Cleveland County herald., 1920-05-13

friends. But 1t was really scr qufc- another purpose.
 Hunt, who swore by the man and potently believed him the greatest he had ever known, settled his specula- tive deals and went with him.
 One evening in the Cafe Martin they met Artie Sparkle. Artie had long since become an expatriate, due, ac- cording to gossip, to unrequited affec- tion and hope too often deferred. He was with brilliantly gowned woman of the French boulevard type, who wore just little too much rouge, just few too many diamonds, and gaiety of manner just trife too effervescent.
 Artie's animosity toward his former rival had very obviously been buried, or forgotten, for he bounced joyfully upon the two Americans, and with gusto and eclat presented them to her of the gorgeous plumage-his wife of the month.
 Then more wine was ordered to toast the bride and Artie eXtolled ec- statically the bliss of connubial life touching in particular upon his own, which to him, of course, was unparal- leled and paramount. Gradually the talk turned upon other topics, with the benedict easily leading.
 T read all about it in Lunnon, deah fellow" This to Daniel. "Frightfully clevah of you, I must say getting all that grain and freezing out the Othah chaps. .. And poor old Otis; l saw him in Carlsbad last week. He looks dreadfully done for. I feah the poor fellow won't last long,"
 Always the mention of Otis name spelled bad moments for Daniel. Since that Indian summer day when millions had hung upon the toss of a coin the aged speculator, as Daniel knew, had ' been a bowed-down man. He never visited the pit again. He never went near it. The memory of it's roaring sent q shudder through him. He was care-worn, listless, comfortless. He had lost his nerve" Grain gambling and those who valued his good will found it polite not to broach such in his hearing When in October he had left for the German bad" cures he was broken in health as well as in spirit.
 His quest was fruitless.
 One May morning in Florence Dan el read at his breakfast table of Otis death He had died in mid-ocean en route to New York.
 He put down his newspaper, beck oned the waiter, ordered some cable gram forms. Leaving his breakfast untouched, and Hunts questions un- answered, he wrote lengthy message to a Chicago trust company that spe- ciaiized ill mortgages. He fretted with impatience until he received an answer; and then, having read it, he tore 1t up and sighed hopelessly. Daniel heard afterward that Otis I had left nothing beyond his life insur l ance. The house on the drive haC 1 gone, and with it all the pomp of cir 1 cumstanceS. Mrs. Otis was residing temporarily in Oconomowoc. KathleeI was with her.
 | Early in June of that year tw' wealthy Americans, who had mad their piles" in July wheat, booke' first-class transportation from Rome t | Chicago. When they boarded the line at Naples there embarked with them quarter of a million dollars worth o European art treasures. When the. left the liner at New York the nam of the tall, istinguished-looking one of the black Vandyke beard and whit | ducks, was not Daniel Randolph Fitz hugh. It was his own, Hugh Danie | FitZrandOlph.
 This name juggling had heraldet their coming, and they were surround ed at the pier by phalanx of sharp eyed men armed with cameras.
 Daniel greeted them warmly, shool hands, gave them cigars, and waXed st | jovially humorous about his malleabl' patronymic that he was voted shin ing member of the Good Fellows clul l and lauded as thoroughgoing, flint | SOIL. NOliillS ueIOSdLO1y Nao pi lhlCN of him in the New York newspapers and the eccentricity of ones using ones family name for "komical kut out" was made to appear very nat ural thing for one to do.
 His arrival in Chicago received 2 similar reception.
 The thing he had long been plan ming, the thing that had prompted his trip abroad, which had necessitateo the proper rearranging of his name was made public With a fanfare of trumpets, sounding of cymbals, a beating of tom-toms, Hugh Daniel Fitz randolph inaugurated his campaign for the Chicago mayoralty.
 In the primary election these were nominated: Hugh Daniel Fitzran- dOlph, advocating pure politics; Sam Burlington, fat and puffy and tool o1 the trusts John Dinwoody, lean and lank and a patron of vice, and Ivan Skimkus. skinny and cratic and a