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Show Thursday, ptbru; a7 2, HIE LEW SUN. LE1H. UTAH PAGE TWO - : :: i .. 1tUMiiiiiiiiii"timniiiiiimiiniiiiilimij TKe Recluse of Fifth: A venue I 1 WYNDHAM OswrtiM to m Votu4 lutaa biaiiliiliiiilllllHllllllMllllllllllilil!!tlllir WNU Berrle CHAPTER XIII Continued 24 "Profetwor Bradney, said Mllman genially. "One of our great physicists now brought down -by unkind circumstances circum-stances to being footman In the bouses f lesser men. No, not In this house, Mr. Itaion. Here Professor Bradney Is an honored guest Mllraan turned to Bradney. "This Is Mr. Paul Itaxon. who aspires to high office, Paul Raxon turned on his host with snarl He had been tricked. "If you are harboring a dismissed errant of mine who left under circumstances cir-cumstances which point to his dishonesty, dis-honesty, let me remind you It's a dangerous dan-gerous thing to do." "After a lifetime of orderly quiet ne welcomes such dangers." Peter lillmun'i eyes peered into those red-flecked red-flecked ones of his guest. The door opened again and Nee-land Nee-land Burnes, In evening dress, entered. en-tered. .. This Ih Mr. Neeland Barnes," said MHman. "Pehaps you know him best under his name of 'Enry. He tells me lie enjoyed every minute of his stay at your delightful home." Paul Baxon, who had staged so ninny unhappy scenes for the men he bud enmeshed, was now to experience the unpleaslng sensations of the victim. vic-tim. He saw, very plainly, that he must suiter what these men chose to Inflict and hear what they chose to say. He had not the physical power to escape. Not idly had they sauntered saun-tered into this room. "Ah," said Neeland Barnes, with a large gesture, "this is the little fellow I had to throw off the pier at Karra-gansett Karra-gansett years ago. It was my intention inten-tion to drown him as one dues unwelcome unwel-come kittens, but eome misguided Baniarltun of the sea defeated my I'Urpose." Baxon said nothing. But he luul not come to his present eminence by being be-ing physically above the average. He had risen because of a brain more skilled In craftiness and cunning than the majority. These were not the sort of men to hurt him. He must keep bis nerve and let them commit themselves them-selves to verbal follies. Barnes had hardly finished when another entered whom he recognized, despite the absence of mustache and Imperial, as M. le Vicomte ISaoul de Oulllaln. "This Is Mr. Floyd Malet," anld Peter Mllman. "I think you are indebted in-debted to his knowledge fur ridding your house of period f orgerles.' Pa'il Baxon rose to his feet. "This reception,' he Bald, stimulating stimulat-ing a yawn, "grows wearlsume. I seem to be a guest at a manservants" club. What la it staged fori Money? if so, there's absolutely nothing doing. do-ing. "Sit down," said Peter Mllman suavely ; "you will be told when to go." The next to enter was Sneed, who bad been bis own butler. Baxon saw clearly that by some ruse yet to be discovered his house had been entered by a band of confederates. They had defeated him there. "Mr. John McKlmber," Sueed announced. an-nounced. When Baxon bad seen McKlmber a week before he had looked upon a crushed man from whom ambition had fled. The McKlmber who came In was again the big, dominating type, radiating radiat-ing confidence, sure of himself and his IKmitlon. This bearing could only mean that McKlmber knew of the theft of the stolen page from the registry reg-istry and the letters. He understood that the weapons with which Baxon bad threatened him were gone. The aura of danger was about Paul Raxon, and he comprehended his position with horror. Somehow or other they had tricked him, but he would pay them back. What a scandal it would be which would involve Peter MHman in a conspiracy of this sort "This is the Raxon who wished to go to the senate," Mllmnn explained. "Wished, Raxon repented. "Who Isn't to be kept out of It by the fool tricks of you amateurs." "He's trying to keep his courage BP," Barnes volunteered. "He know be's beaten. You can see It In his face. The man's white as chalk." "One can't blame him for trying to bluff it out." Bradney exclaimed impartially. im-partially. "The cornered rat lights. Invariably.' "Gentlemen, gentlemen," Peter Mil-man Mil-man said, "remember that at the present pres-ent minute Sir. Raxon has no idea that he Is beaten. 1 can see him scheming a thousand plans of revenge, all of which seem reasonable because he has do idea what we hold over him." "Too don't bold anything." Raxon snarled. , r . . e "In the interests of truth I must contradict you. said his host Mii-ssan Mii-ssan took m his pocket a blue pjanina envelope, "1 save here," Peter Mllman went on, "those documents with which you threatened Mr. McKlmber." "You stole them," Itaxon cried, "and that's a penitentiary offense." "Stole them?" Mllman returned. "You pain me, Mr. Raxon. They were offered to me for sale Just as they were offered to you. You bought them in the first instance, I ha the second. You are not yet aware that every word of that long interview in your tower with Mr. McKlmber was taken down in shorthand by an expert and transcribed. tran-scribed. I have three copies, of which the one in this blue envelope is only a carbon. One copy will be given to Mr. McKlmber, and the original is in my safe deposit vault at my bank. I am afraid you were a little careless in guarding the sancity of your home. Or one occasion yon mistook an operative op-erative for a sewer rat 'Enry here was greatly afraid lest you should shoot" "I don't believe it" Rion cried hoarsely. "I thought yon would not Perhaps you will realize your mistake when you hear a few paragraphs." Raxon listened In distressed silence. There was no doubt that someone had been listening and had taken the conversation con-versation down accurately. He had no room to doubt The place where he had heard what he thought was a rat the place where he had, been thrust, bound and gagged, had been prepared for one end his downfall. Raxon saw McKlmber open the envelope en-velope and look at the page cut by Raxon's private detective from the register. reg-ister. This page, never to be replaced, together with the letters bought from relatives of McKImber's first wife, were torn into little pieces nnd dropped In the blazing fire. Then McKlmber Mc-Klmber turned to his enemy. "You'll get a whole lot of help from me now," he Jeered. "You daren't run for office" Raxon cried, "You've nothing on me." Mllman waved his hand warnlngly and elevated the incipient verbal warfare war-fare to a higher level. "You shall Judge," he said urbanely. urbane-ly. "I may tell you this embodies the work of years. It cost time and money, "gain Mr. Raxon's own words, but it was money well spent I have here, for example, an affidavit from Thomas Minnerly, formerly elevator iraS "It's All Right" Said Robin Gleefully, Glee-fully, boy in the studio apartment where that poor girl died. He says, under oath, that you paid him money for. services the details of which are set forth. There is also the confession of Patrick Ford, once a well-known jockey, but later a stablehand at Pim-llco, Pim-llco, who was badly burned In a fire there and died later from injuries. He Implicates a trainer named Ache-son Ache-son and Paul Raxon in the plot which disgraced Neeland Barnes. And I have the testimony of Edward Ny-gren, Ny-gren, who was the go-between In the matter of offering a bribe to Professor Bradney. In all I have seven documents, docu-ments, each one of which will prevent you ever from running for office. Do you care to see them? I dare not put there Into your lianas for fear that you might throw them Into the. fire, but Mr. Barnes will no doubt secure your arms while I show them." . Raxon waved , the suggestion aside, and Barnes sat down disappointed. "And there are other things," Mil-man Mil-man went on. "Your attorney Lod-dbn, Lod-dbn, when heated with wine, has been more than Indiscreet I have had his conversations transcribed. If I were you, I think I would employ another lawyer, one not given to boasting of his influence over his chief client Truth, you know, lives under a cork." Raxon said no word. This man Mil-man, Mil-man, whom Loddon hated, had tricked him In the end. "We shall see about it" he said, striving for calm. "I'm not the sort of man that you can try this sort of game on. What I know about McKlmber McKlm-ber I know and the world shall hear of It" "Would that be wise?" Milman asked solicitously. "You e, you have no evidence. In order to give credence to your story you would have to explain the ordering of that page to be cut out Very awkward. Mr. Baxon, as you w!ll find, to tamper with vital statistics. That Is not all. If Mr. McKlmber finds you are acting against him. either directly or Indirectly, be Will see that the opposition papers get copies of the affidavits In this envelope. en-velope. You are defeated at every point Salvation for you lies tn abandoning aban-doning of all political ambition." Paul Baxon knew Mllman spoke the truth. Here, definitely, once for all, was the end of his ambitions. He realized as he went down the atone steps into the avenue that he dare make no movt against the men who bad Invaded bis home and brought him low. McKlmber, sitting before the" fire, felt as one might whose death sentence sen-tence had been respited at the last mo ment He had been told to come though he atready knew he was victor. And if he had deceived Itaxea he had not convinced himself. There were tears In Us eyes when Nlta came In. "My dear," he said, "you are too good for any son oi mine, but if you will marry him you'll make me happier hap-pier than I ever thought to be again." Someone put a strflffg, firm hand on his shoulder. It was Bobtn. , "It's all right," eald Bobln gleefully. "She Is going to do It" , McKlmber looked up at his son and smiled. "Robin," he said, "never forget what you owe to Mr. Mllman. I can never repay him, never." McKlmber took from his pocket a long, legal envelope. He balanced It In his band a moment "It would give me great pleasure, Mr. Mllmnn, If yovi would throw that on the back of the fire. It's something I wnnt to get lid of." ."Certainly," aald Peter Milman courteously. "It seems to1 amuse you," he added, seeing McKImber's face break Into a smile. "Do you know what you've doner' McKlmber demanded. "You've burned up the mortgage I hold on this house. Yes, sir, I bought It yesterday, and now can't collect." "Really," said Peter Mllman, reddening, red-dening, "I could not possibly accept such a thing no. indeed." McKlmber waved his hands. "You can't help yourself. I've more to say. I've had my lawyers going through the Hazen Brewer affairs, and you didn't lose all your money. There wIU be enough saved out of the wreck for you to live on here," For a man who prided himself on his word, McKlmber lied s with prodigality and fluency. "Loddon trimmed you, but Brewer was honest" McKlmber turned to Bradney. He felt like a super-Santa Claus handing out presents for the deserving young. "You may not know it, professor, but I've a lot to say in the management manage-ment of a small up-state university." He did not tell them he was its most munificent donor ; and chairman of trustees." "We want to specialize in one thing which will put us on the educational map in a national sense. I've suggested your name, and that was approved, too. All you have to do Is to signify your acceptance or rejection re-jection to me." "Rejection?" Bradney cried, his eyes lighting up. "Mr. McKlmber, you are offering me my career." "As for the father of my future daughter-in-law, if he cares to run my stock ranch near Sacramento, I want, a good man at once. He can go as soon as the wedding Is over. What about It?" "Man," said Neeland Barnes earnestly, earn-estly, "there isn't one chance In a trillion I'll refuse." He turned to the others. "And how I hated him for the Ice water he drank 1" Floyd Malet, standing In the background, back-ground, saw another man reborn in the former 'Enry. Not again for Neeland Nee-land Barnes would there be the Ufa of little things and dally financial worries. wor-ries. Malet looked on the scene with no spirit of envy. That there was no place in McKImber's plans for him seemed of Uttle consequence, Nlta had won her happiness, and that was enough. He looked up as the girl came to his side. "Dearest of my uncles," she whispered, whis-pered, "do you think I don't know who gave me my Robin?" She kissed him before them all. "My friend Floyd." Milman announced, an-nounced, "Is going to live at, his house near Florence; where he will do the great things we expect from him." "My house?' Malet cried. "Your house," said Peter Mil man firmly. "The deed of gift will be drawn up as soon as possible. It ia useless to me. I I shall remain here." Mllman looked about him. "There are some trees that cannot be transplanted and some men who die If they are uprooted." up-rooted." He embraced the others in his gaze. "I wish I could tell you what a different man you leave from the one who asked you to join him." Never before had Peter Milmnn been so genuinely affected. Tiie envelope upon which Raxon bad looked with such horror, that envelope containing the affidavits that would forever hold him Inactive, Peter Milman threw Into the golden fire, McKlmber saw the action too late. There was no possibility possi-bility now of saving infinitely important im-portant documents. "Man," he cried, "don't you realize what you have done?" "Better, perhaps, than you," said Peter Milman,' smiling. "I have destroyed de-stroyed an envelope contnining a dozen sheets of blauk paper." 'THE END. South American Pampa$ The extensive treeless plains cot-ered cot-ered with coarse grass In Paraguay. Uruguay and Argentina of South America, are called pampas. These plains are being turned Into cattle ranches, especially In Argentina, from which country large exporrs of meat take place each year. To Drive Away MolhM The biological survey says Mint solution of corrosive sublimate ani alcohol al-cohol applied to a mounted der bead Is beneficial for kwjlng awat moths. Any druggist can supply th exact propnrtton. It need only be ar plied once every year or to Sculptured Prvt i .' n'-p -' - ! i ;Jf pcoL-jhtV ?;-V . iiy It- I M'i ? 1 ' . v . k. or! , . , r-'-r-i ...anriwrnrl 'i " " 1 rrj - ; . - 1 L. St Gaudens' Statue of Lincoln, In Grant Park, Chicago. Deep Impress Lincoln Left Not Equaled The centenary of Abraham Lincoln's birth was celebrated on February 12, 1909, with an even deeper Interest than such events usually arouse In a nation. Since then the Lincoln legend has grown. Memorials to the Great Emancipator have multiplied. Each succeeding anniversary of 'his birth has been marked by what has come to be the usual Impressive and nationwide nation-wide observance. ; , Abraham Lincoln has been dead for nearly sixty-three years. Few who remember him remain alive. The Issues Is-sues be raised have long since passed. In many ways the thought and the very feelings of the nation have changed, and yet no figure In its history his-tory hns ever so completely captured and held its imagination as hns this Borrowful son of the frontier. Here was a man who came of -a wandering and illiterate, sometimes shiftless and always shifting and footloose foot-loose stock. They knew little of books. He had little schooling. It was a family of "pore folks" in a new and "pore" country. In that "half-faced camp" In the Indiana woods his mother taught him his "letters" from the old "blue-back speller" of American tradition. By the firelight he spelled put seirtences from the statutes of Indiana. Lincoln's "Library." Somehow in that new, raw country the "Arahian Nights" ciune into Ms hands. He rend the Bible. Shakespeare, Shake-speare, "Aesop's Fables" nnd 'Til grim's Progress." lie knew the "Life of Washington." by old Parson Weems. He dipped a quill pen made from the turkey buzzard's wing feather in a home-made ink - compounded of roots of the blackberry briar and copperas. He wrote with the tip of a burnt stick or a dead coal from the fireplace on a fresh-split clapboard. One book had a profound influence Upon him and possibly upon American political history. ; The Lincoln family were Democrats. He read In his hoy-hood hoy-hood "The Speeches of Henry Clay." stiff with the strong and pungent Whig doctrines of a century ;:. Clay became to Lincoln "the beau Ideal of a statesman." When Lincoln entered Illinois politics in 1S32 he was a Whig. The torch of Clay had lighted light-ed a greater flame in the Sangamon valley, but Clay, dying In 1852 with big life work of compromise doomed to ruin, did not live to spe the glory of tliis new fire. " Great by Instinct Out of the raw. roujih and ready school of frontier politics and frontier law Lincoln somehow brought the power and experience needed for the nation's greatest emergency. And as the years revealed, he brought something some-thing greater. The word humanity fails to describe it It included a deep understanding, a great generosity and an utter absence of malice, resentment and vindictive-ness. vindictive-ness. Somewhere he found a tract no trained diplomat and no gentleman born to the purple ever excelled. He owned a tested strength tried as by fire and as sure as steel. There was in bim also a strange and almost indescribable in-describable instinct for the right When he conquered, it was by the power of truth. That may be why no other American statesman has left so deep an Impress tpon tie thought and in Repose the imagination of the world. There is no more romantic figure In the annals an-nals of statecraft than this tall and strangely sorrowful, sometimes humorous hu-morous and always burdened, child of the clearings and the prairies. Dignity and honesty, strength and generosity, charity and understanding, understand-ing, were the hammers under which he welded a broken nation. Such qualities are always needed In public life. The man who has them is a statesman. ' Lacking them he can never rise to greatness. Philadelphia Ledger. What constitutes the bulwark -.; of our liberty and independ- jjj ence? It it not our frowning ?jj battlement, our bristling tea- $ coast, our army and our navy. J Our reliance is in the love of sc ;j; liberty which God ha planted $ in us. Our defense in in the He spirit which prized! liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere. Destroy this $ spirit and you have planted the J seeds of despotism at your own sjt doors. 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