A GENTLEMAN
FROM MISSISSIPPI
By THOMAS A. WISE
Novelized From the Play by Frederick R. Toombs
COPYRIGHT. 1G0D. BY THOMAS A. WISE
(CHAPTER XIV, continued.)
Kenator" 'Langdon's secretary peered
straight Into Norton's eyes.
"Because, congressman," he said, "if
I were to put uiy money in Gulf City
perhaps I wouldn't lose it."
The southerner took a step forward,
leaned over and glared angrily at
Haines. His face whitened.
. "You don't mean that you could
swing Langdou Into Gulf City?" he
gasped.
Haines smiled.
"I can't say that, Norton, but I guess
people interested in Altacoola would
hate to have me try."
"I didn't know you were that kind,
Haines," said Norton, his virtue
Til make you pay for that I"
aroused at the thought of losing his
money. . "So you're playing the game
like aU the rest?'
"Why shouldn't I?" shrugged the sec
retary. "I guess perhaps I'm a little
sore because the Altacoola people
haven't .even paid me the compliment
of thinking I had any Influence, so
they can't expect me to work for them.
The Gulf City people have. As things
stand, Gulf City looks pretty good to
me." . .
"Is this straight talk?" exclaimed
Norton.
"Take it or leave it," retorted Bud.
The Mlsslssipplau leaned with his
bands on the desk.
, "Well, Haines, if you're like the
rest and are really Interested in Alta
coola, I don't know that you'd have to
go very far to talk."
"You know something of Altacoola
lands, then, Norton?" said Robert,
tingling with suppressed excitement.
He felt that he was getting close to
real facts In a colossal "deal."
Norton was sure of bis man now.
"Well, I am In touch with some peo
ple who've got lands and options on
more. I might fix It for you to come
In " h whtRnprpd.
1 Haines shook bis head.
"You know I. haven't much money,
Norton. All I could put in would be
my influence. Who are these people?
Are they cheap little local folks or are
they real people here who have some
power and cau do something that is
worth while?"
"Do I look like I'd fool with cheap
skates, Haines? They're the real peo
ple. I think, Haines, that either Sen
ator Stevens or Senator Pea body would
advise you that you are safe."
"Ah! Then Stevens and Peabody
are the ones. They'll make it Alta
coola, then sell to the government at
a big ' advance and move to 'Easy
street "
"That's right," agreed Norton.
Bud Haines straightened abruptly.
The expression on his face gave Nor
ton a sudden chill made him tremble.
"Now I've got you," cried the secre
tary. "You've given yourself dead
away. I've known all along you're a
d d thief. Norton, and you've just
proved It to me yourself."
"What do you meanT' Norton was
clinching his flst. Words like that
mean fight to a southerner!"
"I mean that before Senator Lang
don goes one step further in this mat
ter he shall know that his colleagues
and you are tnieves, jur. isorion, iry
lug to use him for a cat's paw to steal
for them from the government. I bus
pected something this morning when
Gulf City tried to bribe me and a vis
itor from there gave me what turns
out to be a pretty good tip."
"So that was yonr dirty trick." ex
claimed the congressman as be re
gained his composure.
"Set a make believe thief to catch a
rer.l one," laughed the secretary.
"Very good trick, I think."
Til make you pay for that!" cried
Norton, shaking his fist
"All right Send In your bill any old
time," laughed Haines. "The sooner
the better. Meantime I'm going to talk
to Langdon."
He had started for the door when
Carolina Langdon re-entered, followed
by her brother Randolph.
"Walt a minute," said Norton, with
unexpected quietness. "I wouldn't do
what you're about to do, Mr. Haines."
"Of course you wouldn't" sneered
Haines.
"I mean that you will be making a
. mistake, Haines, to tell the senator
"You can't refute to txlleve Mis Lang
don." what you have learned." rejoined the
nuthcrnw. strurelinz to keen calm at
this critical moment when all was at
! stake. He realized, further, that now
. was the time to put Haines out of the
way If that were possible. "A mis
take, Mr. Haines." he continued, "t-
cause, you see, you aoirt enow as mucn
as you think. I wouldn't talk to Lang
don If I were you. It will only em
barrass him and do no good, because
Langdon's money Is in this scheme,
too, and Langdon's in the same boat
with the rest of us."
Haines stopped short at this astound
ing charge against bis chief.
"Norton, you lie! Ill believe It of
Langdon when he tells me so; not oth
erwise." Norton turned to Randolph.
"Perhaps you'll believe Mr. Lang
dou'B son, Mr. Haines?"
Randolph Langdon stepped forward.
"It's true, Haines," he said; "my fa
ther's money Is In Altacoola lands."
Haines looked blm up and down, with
a sneer.
"Your money may be," he said. "I
don't think you're a bit too good for it,
but your father is a different kind,"
Carolina Langdon stood at the back
of the room, nervously awaiting the
moment when, she knew, she would
be forced into the unpleasant discus
sion. "I reckon you can't refuse to believe
Miss Langdon,'.' drawled Norton, with
aggravated deliberation.
"Of course," stammered Haines, "I'd
believe It if Miss Langdon says It's
so."
The congressman turned toward
Carolina as he spoke and fixed on her
a tense look which spelled as plainly
as though spoken, "It's all in your
bands, my fortune yours,"
She slowly drew across the room.
Haines could sardly conceal the tur
moil of bis mjtid. The world seemed
suddenly snatched from around htm,
leaving her figure alone before blm.
Would she affirm what Norton and
Randolph had said? He must believe
her. But surely It was Impossible that
played for Ume. She feared
the making of a false move.
"I don't understand?" she said In
quiringly to Norton.
He calmly began an elaborate explanation.
"Miss Langdon,
this secretary has
discovered that
there Is a certain
perfectly legiti
mate .venture In
Altacoola lands
being carried on
through certain
influential people
we know and by
me. The blood of
the young re
former is boiling.
He Is going
straight to your
father with the
"My father U-in facts.
the dcaU" i have tried to
explain to him how It will needlessly
embarrass the senator and spoil his
own future. He won't believe me. He
won't believe your brother. Perhaps
you can make it clear."
At last Carolina nerved herself to
speak. '
"You had better not go to my fa
ther, Mr. Haines. It will do no good.
He Is In the deal! You must be
lieve me when I tell you so."
The girl took her eyes from the sec
retary. He was plainly suffering.
CHAPTER XV.
CABOLINA LANQDOK'S ADVICE.
r
ET me speak to Mr. Haines
alone," said Carolina to Norton
and her brother. '
Norton turned a triumphant
grin at Randolph as be beckoned him
out and' whispered: "Leave him to
her. It's all right That New York
dude has been riding for a fall he's
going to get It now." .
VI am sorry, so sorry this should
have occurred, Mr. Haines," Carolina
said gently. -
The secretary looked p slowly, bis
face drawn. It was an effort for him
to speak.
"I can't understand It," he said. "I
mightn't have thought so much of this
a month ago, but
I have come to
love the senator
almost as a son,
and to think that
he could be like
the rest' of that
bunch Is awful."
"You are too
much of an
idealist, .Mr.
Haines," said the
girL
"And yon?
What do yon
think of ltr he
demanded. '
The girl's
glance wavered.
"Don't idealize
ioe too much, ei
ther, Mr. Haines.
I didn't think It
was much. Per-
11 baps I don't un-
--Tt derstand business
CS' any too welL"
"But you se
nowr Insisted
the man'
"1 can't undentand
it," he tuld.
The girl looked up at him sorrow
fully. . . ;
1
"Yes; I see at least that you and fa
ther can never work together now."
Haines nodded affirmatively.
"I suppose bo. I'm thinking of that
How am I to leave him? We've been
so close. I've been so fond of him. I
ddn't know how I could tell him."
In girlish, friendly fashion Carolina
rested her hand on his arm.
"Won't you take my advice, Mr.
Haines? Go away without seeing him.
Just leave a note to say you have
gone. He will understand. It will be
easier for both that way easier for
him, easier for you."' She paused,
looking at him appeallngly as she end
ed very softly, "And easier for me, Mr.
Haines."
He looked at her thoughtfully.
"Easier for you?" he said. "Very
well, I'll do it that way."
The secretary stepped slowly to his
desk, sat down and started to write
the note. Carolina watched him curi
ously. "What will you do," she asked, "now
that you have given up this position?"
- "Oh, I ran always go back to news
paper work," be
answered with
out looking up.
The term "news
paper work" gave
Carolina a shock.
She had forgot
ten that this man
had been a re
porter. Here he
was turned loose
with the knowl
edge of this
"deal." which she
knew would be
popular material
for newspapers
to print, She
muBt gain still
another point,
"J can go hack to and she felt that
newtpapir work." sne nad enougn
powe to win against blm.
'Tin going to ask you still another
favor," she said.
Bud returned her look with a bitter
smile.
"What Is It?"
"You have learned about this this
land matter and"
"Oh, yes! 1 can guess. You want
me to keep quiet about It to bush It
up," a shade of scorn In bis tone.
"I only asked this so that you would
not disgrace me," she pleaded.
Disillusioned at last, robbed of his
lifelong optimism, shorn of bis ideals,
even his love for he began to despise
this beautiful, misguided woman
Haines sat broken In spirit, thinking
how quickly the brightness of life
fades to blackness.
"Very well," he said sadly. "I sup
pose you are Innocent. I'll save you.
If they're all your father, too crook
ed, why shouldn't I be crooked? All
right; I won't say anything."
"I only ask you not to disgrace me,"
pleaded the girl. "You will promise
that?"
"It's a promise."
She sighed In relief.
"Father will be coming- back soon."
she said. "You won't want to see
him."
Haines rose.
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things. Good by."
Haines bowed and hurried from the
room through a side doorway just as
Senator Langdon came in through the j
main entrance.
"Bud, Bud," he called, but the sec
retary did not bait.
Carolina Langdon Btood with Haines'
note In her band, wondering at what
she hud done.' She regretted having
become entangled in the wars of men
in Washington. She saw that the
man's game was played too stroiiKly.
too furiously fast,' for most women to
enter, yet she rejoiced that the coveteJ
fortune bad not been lost. She was
sorry that her means of saving it hud
not been less questionable. She saw
that ambition and honesty, umbltlou
and truth, with difficulty follow the
same path.
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Lines showed In his face that the
daughter had never noticed before.
She saw Norton and Randolph, who
bad followed him, exchange significant
glances Jubilant glances and won
dered what new development they had
maneuvered.
"He's gone without a word," the sen
ator sighed. "Well, perhaps that's
best."
- "He left a note for' you," said the
girl, banding him the letter which
Haines had given her.
Langdon opened it and read:
I am giving up the Job. Tou can under
stand why. The least said about It be
tween ue the better. I am sorry. That's
all. BUD HAINES.
Slowly he read the letter a second
time.
"And he was making the best kind
of a secretary. I thought."
Divining that something against
Haines had been told ber father, Caro
lina glanced at Norton.
"I told your father bow we caught
Mr. Haines," be spoke as an answer
to her.
The girl was startled. She bad not
thought that things would go this far.
"I told blm bow Haines wanted to
get In some land speculation scheme
with Altacoola, bow we tricked him
and caught him with the goods when
he made the proposition to me and
how we forced him to confess."
1 "Don't forget Utere'i tome money coming
I In ww."
I Ton told father that?" gasped Caro
lina. I Norton nodded.
"I don't understand It," said Lang
' don. "To think that he was that
1 kind!"
Son Randolph now took' his turn In
the case against the secretary,
j "We were both here, father. I heard
I him Carolina heard blm," be said,
j "Didn't you, Carolina r
"Yes," said the girl weakly, "I was
here." Then she turned abruptly. "I
tnnat mn " mhm mmlA mnmt ait eJ"M
away. Mrs.'Holcomb Is waiting for
me"
The senator turned to his desk bent
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When the pair had gone the old man
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signature he added a postscript, "Don't
forget there's some money coming to
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(Continued next week.)
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