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leed m G. H. BraUhwit'iV mmmM f??.y The Man v. The Hour By ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE. Copyright, 190T, by George H. Broadburst. CHAPTER XVIII. PER the maniac fury that j } Mazed from Thompson's eyes | j Walnwright shrank back in panic dread. "He's?he's mad!" cried the financier. "Don't let him at me!" For Thompson seemed about to burl himself on his foe. "Go easy, son," adjured Phelau, layIn* a restraining hand on ihe secretary's shoulder. The latter, recalled to himself by the pressure, reinxeu ms n-usr. imuauu^ attitude nxid. with hysterical revulsion of feeling, sank Into a chair, burying Mw face in bio arms on the table before him. "Nine horrible years!" he sobbed brokenly. "Niue awiui years of slavery, rof debaseuieut! Watching, hating, longing fo crush biai. and. oh. the time has come, thank t?od! Thank clod!" "You're all in. lad!" muttered Pbclan, passing an arm about the shaking youth and lifting him to his feet. "Come with me. I'll send out and get yon a bracer." Thompson, exhausted by bis emo^ tlons, obeyed mechanically, but at the farther door paused for a moment and again fixed his wild, bloodshot eyes on iWainwright's haggard face. > "Remember," he threatened, his i roice dead and expressionless, "when you get out of Jail I'll be waiting for you. And as sure as God's justice lives 111 kill you as I'd kill a dog! Nine i years waiting and?I'll murder you as you murdered my"? Phelan bad forced bim over the I threshold, aud tbc slamming of the ^ dooir behind the two seemed to break I the strange spell that bad fallen on all. B Wainwright straigutened himself. glanced fearfully about, tried to re gain bis shaken composure and opened I his mouth to speak. But tbe hurried f entrance of Williams prevented him. "Mr. Horrlgan," gasped the excited I newcomer, "I've been lookiDg everywhere for you!" "What's wrong now?" snapped the ^ hoes. "Has"? "The Borough bill's come up at la9t, "The gallery crowd's rough housing tbe place? Then"? thov'rp nnlot ? riMthr too ouiet. - ? - ^^^^^they have long ropes, and they're ^^^nngfcgjj^em over the"? "Call In the poilvV. tlien!" ordered Horrlgan. "Now's the time for them." "I don't dare." protested Williams. ' "Those men In the gallery are desi>erate. They're dangerous. If'? "* *.Tbe police?" interrupted Bennett sMrply. "What are you talkiug v^bont?" f "My orders!" returned Horrigan. "I aent for them. Tell them to"? "Don't do it!" commanded Bennett in ^ anger. M $'Do as 1 say. Williams!" counterH nded Horrigan. "Have them in H ^lelan," interi>osed Bennett as the M man, having left Thompson in oth fuds, came Ir.'rcTthe room, "go to Sergeant in charge of the police ,fr-Horrigan sent for. Tell him I say he must keep his men where they are ^ and take no orders except from me. I Understand?' [) "I sure dor' grinned Pbelan, with a t delighted grin at the wrathful norri gan.. "An' I'll see they"? B "You need not trouble!" croaked B| Wainwrigbt, his throat dry and conH stricted with fear. "The bill Is with drawn!" i "That goes!" corroborated Horrigan. "Do you hear that. Williams? .Mr. Walnwright withdraws the Borough 1 ir^ciin i il to it in a rush, man. Never about the police." "Well, Friend Horrigan," blandly ob served Phelan as Williams hastened H oat "I told you I'd cross two sticks of H dynamite under you some day. LikeH wise I done it" "What had yon to"? HL .,1 To do with amashin' you? Only that i put his honor on to the bill in the ^B first place an' then sicked him on to Rfl Roberts an' discovered Thompson an' EH urned him over to Mr. Bennett. That's H bout all. But I guess it's enough to DH lake your p'litical career feel like it ^B ad a long line of carriages drlvin' slow Bfl ehlnd It Chesty Dick, my old chnm!" BR Horrigan had turned his back on bis S?? totortous tiMnantnr nnfl w.19 fupinff H e major. ^ ^B "Benry4t,'' said he. "you forget I've that report about your father, HT "Tomorrow's papers will publish it," ^Bjropplemented Alwyn. B "No, they won't" contradicted Hor^Brigan. "That would be bad politics. The report will hold over till"? "You're mistaken," Interrupted BenH aett calmly. "I've sent a copy of that H >rt today to every paper in tae city ^B have accompanied it with a atateBB t that I shall make good to the H /treasury every penny overcharged H the library and aqueduct contracts. H iorrlgan was staring at him open BB Jthed. UK Bennett." he muttered in genuine BB nderment, "I don't know whether n i're the craziest fool or the cleverest |^P itician in the state." H Your honor." humbly pleaded Wainfl ight, who for several minutee had ^B SB trying in yain. to draw Bennett man. Is then? no war of?of suowing ine mercy iu my"? "Yes." retorted Alwyu. "You shall receive exactly the same mercy you have always shown to your own financlal enemies?no more, no less." "Oh. cut out the whine. Waini wright!" sneered Horrigan in high contempt as he linked his arm in the j broken financier's and hauled him roughly from the room. "What's happened to your nerve? You're almost as bad as Gihbs. You're still rich, and ! as long as you've got plenty of cash no i law in America need ever bother you. There's lots of talk about iudictmcnts, j and arrests, and investigations, and i , prosecutions, and all that sort of rot. j But I don't see any millionaires going I ! to jail. Come on across to rnv law; yer's." ! The boss and financier departed with-1 out a backward look, leaving Phelan ! ! and Bennett alone on the late scene of i ! battle. "Say, your honor." observed the alderman slyly, "there's one rery important engagement you've clean forgot. . SH right where you are a minute, an' I'll send the party in here and see that j nobody butts in on you till you want i "em to. Oh, but we didn't do a thing | to Horrigau! He'll * have to watch i which way his toes point to see wheth- ' : or he's goin' or cominT* I x dp aiaeroiiiij speu uu ms iuissivu, i leaving Alwyn seated alone, dejected, . i miserable, in the deserted committee"' : room. Now that the crisis was past, his ; heart was strangely heavy. He had j won. But at what cost? At the loss of ; all he held dear. | Alwyn Bennett knew. too. that the I real tight was hut just begun?a fight ' that had waged since the w^rld began and mast last to judgment day?the hopeless, ujCiiil l?attle of decency , against evil, of honesty against graft. | Horrigan's sneering words, "I don't see any millionaires going to jail." stuck disagreeably in the young mayor's memory. Their brutal, bald truth J jarred on his belief in the inevitable triumph of good. After all, was the dreary, self sacrificing \ battle against an unconquera ble foe worth while? Could the great god graft ever b? checked in his mastery of skirts startled Alwyn from his dark thoughts. 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