ight into his. "Nothing so impossible
as that, Captain. I'm going to tell you the story of his brother."

Jeff told it, but he and the owner of the _World_ disagreed radically
about the best way to answer the attack.

"Why must you always stand between that kid glove cousin of yours and
trouble? Let him stand the gaff himself. It will do him good," Chunn
stormed.

But Jeff had his way. The _World_ made no denial of the facts charged.
In a statement on the front page that covered less than three sticks
he told the simple story of the defalcation of Robert Farnum. One thing
only he added to the account given in the opposition papers. This was
that during the past two years the shortage of the bank cashier had been
paid in full to the Planters' First National at Shelby.

There were many forecasts as to what the effect of the Farnum story
would be on the election returns. It is enough to say that the ticket
supported by the _World_ was chosen by a small majority. James was
elected to the legislature by a plurality of fifteen hundred votes over
his antagonist, a majority unheard of in the Eleventh District.

CHAPTER 8

Is not this the trouble with our whole man-made world, that
the game is played with loaded dice? Against the poor, the
weak and the unfortunate have the cards been stacked. A
tremendous percentage is in favor of the crook, the
scoundrel, the smug robber of industry by whom the hands are
dealt.

Wealth, created by the many, is more and more flowing into
the vaults of the few. Legislatures, Congress, the courts,
all the machinery of government, answer to the crack of the
whip wielded by Big Business. The creed of the allied
plunderers is that he should take who has the power and he
should keep who can.

Until we mutiny against the timidity of our times Democracy
and Prosperity will be dreams. The poor and the parasite we
shall have always with us.

In that new world which is to be MEN and not THINGS will be
supreme, property a means and not an end. The heart of the
world will be born anew under an economic reconstruction
that will give freedom for individual development. For our
social and industrial life will be founded not on a denial
of God but on an affirmation of Brotherhood.--From the Note
Book of a Dreamer.

THE HERO MEETS AND ADMIRES A MONA LISA SMILE. HE IS TENDERED AN APOLOG