Show 6 e PU PLU U M T R E E by DAVID GRAHAM 6 A MP PHILLIPS author of the th cost the deluge D ge etc td wt continued front from last week we voc saia aio 1 do ion want to 10 go to lo the senate instead iksic ad of croffut by the flames on the torches on oil either cither side eide I 1 saw his amazement nie me lie he exclaimed why aou ou forget ive got a past part 1 I do said 1 and so doos does every one else all we ie know Is that aou ou 6 got a futine lie he drew in his hie breath haid baid an and leaned back into tile corner heie the shadow lid hid him film at last laft lie he said in a quiet earnest voice you ve oven alven me self senator I 1 can only ill pee fee that you neer ie arct it I 1 was hissed hiss ed soundly at the hotel entrance beti between een for croffut ind and derwick berwick and even enen for woodruff but I 1 went to bed in ili lie e most cheer fill humor I 1 lad had known since the lay day scarborough N was a nominated at any rate so eo I 1 was thinking my president aith my illy hei nill lill be a man CHAPTER only an old joke on oil the lain going home I 1 was alnas nearer to cast cantle lebu le bu building ild ing than at any time since my boyhood castles col lapsed under tinder lie aude blows of 0 life my lily rath paths have not always been straight and open said I 1 to myself like all others who nho have won ion in tile the conditions of this world of nien till israll to the lir brute tite I 1 have had bad to uso use the he code or of the jun dunale gle in ili climbing I 1 have bave lad had to stool sloop at times to crawl but now elat I 1 have i cached the top I 1 shall aland elect I 1 shall show that the sordidness of the struggle has not unfitted unfitted me to use tile the victory true there are the many and heavy ical debts ive had bad to contract in getting burbank the presidency and as we must have a 1 second term lerin to bound out cut our work we ne shall be cow con filled cled to make some further we must still deal will men on the terms which human nature exacts but in the he main we ale can and we will do what is juba and light what helpy to icaline tb dreams of the men and women who founded our country the men aid it women omen like my fattier father and mother inot lier and my mother s giac beside my father s and among the giafes of my sisters and my giand grandparents parents rose before me and I 1 ic ie called the pledge I 1 had made alicie in the bobish beginnings of my manhood and my career ily aly thane and iiii banks sat said 1 I cornes comes just in ili time we a aie i e now at le ape age ie is fixed tind and our hildien ae giovina gi owina ill up and will loon koon begin to 0 o judge us its and lie be judged horn us its years of patient sowing thought 1 I and at last lite har lian est cst and N what hat a harlest it will be for or under tinder the teachings of experienc exper iene I 1 liae hae sown not and moonlight but seeds heeds the next illuming I 1 could not ilse it was six weeks I 1 was able to I 1 leave baye ray my bed dining that savage illness I 1 met each and everyone ot of tile the drafts hafts I 1 hail had been drawing draing against my it serve vitality four times lines the donors doctors gave me up once even frances lost hope when I 1 was getting well nell she contested confessed to me bow she had bad bained god that lie he need never expect to 10 hear bear from tier her bagain it if her braier for me were viere not d and I 1 saw she he rattler sus BUS that her threat aas as not unas with will say my cigut weeks out of touch with at af lairs fairs aud they ther the crucial eight bec weeks cl all my years of thought troug lit and aillon action at last tile the harvest indeed and I 1 was reaping what I 1 had sown in ila the second week of january I 1 ie e veiled against the dedois and nurses and had my political wheelock Whet lock telephone lel ephone for woodruff the legislature legisla luie tuie had elected aliu him to the senate thice days bea before ore when be bad sat sal with rile me ions ellou enobia zit to realize that hat I 1 could bear bad news he said goodrich Good ich ilch and Burban burb khae hae foamed a combination against you how flow do 10 oi 0 lanoit w said 1 I showing no sui pils ise and feeling none because lie he laughed 1 1 I was in it at least they thought so ao until they had let me die lio to safely elected As neatly neaily as I 1 can make out they began the plot about ten days after you fell sick at alist they lad had it on the slate to do me ine up too but ibe lue day after chi christmas Chiist ietras mas bui bank sent lor for itic wait el a minute I 1 and I 1 began to think it was on Chilst mas lay day that burbank telephoned for the alist time lime in nearly three weeks in fiuzi lulling ing about my condition I 1 remembered their telling tile me how bow minute his questionings were and I 1 had bad thought his solicitude was proof of ills his instead lie he had bad been inquiring to make sine fine about tile the le ie 11 lionts in the hie papers that I 1 was certain 0 a ic coNer in ili order that he might shift the factors in his plot ac cordingly coi when did ou say burbank sent for you I 1 asked on christmas Chiist mas day woodruff replied I lied I 1 laughed lie he looked at me I 1 inquiringly nothing said 1 I only an old joke as aldas human natine go on christmas lay day lie he continued 1 I didn dian t get to him until next morlia morning n I 1 c can n t figgie figuie figi ie out just busl why ahey tile jn in aed gilted me into their combine om bine but I 1 could figuie it out easily it I 1 i had lied died my lily power would have dis integrated and would hae bale been no use to then them when they hey sine I 1 was going to live they had to have him b because cause he might afe N able to astas assassinate sinate me certain could so cripple me that I 1 would as they reasoned be helpless Itel pless dundei bir assaults hut but 1 it feces daiy to tell this I 1 thought well said 1 I and what happened Buil lank gave me ft a dose of his gibat and gia clous way aou ou ought to see tile he side he puts on oil now and tinned guined me die over to 0 o gondlich Good ilch lich lie ile hod had been anif maghy aty not to give himself away any further than that then goodrich talked to me for solid hours showing rile me it was my duty to the baity as as to myself to join him all and bin bank in eliminate ing tile the one disturber of harmony that meant sou and lid did the tell ou de you it if you fiill didn t oh that of bomse lie he answered well what did you to do placed ed N with ith em till I 1 was elected then I 1 dropped goodrich a line you go 10 0 o hell bell I 1 brote 1 I grael with men very imprudent was my comment yes lie he admitted but I 1 lad had to to do something to get tile the dait off my hands so bin Buil bank lank lias has gone over ti to goodrich Good ich tich I 1 went nent on oll presently plesent ly as much to myself as to him 1 I alwa always s knew lie he N was as one of those chaps hae to keep seared scared to kec beep p stia sha ight said Woodi woodsun Woo diun tiff they think lour politeness indicates fear and your fright besides lies hes got a de delusion luion that its his popularity can led the west for foil him blin and that you and I 1 did him only damage carnag ge woodruff interrupted Interrupt td Fil himself with a laugh ra A fifeld of mine he resumed was on ill tile the thain ti aln with nith scarborough when ullen lie went east to the meeting of congress con giess last month lie ile tells me it was like a president elect on the way to be inaugurated the people turned out at eveia cross loads even beyond the and B urbank burbank knows it it he be clean eart daft about himself hed legalize that hat if it hadn haan t bieu for boti oil well id hat 11 ain iv lion badly hed have bave got left I 1 lut lit then ihen it if it limn bilen lim n for you hed neier have boan it lip aa s a dead one and boo claued linn film out 0 of f the tomb tnie title enough what lid did femal ter now lies going to kit 91 a boid lile jolt boffie wally months woodruff went on oil 1 I can see sou after him you folga lie ile s president pic ples ident I 1 an ewakd he s bosmond our teach not nit when uben lie he wants a tion lion insisted A Wood oil ff lie ile can set get that without xit hout us if I 1 eat said you din inest 1 ie member ve made him blin a i fetish with our tank lank rile oie and lies something or of a letish with lith tile the 0 o britty oiin dv now that he s diesl dant no we ne cant destroy him can t men elen injure him hell have to do that himself if it s lone done beside I 1 did not finish I 1 lid did not care to I 1 confess that since fiancee fiances and I 1 saw granby sving swinging ing bioni that hee in my grounds I 1 had neither beatie nor stomach Blo niah rot for the relentless side of the game g dle indeed whether riot aiom n calculation ca cu or from sentimentality or from both or ficia a sympathy and fellow feeling rol foi all kinis ar ie wei knesh alness I 1 hale hac never primed those who haie hae placed nie die false ex ei when elem exemplary plary alent was aras vel Woodi ulf looked bil bit battery tery disappointed 1 I guess youre light ile he 1 I forgot feli for a minute 11 ilo do up through blat 1 1 il hae bae to blu blit ba i saloon to feel fice te tc use tate lan an suie that describes jitni 1 I 1 fear he be will I 1 said and ana it wis not a hypocrisy for I 1 did riot not and could not leel feel ap anger er toward him had fail I 1 not cut ut this staff deliberately because it t vas crooked whai moro natural than that it should give way avay under tinder me as soon a ais I 1 leaned upon it your sickness celi ceila linly liae bane cume come at an un luckier time woodruff just jost beffi e he left im not sure of chrt was my rc lily IV it would have been useless to have found him out sooner and it he be had hidden himself until later he might have done us its some soine serious mis chief i As lie he was tas the president clec to go to him would hae been in gement of his dignity as well as of 0 my pride A few das dabs later I 1 wrote him thanking him for his mes sages and inquiries during my illness and saying that I 1 was once mole moie tak j ing part in ill affairs ile he lid did not reply by calling roe me up till on the telephone as it lie would have lone done in his cordial intimate years preceding his grandeur grande r instead lie he sent a telegram of congratulation g following it witha note ile ie urged pie nie to go south as I 1 had planned pl annd and stay until I 1 was fully re 1 ed 1 I shall deny myself tte the pleasure of seeing sou nou until ou letu ill that sentence put off our meeting indefinitely 1 I could see him smiling at its adroitness as lie he wro but lie he made his state slate of mind even ece n i I 1 clearer ills his custom had been to be gin his notes dear alarney IIa ll icy arNey or dear sayler and to end them lames laines or bin bank this note bei bean gan an my dear senator it ended I 1 yours sincerely since iely james E burbank Bui Dui bank i As t stated at these phrases my blood I 1 steamed to my brain had fad lie he spat in my face my fury would hae been less so I 1 thought in the fir firt first t gust of anaf orr or r feel that ou time hae be ben been n using tile me that you have bave no furi ther use for me you hae dec decided aided to take tile the of those idiotic ini dependent newspapers and wash your hands of the nho alio almost 1 dt defeated ion oil to male make war nar upon him was in wisdom impossible en eien had I 1 wished and when nhen anger adger fl ol away and PRY pity and contempt succeeded I 1 icalla lid did not wish to war upon him but there was leb the teal ical the lie wiecher of my plans and hopes the die menace to the higine of the pal baity ty I 1 sent for Woodi tiff an and together we e in mapped out a campaign against the senior benator beri ator ficia new jersey in all the newspapers we e could control or influence I 1 gar gaie him a fice hand to use with ith ills his unfailing discretion dis bisci cletion ebion of course all the facts we lne lad had accumulated to discredit bisci edit I 1 put at its his dispo disposal in a bundled thousand dollars As ciery cery aai aal lable dollar of tile he baity fund hail bad been used in 11 1 the campaign I 1 advanced this money if my own oan pocket and I 1 went anent cheerfully away to palm beah to lo watch at rn my aate the llie imn ian 0 of shot eliot and thell upon ullon rny my enemy CHAPTER A domestic Domed tic discord after a month in ili the south I 1 was x well ell again aunger in feeling and I 1 in n looks than I 1 giad been for ten en ye years r g Cai cailotto lotta and the he children except Jun junior lor who was anas in fit college had bad gone to lo washington when I 1 went ent to Ilor florida lda I 1 found tier her abed with a nervous attack from the double of the inorio d ago c that junior hail lop elop e OI ed walli an impossible woman he had bad met I 1 shall not tay where and ot of tile the ot of keeping the calamity from me until she was sine lie he had really entangled himself hopelessly she was nas now sitting among herall her pillows talling the ifie whole story if he fc ant married her she ended this struck me as judicious ludl ludi cious a good loman citing to her ber sons discie discredit dit 1 I IV A A 1 NI I 1 W P N one would think it was your money tile the fact hat lie he lad had goodness ov jovn n ideals of 0 honor bonor what are ion oil laughing at she demanded 1 I was anas about to tell tier her I 1 was hope ful ul of the boy chivily because lie he lad had thus bus bhonn the splendid courage that mole moie than redeems lede eras folly cut but I 1 ie rained I 1 had neer eel been able to make mahe cailotto Cai lotta understand me or my ideas and I 1 had bad long been weary of the resentful silence or angry tirades which mental and temperamental mis standings produce pio duce what earl can be expected she went on after trying in asi aln to connect my illy remark with our comers alion A boy needs a father yotte been so bo busy with nith infamous motis politics that youre youe given him scarcely a thought painfully title tine throng throughout but it WAS one of those criticisms we can hardly endric even when we make it ii upon ourselves I 1 was ive no patience AN with ith men she went wenton 0 o n Tb eyre always meddling with things that would get along bet ter without them ard and letting their own patch run to weeds ei able I 1 held my lily peace what ale aie ou going to do about it ila haney rn ey how flow can you be so calm anything an thing that would rouse lou im too busy thinking what to do to waste any energy in blowing or of steam was my answer in my consil batory tone nut thebes nothing we can do she with alth increasing inci easing anger which feli tented itself toward me because the true cull culm nit it fate was not within leach I 1 agreed nothing that creature won t let him come to me and sou t see him when lie sends for you oil said 1 I he 11 ll conic come as is soon as liis its money gies ties out shell see that lie he does 11 but aou ou aien t going to cut him off just that tha nt said I 1 A long silence then I 1 added in answer to 10 her expression and you must not let him film have a cent either in a gust of anger probably at my having baying lead tier her thoughts she blurted out one would think it was aag your money I 1 had bad seen that thought in her ber eyes lad had watched watch d tier lier hold it back behind her set teeth many times in out our mar lid bears 5 ears and I 1 now thanked my illy I 1 had lad had he be pipe ence to get ready rot for the inevitable moment when she would speak it but at tile the same time J could not ic strain a fluth of if shame ite it is my money I 1 forced force myself to say ask bour our bother b other cither hell tell iou what I 1 ve foi forbidden bidden h him to tell beffie 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