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"We shall require six certified checks in payment," he stated: "25 per cent each to Mr. Jessup and myself, 24 per cent to Talbot Curtis, 24 per cent to Emily Curtis, 1 per cent to Mary Curtis, 1 per cent to Lucy Curtis," and grandma laughed softly as he named her

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"Assign your stock certificates!" snapped Henry, pén in hand, and he made no move to sign checks until he saw certificates for transfer.

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his signature to the transfer space on the uppermost certificate, and it was his own, as it happened, the stock of the natural leader and commander of his company; and he drew his breath in deeply.

This was the moment in which he was to exercise that power he had gained, to enrich himself and his friends, and to break his enemies! He smiled

as he removed the cap of his fountain pen to the other end. After all, he'd have to give credit for most of this victory to his highly astute father, of whom he was not an unworthy follower, and suddenly he paused.

There is in every man a certain percentage of goodness and a certain percentage of badness, and when the crucial moment comes, the crucial moment, it is the greater percentage which wins. Through the veins of Jimmy Wallingford there coursed a certain amount of blood, and through his brain a certain amount of thought, and through his heart a certain amount of impulse, all of which were shrewd, tricky, dishonest; and through veins and mind and heart there was a certain other percentage which came from a source which was all honest, all pure, all clean; and as a crystal dropped into murky water clears it from the top downward, so, just as quietly and just as magically, that which was clear and pure and clean in Jimmy Wallingford rose to the surface and settled the sediment down, far down. The blur which had seemed to come on the paper before him, a misty blur, cleared, and out of it a countenance formed, a countenance serene, smiling tenderly with moist eyesJimmy's mother! The blur on the paper? It was in his own eyes. blinked it away as he laid down his pen, aware that they were all looking at him, waiting breathlessly for that first signature which would begin the consummation of the deal, wondering why he hesitated.

"I have decided not to accept the proposition," he said quietly, and now he moistened his lips; he did not lick them. He was relinquishing his revenge; but out of the blank silence which followed there came a harsh voice, a strongly harsh voice. "Why not?" It was Ma Curtis, and whatever pretense or pose that woman had affected was gone. She was intensely in earnest.

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my own name, all of it, Tal, yours and mine both!"

It came upon Jimmy that he was going far to make his conscience serve for the consciences of all these others, but he saw very clearly now that what is right is right because it is right, and that the way of righteousness is often a thankless way, to be followed for its own sake, and for no expectance of thanks whatsoever; but while Jimmy was reaching this conclusion, Henry Beegoode suddenly leaned forward, all beak and talons.

"Tell you what I'll do. I'll buy the Curtis stock! It's 50 per cent of the total company, and the hundred and

and now there was sadness in the gaze he bent down at grandma.

"Oh, tut-tut, don't worry," she returned brightly. "We've always lived, and we always will. And I'm so happy about you, Jimmy, that I don't mind about anything else. They've been saying that you weren't honest, but they'd better not say it to me any more!" She reached up with her two old hands and clasped him by the head, and drew him down and kissed him tremulously with a kiss that was as soft as rose petals in the warm sun. "Now let me in, Jimmy. Quick. I'll keep your secret, never fear. But I want to settle this."

HE door was pulled violently open

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HERE was some good blood Jimmy had from his father, some good wit from his brain, some good pluck from his heart, and all these qualities had another good quality from his father; they worked instantaneously! Turning, he found the bright eyes of Grandma Curtis fixed on him in wonder and in faith; and in that instant he knew what to do. He made an imperceptible sign to grandma, and she understood as if it were youth speaking to youth; so when he rose abruptly and walked to the door, grandma was after him and with him before anyone knew what was happening-then they were outside the door, and it was locked, and somebody was pounding on the door from the other side.

"What is it, Jimmy?" asked grandma, all aquiver with excitement.

He took both her hands in his and looked down into her bright old eyes. "Grandma, can you keep a secret?"

"Lord bless you, my boy, I'm seventyfour years old, and I know so many things that nobody else has ever found out that sometimes I just sit by myself and laugh about it."

Jimmy smiled, then turned very grave. "Suppose I were to tell you that there is no more oil in that well?" "Oh, you don't say!" and her face fell. "Isn't there, Jimmy?"

"Not another drop. So the question is just this. Knowing that the thing is a cheat, and dishonest, would you want to sell your stock-to anyone?" "No, no! Oh, my, no!"

"I can't tell you how sorry I am!"

and Ma Curtis, Doc Beegoode and Henry and Ebeneezer Terwixter were there and surrounding the conspirators and demanding the meaning of all this; but out of the mêlée came a voice quavering but clear.

"I'm voting my stock with Jimmy!"

It was the mistress of the situation who had spoken. Once grandma had made up her definite mind to anything, there was no power on earth or in the surrounding ether which could change

her.

"Well, you see how it is, Mr. Beegoode," said ma. "The rest of us will sell you our stock."

"Forty-nine per cent!" shouted Henry Beegoode. "Not by a dog-gone sight! With 51 per cent in the control of this smart young swindler?"

"That's enough of that!" blurted Toad, rising in his chair and shaking a warning finger at Henry Beegoode. A hand was on Toad's shoulder instantly; Doc Beegoode's. Almost as instantly a hand was on Doc Beegoode's shoulder. It was Jimmy Wallingford's hand, and Jimmy mashed Doc back against the wall with a thud. Here at least he need have no restraint of impulse, although the presence of three ladies put restraint on his action. All he did was to shove his face in front of Doc's, and let Doc quail at the passionate rage which blazed in his eyes, which curled his lip, which distended his nostrils, and which set the muscles of his jaw into knots; then he turned on his heel and walked out, followed by the stolid Toad. (To be concluded)

starts to come in they began singing "Here's Comes the Bride."

"You got the wrong key," I said. "It's only the bride's groom. The bride tripped on her veil and missed the boat."

Speak about throwing a monkey wrench into a knitting machine! Well, no one said a word. Then old Woody Cowan steps up and hands me a yellow envelope. I tore it open and took out this yellow uppercut:

I love you a lot old dove but not enough to sit on the nest while you fly around the world bone voyage. MARY.

Well, I come up for air about the ninth count and then I thought I might as well be cheerful as not, so I said:

"Call the hearse and make it a funeral; we haven't got any bride."

Two or three of the fellows came up then very solemn and shook hands and said they were awful sorry. I flicked a drop or two of the old salt out of my eyes, and I was getting ready for somebody to say the last rites.

"Maybe it's all for the best after all," Bill said, shaking his head.

"It's sure an awful sudden blow," Jack O'Donnell sticks in his oar. "There ain't much a fellow can say that helps."

"Watcha mean, nothing much, say?" said old Charley Hopkins. Charley had his headlights all turned on. "'Scuse me, but didja say ya aint gotta get married nor nothin' at all? Zat watcha said?"

I didn't feel like putting up any explanation, so I just nodded back.

"And ya don't havta get hitched," he said again.

"No, Charley, she won't do it," I said back.

Well, that old sea gull let out a laugh you could have heard clean out to Gary, Indiana.

"She won't do it? She won't do it? Listen, young feller-I done it three times. Boy, you'll never know what plain luck is-you jest never'll know. Wow! Wham! Now we can have something really t' celebrate about."

And with that this old raven pulls out a quart of juice that you could melt diamonds in and an hour later we were trading the black Pullman bag with the set of tools for two short-weight botties of eye wash.

There isn't any use, Larry, telling you what the rest of the acts in this drama were.

Along toward the last curtain I thought I was a Pavlowa or something and tried to do a spring dance without my crutches. It hurt, but I wouldn't have let out much of a squawk if the Woolworth Tower had fallen on me. This Lake Michigan they put in the hooch here has got more power than the Croton Dam they use n New York. The boat don't sail till Tuesday, but I'm going on board right now.

LIGHTNING.

P. S.-I forgot to tell you that the last I saw of the wedding ring two of the Chink hash slingers were playing Chinese fan-tan for it.

Lightning and the Famlikar invade Tokyo in an early issue.