The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, November 12, 1908, Image 6
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Based on G. H. Broadhurst's Successful
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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.
! "I kn.
j marked
j needn't p? 1mm.
bein' rati tied at a!"
I Mornin*. Mr. Wai
was you he was he.
I "You're a litt^ *'
' the financier.
"I always am.
; do the waitin*.
j many a ffood hour*
It. Who's your fricn
i "Mr. Gibbs of Gib'
1 Gilibs. tliis is Aide
tit' tltn
I "Only man to i-r
; tlon rutin in* ind<>?
I meet you. Yps, s
and I win. asAJV;
you. il- * '
year, , a
somej ?
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s Hair Vigor will certainly
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which are the original
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