Show 0 7 h e lk V PLUM P LU M TR Z IT 0 by y DAVID RA it LIPS author r 01 lie he co cost t the th deluge D e etc ted by enz couran continued from last week why do you QU think youve not been brave she asked after awhile because ive won on by playing on the llie weaknesses weak nesse and fears of 0 men well my own weaknesses and fears L enabled me to understand im YOU have done wrong deliberately era craz tely ely deliberately nut dut that good might come so I 1 tolo told myself and good has come ive heard beard that figs do grow on thistles whistles es good baa ha come but I 1 think in ili eplite of me not through me but now that you see she said turning her eyes to mine with appeal in them and something so diore I 1 thought you will you will go on 1 I dont know Is there such a things as remorse without regret 9 and then my self control went and I 1 let her see what I 1 had commanded myself to keep keel hid 1 I only know clearly one thin thing elizabeth Elzabet li only one thing matters you are the whole world to me you and I 1 could what could we not do together her color slowly rose slowly vanished was that what you came to tell me she asked yes I 1 answered not flinching that Is the climax of your moral icings yes I 1 answered and of my cowardice A little icy smile just changed the curve of her lips when I 1 was a girl you won my love or took it when I 1 gave it to you if you prefer and then you threw it away for an ambition 3 on oil brave elou enough 1 I to p pursue vue honorably you broke roy my heart s yes I 1 answered nut but I 1 loved you and now she went en after your years of self indulgence of gettin what you wanted no matter about the cost you see me again you oil find I 1 have bays mended my heart have coaxed a few flowers of happiness to bloom you find there was a something you eld i d not net destroy something you think it U will make you happier to destroy yes I 1 answered 1 I came to try to make you as unhappy as I 1 ani am for I 1 love you she drew a long breath well she said evenly for the first time in your life you tou are defeated I 1 learned the lesson you so thoroughly taught rae and I 1 built the wall round my garden high and strong you she smiled insi led a little raillery a little scorn you ou cant break in harvey nor blip in no need I 1 said for I 1 am la in ive always been in her bosom rose and tell fell quickly and her eyes shifted shit ted gut but that was for an instant only it you ware were as brave as you are bold she scoffed 1 it I 1 were as brave without you as I 1 should be with nith you I 1 ier cd even as I 1 began to thrill with a hope so high that it was giddy with fear she bhe was vas once mord more straight and strong and calm you have come you have til tried aed you have failed she went on after a 11 fang ag pause and in spite ol of her ef nits aits that deep voice ot of hers has as eirtle and wonderfully condei fully sweet no will return to your lire life I 1 to tc idae and she moed toward the entrance 1 to 0 o the drawing arati ang I 1 jul 01 ol lowing her we stood in silence at a tha front doorway waiting for my carriage to come up I 1 watched her hei maddeningly maddening mistress of of herself how can you he be so cold I 1 cried dont you see dont you feel fawl hw how I 1 who love you suffer without a word she stretched out her beautiful white bands long and narrow and capable in each of 0 the uplifted balms were four deep and bloody prints where her nalls calls had been crushing into them defore before I 1 could lift my eyes to her then but you iove as it a woman loves love herself first the man mail afterward harvey sayler denouncing denouncer denoun cirg s selfishness do not sneer I 1 said for I 1 love you as a man loves A poor pale shadow of ideal love no doubt but a mans best elizabeth I 1 saw that she was shaken but face she was turning to rejoin her workmen As I 1 stood uncertain lazed she glanced at mo me with a bright smile goodby good by again she call caad d A pleasant journey thank you 1 I replied ic ie plied goodby good by draing toward the road gates I 1 looked at the house many times from window to win dow everyN everywhere here not a glimpse of her until I 1 was almost at the mad inai again then I 1 saw her back the graceful white dross dress the knot of blue black blach hair the b big white hat and sho she directing her workmen with her closed white para sal sa CHAPTER mostly about money I 1 went up to new york to find confusion and gloom at our headquarters there senator goodrich Good ich ilch had bad subtly given the impression not only to the work eis but also to the newspaper men who had given it to the public that with his resignation ie nation the burbank campaign had fallen to pieces and I 1 fear have some difficulty in getting any money at all downtown said revell the senior senator from new york state wha envied and hated goodrich and was therefore if not for personal reasons amiably disposed toward me they dont like our candidate naturally said 1 I why hes running and why he way may 17 win a 11 of course hell carry everything here in the cast the only doubt was in this state but I 1 had no difficulty in making a deal with the opposition machine Ps rs soon as they had sounded scarborough and had found that it if he should win be nothing iu in it tor for them nettling blit trouble I 1 f judged be rust must have thrown them down liard hard from their being so sore how do things look out west dad cad said 1 I our farmers and wo king men have had lots of idle time these last few years done too much of what they call thinking i alien jj n you need money asked revell lengthened his sly old face we must have four millions at least and we must get it from those thosa people down town lie ile shook his head 1 I think not was ray my careless reply when they wake up to the danger in Scar boroughs election the danger to business especially to their sort of business give me twice four millions it if I 1 ask aak it what do you wish me to do nothing except look after these thes e eastern states well take care of the west and also of raising money here for our campaign during october out there cart can I 1 bs be of an service to you I 1 in introducing you down town lie he asked no thank you yon said 1 I 1 I hao a few acquaintances there im not going to fry any fat this trip my ily fire hot enough yet I 1 and I 1 did not I 1 merely called on two of the bi big bankers and four heads of 0 industrial combinations and one controller of an ocean to ocean railway system I 1 stayed a very few ini minutes with each just juet long enci enough figh to tb thinking inking and inquiring ahat the election ot of scarborough would mean to him and to his bis class genei generally ally it if read his speeches said I 1 to each see he intends to destroy your kind of business that he regards it as a brigandage lies iles honest afraid of nothing and an able lawyer and he cant be N IJ I J if aa 11 wa 11 r k 4 4 f 04 N A 0 A 1 14 N I 1 1 dont you see dont you feel how 1 I who love you suffer fooled or fooled with it if hes elected hell carry out his pro gramme senate or no senate and no matter what scares you people cook up in 13 the market to this they made no answer beyond delicately polite insinuations about being tired of pay ing ng for that which was theirs of right eglit I 1 lid did not argue it is never necessary to puncture the he of men inen ot of affairs with a view to saving them from falling faling into arc pr of forgetting tor gettins that whatever light may mean on sunday on in week dais it rne means ans that which a man can compel I 1 returned to fredonia and sent woodruff cast to direct a campaign of calamity howling in the eastern press for te tc of new york baston and philadelphia captains of cf industry at the end of ten days I 1 recalled him and sent roebuck to wall street to confirm the tears fears and alarms woodruffs campaign had bail aroused and in the west I 1 was laying out the tha money I 1 had been able to lo collect flora the leading men of Alin minnesota necota illinois ohio and er penn pennsylvania syl vall ia except a quarter of a million from howard ct cf new york to byrt we gave 5 the alls vice ya presidential ident id ial effon i aion to tor r th that sum and n d about half a million more given by several eastern men to whom wo we premised cabinet offices and posts ab abroad cad I 1 put all Ws lits men money y not far from two millions into our cam pal palan n of 0 education and into those in pouring delegations upon burbank Burban lt at ills his rural retreat to attempt to combat Scar boroughs popularity with the rank and file of his own party was hopeless I 1 contented myself with restoring order aad arous arousing hig enthusiasm in t the he main body of our partisans parti in the doubtful inid and uneasy states so ruinous had bee been n Good goodriche richs management that even at that thai comparatively simple task we should not have succeeded but for the fortunate fact that the groat great mass of partisans parti refuses to hear anything from the other side they legard reasoning as disloyal C which cun couely enough it so often is then too few newspapers in the doubtful states printed the truth about what scarborough and his supporters were saying and doing the cost of this perversion of publicity to us direce direct money cost I 1 mean was almost nothing the big papers and news associations were big properties and their rich proprietors were interested in enterprises to which aich Scar boroughs election meant disaster a multitude of the smaller papers normally of the opposition were dependent upon those same saine inter intel arises for the advertising alt that kept them alive i perhaps the most farsighted far sighted certainly 1 as the event showed the most fortunate single stroke of my campaign was done in illinois IIII nofi that state was ital to our success also it was one of 0 the doubtful states where next net to its his oi 0 a indiana Scar boroughs I 1 chances were best besl I 1 felt that we must put a heavy handicap on his popularity there I 1 has had noticed that in illinois the violently radical wing of the opposition was very strong so I 1 sent merriweather Merrl weather to strengthen strength the radicals still further I 1 hope to make them strong enough to put through their bartys state convention a platform form that would lie be a scarecrow to timid voters in illinois and throughout the west and I 1 wished for a wild man as the cand tate liate for governor but I 1 hope it though I 1 told Merrl weather it must tie be done curiously enough ruy py calculation of the probabilities was just le ie versed the radicals were beaten on platform but thanks to a desperate effort of 0 Merri weathers I 1 in n coaxing rural delegates a frothing wild eyed political crank got the nomination and lie he never spoke during the campaign that lie he didat dailve voters away from froin his ticket and therefore from scarborough borough and our nia machine chine sacrificed the tee local interests to the by nominating a popular and not insincere reformer when roebuck and I 1 descended upon wall street on october K ac three weeks before election I 1 had everything in readiness tor for rny my final and real campaign I 1 throughout the states woodruff was in touch with local machine machina leaders of Scar boroughs party with corruptible labor and aid fr aterna a order leaders with every clement that would for a cash price deliver a body of voters on election day also lie he had bad arranged in ili those states for the right sort of elect election fon officers at upward of 0 polling places at least halt half ct cf them places where several hundred votes could be shifted without 1 tho ut danger d an 94 or suspicion also burbank and our corps of spellbind ers had bad succeeded beyond my hopes hope in rousing zan passion again cart ol 01 ci tho credit ere lit belongs beian s to I 1 W r u rr e ec ie before ba had d there I 1 I 1 been so many free barbecues distribution distributions of free uniforms to well financed burbank and howard campaign clubs and of those expensive parades in which the average citizen de lights the wise woodruff spent nearly one third of my mi education money in this way one morning mor iring I 1 found him laughing over the bill for a grand burbank rally at ludiana indianapolis polls about as I 1 remember the figures what amuses you said 1 I 1 I was thinking what tools fools the people are never to ask themselves where all the money for these free shows comes froni from and why those who give are willing to give so much and how they get it back what an ass the public is fortunately said 1 I for us said lie he aud and for itself I 1 rejoined perhaps ho he admitted it was born to be plucked and I 1 suppose our crowd does do the plucking more scientifically than less experienced hands would 1 I prefer to put it another way slid said L lets say that we save it from rom a worse plucking that is better said doc for on ills his way up in the world he was rapidly enveloping what could and should be called conscience I 1 looked at him and once more had bad a qualm like shame before bedfor 0 his moral superiority to me we were plodding along on about the same moral level but he had ascended asce ndel to level while I 1 had descended to it there were politicians posing as pure before the world and even in the bartys behind the scene who nho woula have sneered at does doca conscience s c 1 e n ce r Y yet et to r my n y n notion 0 t I 1 0 n t they h e y w who b 0 started ta t e d high g h a and a d f from r 0 r a w whatever b a t e N e r sophistry ot of motive trailed down into the mire are lower fa than they who tegan began deep in the mire and have been struggling bravely toward the surface I 1 know a man who was as born in the slums was a pickpocket pick pocket at eight years of age vas a boss it at 13 45 administering justice according to his lights I 1 know a man who was imm what he alls a gentleman and who he at 45 sold himself for the honors of a high hilgh office and once after lo he had bad shaken hands v alth that boss he look edat me furtively made awry face and wiped his hand with his I 1 pocket handkerchief theother alic other part ot of our work ot of preparation getting the wall street whales in condition for the fat at fry ing was also finished the wall i street roebuck and I 1 adventured was in a state ot of quake from fear of 0 the he election ot of the scourge ot of god as our subsidized socialist and extreme radical papers had dubbed scarborough and what able abc campaign material their praise of lit mm him did make us roebuck POE buck and I 1 went f from r om office e e to binl obice I 1 c e a among mo n g t the h great 0 of f com commerce m e octo ina great industry 1 u str y a and n d r finance we were rt ra c ci v with politeness everywhere nut but not a penny could we get every where the same answer we can not sea r ce our way to contributing just yet but blit if you will call early next week cek cay monday or tuesday Tiles day tour four or five days away avay well let you know what we rie can do the mos ardent eagerness to placate us keep us in good bood humor but not a cent until monday or tuesday when I 1 heard monday londay or tues bues day for mhd the third time my suspicions were aroused when I 1 heard it the fifth time I 1 understood wall wal street was negotiating with theophe the other side and would know the result by monday or at the latest tuesday CHAPTER in which a mouse helps a lion I 1 did not dare communicate my sus to my dear friend roebuck As it was with each refusal I 1 had seen Ms his confidence in me sink it if he should get an inkling how near to utter litter disaster I 1 and ray my candidate were he would bo be upon me liko like a tiger loii ills hla trainer when ho he slips I 1 irea reasoned out my course while we were descending from the fifth fath kings 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