Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-03

T had ;i li"ili to knoM tIis, lndi@
 rantly declared Mir SraIop. Why didn't you tell me-"
 "BerH,ISc you'd have kiddrd him to | death.' Wallingford answered for him "I suppose your new models are Ilp at the house. Mir. Bang; If Mir Sfalop 1 will let you off I'll go up there with you and look at them :" "Of course he can go" said MT. Seal. Top hastily "l'll go along In Ed Bangs woodshcd they inspect | ed the crude coils and bars which form l ed Mir. Bangs latest model of his sun engine. and Pete ScAIlup booked col'lly I upon the dynaInoIlcter which present. l iy registered it's cortficient of power in | the early winter sunlight. l. "I don't sec where yOu've made any 1 Improvement" he criticised with much | dissatisfaction. 1t was heater look l ing machine the last time slW it, and l it ran d bicycle wheel.' Wallih"for;l ch,lrkled. closing his l eyes and hc;lving his big shoulders | "'rhat was one of my stock selling
 tricks" he confessed 'rhat wheel was so dclicately balanced that we
 bad to keep srlats off the rim for fear they might start it spinning backward 1 Moreover. 1 hatiened the steel Spokes | of that bicycle wheel and set them dl 1 :4oIEIlly so that the wind would 1 help it."
 1 a'"Nou heu him. Yenticinen!" cried
 Mir Scallop, clutchillS at his teeth ''Ile adults that he tricked uS.'
 Was clever wasn't itT agreed Wal
 ftngforl, I'ausing to admire himself. "Look at tIlis dynamometer, though, Mir. Scallop. The machine is the same 1 size. and that little needle is more than | four times as far around the dial as it w:ls he last time I saw d test Mir Bang has been making steady progress with pitifully inadequate means. and for one believe that he will solve his | problem"
 Do you think so!' asked Mir Bang, with pathetic eagernesS. Sometimes | ] believe I'm a mere drunkard over tills thing, and ought to quit it.
 Don't you do it." WaIIingford heart l fly and sincerely encouraged him. Plugging away like that at anything is bound to win, and when you hit it you'll make us alt miIionaires Bring your model down to the stockholders meeting at the hotel tonight. Dinner will be served at z, but I'd like to have you there u little earlier 1 must lluS tie now; I've Il lot to du.' They found Mir. Steele, in q red era vat/and q gray waistcoat, waiting anx 1 iously for them at the hotel. Walling- | ford saw hiIl first and thanked his llcky stars for that. He jerked I;lackie into the first entrance to the bar and halded him SlO0. l Your part in this opera buffet will
 be to keep this Steele person conspicu
 ously hidden, he directed II have 60 work fast, and he'd make me stut | ter
 | Rlackie took the money listIesSly
 "Do you mind if give him knockout drops?" he inquired
 | Poison him if you want to-" con
 scented Nalln,s ord and. going out l upon the Si.ie srE14t from the bar. slipped into tine ladies' entrance and l up the rear stairway 70 the governors $ suit where he telephone0 .o ihe stock
 holders of the long torpid Bal-g Sun l Engine company, inviting them to she banquet that night and to the Speciai
 meeting This exciting and sometimes
 almost riotous duty performed and an l appointment made by telephone with
 a certain Mir Gettitt. he once more
 slipped down the rear stairway,
 Mir Gcttitt was superintendent of the { electric light plant and was a thick l nrcked party with an acute alcoholic
 aura. ''lts q treat to see you. Wall
 lingford." he declared. with fervor. ''I
 heard you was ill town before you tele-
 phnncd. and figured right away
 thered be something in it for me. You
 stuMg me the last time with nothing | but stock. and there's no market for
 waste paper any more I'll take cash
 this time. thank you"
 "You'll take q share in nice busi- ness" Wallinyford corrected him. s'The
 city owns the electric light plant. l be-
 lieve?"
 "lt thinks it doeS.'
 '''rhat makes your position political I one. Does the board of aldermen
 make any restrictions on your con | tractS?'
 "We are all brothers" MT Gettitt complacently affirmed.