The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-08
EORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER;

54.and $200.ooo of your $250ooo is rep' resented by the property. That leaves you only $50o00 cash.''
 Its in the treasury" WallingfeFo informed him with smile. While the Neptune Sun Bath company is still l waiting for its charter from the state. it is nevertheless fully organized aud ready for business
 I 7 .Hittam turned to his fellow commit teemen. A hundred and forty thou sand water in a two hundred and fifty 1 thousand paid in valuation"
 By no means,'' protested Walling~ | ford q won't stand for that. The l hundred and forty thousand which l you call water is an actual and normal 1 increase in property worth" !"
 MT. Hittam arose. Its a marvellous 1 piece of work he complimented Wal Iingford. From the way you men lion the various articles of this pro posed agreement take it that we have received an ultimatum.''
 "PracticalIy.'' Wallingford smilingly assured him. .'f form the hotel company myself shah impose exactly reasonable. if you study them over The appreciation in property value is real and would occur under your man agement as we'll as mine. The hum l dred thousand require you to place il in a trust fund is only proper pre- caution that delay or failure on your part does not hinder our operations, and it may be used in making the final l payments on the building. The ex- change of stock will be, think of vast benefit to both companies, ip forming a community Of interests I, The chairman of the committee s1noothed his snow white hair and re- 1 stunned his post of honor. we shall take up this entire matter in a meet i ing of theSp1oposed stockholders Of tue hotel company. and hold further con ference with you," he promised
 Long nosed Mir. Poynter paused for word with WaHingford alone. 'fIf only had son like yout" he observed Il with tWinkling eyes.
 Fl meet you in the bar by and ty,' chuekled Wallingford.
 i Blackie and Paul came out Of their trance as the committee left the room.
 T couldn't keep track of that with
 score board, Jim,'' confessed Blackie
 while Paul chewed slowly and painful
 ly on a cylinder of sassafras favored
 taffy; sbut gather this much, and it
 pains me You're preparing to engage
 in an actual construction deaI.s
 We've nc time to monkey return
 ed Wallingford, looking at his watch
 We have to. get busy with an archi-
 tect.''
 Energetic lawyers slammed through
 incorporation papers for the Neptune
 Sun Bath company and the Neptune
 Hotel company. The completely or Il ganized companies held their joint
 meeting and signed their mutual lease and formed the trust fund and ex
 changed specimens of their capital
 stock.
 Then the blow fell. Next mornings papers contained more interesting
 reading than any which Paul PoEet
 tad previously provided. This time he
 turned his attention to the social fea-
 tures of the proposed new bath estab-
 1ishment. The baths, primarily, were J to be for the relief of the nerve rack ed and the fagged and the 5aded. The quiet, soothing treatment of the blue light rays was to restore tone and
 health to those who had lived over
 well, and the treatment was to consist in absolute freedom All day long the patients were to spend their time in the exhilarating artificial ozone of the 1 underwater palace, were to bask in the filtered sunlight, were to be un4
 hampered of limb and furnished with light amusements, such as eating and drinking and music and dancing, and it was hinte1 that, in place of being a bore, the cure was one that would be ; sought by wealthy luxury lovers for Eits gayety alone. Tn substantiation OF
 this it was stated that the steward Of
 the Neptune Sun Bath company had contracted for the largest, finest and most complete supply of vintage cham pagne in the ,worldl
 ssGreat JerusaIemH' exploded wedge jawed Hittam "How and why did
 you ever permit such an atrocious stO- ry as that to creep into print?,' Why atrocious?' inquired WalItng- } ford 'sIt's the sort of place I propose ! to run"
 s'You actually sanctioned 1t, thenF and Hittam looked to the chairman of : his committee for backing.
 '1ta an outrageP' pronounced MT. [ Nayler, his pink face flushing red t Certainly, sanctioned it," Waliing- } ford dispassionateIy said. "I consider t it splendid business publicity We'll
 have the live spenders here from all I over the universe immediately follow 5 ing every spree.%
 'sTha Neptune Hotel company does not want that sort of patronage" MT. , Hittam angri1y insisted Tt wants the . respectable moneyed class" | (To Be Continued.1