The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-01
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A Novel
A Week
Nest Week
MEN in the Raw"
BY
VIM. MCLEOD RAiNE
Eiis:.i.iiiii.iiit.
Continued from our last ls,uel

Broulllard went 10 BongrasN. At
a table In the rear room he found
David Masslngalc. stopping the
hunger gap
Rrouillard took the opposite
chair.
How Is Stevc3'
Massingalc nodded The boys
comm along all right now "
Have YOU been doing something
In real estate this morning. Mr.
I Massingales' Brouillard asked
An l could. mumbled the old
man between mouthiula But |
caynt do much II Il Amt one
thing, It's another
Il see. said nrouillard. aud truly
he saw much more than David Mas.
singale did Then. When do
Those notes OF yours fall ducf'
HUH The old mans heavy
white eyebrows bent themselves IN
n perplcNed frown
Amy hadn't ort to talk so much.
he objected business is business q"
Broui,lard's smile was tacit de.
nial Of the Implication
You forget that there we're soy.
eral other parties TO thu transac.
I tion and that any mans business
Is every mans In this crazy town.
I he suggested "nut YOU haven't
answered my question about the
due date
] MassinEale was troubled. and his
fine old face showed II plainly.
To-day II the last day on them
notes
Go on said proulilard
Id been To see HardWick 40 the
bank. and he save me the ulii-
maytum good and cold II couldn't
I In tho paper. the bank'd have to
so back on my lndorser. John Wes
I | had little over five thousand
left out o. the horray. and took
/ u and broke for the Real Estate
/ Exchange Been there for three
solid hours. turnin' my little stake
over Ike q fiapiack on hot grld.
( die; but Il amt any use. ! cAyn Z
turn % fast enough. p often enough.
bctwiXi now and three O'Clock
Mr. Massiuealc. I'm going 90
aak YOU 10 tell me frantly What
Kind 90 deal II vas you made
with CortwrlEht and the bank PEG
pie
1t vas the biggest ,om-fool rar.
tie that any Twin man out OF a
lunatlc aylum ever went into.
confessed tho prisoner % fate. =
was 20 stock tho Susan for half
million-ah. she's worth II. every
dollar OF T.: you might say the
ores in sight for I, riEht now
this In Difference TO BrcuillRrd's
hrow-ll'ting OF surprise. They
was 10 put IN n hundred thousand
cash. and ! was 20 put in the mine
and the orc on tho dump. just as
she stood
The engineer nodded and Mas.
singale went on
4 vas go have tSo.thlrds % the
stock aud they vas 10 have one
/ third. Tho hundred thousand for
development ned get NJ the bank.
on my notes. be ,ause ! was prcHi-
I dent and the biFgest Htockholdcr.
with John ives aa indorser Then.
to protect the bank accor1in' TO
law. they said. we'd put the whole
/ bunch o. stock mine and their'n--
into escrow in the hands OF Judge
! Williams"
so Il amounts 10 this. You have
given them c'enn third OF the
Susan for the mere privilege OF
/ borrowing one hundred thousand
dollars on your cwn paper Md n
you don't pay. YOU lose the remain
ing twothirds as well"
That's about tho way II stacks
up to a sober man. Looks like !
needed a ianitor 10 look after my
upper story. don't ~ And I reckon
mebby I DO"
One thing more. pressed the
relentless querist. Did you really
handle the hundred-thousand dollar
development fund yourself. Mr.
MassinEale?"
thousand dollars OF what they
called a contingent fund was Pit
In my name; but the treasurer
handled most Of nachurly. we
bein' a stock company"
who is your treasurer"
"Feller with just one share o
stock-Parker Jackson
"Humph, Cortwrights private
secretary. And he has spent ninety
thousand dollars on the Little
Susan In sixty days? Not much
Have you ever seen any vouchers
for the money spent?"
no. Had ort to-"
We'll. rather as president Of
the company"
Il been tellin' YOU I need mule.
driver 10 knock little sense into
me-" Masslngale offered
There Is no help for II; you'll
have 10 take your medicine and
pay the notes. DO that, take an
iron-clad receipt from the bank
I'll write II out for you-and get
the stock released After that.
we'll give them a whirl for the
thirty.three and a third per cent
they have practically stolen from
you"
The old mans face. remindful
now OF his daughters. was "A pic.
ture Of dismayed incerttude.
~ reckon you're forgettln that !
hain't got money enough to lift one
edge o them notes" he said gently.
Brouillard had found a piece OF
blank paper In his pocket and was
rapidly writing the "iron-clad" re-
ceipt
No ! hadn't forgotten. have
I ann nj h nc oyer a hupd rod tbnt,aa,,, 4
dollars lying idle In the bank.
You'll take It and pay the notes -
II was in the height of the mad.
ness following the discovery OF the
placers. in an hour when Brouillard
would have given his right hand 10