A Man and His Money

m at sight of the strange figure speeding across their metropolitan imitation of a back yard. If anything were needed to stimulate the fugitive's footsteps, it was the sound of that v

rsed like many thoroughfares of its kind was comparatively deserted most of the time; n

er his shoulder, also observed this person; his capture and subsequent incarceration seemed inevitable. Already the fugitive was drawing near to busier Fourth Avenue; there he would be obliged t

h and physically capable. Which fact made it the more difficult for him to settle down to a forc

ewhere in the past in a hundred-yards' dash, he felt joyously conscious both of covering space quickly and that he did so without making himself particularly prominent. Fools who ran

eels. At the same time he looked back; at the corner where he had turned into Fourth avenue he fancied a number of people were gathering. He could surmise the cause; the stockily-built man-his pursuer-was aski

the light-weight conductor did manage to pull the heavy-weight passenger aboard. Time lost, thirty seconds! The motorman manipulated the lever more deliberately now and they gathered headway slowly. Mr. Heatherbloom dared not remain longer where he was; as the car approached a corner near an elevated stati

one sprang out, did not pause to pay the chauffeur, but calling out to him his name, started after Mr. Heatherbloom. That gentleman had by this time boarded the train wai

unning alongside the last ca

Criminal-on this train

d hesitated; rules,

rs if you let me on

tform. A faint sigh of relief from Mr. Heatherbloom was drowned in the tumult of the wheels; then he endeavored t

y at him. He wished now he were better dressed; good clothes may cover a multitude of sins. Still there was no reason why he should be suspected more than sundry other indifferently-dressed people. He would dismiss the thought, tell himself he was going down town on some litt

ckground. A short person; a tall one? What kind of person would the imaginary individual be, anyhow? And what had he done, what crime com

ifted a foot; then straightened and banished her peremptorily from his environment. His principal interest lay now in casual glimpses of windows and specul

would get off as quickly as possible; then changed his mind and remained. People would, of course, argue that,

ely the departing ones. A few of the latter seemed slightly self-conscious, notably, an elde

chy chap-By jo

like a toug

s poor." Mr. Heatherbloom turn

; why was he obliged to obtrude h

more. Where should he go? Reaching for a paper that some one had disc

ttle item in the shipping news, in fine print, which suddenly caught his gaze bore in any way, and that a remote one, upon her niece and her affairs. Mr. Heatherbloom regarded it with dull glance. The few li

xiety more poignant moved him; his thoughts centered on that other matter-the cause of Miss Van Rolsen's apprehensions-the while those emotions that had held him a listener behind the curtain in her library again stirred in his bre

e fled at all; he would have faced them, instead! But he had work to do-he! A fugitive, a logi

oke suddenly to him and he whee

ng to eat me up?"

her end of the car at the last station, and after waiting a few moments for him to see her, had moved toward him, or a seat at hi

ough!" he said with

fore not deigned to pay her compliments. "I'll have to tell my husband abou

ed had widely separated and ran now on the extreme sides of the broad thoroughfare. From his side of the car the young man was afforded a view of the pavement below, between the two sustaining iron structu

e said irrelevantly. The ca

(Would it reach the ne

lockade below impeded, momentarily, the "taxi". Mr. H

answered. "Are

t? (The car was once more under way; fortunately their pro

we live-Brookl

e was saying. A policeman had stopped the "taxi" and was shaking his head, as at a rather "fishy" s

to proceed, in spite of the detaining thought-waves Mr. Heatherbloom had launched toward the officer of

u want to." Pride in her voice. "And meet my

re! Ha! ha!" He

?" She look

as at some one, out of the window. "See

ing so funny in th

ve seen the expres

? Wh

's, of course! H

he man in the car would have been the mad

s what made it see

noticed before that you h

knew me."

eatherbloom appeared most care-free and very sedulous of his companion's welfare, especia

eatherbloom laid down a d

suddenly to desert him; the questions he had been vainly asking himself earlier that day were reiterated in