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c g= | i A Gen From M By THOMA ffooelix^d From the Fla; COPYRIGHT. 1900. B CHAPTER XV. CAROLINA LANUPONS ADVICE. MT ET me speak to Mr. Haines f alone." said Carolina to Norton ? and her brother. A Norton turned a triumphant grin at Randolph as ho beckoned him out and whispered: "I^ave him to her. It's all right. That New York dude has been riding f<-r a fall?he's going to get it now." "I am sorry, so sorry this should have occurred. Mr. Haines." Carolina said gently. The secretary looked up slowly, his face drawn. It was an effort for him to sjH'ak "I can't understand it." be said. "I mightn't have thought so much of this u month ago. but I have come to u-st^j Jove the seuatoi almost as a sod, /<\ and to think that /yjm \ he could be like /( l the res* of thai .. I f bunch is awful." w'l J \ "You are to< r I 1/ I? I much of a i I I / r' \y idealist, Mr v^l ^/ Haines." said the t " WH *lrl* ' J I "And you' l 1 I What do you I 1| JjJ think of it?" he J \ demanded, j \| \ Tli e g i r 1' i 1 * \ glance wavered, j "Don't Idealize \ ine too much, ei \ ; ther, Mr. Haines \ \t 1 didn't think 11 rl_ ll was much. Per haPs I don't tin derstand buslnest '^=.A any too welL" "Tint you see undmtami no wr tnsistet It," he mid. .. the man. The girl looked ui> at him sorrow fhlly. 'Tes: I see at least that you and fa tber can never work together now." Haines nodded affirmatively. "I suppose so. I'm thinking of that How am I to leave him? We've beet o close. I've been so fond of him. 1 don't know how I could tell him." In girlish, friendly fashion Carollnj retted her hand on his arm. ?rw "Won't you take my advice, Mr Haines? Go away without seeing him Jnst leave a * note to say you hav< gone. He will understand. It will tx easier for both that way?easier foi him, easier for you." She paused looking at him appealingly as she end ed very softly, "And easier for me, Mr Haines." He looked at her thoughtfully. "Easier for you?" he said. "Yen well, I'll do it that way." The secretary stepped slowly to hii desk, sat down and started to writ) the note. Carolina watched him curl ously. "What will you do," she asked, "nov tbat you hare given up this position?' "Oh, I can always go back to new9 paper'work," b< answered with out looking np. The term "news Vn paper work" gnv< . ''I Carolina a shock WJShe had forgot ,en^attij^suiai A \ itj^rVa had been a re Tn porter. Ilere b< f jJ IV was turned loos< I 1 with the knowl n A edge of this | ft\ "deal," which six I; m knew would b< II popular materia A for -newspaper to print. Sb< IT % must gain stil e? another point "J can yo back to and she felt tha neicapawr icork." she had enoagj aowe; te win against him. "I'm going to ask you still anothe: favor," she said. Bud returned her look with a bitte; smile. "What is it?" "You have learned about this?thii land matter and"? "Oh, yes! I cau guess. You wan zae to keep quiet about It?to hush 1 lip," a shade of scorn In his tone. "I only asked this so that you wouk not disgrace me," she pleaded. Disillusioned at last, robbed of hi lifelong optimism, shorn of bis ideals even his love?for he began to despls* M? beautiful, misguided womiDHalnes sat broken In spirit, thinkinj bow quickly the brightness of lib fades to blackness. "Very well," he said sadly. "I sop pose j/oi< are innocent I'll save you If they're ali?your father, too?crook ad, why shouldn't I be crooked? A1 right; I won't say anything." MI only ask yon not to disgrace me,' pleaded the girl. Ton will promla that 7' "It's a promise." She sighed in relief. "Father will be coming back soon,' k > m"r > .rp ; .> > itleman ississippi a. wise y by Frederick H. Y THOMAS A. WISE - =* ;! vr I / . : "Don't forget there* tsome money comit*) ! to you." I she said. "You won't want to ?ee ' him." Haines rose. r "No. I won't want to see him. Give 1 him this note. I'll hare to come back ' while he's away to clear up some things. Good by." ' Haines bowed and hurried from the room through a side doorway Just as Senator Laogdou came in through the ' main entrance. "Bud, Bud." he called, but the secc retary did not halt. Carolina Langdon stood with Haines' ' note in her hand, wondering at what ' she had done. She regretted having become entangled in the wars of men - in Washington. She saw that the I man's game was played too strongly, too furiously fast, for most women to enter, yet she rejoiced that the coveted fortune.had not been lost She was sorry that her means of saving it had minofiAnoKIn Rhu> Qfl w { uui mxu icao 4ucouvuuv?v. .. that ambition and honesty, ambition . and truth, with difficulty follow the i same path. [ Senator Langdon's face was unusually grave as" he came to greet Carolina. l Lines showed iu his face that the daughter had never noticed before. She saw Norton and Randolph, who . had followed him, exchange significant i glances?jubilant glances ?and woni dered what new development they had r maneuvered. "He's gone without a word," the sen ator sighed. "Well, perhaps that's . best" "He left a note for you," said the girl, handing him the letter which C Haines had given her. Langdon opened It and read: 5 1 am giving up the job. Tou can under? stand why. The least said about It between us the better. I &m sorry. That's " all. BUD HAINES. Slowly he read the letter a second r time. ' "And he was making the best kind - of a secretary. I thought." f Divining that something against Haines had boen told her father, Carolina glanced at Norton. "I told your father how we caught - Mr. Haiues," he spoke as an answer . to her.' The girl was startled. She had not ? thought that things would go this far. "I told him how Haines wanted to i get In some land speculation scheme 1 with Altaeoola, bow we tricked him - and caught him with the goods when J he made the proposition to me and ? how we forced him to confess." ^ "You told father that?" gasped Caro1 Una. * Norton nodded. "I don't understand It," said Langdon. 'To think that he was that ' kind:*' L Son Randolph now took his turn In 1 the case against the secretary. "We were both here, father. I heard r him?Carolina heard him." he said. "Didn't you, Carolina?" "Yes," said the girl weakly, "I was here." Then she turned abruptly. "I must go," she said, "must go right away. Mrs. Holcomb Is wailing for me." The senator turned to his desk bent and discouraged. ? ? T ?.V amIA K at*a talrAn o J "1 (suppose 1 BUUUHI 1laic mam m. secretary who was a southerner and a gentleman. Well, Randolph, you'll 3 have to act now. Take this letter"? ' The young man sat down and took 3 Vie following from the senator's dictation: Mr. Haines. e Sir?I quite understand your reelings and the impossibility of your continuing . In my employ. The least said about it the better. I am sorry too. WILLIAM H. LANQDON. j "You boys run away. I've got to think," said the senator. , When the pair had gone the old man s drew the letter to him, and below his glgnature he added a postscript, "Don't forget there's some money coming to yon." , Walking across the room to leave, he gighed: "He wu making the beat kind odNi secretary." CHAPTER XVI. A RESCCT IN TITK NICK OF TIME. 1ATER In I bat never to be forgotten day Bud Haines ventured back to his desk In the committee ' -A room, after first ascertaining | that Senator Langdon would not re- : turn. Some of the senator's papers 1 must be straightened out. and he want- | ed personal documents of his own. The secretary regretfully, sorrowful- ; ly performed these final duties and fuund himself stopping at various in- | terra Is to try to explain to himself how j be had t>een deceived In both the I.ang dons, father and daughter. He had to I give up both problems. To 1dm ncl- ! ther was explainable. "I've known enough senators to know that I'd never ' meet an honest one," he muttered. ' "But as to women?well, there's too j much carefully selected wisdom In their innocence to suit me." This cynic, new born from the shell j of the chronic Idealist that was. sud- ; denlv was disturbed in his ruminations j by a sound at the door. Looking up. ! [ lit* saw Hope Georgia Langdon stand- | ing shyly, embarrassed. in the main ' entrance. "Mr. Ilaines." she said timidly. I Bud jumped t<? his feet, i "Yes. Miss nrpc Georgia." As the senator's you user daughter came toward him he noticed that she was excited ov? r something. and for a newly made cynic he took altogether | .00 much notice of her youthful heauty. 1 her fresh. tv.-y coaiplexi 11 4?nd her dancing. sprrkilng eyes. The thought I occurred to him. "What a woman she I will make?if she doesn't imitate her ; sister!" I "I couldn't let you go. Mr. Haines, without telling you goodby and letting you know that, /fe no matter what ^3" V\ the others say, I / 1 don't think there fl \\ Jift/ has been any- {y\ ff Jr J f f\ thing wrong." VJ f ?7 'I Before Haines ? , <jr 1I could reply the ' . I Tq I yonng giri rush- 1 II UH f ed on excitedly. ' "That's why I i1 i came. I know fa- [/ i tber and CaroUna won't like it Tl ? they won't,,. .. ?_ think It's Dice? Icouldn but I wanted to say to you that I don't think one ought to believe things against one you've liked and trusted." "You think one ought not," said Haines. "So do I, but In this case the proofs were very strong. What are you going to do when people you can't doubt pledge their word?' The girl tossed her bead. "Well, the only one's word I'd like to take would be the person accused. I know I'm only n girl. Mr. Haines, and I'm not grown up, but you've made a mistake. Do try to clear things up. Why don't you see father and talk to him? Please do, Mr. Haines." Little realizing that the girl was speaking in bis own favor, for be | knew not the need for such speaking, he believed her to be defending her father. He grasped her hands Impulsively. "You have grown up very much since you came to the capital haven't you?" he said. "And you are right, Miss Hope. I ought to have known * ? BAolnof Kim eveu wntru iut? xavis wuc a^aiuok mu ; that your father couldn't have been I really crooked. He can't be." Hope Langdon's face flushed Indignantly. "Father crooked? Who said so? Who dared aay that?" she exclaimed. "Why, they told me he had sold out on the Altacoola bill. They said he was trying to make money on Altacoola. That's why I quit." The flame of anger still was spread on the girl's face. "They said that!" she exclaimed. "Then they lied. They said you were the crooked one. Why, father thinks you sold out on Altacoola. They said you were trying to make money on that navy yard." "What! They said I was crooked!" Haines fairly shouted. He rushed around the desk and caught the girl | by both hands. "I see It!" he cried. "I see It! There's something I'm not just on to. Ton thought it was I; your father thinks"? "Of course," exclaimed Hope, quite as excited as he. "I couldn't believe it That's why I came back to get you to explain. I wanted you to disprove the charge." "I should say I would," cried the , secretary. "I knew it, I knew it! They couldn't make me believe anything against you. I knew you were all I thought you. Oh, Mr. Haines, prove you are that for my"? 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