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Show prvYlrjErV iLllHI O ggfJRElNG A SERIES F CANNED LITESMTEJ5&E SELECIE TOM .-g (.!! Xfk)f 1 I I I 1 l V I I 1 39 X0N5 THE WORLD'S QUICKEST SELLERS, TCJT UP BM SUCES jH JS v 1 J kXf L IV T A-JL9 fq& hubsbied readeiss -edited by mm kendbkk m JftOLLO IN THE METROLOPU5 BY DOPETON HOTAJR iConvrlglU. 190S. by the New York Her- aid Co. All Rights Ilcsc-rveil CHAPTER VILI. "When Hollo woke up the next morning morn-ing he was surprised, to find that his valet had already dressed liim and that, had had his bath and was ready for thb work of the da v. ""Well. Monty,'' he said, as they breakfasted on nine dollars' worth of (oaat and a ease of champagne, "I suppose sup-pose it ifi up to me to go lookup for a fob somewhere this morning." ' ''What on earth do you want a job forf" demanded Monty. "Aren't you satisfied with the ono you've, got?" "Why, havo I got one?" asked Rollo. "Certainly von have," rotorted Monty. Mon-ty. "Your job now is (o get hn.o society so-ciety without lotting society get into you, and it's enough to keep any man busy." t "But." protested Rollo, "1 haven't, got any money, Mjonty. You know that as well as J do." "Truo," said Monty, "but they don't know it, and what they don't know won't, hurt. you. Of course, if, youwant to be a uiotoriunu on the subway sub-way go ahead and mote. but. T tell you right now there is more monev to" be made on the level. Here's a hundred thousand for vou'now. It. ought to hold you until lunch time, when 1 shall return to take you to a week end house party at Bobby Swelling's down at Bornughhamptori-by tho-Soa. If you need any more, ring up th,a' office, but ilon't borrow less than wenty thousand. thou-sand. It'll make 'em suspicious." "Where are you going" asked Rollo. "Shopping." said Monty. "Mrs. Gollivcr Squidge has asked me to buy & pair of pink silk stockings for her and I know where I can geL a pair for eighty cents." "Mercy!" laughed Hollo.. "1 didn't suppose Airs. Golliver ' Squidge would tvear am'thing coBting less than a hundred." hun-dred." "She wouldn't if she knew it," smiled Monty. "To save her from mortifieation'l shall see that she never "You mean to say, Monty, that yon ivill charge Mrs. Gollier Squnlgi' a nindred dollars for an eighty-cent pair )f stocking? 1" "I mean to say." said Monty. "That shall collect, my commission of $1)9.-0. Nfeanwhile yon might put in your morning morn-ing making out mj' monthly bills, rhere's the Ibt." Monty tossed a slip of paper over to Rollo and calling his motor, departed. "T wondered where he got it," murmured mur-mured Rollo. L' II APT Kb' IX. Rollo glanced over Monty's memo- J randum and was astonished at the items. I Ono of them read as follows: fob. 3 Hlium .1. Purkopolie, for one Introduction to Hon. Clanecy M. Dofew 5 1.U0U Feb. ! Escorting Mr. Porkopolls and daughters to Metropolitan Opera 2,500 Fob. 5 Escorting Airs. Porkopolls and daughters to I lemmerctcm'K. 500 Feb. 6 Securing Invitation of .Mr P and daughters to Mrs. Willie Dcuceace's bridge party 3,000 Feb. 7 For mentioning tin; older MlBa Porkopolls us an heiress to the Grand Duke of Nltzlcy... 5,000 Feb. 7 Loan to Duke for a suit of clothes In which to cull on Miss Feb. 10 For dinner en famlVle with the Porkopolls family with Duke N -. 2.S00 Feb. 20 First payment on account of engagement of Duke of Nltzlcy . and Miss Porkopolls 10.000 - Total ' .525.009 . ''Merciful heavens!" cried Rollo. "What a business! " ;. CHAPTER X. At 1 o'clock Monty returned. "T have invited Dippy Hbllisier and Miss Jon Boodle to lunch, Rollo." he said. -JJ-hoy'll be here in five, minutes. While I am dressing you'd better order. J guess forty cocktails will be enough, I and or let mo hoc yo.u might begin i with some plum pudding, with stuffed ! green peppers on the side; follow that i . with a Welsh rabbit and biscuit tortoni en tasse. some corned beer and cab- i bage, a couple of saddles of spring lamb, mince pie, an Irish stem, Boston i cream cakes and some fish balls. Tell the waiter to put five pitchers of Chateau Cha-teau Yquciu, 'OS. on the ice. and to have the bathtub tilled with Blue Ruin- ! art. Brut. And let me tell you boforc j they come, if Mrs. Von Boodle offers to match yon for the lunch don't let j any of your foolish notions of Southern i cluvalrv restrain you from lotting her pay for it, if she looses. Tt is the truest chivalry to help a woman in distress, j and .iust at present Mrs. Von Boodle's chief causo of worry is her inability to sjTend her income." j Rollo gave the order, and when the j ladies arrived, a few minutes lator, ov orything was in roadincss. Mrs. Von Boodle turned out. to be a most attractive attrac-tive woman and she and Rollo got on logcthor like a house afire. "Have vou met many people since yon arrived?" she asked Rollo. ''Quire a number," said Rollo. "I have found them all very chnrnung. Colonel Skeczieks was good enough to invite me to lunch the day nr- rived ' ' "Skeezicks? Skee.icks? " said Mrs. Yon Boodle. "Seems to me 1 have heard that name before. Dippy, dear. i do T know anvbody named Skcczicks Colonel Skcczicks?" "Why, yes, Aunt Marin." replied Dippv. "Don'tyou remember he was your first husband." "Oh. well." laughed Mrs. Yon Boodle, "that accounts for it. The ; name sounded familiar. But of course you know, Mr. GoiU, one can't bo expected ex-pected to remember the names of all one's husbands in times like these. Wore there any children, Dippy?" "Two," replied Dippy. "But thev never moved in our set, Aunt Maria.4' . "You are a most agreeable young man. Mr. Goitt," said Mrs. Vou Boodle, as she paid for the lunch later in the afternoon. "And I hope you will come and see me. You are not! engaged to.be married, are voir?" ' "Xot yet. Mrs. Von Boodle," Rollo, answered, with a blu&h. j "1 only asked because 1 ;mi thinking think-ing of divorcing Von Boodle, and there's no telling but that T shall be I in "the matrimonial market again very soon," said the lady pensively. "You might bear tho idea in mind.' Rollo courteously promised to think about it, and their guests took their departure. ''Great Scott!" cried Rollo. when he returned to the apartment. "The old lady has left her gold poekotbeok on the mantelpiece. " "That's an old habit of hers," laughed Montv. "How much is there in if?" "Si.vty-cight Uiousand dollars," said Rollo. counting tho money. "Fine!" ejaculated Monty "That will pay our tips at- the Swelling's houso party nicely." CJIAPTER XI T. The meal was ovor at -l o'clock, and word came from below stairs that Monty's touring car was waiting. "Come along, Rollo," said Monty. "We're duo at Boroughhnmpton at 5 o'clock. It's onlv a' hundred and sixty-two miles, but 1 guess we'd better be starting." Thev boarded the limousine car and started down the avenue. "You'd better bet-ter climb into the upper berth, Rollo, and get forty winks. You'll neeed 'em before wo get back. Nobody ever goes to bod at Swelling's, and when yon are now1 to the game the way you are it 's a tough job keeping uwako from Thursday to Tuesday." Rollo crawled up into the upper berth at the rear of the motor, but he found it impossiblv to Fleop. The excitoment of. the dny had been too much for him, and. besides, he did not wish to miss any of the sccnory. ''What river is this?" he asked, as the car passed over the Rapt river. "Tt's the Enst river," said Monty. ) "Tt connects Mr. John D. Pocantico's private sound on the north with Col. Skibo's ocean. Mr. Focnntico is very nice about it, and lets the public use it whenever tlnv want to fact is. all these rich men are mighty decent ahont. their properly. Col. Skibo doesn't charge a cent when anybody comes along and wants to batho in his ocean, and you have seen for yourself how Mr. ' Moneybngs permits tho children of the poor to play in his Central Cen-tral purk and nde on his streot cars." "And yet they aro hold up by socialistic, so-cialistic, writers as being selfish mon," said Rollo. "res,", said Monty. "They nrc. It's a great shame, and I don't wonder RELEASED APftPl that, a lot of our billionaires are going abroad to live, ' ' As Monty spoke, the car. turning a sharp curve, crashed into a milk wagon, and in a moment the scene was bathed in white. "Don't stop," Monty telephoned tele-phoned to the chauffeur. "Chuck out one of those bunches of Transcontinental Transconti-nental bonds and haul in our number." "Wo are using iTa j. Skinner's number num-ber this afternoon,1' returned the chauffeur. "Oh. all right," said Monty. "Let. it go then, and keep the bonds until we kill a hen." But the car had to stop, nevertheless, for a long chniu stretched across the highwav ahead made further progress impossible. "Whal' the meaning of this, oflirer?" demanded Monty of the con- stable, who loomed up alongside of j of (hem. "l wanted to see. .sir, if you wished to lodge any complaint against that milkman." said the constable, "flis milk is watered, sir." "You are a vigilant official, " :iid Monty. "Here's three hundrod dollars for you. I haven't time to prosecute the milkman, but if he lives you'd boiler boi-ler warn him to keep oft the public J thoroughfares from fi a. in. 1o midnight hereafter, or we'll have him prose- I cuted. ' ' ; "Very well, sir,-' replied tlie officer, i touching his cap respect fulh . " 1 '11 Itell him. and what's more, if he's run into again on mv beat I'll club the head off of him. " I Barring the killing of four horses. ' seven dogs and a couple of ojgs noth-! noth-! ing further occurred to relieve the I monotony of the ride down, and at o o'clock precisely the car drew up be-i be-i fore the Long Island cottage of Bobby .Swelling, a beautiful structure, remind-! remind-! ing one in its general lines of the I Wiitdorf-Asioria, only . larger. Rollo 'had noticed a couple of' buildings on i cither side of the drive as they entered ! Swelling Park that looked like a 'Carnegie library he had once seen in 1 Pittsburg and ho inquired what they were. "The one on the. left is a hen-i hen-i house." said Monty. "The other is a i servants' hall. Swelling keeps a reserve re-serve force of butlors. maids, valets, chefs, scullery maids, chauffeurs, gardeners, pages and so on there all tho time in case any of thoso actually employed around the lunisc become in-, in-, capacitated. " . Liveried servants took the car and others' carried tliein into the great I house, where Rollo found a large com panv alreadv assembled playing piu-I piu-I ochle. Among others he espied Bnby I De Billo. a large, ruddy-cheeked young Jtiaidcnl whom he had met, at' Mrs. Vaa Kctham 's tea. He had been much im-! im-! pressed by her appetite at that func-i func-i tion. and was amused to observe that I she was still eating, a broiled squab ! and a platter of mashed potatoes linv-I linv-I ing been placed on the card table beside be-side her. Miss Tootsie Flyman was also tliere and was having her hair mar-, mar-, celled while plaving. "We can't afford to lose any time. '.Mr. Goitt." shc remarked, as Rollo greeted her. "I've got to earn enough i money In pay my tips or go home." "I' couldn't lend you a couple of 'hundred, could I?" Rollo asked po-I po-I litcly. I don t think you couldnt, ' she replied roguishly. "Why don't vou try?" Rollo passed on to the next table. Hero there were nply t.hreo players, and .his coming was hailed with delight. ! "Come on in; the water's fine," cried Mnzic Bunkcm. "We've been wanting want-ing a fourth hand over since Chollie Wiggins slid under jho-lablc. " CHAPTER XI 11. Hollo' played an indifferent game of pinochle, arid ns a result when he. was carried to. 'his room an hour later to bo dressed for dinner he was dimlv conscious con-scious of having Ipst between ijTfj.OOO and $100,000. "I've made a fool of myself, Mon-ty. Mon-ty. " he groaned, when his brother joined hirn. "I've lost nnd you'll be . invited everywhere. " I "I don't "want them to think I can't j do anything," retorted Rollo. ' "My dear boy, popularity in the 1 metropolis is not based on what you do, c but on the easy grace with which you , ; Jet yourself be done," said Monty. "Your turn will come at the shool to- night " 1 1 "Tho .shoot?" demanded Rollo. 4 "Yes," said Monty, "I've told 1 Swelling that, you are a dead shot, and after supper he's going to have a chaui-j chaui-j pagnc shoot. to give you a chance." CHAPTER XIV. ' Rollo look the rifle in his hands, and, ! leaning his arm easily upon the dinner J table, aimed tho weapon at the first bot-1 bot-1 tie of Goit & Shandon on the buffet, j The whole company was breathless with ' interest. Bang wont the rific. and the j graceful neck of the champagne bor. I tie shivered into, a thousand pieces. Bang went the second shot, and with the same effect upon thc second bottle, and so on until he had shot the whole, I case without, a miss. : "Set 'em up again," said Swelling : imnerturbabh . : The butjer arranged the contents of 1 another case on the buffet, aud Rollo ! repented ihe performance twenty-four , quarts had gone down without n miss. 1 "J '111 game," muttered Swelling, j "How many cases have wo left, liar I low?" he added, addressing the hutleiv 1 " Ninely.sir.'.' replied the butler. "Bring em all up," said Swelling. 1 1 'II bet anybody here a million to a i nickel he falls down before he finishes ; the twenty-fifth cac." I The bet' was proniptlv accepterl on all . sides, tho women particularly showing j great eagerness to get into 'the game. 1 "I'll take a hundred thousand dol j Jars" worth of that." said Monty, j Rollo "s nerve grew steadier' as I t : realized what a win of that kind would mean to tho Ooit family fortunes. A hundred thousand dollars was" five mil lion nickels, and if he won Monty would be a winner of five billiou dollars or thereabouts on the odds offered by Swelling. Case after case went, shivering shiver-ing to pieces before his unerring aim. until only one bottle stood between him and the riches of Colconda. Dippv J 1 ol-listcr, ol-listcr, who had 10 cents on the result, fainted; and Swelling's face grew HvKl as he thought of the prospect not that the sum itself was a large one to a man who owned half of Bensonhurst and carried innumerable small fortunes on margin in most of the bucket, shops of New York, but because of the great waste in champagne which Rollo 's marksmanship had involved. 1 "I wish we'd made it. beer" he growled to himself. Again Rollo's rifle caiuc to the aim. His eye Hashed down the barrel length, aud his hand trembled slightly, hut with a short, sharp gasp he pulled the I rigger. rig-ger. . BANG! Rollo woke up. "Where am l?" he rrasped, and then he looked around him. He was lving in his bed, his comfortable comfort-able old Mississippi bed, and at his side stood his mother ami good old Dr. Bos-byshell. Bos-byshell. the family physician. "'-'He will recover." said the doctor, feeling his pulse. "It has been a hard .,,,11 mi. Vinv- 'Mm -xlAnA ! "Jhne 1 been ill? ' gasped Rullor rubbing his eves. I "Yen ." said the doctor. " Vou have had a bad attack of yellow noyolitis. T would advise yon to give un current literature and confine your reading hereafter here-after to the Little Prudy Books or the i Dot t v Dimple Scrips. " "1 hae been " queried Rullo. t I j rH ' Gasphyxiated." returned the doctorf I " 1H snii'ing down upon him. jfj . i "But Monty?" cried Rollo. uncon- P M ! vipecd. " Where is Monty ?" .t j "He is coming home.'' said his moth- VH "er. "Poor boy! He telegraphed tu IMrl I last night for the necessary carfare." Sf flH i And then Rollo understood. It -Ifjl |