Show 67 e 1 LU L U M T P E e by y DAVID A D GRAHAM AH 1 PHIL PHILLIPS 1 PS A Aut ho horol 1 I th the CW cost the hed deluge etc iu DOBBS continued froin lat last week but bit in ill ru running laning on oil about myself in self I 1 have sol got away aiom my point which was how slight and even nannsy a pretense of 0 fairness will shelter a man in high place and therefore a burbank lie will tool foul the peo people pleas as easily as ho he fools himself said 1 I and more than ener eer it seemed to me that I 1 must keep out of the game of its his administration my aly necessity of party parly regularity made it impossible tor for me to oppose libin my equal necessity of not outraging my sense of the wise not to speak of the decent made ll it impossible for tile me to abet him at last woodruff came in person when his name was brought to me I 1 regretted that I 1 could not follow my strong impulse to refuse to see hinl ailin but at sight of ills his big strong body and big strong face with fill it its typically Ameil can careless good humor the cool head the warm heair the amused eyes and lips that could also harden into sternness of resolution at sight of this old mend and com arnis arms lily mind began to lift and I 1 felt him film stilling in it like sunshine attacking a tog fog 1 I know what you ve come to say I 1 began but don t say it I 1 shall keep to my tent for the present then you wont bave 1 ave a tent to keep to retorted letor ted I 1 very well said my aftanis will give in nia all the occupation I 1 need lie he laughed tile the from the command of the army to play with a box of leid lead soldiers that sounds well said 1 I but the better the analogy the worse tile the logic I 1 am going out of the business of making and working oft off gold bhicks and green goods and that sno no analogy then oil on must be going to fo kill yourself som self he replied le ie plied for that lb Is life public life active life said I 1 here there are arc other thin things I 1 aud and I 1 looked toward my iny two daughters whose laughter laugh tei reached us from froin their thelt pony pons cart just bounding lonn joun ding a distant cune in n tile the drive ills gaze gae followed mine and lie watched a the two children until they were out of sight watched them with the saddest hungriest look in its ins eyes guess you ou ie light he said bald gin gruffly sly after a silence I 1 asked what s the news yi ws A quizzical smile lust just culled ills lips and it broadened into a laugh as he saw my own rather shamefaced smile ot of seems to lo me said lie that I 1 read lead somewhere once how a kins king perhaps it was an emperor so hankered for the quiet joys w s that he got oil off the throne and jethrea to a monastery and then established lines of post horsek from his old capital to biang bun him the news ever halt hour or 01 so bo I 1 reckon lied hed have hare taken his job back it if lie hs could have got st it 1 I reckon said I 1 well said he the news is that about to oust you from ilia chairmanship of the national committee and from control of this state stale really 1 said 1 in an indifferent tone though I 1 felt anything an thing but indifferent really said lie be bin Pui bank is throwing rovIng th out out our people throughout the country anil and is putting goodrich men in place of eni em wherever where ei our fellows fello ws wont turn traitor and got told hold of roebuck lies iles giving a dinner at the hie auditorium to lonio boilow now night its ILs a dinner of it 11 I 1 think you ou can guess who ten of em are aie rat foi tue tile eleventh is for foi dom inick that was enough I 1 rasped grasped the instantly the oue one ivcak spot in my r y control of oe my iny state wa was my having left the city bosses their local power dinst instead ad of 1111 myself self lull luling g the ilia cities flom tile the state stale capital why had biad I 1 done this perhaps the bottom reason was that I 1 shrank fi from om pe permitting r any part of 0 the machine for hichi I 1 was directly responsible to le be financed by collections from froin vice ace and crime I 1 admit that the dis distinction between coni corporate orate an and plunder and the pickings and steal ings and of 0 individuals Is more apparent than lea leaf I 1 admit that the kinds af u vice ice and cilmo I 1 tolerated t are far mole harmful alian the other sorts which are petty patty and make loathing outcasts of 0 their wretched practitioners still I 1 wit was a or pharisee or enough to feel eel and to act upon tile the imaginary distinction and so I 1 had to left ft the hie city bosses locally independent for without the revenues and other aids from vice and dime clime what v hat city political machine could be kept up I 1 exclaimed exactly said IN druff now mr air sayler the joint Is just heie bete I 1 don dont t blame blaine you tor for wanting to get out it if I 1 had auy any other game id get out myself but to become of us all of your friends mends not boniv in this his state but throughout the to country antry are te you goins 0 o stand by and s see ee them slaughtered and not lift a linger finger to help em there was no answering him yet tile alic spur of vanity which dipped clipped into tile nie at thought of my 1113 thrown down and out ly by these cheap in grales grates and hail had almost instantly ceased to sting and my sense of weary acary disgust had returned it if I 1 anent into the battle again what work faced me tile the same old monotonous round to outflank and good ridi by as old as war and politics and effective only because tillman human stupidity is infinite and to bent beat down and whip bach nio into ilia ranks agala cheso budet ot commerce disguised as respectable respect alle choice chin ch acing law upholding men ot property erty and to do this by the samp saine at old method of terror and loice foice you cant leave us its lit in the lurch said eaid doc and the game promise to be interesting once more I 1 dont like raring on the flat its the hur iles that makes the full un 1 I pictured myself again a circus alloise going gain round and round tilt I 1 ling ing Pill lumping ping the same old hurdles it at tho the same old intervals take my place doc said 1 I ile ho abool ills head im a good second said sal ld lie but a rotten bad first it was true eno enough ile he mystery amly lacked that mysterious some thin thing which when a man happens to 10 have been born with willi it makes make other men yield him the command give it to hinl him force it on him it if he hangs hack back what hal to do oi want me to do I 1 asked that dinner tomorrow to morrow night Is in guitel goto it the shortest way to put roebuck Hoc buck and dominick out ont a of business face em cm and skulk its a m ii sat said 1 I 1 I saw at once that lie he vs vp 3 right but I 1 was la in a reluctant himich liuni cr not a bit of it was as its his confident reply 1 I had a horse that was vas crazy would run away on oil tiny any old idrovo cation but no matter how busy lie he was nas at rickina vv lit the dust and the dashboard yon yen could always halt hini him by a bell once hed been in the car service thais the way nay it Is willi fth man especially strong nien men that haie been broken to file bell they hear bear it ring and they cant insist go up tit and ling tile the bell go ring it yourself said 1 I youre the lie bell said he be CHAPTER harvey sayler swineherd at a little after eight the following night I 1 v was in chicago was knock natha 1 in at t suite i vias I 1 L in the auditorium hotel hote te I 1 was hearing sounds from within that indicated that the dinner was under aay ft ay the door swung back aud and stood old roebuck himself napkin in hand his shriveling shii old race showing that his dollar sense was as taking ali up the strength m bich lila ills other senses wore were losing ile he was saying cordially all ah croffut Crof tut fuL you are late then his dini dim eyes saw me lie he pulled hini hii uiel belf up tit like a train when the air brakes ate aio clapped on they told rae me at the office that yo you I 1 I 1 at inner dinner said 1 I in the tone ot of one who has unintentionally blundered As I 1 was looking tor for dinner I 1 rather holed ask me to join ou rut but I 1 seo see that conle come tight light in lie he said smoothly but geay as is a sheep find some old fi lends or of yours were taking advantage ot of the convention of western manufacturers to have a little lemison lemi ion I 1 now had a full view of the table there thare was a silence that m ale ale a le the creaking of starched evening shirt bosoms noisy as those men drew long stealthy breaths when breathing be became cattin imperative all my clients and dominick lie he at roebucks itoe bucks light at roebucks left was a vacant chair shall I 1 sit her here esai salI I 1 easily that place was reserved was for but stammered roebuck Koe burk for Gian CLari bys ghost said 1 I pleasantly ills lips li ais writhed and as till my glance of greeting gree tiTis to these old friends blends of 0 mine traveled ilo do wn one sie side of ilia alio table and it up the other it might inight have been setting salting those faces on oil file so ild did they name flame it II vas us hard for ino ilia to 10 keep keel iny 1117 disgust beneath the surface those gentle inen assembled I 1 there here wore were anion the leading leall ng citizens of my stat slat and Roe roebuck buel was famous on both sides of the atlantic as a king of commerce and a yet every one of those brains brain a s was bus ast most of its hours houra with assassin ilke plo plot lUnes tings anil and for ahat abat pm pill pose ends so petty so gloss and stupid that it was how etitel lisenco waste alfo upon them not to speak of the utter depravity depla vity aud aad lack of manliness alais cheats balbi b abr and flaunting flaunt ng tile faults or of infamy ar a 1 hollors liu nors as titles title to as aft front from alty god and hero here were now dow for ally plot hugs s against the inan whose only or 0 brunse in their eyes was that lie he was saving sang them from them themselves selves wa preventing pye venting thern them from killing the googe that vituld keep keel on oil laying the golden eggs for the tha pila stage of remaining ema gning alive it was pill aul it was nauseating I 1 felt rny ray degradation la in stooping to such company I 1 spoke to dominick last iasi to my surprise lie w squarely returned my iny gaze als eyes were twinkling inkling As as the eyes eves of a pig seem to be it if you look bt raigh into its face when it lifts its uncut from a full trough presently lie he could contain the volumna of his mirth no longer it came from him like a great coarse torrent shaking lis his vast bull bulk and the chair sustained ned it sw llo ilia veins la ill his bis face through the silent loom local while the niteis wi teis literally lift rally stood aghast A at 1 last lit lic found birath to ejaculate well ell ill be good and damin damned edt this KIS gale ril pod from the others and chilled away their cloaks of 0 bill tace face naked they suggested a lot of oc rats in a trail at them and anticipating the pleasure plea li suie or of watching nio me torture them thein I 1 choked book back the surge of 0 lepul sJon and saal s to loebrick then where shall I 1 sita bil tick lo lobed olied wildly to vard the foot of tho the table ile he long td cd to ilive have me ine as far cioci aiom him as possible partridge at the foot or the hibb cried out ont in alarm alami make room tor for the senator between you ell and mr air dominick Domi mck roebuck alp ilp ought to be as near the heed of oc the table as possible no matter duliere senator sayler sits its the head ot the ine table sat said hoe roebuck buck ills his commonplace courtesy indicated not ie covered set sel i control but ill the cunning at 0 his hs rampant instinct of sell self preservation that cunning which men so often ex babit in desperate str straits alts therein thereby winning whining credit for coot cool courage were a meny company tall laid 1 I as wo we sat this fill a glance at Dom luick heaving beavin in the suguna storm of ills his mirth my ily ren ak k set him off again I 1 glanced glanc cil at ills his place to sec it it lio had abandoned his former rule of 0 total abstinence there stood ills his invariable pot of tea clearly it waa not drink that enabled hira bid to enjoy n u situation which cli as aa it seemed to tile me was wa fully as unattractive to him as aa for or ills his fellows soon the door opened anil and in strode croffut croft ut handsone liand som picturesque with his pose pone of dash dashing lug brave manhood which alwais got the crowds into a mooil mood for the frenzy hs oratory conjured Cioff tit seemed to me die to pi put it tho the climax upon this despicable company croffut one of the ilia great ora tors of the patty ablord by the people eliat buffor overn helming su in the state I 1 should never have dared elect eject him from floal office since I 1 ej acted him lie he hail had pot not spoken to tile me dominick looked at him said in a voice that would have flared flare deven even the warm ashes of manhood into a fu fit lions blaze go and shake handi bandi with senator senate sayler croffut Crof Tnt and sit flown down croffut Croni il advanced smiling 1 I am nt ill for or my company thought I 1 as I 1 let him clasp my hand better tilt grandys Gran bya bys ghost out of that chair crotus said dominick Dou ilnick as the ex senator was nas seating sealing himself and in ills his animal erub exuberance rance of 0 delight if lit at his hi joke and at the whole situation lie he clapped roebuck on the shoulder roebuck shiang and winced morat moral lie could shed as an armor plated turret sheds musket halls balls but a physical es 1 specially ally with walli spectators sank in and sank deep instantly alarmed lest haj seen and understood he smiled and said that Tl lat a vigorous aim of yours mr air do not bad for ai a nian illan of 61 ay said dominick I 1 ate because to rn cat was a nicea saby part of my pose to absolute abio lute calnin calmness esq but I 1 haft had to foice down tile the food it seemed to me to lo embody tho that banquet there set before my in mental ap appetite I 1 found I 1 had no stomach for that banquet it takes the coarse palate of oc or I 1 he file depraved lidgate of oe a more de hau bandied ched mauli matil food than mino mine I 1 to en joy such a feast east yet less than a year berate I 1 had enjoyed had de do lighted in a far less strenuous contest with willi these As I 1 sat holding town down my doige ind ti n g lac as if i I 1 were at earv aas f I 1 iid denly w wondered 0 n what Elizal elizabeth crosby would think ot of me if the could see and then I 1 saw iier her with a reality of in im agin trig that startled me it was as if she were tn tit the ilia doorway and her ebes lifted to ingul tn in that slow steady searching gazo of hers I 1 suppose it if a soldier thrusting ills his saber into the ho boxx ti els of his enemy on oil the hie were nore suddenly to see before him his mother or the good and genii wile wife or laughter daughter lie he loved be would drop the and fly to tilde hide himself like a murderer so 1 I overwhelmed said sahl to myself 1 I cannot go on let these wr etelle elies wallow in their own vilen vileness esq shall isrial I 1 not wallow with willi thoin them I 1 am no swill swineherd eberil As I 1 was debating liow how to escape and what one of the many other ways of savins saving my ft lends and lieutenants lieutenant I 1 should adopt dominick Domin lck touched ms me on the arm A woul wold with fill you senator said he lie glanced at the others as it he were debating whether he should or il lev JK I 1 vt e ae I 1 i iz I 1 1 ia u R 7 A r tl I 1 n t NI I 1 TU T U 1 I dont stand for no boulin I 1 play the game straight der them deeni the table while lie he talked with me it I 1 lie 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