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I aeaden ner intelligence. She heeded it | quick.” *
then miore than ever. +I fancy that there should be protec- y ais
After all, though, Bert was a man. | tion somewhere.” opined the governor. i NT zd
and that was the way of men, and
there was no use to dream of overturn-
ing the entire accepted order of crea-
tion. She was certain, however, that
she could be of more help to Bert aft-
er they were married. He was wealk-
“No matter what changes in public
sentiment. the investing class, upon
which the public depends for prosper-
ity, must always be protected.”
“But how?" inquired the senator.
“How in this particular case?"
Chit
A TALE OF
RED ROSES
dren Cry for Fietcher’s
SONNY DOREY SEN
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er than she had thought. “Head ‘em off," grunted Sledge.
Very well: Sledge had thrown down | “I'm keeping my stock.”
/ the gage of battle. He bad laughed | “I'd be glad to hold mine,” stated the 4)
when he was threatened and had ruin- | senator. “But how is it to be made of a
| ed Bert in challenging defiance. Let | future value?” Ti ER
him now take the consequences. If he’| “That's up to you.” Sledge replied, any
By went to the penitentiary. well and | rising. “Figure ii out and see me to- The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
GEORGE good. He had probably sent other peo- | IMOITOW. Marley, 1 want to talk to in use for over 30 ycars, has borne the signature of
ple there, with no more qualms of | vou. and has been made under his pers
RANDOLPH mercy than she would now show to Mr. Marley, today a man worth over 7 sonal supervision since its infancy.
CHESTER him. She could be as ruthless as he. | a third of a million dollars in the street = { Allow no one to deceive youin this.
What was it Professor Watt had call- | railway stock alone, arose in offended All Counterieits, Imitations and ¢¢ Just-as-good ’! are hut
Copyright, 1914, by the Bobbs- ed the quality? Elemental force—that dignity. He was a trifle too impor- Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
: Merrill Co. was it. Well, she possessed it too. tant. too capable and too wealthy to, Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment
She felt it within her, stirring with | be ordered about like a messenger boy - am gis
the same physical nascency as the vi- | by a man who might shortly be a con- What 1S ( ASTO RIA
rility of parenthood. to which it was victed criminal. Molly had arranged 1 3 :
SYNOPSIS so closely allied. an interview between her father and Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Ca, Paros’
Bert on the previous afternoon. and
Mr. Marley also now knew a thing or
two.
+1 would suggest tomorrow.” he stat-
ed coldly. “I should much prefer to
talk with you during business hours.”
“This ain't business,” said Sledze,
leading the way into the library. where
he took a seat in an alcove.
Marley followed him reluctantly.
“If it is my family affairs”— be be-
gan in protest.
“Qit down.” directed Sledge. “Bert
| Glider has been making threats against
me.
“Has he?’ inquired Marley noncom-
mittally.
“Pell him to quit or make good.” or-
dered {ledze.
“Really. Mr. Sledge, I don’t see where
I ean interfere.” reproved Mr. Marley.
“The matter is entirely between you
gorie, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It-is pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor, other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and aillays Feverishness. For more than thirty years if
has been in constant use for the relief ‘of Constipation,
TFlatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles and
Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels),
assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALwAYS
Bears the Signatureof ° a
Sledge, a typical politician, becomes in-
fatuated with Molly Marley, daughter of
a street car company president. He sends
her red roses.
On Molly’s vitation Sledge attends a
party. Before the crowd disperses Molly
thanks Sledge for his kindness, and then
he proposes marriage. Her refusal is
treated as only temporary by Sledge.
Molly attends the "governor's ball, and
her attractiveness results in her climbing
the dizzy heights of popularity. The no-
table respect accorded Sledge, however,
perplexes her
Just off the governor's stuffed leath-
er library was a small room, with a
hard desk and six hard chairs. and a
hard looking letter file. and a hard, fire-
proof safe let into the wall. and here.
while Lord Bunnchase led Molly Mar-
ley through the paces of a hard two-
step. Governor Waver and Senator Al-
lerton and Sledge and Frank Marley
gathered for a few moments of com-
fortable chat such as elderly gentle-
men love to indulge in while frivo-
lous younger people dance the flying
hours away. All four being gentle-
ment who, br the consent of the pub-
lic. bore the grave responsibility of
the public welfare on their shoulders.
it was not strange that their chat
should turn to public affairs.
«I am glad to be identified with the
enterprise.” avowed State Senator Al-
lerton. who was a suave, clean faced
>
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“They're ulreauy torming for the
grand march,” the mayor informed her
as he led the way to the big ballroom
with the magnificent pipe organ, which
Molly had coveted for a year.
The line was half formed, and the
parade was filling rapidly and -with
much laughing confusion as the may-
or hurried with her down toward the
center of the hall, where the governor
~~
Inspected Her Rapturously Through
Half Inch Thick Glasses.
seemed absorbedly interested in him.
and her leading millionaire came back
to him again and again. She wonder-
ed why men sought him, and she was
still wondering when the eminent so-
clologist fairly snatched her out of the
In Use For Over 30 Years
already stood with his lady. arms of the mayor after the eighth m od and Bert.”
“Where is our place?” sen Molly, | dance. Be irr ay - “He's a friend of yours” charged TI Ki Y :
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figuring rapidly. There was a state Come and watch me smoke a ciga- game time. as far as Lam privately Sledge. he ind ou Have Always Bough
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point where :
disliked. «All rignt. captain,” agreed the tale
rette,” he begged her. “I’ve been try.
ing to get a chance to talk with you
and three state representatives. The again tle entire evening, but there's
yor probably would be about No. 8. always such an increasipgly mad
“Oh, I'm not your partner!” he re- | scramble around you that the attempts
re . “Yes,” acknowledged Marley, feeling
concerned, I can only regard it as 8
temporary investment.” that he could afford to acknowledge it
«Why temporary?’ demanded Frank, now that the street car reorganization
Marley, who was feeling particularly : bad gone beyond the
capable this evening. His $175,000 , Sledge could stop it.
senator, a world famous sociologist, a
musician of international reputation
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gretted. “I'm not so lucky. 1 don’t made Ine feel undignified.” v worth of street railway stock had been | “How about this marriage Wwith| “I'm sorry for you, Molly,” Sledge | bearer. “Say. can you slip me an
even get to dance with you until No. | You'd worry a lot about that” shel; ....ceq to $262,500. He was to have Molly?” told her as he pre-empted the piano ace?”
8” And, to Molly's breathless delight, | guessed. ide rs $87,500 cash out of the undivided sur.! “That's Molly's affair,” stated Mar-| alcove. «I got to hand you another Bendix slipped him an ace from a
he led her straight up to the eminent Wouldn't I?” he laughed. “Will OU | 15 of the old company. and his daugh- | ley stiffly. jolt.” fund provided for that purpose. ’
i sociologist, who stood immediately be- chill if we step out 1 the terrace? ter. Molly, was the most popular girl “You know he's broke, don't you?" «You're a fast worker,” she compli- «Thanks, said the ‘thug. - “Say.
hind the governor. : 1 don’t know how,” she happily told | ,¢ the governor's ball. “The street rail- «1 heard something of the sort." ad- | mented him. “But you'll have to work what's the matter with Sledge?’ :
him, and they hurried outside, where} wy company has always made money, mitted Marley. “He's a clever young faster. 1 just gave Willie Walters a “None of your business!" snapped
The eminent sociologist, who under | h ]
e led her to a seat in the moonlight Bendix, with a wondering; glance at
that title had sounded so forbidding. and the city needs additional trans-| man, however, and until he gets on his hint of the splendid news we are to
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proved to be a young looking man
with a dancing eye, who hailed her
with joy and unspokenly claimed at-
tention solely on his merits as a “live
member.”
She found it difficult as he smiled
so frankly and boyishly at her to re-
member that this was a man whose
name was known throughout the civ:
; he looked after Sledge until the match
burned his/fingers.
and deftly made her comfortable with
three cushions from as many chairs,
Sledge and Senator Allerton passed
them as he lighted his cigarette, and
«There is the biggest man I have
seen in a long while,” he remarked as
he sat beside her on the settee.
portation facilities. We have reached
the normal period of extension, and I
do not see what is to prevent us from
limitless prosperity.”
“The franchises,” Senator Allerton re-
minded him. ‘Your present permits
have less than five years to run.”
«I have never had any trouble in hav-
ing them renewed,” objected Marley,
feet again I have money enough for
both.”
“you won't stop it, then?”
“Certainly not,” declared Marley,
feeling that he might just as well make
capital for courage out of the fact that
he could not in the slightest degree in-
fluence Molly. “I might, perhaps, pre-
fer a more brilliant match for Molly,
have for the Blade. and he is tickled the back room, and he waded through
to death.”
“Good work!" applauded Sledge.
want that pulled quick.”
Molly smiled.
“All right. Go as far as you like,”
ghe confidently invited him.
see who gets the worst of it. By the
way, maybe you wouldn’t mind telling
the usual morning lineup with that
«1 | wonder growing on him. The actions
and bearing of Sledge varied ‘by so
thin a hair's breadth from day to day
that a notable variation meant some-
«we'll | thing.
He found Sledge standing up, and
then he knew that there was some-
thing in the wind. :
“They, say he is not only the boss of
Be, riding himsel
the city, but of the state,” replied Mol- bp Ey ig gE hay
ly, very much interested. “You knew | (,,, “There is a growing disposition
but I.de uot. need to make it a matter
of money, and there is no better fam-
me the new jolt I am to receive.” Sal as
Sledge chuckled. “Get Bozzam,” directed Sledge, and
«Your dad says he don’t care if Bert Bendix went straight out to the'téle-
\ lized world for his keen thought upon
\ political economy in its broadest sense,
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and the astounding part of it was that
he was so good looking, graceful and
self possessed and, most astounding of
all, that he immediately began to talk
to her about baseball. !
The equally eminent musician, just i
behind him, claimed Professor Watt's
attention for a moment, and Molly
glanced complacently back along the
fine. Mrs. Allerton, the wife of the
senator, was just behind her, looking
hot daggers into her shoulder blades. |
and Molly, suppressing a giggle as she |
noted the purple condolence ribbons
pailed on with furniture tacks, gazed |
calmly through her at the other social
Lucrezia Borgias, whom she had pass-
ed at one ruthless bound.
Also she cast her eyes downward.
with much satisfaction, at her own
extravagantly simple frock of pearl
woven white chiffon. Only youth and
a good figure could dare a frock like
that, and, happy in her new enemies.
Molly glanced at the dance program
which had been made out for her.
She caught her breath with incred-
ulous joy as she saw her allotment.
Every notable in the gathering was on
her card, beginning with the governor. |
No. 9 was Sledge, and she wondered. |
with dawning horror, what sort of fig-
ure he would be in the dance.
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CHAPTER IV. -
Molly's Dizzy Popularity.
HUS sped the evening, with
Molly climbing the dizzy heights |
of popularity in hourly increas- i
ing excitement. She not only |
had a notable partner for every dance, |
but a brilliant partner for every tete-
a-tete between numbers, and the al-
most equally happy, though not so
Highly favored, Fern warned her, in 8°
giggling, whispered moment, to keep
her back to the wall lest she be stab-
bed. Her cup of happiness was full
when the famous musician, a near-,
sighted man who wore his hair short |
and inspected her rapturously through :
half inch thick glasses, composed ~
sparkling little rondo for her at = plas.
in a quiet little alcove and named it
that, didn’t you?”
“Of course,” he acknowledged, ‘but
1 scarcely think that would influence
. my judgment. I have studied a great
many men of more power and influence
than he has at present, but none of
them, so far as I can recollect, seemed
to have his elemental force. Wherever
he was born, he would have been a
leader. He is a wonderful man. Throw
him in a savage country and he would
| be king.”
A huge figure approached them.
«Hello, Watt,” rumbled the deep
voice of Sledge. “My dance, Molly.”
“Well, you having a good time?”
asked Sledge, sitting comfortably in
the seat Mr. Watt had just vacated.
«The time of my life,” she assured
him, with happy animation.
«phat's the word,” he heartily ap-
proved. “If there's anybody here you
want just tell Cameron. If he don’t
trot em right over tell me.”
“The mayor has been very kind,” ac-
knowledged Molly, beginning to won-
der.
“He's got his orders,” returned
Sledge complacently. “Let me See
your dance program,” and he took it
from her lap. ‘I thought so,” he com-
mented. “There's a dark horse turned
i up, and you didn’t get him.”
A dark horse?” she faltered.
“A ringer.”” he explained. “Lord
Bunnchase. Andrew Lepton, the big
coffee monopolist, sneaked him in here
ander an alias. and nobody's on.” He
puzzled over the card a moment. “EX-
cuse me till 1 fix it” and he stalked
away.
Molly sat silently. allowing a cold
wave of humiliation slowly to chill her
soul. Why. Sledge had carefully pre-
arranged her triumph of the evening.
He had assumed control of her dance
card and of her succession of delight-
ful tete-a-tetes. He had driven the
star performers into her net as if they
had been droves of sheep. True, mean
had sought ber a second time of their
own accord because of that charm
which she knew she possessed—a
vaguely understood attractiveness,
which was more than beauty, more
on the part of the public to charge pub-
lic service corporations for the use of
public property.”
“The people are ungrateful,” mourn-
ed Governor Waver, who had enriched
| himself through furnishing electric
light at his own price to a public
which had known nothing better than
gas. “The moment they see a profit
on their luxuries they want part of it.
An undivided surplus such as the street
car companv has had is a constant
menace.”
“That was a sinking fund for exten-
sions and improvements,” Marley re-
minded him. “The stockholders had
no right to ask for a division of it.”
“They would if we had not put it out
of harm’s road,” insisted the governor.
“That much has been saved to the
men who really earned it, but I should
not like to see a similar profit exposed.
To my mind, a 7 per cent dividend is
an even worse folly.”
“It gives confidence in the stock,”
argued Marley. ‘The public would
never be so eager to take up this new
issue if it had not been for that 7 per
cent dividend.”
“That's what it was for,” interpo-
lated Sledge, looking out of the win-
dow into the sunken garden and vain-
ly hunting the hand hole in the gate.
“It has served its purpose,” granted
Allerton, ‘‘but taxpayers are becoming
greedy. When they see the stockhold-
ers of a public corporation making 7
per cent they want some of it and try
to make the corporations pay part of
their taxes. In every city of impor-
tance the voters are demanding pay
for street .car franchises and making
the street railway companies, in addi-
tion, bear half the cost of all street
improvements.”
“It's a bad outlook,” agreed Gover-
nor Waver. ‘Frankly, as soon as I
receive my new issue of stock I shall
have it quietly placed on sale.”
Marley looked at him indignantly.
“Why, the street railway company is
entering on the greatest period of
prosperity in its career,” he asserted.
“Thare’ll be no trouble about fran-
chises. The city is wild to have the
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ily in America than Bert's. The Mary-
land Gliders are the oldest and best
is a bum.”
* «He isn’t!” she hotly denied.
«your dad’s a game sport. He says
he has enough money for both.”
«Good for. daddy!” she cried, de-
lighted.
«Qure!” grunted Sledge.
break him too.”
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CHAPTER V.
Sledge Reduces His Salary List.
LEDGE walked back through
the Occident in such a mood
that the regular members of
the “Good morning, Ben,” bri-
gade fell away from him like bar flies
from a cake of ice. Even Doc Turner,
waiting the daily advent of the boss,
met with the rebuff of stony silence
and sat down in his favorite newspa-
per corner, with his crusted brown der-
by jammed down to his ears and his
inch long stub of cigar puckered tight-
ly in at the corner of his wrinkled
lips, where it looked at a distance like
a speck of black rot in a dusty potato.
Doc had digested, condensed and pur-
veyed news to the big chief so long
that he felt a proprietorship in that de-
partment znd was justly offended
when Tom Bendix came in a few min-
utes later.
“What's tle mattes with Sledge thie
“I’m goana
“Supe,” grunted Sledge.
break him too.”
happy.”
“So do 1,” asserted Sledge.
why she can’t marry this pinhead.
want her myself.”
ed her father firmly.
“So you lay down, eh?”
«1 decline to interfere.”
“Making Bert a bum cuts no ice?’
“I'm goana
stock in this country. Moreover, above
all things, I wish to see my daughter
“That's
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“Molly has made her choice,” declar-
“His temporary financial condition
has no bearing in the matter. I should
niorning ¥” suavled Lew.
“How do I know?’ immediately
snarled Bendix. I don’t sleep with
nim.”
“Ije’s got a grouch on him a foot
thick,” complained Doc. “Ie gave me
a cold turndown. Walked straight
through me without even a grunt.”
“1'11 tell Sledge he'd better be care-
ful,” s tically commented Bendix.
“Well, y, what do you want?’
Schooner Kelly, who was afflicted
with pink whiskers and a perennial
thirst, stopped scratching.
“wo bits,” he stated, with admira-
ble clarity. “What's the matter with
Big Ben?”
“He's teething,” replied Bendix, pro-
ducing the desired two bits, without
which Schooner Kelly would be a nui-
phone. i
«@et Davis,” directed Sledge when:
Bendix came back, and Bendix, vague-
ly pitying somebody, hurried out to
the telephone again.
«Get Feeder,” was the next order.
Bendix almost whistled as he hurried
out to locate by telephone the ex-coun-
ty treasurer, who for two years had
been drawing a handsome salary from
Sledge for keeping his mouth shut
about the public funds scandal.
«Get Gally,” rumbled Sledge, who
had not moved from his contemplative
post by the window, and Bendix, keep-
ing his growing wonder to himself and
replying with a shrug to the seberly
questioning glance of the coneerned
Phil, telephoned for the Sledge leader
in the city council.
Sledge, having sent for everybody
he needed, was sitting more quietly in
his accustomed chair when Bendix re-
turned from his last trip and was look-
ing with his usual stolidness out of the
window after having donned the fresh
red rose, which he had put on reli-
giously three times a day since he bad
met Molly Marley.
«Council meeting this afternoon?
he asked.
«Two-thirty,” answered Bendix.
«gow much of the stock is sub~-
scribed in the reorganized street rail-
way?’
«Hundred and eighty-five thousand.
1 got the report just before 1 came
over.” -
“Get ours on the market.
sales, but do it quick.”
“Who's to be soaked — Marley ?””
guessed Bendix.
«The limit," assented Sledge. “Ben-
dix. what's the worst they could hand
me on that public funds case?”
«Pwo or three years if they got you
going,” judged Bendix. “That's dead
now, however.”
“It’s back.”
Gum shes
«Has Feeder been talking?’
Sledge nodded.
“Who knows anything?’
«@lider—Marley.”
«Hunh!” grunted Bendix in uncon-
scious imitation of Sledge. “What are
sance for hours to come.
“Molly” and wrote it on her dance card,
& 11y improvements and must have them.” i
A low browed thug. with a
all in the space of seven minutes. than cleverness, more than mere Sex
feel humiliated tg think that I had al- long and | you going to do?”
: ; Allerton looked at him wonderingly. i S
True, he had danced with her two Secopliveness Se es by hoe . “waver is right,” h hi go er n lowed that trifling consideration to be| wije scar sunk in one cheek, drew “Call it.”
pumbers before and had had time to, own power. but Sledge had given ner | ght. ne. Siaed a" | a factor.’ Bendix mysteriously aside. «You don’t mean to bring it to a
think of her—possibly to think of her the glorious opportunities. His omnip- my own stock, and I'll venture to| «guh!" grunted Sledge. “You got} «phe Dutchman down in the Eighth | showdown!” protested Bendix. “We
say that Sledge has already made si-
lent arrangements for disposing of his.
Do you know that the franchises at
present granted in this state are rev-
otence began to annoy her and his
ruthlessness to inflame her already in-
flamed resentment.
She knew precisely what was hap-
enough for both. eh?”
“Quite enough.” and Marley reflect-
ed, with a picasant feeling of superiori-
ward has rented his back room to the
Hazelnut club.” he stated.
“well?” inquired Bendix.
can’t afford it with Lansdale and Blake
on the bench. Judge Lansdale espe-
cially would part with his right arm
in rondo terms.
Occasionally she caught sight of
Sledge in the throng, although she had
not seen him on the floor, and she real- ty, upon the moment soon to cOMC| «ively, the Hazelnut club has Charley h »
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a ized that her number with him would pening at this moment. He was creat- | ocable and that it is not possible to | when this political and commercial | agwood for its president, and Charley hii ly Sy Jn you
g be a “sit out.” Perhaps that was why ing havoc in not less than half a dozen secure one which is positively safe for | pully would be cvinzine. is & brother-in-law of Purcell.” “1 don’t see how.” worried Bendix
J i had been put down so far in the dance cards. with no compunction longer than ten year periods? When | ‘“Then watch out for your evel «1 gee said Bendix. “I suppose! “We've tried for two years to get
about having discommoded or dis- | you come to the renewal of your fran- | warned Sledge and, rising, walked out | putch Klein knew this?”
program, when she would welcome a | x : : hi 3 h
rest. It was like his doing, for she tressed any one. Then there was Bert gi Marley, you will be met with | into the drawing rooms. Re oameron pleture’s down off his nei Sng, a hin
had to acknowledge that he was at | downtown battling with a disaster | 8 demand for pay and will have other | He found Molly quite busy, but, since} pack bar.” hit En
least farsighted. which had thrown him Sompletay Sn imposed on you. on pres she was only occupied with a state «pell him you told me,” advised a pondered that matter Weight!
She ne y an , i p 1 iv ¢ ng illionai 3 20} > : = >
One thing perplexed her. He was from his feet. Poor Bert! e had by chise law, in view of the pu representative and a local millionaire} pendix, weighing the matter carefully, | iy and sizhed.
no means forgotten him, even amid lic tendency, is a bad one for in-
much less awkward and much more at and the mayor and the young cham-i gor of such trifles was political control
ro ease here than he had been at her | the height of ler excitement. She | VEMors." : pion of the tennis players’ club, he DOr-} constructed. | (To be Continued).
LS party. Whenever she saw him he was | should have been there to comfort him. . Let's fix it,” suggested Sledge. rowed her. «Is that the worst news I can car | ~~ rrr rrr,
Adv 3 3 p >! and vet—well, he 1 not seen fi y | ‘I'm afraid it’ « vt? protested Shi un Aad te ma: . Wil 5 Lg : : % Hay A :
Deg talking gravely with men of large af- | 81 d yet—V 1 | ¥ een fit to | An m afraid it’s too late,” protested | was astounded to see how they | demanded the other. disappointed. Harsh physics react, wesken the
har z 6 6 aq C( >» to 1 rt. Men » | ert » imi and alm ad at - : 3 5
f 1d, to he rise, she observ- to ! ie | a ! ¢ or Ri “I bowels, will lead to chronic constipas
e in every ¢ h 1 ; po : = ier DE ihc in oh + | out Doan’s regulets operate easily,
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