Show r tsy try 4 1510 sama ad e MT SOME 1 1 D rif S esy CYR G r 1 76 1 IJ YS BR i D Y sy cf ww C f wr A mm T 0 f my SYNOPSIS A foolish tenderfoot bc mt d with ith the bold artful wife ot of a brunn p I 1 in a western mining town ton they prepare to elope in a blindin ing blix billiard zard but are rn confronted by the Irn maudlin audlin husband he ile Is 1 hot shot by the ile but the chivalrous boy pins a note to to the body taking the crime upon himself in their fl 11 to the rall railroad road station the woman hone horse fall falls eLl the youth puts hr her on his hi own and follow follows hanging to the ott arruja trap strip seeing he 14 1 4 an impell ment the woman oman thrusts I 1 e er r aa ricort ort into a now snow drill drift and ride rides on halt half frozen be he tumble ii into the tall railroad road elation station juet just as a the train bears the woman away CHAPTER I 1 continued he ile actually cave gave her to start that great institution tor for young working women which was the pride of her heart and he promised hor that as the work ork developed aa as be he had no doubt douht it would mould develop on the foundations she he was planning ha he 1 would I follow up the first gift by others fien o 0 larger he lie told her that ho lie was willing filing to devote a million or perhaps more to the enterprise it it proved worth morth while especially as so many ot of bis his own employees i would be benefited by it mis miss haldane did not intend to live 1173 3 in the social settlement herself she might perhaps hare have enjoyed such a life but her social duties at the other end of society were of so exacting a character and ter family were so go op rosed to her undertaking such work mork that the contented herself with alth furthering from afar the efforts of i tain nt n her college mates in that dl di bertlon one thine thing possibly that induced coraly to promice this great cum sum of i luney litey when ach ho he could very well abare wae wai the knowledge imparted to him by mis Ita II aldane idane that ehe she herself through her father and friends would bave give a a INA amount gormly bad had exacted a pledge from the young woman oman that the would not betra bam as a benefactor in her institution ution lie bad had actually made out the chet cheik k 0 her tor for the amount in question and turned it over without hesitation after an interview lasting lees less than half halt an hour in which miss bliss haldine had bad set forth her plans her hopes and her ambitions w with ith all her charm of manner he lie was not certain that he could have refused her the store if it ehe she had demanded etl uben ben mise bliss haldane aldane II left big bull buil ness office check in hand she the felt that she bad had indeed accomplished much she was quite satisfied with herself gormly was equally satisfied with blin himself self then and there he deter mined to marry tits haldane it takes the cool headed prudent man of business to make the most nary plunges into wild endeavors at times he ile felt as a man with tho the wall street germ in his bood blood feel who aa was suddenly after a ter of a renau y of restraint launched on the sea of speculation what gorm ly determined aa wae usually brought about sooner or later in this in stance however there was no as burance of success matrimony Is theoretically oreti cally regarded as a contract between two to equals into which neither enters upon constraint that was gormly a view of IV it he ile could buy and sell all merchandise he ile would not buy or BPI sell a woman or had bad george gormly a particular par sular cular Kno knowledge Medge to enable him to piny the fame rame he bad had entered upon uron with such suck impetuous indiscretion ho ito could hand i cut a million dollars doll rs or eo so on occasion inthout feeling it hut but cynical thrush i he had become about mo womankind mankInd in gormly I 1 realized allied re that such means would bo be entirely ii it ado actuate quate to do mom than arrest tern forar attention and excite a p interest in such a woman as miss 1 hal list d dane ane andeel too freely resorted reported to such uch practise would inevitably dia dis list her meanwhile he must keep in touch kh ith her at trite vals therefore he won himself a sight eight of her and main talked a speaking acquaintance by further remittance remittances toward her pro lct fort which had already started with a tremendous flourish of trumpets and areat interest en on the part of the public miss II If aldane for all her other ties was human and a woman there was vaa something rather alluring in a secret oven even to her she enjoyed being tho means ot of disbursing for good ends million millions that remained to tho geneal general public she was quite willing filing to call at Gorr olys 2 bit I 1 arc a office on occasion for the pu purpose rrose of him of further donations naturally she confided more and more of her plans and romp ro melmes mes her difficulties to the iame same astute roan man she lourd fourd gormly re intelligent on cuch such matters ard able 0 give her the very beit best poa pas sible 1 J vice sometimes the eien caire carre to him of her own motion to re ceibo romet bing else than ened bits of yarer good at the ine bank and to dis turn tives quee lons tons and that arose from time to time ab b w car to alm and 0 n to IMP un fortune as usual favored him view wy w ok wenly twenty two to nat vr l y she he rei rde dew a man of forty aisch A iSih 1 four as L possible father and she had no hesitation in approaching gormly with much more familiarity than fhe she would hare have dreamed of allowing hertelt had he been younger and yet gorm ay iy himself was a oung looking man inan for forty four he ile was still as tall and slender net met to say spare as he had been when a boy he ile was smooth shaven and the flecks of gray in his blond hair were scarcely noticeable it mise bliss haldane had bad ever given thought of his age she would have supposed him ten years bourger than ho he was that Is on an appearance when sho she thought of his business busl nes tie rho would havu considered him ever since she could reme rc Liber she he bad dealt at the great shop and coraly himself unconsciously took on to her ala as hect 1 of ancient history bo so the little affair ran on gormly consciously becoming ard more deeply involved miss li adane unconsciously ly interweaving arsell in the same tangled web CHAPTER 11 II tre tie 03 Divot vollon lon of mr gormly tho re to of miss bliss haldane Hal datie and gormly was all very well so far as it went but it did not so far enough for the mans purpose at least and gormly was shrewd enough to see hat that things might run on will out any result results in this way vay forever since the beginning of 0 the acquaint ance gormly bad I rpt tack vack of af mias bliss haldane through a clIp instance Ina tanco cf of bis his practical common which may amuse the romantic reader he ile had neither the time ncr the inclination to search the journals in which were chronicled tho the doings of rocil nevi A aock ork in which the hal hat dane name was prominent 0 so o he instructed ted his private 11 secretary chaloner uron whose discretion he could rely to bave have bent u to him at his hi iri vate address all clipping clippings relating to miss bliss Il It aldane therefore knew the life of the object of his attention as well aa as it could be known from its out ard and visible presentation before the pub pubic ic indeed there was tittle little that as se concealable under such ctr cir curn stances the higher you rise the less privacy you have obscurity being the prerogative or the penalty of the humble to that be wa was entirely aware 0 of miss Il Ital aldane dones goings and comings comIn Ls who her frands arl ads were ere what house houses she visited what diversions she affected who paid her attention and go on meanwhile the man did not neglect his bust nothing would wo U id ever make him do bat but he be divided divide d hi his S tirre thre between it and the young woman which was a great concession to her influence ono one reason why he h bad a d bi bj come such an assiduous student of the clippings we mis m is because ae he be wanted to know whether bliss II Ila aldane idane was or was likely to be rugged to be mar ried ills apprehensions on that score were so oon soon on set at real rest it was miss Ital II adanee daries second season she had created an instant furor when she he bad had been launched launt hed ij U society the year before the usual of im had bad promptly I 1 laid their at her ft iet I et but it wag mas quite evident that none of them had found favor in her eyes find and that she he as still tree free ha ila would enter it be decided but howl how first of all something must be done to bring gormly himself into the pub lie ile eye in somo other capacity ome some higher capacity some more attractive capacity than that of a mere retailer of ribbons so to speak the public eye for gormly being miss bliss haldane aldane II laiq id orb orbs and gormley knew that the way ay to private cc consideration nelder atlon Is more loften often than not through public interest lip II 11 had to do something to justi 1 fy himself therefore to make himself known in some enviable way in ln short hort he deu to make himself worthy of her and again the question arose but how cowf he lie had thought vaguely ot of the ra cine cing game of the most magnificent of yachts of the finest and speediest of stables of the fastest tiring string of automobiles of a thousand similar things which aich he had dismissed na as unworthy of hie his high purpose and inadequate to hia his end until finally fortune favoring him he hit upon the field 0 of t politics miss Ila II aldane idane in ot of those now rather frequent conferences had cas bally enough remarked that she liked men who did things who really rea I 1 if ac ile something tor for good in this world oria gormly instantly resolved to do something now it if any roan man reilly wants to accomplish good in this world orld there are few opportunities of greater possibilities than those presented dented in the political aerna there Is also no field in it 13 harder to accomplish the end gormly a an ft a political force was entirely unknown he ile was mas without experience one requisite popularly considered vital he had and that was wan nn an abundance ot of money another reAu requisite latte he possessed albeit unwittingly was char acler acter and still a third was his and that waa was imagination coupled with capacity the ideal and the real the dreamer and the practical man inocel in onel an irresistible coi combination thail fort me was further kind to him ha however ever tor for with hia his 1 I ion she presented alm with nn an opening lorr gorm olys lys brains s waa wan sum clenti mitat to have enabled him to extend it in several directions he ile 4 fix 5 p 11 then and there he determined to marry miss haldane brought ireland england prance france G amany holland spain italy and the orient into new york bay and un loaded them in his great institution lie had bad conceived come some dozen years before alter after paying tremendous fregat charges the propriety of establishing his own on line of freight steamers ete amers it had bad amused him to combine the use tise of the ancient merc merchant tant prince with the customs of the modern one he lie had bought the cont controlling roling inter cst cat in a freight line of half halt a dozen large largo steamers leara ere which he found no in n using as cargo carriers carr tera for other people when they were not supply IrK his own needs the purchase of the freight line bad had with it n terse of one of the pier piers in the north river the lease bad lad run out the year before lie ile had there after availed himself of what be he con celled to be an excellent opportunity of subleasing another pier pter in the fast river the city had just completed an elaborate railroad surface and tub sub way for the transportation of bay hoary freight from the water frint to the great mercantile establishments in land this system had bad been lessee to the gotham freight traction corn pany a vast corr corporation oration with n tull full set met of ostensible promoters and dl di rectors but which had back of it pow ers cud persons unknown in to the gen eral public caret carefully tilly concealed from it in fact the corporate corporation had not been forni form ed to promote the health of its mcm mem bre therefore when gormly applied to the for bermis I 1 don slon to construct a witch switch from bis his o 0 W pier on the one hand and hij wan ware house near the river front on the tho othet to connect both with this subway the permission was instantly granted but coupled with an expense demand upon him for something like a million dol lars gormly could rive give sties Ita haldane idane a million dollars to play with ith he would not spend ten centa cents for bribery if iia saw aw instantly that the upon him was a mere attempt to hol hot him up to build the witch would nt tit ti n t perbes forty or fifty thousand dol lars the privilege might be worth ai as much more but inasmuch as DO no treats streets were ere crossed cro sied no overhead traffic hindered he waa was doubtful even ai as to that the road had find been built by private capital subscribed by the people on a public franchise the interests of the public were ere sup supposed rosed ded to be paramount A reasonable return upon their investment was all that the promoter promoters had a right to expect gormly had consulted hia his attorneys had appealed to the city count counell ll and hart had done everything that he could to nettle se file the matter short of publish nl the whole affair lie had baled felt ed ab everywhere every here the member members of the transportation committee of the board of aldermen were very borry but they did not see what could ba be done A gentle hint that gormly might prefer to indemnify the alder men for their trouble in caie tiey tl ey should give him perm permission lAsIon wae was met with pained silence or explosive wrath it was furthermore pointed out to him that the board had no rower the rights of the people having ben b en veat cd ed in the corporation for a binet nna year period it was too bad the innocent aldermen had allowed them selves to be placed in such in anfor dunate position but so it was and thero there you were mere there was no help tor for the matter and Gorm lya lys only resource wae was to pay ray the money union he wanted ant d to unload his goods into truck v wagons and vans and cart them all over the city of cour tour v he could do this but it would be much ea easier tiler more printable and more des desirable arable in every way if ho he had bad the right to run cars care out on the pier alongside of the easels of his ills fleet and transport tho the mere bandl a e in bulk in that way he ile wae was in a very desperate situa tion here he waa was addled saddled with n twenty five year lease of one of th the most expensive piers in new york here he bad had a great warehouse six blocks or more away from the pier here he be had also a vast store elveral overa rulles miles from the warehouse here was a raLl railroad road that practically connected all three pro provided viled uno one ur or two little apura spurs or switches could bo be built i ora pier to railroad and from ware homo boure to railroad it was perhaps the one mistake that be he had made in his bust ness career not to have arranged anat tern before all this came to a clit climax nar the railroad people meant to make nin mat pay they were resolved that he be bo ba was equally determined that he would not he ile wae was not alone in hie his position ho vever for it was found on all sides he discovered it by making quiet la in quirles that other 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