Show a i cr cra crr S r a J 5 SYNOPSIS Howard Jeffries bankers banker's son under the evil Influence of ot Robert nobert Underwood a student fellow-student at Yale Tale leads a life lite or ot dissipation marries the daughter of ot a gambler who died In prison and Is disowned disowned disowned dis dis- owned b by his father He tries to get worland work worl and falls A former college chum makes a business proposition to Howard which requires 2000 cash and Howard Is broke Robert Underwood who had been re repulsed repulsed repulsed re- re pulsed by bl- Howards Howard's wife Annie In his college days das and had once been engaged to o Alicia Howards Howard's stepmother has apartments at the and Is apparently apparently ap- ap In prosperous circumstances Howard oward recalls a O loan to Underwood that hat remains unpaid and decides to ask him ilm tor for the 2000 he needs Underwood taking taking- advantage of his Intimacy with Mrs Jeffries Sr becomes a sort of social hIghwayman Discovering his true character character character char char- acter sh she denies him the house CHAPTER IV The richly decorated reception rooms brilliantly illuminated with soft oft incandescent lights artistically arranged behind banks of flowers were filled with people In the air was the familiar buzz always present in n a room where each person is trying to o speak at the same time On all sides one heard fragments of inept conversation So good of or you to come H How w well youre you're looking my dear My husband Oh hes he's at the club playing poker at as usual He hates music Ive such a terrible cold rold Trouble with servants I should say so I bounced my cook this morning morn- morn ing ng Arent these affairs awfully tiresome tiresome tire tire- some ome I was so glad to come 1 I always enjoy your musicales Dr Bernstein coming How perfectly perfectly perfectly per per- delightful Ill I'll ask him for his autograph psychology Something to do with religion I think we been having dreadful ea weather veather th er I saw you at the opera she look sweet Oh I 1 think Its It's just lovely People now arrived In n quick succession sion don and forming little groups group the room soon presented an animated scene The women in their smart gowns owns and the men In their black coats oats made a pleasing picture My dear Mrs Jeffries how do you do this evening exclaimed a rich deep voice The hostess turned to greet an elderly elderly elderly el el- derly and looking distinguished-looking man who had just entered Directly he came in voices were hushed and on every side one heard the whisper Theres Judge Brewster the famous famous fa fa- fa lawyer There was a general craning of necks to catch a glimpse of ot the eminent emi em- nent neat jurist whose brilliant address to the jury In a recent cause celebre had saved an Innocent man from the electric chair Richard Brewster was a fine example example example ex ex- ample of the old school statesman- statesman lawyer of oC the Henry Clay type He belonged to that small class of public men who are independent of all coteries coterlea whose only ambition Is to toj serve their country well who know no other duty than that dictated by their oath and conscience A Abril bril brilliant brilliant and forceful orator there was no office In the gift of the nation that might ht not have been his for the askIng ask ask- ing b ono taste for politics After Afler- sere serving ng g with honor for some years on the bench he retired Into private practice and thereafter his name became one to conjure with Inthe in inthe inthe the law courts By sheer power of his matchless oratory and unanswerable unanswerable able logic he won case after case for his clients and It is a tribute to his name to record the plain fact that In all his career he never championed a cause of which he need be ashamed Powerful financial Interests had attempted at tempted to secure his services by offers of fers of princely retainers but without without without with with- out success He fought the tho trusts bitterly bit terly every time he found them oppressing oppressing oppressing op op- pressing his profession Alicia advanced with extended hand This Is Indeed kind judge she exclaimed exclaimed ex ex- claimed with a gracious smile I hardly dared hope that my poor musicale musi- musi cale would be so 60 honored The old lawyer smiled humor good edly as ho hn replied gallantly I dont don't know much about music mm I came to see you Looking around he added Youve got a nice place here hero He spoke in his bis characteristic manner man mann short nor ner short nervous explosive sentences sentences sen which Ich had often otten terrified his opponents opponent In court Lawyers are such flatterers laughed Alicia as she nerv nervously fanned b and looked around to see sea if It fir Y-r guests were watching Lawyers awyers only flatter when they nt to Interrupted Mr 11 Jeffries Aho had ad just joined the tho group A. A turned to greet a new arrival and ind the lawT lawyer r r continued chatting with his host bos' bosI hostI I suppose you'll take a rest now I T r sir Jr r splendid victory said the r 7 1 L j 1 ll cr J J y KLEIN V ANE Y V ARTHUR HORNBLOW V f ILLUSTRATIONS BY RAY WALTER 1909 Br CY Y CW GM Y I f t 22 2 f OoSt I I I I r rt t I i 1 I II l lI C C I Dont Don't Know Much About Music Mm Judge Brewster shook his head dubiously No sir we lawyers never rest We cant can't No sooner is one case disposed disposed dis posed of than another crops up to claim our attention The trouble with this country is that we have too much law If I were to be guilty of an epigram I 1 would would say say that the country country country coun coun- try has so much law that It Is practically practically practically lawless So youre you're preparing another case eh said Mr Jeffries interested What is it It-a It a secret Oh no answered the lawyer the newspapers will be full of it in ina a day or two We Weare are going to bring suit against the city efty Its It's really a test case that should interest every citizen a protest against the highhanded highhanded highhanded high high- handed actions of the police The banker elevated his eyebrows Indeed he exclaimed What have the police been doing now The lawyer looked at his client In surprise Why my dear sir you must have seen by the papers what's been going on in our city of late The papers have been full of it ft Police brutality illegal arreRa assaults In station houses star-chamber star methods that would disgrace the middle ages A state of affairs exists to today day day in the city of New York which is able Here we are living In a civilized civil civilized country every mans man's liberty is guaranteed by the constitution yet ret citizens as they walk our streets are in greater peril than the inhabitants of terror stricken Russia Take a police police police po po- po- po lice official of Capt Clinton's type His only notion of the law Is brute force and the night stick A bully by nature a man of ot the coarsest instincts and enormous physical strength he loves to play the tyrant In his precinct precinct pre pre- he poses as a kind of czar and aDd fondly Imagines he has the power to administer the law Itself By nis brow-beating brow tactics intolerable under under un der del Saxon Anglo n government he is turning our police force Into a gang of ruffians who have the city terror terror- stricken In order to further his politIcal political pout ical ambitions he stops at nothing He lets the guilty escape when influence influence ence he cant can't resist Is brought to bear but in order to keep up his record record rec rec- ord with the tho department he makes arrests arrests ar are ar- ar rests without the slightest tion To secure convictions he manufactures manufactures manu with the aid of ot his detectives detectives detec tives all kinds of or perjured evidence To paraphrase a well-known well saying his motto Is Convict honestly Convict honestly If It you can can but but convict It is outrageous said Mr Jef Jet fries No one can approve such methods Of course In n dealing with the criminal population of a great city they cannot wear kid gloves but Capt Clinton certainly goes too far What is 15 the specific complaint on which the suit Is based Capt Clinton replied the Judge made the mistake of persecuting a ayoung ayoung ayoung young woman who ha happened to be the daughter of or a wealthy client of ot mine One of his detectives arrested he on ona ona ona a charge of shoplifting The girl mind you OU Is of excellent family and Irreproachable character My Iy client and his bis lawyer tried to show Capt Clinton that 1 I had made a n serious blunder but he brazened it out claiming claiming claim claim- ing on the stand that the girl was an anold anold anold old offender Of course he was forced at last to admit his mistake and the girl went free but think of the humiliation and mental anguish she underwent It was simply a repetition of ot his old tactics A conviction conviction conic tion no matter at what cost What do you hope to bring about by this suit Arouse public indignation arid and if possible get Capt Clinton dismissed from the force His record is none too savory Charges of ot graft have been made against him time and time again but so far nothing has been proved To-day To he is a man of wealth on a comparatively small salary Do you suppose his money could have come to him honestly In another corner of the salon stood Dr Bernstein the celebrated psychologist the center of an excited crowd of enthusiastic admirers Alicia approached a group of or chattering chattering chat chat- women Each was more elaborately elaborately elaborately dressed than her neighbor and loaded down with rare gems They at once stopped talking as their hostess came up It was so good of ot you to come said Alicia effusively to a fat woman with impossible blonde hair and a rouged face I want to introduce Dr Bernstein to you i Oh I 1 shall be delighted smiled the blonde Gushingly she added How perfectly exquisite you look tonight tonight to to- tonight night my dear Do you think so said Alicia pleased at the clumsy flattery Your dress is stunning and your tiara simply gorgeous raved another Your musicales are always so delightful delightful de de- exclaimed a third At that moment Mr 1 Jeffries caught his hie wife wire 1 by y the arm and drew her herat her at at- attention attention to some newcomers With a laugh she left the group and hurried toward the door Directly she was out of earshot the three women began began be be- gan whispering t she terribly overdressed overo exclaimed exclaimed ex ex- claimed the blonde cheek of ot such a to wear that tiara Her face Is all an made up too said another These affairs of hers are awfully stupid dont don't you think so piped the third Yes they bore everybody to death said the blonde ambitious and likes to think she sho is a social lead leader er I 1 only come here because It amuses me to see what a fool she makes of herself herselt Fancy a woman of ot her age marrying a man old enough to be her father By the by I dont don't see her beau here to night You mean that scamp Robert Underwood Underwood Un Un- derwood 1 It perfectly scandalous the way he dances after her Im I'm surprised surprised sur l Mr Jeffries allows him to come cometo cometo cometo to the house Maybe theres there's been a row row- Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps that explains why hes he's not here to tonight Its It's the first time Ive I've known him absent from one ono of her musi cales tales Hes conspicuous by his absence Do you know what I heard the other day I was told that Underwood had again been caught cheating at cards and summarily expelled from the club kicked out so 80 to speak Im not at all surprised I always had m my doubts about him He Induced induced In in- a friend of or mine to buy a picture picture pic plc ture Lure a av asI l l got a tremendous price for forIt forIt forit it on the tho false also representation that it was a genuine Corot My 11 friend found t r I r I out afterward that he had been duped Proceedings were threatened but Underwood Underwood Underwood Un Un- derwood managed to hush the affair by returning part of the money In another part of the room a couple were discussing Mr Jeffries as he stood talking with Judge Brewster Did you notice how Mr Jeffries has aged recently He no longer seems the same man No wonder after all the trouble hes he's had Of course you know what a disappointment his son turned out A scamp I understand Married a chorus girl and all that sort of thing Not exactly but almost as bad The girl was a waitress or something like that in restaurant She's very common her father died In prison You can imagine the blow to old Jef Jet fries He turned the boy adrift and andI I left him to shift for himself I Alicia approached her husband who was still sUll talking with Judge Brewster 1 Sh Shy was leaning on the arm of a tall handsome man with a dark Van Dyke be best be Who are you discussing with such interest she demanded as she came up with her escort We were talking of Capt Clinton and his detestable police poUce methods said the banker Judge said Alicia turning to the lawyer allow me to introduce Dr Bernstein Doctor this is Judge Brewster The stranger bowed low as he replied replied re reo re- re plied pIled courteously The fame of Judge Brewster has spread to every state In the union A faint smile spread over the face of the famous lawyer as he extended his hand Ive often heard of you too doc doe tor Ive I've been reading with great interest Interest interest in In- terest your book Experimental Do you know he went wenton on earnestly theres a lot in that We have still much to learn in that direction I think said Dr Bernstein quietly quiet quiet- ly that were we're only on the threshold of ot wonderful discoveries Pleased to find that her two guests were congenial Alicia left them to themselves and joined her other guests gue Yes said the lawyer musingly man has studied for centuries the mechanism of the body but he has neglected entirely the mechanism of the mind Dr Bernstein smiled approvingly We are just waking up he replied quickly People are beginning to look upon psychology seriously Up to comparatively recently the layman has regarded psychology as the domain do main of the philosopher and the dreamer It did not seem possible that it could ever be applied to our practical everyday life but of late we ve have made remarkable strides Although Although Although Al Al- though it ft is a comparatively new science you will probably be astonished astonished astonished aston aston- to learn that there are day to-day In Inthe Inthe inthe the United States 50 psychological labor laboratories That is to say workshops workshops work work- shops fully equipped with every devIce device de do- dovice vice known for the probing of the human human hu man brain In my laboratory in California California Cali Call fornia alone I have as many as twenty twenty ty rooms hung with electric wires and equipped with all the necessary instruments in In- chronoscopes chronoscopes kymograph Instruments instruments In in- and which enable us to measure measure measure meas meas- ure and record the human brain as accurately as the system Really you astonish me exclaimed exclaimed exclaimed ex ex- claimed the judge This Is most In in- Think of laboratories solely sole sole- solely ly devoted to delving into mysteries of the human brain It Is wonderful He Ho was silent for a moment then he said It Is quite plain I 1 think that psychology can prove most useful In medicine It is I 1 take it the very foundation of mental healing but what else would it do for humanity For instance can it help me the lawyer Dr Bernstein smiled You gentlemen of the law have al always always ale al- ways scoffed at the very suggestion of bringing psychology to your aid but just think sir how enormously it might aid you In examining |