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 . J
{ shaking her by both hands. and
them while he
dro
hold
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