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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. IH UNI) AY, JULYS, 1908. JL ; r l ' " ! ' 10 Vb few Mayor :, Bu4 C B. Brtwdhwtt't SacMtaM The Man The Hour By ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNL Copyright, 1H7, by Oeorg H. BrolhurU tCOBTIXCSD. At sound of his secretary's name .Walnwright had sprung to his reet and, Auinfounded, was leaning heavily on the table, staring across the threshold Of the suddenly opened door. . There, framed In the dark doorway, his face deathly pale, his eyes glowing with ft strange light as of murder, stood Cynthia's brother, ma nrMoncA in the cltv hall was no mere chance, but the climax of a series Of conferences between Bennett, Fbe Jan and himself, dating from the night of the administration ball, when, de- . . . . I .. I tkn adnmtapff'fl pile U18 gu resunc, lur " ' hand had been forced by the Inquisi tive alderman and his Identity re- mti n Tn rl ; Bennett had been let Into the secret next day, and the trio had had a three hour talk from which Thelan had 1TOICU, . ,i ' ' tmerged with the gleeful air of one lrho had unexpectedly found a $1,000 DHL Thompson, too, had left that con ference with a look of calm, Intense satisfaction that transfigured him. Other conversations had followed, one of them In the presence, of notary, stenographer and lawyers. The trap at last was ready to be sprung. The financier for the first time in his nine year close association with the Secretary met the younger man's gaze without seeing the latter droop in def orentlal submission. Now he received back look for look from his former ab ject slave, and it was his own glance that wavered before that concentrated glare of hate. Thompsonr he cried, and his voice bore a world of Incredulous reproach. Before him stood the one man on earth in whom Wainwright had ever placed implicit trust; to wnom ne naa confided his gravest business secrets; the man whom he bad so shrewdly tested In countless ways and who had proved Btanchly incorruptible and loy- Barry QarrUon. J, and now Thompson apparently con fronted him in the role of traitor of exultant spy. - ; "Thompsonr he exclaimed once more, almost with a groan, as the sec retary advanced Into the room until only the width of the table separated employer and employee. Then the newcomer spoke for the first time,' In an oddly muffled voice, as though fighting desperately for self re straint ''No!" he contradicted. "'Thompson' Ho longer. Henceforth I am Garrison." Walnwrlght's face grew gray. Breath less, unbelieving, he peered across at the pallid features of his new foe, trac ing in them the likeness to the old friend whose ruin and death be had caused. The haunting resemblance that had often vaguely occurred to him when watching Thompson at work now returned in double force. But now, as In a flash, It was explained, and he knew that his secretary spoke the truth. - "Tea," went on Tho npson In that tame choked, struggling intonation, "I ftm Harry Garrison. You wrecked m,v father's life. You drove him to suicide. You blasted his memory. You beg gared bis children. I am his son Har ry Garrison. Now do you begin to understand?" "You see, Mr. Wainwright," inter vened Bennett as the secretary's pent op rage strangled the words in his throat, "my guesswork has a fairly re liable backing." But Wainwright did not hear. lie still stared, as one hypnotized, into the blazing eyes of the man he had trusted. "You've you've played me false!" be managed to gasp at length. "You have" "Sure be has!" cut in Horrlgan. "What'd I tell you last summer, Wain wright? I said then you were foolish to trust him so. I said he'd stand Wjitchlng. The minute . I set eyes on that lantern jawed, glum race of his" "Played me false!", muttered Wain wright again, daaod and doubting the evidence of his own souses. ... "Played you false?" jeered Thomp son. "Played you false? Why else lid I become your servant? What else have I been waiting all these horrible years for? Pve sat at your desk and listened to your orders, never venturing to say my soul was my own. Now you'll listen to me." "Wny do you bother with the little traitor, Wainwright?" scoffed Horrlgan. But the financier was standing mo tionless, leaning on the table, his fin gers spasmodically gripping Its edgo till the knuckles grew white. Ridiculously like a cowed prisoner In-fore the bar of Justice, he faced his fiery eyed young Judge. ' ...... ' They sent for me," went on Thomp son brokenly, Jerkily, scarce Intelligi ble as the suppressed hatred of a dec ade battled for expression. "They sent for me. My father bad killed himself. My mother lay dead, struck down by grief. Our honored old name was de filed. My sister was a pauper. Who had done all this? You! Oh, they hushed It up, but I found It out! I found It out! And by my murdered fa ther's body 1 knelt and swore I'd pay you for It I'd pay you if It cost me my life, i .1 would ruin you In nam and fortune, as you ruined my father, and then "And then I'd kill I'd kill you, fts you, at you killed you killed bim! my father." , , , . I'd" With an effort that left him haggard and trembling, Thompson forced him self to calmer speech and continued: "I answered your advertisement for a secretary. I had no experience, yet out of ninety applicants you chose me. That was fate. I knew then that one day I should have you at my feet, as now I have., Fate fought for me. I made myself necessary for you. I obeyed your hardest orders. I found out ways to please you. I fetched and carried for you. I ran to anticipate your lightest wish, as though I was your adoring son. It was 'I hope you're satisfied, sir, and "Let me do that for yon, sir and 'I am glad to work overtime for you, sir, any time you wish,' while every minute I bad to fight hard to keep from striking you dead! I must go!" groaned Wainwright, shuddering. "I can't stand this. I" "Oh, I made you think me a para gon!" resumed the youth. "You took to testing my honesty and loyalty in clever ways that you thought I'd never discover. I stood the tests. Then you trusted me. You fool! As if the fact that I wasn't a crook proved I wasn t your enemy! You could Bee no farther than dollars and cents. When I didn't steal those or sell the market tips you gave me you thought I was Incorrupti ble and devoted to your interests. And all the time I" ' "You were listening at the keyhole that day last summer," broke lu Hor rlgan, "the time I pulled, the office door open, and" Then and always," answered Thomp son, "and," he added, his eyes return ing to Walnwrlght's, "I copied every confidential telegram or letter you sent. I took down in shorthand every private interview of yours. I tracked the checks that completed your deals, and when they came back from the vaults as vouchers I stole them. I've got proofs, I tell you proofs of every crooked transaction you have dabbled in for nine years. I've secured proofs of every step In this borough franchise bribery, and I've turned them all over to the mayor here. That evidence will send you to state prison! To state prison, I tell you!. To a cell, with cropped hair and striped sujt! I'll send you to prison, where you'll break your heart and be branded forever as a convict! And when your term is up I'll be waiting for you, and I'll kill you! Do you hear me, you foul crim inal V he shouted, screaming hyster ically and foaming at the mouth In his abandonment of insane fury. 'Tm go ing to kill you! To kill your CHAPTER XVIII. UNDER the maniac fury that blazed from Thompson's eyes Wainwright shrank back fa panic dread. "He's he's mad!" cried the financier, "Don't let him at me!" . For Thompson seemed about to burl himself on his foe. 'Go easy, son," adjured Phelan, lay ing a restraining hand on the secre tary's shoulder. The latter, recalled to himself by the pressure, relaxed his tense, menacing attitude and, with hysterical revulsion of feeling, sank into a chair,. burying Us face in bis arms on the table before him. "Nine horrible years!" he sobbed bro kenly. "Nine awful years of slifvery, of debasement! Watching, hating, longing to crush htm, and, oh, the tlnw has come, thank God! Thank God!" "You're all In, lad!" muttered Phe lan, passing an arm about the shaking youth and lifting him to his feet "Come with me. I'll send out and get you a bracer." . Thompson, exhausted by his emo tions, obeyed mechanically, but at the farther door paused for a moment and again fixed bis wild, bloodshot eyes on Walnwrlght's haggard face. "Remember," be threatened, his voice dead and expressionless, "when you get out of Jail I'll be. waiting for you. Ana as sure ns God's Justice live I'll kill you sb I'd kill a dog! Nine years waiting aud-I'll murder you us you murdered my" Phelau had forced him over the threshold, and the slamming of "the door behind tho two seemed to break the strange spell that bad fallen on all. Wainwright straightened himself, glanced fearfully alnnit, tried to re gain his shaken composure and opened his mouth to speak. But the hurried entrance of Williams prevented him. "Mr. Horrlgan," gasped the excited newcomer, "I've been looking every where for you!" "What's wroug now?" snapped the boss, "Has" 'The Borough bill's come up at last, and"- "The gallery crowd's rough bousing the place? Then" "No, they're quiet as death; too quiet And they have loug ropes, and they're stringing them over the" ;"Call lu the police, then!" ordered Horrlgan. "Now's the time for them." ,,"1 don't dare,"., protested Williams. "Those men In the gallery are desper ate. They're dangerous. If ."The police?" interrupted Bennett sharply. "What arc , you talking about?" - ' i"My orders!" returned Horrlgan. "1 sf nt for them. Tell them to" ."Don't do It!" commanded Bennett In anger. . , , ,. n . . ; "Do as I say, Williams!" counter manded norrlgan. "Have them In and" . : , v : ; "Phelau., interposed Bennett as the alderman, having left Thompson in oth er hands, came lu to the room, ."go to the sergeant lu charge of the police Mr, Horrlgan sent for, Tell him I say be must keep his men where they are and take no orders except from me. Understand r "I sure dor grinned Phelan, with a delighted grin at the wrathful Horrl gan.. "An' I'll see they" ,. i:You need not trouble!" . croaked Wainwright bis throat dry and con stricted with fear., "The bill Is withdrawn!"- . ' J -' : "That goes!" corroborated Horrlgan. "Do you hear that, Williams? Mr. Wainwright withdraws the Borough bill. Attend to It in a rush, man.. Never mind about the police " "Well, Friend Horrlgan," blaudly ob served . Phelan as Williams . hastened out "I told you I'd cross two sticks of dynamite under you some day. Like wise I done It" "What hnifyou to" "To do with smasbln you? Only that I put his honor on to the bill lu the first place an then sicked bin) on to Roberts an discovered Thompson an' turned him over to Mr. Bennett That's abou all. But I guess It's enough to make your p'lltlcal career feel like it bad a long line of carriages drlvln' slow behind it Chesty Dick, my old chum!" Horrlgan bad turned his back on bis victorious tormentor and was facing the mayor. "Bennett," said he, "you forget I've still got that report about your father, and"- i "Tomorrow's papers will publish It supplemented Alwyn. "No, they won't" contradicted Hor rigan. "That would be bad politics. The report will hold over till" "You're mistaken," Interrupted Ben nett calmly. "I've sent a copy of that report today to every paper In the city and have accompanied It with a state-- ment that I shall make good to the city treasury every penny overcharged in the library and aqueduct contracts. 8o"- Horrlgan was staring at bim open mouthed. "Bennett," he muttered In genuine wonderment, "I don't know whether you're the craziest fool or the cleverest politician in the state." "Your honor," humbly pleaded Wain wright, who for several minutes had been trying in vain to draw Bennett aside for a private word, "I am an old man. Is there no way of of showing me mercy In my" ' "Yes," retorted Alwyn. "Yon shall receive exactly the same mercy you have always shown to your own finan cial enemies no more, no less." "Oh, cut out the whine, Wain wright!" sneered Horrlgan in high con tempt as be linked his arm in the broken financier's and hauled him roughly from the room. "What's hap pened to your nerve? You're almost as bad as Gibbs. You're still rich, and as long as you've got ptenty of cash no law In America need ever bother you. There's lots of talk about Indictments, and arrests, and Investigations, and prosecutions, and all that sort of rot. But I don't see any millionaires going to Jail. Come on across to my law yer's." The boss and financier departed with out a backward look, leaving Phelau and Bennett alone on the late scene of battle. . "Say, your honor," observed the al derman slyly, "there's one very Impor tant engagement you've clean forgot. Bit right where you are a minute, an' I'll send the party In here and see that nobody butts in on you till you want 'em to. Oh. but we didn't do a thing to Horrlgan! He'll haie to watch which way his toes point U see wheth er he's eoln or comln'!" The alderman sped on his mission, leaving Alwyn seated aloae. dejected, miserable, in the deserted committee room. ' Now that the crisis was past bis hart was strangely heavy. He bad won. But at what cost? At the loss of all he held dear, Alwyn Bennett knew, too, that the real fight was but Just begun a fight tliat had waged since the world began and must last to Judgment day tho hopeless, uphill battle of decency against evil, of honesty against craft. Morrigtln s sneering ' words, "I don't see uny millionaires going to Jul!" stuck disagreeably In tho young may or's memory ....Their brutal, bald truth Jarred on his bo lief In the Inevi table triumph of good. After al, was tho dreary, self sacrificing battlo against nn unconquerable foe worth while? Could the great god graft ever be checked. In tils mastery of the earth? , If- A rustle of skirts startled Alwyn-. from his dark thoughts. "Dallas!" he cried, unbeliev ing, as he sprang to bis feet half daxzled at tho "I 0wyottf''i" said. woudrous light that transformed her face. .Slowly she came toward htm. her glorious dark eyes on bis, her white bauds . outstretched In Irresistible ap peal. At last she spoke. "I love your she said. M: " ' "the end.' ' I - A New Hallway Danger Signal. Testimony In a, recent dlstrcHHlug ao cldeut due to a grade crossing collision between a trolley car "and a passongcr train showed that danger signals are recklessly Ignored sometimes. To make schedule time Is the object set before motorroen and engineers, and It Is only fair to say that occasionally the making of schedule time by a train will limit the liability to accident through, confusion. 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