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I i - . f yVefco Mayor Based on G. H. Broadhurst's Successful Play The Man The Hour ! By ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE. Copyright. 1H07. by Ueorgc II. Broadbur?!. CHAPTElf II. * LWYN BENNETT turned sharp/\ ly toward the window, angry / 1 at the interruption, but Perry A ^ Wainwright. ushering two ladies in from the veranda, met his scowl with a wink of triumph. "Not so bad. ehV" called the boy. "Met them as they were turning into the drive. You see"? "Oh." observed the younger of the two women?a pretty, flower faced girl who since her entrance into the room had lieen eugaged in excbaugiug delighted greetings with Dallas "So you came to meet us? Vou said you just happened"? "Did I?" asked Perry in deep amazement. "Well, well! The fact Is, 1 wanted to do something startling in honor of meeting you, so I told my first lie. 1"? "Don't mind bim. Cynthia!" laughed Dallas. "He's taken that way quite often." "Oh. it's his usual pace, then?" queried Miss Garrison innocently. "I thought perhaps he was just warming up." v "And now," pursued Dallas, taking < possession of Cynthia, much to Perry's disgust, "tell me al! about yourself. < Have"? "There isn't much to tell. But there's i going to be. I'm going to work." *.?? TT/Al.?' "v?urK; ii uiiuwi I "F>or a living, of course." "Not really." "Tes, isn't it ridiculous?" broke In ( Mrs. Bennett a sweet little old lady who now found her first chance to , edge in a word amid the general volley of talk. "But Cjnthia is set on doing it." "Why shouldn't I? 1 haven't a dollar, and there's a theory that one must live." y "But what are you going to do?" asked Dallas. "I don't know. I have a pretty good education. 1 shall find something. I? Dallas, I think your brother is giving us a high slgu of some sort." i "I am!" declared Perry. "I just wanted to tell you there's a surprise waiting for you. Two surprises in one kennel. Want to see 'em?" < "What is lie talking about?" queried 1 Cynthia, appealing to Dallas for light on the mystery. i "About Betty and Frince Charlie." retorted Perry. "Your two Boston ter- 1 riers that 1 l?oiight. Want to see 'em?" "Oh. the darlings! Of course I do. Where are they?'' "Come along aud I'll show you. 'The 1 darlings,' eh? Talk like that makes _ me wish I was j , | a dog." i ?J J~V' vl "Don't de- i v|K fi spair," suggest- ] ' ' ^ Cynthia. "Mayl?e you'li | Still puzzling i mIm ' vaffue'y as to i |Hyr"/7 Ja* meanins ?f ''liftjfr&f * f{ this cryptic utJLc. terance. Perry i followed Miss 1 ' BtoTTT -'W Garrison from < "~|3f/ [ the room, a grin (i 2f \!jf 4t of satisfied am- 1 I ' h~ t: bition wreath- i | If y \ * ing his tanned 1 I L { //V face. 1 ->*-?> "To think of rvAAr littla Pvn. J ^ [?VV4 thia having to 1 ^ go to work!" | Perry followed Miss sighed Dallas, Garrison from the looklng after room. . . " _ j y them. "One would as soon think of putting a but- i terfly into harness. Is it true she has - no money left?" I "I'm afraid it's only too true," an- I rwered Mrs. Bennett^'Her father lost l ?rerything in speculating. He was cashier of the Israel Putnam Trust Irompany and afterward president ' Hfc"? She paused as the office door opened and Thompson, the secretary, came Into the room. At sight of Mrs. Bennett he seemed about to turn back; but, ' changing his purpose, crossed to the table and began to look for some documents he had failed to 'gather up. "What was the rest of the story bout Mr. Garrison?" asked Dallas, really Interested In the older woman's recital. Thompson's papers slipped through his lingers and went skidding across the polished door. The others looked .' around In surprise. /.v "Excuse me!" muttered the secretary as he stooped to gather up the documents. "Very awkward! I'm sorry." He went on arranging the scattered papers in his usaal unobtrusive silence, effacing himself from the general talk. "You were telling me about Cynthia's father," said Dallas. "Oh, yes," said Mrs. Bennett, taking up the thread of her tale. "He was looked on as one of the most honorable bankers in the city. And so he was until "his misfortune." . "Misfortune?" "More misfortune than crime. His wife was a girlhood friend of mine, so perhaps I ajn prejudiced in his javor. A famous rhuncier?a (loar IneK*"oT \ his?induced him to make a very large j loan that proved to be a mistake. He i went to the financier for advice as to | how to recoup the loss. The financier j told him of an investment by which he could pet all the money back without any risk and could make pood the loan. Mr. Garrison took his advice, used the bank's fnnds for the purpose and?the investment proved worthless. The bank was insolvent. Mr. Garrison shot himself." "Horrible! Horrible!" murmured Pallas. "The 'horrible' part of the whole story came out later." said Alwyn Bennett. "It seems the financier had deliberately \ mined Mr. Garrison and was o*j the i other side -?f the deal by which the 1 Kink's funds were lost. In other words, he persuaded his friend to put . money in what he knew w.-fs a losing I venture, then took that money himself." I "He did It willfully." chimed In Mrs. j Bennett, "knowing Ills friend would be j ruined and that the bank's money i which lie lured Mr. Garrison into In- j vesting was going to swell his own ill | gotten fortune." "I did not think any one lived who ronhl do such tilings." shuddered Dallas. "Poor Cynthia!" "Cynthia suffered least of all." said Rnniii.it was little more than a chili! nf the time Her mother ! died of grief. ami her broth r?a promising. clever vol'm: fellow just enter- ; in? college-disappeared." "Deserted Cynthia?" "Not so lgid us that. lie probably ! went away soon r than face his fa- ' ther's disgrace and began life somewhere far from home. That was nine years ago, yet ever since then he sends Cynthia a little money every month? not much, but no doubt all h<*\can scrape together aliove his bare living expenses. She has tried In every way to get in touch with him. but she can't J locate him anywhere. There is no j clew except that monthly money order. I never knew him very well?in fact. 1 j only saw him once or twice?but I've heard he was a fine, manly boy. The shock must have been worst of all on him." "So a man lost his good name and his life, his wife died, his son's life was wrecked and his daughter impoverished." mused Dallas, "and all that a financier might grow a little richer. 1 nnn't l?elieve it!" A little ashamed of displaying^ vehemence in the presence of 0Cher uncle's dependents, the girl glanceu toward the table. But the secretary ' had gone. "My husband," pratiied Mrs. Bennett complacently, "always said that the men who rose highest in the money world reached their lofty places over the despoiled bodies of hundreds of victims. Thank God, my boy has no such parental record to look back on. My husband was one man in a million?the soul of honor both in business and in private life. You've rehd of his splendid civil war record. Then he went into business as a contractor and engineer and earned a fortune, every dollhi of which was honest ' That's something to be proud of in these money loving times." "What was the name of the financier J who ruined Mr. Garrison?" asked Dal las, still naunteu uy me iiarr?u?c buc ( bad just heard. , < "So one knows. It was suppressed . at the time. The facts in the written j confession left by Mr. Garrison became public property; but, through political influence, the name of the man ( responsible for the tragedy was sup- , pressed. Here I sit chatting on dole- j ful topics, while those two young people are running all over the place un- ^ chaperoned. Excuse me, won't you, J md I'll look,them up?" She smiled at Alwyn as she left the room, and his answering smile showed bow fully he understood and appreciated her motive in leaving him alone with Dallas Wainwright. Perhaps Dallas, too, understood, for she made as though to follow Mrs. Bennett out into the lawn. But Alwyn stepped between her and the window. "Don't go just yet," he begged. "I've so much to talk over with you. When they came in we were speaking of that paragraph about Gibbs and yourself. i'ou don't love him, do you, Dallas? Tell me you don't!" "What right have you to ask me such a question?" "Only the right that my love for you gives me, dear heart You mu9t have known I loved you even though I've never said it before. I love you, Dallas, though till today, I think, I never realized bow mucb. Tell me it isn't true inat you re goiug w uiarry uiuuo. "Even if it weren't true I should not marry you, Alwyn." "Ah!" ; The exclamation was wrung uncon- ! sciously from his whitenlDg lips. It ; was as though a pang of physical pain had pierced him. ] "I wouldn't marry you," went on Dallas, though rhore gently, "because ' you don't really love me." "I do! I do! With my whole heart, I""Oh, Alwyn!" she exclaimed with almost mother-like tolerance, "what a child you are! What a mere child! Some one tries to take away rrom you a plaything you've grown used to having. You never cared especially about the plaything before; but, now that you're In danger of losing it, you cry out: 'Oh, I love It! I love It!' You'll soon find another toy that'll make you forget"? "Dallas, you are unralrl you nave no right to treat my loTe for you as if"? "As if It were a mere whim? Isn't it? Now, don't say 'No,' but look me In the eyes and answer one question. If Scott Glbbs hadn't proposed to me? if that paragraph had not appeared in the paper?would you have come here today and told me you lOTed me? No, you knoyv jou wouldn't!." 'Tke 'tSaC deaff lmplonag 2'V- 1 . r. I.,- J. _ . A i-villi*.:. . .v.. V-..1 : than I ev?r dreamed a ^ loved. 1 love v<?uI I"? "There's nn easy way then." "What way? Anything "I'.y doing something to feel proud of you. 1 don't fet I could not marry a man who loi._ his life away?a man who sits idle while others are thronging past him in the upward climh. ' You are rich, thanks to your father's efforts. What have you done with that wealth? if you've done no harm with it you've at least put it to no good use. You are young, talented, highly educated. What have you done with your youth, your talents, your education? Ilow have you used them for your own betterment or for your fellow men's? What have you to offer me? Money? Social position? I have plenty of both. What else can you offer me? Nothing ?absolutely nothing." "My love, for one thing. I can offer you that." "In what is your love better than any other man's? Behind it is not a record of hard work, of self sacrifice, of achievement?of any of the things that go toward making love strong and enduring and beautiful?to make it a support that a woman can lean on for life? What have you to offer ine or : any other woman?" There was a silence. Yet wheu Bennett spoke there was a new note in 1 his voice?a ring of awakening strength that impressed Dallas in spite of her self?that sent a wholly strange thrill through her and^q^f vr #*ieart to l>eat- I ing with unwi'' ^k less. ^ * "You are rigL^. ? id V?. "I h?ve ' done nothing. I'\ Aon content to be , a rich man's sou, ij(| I've nothing to j offer that is worth^iour accetvice. 1 but that does not u n I nevei >aJl I have. And by tb<* <^re of * I j shall! You've puj^y'ng^n a new 1 I :?ee them as . ver did. It isu'l wholly pleasan xperieuc(^but it\. t good f'r ie. Th v's notliit yet that ? <-? * - ? .. Vll 1 ID III .O UU, UUi uuu oviuviui*?e, I never I And win** do"? "D^ y there's n* ing you're Ht for,"' "I Dallas. "here's nothing y Jn't acco if once1 you s ' to it . just think of t' les yol -made for Mr. Lori t-mpaign. They werc^ fine. '? ^ "O. ' ti W tv: r. C tv * 4s there any , hoj /. "I . A.--" ,s no Proui,se- ' I told L ' "Then w .... |e is as good as his. From now on l~um going to drop the role of rich man's son and be something on ray own account. If you have faitli in me?if you believe in me? if ; there is a ghost of a chance that you can some day love me"? "I have faith in you, Alwyn," she answered softly, letting her hand lie Uk.lwA1t*_ i passive in ms grasp. iui-u, ?nuui??-1 Ing it with a pretty gesture of petulance, she added: "Only I wish it didn't always re- j quire a blow to rouse you to action. ! Did you ever happen to notice that \ trait in yourself?" "Why. no. I don't quite understand." j "Then here's an Instance that will j show you what I mean: In your senior i rear at Yale when you were playing lialfback 011 the varsity eleven I saw my first football game. It was against Princeton. You were the only man on fithcr team I knew, so I watched you ^ , from first to last. Little as I \i7 understood football, I could sec Wr* Jf Jwa -vou were P,a.v" j ing a clever, ''' jjBjjj hard, conscien! tiousgame. But ' //tMSS 11 wasD t a fi?ht" 11 rvP ^ng sa,ue _ not V the sort of game that carries ev crything before WW IK* \Vlt- Tljen' ln the Uri Ji\\ \ i m sec?nd haif> in lib y \ \\ If ^ one of the serlm)J j f fj y \ | mages I saw a L) I y' Trinceton man " Btrike j*ou. Ob, V it was a das" You were the college tardly, cowardly hero ?the man of j)]0Wt Hestruck the hour." , you when your head was turned away. You saw who It was, and you made no appeal to the referee, but in the next scrimmage you broke that man's collar bone and stunned him. He was carried senseless from the field, and you kept on. You had begun to play a fighting game, and it carried you through the Princeton line for the only touchdown of the day. You won the game for Yale. You were the college hero?the man of the hour. But it took a blow to rouse you. Now do you understand?" "Yes, I think I do. Perhaps you're right I certainly remember the blow well enough. Do you happen to know who it was that struck me that day on the football field?" "No. I knew none of the players except you. Who"? "It was GJbbs." "No!" "I'm not likely to have forgotten. Ask him yourself. He will remember it, I fancy. It was a week before he left the infirmary-" "But 1 can't realize that Mr. Gibbs would do such a thing! It was so cowardly, so"? "Oh, don't hold it against him. lie was excited and"? 'Tell Mr. Phelan I'll see him in the library," called Wainwrjg^ff/)^ the hall^ r^dore politics!" exclaimed Dallas. {'Com<a shall we go out to the tennis t "Aii. ! 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