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Broadwau
Jones
From the Play of
George M. Cohan
B,
EDWARD MARSHALL
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SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER 1 Jack on Jem. ntrknamad
"Broadway," Kecauaa of hla continual
rlortAeatton of New Tork'e great thor
iuhfara, 1 anxloua to net away from hla
konte kirn of Jonesvllla. Abner Jonea,
kla ancle, le rery angry because Rroad
ray refuses to settle iown and take a
Ma7 In the rum factor? In which he to
lxled to Me fathera ljntereet.
t. CHAPTER II Judre 6potW60d inform
Broadway that tW.m left him by hla
father la at hla dlapoaaX Broadway
Mite record time In heading for hla far
rite etreet In New York.
CHAPTER III With hla New Tort
Mend, Robert Wallace, Broadway oreatea
mention by hla extravairanca on the
White Way. Four yeara paaa and Broad
way suddenly discover that he I not
nly broke, but heavily In debt. He ap-
raa to nia uncie tor a loan mi
packaxe of chewin rum with the ad-
eioe to chew It and forpet his troubtea.
Re quietly seeka work without eucceea,
CHAPTER IV Broadway sires what la
Intended to be a farewell supper to hla
few Tork fiienda, and before It la over
kenomea en;ajred to Mrs. Gerard, an an
al, nt widow, wealths and very Biddy.
CKAPTKR V-Wallaca expostulate
arlth the aged fllrti and her youthful
fence, but fatla to better the altuatlon.
Be learna that Broadway la broke and
ffere him a poeltlon with hla father's ad
rertlnlnr flrra, but It la declined. Wallaoe
taaaa rharv of Rrnariwav'e affaire.
"You mean to ten me that "
"I've got a whole lot to tell you. Sit
own." ,
As Wallace found a chair and, as if
exhausted, sank Into it, Broadway
aced the room uneasily.
The bell rang and Rankin hurried in,
oa his way to answer it.
"If It's anyone for me, I'm not at ,
pome," said Broadway. 1 m visiting
In Paterson
He turned again to Wallace.
"Now, In the first place," he said
gravely, "I want you to understand
thoroughly that I'm positively serious
about this whole affair and that noth
ing you can say will change my plana.
Is that understood?"
"Well, go on.1
"Mrs. Gerard and I are going to be N'ew York, I dreamed New York. Why,
married, and it's going to happen very j r the time I was a kid, in knlcker
shortly, whether you like It or not. If bockers, to the time I left Jonesvllle,
ou care to retain my friendship you ! everybody called me 'Broadway.'
oust get used to It" he sighed "the j That's where it began."
tame as I Bhall have to. Am I clear?" "I thought it started here."
"Well, I'm listening." 1 "No! when I was a kid In Jones-
Broadway sighed again. "I know sev- i Hle. That was my name 'Broadway
eral girls who will cry very bitterly, Just because I wore patent-leather
and I know a lot of fellows who will t shoes and put on a clean collar, now
laugh very heartily: but the fact re- I and then. That's the kind of a town it
main a that the ladv who lust left this !
room Is to become Mrs. Jackson Jones.
Ho, once and for all, get it out ol your
bead that it is a Joke."
He glanced distastefully at his very
mournful friend, who seemed, some
bow, to have shriveled as ho heard all
this uncompromising talk.
"And don't sit there like a pallbear
er! Smile! Utter a few kind words!
Bay something, anyhow! I "
Wallace leaned toward him, his eye
lighting with the fire of
combat, j
;
"Now"
"Don't you dare to give me any ar
gument about this thing! It would
only be a waste of words. My mind is
xsltively made up."
"IX) you realize what " j
"What people are going to say? Of j
course I do. I've gone over all of that.
I've threshed it out with myself from
every possible angle. I know what
they're going to say, and I know exact- !
ly what they're going to think." J
"Well, what are they going to I
think?" j'
"The natural thought will be that I '
am marrying her for her money."
"Nonsense. They'll know better than j
that. Everyone's aware that you have i
all the money any man could " 1
"So you think so?" For the first !
time Broadway laughed. It was a 1
scornful, scathing, tragic laugh. It i
startled Wallace.
"Well, haven't you?"
"Just a second. Rankin! Oh, Ran- I
kin!"
Rankin was entering, even as he ;
called, bringing in a telegram. Broad- ,
way took it without heeding it and
thrust it in his pocket unopened. He j
was intent on showing Wallace how
affairs really were with him. 1
"Rankin," he warned the man, "I
don't want to be disturbed for the next '
ten minutes. I have some business
which I wish to talk over with Mr.
Wallace without a single interruption.'
"Very well, sir."
As Boon as the man bad left the :
room Broadway settled to his task of '
making a clean breast of it.
"I'm going to let you in on a little
secret. Bob my secret. No one else :
in the world knows. I wouldn't tell I
anyone else but you. I wouldn't tell '
you if it weren't for the fact that we've
always been so close and such good
friends. But remember lt's'Masonlc!"
Wallace gravely bowed. "Certain
ly." He was intensely puzzled; he
could not Imagine what was coining.
"Well," said Broadway, with no
further prelude, "Bob, I'm broke!"
"You're . . . what?" said Bob
incredulously.
"Broke. Dead broke. Are you sur
prised?" "Say, what kind of a Joke 1b this?"
Broadway laughed ruefully. "It's no
Joke to be broke, Bob; but It's even
worse than that with me. I'm ' In
dpht!'
"In debt!"
j "To the extent of about fifty thou
I ssnd dollars."
I "Well. what have you done with all
! your money?"
"Put it back Into circulation where
: It came from," Broadway answered,
' sighing.
"You mean Wall street?"
i "No; Broadway."
j "Invest ments gone wrong"?
i I rover Invents any mon' . The
. only thing I ever Aid was to spend It"
"Out you couldn't spend all the
. money you had!"
' "It was easy. Everyone seemed
glad to take it."
"But I supposed you had an enor
tnous Income."
"Well, that's what they all thought
and still think. Thats why I've been
able to go along and run head over
heels In debt. I owe tailor bills, boot
bills. Jewelry bills, flower bills, res
taurant bills. I've got a stack of bills
In that room there that would make
Rockefeller complain of the high cost
of living, and I can't ray them be
cause I'm broke. Flat . . . broke!
It's hard to believe, Isn't It?"
"Why, you always led me to believe
that you were a millionaire?"
"Not exactly that. But I did not
, ., muwra 7 ; " ;
going round Maybe I lied a 1 tie. At
that, I would be worth a million by
deny the stories that, somehow, got to
now If I'd had any business ability.
with the bank roll I had to start with."
"When I came here to New York
and started to burn up Broadway, five
.,. , 1,,,-
years or so ago, I was worth two bun
dred and fifty thousand dollars. There
I was cafh, real estate and my small In-
terest In the chewing gum factory,
j First thing I did was spend the cash,
i then I sold the real estate, then I
i sold my Interest In the factory,
i "I had no use for anything but cash,
j "My Uncle Abner bought me out
' and cheated me. He paid me Just a
, hundred thousand, a measly hundred
; thousand, for my share of the prop-
; erty out of which he's since then made
i a dozen fortunes. I hear the gum
trust offered him a million dollars for
the plant and the good will last year."
"Jones' Pepsin!"
i "Yes; Jones' Pepsin, made la
! Jonesvllle. It's the oldest gum on the
' market Ever chew it?"
u
No."
Don't.
It's awful. It's terrible
stuff!"
"Well,
go on. What happened.
then?"
"I could scarcely valt to get bold of
that money and get out of that town,
I wanted New York.; nothing but New
York. I had heard about New York; I
had read about New York; I'd been
down here as a kl J on visits. I talked
'3-
"I've lived up to the name, I guess!
I know every newsboy; policeman, ac
tor, chorus girl, wine agent, gambler
and bartender on the street. I've been
to bed Just one night In five years be
fore six o'clock in the morning and
that was when I had a toothache and
my face was swollen. It was not the
pain that kept me in; it was the looks
of the puffed face."
He drew his breath in slowly, almost
wonderlngly. "Oh, what I haven t done
to Broadway!" he continued. "Well,
you've seen me. You've been with me.
You know."
Wallace nodded. "I always thought
you were pretty speedy, but I thought
Peter Pembroke.
you could afford it. The trouble with
you Is you've been too liberal."
"l.merai! wny, wnen 1 go into a
' restaurant the waiters come to blows
to see who'll get me. Iu barber shops
I approach you'd think some one
bad just yelled 'Fire!' the way the bar
bers dash far the chairs. Oh, I've been
the bright-eyed baby boy around this
! town, all right It's cost me a fortune
all I bad."
Ills voice trailed Into silence; Wal-
i lace. BatJpoklng. at him dumb.
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"Hut I've had a wonderful tlmel"
said nroadway finally.
"How long have yon born broke?"
"About six months. My credit's car
ried me on. When I first went broke
I made up my min.l I wouldn't run in
debt, no matter what happened. I put
on an old suit of clothes that morning,
and started out looking for a Job."
"Whnt kind of a Job?"
"Any kind of a Job. Messenger boy,
elevator boy I didn't care! I promised
myself I'd earn my living without beg
ging, borrowing or stealing."
He told Wallace of his stealthy
search for the elusive Job which was
to have paid up his debts and started
him again, this time as a millionaire
In process of construction of now mil
lions.
"I started looking for a 'boy-wanted'
sign. It sounds funny, but It is a fact.
My intentions were the best in all the
world. But I got to thinking of some
thing else, after I had walked a block
or two, and where do you suppose I
was when I woke up? In Delmonlco's,
eating breakfast! Turned In there out
of force of habit.
"I made a dozen attempts to do the
right thing. I cut out automobiles and
rode in street cars for three days; I
went to an opening night at a theater
and sat in the gallery; I bought a pair I
f d d ,h . , & A
,nrivni toK, ...V ot . atnnll.
forty-cent table d-hote and smoked
five-cent cigars practicing, Just prac
ticing, trying to get used to it
"But I couldn't. That was all I sim
ply couldn't! All my good resolutions
went to smash every time I took a
look at Broad vt ay. I knew my credit
was good; the things I wanted were
there; I could have them; so well.
I took them, that was all!"
"And now," said Wallace, who had
sat, at first Incredulous, and, later,
spellbound, during the recital, "you
tre fifty thousand dollars In debt!"
"I don't know the exact amount, but
that's a fairly good guess."
"You've been pretty quiet about It.
It hasn't seemed to worry you much!"
"Hasn't worried me?" Broadway's
voice was bitter. "Well, I don't mind
telling you that I have Just come out
of the first sound sleep I've had in
weeks. I'll bet I walked to Chicago
and back every night the first month
I was broke."
"I don't understand?"
"I mean if you had measured up my
carpet by the mile. I thought so much
and worried so much that I didn't dare
trust myself alone. I bad the weird
est ideas; I did the craziest things. Do
you know that I belong to the Salva
tion Army?"
"What!"
"On the level. I went to Newark
and joined one night"
"What was the idea?"
"I thought it might help me forget
my troubles. I played the bass drum
for two nights and couldn't stand It
any longer. Er have you ever been
in Newark?"
"I've been through there on the
train." t
"That's bad enough. Ouess what I
suffered! I got off the train! Oh. you
cun'J. realize what I've been through.
Bob! I've made a bluff and pretended
to be happy all the time; but, believe
me, old pal, tnere have Deen times
when I've started for the Brooklyn
bridge and I won't tell you about a
bottle of poison and a gun full of lead
which I considered using. I didn't care
about the money I'd spent; what wor
ried me was that running in debt, day
after day, with no chance of repay
ing." "But you kept on accepting credit."
"And it was wrong dead wrong!
But well, T guess it must be in my
blood. I couldn't help It"
"How about your uncle?"
Broadway laughed, a cackling, scorn
ful laugh.
"He's a rich man. Have you tried
him?"
"Yes; tried him and found him
guilty. I wrote and told him I was
short of ready cash, after I had spent
the pittance that he paid me for my
Interest In the Jones' gum. I asked
him if he wouldn't lend me, say, ten
thousand dollars."
"Did he answer?"
"Sure, he answered. Sent me a pack
age of the gum and the advice: 'Chew
this and forget your troubles.' He's in
Europe now. He's worth a million, if
he's worth a nickel, and he bought me
out for practically nothing!"
"Stingy?"
"Stingy? He's so mean that every
time he's asked to have a drink he
takes a cigar and then saves up the 1
cigars, puts them in old boxes, and
gives them away for Christmas pres- j
enta." j
"Where have you been getting j
enough for tips and pocket money?" '
"I sold that big French car I said j
was In dead storage. And do you re- ,
member that I said I'd lout a lot of
Jewelry? I hadn't. I had pawned it. 1
How's my work, eh?"
"You're a wonder! I've got to band
It to you. But why didn't you confide
In me long ago?"
"I didn't have enough courage., to
conflJe in anyone. I could only keep
on hoping that some miracle would
happen. I've thought of nothing ex
cept money and how to get it.
"And, Bob, last night, at that ban
quet table, I sat looking at Mrs. Ge- ;
rard, thinking of her millions and won-
dering what su'd say to me if I should !
tell my story, trying to pluck up nerve
enough to take her into my confidence
and see if she wouldn't help. That's
how it started. I didn't realize what
I was doing; but I must have been
staring at her for ten minutes when
she called a waiter who, presently,
handed me a note."
"What did it say? Waa it from her?" ;
"Yes, and It said: 'Why do you stare !
at me so?' ' '
"Did you answer itf
"Yes." 1
hat urn you sayr
"Ob. I couldn't help it I waa dea-
perate, I said, 'Because. I love vou!"
"And she answered?"
"Yes; i love you, too."
"And you wrote?"
"'Not as much as 1 love you.' We
had quite a correspondence. Seven
or eight notes each way."
"Who sent the last one?"
"She did. and it said: Will you
tnarrv me?"
"She really proposed to you?"
"On the level, and I didn't say A
thing. The Utter carrier lout his Job
right there. For fear she'd change her
mind btfore the next mall arrived I
leaned across the table and yelled:
'Yes!'"
"I'd gone, you know. Exactly what
then happened?" Wallace asked.
"She fainted; general excitement;
smelling salts; she slowly came back
to her senses. Then the usual speech:
Where am I?' That was my cue of
course although It hurt! Embrace,
kiss, announcement to the dinner par
ty; wild applause. Then somebody
ordered 20 cases of wine.
"And the next thing I remember Is
old Rankin calling me when you came
here today. What do you think of all
of It?"
"It's terrible! You can't afford to
let It go any further."
"I can't afford to do anything, with-
"You're Not
8 ore at
You?"
Me, Bob, Are
out signing a tab for it," said Broad
way ruefully. '
"You can do something. Haven't
you any 'get up and go?' " i
"That seems to be all that Is left for
me to 'get up and go' as far as pos
sible unless I marry her." '
"If you'd go to work you'd have the
makings of a business man."
"If I went to work I wouldn't have
the makings of a cigarette."
"How do you know? You haven't
tried. I ll get you a Job."
"Where?"
"With my firm, on my recommenda
tion." "You'd lose your reputation."
"I'll see the guvnor tomorrow. I can
get you, probably, five thousand a year
to start with."
"Five thousand a year? How could
I stay here in New York on that? I
pay more for this apartment! I owe
ten times that much, right now!"
"I've got twenty thousand dollars of
my own. I'll lend you that."
"I'd never be able to pay It back."
"That doesn't make any difference.
"Yes, it does," said Broadway Btub
bornly. "Even though you loaned me
enough to pay up all I owe, I'd owe
you, wouldn't I? What's the odds
whether I'm In debt to you or to the
other fellow? I'd never get even witb
the world that way."
"But you mustn't marry her; it isn't
right."
"How do you mean?"
"Would you do anything so low, and
so contemptible, as to marry a woman
deliberately for her money?" . j
Broadway shrank a little, then rose
in self-defense. "Who says I'm marry
ing her for her money?"
"You know you don't love her."
Broadway answered botly. He felt
that he must answer hotly. It was the
only thing remaining for biru. ;
"I don't know anything of the kind!
Now, you see here; suppose you were'
in trouble. Wouldn't you love any
one who'd come along and help you
out of it?" He sighed. "Besides, it's
too late now. The engagement's been
announced."
Wallace was Intensely stubborn. He
would not have this thing. "Engage
ments are broken every day iu the
j week," he argued earnestly.
, Broadway made a gesture of dissent.
"Now, you leave it all to me," said
1 Wallace soothingly. "I'll have a ulk
j with Mrs. Gerard, and I'll guarantee
; to prove to her thai it's all an utter
j impossibility. You needn't enter into
j it at all. I'll take the whole thing on
i my shoulders, and "
Broadway shook his head emphatic
' ally, although regretfully. "No; there'i
; no use. Bob. I told you I wouldn't lia-
ten to any argument against it. My
l mind Is quite made up, and that's all
there is to it." He pulled a yellow
back out of bis pocket. "See this? A '
hundred dollars. That's my bank
roil."
I Wallace went to him with friendly
warning. "You'll lose every friend you
ever had in all the world!" j
"No; I won't; people with money 1
never lose their friends."
"I know one you'll lose," said Wal
lace gravely.
"You?"
"Yes; unless you tell me within the
next 24 hours that you've reconsid
ered all this rot, and that you're going
to fight things out the way a real man
1 ,hould. I'll never speak to you again!"
j "Bob!" Broadway actually paled,
I "That. g: Is it getting me any-
thing this giving you advice? WfUlt
, put a dollar In or out of my pocket
whether you marry that old woman or
not? You're nothing to me except a
friend and a pal; but I don't want to
see you do something you'll regret for
all the balance of your life. I'm sorry
you're In trouble, and there Isn't any
thing I won't do to help you. I'll go
the limit in everything I've got. But.
If you don't give tip all Idea of that
marriage, never expect the friendship
of a man who has any decency or silt
respect. "That's all I've got to say. Now, I'll
be going."
(To be Continued)
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The spirit of fraternity Hint lyis
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druggist at that place, wished to
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you a sac k of our Hour.
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