Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-07-02

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| gum that the Consolidated puts up
against the public as just as good az
that my ancestors made famous.
| see"
For heavens sake, shut up! You'll
see snakes II this keeps on. That lem
onade that Mrs. Spotswood gave you
has gone to your empty head"
1T was not the lemonade that Mrs
Spotswood gave me, 1t was the touch
ing line of talk that-er-that Josie
Richards gave me-" He paused while
Wallace waited with his jaw loose
on its hinges. Say. Bob. Isn't she q
queen?"
so that's itf~
But he made no further protests. He
was level-headed youth, was this
| young advertising man. He knew as
well as anyone that If the trust feared
and wished to purchase the Jones
gum 1t could be but because the trust
knew that the Jones gum was dam
| gerous competitor. II, managed as 1t
had been, unadvertised. 1t had been a
dangerous competitor to the trust,
then 1t was worth having -emphatical-
ly worth keeping.
And some day Broadway must do
something. He could not forever play
the idler on the Great White Way,
even II his millions we're unnumbered
II was no life for an actual man, and
Dob was cure that hidden somewhere
In his friend were the true elements
of worthy manhood. Nothing had 90
curre0 to bring them out, that was all.
He thocSht they might be coming now.
Reaching the hotel, they found the
place In utter darkness. Not a light,
even turned down for the night, was
visible at any window; not sound of
life came from the building save q
rhythmic cadence of some sleeper soft
ly saving wood with dull saw.
THE clerks asleep" said Bob.
How do you know that Is the
clerkw asked Broadway, listening crit.
ically to the snore.
II heard him singing when I FIRST
got here, and now I recognize the
voice. He held the tune a little bet.
ter, then, that's ALL"
Have we got to wake him up?"
Sure! Why, It's after eleven
o'clock"
Nothing but the thought Of Josie
Richards eyes could have kept Broad
way at that instant from casting all
his worthy resolutions to the winds,
selling to the trust and searching out
Bible upon which to swear that he
never again would set foot In Jones
vile. But he did remember Josie's
eyes. and SO began to hammer on the
door.
After a quarter of an hour of steady
hammering. some shouting and little
whistling, he was rewarded by q sleepy
and ill-tempered voice from a slowly
opened window.
Heavens! Was his window closed!
And yet that snore got out to us!"
1T sawed its way out" Bob suggest.
ed.
We'll, what ye want!" the angry
| voice inquired
Want to get In"
"At this time the night,"
/ SS" ~ % always hiBht ucluhc VIC
ever want to 60 to bed"
We'll, the Grand hotel, It don't think
much of folks that stays out all night
long. Ill tell you that" the clerk ex-
claimed. as he came down in bright
red fannels land not much OF that) to
let them in.
"All night longl"
Amt 1t quarter after 'leven?"
After telephoning Rankin (much to
the clerks disgust) to hurry to Con-
necticut by the first train In the morn
ing. with well-packed bags. the two
friends crept upstairs. abashed.
| The clerk scorned such a mental
service as attending them. and, in the
excitement left from the rebuke he had
received. Wallace stumbled into the
wrong room. All doors were partly
open. for the night was warm. and no
one feared the midnight interloper
there in innocent and simple Jones
vile.
Fortunately the moonlight fell upon
the bed, and warned him, otherwise
there might have been a scandal In
Gum Village, In which case the com.
plainant Che felt certain from that hur.
ried glimpse) would have been syiph
of close upon two hundred and nfty
pounds.
| CTo BE coNTINUED)