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Held in T ru st
IT hs touched It. It's committing sui
cide," he added Jocularly, "tonight!
‘‘Keep out I" he broke off to cry. “ If
you know what'a good for you!" For
now the servants— or whoever was In
the hall—evidently bad decided It waa
time to do something, to break In.
"Is a .“ said Stanford Gorgam. second
ing him, "keep out." For he felt—
by Instinct as well as by reason—
that he would have a longer and a
better chance to manipulate this thing
If left alone.
“ What Is It you want." he asked
the man whose eye he held. And he
saw with growing satisfaction the hand
holding the revolver now somewhat
lowered—held for support more closely
to the body of the other. “ A little
more!" he thought, as the other waa
discr urging
"You I" replied Hasbrouck Ruther
ford simply, with a gleam of high sat
isfaction In hla eye. "You first! You
thought you'd get It, didn't you? You
thought by this move now you'd taka
over all the Gorgam money as residu
ary legatee? Yon won't. Not now—
or e v er!"
It was soon clear to Stanford Gor
gam that It was not bis old acqualn-
tancs's purpose to set before he talked
—and at considerable length. He could
see, he thought, that the pleasure to
which this man looked forward Is
settling old scores by murdering him
1
GEORGE K1BBE TURNER
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8YNOPSI3
C H A P T E R I— J a s p e r H a i g and H « i
b r o u c k R u t h e r f o r d w e r e ■«•arching fo r
a y o u n g w o m a n — a g i r l w h o r e se m b l ed
A d e l a i d e R u t h e r f o r d e n o u g h to se r v e
aa he r double. F o r H a i g w a s m a n a g e r
o f the g r e a t a i x t y - m i i l i o n - d o l l a r G o r
g e in t ru st -o en e ft t, c r e a t e d by old D a n
iel G o r g a m In hla w i l l f o r the benefit
o f his d a u g h t e r A d e l a i d e d u r i n g her
l i f e t i m e ; R u t h e r f o r d , t h e husband o f
A d el a id e,
sh a re d
h er
great
w ea lt h .
A n d — A d e l a i d e R u t h e r f o r d waa d y i n g
waa a l r e a d y unconscious.
C H A P T E R I I — T h e y fo u n d the y o u n g
wom an— M ary
Ma n ch e st er ,
a
work-
w e a r y but s t i l l b e a u t i f u l y o u n g sh op
g ir l who was th o ro u g h ly discouraged
w i t h life, and a r r a n g e d f o r a m e e t i n g
C H A P T E R I I I — M a ry liv e d with a
d r u n k e n s t e p f a t h e r w h o had no In t er e st |
in her, so it h ap pe n ed th a t w h e n H a i g
— a f t e r e x p l a i n i n g tha t A d e l a i d e and
he r husband had l i v e d a p a r t f o r so m e i
y e a r s — o ffe r ed
her grea t
w ealth
he 1
fou nd he r In a r e c e p t i v e mood, but
sh e de m a nd ed to see t h i n g s f o r h e r
sel f.
C H A P T E R I V — F i n d i n g c o n d it io n s as
t h e y had been d e s cr ib e d to he r she
a cc ep te d the p r o p o s i t i o n and on tha t
n i g h t the r e a l
A delaide Ru therford
dlad
C H A P T E R V — T o th e n e w s e r v a n t s
w h o re pl a ce d the o l d o n e » In the R u t h
e r f o r d hou seh ol d It be c o m e s a p p a r
en t th a t t h e ir m is tr es s wa s r a p i d l y i m
p r o v i n g — t ho u gh
they, li k e e v e r y o n e
else, had been g i v e n to un d ers ta n d tha t
h e r mind wa s unbalanced. H e r p h y s i
cia n confided to S t a n f o r d G o r g a m
a
cousin
of
A delaide
and
H u sb r ou ck
R u t h e r fo r d , and a pe r so na l e n e m y o f
t he la tter, th a t his p a t i e n t w a s not i n
sane.
CfTATTER
V I — Stanford
prom ptly
w e n t to see his cousin and w a s den ied
a d m it t a n c e by a n e w d o o r m a n
Suspi
cious, he e m p l o y e d a l a t c h - k e y to a
p r i v a t e en tra nc e, a k e y o nce g i v e n him
by
the el de r G o r g a m .
Con frontin g
“ A d e la id e ,” he r e c o g n i z e d he r fo r an
Impostor.
“ A n d y e t, “ he i n c r e d u l o u s l y
said to h i m s e l f a f t e r w a r d , " m u r d e r —
w i t h th a t f a c e ! "
CHAPTER
V I I — Ig n o ra n t o f Stan
f o r d ’ s id e n t it y , A d e l a i d e a ss u m e d f r o m
his possession o f the k e y tha t he w a s
h er sup posed husb and and sen t f o r
H a s b r o u c k — w h o cams, fou nd h e r p l e a s
i n g and In sis te d t h a t w h e n he c a m s
n e x t sh e be k i n d t o him, o t h e r w i s e he
w o u l d h a v e h e r c o nf in ed aa insane.
CHAPTER
V I I I — S tanford
G orgam
In a eecond i n t e r v i e w a l l bu t accused
h e r o f b e i n g a murd ere ss.
CHAPTER
I X — D e s p e ra t e , A d e l a i d e
t r i e d to esc ap e a nd w a s p re ven te d.
C H A P T E R X — T h e n she fo u n d a note
f r o m G o r g a m u nd er h e r d o g 's c o l l a r
o f f e r i n g to co m e a nd t a k e he r a w a y .
B y th e sa m e m a l l c a r r i e r she a n s w e r e d :
“ T o n ig h t at eig h t-th ir ty .“
C H A P T E R X I — T h e n o t e Is I n t e r c e p t
ed b y a maid, a s p y in th e e m p l o y ol
H aig
H a i g and R u t h e r f o r d , In a panic
a t the fe a r o f ex po su re , pl ot to k i l l
y o u n g G o r g a i n and fix t he b l a m e on
Adelaide
T h e pl ot g o e s w r o n g and
Ja s p e r H a i g is k i l l e d b y R u t h e r f o r d .
CHAPTER XII
Was It pure accident which at the
laat moment held back Stanford Gor
gam from the appointment for which
he had waited Impatiently all day— a
prlaoner first of a broken crunk-shaft
In the Inttrin old tnxlcub he had sum
moned, and again of the law In the
second cab, which he had finally ob
tained and In which he waited, de
tained Inexorably a mile uwny from
his destination by the Inflexible maj-
esty of a traffic officer affronted by
speeding? He thought so certainly at
the time. He thought so again, with
sharp regret and apprehension, as he
stood turning the key In the Inside
door of the passageway to his dead
uncle's study.
The sound of a woman screaming
warning, pounding upon the opposite
side of a door Is- In spite of Its obvi
ous purpose—not really calculated to
stay for long Its opening—especially
with the sudden ceasing of the out
cries Immediately following the other
most suggestive sound of a body
thrown violently npon the floor. The
door opened quickly, and through the
entrance came Stanford Gorgam.
''Stand still 1” said a voice which,
though strained to an unnatural pitch,
he still recognised
He stood still— rigidly staring Into
the muzzle of the revolver In the hands
o f hts old Ill-wisher Hasbrouck Ruther-
ford. Behind the latter, at one side
upon the floor, lay the body of the
young womnn he had come to meet
— apparently unconscious.
“ What Is this? asked Stanford (lor
gam sharply.
He had noticed with hope a certain
unsteadiness In the weapon aimed at
such close range at his own body. He
caught, he thought, the condition of
the man e mind and nerves. He was
not a bad wrestler, and there are cer
tain advantages, as he knsw, before
a physical struggle of any kind. In
the catching and diverting of atten
tion— the holding of eves of your op
ponent. I f the other man did uot shoot
at tlrst, that »a s something!
“ What Is this?" demanded Stanford
Gorgam—and waited.
“The end!" said Usshrouck Ruther
ford rather slowly. "The end of the
Gorgam Trust
It will slop bare—
and everything that Is in it—or that
J
,
!
j
j
lying Just before him on the floor. But
this, he now saw. would be impos
sible.
Like a brown projectile the dog was
on him. It was un ugly thing—vicious,
w iry ; It must have weighed seventy-
live pounds. He flra<l and missed It.
Fortunately, though, the brute Itaelf
missed lta aim In a way. It caught
Instead of flesh the breadth of the
coat upon his shoulder, too lightly to
hold— and struck, confuted for a sec
ond, against the wall.
He started to fire again at the beast,
but before he really could recover
himself to do ao, the thing was up
again
It tore at bis extended hand,
unfortunately, and he lost hla weapon
—It fell clattering on the floor.
There wus nothing to do now but to
escape from this thing, for that crowd
on the other side of the room could
never Interfere In time to save him
from It, probably— even If they tried
to.
The nnmangled hand of Has
brouck Rutherford was on the knob
of the outside door Into old Daniel
Gorgam's private passageway.
He
opened It with what quickness he
could, managed to start through It.
But unfortunately the dog came with
him. The spring loek clicked behind;
he found himself at the head of those
long white stalra, that hare, empty
eplral staircase, with nothing but one
hand for defense—and that half-mad
dog upon him. Caught like a rat with
would lose a great part of Its piquancy a weasel at the entrance of a stone
If he could not discuss It beforehand rat-hole I
with the man be proposed Anally to
No wonder Hasbrouck Rutherford
execute.
cried out so hoarsely that they heard
Rutherford did so now— ventilating him through the thick door, with that
hla soul, discussing at length hla griev great beast at his throat I
ances of all kinds—first against Stan
They found him when they came In,
ford Gorgam, and bis uncle, and Jus- far down at the bottom of the shiny
per Haig; and then at still greater stairs, a great, loose hulk agalnsl the
length agHlnst that Immaterial thing, outside door— the dog standing over
now grown more real than flesh and him.
blood Itself In hla mind— the Oorgam
"They’re that way,” said the English
Trust. It was a curious thing to watch servant who had lifted him, comment
and hear; he seemed both to hate the ing afterwards, “those dogs I I’ve seen
Trust and to be In terror o f It, as a then) In the old country. They never
groat, Implacable, living enemy.
touch a thing that’s dead 1"
“ Neither you nor I nor this thing on
“ He must have fullen backward
the floor,” he said, again Indicating when the beast Jumped at him—from
Jasper Haig, “ nor all the other men Just near the top." said the other to
and women It has managed were a whom he spoke, discussing the prob
match for It. The thing,“ he ex abilities of what no limn actually suu
plained. “ le cunning. Cunning!" he
“ What could you expect?” asked the
repeated with an unpleasant smile. other. “ A heavy man like that—strik
“ As cunning as It Is powerful! It's ing backward on his neck."
that— really that paper devil that’s to
But whatever may have been the
blame, that’s brought us here together exact and unanticipated cause of Has
now, and Is going to kill us.
brouck Rutherford’s own death, his
"Did I think," he Inquired, "when I prophecies concerning the extinction
came here that I'd kill Haig? Or this of the Gorgam Trust hud not yet been
girl here? No. Not for a minute! fulfilled. In fact, a very singular situ
You—but not them! It wasn't I that ation had been created by Ills last
did this thing, or planned It. Nor act. The two chief active agents—
Hulg either! It’s this thing— this Ink- the physical brain and body, so to
and-paper devil— that planned It all. speak, of that great legal person-
and Is doing It now. I can see that had gone. But the Trust Itself lived
—anybody can but a fool.
on. And It still held In Its Incorporeal
“ It's ns simple as can be. I thought grasp the young ward around whose
for years,” he explained, “ that I could person It had been constructed.
fool It. This thing here," he said of
Jaaper Haig again, "thought so, too.
C H A P T E R XI II
Nothing doing! We did always what
It planned for us to do— In the end—
To students of large financial affairs
like now I
It will be of more than ordinary Inter
“ Like now I I'm not doing this," he est to know— what has never been an
protested with a touch of self-pity In nounced so far as yet—the intimate
his voice, “ not myself I
Nor this and Inside story of the steps leading
thing here,” he said, Indicating Haig up to the final demise of that now
once more, “nor anybody In the world. wldely-famous creature of the law, the
This Is the doing— the act of this Gorgam Trust— and Incidentally of the
thing that’s got us all. It's big—It's termination of Its power over the
cunning. It's got us all, ending us! young woman with whom It had been
It’s always done exactly what It want brought Into such a remarkable and
ed. I've overheard It too, plotting and dominating relation. The end actual
planning several times lately,” he stat ly came, It may now he announced
ed,
"plotting,
planning I
Coming —as so often In legal Intricacies of this
around, speaking to Itaelf— In my bed kind—by means of a compromise.
room nights— when It thought I was
The first Instinct of the Trust’s ward,
asleep I
after that terrible night, was to llee,
•'But,” he said, now rather hoast- to get as far away from this place
lngly—speaking In the manner of a j and Its Influences— from this great tn-
man who talks s great and terrible , tangible power which held her—as pos
secret Anally out loud, In spite of who sible. But a little reflection showed
or what may hear It, “ there's some her how Impossible this would be. The
thing else In this now. It's had us, Trust was still alive, and she Its ward.
always.
But now I’ve got It, too! And even If she could escape— which
When we're gone," he cried out bold she probably could not do— she would
ly, "when this Is all over—It «111 be he still In the eyes of the law Ade
gone Itself! In fifteen seconds, now, laide Rutherford, still always liable
the Gorgain Trust will be dead—dead to capture and return as a legal ward,
as we are!”
mentally Irresponsible. The more she
Stanford Gorgam, standing rigidly considered the situation, the more she
like a soldier nt attention, could see realized that she was still the prisoner
quite clearly that the end had come— of the Trust, and would remain so un
whatever It whs to be. The end of the til she was released by the one per
lecture on his own shortcomings, the son who could do this.
speaker's wrongs and the diabolical
He still remained, that one person
machinations of tbs Uorgsm Trust wus who was able to free her, like the
now at hand—In action. And still the young deliverer from the monster In
uncertainty in the muule of the re a Greek legend hound fast by his
volver which he had hoped and weakness, his wound.
Desperately
watched for had not yet appeared
hurt, he was slowly recovering, one
There was nothing now hut action I
outside can probably only faintly real
But at that time an unexpected hap ize the suspense and apprehension
pening Intervened. Suddenly, without with which the ward of the (lortrain
any Intimation of life, the body of the Trust heard each morning the dally
girl Iteldnd his opponent raised Itself news which came from behind the high
from the floor and staggered, uncer dark door o f the sick-room Into which
tainly. but with s surprising rapidity, young Gorgam had been taken.
toward the hall door from tiehlnd
For naturally she was terribly con
which still came the whlsi>ers of peo cerned over what she had done and
ple and the growling of the dog.
caused to be done to others— taking
An acute change In the situation the blame personally to an extent. It
had been crested by this set.
seems, not believed by other observ
"Stop I” called Hasbrouck Ruther ers Justified by the actual part she
ford.
had taken In the matter at the Invi
It waa a confusing development to tation of Jasper Haig. And not un
s nilnd not exactly In condition for naturally she was more than all con
quick decision—sfter twenty-four hours cerned over this .voting man for whose
of persistent drinking. If he turned to dangerous condition she felt especial
Are at her. he exposed himself to the ly responsible and guilty.
enemy In front
As Stanford Gorgam grew gradual
ly hotter. It was a time of Intense
“ StopI” be cried, but still the oh
stluate little fool of a girl went on and more or less mingled emotions to
toward the locked door regardless to the girl; finally after a number of re-
let In that crowd outside anil the dog j quests on his part, he was allowed to
She staggered hut did not falter. It I see her. The hap|>enlng8 of that last eve
nlng were forbidden to discussion. To
was necessary to do something. Has
MHry Manchester's great remorse and
broach Rutherford flred one shot
mining. For before he turned, the shame, the patient did. however, men
other men was on him. He had only tlon the matter of her having saved
time to turn again and shoot him Some j his life— as he saw It. Feeling It was
where In the body when the door whs not so. knowing what she had really
•pened and that crowd and that d -d done to endanger his life, this was
dog was In! The situation whs now an Intense strain upon the girl's emo
auurely reversed.
tlons, especially as she was forbidden
any discussion, or contradiction of the
It had been the intention of Has
brouck Rutherford si least to turn to patient.
She now frit an addsd sense of ro-
spocsiblllty and guilt of which she
could not rid herself, end bee use of
which the Idee came to her, p ap
pears. that It was her duty to
<>ne
personally fnr her acta In every poe-
slhle way. And when she was finully.
at the end of s considerable number
of Interviews, allowed the possibility
of freer talk with the patient, she
broke Into a distinct and bitter vein
of self accusation.
The young man watching her from
Ills Invalid's chair Interrupted finally
with a gleam of characteristic amuse
ment In his eye. He was of a humor
ous uud quizzical temperament, evi
dently.
“ All this Is pretty hard on me!” be
Interjected with a smile.
"What?" she asked, surprised a lit
tie.
“One part eepecially— the part where
I come In. You take It rather lightly."
“ I,” (he stammered, “ take It light
ly !” For that certainly was not true
“ What do you mean?”
“ About my life being saved, by some
one we might mention In this room-
at the risk of her own.”
"Yes.” she said, her face flushing,
"after planning to rob you I After
bringing you In where you were al
most killed I”
“Don't talk to ms like that!” he
said laughingly. " It ’s bound to make
my temperature rise I" For of count,
be was not yet vary strong.
"You've got to let me go now," she
said, aroused, seeing he would never
j tuke her seriously. " I ’m going to leave
here—stop this farce of prelending to
| be what I am not— go away. And If
I I’ve done this wrong," she said, for
that was almost her obsession now. “ 1
want to come out und take my punish
ment.”
"And do what, then?” he asked her
smiling. "Go where?”
“ 1 don’t know yet.”
"Then how can you go?"
“ 1 shall. 1 must," she Insisted.
“ Oh, what’s the hurry?" he asked
her. He refused entirely, It seemed
to tske her seriously.
"There you go again," he said, “ rals
Ing my temperature— opposing me. You
wait. I can’t have you doing thls-
yet."
It was a surprise to her. In a «'ay
all very different from what she had
expected. She saw very clearly now
what must be done by ber She must
confess publicly, show who she was
take whatever punishment there was
for her a ct; end this Trust and turn
the great fortune over to Its rightful
\ owner All that was necessary wits
for him to consent-—to help her show
the situation, who she really waa. And
thla she had supposed he would do
most readily. She was therefore most
surprised at his attitude. He might
not care. It seemed to her, to keep
the Gorgam Trust alive, hut he cer
talnly had no hua'e about ending It.
“What do you take me for?” he
! asked her with an approach to aerl
' ousness when she kept urging him. “ Do
1 you think I’ll lei yon do what you are
I talking about? Dive this thing through
courts— and Incidentally yourself? Gel
smeared with publicity like a common
criminal?"
"Why shouldn’t 1 he? 1 ain one."
j
"There seems to he," he suld. “ a
difference of opinion upon that point
j between you and me. And besides."
, he said with a rather masterful and
peremptory way he seemed to he tak
Ing with her at times lately. "I don’i
propose you shall I You are not stronv
1 enough— well enough, for one thing;
' and you know It.”
But she Insisted thst she «'as. and
I that she would go In some way. Anil
he must let her. Finally he mentioned
j the possibility of a compromise.
■'I'll tell you what l will do, though."
he conceded. “ 1 believe that between
ua we can work out a compromise.
Just wait. Be patient.”
It was some little time—Hfter he
was able finully to he driven out to
tuke cure of business matters to some
extent— before he brought out, one
night when they were together in the
smallest and most homelike of the
great downstairs rooms, the conipro
mise which he had been working out.
Lately she had been more and more
insistent on having mutters settled,
more und more determined to get away
from her false position—and In a way.
from him, the man whom she had
conspired to Injure and keep from his
rights.
''I’ll tell It all to you In order," he
said.
nty sehetne for a compromise.
I've been working on it for some little
time."
"Go on. please,” she said.
"In the first place," he told her, ” 1
have done this: It was necessary, you
see." he said, explaining, “ that some
one he appointed to the position of
Jas|ier Haig as active manager of the
Trust."
"Yes," she said, waiting.
"So I had myself appointed. You
don't object?" he asked her when she
did not answer but sat looking at
hint.
“Object, no I" she said.
"Why
should 1? It's all yours, anyway— not
mine. Yet I don't understand It," site
added somewhat suspiciously.
It
seemed to her that It might he another
scheme of evasion or delay on his
part—to keep her from doing «h at she
Intended to.
"1 thought," he said, "that perhaps
you might thank me for it I But you
will— you'll understand It later. Tliut's
the first point. Now the second point
In my scheme: I've arranged It now
what you wanted, so that you are no
longer Adelaide Rutherford— that Is
you will not have the unpleasant fea
lures of her! I've flxed It so yon «III
he no longer under that cloud of being
legally insane."
"Thai does out
**"
It was finally, through this com
nation about Adelaide Rutherford," she
objected, “ —the one thing that would promise, it seems, long before the
be almost Impossible to bear."
coming o l this matter into court,
“ What?"
that the widely famous termination
‘‘Her reputation of having been In
and dissolution o l the Gorgan Tiust
sane."
“ Her reputation," ks suld, "— with was
brought
about — concerning
whom?"
which the reader no doubt has long
She of course did not know direetl
"I guess you don't," he said. “ Vo ago learned the more fam iliar feat
Innocent I Do you Imagine that th ures thruught he public press.
Gorgam family ever let that he known
(E N D )
Is It customary to advertise fundi
skeletons? Not half a dozen people h
Changing fish to water o f a d if
the world know It; and they, you inu>
he aure, always huve been und will ferent temperature from that to
be strangely silent.”
which they are accustomed will, ac
“ Even If they are," said Mary Man
Chester, still obstinate, “ that will make cording to a Daman scientist, after
no difference In my plans. I'm not several generations, produce a new
Adelaide Rutherford. I’m Mary Man
type,mod ified in form and struct
Chester and I won't be Adelaide Ruth
afford much lunger,” she said, flush ure, especially in the raya o f the
ing, growing a little angry.
fins and the number ol Uio verte
"That's It," he said, smiling, “ that's bra«.
Just It. The third point of our com
promise I"
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“ Our compromise?" she echoed aftei
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“Don't you know?" he asked, and
I hereby announce my candidacy,
caught her hand— but not yet her eyes
subject to the will o f the voters at
“ No." she said with somewhat ques
the Republican Primary to be held
tionable truthfulness.
" I want you to be— let us say—Mrs. May 16, 1924, fo r the nomination,
Gorgam,” he explained with his half-
to the
"T te of
mocking but now comparatively seri for re-election,
Theasurer
for
.«tiiheur
ous smile. "W ill you agree— to my County
compromise?''
county.
He was greatly surprised by her
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next action.
“ No," she said, springing to her feet.
"No," she said vehemently.
“ No—
FOR C O U N T Y JUDGE.
no! I won’t have It so
I’m Mary
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Manchester. I’ve never been Adelaide
I hereby announce my cand dacy
Rutherford, und I won't —1 won't— I
won't! I’m going back to be declared fur the nomination for the po«u.ou
what ‘I am lagally.
“ Another thing," she said, still find o f County Judge, subject to ‘.he ex
ing objections, “ is that money.
It pressed will o f the republican pri
doesn't belong to me. It belongs to maries to be held on May 16, 1«. '.
you. Why keep up this farce.” she
this
announcement
!
asked, “ —this awful farce of a Trust In making
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for me, when you know Just who I pledge to the voters a busui.
am?"
ministration.
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"1 thought,” he said with a some
what less certain smile, "that was one
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of the fine points of my scheme. If
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I controlled that, the Trust, 1 would
1 hereby announce my cautua j
control all the money und incidentally
you I”
subject to the will of the votei* ...
Hut she was obstinate, he found—
surprisingly so for so frail a creature. the Republican Primary to be
"I've done wmng," she Insisted
“ I I May 16, 1924, for the nomin
know It. And I'll take my punishment ! to the office of District A.
I'm going to In- Mury Manchester again
some u’liy. And then I'm going as far | tor Malheur County, Oregon
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away as I can—away from here and
this and you." And she tried now des
perately to wrench herself free.
lA b ...
“ So you don’t like my compromise?” P K O f r E S S l O l s A L
lie said, releasing her at last with a
rather wry smile. He was clearly both
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surprised and disappointed.
"No," she answered, “ It Is neither
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iglit nor honest— nor anything.”
Carver Me thou
"L isten !" he said, catching her hand
and holding her. He looked down Into Consultation and examine.io>
her Hushed face. ‘‘Listen,” he said
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sternly, “ you young criminal I I want
to talk to you— Hnd I shall. Let us
;o hack," he proposed, “ and take the
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old method Jasper Haig always used
lo use. Let’s work out the theory of
a possible case.
D R. H A R R IO T
8 F 4 ? "»
“ Suppose,” he said, when she found
Oetaopathle P h v b -'s
herself unable to get away, but stll1
did not answer, “ a ease where a young
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woman— who is incidentally, I may say.
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very good to look at— save’s a man’s Office: Wllaca Bldg
'ife nt the very great risk of her own “
■the tried to speak then, hut he would
w . u. h o x : k
not permit her.
“ And suppose she had a crazy Idea
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dint she had done wrong, and must go
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through and take her punishment—
mil straighten everything out public Office at R e s id e »» P I a
ly, In splto of all reason and common-
A re a de
sense. Calling herself a criminal I"
Nyaaa.
She tried again in vain to get away
from him.
“ And then suppose the man, whose
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life she had saved, and who was also
for other good and sufficient reasons
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absolutely determined to marry her,
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offered her a most reasonable compro
mise— by «'hlch, as his «ife . he would
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have control both of her and of her
money— and that she deliberately re
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fuses—because she feels he would
have too great control over her." he
ATTO RN BY Eri A T LAW
added, smiling Just the mere fraction
of a teasing smile.
"It's nothing of the kind," she an E. M. BLODGETT
swered hlin. speaking for the first
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
time, “ and you know It.”
Practica in all courts
“ And supposing," he «-ent on, disre
garding her remark, “ that under the
Oregon
law he hnd absolute control over her Nyssa
legally already. What would he do,"
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he Haked, “ especially when he saw that
Attorney at L a w
she was worrying herself sick over
matters?
What could he do.” he
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asked when she did not answer, “ ex
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B ld g
cept try again— offer one more com
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Oragoa.
promise— which will be an ultima
tum?''
"What?” asked Mary Manchester un H I H I I H H O O O I H O H O
guardedly.
“ This.” he said quickly, taking ad
vantage of her question: “ Mary, will
you marry nte?”
"N o," she nnswered again more ve
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hemently than waa necessary.
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“ W a lt!” he commanded her. "That's
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only half of my plan—the new com
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I
promise. If," he said, bringing out
the other half. "1 will let you after
L. R HAMAKKR. Prep.
ward go to court, publish yourself a
Ovrqpra
criminal, smash this Oorgam Trust lo| • Tyson.
a million pieces— do anything you want
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to?"
“ Shall I be Mary
Manchester
again?” demanded his opponent grimly
“ Not for very long. You'll have to
marry me beforehand, while I’ve still
got you. You’ve got to marry me he
forehand. And then we’ll finish up
Call the
that legal dragon of Jasper Haig’s—
together!
“ What do you say?” asked the offer
er of the compromise. There was no
answer: both stopped speaking for the
time being. Bat this last compromise.
It appeared, wag finally accepted
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