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I'll THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON. SUNDAY, JUNE 21, '08. 12 Kite Now Mayor I ifi , (ff 'iSjT" B&ccd o.-i fulErca dhurst's Successful Ptey ' Si WSIE MAN.-Ms Synopsis ot Preceding Chapters. Chapter IAt the suburban home f Charles Wainwright, "high finan cier", he and his broker, Scott Gibbs, hatch op a scheme to corner Borough Street railway stock. They rely upon the support of Dick Horrigan, boss of the neighboring city, whois coming to discuss maters. Alderman Fhe- hn, the thorn in Horrigan's side, whom Wainwright is anxious to con ciliate, is also coming. Among the soembers of Wainwright's household are his niece and nephew, Dallas and Ferry Wainwright, and his secretary, Thompson, a secretive young man in whom the financier has implicit confi dence. Judge Newman, a neighbor of Wainwright, whose continuance in office depends upon Horrigan's favor, requests Wainwright's intervention with the boss. Another visitor to the Winwrights' is Alwyn Bennett, in ioe with Dallas, who is calling to ask her about her rumored engagement to Gibbs. Perry is in love with Synthia Garrison, also a neighbor. II Cyn thia is the daughter of a bank presi dent who nine years before the open ing of the story was ruined by the dealings of an unnamed dishonest financier and shot himself. His son thereupon disappeared. Mrs. Bennett congratulates herself upon the imma culate record of her son's defeased father. Dallas refuses to marry Alwyn unless he does something worthy of his family and education. Phelan and Horrigan face each other. III. Phelan defies Horrigan. Judge Newman is turned down by the boss, but at Wainwright's request Horn- fan becomes suspicious of Thompson, but Wainwright scoffs at the idea. Horrigan and Wainwright makes a corrupt deal whereby the former, for big consideation, is to procure from the board of aldermen a perpetual franchise for the Borough street railway. The boss is worried by the reform movement threatening his . power at the coming election and is casting about for a candidate for mayor with a clean rcord. He hits pon Bennett, who has had some light political experience. The lat ter accepts, but warns Horigan that, if elected, he will be absolutely honest and independent. IV. Bennett is elected and ap points Cynthia his private secretary. Phelan tells him that the financier who caused the ruin of the Garrisons was Wainwright, who is also the pow er behind the crooked Borough fran chise bills, with Horrigan and Gibbs. Dallas and Mrs Bennett visit the city kalL V Gibbs tries to induce Bennett to sign the bill. The mayor's talk with Dallas is interrupted by Horrigan. VI Bennett reluses to be bulldoz ed by Horrigan into signing the bill. The boss lacks one vote in the board f aldermen of the fourteen needed to pass the bill without the mayor's as sent. Despite the fact that defeating the bill means impoverishing Dallas and Perry, whose fortune Wainwright nas invested in Borough stock, Ben nett vetoes the measure. VII Ben nett's plan to save Dallas and Perry is to have Perry sell Borough stock short. The mayor's opposition cau ses Horrigan and Wa'nwright to amend the bill, retaining however, some of the most objectionable fea tures. VIII Alwyn's lovemaking to Dallas . at the Mayor's ball is interrupted by Harrigan. IX Gibbs secretly plays false to Wainwright and Horrigan by buying Borough stock on his own account. Horrigan "fixes" Alderman Roberts, a waver ing member of his "solid thirteen." X Bennett warns Roberts against vot ing for the bill. In the presence of Cynthia, who is engaged to Perry, Phelan exposes Thompson as her brother, the long missing Harry Gar rison, whereupon sister and brother embrace. Perry entering suddenly, is astonished at the sight. XI Cyn thia explains to Perry. Dallas is con vinced by Wainwright that Bennett by vetoing the bill is trying to wreck her fortune. Thereupon Dallas prom ises to marry Gibbs. XII Horri gan declares that if Bennett persists in his opposition to the bill he will publish indisputable proofs of grant ing by the mayor's father. Bennett's mother advises him to face the thr-it-ened disgrace and stick to his course. XIII at the hearing on the bill Horrigan packs the' aldermanic galleries with police to overawe the public. He bulldozes Roberts into consenting to vote for the measure, taking advantage of the alderman's financial necessities. IH-.IIIIU w. IH'H Ugl"".J .11! !! MHjttMMWff,-il CHArTEU XV. 1LL1AMS entered with Rob erts lu tow. The latter wore a haggard, troubled look, and his natural nervousness had visibly deepened, so much so that he had not eveu noted Fhelan's appear ance In the corridor as he passed Into Horrigan's private room. "Good evenlug, alderman," said nor- , rlgan civilly Good eveulng, sir," answered Rob erts palpably 111 at ease. "I understand there's a full meeting today. Even Ellis came back from the south to be here. You're the only man uiisslug." "I couldn't get here sooner. I" "I see. That's all, Williams. You needn't wait Roberts aud 1 want a little talk before be goes in. Now, then," went on the boss, with a com plete change of manner as Williams left the room, "what s the matter with your , ' "I-I can'f- "Can't what? Speak out, man! Don't stand there and mumble at me!" "I can't vote for the Borough fran chise bill." "Can't, hey?" roared Horrigan. "Whynotr "Because because" faltered Rob erts; then, with a rush of hysterical emotion that blotted out his fear, he cried: "Have you heard what that man Ben nett has done? He organized a voters' committee in my ward and sent them to ask me at my own house what I was going to do about that bill. They had been stirred np by Bennett till they looked on me as a crook and on the bill as a personal robbery. They told me if I voted for it they'd kuow I was a dirty thief and grafter and that they'd kick me out of the ward." "Well, w-ell!" rumbled Horrigan soothingly, as though trying to calm a fractious drunkard. "What do yon care? When they've forgotten all about the bill you'll still have the dough, won't you? Folks won't ask 'How'd he get it? All they'll care to know Is 'Has he got it?" "That isn't all!" Roberts blundered on, scarcely heeding the interruption. "Bennett's next step was to organize a committee of voters' wives, and they came to see my wife this morning when I was out and told her they'd heard I was going to sell myself and vote for a dishonest bill. My wife my wife thinks I'm the squares:, noblest man on earth. Ob, yon needn't sneer! Her trust means everything to me. She told the women I wouldn't stoop to any ,deed that wasn't honest, and they answered: 'Our husbands be lieve Mr. Roberts is a crook. If be is really honest he'll vote against that bill, as he did before.' Then on my way borne this noon I met my little boy. He was crying. 1 asked him what the matter was. He said that some boys had told him I was a graft er. I tell you," his voice rising almost to a scream. "Bennett's made my life a hell. I'm no crook. I'm honest and" "Sure you're honest!" Horrigan ex claimed, as though to a cross child. "Honest as the day! That's why you're voting for our bill. Because the crooked clauses have been cut out of It. ond In Its present form it's a benefit to the city." "That isn't why I promised to vote for it," contradicted Roberts, with a despairing dasli of. courage. "It wa3 because I because" "Never mind why, then, but just go ihead and do It" "I won't! I dare not" "You'll do it I say!" stormed Horri gan. "xou can't weicn on me at turn stage of the game. Those Sturtevant Trust company notes of yours were sent to you and" "And I won't' take them!" declared Roberts, slamming two slips of paper down upon the table. "There! Take them back!" "What do I want of them?" argued Horrigan craftily. "They beloug to you." "They dou't I won't keep them." "You'll have to. I keep you to your promise." "What promise?" asked, a voice be hind them. Bennett, hastily summoned by Phe lan, had entered the room unobserved by either of the excited men. "What promise?" he asked again. "A promise to" "What are you doing here?" heltow ed Horrigan in fury. "You called mu down once for coming Into your pri vate' office without knocking. What d'you mean by coming into mine?" "Yours?" queried Alwyn. "I had iim idea It was the city's. The time Is past when the words 'Horrigan' and city' meaut the same thing. tWell, Itoberts, how are you goiug to vote? V want to believe you honest, iind Why. what's all this?" his eyes falling on the forgotten notes on the table. "Nothing of yours!" shouted Horri gan. making a futile, furious grab for the documents which Alwyn was pick ing up. "Drop them! Drop them. I say, or you'll "Why should I?" aRked Rennprronim. ty, nis quick eye taking In the nature of the slips of paper even its his alert brain grasped tu full the meaning or the transaction In which they ilgnred. "Do they belong to you?" V "They don't belong to you anyway." retorted Horrigan. "and If you dare read them"- "I've already read them. Roberta." he added in n kinder voice, turning to the shaking alderman, "these were to have been your bribe, weren't they, for voting for the Borough bill?" His quietly compelling tone aud glance forced from Roberts a frightened "Yes" before Horrigan could Interfere. "I thought so. Be quiet, llorrlgan," be commanded as tho Infuriated boss sought to speak through his choking wrath. "This is between Roberts and me. Now, tben"- "I returned the notes to him!" plead ed Rolterts In panic. "Honestly. I did! Just before you came In. I could have kept them, and he couldo't have pre vented mo even If I voted agnlnst the bill. But I'm square and" "You are square!" atlirmed Bennett, gripping the alderman's cold, moist hand In friendly reassurance. "I knew ail along you were honest at heart. Horrigan wauted to bribe you, aud you wouldu't be bribed. Now. I want you to go into the council room and vote as your manhood tells you to." Roberts, comforted, yet still trem bling, obeyed, not venturing a second look at Horrigan. "Now, my friend." said Bennett pleasantly when he and the boss were alone together, "what are you going to do about it? It seems to me your game iaup." "I want those notes!" panted Horri gan, finding coherent speech with an effort through his red mist of rage. "Why? They're not yonrs. Tbey aren't made over to you, and there is no cancellation stamp on them. They are the property of the Sturtevant Trust company, and I'll send them back there tomorrow after I've had them photographed." "You'll give them to me," shouted Horrigan. his mighty body vibrating with fury, "or you'll never leave this room alive!" "You're a fool, Horrigan." remarked Bennett, with condescending calm, "for you don t even know the right man to bully F' He gazed un flinchingly Into the maddened little eyes of the boss, and so for a moment they stood pa trician and pro-letariat-in the world old strug gle of the two for supremacy. Horrigan's face was scar let, distorted, m u rderous; Bennett's pale, cold, deadly la Then waged the battle its repose. of wills, both men And then . standing motionless, waged the bat tle of wills, both men standing mo tionless, tense, vibrant with dynamic force. 'Slowly, little by little, Horrigan's eyes dropped. He moved awkwardly to one side from his position in front of the door and Bennett, without so much as a backward look, passed out. The Loss, like a man In a daze, sank heavily into a chair and gazed straight ahead of him, his usually red face gray and pasty. But he was not to enjoy even the scant boon of solitude. From the ante room Gibbs strolled In. ! "They're going over some unimpor tant preliminary business," remarked the broker, "so I canje out for a breath of fresh air. How are things going?" j "We're beat," grunted Horrigan, not looking up. "Beat?" screamed Gibbs, ashen and inert at the news. "You don't mean it! You can't mean it! Great heaven!" The sight of the other's cowardly emotion seemed to rouse Horrigan from his apathy. "If I can stand It, you can!" he snarl ad. "You only lose your percentage m the deal, while I" "A percentage?" echoed Gibbs, too panic stricken to heed his own indls metiou. "Every cent I had in the world! P- He checked hfmself an Instant too late. "So?" drawled Horrigan, his keen little eyes searing the other with boundless contempt. "So it was you who were secretly buying up the stock ami tailing in on to our game, hey?" "I'm ruined! Broke! And"- "And you've got it coming to you, you whining traitor! The man who goes back on his partners deserves all the kicking lie gets." "I I didn't mean any harm!" mum bled the crushed Gibbs. "It couldn't hurt you people to have me buy Bor ough stock for myself, and I'd have cleared up a million and more.. Ob, don't glower like that. Jlorrlean. but (Till try to tiiiiiu ou i Huinu way ol "Or what, you cur?" "Isn't there any way even now make Hoiiuelt let up on his light?" to "If there was you couldn't be of use to us, so why should t talk about It to you?" "But I'd do anything In the world- ny thing"- "You would?" cut in Horrigan sharply. "Yes, yes! Only give me a chancel I'd"- Ilorrtgnn considered, then said re flectively. "No chance Is too slight to take at a time like this, and uobody'a too rotten to be of use. I've found there are three things, one of which will always buy any mitn-a woman, ambition or ensh. We've tried Bennett on ainbt tion; he doesu't need money, ao only tlK Urst of the three remains." "A woman? I don't understand." "Miss Wainwright" "But"- "Listen here. Bennett's In love with Wainwright's niece, You've, cut him out Go ami tell him If he'll let our bill alone you'll smash the engagement and leave her freo to marry him. See?" "I can't! 1 hold on, though! After ward I could deny tho whole thing, couldn't I? It'd be his word against mine, and she'd never believe I could do such a thing, l-l might try." "Yes," growled Horrigan, "you might A cur that's lost all his nerve can try thlugs that eveu an ordinary crook would balk at." Hut Gibbs did not bear, tie had re turned to the corridor In search of Bennett The man scarcely deserved the opprobrium heaped on him by Hor rigan. A brilliant, daring operator, be was, unknown to himself, a rank cow ard at heart. For the tlrst time In his life the cowardice had cropped out and, to do Gibbs justice, It had drlvcu him temporarily Insane. In his nor mal senses he would never have stoop ed to the plan he wa now so eager to carry out. It was a putrid bit of Jet sam at which a financially drowning man did not scruple to clutch.' Horrigan followed him from the room, his own splendid nerve quite re covered from the crushing blow his hopes hud leeched. lie had staked heavily on the deal. Moreover. Its fail ure, as he knew, meant the wreck of that mighty political prestige he had so long and wearisomely built up. It misht even. If Alwyn fulUllcd his threat about tho notes, lead to graver personal consequences. Vet the bull dog pluck that had carried this man of iron from the gutter to the summit of political power did not desert him. nor did he show the loss of one lota of his customary monumental calm. Scarcely had Horrigan quitted the room when Perry and Dallas entered It "You could cut the atmosphere in there with a cheese knife," Perry was saying. "Williams doesn't think the Borough bill will come up for half an hour or so. We'd better speud the time till then In here than to stay there and turn our lungs Into a microbe zoo." Dallas did not answer. She sat down by the table and rested her head de jectedly on one little gloved hand. The sight of Bennett, ills grave, hopeless appeal to her; the calm, utter despair of his brave face all these had affect ed her deeply. Terry noticed with brotherly concern her look and attitude. "Feeling faint?" he asked. "No, I'm all right, thanks." "You look pretty near as blue as Al wyn. Ho"- "Don't let's talk of him, please," she begged. "Why not? lies the whitest chap this side of Whlteville." "That's what I used to think, but I know better uow." "Then, miss." broke in a voice from the doorway, "you're entitled to anoth er 'know.' " Phelan, who, passing down the cor ridor, bad heard her last words as he J reached the threshold, turned Into the room. "Excuse me for buttln' In on a fam ily chat." he remarked, coming forward, "but I'm pretty well posted on his honor's character, an when I hear any one knockln' him It's mo to the bat. What have yon got against Mr. Ben nett? 'None of your measly business,' says you. 'Quite so snys I. an', that beln' the case, let's hear all about It." Something that underlay the seeming Impertinence of the alderman's bluff speech touched Dallas. On Impulse she spoke: "Mr. Bennett." said she. "Is opposing the Borough bill, knowing we shall be paupers If he defeats It. He also sold Borough stock short before he an nounced his veto. What can one think of a man who enriches himself at the expense of his friends?" "Gee." cried Perry, "that's a terrible thing! Bennett's the original man higher up. I'm afraid. 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