|THE DAILY BRITISH nc mi a. ole The FOURTH ESTATE FREDERICK R. TOOMBS From the Great Play of the Same Name by Joseph Medill Patter- son and Harriet Ford. Copyright, 1900, by Joseph Medill Patterson snd Harriet Ford. what you are talking about." "Can we let it go over for one day? "| don't know what you are talking about." . "You ist on his coming here pes rons "Of course I don't. 1 don't insist om anything." "How much time hive we got?" "He knows ali about that." Dupuy was immeasurably relieved at this last remark. It was the first time that Brand bad indicated that Bartelmy and he bad bad an engage ment. "Mr. Brand, I can almost assure yom that my client will keep his appoint- ment." The lawyer's voice rang out firmly. The editor'nodded carelessly toward the speaker, who spun on his heel and speedily strode away. 'Che telephone bell ded. 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Dupuy came into Brand's office with a most circumspect and deferential air. Dressed in evening clothes, carrying his silk hat in his hand and with a boutonniere of hothouse violets in his lapel, he gave every indication of be- ing the.society figure that his name and wealth had made possible for him, The lawyer lobbyist walked directly to the desk at which Brand was seat- ed. In reply to the managing editor's salutation he bowed stiffly and leaned forward over the desk. Several moments elapsed before Du- puy spoke. He was trying to put his opening words in the most judicious language, and well he might hesitate when one considers the nature of his evil errand. "The gentleman who was coming to see you tonight," at last he said care- fully, "has had to go to the opera with his daoghter. He has asked me to come in his stead." : An expression of complete bewilder- ment spre@d over the other's face. + "A genfleman? What gentleman? he interrr ted. Dupuy was momentarily nonplused. "Why, the gertleman who--ah, with whom you made an appointment for 9 o'clock this evening--here--at your of- fice." Brand still refused to show his hand. "I should be very giad to bear what you have to say, Mr. Dupuy, but; frankly, I don't know what you are driving at." The visitor was annoyed. He was positive that Bartelmy would not send him on a wild goose errand. Surely the judge and Brand had come to terms regarding the silence of the Ad- vance as to ithe Lansing Iron case de- cision. The editor was playing with him now, he knew--dangling him on a verbal hook to tantalize him. "Oh, come, you know who I mean-- Bartelmy!" snapped the judge's despi- cable tool. . "Judge Bartelury?™ exciaimed Brand in surprise. "Well, what about him?' Dupuy produced a card, which the editor glanced at. 3 "What's this?" he asked. Then read: " 'Dupuy will represent me.' what?" He started to put the card in his pocket. "perhaps you would better let me have that so 1 can return it to him." Dupuy reached eagerly for the card, which, Brand slowly extended to him. "This refers to that trgnsaction of which you and he were speaking this afternoon," continued the lawyer. Brand laugh€d loudly. "Well, Dupuy, I'm a poor hand at guessing riddles. 1 give it up. What's the answer?" The lawyer became impatient. "The transaction involving the--ab- the investment--of a certaln--sum of money," he explained haitingly. i "A business deal 1 was going inte with the judge?" in amazement. " » he In "If I bad any business with the judge, Dupay, 1 would prefer to do #t with the judge." "But 1 am his plenipotentiary" "Mhm, mhm!" gruated Brand nega- tively. "You are rather unreasonable, Brand." A wearied and hopeless look began to show in the lawyer's visage. The young editor noted this and re- solved to temporize with and exasper- ate this man whom he despised above all others, even above Bartelmy him- self. Bartelmy, believed Brand, even if he was a scoundrel, actually had superior mental ability, was a brilliant thinker and acted boldly Wn many of his dishonest transactions on the bench. But Dupuy~he was to Brand the bang- er-on, the skulker, the vandal jackal that devoured corpses in the night that braver animals had fought and killed by day. His eyes blinked in the light, did Dupuy's. It was in the under ground runways that he coursed the ¥ yo ROCKERS, EASY CHAIRS, ES, DAVENPORTS: | Swiftest. And as these thoughts sped Witough bis brain the editor looked | Mm for you, say, tomorrow motning?" | he anxiously queried of the newspaper " | man. COUCH- | "1 don't care." "Then I'll do it Ij : i: 3 ; Hil bd "Hello! Who--oh, yes, Mr. Nolan. No, sir, pot yet, but 1 think we'll bave him landed alt right in dbout balf an hour. Please don't worry about It It'll be all right. Just go away and hide somewhere, for they'll be doing the baby: act as quick as | trap him, and you'll be squeered to death before we get to press. You promised me this chance. You want to know what's go- ing on? Well, where will you be? Triple 3 Plaza. Get off the wire, Miss Stowe. Yes, Mr. Nolan, they cut in on us. Il call you up later," CHAPTER X. _ 4 ND hung up the telephone receiver with an amxious ex- pression on his face. *Nolan mast keep away from this." he m tensely., "Let him take a train or go to sleep or bury himself if he wants to, If Bartelmy or Dupuy gets held of him after I've shown my hand there'll be the merry d--Il to pay,, and if they find him they might sve- ceed in coaxing-- I wonder if Nolan will stick; I wonder if Nolan will stick," he kept repeating over and over to himself. The noise of voices raised in indigna- tion broke in upon him from the outer hall gt his right. "Oh, that's a chest- not," some one cried; "he's always out, always when I come." The editor glanced around and saw Sylvester Nolan leading in his friend Powell, the poet. "You're not out, are you, old man? asked young Nolan of Brand. "Who's that fly duck that tried to keep me from coming in? "I'm sorry, Nelan; I'm very busy to- pight, and you'll have to excuse we. I'm very busy." "Brandy, old boy, I came in on buai- ness. Want to get a job for my friend Powell here. He's a poet." He drag- ged the wan eyed rhymester up w Brand's desk. The editor looked Powell over. "We don't carry poets on the pay- rolls," he grunted. : "But just look at this ome. ['o- wow, let Mr. Brand see your ode to the opening of the Omaha expesition. He went in the competition with this." Powell handed the peem to Brand. "And 1 see he came out with it™| snorted the newspaper man, "Yes, sir," agreed Sowell faintly. "People haven't time for poetry," commented Brand. "That's what I've been trying to tell Powow," put in Sylvester. "He was born after his time." "How would you like to be a report: er? asked the editor. Powell's eyes gleamed with a sickly color that showed that he was en hosed... . "A reporter? Ob, yes, sir!" be sald. Brand took down the phone. "Hello! Give me night city editor, please. Hello! That you? I've got a cub here named Powell. Please give him a week's trial. Report to city ed- itor." "Where is he, sir?' asked Powell, bewildered. "You're a reporter now. Find out." "Yes, sir," He started toward the hall door. "Over here, Powow!" cried Sylves ter, leading him in the opposite direc tion. . Joe Dillon now added to the man- aging editor's troubles by again com- ing into the office. "Thank you, Mr. Brand," he began. "Could you spare me a little car fare?" Brand tossed him a quarter. "Never mind now," he sald. "Say, Joe, go out with that cub tonight, It will give you something to think about, and you can show him as much fn & night as be'd learn in a month alone. Mr. Dil lon, allow me to The old newspaper man indignantly refused the money which young Nolan Beld out to him and plunged out of the office, A The poet stood a mute witness to the proceedings. "Go after him!" commanded Brand. "Thadk you, sir," and Powell darted frightenedly after, Dillon. "Who 1s that old joker?" asked Syl vester of the editor. "He was the best reporter that the Advance 'ever had." "What's the matter with bim? *Booge." "Too bad! Well, a fellow ought to learn to control himself," remarked Sylvester pompously. "Now, Brandy, old boy, I want to ask you just ove tore favor tonight, in reference to a little actress friend of mine, Miss Gueneviere McKenzie." "Oh--come~don't"-- "Run her "picture in a prominent lace, won't you?" Sylvester handed rand a photo. iss Gumeneviere Ae- Kenzie. Don't you\koow her? She's fo the second row at the Tyroll, and t's a darn shame. I've got a libretto for her later on. Can't you help her out and get her a small part.now?" "Pm afraid that is bardiy in my line." \ "You'd be doing a favor to. the show, for she's good enough to be a prima donna. She's been kept back by jealousy, Told me so herself. When will you have it in--tomorrow ?" "1 scarcely think we can do that sort of thing in the Advance. 'We don't print pictures of chorus sgirls unless there's some good story about them--lost jewels, barred from a ho- tel on account of a dog, divorce or'-- .. Bylvester broke in relievedly, "Ob, she's been divorced!" "Has she! When?" "Last year." : "That's dead. Wait till her next She doesn't go in." "Why--why--won't you do it?" stam- wered the young man, who, deeply ap- preciating the fact that be was his father's son--yes, indeed--failed to com- prebend how any employeefsn the Ad- vance could refuse bim anything "She's tbe cutest little girl you ever saw, you old gazoot. Xou stick to me, and I'll give you an ¢rest in this paper some day. Why, she was in"-- ! "That all may be," responded Brand, rising to end the conversa- tion, "but the Ad- vance doesn't is- sue passes to the stage entrance." Sylvester's jaw fell in his aston- ishment at this unexpected blow, and after a mo ment, after vain ly endeavoring to He inserted the point find appropriate of the lead pencil. words for a reply; he went out of-the room. Brand was impatient because of the precious time that had been wasted. He had work to do and Httle time In which to do it, and it was the most important work be had ever dope in bis life. He sent the office boy to bring tne two reporters, Howard and Jeff. Speaking to Miss Stowe, the "'central" of the Advance's private telephone sys tem, he said: "Do not put anybody else on this wire until you bear from .me, no matter how long it takes. Under- stand? Connect this phone with edi torial room 4 and have it connected until I tell you. Now be sure about this, Understand? Again he repeated, as it concerned the success of his en- tire scheme, "Don't break the connec- tion until I tell yon myself." The two reporters came in, | "Now, boys, understand what I want you to do. You've got to take, word for word, a conversation I'm going to have here. Go in room 4. You, Jeff, take the receiver." "Yes, sir," + "And youn, Howard, take the exten- sion. Thus you will each hear what is said. Keep it glued to your best ear and take down every word you hear tonight between Judge Bartelmy and me. The judge will sit in the chair at the right of my desk. I will be in my own chair. The telephone will thus be midway between us. Whatever words he and 1 say will be said almost direct. ly over the mouthpiece of the phone. Now, you see what I am going to do"-- Brand took a lead pencil from his pocket and began a proceeding which the two reporters, accustomed as they were in their business to Ingenious strategy, failed at first to understand. Then the scheme dawned on them. Brand took the telephone receiver from the hook, and the metal arm immed! ately snapped upward, establishing the connection. Then he inserted the point of the lead pencil in the small aperture under the little metal arm or hook and Oeliberately broke it off. The tiny wedge thus beld up the hook. Brand now hung up the receiver, and the pen- 3, SATURDAY JULY 25, 1014. rE his auto northward. "Is that your 'opinion? J "No, not entirely. Hence and here after we complain of such a miracu- lous egotistu of generality and sole- cism of peaceful garments and cold thought" Brand struck a blow on the desk. "On the contrary, it was unquestion- able and with pasty justice, miscalled "One can never be too careful-about mat ters of this kind." pamby-pamby--got .it?' eried the itor, bending over the mouthpiece. "Come in, Howard!" \ Howard hurried into the room. ; "Compare your notes, boys," 'in- structed the managing editor, They held the records side by side and quickly glanced over them. "They are almost exactly the same," they exclaimed in unison. A smile of satisfaction spreadjover Brand's face. "All right. Now chase back totroom 4, both of you!" The office boy brought Brand ajcard. He took it, and as he glanced at!it his eyes narrowed down into little sparks of light. ? "He's on time," he murmured. "Very well, Durkin," he ordered, "show him in, and, Durkin, remember, don't let any one else in under any circum stances." 2 A half gininate later Judge Bantelmy stood>in the doorway. He nodded briefly to Brand, and his eyes swept around the entire room before hesstep ped in. Slowly be proceeded inifront of Brand's desk. "Good evening, judge," said:theped- itor, "Good evening, Mr. Brand." ie them up," offered Brand. Just as/Du- puy had been, Bartelmy was in ewen- ing dress. He took off his white kid gloves and put them in his pocketiand then handed his hat and coat to the editor, Brand opened the door of a closet at the right band side of the room and hung the judge's things therein. He closed the door. Bartel my stepped to the closet, opened the door and peered sharply into its four corners, even fumbling behind his dong coat, to make sure that no witnessswas lurking there to spy on him, "Oh, that's the way you feel!" com- mented Brand. "I'll show you over the place, But you shouldn't worry." Bartelmy coughed nervously. "One can never be too careful about matters of this kind, Brand. I should think that you would have learned that much by this time." "This 1s my first experience of this kind," said Brand. "Of course it is," answered Bartel my, with a tinge of sarcasm in bis voice. "It Always is 'the first time. But you are assuredly very lueky in- deed, Brand, to do so very well at your first try at--at"-- 4 "Come, look over the place, and let's get through with it," put in the editor. He crossed and locked the door through which the judge had entered. Then he led his visitor over to the door on thd opposite side of the rpom opening into a hallway which extend- ed to various rooms. He pointed to the room directly across the hall. "It's quite dark, you see," he said. "This is where a couple of editorial writers sit. They go home nights, lucky dogs, not being newspaper men," Bartelmy was quick enough to catch the iromieal comment of the busy managing editor on the scholarly men who wrote the opinions of the paper. Brand drew the judge back into his office and lock- ed the door behind him. "Now we are alone, absolutely alone," commented Brand significant ly. He led the way to his desk and pointed out to the judge the chair. at the right b side. Brand dropped into his chair. "Have a seat, judge," be Judge y drew the chair in- dicated even closer to the editor's desk and seated himself in it. He leaned forward toward Brand and rested his elbow on the desk. His face was within ten or twelve inches of the telephone. (To Be Continued.) / . "The frankness with which a seven- hen-year-old girl says she's an old maid is only exceeded by the frank | a ' "Let me take your things. I'll hang} Motorcycle Tire Questions Men Ask These : Time has taught men the things to seek in motorcycle tires. Seasoned riders now ask these motorcycle tire questions: What is the make ?--What men ride them ?--What is their record ? What is the factor of durability and safety ? Goodyear Motorcycle Ti every problem of right buying for these mea. These are the tires which in four years ' hav: Three of every four of this year's motor. cycles are Goodyear equipped. And these are the tires that hold every worjd's record for 8 et marily ~ » v ,. Before such popu- larity must come achievement. 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