The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-02
Fuller barely smothered a curse.

Tell her I will be free in just moment" The door closed behind the clerks wondering face, and Fuller mopped his face with his hand kerchief. Mona laughed aloud
 ''Why not have your wife come in at once? It seems to rather discourteous to have her wait while you entertain another lady visitor!"
 Fuller gared at her silently, obviously re- volving a problem in his mind. He stepped quick ly to the door of small inner ante-room.
 Step in here!" he snapped. You will have to wait until she goes !'
 She suffered Fuller to lead her into the ante and heard the door close behind her. And then she stole back to the door, and peered through the key-hole.
 She could see modishly gowned woman in her later thirties, and inclined to feshiness. which even the arts of the masseur, the cor setiere, and the dressmaker could not conceal. She standing in rather aggressive atti- tude before which Fuller obviously cringing.
 q want thousand dollars, Amos!' she said jelly.
 "But my dear"
 q said that I wanted thousand dollars"
 "All right my !" And Fuller turned to his desk, and pressed electric button.
 "Gee but you're easy!" breathed Mona. She chuckled, she heard Fuller give orders to his secretary to pay to Mrs. Fuller the amount she had asked, and charge it against his personal ac- count Evidently wifey has been overdrawing her allowance, and needs some pocket money communed the concealed Mona, "and quite as evidently hubble is afraid not to give it to her If she only knew the real facts about him whew!" She broke off as Fuller ushered his wife to the door, and stood with his back against it mopping his face. It apparent that Amos Fuller was not enjoying his morning!
 A few minutes later he opened the door of the ante-room, and let Mona forth. The girl laughed into his face.
 q ought to hold you up for few hundred" she said mockingly But I'll let you off-this time! Maybe you'll buy my dinner the next time you see me :"
 "A dozen!' protested Fuller with assumed heartness as he her depart
 "The old crook p thought Mona "It is men i,at hat yhO Ike yrO 1OSP hP in humanity!
 She received the amount of her check, and hurried to the street, glad to be in the open air again. She walked home so that she could think the situation out clearly. When she reached her apartment she had come to decision. She re- counted to Mary the events at the bank, and finished with the gleeful prophecy, Unless am absolutely mistaken, shall have Brother Fuller in corner and whining for mercy before week has passed!'
 "What is your plan?'
 Mona laughed. "That would be telling And besides, haven't all of the details perfected yet You remember Ralph Stokes, don't you. Mary?"
 "The actor% And Mary nodded
 "I met him yesterday, and I think he will fit into my little denouement excellently. And Mary. Do you think that you could lead our worthy friend of the banking fraternity on to the point of actual proposal?"
 Mary considered the question refectively. "I think can,'' she said.
 When Mona returned to the apartment that evening she announced that she had had an ex- tremely satisfactory interview with Ralph Stokes, and that their friend was prepared to do any thing possible to aid them.
 r think our trap will be ready to spring sometime tomorrow afternoon. said Mona to Stokes that evening. Fuller will call for Mary at three, and she is to plead sick headache, and ask him to visit her in the apartment l want you to stay down in the lobby by the tele- phone stand. When ready. I'll call you. And you to come up at once P
 Stokes grinned appreciatively. Let me sec I am to be Amesbury of The Evening News, and you are to give the facts of Mr. Winters or rather, MT. Fuller's engagement to your friend! I understand And I am to be the aggressive newspaper reporter who is overjoyed at the pros pect of sensational story! think I can play the part. Leave it to mel"
 q will" smiled Mona, as she slipped her chocolate.
 Fuller was time the next day. Punctuality. when it came to engagements with members of the fair sex, of his few virtues. Mary asked him to come up when his presence was an nounced the house telephone, and when Fuller appeared he found her lying back in an easy chair, her head bound with handkerchief, and a bottle of smelling salts in her hand
 "What in the world is the matter?" he de- manded, bending over her anxiously