The Clarion

als and conduct, he was guided by a natural temperance and an innate sense of responsibility to himself. Difficult questions had not come up in his life. Consequently he h

efined philosophy. All that young Mr. Surtaine required of his fellow beings was that they should behave themselves with a due and respectable regard to the rights of all in g

rtina business formed the nucleus of it. As he thought it over that night, amidst the heavily ornate elegance of the great bedroom, which, with its dressing-room and bath, his father had set aside for his u

toward the processes of compounding the cure and the minute and insistent attention given to the methods of expounding it. Was the advertis

possible to defend, ethically, that prevalent modern phenomenon, the millionaire, in any of his manifestations. By the counsel of perfection this might well be true. But who was he to judge his father by such rigorous standards? Of the medical aspect of the question he could form no clear judgment. To him the patent medicine trade was simply a part of t

siness, not any evil quality inherent in it, which had offended him. Kindest and gentlest of men and best of fathers as Dr. Surtaine was, he was not a paragon of good taste; and his business naturally reflected his personality. Even this was further than Hal had ever gone be

t of view." And then he wondered, rather amusedly, how much of this self-suggestion arose fro

M. Pierce, who had found time to be present, and several prominent citizens whom he thought quite dully simi

Meantime the Old Man grubbed along on a bowl of milk and a piece of apple pie, at

busy as al

to save an hour for you out of this afternoo

ready

here's

sual place on the

ing it back wi

They mightn't have let

"Considering that you seem to have bought it outright," he said, twinkling, "I

ed Hal. "You've never limited me,

three times over in any month. That isn't the point. The point is that you

it an even fifty," he said.

you? How

and that sort of thing, and had pretty good luck selling 'em. One fellow I know the

I was afraid you might be going

er spent

basis. I'd thought of an allowance, but I don't quite li

I didn't know t

, you

did I g

hip. From the old

tangible fort

day. You had a profit-sharing right in that. You've still got it-i

ney, Dad," said the

ome to fifty thousand d

; and that's mo

any rate, it's your own. Plenty more w

s more than ge

ore than just, Boyee.

But-you know how

between us, Boyee." There was a grave gentleness in Dr. Surtaine's tone. "Well, there are

urity Power Products Company; twenty-five thousand each in the stock of the Worthington Trust Company and the Remsen Savings Bank; one hundred thousand in the Ce

these, Dad

ant to do some investing of your own. Or possibly you mig

er Products Company cert

six, at least and the Mid-and-Mud averages eight. You've got upwards of thirty-seven thousand income there, not counting your depos

would do this sort of thi

own you, Boyee. I want you to own yoursel

ke myself li

the father. "But I want a fine finish on you. While you're looking a

cried Hal. "

what an Old H

day's paper announcing t

be particularly big because it's the hundredth anniversary of the city. The President of the United

'd like be

with the people who count. Well, that settles our business. Good luck to you in your indep

he Reverend

d hi

go, Dad?"

ound the shop. Go anywhere. Ask any qu

relieved the face of impassivity and saved it from a too formal clericalism. The visitor was too deeply concerned with some

ou, Mr. Hale.

owed gravely

me to see

n to the East End

work your church is doing in the-er-less salu

urned the young

, a little uneasily. "I suppose it's a question," h

it is

e the fact. He contemplated with minute scrutiny a fly which at that moment was alighting (in

, adding to himself, "Wha

loratory tour upon Dr. Surtaine's domed forehead. Following it thus far, the visitor's gaze rested. Dr. Surtaine bru

he suggested, "to give

wanted to have this thing

" returned the othe

newspaper page to which was pinned an oblong of

making no motion to receive it,

r ch

return

out t

housand dollars!" demanded t

act

hy

tion asked in

t

itten by the superintendent of our S

nd of a

hich your two thousand doll

aller's innocence. "Why, I wouldn't pay that for a United States Senato

your check should have come right on top

the beneficiary an indorsement of Certina's virtues, or, if not that, of the personal character and professional probity of its proprieto

inquisitor. So he merely said: "I never saw any s

ose, until the name of the church is spread

never to advertise an unwilling testimonial b

it," said Dr. Surtaine disdainfu

n a tone of calm sequentiality, which might r

point," said th

in your business, it can't be of an

its valu

church is involved. The check is

Surtaine reproached him sorrowfully, "and use hard words about a tra

n my c

tter, anyhow. You

e so. He didn't understand what use would be made of it when he wro

ith an air of scholarliness. "You win. The letter will

y; and th

leave the check in your hands

e it," came the

ind telli

ewspaper page which he had taken from his p

ring, yellow blatherskite, on its last legs financially. It's for sale to any bidder who'd be fool enough to put up mon

this attack is due to your refusa

aine in a tone of long-suffering and dignified injury, "how believi

this remarkable paraphrase of the Scrip

l charges, which the 'Clarion' q

nd glad to get it. Then it went daffy over the muckraking magazine exposures, and threw out all the

editor of the 'Standar

orate carelessness, "if I tried to deny everything that irresponsible parties say about me, I wouldn't have any time left for business. W

leaving the "Clarion's" denuncia

the hallway, Hal had

busy, Miss N

red, regarding him with bright a

ow some things abo

wn department, I

department, then. May

nced toward a settee at the end of the hall. "I'll give you

I believe, you call them-" he began; "do they s

rtina? Why, yes. Most of

dicine for all that l

t's a good medicine!" she cried. "Do you

"But it seems like a wide range of diseases

ers and the Relief Pills and the liniment; Dr. Surtaine runs 'em all, and every one's a winner. Not that I keep much track of 'em. We only h

ed. "Well, you're certainly a liv

take it. It's a good tonic,

who were actually in the business had faith in the patent

han all the doctors in the country. I'd trust him further than any regular doctor I know, even if he doesn't

doubts melt at the fire of her enthusiasm

most popular employer in Worthington. Have you

a valuable employee, Mi

ctory admitted of no jocularity. She took him u

ou ever

'm not whol

living,

ely I've ne

ld are

nty-

u in my department, if it wa

n't be amenable to yo

age. "It isn't that. But I don't think you'd be inte

y the acuteness of her judgment, and a little piqued as well. "T

ou know I didn't mean that. But

ental to b

at me!" she accused. "I'm going back to my work. I won't stay and be made fun of." Then, i

meet," he besought her with winning courtesy. "You've been a kind

d lamely, and walked away

cion found his father immersed in technicalit

ew minutes." And he resumed his discussion of "blac

From the newspaper which the Reverend Norman Hale had left,

INA

Shows Up Business

Dr. L. An

he skimmed it, Hal's wrath and loyalty waxed in direct ratio. Malice was obvious in every line, to the incensed r

ing that s

all a pack of lies. But

kmail

to get money out

d to have any business dealings with '

u advertised Certina

t we don't have to. But some of the side lines, like the Relief Pills, that go out under another tra

ue them for

ad the 'Clarion' anyway, so it can't hurt m

be done about it," d

th out into the open air. Hard and fast he walked,

ovel-reading and theater-going. Deep within him stirred a conviction that there was a proper and suitable, nay, an almost obligatory, method made and provided for just such crises as this: something that a keen-spirited and hig

him down to a task of composition. The apology which, after sundry corrections and emendations, he finally produced in fair copy, was not alone complete and explicit: it was fairly abject. In such terms might a confessed and hopeless criminal cast himsel

oung master's study hung a plaited dog-whip. The agent of just reprisals curled this neatly in

rror lay in expecting to find the editorial staff of a morning newspaper on duty in the early forenoon. So much a sweeper, emerging from a pile of dust, communicated to him across

, and in its pages discovered a "follow-up" of the previous day's outrage. Back home he went, and added to his literary effort a few more paragraphs wherein the editorial "we" more profoundly