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Ry CHARLES KI LIN
A Stary •/ American Life Ntvelized Frtm the Play by
ARTHUR HORN BLOW.
“Five thousand dollars?’ echoed perial rulers. I'm sure of it now."
Shirley. "That’s a lot of money.”
Ryder listened to her in amazement
Smiling, sb«* added: “It appeals to my He was not quite sure if she were
commercial sense. But I'm afraid the making fun of him or not
subject does not arouse my enthusiasm
“Well, of all"— he began; then in-
from an artistic standpoint.”
terruptinu Limself he said amiably,
Ryder seemed amused at the idea of “Won't you do me the honor to meet
any one hesitating to make $5,U(JO. He my family?”
knew that writers do not run across
Shirley smiled sweetly and bowed.
such opportunities every day.
"'I hank you. Mr. Ryder, I will.”
"Upon my word,” he said, "1 don't
She rose from her seat and lean«*d
know why i’m so anxious to get you over the manuscripts to conceal the
to do the work. 1 suppose it's Is* satisfaction this promise of an Intro
cause you don't want to. You remind duction to the family circle gave her.
me of my son. Ah, he’s a problem!”
She was quick to see that It meant
Shirley started involuntarily when more visits to the bouse and other and
Ryder mentioned his sou But be did perhaps better opportunities to find the
not notice it.
objects of her search. Ryder lifted
“Why, Is he wild?” she asked, as if i the receiver of his telephone and talk­
only mil.lly Interested.
ed to bls secretary In another room,
“Ob, no; I wish lie were,” said Ryder while Shirley, who was still standing,
"Fallen in love with the wrong wo continued examining the papers and
man, I suppose," she said.
letters.
“Something of the sort. How did
“Is that you, Bagley? What's that?
you guess?” asked Ryder, surprised.
j General Dodge? Get rid of him. I
Shirley coughed to meet her etubar can't see him today. Tell him to come
rassment and replied indifferently:
tomorrow.
What’s that? My son
“So many boys do that. Besides," | wants to see me? Tell him to come to
she added, with a mischievous twinkle the phone.”
in her eyes, “1 can hardly lma;^»ie that
At that instant Shirley gave a little
any woman would Is* the right one tin cry, which In vain she tried to sup­
less you selected her yourself!”
press. Ryder looked up.
Ryder made no answer. He folded
"What's the matter?” he demanded,
ills arms and gaz«*<l at her. Who was startled.
this woman who knew him so well,
"Nothing, nothing!” she replied in a
who could read bis Inmost thoughts, hoarse whisper. “I pricked myself
who never made a mistake? After a with a pin. Don’t mind me.”
silence he said:
She had Just come across her fath­
“Do you know you say the strangest er's missing letters, which had got
things?’
mixed up, evidently without Ryder's
“Truth is strange,” replied Shirley knowledge, in the mass of papers he
carelessly. “I don’t suppose you hear [ had handed her. Prepared as she was
it very often.”
to find the letters somewhere In the
"Not in that form,” admitted Ryder ; house, she never dreamed that fate
Shirley had taken on to her lap would put them so easily and so quick­
some of the letters he had passed her ly Into her hands; the suddenness of
aud was perusing them one after an their appearance and the sight of her
other.
father's familiar signature affected her
“All these letters from Washington almost like a shock. Now she bad
consulting you on politics and finance them, she must not let them go again;
— thfy wou’t interest the world.”
yet how could she keep them unob­
"My secretary picked them out,” ex­ served? Could she conceal them?
plained Ryder. "Your artistic sense I Would he miss them? She tried to slip
will tell you what to use.”
them In her bosom while Ryder was
"Does your son still love this girl? busy at the phone, but be suddenly
I mean the one you object to," inquired glanced in her direction and caught her
Shirley as she went on sorting the pa eye. She still held the letters in her
pers.
baud, which shook from nervousness,
“Oh, no, he does not < . e for her any but he noticed nothing and went on
more,” answered Ryder hastily.
speaking through the phone:
"Yes, he does. He still loves her.”
"Hello, Jefferson, boy! Y'ou want to
said Shirley positively.
see me. Can you wait till I’m through?
“How do you know?” asked Ryder, I’ve got a lady here. Going away?
amazed.
Nonsense! Determined, eh? Well, I
“From the way you say he doesn't,” can't keep you here If you’ve made up
retorted Shirley.
your mind. You want to say goodby.
Ryder gave his caller a look in which Come up in about five minutes, and 1’11
admiration was mingled with astonish Introduce you to a very Interesting per­
inent.
son.”
"You are right again,”
He laughed and hung up the receiver.
idiot does love the girl."
Shirley was nil unstrung, trying to
"Bless his heart!” said Shirley to her overcome the emotion which her dis­
self. Aloud she said:
covery had caused her, and In a
"I hope they'll both outwit you.”
strangely altered voice, the result of
Ryder laughed In spite of himself the nervous strain she was under, she
This young woman certainly interested said:
him more than any other he had ever
“Y’ou want me to come here?”
known.
She looked up from the letters she
"I dou't think I ever met any one was reading across to Ryder, who was
standing watching her on the other
In my life quite like you," be said.
“What's the objection to the girl?" side of the desk. He caught her glance
an<1, leaning over to take some manu­
demanded Shirley.
"Every objection. I don't want her script, he said:
“Yes, I don't want these papers to
In my family.”
get"
"Anything against her character?"
Ills eye suddenly rested on the letters
To better conceal the keen Interest
she took In the personal turn the con­ she was holding. He stopped short,
versation had taken, Shirley pretended and reaching forward he tried to snatch
to be more busy than ever with the them from her.
"What have you got there?" he ex­
papers.
"Yes that Is, no- not that 1 know claimed.
He took the letters, and she made no
of,” replied Ryder. “But because a
woman has a good character, that resistance. It would be folly to force
doesn't necessarily make her a deslra the Issue now, she thought. Another
opportunity would present itself. Ry­
hie match, does it?’
der locked the letters up very carefully
"It’s a point In her favor. Isn't It?”
"Yes, but”— He hesitated as If un­ 1n the drawer on the lefthand side of
his desk, muttering to himself rather
certain what to say.
“Y’ou know men well, dou't you, Mr. than speaking to Shirley:
“How on earth did they get among
Ryder?"
my
other papers?”
"I’ve met enough to know them pret­
"From Judge Rossmore, were they
ty well,” he replied.
“Why don’t you study women for a not?" said Shirley boldly.
“How did you know It was Judge
change?” she asked. “That would en­
Rossmore?” demanded Ryder suapl-
able you to understand a great many ciously. “I didn’t know that his name
things that I don't think are quite clear had been mentioned.”
to you now.”
“I saw his signature," she said sim­
Ryder laughed good humoredly. it ply. Then she added. “He's the father
was decidedly a novel sensation to of the girl you don’t like. Isn't he?”
have some one lecturing him.
“Tea. he’s the”-
"I’m studying you,” he said, “but 1
A cloud came over the financier’s
don't seem to make much headway. face, nis eyes darkened, his jaws
A woman like you whose ndnd isn't snapped, and ha clinched his fist
spoiled by the amusement habit has
"How you must bate him!" said Shir
great possibilities great possibilities. ley, who observed the change.
Do you kuow you’re the first woman
"Not at all." replied Ryder, recover­
I ever took Into my confidence— I mean ing his self ;«>ssesslon and suavity of
at sight?" Again he fixed her with manner. “I disagree with his politics
that keen glance which in his business and his methods, but I know very lit­
life had taught him how to read men. tle about him except that ho Is about
He continued "I’m acting on senti­ to t>e removed from office.”
ment something 1 rarely do, but I
“About to be”’ ech.wsl Shirley. “So
can't helj> it. 1 like you, upou my his fate la decided even licfore he la
soul 1 do. and l'ui going to introduce
tried?” The girl laughed bitterly.
you to my wife- my son"—
lie took the telephone from his desk "Yes.” she went on, "some of the news­
papers are tiegtnning to think be is in­
ss if h«* were going to use It.
"What a commander in chief you nocent of the things of which he Is ac­
would have made-bow natural it is cused."
"Do they?” said Ryder indifferently.
for you to command!'' exclaimed Shir
"Yes," she persisted, "most people
ley in a burst of admiration that was
half real, half mockiug. “I suppose are on his side.”
She planted her elliows on the desk
you always tell |»s>ple what they are
to do and how they are to do it. You tn front of her. and looking him square­
are a l»>ru general. You know I’ve ly In the face she asked him point
often thought that Nai»dc»m and CaU- blank:
sar and Alexander must have been I "Whose side are you on- really and
great domestic leaders as well as inl­ truly r
Ryder winced V hat right had this
•• •
Woman, a stranger boih to Judge
piore and himself, to come here and
catechise him? He restrained bls Im­
patience with difficulty as he replied:
“Whose side am I on? Ob, I don’t
know that I am on any side. I dont
know that I give it much thought. I”—
“Ito you think this man deserves tn
be punished?" she demanded.
She had resumed her seat at the desk
and partly regained her self i-.»session.
"Why do you ask? What Is your in­
terest in this matter?”
“I don t know,” she replied evasive­
ly. “His case Interests me, that’s all.
It's rather romantic. Your son loves
this man's daughter. He is ia disgrace
-many seem to think unjustly.” ner
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“What have you yot there 7
voice trembled with emotion as she
continued: “I have beard from one
source or another—you know I am ac­
quainted with a number of newspaper
lia- a select stock (if
men—I have heard that life no longer
has any Interest for him, that be is not
only disgraced but beggared, that he is
pining away slowly, dying of a broken
heart, that bls wife and daughter are
in despair. Tell me, do you think he
deserves such a fate?"
Ryder remained thoughtful a mo-
Strain jjeer on jraught.
ment, and then he replied:
“No, I do not—no”—
I
Thinking that she bad touched bls
sympathies, Shirley followed up her
C oi htei i s T reatment .
advantage:
“Oh, then, why not come to his rescue
I 5l*< >M
< ■ 1*0!*»?
—you, who are so rich, so powerful;
you, who can move the scales of Jus­
Bandoli
Oiegon.
tice at your will—save this man from
humiliation and disgrace!”
Ryder shrugged his shoulders, and
bls face expressed weariness, as if the
subject had begun to bore him.
“My dear girl, you don't understand.
His removal Is necessary."
Shirley's face became set and hard.
There was a contemptuous ring to her
words as she retorted:
“Yet you admit that he may be Inno­
—AT -
cent!”
“Even if I knew it as a fact, I could
not move.”
"Do you mean to say that if you bad
positive proof?” She pointed to the
BANDON
drawer In the desk where be had
Nice
denn
room«.
25
and 50c a Lieht.
placed the letters. "If you had abso­
lute proof In that drawer, for instance,
a week ; $5.00 a month.
wouldn't you help him then?”
Ryder’s face grew cold and inscru­
table; he now wore his fighting mask.
"Not even If I had the absolute proof
In that drawer!” he snapped viciously. 11< >< >rIX
“Have you absolute proof In that
drawer?” she demanded.
XI |< > ■<?
"1 repeat that even if I had I could
not expose the men who have been my
friends. It's noblesse oblige in politics
as well as in society, you know.”
You Can't Expect to (let
He smiled again at her, as If he had
recovered bls good humor after their
$2 II orth for $1. But
sharp passages at arms.
You Can
Get Your
"Oh, it's politics! That's what the
MONEY’S WORTH ut
papers said. And you believe him in­
nocent. Well, you must have some
grounds for your belief.”
“Not necessarily.”
“You said that even If you had the Dealer in H«»«»I m and Hhoes
proofs you could not produce them i
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G. T. Trradgold, Sec
A. E. Hadsall, Treat.
R H Rota, Vice-Pre.ident
Bandon Investment Corporation
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