| Show IJ t 1 P J 71 by author of the tle magee etc ted 1903 by tj continued from last week yes fald aid I 1 some of the MIS bills are arc pretty stiff arent they dut the boys tell me for our best friends and that thai they re all necessary xo 0 o doubt no doubt he replied replie but it will be impossible to reconcile tile the people suddenly he turn tur nedon cdon me ills eyes full of fear and suspicion have you laid a plot to ruin me saylor sayler it certainly looks that way have ix V 0 X e VA J ga Gover governor norl and he laughed in wild derision you ou a secret ambition tor for the ahe dency talk rubbish james I 1 interrupted those few meaningless vo votes t es inthe hithe national convention had addled his common sense dense sit down calm yourself tell me all about it ile he seated himself and ran his fingers through his wet hair that was being abeln so rapidly thinned and whitened by the struggles arid and anxieties of his ambition my god he cried out how I 1 aril arh punished when I 1 astarb started in my public career I 1 looked forward and saw just this time when I 1 should tie be clr helpless tool in the hands of the power I 1 sold myself to governor lie ile almost shouted toe the word r aahl p ais the floor again governor and he laughed laus ned in wild derision I 1 watched hin him fascinated 1 I too tco at the outset of ray iny career had looked 0 or an and pd had bad seen the same peril bat t I 1 had avoided it wretched bigum ilat i at ho he v was aa what nhat more wretched wore more pitiable than a man grovel irge s and moaning in the mire of his own self relf contempt governor I 1 sad sai d th ta myself as I 1 saw eav awful phout thoughts rats like demons of despair across his face and I 1 shuddered and pitied and rejoiced shuddered at the narrowness of my own escape pitied the mentho men who seemed myself as I 1 might have been and rejoiced that I 1 had hid my mother with me and in me to impel me nto into another course come cocq come Dur burbank bank said 1 I ly youre oure not yourself youve lost sleep S leep 1 I have not i I 1 read those cursed barsy art y tell me lie wh abar aar you want done was my sll gistl n pil beian any way I 1 ca lany any s practicable oh 1 I understand your position bayl er he be answered when ho he had got control of himself a again gain but bu I 1 sei sea the time has co coma me thy when the power that rules me that rules us both has hag decided to use me 10 my flyr destruction it if I 1 refuse to do these things th ings it will destroy me and a hundred are eager to como come forward and take lake my place it if I 1 do these things the flip people will destroy me and neither if ither Is that of the smallest importance to sur our master ills phrases phrase s the power that rules pas is both and llou our master jarred on TOG so tar far as he knew indeed so far as our master knew were not lie and I 1 in the same class but that was no time for per personal vanity q j all 1 I 1 said was the bills must go through this Is ono one of those crises 9 ahat test a mans loyalty joy alty to the party part 7 11 for the good ot of t the lie party he muttered with a bitter sneer crime upon crime yes crime I 1 say that the part may keep the favor of tho the powers and to what end to what good why that tho the party may con tinus in control so may be of further use to Vs rulers he rested his hill el bows on the table and held his face he looked terri his hands between et b my IY old id and id weary beyond the power over to be rested again 1 I stand with the party what am 1 I what am I 1 without it lio be went on in a dull voice tho the people may forget but it 1 I 1 of cud the tha master lie ho never forgives or for forgets acts ril ill sign the bills sayler it they come to no me as party measures burbank bank had bad to the test teat A baser man inen would havo have acted ai scores of goTer governors nors mayors and hugas hii acs have acted in the same situation would haye baye accepted ruin and would have compelled tile iha powers oe to ma 1 I ic N him rich in corn ii bation A braver raan maa would have defied it and the tha powers would have appealed to the people with one chance of winning out against ten thousand chances of 0 being disbelieved and laughed at as a man who thinks lie he q too good tor for his party burbank was neither too base nor too brave clearly I 1 assured he Is the man I 1 want I 1 felt that I 1 might safely relieve his mind so tar far as ifould do 0 so o without letting him too far into my secret plans I 1 had not spent five minutes in explanation before ho he was up his faco face radiant arid and both hands stretched out to me forgive me harvey lie he cried 1 I shall never distrust you again I 1 put my future in your hands bands CHAPTER XII burbank fires the popular popular heart that was indeed a wild winter at the state capital a carnival of corruption the newspapers of ct ether states called it one of the first of the black bills to go through was a disguised g u ased street railway grab out of which senator croffut got a landsom band hand som soma s counsel fee of fifty odd edd thou dollars but as the rout went on ever more audaciously and recklessly he became uneasy la in raid mid february he was urging me to go me west and ti try y to do something to curb those infernal grabbers I 1 refused to interfere he went himself and woodruff reported to me that he was ground the state house and the hotels like a crazy man for when he got into the thick of it he realized that it was much worse than it seemed from washington in a few days he was back and at al me again its very strange said he suspiciously the boys say getting nothing out of it they declare simply obeying orders whose orders I 1 asked 1 I dont know he answered his eyes sharply upon me but I 1 do know that unless something is done ill not be returned to tho the senate well loss losa the legislature sure next fall it does look that way I 1 said with a touch of melancholy that street railway grab was the beginning of 0 our rakes progress weve been going it hell berit bent ever since ile he tossed his handsome head and w was about to launch into an angry de seio fe tense n of f himself but my manner checked him he began to plead You youcan cau stop it sayler everybody out there says you can aad if I 1 am aia reelected ive got a good chance for the presidential romi nomination nation should I 1 get it and be ba elected we ne could form a combination that would interest yo you u 11 I 1 think it was a beautiful irony that in his conceit he bs should give as his reason why v hy I 1 should help him the v very ery re jsn why I 1 was not sorry he was to beaten for althor although gh he was i is dangerous still he was vas a rival public figure to durback in our state and aad well accidents sometimes happen unless guarded against what shall I 1 do I 1 asked him stop them from passing any mora black bills bill s why got halt half dalon ready ren dy sonic some of them worse enaz ea than the two they hey passed oer M II 11 banks eto a week wee ago for instance ile he cirol three power trust inist bills hut why don t yav stop those three said 1 I they re under the tha special patronage of do domintck you have influence with him dominicali DomIni Domin lck cli he groaned are you sure and when I 1 nodded emphatically he went on ill do what I 1 can but ile he threw up his bis hands he was off for the west that night when he returned his face wore the look of doom ile he had always posed tor for the benefit of the galleries especially the women in the galleries but now ho he became in dress often issued forth unshaven and sat sprawled at his desk in the senate his chin on his shirt bosom looking vague and starting when any one oco spoke to him following my advice on the day when I 1 sen jarn away happy burbank left the capital and the state just before the five worst bills left laft the committees mit tees he was called to the bedside of bf his wife who so all the newspapers announced was at tho the point of death at colorado springs while he was there nursing her as she hovered between life and death the bills were jammed through the tha I 1 te lenato ante and the assembly to be continued |
