Show C F WITH N hr SOME iff ma incidental 79 aw froma etui ty aya byks c r 9 A Y vj Ys end am D Y ay C 11 1 us aar we MAO SYNOPSIS A foolish youner tenderfoot becomes pr a e baled with wih lurix the bold artful wife of 0 a u n kii i prospector ro in a western minin blinda town ti they ey prepare to elop belopo a in a bllou 1 ani ng b blizzard 11 azard prepare but ut are confronted by tile alia ril audlin husband af ifo la is liot by the tha wife but the chivalrous boy p alna ansilla a rote note to th the body taking the e crime upon imon himself aimse f in their ill g ht to the tha ral railroad road station the we comans womans man s horse borgo rall falla hausted exhausted the youth putt put a her on n hla his own and f follows hanging to tile the stirrup strap seeing lie is 1 an impediment th he a w woman oman thrusts her scort escort into i enow drift and rides on half frozen ae he stumbles into the railroad station jut just no fla the train bears beara tho the woman away twenty five yeura years later this man mail GC george norm ly y Is a multi in now york ila ho meets eleanor ira idane a beautiful anti anil wealthy settlement Bett sett leme lement t worker worl and operated cooperated co with her in her work wore bomes owner of a L una line anil and finds himself frustrated it in pier find track extension plans by grafting al dow dowdell mell backed by the 1 gotham I ch tk am traction an auton automobile nobile accident brings tile tha Hal da danca es t to 0 hla his country home homa gorm colorni ly tint ounces that tha t ile he will he be mayor of ne new w york anti redeem tile the city from corruption ru 0 tion the political declaration of the merchant prince produced a tremendous Is the whole machinery of the cites catyb det active force Is I 1 to be ual sled to nig dig up Some thill damaging to aly the aresa heretofore anant unanimously bously favorable 0 merchant candidate under rider pres pr wr d video and the campaign waxes warm wann A r solution resolution la in introduced grant glant lim ft a X ra I 1 renewal of nt the traction offers ten million dotto inars for ill the franchise lae alias ita II aldano idanis congratulates gormly on what she terms a new declaration of independence and he makes an unexpected declaration of love lie ile la Is shocked hy the confirmation of ilia him sits that br her er father is 1 the tha head and backbone of the notorious traction company which hot hn li is to overthrow youns young II aldane discovers his Is fit thern connection with tile the Cl gotham otharn traction company anti and to la incensed in on nn interview between gormly and haldone me hr latter practically ally offers lila his ilaug hand an 1111 a bribe tor for gormly to withdraw refuses CHAPTER XIII continued 1 I love your daughter in ways that I 1 doubt you are able to understand but I 1 would not talie her on such conditions ns na those you mean me to infer I 1 would not degrade her by thinking of her on oil such terms even it if I 1 lost her forever I 1 nm am unworthy of her now god knows I 1 but I 1 would be so BO far bo ba neath tier her under such circumstances that I 1 could not even look nt at her again I 1 dont understand how bow she could have been borbot such a la fa aber 1 1 I will not be ba talked to in n that manner by you sir air cried who did not lack courage 1 I hero here and now flow definitely decline your proposal for my iny daughters hand band 1 I will take that declination from her and from no DO one ersoll else said coraly roly she w will ill repeat it I 1 ain am sure it if she ahe lacars with what insolence you havo have treated me and I 1 pray god for the sake of her love toward you and her respect toward you that she may never hear one word of what you havo have said I 1 have had enough of this interview mr haldane ile ho turned to the door said eald II aldane to hear bear another infamous pro post xion lon from you no air nut but I 1 have something vore inore to say and it la Is this you are not so invulnerable yourself sit but that you might be glad for a little judicious silence allence 1 what do you mean never mind what I 1 mean you pi biblish blish what you havo have there at your perill peril I 1 warn yuu you that in two days thereafter your name will ring as a scoundrel and it a blackguard throughout the united states having tried bribery find and failed you now resort to threats said bald gormly but that thai you aro are tier her father lie clenched his flat stood staring a minute then shrugged his shoulders shook his head and turned away you wont bo be warned then said bald II ll aldane not by you and you intend to publish my connection tion everywhere 1 I snail shall tell eleanor that you havo have lono done it 1 I 1 shall tell her myself ic ili turned gormly tenting tearing open tho the door haldane lie ho called as aa he stepped into the hall when young mark man presented himself he ha thus addressed mm your father and I 1 have had bad a rather painful interview inta chodo tho details of bf abich it li Is not necessary to enter I 1 havo have only to say that tho the story I 1 told you goes to the newspapers toight tong bt ht and now he held out his hand band goodby good hy I 1 wish vish that we might have fought until the end rut we nr aro going to fight together until the end cried the young oung man fiercely 1 I lovo love my father fatherland and until now I 1 hove have always respected him I 1 have been content to follow his lead hut but I 1 can do so no longer you will both of you live to regret it cried old baldano after a hitter bitter took look at the pair with hl his head bead high be marcher ebeo out through the door do dour fiur worst he said ere he be closed it behind hint him you will see sea what will happen to you in a day or two t what does it meant mean asked askea miss mica stewart it melfi mearia said livingstone that my father la in tangled up with a gang of scoundrels that he to Is the baalu und and backbone of bt tho the gotham freight T traction braction company that we are ara lighting fighting and aliat he be to la in close alliance I 1 alth society it means K va w and iare ds I 1 i meana ideana that I 1 no longer haye have the right to risk aek you what whai I 1 had intended to ask you when tho the campaign was over and we had won to be my wife are you asking me now cried miss bliss stewart ecstatically 1 I would be it if it was wan proper it la Is proper she said blushing divinely you dont mean you gousou goosek said the girl 1 I dont love your father or your family hero gormly turned and went into the drawing room again when he came back which ha be did not do until summoned by miss alias stewart herself he confronted the blushing pair you could not have chosen a truer better man than mr II li aldane he said and as tor you II 11 aldane you are the luckiest man on earth ile he sighed with envy and regret ns as he spoke 1 I want to do something for you now said young II 11 aldane well there Is one thing you can do for or me what Is tt t 1 I want to see aeo your sister and immediately 1 1 I will have her hero here in ten minutes answered the young man tearing himself away from miss stewart without another word CHAPTER XIV gormly resists his greatest Temp temptation til gormly had faced many difficult situations tiati ons in his life even his bis success 4 af 1 04 N and this Is why you made me that offer of marriage ful fill business career had confronted him with crises of moment nut but he had never contemplated anything which imposed so hard a task upon his judgment and hla his feelings as the approaching interview what means young gaidano would take ta to induce his sister alster to come with him how much ot of what had bad transpired he would tell her gormly grimly had no means of knowing of course but he felt confident that by book or crook tho the young woman would be produced and that a ten fei minutes would find him face ace to taco face with her ho 16 did not in the least know how to begin or what to say and the morn more he thought of it tho the moru moro became the situation it was well that the time for reflection was aa short it Is better for a man who has to do great things to do them before the mental land and spiritual enemy has time to doubts into tho the mind and it was with a feeling of relief in his growing apprehension and misery therefore that he be heard beard the front from door opeo open ile he heard voices that he I 1 knew la in the ball and in another moment the library door w wis ts opened and miss bliss entered the room alone he ha had bad rleon risen on her approach and stood confronting her she was erf dently greatly surprised 1 1 I did not know you were hero here she begam did not tell me I 1 did not expect it was to see we me or at rather that th at I 1 might see you that you were brought here and I 1 alone ani am responsible it Is a most proceeding said the girl nervously 1 I cant imagine why I 1 was brought to you it was necessary for me to see you returned the man then why you come to my house ouse 1 I could not why not there are reasons which will probably render me forever on unwelcome visitor to your house 1 I believe said the girl slowly slowly that something very serious must have happened or you would not have had me brought here 1 I can scarcely bear to tell you you alarm me beyond measured mea measure surel c tied cried the girl pressing her hands to her breast as if to still its wild throbbing you must not keep heep me in suspense any longert what Is it that you have to 0 tell teli met me what Is it that to la likely to come between us ua this responded gormly handing banding her a few typewritten sheets of paper am 1 i I to read this she asked taking it from him and looking very straight at him ile he was very pale now and she was scarcely less white said the man as she lifted the paper and bent her head perhaps it would be more merciful to tell you just as you think best I 1 am a strong woman I 1 can bear an anything y thing Is it about there was a long pause my father lie ile nodded his head bead what has he done miss II Il aldane he 1 I say to jou quite simply that I 1 would rather be dead than stand here as I 1 do now with the burden of telling you that your father to Is the head and front the backbone tho the brains the genius the everything of the gotham freight company and the sachem society eo cloty my godt godl exclaimed miss alias II 11 aldane the paper dropping from her fingers to the floor she was paler than ever she stared at him almost in dumb incomprehension ifer her body swayed slightly gormly stepped closer to her seized her gently supported her to a chair by the library table she put her face in her hands stud and rocked to and fro silently it cant be true she said bald at last you are mistaken surely riot cot my lather father in that sink of corruption and bribery and iniquity and shame agamet say bay it truel true I 1 1 I wish to heaven I 1 could say it but te joe man shook hla his head 1 I told you that I 1 would rather havo have aseen been dead than have hare brought this athla upon you you aro are not to blame answered the woman her sense of justice uppermost it to la the fact itself that kills it if it bo be a fact there must be some mistake 1 I wish there was waa are yuu yiu sure absolutely your father confessed it at here in this room a halt hour ago why do you tell me of 10 was the answer the whole world has baa to know it and I 1 preferred to tell you myself rather thai let you get tt it from tho the newspapers you are going to publish it 7 tomorrow morning out but why why sho she throw threw up ter ner arms in bertous appeal think said sala the tha man it la in the one fact that makes my election certain and does doca your ambition run to tho the wrecking of my fathera good nam 1 in order that you may clay be elected r no it you will think ou will know that it does not nol I 1 am doing it for tho the sake of honor for the sake of duty for the sake of humanity he paused and raised his own hand so help me god I 1 he cried with upturned face out but is it necessary T absolutely why the cause of popular government la being fought out right hero here the contest transcends in importance any political battle that has fias even been waged if tho the government of and for and by tho the people Is to be a bouc nuci cess we havo have to demonstrate it now cow or else go down it may be forever for the people have a right to know what is back of the sachem society tv where it gets its enormous corrupt corruption lou fund I 1 should he be it a traitor false to my duty a betrayer it if I 1 did not make maka public this knowledge that has come coma to me it la Is all true she said at last Y you ou say ay my father was hero yes ile ho was very much agitated at some news that my brother brought him a short time ago doea livingstone know ile ho does I 1 told him why to give him an opportunity unity to withdraw from association with ua in view of this attack and what did he ha decide ile he decided to stay with me and this to Is why you made roe me that offer of marriage now rather than later yes I 1 wanted you to feel after you had this news that while I 1 alone knew it I 1 paid you the highest compliment that I 1 could think of that my heart was irrevocably pledged to you whatever was to happen that was kind of you you have always been kind to we me 1 I dont see how H ow you ca can n say so after this ile he pointed to the paper this she replied her t yes eyes 3 following his outstretched hand band makes a great dlf difference ference it 1 I dont know I 1 suppose irwill it will it does not make any difference in mo me dut but dont you see it makes it impossible for me it if you how could IT I 1 T the enemy of my father 1 1 I dont suppose you could he answered that Is another reason why I 1 wrote when I 1 did because I 1 was tearful fearful that you would hate me when my agency in the u unearthing near thing of this abts was known that you yon would receive no BO communication from me that our acquaintance would bo be broken off and I 1 wanted you to know before it was too lato late all that was in my heart 1 I auk am surprised paid mild the woman that you could still continue to love the daughter oti of dont say that quickly interposed gormly 1 I dont love you because you are daughter but because you are yourself I 1 cant trust myself to speak about it when I 1 see you he be continued turning away and 1 I could curse myself for ever having become involved in such a situation I 1 wish there was waa some way out of it sometimes I 1 am minded to there Is no way out of it said the girl quickly no I 1 suppose not ile ho turned away from her and began to pace the room with long loag steady steps mr go gormly amly she said at last come lere here sit down there on the other side odthe table I 1 want to see you amazed the man complied compiled with her ic quest now tell me tho the whole solemn truth you say my father was here with you before I 1 came camet yes does lie ho know that you know it was to see me about that that he came did he make some effort to induce you not to publish these facts naturally what was waa the effort ile he argued with me Is that all ile he threatened retaliation Is that all 1 I think he even pleaded and la a that all yes said gormly telling her hla his arst lie telling it bravely audaciously te yen even looking her straight in the eye without blenching bleaching mr gormly returned the woman whatever he be to Is my father Is not a fool ills ilia worst enemy would not so BO describe him ile he knew that you were not a man who could bo be moved by threats or entreaties YOU have demonstrated th that t you can be in this campaign at least iron hard bard inflexible immutable and there here la is no argument that any mortal man could use which could induce you to hold your hand that truer true il 1 I I 1 am afraid so BO what then 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