CHAPTER XII.
FRIENDS IN NEED.
"Now, papa," said Clura that morn
ing, wrinkling her brows and putting
her finger tips together with tho air of
an experienced person of business, "I,
want to have a talk to you about money
matters."
"Yes, my dear." Ho laid down his
paper and looked a question.
Kindly tell mo again, papa, how much
money I havo in my very own right.
You have often told mo beforo, but I al
ways forget figures."
"You havo £2OO a year of your own
under your aunt's will."
"And Ida?"
"Ida has £150."
"Now, I think I can livo very well on
£SO a year, papa. I am not very extrava
gant, and I could make my own dresses
if I had a sewing machine."
"Very likely, dear."
In that case I havo £2OO a year which
I could do without."
"If it were necessary."
"But it is necessary. Oh, do help me,
like a good, dour, kind papa in this mat
ter, for my wholo heart is set upon it.
Harold is in sore need of money and '
through no fault of his own." With a
woman's tack and eloquence sho told
the wholo story. "Put yourself in my
place, papa. What is tho money to me?
I never think of it from year's end to
year's end. But now I know how pre
cious it is. I could not havo thought that
money could be so\aluablc. Sco what I
can do with it. It may help to save him.
I must havo it by tomorrow. Oh, do, do
advise me as to what I should do, and
how I should get the money."
Tho doctor smiled at her eagerness.
"Yon are as anxious to get rid of money
as others are to gain it," said he. "In
another caso I might think it rash, but I
lieliove ill your Harold, nnd I can see
that ho has had villainous treatment.
You will lot mo deal with tho matter." !
"You, papa?"
"It can be done best betwoen men.
Your capital, Clara, is somo £5,000, but
it is out on a mortgage, and you could
not call it in."
"Oh, door! oh, dear!"
"But we can still manage. I have as
much at my bank. I will advance it to
tho Dunvers as coming from you, and
you can repay it to me, or the interest of
it, when your money becomes duo."
"Oh, this is beautiful! How sweet and
kind of you."
"But there is ono obstacle—l do not
think that you would ever induce Harold
to take this money."
Clara's face fell. "Don't you think so,
really?"
"I am sure that he would not."
"Then what are you to do? What
horrid things money matters are to ar
range!"
"I shall seo his father. Wo can manage
it all between ps."
"Oh, do, do, papa! And you'will do it
soon?
"There is no time liko the present. I
will go in at once." 110 scribbled a check,
put it in an onvolppe, put on liis broad
straw hat and strolled in through tho
garden to pay his morning call.
It was a singular sight which met his
eyes as lie entered tho sitting room of the
admiral. A great sea chest stood open
in tho center, and all around iq>on the
carpet were little piles of jerseys, oil
skins, books, sextant lioxes, instruments
and sea boots. The old seaman sat
gravely auiid this lumber, turning it
over and examining it intently, while
his wife, with tho tears running silently
down her ruddy cheeks, sat upon tho
sofa, her elbows upon her knees and her
chin upon her hands, rocking-herself
slowly backward and forward.
"Hullo, doctor," said the admiral,
holding out his hand. "There's foul
weather set in upon us, as you may havo
heard, but I havo ridden out many a
worßo squall, and, plcaso God, wo shall
all three of us weather this ono also,
though two of us aro a little more
cranky than wo were."
"My dear friends. I camo in to tell you
how deeply we sympathize with you all.
My girl has only just told mo about it."
"It has coino so suddenly upon us,
doctor," sobbed Mrs. Hay Denver. "I
thought that I had John to myself for
tho rest of our lives—heaven knows that
we havo not seen very much of each
other—but now he talks of going to sea
again."
"Aye, aye, Walker, that's tho only way
out of it. When I first heard of it, I
was thrown up in the wind with all
nback. I givo you my word that I lost
my bearings more completely than ever
sinco I strapped a middy's dirk to my
belt. You see, friend, I know iftnuothing '
of shipwreck or battle or whatever may j
como upon tho waters, but tho shoals in
the city of London on which my jioor
boy has struck are clean beyond me.
Pearson had been my pilot thero, and
now I know him to be* rogue. But I've
taken my bearings i/>w, and I seo my
course right before me."
"What then, admiral?"
•'Oh, I have one or two little plans.
I'll havo some news for tho boy. Why,
hang it, Walker, mail, I may be a bit
Stiff in tho joints, but you'll bo my wit
ness that I can do iny 12 miles under tho
three hours. What, then? My eyes aro
as good as ever, except just for the news
paper. My head is clear. I'm three and
sixty, but I'm as good a man as ever I
was—too good a man to lie up for an
other. 10 years. I'd bo tho better for a
smack of tho salt water again and u
whiff of the breeze. Tut, mother, it's
not a four years' cruiso this timo. t'y ho
j back every month or two. it's no more
I than if I went for a visit in the country."
j Ho was talking boisterously and heap
[ ing his sea boots and sextants back into
i his chest.
I "And you really think, my dear friend,
■ of hoisting your pennant again?"
j "My pennant, Walker? No, no. Her
| majesty, God bless her. has too many
young men to need an old hulk like me.
I shall bo plain Mr. Hay Denver of the
j merchant service. I daresay that I
might find somo owner who would givo
mo a chapco as socond or third officer.
It will bo strango to mo to feel the rails
of tho bridge under my fingers once
more."
"Tut! tut! this will never do. this will
nover do, admiral!" Tho doctor sat
down by Mrs. Hay Denver and patted
her hand in token of friendly sympathy.
"Wo must wait until your son has had
it out with all these peojile, and then wo
shall know what damage is done and
how best to set it right. It will be time
enough then to begin to muster our re
sources to meet it."
"Our resources!" Tho admiral laughed.
"There's the pension. I'm afraid, Walk
er, that our resources won't need much
mUfltarinar."
j It was a singular tight which met his eyes.
"Oh, come, there are some which you
may not havo thought of. For example,
admiral, I had always intended that my
| girl should have £5,000 from mo when
sho married. Of course your boy's trou
blo is her trouble, and the money cannot
bo spent bettor than in helping to set it
right. Sho has a little of her own which
sho wished to contribute, but I thought
it best to work it this way. Will you
take tho check, Mrs. Denver, and I think
it would be best if you said-nothing to
Harold about it and just used it as the
occasion served?"
"God bless you, Walker, you urea
true friend. I won't forget this, Walker."
The admiral sat down on his sea chest
and mopped his brow with his red hand
kerchief.
"What is it to me whether you hnvoit
now or then? It may bo more useful
now. There's only ono stipulation. If
things should cimie to tho worst and if
the business should provo so bad that
nothing can set it right, thon hold back
this check, for there is no use in pouring
water into a broken basin, and if the lad
should fall ho will Want something to
pick hiinsolf up again with."
"He slftll not fall. Walker, and you
shall not havo occasion to bo ashamed of
tho family into which your daughter is
about to marry. I havo my own plan.
But wo shall hold your money, my
friend, and it will strengthen us to fed
that it is there."
"Well, tlint is all right," said Dr.
Walker, rising, "and if a little more
should bo needed we must not lid him go
wrong for the want of a thousand or
two. And now, admiral, I'm off for my
morning walk. Won't you come too?"
"No, I am going into town."
"Well, goodby. I hope to have better
news, and that all will come right.
Goodby, Mrs. Denver. I feel as if the
boy were my own, and I shall not bo
easy until all is right with him.
CHAPTER XXII.
IN STRANGE WATERS.
When Dr. Walker had departed, the
admiral packed all his possessions back
into his sea chest with tho exception of
ono little brass bound desk. This ho un
locked and took from it a dozen or so
blue aheets of paper all mottled over
with stamps and seals, with very large
V. R.'s printed upon the heads of them,
no tied these carefully into a small bun
dle, and placing them in the inner pock
et of his coat ho seized his stick and hat.
"Oh, John, don't do this rash thing,"
cried Mrs. Denver, laying hor hands up
on his sleeve. "I have seen so little of
you, John. Only throe years since you
left tho service. Don't leavo mo again"
I know it is weak of me, but I cannot
bear it."
"There's my own brave lass," said ho,
smoothing down tho gray shot hair.
"We've lived in honor together, mother,
and pleaso God in honor we'll die. No
matter how debts aro made, they have
got to be met, and what tho boy owes
wo owo. He has not tho money, and
how is ho to find it? Ho can't find it
What, then? It becomes my business,
and there's only ono way for it."
"But it may not bo so very bad, John. !
Had wo not best wait until after ho seos
these people tomorrow?"
"They may give him littlo time, lass,
but I'll have a care that I don't go BO far
thnt I can't put bock again. Now, moth- !
er, there's no uso holding me. It's got'
to be done, ana there's no sense in smrir
ing it." Ho detached her fingers from
his sleeve, pushed her gently back into an
armchair and hurried from the house.
In less than half an hour the admiral
was whirled into Victoria station and
found hhnsolf amid a denso bustling
throng, who jostled and pushed in tho
crowded terminus. Ilia errand, which
had seemed feasiblo enough in his own
room, began now to present difficulties
in tho carrying out, and ho puzzled over
how he should take tho first steps. Amid
tho stream of business men, each hurry
ing on his definite way, tho old seaman i
in his gray tweed suit and black soft hat
strodo slowly along, his head sunk and
his brow wrinkled in perplexity. Sud
denly an idea occurred to him. He '
walked back to the railway stall and
bought a daily paper. This he turned j
and turned until a certain column met
his eye, when ho smoothed it out and
carrying it over to a seat proceeded to ;
read it at his leisure.
And indeed as a man read that col
umn it seemed strange to him that there
should still remain any ono in this world
of ours who should bo iu straits for want
|of money. Hero were whole lines of I
gentlemen who were burdened with a
surplus in their incomes, and who were ■
loudly calling to tho poor and needy to
como and take it off their hands. Here |
was tho guileless jierson who was not a
professional money lender, but who
Would be glad to correspond, etc. Hero,
too, wus tho accommodating individual
who advanced sums from £lO to £IO,OOO
without expense, security or delay.
"Tho money actually paid over within ;
a few hours," ran this fascinating adver
tisement, conjuring up a vision of swift
messengers rushing with bags of gold to
tho aid of tho poor straggler. A third I
gentlemen did all business by personal
application, advanced money on any-1
thing or nothing. The lightest nnd air- '
iost promise was enough to content him 1
according to his circular, and finally ho
never asked for more than 5 per cent. |
This struck the admiral as far tho most :
promising, and his wrinkles relaxed and I
his frown softened away as he gazed at i
it. Ho folded up tho paper, roso from
the seat and found himself face to faco
with Charles Westmacott.
"Hullo, admiral!"
"Hullo, Westmacottl" Charles had al
ways been a favorite of tho seaman's,
"What aro you doing here?"
"Oh, I havo been doing a little busi
ness for my aunt. But I have never seen
you in London beforo."
"I hato tho place. It smothers me.
There's not a breath of clean air on this
side of Greenwich. Butmaybo you know
your way about pretty well in the city?"
' Well, I know something about it.
You see, I've never lived very far from
it, and I do a good deal of my aunt's
business."
"Maybe you know Bread street?"
"It is out of Cheapside."
"Well, then, how do you steer for it
from here? You make mo out a course,
and I'll keep to it."
"Why, admiral, I havo nothing to do.
I'll take you thero with pleasure."
"Will you, though? Well, I'll take it
very kindly if you would. I havo busi
ness thero. Smith & Hanbury, financial
agents, Bread street."
j Tho pair made their way to tho river
side, and so down tho Thames to St.
I Paul's lauding—a mode of travel which
was much more to tho admiral's taste
than bus or cab. On tho way ho told
his companion his mission and the causes
which had led to it. Charles Westma
cott knew littlo enough of city life and
tho ways of business, but at least he had
more experience hi both than the admi
ral, and ho made up his mind not to
j leave him until tho matter was settled.
"These are the peoplo," said the ad
miral, twisting round his paper and
pointing to the advertisement which had
seemed to him the most promising. "It
sounds honest and abovo board, does it
not? Tho personal interview looks as if
there wore no trickery, and then no ono
could object to 5 per cent."
"No, it seems fair enough."
"It is not pleasant to have to go, hat
in hand, borrowing money, but there are
times, as you may find before you aro
my age, Westmacott, when a man must
stow away liis pride. But hero's their
number, and their plate is on the comer ]
of the door."
A narrow entranco was flanked on
either side by a row of brasses, ranging
up ward from tho shipbrokers and the so- I
licitors who occupied the ground floors, j
through a long succession of West Indian
agents, architects, surveyors and brokers, '
to the firm of which they were in quest, j
A winding stoim stair, well carpeted and \
railed at first, but growing shabbier with |
every landing, brought them past in
numerable doors until at hist, just un- !
der the ground glass roofing, tho names
of Smith & Hanbury were to be seen
painted in largo white letters across a '
I i ancl, with a laconic invitation to push
beneath it.
! Following out the suggestion, tho ad
i rairal and His companion found them
selves in a dingy apartment, ill lit from
a couple of glazed windows. An ink
stained table, littered with pens, papers
and almanacs, an American cloth sofa,
throe chairs of varying patterns and a
much worn carpet constituted all the
furniture, save only a very large and ob
trusive porcelain spittoon and a gaudily
framed and very somber picture which
hung above the fireplace. Sitting in
front of this picture and staring gloom
ily at it as being tho only thing which
he could stare at was a small, sallow
faced boy, with a largo head, who in tho
intervals of his art studies munched so
datoly at an apple.
"Is Mr. Smith or Mr. Hanbury in?"
naked the admiral.
"There ain't no such people," said tho
small boy.
"But yon have the names on the
door."
"Ah, that is tho namo of the firm, you
sea It's only a namo. It's Mr. Reuben
Motaxa that you wants."
"Woll, then, is ho in?"
"No, heV not."
"When will ho be back?"
"Can't tell, I'm sure. Ho's gone to
lunch. Sometimes ho takes one hour
and sometimes two. It'll bo two today,
t pect, tor do said he was nungry arore
he went."
! "Then 1 suppose that wo had better
call again," said tho admiral.
"Not a bit," cried Charles. "I know
i how to manage these little imps. See
hero, you young varmint, here's a shil
ling for you. Run off and fetch your
| master. If you don't bring him hero in
j Ave minutes, I'll clump you on the side
|of the head when you get back. Shoo!
Scat!" lie charged at tho youth, who
bolted from the room and clattered mad
ly down stairs.
"He'll fetch him," said Charles. "Let
us make ourselves at home. This sofa
does not feel over and above safe. It
was not meant for 15-stone men. But
this doesn't look quite the 6ort of place
where one would expect to pick up
money,"
"Just what I was thinking," said the
admiral, looking ruefully about him.
"Ah, well! I have heard that the best
furnished offices generally belong to the
poorest firms. Let us hope it's the op
posite here. They can't spend much on
the management anyhow. That pump
kin headed boy was tho 6taff, I suppose.
Ha, by Jove, that's his voice, and he's
got our man, I think!"
As ho spoke the youth appeared in the
doorway with a small, brown, dried up
little chip of a man at his heels. He
was clean shaven and blue chinned, with
bristling black hair and keen brown
eyes which 6hone out very brightly from
between pouched underlids and droop
ing upper ones. He advanced, glancing
keenly from one to tho other of his visit
ors, and slowly rubbing together his
thin blue veined hands. Tho small boy
closed tho door behind him and discreet
ly vanished.
"I am Mr. Reuben Metaxa," said the
money lender. "Was it about an od
vanco you wished to see me?"
"Yes."
"For you, I presumo," turning to
Charles Westmacott.
I "No, for this gentleman."
The money lender looked surprised,
j "How much did you desire?"
I "I thought of £5,000," said the admiral.
'And on what security?"
"I am a retired admiral of the British
| navy. You will find my name in the
j navy list. There is my card. I have
! here my pension papers. I get £BSO a
j year. I thought that perhaps if you
were to hold these papers it would be se-
J curity enough that I should pay you.
You could druw my pension and repay
yourselves at the rate, say, of £SOO a
year, taking your 5 per cent interest as
well."
| "What interest?"
"Five per cent per annum."
Mr. Metaxa laughed. "Per annum!"
ho said. "Five per cent a month."
"Per annum!" he said.
"A month! That would be CO per
cent a year.
"Precisely."
'But that is monstrous."
"I don't ask gentlemen to come to mo.
They come of their own free will.
Those are my terms, and and they can
take it or leave it."
"Then I shall leavo it." The admiral
rose angrily from his chair.
"But one moment, sir. Just sit down,
and we shall chat the matter over.
Yours is a rather unusual case, and wo
may find somo other way of doing what
you wish. Of courso the security which
you offer is no security at all, and no
sane man would ndvanco 5,000 pennies
on it."
"No security? Why not, sir?"
"You might die tomorrow. You are
not a young man. What ago aro you?"
"Sixty-three."
I Mr. Metaxa turned over a long column
of figures. "Hero is an actuary's tablo,"
said he. "At your time of life the aver
j ago expectancy of life is only a few years
oven in a well preserved man."
] "Do you mean to insinuate that lam
I not a well preserved man?"
I "Well, admiral, it is a trying life at
sea. Sailors in their younger days are
j gay dogs and tako it out of themselves.
1 Then when they grow older they are still
hard at it and havo no elianco of rest or
j peace. I do not think a sailor's life a
good one."
i "I'll tell you what, sir," said the od
| iniral hotly. "If you have two pairs of
gloves, I'll undertake to knock you out
under three rounds, or I'll race you from
[Jiero to St. Paul's, and my friend here
will see fair. I'll let you see whether I
j am an old man or not."
j "This is beside tho question," said the
money lender with a deprecatory shrug.
"Tho point is that if you died tomorrow
where would be the security then?"
"I could insure my lifo and make tho
policy over to you."
"Your premiums for such a sum, if
t'.nv office would havo yon, which I very
I much doubt, would oomo to close on
£f)00 a year. That would hardly suit your
book."
"Well, sir, what do you intend to pro
pose?" askod the admiral.
"I might, to accommodate you, work
it in another way. I should send for a
medical man and havo an opinion upon
your lifo. Then I might seo what could
be done."
"That is quite fair. I have no objec
tion to that."
"There is a very clover doctor in the
street here. Proudio is his name. John,
go and fetch Dr. Proudio." The youth
was dispatched upon his errand, while
Mr Metaxa sat at his desk, trimming his
3 nails and shooting out little comments
upon the weather. Presently feet were
r heard upon the stairs, the money lender
hurried out, there was a sound of whis
' pering, and he returned with a large, fat,
1 greasy looking man clad Jn a mnoh worn
frock coat and a very dilapidated top hat.
"Dr. Proudic, gentlemen," said Mr
Metaxa.
The doctor bowed, Biuiled, whipped off
his hat and produced his stethoscope
from its interior with the air of a con
juror upon the stage. "Which of these
gentlemen am I to examine?" he asked,
blinking from one to the other of them.
"Ah, it is you! Only your waistcoat!
ITou need not undo your collar. Thank
you! A full breath! Thank yotil Nine
ty-nine! Thank you! Now hold your
breath for a moment. Oh, dear, dear, I
what is this I hear?"
"What is it, then?" asked tho admiral
coolly.
"Tut, tut! This is a great pity. Have
you had rheumatic fever?"
"Never."
"You have had some serious illness?"
"Never."
"Ah, you are an admiral. You have
been abroad, tropics, malaria, ague—l
know."
"X have never had a day's illness."
"Not to your knowledge, but you
havo inhaled unhealthy air, and it has
left its effect. You have an organic
murmur—slight, but distinct."
"Is it dangerous?"
"It might at any time become so.
You should not take violent exercise."
"Oh, indeed. It would hurt me to
run a half mile?"
"It would be vory dangerous."
"And a mile?"
"Would bo almost certainly fatal."
"Then there is nothing else the mat
ter?"
"No. But if tho heart is weak then
everything is weak, and tho lifo is not a
sound one."
"You see, admiral," remarked Mr. Me
taxa as the doctor secreted his stetho
scope once more in his hat, "my remarks
were not entirely uncalled for. lam
Borry that tho doctor's opinion is not
moro favorable, but this is a matter of
business, and certain obvious precau
tions must be taken."
"Of course. Then the matter Is at an
end."
"Well, wo might oven now do busi
ness. lam most anxious to bo of use to
you. How long do you think, doctor,
that this gentleman will in all proba
bility live?"
> "Well, well, it's rather a delicato ques
tion to answer," said Mr. Proudie, with
a show of embarrassment.
"Not a bit, sir. Out with it! I have
faced death too often to flinch from it
now, though I saw it as near to mo as
you oro."
"Well, well, we must go by averages
of course. Shall we say two years? I
should think that you have a full two
years before you."
"In two years your pension would
bring you in £1,600. Now I will do my
very best for you, admiral. I will ad
vance you £l!,00(5, and you can make
over to mo your pension for your life.
It is puro speculation on my part. If
you die tomorrow, I loso my money. If
the doctor's prophecy is correct, I shall
still bo out of pocket. If you live a lit
tle longer, then I may see my money
again. It is tho very best I can do for
you."
"Then you wish to buy my pension?"
"Yes, for £3,000 down."
"And if I live for 20 years?"
"Oh, in that case of course my specu
lation would bo more successful. But
you lrnvo heard tho doctor's opinion."
"Would you advanco tho money in
stantly?"
"You should havo £l,oooatonco. The
other £I,OOO I should expect you to take
in furnituro."
"In furniture?"
"Yes, admiral. Wo shall do you a
beautiful houseful at that Bum. It is
tho custom of nfy clients to take half in
furniture."
The admiral sat in diro perplexity. lie
had come out to get money, and to go
back without any, to bo powerless to
help when his boy nooded every shilling
to savo him from disaster, that would be
very bitter to him. On the other' hand,
it was so much that ho surrendered and
so little that ho received. Little, and
yet something. Would it not bo better
than going back empty handed? Ho saw
tho yellow backed checkbook upon tho
tablo. Tho money lender opened it and
dipped his pen in the ink.
"Shall I fill it up?"
"I think, admiral," remarked West
macott, "that we had better havealittle
walk und some luncheon before wo set
tle this matter."
"Oh, wo may as well do it at once. It
would lie absurd to postpone it now,"
Motnxa spoke with some heat, and his
eyes glinted angrily from between his
narrow lids at tho imperturbable Charles.
Tho admiral was simple in money mat
ters, but he had seen much of men and
had learned to rend them. Ho saw that
venomous glance, and saw, too, that in
tense eagerness was peeping out from
boneath tho careless uir which tho agent
had assumed.
"You're quite right, Westmacott,"
said he. "We'll havo a littlo walk be
fore we settle it."
"But I may not be hero this after
noon."
"Thon we must choose another day."
"But why not settlo it now?"
"Beenuso I prefer not," said tho ad
miral shortly.
"Very well. But remember that my
offer is only for today. It is off unless
you take it at once."
"Let it be off, then."
"There's my fee," cried the doctor.
"How much?"
"A guinea."
Tho admiral threw £1 Is. upon the
table. "Come, Westmacott," said he,
and they walked together from the room.
"I don't like it," said Charles when
they found themselves in tho street once
more. "I don't profess to be a very
sharp chap, but this is a trifle too thin.
What did ho want to go out and speak
to the doctor for? And how vory con
venient this tale of a weak heart was. I
•-lievo they aro q. couple. gf rogues and
CASTOR I A
"Castoria is so well adapted to children that
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221 So. Oxford St., ttrooklyn, N. Y.
"The two of *Caatorfa* is so universal and
its merits so well known that it seems a work
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intelligent families who do uot keep Castoria
within easy reach."
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Late Pastor Ploomingdale Reformed Church.
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"A shark and a pilot fish," said tho ad- !
miral.
"I'll tell you what 1 propose, sir.
There's a lawyer named McAdam, who
does my aunt's business. Ho is a very
honest fellow and lives at tho other sido
of Poultry. Wo'll go over to him to
gether and have his opinion nhout the
wholo matter."
"How far is it to his placer
"Oh, a milo at least. We can have a
cab."
"A mile? Then wo shall 800 if thero
is any truth in what that swab of a doc
tor said. Como, my boy, and clnp on
all sail and see who can stay the longest.'
Then tho solier denizens of the heart of
business London saw a singular sight as
they returned from their luncheons.
Down the roadway, dodging among calis
and carts, ran a weather stained elderly i
man, with wide, flapping black hat and
homely suit of tweeds. With elbows
braced back, hands clinched near his
armpits and chest protruded ho scudded
along, while closo at his heels lumbered
a largo limbed, heavy, yellow mustached ;
young man, who seemed to feel tho exer
ciso a gooil deal more than his senior.
On they dashed, belter skelter, until they
pulled up panting at the offico where tho
lawyer of tho Westmacotts was to ho
found.
"There, now!" cried tho admiral in
triumph. "What d'ye think of that?
Nothing wrong in tho engine room, eh?"
"You seem lit enough, sir."
"Blessed if I believe the swab was a
certificated doctor at all. Ho was flying
false colors or I am mistaken."
"They keep tho directories nnd regis
ters in this eating house," said Westma
cott. "Wo'll go and look him out."
They did so, hut tho medical rolls con
tained no such name as that of Dr
Proudio of Bread street.
"Pretty villainy this!" cried tho admi
ral, thumping his chest. "A dummy doc
tor and a vamped up disease. Well, we've
tried tho rogues, Wostmacottl Let us 800
what wo can do with your honest man."
[CONTINUED ON THURSDAY.]
Castoria cures Colic, Constipation,
Bour Stomach, Diarrhrea, Eructation,
Kills Worms, gives sloop, and promotes di
gestion,
Without injurious medication.
" For several years I havo recommended
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do so as it hus invariably produced beneficial
results.'*
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"The Winthrop," 125 th Street and 7th Ave.,
New York City.
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