Show could burn up tbe plants or close 'em which I’d like to down some way have the job of doin’ But we ain't beat yet “This man that’s posin' as an angel of virtue before the people of New York and talkin’ reform and so on Is a thief and a an adulterer andthe murderer” With some incidental lb M Woman delation Citrus Townsend Brady uusrffATQNa c&rHcMr 1903 SYNOPSIS becomes foolish young tenderfoot fascinated with the bold artful wife or a drunken prospector In a western mining town They prepare to elope In a bllizard but are confronted by the He Is shot by the maudlin husband wife but the chivalrous boy spins a the crime note to the body taking to the In their night upon himself tne woman a horse railroad station falls exhausted the youth puts her on his own and follows hanging to the Seeing he Is an Impedistirrup strap ment the woman thrusts her escort Into a snow drift and rides on he stumbles Into the railroad station Just away as the train bears the woman years later this man InGeorge New Gormly Is a a York He meets Eleanor Haldane beautiful and wealthy settlement worker with her in her work and Gormly becomes owner of a steamship In frustrated pier himself line and finds and track extension plans by dermen backed by the Gotham Traction brings company An automobile accident Gormthe Haldanes to his country home ly announces that he will be mayor of New York and redeem the city from corof the ruption The political declaration merchant prince produced a tremendous The whole machinery of the sensation dig city’s detective force is to be used to The up something damaging to Gormly favorable press heretofore unanimously under presto the merchant candidate waxes sure divides and the campaign warm A resolution Is Introduced grantof the traction ing a gratuitous renewal ten million dolfranchise Gormly offers lars for the franchise Miss Haldane congratulates Gormly on what she terms a new Declaration of Independence and he m&kti an unxpected declaration of love He ts shocked djt the confirmation or hie father Is the heed suspicions that and backbone of the notorious traction company which he Is attempting to overhis throw Young Haldane discovers father’s connection with the Gotham In Traction company and Is Incensed an Interview between Gormly and Halhis offers dane the latter practically to daughter’s hand as a bribe for Gormly In an Interwithdraw Gormly refuses view with Gormly Miss Haldane learns of her father’s baseness though Gormly to hide it tries vainly A CHAPTER XIV— Continued Tou are on oath now by “Stop! by your your honor aa a gentleman belief in God by your faith In womankind by your love for me! I want the truth Indeed it la almost unnecesYour silence sary for you to speak confirms me In that belief everything A man who would do what be has But done would not besltate at that I must know and I must have your answer” "And I can't tell you" “You can" I have told "Well I won’t then Aoythlng else 'you must you enough get from other people” "And so you refused mef” said the girl standing up "Look at me!” Bhe stretched her hands out and stood boldly magnificently defiantly before "You refused me! Many men hjm me have wooed many men have I did not love sought me for a wife I might love I don’t but you you You might have bad have learned me You say I am the dearest desire A little silence a paof your heart per torn in two a momentary forgetand I should have been fulness She picked the paper up from yours” the table as she spoke and held it her “I could tear It up in a moment Think what you might have had” She stepped slowly around the him She came table and approached nearer to him He stared at her fixedShe was by his ly without moving She laid her band upon his side now shoulder "Me” she said “for this and you refused!" He nodded It was the hardest task life had ever laid upon him this discussion "What are you made of?” she cried the man "I don't know" gasped "I was a fool!” hoarsely “Will you take me now?” she Interposed swiftly "and suppress this? If I say that I will marry you tomorrow will you keep this a secret forever?” "Great God!” whispered the man "bow you tempt me!” ‘Will you do It? Answer!” "No!” said Gormly faintly at last "I won’t!” f ' Why notr I would not he "For two reasons worth your respect for a moment If I did I could never hope for your love And I won’t have any In that case woman that I have to buy” “And we have both tried to bribe you my father and I and we have both failed” “You did not try to bribe me Eleanor I am sure you did not know what you were doing” “I did” she said "I wanted to test I wanted ygu I wanted to try you tfr see If It was true I wanted assurance that my father had done this to I measure wanted thing your manhood by my womanhood Oh!” she said In a sudden change of mood ‘‘the light has gone out of life for ‘‘My dear child” he began tenderly She shook her head and sat down once more and once more buried her face in her hands He ventured to come near to her He laid his own band on her head and stroked it gentmeanbroken words ly murmuring save to her on whose ears ingless At last she lifted they fell Indistinctly her head and looked at him She caught his hand in both her own “You are a great man” she said “a strong man a true man and I am I kiss only a poor wretched woman the hand that smites me” Before he could prevent it she suited the action “Now” she said “go to the word I underYou have done all you can I think Sometimes stand I believe t— But won’t you go now?” By DemBoterAfELviu trttn r fe coa9 Without another word Gormly turned and left her He found Miss Stewart and young Haldane still In the hall They stared at him awestruck at the tragedy in his grim face “Go to her!” he said as be passed them “She needs you” "What!” roared the men present You’re mad!” "You’re dreaming! "I am am I? Well you Just wait" returned the chief "and you’ll find I'm the sanest man in tbe whole bunch You know the other night when you was jammln’ through tbe franchise at the cly ball and Gormly ' made bis great play?” "Yes" ' - "Never She's glad enough to let him alone I guess” "Why isn't shs witness enough then?" asked the district attorney “Well she's mixed up in it in rather a nasty way She’s afraid she’U suffer if her part of it is made public” "I can fig that” said Rutherford “A promise of Immuncoolly enough ity and “She won’t do It” returned the "You can drive these women chief Just so far and there you stop Besides it ain't never goin to come into New Train Service via DENVER IN “Well pne of my men— I had a bunch of plain clothes men scattered through the crowd — with his eyes and ears open beard a man say lookin’ at Gormly standln' up on that automobile end gtvin’ the crowd his Infernal rot Well If that ain’t a dead ringer for a boy named George Fordyce that 1 used to know back In Kill Devil Camp CHAPTER XV years ago I’ll in WyomlLg twenty-fiveat my hat!' My man sized up the The Last Counoll of War speaker at once He was a big westSummoned by Liftey at Haldane’s ern man free of speech as he was urgent request the governing memname's Bill Hambers of tbe ring met that night at their with his money aHis Montana mine big secret rendezvous There were pres- ilton and he's out They call him colonel Van owner ent besides the two mentioned struck up a friendship there They Slyke and McRonald Rutherford drinks few together right away had a Benson representing Habberley man got enough out of him to tbe allies and tbe mayor When Hal- and my dane arrived be found tbe others al- get on the trail of the story we been in the lookin’ for without Hamilton ready assembled what he was after I least suspectin’ ‘‘Well?’’ asked Liffey as soon as the sent a dozen of the smartest men on other entered the room “He’s found it out and he’s going to the force out to Wyoming to rustle up old Inhabitants of Kill Devil Camp do it” “Found out what and going to do which has long since been blotted off the map It seems that this Gormly what?” asked Rutherford or or whatever his name Is Fordyce “Gormly has got onto us Mr Rutherford” was Llffey’s reply The boss once run away with a miner’s wife ’ realized instantly that Haldane had first robbln’ him of his pile and the miner” failed to postpone the disclosure The little group of men UBtened to “He’s found out the secret hlBtory of the Gotham Freight Traction com- the chiefs startling story In a fever of excitement and surprise which Conpany He’s found out the whole bloomin’ history where we git our money nell greatly enjoyed how we spend It” "Now we knew that he never came “And who was the traitor that beto New York with no woman" he ran on “We’ve got his whole history from trayed you?” asked Benson fiercely “I’d like to know that same” anthe day he landed here every minute rather suspicious" “Connell had better be careful what swered Liffey his fat jawB clamping of it We reasoned that the woman “He’d together his “pompadour” crest bris- must have deserted him of he her he does” returned Rutherford she'd make for one of the better be very sure of his facts" Naturally tling “Why did you leave the handling of “I don’t Imagine anybody betrayed big cities especially If she had the the affair to him?” We believed that she had It us” said Rutherford “We’ve known money “Well he’d make a good scapegoat all along that the thing was bound for he had practically none when he to get out sooner or later If it had landed went wrong” answered He went to work as a clerk if anything Rutherford with cynical Indifference Now as it happened Colonel Bill Hamilton was not so guileless as he looked After the first exclamation and the first few confidences over the drinks which he gave to the plain clothes man who had so adroitly sought to get his story on that eventful night Colonel Bill shut up like a clam The interest of the stranger in Ihe story was auspicious ColoneJ Bill many things that be had Jot told and did not intend to tell ' loss it was necessary Therefore he soon got rid of his new friend and Went to his room to think it over He was morally certain that Gormly and tbe man whom he had known as a boy as George Fordyce were one and the same Fortunately he had always liked Fordyce and he was not disposed to do anything that would Injure him Of course he had heard as had everyone else in the United States of the remarkable campaign of George of New Gormly for the mayoralty York He had not had a great amount of personal Interest In the matter however he Identified But when at Gormly with Fordyce the affair once engaged his keenest attention Since the day he had left Kill Devil Camp he had never heard one word of either the man or the woman He had supposed as everyone else had that they had perished In the storm and although bodies had never their been recovered there were plenty of reasons to account for that What was he to do? Was he to see Gormly or Fordyce as he called him Or was and put him on his guard? he to wait and be governed by circumstances? This was not an easy but Colonel Bill problem to decide Hamilton finally came to the conclusion that his best game was the waitBesides he liked to play a ing one lone hand and he felt every confidence that he could do it Meanwhile he determined to fortify himself with such evidence as he could secure and at the proper time if the story was ferreted out and an attempt was made to make use of It Murderer!" he would as he phrased it “butt into "He’s an Adulterer a Thief and a the game I” He set the telegraph to in a store at five dollars a week been later it wouldn't have A work therefore and presently receivwoman like that’d be pretty sure to ed from his partner in Butte by exmuch difference but now-- going turn up on the town somewnere soonto publish It?” press a tin box full of very private er or later We’ve got a detailed his- official documents"He is” answered Haldane Thereafter he demanded Van Slyke "When?” tory of everyone of ’em here and else- amused himself by following the progIf she went down to the gut- ress of the campaign and doing some where It will be in every pa"Tomorrow own” be our she’d If ter she went up highly profitable local investigating dead on per in the city except "Great God!” exclaimed Connell "If to the parlor she’d be alive still his own account the result of which we could only stave it off for Just was only necessary to look nmong filled him With Joy and satisfaction three more days Gimme three days those that are runnin’ the thing We The demonstration of the alliance " and found one whoVI come from Wyobetween the Gotham Freight Traction I went to see her "Did you bid for him?" questioned ming myself and company and'the Sachem society the I’ve got her confession the chief of police here” Ho publication of the membership of HalHaldane nodded hauled a paper out of his pocket "She dane and his friends In the traction asked didn’t want to tell nothing about "Did you go high enough?" the exhibition of Its Iniquitcompany Benson She don't come out of it especially ous processes came off according to man "I went so high1 creditable but we had means to make schedule Such a storm of wrath and "that his refusal covered me with her All we got to git now the Indignation rose In the public breast worse shame than the publication will stuff from Wyoming a witness or two the disclosure as had never after do" to Identify Gormly with Fordyce and been equaled in any political campaign “And it wasn’t enough?" queried that's the end of him" in New York Rutherford who had a clearer compreConnell snapped his finger In deFreight The stocks of the Gotham hension of what the offer might have rision Traction company had fallen off terriothers the been than seen the man?” fically and every other Interest fur"Has the woman "No” of which Halsoon as the as Benson asked thered syndicate he by could get is "So it’s coming vout tomorrow his breath dane was the head had suffered acit?” The city was on the verge cordingly "Often” “Yes" exUnrest 7 of a tremendous panic “Does he still don’t know what we can "Well were in the air uncertainty citement he know "Lord don’t she’s and on the take do" said Liffey “but grin The people had been aroused as never THREE FAST DAILY Tonrist Slespar to without change of cars Lania St 8:43 a M 8:10 a CONNECTION Pullman and LAKE SALT WITH TWO NIGHTS TO CHICAGO TWO SIGHTS TO ST LOUIS THREE NIGHTS TO NEW YORK TRAINS FROM GRANDE RIO Burlington Route Rock Island Route Missouri Paciffic court” "What do you mean?” asked Benson “I mean" said Connell emphatically ‘‘that Gormly is goin’ to give up the ' game” "Give up the’ game!” repeated Haldane "That’s what I said It’s goin’ to be put up to him as to whether he wants this told or whether he withdraws from the field" “You might back your 'put up' to him with a warrant for murder I believe" said the district attorney “If the evidence is what you say I’ll have charges preferred against him” "All right" answered the chief “Mr Rutherford and I will fix that up Now gentlemen you leave this to me I am accustomed to deal with criminals and I’ll fix Gormly I ought to have all the reports in my hands the day after tomorrow" “Wouldn’t it be well to spring it tonight?” Besides Jt’s too late Not "Hardly even Gormly himself could keep the stuff out of the papers now "I guess now Mr Haldane” said Rutherford as the assembly dissolved and the two found themselves alone the others being gone "that together you are rather glad than otherwise that your bribe did not work" “Yes I suppose so I don’t know" answered Haldane brokenly "I had heard some Intimations of this nothConnell has been very ing definitely close mouthed I tried to bluff GormI don’t know what efly with that fect the disclosure Is going to have I don’t know how true it Is It seems & is' For further inferm aitei aganter address 4:30 p m 7:10 p I F A BENTON G A WADLEIQ H A G- local M Forney aeaW aid Chicago F D Salt P A Denver Ut Lake Colo DC Why not say Hello to them? 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