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K^WKo â- Â»^. .-tf»» â- Â«â€¢ •â- â- â€¢Â».»( inn <iiiiim ?\ ^JT THE BANK ENVELOPE BY WILLIAM HOLLOWAY. 7^ PART II. "he aska me to tell you that hj can ••Now reallj-," snarled the other. ! '«»-i^ o" *« wnteirts of the env«.ope "Cut it out, bo!" His wrinkled f^ceJ^^'^^mfst^'^^MytYiMnyoucTM." grew on th'.' Kudden placid. "I sup-! .7<"-g«t it!' said th« little man, poKe you wond*r why I'm telling you ^'t^ " *'*^'« «' ^^^ •»"<*• And. even this? W*il, say, there isn't going to " he spoke, the right ftst of Oreste* be any trouble after I get the envelope, ' ««nw>ck collided sharply .with th» is there? You can't raise a holler. ?<>'"*• «' "'^ ia*. and he fell with a It's a pipe. Now hand it over. I saw clatter to the sid»walk, momentarily Blane out on the sidewalk looking for °*««* ^ ^^^ ^ot]A. that envelope, and you bet it's worth' The artist slowly flexed the huge while." j muscles of which he was so inocdin- Ho extended his hand insistently, ately proud; then, with a quick move- even as Henry Porter drew back, nient of his prehensile fingers, d3- "Look here! cried the latter. "I can spoiled his victim «/ the fated bank have you arrested for carrying that envelope. He had barely clutch3d it revolver. There's a Axed post uround i" his hand when there came upon the the corner." ! scene no' less a person than Jimmy The little man laughed. "I think I the Rat. nice and smooth A spoonful of Lux- tossed into the dishpan softens the water and makes dishwashing easy. Lux is kind to the hands â€" keeps them aice and smooth. was crazy when I came into town to night. I carried that for Blane. 1 meant to 6ieo him and ask him one or two unpleasant questions. Then came that envelope sailing out of the win- dow. Say, it was a bird!" He pressed thft end of ^th© automatic against the banker's body. "Out with it!" he commanded. "Out with it!" Thus adjured, Henry Porter ga;^ an instant in the other's wrinkled face. Reader and ruler of men as he wis, he understood the message printed there. With a gie.s-tupe of the sharpest disappointment, he plun^fed his hand beneath his overcoat and produced the coveted envelope. Then shrug- ging his shouldeis, without a word he continued his walk eastward. Orestes Rcnwick, the famous artist, whose portraits of fashionable New York women bid fair to become classic, was in a savage mood. Com- mi-seions had been bad of late owing to the financial stringency. Half a dozen representatives of the nouveau riche and two of the Knickerbockers had unexpectedly canceled orders. Meanwhile, his wife's bills for the furnishing of their new house in the smartest section of the East Seven- ties kept growing, much as the pro- verbial snowball rolling down the pro- verbial mountain. The worst of the matter was that neither in word nor in deed did he dare to make protest. For one thing, he vkjs too much in love with his wife to call a halt to her plans unless it become absolute- ly ncce.ssary. For another, the news- papers had made so much of the artistic luxury of his new^ home, his patrons had come to expect such unique perfection in his household Any way you look at it, Jimmy. tfie Rat is out of place in this story. For one thing, his social position â€" Jimmy's regular reception days are on what is technically termed "the Island," with an occasional lapse to the austere beauties of Sing Sing â€" makes him rather out of place in the company of bankers and artists. For-^another, Jimmy was a professional, and the others, as will have been noticed, were the rankest kind of amateurs. But Jimmy, who, by the merest chance happened to be passing do^n Madison avenue when Orestes Ren- wick made his gi«at play, had two ad- vantages that served him well; a pair of rubber shoes and a small section of gas-pipe. The first brought him on the eceno of action as noiselessly as a phantom; the second, skillfully ap- plied to the back of the artist's head, put him in possession of the bank en- velope, as it fell fix>m Orestes Ren- wick's nerveless hand. And then Jimmy the Jlat, his shriv- eled form convulsed with silent laugh- ter, turned away to pastures new. "That," he told himself, "was a pipe! It sure was!" Captain Anderson, of the neighbor- ing precinct, viras in a decidedly un- pleasant frame of mind. Bertrand Blane had had him on the phone' and in a moment of forgetfulness he had been rude to the banker. He was pay- ing for It now as Mulberry street be- gan to get wakened up. One by one the messages came in and none of them made pleasant read- ing for the captain of the precinct. The Central Office was sending a Lever Brothers Limited^ Toronto. I^OI number of its best detectives; police headquarters was turning things up- that to give up the project now would ^i^® dowm in a vain effort to recover bp to deal ^ia prestige a fatal blow. I the mi.<using envelope; worst of all. So it came that, strolling through tho Commissioner himself had called Central Park late at night, ns was him on the phone, hi.s custom, he witnessed the meeting' "His Nibs," he confided hoar.sely to between Henry Porter and tho little his sergeant, as he hung up the re- man from New Jarssy. The precise ceiver. "And hot under the collar! nature of the interview he was, of Say, he ain't turning the little burg course, unable to understand, but '"Pside down for that envelope, oh, from ths scraps of words that came no! Not at all!" to him. as he lurked in the shelter of | "Valuable envelope?" suggested the a noarby stoop, and from the violent sefgeant's confident lips. gestures of the smaller man, he de- ' "Only worth a few millions or so," . . , . cided that he was witnessing nothing vvas the grim answer. "It's up to-us["^1'' *^''l him I've dropped two burg less than an ordinary hold-up. This to find it or somebody's going broke. '"'â- '^^ *nd a murder case to-night, but opinion a little phrase uttered in a , "What the devil was Dwyer doing? *hat baby's shoas are safe!" louder tone than the rest speedily ' Anybody heard from Dwyer?" j .^e swung about again face to face dissipated. { "Here, you are," cried an unexpected I ^'*'h Bertrand Blane, and as he did so, "Hand it over! Saw Blane â€" side- voice, and Officer Dwyer entered from P^'^'^'^hing very like .•; grin appeared walk looking â€" envelope â€" worth the street. In his hand he carfied al"P"n the granite lips. "The first, eh, while." j white envelope, which he placed .sol- ^'â- - Blane. That accounts for it. I remember myself- it grew red again; the .whole per- formance culminating in a burning blush. "It isn't bonds," he stammered. "It isn't bonds." "No?" said the captain. "Then, as the precinct has been turned upside diovfTi, perhaps you'll tell us what it is." The young banker grew, if possible, more agitated than before. "I did tall Dwyer I wouldn't lose it for mlKions," h« admitted, ".And I don't suiJpose I would, but it isn't money. You see, captain, my wife is down at our Long I.sland place and to-night at half-past twelve â€" welf, it's our first and it's a boy!" "The devil!" cried the astonished captain. "And what has that got to do with the envelope?" "I bad the things ready," the bank er went on, "and I was waiting for a telephone call from the doctor. When it came, I slipped them in the envelope and sealed it. Just as I was going to address them toJUaster Bert- rand Havelock Blane â€" the Havelock is for his mother, you know â€" the en- velope blew out of the>window. That's al'l, captain." "All?" cried CJaptain Anderson, banging his hand furiously upon the deck. "Not by a jugrful! What I want to know is what's in this en- velope every one has been grabbing? Jewels, did you say?" For an instant the master of Wall Street hesitated. Then he manfully took tht plunge. "It's just the very finest pair of baby bootees you ever s»w in your life, captain." "Baby shoes!" echced the captain weakly. "Oh, Lord!" He turned to his sergeant. "My ••onipliments to the Commissioner," he said sava(;ely. Yen Caimtft Sttrpass 11 II SALADA' GREEN TEA Its luscious freshness & ricK strength mAke it finer tKan nny GunpoMrdert Japan or Young Hrson. Sola every- where.^ Ask for SALADA to-dajr. il-- CANADIAN FOOD PRODUCTS Orestes Renwick caught his breath , eniiily on the desk. Behind him two sharply hh he saw the automatic bulge assi.stants marshaled an assortment l>eneath th-? n.'-saijant's 'ivercoat; of visitors. caught it more sharpiy^ill as h« "Hare's the envelope that fell out watched the banker draw from bt^ "f Mr. Blane's window and here's Mr. neath his overcoat a long white envel- Blane himself." ope, which in th* starlight shone pale- ' The great banker nodded pleasantly, ly against the black background. In and Captain Anderson's face, which a flash he came to his decision. An had threatened apoplexy, grew normal tnvelopc which was worth while to *Kain- "Delighted," he observed in I "account," he protested. "I've been Blane and Porter was worth while to his best manner, reaching out his! thinking of doing something in honor him. There was a certain novel art- , hand. "And Mr. Porter, too," he °^ "^V ^y »nd I can't imagine any- istry in the manner in which he went added, turning to that gentleman. I thing l)etter than calling off this .silly about the task of obtaining possession | "Not to speak of Jimmy the Rat, and I Apht that has been demoralizing Wall of the coveted bit of paper. Crossing two strangers." He pulled at his long. Street. So I'm going to share control the street, he ran hastily after the straw-colored mustache. "Suppose ^^ '^-"l^-K-' with you. I'll have a st»to- po-o.-^ssor of the automatic; while that yo" talk, Dwyer." mont ready for the press before I'm individual, hearing footsteps behind Officer Dwyer saluted. "When the ten minutes older." He shook the old Henry Porter interrupted. His face haggard; his voice weary; the world he loved was slipping from his grip. "If you don't mind, officer, and if there's no charge. I'll go <yi. I have a hard day before me to-morrow." Bertrand Blane caught his father's ancient riN-al by the arm. 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It retnovet food particles Cram the teeth. Strengthuu the ^luni. Combats acid mouth. Befreshln^ and benencial! man's hand excitedly. "Nine pounds! Say. what do you know about that!" Henry Porter's wrinkled face melt- ed into a smile. "Fine!" he answered And ! heartily. "A wonderful boy, that! I owe him something for to-night" He turned to the little man from New Jersey, his face still smiling. "Come to my office to-morrow and I'll see that you get the 90 points for your Blano's name on It? Why " "I don't know why," said Officer Dwyer composedly. "Mebbe he couldn't .^('e it wasn't hie. Mebbe he could. I don't know. I'm sticking to facts. Anyway, tho little fellow here took It I Steel stock," he said kindly. horn IVjrter because he's been losing! "And Renwk-k here," went on money in stocks .atfiyâ€" a straight i BInne, turning to the artist, "must hold-up. He's cqme 'across with the paint the boy as teoon as he can." story. Next, this other g\iy, Renwick, ' Orestes Renwick, conscious of the 'tho artist, that does the fancy mugs j >uck of the gods, felt his battered head you RL* in the Sunday papers â€" up and "*"<* smiled. "Here, Jimmy," he cried, i I cops it from the little chap. After! P"»h'nsr a yellow-back into Jimmy the ' ; which, along sneaks Jimmy and hands ' Rat's itching palm. "I owe you some- I the artist the kebunk on the coco, ihing for that lucky crack on the ' and I nabs Jimmy! And there you SEALED TIGHT KEPT RIOHT •Well, of all the- began the head." Jimmy grinned knowingly. j "Oommiseioner on tho phone again, sir," interrupted the sergeant. "What ' astounded captain. He paused abrupt- '»haU I say?" | !y. "And do you mean jwi are pre- I Cap<taln Ahderson surveyed the f^- ferring charges against Mr. Porter?" moua banker with a knowing grin. \ "Tell him It weighs nine pound*,", said he. (The End.) «< iCSUb No. 32â€" '2S. Dwyer squared his shoulders. 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