Show e WITH TV SOME 0 O C pian D bir brovan iby cyrus A 0 BRADY by 1 cr C r IMS s w 1 a I 1 SYNOPSIS A foolish yount ang tenderfoot becomes n sted w with artho the bold artful wife of a pact drunken run n prospector in a western we tern mining tow town they the prepare to elope tn in a blind ing inc billiard prepare but ut are confronted by the th maudlin husband he Is 1 hot shot by th wife but the th chivalrous boy pin pins a note to tt tie body a the crime crim u upon himself 1 in tatt their r alight night to th railroad I 1 road station the th woman 4 none bores 11 a exhaust A the yo bolth ith put puts her on his own and f how liang inc 1 to the stirrup trap strap bant he is I 1 an impede anent tt wo woman m an thru her or escort cort into k now snow drift and nde rides on n half froien g he 9 tumble stumbles int into the th railroad station juat just th train bar bears the woman away awen twenty he y live five yeara years later thia this man george gormly or li is a mahlo dalre in in new york roly he ile meet meets eleanor elearor Ital II aldane dans a beautiful and wealthy tt lement worker and ro cc operates with her in her work kornily become becomes owner of a steams hip line and find finds himself frustrated in pier and trade track extension exten ilon plane b by rafting grafting al at cormen dormen back backed b by y the gotham gotham traction 0 n co company athau an automobile 1 amobile accident I 1 rin 91 the the arif danes to him hi country horn home dorm ly mn oun that he h will t b mayor ot of nw W york ork and redeem the city from rom cor rution on the political declaration ot of the merchant hant prince duc d a tremendous sensation ni atlon the th whole wh arl a machinery ot of the city a detective tore force I 1 Is to be used to alg up aaman ax to gormly the heretofore unanimously favorable gress to the merchant candidate under pree pre ure sure divi desi and the campaign carn palin wax waxes warm A resolution mo lutton if is introduced crant in inc a gratuitous renewal ot of the traction franchise gormly offer offers ten ton million dollar for the franchise franc hlee bifi fles Ila haldane idane eon con gormly on what she he term terms a new federation of independence and ho he hakea an I 1 declaration of 0 love lave lie ile in I 1 shocked acy the confirm tion of hie his lucions that bathe her r father 14 I 1 the head and uan lak backbone bon of the notorious not orlou traction company which hn hm Is 1 attempting to overthrow youna Itald II aldane andt his hi fathers connection with the aghai traction company and I 1 is incensed in an rn interview between gormly and hal ital dane the latter offers his hi daughters haril an a bribe for gormly to withdraw gormly refu seii CHAPTER XIII continued 1 I love your daughter in waya ways that 1 doubt ou are able to understand but I 1 would not take her on euch much con editions as those you mean me to inter I 1 would not degrade her by thinking af her tier on euch such terms even if I 1 lost her forever I 1 am unworthy of her now god knowel but I 1 would be so lur be neath her under uch such circumstances that I 1 could not even look at her again I 1 dont understand bow how she coula could have been born of such a father 1 I will not be talked to in that man ter by you if cibel It ua aldane who did net not lack courage I 1 here and now decline your proposal i for mr daughters hand r will take that declination from r her bar ana and from no do one oar r alsol said gordly she will repeat st it I 1 im AM sure it the she bears with what ilfilen ce you hare have me and r pray god for the sake of her 11 love toward you and her respect toward you that the she may never mover hear bear one word of what you have said I 1 have had enough of this interview mr hal list dane lie he turned to the door waltr said II Ital aldane dans i to hear another infamous apropo pro post lion don from couf you no sir air out but I 1 have something more to say MAY and it in this you are not so invulnerable yourself sir air but that you might be glad for a little ju niclous silence what do you never mind what I 1 mean you publish whal what you have there at your perill I 1 wani warn you in two day days thereafter your you name will ring as a scoundrel nArel and a blackguard through out the united states St atea If having avInt tried bribery and failed you now resort to threats said gormly D but dt t tan tat you are her father he ito clenched his fist ast stood staring a int laute then shrugged his shoulders shook Ms lits head bead and turned away you wont be warned then I 1 said haldane aldane II mot not by you n and you intend V my connection everywhere 1 I abaft tell eleanor flat that you hav have don dondi IV it 1 I shall fit tell her bar myself returned gormly open om that th door hal list danar cane ho he called as a tie be tepid stopped into the ball when the young a raan man pre pro anted seated himself hinie elf he elkus addressed him your father and I 1 hare have had bad a rather painful interview toto into the de tall tails or which it la is not to enter r hare have only to lay ear that the tory starr I 1 told you foe vat the aws w tonight aud now he held beld out his hand goodby I 1 wish that we maht have ought fought until the end out but ve we are going to ficht together until the eod end cried the young maa man fiercely 1 I my father and until row I 1 hare have alway always eded him I 1 have hen been content to follow his lead hut but I 1 cau cam do so 10 so longer you will both of you live 11 to regret it cried old II It aldane after a bitter look took at the pair with bit hi head bead high ile marched arched in out through the door do your dorsit bo to salil h its closed it behind him you rill aee a what will happen to you in a day or tw 1 what doe ds it asked miss ml stewart it it means sail that my father is 1 up with a ta acx gang of scoundrels that bo be ta is the tb brain and backbone of the gotham traction company that we are fight lux and that he be lj Is IA domes jullana jul lanc with the sachem socially it moats that wv wy family aad and I 1 are adli dl denew noree it I 1 no to dittler have the right to uk ask you what I 1 had intended to ask you when the cam laign was over and we bad had won to be lay wife are you asking me now cried miss alias stewart ecstatically I 1 I 1 would be if it wae was proper it Is I 1 proper she ho bald said blushing divinely you don it mean you boosel eald said the girl 1 I dout don I 1 lonii 1 your father or your family here gormly turned and wont went into the drawing room again aben bea he came back which be he did not do until summoned by miss bliss stewart herself be he confronted the blushing pair you could not have chosen a truer better roan mau than mr air haldane be bald said and as for you Il haldane aldane you are thoi luckiest man on earth he ile sighed with envy and regret r he be spoke 1 I want to do something for you now said boing haldane well there Is one thing you can do for mo wo what Is I 1 want to see your sister and im ned med lately 1 I will have her nere here in ten ton minutes answered the young yount man tear I 1 ing ng himself away from miss stewart wit rit another word CHAPTER XIV resists his greatest temptation gormly had bad faced many difficult sit in his life even bis his success 4 A 0 r and this to why you made me that offer 0 marriage ful ul business career had confronted am him with crise crises at 0 moment nut he had never contemplated which imposed to 0 o bard hard a task upon hie his judgment and his feelings aa as the interview what mean means oung Ital haldane dame would take to indu induce hia his sister to come with him bow much of 0 what had transpired he ei would tell her gormly had bad to means of at knowing of coun course but be he felt confident that by hook book or crook the young woman would be pro prodded pr dued ana and that a few low tal minute would find him face to face with her lie ile did not in the lead least know how to begin or what to say ay and the more be he thought of it the more difficult berame the situation it was wel well that the time tor for reflection wr abort short it li Is better for a man who bai has to do great things to do them before the mental and spiritual enemy baa has time to doubts into the mind aid it wa was with it a feeling of relief la in bs growing and misery I 1 I 1 that be he heard the front door open lie its heard board voices that be bet knew know in the hall ball and la in another moment the library door wai was opened annd illse haldane aldace Il entered the room alone lie ile had risen on her ar approach and tood stood confronting her bar she waa was evidently ti greatly surprised 1 I 1 did not know you were here bet shat he began did not tell ten me I 1 did not expect it waa was 10 As me or of rather that I 1 might see you that you were brought here and I 1 alone am responsible it Is 1 a most extraordinary proceed IBS ing bald the girl nervously 1 I cant im azine why I 1 was brought to you it wae was necessary for me to see you returned the man then why you come to my house houser A I 1 why could ca by eue not nott not ra reasons there T h a are e reasons which will aly b render me forever an unwelcome visitor to your house 11 1 I believe said the girl slowly slowly that something very serious must have happened or you would not have had me brought here I 1 I 1 can scarcely bear to tell you you alarm me beyond mea measure surel cried the girl pressing her hands to her breast as an if to still ita its wild throbbing I 1 you must not keep me in sus aus pense any longer N bat hat Is it that you have to teti me hat Is it that 1 13 likely to come between us 1 ibis I hie responded gormly handing her a few typewritten sheets of paper am I 1 to read this she asked ta king it from him and looking very straight at him he ile was very pale now and she was scarcely less white said the man as ehe the lifted the paper and bent her bead head per lins it would be more merciful to tell you just as you think best bent I 1 am a strong woman I 1 can bear anything la to it about there was a long pause pauso my father T he ile nodded his head what has be he donet donev mis 1 haldane aldane ll he began 1 I eay say to you quite simply that I 1 would rather be dead than thin stand here as I 1 do now with the burden of telling you that your father Is the head and front the backbone the brains the genius the everything of the gotham freight company and the sachem society M 1 my VY coill exclaimed misa atlas haldane aldane ll the paper dropping from her bar fingers to the floor she was paler than over she stared at him almost in dumb slon her tier body slightly gorm ly stepped cloter au to her delieu bar gently supported her to a chair by the library table she put her face la in her hand hands and rocked t to a and fro elle alle it cant be true she said at last you are mistaken surely not ny my father in that kink sink of corruption and bribery end and and ahamed sy say it fant latt truel 1 I wish to healea I 1 could say ay it but the man shook bis bin head bead 1 I 1 told you that I 1 would rather bare bave been dord than bare have brought this upon you yoa yon are not to blame answered anaw ered tha the woman br bar sens sons c lustre uppermost 1 it I Is the fact itself that kallif it it I 1 ix bet k fact there must be iome some m mistake take 1 I wish there more was are yiu ure sure absolutely t your father confessed it her la in this room a half hour agor aio why do you tell ten ino wo of because waa was the answer the hole world has to know it 4 1 1 pre berred to tell you myself i rather t than h let you get it from the newspapers you an are guin going to publish it I 1 tomorrow morning but why why she threw up tier arma la in nerous ne rous appeal think said the binm it la Is the oae one fact that makes ny my election certain and does your ambition run to the wrecking ot at my lathers good same mamet in order that you may be elected no if it you will think you will i know that it does not I 1 am doing for the bake make of honor for the th mke pike of duty for the bake sake of bu humanity manity he paused and raised hie his own hand so help toe me godi godt he cried with upturned fac face e nut ie Is it absolutely why the cause of 0 popular government Is being fought out right here the contest transcends in importance any jolI political battle that has even been waged it the government of and for and by the people Is to be a sac cess we have to demonstrate it now or else go down it may be forever the people have a right to know what Is back of the sachem soc where it gets its enormous enor moua corrupt corruption ico fund I 1 be a traitor false to ray my duty a betrayer it I 1 did not make public this knowledge that has come to me it Is all true she aid said at last you say my father waa was here yes he ile ivan pras very much agitated at some news that my brother brought him a short time ago does livingtone livingstone know he ile does I 1 told him why to give him an opportunity to withdraw from association with us la in view of this attack and what did he decider he ile decided to stay star with me and this Is why you made me that otter offer ot of marriage now rather than later yes I 1 wanted you to feel after you had bad this news that while I 1 alone knew it I 1 paid you the highest corn aliment that I 1 could think of that my heart was iian irrevocably pledged to you whatever was to happen that was kind of you you have always been kind to me 1 I don dont t see how you can eay say so after this he ile pointed to the paper this she replied her eyes following his outstretched hand makes a great difference it I 1 don it know I 1 suppose it will it does not make any difference in me out but don t you see it makes it im possible for me it you how could IT ohp enemy of my fa father therl 1 I don t suppose you could he be answered that Is another reason why I 1 wrote when rhen I 1 did because I 1 was fearful that you would hate me when my agency in the unearthing of this was known that you would receive no communication from me that our acquaintance would be broken off and I 1 wanted you to know before it was as too late all that was la in my heart I 1 am surprised eald said the woman that you could still continue to love the daughter of don t say thail quickly interposed gormly 1 I don dont t love you because you are anybody a daughter but because you are yourself I 1 cant can t trust myself if to speak peak about it when I 1 eee see you he continued turning away alway and I 1 could myself tor for ever having become involved in such a situation I 1 wish there was some way out ot of it sometimes I 1 am minded top to P there to 1 no way out of it said the ahl quick quickly li no I 1 suppose not he turned away from her and began to pace that th room with long steady steps I 1 mr Gormly 1 she said at last come here hero sit down there on the other side aide of the table I 1 want to see you amazed the man compiled complied with her request now sellme tell roe the whole solemn truth you eay say my father was here with you before I 1 I 1 earner camer yea yes does he be know that you knoer know it was ks to aeo see me about that that he cane came did he make some effort to induce you not to publish these facts 7 naturally I 1 wart was the efforts effort T he ile argued with me Is in that all hi ili threatened retaliation 1 it I that all T I 1 think le even pleaded and is that alir yes said gormly telling her his lite first lie ile telling tel link it arr ely audaciously oven even looking her straight in the eye ey without blenching blen cLIng mr air gormly Gor roly returned the won wom an whatever he Is my father Is not a fool his ilia worst enemy would cot not so describe him ila ile knew that you were not a man who could be moved by threats or entreaties you have demonstrated that you can be in this campaign at least iron hard 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