The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 12, 1909, Image 8
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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,'
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. : "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"?
Then Hope Georgia abruptly stopped.
She bad lost her head and In
the enthusiasm of the moment had revealed
her real feelings ? something
she would never do presumably when
irrpic- more trlse is the wavs of
? women.
She suddenly thrust Haines' hands
from ber own and stood staring at
him, wondering-woDdering If he had
guessed.
Strangely enough, under the circumstances,
the girl was the first to reefer
and hreak the aWkward silence.
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