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Show "Jacob's Ladder" By E. Phillipt Oppenheim Jacob's Ladder." by E. Phillips Oppenheim. Op-penheim. is true to the style and workmanship work-manship at the popular writer. Jacob Pratt, a middle class Englishman, English-man, finds himself bankrupt because of hi brother's failure to return some money 'Jacob has loaned him. As a consequence, for several years he leads a miserably unhappy exlstrnce as a leather aalesman. Kudfienly the brother In America makes a fortune in oil. and Jacob finds himself one of the wealthy men of England and correspondingly famous. Having a keen sense of the responsibility his money brings and nf his own past wretchedness, he decides to devote himself to helping tfle "under do" and to outwitting the sharks who ' prey upon people of small means. He pays up a few old scores and pro-!oeeds pro-!oeeds to build up a new circle of friends. He Is besieged by "sharpers" whom he outwits, and Is In turn outwitted out-witted by them, but Lady Felixstowe and her capable brother take a hand. In true Oppenheim fashion, and the gajne is ultimately Jacob's. His adventures ad-ventures range from purely mental encounters en-counters with sharp wilted cheats to situations where his very life is In danger- they take him to Scotland and then to America, where he Is led into exciting and puxzllng enterprises. In "Jacob's Ladder" Mr. Oppenheim haa forsaken his favorite motif of international in-ternational Intrigue, but these mi-.scrupulous mi-.scrupulous men and women, determined deter-mined to get possession of some portion por-tion of Jacob's gold, keep things moving mov-ing at a lively pace and give Jacob plenty of employment in circumventing circumvent-ing schemes.. There is ample opportunity opportu-nity afforded for Mr. Oppenheim to use his inimitable gift of story telling. (Little, Brown IX Boston.) . |