Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-16

"Can t YOU borrow 2" asked Bobby.
:" Borrow nothing!' said Radbourn. I'D like to
know where2''
Il II tell you what - said Warner, why don t you
get some publisher to back you2'
"Oh, yes, > laughed Radbourn; publishers are
Just yearnug to back up unknown authors. You
might as well say get up stock company and sell
shares in myself. -
''Wel, why not2'' asked Bobby. Great scheme
in these days. Put yourself in the hands of pro-
moter and in month he d have you rolling in wealth
and you d be listed the exchange. Look nice,
wouldn t it, Great boom in Radbourn. Advance IL
points on rumor that the Gotham had bought his
latest story. "
''Oh rot!' said Radbourn; ''you make me so
tired Bobby, that | can t write any tonight.
Where did you say you going to play tonight
I'm my room, - said Warner; come down. Miss
German is coming down. and We half dozen bottles
of sarsaparila something put ON the window sill
When Radbourn returned to his room it after
twelve but he sat his bed to smoke last pipe,
and with the ready brain of an author of humorous
stories he evolved the idea Bobby Mathew had sug
gested A writer, stock company to back him, the
booming of the stock perhaps panic. He would
write it the next morning. He even took sheet of
paper and cast about for title; there is much in
a good title. 1.-The Corner in j. a. L., y he wrote,
and then tore the paper in two. After ALL he would
not write it. The idea not bad, but it did not
seem sufficiently humorous, and he could not see how
he could work love passage into it, and love pas
sage of Radbourn' s strong points, so he
threw his shoes into a corner and went to bed.
The next day he computed his weekly expenses, and
brought the figures down to the lowest amount at
which he could live and he decided he must beg bor
row or steal two hundred dollars and cut Brown &
Jones' and again Bobby Mathew S suggestion came to
him. Why not? If the fellows would give him only
$40 apiece the five of them it would put him his
feet And it need not all be paid at If he had
$40 a week he could squeeze along Any of them
could afford that
When he put the plan before them that night they
jumped at it. At first quite naturally, they thought
Radbourn was joking, but when he insisted he in
earnest the thing went with rush, and Bobby Mahew
drew up the papers at once
They called it the Thomas Rawson Radbourn Com
pany, and made Bobby president, and Warner Boggs
and ''Wooy' Simpson directors Young Williams
was unanimously elected secretary and treasurer be-
cause, as Bobby Mahew said he too young to
steal. In the articles of incorporation Rabourn was
1.-the factory and he bound to write all he
could and the best stuff he could
Subscriptions to the stock payable weekly, So
week each for twenty weeks, and in return they
to receive onehalf of all Radbourn s earnings for
two years. And jolly good thing we IL make out
of it. too,' said Bobby Mahew, "unless the factory
burns gets lazy, and if he does, are gone up
''Oh, you needn t be a bit afraid of losing, said
Radbourn. ''Youu all be milonares before two
years are up. m not doing this for you fellows
l IN doing it for myself and IN gong to crowd
things"
Radbourn did he promised lie wrote every day
except Sunday and he wrote some first rate stories
and they met with a ready