The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On

d full of expectation: an exce

on. He contented himself with locating 25 Broad Street, without presenting his letter. Incidentally, he left most of his cash in a safe-deposit drawer. "For," he mused, "the touching attachment of my open-handed, prepossessing friend may not always

interesting forenoon. At one o'clock there were still no s

ry, typewriter, file-books, a busy bookkeeper, a fair stenographer-no detail was omitt

e docks? That ought to interest you. All right-thought it would. I've got some business at No. 4. Make yourself at home

liberty of substituting fifty Micas, the Mica being the same in every respect except the name plate. In fact, the two firms, with others, have a "gentleman's agreement" sharing patents, keeping up separate plants only to preserve the appearance of co

y check for $27,000, to be used in the matter we discussed the othe

re's the last. 'Mr. Joseph Yates, Rehobeth Beach, Delaware. Dear old Joe: Sorry to hear of your undeserved bad luck. While not exactly a financial Napoleon these days, I am able to accommodate you, and glad to do so. Have not forgotten the ti

is to the silently industrious bookkeep

e bookkeeper looked up-"Seven thousand six h

On your way back jack Stevens up about those plows. Tell him if he don't get 'em round on time he loses one big customer-and that's me." Counting out the require

in the elevator, "I've

me stuff I'm shipping

y a litt

l me about the boats as we go. That's what t

ig & Co. Look up stream-there's a big Cunarder just swingi

e. "I feel a presentiment that there'll be a heavy transportation bill on that stuff and that my friend won't have en

y watched the rumbling wagons they were joined b

Argentine freights, I suppose? At

d, of the Bowring and Archibald line,

, Archie. We were going to wal

igar?" said the pseud

g friend over the boa

er, Thompson. Rather l

t, boat to me ever sin

better take a little trip with us, Mr. Thompson-say

rust a telegram into Mitchell's hand. "Just reached me by A.D.T. from the Carlton. Let me have some money, will

ome at once Father worse Doctor orders to Egypt Jennie.' Why sure, my boy. Here's what cash I got, and I'll give you a check. Too bad,

t. Left it in the office. Got a couple o

Thompson. But the Westerner did not wait for an appeal to his generosity. He vo

indorse it, Mr. Mitchell. Sorry I haven't the cash with me." Thus Steve, his

ach other. But Mitchell w

with John. Traffic Manager of the Pennsylvania is a friend of mine. If he's in his office I'll get it of him. Otherwise, I'll start John on, and wire

powner gayly, "but no more so t

ickford. Mr. Bickford's father was a dear old friend of mine. Once very wealthy, too, but has had reverses. Bless me, how I do ramble on! Old age, sir, old age! Osler was half right. Now, Archie, 'phone up to your

o go down to the office to get some mo

on's orders. Mind, his money isn't any good. I pay for both of you. Wish it was more, but you see how I'm hooked up. You'll have a better time with a

ess, they were not to adopt a policy of scuttle, but persevere in the paths of manifest destiny to benevolent assimilation; at the same time adroitly extricating his embarrassed lieutenant from a very present predicament. Because "Archibald" felt a certain r

ers, captain? Happy to oblige. M

ald's well-groomed and natty appearance, Steve naively asked his advice in matters sartorial, purchasing much raiment and leaving an order with a fashionable tailor. But, after an amazing dinner at an uptown house of call

r. Mitchell and his old fri

idestep that?" demanded the aggrieved Bickford, forgetting, in his pique, his stricken father. "What you want to do to him is to sandbag him, give hi

f he'd had the dough with him he'd handed it out just like he did the check. He floundered out through pure, unadulterated innocence. I'll land him yet. Next time I won't leave the shirt to his back

he cowboy to the Speedway, and back throug

uch leisure. Of course, when a good fellow like you comes along I can take

oung Post. One of the best families-but, poor fellow, he's in trouble now." He dismissed the subject with a benevolent sigh. "Would you like to go in and look at it? The caretaker

greed. It was a fine hous

n the inspection was over.

rty thousand. It'

ldn't have thought it worth that much." (

as when I had it, but land values are coming up by leaps and bounds. Young man, the ground valuation alone of the six square miles adj

nd it," said Stev

rty-and New York's got the biggest standpipe. The back country soaks up the rain and it is delivered conveniently at our doors through, underground channels, between the unleaking walls that confine it

ugh to sustain life, and just as little more as possible. Sell at our pr

to-morrow, maybe, some time. Let you do it? Tut, tut, no, no! Why, you object to 'em! That won't do at all. Let the rules be revised by their friends and beneficiaries, to-morrow, next day, by and by; busy to-day,

that keeps our prices up arbitrarily, that takes fifty dollars out of your

ently, "if we raised money for the National Gov

ar you! Then there's another. You sell at a sacrifice to pay your debts. If we get in debt that's

ion, dishonesty, chance or inheritance-he gets on top, then the workers will be working for him by the same law. The fact remains that every dollar's worth of betterment in the country increases the v