Show w 7 aUe Re d r XI t tt 1111 T f A 4 The Fighting Dope Novelized by From the ilie Play Pay by VIRGINIA INIA LEILA WENTZ VAUNT fj 1 I G Ga a 9 I WILLIAM J. J HURLBURT IlU T of x x oo She walked unthinkingly over o to the J bl big bay My window There beyond the blue flowing Hudson the the- grim prison walls smote her vision e Oh 0 Oh h. h what t was I 1 saying I she cried with a It little penitent sob I 1 feel like e a a traitor tractor to Robert nobert Poor Sear dear bo boy suffering up there for another's crime He TIe ma may have ve his his his-his his weaknesses and fallings which which of ot us has not But t at least t hes he's not the sort ever to be beJ J I guilty guilt of ot t theft heft and hes he's Just the best lc father and husband In the world Forget For get what whit I 1 said Mrs Irs Mason MaROn You Yon will wUl wont won't you ou To be he sure dearie to dearie-to to be sure 1 I s think youre you're u a noble woman Anna Anna Anna-a a arnod model l wife And what's better belter a l brave Jn mother She studied quIetly with herself for a few seconds whileY while i Y Am Anna a gathered her poise providence pro had decreed that she remain re re- main under this uncongenial roof for tor forthe forthe th the sole purpose of watching over this 1 i poor parr motherless girl Then You see dear when you came 1 had bad just decided it was my duty to toh h leave Mr Ir Temple Now 1 am going z to stay and help you In your brave bra en r. r Ill I'll stay at least till his moth moth- mother er gets back back She's abroad now and f s. s II r I I t nl a r l r. r I. I f 7 t t r O L r- r t r i THU LK rE SHE A 4 i ta oh b such uch a 11 woman You You'd roud d love her hel Ann Annn Poor thing tiling she just worships bel en Sent to w roe me t the h other day daj for foran fors fori s i an old photograph of ot his which shed she'd fort ouen oaten Un While I think of It Ill I'll takeS take'S take take- S 'S v It out OUI of ot the album now Let Ld me mt see what he looks like ilkI this i. i z man said ald Anna as Mrs Mason I on lift lifted d ed cd outi outa from the tbt book f It was wa u ken some ten years ago I t Ii i believe but u its it's a a good likeness Mrs l Mason I tern Iem r wd as she hall banded cd it tt to t her ber 1 Anna glanced at It it then stepped back back- breathing hard bard i. i This Tbs Burton Temple she stain stara meted incredulously I r t Sirs Mason was occupied In S fug ing In the album and did not notice how bow howa a i 1 her fa tare face e had suddenly gone Jone white s r did she hear the pain of ot her under the t. t breath whisper The old unknown print prince e of or m my dreams Y i 1 Anna threw w the photograph down down Ini In Ina i a t little paroxysm of ot disdain 1 iy Dont like his face queried Mrs W Mason looking up It It isn't that She laughed bitterly c the ort of or laugh which bad first firstI I vis visited Ii i lied her lips a n year ar ago no among the 1 k a honeysuckle vines Its another ideal ma mashed that's nil all Mrs I Mason do dorot you rou rot know she tapped the likeness A contemptuously I 1 used tIRed to pass pas this m min man n r nearly early every day when I was In to Forbes Forbes' office that office that was wa the first t and only stenographers stenographer's position I ever held coming held coming In and out of ot the E Exchange Ex change building I never knew who 1 0 he was but there was a something about him a set of ot the jaw a swing of ot the shoulders all Integrity and acid t force something force something that stamped him to tomo c t me mo as vital and eager a prince among men He Lie carried his bead head up his chin forward lIe He seemed to be cleaving t his is sway way manfully through life Ho IIo was was was' the the fairy prince of ot my girlish c dreams Oh Ob I wish I wish I wish it hadn't been he There was a very childish tremble in the brave mouth but she went on Amid all t tie the e Incriminating mud they cast at the big successful men of ot fX 1 the day Ive I've always clasped this mans man's 1 f picture to my heart saying Heres neres Ni l one at least who Is fine and straight l I and big There Ther was an unutterable dumb Tu I 7 I. I loneliness In the young face tace a forlorn rn C lingering of ot the fingers as unconsciously unconsciously she touched the discarded picture pic plc cure ture once again One has bas seen a woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man look Just In the same way as she Sho hc has touched the clothes of ot her ber little dead child And now Instead of or being fine and ands s straight and big hes he's unprincipled and scheming and vicious klous like all the rest Bang goes another ideal Mrs Mason Iason Hes He's the man who has branded the fa ra farther father ther of or my boys as n a thief S shi cried Mrs Mason warningly i f c again There were heavy beavy strides com corn comIng coming ing lag down the corridor The door of ut if the library opened abruptly Anna Annn Granger Ganger had bad Just time to collect her herself self lieU as the president prescient of ot t the e Gotham Cato hs his h bU huge en entered j followed by j I t I I t I ff I 7 i ier p er I Jot S Copy it 1911 by American Press Association mastiff have to Jump right in and take up UI the work where my R secretary left lett off oft Miss Dale said he after the few tew preliminaries of courtesy had bad been exchanged I shall give you jOu wasIng was was' wavIng waving ing his hand vaguely ely the keys to the tho city There are no limitations You wi will receive my mall and open It It He paused for tor a second No Xo there isone Is Isone Isone one source of ot communication I wish to remain private Any Anything tiling coming to me from the New York detective bureau bu b bu- bu reau you will kindly hand to me unopened un nn- opened Precisely Mr Temple agreed the new secretary without the quiver qui of or oran an eyelash The rhe president of or the tilt Gotham Trust company continued From now on 1 I shall have an unusual unusual unusual un un- un- un usual amount of exacting business In connection with this Granger case You may have haTe heard of ot It Yes assented she unbuttoning her ber glove Another thing Miss Dale Dale Dale-a a large portion of the time I 1 shall require you to be up here There are some days of course coarse when you will be free tree to go goto goto goto to to your own borne home but practically 1 I Ishall shall want you YO to live In III this bouse house My Iy mother Is abroad Just now nol nosy Im I'm sorry Mrs Mason laOn will make you comfortable in her her absence I tru trust t. t and now she will shoW wf-shoW show you ro to your loom room Come down again when youve you've settled yourself if you arc are not too tired Theres There's plenty of work waiting wafting 1 see He turned to his much littered desk des as his housekeeper conducted Anna to toh h her r room and Cato settled down before before be fore ore the fireplace CHAPTER IV TilE THE OBSTINATE TEMPLE EE here Temple said MId Craven Crayen Cra ern yen Ten coming windily Into the the 51 library waving waging a sheet of ot foolscap Heres nere a It little statement Ive I've just prepared Listen I tell Burton Temples Temple's brows brow went together er I In u er never so flO slight ht a It spasm of ut weariness wean ness but he sold said cheerfully enough enough- Fire Tire ahead Ill I'll listen Only you jou ou see pe got ot up so o many little state state- ments ment en Cra Hang It it man exclaimed the law law- yen jer cr Our One would thInk It W was I n a matter mat ter of Indifference with you w r u you jou were wem proved innocent of ot this crime time or not That's one of the rea reasons reason n pub iruh Ik opinion I is so o o against you Youre You're so BO un on about the whole affair Why Wily you walk wall along your YOUl head in the air your jour our chin bin out saying to the world Take a punch at atIt atIt atit It if you jou on I c can an 11 and ami th the next thin thing you'll know know- they'll 11 beat you down and nUll out out In tile the whole hole ten years ears during which Craven Cr had hud been beeD Temples Temple's friend and aorl lawyer this Granger er case had been the fi first t matter over o which they the h hid had d differed But then It was th the first time tIro tint that Temple had been personally attacked d He li tried now v to put this personal pers equation lIon before his friend You see dear Craven he hC said In lu explanation fo for hl his own apparent In In- difference I 1 appreciate your jour state mont munt TV which hie h j y n u YI wish IJ to Inflict on thelong tin till Ion long su U public but hut dont don't you ou think think dont don't dont you yon It its it's Just the little fact that your jour our nd friend happens to tobe tobe be he the II victim oHm of their Jen bl h causes i's nil all his worry on join otH part purt For example presuming you yuu were In m my pia lIt c e C would you Sou still endeavor Jl t tj i compromise to to explain 1 Ex to em em Id I'd sooner RC see em cm Precisely laughed Temple leaning lean lean- leanS log ing In bite I. I in III hi his chair precisely You Vou see Im I'm rl right ol old friend nd and youre you're Wr 1 f You admit you wO wouldn't t do doIt doit doit it y elf In your own o case ast Clearly Clel arc 10 what I t must do Is II to wait ril I get ct some tangible proof of mj my m in Bence What's the tup U use P oT trying try- try ing t t-i t myself if the proofs luck y This t New York public puhl Is from train sour and I J dont don't fI Say iy y n a single word till I 1 nn can tn make good Somewhere Some Sowe wh where re emong Bradys Brady's papers Ill I'll bet betm betray m ray my life there I h n a letter or a n hC heck l strip on I foIDl something There always is tl something some and Im I'm counting O on on that detective e p. p Crane whom p J pot got potIn ot otIn In Bradys Brady's dv's om p to J. J get t It It Sure That's all nil cry s-cry well n agreed el 1 Craven But suppose Crane rane doesn't get any such Much proof what then Suppose Sup Sup- pose OSE you never do get proof I 1 tell you rou Temple rem pie your so called friends 4 lf y i- i 1 p t i r. r onre o are are beginning to Ic dl disbelieve In you YU Tha papers are t because e you jou refuse refu e to talk Now JW b reasonable Hero's Heros this little statement which Ive I've prepared to b be sent out o over your jour sig nature He ne opened the copy Fire Ire a ahead ead said laId Temple Indulgent Indulgent- Indulgently ly Iy bending down own to j at Cato To the public began Craven stoutly No 00 1 1 mentally Commented torn tom the man mun opposite to him slowly slowly slow slow- ly Iy lighting a cigar Igar In view Iw of or the widespread feeling feeling feel teel ing against me mt regarding the Gotham Trust Granger company-Granger cased case I wish to tomake tomake tomake make a statement of ot the facts facts' Savors of n ii II Sunday school appeal for funds for tor a pink midsummer 11 picnic pic plc nic sic ell eh Cato interposed Temple adding m mentally tally m No 2 Cornelius Cornelius Brady and myself are trustees co of an nil estate Mr Ir Brady Drady wron wrongfully made use USI of ot part of ot those J I s l Jo L WEAK WEAR WEAK WEAK AS DISHWATER I CRIED TEMPLE trust bonds I by this tills act becoming equally responsible with him for making musk mak ing lag up the lo loss s At the time of the panic Mr Brady asked the Gotham Trust company to certify a check cheik to the n mount amount of or This I 1 refused refused re refused fused to do not feeling Justified In making the trust company responsible for Bradys Brady's check Thereupon Dra Brady lv went to Robert Hobert Granger the cashier and prevailed pre upon him t to certify the check Fishy fishy fishy ejaculated Temple puffing pulling leisurely at his cigar Since the trial and conviction con of or Granger pursued Craven Craren uI it has become known that Brady my trustee co-trustee n used ld that c check to make good his unlawful appropriation of the tile fund of which he be and I 1 are trustees Naturally y It appeared appealed that I profited equally with Brady Drady in 10 the use to which the check was put It h is because because be be- cau cause e of ot my ray apparent profit that 1 I am supposed to have bate given the order older to toG G Granger t 1 Weak Weak weak as dishwater red Temple springing ln up Craven its it's no good 1 I tell you Caught myc myself lt believing belle m myself a thief while williE you read It iL Its It's futile to explain explain- hopelessly hopelessly hope hope- lessly futile till futile till we Wt can present some proof that Granger Ii anger did of ot his bis own volition vo certify that cheek check Oh Ill I'll trust trustIn trustin trustin in Crane n a little lon longer er There wt was silence In the room for r r- few tew moments while Temple smoked Craven en tugged at ut his gray my mu mustache In a quandary and Cato Catl slept What did you OU say suy asked aled Craven anxiously looking over bl his glasses 1 did not n t say I 1 want you to Confound It you ou dont don't take life seriously enough You Yon have bap perhaps l ol ob s r that I 1 dont don't make makl the ml mistake of doing diling so In some pome matters I 1 hardly think I 1 am um grown up I 1 alp am for example quite content to remain a boy so far a as the tbt muddles of life are concerned con on with youthful cheerfulness to translate dp de Into Out of the depths I have e clams claIm eh Cm just Craven en just as I did when I 1 held beld the fort at the foot of the lowest form torm In Latin Youre too pigheadedly brazen In your jour play with public opinion that's what you ou are my boy cried Craven hotly Public opinion has already 00 you jOU Cn So n said ald Temple serenely lifting hl hh his eyebrows Vs in that quizzical way o of hl his Public opinion is very absurd I protest t against It Take one thor thoro ou nn i ignorant man Who regards his opinion O or considers his Judgments as shall Put together all nil the thoroughly ignorant II I men lets In the republic and we weI weir told that tint the of their ir nr sum stupidIty stupid stupidIty Ity I Is I to in he ho reverenced re regarded with 11 awe we aweThe The Th voice vole of the people broke In Craven en n Is t finished his bis client The of toda today has haK gone mad with a n muckrake I In Its hands Its It's too Ir in Irrationally rationally ready to believe tb that t those In hi high places Are rt Ink d died ed scoundrels scoundrels scoundrels-don't don't dont I Iknou know broke in Craven And that's what they're labeling you one of the kid glo glove grafters one of ot the mahogany mahogany any table thieves Temples Temple's eye had caught the portrait of ot his mother over the mantel His llIs mood s suddenly denly veered to downright j J t r I r n seriousness Craven I offered Cra Cram to set get et some tan tangible ble proof from Bradys Brady's office But Dut Id I'd give giro P I a million Id I'd give I f every ery cent t Ive pot Jot to stand clear clea and be rec recognized a as honest bonest Why tell you its it's hell hel helI I tell you ou Iv 4 worked worked all nil my m life worked ha hard rd to build up my career carper on OD honest clean lines You know It It Iv Ive I've turned my hack to crook crooked Id I'd ways when the UtI were easily acce accessible and now no now In iu accused of ot belo being i n thief the dh I sort of ot a thief the m min man n who ho his crime on oY another The Tbt mu muscle muc c cof of his mouth twitched a bIt bt hp hI felt hi hi- control slipping away awny PO o he turned abruptly on his heel bel and averted n his face Cace The grim lawyer crossed over to la lay his band hand with almo almost t a woman womans woman's s tenderness tenderness ten ten- on the big shoulder of his friend and his bis voice olce broke brol with witha a susu sus- sus plc iou ph-iou iou ot of huskiness hU as us he muttered Steady old man steady Well We'll kick clear of ot It all nil yet When Temple spoke again it was as in hl |