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Chicago Ledger, v. XLVII, no. 47, Saturday, November 22, 1919.
Contributor
Ward, Harold. Pearce, John Irving, Jr.
Date Added
9 January 2014
Format
Newspaper
Language
English
Publish Date
1919-11-22
Publisher
Chicago, Ill. : W. D. Boyce Company
Source
Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Alternate Title
The Daughter of Dance Hall Kate / by Harold Ward and John Irving Pearce, Jr.
Topic
Popular literature > Specimens. Story papers > Specimens.
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the city enginepr surveying Smartley’s
lot, and, knowing its owner as wel
he did, he had no doubt that the crafty
politician had made sure of his ground
before making his threat. Holtzner
closed the shop an hour earlier than his
usual time that night and took Dimselt
posthaste to the telegraph off
He wasted three telegraph blanids be-
fore he got owe worded short enough
and explicit enough to suit him.
“Mister A, B. Blackstone,” the
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‘Inder Natlonal Hotel, Chicago, 1}.
“Der factory we have built
inch too much on Schmartley’s lot.
We get to move it. tee
Ground-rent me got it to pay.
must I do, quick? Don’t pay for
“this telegraph: me, I am paying
t. HOLTZNER.”
The clerk looked up from she mes-
sage, smiled, presumably at~an im-
passing the. door, as
he ran his pencil thru the last sentence,
and returned twenty-nine cents of
Holtzner’s dollar.
The following morning Holtener re
ceived a telegram from Chicag
Make certain’ factory is 0
Smartley’s ground. If so, offer five
hundred dollars for title. If offer
refused, have one inch cut from
side of building. Home in three
weeks, BLACKSTONE.
“Cut one inch ‘from der wall off?”
Ioltzner reflected, as he plowed a floury
hand thoughtfully thru his halr. “Cut
one inch from der wall off!. Dot costs
more as five hundred dollars, I bet me.
Suppose once ** and he stopped short,
as a happy thought slowly drifted his
way. “But I make myself sure first,” he
concluded. and slipped the telegram in
his pocke i
“Fritz!” he falicd to oné of the
bakers. “Come mind shop once;
some business 1 got to see about out-
side.
At the city hall Holtzner interviewed
the city engineer and learned from that
official that Smartley had made no false
statement, Not satisfied with this, how-
Blackstone's architect, as-
sisted by the building contractor, resur-
vey the property. Here the matter was
argued pro and con, and, finally, hot
and “heavy, architect and contractor,
each contending that the other was at
fault, But wherever the blame lay, the
undisputed fact remained thay A. B.
Blackstone’g crack
ley’s Eround.
cussed the abutting wall of the cracker
factory from various angles.
“Now, we keep this myself and
yourself, Mr. Arburg," Holtzner ims
pressed on the buitding contractor, at
the end of their discussion.
Then back to the city halh he went
again, to look for Alderman Smartley.
He found this man in the mayor's of-
fice, in a confidential talk with a law-
¥ Disresarding the formality of,
excusing himself, Holtzner interrupted”
their conversation.
“Mr. Schmartley,” he said, very brisk-
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etone gives you by me for one inch
from your ground, which his factory is
on it—and not again does he offer it.
Now.” and Holtzner folded his arms
across his chest, “will you take it or
ont you?”
Smartley lauched “outright. “Not by
a d—d sight will I take it.” then turned
his back in Holtzner’s face and calmly
reeumed his interrupted conversation.
out more ado—unleas it were a
eine Of satisfaction that found expres-
sion in ace—Holtzner took his
leave. He walked acrors town again
like a man going somewhere in particu-
lar and bent on doing something of
grave Importance when he gets there,
Arrived at the cracker factory, he
called the contractor aside once more,
and they held another strictly private
and somewhat lengthy confabulation,
which even the brick wall under discus-
sion could not have heard—if walls, as
is said, have ears,
IE following day the only hardware
store in Blankly sold completely out
of cold-chisels and heavy hammers, anda
newly-
erected scaffolding, Holtzner had a se~
cret word or two with each of them.
And to each of them he gave “hush-
money” for some purpose, with t
monition to “keep this by yourself.”
It became the town talk, thia very re-
markable Job of partly clipping away
an entire side of a three-story brick
building in order to meet the head-
One-Thousand Dollars an -Inch
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strong purpose of Alderman Smartley—
this fixed resolve of his not to yield an.
inch to his sworn enemy, A. B. Black-
stone. .
And it was 4 tedious Job, and one in
which Alderman Smartley of the Fourth
took’ great pleasure ‘in covertly watchs
ing, Each day he would stroll leisurely
past the building, delay awhile to ab-
mentally calculate how much the labor
on the opposite wall was lessening A.
B. Blackstone’s bank .account. Every
sound ofthe hammer and chisel was
sweetest music to’Aleck Smartley’s ears.
The second round of the fight was on.
was completed, however,
and the foundation of Smartley’s fac-
tory well under way before Blackstone
returned from Chicago, and Smartley
was congratulating himself that the
protecting wall of his enemy’s would
allow a considerable saving of brick in
his own adjoining wall.
Carl Holtzner evinced an unusual ine,
terest in the erection of Smartley's fac-
tory, an interest that seemed to a
im a deal of -satisfaction, strange
tho it appear. Not a day went by that
he did not run a calculating eye over
the gradually. rising . walls, and in-
wardly chafe at the delay. ~ Indeed,
Smartly himself could not have mant-
fested more impatience to see the fac-
tory comple
“Carl,” Blackstone inquired one morn~
ing, avout’ two weeks after his return,
what is there between you and Con-
tractor Arburg?” There was'a slightly
troubled expression in Blackstone's
frown. “Ife won't present his bill for
the extra work in cutting an inch from
the north wall, nor will he tell me the
amount. How about it?” .
Holtzner shifted his pipe to a new
position in his mouth. “Y-es," he re-
urned, evasively, “it’s all right, Mr.
Blacksto
“But it “\en't all right, hae " Black:
stone asserted,
want all bills paid and out of the
y.” .
“Mr. Blackstone,” Holtzner “inquired,
with highly elevated eyebrows, - “you
have some confidence by me, ain't it?”
"Y-es, Carl, but-——'
“Then it’s all right,” Holtzner broke
in, confidently; and then with an alr of
finality: ‘Mr. Arburg, after . while,
brings his bill—an’ der” bill gets paid.”
Holtzner would talk no more on the
subject after this, and Blackstone, tho
confident of his employe’s loyalty, -won-
dered at the knowing smile which over-
spread his face whenever the matter
was mentioned in the future,
WHEN the roof was on Smartley’s
factory, Jloltzner, wearing his best
street clothes an
like air, str
ane Proudly “Vaid a@ slip of paper on the
*cthere der bill i Mr. Blackstone, for
cutting der wall
Blackstone winweca at th bill, quite
casually at first, then studied as in dis-
may, then frowned at Ho .
“What is the meaning of hs Carl"
Plainly Blackstone, was c=
cording to very careful estimates which
I made in Chicago on the cost of cut-
ing an inch from the wall, five hundred
doliars should have been ample. This
bill for one thousand dollars is “out-
rageous! Arburg—o somebody——-”
Blackstone shot Holtzner @ searching
glance—“is trying to skin me. I abso-
lutely refuse to pay——
“Just I_wanted to show it to you,"
Holtzner interrupted, mysteriously, and
not in the least disturbed, *
stone could make reply, Holtzner had
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