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CHAPTER XX VII.
r0Darwrr TUB MINT rooter.
John advanced to Vulpin and laid lam
; and roe his shoulder, saying :
'If I'd had any doubt before that you
wore a reseal in a scrape, 1 should lot it
s.,w. You'll go at our, and understand
that you menu enter W u oda again ell
the hoard meets. If you are here then,
l ern etplatu to the directors. (10 r'
With that he ripped the ssiwstary so
sterol that Yellen, who was pbyslo,Ny
oowardly thoorth morally audeciuus,
wait out unerringly, and John aw
him stand on the sidewalk alone, as if
doubtful what to de.
Fur himself he watt book to Handy,
•boas he found Irked completely brok-
en down, haggard and desperate.
The president gored at him u ho wase
near, and John saw he had • maul in
his hand.
'Dual try to put nes out,' he snarl-
ed. 'Vulpin and Abel Handy are two
t cry different mart. Yoe ungrateful deg,
after •1) I've done for Tr ' Back !'
Jobe heard the slick, dick of the pis
t.,I look, but he did NM halt.
'Fire if yon dao, he said. 'You
don't know me yet, Handy.'
As he spoke, there ante a flash and
report, while Jelin felt • sharp twiugle
in one side from the grave of a bullet.
The text shout. he was on Heady,
bad him like a viae, teari the
' from the other's hand and was
THE HURON 3IGNALI FRIDAY JAN. e.1, 1884. 3'
seder that be was followed ail the way far his former employer in kis Weenier He turned around to • yon igt wan us All we wait pito tire& i• Its• y you W'*
bar Velpia, who looked thvtuuttbly err- of iaal ts.e aid defeat ut. seat t..bwJ wise w
ea M I.M. Et a ►iitrelf, he telt at last swore from 'My friend, can you y moutayt ; run, write • iseter aeeepting the td tusk,,,
Be ►soused hia barer the esstesueat his flow—in . position frutu which uo s those are tine what it as tesidgred Oath and make
Ian Melt au Week, with W hide red , ute ur t-- - ---�
Mr had e.arly completed it, whoa there gwaW dishwg. bass ; •rd es •we after an• bathes as their Satre A•ds T'
very tetetd, spdngger? kapok oke other el the saaaH shareholders nese to The yore wars trial to hide his
the deem to him amid wade boa trustee ad patsy, smile.
side, all ea.
Be wt there sod saw Valves the Mare arrived whoa he bar a clear 'Them's, pditish.n's,' he said. 'They
'HushaiI haat Ar ova joitty of shares t , prunes ri hie own rages primaries and **eh. Ocoee snide 'en,
7. •antro. ,' he said, hands, and raft the works to wit his own the hereto same the strikers, bat you ll
as the yotras man was &bust to oboe the integer —that is, to sake roomy ase 'ear alien, aumewhotw or other, when
door. I have ua ut p,.pusidee to U. heard ae of Heady, V ulpin, User's any rtaeting'* sea' tn. Thaw's
W
sake you, t of Handy. or Stryker ia all this use, save aa he in the bus's sans.'
Let mer, sad I'll tell you. He bee sew o.css oes notes is the rapers of 'The boss's gong ' What boost'
gare home in despair. We are both their 'operations on tba street.
raised. L.1 m. Duero in.' But they would not du much wok the
'Orr in. &aid Juba, stonily. 'But shares of the Valor Company, which
mark my words -- if your proration eau rased to be quoted at a11, having
omens dissonor, I'li not pet you not been all retired sad held ter invariant
gently, as I did before. New pose.' by men who did not care to garublo with
Vulpin came in quietly and at down them Whenever any ap John
aft ..►air before he spoke. was always ready to buy them, and by
Then he said :
'Aruuw`°K, you're a pod head, end
yr have got e• i•U tell you the whole
mutt. I 1y and I have sued the stock
short, thinkegg N must t t down. In-
stead of that, it is brad to go up. We
shall wet be ink to driver, and most
both go by the board. If you will take
our stack off oar hands, well well it to
you at ten, if you an est the gash to -
Diehl.. We have got to have cash smutt-
ier to got out of this pros'
'I've no money to span to buy our
stook,' was the quiet answer. If yeis
ch...w to all • meetingfor to -morrow,
sakes clean breast and resign, 111 4o
dry beet to help you ; but if mut, nos
mast light it out a* Zoo can By to-
morrow morning they 11 all be here, 1
Wink Play them •square game, and
I'm with you. You may bent u stook
gamblers, but as officers of this ora ony
you'll be all the better off'
-But what can you do for us r asked
Vulpin, eagerly.
I can snake the stockholders r happy
as (nen ought to be who are in • prospec-
tor Concern instead Of a ruin, we. the
Ansa *near. 'Yuu must make up your
mind to reefed that half million you
Mould only make by swindling ev
shekiag him fi.rto.ly, with the rest sot- other stockholder Break your Contract*
perionty of bis strsegth Ser John woe in Wall street, and keep tbroe with your
angry at last, and the alight wound in- ParOers' and I'm with Yea.'
dieted of him by the pistol shot had
Vulpin looked at bur with a t urtica
enraged hhefnuoedy. awry, as he and :
Abel 0104u4 and gurgling, 'Oh, you're a deep ear ! You know
but strugglieg all the time, was pinned how to make your stake out of this. :See the arrival of another Armatroug, of
Stryker kitegitd bitterly.
'Easy talkiest. How .i we • to do it t
ousfeemated east. 'lll.ebiis' i.
'Soy you will go -
.
r rg M ewemp w all. Melba. will be
And Juke (roved Di urgedaged aau nother.
# bor- He basil • show,
ea all sides fist at last he oohed NX( thew + ') ke.w, it They'll outs 1' u4'
'11aa, what's 10 be dors. t Yuu may
to thin over it, •ed they ywent •way, be 1'd.treepot asythtalg to defeat
psowwulg to Neutra amt d•
The aware W ossa 1s. J..►a kite a 'ffiaapie oaougt Let Stryker. with -
shook, though Not altogether supra/at dew is fagot of; their salts. 11'Qmi1y.
He lot ut the dty, only • few Tee you have $ ukases to brat Lrw-
ebort yeses , when he bad entered
that a t snag, and U'E will sir poo sot. -
thew
city tramp, looking fa work,
It won't do,' said 8 ryh.e, wM.ely.
'I should be beater anyway. (het
tYt.eggr to resign in my favor, shad . we
or talk.'
•)ashcan be duos, too ; Gust yoked be
all the same, ualees-
'Velesm what r
'tinted ,704-0an onant brill oat.
8tpyker looked at him approvingly.
'Youhe gut a owl heal, Rufus. That
cake he don., too. Itut howl'
-What *II ratios m. sf 1/thew you
how to do it t'
�atutigg is air aft, if I'm elected.'
'Vose well. Liston. To count him
out, Nus will have to take of bis *no-
tion te•r.me way un the day before elec.
two L kart where he gra bio- ticker
printed, sad rho got to seise tithe all
un the- way.'
'Kut what thou r
Vulpin smiled s►roaatically.
' Yuu: ee- no bead wall. if his. work-
ers have no tickets, how are the voters
greeto slept him I Nut one to beta will
tasks the trouble to waste his name. if
one in five omit it, we shall eery racily.
D., you se. r
'Tee, I sr. Kut how i m r, be
dun. M
'111 tell you again. His attrition
mart be attracted on the day before;
'Anel bow are we to do that T'
'Wed, has.► t he a fancily r
'Yea'
'� Ing r w , std
The young num farmed bus with a ( es he catered hi, bumble lot thou
stare. ; with the honor ejpiterntly to be thrust
Why, where sad you bunt 1 1*.os!'rn tutu, he felt deeply his own rbort-
M'Caaty of course, when Buss U'f`stlun I continua
don't get the upper hand. Wbn►t ! 'I dare not take: it,' h. thr.rtght.
Look at the speaker. Hiyi : htyi !' *What shoal I doh Who. will sdvise
And the young ,eau pounded sire- one r'
uuoly un the pious with hos stick es lir. Re thought of the homely woos of his
old father which had stood him Ito well
in many a eras of life, and at last de-
ter:..itwJ to go haw and talk the mat-
te. ewer.
That night therm as a Iamil - r
at 141 Ashley street, and it
John as if the arrow loin street bad
paver Mocked so small as it did on the
night he Dame hoarse to tell his family
that • large and intusential burly of men
had chosen hint, as far as they could in -
/lures bis erre" fur the lino office in
the city la which be had w long been
• resident.
He told them all the story in the dunk
of the evening, after little Johnny had
been put to bed, and when they were all
sitting by the fire.
Then he asked
'What do you ahimik, falter ! thighs
r to accept or not I
The old man shook his head.
'Due'( ask mo, Ara lot your wits
speak first. l're gut to think of it'
John turned to Elko
'What du you say, feanst.
Let mother speak first,' she said.
'She knows more than 1 do.' 'Attack hitt though ho► heady, un
Well, utother,tbar, what do you think that very night
of it Handy, druak as he was, shook hid
Mrs. Murton knitted away for some herd.
moments before she sibwered : 'Ni'o, no ---that wouldn't du. C bntound
'It's a grand opening, John, for the it, i hate him bad enough. I'd like to
child. He'll be able to say his father get even with him, but not that wary.
had been chosen mayor for his merits.' I've seen his wits, and she's a lady.
'Then you advise me to accept T' Theo he's got a buy, four year old, a
'Of course I do.' regular little beauty. Can't hart him.
Here the eller Armstrong gave a Pio, so, Vulpin ; have to find sumo -other
dight chuckle and observed : w
'Mebheou don't understand, Mrs.
Morton. you
hero ain't 'lection ; it's
only a nomination.'
'Who's that T'
'Only a maims Them Mine
may want John to pall theft shIlegmis
out of the ire for 'ern-'
The old lady poked pu4444.
'I don't uudegstand. Don t they want
to, make John 11syor T'
'They want him to rut for the (dhow
That's a different thing, meant. John
might get beat, and it would n»t hies*
heap of mousy.'
The old lady's face felt.
'Oh,that's different. Don't rua,John.
'Well, Ella, what do you oar he.
anwored.
'I may I believe you could do it, e,
answered. 'Besides, after what you
me the other night; I think it's y&duty
to the men '
' W hat men, Ella r'
'Your fellow workmen. You
that your knew Stryker was wit
could prove it,if you had a c
is the chance ooue to you,
afford to throw it away. I w
you President of the United
fore I die. There's no reason
should not he so. Mr.- Lincoln
farmer's coy Johnston was a tailor.
You hebong t.. the people, •You have
chimed up the ladder hell way. I want
you to go to the very top. What do you
say, lather r
She trued to old Armstrong, at.d the
old an nodded his head.
'Joint,' he said, 'ua'st on a time we
used to hare what they called high-toned
gentlemen for Presidents — men who
owned land and didn't work for • livin',
In thea days it's different- Any mea
as has grit and brains kin roe to the top
in America. Senca they as ye, I think
ye've got run.'
'Very well, father,- s..id John,
do it. Mechanics have been tnay..n be-
fore this, 1'11 run.'
the end of his third year u pouring James Stryker, in lull evening dense
hie two huadred had riser to three hun- came out on the platform to speak, Wi
d ' -a mho 'hues, worth three kin- lowing up the grid heeded sod Maui
dal and fifty par cent. on their fate Ifigure of no, lona a man thea Wagstaff
value, on account of the heavy divides& Ii
theyhad earned during the year.
Thou John began to and himself
quite a welt -known man about town ; ur
see hie name ia Gee papers is connection
with large railway operatwos, and to n-
erve offers to leave the position and ac -
ss$ the p»sidiacy of ..cher companies,
with salaries troble his own.
Toad* these offers he returned • steady
rotative, preferring to stick to his own
itiutst. Iiu. of mutinies ; and sot mat-
ters wont toe for anutber year, when, as
he was going home one evening, he ssw
ua the walla • great storing poster, with
the none "Smogs*" oke it in letters ten
feet high, 'the whole of • long board
tenoe being cowered with notices.
He found tben, to his surprise, that
his cid rival hail gots into politics, and
was announer to make • grand oration
that very night at the Academy of Music,
on the subject 'The iniquities of
Monopoly.' Th. oration was said to be
under the auspices of the 'Society of
Knights of the Hammer,' and admission
was to be free to ladiea and gentlemen.
John took it into his heed that he
would go there that night. His father
had lately come to lire with him and his
wife at the little house in Ashley street,
and they were beginning to find the
quarters there somewhat crumpled since
CHAPTER] XXIX.
PUun. s.
Mr. James Stryker was, ae John knew
already, an orator of no mean order, with
• good education, a tine flow of well -
chore language, and a gift ut persuasive
sophistry, that enabled him to dilate on
the manifold &specteuf a subject of which
his auditory knew very little.
He was sp,akiagt at • time white cont.
Amerced distress was causing a great deal
of discontent a: g the classes ul wen
who work fur their living and think lit•
the of canard effect.
Therefore, when Janos told than how
they were oppressed by 'gnading andfj
soulless corporations whu Sired oa the
sweat of other wen's toil,' he was cheer-
ed to the echo ; and when he went on to
abuse all rich people they cheered loud.
er, forgetting tbst the wan .ho address-
ing them was so idler htwself who in.
herited all his money from his hard
working uncle.
To John, who knew all his put, there
was something alteurd in the whole
speech and he could nut help thinking to
himself how easily be could hays answer-
ed all these r.phistries, had he only the
barte. to du i
up atptmist the wall till he was black in hese* we se got 1? gpve 1n. I H resign whom the the old man, had said : When the meeting broke up, which it
the bee aid needy7t senseless, when John my post, and Handy will do the same, if 1 'i"w John Arnutrwng, settior, you're did after the usual formal vote to thanks
ran him out into *lesiva'. and sent him you keep us form..exposure. It hat to o John Armstrong, jut.iur, and if this hen to the speaker, he went home with his
loco the grits of Vulpin, fast in time to be don. .orae►ow.baby n to be called .Sohn too., boson 1 wife, and sheo..uhi not noticing how
sora hint fres whet on the pavement. 'Wil ieu da) h. needy thea 1' s.ked thunder air you gain' to tail which of us thoa1htfuh he was.
Ther he wee beak his desk, to meet John, pith a searchinghook.
the stare oil several workmen, whose 'Ce mly, mai '.7.• re in your power,
machines ran DOM' the glass doorat •ed as know it '1call the meeting
which they were flattering their for to -morrow nous,'
nooses to see what was the matter in the I Then he went away, and John finished
dice., his work late, after which be went tonne
He went to the door and looked into tired out and far from easy in his mind.
chs shop. + Nest day, as he had tot -aeon, the
'You men, keep at your work, and 1 writs were invaded by a regiment of
nil attend to mine ' small holden of *lures, anxious for a
They wait 1.s►eir gachinee et once, meting : and, to his great relief, Handy
wet he knew that the story most spread •ad VII/Pin made Cher apparsnss aid
eo he set to work ki self et oowto intake coese°ted at ono. — $ Meting beteg Perhaps it was not without a spice of 'I don't know. It sena to mor you
Isis position sena against any eecww called immediately of all the share hold• rnahoe pias! John said to Mrs. Murton : do anytbitrg you want t,, John.
intruder by drawing the eortaina is front era 'Yon know, madam, you always ad- t `Little flatterer r
of the door and terming the keys. It was a moment of intense moiety to mired Mr. Stryher's abilities as an ora -
Ther Use unlocked the wee, took rut John when he ruse. Bet whet he had
ye moans when ye soy John '
But Ella had *titled the diffteulty.
'There need be no trouble about it.
You are to be grandpa now, John is of
course papa, and baby is to he Johnny.
I couldn't all him anything o1*., you
know, grandpa,'
'What are you thinking about r she
asked him at kat
'I was thinking, Elia, that Stryker ie
no• as hood a speaker as I thought he
was three yeses vv.'
'indeed r' -
'Yes I think 1 could refute all he
8,o it was settled . and Johnny had said ntrotth If I saw a chance.'
been christened about three years afore 'Then why don't you crake one r
the day when John. senior, came home 'Make a chalets r
and told his family be was g'uieg to hear 'Tea'
Stryker make &speech. *Flow sae I de it Ella 1'
the books, end began to make, out acotwell Into hs statement,* he began to
stateroom' as far as the work bad gone. bear - appro.iog cough), and gp'adeelly
.atisfyine Masai' that there was no Wes' *proof lilt he clued, when Bled -
possibility of his making • mistake in k of the bptd hand, stud : 'TWA
his estimate of to the thanks of the coat y be extended
'No. I'm in earnest. But tell pine,
tor, and wished me W run in opposition /Jelin, what it is be said you could re -
to him.' fete! I mast say that, although Idou't
Its pretty turd for the best of men to like him, he seems to say some things
rear a fair chance to cut quietly at his that unanswerable.'
niMher-,n-law ! 'What were they >'
'All about the rich oppressing the
poor. How you mai to tell in the old
times, John ! No one cared for you in
those times but me. You remember
that terrible strike, and the groat suf-
feritg in caused 1'
'I do ; but that was not brought un by
the rich. It was the poor who wanted
Mrs. Morton colored slightly, retort -
He had the advantage In his laver that to the mabager, and t at hie clary be 1 nig
in hos cies ul manager he was alao
cashier, thottph the cheques of the presi
dent, conatersig need by the eser.ctary,
were necwary to draw or the funds
i the txneen..
Rotorua no trouble had btu expe-
rienced, and 'the cheque-book showed a
heavy balance in favor of the company
u being in the bank, when It suddenly
occurred to him that Heady an -1 Vuipin,
is their evident desperation, might try
to get at this very mOusy.
No sooner did this occur to him than
CHAPTER %%VIII.
he also saw the possibility, unless he took
mans ro atop it forthwith. las rmsctsrm or atomT.
He locked thea•tn, left the°Mee, hur-
ried to the bank, and gut there just in Jars. Stryker • stockholder in the
f time to se. Volpe and Heady eieeaieg Vulcan ' The thing seemed impossible,
•,tit with smiles un their fates, as they yet pit was undeniably true—for Janes it
passed him, that showed him they wo&
thought they had outwitted him at last. Mr. Blodgett rapped ..n the tubli.
in that moment John felt the sweat 'First business in order is election of
roil down his; body in fear of whet had new odpre. Nosiaations for president
happened. are in order, gentlemen.'
Then he cast a lightening chums s over 'i nominate Mr. Jere" Stryker,' said
booth, made up his mind instantly, and the late president, Handy.
wised Handy before he could go soother 'I second it,' said Vulpin.
step- Them was short sileaor, till some one
The bank detective w.. a neer iry, sad said
to him Jobs ailed : 'Stryker ! Who it he 1 He ia no stuck-
Quick,—quid ! Cr..,ked work. Take bolder.'
them into the csaker's odor, I tell yoe.' 'Pardon 1110,' answered Vulpin, bland -
The quick-witted ottdo.rsaw something 1 . 'He is, since yesterday afternoon.
was wrong, hastily came up, and the two H. came in and bought the necessary
were harried by him and John into the amount to entitle him to act on the
orb tees rBwi. hosed. 1 move his eppviatmewt.'
Neither made any resistance, and the Up jumped another member. •
little stir attracted no attention outside, 'We don't know the young man slave
though the bank carter looked around- tat hhe's sold out of the Excelsior, and
ea) as the four men ear e in. pprr,vd a business failure. 1 save that
' What's the matter, gentlemen r he Mr. John Armstrong be made preaideM
asked. and .tanager in wte. He has shown his
John stepped forward. apathy for our interests, and we caner
'I desire to gine you formal Dotiee, sir, stake any better choice. Yesterday then
to pay no race cheques for the Vulcan was a call on the stock ; to -day there'. a
Company till after nur rest board menta, clear five per went. dividend in one mast -
when a new presideit sad secretary are ter. I vete for Armstrong
t.t be elected. Mr. Hairy wishes to 'Armstrongs not a stockholder,' said
make a deposit for us of the proceeds of Handy, shortly.sad fare fell.
a cheque he has jest drawn,' Armstrong imself rose.
Then to Handy he whispered • 'Pardon me. Hen are certificates for
'Quick, or I'll haveyoe in in ten min- two, hundred shares in my name. i
miter. bortgbt them, ten at • time, with my
Handy was as pat as alias now. He moorings, and i assure yoe L shall never
knew that what he had jet done was a sell than for lass titan I' gave for than.'
clear etas of esb.akmeat, and he tried This turned the tide in John's favour
to put a good fano Mtn the natter by and an estimated dispute foliated, which
yielding at ones. ended in loud aria fora vote by 'stock,
He and Vslpin had, is foot, drama a ad the *lark was directed to tall the
cheque Sot mien than the amour in the roil.
bank, white had boss paid without a Al the end of tee sins pit appeared
gasstioi en their gignaton., with a tb.tStryke►, Handy, out V.lpen eow-
ramiader teat 11 stilt be itid. good .1 trolled a little is wee -third of the
Mme., 16 whisk Handy bad nplid that steak, while all the rest was voted es,
they were going to make • heavy deposit dimity to. by prosy, and all these were
that afternoon, whir' would soake it all asst for John Art iriiug who feed
Awad now, with bees as .tale as c himself at 1.d head of the Velma
ooDid ,sake tfses. tkoT went with Jo a C A determined .fort was the sada to
to toe r,witvitts Wlerr''vsrwinery, wars thrmst la Stryker as .eeretery, tot this
bad jest eojnwe sad bJo»s J t aim proved enemsss•stul, sad the bald
left the hank ' had nese" She a /sadhier &ed irritable Blodgett was sitar for
Basil mirrored that theme w some deg
high oar, wheel the wearres htwhe
eyelids in the Valor Compsmy fits eo is. .try best. the Heady party Wolff
whirl lawsuits were like) to 0penss, eornplwtaly
and that it would not he oafs to pay oat
notary till the tetra was settled -
Thee he weft beak to the works, sad
raiaed twenty-five per cent for his too
vireo • r -
vireo'
The motion was carried, when troth
Handy aid Vulpin rot and put in their
t.and the chair was taken by
Then John saw, on the other side of
the Iutig Label, J &oar Stryker st•rinp at
hits with a peculiar malignity of exprss-
Mon
'Perhaps you're not capable of the ef-
fort, after, aJL It's nee thing to make
money. so l've heard, and quite another
to manage mea.
Tin sur. John could do anything that
Stryker •told do,' interposed Ella,
warmly. 'Ieoukl never see what you more moon for their labor. They got
found in that men, mother, to admire. it that time, because prices were going
To me he was roar tatious.'
'1 don't admire biro, dear, but I think
that he has good qualities, after all, and
he could buy and sell a five Wass .volt,
after all lou lasso'
'Thea it's his money you admin, tint
his,' retorted Elk. '1 don't admire
ether, for my part, mother, and Cm
sure 1 shall not go to hear him.'
John had not meant to stir up such a
squabble by his remark, but he hastened
to pour oft On the waters by saying :
'Don't let it be too, severe on the poor
fellow. I're beet thrown across his
path by accident so many times, to his
oast, that I feel I ought not to sneer at
him. i am going to -night, and I hope
that you will aoon tp•ey me, madam'—
turning to era. Morton.
'With pleasure,' needed the old hada.
I must say, John, that your wife w
hardly eonsiderate when she sneers at
this poor fellow, who was ready to kiss went was meeting
the very ground she walked on.' He, with his clex common sense and
John laughed.
'You can t expect me to sympathine
with you on that score, madam. Good
taste forbids me to disagree with my
erif,'s estimate of our relative merits.
Bat father will Dome too.'
And it turned out, *ben the evening
come, that Ella sea'd.aly changed her
mind, and ietersined to go and hear
Stryker. eo that the party became a
`square one,' in Fretmh phrase ; the two
old people in front, the young ones be-
hind, till they secured seat* in the midst
of • hate crowd, and lost Meeh ether in
the oosfueiott.
And then John and Ella saw that the
stye et the Academy was ooeupid by a
bead and a number of chain, oft which
sat a goodly gathering of mon of seedy
aspect, old and young, with • sprinkling
of other men in 'the glwiest of broad-
cloth, with very large diamond shirt
Pins, very black immataebal, and big
loris, is whom he recognised a type he
kid never seen before. John, straags to
as,, never having gore to • primary in
his life.
Elk natioed them too, and whispered
'Who are those vulgar looking Ileo in
black, John t They all look alike,'
John shook his head.
'Indeed i don't know, dear. They
lent like undertaken one way, gamblers
earlier. '
Ben John heard a .hooky, behind
hist, as also • whisper
'My, ain't they green r
He thnoght he must be so himself.
Yr there were quits a number of
Wiwi in the house, for the passes had
espesially invited them to .mine, and the
whet, of the parquet seemed to he re-
served for thews. John thought to his -
As they bake ups Armstrong sin self :h an ae ss
Handy shake his fist at him as he went 7 O Dewire. sag
of with ter and Vnlppiie ; but he j t i eiiq iwi she type o4 tltetae thew .t
took as of it for he cord ted
up, but they have come down since that
time again. No trade eon pay Snowy in
wages than it earns in pr»tits. This
mistake Strokes' and the rest make 1. in
thinking they An alter the laws of tired,
by other lava made by man. Uk no
'I don't understand, John.'
`No. 1 dn,t suppose you du. I
abould hare make s hang speech to show
the real and of the present trouble;
and what's the use of it after all 1'
'Why don't you make the speech,
John, Ind make it to the people!'
'Because—well, because I have other
business to attend to. And here we are
at home.'
8o the subject Wall dropped ; but for
alt that it kept returning to John and
haunting biro at hie business when he
heard, as he did every day, of the suc-
oees with which the new political more -
experience, as. the hollowness of the
cause and the blunders on which it was
founded, and felt an impels. to expose
it, but was prevented by the press of
husioese. till inn du.wsum
to his au
prise, he was called on the party of gen-
three wren, known in the trade, who
came for no lees a perpore than to ask
Win to run tor mayor of the oily on a
ticket composed of the respectable sen
of all parties who wished for honest
government.
Jahn was thunderstruck.
'Me ! %Vhy, whit have I dune that
you should select me for your candi-
date r he &eked, in smazentent.
One old retrain replied
We want • candidate wh., has been a
working man himself, t, rim against this
new ticket the Knight. of the Hammer
are getting up. They hare determined
t., nominate a yowl than called Stryker,
• ho has plenty of money, and is going to
spend it like water.'
'But I've no money to rend like wa-
ter,' urged John, aghast at the idea
'No ; bot yaw have personal worth, $
stainless name, and popularity.'
'But why don't you nominate Mr.
Blank, or So -an so i' ached John, nam-
ing rose prominent wren in the city.
'Baena they are not string sine%
with We workmen. You sae, this young
saan's uncle we. • workman h.asself, and
that goes • treat way with the people.
We want a nen who is not only the
nephew of his toads, but a man in him Handy snored. Has en Arae ace the s*MemrT antra, or
self WM you run Y • Yoe More net, an mean. Contort' First - Cla 48 Furniture
You ma's elect me r said John. 'I your add Mrwtd ' nw'll din • silrinaah» le ala* (.nests. py se 1 new purchase Ser ttaab.
tell you frankly I've no .money to spend hot Bret L can't b. •sued sswith mntett
oey sos
et be 4*rs,M pits .ns ass.
on polities. I'm not erred to m,.nn
thed alnn. L want rwoage.' t wirer Ta�sst�s t roe
all i's. seen .01 polities/ men Ickes me It ol.00an't pay,' said Vnlpin, goiel %emirat witty
thi.k theta • bad est. L do..'t want tr 'Money doss, sy boy. Ther•s's mossy m p"' back Ch.trti, hoe. mese sp..sae .sons
,anal pial. the alien r pilo. nam. eleesetiert,
'What way r aster Handy, orlon. A T THE OLD STAND
all' ,thio, ct
Stryker scowled at him.
'Strikes me you're getting port! moral
nowadays for • stock opeeatos. That
w.fe of his, indeed ! I owe her a grudge
—(l
Opp. And as for she kido wry Vulpin:
nkat are you going to say I
*imply that if we could decoy her and
the your one away from hume oke the
afternoon before the elector, we'd Stake
him w so anxious about thethat 1 'd for-
get all the test. .'N o n
a bat; butlw
right
vot• ..mor ay.,i,,i•h �.
nefo oreato.
ve
w ski - . . Udo it for',ue;
thhho°ly of ' video hard Rud
Armstriiag ' ,
ret[�P' the way of
!pito ` 11 app!ttt'nos
�s iiV to s* . h 0*.
or fro - yit Ante •
CHAPTER XXX
T111 PLOT.
Six weeks after the name of 'John
Armstrong, Mechanic,' had appeared on walls of the cit] as the Reforcan-
eidafor mayor, Mr. James Stryker,
Mr. Handy, and Mr. Rufus Vulpin at
together in a handsomely furnished room
in Fifth Avenue, talking in low tones,
o
with gloomy oountenaeosa.
At least Stryker and Handy seemed
tebe in . batt! humour, though gr.
Vulpin wore his usual sly smile, as he
satss
apart from the others, sipping a glees
of lemonade ; for he never drank any-
thing strong—not from any scruples as
to the morality oaf the practice, but
because he needed • .;dear head all the
time.
Stryker and Handy,on the other hand,
had both been drinking very freely, and
the libations only aewmed to increase
their gloom.
Confound the lock !' said Stryker, in
a vicious way. 'The fellow enemas me
all the time, and always in a place where
he gets the beet of me. Who would
have thought that he,of all others would
have come out in politics ' Why, he
never attended so much u a primary in
r'
his life
Handy tittered a curse.
He's got Satan's own look H.. ought --�.-
to have failed rears ago ; but somehow
he always pulls through When i think DANIEL GORDON,
of the day he first cage into these works,
and how I breaded him, and then
think haw he turned ire nut at hest, 1
feel as d i could waylay and shoot him
for revenge.'
Vulpin smiled.
Dost get excited, Handy. We've not
made so badly off it, after all.'
Can dr.
But it
such power ;
ensured by the used
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