The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02

have done the trick at just about half past III tonight
if he hadn't told me. 1 owe him grudge that
Tinfeld affair and so do you We get chance to
save decent girl from scamp, too. and maybe her
brother isn't grateful
THE CASE OF JIMMY HOPE
Robert Carter was aware OF little quiver of
excitement as the voice was drowned in glass to
the accompaniment of chucIles from the other.
Jimmy Hope, the spendthrift broken in fortune and
utterly blown upon, that his fine old remained
his only claim to social recognition was about to
retrieve all by wedding, elopement Here was
inside information of rare kind. But who the
girl1 The cautious conversation resumed and
he listened eagerly.
"Hot luck for Jimmy. Perhaps he get that
album with the thousand chorus girl autographs out
of hook now, and the por;eres made of champagne
corks that he earned in a week There ought to be
loud rejoicing on the trail when he squares up his
debts" Thus the callow youth.
"But you don't get the idea He's not going to
get away with it She lacks a week of being l8
and she'll have about 100000 from her mothers
estate Do you think we could stand to that go
to Jimmy Hope? Wake UP, man, we're going to
head him of"
Huh that's easy enough. Why don't you go to
old Woodbine himself He'd stop it quick enough"
What feather head you arei OF course he
would But we're going to let them get just far
enough to compromise her, don't you see? Her
brother made the plan. He knows that if they took
her off to Newport or locked her up she'd dream
about Jimmy and think a, hundred times more Of
him. And when she OF age she'd just galli-
want off with him anyhow You know what her
brother always used to say about at college -
The words sank to sibiants Carter, tense to catch
the drift feared that after all vital part OF the
affair was escaping him. Finally he heard:
She's got some sense and she'll see there's only
one way to set herself right Are you friend enough
of mine to stand with u.s."
"You bet I am Count me-, said the calow
one, and the two, somewhat unsteady their legs,
but still quite able take of themselves, set
tied their score and hurried into the corridor.
1t had come-that chance. Carter felt tingling
flush upon his face he gathered the significance
of this thing and set it up before him. The girl
was Miss Woodbne. daughter of the great railroad
king He knew the imposing gray stone house, with
its naughty almost fortressike fence the Fifth
avenue corner He pictured that stern, hard man
and the gratitude he would show to the person who
should warn him of the impending alliance with the
notorious Jimmy Hope For moment he considered
that move then rejected 1t utterly. There was a
better way.
He glanced at the c1ock-a quarter to g. The
young fellow had said that Hope planned 20 be mar
ried in Hoboken at half past 10. He paid his bill
and made for the street buttoning his thin evening
coat about him 1t was raw and foggy and damp,
with the bite of late February.
He formed the germ of plan as he strobe up the
avenue but he saw that he would have to seize the
situation as it was presented, since he had little
more than an inkling of the plans of the conspra-
tors One decision he had made already, and that
was to help Jimmy Hope 1t might not be happy
marriage, perhaps, but here the opportunity to
obtain powerful friend in making himself the fac
tor which would render the marriage possible He
could not have wished better than Hope to
acquire hold upon For the rest, worse than