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SYNOPSIS
Mickey O'llullornn is a newsboy wlio
finds and adopts a little lame Kiri. Lilly
Pearlies, (is life ©t once becomes a struK
tfle to supply the comforts of life to the
little Kiri.
Mickey, while on a trip In the country
LfimN a family who want to entertain
poor uirl from the city for two
wHm and Mickey makes arranKements to
take Lilly Peaches to the farm.
Uruce is eiiKHKed in an investiKation of
the city offices and is workinK hard
checkinK over accounts. Leslie rents a
cabin with her father and llruee they
move out of the city for the summer.
(Continued From ¥e«ierday.)
"I don't know why you say that!"
cried Mickey.
"Omnih:” said Mr. Chaffner. slowly.
*'[ don’t either, only I didn’t under
stand they were engaged. It’s my
business to find and distribute news,
and get it fresh, 'scoop it,’ as our term
is, and so, Mickey, when investiga
tions are going on, and everybody
knows a>ieuou—a big surprise Ip com
ing, in order to make sure that my
paper gets in on the ground floor, I
make some Investigation for myself,
and sometimes by accident, some
times by intuition, sometimes by
sharp deduction we happen to land
before the investigators. Of course
we have personal, financial, and poli
tical reasons for not spoiling the
game. Now we haven’t gone into the
city hall investigation as l?ruce has
and we can’t show figures, but we
know enough to understand where
he’s coming out; so when tho gig
upsets, we have our side ready and
we'll embroider his figures with what
the public is entitled to, in the way of
news.”
• Sure! But I don't see why you act
so funny!”
"Oh It's barely possible that I’ve got
ahead of your boss on a few features
of his Investigation.”
“Aw-w-w-wh!” said Mickey. “Well
I hope you ain't going to rush |n and
spoil his scoop. You see he doesn't
know who he's after, himself. We
talk about it a lot of times. I tell
him how I've, sold papers, and seen
men like he’s chasing get their dose,
and go sick and white, and can't ever
face men straight again; but he says
stealing is stealing, and cut where it
will, those who rob the taxpayers
must be exposed. I told hint maybe
lie'll lie surprised, and maybe he'd
be sorry; but he says it's got to be
stopped, no matter who gets hurt."
"Well he's got his nerve!" cried
the editor.
"Yes!" agreed Mickey. "He's so
j^'ie himself, he thinks no other men
worth saving could go wrong, told
him I wished the men he was after
would hreak their necks 'fore he gets
them, but he goes right on.”
"Mickey, you figure closer than
your boss does.”
"In one way I do,” conceded
Mickey. '‘It's like this; he knows
books, and men, and how things
should be; but 1 know hiy they are.
See?”
”1 certainly see,” said the intent
listener. "Mickey, when it comes to
the place where you think you lfltow
better than your boss, while it's bad
business for rne to tell you, keep
your eye open, .-and maybe you can
save him. Books and theories are
all right, but there are times when
a man comes a cropper on them. You
watch, and if you think lie's riding
for a fall, you come skinning and tell
me, not over the 'phone, come and
tell me. Here, take this it will get
you to me any time, no matter where
I am or what I’m doing. Under
stand?”
“You think Mr. Bruce is going to
get into trouble?"
“His job is to get other people in
to trouble-”
"But he says he ain’t got a thing
to do with it,” said Mickey. "He
says they get themselves into trou
ble.”
“That’s so too.” commented Mr.
Chaffner.. "Anyway, keep your
mouth tight shut, and your eyes wide
open, and if you think your boss Is
getting into deep water, you come
and tell me. I want things to go
right with you. because I’m depend
ing on that poem for my front pa;te,
soon.” - «
Mickey held out ids hand.
“Sure!” he agreed. “I'm in an aw
ful good place now to work up the
poetry piece, being right out among
the cows and clover. And about
Mr. Bruce, gee! I wish he was plow
ing corn. I just hate his job he's
doing now. Sure if I see rocks I’ll
make a run for you. Thanks Boss!"
Mickey had lost time, and he hur
ried, but things seemed to be hap
pening, for ns he left the elevator
and sped down the hall, he ran into
Mr. James Minturn. With a hasty
glance he drew back, and darted for
the office door. Mr. Minturn's face
turned a dull red/
"One minute young man!” he call
ed.
"I’m late," said Mickey shortly. "I
must hurry.”
"Bruce is late too. I just came
from his office and he isn't there,”
answered Mr. Minturn.
“Well I want to get it in order
before he comes.”
"In fact you want anything hut to
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Mr. Minturn.
'•Well then, since you are such ft
good gueaser, I ain’t Just crazy
about you,” said Mickey shortly.
“And I’m tired of having you run
from me as if 1 were afliicted with
smallpox.” said Mr. Minturn.
“If your blood is right, smallpox
ain’t much,” said Mickey. “I haven’t
a picture of myself running from
that. If it really wanted a word with
me.”
“But you have a picture of your
self running from me?”
"Maybe 1 do,” conceded Mickey.
“I’ve policed it on occasions so
frequent and conspicuous that oth
ers. no doubt, will do the same,”
said Mr. Minturn. “If you are all
Bruce thinks you, then you should
give a man credit for what he tries
to do. You surprised me too deeply
for words with the story you brought
me one day. I knew most of your
fads from experience, better than
you did. except the one horrible
thing that shoekerl me speechless;
hut Mickey, when I had time to ad
just myself. I made the investiga
tions you suggested, and proved
what you said. I deserve your scorn
for not acting faster, but what I
had to do couldn't he done in a day,
and for the boys’ sake it had to be
done as prjyately as possible.
There's no longer any-Teason why
you should regard me as a mon
ster-”
"I’m awful glad you told me.
Mickey said. "I surely did have you
sized up something scandalous. And
yet X couldn't quite make out how,
if my view was right. Mr. Bruce and
Miss heslle would think so much of
you.”
"They are friends I'm proud to
have," said Mr. Minturn. “And 1 hope
you'll consider being a friend to me,
and to my boys also. If ever a time
comes when I can do anything for
you. let me know.”
"Now right on that point, pause a
moment,” said Mickey. "You are a
friend to my boss?”
“I certainly am, and I’m under
deep obligations to Miss Winton. If
ever my home becomes once mor$
what it was to start with, it will be
her work. Could a man bear heavier
obligation than that?"
"Well hardly," said Mickey. "Course
there wouldn't likely ever be any
thing you could do for Miss Ia-slie
that would square that deni; but I’m
worried ‘ about my boss something
awful.”
"Why Mickey?" asked Mr. Minturn.
"That investigation you started
him on.”
"1 did start him on that. What’s the
matter?" /
"Well the returns are about ail in,"
said Mickey, "and tlie man who draws
the candy suit is about ready to put
it on. See?”
‘‘Good! Kxactly what he should do."
"Yes exactly,” agreed Mickey dryly,
•hut. who do you figure it is? We got
some good friends in the City Hall."
"Always is somebody you don’t ex
pect," said Mr. Minturn. "Don't waste
any sympachy on them, Mickey.”
"Not unless in some way my bos*
i got himself into trouble,” said Mickey.
“There’* nu^posslble way he could.”
"About the smartest man In Mul
tiopolis thinks yes." said Mickey. "I
just been talking with him.”
■‘Who, Mickey?" asked Mr. Min
turn, instantly.
"Chaffner of the Herald,” said
Mickey.
"What!”
Mr. Minturn seized the hoy’s arm.
shoved him inside his door and closed
it. Mickey pulled away and turned a
belligerent face upward.
"Now nix on knocking me down
with your ’whats!’ ” he cried. "I
just been hammered melier with his,
and dragged into hi* room, and shut
up. and scared stiff, about 20 minutes
ago.”
"The devil you say!" exploded Mr.
Minturn.
"No. I said Chaffner! Insisted
Mickey. “Chaffner of the Herald. I’m
golng'to write a poetry piece for his
front page some day soon now. 1
been selling his paper all my life."
"And so you're a friend of Chaff -
ner's?"
"Oh not bosom and Inseparable,"
explained Mickey. "I haven't seen so
awful much of him, but when I do,
we get along fine."
‘And he said-?" questioned Mr.
Mlnturn.
"Just what I been afraid of nil the
time," said Mickey. "That these In
vestigations at times got Into places
you didn't look for. and made awful
trouble: and that my boss might get It
with his.”
"Mickey, you will promise me some
thing?" asked Mr. Mlnturn. “You
see I started Mr. Bruce on this try
log to help him to a case that would
bring him into prominence, so if it
should go wrong, it's in a way
through me. If you think Douglas
Is unlike himself, or worried, will
you tel| me? Will yow-2."
"Why surest thing you know!” cried
Mickey. "Why I should say I
would! Gee, you're great too! I
think I'll like you awful well when
we get'acqualnted."
(Continued |n The Morning Ben.)
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Anything I can do before Dicky
get* back?"
Lillian asked the question casually,
as after trying on the apron which
she had found In a drawer she began
putting her possessions away. Osten
sibly It was a query referring only to
aid with the dinner I was preparing
and If I w ished I could recognize no
other meaning In it. But X knew,
and she meant me to know that her
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My friend never Invites a confi
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your brother-inlaw tomorrow they
will go to their own rooms as soon
as courtesy permits. And I will
honor a rule by the breaking, and
send Marlon to a play or a cinema
with Dicky. Hhe slept late this
morning and isn't a bit tired. It
will do her good. Then we shall
have the evening to ourselves. Now
where shall I begin with the table
setting?”
Lillian Is Delighted.
* "\Vc'll have to bring another one.
In from the kitchen first," I rejoined
laughingly, my spirits immeasurably''
raised by the prospect of a long con
fidential talk with the friend whose
sanity of outlook I had so often
proved. "It will have to be a sort
of 'T' effect, which ought to delight
your unconventional soul, for It will
be a long cry from the usual dining
table.
"Lovely!" she exclaimed wfth en
thusiasm. "I can Just see It. Ves"
with a swift appraising eye "you
have candlesticks enough and flow
ers. Oh! boy! let ms at it.”
I saw that the Idea had excited
her volatile, artistic Interest —trans
forming the prosaic to the beautiful
always has a ^eflnlte appeal to her—
but when she entered the kitchen
her practical housewifely instincts
asserted themselves.
“But If <you take this table, where
in the world are you going to put
your dishes while serving and clear
ing away?" she asketl.
"Do you not see those .wooden
fruit crates, and that box, to say
nothing of the space beneath the
cupboard and the top of the ice box."
I answered confidently, "Don't worry,
I'll manage."
“I don’t doubt It,” she retorted.
"but if you don't, have a nervous
headache at the end of the meal I
miss my guess.”
AVe almost had reached the living
room door with our burden when I
heard the quid: patter of high-heeled
shoes behind me, and Mrs. Marks'
\olce hailed me.
"Hay, Miss Graham. 1 couldn’t help
hearing you Just now, and I want
\nu to take my kitchen table for
tonight. 1 shan't need it."
"That's awfully good of you,” I
said gratefully, “hut I am sure I
■ shall he able to manage. Thank you
so much, however."
I added an introduction to Lillian,
who struck In decidedly:
“Don't mind her, Mrs. Marks. I
accept your table gladly and I’ll be
right down to carry It In.”
"I'll get It ready," she promised and
whisked down the hall, while Lillian,
with a last shove into it* proper
angle of the table we were carrying,
faced me mirthfully.
"Never refuse the gifts of the
gods," she murmured. ‘Keaides, that
woman's the richest thing I’ve seen
for many a day. I want to make her
acquaintance, and tills Is a good en
tering wedge.”
"You won't need any,” I predict
ed, and, Indeed, while we transferred
the table from Mrs. Marks’ kitchen
to my own, my neighbor talked so
volubly that when she had departed
Lillian came into the living room,
closed the door, sank Into a chair
and gave vent to the laughter which
she had been patiently suppressing.
"Hhe's the eighth wonder of the
world, that woman!" she ejaculated
at last, wiping her, eyes. “Now what’s
next? I suppose you want these
books moved away from the table.
HelloT*’
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picked up a volume which with a
stir of my pulses I recognized as the
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