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The Wingham Times, 1910-07-28, Page 7J Tat; Wifstiii4.4M 141114Ss JULY 28 elneU !Weeny would you Z2ke to be a reporter?" :Won something to think about, and you • lean show him as much in a night as the'd learn in a month alone. Mr. Dil- lon, allo'N me to present you to Mr. -Sylvester Nolan. Mr. Dillon broke me into the business," said the editor to ;the newspaper owner's son. 1 Sylvester drew a ponderous wad of ;bills from his pocket and offered the top one to the old "down and outer." "You want to handle my friend Po- iwow with gloves," advised Sylvester. '"He's just full of temperament" The old newspaper man indignantly refused the money which young Nolan dheid out to him and plunged out of the • foiiice, The poet stood a mute witness to the proceedings. "Go after bimt" commanded Brand. I "Thank you, sir," and Powell darted -1rightenedly after Dillon. "Who is that old joker?" asked Syl ;Pester of the editor. i "He was the best reporter that the .Advance ever had." ".What's the matter with him?" 1. "Booze," "Too bad! t, Well, a fellow ought to (learn to control himself," remarked :Sylvester pompously. "Now, Brandy, Itld boy, I want to ask you just one adore favor tonight, in reference to a little actress friend of mine, Miss • Grueneviere McKenzie." "013—come—don't"— "Run her picture in a prominent place, won't you?" Sylvester handed Brand a photo. "Miss Gueneviere Mc-' Itenzie. Don't you• know her? She's In the second row at the Tyrol!, and It's a darn shame. I've got a libretto for her later on. Can't you help hex Olt and get her a small part now?" "I'm afraid that is hardly in my, ((1"You'd be doing a favor to the ,"show, for she's good enough to be a }prima donna. She's been kept back by ijealousy. Told me so herself. When itivi11 you have it in --tomorrow?" , "I scarcely think we can do that fort of thing in the Advance.. •We don't print pictures of chorus girls Rutless there's some good story about Etbein—lost jewels, barred from a ho- ttel on account of a dog, divorce or "— Sylvester broke in relievedly, "Oh, She's been divorced," "Has shei When?" • "Last year." "'That's dead. Waft till her nest. :She doesn't go Int" • "Why—why—won't you do it?" stem-. ilnered the young man, wbo, deeply ap- preciating the fact that he was his father's son -yes, indeed—failed to com- prebeud bow any employee on the Ad - !entice could refuse' him anything, "She's the cutest little girl you ever • saw, you old gazoot. You stick to me, and 1'11 give yott an interest in this paper some day. catty, sue was in"— "That all may be," responded Brand. rising to end the conversa- tion, "but the Ad- vance doesn't is- sue passes to the stage ctltrnnee." °`Syl rester's in w fell In his aeston- isinnetlf at this unexpected blow, Mid tater a Mo- ment, after vette dy endeavoring to find ttpprOpflute words for a reply. room. .Fie inserted the point Of the lead ?tc>re11, the went opt or the FOURTH Novelized by FREDERICK R. TOOMBS From the Great Play 'of the Same Name by Joseph Medill Patterson and Har- riet Ford. COPYRIGHT, 1909. BY JOSEPH MEDILL PATTERSON AND HARRIER' FORD. • sit. They ge haute ulghts, lueffy dogs, not being newspaper wen," k3arteiruy Was quick enough to catch t;ao ironical comment of the busy managing editor on the sebolarly inen wbo wrote the opinions of the paper. Brand drew the judge back late bas Mike and bock. ed the door behind him. "Now we are shone, absolutely alone," commented Brand significant- ly, He led the way to bis desk and notated out to tbe judge the ebabe at the right band side. Brand dropped • halo his own chair, "Have a seat, ju'k'e," he said. J teige Berkeley drew the cbair in- dicated even closer to the lnauagtng editor's desk and seated tiimsetl in it. He leaned forward toward Brand and rested his elbow on the desk. His face was within ten or twelve inches. ot the telephone. Brand was impatient because of tee precious time that bad been wasted. Be bad work to do and little time in :which to clo it, and it was the most '!important work he bad ever done in Ids Iffe, Ile sent the othce boy to Dring tat two reporters, Howard and Jeff, Speaking to Miss Stowe, the "central" of the Advance's private telephone sys- tem, be said: "Do not'put anybody else on tbis wire until you hear from me, no matter how long it takes. Under- stand? Connect this phone with edi- torial room 4 and have it connected until 1 tell you. Now bo surer about this. Understand? Again he repeated, as it concerned the success of his en- tire scheme, "Don't break the connec- tion until I tell you myself." The two reporters came in, "Now, boys, understand what I want you to do. Yotj've got to take, word for word, a conversation I'ru going to have here. Go in room 4. You, Jed take the receiver." "Yes, sir." "And you, Howard, take the exten- sion. Thus you will each hear what is said. Keep it glued to your best ear and take down every word you hear tonight between Judge Bartelmy and me. The judge will sit in the chair at, the right of my desk. I will be in my,'. own chair. The telephone will thCts be midway between us, Whatever words he and I say will be said ,almost direct- ly over the mouthpjece of the phone. Now, you see what 1 am going to do" Brand took a lend pencil from his pocket and began a proceeding which the two reporters, accustomed as they were in' their business to ingenious strategy, failed at first to understand. Then the scheme dawned on them. Brand took the telephone receiver from the book, and the metal arm immedi- ately snapped upward, establishing the connection. Then he inserted the point of the lead pencil in the small aperture under the little metal arm or hook and deliberately broke it off. The tiny wedge thus held up the hook. Brand now hung up the receiver, and the pen- cil point prevented the weight of the receiver from bearing the hook down and breaking the connection. The con- nection was made continuous without the slightest indication that, such was the case. Every word now spoken within a reasonable distance of the mouthpiece would be conveyed to the telephone and the extension telephone in editorial room 4, where Howard and Jeff were to be stationed. They had stenographers' pads with them, on which they were each to take down the conversation in shorthand. "This phone will be open all the time that Bartelmy is here," announced Brand.. "Go in there, Howard, an&see if you can hear, Jeff and me talking. Sit over here, Jeff." He pointed to the chair at his right. Howard went out. "Now, Jeff, take down this and take down what yon say to me," continued the editor. Brand turned to Jett and began to ISA$ USE ' O �Iao FOWLER EXTRACT OF. 'WILD STRAWBERRY For'Over Seventeen Years FOR DIARitIIBA, DYSENTERY, SUMMER COMPLAINT, ETC. Mrs, Holliday, Box No. 86, Wroxeter, Ont., writes:—" 1 must say that we have used Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Straw- berry for over seventeen years, and have found nothing to equal it for all Summer Complaints, Nerrheea, Dysentery, etc, Our house is never witlrcut n bottle of the Extract. and I eon recommend it to be heat in every home, especially where there are c tett. You run a'•,saltitcly no risk when yeti buy Dr, Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry, tis it has been :' standar! remedy on the market for over sixty. five years. A few doses have often cured when doetora' preset "tions and other rt t cies have failed, it:; ell eels 1+re tat„tc t.u�, It acts Eike a chsrm. !Wet is a,t:..>st itt;ta t4'tneous, We wish to warn the tntblie igsinst being imposed on by un^cfa: tt:en.. erg who substitute the so -culled Straw- berry Compounds for "1)r, I oar lc r's.” Ask or "Dr, Fowler's," and ini!st .en getting It, ns the cheap imitating may 4e dangerous to Igo. The ori:;ittel is manefartured enly by The T.. Milburn Co., 1,in.ited, 'i e.onto, OM. Price 8/it, taut In a natural tone of voice. "Jett, you know I think tbe dog le the moon wan seven times too slow in his journey through the paths of men, having lost 0,749,739,274,4SO pounds in his auto northward. Is that your -opinion?" "No, not entirely. Hence and here- after we complain of such a miracu- lous egotism of generality and sole- cism of peaceful garments and cold thought " Brand struck a blow on the desk. "On the contrary, it was unquestion- able and with nasty justice, miscalled "One can never be too careful aboutinate tees of this kind." namby-pamby—got It?" cried the ed. itor, bending over the • mouthpiece.' "Conte in, Howard!" Howard harried into the room. "Compare your notes, boys," in- structed the managing editor. They held the records side by sida and quickly glanced over them. "They are almost exactly the same," they exclaimed in unison. A smile of satisfaction spread over Brand's face. "Ali right. Now chase back to room 4, both of you!" The office boy brought Brand a card. He took it, and as he glanced at it his eyes narrowed down into little sparks of light. "He's on time," he murmured. "Very well, Durkin," he ordered, "show him in, and,. Durkin, remember, don't let any one else in under any circum- stances." A half a minute later Judge Bartelmy stood in the doorway. He nodded. briefly to Brand. and his eyes swept around the entire room before he step- ped in. Slowly he proceeded' in front of Brand's desk. "Good evening, judge," said the ed- "Good evening, Mr, Brand." "}Jet me take your things. I'll hang them up," offered Brand. Just as Du- puy bad been, Bartelmy was in even - Mg dress. He took off his white kid ;loves' and put them in his pocket and then handed his hat and coat to the editor. Brand opened the door of a closet at the right hand side of the rod>nt and bona the judge's things therein. Elo closed the door. Bartel - my stepped to the closet, opened the door and peered sharply into its four corners, even futtlbting, behind his tong coat, to Make sure that no witness was lurking there to spy on him. "Oh. that's the way you feel!" com- mented Brand. "I'll show you over the piece, But you shouldn't worry." Bartelmy coughed nervously. "One can never be too careful about matters of this kind, Brand, 1 should think that you would have learned thnt'mttcb by this time." '"This is ray first experience of this kind," said Brand. "Of course It is," answered Bartel - my, with n tinge et sereasm in his voice. "It always is 'the erg time.' tut yon are assuredly very lucky in- deed, f3rand, to do se very/ well at your first try "Come. look over the place, end let's get through with it," taut in the editor. Ile tressed and leaked the doer through which the judge had entered. Then he led his visitor civet to the door obi the opposite side of the room opening into it halfway which extend- ed 'to various koonts. Ha pointed to the room iilreCtly ncress the hall. "It's quite dark, yott see," he said, "This is where A Celine of editorial writhed CEIAPTi;R I. ARTELMY, now that be bad taken the final and extremely distasteful plunge and had come to the office of the Ad- vance, waited for Brand to make the opeuiug .remarks about tbe particular object of his visit. Brand was waiting for the judge to do tee same. It was the newspaper man who spoke first, after the two bad seated themselves. He Was anx- ious •to get the matter over with as quickly as possible, for be welt knew tbnt, in spite of all bis precautions, af- fairs in a newspaper office are so un- certain that an interruption of an un- ecpeeted nature might occur to ruin the entire plan. "Mr. Dupuy was here a short time ago," he ventured. Judge Bartelmy proceeded to ex- plain the appearance of the lawyer lob- byist in the affair. While it was plain to Brand that the judge bad sent Du- puy as a go-between so that it would be impossible to connect Bartelmy with the payment of any money as a bribe, the jurist did not propose to ac- knowledge that such had been his laud- able purpose. He gave an entirely dif- ferent reason. "Yes, 1 know." he said. "Be found me at the opera with my daughter. L hoped, Mr. brand, that by allowing me to net througn him you would spare ine'thfs last humiliation." "Would it not he safer fin you if no third party knew ut your transaction with the?" suggested Brand. The judge pitied the colossal igto- ranee of tills amateur to trickery Did not he know that in the superior spheres of crooked. hitt tires Il b.erune necessary to employ third persons uu uutuy ot•cusluns .10 put through mat ters of this soft? And ne was a news- paper ratan 01 years ot expertenl•e tett No, this peculiar young mint wolnd never finish supplying the judge with sln'prises: of that Bart tnty was posi- tive. Perhaps it might he to order to observe at this point that. while Brand of course could not know that these thoughts dere passing through his visitor's mind, he at the same time would have been ready to confess that he was going to provide several more surprises for the jurist. But there are different varieties of surprises. "Dupuy is in my eontidence," the judge pronounced with an air of final- ity. "FIe's not in mine," responded the managing editor. "You're mistaken In him. 1 know hitn intimately." "Ob. the pity of it," exclaimed Brand, "that you should be intimately ac- quainted with such a man as Dupuy'." Bartelmy could not restrain a sarcas- tic smile at the editor's sneer at Dupuy. "Mr. Brand," he said quickly, "your moral reflections at this juncture im- part a certain quaint humor to the sit- uation." "I am afraid that is the trouble with me. My humor is nearly always unin- tentional." Brand sighed as though sorry. for himself. The judge began to show signs of nervousness. "Well, shall we get on with it?" the editor asked him. "Yes. 1 must rejoin my daughter. She's waiting for me at the opera. She was very anxious that I should' not come here tonight. It was curious— her persistency in the matter." Brand drew his chair closer to the desk—closer to the telephone. "Let ns get to buslness," he said. The judge went on talking about his daughter. "She displays an unusual,. I should say an extraordinary, curiosity as to my mission here," he said. "My daugh- ter would have made a great cross ex- aminer xaminer 3f she had been a. man." ("We're wasting time, judge." Now it was Brand; who was becoming im- patient, ! "Am I to understand that the pay- ment of this sum"— Bartelmy began. Brand raised his voice to a high pitch. "Teri thousand dollars!" he said. "'Yes," agreed Bartelmy cautiously. "Am I to understand that it—ah— Vvipec out of your recollection not only the incident of which you were speak- ing, but also as to"-- He paused. Brand helped the would be briber to complete his sentence. "'You mean your secret interelete last bight with Dupuy and the attorney for Glote ouetathre wttut'd -••l ,tperieno• ei bra heavy goods, steady work, gond tvn,r•rR••- Apply Dnrhatn Grote Oo. tttmited. Be%t envillo, Ont,'t Bin RARaAptS in lRien'a, '6'V'outen'e and Gelid epee Shoes 'et our bxto.Summer Sale. ,vary petit meat go et some prine. W, 3 Garen. FOR SALE —MI mf hneeehold furui tare and one ores', by private aide at my rexidenee on Situter etreat. Everything to be sold. Articles min be seen nay day. pial, T, ,t, liltiott, filo D 'TheLanstvisitogr raised bas band warning- ly at Brand's loud tones, as tbougb to eoupset Caution, '"Yes, yes." "Lansing Iron corporation?" contin- ued i3rand, bending Close to the tele- phone, "Xes, With this sum, paid In hand,. induce you to forget—ah—not only that incident, but alsor various to matters to which the Advertce seems to b a v e jNe. taken exception le the peat?" Brand sant: back itt itis ebair. •'You mean you want us to let up ou you all arou?" "Precndisely.^ "Then that's �`a understood." "Dupuy is to my con- "You will make Jtcietue," a memorandum for me in writing to that effect -+a re- ceipt, so to speak?" He pushed a pad toward the man- aging editor. "All right --certainly," agreed Brand, taking up a pen. The judge began to congratulate himself on the ease with which he was handling the young man. "This is—ah—more businesslike," he said, But Brand gave him another shock when he said: "Yes; Ill draw it up in duplicate, Each of us will keep a copy—signed." "Alt—ha—bar The jurist leaned back and laugbed, "You're a clever lad, Brand. Well, well; youth will be served!" He pushed the pad away. Brand glanced at the clock axed in the wall opposite him. "It's getting tate, judge," he warned. Bartelmy reached into the inside Wicket of his evening dress coat and extracted an oblong package. Slipping oil' n rubber band that encircled it, he unwrapped the yellow paper and laid before him on the managing editor's desk a neat slack of crisp new bans: bills, all of the MO denomination. I:artclnty started to count the money, lett he desisted and pushed the bills Iver toward Bratal. "(',tint It," he said, "Yen 'cunt it " 'I't:e jud::e leaned forward and began rte taste Elis bead was within four lice hte!u's of the mouthpiece of 1 ' te:epa"ne fly picked up the bills, :le at it tittle, anti its he counted them Ir• ? ticl them in til then pile, htuatre:l," hr s:tid—'one thou- . :1.., 1:ft,'eit- t',cu thousand. tw,'uty- t„ ee titt.usa:td, thirty-five—four •e ; : It I', :'ty -five — Live thousand. • ; • h•1'1 , f i„' he 11 11i•ked. '•'' t?rtr'tr `":,Anil," rtssen1NT Brand. t!it tt': t•.d,” said the judge, con- eh on- ieh his task—"seven thou- ,• se ce;rty. LI t•c•..eit; lit thousand.' I•:I' lit t'teu.'aud dollars," agreed .:nut ".1:e :twit -mud." counted the judge, "'Nine titnusand doilttrs," said Brand. "Teo thousand dullars." the judge counted. "is that correct?" he queried of the editor. -ten thousand dollars, correct," was the reply. "That will wipe the slate clean between us." Brand held out his hand to take the money. The judge picked up the pile of bills, compressed them with his hands and extended the money across the desk. "Take it, Brand," he said. As the false judge said these words and stood with the money in his hands and held it out to the editor a loud ex- plosion thrilled every nerve fiber In his body. A. blinding glare of light filled the room, and the air was filled with the choking gaseous fumes of the smoke of the powder used by pho- tographers in making flashlights. A pang of terror shot through the craven heart of the would be briber. He started back in bis alarm, his eyes almost blinded by the unexpected flood of light that had subsided as quickly as it bad corne. "My God! What is that?" be cried, rubbing the back of one of his hands across his eyes. Wheeler Brand, who had risen in his place at his desk when the judge had finished counting tbe money, set bis face into hard, unyielding tines as the judge besought him to speak, to ex- plain. fie had won. Ile had com- pletely at his mercy this cold, crafty betrayer of the public trust he had sworn to hold sncred. And it was with unmistakable triumph in his voice that be gave the reply that was to be imprinted on the brain of the false judge as long as be was to live— n reply that would haunt him while awake and awake him when be slept: "It is a picture of you in stripes, .Tudge Bartelmy," be announced. 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