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•e Shirley relapsed into silence. Her brain was in a whirl. It was true, then. This merciless man of money, this ogre of monopolistic corporations, this human juggernaut had crushed her father merely because by his honesty he interfered with his shady business deals! Ah, why had she spared him in her book? She felt now that she had been too lenient, not bitter enough, not sufficiently pitilesS. Such a man was entitled to no mercy. Long after the judge and Stott had left for the city Shirley sat alone on the porch engrossed in thought, taxing her brain to find some way out of the darkness, and when presently her mother and aunt returned they found her still sitting there, silent and preoc cupied. If they only had those two letters, she thought. They alone might save her father, but how could they be got at? Mr. Ryder had put them safe ly away, no doubt. He would not give them up. She wondered how it would be to go boldly to him and appeal to whatever sense of honor and fairness that might be lying latent within him. No, such a man would not know what the terms "honor," "fairness" meant. She pondered upon it all day, and at night when she went tired to bed it was her last thought as she dropped off to sleep. The following morning Shirley went out for a walk. She preferred to go alone so she would not have to talk. Hers was one of those lonely, intro spective natures that resent the intru sion of aimless chatter when preoccu pied with serious thoughts. Every now and then Shirley espied in the distance the figure of a man which she thought she recognized as that of Jefferson. Had he come, after all? The blood went coursing tumultu ously through her veins only a moment later to leave her face a shade paler as the man came nearer, and she saw he was a stranger. As she neared the cottage on her re turn home, she caught sight of the let ter carrier approaching the gate. In stantly she thought of Jefferson, and she hurried to intercept the man. Per haps he had written instead of coming. "Miss Shirley Rossmore?" said the man eying her interrogatively. "That's I," said Shirley. The postman handed her a letter and passed on. Shirley glanced quickly at the superscription. No, it was not from Jefferson she knew his handwriting too well. The envelope, moreover, bore the firm name of her publishers. She tore it open and found that it merely contained another letter which the publishers had forwarded. This was addressed to Miss Shirley Green and ran as follows: Dear Madam—If convenient, I should like to Bee THE LION AND THE MOUSE. By CHARLES KLEIN. [ooNTurcrxD.] "There Is no other solution of the mystery possible," answered Stott. "And you, father, do you believe Ry der did this?" "I have no longer any doubt of it," answered the judge. "I think John Ryder would see me dead before he would raise a finger to help me. His answer to ray demand for my letters convinced me that he was the arch plotter." "What letters do you refer to?" de manded Shirley. "The letters I wrote to him in re gard to my making an investment. He advised the purchase of certain stock. I wrote him two letters at the time, which letters if I had them now would go a long way to clearing me of this charge of bribery, for they plainly showed that I regarded the transac tion as a bona fide investment. Since this trouble began I wrote to Ryder asking him to return me these letters so I might use them in my defense. The only reply I got was an insolent note from his secretary saying that Mr. Ryder had forgotten all about the transaction, and in any case had not the letters I referred to." "Couldn't you compel him to return them?" asked Shirley. "We could never get at him," inter rupted Stott. "The man is guarded as carefully as the czar." "Still," objected Shirley, "it is possi ble that he may have lost the letters or even never received them." "Oh, he has them safe enough," re plied Stott. "A man like Ryder keeps every scrap of paper, with the idea that it may prove useful some day. The letters are lying somewhere in his desk. Besides, after the Transconti nental decision he was heard to say that he'd have Judge Rossmore off the bench inside of a year." "And it wasn't a vain boast—he's done it," muttered the judge. you at my office, 36 Broadway, In relation to your book, "The American Octopus." Kindly Inform me as to the day and hour at which I Yours truly, if Ammruan Lift N*vtU*ed From th» Plmy kj ARTHUR HORN BLOW. COPYRIGHT. 1904. BY C. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY. m&y expect you. JOHN BURKETT RYDER. Per B. Shirley almost shouted from sheer excitement. At first she was alarmed -"the name John Burkett Ryder was such a bogey to frighten bad children with, she thought he might want to punish her for writing about him as she had. She hurried to the porch and sat there reading the letter over and oyer, and her brain began to evolve ideas. She had been wondering how she could get at Mr.'Ryder, and here he was actually asking her to call on him. Evidently he had not the slight est idea of her identity, for he had Been able to reach her only through her publishers, and no doubt he had exhausted every other means of dis covering her address. The more she pondered over it the more she began to see in this invitation a way of help ing her father. Yes, she would go and beard the lion in his den, but she would not go to his office. She would accept the invitation only on condition that the interview took place in the Ryder mansion, where undoubtedly the letters would be found. She decided to act immediately. No time was to be lost, so she procured a sheet of paper and an envelope and wrote as follows: Mr. John Burkett Ryder: Dear Sir—I do not call upon gentlemen at their business office. Yours, etc., SHIRLEY GREEN. Her letter was abrupt and at first glance seemed hardly calculated to bring about what she wanted—an invi tation to call at the Ryder home, but she was shrewd enough to see that if Ryder wrote to her at all it was be cause he was most anxious to see her and her abruptness would not deter him from trying again. On the contra ry, the very unusualness of any one thus dictating to him would make him more than ever desirous of making her acquaintance. So Shirley mailed the letter and awaited with confidence for Ryder's reply. So certain was she that one would come that she at once be gan to form her plan of action. She would leave Massapequa at once, and her whereabouts must remain a secret even from her own family. As she in tended to go to the Ryder house in the assumed character of Shirley Green, it would never do to run the risk of be ing followed home by a Ryder detec tive to the Rossmore cottage. She would confide in one person only— Judge Stott. He would know where she was and would be in constant com munication with her. But, otherwise, she must be alone to conduct the cam paign as she judged fit. She would go at once to New York and take rooms In a boarding house where she would be known as Shirley Green. As for funds to meet her expenses, she had her dia monds, and would they not be filling a more useful purpose if sold to defray the cost of saving her father than in mere personal adornment? So that evening while her mother was talking with the judge she beckoned Stott over to the corner where she was sitting. "Judge Stott," she began, "I have a plan." He smiled Indulgently at her. "You said that no one on earth could resist John Burkett Ryder, that no one could fight against the money power. Well, do you know what I am going to do?" "What will you do?" he asked with a Slightly ironical inflection in his voic& "I am going to fight John Burketk Ryder!" she cried. Stott looked at her open mouthed. "You?" he said. "Yes, I," said Shirley. "I'm going to him, and I intend to get those letters it he has them." Stott shook his head. "My dear child." he said, "what are you talking about? How can you ex pect to reach Ryder? We couldn't." "I doh't know just how yet," replied Shirley, "but I'm going to try. I love my father, and I'm going to leave noth ing untried to save him." "But what can you do?" persisted Stott. "The matter has been sifted over and over by some of the greatest minds in the country." "Has any woman sifted it over?" de manded Shirley. "No, but"— stammered Stott. "Then it's about time one did," said the girl decisively. "Those letters my father speaks of—they would be useful, would they not?" "They would be invaluable." "Then I'll get them. If not"— "But I don't understand how you're going to get at Ryder," interrupted Btott. "This is how," replied Shirley, pass ing over to him the letter she had re celved that afternoon. As Stott recognized the well known signature and read the contents the expression of his face changed. He gasped for breath and sank into a chair from sheer astonishment. "Ah, that's different!" he cried. "That's different!" Briefly Shirley outlined her plan, ex plaining that she would go to live in the city Immediately and conduct het campaign from there. If she was suc cessful, it might save her father, and if not no harm could become of it. That same evening her mother, the judge and Stott went for a stroll after dinner and left her to take care of the house. They had wanted Shirley to go, too, but she pleaded fatigue. The truth was that she wanted to be alone, so that she could ponder undisturbed over her plans. It was a clear, starlit night, with no tipoon, and Shirley sat on the porch listening to the chirping of the crickets and idly watching the flashes of the mysterious fireflies. She was In no mood for reading and sat for a long time rocking herself, en grossed in her thoughts. Suddenly she heard some one unfasten the garden gate. It was too soon for the return of the promenaders. It must be a vis itor. Through the uncertain penumbra of the garden she discerned approach ing a form which looked familiar. Yes, now there was no doubt possible. It was indeed Jefferson Ryder. fib* hurried down the porch to greet him. No Hiatus \jhiu Llit father had done, she could never think ajiy the less of the son. Hfe took her hatd, and for several mome/ts neither one1spoke. There are times when silence it more eloquent than spiech, and this was one of them. The gentle grip of his big, Strong hand expressed more tenderly than any wordsjthe sympathy tbat lay In his heart for the woman he loved. Shirley said quietly: "Yon have come at last, Jefferson." "I came as soon as I could," he re» plied gently. "I saw father only yes terday." "You need not tell me what he said," Shirley hastened to say. Jefferson made no reply. He under stood what she meant. He hung his head and hit viciously with his walk ing stick at the pebbles that lay at his feet She went on: "I know everything now. It was foolish of me to think that Mr. Ryder would ever help us." "I can't help it in any way," blurted out Jefferson. "I have not the slight est influence over him. His business methods I consider disgraceful. You understand that, don't you, Shirley?" The girl laid her hand on his arm and replied kindly: "Of course, Jeff, we know that Come up and sit down." He followed her on the porch and drew up a rocker beside her. "They are all out for a walk," she explained. "I'm glad," he said frankly. "I wanted a quiet talk with you. I did not care to meet any one. My name must be odious to your people." Both were silent, feeling a certain awkwardness. They seemed to have drifted apart in some way since those delightful days in Paris and on the ship. Then he said: "I'm going away, but I couldn't go until I saw you." "You are going away?" exclaimed Shirley, surprised. "Yes," he said, "I cannot stand it any more at home. I had a hot talk with my father yesterday about one thing and another. He and I don't chin well together. Besides this matter of your father's impeachment has completely discouraged me. All the wealth in the world could never reconcile me to such methods! I'm ashamed of the role my own flesh and blood has played in that miserable affair. I can't express what I feel about it. But what are you go ing to do?" he asked. "These sur roundings are not for you"— He looked around at the cheap furnishings which he could see through the open window, and his face showed real con cern. "I shall teach or write, or go out as governess," replied Shirley, with a tinge of bitterness. Then smiling sad ly she added: "Poverty is easy. It Is unmerited disgrace which is hard." The young man drew his chair closer and took hold of the hand that lay in her lap. She made no resistance. "Shirley," he said, "do you remem ber that talk we had on the ship? I asked you to be my wife. You led me to believe that you were not indifferent to me. I ask you again to marry me. Give me the right to take care of you and yours. I am the son of the world's richest man, but I don't want his money. I have earned a competence of my own—enough to live on com fortably. We will go away where you and your father and mother will make their home with us. Do not let the sins of the fathers embitter the lives of the children." "Mine has not sinned," said Shirley bitterly, 4,I wish I could say the same of mine," replied Jefferson. "It is be cause the clouds are dark about you that I want to come into your life to comfort you." The girl shook her head. "No, Jefferson, the circumstances make such a marriage impossible. Tour family and everybody else would say that I had inveigled you into it It is even more impossible now than I thought it was when I spoke to you on the ship." Emotion stopped her utterance, •he buried her face in her hands, {weeping silently. "Shirley," said Jefferson tenderly, "you are wrong. If you will not say Tes' now, I shall go away as I told my father I would, and one day I shall come back and then if you are still single I shall ask you again to be my wife." "You may not want me then." "I shall always want you," he whis pered hoarsely, bending over her. In tiie dim light of the porch he saw that Shirley, you are wrong." her tear stained face was drawn pale. He rose and held out his hand. "Goodby," he said simply, "Goodby, Jefferson." She rose and put her hand in his. "We will always be friends." He raised her hand to his lips. "Goodby, Shirley. Don't forget me. I shall come back for you." He went down the porch, and she .watched him go out of the gate down the road until she could see hit rHE LABdR WORLD WOMEN'S COLUMN Our lady readers are respectfully Invited to send us contributions for this column. Such contributions may be either original or selected. EDITOR. THE PHYSICIAIi AND MENTAL DEVELOPMENT OF WOMEN Women have developed remarkably during the past ten years. About all the women and girls I know are rosy cheecked, broad shouldered, fine, healthy, normal creatures. Why, don't you know we women today are just beginning to get back to our normal proporitions? We are just coming into our own through athletics. I believe the athletic, the fine healthy type of woman today is, be cause of this splendid attraction, more appealing to the right sort of man than the girls of other periods.— Miss Elizabeth Burchenal of the Public School Athletic League of New York city. Women in the savage state were so like "men in form that it was well ngh impossible to tell them apart. Then as civilization progressed their espe cially feminine characteristics became accentuated until the exaggeration was almost painful to look at. Then the pendulum began to swing the other way. Women are again be ginning to look more like men. The girls are getting more sensible That's the whole story. Instead of sitting in the parlor and folding their hands all day they go out and take exercise. Of course it makes a change. But it is not going to make men of them.—Dudley Allen Sargent, director -of Hemenway gymnasium, Harvard university. A WIF'S INFLUENCE. Lookers-on often see the wonderful influence a wife can exert for the good or failure of her husband. By a gracious, genial manner she may win hosts of friends for him. In nearly every walk of life where he has to look to the generous public for a lievlihood, she can help him make the yoke easier, and the burden lighter, says Woman's Life." A pow erful factor in the world of business today is found in the influence of woman. GARMENT FINISHING. Ninety-five percent of the so-called home finishing in New York is done by Italians. A day's wages for the united work of a family does not us ually exceed 60 or 70 cents in this trade they may be much less, but are never much more. The work var ies from pulling bastings—this is us ually the task of the babies—and sew ing buttons, to putting in linings of coats and trousers, sewing in sleeves and blind stitching the bottoms of trousers. The garments themselves vary from the cheapest "ready-made" goods to the most expensive "custom ma^e" goods for not only wholesale manufacturers, but in some degree fashionable tailors, employ tenement labor. The industry is generally car ried on in one of the most congested and insanitary parts of New York the Italian district of the lower East Side—where the large families live and work on the narrow edge of star vation, in very small, dark, three roomed apartments, in the midst of tuberculosis and other diseases, The garments lie on dirty floors in the midst of the swarming family day by day, are used as bedding at night. —Exchange. A deserted husband has the sym pathy of all the old maids and wid ows whi'e a deserted wife is looked on with' suspicion. Confidence in one's self and the or ganization with which he is identi fied goes a long way toward making success. When everybody agrees with you, it is a pretty good sign that nobody takes, you seriously. figure no longer. Then she turned back and sank into her chair, and, burying her face in her handkerchief, she gave way to a torrent of tears which afford ed some relief to the weight on her heart. Presently the others returned from their walk, and she told them about the visitor. "Mr. Ryder's son, Jefferson, was here. We crossed on the same ship. I Introduced him to Judge Stott on the dock." The judge looked surprised, but he merely said: "I hope for his sake that he is a dif ferent man from his father." "H Is," replied Shirley simply, and nothing more was said. Two days went by, during which 8hirley went on completing the prepa rations for her visit to New York. It was arranged that Stott should escort her to the city. Shortly before they started for the train a letter arrived for Shirley. Like the first one, it had been forwarded by her publishers. It read as follows: Miss Shirley Green: Dear Madam—I shall be happy to see you at my residence—Fifth avenue—any afternoon that you will mention. Yours very truly. JOHN BURKETT RYDER. Per B. Shirley smiled in triumph as, unseen by her father and mother, she passed it over to Stott. She at once sat down and wrote this reply: Mr. John Burkett Ryder: Dear Sir—I am sorry that I am unable to comply with your request. I prefer the Invitation to call at your private resi dence should come from Mrs. Ryder. Yours, etc., SHIRLEY GREEN. She laughed as she showed this to Stott "He'll write me again," she said, "and next time his wife will sign the letter." An hour later she left Massapequa for |h« city. [TO BS COHTIZTOSDbX WOMANLY WISDOM. A burst of sunshine, a gust of rain, And April is playing her tricks again! To fit a large cork to a small bot tle, cut two wedge-shaped bits from the narrow end of the cork. Wash bread boards and mixihg bowls, or anything in which flour is, in clear, cold water, using a small scrubbing-brush. Yellow turnips are greatly improved when served mashed, by mixing with them a small quantity of Irish po tato. A very little sugar, unless the turnips are unusually sweet, is a pleasing addition. A wholesome breakfast dish may be made from wheat fresh from the granary. Soak it over night and cook it all day on the back of the range. This makes a food unequalledd as to nutriment, and a great favorite with' all who have been served with it. A bowl of this wheat, served with rich milk, makes a good breakfast for a growing child. Potato soup: Boil a quart of pota toes and an onion until thoroughly cooked. Pour off the water. Add a piece of butter the size of an egg, and beat the whole well with a fork or wooden spoon. Heat a quart of milk and pour over this mixture. Salt and pepper to taste. Ke'ep it hot on back of stove until served, but do not al low it to boil after the milk has been added. The right way to poach eggs: Have a saucepan of water boiling hot, but not actually bubbling. Break the eggs, one at a time, into a saucer and slide them into place in the water. Draw the pan aside where they can not boil, and baste the water over them with a spoon till they are covered with a thin veil of white. Have ready slices the size of the eggs and arranged on a hot platter. As each egg Is lifted out on a skimmer, trim off the ragged edges and slide it on the toast. Sponge cake made in this way will keep fresh and moist longer than the old-fashioned kind: To seven eggs take half a pound of flour and three-, quarters of a pound of sugar and the juice and grated rind of a lemon. Pour over the sugar a half-cupful of boiling water and let it boil. Beat whites and yolks of eggs well to gether, and when sugar is boiled to a clear syrup, pour it over them, beating the whole until it is think and light. Stir in the flour lightly and add the lemon last of all. Bake in a slow oven. If properly made it will be wonderfully light and deli cate. CHICAGO CAR MEN'S DISPUTE IS SETTLED Of the Four Grievances Three Were Decided in Favor of the Men. CHICAGO, Mar. 23.—Grievances between the Chicago City Railway company and its employes have been settled by arbitration. Of the four grievances three were decided in fa vor of the men. The arbitration board declared a conductor or motorman must be naid for the number of hours scheduled for his run, blockades, failure of one of the crew to report for work or other unavoidable contingencies fur nishing no excuse for cutting down his pay to conform with the actual number of hours he worked. It was also decided that employes with good records, laid off because of the contingencies of business, should on being re-employed retain the advantages of seniority in service. Regarding the men ordered in by the starter before the completion of a day's work, the decision says: "Where a man employed on a re gular run is prevented from com pleting his day's work through ac cidents, blockades or contingencies beyond his control and is ordered in by the starter before the completion of such day's work, he shall be paid for the number of hours called for under the schedule iff the run on which he is employed. When a motorman is prevented from taking out his regular run through failure of the company to provide a regular or extra man to go with him, where he has reported for duty (the same applying to a con ductor), this board rules that such conductor or motorman shall be put on the extra list and remain on duty for that day and be paid for the number of hours called for on his regular run." The dischargeof Thomas Barrett, an employe, Was declared by the board to be just. The arbitration was the first held under the traction contract signed in August, 1909, to which the munici pality is a party. Constant association of the work ers in unions broadens their minds and develops their intellectual power. The fellow who bolts never learns much. It is the workingmen who stick together who achieve the vic tories on the field of Industrial war fare. It does not take much knowl edge to know enough to stick to gether. Still some do not know that much. Some union members love the cause so well that they will go out of their way to spend hard earned union wages for the product of un fair firms and then wonder why the union cause is no stronger. Many men in the labor movement are often discouraged because they cannot succeed in every undertaking and often express themselves against th movement, never for a moment thinking of the many things to fight for that perhaps will not materialize until after we have passed away. 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