Show ry IN WHICH IS SET FORTH THE TRUE REASON FOR FORTHE FORTHE FORTHE THE DECISION OF C EXECUTIVE WHEN HEN BESET BY TEMPTATION J 1 w z r 5 rt L J ND KD now observed arms Ormsby c by br having absorbed if It not assimilated one ane of off those remarkable Bit Best f dinners In the city lt for f forr r r cents cen ts 1 will go s down downto dl n nto r t to the Capitol and andl talk lk to the Governor like an anI n nf I f equal ual an ani a Brother Im sort 80 t of ot weary o those best beat for 25 Zi I mean mean ri Randall Ra laughed Well ell why wh dont you end it my boJ boy he asked This II Is the first fint time I ever v made It my business to toI hunt up a youngster and wd I offer him a n berth in the I II 11 and C W Y and Im I 1 free tree to say 1 cant quite understand your our reason reasoning r ing I Youre very vel good Mr 11 Randall answered a the younger man his tone ton growing serious un and in th tine betas a king kins kingpin pin ii n 1 in mt ls s good on top tOil of o well worth tying hes hoa r Hart d and j nd d Centralia Western estern Hartt I 1 should hould bo ho fond sf of eCi I iii ip t nit in YOU ou see Bee Im net sure acre railroading i fowl fond of those thOle Het bast t Ss as you ou Are you ou sure aule ur eure re i I 1 rail cell r rf f 1 Orr Ol Iy i y assumed a an air all of ot profound ity I i 11 li i t high nigh dear clear r vole I want to say he lie declared d that thi t Ili 1111 m not I Ill dei dri further that I am lacking lackin l In to S for the worthy young clerks relents who i i il th rah modern sanitary boarding which enthusiastic over this sitting Ull un all aU 1 no me I Hi th a t rm Im I m not t i nigh j t t I o Ire aro breakfast table literature that Im Fin sure i a th r 0 man wit he h s a good city editor because I 1 of or m Is hI an unhappy Idiot and tic hI ti a i Irs up ill must my copy lii 11 I in wt t se see seQ a It ray of hope for Cor becoming ir a itty on the contents of or the yellow envelope eR elope they tit m I nf nee n on olt Saturday afternoons s Oh OR Ill rut admit Mr 1 hr 11 dail tr it sometimes sometime I sot get t jolly well elt discouraged d and mk dek f ek of or this newspaper business Again sain g in laughed I thought you jou ou could see aee ee the tho tr Rr t white light lI ef reason Bobby h be said III Now ow b bv be beI v nible I tIe i yiu iu liei are Aie n ar ut of oC o lles K d se as e as make em and what are you ou doing for 1111 17 nothing Youre just juat jU t a hack hackl l iare lor I r v for the Herald and that oil all ouI ever eer be Youre l pitting gating ahead a I grant grant but bot what does doe It amount to There n any an real prosperity in It it and Its prosperity prop ril that Hut counts You Toot can only just exist eo on Oft the salary getting you ou cant e nt lay Iny 11 by b a penny penn Took look at your jour our p h bast t men Why 11 boy your mana managing gin editor eltor with all allf f the 41 alphabet Ct the tIle colleges let him print after aCter I If c y to earn carn In the tho days of or your Our youth t rt winced Then he be smiled brightly But nut I Ica ca n and anti make mal a Governor Goern r speak politely to toj j ha hg f fG Get GeE G f Iri lulo fb railroading and you jou ou can enn buy bY a Governor before breakfast if you ou want aunt one on snapped Randall bluntly bunt JI I r own wn one or two now nol Ormsby looked up sharply Com Come persisted the other Get rid jid of ot tl tins ls high and il strenuous str life uplifting the masses ma ml the idea Say Sa a t sanely ly Ormsby y returned to the hat which ho hl straightened reflectively rd i d l be 00 more comfortable a lot more com comfortable comfortable comfortable he admitted but Id be bo more like a substitute than a fellow playing right tight up close cloae to the line Im lm sort of used to being In the scrimmage you know kno sirot sir got ot the habit up at the university and I 1 dOnt know knew Just how Id behave on the side fMc lin lints s But I Ill IH R think it over The scrimmage e season a n bat vets e tong Jong fon Perhaps It ought to be over for me Dont be e a kid It necessary n r any more advised ad Il Randall nandali Ill make up my mind before night answered the theether th theether ether Probably one more yearning glance glan lance into Int the bespangled entrance vf fIC 1 rills after aCter the theatre will In cost the crown cro n of ot on one shimmering jewel The f he call all all of the fleshpot Is la about as strong as the thc call of o the wild with me Hut rut just now norv no I 1 cant of oC anything any thinS but that interview 1 lye 10 vc pot Jot to extract from his Excellency You excuse me Mr 11 Randall Business flushness you know knew If Ill b be at the Allyn Ailyn just jUl hours longer announced Randall hIt If It you OU come to your our senses by that time tim let me Inc know Goodday Bobby Cobby Ormsby trudged down doo the narrow of towering buildings paused for a IJ moment on n the bridge giving entrance to the I ark to gaze gaza idly over the low stone coping at the turbid river beneath and amt swung into the tho broad asphalted promenade lending ln to that listening glistening pile lIe cf of white stone slone which Centralia Is I wont to proudly proul designate the st State Capitol anywhere re It I was still green and fair fall In the perk park p rk despite the cr p alf air and ard the litter r 0 of f fallen leaves on the driveway and Ormsby slackened his steps Sow Now why h do O I 1 hang on he lw asked himself audibly Why h do I 1 inflate my m manly chest and picture myself ms lt magnificently spurning live Ure gifts Its the thc gods sods provide ram rame being old Randall and his in the II 11 and C W Y Why do 00 I 1 do It what I 1 want to know A party part of department clerks cllrk homeward bound to begin the Saturday half holiday passed him Landis of f the Treasurers office In the lead Hello slave hailed Landis Just beginning when the good people ople quit right nod Ormsby jn n reply Idle upper classes clu ses rub It In on the th poor workingman But nut Butto to too himself he continued right those fellows I 1 am keeping k myself m in m a world Upside down do I i r r t 4 t ti L ti i ail m mi mr I i mi r rI w i I fiur t r i r rf a Jr 1 m r I 4 t A I vt f fI S SI i I f 1 1 v vr yr t f r I 2 7 I 11 I 1 I Is II I s r ri 1 f i 1 l i r it t I II I I ate y yv yr r a v 1 t Get into rd end ulu tn you yott can can buy b Y a go g eT er rl or before breakfast br rr if you trant call one cn snapped d dRandall Randall bluntly I 1 own one or two now his bh nom nam n and tha th po power he is In the State Isn t as asas welt eIL oft There Theres o nothing in n as our division lon tf It la I tell Its the glory you get out of being P inside Hw the tit tire fire linos Now here Iam am using up uI v lual lo time Just to give you youa ou a 0 boost b st j Your rather father helped h tp l me t Iwas n a young ou and Id like like to do o w well ll 11 by hie hf SOO boy bov why wh Im Jm h i n It This ThIB IS I your opportunity Ill put you Into 16 our at double doublet four thour tho t salan alaI youre earning now nUll gird Ill IU g gip e you ou ee every x J Chance to tf rIF o got luff In you ou me thins thing II ime yon von substance and nd standing By Bv the th time you ro OUro re 4 Bohemian rag raK youl be a 1 solid man Drop this midnight life lire and nTH como come where you be 00 belong belong long ong Ormsby pulled his hl soft gray ra hat hatt further flown down over o r ii eyes tyes ft lm glad I walked talked into you Y lI ho he commented It lt t saved you up those stairs to the office anyway a 01 its a 1 very alln alli t g proposition Sir and anti a 3 kind k n one I Im m more that thaw i Jf tempted 1111 lang it itt then accept Youre TouTe wafting wasting b YO Tut Y n ta ron can never nevor be he anything more mure than a rolling tone et t this You Yon cant ever hope to have n a home or r Anything else decent A chap of ot your you antecedents dents cleats 1 aia QI cant marry on OIt what little you yo a have a day mado mad out of ot electricity by night and hod anda hoda a u night nl ht made out of curtains by b day and he be concluded con plaintively t I have to eat at my supper r In the morning morning I guess Ii Id hotter better change Yes by Jingo Jinso I believe I 1 will 11 change C ClIe He lIe stamped ns DS he entered the vaulted marble cor corridor the th Capitol He lie always stomped stamped there because no matter matt r how many man people there thE might be at work m the 0 I which lined the sides or 01 staring r InRI at th tM the limp discolored battle lags flats In do the glass cases a lS and Ute time hugely bu ly overgrown statues of ot departed which here and end th t e l seemed med IA le f bar tho way nay with heroically uplifted right arms It was as always hushed and stilt still and n d stamping st mad madO pleasantly ph vigorous rum turn rumbling hung bUng noises and echoes as It reverberated r under the hetY he carve O e galleries and ond up In n the vast hollow or of the big dome lIP up lim ed d the massive masse marble marblo stairway and swung 1 the 1130 door of C the first fint office In the th Governors suite This door doo leas haw over It a n very ery plain plain black and nd gold sign with the th thO one me word Governor and it opens into a very verj Pry like room with Ith flattop desks and waste wastebaskets wastebaskets baskets and nd a steel engraving of Washington crossing crO lJ are arec Beyond it are me chambers ra with aneby y gaudily ly upholstered furniture wherein the succeeding Chief Magistrates of Centralia smoke cigars and amI demo deal democratically push the great American cuspidor over oer the tho tt silken rugs toward Important constituents who ho prefer prof their tobacco In another er form executive clerk by b virtue of or long fa ft familiarity with documents of State and much earnest e earnt pleading on the part of ot Influential family connections who who wished him well was writing at one of ot the tho desks desk with thick spectacles spectacle Easterbrook was as a mild little tittle man man who bb always looked lo koo up apprehensively when hen people plc swans swan the door As Ormsby entered lie he almost jumped Ea Easterbrook Ea did not like Interruptions tnt ns Sometimes the made him put his hip pen in the wrong wron rack Afternoon hailed Ormsby Where here Is the tte Got Gov Governor Go Easterbrook wiggled The Governor he answered answerer hesitatingly Je is 11 s In his hi office but hut you OU cant sec see him Mr loth Ormsby really you 01 cant see sec him this afternoon Why h not no l In the city room they tM held that hat bys forte fore f ne was In fn getting at the root of o things thIn Weil M 11 you ou see Its Easterbrook Raster I rook had harl nv never r suc sue In active politics He Itc lied 1101 only with por pcr effort The Governors Gon rn very ery cr busy bus he concluded M weakly R snapped Ormsby b Easterbrook you yo ou sit right down do and ando so go on dotting your our is ls with ith great Greit care Im going in and If his Excellency like It its it his royal rol prerogative to kick me out HP lie pushed forward The executive clerk caught a at athis his arm Dont go in Mr 11 Ormsby he Ite pleaded derv nerv nervously oust You honestly It Int right Ormsby Orm h paused Soo he whistled Same oh old story and nd in a t mighty bad b d place p aee Is if It Wheres nora Rora Lack hack was the Governors private secretor secretary t nis counselor defender and 11 e tl e in time lime of 01 trouble ant OUt ono whom Ormsby viewed with Ith much respect re 31 lr r gone one foi for Sunday and and Mr that citizens ns committee to lo demand the veto eto of 0 C the tile II IJ and C W V bill is 15 comic comIng here at 3 and an anthe the th Governors got an Ironclad appointment with them then What am I going to do Say a what hat am I 1 going to do There was as helpless dismay In shaking voice and the hand on the th reporters arm erm was JYo Youre re going to keep very r quiet for tor a few te minutes s assured Ormsby and Im Jm going G ng to o take I C a look Jool at nl a things He lie brushed aside aide the protesting protesting clerk and am stepped into tho first office of otho the Governors private privat It t was as vacant He Tlc pullet the tho hea heavy draperies dividing It Jt from the second room The Governor Govern r was wa there HP lie was careered a a tabby flabby figure figur of a II man across the billowy arm arm of a great hell chair his feet fot 1 weakly entangled In the wreck of or n a His Ills eyes tJ s wore bleared bl and and watery ater He 1 drooled idiotically trio Hlo Ormsby he l a drink good drink r The Governor G of or the sovereign State of or Centralia lla was wa drunk I Ormsby viewed the spectacle sp without the shock of oC o surprise lie IFe l e had bad found t what he h tatt anticipated rah h i ithe n the frightened l had bad first essayed to bar bat his hi progress He lIe knew Ime the weaknesses of his c llen There were many of them and this the thc worst of or all nil nilsine sine e c it was the highway for tor the other 3 He te had seen s see seethe n nh the h Governor noisily hilarious In the little coterie of Iii his military staff at the summer ummer encampment of oC the State Stat suard l rd He lie had heard whisperings of or o Disreputable exploits In distant cities He lie H knew the man mat manfor manfor for the weak figurehead of designing political powers But never before had time the weakness brought him totter tottering tott r Ing nJ to this thi disgusting pitiful Never before had Capitol been chosen as Its theatre Ormsby had few ideals lie He was the thc crack reporter re orter r ra f C fa a 11 morning paper But Bur the tho situation was extreme me said Ormsby Youre a sight Ight Easterbrook I stole tole to his side olde What arc are we wc to do he be quavered hysterically The committees committee downstairs now t 1 liar Hav Ia drink persisted the Governor He Ie ought to see enin era argued Ormsby He ought to see ace em because that railroad franchise is an out steal st they rolled through the Legislature on gold dollars and this committee of heavyweights hea might frighten lighten him into vetoing It like a man But Dut of course ct urse ho he added he cant see ace em Em He fit to see any anything an anything thing thins but a patrol wagon Well stave staC em off ott lie He tut turned tuned toward the door The Governor wallowed in his chair with sickly effort to rise Govnor he demanded thickly You In Gain grant franchise Got all fixed Road have hae anything an t wants an Ill settle tV l Been e n form orm Coin Coln grant gro t franchise You hew in i r Ormsby wheel wh el about In his blue blU eyes flashed the lh sudden n light that comes with discovery and swift de dc decision For a moment he be eyed ey d the weakly floundering ering executive EX In disgust Then he ho sprang to action Easter Easterbrook E ter brook he ordered sharply in three minutes you show how that committee In right In here The executive CX clerk paled But nut Mr Ir 11 Ormsby he sobbed lobbed I II 11 I can cant t Hes lies repeated r the other quickly you do lust exactly as youre oute told or something very cry terrible Is going to happen to you your ou r You chump he h added more cheerfully Ill run Tun this show all right He hesitated a moment mom nt as he ho h heard h rd shaking tones Jn the outer office Then he strode to toward toward ward the Governor who had ha ceased his vain attempts to o stand and with bearded chin sunken on his chest was lI W breathing heavily in slumber So Randall nandan bought you OU before breakfast did he hehe her herIC he IC questioned ned very er coolly now no Youre Yol re part ut of or the thet H t and C VVs Ws equipment are you ouT And youre going to o give them that franchise protect prot Ct them forever amen from competition n by b the trolley and let them throttle the State at their own 0 easy casy leisure lel ure Youre going to let tet them haul all the grain at their own |