THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
IH UNI) AY, JULYS, 1908.
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Bu4 C B. Brtwdhwtt't SacMtaM
The Man
The Hour
By ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNL
Copyright, 1H7, by Oeorg H. BrolhurU
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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-
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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
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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!"-
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: "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.'
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- 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. However, the prac
tice of ignoring signals has come to be
a menace, and railroad men have en
couraged a new device for signaling
which also stops the train or car sig
naled., If the machine operates ef
fectively It will doubtless be widely
adopted.
The new signal cannot be ignored,
because the car, or train Is at once
taken from the control, of Its master
and confpclled' to stop. The only way
to start motion Is for some one to
alight and release the exterior check,
fixed automatically at the time the sig
nalman gives warning. Recently an
old railroad man declared In an article
printed In the Atlantic Monthly that
the practice of Ignoring signals by rail
road men at certain times bus become
a habit bard to eradicate. He consid
ered the practice responsible for many
distressing accidents, but yet trainmen
continue to exercise discretion. Jf the
obstacle suggested by the signs) Is
seen the warning Is heeded, but if not
speed Is merely slackened and no full
stop made. If railway men will not
obey rules as to signals absolutely a
device to check tbelr train In spite of
them 'will be found necessary, espe
cially at points where the danger Is
greatest '
Woman la the Sporting World.
In those forms of athletics which
tend to making fancy records women
do not score in comparison with the
men. Tbey do show power and en
durance in athletic feats which depend
upon health and vitality. At the re
cent Vassar exercises women showed
that the amateur college athlete can
run well and make a good running
jump. Women can swim well, and it
Is plain that In athletics which make
for health and endurance the sex is at
home and can achieve as good a record
as Is worth while. ' '
Woman has capacity for physical en
durance, and if the real purpose of
athletics be the maintenance of health
and the development of strength the
field Is one where college girls and all
young women may appear with bene
fit The athletic girl has been crit
icised as being perhaps an affectation.
But although she talks athletics and
yet produces no star record, If she
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Is not a waste of time or energy. It is
possible to make a record at the ex
pense, of health, an abuse of powers
and a misuse of the training field.
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A gamekeeper on a northern estate
tells an amusing story of the latest
thing In the compensation line. When
he was escorting the gentlemen round
the coverts one day tho party were
alarmed to hear a loud cry Just after
shots had been fired. Running to the
spot, a thick bush growth, the keeper
found a man lying groaning on the
ground.
"Some of them gents 'ave shot me in
the leg," groaned the man.
Examination proved that the sufferer
had Indeed received a bird shot pellet
in bis left calf. It was a trivial In-
Jury, but was handsomely compensat
ed for by the gentlemen In the party,
who presented the victim with quite a
good sum In gold.
That same evening the gamekeeper
came upon two men in a quiet lane en
gaged in a hot dispute about the shar
ing of some money. One of the men
had a shotgun, and, tapping it signifi
cantly, he said threateningly: "'Alf
shares, or I'll go straight to the p'llce
and split on us both. I'll give the
game away. . I'll tell 'em 'ow I put that
pill in yer leg to knock money out o'
the shooters."
Then the gamekeeper disclosed him
self, and the two conspirators decamp
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