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Brand" took' a lead pencil from bis
pocket and began a proceeding which
the two reporters, accustomed as they
were Iti their business to Ingenious
strategy, failed at tlrst to understand.
Then the scheme dawned on thetn.
Brand took the telephone receiver from
the hook, and the metal arm Immedi
ately snapped upward, establishing the
connection. Then he inserted the point
of the lead pencil In the stuall aperture
under the little metal arm or hook and
deliberately broke It off. The tiny
wedge thus held up the hook. Brand
now hung up the receiver, and the pen
cil point prevented the weight of the
receiver from bearing the hook down
and breaking the connection. The con
nection was made continuous without
the slightest indication that such was
the case. Every word now spoken
within a reasonable distance of the
mouthpiece would be conveyed to the
telephone and the extension telephone
lu editorial room I. where Howard and
Jeff were to be stationed. They had
stenographers' pads with them, on
which they were each to take down
the conversation in shorthand.
"This phone will be open all the time
that Bartelmy is here." announced
Brand. "Go In there. Howard, and see
If you can hear JelT and me talking.
Sit over here. Jeff." lie pointed to the
chair at his right. Howard went out.
"Now, Jeff, take down this and take
down what you say to me." continued
the editor.
Brand turned to Jeff and began to
talk in a natural tone of voice.
"Jeff, you know 1 think the dog In
the moon was seven times too slow in
his journey through the paths of men.
having lost t!.74!)."30.27-l,480 pounds In
his auto northward. Is that your
opinion?"
"No, not entirely. Hence and here
after we complain of suoh a miracu
lous egotism of geuerallty and sole
clsm of peaceful garments and cold
thought."
Brand struck a blow on the desk.
"On the contrary, it was unquestion
able and with nasty justice, tuiscnlled
"One can never be too careful about mat
ters of thin hiit'l."
namby-pamby? got It?" cried the ed
itor. bending over the mouthpiece.
"Come In. Howard!"
Howard hurried into ttie room.
"Compare your notes, boys," In
structed the managing editor.
They held the records side by side
and quickly glanced over them.
"They are almost exactly the same,"
they exclaimed in unison.
A smile of satisfaction spread over
Brand's face.
"All right. Now chase back to room
4, both of you!"
The office boy brought Brand a card.
He took it. and as he glanced at it his
eyes narrowed down into little sparks
of light.
"He's on time," he murmured. "Very
well. Durkln," he ordered, "show him
in, and, Durkin, remember, don't let
any one else In niuler any circum
stances."
A half a minute later Judge Bartelmy
stood in the doorway. He nodded
briefly to Braud. and his eyes swept
around the entire room before he step
ped In. Slowly he proceeded in front
of Brand's desk.
"Good evening. Judge." said the ed
itor.
"Good evening, Mr. Brand."
"Let me take your things. I'll hang
them up," offered Brand. Just as Du
| puy had been, Bartelmy was In even
ing dress. He took off his white kid
gloves and put them in his pocket and
then handed his hat and coat to the
editor. Braud opened the door of a
closet nt the right linml siue ot the
room anil hung <hc Judge's things
therein, fie closed the door. Bartel
my stepped to tlie closet, opened the
door ami peered sharply Into Its four
corners, even fumbling behind his long
coat, to make sure that uo witness was
lurking there to spy on him.
"Oh. that's the way you feel!" com
mented Brand. "I'll show you over the
place. But you shouldn't worry."
Bartelmy coughed nervously.
"One can never be too careful about
matters of this kind, Brand. 1 should
think that you would have learned
that much by this time."
"This Is my tlrst experience of this
kind," said Brand.
"Of course It Is," answered Bartel
my, with a tinge of sarcasm In his
voice. "It always Is 'the tlrst time.'
But you are assuredly very lucky In
deed, Brand, to do so very well at your
lirst try at--at"?
"Come, look over the place, and let's
get through with It," put In the editor.
lie crossed and locked the door
through which the judge had entered.
Then he led his visitor over to the
door on the opposite side of the room
opening Into a hallway which extend
ed to various rooms. lie pointed to
the room directly across the hall. "It's
quite dark, you see," he said. "This
Is where a couple of editorial writers
sit. They go home nights, lucky dogs,
not being newspaper men." Barteluiy
was quick enough to catch the ironical
comment of the busy managing editor
Oil the scholarly men who wrote the
opinions of the paper. Brand drew
the Judge back into his oitlce and lock
ed the door behind him.
"Now we are alone, absolutely
alone," commented Brand significant
ly. lie led the way to his desk mid
pointed out to the judge the chair at
the right hand side. Brand dropped
into his own chair. "Have a seat, |
judge," he said.
Judge Bartelmy drew the chair In
dicated even closer to the managing
editor's de"'i and seated himself in it.
lie leaned forward toward Brand and
rested his elbow on the desk. Ills
face was within ten or twelve Inches
of the telephone.
CHAPTER XI.
ARTELMY, now that he had
taken the final and extremely
distasteful plunge and had j
co mo to the office of the Ad
vance, waited for Brand to make the
opening remarks about the particular
object of his visit.
ltrand was waiting for the judge to
do the same. It was the newspaper
man who spoke llrst, after the two
had seated themselves. He was anx
ious to get the matter over with as
quickly as possible, for lie well knew
thai. In spite of all his precautions, af
fairs in a newspaper office are so un
certain that an interruption of an un
expected nature might occur to ruin
the entire plan.
"Mr. Dupuy was here a short time
ago," he ventured.
Judge Bartelmy proceeded to ex
plain the appearance of the lawyer lob
byist In the affair. While it was plain
to Brand that the judge had sent Du
puy as a go-between so that It would
be Impossible to connect Bartelmy
with the payment of any money as a
bribe, the Jurist did not propose to ac
knowledge that such had been his laud
able purpose. He gave an entirely dif
ferent reason.
"Yes, I know," he said. "He found
me at the opera with my daughter. 1
hoped, Mr. Brand, that by allowing me
to act through liltn you would spare
me this last humiliation."
"Would It not lie safer for you if no
third party knew of your transaction
I with me?" suggested Brand.
| The judge pitied the colossal lguo
I ranee of this amateur in trickery. Did
, not he know that in the superior
spheres of crooked practices it became
necessary to employ third persons on
many occasions to put through mat
ters of this sort? And he was a uews
paper man of years of experience too.
? No, this peculiar young man would
never linish supplying the judge with
surprises: of that Bartelmy was posi
tive. Perhaps it might be in order to
observe at this point that, while Brand
: of course could not know that these
thoughts were passing through his
visitor's mind, he at the same time
would have been ready to confess that
lie was going to provide several more
surprises for the jurist. But there are
differeut varieties of surprises.
"Dupuy is lu my confidence," the
Judge pronounced with an air of final
ity.
"He's uot in mine," rcsponurn me
managing editor.
"You're mistaken In him. I know
hlui Intimately."
"Oh. the pity of It," exclaimed Brand,
"that you should be intimntely ac
quainted with such n man as Dupuy!"
Bartelmy could not restrain u sarcas
tic smile at the editor's sneer at Dupuy.
"Mr. Brand," he said quickly, "your
moral reflections at this juncture im
part a certain quaint humor to the sit
uation."
"I am afraid that Is the trouble with
me. My humor is nearly always unin
tentional." Brand sighed as though
sorry for himself.
The Judge began to show signs of
nervousness.
"Well, shall we get on with it?" the
editor asked him.
"Yes. 1 must rejoin my daughter.
She's waiting for me nt the opera. She
was very anxious that I should not
come here tonight. It was curious?
her persistency in the matter."
Brand drew his chair closer to the
desk? closer to the telephone.
"I?ct us get to business," he said.
The Judge went ou talking about his
daughter
"She displays an unusual, I should
say an extraordinary, curiosity as to
my mission here," he said. "My daugh
ter would have made a great cross ex
aminer If she had been a man."
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Am ! (i ? ?nl >: I ' ii :.v ; iy
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'.???ill r i I ' -I I. Is vulve to :i l.ljli
?? i en Hi' u Hid dollars!' hc? s:iUl,
? ii-..' ici 'ii iVirteliny cautiously.
Aui 1 to tsiu-'iI that It? all
wipes out of your tv< oll? f t iu:i not only
.Yj I: It' . of v. I'ii Ii .VOll XU'l'c speak
i . I ?; a! ? to"- Ho paused,
lir.inl Ivlp"' t!i ' would l>o lirlher to
cuaplctc hU "oti ' ici'.
"1011 moan yot :? secret Interview last
?il ''it \vlt!i P'.i; '.:y and the ntl uey f< 1
?he Lanslnj;"
Tiie * i.- ilor nil U Ills linnd warnlng
1} u: liquid's I1.1.1I times, as though to
oli:i ;'l c.ttliict!.
"Yes,
"I.ir' flu: Iron corporation?" contln
:: :! I'.ini'.d. betiding close to the tele
nh >ne.
"Ves. Will this sum. paid In hand,
iudm.'c you to forgot all not only thai
various other
matters to which
t he A tl \ n ti <? e
seems to have
taken exception
in the past?"
It r si ii <1 mm nk
b:tek in Ills chair.
"Von mean you
want ns to let
tip on you nil
a rou ml?"
"Piv< i-ely."
"Then t hat's
understood."
"Dij/h/i/ in in my run- "Y011 will make
fidaicc." a memorandum
for ine In writing to that eflfect? a re
ceipt, so to speak?"
lie pushed a pad toward the man
aging editor.
"All right? certainly." agreed Brand,
taking up a pen.
The judge began to congratulate
himself on the ease with which he was
handling the young man.
"This Is? ah? more businesslike," he
said.
But Brand gave him another shock
when he said:
"Yes; I'll draw It up in duplicate.
Each of us will keep a copy? signed."
[to nr CONTINUED.]
On Their Wedding Tour.
She-Oh, Tom. dear, the train is now
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(After a pause.! You didn't forget to
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