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FROM
jfcnAHtK aavii uominucu.) I
me' Hero or crawroraarnie tried to
speak, but he could not. He stared at j
his hostess,"who smiled the smile of the
budding debutante. Ills own open
mouthed astonishment was reflected In
the faces of Carolina and Hope Geor
gia as they observed their father's ex
pression. He forgot he was in Wash
ington, lie did not know he was n sen
ator. The fact that he had ever even
thought of making a speech was fur
thest from his mind.
What did it ail mean? Had Mrs.
Spanglcr gone suddenly insane? Ills
"Qreat heavens! I'm late, I'm late!"
laughters what did they think? These
thoughts surged through his flustered
brain. Then it flashed over hira she
' was joking in some new fashionable
way. Ho turned toward the fair wid
ow to laugh, but her face was losing
Its smile. ' A pained expression, n sug
gestion of inteuse suffering, appeared
In her face. ,
' "yfhy do you so hesitate, Senator
' Langdon?" -she finally asked in low
U1L.G, JUOl iUUU. TTlH'll(-,ll 1UI .lit- V w
girls to overhear. -
The junior senator from Mississippi
looked at his hostess. She had enter
tained him and had done much for his
rtaujhters In Washington. She was
alone in the world a widow. He felt
that he could not shame "her before
"irollna and Hope Georgia. His south
ern chivalry would not permit that.
Then, too, she was a most charming
person, and the thought, "Why not
why not take her at ber word?" crept
into bis mind.
"Yes, father, why do you hesitate?"
asked Carolina,
Senator Langdon mustered his voice
into service at last.
"I've been thinking," he said slowly,
"that"
"That your daughters did not know,"
Interrupted Mrs. Spanglcr, "of our"
"The telephone upstairs Is ringing,
iadam," said a maid who had entered
to Mrs. Spangler.
The adventuress could not jave the
senator and his daughters alone,
luough she knew it must be Peabody
Milling ber. At any moment he might
It-member his speech and leave. Al
ready late, he would still be later.
I bough, because bo would have uo car
riage hers would purposely be de
layed. "Tell the person speaking that you
ore empowered to bring me any mes
eopre that I cannot leave the dining
L;;ll," she said to the maid.
To gain time and to hold the sena-
frr's attention Mrs. Spangler asked
slowly;
"Well, senator, what was it that you
were going to say when 1 interrupted
you a few moments ago?"
Langdon had been racking his brain
fcr some inspiration that would enable
Liiii to save the feelings of his hostess
ucd yet indicate -bis position clearly.
He would not commit himself in any
way. He would jump up and pro
nounce her an impostor first.
After a moment of silence his cloud
ed face cleared.
"Mrs. Spangler," he began, "your an
nouncement today I have considered
to 1-3"-
V remature," she suggested.
7Le maid returned.
".Air. Wall says Senator Langdon Is
wanted at once at the capitol.
"Great heavens!" exclaimed Langdon,
springing to his feet and glancing at
Hie clock. "I'm late, I'm late! I hope
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-Mr. Wall "says a carriage is coming
for Senator Langdon," concluded the
maid.
I "We must talk tills matter over some
' other time, Mrs. Spangler," the Mis-
siosippiau cried as he sent a servant
for his hat and coat. "I hope that
carriage hurries, else I'll try it on the
run for the capitol."
"It's a half hour away on foot." said
Mrs. Spangler. "Better wait, lou 11
save time."
But to herself she muttered as
though mystified:
"I wonder why Penbody changed his
mind so suddenly? Why should he
now wane the old fool at the capitol?"
The rumble of wheels was heard
outside.
"Hurry, father!" cried Hope Georgia.
The senator hurried down the stone
steps of Mrs.
Spangler s resi
dence as rapidly
as his weight
and the excite
ment under
which he labor
ed would permit.
Opening the
coach door, he
plunged inside
to come face to
face with Bud
Haines, who
had huddled
down In a cor
ner to avoid ob
servance from
Came face to face
with Uud Udlncs.
the Spangler
driver started his
Windows. The
horses off on u run.
Struggling to regain his breath, the
senator cried:
"Well, what are"
"Never mind now. But first gather
in nil I say, senator, as we've no time
to lose. When I couldn't locate you
and I saw you probably wouldn't be
at the senate chamber in time to make
your speech on the naval base bill I
persuaded Senator Milbank of Arlsam
sas to rise and make a speech on the
currency question, which subject was
in order, ne was under obligation to
me for some Important information I
once obtained for him, and he consent
ed to keep the floor until you arrived,
though he knew he would earn the
vengeance of Penbody. That was over
an hour and a half ago. He must be
reading quotations from 'Pilgrim's
Progress' to the senate by now to keep
the floor."
Bud paused to look at his vatch.
The senator stretched his head out of
the wliidow.nnd cried, "Drive faster!"
"Got your speech all right?" called
Bud above the din of the rattling
wheels.
"Yes, ho: :," was the response, the
senator tapping his inner breast pocket,
"Thought maybe she" cried Bud,
jerking his head back In the direction
from which they had come.
The MIssisslppIan shook bis bead
negatively and set his jaws determin
edly. The coach swung up to the capitol
entrance.
Tell me," asked Langdon, as both
Jumped out; '.'how did you find out
tbat"-
'I phoned the house gave a name
Pea body uses"
""Great heavens, but how did you
know where to phone?"
They were at the door of the senate
ihamber.
'Norton gave nie the tip for your
sake and Carolina's for tld time's
sake, ho said," was Bud's reply.
CnAPTEIi XXVIII.
OX THE FI.OOH OF TUE SENATE.
Too
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CO
00 rmi''b occupied In concentrat
ing his thoughts on his speech.
.angdon failed to notice the
consternation on the faces of
Peabcdy and Stevens as he walked to
bis seat in the senate. They had failed
to suwwd In petting Milbank to con
clude and consequently could not push
the naval base report through. But
they noted the passing of over an hour
af(,er iheir opponent's appointed time
and had felt certain that be would not
appear at all.
"The boss of the senate" leaned
across to Stevens and whispered hur
riedly: "We must tear him to pieces now
discredit biin publicly. It's bis own
fault. Our agents can sell the land to
Standard Steel. Our connection with
the scheme will be impossible to dis
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Ijingdon will toll about?" asked Sti
vens. "We can't deny that, of course."
"No," answered Peabody. "We can't
deny it, but we will not uiErm it. We
will tell interviewers that we prefer
uot to talk about it."
"It's our only chance," replied Ste
vens cautiously.
"Yes, and we owe it all to Jake
Bteiuert," went on 1'eabody. "That
"A lie, a Iter screamed Langdon.
fellow Telfer will do anything to
please Jake. Jake bus convinced Telfer
that Langdon was responsible for the
defeat of Gulf City, and the mayor is
Wild for revenge."
"The boss of the senate" rose and
walked to the rear of the senate cham
ber to Jsstie orders to two of his col
leagues. "Iteport of the committee on naval
affairs," droned the clerk mechanical
ly. "House bill No. 11U!) is amended
to read as follows" And his voice
sank to an unintelligible mumble, for
every senator present . tie well knew
was aware that the amendment named
Altacoola as the1 naval base site.
Senator Langdon rose in his seat.
"Mr. President," he called.
"Chair recognizes the gentleman
from Mississippi," said the presiding
officer us be Jeaued back to speak to
Senator Wlnans of Kansas, who had
approached to the side of the rostrum.
The Langdon speech on "The New
South and the South of the Future'
proved more than a document suited
only to a reverent burial in the Con
gressional Iteccrd. Although wearied
at the start owing to the exciting hap
penings of the day, the Missisi'.lppian's
enthusiasm for his cause gave him
strength and stimulation aa he pro
gressed. His voice rose majestically
ns he came to the particular points he
wished to accentuate, and even those
In the uppermost rows in the galleries
could bear his every word.
Al the close of his formal speech he
begm on his statement of the action
of the naval affairs committee in buy
Ins control of Allacoula land to fob
attempts to rob the government. At
he had predicted, the senate did "sil
up." The senate did agree that a new
kind of politics had arrived.
During this latter part of the speech
many curious glances wero directed at
Tenbody and Stevens, who uat In tin
same tier of seats, lu the middle of the
chamber, only an aisle separatln;.'
them. Through this choke of seaU
they could confer without leaving tlieli
places. Various senatorial associate:
of these two men In other deals found
it dlliicult to believe their ears but
was uot old Langdon at this moment
narrating ,thc amazing transaction on
the floor of the senate? Would the
statue on the pedestal step down:
Would the pphlnx of the desert speak
the story of the lost centuries? Would
honor take the place of expediency in
the affairs of stale? What might not
happen, thought the senate machine
now that Peabody and Stevens had
taken to their bosoms what they
termed the purple pup of political
purity?
Neither did the full portent of the
situation escape the attention of the
reporters' gallery. Dick Cullen ob
served to Hansel of the Record:
"Virtue's ettlii2 so thick around
here it's a menace to navigation."
"Blocking the traflic, eh?" queried
Hansel, and both laughed.
"Hello! What's this?" exclaimed Cul
len a few minutes later. "Hortou has
been recognized, when the program
was to adjourn when the naval base
bill was over with."
Langdon's speech had proved the hit,
the sensation of the session. After be
concluded, amid resounding upplauso,
I in which senators Joined, as well as
j occupants of the galleries, Senator
(Corton of Montana rose and caught
the presiding officer's eye.
"I n&k unanimous consent to offer
resolution."
Hearing no objection be continued in
a manner that instantly attracted un
usual attention:
"It Is my unpleasant duty" Peabody
and Stevens exchanged glances "to
place a matter before this body that to
me, as a member of this honorable
body, is not only distasteful, but deep
ly to be regretted.
"There has arisen ground to suspect
a tnemler of this body of having en
deavored to make money at the gor-
'ernment's expenge out of land which
he Is alleged to have desired his own
committee to choose as the naval base.
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elding lor the nppuintiu.'iii of an iu
estl;:.aling committee to look into these
charges."
Langdon was intenpely excited over
this new development. "Some one
has learned something about Peabody
or Stevens," he muttered, lie feared
that ti.i., new c:m, ikat!j:i mijht in
some way affect the fate of the naval
base that the south, uud Mississippi,
might lose it. lie ruse r.lowly In his
eeat, while the senate hummed with
the murmur of suppressed voices.
"1 nslt for more definite informa
tion," he began when recognl.td and
:ifler the president of the KeniUe had
pounded with the gavel to restore
quiet, "so' that this house can consider
ihis important matter mure intelligent-
Beua tor Horton rose. lie said:
"I will take the liberiy of adding
that the senator accused is none other
tlir.ii the junior senator from Missis
sippi."
Langdon's eyes blazed, lie strode
swiftly into the aisle.
Mr. President," ho cried passion
ately, "I know this is not the time or
place for a discussion like this, but
ask that senatorial courtesy permit me
to ask" then he concluded strongly
before he could be stopped "what is
the evidence in support of this pre
posterous charge?"
' This is all out of order," said the
presiding oliicer after a pause, "but
lu view of the cliruinstunces I will i
entertain a motion to suspend the '
rules," !
This motion passing, Hortou replied
to Langdon.
Your name is signed to a contract
with, J. D. Telfer, mayor of Oulf City,
Miss., calling for 3,000 shares in the
Gulf City Laud company, and"
"A lie, a lie!" screamed Langdon.
"That oliicial," went on Horton cool
ly, "is now in Washington. He has
the contract uud will swear to con
versations with you and your secre
tary. His testimony will be corrobo
rated by no less u personage than Con
gressman Norton of your own district,
who says you asked him to conduct
part of the negotiations."
"And I might add, cried Hortou,
that it is known to more than one
member of this honorable body that
you had drawn up u minority report in
favor of Gulf City because of your
anger ut the detent or your plan l)
take the naval base away from Alta
coola." Langdon sank into his chair, be
wildered, even stunned. There was a
conspiracy against him, but how could
ho prove It? The ground seemed crum
bling from under him not even a
straw to grasp. Then the old lighting
blood that carried him along in Beau
regard's van tugged nt the valves of
his heart, revived hi splrli, ran through
his veins. He leaped to Ills feet.
A sound us of a Hcullle a bi.dy fall
ing heavily drew all eyes from I ang
don to the rear of the main able. An
assistant sergeant at arms was lying
face downward on 'the carpel. Anoth
er was vainly trying to hold back Bud
Ualues, who, tearing himself free,
rushed down to his chief waving a
sheet of paper in the senator's eyes.
"Read that," rasped the secretary
breathlessly, and ho hurtled away up
a side passageway and out to reach
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him with difficulty with his trembling
hands. Slowly his whirling brain gave
him the ability to read. Slowly what
appeared to him as n jumbled nothing
resolved into orderly lines and words.
"The Utter Is tiijucd 'Charles Norton."
He read and again stood before the
senate, which had regained its usnal
composure after the fallen sergeant at
arms had regained his feet mid rubbed
his bruises.
"I do not think there will be any in
vestigation," lie said, with decided ef
fort, struggling to down the emotion
that choked him. "I nsk this house to
listen to the following letter:
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write to ask you not to think too
harshly of me, for I will always cher
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shown mo.
"Peabody and Stevens have finally
proved too much for me. When they
got old Telfor to swear to a forged
contract and wanted me to forge your
name in ho land records at Gulf City,
I threw up my hands. Their geme will
al-.vpys co on I suppose, but you gave
tliem a shock when you broke up their
Altacocla Qroft scheme. And I'm glad
you did. They cast me aside today,
probably thinking they could Ce m
3t;ain if they needed me.
"I em going on the sugar plantation
of a friend, where I can make a new
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Washington."
Langdon paused delMicr.itc'y. The
senate was Lushed. The galleries were
stilled. Not even the rustle of a sheet
of paper was heard in the reporters'
gallery. The Mlsslsslppian gazed
around the senate chamber. lie saw
Stevens and Por.bc dy craning their
necks across the afcle and talking ex
citedly to each other.
Then he stopped forward and speke,
waving the paper In the nlr.
"This letter is signed "Charles Nor
ton.' "
The old southerner gass.d !i i.nn;'!i iut
ly ut the men who had soiu'hl to de
stroy hhu. It was with dilUeul'y that
the presiding officer could hummer
down the burst of handchipplns that
arose from the galleries.
Senator Horton, however, v.ns not
satisfied with Langdon's Kiv.ldeu as
cendency. "How do we know that that let'er Is
not a forgery, a trick,", he exclaimed.
"Go get Congressman Norton If you
can and get his denial," responded
Langdon.
The Junior senator from Mississippi
hurriedly pushed his way out of the
Semite chamber. Ills day's work was
done.
Down on a broad plniit'ition along
the Pearl river an old planter, who has
borne his years well, us life goes now
adays, passes his days contentedly. lie
delights in the rompings of his trr.-.m)-children
ns they r use the echoes of
the mansion and prides himself on the
achievements of their faihir, Ran
dolph, who has improved the planta
tion to a point never readied before.
Sometimes ho receives i. letter from
his daughter, Hope Georgia, now Mrs.
Haines, telling him of her happy I li e, or
perhaps it is a letter from Curollisi,
describing the good times she Is having
In Loudon with the friends she is vi. L
Ing. And the old planter goes out on the
broad veranda in the w.iriu souili
cru twilight, and he thinks of tlio
days tlmt were. He remembers how
the Third .Mississippi won the day at
Crawfordsvllle. He thinks of the days
when he fought the good fight in
Washington. Ills thoughts turn to the
memory of her who went before these
nnny years and whom he Is soon to
see again, and peace descends on the
soul of the gentleman from Missis
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