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I T5he ffetv Mayor Bu?d on C. H. Bro*dhvr*t's Soeeutfu! Hay The Man TheHour \ I | Bj ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE. Copyright, 1907, by George H. Broadburst. "I?I hardly know how to liegin,*' GIbbs was replying to Bennett's curt j demand. "It is a delicate subject : and"? "Then the sooner it is treated to open air the better. Is"? "You've won the Borough bill fight." ; began Gibbs. "Is that all you have to say to me?" j "No. You've won. but you've lost far j more. You've lost Dallas Walnwrlght." | "I hardly need to be reminded of j that." retorted Bennett, "and It Is a j object I don't care to discuss." "But listen." pleaded Gibbs as the mayor made a move :t* though to leave the room. "One minute! I say you've won the Borough fight. I've won Dallas. Can't we"? , "Well, what?" asked Bennett, with : ominous quiet as he paused Lu Lis de- i partnre. "Can't we?strike some sort of bar- ' gain?" said Gibbs tentatively. "Explain, please." ordered Bennett J wnn rnai samp nccepuve caim. "Why," went on Gibbs. emboldened at the other's seeming complacence, j "stippose you give up this Borough | flght and I give up Dallas? 1 won her by a trick. She doesut really love me. It Is her pride, not her heart, that made her throw you over and accept me. It | is you she loves, and I've known it all along, and you are in love with her." "What then?" "Just this," returned Gibbs. wonder- j ing at Benuett's quiet reception of the strange offer. "She will marry me be- I cause she isn't the sort of girl to g<? back on her promise, especially since she looks on me as a sort of high minded martyr to your oppression, so if I bold her to her word she will not back down. Now, if you. even now, withdraw your opposition the Borough bill will go through. | ?? throagh' amf I ! IS f' > will break uiy (I 1* l\ f j A engagement to ' j r ( 1 \ Dallas WainI j SJ wright and \ I 1 ,/ f leave her free , ^ x i *? marry you." m W ,J?" "romlse -A "Yes!" erb-d |fl' \Jt t i| Gibbs. elated. "i T^Vnj ^ J promise on my Vj Ji?'| word of honor! ^ Is it a bargain?" "Gibbs," replied A 1 w y n "Gibbs, 1 didn't think slowly, "I didn't there was so foul a think there was cuf as you in all theso f0?| ? cur ns mrld- you in ?ll the world. I thought I understood how utterly rotten you were, but I didn't believe there was a man living who could debase himself as you've just done." "But"? began Gibbs, in bewilder- ' meat. 1 you'll listen to me for a mo- , ment," cut in Beuuett, silencing the interruption. "I'ou say I'm in lcve with .Miss Wainwright. It is true. I love her in a way a dog like you could never j understand if he tried for a lifetime. | I'd give my life for one word of love from her, but I'd sooner go forever | without that word than win it by a dishonest deed that would prove me unworthy of her. I asked her love as a j free gift and tried to deserve it. She refused, and 1 won't try to buy what | she won't give me. especially since the price would make me as unworthy of her as you yourself are." "But you take the wrong view of it. You see, if"? "I see this much: I'll have to speak plainer to get my view of the case into your vile mind. If ever again you meet me, stand out of my way. Don't , speak to me or come where I am, for ! The eavesdropper. If yon cross my path again I'll treat you ten thousand times worse than \ / wben I thrashed you In that foot kill game. That's all." Bennett, restraining his wrath with a mighty effort, turned on his heel and strode off into the corridor, leaving Gibbs staring after him in dumb, impotent despair. When the broker had recovered himself sufficiently to start from the room Dallas Walnwright stood before him. h:irrin?r the exit. Iler face was dead white, her his dark eyes ablaze. "Wait!" she commanded, "i must speak to you?for the last time." "Pallas!" jrasped the desperate man. his drawn face turning positively yellow. "You were?you?yon heard?" "Mr. Bennett just now called you the foulest cur in all the world.' " said Pallas, her voice scarcely louder than a whisper, yet every syllable stinging as a whiplash. "He put it too mildly." "But, sweetheart"? " 'Miss Wainwright.' please. 1 heard you offer to sell me to him In exchange for his conscience. If my own brother j had told me such a thing I would not have believed him, but I myself beard i it. And I heard his splendid answer." j "But, you know. I was joking! That j it was just a trick to"? "Just such n trick that made me promise to be your wife? Yes, but this time you had to do with a man? | a man in a million?not with a poor. ' credulous little idiot like me. And he answered you as I should have an- J swered you had my eyes been opened I in time. I"? "Dallas," groaned Glbbs. "for heaven's sake don't look at me like that! I can't bear it! I love you! And I"? "And I In my criminal folly promised to marry you!" she stormed. "I let you kiss ine. My lips are degraded forever by that touch of yours. I let you speak words of love to me. I broke a brave man's heart for your worthless sake. Oh. the shame?the horrible sbame of it all! But I shall thank God on my bended knees that I have found out the truth before it was too late." "Too late?" he echoed in horror, his voice rising almost to a scream. "Dallas, you're not f going to throw me over? You "Scott Gibbs," she answered quietly, a world of wondering scorn in her level tones, "you do not even know how vile a thing you are. Sow leave me, please. Your presence sickens me." > 11 He tried to ?r^7t speaK, but something of the ineffable con"Sow leave me, pleabc. tempt in her lour presence tick- gtcady gi. e,L* mc leuced him. Without a word he slunk out of the room aud out of her life. rhelan, agog with eagerness for the coming struggle in the aldennanie chamber, bustled past through the corridor. The alderman had many duties today, and as the performance of each brought hint nearer to his longed for revenge on Ilorrigau he was positively beaming with righteous bliss. Dallas caught sight of him. "Alderman:" she called faintly, rhelan halted, still iu haste to fulfill bis mission. "Could?could I see Mr. Bennett:" , she asked, a uew timidity transforming her rich voice. "Do you know where I can find him?" "Is it important? He's pretty busy." "Very important!" she pleaded. "I must see him at once." 'I'll look hiui tip," agreed PkcJau, "but L warn you he's too busy to see you Just yet. S'pose you let tne take you back to the iueetiu'? Our bill's couiin' up in a few minutes now, an' you don't want to miss it. Then I'll scare up his honor for you as soon as he's got a spare minute an' bring you back here to him. Sorry to keep you wuitin'," he went on as they started toward the council chamber, "but before this session's over all sorts of thiufrs is due to explode, an' we ain't hardly at the beginniu' of the excitement yet. We're goin' to make a Fourth of July celebration in a giant powder fact'ry look like a deaf mute fun'ral by the time we're done." CHAPTER XVII. "W ? E'S in there!" observed Phe| 1 lau iu high excitement, JerkI | ing his thumb toward a door A A leading off the committee ? t'.-~ WolrtTT-ricrht iWUJ, iiu 1 ? U acui 1U1 Tf uiuniits"* an' Horrlgan to meet your honor here. An' I've fixed it so the Borough bill won't come up for ten minutes. Now, all that's left is to touch the punk to the fuse an' set off the whole giddy bunch of fireworks under 'em. Gee, but it's good to 'a* stuck to this old world just for the sake of beln' here today an' seein' what I'm due to seel" The alderman chuckled, but his Joyous anticipation found no reflection in Bennett's white set face. The two were in the committee room, whither Phelan had repaired after depositing Dallas in a chair beside her brother at the meeting and attending to one or two details of greater import. "Yes," went on Phelan, again nod <ung mysteriously iowuru me lauuci door, "he's in there, trained, to the minute for the blowout. There's some one else wants to see you, too?some one who'll make more of a hit with you if I'm not overplayin* nay hand. But good news can wait. There's so little of it in this measly life that it gen'rally has to. I"? From the corridor Horrigan stamped into the committee room, Wainwright at his heels. "Well!" cried the boss defiantly, glaring at Bennett and Ignoring Phelan. "Yon sent for us. What do you want?" 'T)ne moment!" Intervened Wain wrlgbt. "We are beateu. We admit that without argument. So we need waste no time going over details." "Have you sent for us to say what you'll sell out for?" queried Ilorrigan coarsely, "because if you have you've ouly to name your price. You've got us where you want us. We've got to I?av." | "I should have thought." replied Ken nett. with no shade of offense, "you : would know by this time that I have : no 'price.'" " I Ul'Il wuai U<? .VUU ? am "Nothing?from you." "Why did you send word you wanted | to see usr growled Ilorrigan impatiently as he and Wain wright. uninvited, seated themselves at the table. "To tell you." answered Alwyn. glancing from one to the other, "that j every step you two have taken in this 1 whole infamous transaction from the very first has been carefully followed. | and, to use your own phrase, we've got : you with the goods!" "Same old bluff!" commented Horrigan contemptuously, with a reassuring wink at the somewhat less confident Wainwright. "By tomorrow noon," resumed Ben nett, "you will both be indicted cn a charge of bribery. Even now there are detectives on the watch for you. Escape Is Impossible." "Rot!" sneered Horrigan. "You've no evidence that will Indict, and you know It. Even If you had. don't I control most of the Judges and the district attorney's office besides? Swell chance you'll have of getting a conviction past that bunch! Bah! You talk like a man made of mud. I s'pose It's the affair I of those Roberts notes you're counting on. That don't feaze me any. My lawyer can twist that around so it'll look like a charity gift. No. no. youngster. You'll have to think of somethiug better If"? "And, anyhow," put in Wainwright nervously, "you can't prove any connection on my part. There's nothing against me or"? "I think there is," retorted Bennett, wheeling about on the financier. "And even if I can't nail the Roberts bribery to you I've plenty uiore%ounts to hold you on." "All these generality and vague accusations prove nothing, Bennett," answered Wainwright, drawing courage from Horrigan's colossal calm and speaking with more assurance. "Mr. Horrigan and I are not schoolboys to be scared by baseless threats. This Is all guesswork on your part. Come, now, name one specific charge you can prove." One will be enough to convince vonV asked Alwvn. "Well, then, how about this as a first guess? Mr. Horrlgan's bribe of $2.(HX).0U0 in money and 23,000 shares of Borough stock for agreeing to put through the Borough franchise? For 'guesswork' that doesn't seem to nie very bad." Waiuwright's hard mask of a face twitched convulsively, but the steady brain that had carried him unshaken through a thousand risky financial deals came at once to his rescue. "An excellent guess," he agreed in splendidly feigned amusement, "but unfortunately the courts demand proof before convicting a man, and there is uo proof whatever of"? "Are you sure?" queried Bennett. 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Ellen A Francis: Take notice that the complaint in this action was filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas in Kingstree. in the county of Williamsburg and State of r-oulh Carolina, on the 2oth day of .January, 1900. Walter Hazakd, 1171Screven Street, Georgetown, S < 2-4-Gt Plaintiff's Attorney. Notice The Board of County Commissioners will hold theii monthly meetings on the first Tuesday of every month. All claims against the county must be filed with the count v commissioners previous to that date,as this day is set apart for passing on claims by the board, and no checks issued on that date. This rule will be strictly adhered to. By order of the board, J N Uammktt, ?1- 4/x pAmmuoinnorQ UlCrK IU * UUIHJ Wtiuiiwn<vuviw> January 9. 1909, l-14-3m Auditor 's NoticeHis Excellency, the Governor,has appointed the township Boards of Assessors for Williamsburg countv as follows: Hope township?S I Montgomery, W M O'feryan, J W Kelley. Ls.ws township?J BJ Davis. 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