The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-02-10

| D'Artagnan and milady and his emil
nence: David CopperIield and MI
IIecp: the false Stuart and Beatrice:
Vautrin and the DISTINGUISHED provin
cial, Valjeau and Jaycrt
] was sixteen at t-@ ta.>, and
CLEANED from that wolt&"'5i' 's2%;i'%I..
house-my fathers lbFll IA, he.ot'
and heroines of all shapes and color
were principled men and Women--j'l%s
that-living and dying in honor. rough
" or meekly, that all others were true
villains.
So. then, l come to Smead.
Put out into the streets at the age
of five, he had grown up like a weed,
strong, hardy, unprincipled.
To begin with, he had never had any
PRINCIPLES, and never acquired any.
Later, in his manhood, he wrote down
one law for himself Don't get found
out"
Early in his career he had fallen in
with boxers and prize fighters. and he
soon became known as great little
''tryout' man. He followed this game
for several years, never smoked, never
drank, read a good deal, studied and
practiced all known games Of chance
and corrected his speaking English.
learning in some odd way that the well
spoken man went farthest.
| At twenty, blond as viking. OF
beautiful body. affable, winning, he
made his first smokeroom trip. The
intellectual veneer hoodwinked all the
women aboard and nearly all the men.
1t was a profitable trip. as smoke
rooms 60. He became the most expert
shin gambler in the business because
he worked alone. which seems rather
an impossible feat to the layman. He
took infinite delight in playing the gull
to his kind and puclling them
He was twcnty-four when he put up
his first gambling establishment.
1t made money from the start. And
with rare foresight he never visited
the place at night during the play. He
would generally drop into the cashier S
office early in the afternoon, balance
the accounts and leave.
Thus he was unknown to all save his
employees aud the police, who black
His Atlantic trips now became few
and far between.
He began to smoke and drink Cir
cumspectly, for none knew better than
he what good business asset clean
healthy skin was. He became a mem
Der of two OF three fairly decent clubs
He was getting on. The street urch
in and the "tryout' man were for
gotten.
He married.
She was the daughter of a rich mar
whose forbears had been rich wheI
New York was known by another
name. The father strenuously object
ed to the match. With the blind oh
stinacy of her sex she ran away witt
Smead and was promptly disinherited
Perhaps the poor woman knew two o
three months of happiness.
Smeal had married her with an ey
to the future millions, and upon see
ing them take wings the veneer crack
, ed. lie enlarged his gambling enter
prises, took up ship gambling again
: drifted into the fast set of the city, lc
Lis long smothered desires run riol
All the evil in him developed with th
:, sinister rapidity of nishtshade.
= His irons and fires became multifar
I Gus. He tried his hand at smuggling
not for the pecuniary gains so much q
for the sporting chance it offered. Ii
became as closely watched as any ma
in the world, but time after time b
: slipped through the customs.
i Often he was not smuggling at al
IL just pure deviltry to keep the inspe'
l. tors and the secret service Oh the jum]
l. They believed he stood alone, neve
suspecting that he was the brain an
l. heart of a colossal organization.
y The poor, foolish woman who ma
e ried him died of Il broken heart, *
women die Of that as surely as the
II breathe.
Here you have him, picturesQl
II villain under his thatch of gray, Of
Il type common enough i'll cities.
II Petty ruscality. On the race tract
H. and in his gambling establishments
W was called square, Il sporting term II
any one not found out. Oh, he w;
ne generous and free han0ed-outside
Us his home.
And there you have the gist of V
IL lainy. 1t is at his iircSide that Il man
III proved. We who meet him outside
q the clubs, in the hotel Hobbies, we Nc
him Il first rate chap, but before y
a4 give our confidence let us see the w
ne who waits and watches at home.
Il "Wen:"
Going along finely" said the doct
You are naturally robust"
~ How long before I'll be able
% throw this cane out of the window!
~ "perhaps Two weeks, if YOU are ca
80 full. so whisky. | don't think tobal
'''N will hurt you. Good morning"
az No whisky.
"' Snleua grinned at the LIGHTED end