Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1911 — Page 6

THE MAN HIGHER UP

BY HENRY RUSSELL MILLER

COFYRISHTj 1910 BY BOS3S T*IE,*RSLILL CO-

CHAPTER 111. zel eoau ip power. THE lure of Lad caught Bob* From the night of his ’fight ■ wfr v . Herein be began -’■ to take tie : game seriously, farfi~r p ictJTJI time arid work to the pefertifli of his orgi:,: zx t_- _ A few imiMiH! teoer the . sew held suddenly «i*e: ••. " .t: ;*ef:-re t-—. An era of ' W£L5 UXpeßfill-g-Scv. the Suee. Cny was rated by Tii£t Tts popnitriy and appropriately fW»Ti.-7r -.: ~er me “bag c-ombiD*.' a, fTmiT. r.~ gesxttemgn' headed and herd-. sc by Sresie at-d ELannau. vc.smtarDy mum' 1 .;:-: ".r tit ,t;_; if lit burnsx as r’-enii - - Vciie Site t t i-tittr j*c-.:ticsl stratey*r~ £jic t mi of mgifill ;>ers~»nt ty tiit heir: aid inis c-f tie organixm&i. ift-d tie milit found sn >otl sj it. Btn tit “ec>mtine” •fei szz it iir_ t_n~ Stetit tied, and the ieidetei " asm. red upon Hamon. Hazmui possessed, nine of tie per- : magnetite, tint had made Steele s ~-:~v-s lore the' man white they hated nis misdeeds, also be lacked the sagacity and caution of tie dead leader. So tie machine was aikrwed to fail into excesses that Steele never wonic bare permitted. The Tenderloin ran openly and fiagrantiy. A big hooding escapade in the halls of tie city fathers came to light. Certain public contracts were let, with such incautious unfairness that murmurs of discontent began to be heard. all this might hare had no important results of itself. But to cap the climax Harmon, to satisfy a long cherished dislike, dismissed MacPherson from the directorate of public works. MacPherson was a hatchet faced, saturnine votary of Mammon; also there was enough of the Indian in him to make revenge for all affronts a necessity. He accepted his dismissal With apparent equanimity and instituted a campaign to destroy his enemy. A sturdy little band of reformers that had fought long but fruitlessly to overthrow Steele’s defenses suddenly and mysterously took a new lease on life. MacPherson bought a morning and an evening newspaper. Sensational exposures followed starting revelations with great effect. The mty began to stir uneasily. One day MatPherson called a few men into his office. “Gentlemen.*’ said he, “let us reform the city.” And thereupon the “Citizens’ party” was formed. So it happened that one evening Bob received a call from Robbins, a MacPherson henchman who had the reputation of knowing how to deal with all sorts of men. “McAdoo.” Robbins greeted him, •Without beating round the bush I’ll tell you what I’m after, i come from Mac. We want you with us in our fight against Harmon and”— “All right." Bob interrupted carelessly. “Tell MacPherson I’ll talk to him any time he says.” “But I have authority”— “I don’t talk to middlemen,” Bob . said curtly. “Good night.” “All right,” Robbins laughed. “You’re the doctor.” The next evening Bob was by appointment shown into MacPherson’s

downtown office. Besides the prospective boss, there were in the office Robbins ;ind Graham, the independents’ candidate for mayor. Mr. Graham was an elderly gentleman with a pretty complexion, white mutton chop whiskers and shapely, beautifully manicured hands. He thought he was a reformer and a gentleman of the old school. “How are you, McAdoo?” MacPherson greeted the newcomer with a cordiality cleverly toned down to fit the man he saluted. “Shake hands with Mr. Graham. You have met Robbins, I believe. Mr. Graham, this is the young leader of the Fourth whom we’re hoping to have with us.” Bob maliciously caught Graham’s ladylike band in his own iron grasp and squeezed it until the little man’s eyeballs rolled in agony. “You have a strong grip, Mr. McAdoo. an abnormally strong grip, if I may say so, sir. But”—he recalled the effusively patronizing manner that he thought so-S highly politic—“l am glad" to meet you, my dear sir, very glad indeed. 1 am glad to meet all those who are helping me in my fight. 1 may say it has been with no inconsiderable inconvenience that 1 have consented to lead in this great reform. But I have refused to permit personal considerations to stand in the way of manifest duty. 1 am for political purity, sir. in the past the methods of the tough wards, applied to gentlemen in politics, may have”— He stopped Suddenly, warned by a sharply monitory cough from Robbins. Bob grinned sardonically. “Oh, don’t mind me I’m tough, all right, but

Mr. Graham's - blush might have been envied by a young girL “My dear sir. I^-er—apologize. Pray do not misunderstand. My remarks do not, of course, apply”— “Don't mention it.” Bob interrupted. “In tough wards men don't apologize. You’re goic' to run this campaign yourself?” “And why not?” Graham once more mounted his parlor hobby. “Should not the candidate always be the leader? Are we not working for a lossless era. in which the leader will be where he belongs—in the front rank under the folds of bur standard?” “Ssrel Why not?” Bob rejoined. “Go ahead and try it. It’ll be quite an .experiment. I'll be interested in watchin' it—from the outside” “Surely not from the other side?” Robbins suggested smilingly. “From the winnin’ side,” Bob answered dryly. “Weil, of course,” Mr. Graham stammered, “of course—er— that is—ahem—l do not propose to—er—dictate tactics to my assistants. We may have to resort to disagreeable means to gain our great end. We must if necessary fight the devil with fire — that's it, fight the devil with fire.” “Humph T- Bob grunted. “Well, gentlemen,” Graham concluded briskly, “I must leave you. My wife and I are dining out, and I am already late.. I am glad to have met you, Mr. McAdoo." He added this from a safe distance, his hands behind him. With a bow, nicely delivered, he left the room. “What do you think of him, McAdfo?” Bobbins queried. “He's a curiosity. I’d like to take him in a glass case with a sign, ‘Hands Off,’ down to Tom’s saloon and show him to the boys. Why’d you take him up?” he demanded of MacPherson. That worthy looked sharply at Bob before responding. “He carries along the old reform crowd, and he’ll contribute his money.” “I’d prefer to work for a man,” Bob said contemptuously. “Well, are you coming along or not?” “What are you goin’ to do?” “In the fist place,” said MacPherson, “we’re going to clean the city of this gang of infernal scoundrels”— “Talk business. I’m not Graham,” Bob interrupted impatiently. “I know* that,” MacPherson answered sharply. “I’m not preaching reform. I mean, we’re going to knock Harmon and his crowd out of control of the Organization and the city and take them ourselves.” “Do you mean that?” Bob demanded keenly. "Or are you only goin’ to fight them until they let you to the trough, and then you go back on them that helped you?” MacPherson brought his clinched fist hard down on the desk. “So help me God, I mean it! I’m going to see that dbg dead and buried politically if it takes every dollar I have in the world.”

“That’s all right, but can you do it?” “We can,” MacPherson said more quietly. “We’ve got the money, and we’ve gone over the ground carefully. Here, Robbins, you have the figures.” From memory and with a glib certainty that bespoke careful study of the situation, Robbins reeled off a list of putative majorities, to which Bob listened thoughtfully. “You see,” Robbins summed up eagerly, “this gives us all the upper wards, sure. We come to Irishtown with an easy 5,000 majority, and we’ll about break even on all the Irishtown wards but the Fourth, Seventh, Thirteenth and Fourteenth. That brings us to you. If we get the Fourth by its usual majority we can’t lose. If we don’t get it we may win anyhow. That’s what we want you for. Some of us advised going to Haggin, but I said, ‘No, McAdoo’s the man.’ You’d - better get your horn and climb on the band wagon. There’s five thousand in it for you if you get us the Fourth. And five thousand more if you get the other three—besides expenses. That’s fair, I think. Or, if you prefer, a lieutenancy on the force. The pickings to be for yourself. What do you say?” “No office in mine,” said Bob. “I’ll think it over.” “I’d like to hear you say yes now.” “No, I’ll think it over,” Bob repeated coldly. “I don’t know as I care to get in your wagon.” Perhaps caught a hint of contempt in the slight < accent on “your.” “It won’t pay you to stay out,” he said in half threat Bob laughed insolently. *Tm not afraid of you. You see, you’ve showed me your hand. You can’t do without me.” MacPherson with difficulty repressed an angry retort, and Bob left the office .with a curt “Good, night” Before he descended to the street— MacPberson’s office was on the too

floor of an eight story building, the skyscraper of those days—he stopped to look out through the corridor window. It was one of the Steel City’s rarely beautiful nights. A strong west wind bad swept away the dome of smoke, and overhead a myriad of stars shone brilliantly, and below him and on the bills around him twinkled a myriad of other lights, the street lamps of the big ‘city, lighting the night for a half million souls. And of the half million two men were struggling with each other for mastery over ail the rest. The half million indifferently watched the game and permitted it to go on. “\*ou fools.”’ Yet the thought came to him that, fools though the victims were, between the contestants it was a game worth playing. To hold the great city in the hollow of ones hand, to twist it and buffet it and mock it and use it, to make of it a huge automatic engine to lift one to a chosen eminenceyes. that was a game for a man, for a strong man!

Henry Sanger, Sr., steel king, had one passion—his business—and one love—an orphaned niece. He displayed less acumen in the training of the latter than in the management of the former. Two nights after Bob was invited to join the reformers, while he was working an extra shift, Sanger personally conducted a party through his mills, and the niece was of the party. The guest of honor was a famous engineer of the English army. Sanger was dilating upon his passion. “You are enthusiastic, sir,” ventured i the guest. “And why not? We're the most Important industry the world has ever known or ever will know. We’re the right hand of modern progress. We take a carload of rock from the earth and convert it into steel, the framework of civilization. We are defying Nature, conquering her. Here is a tremendous force, the finest product of the human mind, doing in one day what 10,000 men couldn’t do in a lifetime. Right here is the beginning of modem progress. Here we make civilization while you wait!” “You have reason to be proud of your industry, Mr. Sanger,” the Englishman assented. “To put it in terms of your profession, major,” Sanger pursued his topic 'eloquently, “I command in the army of construction, while you command in the army of destruction. And I have a notion that when our respective achievements are summed up i we’ll be given the palm.” “Granted, my dear sir,” laughed the major. “And I must say you’ve mas tered in a fine lot of men in your army. That young giant over there, for inI stance —I’d like to have him.” Sanger’s forehead wrinkled in a frown of irritation. “He’s the best man In the works—and the worst! I almost j wish you did have him. thongh he’s more use in my army than he’d be in i yours. He’s —well —hardly amenable to 1 discipline—ah!” His exclamation was called forth by I a sudden movement of the young man

SHE GAVE ONE DESPAIRING SHRIEK.

under discussion. Intent on his task, he had become aware of Sanger’s niece, who stood at his elbow watching and admiring his deft manipulation of the heavy tools. He glared insolently at her. “You are very strong, aren’t you?” she said. For answer he dropped his tools, caught her by the waist and set her back from the machinery. > “Get out of my way!” he growled fiercely. In an instant he was once more intent on his work, while the young girl, flushed and indignant, stared angrily at him. “Eleanor!" called her uncle, sharply for him. “Keep away from the men and the machinery. “You’ll get hurt.” The girl, unmindful of her uncle’s warning, had ventured again, in a spirit of resentful daring, too near the rolls. A quick gust blew her skirts against the machinery. Suddenly she felt herself caught from the ground in a terrible grip and thrown prostrate on the roils. She had a vision of a white hot steel serpent darting toward her. She gave one despairing shriek. Then another hand caught her. She felt the serpent’s hot breath as it passed—interminable—beneath her and the arched, rigid body that bridged the rolls and held tier. f

Bob, too, had seen. >__ j. For a time, while the dock might tick off a long minute, the group stood 1 as though paralyzed, the girl leaning | weakly against Bob’s strong arm. It was Sanger who first came out of his J daze “Eleanor. Eleanor! Thank God!” It was a signal for them all to gather around the pale, trembling girl, forcing j Bob away from her and staring at her stupidly, nervously, gabbling uninteij ligibly. ; Suddenly Bob strode into the group, a towering figure of wrath, elbowing i his way roughly. Before his sudden j intrusion the group involuntarily fell back, leaving him face to face with the girl whom he had saved. A hot rage possessed him. fie saw red as | on that night when he had fought Haggin. i The girl, in the reaction from her : fright, did not see this. “You saved ! my* life." she said tremblingly. “It ' was very good of you.” “You little fool!" Bob burst out hoarsely in his anger. “How dare you my life?” Later, in a cooler moment. Bob remembered the girl and could but admire her, by his roughness restored instantly to her strength and courage. Her bead went back spiritedly. “How dare you reprove me?’ shejsaid. "Dare?’ Bob held out one great, hairy arm and then glanced over the slender figure before him. He could have snuffed out her life with a single sweep of his arm. He laughed unpleasantly. The scorn in her eyes shifted to contempt. “That is a coward’s thought You think because I’m a girl and you’re so strong you can say what you please. You cannot. I’m not afraid of you.” “Coward!” A deep flush crept under the smut on his face. “1 saved your life when they"—his arm indicated the astounded group—“when they were afraid to move.” “Yes. that is true.” she said. “You are just a brute, not a coward. You did save my life, but that gives you no right to reprove me." “I was a fool to do it My life is worth something, but you’— The unfinished sentence gave contempt for contempt “But why have Ino right?’ “Because you are you.” “Because 1 am I?’

Because he was himself—he. Bob McAdoo, before whom no man, howsoever strong, dared to stand in combat: whom politicians of high degree approached on terms of equality—nay, as do those who seek favors; he. so great in his own eyes and in the eyes of his own little world, must not rebuke a mere girl whose life he had saved because he was himself! Here was a new idea indeed. - Because he was himself! Bob stared at his hands, the thick, muscular fingers, the calloused, blackened palms, the hands of ’ whose strength he had been so proud. For the first time in bis life bis strength seemed to him futile, made so by a slight, pretty girl who looked upon him as a lower order of being. Then, in a quick revulsion of* feeling, the old pride of strength returned to him in all its arrogance. “I wonder 1 don’t kill you,” he growled savagely. “I’m not afraid of you.” she said contemptuously. Then “Ah!” she cried. “You are hurt!” It was true. The flesh under his arm. revealed by his gesture, was scorched from the hot steel that had passed so closely to it. In his anger he had not thought of it. “What’s that to you?” he answered roughly. “Get out of the way.” For the second time that night he lifted her and set her to one side. Then he strode abruptly away and out of the mills—forever. “Oh. I forgot to thank him for saving my life!” Eleanor said penitently, watching his retreating figure. “I didn’t mean to be so horrid to him. Uncle, why couldn’t he have been a gentleman? He’s so big and strong. And isn’t he fine when his eyes blaze? I’m so sorry he was hurt And I’ve ruined this dress completely.” (To be continued.)

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