A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Fourth

er with the conduct of the periodical; but Fulkerson easily saw that he was proud of his relation to it, and he proceeded upon the theory that he would be willing to have t

had acquired, but did not quite understand; he left the working of it to Fulkerson, who no doubt bragged of it sufficiently. The old man seemed to have as little to say to his son; he shut himself up with Fulkerson, where the oth

dinner he rose and calle

a minute, will you? Co

nd he shrinks from publicity; but I am not that kind of herb myself, and I want all the publicity we can get-beg, borrow, or steal-for this thing. I say that you can't work the sacred rites of hospitality in a better cause, and what I propose is a little dinner for the purpose of recognizing the hit we've made with this thing. My idea was to strike you for the necessary funds, and do the thing on a handsome scale. The term little dinner is a mere figure of speech. A little dinner wouldn't make a b

r the other. March was a little surprised when Dryfoos turned to him, but that reference of

r advertising; but it seems to me a little early yet. We might celebrate later when we'

Fulkerson. "What we want to do wi

in anywhere?" the

your aesthetic present is something that will knock out the sympathies of the American public the first round. I feel," said Fulkerson, with a tremor of pathos in his voice, "that 'Every Other Week' is at a disadvantage before the public as long as it's supposed to be my enterprise, my idea. As far as I'm known at all, I'm known simply as a syndicate man, and nobody in the press believes that I've got the money to run the thing on a grand scale; a suspicion of insolvency must attach to it sooner or lat

preposterous proposition, when Conrad broke out: "Mr. Fulkerson, I could not allow you to do that. It would not be true; I did not wish to be here; and-and what I think-what I wish

xpects to be interested, and nothing would interest it more than to be told that the success of 'Every Other Week' sprang from the first application of the principle of Live and let Live to a literary enterprise. It would look particularly well, coming from you and your father, but if you object, we can leave that part out; though if you approve of the principle I d

ld man, "we will get

in the patent outsides of the country press would be worth half a dozen subscribe

y prominent citizens were going to have theirs in, and his price was a hundred and fifty dollars. I told him I couldn't let mine go for less than two hundred, and when he said he coul

l pay you that much. But if you won't sell at any price, all right; we must try to worry along

very hungry, yet," sai

ends say. You'll be hungry enough when you see the pr

a postponement till they get back, s

t it's just as apt to be the other way. I contend that we've got a real substantial success to celebrate now; but even if we hadn't, the celebration would do more than anything else to create the success, if we got it properly before the public. People will

The elder Dryfoos said, with his chin on the top of h

lly assented. "I understand you to agree t

he better," sa

clude the lady contributors and artists, and the wives and daughters of the other contributors. That would give us the chance to ring in a lot of society correspond

derstand,"

ersuasion, and then, about ten o'clock, throw open your palatial drawing-rooms a

e social inexperience Fulkerson's words projected no very in

e more time to realize it I think I approve. I approve of

aybe Mrs. Dryfoos would look in on us in the course of the evening. There's no hurry, as Mr. March sugg

consoled himself with the fact that Fulkerson was really not such a charlatan as he seemed. But it went through his mind that this was a strange end for all Dryfoos's money-making to come to; and he philosophically accepted the fact of his own humble fortunes when he reflected how little his money could buy for such a man. It was an honorable use that Fulkerson was putting it to in 'Every

e interview. He only repeated, "I gu

nd when he joined March for the stroll homeward after office hours, he

complain much of, anywhere; but I don't want anything better than the month of May in New York. Farther South it's too hot, and I've been in Boston in May when that east wind of yours made every nerve in my body get up and howl. I reckon the weather has a good deal to do with the local temperament. The reason a New York man takes life so easily with

now how you're going to work that i

don't think I've got that

eading up to 'Every O

was just thinking what

m a Virginian. And yet I

you'll get anywhere in

's paper is goin

ks down the sale about one-half

sly to have serfdom advocated on high moral grounds as the only solution of the labor problem. You see, in the first place, he goes for their sympathies by the way he portrays the actual relations of capital and labor; he shows how thin

if we had accepted and paid for an article advocating cannibalism as the only

uld meet the colonel in the privacy of the domestic circle, March. You'

m work in the garden, and the bird bossing the job in his cage under the cherry-tree. Have to keep the middle of the yard for the clothesline, but six days in the week it's a lawn, and I go over it with a mower myself. March, there ain't anything like a home, is there? Dear little cot of your own, heigh? I tell you, March, when I get to pushing that mower round, and the colonel is smoking his

with Miss Wood

must draw his fire, sometime, when you and Mrs. March

at better, I beli

old gentleman in first-class shape, and she don't believe a bit in the slavery solution of the labor problem; says she's glad it's gone, and if it's anything like the effe

etty difficult to find," said March. "But perhaps Miss Woodburn represen

school, high-and-mighty manners, as they survive among some of the antiques in Charlottesburg. If that thing could be put upon the stage it would be a killing success. Makes the old gentleman laugh in spite of

ters p

ind; perfectly sincere and

or the next number of "Every Other Week,"' 'Every Other Week at all the news-sta

n which he had left Fulkerson at the wido

more than another. I don't know that he showed any unjust partiality, though, in his talk of 'those girls,' as he called them. And I always rather

hat instruction and discipline can make of a woman; but I sho

arity of line; that reasoned strictness of contour; that neatness of pose; that slightly conventional but harmonious grouping of the emotion

e use for them in that family

with the old gentleman, this afternoon, about Fulkerson's literary,

bout it at all, but whom the date fixed for it caused to think of the intervening t

's willingness to abide in the present, which is

people wanting the Boston house another year complicat

d us an increased rent; they

rs," said Mrs. March. "I ha

This is a

rprise to you, Basi

the world fr

rom one city to another for the summer. W

en would have let us have the gimcrackery very cheap for the summer months; and we could have made all

we couldn't spend th

ow I

! You could

or at Maroni's, with poor old Lindau: he's got to dining there

s with which his wife said: "I think if there is to be any housekeeping, I will sta

lad to have you join us," sa

e him off to Maroni's, the next time h

out of character with a hero of the war. But what she really could not reconcile herself to was the violence of Lindau's sentiments concerning the whole political and social fabric. She did not feel sure that he should be allowed to say such things before the children, who had been nurtured in the faith of Bunker Hill and Appomattox, as the beginning and the end of all possible progress in human rights. As a woman she was naturally an aristocrat, but as an American she was theoretically a democrat; and it astounded, it alarmed her, to hear American democracy denounced as a shuffling evasion. She had never cared much for the United States Senate, but she doubted if she ought to sit by when it was railed at as a rich man's club. It shocked her to be told that the rich and poor were not equal before the law in a country where justice must be paid for at every step in fees and costs, or where a poor man must go to war in his own person, and a rich man might hire someone to go in his. Mrs. March felt that this rebellious mind

ood exercise for his faculties of research. At any rate, those things

ar them at home?"

"perhaps it's the best place. But don't mind poor old Lindau, my de

never ceased to wonder at herself for having brought this about, for she had warned her husband against making any engagement with Lindau which would bring him regularly to the house: the Germans stuck so, and were so unscrupulously dependent. Yet, the deed being done, she would not ignore the duty of hospitality, and it was always she who ma

conomist of an unusual type; but I shall not let him array me agai

sil; be careful. You

such a poor, lonely old fellow. Are you rea

wish I felt easier about him-sure, that is, that w

rned, lightly. "It's one of what Lindau cal