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iN f,' a we } » f *, ry “IT MUST BUY THE PAINTED JEZEBEL"” 105 St. Leonards smiled. ‘‘You will report to me here to-morrow, and if Mr. Alston sees fit to carry matters with a high hand, you can do without him, dear boy. Ta-ta!’’ He shook hands with Edgar and stepped out of the room. After walking a couple of hundred yards, he hired a cab and drove to Park avenue in hot haste, where he held a short interview with Isabel. From Park.avenue he was taken to Mr. Jabez Alston’s office, and met the great financier in the door-way drawing on his gloves. | “This is a pleasant surprise, Lord St. Leonards,’’ ex- claimed Jabez Alston. He spoke loudly, so that others might hear that he was on familiar terms with a British peer. ‘‘You will lunch with me, I know!”’ ‘Yes!’ replied St. Leonards, languidly. He had dis- missed his cab a couple of blocks away. ‘This is my coupe,’’ announced the financier. ‘‘I will take you to Delmonico’s. We shall not meet many of the Wall street gamblers there, and I have reasons for not de- siring to be too much in evidence fora few days. A big crisis is at hand which may ruin hundreds of the smaller fry.”’ | $i | o He chuckled. ‘‘After this, if the cards run my way, as they ae as- suredly will, I think I shall retire from business.’ They drove away, and were sumptuously dined by the king of caterers. ‘“Yes,’? Mr. Alston said, over his wine, ‘‘I shall quit business at once, and prepare for my trip to London, my lord. With this in view 1 have never seen the necessity for my son Edgar to settle down in harness. He has en- Gomicboo <S (G (0)