Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1908 — Page 6

BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE

I: CHAPTER XIV. THE first committee room that lay to the right of Horrlgan’a office—in the same relation to ft as the antechamber to the left —was usually given over to dry official business. and its musty walla must almost have experienced a distinct shock about this time as Dallas Wain* wrlgbt entered from the corridor behind. She was accompanied by Perry and by Phelan, who, passing through the corridor toward the aldermanlc chamber, bad collided with the brother and sister at the committee room door. ’•THere's a good sight for sore eyes, Miss Wainwright," the aiderman was saying with bis best air. "But is it flair to ask what brings such a bunch of sunshine into an old p'lltlcai shell like this? I'd as soon think of seeing Horrigan at mass as to find you here." “1 want to attend the aidermen’s meeting,” exclaimed Dallas. “1 have a special reason. So I made Perry bring me. But at the door they told us the gallery was so crowded that we couldn't"— •’’’“Never you mind the gallery, miss,” interrupted Phelan. “It isn’t meant for the libes of you anyway. You Jast sit here a few minutes, an' I’ll catch an attendant somewhere an’ make him hustle up a couple of good chairs for you on the main floor, where you can pipe everything just like you were in your own op'ra box coppin' off • awad of high C’s.” •Thank you so much, aiderman,” replied Dallas. "I hope we’re not putting you to too much trouble.” “No trouble at all. An’ even if it was I’d come a-runnin’ to meet it I’m Jthe original trouble eater. Besides, the 'best in the house is none too good for Hie lady who was so int’rested in my •ntings. So long! I’ll be right back.” * “What a queer chap he is!” mused Perry, as Phelan hastened away on his mission. "If I could take a six weeks’ course in slang and hot air from that man I’d be able to sew buttons on the whole English language." ' “I don’t think you need very much taition,” observed Dallas. "But it was kind of Mr. Pbelau to look after us. I like him be”— “Because he's standing by Bennett bo pluckily in this tight?’,’ “Mr. Bennett is nothing to me.” “No?” asked Perry In innocent amaze. “Then I wasted a lot of good cigarette money cabling to you about his campaign when you were across the big wash last summer. For a man who was ’nothing' to yqn you sure took large swads of intelligent interest. Look here, little girl,” he went on, less flippantly, “what’s the matter? Has anything”— “No!” she broke in, with a miserable effort at courage. “Nothing’s the matter. I’m perfectly happy. Why shouldn’t I be? An engaged girl Is always”— “An engaged girl!” he shouted in high glee. “You don’t mean to say you and Alwyu”— “Of course not. I am engaged to Gitybs.” “Good Lord!” gasped the lad in honest dismay. “If that's meant for a - joke, it’s the punkest ever! Did”— “It Isn’t a joke, Perry, and It’s very rude of you to talk so. 1 am engaged to Mr. Gibbs, and”— “But—how—when did the atrocity come off, and”— “I became engaged to him the night of the administration ball. 1 didn't want to tell you yet, because 1 knew you don't like him. I’m—l’m” “You’re happy?” “Certainly 1 am!” she retorted defiantly. “So happy that 1” “That you are having a fight to keep from crying this blessed minute!" be finished. “Say, Dallas, it breaks me ail up to have you so miserable. I think a whole lot of you. More’n of any one else but Cynthia. And 1 want to help you out of this measly mixup. Won't you?”— ‘There is nothing any one can do” she murmured sadly. "I have chosen my course and I” ' “Cheese it!” whispered Perry in hurried admonition. “Here comes Bennett. and Phelan’s with him.” The young mayor came in, talking to the alderman as ‘This room’s disengaged.” he waa saying. “I’ll write it here and give It to— oh, I beg your pardon,” he broke off, recognizing Dallas and Perry. “1 didn’t know”“I’ve got two good seats for you.” announced. Phelan. “Right where you can see an* bear the whole sbootlu* Snatch. An’ I guess before the meetin’s •over it’s liable, to geL*A interestin’ as

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a double ‘'‘Uncle Tom" show in a tent. I’ll show you the way as soon as You’re ready. There’s no rush. Things ain't begun to sizzle up yet.” Bennett had crossed to where Dallas stood irresolute and. under cover of Phelan’s talk with Perry, said to her, with a certain unconscious stiffness; “I fear 1 was too taken aback i>v arour announcement the other evening to remember to congratulate you. but please believe me when I say I wish you every happiness in the new life you have chosen.” ’ "Thunk you very much," faltered Dallas. There was an awkward pause; then she said: ; “You came in here to write something. I’m afraid we are detaining you. You must be busy with your fight against the Borough bill. You are quite determined to continue it to the end?” “To the bitter end!” he answered ml it;'ily “Even though that end can li i!d nothing but bitterness for ?.A.” . .cl anguish in„his face moved Dallas more than she dared confess even io'berelf. “I am sorry,” she said softly. •’lt is the course 1 have chosen," he answered, with a shrug, “and if it leads to eternal darkness instead of the sunlight 1 expected I must follow it none the less.” k’That is sheer obstinacy," she cried, ttling against her own heart’s passionate plea. "You ,have laid out a plan to ruin Mr. Gibbs, to deprive Perry and me of my own fortune,

"Dallas,” he said very quietly, "you don’t understand.”

say no more. But one day you may learn the cruel mistake you are making." ; “Mistake?” ! “I don’t mean that you are mistaken in choosing Gibbs instead of me, but (that you are wrong in your judgment of what lam doing. I hope you will ■understand some day. It will be too late to change anything then, but at (least I shall be set right In your eyes. [And that means more to me than you can ever know. Goodby.” j He left the room abruptly, and Dallas stared after him, her brain awhirl jwith conflicting thoughts. ! “There's a man in ten million, miss.” volunteered Phelan, breaking in on her teverie, “an’ from the looks of that bran’ new dinky, three-k spark on S'our finger 1 guess you’re wise to the fact.” ! “I am engaged to Mr. Gibbs,” replied Dallas coldly. ! “What the”— gasped Phelan, checkEug himself just in time. “I’m sure orry for you. miss,” he went on. with Ji sincerity that precluded any offense, .“for frieu’ Gibbs is going to have something so heavy fall on his bank roll by the time were through with This Borough bill that he’ll be able to use his wad for a book mark without crinklin’ any? of the leaves. Why. be’U”—

“Come, Perry,” interrupted Dallas. l"Shall we go to the meeting now?” I Confused, she turned to the door leading into llorrigan’s room instead jof that opening on the corridor and (found herself face to face with her {uncle, the boss and Gibbs. ' "1 beg your pardon," she began, surprised. "I didn’t know"— 1 "Dallas!" exclaimed Gibbs and Wainwright in the same breath. Ilorrigan scowled at the interruption as all three men rose to their feet. : "What brings you to a place like this?" asked Wainwright in displeasure. “Perry and I,” indicating hei'«brotbjer, who had followed her into the room, “are going to attend the meeting of the itoard of aldermen." "But,” protested her uncle disapprovingly, "It is hardly the sort of”— j "My fortune and Perry’s and that of 'the man I am to marry are all bound (up In the Borough bill,” she answered (fearlessly. “I have a right to be present when that bill’s fate is decided." I “Good nerve!" applauded Horrigan. f’You’re n thoroughbred. If there were (more like you”— . “Mr. Ilorrigan,” reported. Williams, (hurrying in from an antechamber, "the police have come, and”— | “All right," answered the boss. “Give [the sergeant his orders.” ■ “I—l hardly like the responsibility,” muttered Williams, "and”— "But you’ll take it. I’m backing you. By the way, get seats for Miss Wainwright and her brother. Get {them close to the anteroom door, so if there’s a row she can come Imck here.

If there are no vacant seats there, dear a couple of people out and make place for”— “But we have seats," protested Dallas as Williams sped on his errand. r'Alderman Phelan”— 1 “Aiderman Phelan will have trouble .finding a seat in this city when l*m done with him,” snarled Horrigan. “Better take the seats I offer, Miss Wainwright. They’re safer.” . "But,” protested Wainwright, “If there’s to l*e any danger she mustn’t be there. I can’t have”— • “I will be on hand to help her It there is,” Gibbs answered him. 1 "H’m!" grunted Horrigan in somewhat uncomplimentary doubt. 1 “I will, too”’ spoke up Perry. I Horrigan nodded approval. ' “You’ll be all right then,” said he. •’And now”— > “You spoke of the police being in the Aldermanlc chamber." said Dallas. “What for?” ‘To check any trouble the gallery may make,*’ answered Horrigan. “This man Bennett’s stirred the people 'up with a lot of his anarchistic reform ideas till they’re crazy. Some one’s liable to get a broken skull, and then Bennett will have himself to thank. Maybe when the police have hammered a little sense into folks’ beads With their nightsticks, the victims will begin to understand just what sort of a man Alwyn Bennett is. Remember now, Gibbs, and you, too, young Wainwright, if there’s any sign of a row bring Miss Wainwright back here at once.” "All right.” agreed Perry, a little rueful at the prospect of missing a free fight. “Let’s go in there now. I’ve never been to an aidermen’s meeting before, but 1 ran up against a catstrike riot once, so 1 guess I’m on to most of the subtle rules of elegance that govern such shows. Coine on. people, If you’re coming.” “Your niece is a thoroughbred.” repeated Horrigan, with rare approbation, as the anteroom door closed behind Dallas and her two escorts. “So she's' to marry Gibbs, is she? I’m sorry for them both.” “Why?" asked Wainwright sharply. “Because it won’t take her a year to find out that he’s a yellow cur. And when she does she’ll either kick him out or lead him around on a chain. Now, the fellow a girl of that sort ought to have married is Bennett. He’s an obstinate fool, but he’s a man. I thought you said once he was stuck on her.” “He was. He still is* “And she took Gibbs Instead?” cried Horrigan, a world of incredulity in bls rough voice. “Women are a queer lot! Why’d she shake Bennett, if it is a fair question?” “I let her see Gibbs was a heroic martyr.” said Wainwright, with quiet significance, “and that Bennett was”— “Ob, I see!” chuckled Horrigan. “Stili, there might be something made out of Bennett's love for her even yet.” “What do you menu? “I’m not quite sure. I'll have to think it over.” “Roberts has come!” exclaimed Williams, entering from the corridor. “He’s asking for you. Shall I bring him in here?” “Yes,” replied Horrigan. “By the way,” he added to Wainwright as Williams departed, “I’ll have to ask you to clear out for a few minutes. I’ve got to see Roberts alone. Now for the tussle that’ll decide the whole fight!” (To be''coat!aued.)

to enriea yourself by selling Borough stock short and then vetoing the bill so that the stock would collapse. You have done all this, and yet you talk of folio w 1 n g your abominable course to the end!” “Dallas,” he said very quietly, "you don’t understand, and you refused to trust me to explain, so I can

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Sheppard Will Retire. Melvin W. Sheppard, the great middle distance runner, will quit the cinder path. The Olympic hero made this announcement recently In New York. He is tired and wishes to rest. Whether he will ever again be seen Id action is doubtful. Sheppard is one of the

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greatest athletes that ever wore a spiked shoe, and many believe be has the great Kilpatrick beaten. He is » natural born funner, having a bound that is simply wonderful. At 103 He Drives Harness Racers. At the age of 103 Charley Taylor, the youngest old man in the world, is ■till driving trotters and pacers, record breakers, strong of jaw and bigb of mettle. Recently Taylor, at the Newburyport fair, in White River Junction, Vt, drove Tommy R., 1:02%, for a half mile against -My Star, He is the only man alive who ever won a trotting race at the age of ninety-six and the only one who ever drove a champion over a track at the age of 100. “I expect to live to be 125 years old,” says Taylor, “and any man can live to be 100 if he lives right.” The veteran driver has slept for slx-ty-four years in stalls with horses and has participated in 1,700 races. Dugan May Ride Abroad. C. E. Durnell makes the announcement that he has received a telegram from A. J. Joyner, trainer for Harry Payne Whitney, inquiring at what figure Durnell would sell his contract on Eddie Dugan, the jockey. Durnell says he sold only first call on Dugan for the present New York season to Mr. Whitney a year ago and that bls contract on the boy runs until May 15, 1909. He lias telegraphed to Joyner that he would take $7,500 for the remaining time the contract has to run. Durnell believes that Joyner is planning to take Dugan to England with him. ■■ “V* Moran Wants Another Chance. Owen Moran's manager was not satisfied with the outcome of the battle with Abe At tell recently. In which the men fought /To a draw, and is seeking another go with the featherweight champion. This time he wants the fight to be at forty-five rounds. He thinks the Englishman can dispose of the American in a longer battle. Attell is willing to sign articles again, but refuses to agree to battle more than twenty-five rounds, which be •ays Is sufficient for him. Samse to Star on tha Stage. Leroy fiaiuse. formerly world’s champion in the pole vault. Intends to enter the theatrical world via the vaudeville route. The ex-Indiana university star.

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whose great feat of 12 feet 4% inched at the western interconference meet at Evanston tn 1906 stood as the world’s mark until broken by Gilbert of Yale, fa looking for. a partner tn the triple parallel bars. Steffens, Chicago’s Ground Gainer. : Coach Stagg of Chicago is making Captain Walter Peter Steffens, the brainy ground gainer, punter and drop kicker, the center of all offensive tactics. Steffens has averaged 90 per cent of all goals from all angles In drop kickfhg up to forty-five yards and Is said to be even better than Eckersall, the former star at Chicago. Carpenter Suspended For Life. At a general committee meeting qf the Amateur Athletic association of London recently the report of the judges of the running of J. C. Carpenter of the American team at the recent Olympic games in the 400 meter race was taken up for consideration, and it was decidedly permanently to suspend Carpenter. Chance Signs Four Year Contract. Frank Chance has signed a four year contract as manager of the Chicago National league baseball club. Papke Has Drawn Color Line. Billy Papke, middleweight champion, has declared he draws the color line and neier will fight a negro.

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Speaking of the advantage of manuring land and the convenience of using the manure spreader, a writer In the Homestead makes a report of wheat yield on land top dressed last fall and land not manured. In connection with the statement the writer says that the land top dressed was if anything poorer than that not manured. The writer says: “When thrashing the wheat was gathered from the top dressed portion first, and 270 bushels were thrashed from it, making the yield thirty bushels to the acre. From the remaining sixteen acres but 200 bushels were thrashed, making I hat yield twelve and a half bushels to the acre. The top dressing with a spreader made a difference of seventeen and a half bushels to the acre. Who will say the manure spreader does not pay?”

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Exit. When love comes in at the casemeat In silence soft and deep. Good sense hies off to the basement. Curls up and goes to sleep. Bob: Just made some splendid biscuits—Gold Medal Flour. Betty.

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