■SJOMS FROM IRE RAY CF GEORGE rt.OQflM EDVAR^\AR3HALL m/mt PitrrocßAPio rran otic n thc.plw [Continued.] Jackson wincco. ne reflected thst j tlria showed the gratitude, the cherlsh> lac regard of the worklngmen. His imole had Just gone to his reward and now, because he, the heir, in a mo ment of decent Impulse, had done the sqnare thing by them, the faithful la borers were quite content to follow their old friend's obsequies by torch lights borne in glory to the new one whQe brass bands played ragtime! Joaie had looked up the correspon dence with the Empire Advertising Agency, and now gave the letters she had found to Wallace. He looked at them, frowned, Bhook Ms head and bit his Up, very much astonished, very much annoyed. "It's the Empire, all right," he was foroed to admit. But before be had a chanoe to read the letters, Sam came in. tramping like a little elephant, threw back his massive head, half closed his ayes and roared: "Mr. —Pembroke —and—Mr. —Leary—» to —see —Mr.—Jones." "Tell them to corue right In," said Broadway. His neck thrust this way and that—two thrusts in honor of bi£ business. Wallace smiled. "Judge," he said, "did yon ever see e man refuse to take a million and a half?" "Not yet" "Well, watoh the little professor, oyer there." He nodded toward Broad way. Then, to the man of whom he had been speaking: "Sit at that desk and look business-like." 'ln that chair?" asked Broadway with determination. "Not after what he said! 'And then he sat. there, and he died.' No, I'll die standing up." "Shall I go?" asked Josle. "No; please don't" Then Pembroke entered, trailed by * fallow person, young In years, old In expression, and bearing in his hand IP "We're Not Going to Sell. We're Go ing to Fight." a new stenographer's notebook and a little group of finely sharpened pen cils, which he carried as if they might have been small, very deadly weap ons, to be used in time of need upon his master's enemies. "How do you do, Mr. Pembroke," said Broadway with what he conceiv ed to be great dignity. "Mr. Jones," said Pembroke, bowing formally. Broadway waved him to the fatal chair. "Sit right down here," he urged. "No, thank you," Pembroke coun tered. "He's on!" Broadway whispered to Wallace. Gravely Pembroke bowed to all the others of the party, murmuring, as he did 80, their names. Rut as he bowed to Wallace he said "Wilson." " 'Wilson?' " said the judge and Josle in astonishment and concert. Bob winked at them. "Yes; that's right," he hissed. That's my name." This over, Pembroke turned to his stenographer, who had found a seat upon an office stool. "Take the en tire conversation, John," he directed. This feazed Broadway for an in stant but he recovered quickly. Was he to be outdone by this emissary of the Gum Trust in presenting evidences of suspicion? Not if he, Broadway Jones, was kept informed of what was going on, he wasn't. He pointed to a youth whom he had seen about the f office frequently, and asked Josie: "Stenographer, is he?" She nodded. "What's his name?" asked Broad way, In a whisper. "Henry." Broadway was content. With a grand air and several protrusions of the neck, he ordered: "Take the entire conversation, Henry." Outdone by anyone like Pembroke! He thought not! "Are we to talk In the presence of all here?" asked Pembroke calmly, coldly, disapprovingly. He was very cautious. "I'm satisfied, if you are," Broadway answered. "Sit down, judge." "Very w e ". Mr. Jones," said Pem broke gravely. "Mr. Jones, I am not in the habit of doing business through hirelings." He cast a scornful glance at Wallace, who smiled sweetly in re turn. "Your Mr. Wilson, your secre tary as he represents himself to be, and whose impertinance, by the way, is beyond description, has had the audacity to state that I should have * to do business through him or not at all." THURSDAY EVENING, "Those were my itistiuctions," Jack son auwered, never wavering. "I should like to understand the reason for so unusual an arrange ment" "Well," said Jackson, "you want to buy something that I own. He's the salesman, that's all." He paused, wondering at his own great brilliance. "John Wanamaker owns a store, but he doesn't wait on the customers, does he?" This was unanswerable. It dum founded Pembroke; it delighted all the other hearers, saving only the two secretaries, who were bent above their tasks with nervous diligence. Broadway himself laughed outright. "How was that?" he asked Wallace In a whisper. "You're Immense, on the square," said Wallace, with intense apprecia tion. Pembroke was not thus impressed. He was offended. He was evidently ready for offence from any quarter. Tou are flippant, sir," he said with a grave scorn. "You gave me your word that the deal would be consummated at two o'clock yesterday afternoon. The price was settled and agreed upon by both of us." Jackson sat in silence, regarding him with an innocent, unwavering at tention which very greatly disconcert, ed him. "1 returned by appointment to your !New York apartment, with my law yers and papers ready to sign, and upon Inquiring from an insolent butler as to your whereabouts I received the information that you were on your way to Egypt." "Good old Rankin!" muttered Broad way, and decided, then and there, to raise his butler's wages once more. "He said the only word that you had left for me was a profance request that I go to—er —well, we'll not re peat. it." "Til make that raise a twenty, not a ten," Broadway reflected. "Believing you to be a man of In tegrity," Pembroke went on, "unfor tunately for me I had no witnesses present at oiw 1 closing of the bargain." Broadway continued to a mile ex pansively. "Still," said Pembroke, "I ask yon. as man to man, is your word worth lees?" Broadway looked at him with an intensity of gaze which required three stretchings of the neck to bring about. "When I'm doing business with un scrupulous people, yes," he answered. Pembroke, shuddering, turned to his stenographer. "Have you got that, John?" And John nodded. "Got that, Henry?" Broadway de manded of his man. And Henry nod ded. Then Broadway walked the floor, keeping the astonished Pembroke fix ed with a glittering eye. That care ful, able, very modern business per son was rather notably surprised by the young man. Somehow he seemed to have developed since the hour, so short a time before, when first he had encountered him in New York city. "When I fell for your rush football business methods yesterday and agreed to sell," said Broadway, his voice assuming an extraordinary sing song, to his friends unusual, to him self astonishing, to Pembroke discon certing, and. in later years, a cele brated thing, "I wasn't aware of the low, contemptible tricks to which your company had stooped In order to put my poor old uncle out of business." His voice thrilled with feeling when he used those touching words "my poor old uncle." His "poor old uncle" would have been emphatically sur prised had he been there to hear that thrill. "I didn't k-n-o-w it was the result of the business blows you'd dealt him that sent him to his g-r-a-v-e." (I am endeavoring, by means of hyphen#, to indicate the lingering, scathing em phasis which Broadway, this day sat urated in the soul of oratory, was giv ing now to certain words.) "I didn't k-n-o-w it was the purpose of the con cern with which I was dealing to throw out of work hundreds of men that owed to that thing I was selling their very means of livelihood, food for their babies, education for their growing sons and d-a-u-g-h-t-e-r-s." Even Wallace looked at him amazed. The tremolo, the emphasis, the feeling; which Broadway was putting into this extraordinary line of talk to the trust agent were all new and beautiful to him. "Lots of things I didn't know yester day, Mr. Pembroke," said the young man in -conclusion, "but I've found them out since then, and that Is why I've broken my word." Pembroke's impassiveness was ruf fled ; there was not the slightest doubt of that. On Josie's face there was a look of admiration which was balm to Broad way's soul; the judge had listened with a mouth continually opening wider; Wallace was frankly triumph ant. "You didn't think that I could talk that way, did you?" asked Broadway of his adversary. Then, to Wallace: , "How was it?" "Great!" [To lie < ■ontlnued. | ,Try Telegraph Want Ads, PVVtfffTfTVTfrT |Hp|il ||| L jLkA a,l | | |ji fl f ■!/ OI XvU ArCOdltt ————— I ► ES,. v r^Ss ; at Half Price 1 111 11 (|! I || \fSkeett Women's $2.00 ► BOWMAN'S —Main Floor. Comprising all of the sample BH 111 111 111 ! Sill W Made of good even thread mus- f n C/t CL... . — _ — _ pairs that we have on the floor. BUfU yl BUJI | ■ I || h HH | | flHjn |l fr n n . Friday's price 50c. Pillow lv „ ,0 * S°'u SS 85.1. VX' < ■ Pillow Cases B ,W " ANS """ fS'S . ; $7.89 Matting The first Friday S9c Enameled • BOWMAN'S Main Floor. RllgS Batßam DaV M OUT Women's 53.50 ' ► ~™——— Size 6x9 feet. Nice blight new O . for Friday, 12-quart size, only o .• ft, I 20cEmbroidered K""":.."""'"'" .'s% new business year V Floancings BOWMAN rioo,-. , n m*. ~,^o^,®"%'& JJK < r f IVUllLlUga I promises some „ . . twenty pairs to closo out »t J l 18 inches wide. Embroidered ■■ • aa f%f • rAir/v.tffflfm , B °£,r^ !t S^dVßa k BtSSelh $2.25 Very attraCtlVC BOWMAN'S —Third F.o„, « , vard Carpet Sweeper oil I'mA* Government _•< BOWMAN'S—MaIn Floor. These are Blsslls' standard VaIUCS 111 clll KIIIQS Am\\ OveYCOOtS Children'* < ► ■■—— sweepers in mahogany and oak r , , * WfllMllclia . ,7c Silver X h- . . perfect . wo . rkers : #lB9 of seasonable who h, hVve a o n utX p o°r r te%o or b uy e S SI.OO Shoes v K • jpi.Ot* good army overcoat for a song, ~ . j ► r»/«.i r.l,' . BOWMAN'S Fourth Floor. _J_ or these overcoats can bo cut up , , in, B ll » metal and vlc» kifl. fjTaV tail CO 200C1S. for children's clothing. They are blucher style. 411 pairs in the . ► In strines and (loirpi Put —— O made with big capes and lined lot- Sizes 5, 5%, 6, 7 and 8. Frl from the ful? pieces Friday C 1 9K InlniJ \T7 * * s. C ' L with the very best of wool, blue day SQO ► Bargain price, yard f« | We TC JUSt linish" loT^asts™^.^. Prl ?f'. .T r . h . n ('qlk BOWMAN'S—Third Floor. I ► BOWMAN'S—Main Floor. LinOUUm ... #»<-! i A7 ,'tK c fr»r>L- llcf- BOWMAN'S—Third Floor. ————— | . ln remnant lengths. Enough Gvl Willi 01131 •> /»/* . , 121.2 c Daisy i. n „SX tt«„."CS , u!«K~j; ; n „ The nrocess r p.—■■■ ss m * ine process men and $2.50 Shoes ( rtannets ■ * revesleri msnv lots $3.50 Fancy Vests n.aok nm. .an cau. btuoi.«r. , ;a, 27 inches wide, pink, light and BOWMAN'S—Fourth Floor. ICVCfIICU lU«liy IUW Made Q{ a „ k Qr a gora cloth. Heavy soles and copper tips. All t j dark blue. Friday, per yard, mmmmm—m—mmmmmmmmim* f 1 .1 ■ Extra special for Friday, at sizes. About 50 pairs in the lot, j ► tyit U ,.. A • jot goods that are #1.95 pair $1.50 1 k BOWMAN'S—Main Floor. White otTiP€u 1 1 BOWMAN'S—Third Floor. BOWMAN'S—Third Floor. , , Lawn now reduced. ► •iic* Used for dlßplay Hnd slightly Snmp of thpsp lots Men's $2.50 * Clled Scrim* soiled. Limit, 5 yards to a cus- tJOIIie OI UICSC ItH» (lilavrnni* . «« «. i llltu Otrims tomer owing to the small lot. , , |— . UVerCOOIS J{9 AA Vhn** With plain centers and pretty Friday, yard ATP ITiarlcPfl at T fi- Of dark gray Kersey, with con- U " U V tt * vv " ,,u " 4 a. borders, white or ecru ground. QIV/ HlulM/U ui. 1 11 vertlble collar and belt. Kxtra About 50 pairs of tail and black i Friday Bargain price, yard, 1 7V* BOWMAN S—Main nooi. 1 O * special value for Friday, at shoes in button and lace styles. 4 ► bowman's—Fourth Floor, fo i *p- i day bargain prices. $1.35 e^hXVV^e 1 ?* 1 b . ut *Too U fI/ , lot 0 12 U2c Fine Lawn . BO= «,o.r, bowman's —Third F."OV°° >. Women sl2 l-2c and Linon ohop as early in Boys's3.9B ————— ► Hosiery white materials in checks and tHe day as you can. Winter Suits Everv Winter Plain black cotton hose with plain materials. Friday's price, _ *.. . ~ "UCr OUUS Z? ' ... i ► double heels and toes. Seconds. yard (SVi© (l nan f itioc In oil Norfolk and double breasted TrimmpA Hat 4 ► i,rW »y prl -' " air BOWMAN'S —Main J I™™* 1 ™™* | BOWMAN S-Main Floor, / , ac ] acf $2.40 RedttCed < I „ .————— T L' L may IlVil iaoi BOWMAN'S—Second Floor. Which means that we want to 4 ! ► Women's 50c lOclmrbah the entire dav SWhiu T7!,r. , ' Union Suits Toa * l ' y- Filty SI.OO to * wmvii Uood heavy quality. A small «.* Ctl n J n II Bleached cotton and fleece quantity to sell at, Friday, each, ft 41 ) n; $1.0" LfTeSSed UollS BOWMAN'S—Second Floor. 4 | . lined. Extraordinary value for fir'* }l.4j TIC . ! ' Fridav at 'fifr "/4v In various sizes. Variety of —— ! a r ," ,^ Tlr , ~ , T „ BOWMAN'S—Main Floor. n' L.. dresses. Will be offered special . „ . , I ' BOW MANS —Main Floor, _ UIShCS for Friday at (J (Jfltrimmed * IK Womeifo~2sc 12 l-2c White .Sr„VkS * TOMW ""•* Hats Reduced < .. _ Finrnn day's price 75* Cf C/l The assortment consists of 4 I ► Knee Pantl naxon YVomens tpl.oU black velvetß, velours, and Hat | "" , This material washes like lin- BOW r MAN'S—Basement. ter's plush hats. About 75 In the 4 '► '. l a ,', acic k "ef. medium slightly imperfect but not (jIOVeS ,ot - Your choice at j weight. Kxtra special for I* ri- noticeable. Limit, 10 vards to a , * e nAwmiM.i3 o i ► day at 1 Qr* customer Friday's urico uu OA J »r A lot of gray mocha gloves BOWMANS—Second Moor. lt,r ustomer f nua> » price fOf 29c OOIA OOC "'at "-ill be offered for Friday .^_——— 4 ► BOWMAN'S—Main Floor BOWMAN'S Main Floor. „ 1 . Bargain Sale at * n nn .• 1 j ► |f , (lf A