three women were elected alder­
men in New York or Chicago our
country would go Into hysterics, but
women can sit on the council of the
greatest city in tt*e World ^nd help
make its laws without causing a rip*
pie of excitement in Great Britain,
•vhich nas long been accustomed to
women in political life.
„TSt2$f,
WASHINGTON, April 22.—Are you
hungry? And do you think that. the
cost of living is too hight The^lis
ten.
Go put to the back yard and a)
nice fat, unsplintered sijaoin^enKln-?.
to the corner near the* lenc&
The title of the new cookbook is
"Economical Use of Meat in the
Home," and it is modestly listed as
"farmers' Bulletin 391."
-It" was prepared by C,. F.' Lang
v/orthy, Ph. D., expert in charge of
nutrition investigations in the office
of experiment stations, and Miss Car­
oline L. Hunt«
A. B.
tTncle Sam "puts his official- foot
right down ijpon the vegetarian cruize
and comes out boldly as an advocate
of the food values of meat,
"JPpr many reasons," says, the vol­
ume, "It seems fair to conclude with
the majority of the physiologists that
this widespread habit of eating, ani­
mal foods is the result of experience
and- that it has its foundation in bod­
ily needs."
"Of course," continues the work,
"it is possible to overeat of these
foods, as it is of butter or olive oil,
for.examplei so in meat eating as in
other food habits moderation is desir­
able."
Pickling, smoking and curing meats
are also advocated. The use of fhe
MRS. POTTER'S RESIGNATION
CALLS FORTH MANY REGRETS
Mrs. Frances Squire potter, by re­
signing her position as secretary of
the National Woman's Suffrage as­
sociation, has created a sensation in
suffrage ranks and called forth many
expressions of regret. She resigned
her position as professor of English
at the University of Minnesota last
fall, but it is probable that she will
return to the "U."
Mrs. Potter had been engaged by
the Twentieth Century club of Duluth
to deliver a course of three lectures
during the club year, but owing to
her delicate health and change, of
plans she was unable to fulfil the-en-'
gagement. She made an address at
the suffrage convention in Washing
Ion last week.
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
The question is pending in the Mis­
sissippi legislature whether co-educa­
tion shall be abolished at the state
university and young women be here­
after refusgg admission.
The demand of thfe woman teaichers
of New York city for equal pay has
been denied again by the' board of
education by a vote of 23 to 16. Only
one of the four women members
voted for it. It is only fair to say,
however, that many of the1 members
who voted against equal pay would
probably have voted for it if they had
seen where the money was to come
from.
Bx-Gnv. Folk of Missouri says: "I
have always believed in: the right of
any reasonable human being to the
franchise, regardless of sex." He
added, "The sentiment in favor of
woman suffrage is growing rapidly,
and it is no longer a matter of ridic­
ule."
The only woman physician in the
Turkish empire arrived in New York
recently. She is Dr. Mary P. Eddy,
who has been in Syria since 1893,
working under the Presbyterian
Board of Foreign Missions. For
many years she has made her home
in Beirut, where she has been mak­
ing a vigorous fight against tuber,
culosis.
The Italian Chamber of Deputies
has granted women in trade the
right to vote.
The Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage
Association is preparing to establish
state and county headquarters In
Philadelphia.
ARE YOU STILL PASSIVE
UNDER THIS INDICTMENT?
Basing his startling statement on
an examination of the census of 1900,
Walter Wellman declares that two
million children, fifteen years and
under, are working for their own sup­
port and for that of others in this
country.
He says that "about one-fifth of the
children of the land between the ages
of ten and fifteen are at work—driv­
ing mules or picking coal in the an­
thracite region -of Pennsylvania, drag­
ging out miserable existences, in the
glass factories of New Jersey, toiling
unceasingly In the cotton mills Of ..the
south, slaving day and night in the
sweatshops of New York and other
large cities, deprived of play and
education and opportunity to develop
physically and mentally."
HELP ORGANISED LABOR
FREE WOMEN WO$|pp{S
Organized labor wishes-our country
to lead the world in industrial, pror
duction, in morality, in religious iib
ertyv In the conception. of all that
makes, men noble, women beautiful
and children bright and happy..
Organized labor appeals for .aid. to
accomplish emancipation from, indus­
trial injustice, to establish brother­
hood, to help make each day brighter
than that which has gone before,, for
your sympathy and co-operation that
countless millions yet unborn will rls?
up and say your name is blessed
Mrs! Perry starkweather, state .la?
bor inspeotor of Minnesota, in ad­
dressing, tlje Minneapolis Improve­
ment League, said that low wages, was
the ruin of young girls. "If women
were paid a living wage," said th?
labor Inspector, -'immorality would
b^ in the decrease instead of. on the
increase. When an Ignorant shop
Si# discharged «^e 0iinkf she has
no other, alternative t^aa the streets.**
Uncle Sam's^a Gireat Cook
,J
If it
squeaks, sprinkle a few grains of salt
and cayenne pepper onftis|^e^bsffe
spots. Stop all further crie'ii by cov­
ering both ends with a bit of dough
boil it a little while and serve on
toast. It's great! It's, cheap,. «ud .ajso
?t is nutritious. Uncle.Sam,' cmfttary
expert, says so, and he ought to
knqw. .-J'-7"'
•Uncle Samuel's new cook book is
just oyt &nd &iv^s cards and spades
a couple of right bpwers and also a
few. str,light flushes to the high
priced neefs of the country and even
tljen comes out winner.
fats Of the meat in place of butter in
meat pies is advocated and the prac
tlpe of savoring "drippings" is recom-,
mended. Here is the plan:'^' 2lL
•"When, rendering the drippings' of
fat meat, add a small onion, (do np.t
S?ut:.it), ji. leavet of summer jsav£
bry and thyme, a teaspoonful bf s^lt
and a little pepper. This is eno^h
•fb r" a pint of fat. Keep the dripping#.
covered and in a cold place."
Maybe you never knew about brais­
ing ribs of beef, broiling the beef
ribs or sirloin bones and sprinkling
them with salt and cayenne pepper.
Well, try it. Also try boiling marrow
bones with a bit of dough at the end
and then ^serving them on toast.
In utilizing the cheaper cuts of
meat tho following is recommended:
Casserole Roast—Three or four
rounds of round rump of beef a slice
bf. salt pork a few pepper borris
one-fourth each of a carrot, a turnip,
an onion aild a head of celery cut
into small slices.
Spanish Beefsteak.—Take a piece
of rouna steak weighing two pounds
and about an-inch thick pound until
thin, season with salt and cayenne
pepper, cover with a layer of bacon
and salt pork cut into thin slices
roll and tie up with a cord. Pour
around it half a cupful bit milk and
half a cupful of water. Place in a
covered baking dish and cook two
hours, basting occasional ly.
Mock Venison.—Cut cold:" mutton
into thip slices and heat in a brown
sauce: made according to the follow­
ing proportions: Two tablespoonsful
butter, two tablespoonsful flour, one
tablespoonful of bottled meat sauce
(whichever is preferred), one table
spoonful red currant jelly and one
cupful water or stock.
Brown the flour in the butter, add
the water or stock slowly, and .keep
stirring. Then add the jelly and meat
sauce and let the mixture boil up
well.
8
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110
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different things may be charged. Why not/ open an
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We will be glad to arrange easy j^ays pf paying so
that your home will be well furnished, it will not cost
you much each month In this way you will find you
are able to, buy better quality goods, things riiore^ plead­
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Our regular prices are lower than most stores
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son.
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