The Alaska citizen., 1910-11-21

tiou the old Stolte gang will have their feet right back in the trough rCs. This k the way figure the dope They've fTameI il up to lump the RrIEhtliEht Electric, and you're the fall ggy. So wear pads in your derby, because 1he first thing you know the hamrner's going to drop on your coco"
 How do you find out so much. DiU." returned Bobby. smiling.
 By sleeping seven hours day in place of tWeuty.four If some If the marks know would only .aueh up f1r good reliable alarm clock they'd tc better off"
 Meaning me of course" said Bobby For tha. I'll have to man handle you a little Where's your gloves"
 For fifteen minutes they punched away at each other with soft gloves gs dctormineGly and as energetical- ly as if they were deadly enemies. and then Bobby went back to his own office He found Apperod jub- liant and Johnson glum. Already Applcrod heard himself saving to his old neigh5ors. As Frank l.. Sharpe said to me this morning" or: T told Sharpe -." or: Say, Sam Stone stopped at my desk yesterday
 - and already he began to shine by this reelected glory.
 T heard that you have decided to 20 into the Rrightlight Electric" he observed.
 signed the papers this morning" admitted Bobby.
 "Al)0w me to congratulate you, sir said Applerod, but Johnson sil- eurlv produced from an indeXed case .l plain. gray envelope, which he handed to Bobby
 T. was inscribed.
 TO MY SON UPON HIS PUTTING
 GOOD MONEY INTO ANY PUB
 EIC SERVICE CORPORATION. and it read.
 When the manipulatOTs of pub
 lie service corporations tire of
 elliunirg the dear public in bulk.
 they skin individual specimens
 just to keep in practice If you
 have tecn fool enough to get
 into the crowd that invokes the
 aid of dirty politics to help 1t
 hang the people on street-car straps. just write them out
 check for whatever money you have left and tell your trustee
 you are broke again; because you
 arc n1t and never can be of
 their stripe and if you are not
 If their stripe they will pick
 -aUr bones Turn canary loose
 in a colony of street sparrows
 and watch what happens 10 it.
 Bobby folded the letter grimly and went into his private room, where he thought long and soberly. That evening he went out to Sharpes to dinner. As he was abou. 10 ring the bell he stopped, confronted by most unusual spec taclo. Through the long plate-glass 5f the door he could see clearly back through the hall into the Ii. brary and there stood Mrs. Sharpe and William Garland in a tableau that wo1l3 have given Plato the pip" as BiG Bates might have eX- pressed it had he known about Plato At that moment Sharpe came silently down the stairs and turned unOhs erved. toward the li- hrary. Seeing that his wife and Gar land Nore so pleasantly engaged he ''hF Dl.~I Iit'I Il - Iltl iltk4 IIilp tiN 'raWiuc-room instead. and as he en- tered the drawingroom he lii a cig arette, Bobby, voWing angrily that there could never be room in the Brifhtlisht for both Sharpe and himself did rot ring the bell. h. 'ead, he dropped in at the first pub lio telephone and phoned his re- grers
 "By inc way" ha added how soon will you need me again?'
 "Not for week, ct least' Sharpe replied.
 ''Very well. then" said Bobby; "Tn tc back a week from today"
 Immediately upon his arrival down. town he tcleGraphed the joyous news 10 Jack Starlett, in Washington, 10 prepare for his coming
 Gro be continucdD