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? Uhe Jfetv Mayor on G. H. Broidhurst's Succeufal I Pl^y The Man j The Hour I By ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE. Copyright, 19CC, by George ?L Bro&dhurst. centive to keep faith with his partners. Gibbs had sought to swell his own prohts by secretly buying up quantities i of the stock for himself until every I \ penny of his capital was involved. His I troubled mind could not now determine whether or not Wninwrigbt sus- ' pected him. Gibbs. while possessing all the ambition, selfishness and lack of conscience that go toward tiie making of a great financier, lacked the one chief essentials for the part?namely. un 7.'Zrs your miriness x<> , know who is do"F?l*r '3h Crt?d ins this private Gtbbs, dismayed. 'That.s what we brought you into-the deal for. 1 Anyhow, the mysterious purchaser is liable to find himself in hot water before long." "Why?"' queried Gibbs In a voice he tried to make indifferent. >\ "Only because the deal will probably fall through." "Fall through!" cried Gibbs, dismayed. "What do you? Why, you told me Mr. Ilorrigan could win over a fourteenth alderman, and that with his solid thirteen"? "Yes," drawled Horrigan, who had been unobtrusively eying Gibbs from the moment of his entrance, "we had | some such notion, as you say. But my j solid tmrteeu' aian t nappen to ue us solid as lie looked. He's bolted." K "Bolted! Then we?we will lose! We""Say, Mr. Glbbs," observed ITorrlgau, "you seem to take this thing pretty hard for a man with only 20 per oent at stake. Mr. Wainwright stands to lose some millions. I'm interested to the extent of almost a million.- Yet you don't see us getting pale and shaky, do you? If a man can't pay for the chips he has no right 'in a poker game. Brace up and act like a man. can't you? We haven't lest yet. I've pent after the fellow that bolted, and I think I can land the fourteenth alderman too." ? "Good!" exclaimed Gibbs in wild re ! lief. "And you'll do your very best to pull the deal through, won't you?" "No!" snarled Horrigan in elephan-; v!?. tine sarcasm. "I'm going to spend thej time playing pingpong and diabolo! with the kids or taking a course of les-j sons in fancy knitting. Oh. buck up. | en n't von. and unit acting like a baby!! Judge Newman's out there on the other side of the ballroom. Chase over and tell him to come here." Too coufused to resent tho boss' words, Gibbs meekly set out on his errand. "That chap's got n streak of yellow a yard \yide." commented Horrigan. gazing after lym. "Not as had as that." refilled Waiuwright. "He's young and not used to reverses. You'll find he is game, all right, when It comes to a pinch. What did you want of NewmanV" "You'll see. Here he comes." "You wished to speak to me, Mr. Horrigan?" piped the little judge, hurrying into the foyer. "Good evening. Mr. Wain wright. What a success the ball Is! My daughters have been dancing all evening. And Mrs. Newman Is so"? "Never mind Mrs. Newman jast now," broke in Ilorrigan. "There's something important I want you to do for me." He spoke, as he always did to Newman, in the manner of one addressing an incompetent servant. The judge, for all his pomposity, deemed it wise to ignore the politician's mode of address. "I want you to hunt up Bennett," went on tlid boss, "and persuade him to stop fighting the Borough franchise bill. Tell him"? "Oh," gasped the judge in genuine alarm, "I really don't think I conld pre some to"? " "?es, you can," contradicted Horri cran. "You can do it. and, what's more, you will. You don't feel shy about asking favors of me, and when it's the other way around you've got to come down or"? "I know! I know!" protested the frightened little judge soothingly. "Bui you don't understand how"? "I got you the nomination last fall Are you going to be a white man 01 a welcher?" 'But I'm sure that Mrs. Newman"? "To blazes with Mrs. Newman! Now listen to me. Go to Bennett and do what you can to make him keep his hands off our Borough bill. If he's difficult offer him, in my name, the nomination for governor next year. If you can get him?well, there's a vacancy next year in the supreme court and"? "I'll do what I can," assented the judge. "I'm sure you are right, Mr. Horrigaa, even if your way of putting matters is just a litQe ragged. I'll see Mr. Bennett tonight and use all the persuasion in my power. I'm quite sure civic welfare will be best served if he will cease his unseemly opposition to the Borough bilL_ Thank _you,_Mr. I I Horrlgan. I'm very sure that Mrs. Newman"? "I'm sure,too," cut in Horrigan. "Now run on. We're busy. Remember, now ?the very next supreme court vacancy"? "Do you really think he has any influence with iteunett?" asked Wainwright as theTF.dge vanished. "Can't do any harm to try. They're neighbors in the country and in the same crowd in society and all that. If it fails. I've another card that's even stronger. Roberts ought to be here by now. You found out about those notes s\f l-*5eV* "Yes; both of them. One for $7,000. one for $15,000. I'.oth secured by mortgaging his factory. Roberts can't 1 meet them. They've been extended j twice, though the security must have been fairly good or the Sturtevant Trust company wouldn't have lent"? "Williams said you wanted to speak to me, Mr. Ilorrigan." said a nervous voice from the door, and a pale, middle aged man came forward. lie wore worry's stamp !>etwcen his perplexed eyes, and care had bent his narrow shoulders. "Yes. Good evening. Roberts." replied Ilorrigan cordially. "See you later. Wainwright." The financier took the hint and walked toward the ballroom, on his way out nearly colliding with I'helan. who was j entering the foyer. At sight of Ilorri- | gnu and Roberts together Thelan's ! eyebrows went upward, with a jerk, and he tiptoed out in the opposite direction as fast as his stout legs could carry mm in searcn <>i uenneu. jie.-iu- j time Ilorrigan had come directly to the point, as usual, in his appeal to Roberts. "Look here, alderman." said he. "you've been trying for years to get through a park bill for yonr ward. Still want it?" "Yes." retumed Roberts. "My constituents are at me all the time about that park. They"? "It would make your ward's property values go up 50 per cent, and it would make you solid there forever, hey?" "Y'es. but"? "Introduce that bill again, and I'll guarantee it will go through." "Are you in earnest?" "There's my hand on it. Only, of course, it's understood that your park bill won't come up until after the Borongh Street railway franchise is passed. Understand?" "I'm afraid I do." said Roberts after a pause, "but I voted against that bill, and"? "You voted against the bill in its original form," Horrigan interrupted reassuringly, "and you were right too. It had a lot of clauses that you thought -?- n..A AWaaa knvd weren i square. r?ui ?ii uwc ua?t boon cut out." "But I still"? "But you'll be doing what's best for your own constituents by looking after their interests In the matter of the park. You'll be their hero for that. Of course if I wanted to put it another way I could remind you that your Lt' Judge Newman. business is in a bad way and that a friend of mine lias bought up your notes at the Sturtevant Trust company and means to send them to you tomorrow. But that has nothing to do with the case. So I just"? "I'm honest, Mr. Horrigan," faltered Roberts. "I"? , "Sure you're honest! That's why you'll have the courage to vote for the bill when you see it's been amended so as to be a good thing for the city. That's being honest, isn't it?" "I?I suppose so. And the notes? the"? "They'll be seut you by registered mail Tomorrow if you want them. Do you ?" "Y-yes. That is, I"? "That's settled, then. You're got a level head. Good night" The boss strode out, a grim smile of victory on bis big face, leaving Roberts standing confused, doubtful, his brain awhirl. How long the tempted alderman stood thus?oblivious to the music, his surroundings and all elsehe could never remember, but a voice at his elbow brought him to his senses with a start that was followed by a thrill of fear as he wheeled and recognized the speaker. CHAPTER X. ROBERTS' eyes rested on the grinning, complacent features of Alderman Phelan. At the latter's side was Bennett. "I was saying," remarked Phelan blandly, "that it's a fine ball, isn't it, now, Roberts?" "Yes," said Roberts hastily, preparing to move away. But Phelan buttonholed him. "Stay an' swap talk awhile with his honor and me, Roberts," he begged. "I'm in a hurry," began Roberts, "and"? "Alderman Phelan has been trying to cheer me up a bit," said Bennett. "He knows I'm worried about the Borough x I bill's outcome. I Friday was past." "Same here," chimed fn Thelan. "An' you. Roberts?" "I?" muttered the uncomfortable man. "Why?" "It's Friday that the Borough bill conies up again." explained Bennett, as though imparting new information. "You will vote against it. of course, i Mr. Roberts?" j "I'm not sure. You see. it's been ! altered so as to"? ! "The alterations don't affect the j j main issue, ami they can't change any j honest man's views. So I can count 011 you to continue opposing it. can't I?" "I object to this catechizing!" flared up i>oor Roberts. "I won't stand for it. I'm my own O "Somtftody'ii fjriinti to mind about tlie prison hr'on this bill for some matter's ttuic<l." reason tiiat won't l?ear the light.* And 1 warn you to go carefully. Somebody's going to prison before this matter's ended." "I'm not answerable to any one but my constituents." said Roberts, with a pitiful attempt at cold dignity, "and they"? "And they shall demand an answer from you," warned Bennett "I'll see to it that they do. Now. yon can go if you want to." turning his back on the confused Roberts. who eagerly took the opportunity to escape. "I'm afraid friend Roberts ain'thavin' the happiest time of his life tonight" remarked Fhelan, g _Jg to the doorway and lookin- after the departing alderman. "Th. \ not much of what the poet geezi-r <\i!ls 'whoop uj^ the dance, fer joy lo unrefined' about him. Foor fool! lie never was cut out to be a crook. He makes a punk job of it in spite of the trimmiyJ-*iIorrigan's dec'rated him with. If ?'t the sense to be crooked withoL .^akiu' a monkey of myself. I'm blest if I dop't believe I'd ti lionest. Iley! I re's a couple of fo,.*s though, that's gettin' more fun out of the ball than ever I had at a dog fight!" As he spoke Ferry Wainwright piloted Cynthia in from the conservatory at top speed, his jolly young face alight with a joy that reflected itself in Miss Garrison's own very flushed countenance. "Alwyn," shouted young Wainwright, not seeing Fhelan in his excitement, ^ "guess what's happened! I'll give you three guesses and"? "And I can't possibly guess if you gave me a tl^ousand," retorted Bennett. with vast gravity, "so I won't try. I'll just congratulate you with all my heart, old chap, and wish Miss Garrison every happiness that"? "Gee! How'd you know? We haven't told a soul. It only happened about four minutes ago. I was tolling Cynthia what a daisy little girl she was. and she said she thought I was pretty nice, too, and so I got brave and said, 'Then why don't you' "? Terry!" reproved Cynthia sternly, jerking his ann to show that Phelan as j well as Alwyn was recipient of the | highly intimate tidings. "Oh. don't mind me, children!" put! in Phelan. "Pin used to It J was young myself once, so I've been told, though I don't clearly remember it myself. Can I butt in with a line of congratulations?" lie extended his big band with an honest cordiality that quite won Cynthia. "Thanks, alderman," grinned Perry effusively. "Now, AlwyD, we've got to go and break it to your mother if we can find her. Come along and back us up." Dragging Bennett between them, the two youngsters started off on their quest. Phelan was about to return to bis beloved bar when he was checked by seeing in the opposite doorway a I man wno stooa as xuougu pernneu watching Cynthia Garrison's departing form. The intruder was al>out to withdraw when Thelan hailed him. "Good evening." called the Alderman. "Good evening, sir," said the newcomer respectfully, pausing on the point of leaving the foyer. "I've met you before, I think," went on Thelan. "Some days ago in the mayor's office," assented the other. "I am Thompson, Mr. Wainwright's private secretary." "I'm Alderman Thelan of the Eighth, and I've seen you before we met at his honor's." "So you said then, sir. But you were mistaken. Good evening." He turned again toward the door, but Fhelan resumed, without seeking to stop him: "A mistake, was it? I'm not a man who makes many mistakes, Mr. Garrison." The retreating secretary halted as though struck. "That is another mistake, sir," he said in a muffled voice. "My name is Thompson." "Is it, though?" inquired Phelan Innocently. "It's queer how I could get inived up so. When I was chief of police there was a bank president named Garrison who shot himself after bein' swindled an* whipsawed by a financier who was his dearest friend. He left a little daughter, Miss Cynthia, who you was lookin' at so keen just now, an' a son, who disappeared. That was nine years ago, an' I only saw the boy once, so maybe I've overplayed my hand in pipin' you off for him. But^" added j Pueian. laying a strong, detaining hand on Thompson's shoulder, "here I comes some one who can clear it op easy enough." j The secretary twisted in the iron grasp and sought vainly to break away as Cynthia ami Perry entered. "Cynthia's lost her fan," explained Perry at sight of the alderman. "She's bad me looking all over for the measly thing. Wait here a minute," he added to her. "and I'll chase into fbe conservatory and see if we left it there." j And. depositing the girl in a chair, he bolted away in search of the missing article. "Now then, young man." p*^>pbe- . Ian. "if your name's Tbonips< Vou say. there's no reason why yo ild object to m.v Jntroducin' you Ms young lady. Step up. sou." Still holding the reluctant, stru,. ji secretary by the shoulder, Phekin turned to Cvnthia. "Miss Garrisnu." srti?l he. "here's a gentleman I think you know. Would you miml lookin' him over?" Wondering at the odd request. Cynthia raised her eyes to the stranger. But tlie Litter persistently kept his face averted. > "I don't think I know him." she an- i swored doubtfully. "There is some- j tiling familiar al>out"? The secretary shifted restlessly, uu- { consciously bringing bis profile into ! U\ M\ym "Harry," the girl u-a* pleading, "you do knotc me!" her range of vision. With a gasp, Cynthia sprang to her feet, her face white, , her eyes wide and incredulous. ( "It's not?it's?oh. Ilarry!" she cried in an ecstasy of recognition, flinging j her arras a lout the secretary's neck. ' "Harry! Brother! Back from the dead! Don't you know me? It's Cynthia! < Don't"? * "I am afraid you've inane a very strange blunder, .Viss Harrison." returned the secretary, his voice hoarse and tremulous. "My name is"? "Your name's Harry Harrison!" I'belan shouted. 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