Arizona republican., 1911-12-02

bookkeeping department had come |,
 him with an important detail and
 when he had begun the special work
 selected for him. he had not under | stood it. His company was larg. ! one. Its president was Maurice Mus 1 cheim. There were vice-presidents
 secretaries, boards of directors, audit
 ing experts, annual meetings and treas urerS reports. An annual meeting of the directing board was at hand and | among other things expected was a yearly report. Accurately shown, the report would have made it apparent that Mir. Muscheim had taken the company's money and had lost it in a silver mine in Arizona. Instead of having a nine-thousand-dollar balance, the company was ninety thousand to the south of nothing. and in order to avoid irritating an anxious board. NIT.
 Muscheim had spoken to Craig. Craig was the head bookkeeper.
 "T can put Nawn on the books y Craig remarked. Hes wizard with stub pen"
 bO II. Sdlu EhuStuCiu. iOu w been bleeding me for six years and this will simply add to your assets. If I can get years leeway. l can pull the thing through
 Billy Nawn tackled the job immedi- ately. It dawned upon him after three days work that what he was doing wore nO halo.
 What's the diffnrence?" he mur- mured. ''rhey're trying To sting him and he's succeeded in stingng them. Apparently he owns all the bees there are
 Then came six weeks of the kind of work that brings the black lines under q mans eyes and the hollows i'll his cheeks. Night after night. Billy came home to the boarding-hOuse. pale and shaky. When he began to tip the tea out of his cup as he raised it to his lips, Mrs. Flynn made comment.
 You're workin' too hard, me boy" she said with motherly solicitude. They'll be putin crape on the left arms of yer family if yuh keep at it..
 .'I guess I can stand it." he replied. "We're working under forced draught at the office, but it's only temporary
 He fought with trial balances. credit ratings. pills payable. rebates and dis counts. reserve funds, current llabilI- ties. cash balances and outstanding liG- bilities until the universe took on the appearance of a vast ledger. He found himself walking up Fifth Avenue and mentally jOtting down the pedestrians as assets or liabilities. The lighted windows of the Metropolitan tower be came rows of figures which he StrOve 10 add and once in q while he grinn1d as he thought of it all.
 "I'm sapplng all the juice out of my poor little mind for what? For twea- weight dollars q week and a man I've never laid eyes on. He dimes at Ders on terrapn and wine and l cut into the gOulash a Ia Flynn. He knows that somebody is working twelve hours a day to fix up q phoney set of papers and save him from jail when the board of directors gets together. All he wants is a fake summary of years work and he don't care the price of shine whether I bust up my mental cog-wheeis. as long as l do it. Oh. well. I'll be a sport, if l only last minute.
 Billy finished at four o'clock WedneS- day afternoon. He folded the heavy papers into blue envelope and thrust 1t into his coat.
 'I'm going out and take walk" he said to Craig. ''I may not return this afternoon. but the job is done. It won't take twenty minutes to tran scribe to the books and I'd like to make final examination of every thing before doing so. If l don't get back this afternoon. I'll be in early in the morning. What time does this board meeting OccurT
 Noon replied Craig. "You know what it means unless everything is lovely by that time"
 Billy grinned.
 ''I know. all right. And right after Mir. Muscheim is reelected president cf this white sepulchre. I'm going to stick in small bid for more salary"
 You'll get it. if my word goes" said Craig, and l think it goes
 At dinner Billy acted oddly. At niae. he climbed up four flights and i,ii himself upon the bed. Forthwith he began the serious business of exam ming the inside of his head and the next morning found him in Madison Square park under the suspicious eye of the newsy.
 He walked north on Fifth Ayelue. The steady surge all round him sOothed his jingling nerves. People glanced at him half-pityingly. He clenched his jaws together ana trie,; to stave off the recurring attacks of shakes At Twenty-eighth Street. he saw an opening in the line of vehicles and it occurred to him that the oppo- site side of the avenue possessed many advantages. He stepped from the side walk, lodged husting taxicab. crossed the open space in the center and leaped for the west curb. A liv- cried chauffeur yelled. the traffic po- liceman bawled at him hoarsely. The radiator of big torring ear came suC- denly before his dizzy eyes and struck him in the chest. Billy Nawn crtln- pied up like wetted paper and dropped to the asphalt.
 When be opened his eyes he was Sit ting on the curbing with his ba,x against a lamp pole. The traffic l'o- lceman was holding his hand and somebody with pointed beard was pouring scorching drink down his AL. t.a1 sstf .ty him