i TUESDAY, DEC. 27, 102% A Disastrous Deal in Jumbo Iron By R. RAY BAKER. ©, 1921, by MeCl "Fhe ticker tape had overflown the 'waste basket in Claude Winters' office and a liberal supply lay curled on the floor, while short bits reposed here and there about the room. ~ One piece was held taut in Claude's fingers, as he sat at a uesk by a win- dow, Seven stories down the city roared and clattered, but the young Stock broker heard none of the tu. mult. He bent over the desk, his elbows resting on If, his gaze trans- fixed on the tape 'before him. "Lost," he muttered. It was not '8S groan, for Claude was not the groaning kind, He had stamipa, al- though the supply was being over- fazed at present. "Lost--a clean Sweep. Only one possible way to re- trieve, and that's to throw af least $200,000 into the whirlpool that sucked down my half-million. But where's it fo come from? I haven't more than 85,000 left, and that wouldn't affect Jumbo iron one jot. No, what 1 need 2 38°n whole lot of money ip quick time. Fl pot give up. Two hundred thou- Sand will bring back the five hundred thousand; there's no doubt of it. But where'll I get it? = He rose, dropped the piece of tape, and ground it between a heel and the office rug. Crossing to the telephone he csi®d up various bank officials, #ne after the other, No satisfaction, 'Money was "tight," and besides, it was the big banking interests largely that had brought about his downfall, He was disappointed but not sur- prised. Claude returned to his desk, But not to his attitude of dejection. His mind was busy seeking the signpost of a highway that would lead him out of the forest of "frenzied finance." Six years ago Claude had come to the city with-a comparatively few dol. lars, and acceptance of a lowly posi- tion in a brokerage office. had proved ® lucky step. He made a favorable Impression with the broker and was ' 'educated in the finesse of playing Stocks. / Finally he was made a part. ner; shortly after that the broker died and Claude became sole owner of the business. Fortune leaned on his side and money rolled in. Everything he touched responded as objects respond- ed to the golden touch of Midas, as told in mythology--uptil he tried Jum. bo iron. Then came the crash. All this time he had neglected the . old home on the farm. On this farm he had been born and raised to young manhood. Gn the adjoining eighty acres had lived Allee Hall, pretty * davghter of a farmer, and with her Claude experienced his first affair of the heart. He had loved her des- perately--he "had thought, Then his parents had died, one shortly after the other, and having a patural-born dislike for farming, he had gone to the city. "I'll come back for you some day," he had told Alice, but after writing once. or twice be had forgotten her, A member of his office force had a ed to the payments of taxes on the old farm, but that was ~ Mis only remaining connection with . the environment of bis boyhood, Now 28 he sat at his desk seeking & way out of his dilemna the picture of a girl arose in his mind--a beaut!- ful girl, But it was not Alice. Her name was Hortense Molton, and she was the daughter of Ruthford Molton, 8 power in the financial world. She had a million 18 her own right, and she was fond of Claude. He had mef"| her at a social function and they had liked each other. Somehow he had felt she would marry him if he asked her, but he had never reilly courted her, although he had taken her around "She's the solution," he brain for Ih 1 omed toward him, wiping a hand [a8 it T might--" Apparently the gil was too grossed In her work™ to take heed bis pleasantly voiced inquiry. Ho repeated the question, and she m- of across her face that left a blaé¢k streak there. J "Well," she sald slowly, "it looks She stopped talking and gazed at him in a daze. "You're--~you're Claude Winters!" she managed to stammer. It was so like ap accusation that be felt guilty, without 'having the slightest jdea why. He peered at her intently. The Black mark disfigured her countenance, but suddenly her identity dawned on him. "And you're Alice: Hall?" he ex- claimed, and forthwith switched off the ignition of his motor and left his machine. They shook hands with a good deal of restraint, . "You're--you're still here, I take it," he observed inanely. "AS you mee," she retorted some what pointedly. "I~1 just thought I'd drop in at the old place and see how it looks," he went on. "I happened to be coming this way, you see." "About time," she sighed. "And you won't see much to please your eye. The old home ig buried under a growth of weeds. It's been sadly neglected-- Just like some other things." She em- phasized the word "some." Claude was feeling contrite. In ad- dition, he had a strange sensation about the heart. This try gin had grown more pesmi ioe he went away. He had loved her once, and 'the city had made him fi Now he was away from the, city, and the old feeling appeared to be creep- ing over him. And it unpleasant sensation, either. . "Your father," he asked, "He Is well "He died a year ago," she replied simply, dangling the wrench in a smudgy hand. "I'm farmeretting." % "You're what?' Clande inquired. "Farmerettinpg. I'm a farmerette. I'm working our old farm and getting along pretty well, too; but it's terri- bly hard work, I can tell you." "Let's see what's the trouble," he suggested, and looked Into the hood, "Timer wire is loose," he sald present. 1¥. "Have you some pliers?. Thanks: now it's all right, I think. Where are you bound?" "Home," said Alice. "Good. 'Tl straggle alohg behind." "Afraid you wouldn't know the way, 1 suppose," she sald pointedly. During the féur-mile ramble Claude did a deal of thinking. Hortense and his mission were forgotten. His finan. clal worries had faded, Things seemed good In the country, He had never liked farming, but he belleved he would enjoy it now. Hard manial la. bor was what he needed. Let the half million go; he could get along without" it, When 'the flivver ahead came to a stop he had made up his mind. He and the girl stood and looked at two farms, one of them flourishing, the other goné to ruins. "Let's make these two farms Into one," he suggested. "Do you remem. ber once I sald I'd come back for you? I've neglected you, I know, but I've returned. What do you say? Wul you have me?' She hung her head. "Pm still here, you see," she replied finally. "I took you at your word and F've been waiting." New Flying Target. A pew kind of flying target has heen patented by Alexander McMillan of Princeton, N. J. 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