THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10, 1009. 9 I PAID IN FULL Novelized From Eugene Walter's Great Play . . . By . . . JOHN W. HARDING I Copyright. 1908, by G. W. Dillingham Co. J CHAPTER IV. THERE was n knock, tho un latched door opened, nnd James Smith walked in. "Anybody nt homer ho de manded briskly. "Not n solitary living soul," Enimn assured him. "Come In." "Hello, Joe! You n dend one, too?" ho said. "Almost" replied Hrooks, brighten ing up a Ilttlo in spite of himself un der the influence of his friend's good nntured smile nnd cheerlnoss that pos itively cmnnntcd from blm. "Just come up?" "Yep, und I reckon in about time to help," he Bald, glancing at the crock cry on tho tnblo. "Just In time," assented Emma, whose drooping spirits also began to rise under tho diversion caused bjr his ndvent. "But first csplaln what you mean by not coming to dinner," "I couldn't come, reully. I tried my best, but I hnd to attend to such a lot of business that couldn't bo put off that I wns nnnblo to get hero In time. I hopo you didn't wait long for me. I'm awfully sorry." "You look it-I don't think," she scolded. "Go on; get busy If you're going tol" "All right," ho answered, taking up a small pUo of cupe and saucers Try gingerly. "Where do these go? If you left it to mo, like as not I'd bo putting a soup plato behind the door and slip a broom Into the stdsboasd." "They go right In hero." He stopped on tho way to tba stde bonrd and turned to Brooks. "Seen the latest extra, Jor be In quired. "The Orinoco wasn't hardly scratched getttng out of Rio Janeiro." "You dont say!" "Kind o' scraped ovec the bar. Shell only be a day late now." "Do be careful with thorn caps, Jlm 87," admonished Emm. Ttteyfre china." "Don't you suppose I know ttsatT' "1 mean real china," she empha sized. "All china and Chinamen look alike to me. Here's the paper, Joe. You'll find all about the Orinoco on the In side page." He draw It from his pocket, and as he did so one of tho cups balanced on the saucers slipped off and smashed to bits on the carpet. "Now, Jlmsy, you certainly are going to get It," commented Jo, rising and taking the paper extended to him. Smith looked oppoollnfily at bis hostess. "Jlmsy," saa ehldod, awarning an expression of mock gravity, "how could you my very beat Sunday go to meeting china! How could you!" "Not how could I how did IT" ho corrected, stooping and picking up tho pieces. "You know, Emma, rre hnd butter fingers ever since I was a Ilttlo shaver, and I guess I always will have In business and everything else." "Why, how do you meant" "I've been clumsy all my life, that's all. Everything I've over had in my bands that was worth much I've gen erally let slip and fall. Out in Colo rado when I was a kid around Load- vllle they used to say tnat I suro would turn out to be a sawed off nnd hammered down, good for nothing man. So you see the way things havo turned out. I've broken about even with thnt prophecy." "How broken even?" "Taking their sido for tho book, I win the first bet and lose tho second. There nln't nothing sawed off nnd hammered down about mo, is thero?" "I should say not," sho said, with n merry laugh. "You've been pulled out like n piece of taffy." "Then I win. but it waa In doubt quite some time. Never really did start to grow until I was fifteen, and then I just eased out Into my present altitude. But tho second proposition that good for nothing bet I guess they win." "Nonsense, Jlmsy. now can you say such n thing? You're good for a whole lot." "Emma," ho declared solemnly, "there have been moments of financial stringency when that declaration seem ed to be open to doubt" "Jlmsy, you'ro an Idiot!" sho laugh ed. "Discovered!" he avowed, bowing ceremoniously. Brooks, who had been reading tho paper, threw It down angrily. "D n him!" ho growled. "Joe!" exclaimed his wifo reproach fully. "D-n who?" inquired Smith. "Why, Williams," bo replied. "Lots have done that" said the su perintendent. "But whafs tho matter now, Joe?" "His luck," went on Brooks. "The Orinoco Isn't scratched. If any one else owned a ship and she got into a muss like that the chances are a hun dred to ono that she'd have foundered been a complete loss." "That's right," assented Smith. "But Williams ho don't lose her. He couldn't" "I nbonld think vmi'A ba a)aA." ra. marked Emma. "Sho's a brnnd new ship, isn't she?" "No, I'm not glad," he declared fu riously, rising nnd walking about tho room. "I'm tired of him, of hie rot ten old stoaniehlp line, of nil of It you hear? Of all of It." "Joe, please!" sho protested. "You know I" "I know you'vo slaved and bore with me long enough! Hero I nm handling all the money of that line, ain't that so, Jlmsy?" "That's right," admitted tho latter. "But what's the matter?" "Matter? Isn't It matter enough that I should do all this for a mean, miiera ble living? I suffer nnd work, and work and suffer, for that nnsty, nig gardly salary nnd this beast, this wild animal of a Williams, keeps us all starving yes, stnrvlng! Don't I de serve something a little better? Do you know what I could do? I could steal thousands, nnd no one would ever know It!" "Joe!" she cjaculntcd, greatly shock ed. "Oh, I'm not going to do it; but, with all this responsibility, when I ask for money I don't get It not n dollar. You do, Jlmsy; you're slnglo nnd you can quit And then Williams what does he do? Comes nround hero to my wife with my mother-in-law dn him nnd rubs It in." Emma looked at him pleftdtngry. "Joo, you mustn't Oaptam WlUVams moans well, but" lie turned upon her savagely. "Thafs it ho meana well. He meant well when be was a Booth Pa cific trader, no monnt well wnea be trcatvd hU crew Itko dogs. He meant well when he'd kill a sailor wtth ns much thought oa n spider kills a fly. He mraut well when be c boated na tives, murdered men, smuggled China men Into this country, sunk veoatta for insurance. He nvcant well when he came cast, bought tba Latin-American company and put your father out of business, and now now that he has hin money, hla millions maybe, be moans well when he refuses to give his men a fair shave of what they pro duce. Means wetl? Yea, be floes rw" "Joo, are you eraoy?" demanded hla wife, alarmed and. a llttte anry at his outburst. Well, there's a whots lot of truth in what Joe says," pot in Smith con dllatingry. "Yo see, mutatm did start out as a captain of a eoota Pa cific trader, but, like most of them fellows, I Dm a bole a seod daal more than he traded. He had tfce rtp otattaa of being the strongest ssen on the eceet or In tbe tropica eerrifl bseek man's arm with t roach ease as you'd snap a straw. He" harsh, Wil liams Is harsh ! When he came east he got control of the Latin-American. He loved money, and he got it most any way he could. Yes, Joe ought to have more, thafs suro. He ought to have more." "You know I should, went on Brooks, somewhat mollified by his friend's acquiescence nnd support and drawing a bulky pocketbook from the Inside pocket of his waistcoat Tva got control of nU the money of the compnny. Thafs my Job. Why, here, this alone Is the afternoon collections, too late to put in the safe, nearly 3,000, more than twice tis mueh tia I get in n year. I could take K all and then not be caught or at least not for months, but" "Why, Joe, I'm surprised!" his wife broke in. "Of course Joo wouldn't tahe a cent that don't belong to htm," sold Smith "I know that. Williams does too. So I guess he figures him safe and don't sec tho least bit of uso in paying blm more." "But I won't stand It!" Brooks de clared, waxing wroth again and fling ing himself In his chair. "Why do you get raises, Jlmsy? You vo been ad vanced time nnd tlmo again." "Lord, I don't know," he replied. "I just tell tho old fellow that I caieulato I'm worth more money. 'Co mo across or we separate,' I say, and so far he'; always come." "I wns bo glad to hear of your last good luck," remarked Emma sincerely. A look of regret came over Smith's face. "I only wish Joo had got It instead of me," he said. Brooks Jumped to his feet. "You don't need to wish that, Smith," he cried excitedly. "I'm no object of charity no, I ain't. And you're like all the rest of tbe capital istic crowd grind, grind, grind. Woll, look out, there's going to be a smtshup you understand? A smashup, and you all go millionaires, toadies and well, thafs all I've got to say." ne snatched his hat from a hook In the hall nnd went out without another word, slamming tho front door behind him so heavily that the glasses on the sideboard rattled. Emma gazed at Smith In blank dis may. "I can't understand Joe," she said, shaking her head In worry nnd per plexity, "ne's growing so morose and discontented." "It's funny, ain't it" observed Smith reflectively. "Joe's Just rushed out, filled up to the throat with anarchy, socialism, smashups and all that stuff, almost ready to throw a bomb." "Nonsense!" "He Is, yet If Williams had raised him today $10 a week be would have been a firm believer In capital and the way it works." She sighed, took n seat opposite to hlra at the table and with great ear nestness started in to question him. "Jlmsy," sho began, "tell mo honest lywhy doesn't Joo get on?" "I really don't know," he averred. "I'm afraid you do," Emma insisted. "Honest, I don't, Tvo been so busy getting along myself that I haven't pojd much attention to any ono else," He paused nnd gazed up nt tho cell ing, engrossed In thought "You know, Emma," ho went on sud denly, turning toward her, "this get ting along business Is n funny game. Such a lot depends on what a man means when ho gets along. Some get along when they have got a lot of money, some when they havo n wife nnd a homo nnd a bunch of kids, some when they are able to pick pockets and fool tho coppers. Getting along nnd why you do or why you don't de pends a good deal on where you wnnt to get." And you, Jlmsy?' she questioned. "nave you been getting along?" Oil, yes, I guess so. I nln't got a whole lot to kick about; perhaps n lit tle loss, maybo a Ilttlo more, than Joe. But tho great Idea Is not to get sore. Joe's nil right. Maybo he's Just being prepared for n better living. When It comes he'll appreciate it more." "Somehow I don't seem to under stand him ns I used to," she confessed. "There's been a change thnt worries me that worries me greatly." Three sharp rings of tho bell put an end to further conversation, nnd sho rose, disappointed, nnd pushed the but ton. "Thafs mother's ring," she snld. "Please help mo to bring some chntrs from the parlor. We can't go there be cause everything's covered up and In disorder. They're papering the room. shouldn't wonder if Captain Wll- llnms were with them. He takes mamma nnd Beth out In his new auto nnd has brought them nround hero i quite frequently of late." ' "Does he ever tako you for n rido?" "Ho asks mo to go, but I won't" ! "Why not?" i "Thafs Just what I enn't toll. There , is something about the man thnt is repulsive ho looks at me so strange ly. And then I know Just how ho lws treated Joe, and" "And what?" "I don't like him that's all." "Thafs enough, It seems to me. After all, I guess be figures all to the ' bnd with women decent women." i "Mamma and Both like him." "Well, your mother never did shine ' up to mo more'n the law allowed, nnd I as for Beth, she's a nice enough, girl, ' but her education hurts her, I think." "Hush! Here they are." I And the little woman hurried into I tho hall to open the door for them. CHAPTER V. w HEN broad minded Mrs. Brooks observed to her husband that she did not understand her mother any more than her mother understood her she had expressed exactly tba mental relation in which they stood toward each other. Mrs. Harris was one of those women occasionally to bo met with who continue to treat their grownup sons, and especially their grownup daughters, as children and feel It Incumbent upon them nay, con sider It their bounden duty to inter fere with advice and comment in the natural progress of domestic sophis tication of their young wedded off spring. Moreover, sho wns a woman wholly lacking in tact and depth of mind and possessed to an exaggerated degree that "qulcksnnd of reason," vanity. Mrs. Harris nnd Miss Beth Harris wero out for n ride with Cnptaln Wil liams, who accompanied them, and nil wero In automobile tenue. Her mother and sister greeted Emma effusively. Their escort extended his hand, but Mrs. Brooks was too much occupied for once in responding to her parenf s embraces to notice It. He stalked in with rude familiarity without remov ing his automobile cap, upon which he had pushed up his goggles nnd found himself fnce to face with Smith. "Hello! You hero?" he said by way of greeting, greatly surprised to see his superintendent there on that above all nights. "Ya-as," replied Jlmsy. "I'm here again." "Ought to take a berth here," grunt ed his employer, looking round for the most comfortable chair and Installing himself In it. "You're nlways nround." "Much as posslblo," admitted Smith tranquilly, remaining standing, "now do vou find vour new enr?" "Good enough. Cost $5,000-ought to be good ought to be." Mrs. Harris nnd Beth bustled in. throwing open their automobile coats n ! fusil noiirr MAmr l n ttantw n rtnirn that contrasted strangely with Emma's poor little cotton frock. "Why, good evening, Jlmsy!" cried Mrs. Harris. "Where's Joe?" "Gone out for a walk, I guess," he answered. "Howdy, Beth?" "Very well, thank you, Mr. Smith," responded that young person some what frigidly. "Mr. Smith?" he echoed, looking at her curiously. The girl raised her eyebrows and af fected surprise. "Isn't that right?" she inquired. "Yes Smith is the name," he replied. "It ain't that I've forgot It no only to remind you that the first one Jlm sy ain't been changed." "No, dearie; Jlmsy wouldn't know whnt it meant to be mistered," ob served Mrs. Harris with an intonation of disdain. "Me neither," put in Williams, "but a man's got to get used to It" "nave you got used to it captain?" asked Emma. "Yes and no. I never had it given to mo until I came east always used to be Cap'n Bill or something on that or derbut with eastern airs nnd a bit of prosperity your old ways havo got to change." Mrs. Harris had been gazing about her dcprecatlngly. She wanted to know why they should stay in tbe din ing room. Emma explained that they bad succeeded in inducing the Janitor to have the sitting room papered nnd that it wns all upset. "This ain't bad," commented Captain Williams. "It's real cozy, and you can see a woman's had a hand in the ar rangement" "But it's a little bit of a stuffy four roomed flat" objected Beth, turning "Hello! You hcref up her pretty noso. "Really, I should (He in ono. "Well, Both," remarked Smith, with his quiet drawl, "you never can tell. Maybe you will." Beth made a grimace. "I would, If I hnd to do my own work, washing dishes ugh!" "I don't sec how Emma stands it1 declared Mrs. Harris. "If s Just drudg- cry!" "Well, mother, please remember ifs Emma who doc stand It after all," ro torted thnt little woman patiently, "so please, please, don't you mind." "I think it's a great Ilttlo nook, Mrs. Brooks," opined Williams. "Thank you, captain," sbe said grnte- fully. "And fixed up nlco nnd comfortable. Can't Bay as anything looks cheap." "Thank you again. Perhaps it Isn't" "You know, captnin, you alnt the only ono who's found out the secret of making a dollar produce 500 cents," said Stnlth, with his whimsical smile. "Has he done that?" Inquired Mrs. Harris, affecting surprise and admira tion. "Figuratively speaking, I presume?" chimed in Beth primly. "I always thought 500 was figura tively speaking," said Smith. Captain Williams had produced bis pipe, filled it and lighted It without asking permission. "Smith says I'm close. I'm not!" he declared. "To me business is busi ness. If I've got money nobody gave it to me. I earned what I earned, nnd then I made that earn more." "You sure ain't given It no vaca tions, cnptaln," commented his super intendent dryly. "And thafs right" affirmed Mrs Harris with some heat "I believe lb men getting money. Mr. Harris was one of those soft hearted men who never made tho best of his opportuni ties always trying to bo fair and square with other men, and what thanks did he get?" "Mother, please!" remonstrated Era- ma. "It's true," went on her parent. "If ho hadn't been that way, Emma, do you suppose you'd be here doing your own work?" "Mother, I Insist you must not"- "Mother Is perfectly right," Inter rupted Beth. "Emma, you don't de serve this kind of n life." "But have I complained?" demanded Mrs. Brooks desperately. "Why do you say such things?" "Because I've got myself to think of," snapped her mother. "You'ro wasting yourself tied up to the house nil the time nnd everybody all my ' friends know just how you'ro fixed, You're never invited anywhere nny more." "Completely forgotten," said Beth. Brooks, who hnd let himself In si i lcntlJ" and unobserved, stood in tho hall Irresolutely, watching them and listening to the conversation. "Please don't," entreated Emma greatly distressed. "Ifs my nffalr, nnd, besides, before people" "You might say tho captain's almost one of the family since your father died," put In her mother. "I knew you should never hnvo married Joo that ho couldn't tako care of you tho way he ought." "It's too late now," said Beth, shrug ging her shoulders. "Captain, don' you think Emmn should have more?" "Well, Mrs. Brooks must know her own mind," ho replied. "Your father when ho worked for me nlways had a way of his own. But It does seem ns If she should nt least have a hired girl and moro than four rooms to a flat, but" Brooks strode Into tho room, livid with passion, goaded to a white heat of fury, reckless of everything, mur dor In his heart, and, hurling his hat to tho floor, faced tho compnny. "It does seem so, does it?" he fairly hlssod, going- over to his employer, "I'm glad you think so. And why hasn't she? Will you tell me that? Speak! Will you tell me that? I'll tell you why, you slave driver!" Mrs. Harris and Beth Bat speechless and pale, but Smith rose. "Steady, Joo, boy!" ho admonished. Emma had hurried to her husband and grasped bis arm. "Oh, Joe, dont!" sho implored. "Vou don'f- ne flung her roughly from him. "Let mo nlone!" he shouted nnd turn ed to Wllllnms ngnln, quivering with rage. "Do you know why she hasn't?" he continued. "Well, I'll tell you all. It's becnuso this man nln't on tho squaro. He began by cheating and murdering niggers who worked for him aboard his rotten trading ships. Then, nfter he got through with the belaying pin, nfter he got his money, ho picked up the salary list for n club, and he's murdered and wounded and maimed with that. You see my wife bore? She's only ono of hundreds, and sho suffers. It is too bad sho married me. It is too bad thnt she's got to do her own work. It is too bad t hat she's got to wash nnd scrub nnd sweat In the heat, but that man's to blame. If you gave mo a fair slinre of whut 1 produce, If you didn't grind down, op press and pinch, she wouldn't have to. I've worked for you five years, hard, honest, nnd all the time you've been grinding me down, down, nnd thou sands of others, thousands. You know, all of you know my mother-in-law nnd smart slstcr-ln-law know you've piled up your money on tho blood and sweat and misery of others. That's the kind of n man you arc, nnd you might as well know It" Captain Williams had listened to this denunciation at first In utter amaze ment. Then his shnggy eyebrows had knitted together, and his little eyes had narrowed to slits, whllo the blood bad spread over his face In a deep glow through the veins that swelled out like cords on his neck and throat. "There ain't no ono ever said them things to me nnd got away with it," he thundered, clinching his fistB and gathering nil his tremendous strength as be rose to crush his accuser. Mrs. Harris and Beth sprang up in great alarm, and at the captain's ter rifying voice nnd his ferocious ns- pect Brooks shrank back. Smith stood Impassive, but watching Williams, to ward whom ha had been edging. Emma hod stepped quickly between tho captain and Iter husband. Please please, captain for my. sake," sho pleaded. "I don't care let him come on," cried Brooks doggedly, but his voice faltering. Williams gazed at the sweet frail woman standing impwnngry before him, and as he gazed his muscles grad ually relaxed, tho wrath faded from his ejes, and finally the corners of his mouth twitched In a faint smile. "All right, Mrs. Brooks," he said gently. "I almost forgot where I was. , I apologias." Smith, his hands in his pockets, J. moved away across the room. "Joe, yon know Ifs your home our home," expostulated his wife. "I I forgot. Excuse me," he mut tered sulkily, looking ashamed. Smith spoke up, his winning smile lighting his face: "You know, it's been an all fired hot day just the kind of weather when about every mothers son is on edge. Now, Joe, he slipped a cog, and that Bort of put the whole confounded ma chine out of gear, including the cap tain. But now, you see, It's Just all forgotten." "Possibly. As far ns I'm concerned I must be going," declared Mrs. Har ris coldly. "Indeed, yes!" chirped Beth. Brooks now, his rage having spent Itself and his bravado fizzled out, was nlmost crying. "I I" he began. But the words choked In his throat, and, picking up his hat, he hastened out of the room nnd the flat. Will you plcaso tako us nway, cap tain?" requested Mrs. Harris. Just u moment" ho said. "Mrs. Brooks, I'm almighty sorry about what happened just now." 'I I'd rather you wouldn't speak of if she told him. Terhaps I havo been a little hard," he said earnestly and apologetically. I want you all to understand that "Please please, captain for my salec,' she pleaded. I've lived a hard life with hard peo pie. Since tho day I shipped before tho mast in a north Pacific scaler learned whnt n cuff nnd n blow wns; what rotten grub, tho scurvy nnd all them things meant and I knew that tho only thlug between them things nnd comfort, decency and the respect of folks was money. I started to get money, and maybo I have been a lit tlo hard just a Ilttlo hard." "No one would call you easy, cap tain," agreed Smith. "Anyway, Mrs. Brooks," continued Williams, "Joe keeps his job, nnd It nln't going to make a bit of difference between us." "Not the least?" sho nsked, with wonder. "Certainly not," said Mrs. narris. "Joo," declared Beth languidly, "wns absurd. Ho quite bores mo." Smith smiled at her nnd Injected a good deal of Irony Into his tone as he said: 'Yes, you looked ns if something wns wrong, Beth." The captain approached Mrs. Brooks with an attempt nt gallantry that wns elephantine and grotesque and seized her hand, which she suffered to re main limply In his clasp. "Well, Mrs. Brooks," ho said, "if It's nil squared you will como riding with us, won't you?" "Not tonight. You will excuse me," she replied. "Certainly," he assured her, warmly shaking her hand as though It were a pump handle. "Good night." "Good night," sho answered. Then she ndvnnccd to receive the parting kisses of her mother and sis ter, which were n good deal less cor dial than those with which they had, greeted her on their arrival. Their osculatory reserves seemed to havo been kept In cold storage during the Interval. 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