Show MONEY TO BURN BURNBY BY PETER B. B KYNE 0 v g CO b by B Kyne Ci U 1 rU St Service THE STORY Hiram Butterworth miser de- de eldes to leave hl hip fortune to El Elmer gl mer Clarke Clark a p poor or young neph neph- e ew He tells ten Absolom his lawyer of or a deal fort forty yearn year earl ago In which he hI swindled a man mall out Jill of ot and arran arranges es for foi payment ment with Interest Butterworth Butter Butter- worth dies suddenly Through h o D gossiping telegraph operator the town of or hears of or I- I EJmer's Cl Ih h mers mer's fortune before he does Nellie Cathcart Elmer's Elmers sweetheart sweet sweet- heart tells him his Inheritance Is more than a million Colola Colorado o Charley and his partner Mae decide to pluck Elmer l treble Nellie insists that Elmer J see ce more of 01 the world before their marriage Unknown to Elmer Nellie I It is heiress s of ot the man mm Butterworth swindled and nd she fi figures figure lIrt th there re Is tg ab about ut coming to her Elmer becomes a candidate for school trustee Posing as a newspaper reporter rel under the name of or Doris Gatewood Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- rado fado Charleys Charley's confederate erate calls callson on Elmer f CHAPTER VII VII Continued Continued 7 7 Youre very kind By ny the 1 way Mr Ir Clarke If you'll f forgive r he me for for mentioning men r boning It piano has hils your a wonderful oJ l' l tone hut it needs tuning i I wasn't aware of that Nobody has has' opened the old ruin since m iny my mother Another pas passed et away ny over o five thee years a ago o And you U Jive Ike quite alone f I i He no nodded the while he appraised r j her with the impersonal air of good I breeding which was his natural herit herlt- age He decided d she was the most dashing young Joung woman he had ever er seen In fact she was more beautiful than Nellie Cathcart and Cathcart-and at cart and and Elmer had hadU U thought ou ht that an impossibility for any woman woman Perhaps he told himself that was RS due to the undeniable air of her more more than to superiority of ot sheer physical beauty Nellie too had an anair anair anair air but It was WIS natural while Miss lIss Doris poris Doris Gatewood appeared to have hae acquired acquired ac ac- ac- ac hers She Site was dressed In lu a manner which Elmer could not have described like all of his Ills sex all he knew about women's clothes was that they looked stunning or Indifferent Miss Gatewood's wardrobe then and there here In evidence was as neither stunnIng stunning stun stun- ning ninfi nor Indifferent and Elmer found in his rag bag of a mind a phrase that appeared to describe her and her clothes She was well groomed Her little tan hat hat It it was a aParis aParis aParis Paris model model gave gave her a saucy air and fitted her face Her hair was bobbed 41 and d as black and glistening as us a ravens raven's wing Her lIer skin was the kind one loves to touch but whether her glorious glorious glori glen ous Qua coloring was natural or artificial was as beyond Elmers Elmer's ability to decide She wore a smart tailored suit of ot brownish tweed and somewhat mannish mannish mannish man man- nish cut brown silk stockings and cunning little brown brogues with tasseled tasseled tasseled tas- tas tongues Her lIer shirtwaist with a tailored collar collir was immaculately white and ver very pl plain ln She wore Colorado Charleys Charley's handsome brown silk tie her gloves were brown and her eyes were brown radiant challenging alight with interest 1 r a darb thought Elmer But- But Butterworth ten orth Clarke Brains to spare Must have to to tobe be a special correspondent correspondent correspondent cor cor- respondent of the American Weekly Ire Ive heard writers like Uke her make a n hundred or two a week sometimes more That's why she can carl afford such nice clothes But she Isn't overdressed either What Nellie would call good taste is the ke keynote note of her get Miss Doris Gatewood on h her r part was without appearing to do so making making mak mak- making ing a swift appraisal of ot Elmer Elsner Clarke he nice looking she site asked her tier self And he has nice manners too for a Ii hick He must have had a nice mother Hes He's small town but not a Reuben and hes he's shy and sensitive Hello he wears a sliver silver service button button button but but- ton In his lapel Hes He's been to th the war and aud been wounded Right leg doubt douht- less I notice he favors It just a n little lIe He buys his suits read ready Much too much of ot the collegiate atmosphere to the one hes he's wearing His Ills tie Is a trifle flamboyant but that's what they're wearing lately H He seems reserved and dignified Bet hes he's an old fashioned bo boy takes off his hat In elevators and gives up his seat scat In n street cars cats to old ladles ladies Good western type and not fresh Hes He's taking me in from heels tp hair but his e eyes es are as innocent and free from desire as a hab E Elmer youre you're a anice anice anice nice boy and und I like you Now to tomake tomake tomake make you ou like me She fished a notebook and n a short pencil from her pocket and und smiled across at him apologetically Of Ot course course Mr Ir Clarke I know Im I'm boring you OU to the point of ot warm tears tem's she began But really you OU look so kind I cant can't feel as contrite about it as I ought Besides I make my living by boring people people making making them talk when they hey do not want to and putting words into their mouths when they refuse to talk What do you want to know he challenged Oh Ob all about the fortune that's that's been left you you- by the undo uncle youve you've never neverseen neverseen neverseen seen 1 Im I'm orde ordered ed to interview you I und nd get a snappy story o on how it feels to be 11 II pour poor man today mid and IJ a i mil roll millionaire tomorrow Id I'd like to have hu some f expression from to ou you U as your our Ideas Idus on the obligations of uC W wealth Does DoCs money make for Cor great happiness or OJ vice versa a 1 What do you expect todo to todo do with jour mo money t v and nd when Are you OU going to tn II marry III the lie one girl Irl who has been heln wail waiting I II for fur you or yon or Is there one girl out nut h he reminded her Its noh nobody's drs dr's business whether theres there's one ne girl or two or a dozen and dozen and if it there were I should not discuss lils them Tipped a foul Coul that time Gatewood Gate Gate- wood went on nn Oil flushing prettily Still on one er never ran can tell whither whether the patient will talk on that lint subject or not so usually we it ask le to find out Pardon Ill I'll tr try to stick slick to tn my knitting hereafter here here- after Now ow IW then then then-Mr Mr Clarke what is your our man Friday cooking for dinner dinner din din- ner It 11 smells like corned corned beef and cabbage cah- cah huge bage to me This Is Thursday isn't It i Miss Gatewood nodded brightly And potatoes boiled th their lr ja Jackets oil on she he queried with eager r cur curl curi- y p II I La 7 4 ti aS 4 Y 1 He Nice Looking She Asked Herself He ne n nodded Then youre you're as ris 1 as I am am she challenged I adore plain food and Im I'm famished To himself Elmer said I III suppose Ill I'll be a dog if it I don't dont invite her t to eat some of It t. t Confound it I think she expects to be Invited incited or wants to be That's Just like hike these bohemian newspaper newspaper news news- paper aper women or en He e turned to his vis vis- vis- vis j I 1 Hor i I 1 J use e very much to in invite vite you to dinner Miss Gatewood Gate d but but but- Id adore to come she interrupted before he could cloak his invitation with more buts During dinner we can have a nice long comfortable In In- Well Miss Gatewood if you OU can manage e without a chaperon I can Im sure youre you're not at all a dangerous danger danger- ous person Mr Me Clarke I am sure you ou are I Elmer came back back at her Just lust like that She blushed at the compliment and anel proved herself equally fast by retorting retorting retorting retort retort- ing I see you are not a stranger to risks Mr Clarke I had two brothers broth broth- I ers In the service One was killed at Soissons and the other was gassed He Tie hasn't been very well since He lives with me In Los Angeles Indeed Well I had my taste of or gas too My lily lungs are still stilla a little ticklish but Im I'm slowly outgrowing outgrowing out out- growing the effect Pardon me please while I tell Jasper to set a place for you ou and add a few fancy faney touches in In your Jour honor That was a ver very delightful If It unconventional unconventional dinner MI Miss 3 Gatewood was charming It was her business to becharmIng becharming be becharming charming and she knew her business Her tier charm received a 8 considerable impetus Impetus Impetus Im Im- f petus however from the charm which she extracted from Elmer Under the ameliorating influence of ot her delight delight- ful personality tamer was In perfect form He lle was WH Interviewed without heln being aware of If it nor did lId Doris Gatewood Gate Gate- wood have to Inter lew him Everything Everything Every cry thing she fhe wanted to know knO came out ont naturally In their com creation In feet Curt the Ind lady almost forgot she site was playing lnA a part She was was returning to Los Angeles AnJel s on the train which came ame through h Pilar Pilar- ritos drus a aft t ten tJ ten thirty that night After dinner dinner- r she he su suggested ested that unless Emer ElmEr Elmer El El- mer r had bad something b better to do they night might ht kill time lute h hv by going ting to a movie SIn Since p. p Nellie jellie ellie was as d dining out that night and nd J Elmer Elsner r hind had nothing better to do dom dothan dothan than m escort his new-found new acquaintance acquaint acquaint- ance to the movie he be dt declared red he could think of nothing more ful So they went to s see e a n thriller surd find once during an exciting moment hithe of nt the photoplay Miss Miss Gatewood d Elmers Elmer's hand Imp Impulsively and cling to It apparently quite oblivious of r what she was doln doing After dinner r Elmer mm r walked with h tier her r to the train and got goot her little tra traveling lIn case out of the the checking station station in the depot Before tore she boarded the train she had exacted a promise from him to call upon her herand herand hern and n d' d her brother at tl their Los An Angeles eles home and md have dinner with them Elner Elmer El EI- ner mer said he lie expected to be In Los Angeles in fn a n few days clays to buy busy an automobile auto auto- mobile and would take that opportunity opportunity to renew an acquaintance so happily b begun un Upon arrival In hs Los An Angeles Angeles- ples Mae alias Doris Gatewood reported to Colorado Charley that the fish was on th the line that nothing now remained to do save get out the net and antI land him CH CHAPTER TER VIII VIII S When Elmer Elmer- Clarke re returned to his humble Bumble l home dome after seeing Doris Doris' Gatewood Gatewood Gatewood Gate- Gate wood oft off rr at the railroad station he heas was as sensible of ot having ln passed one of the most delightful evenings In years Of Of- course he had spent many delightful delight delight- ful hours In Nellie Cathcart's company com com- pany pany l' Nellie was always delightful dell but hut about this other girl there had h been heen a charm charin so utterly different from fromN N Nellies Nellie's that Elmer RImer after the fashion of i his sex yielded to the ht of It without bothering to analyze It lt She dazzled him She lla had In effect dared him to like her her and and he had He wished he mi might ht see Jee her again Elmer lunched with Nellie the lie following following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing da day and discussed with her his coming campaign n for election to the hoard board of trustees of the Union hl h j I school school school-a a subject In which Nellie list d's played the most avid Interest For It a reason so vague he did not pause to define it he lie refrained from telling Nellie of the visit isit of ot the young oung lady reporter the evening previous Nellie wondered wonder d why he did not She had seen him walking down to the station with this stranger and had marked her thoroughly from the toes of her smart boots to the tip of her saucy hat lint In particular Nellie hind had been ben struck by a note of spurious merri merriment ment meat in n her gurgling laugh as the pair passed too interested in themselves to see her That laugh had been Just a trifle too loud On Tuesday Elmer received a lon long Ions letter froth from Absolom h olom c conveying con con- ri v ln very definite Information regarding regarding regarding re re- garding the estate estate tate It consisted largely large large- ly IJ of ot ver very valuable business real estate In n the city a plethora of frame In the poorer section of the city from which Uncle Hiram lu had hod d Prawn rentals entirely disproportionate to the value valse of the pro property pert stock stocks bonds tarn farm mort mortgages a es and a little private banking business business- a usurers usurer's shop hop In reality Mr M felt confident that the little balking business could readily be he disposed of ot to form a branch hank of a large local Institution Of eon Ott Ft In view ot Uncle Hiram's death this bank sc Be sc dependent nt upon his presence would tot now DOW hE be sold at much of ot a profit out DUt it could be disposed of If without loss and a course co After reading rending that letter Elmer tell felt fellmore more than ever ver inclined to follow tollow the dictates of at his humble ambition and purchase a 1 fine car He lIe curried carried the letter over to the lie Commercial Commer Commer- cial Trust Ic Sa ln Savings s bank and showed It to the charming trust officer of that lint Institution Nellie was much Interested interested Inter Inter- ested and proffered some advice lct when Elmer I 1 n declared he lie was as going down to Los Angeles the following day la to place an der o er for tor the new ne car cur carIle He lIe promised promised promIsed prom prom- Nellie the first ride in It Before he could drive away from th the aI agency with his new posse possession slon the next d day clay I. I a smart uniformed chauffeur appeared and nud reminded him that a gentleman g able to afford a n first class car could not po possibly descend to drIvIng driving ing big It ft himself Elmer was struck by bythe the force of ot this argument and engaged engaged engaged en en- tl the e man at a salary of fifty dollars dollars dols dol dol- lars tars a week While waiting for Cor the license plates to arrive he telephoned Doris Gatewood Gatewood Gatewood Gate Gate- wood and andas was as rewarded with shrill feminine cries of ot delight from the lady Indy ladyn I In n question Could he hc not trot come out ont to the house for luncheon She had Just finished her story an and was about tom to tomail m mall mail Jl It perhaps cast perhaps he would care to read it first Y Elmer would He lie said he lie would he be delighted to and und at atone at one o'clock he slid sUd noiselessly up to Colorado Charles Charleys Charley's Charley's Charleys Char Char- leys ley's dainty bungalow and discovered lIsco the girl and li h her r alleged ed brother waiting waiting wait waite ing for him on the lawn The rhe famed fumed prodigal returning from his unwholesome adventure with the husks and the swine could not have been received with more enthusiasm The luncheon was exquisite and wort sewed served by Doris Gatewood herself She Sho flushed prettily when Colorado Charley Charle reminded Elmer that she had cooked conked it herself Charle Charley at ate little however ho and appeared languid l and disinterested disinterested disinter disinter- ested esterl as became a semi Having HavIng Haying Hav |