A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Fifth

o girls lay abed much later than their father breakfasted, and their mother had gradually grown too feeble to come down t

ave you been saying a

across his coffee-cup throu

her eyes, and the sp

and her glance darted from her father to Mrs. Mandel. "Oh, it's you, is

what he wanted here, and he said he didn't want anythi

I'd like to know what made you think I wasn't able to take care of myself. I just knew somebody had been meddling, but I didn't suppose it was

You impudent jade

ets, some of which glittered and dangled from them. She said, "Will you go to him and tell him that t

d the old ma

gs and bracelets-among the breakfast-dishes, from which some of them sprang to the floor. She stood a moment to pull the intaglio ring from the fi

to Mrs. Mandel. He seemed unable to rise again from his chair; but when she asked him if he were unwell, he said no, with an air of offence, and got quickly to his feet. He mechanically picked up

. Mandel, in a tremor, and with the fright in her

w, and now she knows." He started toward the door of the lib

ain here, after the language your daughter has used

rudely. He added, from the hall before he

foos heard nothing of the strike in the lobby of the Stock Exchange, where he spent two or three hours watching a favorite stock of his go up and go down under the betting. By the time the Exchange closed it had risen eight points, and on this and some other investments he was five thousand dollars richer than he had been in the morning. But he had expected to be richer still, and he was by no m

the driver, who jumped down from his box to

driver. "Hasn't been an

ri

ly giddy, and he remained staring at t

asked, "

h uncontrollable fury: "I told you once! Go up to West Eleventh,

e wished to see Fulkerson, and ask him something about Beaton: whether he had been about lately, and whether he had dro

yfoos returned after glancing into Fulkerson's empty office.

lancing at the clock. "I'm afraid he isn't comi

d sidewise and upward t

er fellow

ore Mr. Fulkerson

here in the middle of the af

ther Week" at work between four and five. "Mr. March, you know, always takes a good deal of his work home with him, and I

n's mild face merely saddened, and he said nothing. "I've got a coupe out there now that I had to take because I couldn't get a car. If I had my way I'd have a lot of those vagabonds hung. They're waiting to get the city into a sna

rike is useless

ired walkin' so much. I should like to know what your gentleme

his eyes. "I am not autho

s you're not authorized

't agree about these thi

ught of Christine came over him. "As long as you eat my bread, you have got to do as I say. I won't have my children telling me what I shall

think they were very foolish to strike-at this

st Side that it 'd been wise to strike before we got the Elevated." Con

there don't seem any other way for the workingmen to get justice.

e paid enough already,

day. How much do you thi

en

to answer. "The men say that with partial work, and fines, and other

t do you think the upshot of it all will be, after they've ruined business for another wee

l have to

d what will you say the

feel about it

y. But if I have got to say how I shall feel, why, I shall feel sorry they didn't succeed,

is eyes blazing, his teeth set.

pity them; my whole heart

ught his hand with his own left, and, while the blood began to trickle from a wound that Christine's in

nged into the coupe. He trembled with his evil passion, and glared out of the windows at the passers as he drove hom

was not deep, and he thought he would not put anything on it. After a while he locked up the office and started out, he hardly knew where. But he walked on, in the directi