great grandmother's maiden name, and a lot of
other important charitable things. She is then referred to room six
hundred and ninety. There she gives more of her autobiography. From
this room she is sent to the inspection department, and she is
investigated further. If the poor woman doesn't faint from hunger and
exhaustion she keeps up this schedule until she has walked a Marathon
around the fine white marble building devoted to charity. At last she
gets a ticket for a meal, or a sort of trading stamp by which she can
get a room for the night in a vermin-infested lodging house, upon the
additional payment of thirty cents. Now, this may seem exaggerated,
but honestly, my boy, I have given you just about the course of action
of these scientific philanthropic enterprises. They are spic and span
as the quarterdeck of a millionaire's yacht."

MacFarland was so disgusted with the objects of his tirade that he
tried three times before he could fill his old briar pipe.

"Doctor, why don't you air these opinions where they will count?" asked
Bobbie. "It's time to stop the graft."

"When some newspaper is brave enough to risk the enmity of church
people, who don't know real conditions, and thus lose a few
subscribers, or when some really charitable people investigate for
themselves, it will all come out. The real truth of that quotation at
the bottom of the Purity League letter should be expressed this way:
'Charity covers a multitude of hypocrites and grafters.' And to my
mind the dirtiest, foulest, lowest grafter in the world is the man who
does it under the cloak of charity or religion. But a man who
proclaims such a belief as mine is called an atheist and a destroyer of
ideals."

Burke looked at the old doctor admiringly.

"If there were more men like you, Doc, there wouldn't be so much
hypocrisy, and there would be more real good done. Anyhow, I believe
I'll look up this angelic Trubus to see what he's like."

He took up his night stick and started for the door.

"I've spent too much time in here, even if it was at the captain's
orders. Now I'll go out and earn what the citizens think is the easy
money of a policeman. Good night."

"Good night, my lad. Mind what I told you, and don't let those East
Side goblins get you."

Burke had a busy night.

He had hardly been out of the house before he heard a terrific
explosion a block away, and he ran to learn the cause.

From crowded tenement houses cam