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EARL DERR X BIOOERS C3tyriM, 1913.. by fh Bobb-Merri;l , r. -: CBqnay - rr: --- - " .-: v . ' .' , " ; , vConUnued) , , , "Thiii k- so?" inquired Magee. . "Know if,'", returned the mayor heartily. "So "you're out after- old- Jim y v "It will be- $200,000 story.? ,.'. Cargan's scalp again, , are you? thought that now,' Eeeifcg' stories on the corruption of the courts , is bo plentiful, "you'd let the same of the city halla' alone' for "awhile. Hut-1 well, T guess"rm '-what you guys call . good copy., Big, brutal, uuedaeited, picturesque you see I read them,sto rles myself. How Jongrwlll the Ainerl otn public, stand being ruled by a. man. like this, -,wheH--it- might be- autfcoriz-In-j pretty boyg,with kid gloves -pi fret next to the good things? That's, the dope, ain't itthe-old dope of thV re form gang, the ballyhoo of the biach that can't let the existing order stand?. Don't i worry. I - ain't going, , t ;et started on that again. - But I, want, to ' talk to you serious-Jike a' father.' .There was a young fellow like 'yon - "lite me? 8 I ': ."Exact!;?. - He -was out working on long hours and " short pay for 'tie re form gang, and he happened to get hold of- something that a man I knew a man high up in public ofcer wanted and wanted bad: .The joung fellow was going to get $200 for the article he was writing. ! My friend of fered him $20,000 to call it off. What'd the young fellow do?" ; ""Wrote the article, of course," said Magee.... ....... ... : - , , ; "Xow now," reproved Cargan;. "That remark idon't fit in with the estimate I've made f you. - X-think you're a smart boy. ; --Don't disappoint' me. This young fellow I speak of he was smart,! all right. He thought it over, Magee the same as you're going- to dfc . '"YoiTre on,' says this lad and added SveF figures to -his roll as' easy as we'd -add a nickel. He hid t rains, that guy," .' - - : ' " ' ''A m "And ' no . conscience,"' commented ''Consciences said Mr. Cargan, . "ain't . worth" much - except as a.n ex cnse for a man that hasn't made good ' to give his wife. II ow much did you eay you 'was going to get for this ar- ; ticler , - .... . : . rPt - '; Mr. Magee looked hint -coolly In the eye. . . - - -.- - , '.:."' -'." "If it's , ever written," he said, "it will be a $200,000 atory .''.-; " "There ain't anything like that in it for-: you,' , replied . the mayor., '"Think over what I've-told you." - "Tm afraid," smiled Magee, '"I'm too busy to think." - , - He again crossed the office floor to the-.stairway.- Before the fire eat the 4jrfrfc,of the station, her big; eyes, upon him? pleadingly. -With 'a 'reassuring smile fn Iter 'direction, he darted up the stairs'. .- . 7. 'And now;' he thought as he closed and. locked the door of No. 7 behind bJm "for the swag. , So Cargan would ilon't'tlame him." '. ' - ,f He knelt by the fireplace and dug up the "Brick under "which lay the' package so dear' o-many hearts on Baldpate mountain. . ; "I might have known," he muttered. Tor, the money was gone. He dug tip several of the bricks and rummag ed about beneath them. - No use. ' The fat little bundle of bills' had flown. Only , an ugly hole gaped up at him. . 4 . CHARTS, SV. " . . ' 1 -- Wm In Number Ssven. - IS rage blazed forth. So they -had gotto him'- after all. JfboT .-He thought of the ", Btnoothi-'crafty mountain of a man. who had detained him a moment ago. ' Who But Cargan and Max, of -ourse? ' They ' had. found his childish lildiiijr place; and the money had come home to their. .eager hands. No doubt they vrers laughing slyly, at him now. WelVube would show them yet. s He got up &nd walked the floor. .. Once he had heltf ihem, up in the snow .and spoiled their little game. He would do it r-!iu. How? When? He did meat jua-m. ilia, unul frjad. Zstx .Motion r j . i mi som"-t IEYS 10 BALDFATE of somesort, but he was up against a blind alley, and he kuew It- He unlocked the door of No. T. To go downstairs, to meet the sweet eager ness, off the stirl who. depended, on him; to "confess himself "tricked it took , all the courage he had. .-Why had it'all happened anyhow? Confound it!; Had he not jcome up here to be alone with his thoughts? But, brighter side, it had given him her, or it. would give him her before the last card was played. Jie shut his teeth tightly and went down the stairs. : ' , -i , Mr. Bland had added himself to the group about the -fire. Quickly-the eyes of Miss Norton met Ma gee's. She was trembling with excitement Cargan, huge, red, cheery, got In- Magee's path once more. ' . - "I'll annihilate this , man," thought Magee. ' "I've been, figuring," said the mayor, "that was one thing he didn't have to contend i with. No, Bir, there wasn't any bright young men hunting up old Napoleon, and knocking, him in the monthly magazines. They didn't go down to Sardinia and pump it out of the neighbors that he started business on borrowed money and that his fa ther, drank -more than was good for him. They didn't run illustrated arti cles about the diamonds he wore and moving pictures of him eating soup." -,,- "No, I guess not," replied Magee ab stractedly. . - "I reckon there was a lot in his rec ord wasn't meant for the newspapers," continued Cargan reflectively. .- "And It didn't get . there. Nap ' was lucky. He had it on ' the reformers there. They couldn't squash, him with the power of the press." Mr. Magee broke away from, the mayor's rehashed history and hurried to Miss; Norton. . . . . ; "Ton . promised yesterday,"- he ( re minded her, "to show me the pictures of . the admiral." "So I did," she replied, rising quick ly. '--"To think yon have, spent all this time . in Baldpate inn and . not paid homage to its own particular: cock of the walk." ' , 'i She led him to a portrait hanging be side the desk. . - .. f'Behold," she said, "the admiral on la sunny day, in July. J Note the starchy I grandeur of him, even with the ther- ; Kiometer up in the-clouds. That's one of the things the rocking chair fleet adores in hiro."'' Can you imagine Jthe flurry at the approach of all that su periority? -. Theodore Roosevelt, ..Wil liam .Faversham and Richard Harding Davis all ; arriving together couldn't overshadow the admiral for a minute." ' Mr. Magee gazed at the picture of a pompous little man whose fierce , mus tache seemed anxious to make up for the lack of hair on his head. "A bald hero at a summer- resort," he commented, "it seems incredible." "Oh, they think he .lost: his hair fighting for the flag!'.' rhe laughed. "Is is possible to see the room where the admiral plays his famous game?" i"Step-. softly,'' she answered. "In her, i There stands the very table." They went into the small card room at the right of the entrance to the of fice, and Mr. Magee quietly closed the 'door behind them. The time had come. He felt his heart sink. , "Well?" said the girl, 'with an eager ness she could not conceal. ; ' Mr. Magee- groped for . words and found his old . friends of the moun tain. . 7 . i t .-.-. ' "I love you," he cried desperately; "You must believe I want to help you. It looks rather the other way now, I'll admit,. I want you to have that mon ey. , I don't know who you are nor what this all means, but I want you to ihave it, 1 went upstairs, determined to give it to you" . , - - : "Really." . The word was at least 50 degrees below, the temperature of the cardroom. !.... .- "Yes, really. I won't ask you to be lieve'.' but I'm telling the truth. I went "I love you!" he eriod desperately. to the place where I had fatuouslyhid the money under a brick of my fire place. v It was gone.". ;: ; "How terribly unfortunate." "Yes. isn't It?" Mr. Magee rejoiced that she" took so - calm a- view" of it (o OJ 5 i Mm fllL THE "They searched" .the room, of course, and they found ther money. They're on top now, but I'm going" . He stopped, for he had seen her face. She taking a calm . view of it? . , No, indeed. ' Billy Magee saw that she was furiously,' wildly angry. : ' He remem bered always . having written it down that beautiful women were even more beautiful in anger. ,How, he wonder ed, had. he, fallen into that error? "Please do not bore me," she said through her teeth, "with any further recital of .' what you ; 'are. going'" to do. i'ou seem to' have' a fatal, facility tin that line. Your record of accomplish ment; is' pathetically, weak. - AUd oh, what a fool I've" been! ; I believed. Even after rast night I believed.' ; - "I know," he said helplessly,' ''you're terribly "disappointed," and I don't blame you. But you will find but that you've done me an injustice. - I'm' going"-'- "One 'thing,"- said she, - smiling, 'a smile' ttiat 'could have' cui. glasps.', "you are going to do. . I." know, that you won't fail this time, because I shall personally see you through . with - it .You're : going to stop -making a fool of me.1 . . , - . i j . "Tell me," pleaded Billy Magee :"tell me ' who you are--what ;this ' in all about. . Can't you' see, Tm working in the, dark? . You, must" .: -,, 3 Sbe;threw open the card room door. "Ah English ofllceri" she remarked loudly, stepping out into l the other room, "taught the admiral, the ;game at least, so he said. It added so much romance to. it In the eyes of the xDckr ing chair fleet Can't you see-India the hot sun the Kipling local color a silent, tanned, handsome man eternal ly playing solitaire on the porch of the barracks? - Has the barracks a porch?" Roused, humiliated," baflled,: Mr. Ma gee felt his cheeks burn. - - . -: "We shall see t what we-shall see," he muttered. , i - "Why coin the ! inevitable into & bromide?" she asked, ' . - .. . ,: " Mr.; Magee joined. -the group -by the fire. -Never before in ,his life' had he been so, determined oa, anything as he was now that the: package 'of v money should x return to' bis keeping. ; But how? ' How "trace; through' this 'maze of humans the present1 holder of that precious bundle , of .. . collateral?, j He looked at Mr. Max, sneering, his. lem on tolored sneer at the -mayor's ; side; at the mayor - himself, i nonehalant as the admiral ; being ' photographed; r at Bland; author of- the? Arabella fiction, sprawling at ease before the fire; at the tawdry Mrs. Norton and at Myra Thornhill, who bad by her pleading the night before made him- ridiculous. Who of , these had,- the '.money ' now? Who but Carganr and Max, their faces serene, their yes eagerly on the prep arations for- ,'lunch,' their ' plans; : for leaving Baldpnte Ian no doubt "'already made? . , ' ' ' '- - And then Mr."1 Magee saw. coming down the stairs another figure one he had : forgot Professor, Thaddeus Bol ton, he of the .mysterious dialogue by the annex door., r On the professor's forehead wa s av surprising red scratch, and his eyes, '. no longer hidden by-the double convex Iedses, stood revealed a washed out gray in the light of noon. " A most unfortunate accident," ex plained -the old man. "Most distress ing. .1 have broken my glasses. - I am almost blind without them." . . . - "HoWd it happen, Doc?" asked Mr. Cargan easily. ,' , - r- -- - 'I came into unexpected juxtaposi tion with an open door,", returned Pro fessor Bolton. J "Stupid of me, but I'm always' doing it. Keally, the agility displayed by . doors . in getting in my path is surprising." , . :, ' .... 'You and Mr. Max can sympathize with -each other," - said Magee. . "I thought for a moment ' your injuries might have been received in the same cause." 'Don't worry. Doc," Mr. Bland sooth ed him, ".we'll all keep a weather eye out for reporters that want to connect you up with the peroxifle blonds." The professor turned his ineffectual gaze on jthe haberdasher,- : and there was , a startlingly ironic smile on his face...' ...... - - . - - (To-he CoctlnaeO.) -- If they 'keep on building trolley lines around Jerusalem, Wall street , may take a notion - to study :u-p-a little about that city. ' - - -" WOLlEfl CAfJ HARDLY BELIEVE How Mrs. Hurley Was Re stored to Health by Lydia EL Pinkham's Vegetable - Compound. ,..'. . ' Eldon, Mo. I was troubled with displacement, inflammation and female weakness. -For two years I could not stand mi my feet long at a -time and I could not walk two blocks 'without en duFing'cutting and drawing: pains down my right side which increased every month. I have been at that time purple in Qie face and would walk the floor. I could not lie down or sit still sometimes for a day and a night at a time. I was nervous, and bad very little apptit, no ambition, tnelancholy, and often felt as though I had not a friend in the world." After I had tried most every female remedy without suc cess, my mother-in-law advised me to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; :. I did bo and grained in strength every day. I have now no trou ble In any way and highly, praise your medicine. It advertises itself." Mrs. S. T Hurley, Eldon, Missouri. Remember, the remedy which did this was Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. For sale everywhere. It has , helped thousands of women who have been troubled with displace ments, inflammation, ulceration, tumors, irreguiaritiea, periodic pains, backache, that bearing down feeling, indigestion, and nervous prostration, after all other means have failed. Why don't you try it? Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Ms. ; - FASJIEE: MARCH 10, 1914 LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK Bj Lee Papa.' . - 'Wats the mattir with you, Willyum, how is it yure so kwiet-i'tna sed'to pop aftir suppdr last nlte, dont you, feal well. r- -.; y - - .-' ,- . O, I feal as well as cood be ixpeckt1 ed undir the serkumstanses, sed pop. Wat do you meen, the serkumstan ses, sed ma, wat happined."" .' Nuthlngr happined, thats jest It, Bed pop, wen I think ovir' the condlshina undir wich the modern bizniss man has to live, I . wundir rwe don't awl die-at SO.or -yungir. ;. .; .' 'v .".-.' " . Wy, the -Jdeeri J- neyvir .herd of eny condishlns, sed . ma, l I -was awlwayj Xtndir 'the fmpresshin 'Xh.a.t the aver ldge hizniss man has "; a pretty - eezy time of it.. . ;'.-""- Well yure impreshln Was correckt, he has a darn site to eezy a time of it, fizzlckly speeking, sed pop, If he had a littel exercize wunts in a wile in sted -of beelnr cooped up, in- a stuffy orfiss, he'wood'be a helthier animiL . Animil, sutch an ixpreshin,. sed ma. . Well wat "are we, vegetabils, sed pop, tho I rtuist confess, cooped, up in our stuffy orflsses, we do live like vegr ertablls, wy,; it Id of had even a mod Wit amount of exercize to-day. Id feel chearfll-and brite rite 'now, lnsted of like a vegrertabil as you ixprees it. I dident ijcpreaw enytfiiny of th kind, sed, ma. and enyhow, if you tirunt a littel exercize, I don't see wats to per vent'you from having it ' . Izent that ?; what Ive bin', ixplaln ing,. sed -pop; - soshil condlshina, my deer, soshil. cp.ndishins, if, men con ducktid thare affares out in the open fields, aa they ust to, in the fresh, air and with the warmth of the sun upon them, thing's wood be different . - ' ...Yes, youd awl freeze to deth, sed ma, but goodniss, as I sed befoar, if you reely wunt a littel exercise, wy I dont see wats to p erven t yure hav ing it. .Dont you, sed -pop, well let me tell you Id give haft, a day's salary for sum good helthy inviggerating exer cise rite now. .' - . Then wy dont you. go down and clean the- sno awf , the pavement, thats wat X bin thinking of, sed ma. ' Wat the mishift has that got to do with it, sed pop. ' r : s. ; . Wy, , it wood be elegant exercise, out in the j open air; - and besides, -. it reely awt to be dun, sad ma. - If you cant stick to the argewmiat lets drop it awltogethir, sed pop. ' . i Which they. did. h PITHY PARAGRAPHS Cyrus TVj wn send Brady is opposed to woman suffrage "because it would destroy that -dhlvaJry- that makes a man 6-taJid up in a street car." That kind of chivalry to mighty: nare . with out the suffrage these days. , r Iennyllvania. .la axrtmgr on te theory that murder is not ' a capita.! -offense when commitited 'by: a. woman. Are women inclined - to inamilshness ' in clxided in the Pennsylvania- udea.? ' This country "of ours ie a big and fruitful one, yet we are shipping" lu many of the things we eat to sustain life. But we are shipping? out much more than we ship in, wih ich is a good thing for o& (Those Mexican ; refugees " wfao . boat across the -Rio Qrande. right into the arms of Uncle Sam, have not yet be gun to complain xaf) the cooking. s "Ftresident Wilson ' roraounces - the two' words either ami neither eye-ther any neye-ther. : So do most of the peo ple in the Eastern - states. ' Sounds funny to a-fellow in the West or mid dle West. , "Motherhood is "born in the girls of the world and' the little things begin mothering ofbjects, animate an-d inani mate before tliey - are- able to vwaJk lbless 'em, ' "If men -were obliged to p-ut their things on over their heajds as women do, they woiud go crazy, says a para graph er . Some men go craiy without much provocation. v - , , ; ... In the old: day men spent a. good deal of time stroking thear- whiskers. This "bebit prdbably kept a great many from going to the "bug-house." . ; In ; spite of . all - this talk about ra dium, it -4s doubtful it the average per son would know a lump of it if he kicked it out of his way while taking a. walk. Itadium to. the masses is what - a twenty dollar "bill is to the arerage paira-grapher. - : - Seed (books . of the. presenrt season show no changes in the size or color of - the vegetaibles - to be grown. They, will toe jgarlbedi as they- have tJhrough all the ages, and - will toe ptroud of their "garbager"'. "-.-- . ' - - : Have hip pockets gone ont -of style with the KentuckioM? Tthat con gressman from the Blue Grass State kept bis gun in his desk, and isn't that evidence " that he had no hip pocket? - Tale football star 'broke one of SSSSSSSS , ' .. 1 c ' " : . ". . " ; Any Landlord Can Improve His The United Illuminating Company his : arms while ' dancing the tango with a iHtde ' ih 'Chicago:' " " And t this happened Just after a strenuous sea eon on the gridiron! Somewhat like an old sailor drowning- In a tufb of water aifter spending his life Or the ocean. , . Congrega-tional singing in , our churches Is fast becoming one of the lost arts. - , , The leg muff will -never (become pop- r ular -with -the girls j in fankeedom. They do . not care, to conceal their beautiful euives;. ;- '.:.. p- . Cleveland clulb women want a court of .domestic relations. .What tfor? 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