alarmed--alarmed rather than guilty.

"To-morrow, and until further notice," said H. R., sternly, "you will
tell the department-store sandwiches to parade in front of the various
newspaper offices from morning until night."

"But not in Park Row, surely?"

"Exactly! And find out whether the business managers of the various
newspapers have been holding conferences with the managing editors. They
probably will--this afternoon or to-morrow."

"How can I--"

"By paid spies--office-boy scouts. Of course, lady stenographers being
more in your line-- No! Look me in the eye!"

Andrew Barrett blushed and said, feebly:

"I am taking the count, Chief."

"Very well. I shall now go out and do your work. See that you do mine!"
And H. R. went out, leaving Andrew Barrett full of devastating
curiosity.

"I wonder what he has up his sleeve now?" mused young Mr. Barrett. "I'll
bet it's a corker!"

H. R. himself called on the head of one of the most progressive of New
York's great department stores--a man to whom full pages on week-days
were nothing. He, therefore, had heard of H. R., and also had used
sandwiches. He greeted the founder of the S. A. S. A. with respectful
interest. H. R. said, calmly:

"I am here now to make you a present of from ten thousand to fifty
thousand dollars a year--in cash!"

Mr. Liebmann, of course, knew that H. R., though an aristocrat, was
neither a fool nor a lunatic. He diplomatically asked, "And my gratitude
for your kindness may be expressed just how, Mr. Rutgers?"

"By accepting the cash and putting it in your pocket, to have and to
hold until death do you part."

"Mr. Rutgers, I am an old man and suspense is trying." And Mr. Liebmann
smiled deprecatingly.

"I have come to show you how you may save the amount I have mentioned in
your newspaper-advertising appropriation. You big advertisers are now
helpless to help yourself. There are no rebates and you can't play one
paper against the others. Those days are over. Will you hear me to the
end and not go on at half-cock while I am talking?"

"Yes," promised Mr. Liebmann, impetuously.

"Mr. Liebmann, you must write a letter to all the advertising managers
of all the newspapers, saying that you have decided to discontinue all
advertising in the daily papers as soon as your contracts expire. Hold
your horses! Explain that you intend to reach your suburban trade
through the fashion magazines, local papers, and circulars, and that for
Manha