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CHAPTER XXT. TIIE LAST DITCH. tkmantlc folly The impulse that comes from lityuntLour tight I go to seek Mr. Carhfner Aqn unpromttinylocation for a banker I receive advice and help. Dickie Pierson get an order from me. What it Straus garnet mHE yellow paper lay In my band, and, with a flash, my memory went back to that mysterious note wbich Jane Dround bad sent on the eve of her departure for Europe. It lay undisturbed In a drawer of my office desk. I smiled Impatiently at the womarfs folly of the letter, the telegram. And yet It ' warmed my heart that she .should be thinking: of me this day, that she should divine -my troubles. And I seemed to see her dark eyebrow arched with scorn at my weakness, her thin Ups ourl disdainfully, as if1 to say: "Was this to be y:.ur finish? Have I helped yon, believed In yon, all these years, to have yon-fall now 7" So she . had spoken. Bat still I was unconvinced, and tn this state of mind I went back to bed, knowing that I should need on the mor row what sleep I could .get. But sleep did not come; instead my mind busied Itself with Jane Dround's letter with the woman herself. As the night grew toward morning I arose, dressed myself and left the hoase. 'The letter In my office pulled me like t a thread of fate, and I obeyed its call Hike a child. In the lightening dawn I hurried through the streets to the lofty building where the Products company had its offices, and groped my' way up the long flights of stairs. As Iisat down at my desk and unlocked the drawers the morning sun shot in f rom'the lake over the smoky buildings -beneath me. Aft7er some hunting I found the letter. Mrs. Dround wrote a peculiar handfirm, clear, unchangeable, but '.with curious tiny flourishes about the r's and s's. As I glanced at it the -woman herself rose before my eyes, and .she sat across the desk from me, looking Into my face. "Yes, I need you," I found myself mattering. "Not any letter, but you, with your will and your courage, now, if ever, for this is the last ditch, sure enough!" The letter shook in my hand and beat against tbe desk. It was a silly thing to ten re my bed and come chasing down Here at 5 in the morning to get bold of a romantic woman's letter. .My nerves were wrong. Something in me revolted from going any further with tbii weakness, and I still hesitated to tear open tbe envelope. Tbe other battles of my life I had won unaided. At the bottom of ou hearts there Is a feeling which we do not understand a respect for the unknown. Terror, fear call it what you will some time in life every one Is made to feel it. All my life has been' given to practical facts, yet I know that at the end of all things there are no facts. In tbe silence and gray light of that morning I felt the strong presence of my friend, holding out to me a hand. I tore open the letter. Inside was another little envelope, which contained a visiting card. On it was written, "Mr. J. Carboner, 230 West Lake street," and beneath in fine script this one sentence, "Mr. Carboner is a good adviser see him!" This was fit pay for my folly. Of all the sentimental nonsense, an adviser! What was wanted was better than a million dollars of ready cash within three hours. It was now half past 6 o'clock, and I had left until half past 9 to find an ordinary, practical way out of my present difficulties. Then the banks would be open. The great wheel of business would begin to revolve, with its sure, merciless , motion. Nevertheless, in spite of my skepticism, my eyes wandered to a map of the city that bung on the wall, and I made out the location of the address given on the card. It was a bare half mile across the roofs from where I sat in quarter of tbe city lying along the river given up to brick warehouses, factories and freight . yards. Small likelihood that a man with a million to pare in his pocket was to be found over there! In this mood of depression and disgust I left my office to get shaved. "Street floor, sir," the elevator boy called out to wake me from my preoccupation. As I stood on tbe curb in the same will-less daze a cab came prowling down the street, crossed to my side and the disreputable looking driver touched bis dirty hat with his whip: "Cab, sir?" "Two-thirty West Lake." I said to htm mechanically and plunged into his carriage. The cab finally drew up beside a low, grimy brick building that looked as if it might have survived the fire. There was a flight of dirty stairs lead-! lng from the street to the office door, and over the small, old fashioned windows a faded sign read "Jules Carboner." In response to my knock an old man opened tbe locked door a crack and looked out at me. When I asked to see Mr. Carboner, he admitted me suspiciously to a little room, which was divided in two by a high iron screen. On tbe inner side of the screen there was a battered desk, a few chairs and a row of leather backed folios that might have been in sse since the founding of the city. A small coal fire was burning dully in the grate. As I stood waiting for Mr. Carboner a barge laden vith lumber cast its shadow through tb dirty windews. . "And what may you want of me?" The words were uttered like a cough. Tbe one who spoke them had entered the inner office so noiselessly that 1 had not heard him. lie had a white head of hair and Jet black eyes. I handed him my card, with Mrs. Dround's note. . "I was expecting yon." the old genraoiarked. jdancjnjt Indifferent

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"Mr. Carboner is a good adviser tee him!" of the Iron grating and held it open, pointing to a chair in front of tbe fire. Mr. Carboner was short and round, with swarthy, full blooded cheeks. Evidently he was some sort of foreigner, but I could not place him among the types of men I knew. "What do you want of me?" he demanded briskly. "Oh, just a lot of money, first and last!" I laughed. This announcement didn't seem to trouble him. He waited for an explanation. And, remembering that I was to look to htm for advice as well as cash, I proceeded to explain briefly tbe situation that I found myself in. He listened without comment. "Finally," I said rather wearily, "Just now, when I am in deep water with this railroad and ail tbe rest and tbe banks calling my loans, some fellows are selling their Meat Products stock. It will all go to my enemies, to Strauss and his crowd, and I shall find myself presently kicked out of the company. I suppose it's Mr. Dround's stock that's coming on the market. It's like him to sell when prices are going down." Tbe little old fellow shook his head. "It is not Mr. Dround's stock," he said. "Most of that is over there." He nodded his head in the direction of a small safe which stood in one corner of tbe room. "How did you get It?" I exclaimed In my astonishment, jumping to my feet. "Never mind how. We have had It three months," be replied, with a smile. "You need not fear that it will come on tbe market just now." My heart gave a great bound upward. With this block of stock locked up I could do what I would with Meat Products. Strauss could never put his hands on It. Jane Dround must have worked this stroke, but how she did it was a mystery. I walked back and forth In my excitement, and when I sat down once more Mr. Carboner began a little summary of my situation: "You are engaged in many ventures. Some are strong." He named all the good ones as if he were quoting from a carefully drawn report. "Some are weak." He named the others. "Now, you are trying to hold the weak with the strong. It is like carrying a basket of eggs on your bead. All goes well until some one runs against you. Then bum, biff yeu have tbe beginning of an omelet." His way of putting it made me laugh. "And the omelet is about ready to cook in an hour or two!" I added. "We shall see presently. You want to sell out this packing business some day, eb? To Strauss? You take big chances. You are a new man. They suspect you. They call your loans. They think you are thin in the waist? You have to borrow a great deal of money and pay high for it?" "You have slied me up. Mr. Carboner." "And after you have sold to Strauss there will be railroads ah, that is more difficult! And then many other things always ventures, risks, schemes, plans, great plans! But you are very bold." "Well, what will you do for me?" I asked bluntly. "I think we can carry you over this river, Mr. Harrington," he replied, looking at me with a very amiable air, as If he were my schoolmaster and had decided to give me a holiday and some spending money. Who made up the "we" in this firm of Rip Van Winkle bankers? Carboner seemed to divine my doubts, for be smiled as he reached for a pad of paper and began to write in a close, crabbed hand. "Take that to Mr. Bates." he directed. "You know him. eh?" Did I know Orlando Bates? If I had been to him once at the Tenth National, of which he was president, I had been to him fifty times, with varying results. I knew every wrinkle in his parchment covered face. "He will give you what you want." the old man added. I still hesitated, holding Carboner's scrawl in my hand. "You think it no good?" He motioned to the sheet of coarse paper. "Try Itr "Don't you want a receipt?" I stammered. "What for?:" Do you think I am a pawnbroker?" Tbe mystery grew. Suppose I should take this old fellow's scrawl over to Orlando Bates and the president of the Tenth National should ask me what it meant! "It ts good," Carboner said Impress-

"Whose is Itr The words escaped me neoBsdoosly. "I want to know whose money I am taking." "I hope it will be no one's," he answered lmperturbably, "except the bank's. You come to me wanting money, credit. I give it to you. I ask no questions. Why should you?" Was it a woman's money I was taking to play out my game. I recalled tbe story Sarah had told me years ago about Jane Dround's father and his fortune. He was a rich old half breed trader, and It was gossiped that he had left behind him a pile of gold. Perhaps this Mr. Carboner was some French-Canadian friend or business partner of Jane's father, who had charge of her affairs. As Sarah bad said, Jane Dround was always secretive and uncommunicative about herself. My faith in the piece of paper was growing, but I stm waited. "If you lay these matters down now," Carboner observed coldly, poking the fire with an old pair of tongs, "they will be glass. If you grasp them in a strong band they will become diamonds." But to take a woman's money! I thought for a moment and then dismissed the scruple as swiftly as it had come. This woman was a good gambler! "All right!" I exclaimed, drawing on my overcoat, which I had laid aside. "Good! Don't worry about anything. Make your trees bear fruit That Is what you can do, young man." Old

Carboner patted me on the back in a fatherly fashion. "Now we will have some coffee together. There is yet time." Tbe man who opened the door for me brought In two cups of strong coffee. and I drank mine standing, while Car boner sipped his and talked. "This disturbance will be over soon," he said sagely. "Then we shall have such times of wealth and speculation as the world has never seen. Great things will be done in a few years, and you will Co some of them. There are those, who have confidence in you. my son. And confidence Is worth many millions hi gold." He gave me his hand in dismissal. "Come to see me again, and we will talk," he added Boeiably. On the ground floor of my building there was a broker's office. It was a new firm of young men, without much backing. My old friend, Dickie Pierson, was one of them, and on his account I had given the Arm some business now and theu. This morning as I was harrying back to my office I ran into Dick standing in the door of his place. He beckoned me into the room where tbe New York quotations were beginning to go up on the board. He pointed to tbe local list of the day before. Meat Products stretched in a long string of quotations across the board, mute evidence of yesterday's slaughter. "What's doing with your concern t" Dick asked anxiously. "Some one is poanding it for all he is worth." "Who were selling yesterday?" "Stearns & Harris," he answered. (They were brokers that Strauss' crowd were known to use.) There was a mystery here somewhere, for there could not be any considerable amount of the stock loose now that Dround's block was locked op in Jules Carboner's safe. Yet did the Strauss crowd dare to sell It short in this brazen way? Tbey must think it would be cheap enough soon or they knew where tbey could get some stock when tbey wanted it "What's up?' Dick asked again, hovering at my elbow. I Judged that be had gone into Meat Products on bis own account and wanted to know which way to jump. "It looks bad for us," I said confidentially to Dickie. "You needn't publish this on tbe street" (I reckoned that tbe tip would be on the ticker before noon.) "But Dround has gone over to the other crowd. And probably some of our people are squeezed just now so tbey can't bold their Meat Products." I added some yarn about a lawsuit to make doubly r'ire of Dickie and ordered him to sell a few hundred shares on my own account as a clincher. When I reached my telephone I called up some brokers that I trusted and told them to watch the market for Meat Products stock and pick it up quietly, leading on the gang that was pounding our Issues all tbey could. Au hour later, on my way back from the Tenth National, where I had Lad a most satisfactory interview with Mr. Orlando Bates. I dropped hi at Dickie Plerson's place. Meat Products shares were active and in full retreat across the broad board. "I guess you had better sell some more for me." I said to Dickie. "Sell a thousand tomorrow." CHAPTER XXVL VICTOBT. The shorts are-caught Big John comes to my offloe to get terms A.n exchange of opinions An alliance proposed reject it My enemies are flattering I ha ve arrived. mHEY sent old John Carmlcbael around to treat with me. He had come to the office the same as any other man who bad a favor to ask. Slocum and I and two or three others who were dose to us were there waiting for him and discussing tbe terms we ehouldgive. "Tbey must be short in the neighborhood of 15,000 shares common and preferred the best we can make out" Slocum reported, after conferring with our brokers. "How did you have the nerve. Van, to run this corner when you knew Dround's stock was loose?" "It isn't loose," I answered. "Where Is it then? We know pretty well where every other share is. but bis block has dropped out of tbe market It was transferred to some New York parties last October." I smiled tranquilly. There had been no leak In our barrel. Slocum and I had been around to all the other large holders of Meat Products, and I knew tbey woo Id not go back on us. Tbe Strauss crowd would find the corner invulnerable. When Carmlcbael came in he nodded to me familiarly, just as he used to at Dround's when he bad been away on a trip to New York or some place, and called out gruffly: "Say, I told them you were a bad one to go up against Say. Harrington, do you remember how you scalped poor old McGee back in the days wben you were doing odd jobs at Dround's? Well, lcajB.0r bars to ae.wnal JRu want

for your o.d sausage shop, anyway.With that gibe at my start in tbe packing business be settled back In his chair and pulled out a cigar. "I don't know that we are anxious to sell, John." 1 replied. "What? That talk don't go. I know you want to get out mighty bad. What's your figure?" "You fellows have given us a lot of trouble, first and last." I mused tranquilly. "There was that injunction business over the London and Chicago company and the squeeze by the banks. You have tried every dirty little game you knew." Carmichael grinned and smoked. "I suppose you want our outfit to turn out some more rotten canned stuff for the government What you sold them isn't fit for a Chinaman to eat John." Thereupon I reached into a drawer of my desk and brought out a tin of army beef marked with the well known brand of the great Strauss. I proceeded to open it and as soon as the cover was removed a foul odor offended our nostrils. "Here's a choice specimen one of our boys got for me." Carmichael smoked on placidly. "That Is something we have never done, though we couldn't make anything on our contract at the figures you people set. And little of tbe business we got, anyway: Strauss ought to be put where he'd have to feed off his own ratlous." So we sat and scored one another comfortably for a time and then came to business. The terms that Slocum and I had figured out were that Strauss and his crowd should pay us tn round numbers $200 per share preferred and common alike, allowing every shareholder the same terms. Carmichael leaped to bus feet wben he heard tbe figures. "You're crasy mad. Van," be swore volubly. Then be stated his plan, which was, in brief, that we should make an alliance with the great Strauss and sell bim at "reasonable figures" an Interest in our company. "And let you and Strauss freeze out my friends? Not for one minute! Go back and tell your boss to find that stock he's short of." Carmichael threw us an amused glance. "Do you think that's worrying us? If you want a fight I guess we can give you some trouble." It seems that tbey bad another club behind tbeir backs, and that was a suit which they were Instigating tbe attorney general to bring against tbe Meat Products company for Infringing the Illinois anti-trust act The impudence and boldness of this suggestion angered me. "All right" I said. "Yon have our figure, John." He left us that day, but be came tbe next morning with new proposuls from his master. Tbey were anxious to bave a peaceable settlement I bad known for some time that these men were preparing for an astonishing move, whicl was nothing less than a gigantic combination of all tbe large food product industries of the country, and tbey could not leave us as a thorn in their side. Tbey must annex us. cost what it might So now they talked of my ability, of what I had done in making a great business out of a lot of remuauts. and tbey wanted to buy me as well as out company, offering me some strong in ducements to join them, but I told Carmlcbael shortly: "I will never work with Strauss In this life. It's no use you talking. John There isn't enough money coined to bring me to bim. You must buy out stock outright, and be quick about it too." He could not understand my feeling and it was not reasonable, but all these years of desperate fight there had grown up in my heart a hatred of my enemy beyond the usual cold passions of business. I hated bim as v. machine, as a man as a cruel, treacherous, selfish, unpatriotic maker of dol Iars. So in the end tbey came to my terms and the lawyers set to work on tht papers. The Strauss interests were t take over tbe Meat Products stock ct our figure and also the Empress line, our private car enterprise, and two or. three smaller matters that bad growu up in connection with the packing business. When Slocum and I went on to New York to finish tbe transaction Sarah and tbe girls accompanied us, on their way to Europe, where they were going for a pleasure trip. Thus In a few months my labors came to flower, and suddenly the map of my life changed completely. The end was not yet but no longer was I tbe needy adventurer besieging men of means to Join me in my enterprises, dodging daily blows In a hand to hand scrimmage, a struggling packer. I bad brought Strauss to my own terms, and wben tbe proud firm of Morris Bros., tbe great bankers, invited me to confer witb them in regard to our railroad properties in the southwest and to take part in one of those deals which in a day transform the industrial map of the country I felt that I bad come out upon. the level plateau, of power

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A PROMISE UNFULFILLED "STICK AND YOU WILL WEAR DIAMONDS," STAGE INSTRUCTOR TOLD HER BUT THE GEMS FAILED TO ARRIVE. New York. Aug. 28. "And I had vviae on the ice aud hot birds in the kitchen for them, but when I saw he didn't have my $1,300 diamond ring on I just went all to pieces, and I guess I said 'damn to bim and ordered bim and his friend out of the house." "Yes, she did that." said Bessie, the maid. "And when he turned to me and said, 'Don't I look honest, Bessie? I just let him have it, and said, 'I've seen many a burglar with an honester face than yours,' and he couldn't say anything to that." Thus, amid tears and sobs, ended a recital by Mrs. Charles A Ryan and Bessie, the maid, of Mrs. Ryan's troubles witb Hunter de Bouvier, who was held in the West Side court by Magistrate O'Connor in ?2.000 bail on a charge of defrauding Mrs. Ryan of $1,600 by promise that he would make her a second Bernhardt. " 'Stick to me and you'll wear diamonds, was his motto." said Mrs. Ryan, "and I stuck all right, but it was he who wore the diamonds, when he didn't pawn them. Now, please don't ask me to say any more, for I am so flustered I can hardly think." "It was this way." said Bessie, the maid, determined that nervousness should not suppress the account of man's deception and woman's guilelessness. "He told her he would star her in a play called "The United States Cigar" and that if she made a hit it would be worth $20,000 to her. And It would, too, if she had appeared in tights," added Bessie, the maid. a Vision of Big Profits. "That wasn't just it." interrupted Mrs. Ryan, her confusion getting the better of her nervousness. "He talked about that only at first. It was as Lady Julia in 'Pompeii. at $250 a week, that I was to make the big hit, but before we woke up he gave me a vision of not having to appear on the vulgar stage at all and drawing half the big profits we were to make, for just traveling with the company." "There wouldn't have been any trouble if my husband hadn't tied up his money in an annuity." explained Mrs. Ryan. "When we sold our house at 325 Maitland avenue, Brooklyn he gave me half what he got for it and I put my money into jewelry thinking 1 could save it better that way. We moved up to 172 West Seventy-Ninth street Manhattan, and there I began to wonder what I would do if my husband died. I thought of the theatrical business and was directed to De Bouvier as a man who would put me in right. "He surely did. First he got CLOCK for expenses, and I spent another $100 on tights and things. 1' Then be got some more, and finally I gave him my $1,300 diamond ring to make a flash with as he put it but he pawned it for SG0O. Wanted Furniture Mortgaged. "That's where I drew the line, that and when he tried to get me to mortgage my furniture." While Mrs. Ryan was nursing her wrath and telling her troubles in her apartment at 140 West Forty-Third street, De Bouvier, Wio lives at the Hotel Woodstock In West Forty-third street was trying to raise $2,500 bail. He asured the magistrate Mrs. Ryan was in partnership with him and' had given him the jewelry to raise money for their mutual advantage, but when he failed to produce partnership papers the magistrate cut him short He had other papers signed by Mrs. Ryan the nature of which she said she did did not know. "I signed anything he asked me to" Bhe declared. "I cannot explain it, unless be had a hypnotic Influence over me. I only recently came from a sanitarium, and don't always know what I am doing." Mrs. Ryan's husband, who lives at the Catholic club, declined today to comment on bor trouble with De Bouvier. TO ELECT OFFICERS Washington, D. C, Aug. 28. The twenty-fourth National Encampment of the Union Veteran Legion will meet in this city Sept. Sth to 11th Inclusive, for the election of officers for the ensuing term and other business. Great preparations are being made by the local encampments of this city. Nos. 69 and 111, w-ho are making strenuous efforts to give their visiting comrades, with tbeir families, friends, and members of other visiting patriotic organizations that come here a royal welcome. A great deal of enthusiasm is being shown by the various encampments throughout the United States over the prospect of a visit once more, en masse, to the capital of their country, probably for the last time. Washington is an especially appropriate place for a soldier convention, being in the vicinity of so many battlefields and other places of historic interest Father And so yonr scboolteaeter Is dead? Sonny What's the good of that while tbe school Is still there 1 His. Cndorfer Btattec ' ; r :

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Standing out as a conspicuous feature of a bulletin issued by the census bureau entitled "Census of Religious Bodies." is the fact that out of a church membership In the United States in 1Hh of nearly 33.000.000. males formed considerably less than half of the total. Of the total church membership reported by the various religious bodies and classified by sx, 43.1 per cent, were males and 36.9 per cent, were females. Among the Protestants the difference was greater, only 39.3 per cent, being males, while In the Roman Catholic church the males formed 49.3 per cent, of the total membership. Fewer males than females were found among the Latter Day Saints, the Lutherans. Disciples. Methodists. Baptists: Presbyterians and Protestant Episcopalians, the percentages of male members decreasing in the order shown, and there being but 33.5 per cent of males among tbe Episcopalians. Among the Christian Scientists only 27.6 per cent were males and j of the Shakers but 21.3 per cent; but ' in the Greek Orthodox church 93.9 1 per cent were males. Other salient features of the report show that there were a million and a quarter dollars invested in church edifices, and that every day eight new A CALL IS ISSOED Concord, Mass., Aug. 2S. A call has been sent out by P. E. Call, Secretary of the National Association of Rural Letter Carriers, for a Convention to be held at Rochester, N. Y.. Sept 21st to 24th. The opening of the convention will be in the hands of O. J. Welch, President of the New York branch, who, after a welcoming speech by His Honor, H. H. Edgerton, Mayor of Rochester, and addresses by Jas. B. Perkins, Congressman, and the Postmaster of Rochester, will turn the gavel over to Paul L. Lindsay, of Tucker, Ga., President of the National Association. Among the subjects scheduled for discussion are: "Good Roads," Director C. M. Adams; "Rural Free Delivery," Hon. P. V. De Graw, 4th Assistant Postmaster General, and W. R. Spellman, Supt. Rural Free Delivery, Washington; "Parcels Post and Postal Savings Banks," by members of the Association.

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churches sent their spires skyward. Of the total estimated population of continental United States in 1906 the church members formed 39.1 per cent, as against 32.7 per cent for 1S90. Of this 6.4 per cent the Roman Catholic church is credited with 4.4 per cent and the Protestants with l.S, the remainder being divided among all other denominations.

The total church membership 1906 was 32.936.443. of which number the Protestants were credited with 20.2S7.742 and the Roman Catholics with 12.079.142. Of the Protestant bodies the Methodists numbered 5.749,838. the Baptists 5.662.234. the Lutherans, 2.112.494. the Presbyterians 1.830,535 and the Disciples or Christiana 1.142.359. The rate of increase shown for the Roman Catholic church is 93.5 per cent, which is more than twice that for all the Protestant bodies combined. Richmond Lodge Loyal Order of MOOSE Now Forestall Charter Members Accepted, $5.00. "Moose" pay $7.00 a week, sick or accident; $100.00 burial fund. Free medical attendance for members and family. FINEST CLUB AND LODGE FEATURES. Richmond, Ind. Headquarters, 33-34 Colonial Bldg.. Main and 7th Sts. Phone 2175. Solicitors wanted; see Mr. May. Call for beautiful Free Souvenir. DR. L. S. CHEN0WETH Dentist. Now on vacation; will be In New Offices in Murray Theater Bldg., Oct 15. Cor. 10th & Main Sts. PURE CIDER VINEGAR WHITE VINEGAR WHOLE SPICES HADLEYBROS. Dairy Co. PHONV 111 CENT. ftlivn tsnlve