SYNOPSIS. a Sen At a vestry meeting of the Market Bagunre church Gall Sargent tells Rev. Smith Boyd that Market Square church is apparently a lucrative business enter- . Afison takes Gall riding in his meteor car. Bhe finds cold disapproval in the eyes of Rev. Smith Boyd. Alison starts a easmpalgn for consolidation and control of the entire transportation sys- ttm of the world Alllson gnims control of transcontinental traeffle awd arranges to absorb the der court tenement property of Market Soware church, | ry ements for so many years, the city had, all at once, discovered that the condition was unbearable! The free and entirely uncurbed metropolitan press had taken up, with great enthu. slasm, the work of poking the finger It had pub C.D.RIHODES squalor. At a meeting of the seven finan- clad magnates of the country, Allison oe- ganizes the International Transportation company. Rev. Smith Boyd Gals spirual instruction and Gall consciousty gives Allison a hint that solves the Vedder court problem for him. On an inspection trip in Allison's new sub- way the tunnel! caves in. Gall goes back to mer home in the West. Her friends lure her and Arty back to New York old sots of buildings, and, where they did not seem to drip enough, the it bad sent budding young Poes and Dick. enses down there to write up the place. It had sent the sob sisters trodden, and, above all things, it had manity in Yedder court Rev. Smith Boyd saddenly finds that he Is a real living —and leving—-man. He pre poses to Gall but, on the verge of acceptance, she re- members thelr religious differences, and refuses. CHAPTER XVII. The Public is Aroused. immense Market this or profit which wrung from Gall turned sick at heart as she Uncle Jim permitted four morning papers to come to the house, nanny and elosed the deor, and sank upon her divan. She did not stop tonight to tet down her halr and change to ter dainty megligee, nor straighten the room, nor to turn om the beautiful green light: instead, with afl the electric bulbs with her chin in her to band, and, the dignified old charch standing be youd it, with mingled indignation and humiliation. A sort of ignominy seemed to have descended up it, like a man whose features seem coarsened prison stripes; and the fact which she study the whirl! of her mind She was shaken, shaken and stirred beea before. Something in the depths of her bad leaped up into life, and cried owt in agony, and would not stop crying aetil it was satisfied "I need you to walk hand with me about the greatest the world!” That was it; the greatest work ian the world! And what was that work? To live and teach fm place of religion: to turn worship into a social ob to use help lege bolief as a ambition; to reduce fa is, and hope to a recitation, and charity to an obliga tion; to make pomp and ceremony a substitate for cons ce, and to inter Pose a secretary the heart and God! For just a nstan ail dropped, her g § knew as she had never she in hand work servance; ladder of th to w humazt 3 eyelids upon her che il her eyes gi and a the cormers of her lips; serious again. No wisely eath them ile touched inted, There waa a knock on the door, an (Gall smiled again as she said: “Come in.” Mrs. Helen stately in ruffles ind prepared to enact the role of con scientions mother Davie her boudoir frills “Doctor Boyd night.” she char amtherity “Yes, Aunt Helen.” and Cail to pull pins out of her hair. A worried expression brow of Aunt Helen. ‘Did you accept him?” and she fair ly quivered with anxiety. “No, Aunt Helen.” Quite calmly, piling more hairpins and still more foto the little tray by her side, and shaking down her rippling waves of hair Aunt Helen sighed a deep sigh of relief, and smiled her approval, “Gal, dear, you have shown a de gree of carefulness which | am de lighted to find in youn. If you handle all your affairs so sensibly, you have a brilliant future before you" “1 must be an awful worry to you, Aunt Helen,” observed Gall, and walk- ing over, she slipped her arm around Mrs. Davies’ neck and kissed her and looked around for her chocolate box Gail's maid came in, and Mrs Da vies bade her sister's nfece good night most cordially, and retired with a great load off her mind: and halt an hour later the lights in Gail's pretty little suite went out. If she lay long hours looking out ar the pale stars; if, in the midst of her calm logic, she suddenly buried her face in her pillows and sobbed silent ly; if, toward morning, she awoke with a little cry to find her face and her hands hot, all these things were but normal and natural. It is enough to know that #he came to her break fast brighteyed and rosy-cheeked and smiling with the pleasant greetings of the day. and picked up the papers casually, and Ht upon the newest sen. sation of the free and entirely un curbed metropolitan press! The free and entirely uneurbed met. ropolitan press had found Vedder court and had made it the sodden focus of the public eye. Those few whe were privileged to know Inti mately the workings of that adroit master of the public welfare, Tim Cor man, could have recognized clearly his fino hand in the blaze of notoriety which obscure Vedder court had sud denly received. After baving en. dured the contamination and conta gion of the Market Square church ten propos: ed ged, to you with crossed tion of the disgrace of Market Square church seemed to have descend upon her could not make why this should be; but it was Grace Sargent, that Gail She Aunt see more bustling about to was supplied with sibly sample of went straight that unmistakable oa Qail's face, and up to her sister Helen, the creases of worry deep in her brow Mra. Helen @ in bed, and absorbing saw distress Davies was she ceremony sidered hor = “1 did haviog her while she con ister's news, that Gail not think WAR 80 last night.” ashe mused: “but of course gp “Doctor Boya Froposed to You To night,” She Charged. she could not sleep, and she's full of sympathy this morning, and afraid that maybe she made a mistake, and {eels perfectly wretched.” Grace Sargent sat right down “Did the rector propose?” breathlessly inquired, Mrs Davies poured horself some more bot coffee, and nodded “She refused him.” “Oh!” and acute distress settled on Grace Sargent’s brow, with such a firm clutey that it threateneu to homestead the location. Mrs Sar gent shared the belief of Rev Smith Boyd's mother, that Smith Boyd was the finest young man in the world: and Gail's aunt was speechless with dis may and disappointment, “I have ceased to worry about Gail's future,” went on Mrs. Davies compla- cently. “It is her present condition about which I am most concerned She is so conscientious and self-ana Iytical that she may distress herself over this affair, and | must got in Arly and Lucile, and plan a series of gay- eties which will keep her mind occu: pied from morning until night.” In consequence of this kindly deci sion, Gall was plunged into gayety un- til she loathed the scrape of a violin! The mere fact that she had no time to think did not remove the fact that she had a great deal to think about and the gayety only added dismsaily to her troubled® burden. Meanwhile, the free and entirely un- curbed metropolitan press went mer rily onward with its righteous Vedder court crusade, until it had the public indignation properly aroused. The public indignation rose to such a pitch that, if the public had sot been busy with affairs of its own, and if #t had not been Im the habit of leaving everything to be seen to by the people financially interested, and if it had not consisted chiofly of a few active she vocal cords, there is not the slightest doubt, it ts worth repeating, that the public might have done wmomething about Vedder court! As things were, it grow most satisfactorily tndignant. It talked of nothing else, In the sub- ways and on the “L's” and on the sur face lines, and on the cindery com- muter trains; and on the third day of the agitation, before something else should happen to shake the populace to the very foundation of its being, the city authorities condemned the Ved der court property as unsanitary, in- human and unsafe, as a menace to the public morals, health and life, and as a blot upon civilization; this last be ing a fancy touch added by Tim Cor man himself, who, in his old age, had a tendency to link poetry to his prac- ticabllity. In consequence of this de cision, the city authorities ordered Vedder court to be forthwith torn down, demolished and removed from the face of the earth; thereby justify ing, after all, the existence of the free and entirely uncurbed metropolitan press! The exaet psychological mo- ment had been chosen. The public, caught at the very height of its frenzy, applauded, and ate its dinner in virtu- ous satisfaction: and Gail Sargent's distress crystallized into a much eas And so Market Square church had persisted {n clutching its greedy hold on a commercial advantage so vile Her mind was f{mmensely about Rev. Smith Boyd chosen well and wisely! bad She CHAPTER XVII. Rev, Smith Boyd Protests. The doves which cooed have over flown away the vestry had door, they been loud was somewhat at variance with the red-robed figure of the Good Shepherd in the pointed window of the vestry The late arrival was Josepn G. Clark, and his sought that Banker Chisholm, before Le nodded to the oth ers and took his seat at Gothi table Rev. Smith Boyd who was particularly striight and tall today particularly 1 enough for ide, ¢ Of eye the and in earnest, paused 3 Yioht the slight snd then long ance to subs he “That is my unalterable he declared tion the matter,” church has a mission, it is the human wards. We responsibility for these miserable wrecks whom we have made our can’t feed and clothe them, Banker Chisholm, = mutton chops already from the anger-reddensed skin hose be foesn't to panperize the Ww pay » t fills Cun supplement stroking his Cunningham, relationship to economics sisted in permitting his checks, had tmbibed od am, lacontly whose con secretary a few prin CRsSIons iI do not wish to pauperize them, “1 am of having rned the rector willing to socept the shan the city the pleasure tenements in of re Ved for placing the foul Joseph GG. Clark glanced again at Chisholm “They'd dirty years,” he observed type of sanitary be again in n tenement make a penny of profit; and we can't “Are we compelled to profit?” retorted the rector. “Is it nec essary for Market Square church to remain perpetually a commercial land. lord? The vestry gazed at Rev. Smith Boyd in surprised disapproval. Their previous rector had talked like that, and Rev. Smith Boyd had been a great relief “So long as the church has property at all it will meet with that persistent charge,” argued Chisholm. “It seems to me that we have had enough of it My own inclination would be to sell the property outright, and take up slower, but less personal, forms of investment.” Old Nicholas Van Ploon, sitting far enough away to fold his hands com fortably across bis tight vest, screwed his neck around so that he could glare at the banker “No,” he objected; for the Van Ploon millions had been accumulated by the growth of tall office buildings out of a worthless Manhattan swamp “We should never sell the property * “There are a dozen arguments against keeping it,” returned the nasal voice of old Joseph G. Clark. “The chief one is the necessity of making a large investment in these new tene ments” Rev Smith Boyd rose again, shut ting the light from the red robe of the Good Shepherd out of quietly con: centrated Jim Sargent's eyes. “1 object to this entire discussion,” he stat. “We have a moral obliga tion which forbids us to discuss mat ters of Investment and profit within these walls as If we were a lard trust We have neglected our moral obliga tion in Vedder court, until we are as blackened with sin as the thief on the cross.” Shrewd old Rufus Manning looked at the young rector curiously He was puzzled over the change in him “Don’t swing the pendulum too far, Docior Boyd,” Manning reminded him, with a great deal of kindliness. These make a two had met often In Vedder court “Our sins, such as they are, are more passive than active.” It was, of course, old Nicholas Van Ploon who fell back again on the stock argument which had been quite sufficient to soothe his consclence for all these years, “We give these people cheaper rent than they can find anywhere in the city.” “We should continue to do so, but in cleaner and wholesome quar- ters,” quickly returned the rector “This Is the home of all theses poverty- stricken people whom Market Square church has taken under its shelter, and we have no right to dispose of it.” “That's what | say,” and Nicholas Van Ploon nodded his round head. “We should not sell the property.” “We cannot for shame, if for noth- ing agréed the rector, on every point of vantage to support his intense desire to lift the Vedder court derelicts from the depth of their degradation. “We He now under the disgrace of having owned property so filthy that the city was compelled to order it torn down which we can more else.” The only way in redeem the reputation into the Little to Meet She Came Reception “Cosy” Allison was 10 gigs i “Suppose back Clark, = had Standard Cereal company | of all the breadstuffs by process. “If we rebuild set selves back in the cathedral ten years You can't wipe out you call disgrace, even if yoa give all these paupers free board and compulsory baths My proposition ie to telephone for Edward EE Allison, and tell him we're reads accept his offer.” “Not while we resumed a mon that our Our ic i'm a member of this swiveling himsell to defy Joseph G Clark “1 put Mr. Clark's proposition as a motion,” ferked W_T. Chisholm, and in the heated argument which en sued, the Good Shepherd in the win- of the red robe. in the end, the practicalminded members won over the sentimentai ists, if Nicholas Van Ploon could be classed under that'heading, and All son was telephoned Before they were through wrangling over the de- cision to have him meet them, Alli son was among them. One might al most have thought that he had been walting for the call; but he ex changed no more friendly glances with Clark and Chisholm, of the new international Transportation com pany, than he did with any of the others “Well, Allison, we've decided to ac cept your offer for the Vedder court property,” stated Manning “1 haven't made you any, but I'm willing,” returned Allison. Jim Sargent drew from his pocket a memorandum slip. “You offered us a sum which, at three and a balf per cent, would ac crue, in ten years, to forty-two mil lion dollars,” he reminded the presi company. “That figures to 4 spot-cash proposition of thirty-one millions, with A repeating decimal of one; s0 some body will have to lose a cent” “That offer is withdrawn,” said Al lison “1 don’t see why,” objected Jim Sar. gent. “The property is as valuable for your purpose as it ever was." “I don’t dispute that; but in earning capacity property. Sluce of your that capacity to you the loss which the city has com pelled you to sustain.” “There 8 some show of reason Clark. Chisholm leaned forward, with of which were heads winged cherubs “What is your present offer?” "Twenty-five million; cash.” “We refuse!” announced Van Ploon, bobbing his round emphatically. “I'm not so sure that turned Clark carved the we do” land I doubt if we can obtain more” “Then don't sell!” Nicholas Van Ploon. we this discussion with we Mr. Allison have digested the offer” | the quiet of Manning, i this hint, Allison withdrew He smiled as he which broke in moment he losed the him. Being on Gail Sa a little tea party of the gayest brightest whom Au Helen id bring together into Hittle smiling voles and, the controversy heard out had « 80 near, he regent, faining and nt Dia She ( Ory’ to rt pleasure i the Allisc here seemed to in came reception meet he a gree of wistfulness her return “Of course her gr of frie night of I couldn't « i | portunity to . 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