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of Toronto. Late Dia -
1 :1nice, Military pistriet,
gyp, 1t ondont Ont. Office 4rours at
"1,13!1 i3, y Ont, Monday, Wednesday,
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DR. F. J. R. FORSTER
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine, University of,
Toronto.
Late AssIgtant New 'York Opbtbat.
rd and Akira! Institute, Mooi'efield's
Ere and Golden Square Throat Hos-
pitals, London, Eng. At office in Scott
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Waterloo Street South, Stratford.
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B. M. Proctor, B.A.,Sc., Manager
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Exceptional opportunities for Iocal
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Trinity Medical College; member of
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DR. H. HUGH ROSS
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Ontario; pass graduate courses is
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A Novel Of Which lie
Is Not the Hero.
S'. HOPIKINSON SMITH
TORONTO
McLEOD & ALLEN
CHAPTER I
Peter was still posing over This led
ger one dark afternoon in December,
his bald head 'glistening like a 'huge
ostrich egg under the flare of the
overhead ,gas jets, when 'Patrick, the
night 'watchman, catching sight.. of
my face .peering through the outer
grating, opened the door of the Bank.
The sight so late in the day was an
unusual one, for in all the years that
I have called at the Bank—ten, now
—n.:o, eleven since we first knew each
ether—Peter had seldom failed to be
ready for our walk uptown when the
old 'moon-faced clock (high up on the
wall above the stove pointed at four.
"I thought there was something
up!" 1 cried. "What is it, Peter—
balance wrong?"
He did not answer, only waved his
hand in reply, his bushy gray eye-
brows shoving slowly, like two shut-
ters . that opened and closed, es he
scanned the lines of figures up and
down, 'his long pen gripped tight be -
tweet his 'thin, straight lips, las a
dog carries a bone.
I nev'e'it interrupt him When his
brain is nosing about like this; it is
b'e'ttor to keep still and let him ferret
it out. So I .sat down outside the
curved rail with its wooden slats back-
ed by faded green curtains, close to
the big stove screened off at the end
of the long room, fixed one eye on
the moon -face and the other on the
ostrich egg, and waited.
There are no such banks at the
present time—were no others then,
and this story begins not so very
many years ago— A queer, out-of-
date, mouldy old barn of a bank, you
would say, this Exeter—for an in-
stitution wielding its influence. Not
a coat of paint for half a century;
not a brushful of whitewash for good-
ness knows how much longer. As
for the floor, it still showed the gul-
lies .and grooves, with here and there
a sternly knot sticking up like a nut
on 'a boiler, marking' the track of
countless impatient depositors and
countless anxious borrowers, it may
be, who had lack• -stepped one behind
the other for fifty years or more, in
their journey from the outer door to
the windows Where the Peters of the
old days, and the Heber of the pres-
ent, presided over the funds entrusted
to their came.
Wlell enough in its day, you might
have said, with a shrug, as you looked
over .its forlorn interior. Well en-
ough in its day! Why, man, old John
Astor, James Beekman, Rhinelander
Stewart. Moses Grinnell, and a lot ef
just such .worthies --omen whose word
was as good as their notes—and
whose notes were often better than
the Government's, presided over its
destinies, and ihrtlped to stuff the old-
fashioned vault with wads of gilt-
edged securities—millions in value if
you did bit know it—and making it
what it is to -day. If you don't be-
lieve the first part of my statement,
you've only bo fumble among the
heap of dusty ledgers piled on top
of the dusty shelves; and if you
doubt the latter part, then try to buy
some of the stack and see what you
have to pay for it. Although the
gas was turned off in the directors'
room, I could still see from where I
sat the very mahogany table ender
which these same rufAe.shirted, watch
fobbed, snuff -taking old fellows tuck-
ed their legs when they decided on
who should and who should not share
the bank's confidence.
And the side walls and surroundings
were none the less :shabby and quite
as dilapidated. Even the windows
had long since given up the fight to
maintain a decent amount of light,
and as for the grated opening pro-
tected by iron shutters which would
have had barely mom to swing them-
selves clear of the 'building next door
no Patrick past or present had ever
darer] loosen their bolts for a peep
even an inch wide into the canyon be-
low, so gruesome was the collection
ef old shoes, tin cans, broken bobbles
and battered 'hats which successive
generations had .hurled into the nar-
row insect -at -able space that lay be-
tween the two structures.
Indeed the only 'thing inside oro out
of this time -worn building which the
most fertile of imaginations could
consider as being at all up to date
was 'the clock. Not its face—that
was old -Limey enough with its sun,
moon and stars in blue and gold, and
the name of the Liverpool maker en-
graved on its enamel; nor its hands,
fiddle -shaped and 'stiff, nor its case,
which always reminded me of a cof-
fin setlup on end awaiting burial—
but its strike. Whatever divergences
the Exeter 'allowed itself in its youth
or whatever latitude or longitude it
"Face Disfigured
From Eczema"
Writes the Nurse who finally tried D.D. D.
"The disease had eaten her eyebrows away.
Her mai and lips had become disfigured. Since
the as df D. D. D. her eyebrows ore grhwing•
Her nose and face have assumed their natural
expression."
Caren can be gent you from your own vi-
cinity. Write for te,timonals, or secure a
bottle of D. D. D. today. Why suffer itehinp
torment another moment? 1f you don't get
relief on the first bottle we will refund without
hesitation. Simon bottle. 'Py D. D. D. Soap, too.
• Disclose
JP:r.e/i
FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS
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'had given its depositors, and that,
we may be sure, was precious little
no long as that BOard of Directors.
was alive, there was no wobbling or
wavering, no being behind time, 'molten
the hour hand of the Old clack r'eac'hed
three and its note of warning rang
'out.
Peter obeyed tate ominous sound and
'closed. aria Teller's :window with a
gentle bang. Patrick took notice and
swung to the iron grating of the
outer door. You night veer in 'and
beg ever so hard—unless, of course,
you were a visitor like myself, and
even then Peter would have to give
his consent—you might peer through,
1 say, or tap on the :glass, or you
might plead that yon were late and
very sorry, but the ostrich egg never
turned in its nest nor did the eye-
brows vibrate. Three o'clock was
three o'clock at the Exciter, and every-
body might go to the devel—.financially
'of course—before the rule would. be
broken Other banks in panicky
times might keep vy side door open
until four, five or six—that is, the
bronze -rail, marble -top, glass -front,
centif y-your-checks-aa-earlp,as-then-dna
the -rot orning-'w'ibhout--a-sperm yes n -dee
posit kind of banks --but not the Ex-
eter—,that is, not with Peter's oonaent
—and Peter was the Exeter so tar
as his department was concerned—
end had been for nearly thirty yearn --
twenty as 'bookkeeper, five 'as paying
teller and five as receiving teller.
.And the regularity and persistency
of this clock! Not only did it an-
nounce the 'hours, but it sounded the
halves and quarters, clearing its
throat with a whirr 'like an admoni-
tory cougyi ;before each utterance. I
'had samples of its entire repertoire
as 1 sat there: One...two, ..three; . .
four...five—then half an hour Later
a whir -r and a single note. "Half -
past five," I said to myself. "Will
Peter never find that mistake?" Once
during the long wait the night watch-
man shifted bis leg—he was on the
other side of the strove—and once
Peter reached up above .his head for
a pile of papers, spreading them out
before hi•m under the white glare of
the overhead light, then silence again
broken only by the slow, dogged
tock -tick, tock -+tick, or the sagging of •
a hot coat adjusting itself for the •
night.
Suddenly a cheery voice rang out
and Peter's hands shot up above his
head.
"Ah, Breen & Co.! One of those
plagues sevens for a nine. Here we
are! Oh, Peter Grayson, ,how often
have I told you to be careful! Ah,
what a sorry block of wood you
carry on your shoulders. I won't be
a minute, sow, Major'." A gratui-
tous conapli'ment on the part of my
friend, I be'in'g a poor devil of a
contractor without military aepira-
tions of any kind. "Well, well, how
could I have been so stupid. Get
ready to eloses up, Patrick. No,
thank you. Patrick, my coats' inside;
I'll fetch it,"
Ile was quite another .man now,
closing the great ledger with a bang;
shouldering it as Moses did the Tables
of the Law, end carrying it into. the
sig vault behind him big enough to
back a buggy into had the great door
been wider—shooting the bolts, whirr-
ing the combination into so .hopeless
and confused a state that should even
the most daring and expert of burg-
lars have tried his hand or his jimmy
on its steel plating he would have
given up in despair (that is unless
big Patrick fell asleep—an unheard-
of occurrence) and all with such
spring and joyousness of movement
that had I not seen hint like this
many times before I would have been
deluded into the belief that the real
Peter had been locked up in the
dismal vault with the musty books
and that an entiirely different kind of
Peter was ski'p'ping about e'utside. I
'But that was nothing to the air
with [which he swept his papers inr
to the drawer of his desk, brushed
away the crumpled sheets upon which
he had figured his balance, and darted
to the washstand behind the narrow
partition. Nor could it be compared
to the way in which he stripped off
hiis Mark bnmibazine office coat with
its ba •gy .pockets—quite a disreput-
able -looking coat I 'n must say—taking
it by the nape of the neck, as if it
were some loathsome object .to be got
rid of, and hanging it upon a hook
behind 'him; nor to the way in which
he pulled up his •shint sleeves and
plunged his white, long -fingered, deli-
cately .modelled .hands into the basin,
as if cleanliness were a thing to be
welcomed as a part of his life. 'Phese
carefully dried, each finger by itself
—not forgetting the small seal ring
on the little one—he gave an extra
polish to his glistening pate with the
towel,' patted his fresh, smooth -shaven
cheeks with an unrumpled 'hand'ker-
chief which he had taken from his
inside pocket, carefully adjusted his
white neck-clobh, refastening the dia-
mond pin—a tiny one, but clear as a
baby's tear—.put on 'his frock coat
with its high collar and flaring tails,
took down his silk hot, gave it a
flourish with his ht
ot]etchuof un -
booked his overcoat from a peg be-
hind the door (a gray 'aurtou't cut
something like the first Napelron's)
and stepped out to where i rat.
Yon would never have put him
down es being sixty years of age had
y„u known him as well as I did—
anal it is a great pity you didn't.
Really, now that I come to think of
it, i t'"ver did pet him down an be-
ing of any age et all. Peter Grayson
:out age never seemed to :have any-
thing to do with each other. Soane-
tinies wilco I have looked in through
the Receiving Teller's window and
have passed in my honk—i kept my
account at the Exeter—and he has
lifted his bushy shutters and gazed
at me suddenly with his merry Scotch
terrier eyee, I have caught, I must'
adRnilt, la line of anxiety, or rather of
concentrated tsautiousness on his face
which Sot the moment made ane think
that perhaps he was looking a trifle
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Itour
bite
lIaStreet wit; .
erg of i .heels so •peca'lllaely'
own, Tifk ab the occopanto of
mery e vNl# tw .cit both sides ,of'
g to be Peter's even
Wjlen they la>; to recognize the
suenrat land eta ' 11t -brimmed ,',14dg3x
bat Had''ttny dlln' • ng Thomas, how-
ever, walked, bOde him on his way
up Broa4way ins 'roams on
teenth, street, gold had the quick, el -
meet bo'y1c'h .liflt. of Peter's heels not
entirely convinced the unbeliever of
Peter's youth, ail questions would
have been et once disposed of had
the cheery bank teller invited titin
into his apartment up three flights
of stairs over the tai'lor's shop- -and
be !wound have : i!nvlted ,him had he
been his friend' --and then end there
forced 'him into oily easy chair 'blear
the open wood fire, with some euob
✓ emark as: "lDewn, you rascal, and
sit close up where I can get my hands
on you!" aio--there was no trace of
old age about .Peter.
He was ready now --hatted, coated
and gloved✓ --not a (hunt of the os-Erieh
egg or shaggy shutters visible, but a
well-preserved bachelor of forty or
forty -live; striobly in the mode and
of the mode, looking more tike some
stray diplomat caught in the wiles
of the Street, or some retired mag-
nate, than a modest bank clerk on
three thousand a year. The next tn-
etarvt he was tripping down the gran-
ite steps between the rusty iron rail-.
inga— on his toes most of the way;
the same cheery spring in his heels,
slapping his thin, shapely legs With
his tightly rolled umbrella, adjusting
his hat at the proper angle so that
the wehl-trinnmed .side whiskers—the
verieet little dabs of whiskers hard-
ly an inch long—would show as well
as the fringes of his grey hair.
Not that 'he was anxious to conceal
these slight indications of advancing
years, nor did he have a spark of
cheap personal vanity about him, but
because it was his nature always to
out his best foot foremost and keep
it there; because, too, it behooved
him in manner, dress and morals, to
maintain the standards ha had set for
himself, he being a Grayson. with the
best blood of the State in his veins,
and with every table worth dieing
at open to .hien from Fourteenth
Street to Murray Hill, and beyond.
"Now, it's all behind nie, my dear
boy," he cried, as we reached the side-
walk and turned our fares up Wall
Street toward Broadway. "Fifteen
hours to live my own life! No Dare
until ten o'clock to -morrow. Lovely
life, my dear Major, when you think
of it. Ah, old Micawbcr was right—
income one pound, expense one pound
ten shillings; results, misery: income,
one pound ten, expense one pound,
outcome, 'happiness! What a curse
this Street is to those who abuse its
power for good; 'half of then[ trying
to keep out of jail and the other half
fighting to keep out of the poor-
house! And most of them get so
little out of it. Just as I can detect
a counterfeit bite ;at sight, my boy,
so can I put my finger on these
. money -getters when the poison of
money -getting for money's sake be-
gins to work in their veins. I don't
mean the 'layiyg up of money for a
rainy day, or the providing for one's
family. Every man should lay up
a six -months' doeter's bill, just as
every man should :ay up money en-
ough to keep 'his body out of Potter's
Field. It's laying up the surplus that
;hurts,"
;Peter had his :,ant: firmly Lacked
in mine now.
"Now that concert. of Breen S. Com-
pany, where I fmmd my error, are
no better than the others. They are
new to this whirlp,ol, but they will
soon get in over their heads. I think
it is only the third or fourth year
since they started business, but they
are already -Nei: g all sorts of
schemes, and sem, of them—if you
will permit me in confidence, strictly
in confidence, my dr•a:• boy=are rath-
er shady, I think: ;a: bast I judge so
from their deposits"
"What are they, bankers?" I ven-
tured. I had never heard of the firm;
not an extraordinary thing in my
case when bankers nee concerned.
Peter laughed.
"Yes, BANKERS—all in capital
letters—the finites: .0 kind. Breen
came from some place nut of town
and made a lucky hit 'in his first year
--mines or somech;ng—I forget what.
Oh, but you must know that it takes
very little now. -days to make a full-
fledged banker. Al•you have to do
is to hoist in a safe—through the
window, generally, with the crowd
looking on; rail off half the office;
scatter some big i, deers open two or
three newly varnished desks, move in
a dozen arm, -chairs get a ticker, a
black- board and a boy with a piece
of chalk; be pleas -sit to every fellow
you meet with his own 'ar somebody
else's money in his pocket, and there
you are. But we won't[ balk of these
things—it, isn't k 'id, and, really, I
hardly know Br,•t•'t, and I'm quite
sure he wouldn't ,.now me if lie sa v
nae, and he's a viii > decent gentleman
in many ways, 1 hear. He never
overdraws his ae unts, any way --
never tries --+and •hat's more than 1
can say for sine' if ti's neighbors."
The fog, which - rlier in the after-
noon ,had been ha a blue There, soft-
ening the hard o,,• ines of the street,
had now settled down in earnest,
choking up the ,1, sways, wiping out
the tops ef the M,"'.ings, their facades
starred here and • :ere with ass -jets,
and making a , n 'Aged drawing of
the columna of ;he. Olsten House
opposite.
' Superb, are I : , ; not?" paid Peter,
ss he wheeled re stied !oolcing at
the row of anon„ -'hs supporting the
roof of the hue'' eertasi,e pile, each
column in relief against the dark
shadows of the partir' "And they
are never so beautiful to me, me
soy, as when the ugly parts of the
8s, lli'ivE YOU Cannot :!.Illy
New Eyes
Fiat you can Promote a
co c 'sty , Clean, Healthy Condition
tMi E Ua0Marine Eve Remedy
Night and Morning."
Sleep your Ices Clean. Corr and Honitthy.
Write for Free Eye Co re Book.
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• e$,hay will neves' dare mom•uteroj•
• L el}ubegted. "It *oak; be teat grh at, a
ea tleBe•" The beet way beget Pato✓
pprioperly started its never to agree with
414,ott move .taxeml They Will break
them nap for dock -filling before ten
yearn are out. They're in the way
any boy;tbey shut crit the light; can't
bang. .sign's on.theon; 'can't plaster
them over with theatre bills; no earth-
ly use. 'Wall Street Isn't Rome or
any other excavated ruin; it's the cen-
tre of the universe'—that's the way
the fellows behind these glass win-
dow's ibaik." Here Peter pointed' to
the offices of some prominent bankers,
where other belated clerks were still
at work under shaded gas -jets. "These
fellows don't want anything classic;
they want something that'll earn four
per cent."
We are now opposite the Sub -
Treasury, tlta roof lost in the setting
fogs, the bronze figure of the Father
of His Country dominating the flight
of marble steps and the adjacent
streets.
Again Peter wheeled; this time he
lifted his hat to the statue.
"Good evening, your Excellency,"
he said iis a voice mellowed to the
same resdbctful tone with twhieh he
would have addressed the original in
the flesh.
Suddenly he Loosened his arm from
mine and squared 'himself so 'he could
look into my face.
° "I notice that you seldom salute
him, Major, and it grieves ane," he
said with a grim smile,
I broke into a ilaugh. "Do you
think he would feel 'hurt if I didn't."
"Of course he would, and so should
you. He wasn't put :there for orna-
ment, my boy, but to be kept in mind
and I want to tell you that there's no
place in the world where his example
is so much needed as right here in
Wall Street. Want of reverence, my
dear .boy" -there he adjusted 'his um-
brella to the hollow of his arm—"is
our national sin. Nobody reveres
anything now -a -days. Much es you
can do to keep people from running
railroads through your family vaunts,
and, as to one's character, all a span
needs to get himself Mattered black
and blue, is to try to be of some
service to itis 'country. Even our
presidents have to be murdered be-
fore we stop abusing them. By Jovel
Major, you've got Ito salute hint!
You're too fine a man to run to seed
and dose your 'respect for things
worth while. I won't have it, I tell
you! Off with your hat!"
I at once uncovered my 'head {the
fog helped to conceal my own identity
if it didn't Peter's) and stood for a
brief instant in a respectful attitude.
There was nothing new in the dis-
cussion. Sometimes I would laugh at
him; sometimes I would only touch
any hat in unison; sometimes I let
him do the bowing alone, an act on
his part which never attracted atten-
tion—looking more as if he had ac-
costed some passing friend.
We had reached Broadway by this
time and were crossing the street
opposite Trinity Ohurchyard.
"Come over here with me," he
cried, "and let us look in through
the iron railings. The study of the
dead is often more profitable than
knowledge of the living. Ah4,the gate
is open! It is not often I ant here
at this .time, and on a foggy after-
noon. What e noble charity, my boy,
is a fog—it hides such a multitude of
sins—bud architecture for one," and
she laughed softly.
(Continued on page 6)
SHOULD HAVE READ THE ADS
Hubby was reading aloud from the
newspaper to his wife. Now and
then liel-paused and asked a question,
but her replies indicated that she was
not 'listening very closely. When he
reproached her, she 'I'ndignantly re-
torted that she was listening most
intently.
He continued reading for a few
minutes, and then, seeing a fait -away
look in his wife's eyes, he began to
read as fellows:—
Last night, at about two o'clock I
in the afternoon, 'a few minutes be-
fore breakfast, a hungry boy, about
sixty years old, bought an orange for
ni.nopence, 'and threw it through a
concrete wall twenty feet thick. With
a cry of despair, be jumped into al.
dry mill -pond, broke his arm at the '
knee -joint, and was iburned alive.
"'It was only fen years after, on
the same day and at the same hour,
that a goat gave chase to six ele-
phants just as a high wind began to
blow, killing three dead ,horses and a
fourponny cigar that had just come
out of hospital.'
"There, what do you think of that?”
cried hubby, as he finished reading.
"I think it was a splendid bargain,
dear," said :his wife. "Yon .had bet-
ter get half a dozen, as your stock
of shirts is running low."
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