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PAGE TWO.
BROAUWAY HALKS BOOTH C
Great Sale of White
Wash Skirts and
Middy Blouses $1.19
JUST THE KIND of i IIANDSOME White I
*> Middy Blouses that "Wash Skirts — :
figure in every worn come in galateas, gab
an's vacation require- ardines, white duck ;
ments. They are in and Indian head — ;
all white and the pop- made with pockets, :
ular awning stripes— belts and button trim
made regulation Mid- mings; all sizes; just j
dy, Norfolk and belt- the skirt you want for :
ed style; all sizes from summer vacation and ]
child's 6to women's outing wear—all sizes i
44 bust measure; re- —very special, | 0 ;
duced for *l 10 eac^ $1.1" •
quick selling to 51.1" _ 4too*m*o§ Mm h»<>iii o
—— - ■ -•■ - ■' ■■«■■ ■ 4
ltl.t>\UW AY SAM'S lit It 1111 II '
New Wirthmor Waists
(Al ii.m sTi!.vri:ii hkixiW)
Big Values at $1.00
WtRTHMOR >" '.
■'•-• %V4I»T. __._..«•••*• '
"«"'-__■ ■ II **
01' COl KSI. there lire lots ...m litis of dollar Waists. They !
are <>v sale everywhere, all the time. Hut there are
no other dollar Waists—or Waists at somewhat higher
prices like the Wirthmor. WluH Is there, then, that distin
guishes llu- Wtrthinor from all others,,and makes them no
desirable. There Is, f«w Instance—
Refinement of Style—Prettier and Bet
: ter Fabrics — Daintier Laces and Em
broideries—More Careful Workmanship
AND THEY'RE PERFECT FITTING
> Mm h yon Miy for a dollar Waist. Yes hut never! he
, lew, true—lf you don't think s«», come anil see for your
self tomorrow —the four beautiful models Ol nn
above will be on sale at O I iUU
• —Broadway Sales llooth D
UNDERWEAR RIBBONS
WUMUra "knvscr" tine ■ ————————— I
.... , „ , I 4 SI'KCIAI, YaK ot new
i-iiibi-ii mer. Prized lisle \ By
', ... - - , „ , \** Kihh<uis, ideal lor hair
1 nlon Suits—low neck uo | _______________
sleeve, with cuff knee bows, li.v trimming*., siishet
l>liiiii bun.led finish — all and girdle*—these i iblxim ;
I garments reinforced—eveel- arr> yt^.y \mtotgam\j reduced
&3f!* $1.25 ■»» "V sse"" ,K24c ;
i * *: at, |ier yard ttv
• fiSW*- y****?-. "'V 1 ■ ll I' 1 line of new '■
, "Kit..lieufine ribbed cot- lllw-rll „„„, .^ ;
I ..... and Hide I ..lon Suits— „|h1.0,,H. specially re '
• come In pink or wlilto—low , , . __.... I__
' . . „ <lu«e;l for Saturday s 4Q.
. neck, no sl<*eve, with ruff _„,,. .... I Ml*
' „ si-iiii.,; to, im-i yard. . . I uv
knee—all garments rein- -»._-•* mr
'• forced— medium M_e .TOe •* ye kihtlhl selling of high «
'• per garment; extra ttl* elatss fancy millions in the
I mime, iter garment. .. . DwC mawae wMllM—they come in
, „, , _ . ... , iif.iiitili.l tlenlgns MiitaMe
J Wo„,en ; .SMi-,.lbbedc«.tlo., * .
; \e,ta—h>w neck tv ng sleeve S__3sl-lSl3» imagln- '
r —low neck slmokti™ with „,,,.. „„,.._. and r^nl)>lnatl^, ,
, fancy yokes of several pre.- f F( ,. ors _ vfrr specially re- I
' ty iwtlirns —very' apeclallv _. i .. . __. . _■__
f ' *Z*^**7Z. _ _■__. diitred for Saturday s IP,
[ SSmmSmmT...9k -„,n„,o. 1W yar,...45C |
} —llroadwny Moor 1
f EXTRA SPECIAL ! \
[ Women'i. cotton ribbed aum- QRE^tp VALUES
| mer weight I'nion Sultin— ;
[ low neck, no uleeve. with IN G.LOVES
j cuff kaee or umbrella knee TOMORROW
—all sizes—very specially
I priced, per A*tt* —Broadway Saloa
j auit •WC llooth It.
[ —Broadway Floor mmmmmmimmmmmmm _^_^ l^___< _ l ,_
| READY FORTHE BOYS
[ K^ty /\UR BOYS'STORE on the |
!y^%^C_^ ** Broadway Floor is splen
fl__m\^V_K. prepared to fit out in
a tip top manner,
Afcy^-^^X with clothes that
i^/^^ wtt look right and
ft wear right, those Boys who in- \
J7 tend to make the Fourth of July ;
mJLyjL^, celebrations the occasion for the •
[ purcnase of their new Summer Clothes.
\ Boys' Suits at $5, $7.50, $10 and $12.50.
r Boys' Bathing Suits at 75c, $1 and $1.50.
I Boys' Tapeless Blouses at 50c.
[ A new line of Boys' Caps at 50c and $1.
Boys' Rah! Rah! Wash Hats at 50c each.
Exception values in Boys' Suits at $1.15
—Broadway Moor.
Modes brothers
; faE-myD«litfTteom f_U|dfa*RtU* ItfabMmMt
mmm**mommmmmmmmmmm^mm^*m^
*— ■ - ■ ■— ......
i Read the Clusi_Ud Ads On Page 7.
i— " ' ■'"* ■1I ■ ' - j ■ *i i . i—an i_■
"A TALE OF R(D ROSES"
H> t.,-i.i(i«- llandolph Cheater,
Copyrighted.
(Continued from Onr l_a*t lwne>
CHAPTER XIV.
Hledjge Uttem Shopping.
Sledge walked into Mai ley's
office with his parlor smile
which belonged of right to the
red rose he wore.
"We ought to figure a consoli
dation," he suggested.
Marley looked at him wonder
ingly.
"Molly was Juat over," Sledge
continued.
"Yes, she said she was going
to see you," replied Marley,
clutching eagerly at the straw.
"1 thought shed get enough."
stated Sledge, and he chuckled.
"She's a smart girl."
"Yes, she is." assented Marley,
wondering just how much she had
said to make such a remurkable
cliaiiKi* in Sledge. "A consolida
tion would probably be a very
sensible thing."
"Wo consolidate after the mar
riage," amended Sledge. "We get
all ready now."
"Any lime you say," readily
consented Marley. "I'll meet with
you and arrange the details to
night."
"Naw!" refused Sledge. "Thea
tre tonight."
"With Molly?" Inquired Mar
ley, wanting to smile.
"Molly and Fern. Fern's a
nice kid."
"All right; tomorrow night,
then," suggested Marley. his
mind firmly fixed on the commer
cial opportunity.
"Daytime." corrected Sledge.
"I'm busy nights. Say, Murley,
is that game between Molly and
Bert called clear off?"
"Did Molly say so?" evaded
Marley.
"No," Sledge hesitated. "Is it?"
"That's entirely Molly's af
fair."
"I believe you," coincided
Sledge, nnd again lie chuckled,
as ho arose to go.
IMb way lay directly past the
Grand opera house, and he stop
ped at the ticket window.
"Give me a box for tonight,"
he grunted.
* "Sorry, Mr. Sledge," replied
the ticket Miter, "The only ones
we have left are on the gallery
floor, and those are ao nndesir
able we never make any attempt
to sell them."
"I got to have a down-stairs
box," Insisted Sledge. "Fix it."
"1 don't see how I can," pro
testPil the ticket seller.
The treasurer of the theatre
came forward with «alm author
ity.
"Anything we can do for you?"
he offered to the man who bad
settled his difficulties with the
fire commissioner.
"Mr. Sledge wants a down
stairs box for tonight, and we
have none loft," explained the
ticket seller.
"Who has them?" the treas
urer wanted to know.
"Governor Wavers family has
Box A; G. W. Hoi'ton has B; a
| party from the Hotel Aouott —"
"Did tliey take up their tickets
| yet," Interrupted the treasurer.
"No," returned the box olfice
man, displaying Hie envelope
(which held them. "The Abbott
I telephoned for them, as usual,
j and—"
"Hand 'em a gallery box," di
rected Hie treasurer, und passed
I the tickets into Sledge's hand.
"Thanks!" grunted Sledge and
stuffed the tickets in his pocket.
He headed for the Occident.
but half-way there, he turned
I back and stopped at a florist's.
"What are they to
Hamlet'?" he want% to know.
'It depends largely on the
lady's costume," the florist cx
i plained.
"1 get you," returned Sledge,
with a worried expression. "Say,
you make up eight or ten fussy
bouquets. all different kinds.
Send 'em out to Frank Marley's
house in time for the theatre."
Just across the street from the
florist's was the largeat jewelry
shop in town, and the display in
its windows gave him an idea.
He strode in, asked for the pro
prietor, and got him.
"I want a rock that weighs
about a pound," he stated.
"A diamond? Yes. Mr. Sledge.
Something for an emblem?"
"Naw! Lady's ring. Solitaire."
"We have some beauties,"
bragged the jeweler, Immediate
ly aglow with enthusiasm. "Here
i« a nice little three-carat stone,
which is flaw less, and perfectly
cut."
"Is this the best you got?" in
quired Sledge, looking into the
case.
"We have some larger ones un
set, but they are not usually
mounted In ladles' rings," re
sponded the jeweler, struggling
between his artistic conscience
and his commercialism.
"Let's see 'em."
Reverently, the jeweler pro
duced from his safe a covered
' and locked tray, In which, on
1 white velvet, reposed a dozen
i sparkling white stones.
! Sledge poked a stubby forefin-
I ger at the largest one.
i "Is Uils one right?" he wanted
) to know.
"It's a very good stone," the
' jeweler told him. "The next one
! to It, however, though a trifle
I smaller, Is of much finer qual
-1 ity. It'a worth five hundred dol
i lars more than the large one."
"That'll do," Sledgo decided.
1 "Put it In a ring."
! "Very well," agreed the jew
! eler, trying to be nonchalant, ac
i he consulted a slip of paper In
i the edge of the tray. "This atone
weighs all and three-quarter
carats, plus a alxteenth, Mr.
Sledge. Have you tha size of
the Tlntl"
i "Naw!" be returned. In dla
i guet at his own thoughtlessness.
"I'll take It Ioom," and lie
slipped the atone In his vest
pocket.
__——
CHAPTER XV.
" Molly aaad Bert Almost QaarreL
* Bert Olldar pa ached the Mar
I ley door bell tm a fine condition
Of manly i-4_aaa_loa aad da
THE TACOMA TIMES.
manded of the emaciated butler
that Molly Marley he brought
Into Ilia presence at once.
With scant comlderatton for
the importance of the occaaloa,
Molly came down when she wm
ready. She was tittering, and
Kern, v phi a Ira, could lie heard In
the throes of frantic laughter.
"Hello, llert," laughed Moll).
"Why the mud rush?"
"What did you say to Btec_*e?"
he aternly demanded.
"I'm not quite sure," she gig
gled. "Fern and I h^ve just
been trying to recall it, but we
can only remember the funniest
things."
"The man has taken too much
lor granted," went on Bert, üb
softened by all this hilarity.
'From what your father says,
Sledge seems to believe that our
engagement is off, and that he
has been practically accepted."
"I've been missing my red
roses," ahe confessed. "Now I
suppose I'll get some more. What
else does he think?"
"Heaven knowe." snapped
Hert. "He suys he's going to the
theatre with you tonight, is that
correct?"
Molly gleefully nodded her
head.
"I forbid it!" he commanded.
The change | n Molly was
abrupt.
"You may do your forbiddi lg
to Mr. Sledge," ahe told him,
with blazing eyes. "You were
thought fill enough to consider
seriously sending me to him, and
now whatever follows Is up to
me. l am going to the theatre
tonight with Mr. Sledge."
"Murder!" called Kern. "Mol
ly! Oh, Molly! Come and see
who's here!"
Molly hurried into the hall to
find Fern surrounded by florist's
boxes, and nothing could stop the
giggling which ensued us they un
•■overed one elaborate corsage
bouquet after another. Even
Bert had to laugh as he sur
veyed this embarrassment of
riches.
"Sledge does things whole
sale," he admitted. "But he is
certainly lacking a few points in
taste."
' I don't see why," instantly de
fended Kern. "Every bouquet
here is a flawless beauty."
"Yea, but why such a crude
display of his financial re
sources?" insisted Bert, laughing
at the man's vulgar lavlstjneas.
"The true explanation haa its
foundation in a very thoughtful
iustinct." Molly quietly informed
him. "He wanted to be sure to
send something we would like,
and he didn't know what gowns
we were to wear."
Fern surveyed the riot of
beauty l>« fore her in sheer joy.
"Whatever he la, he's no pik
er," she insisted.
** * r
Sledge began his deliberate
siege upon Molly with the same
cure and vigor that he would
have exercised in conducting a
most important political cam
paign.
On that first evening at the
theatre, he made Molly's wishes,
expressed or unexpressed, both a
study antl a law. \ draft blew on j
her. She hail a scarf around her!
shoulders before she was through
with her first slight shiver, and!
immediately thereafter Sledge I
snapped his fingers for an Mher j
and ordered the fire-escape doors
closed. She looked over the pro
gram of entrtcate music, and
sighed for a missing favorite.
"Write it down," directed
Sletlge, handing her a fountain
pen and a check blank.
Laughing, she wrote It, think
ing that he would no doubt send
her the sheet music next duy.
Again he called the usher.
"Take this to Joe, and tell hlni
to have it played," he ordered.
Anything else you'd like, Miss
Molly?"
"I'm afraid to mention a wish
for fear I'd get it," she returned,
in more or less embarrassment;
but Fern, who was having the
time of her life, giggled, and tell
ing him to recall the boy, added
a favorite of her own to the mu
sical program.
"You can have a good time
most any place," Sledge compli
mented her, with a growing fond
ness for Molly's friend. "You're
a nice kid. 1 ought to have in
vited your gentleman friend
along."
"I don't see who it would be,"
laughed Fern. "Molly knows so
many nice chaps, but the most
of them are such boys."
"Excuse me a minute, girls,"
hogged Sledge, and unloomed
himself from the background.
"I hope he Isn't going to order
the spotlights turned this way,"
snickered Molly. "He'd do It, I
think. He's capable of any
thing."
"As long as It's nice," ad
mitted Kern. "I'll bet you never
had a man treat you with more
respect."
Just as the overture struck up
Sledge returned to the .hot, fol
lowed by a big man of .about
thirty-five. He had a merrjr, blue
eye and pompadour hair, and he
wore diamond shirt studs and
cuff buttons.
"Tommy Reeler, girls." -intro
duced Sledge. "Miss Fern Bur
bank, Tommy. Miss Molly Mar
ley."
Mr. Reeler, In great heartiness
and In friendliness all unafraid,
shook hands with both the girls,
and sat down by Fern.
"I'm In luck," he confided to
the crowd. "I was feeling lone
some enough to take a drink when
Ben dug me up and slipped, me
the news that he had a girl for
me. How do you Ilka our town,
Mi as Fern?"
"I love It," returned Fern, not
daring to look at Molly, whose
' brimming eyea aha knew to be
fixed upon her.
Under the crescents of tha
music the conversation became
- paired aft, and 81edge, with com
. placent aelf-approbatlon, watched
i the couple la front of hlra. /'
I "Tommy's n right guy," h* con
fided to Molly. "Big contractor;
paring and city buildings. H» de
serves a good woman. Ihi if '»«
• doesn't gat to meet 'em. HeW __
- a great pal tor your little fifend
> If aha can nail him."
i" Ttin curtain rose, aad lU play
began, and Sledge, bending knot
ted brows upon the stage, sat de
cently aloof. If anybody liked
this sort of thing, far be It from
him to interfere with their pleas
ure. Between the acts, however,
he came right bark on the job.
He arranged for Tommy and him
self to take the girls out to see
the new waterworks plant on the
following day, and to witness, as
balcony patrons, on the -follow
ing night, a barn dance of the
West End club. He planned a
Country club dinner for the day
after, and then, reaching non
chanantly into his vest pocket,
he dropped Into Molly's lap a
glittering bauble, which looked
like a glass hickory nut.
"Take that down to Duvay's
and have it fitted to your finger,"
he directed.
She picked it up incredulous
ly. It couldn't be real!
"Why, It's a diamond!" she
gasped, as it lay flashing and
gleaming in her hand, and she
saw the perfect cutting and won
derful fire of it. The realization
startled her so that she almost
dropped it.
"But, Mr. Sledge, 1 can't ac
cept this," she earnestly assured
him.
"Why not?" he demanded,
studying her heavily. "You're to
be my wife."
"it's too large for a ring, for
one thing," she evaded.
"Why?" he aßain rumbled.
She decided to leave out the
question of good taste. "You
couldn't put a glove over it," she
explained.
He looked at it reproachfully.
"Huh!" he commented. "It's a
peach, though, ain't it?"
She handed it over to him, and
as his palm touched hers, she felt
the tingle of him for the first
time. It was as if she had in
advertently touched an electric
buttou, and she jerked back her
hand.
Between them they dropped!
the diamond, and it rolled und_:'
Fern's chair. Tom my Heeler
picked it up.
"Swell pebble, Ben." he ap
proved, and poured il into Kern's
hand.
"Oh, you darling!" Kern mur
mured to it. "Where did this
drop from?"
"Present for Molly." explained
Sledge modestly. "Too big for a
ring. Can't pull a glove over It.
I'm gonna have it set in a neck
lace."
Three days later the necklace
came out, but by that time Molly
had given up all hope of heading
Sledge off. The only thing she
could do, she resolved, in a hilar
ious conference with Fern, would
be to accept temporarily any
erazily extravagant gift he show
ered upon her. After the reed
for fooling him was over she
could send them back, and this
resolution once having been
formed, the girls spent much
time in eager expectation of what
the next surprise might lie.
In the meantime, while Sledge
§ SELLING
Iferbst
(hthQS
to you—in our Up
stairs Shop — not
only provides you
'with the utmost
value for your $15,
but also assures you
ing the newest ideas
iy-to-wear clothes—
IN THEY ARE
>n't get in our entire
at the beginning of
eason, as is the cus
ilsewhere. We re
ti our stocks from
ill me «ew York factory cv-
I / 1 cry 10 days—and as a re-
I llt suit we have clothes the
II / /il people want when they
I \ J I ll want them, and at the
IA/ Jf U price they are always
A/7 J J I worth.
1/ / I We never have "Sales!"
If IJ | "Sale" to us means an ef
// Ii fort to unload at a lesser
/ / price clothes that are un
/ / desirable and unworthy.
if . Jjerbst(lbthes
\\-f are not "Hale" clothes; they are
■ S| always worthy—tahvaya new and
•S IT** * desirable, and out-value all otlier
' "*tj Hp_^- * clothes at 915 at all times.
W I I Tacoma's Upstairs
| Clothier.
; i, ii —
ffeibst Cpthes
JUL 2nd Vfiooi.
11l T 4*C AY«.- NATIONAL MALTY •LDC
TAKE ELEVATOP -SAVE $!<><*>
A Milil, A WEEK.
Next Week
ANOTHER BEST SELLER.
and his cheerful co-worker, Tom
my Reeler, were keeping the
girls busy day and night, the
preparations for the secret wed
ding that had been planned for
Thanksgiving went on, as did the
business preparations of Bert
and Frank Marley. Thanksgiving
day apprn.-ii ih-ii and things began
to focus themselves In the Mar
ley home. The representative of
the up-state syndicate, Coldman
by name, came to town on sched
ule. He spent three days in go
ing over the books of the com
pany and examining into Marley'a
loans. Also, he looked ui> the
matter of the franchises. The
company had been given origin
ally a twenty-year city charter,
which had been twice renewed
for ten-year periods. Its present
renewal having three years to
run.
"It looks like the regular
thing," he said to Marley. "Km
satisfied to give you thlrty-slx
straight through for your stock." I
Marley went home Intoxicated
with elation that night. i
"Molly, girl, we've won-" he i
announced. "Co ahead with your
wedding tomorrow, and be as ,
open about It as you like. I have .
already sold my stock and Bert's, |
including the amusement park, i
have delivered it, and here Is the j
check." ■
"I told you we would win!" •
exulted" Molly, and ran with the !
news to Fern. j
"I'm sorry." confessed that I
young lady. "The fun's all over." 1
"It was fun, wasn't it?" ad- j
mitted Molly. Btartled to find •
that she almost regretted the end '
of It. "You still have Tommy, j
though." I
"No," denied Fern. "I'll have j
to send Tommy back with your!'
necklace. I'oor Sledge!" j]
"Here's where he gets the 1'
first blow." sighed Molly. "You'll !
have to go up and phone him
that I'm ill, and can't see him to- j
night, nor tomorrow." j
"Coward-" hissed Fern in :
mock tragedy, and went to the -
telephone. She came back slow- !
ly. "Poor fellow!" she said, j
"Honestly, it's a shame, Molly, i
1 wonder what he will do to- j
night?"
Sledge did what any other fool •
lover would have done. He tele- !
phoned three times that evening j
to see how Molly was, and, when :
he went home, he drove two miles .
out of the way to pass the house. !
He was equally solicitous the j
next morning, and handled his j
business with singular lack of j
concentration. The last two j
weeks had made him more slav- .
ishly in love with Molly than j
ever. Coldman dropped In to I
see him at two o'clock. j
"I want to talk consolidation j
with you, Mr. Sletlge," he offered,
sitting smilingly in the visitor's •
chair. '
"What consolidation?" asked t
Sledge. i
'The street railway com- j
nies. We have Just purchased p
the controlling interest in the •
Great Corset Sale
49c 69c 89c 98c
MILLER AND ROYAL WORCESTER Cor-
M sets in new and up-to-date styles are very
specially priced for Saturday shoppers in the
sth Bargain Store. These Corsets are stylish,
up-to-the-minute in every detail. Moreover,
they are splendid wearing. Medium low or
medium high busts—all sizes—plenty of room
over the hips—four good models to choose
from at, per garment—
49c 69c 89c 98c !
Men's and Boys' Underwear
A LL THE CORRECT WEIGHTS and mate
•fl rials for summer wear—all sixes to fit all
types of men.
Men's genuine Porosknlt Men's fine Balhrlßgan Shirts
I uioii Suits, In ecru or "nd Drawers*—flue quality—
white, long sleeve, ankle full s,7es—w>lnforred seats
length or short sleeve, knee T* 11 *****—* bargain OQ«
lengtli—«ll sizes— ex- 7Q "*- »K>r K»""*nt tJt
ceptionai value at..../3C Women's Underwear
Mens antl boys' *heeked women's and girls' fine knit
Nainsook Athletic I'liion lmUm HllltK —f, ve different
Suits with elastic shoulders stJ .| PB fl . om wWr|l ,„ chlMme
antl waists—all sizes—hlg __„„ B |,_<> ve wi N , w „
values „t, per suit— _ b , K bj ,, Kalns at |M , r Sl|W __
2Sc 39c 43c 29c 33c 49c 59c
WE ARE HEADQUARTERS
FOR CAMPERS AND PICNIC SUPPLIES
Tinware of all kinds at 9c and 14c.
Hardware of all kinds at 9 and 14c.
Paper Picnic Sets at 9c per set.
Aluminum Cups, two nested and complete
with top, at 14c each.
Enamelware of all kinds at from 5c to 50c.
—51 Ii Bargain Floor
BROADWAY SAI.I.S ItOOTII K.
BIG GROCERY SALE
pnii'ii* oiun jiKK— raver won hawai
hlKhest quality—this sale— IAX PINKAPPI.K—No. 2H
pints TWO for 45c; DOZEN cans—this sale, per can 10c;
for Btt.r-.ll; quarts, JA. per IIOZKX Al QC
per hottle tUU CAN'S $ | ,0D
WHIT.. t.ItAPK JITCD — CAMPBI.I.I.'H POHK AM)
highest quality—pints TWO BKAXS— larjje inns — tlds
for 45c; DOOM for |Ul| a"1" MOUSE OKf*
quints, per Aflet rANH for -.WW
iMittio Hu G FA.vt v nairn "*v*am
LooAm-RRT jut k—this £222h_2?,__56 on__'_T«
sale—pints TWO for »r,e; ££"* "X' tl d.^
dozen for $2.«5; quarts, per * ' l>* ▼ * ,^'U
hot tie 4t)t ; per C/l 7C KAsi('v SOLID I».\<K TO
DOKRN Bullies... d'tilU MATO..S — Xo. 8 cans —
this salo TWO CAXS 250:
MINCED < T.AMH — hiaheat I)<>ZKX 4 4 AC
quality—this sale, |ier can (*.%.\s O I iHJ
Mr, ,« «)« J I4 Q VASCV -™V--* TI^J
T FISH—I -lb. oans—iliis sale
NTAXBAIIB COHX —this per can 22c; per »A m
MM THREE OC. IIOZKX CANS $__iOU
CAXS f<„. lOXt Mso niany othe,. | wrglUn ln
STAXIIAIIII TOMATOES — Canned floods and Soft
Uils sale, per IIOZKX QAj» Brinks. Charge purrliuses
CAXS 4jm 0 UU U »{o on next month's 1,111. . .
—Broadway Sales Booth X
Rhodes Brothers
In Every Detail Tacomai Leading Retail Establishment
company now operative."
Sledge turned on linn a slow
glance.
"From Frank Marley?" he de
manded.
"From Frank Marley," repeat
ed Coldman.
"You're up against it," Sletlge
warned him. "Did you pay?"
"Gave Marley my check yester
day afternoon."
"Today's a holiday," advised
Sledge. "Better stop payment."
"I don't understand," faltered
Coldmao.
"You will when you're stung,"
advised Sledge.
'I'm not stung," announced
Coldman emphatically. "Our peo
ple don't take a chance on get
ting in wrong. That check can
be stopped."
"Go to It," ordered Sledge, and
punched the bell. "Where's Ben
dix?" he demanded of Adolph.
Bendix came in.
"Marley got out from under,"
Sledge told him. "Why?"
"So the wedding could come
pff," returned Bendix with an
involuntary glance at the red
ro»« boutonnlere.
"The wedding!" repeated
Sledge. "Look here, Bendix,
don't you kid me!"
"I wish I was," replied Ben
dl showing for the first time
his knowledge of how Important
all this was to the Big Boy.
"Molly and nert Glider are to ba
married this afternoon! They're
being married now!"
CHAPTER XVI.
The Day of Thanksgiving.
Although there were to be no
guests at the Marley wedding, the
house was naturally in a state of
much tensity aa the time ap
proached.
The most busily occupied was
Frank Marley, who, from Imme
diately after breakfast, had en
sconed himself In his den. In
bin pocket he had the check
which removed him from the
nerve-racking fluctuations of his
street car fortunes, Insured Mol
ly and Bert an entrance into a
new life and which made him
aafe from Sledge. Yet ha felt
no great exultation.
He waa gull illy wondering
whether he really did trust Bert
enough to give him Molly or not
when the ball of hla telephone
rang.
"Hallo, Marley." hailed the
voice of Willie Walter*. "Had
your franchises vcancaled and re
granted?"
"Don't seed It," replied Ear
ley, out of the franchise worry,
i but curious, nevertheless. "What
Friday, June 30,1916.
do you mean?" i
"The Allerton bill was passed ■
last night," explained Walters. mM
"Oh, yes, the Allerton blll,"^|
smiled Mpirloy. "There wasnJ^
much of Importance in it."
"No?" queried Walters, "JustJH
enough to make a political corpse^'
of Allerton. They'll embroider
that fifty-year franchise clausa
on his shroud."
"Franchise clause? I don't un
derstand."
"1 thought you didn't know tlwa
provisions of the bill," went on
Walters. "The thing Is so beau
tifully Juggled that It automati
cally extends all franchises grant
ed within the last ten years, to
an extra fifty years of lifetime,
on the same terms as their orig
inal charter." J
"Oood!" returned Marley. "All
my franchises hava been renewed I
within tha last ten years."
"Now I know you've bee* J
asleep," exclaimed Walters. "Tha a
bill, specifically, does not apply
to renewals, but to original fran
chises. Moreover, the franchises
at the end of that time belong to
Sledge's company."
"Impossible!" gasped Marley.
"Get your alarm clock flxetL"'
advised Walters. "Monday nlgrfl
the council, In secret session,
granted franchises to Sledge's
company covering every street In'
the city, including—now, listen—
including those streets now cov
ered by franchises when those
chancles expire!"
"It's a bald-face steal!" Mar
ley hotly charged, Indignant^at
Sledge's wholesale approprlatlol-j^^
"It's a pippin!" agreed Wal-J
ters. S
Marley turned from the tele-^
phone chuckling. Why, Jf he had
not sod out at the exact minuin
he did, his stock today would ba
worse than useless! Thank
Heaven, he was safe!
Again his bell rang.
"Marley:" queried a tense per
son. , |
"Yes," ha acknowledged, try.
lng to place tha voice. |
"This la Coldman," rasped tha
voice. "Say, Marley, we're In a."
pickle." -> JT.'
"What's the matter?" tuquiifl
Marley.
"Firm revoked my autborr^H
to act two days ago. Just C°V
their notification." ,■
"Tet?" I
"Wall," went on Coldman, J
"Vm sending 'out your stock by a 1
messenger boy. You may aa wall M
-tmor up that chock. It'a aa
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