The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-07

scarcely comprehend it Moreover it
was a blow beneath the belt.
dig upg' he family repeated.
Two hundred thousand cash. Sledge
rumbled. 81 dug" He tossed Bozzam
receipt from Johnson, the secretary
Of the Ring City Rapid Transit com
pany showing that Benjamin F. SIedge
had paid $4,000 cash for 1900 shares
OF stock in that live corporation,
Here's the stock. added Sledge,
throwing down one lone certificate for
the entire amount.
nYpu don't lean that you're going to
make bona fde company out of this r.
Bozzam incredulously questioned.
The moneys in the bank. Make
good or let CO..
Began felt his circulation stopping,
I'VE can't let go!'' he bIurted in acute
pain.
.'sure not" said sledge, lifting. his
heavy upper lip to snarl at him vim
dictiyely. you cheap crooks thought
Won could double cross me. You bought
stock In Bert elders name You
loaned Marley enough to buy control.
Any way you fix it you lose"
Bozzam rejected over that statement
carefully. He viewed it from every
angle. He twisted and slanted it and
turned it upside down to look at the
bottom 1t was faWless statement.
sound and solid in every particular, and
he admired it.
'sI believe everything they ever said
about you," he Acknowledged and
laughed pleasantly. ''Now, let's get
down to cases, sledge. How can we
compromise this mess 2"
Nothing doing. No double erosser
ever gets away from me-"
$50 I've been told" commented Boz
Fam, smiling with keen appreciation Of
some unlimited joke TT seems to me
this ia now up to Moodson," and he
touched bell.
A girl entered
Send MIR. Moodson In, please" said
Bokzom, and Sledge locked at his
watch
Mr.. AfePdson arrived and, took a
chair cpposite SIedge and on the other
side OF Bozzam, his mouth so tightly
closed that one wondered how he could
induce himself TO eat He looked at
his watch, bat held the face toward
him like a poker hand and dropped it
stea1thily back IN his pocket, as il he
feared that some one might get the
time Of day away from him.
Tive a queer little puzzle for you,
Moodson," said Bozzam cheerfully.
mr.. Sledge has. determined to make a
bonafde company out of the Ring
{ City Rapid Transit, and of course will
not sell the franchises He has put up
his @750OO0 and requests us to put up
our 100000 to complete the capitaliza-
t1on- He knows that you financed the
drama at the recent stockholders
meeting; that you bought 1000 shares
Of Stock for S35, 900 and loaned $50, 600
on 100000 worth of Marley's. Now.
here is the case in a nutshell: If you
put up the $500 1000 pay for the
stock in this new company it will drive
fhe other one out of business, and you
can get half a cent pound for your
$4,000 worth of stock certificates in
the old company. If you don't make
good on this subscription you get ex-
actly the same price for your old stock
az you would if you did. Now, what
- the answer, in view of the fact that
AIR, Sledge is absolutely implacabIe
and means to do us harm? 1 shall
leave you gentlemen to discuss the
question:
He left the two experts in silence,
facing each other gIumly arross his
desk, and went into the adjoining
room, where he surprised the meek lit
tie stenographer by sinking on the arm
of a bench and laughing noiselessly
until he grew purple in the face.
Timbers came in, looking much dis
tressed for fat man, and surveyed
Bozzam In establishment
"SHp me the good one." he begged.
need a laugh worse than L ever
needed drink on the 4th of Janu-