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1 A GenFrom Mi By THOMA. ]S0%)elized From the Play COPYRIGHT. 1909. BY ' " CHAI'TKK XX. rut < wi i. 10 AI:US. BOTH Randolph and Carolina were deeply affected by their father's words. The daujrlbcr attempted to take on herself the blame for her broth- ' er's action. "1 was the older one. 1 liii^'ht have stopped him if 1 had wished and should bear the burden." "Xo, no. father." exclaimed the youth, his iuborn self reliance prompt- j ,n" n? shiinlder the eonseouelines I J"e> "**v " ~~ " I of hLs own mistakes. "I. and I alone, j nut responsible f?r what I did. I did not realize thai ii was wrung. 1 will not hide behind Carolina." Carolina Lungdou bore herself better than was to have been expected under the strain of the painful Interview. She saw more clearly now how she had erred. She was undergoing an inward revolution that would make it impossible for her ever again to veer so far j from the line of duty to her father, her | famL'j and to herself. When Randolph had finished Carolina 1 took up her own defense, and eloquently she pleaded the defense of many a woman who yearns for what she has not got, for what may be beyond her reach?the defense of the woman who chafes under the limitations of worldly position, of sex and of opportunity. It was the defense of an ambitious woman. "Perhaps I ought to have been a man of the Langdon family," she exclaimed. "Father, oh, can't yon understand that I couldn't doze my life awav down on those plantations? Yon don't know what ambition is. I had I to have the world. 1 had to Lave | money. If I had l>eeo a man 1 would have tried big financial enterprises. I should have liked to fight for a fortune. You wouldn't have condemned me then. Yog might have said my methods were bold, but if I succeeded I would have been a great man. But just because I am a woman you think I must sit home with my knitting. No. father, the world does move. Women must have an equal chance with men. but I wish I had been a man!" "Even then 1 hope you would have been a gentleman," rebuked her father sternly. "Women should have an equal chance, Carolina. They should have an equal chance for the same virtues as men. not for the same vices." "But an equal chance," returned the girl fervidly. "There, father, you have admitted what I have tried to prove. The woman with the spirit of a man, the spirit that cries to a woman. 'Advance,' 'Accomplish,' 'Be something.' 'Strike for yourself.' cannot sit idly by while all the world moves on. If it is true that I have chosen the wrong means, the wrong way, to better iny lot I did It through ignorance, and x I x "Women must have an equal chance." that ignorance is the fault of the times in which I live, of the system that guides the era in which I live. "I am what the world calls 'educated,' but the world, the world of men. knows better. It laughs at me. It has cheated me because I am a woman. The world of men has fenced me In and hobbled me with convention, with precedent, with fictitious sentiment. If I pursue the business of men as they themselves would pursue it I am called an ungrateful daughter. If I should adopt the morals of men I would be called a fallen woman. If I adopted the religion of men I would have no religion at all. Turn what way I will"? "But not every woman feels the way you do, my daughter," broke in the senator. "No, you are right, because their spirit has been crushed by generations, by centuries of forced subserviency to men. They tell us we should be thankful that we do not live in China, where women are physical slaves to men. In oar country they are forced to be mental and social slaves to men. Is one tleman ississippi y A. WISE by Frederick. R. Toombs THOMAS A. WISE very much worse than the other?" "Then, ilear," and her father's ?one "no x-afV cro?tll? "If Vftll U'.'int illl eUUMl ?*hance?'want to be equal to a man? >ou must take .vour medicine with Randolph, like a man." "What are you goiug to ilo. sir':" she asked, afraid. "I'm going iu spoil ail your iiuie scheme. dear." he returned, smiling sadly. "I'm going. I fear, to make you lose all your%money. I'd like to make it easy for you. but 1 can't. You've got to take your medicine, children, and when It's all over back there in Mississippi 1 shall be able, I hope, to j pateh up your broken lives and togetli- I er we will work out your mistakes. I 1 can't think of that now. The honor of the l.angdotis calls. This is the time for the tight, and any one who lights against me must take the con.se queuccs." lie walked over uud touched the bell, j "Thomas," he said to the servant who responded, "take that letter at once to Senator Pea body, in the libra* | IT*" "What is it. sir?" asked Randolph. j "It's the call to arms." responded his father grimly. Senator Peabodv read the letter to which Haines had signed Laugdon's ; % j 1 /-? WU /.KnU In I name ana juinpeu up iruui um <uau the library in astonishment. Without word to the startled Stevens he rushed to confront Langdon. "What's the meaning of this?" he shouted as he burst in on the junior senator from Mississippi. "Of what?" asked the southerner, with a blandness that added fuel to Peabody's irritation. "Don't trifle with me, sir!" cried "the boss of the senate." "This letter. Too sent it. Evplain it! I'm in no mood to < Joke." Langdon looked at him calmly. "I think the letter is quite plain, senator," he said. "You can read." Then he turned to his daughter. "This discussion cannot possibly interest you. my dear. Will you go to the drawing room to receive our guests?" Carolina obeyed. She seemed to be I discovering new qualities in this father j whom she had considered to be too old fashioned for his time. "Now. senator, go ahead, and, Ran- i dolph, you bring Stevens." "You're switching to Culf City?" de manded Pea body. "I'm considering tlulf C!ty," agreed Langdon. Peabody brought down Ids fist on the table. "It's too late to consider anything, Langdon," he cried. "We're committed to Altaeooia. aua A!taeo? ia it is. t ; don't care what you heard of Gulf City. Now. I'd like to settle this thins ; in a friendly manner, Luugdon. 1 like j always for every member of the senate ! to have his share of the power and the j patronage. We've been plad to put you j forward in fills naval base matter. We j appreciate the straightforwardness, the 1 honesty of your character. You look : well. You're the kind of politician the public thinks it wants nowadays, but you've been in the senate long enough to know that bills have to pass, and , you know you can't get through anything without my friends, and I tell ; you now I'll throttle any Gulf City plan you bring up." "Then if you are as sure of that you 1 can't object to my being for Gulf City?" asked Langdon. "Are you financially Interested in Gulf City?" demanded Peabody. "Senator Peabody:" exclaimed Langdon. "Don't flare up. Langdon." retorted Peabody. "That' sort of thing has happened In the senate. There are often perfectly legitimate profits to be made in some regular commercial venture by a man who has inside information as to what's doing np on Capitol hill." 1<ri J ? * * AMl.ywl T A ? ^pnaiur i t;auuuv, OMI^U i>auguvu, "why are you so strong for Altacoola?" The Pennsylvanian hesitated. "Its natural advantages," he said at last. The southerner shook his bead. "Oh, that's all? Well, if natural advantages are going to settle it, and not influence, go ahead and vote, and I'll just bring in a minority report for Gulf City." "The boss of the senate" was in a corner now. "Confound it. Langdon. if you will have it. I am interested in Altacoola." Langdon nodded. "That's all I wanted to know," he said. "Now you see why it's got to be Altacoola," persisted the boss. "I don't mind telling you, then. Senator Peabody," answered Langdon calmly, "that my being for Gulf City was a bluff. I've been trying to draw you out. Gulf City is a mud bank and no more fitted to be a naval base than Keokuk. Ia. Altacoola it's got to be, for the pood of the country and the honor of Mississippi. "And one thing more, senator. I'd just like to add that not a single man connected with that committee is going to make a cent out of the deal. You get that straight?*' CHAPTER XXI. "IT YOU CAW'T BUT A SENATOR, TEXKAT EN HIE." _ SENATOR TEAftODY was the most surprised man In Washington when he heard the junior senator from Mississippi stale that no one was to enrich himself out of the government naval base project. lie heaped a mental anathema on the head of Stevens for saddling such a man on the senate "machine." for I.angdon would of course never had been ] tit en "naval affairs" (just now very important to the machine; without the "O. K." of Stevens, who had won a heretofore thoroughly reliable reputation as a judge of men. or of what purported to be men. The thought that at this time, of all times, there should be a man on the committee 011 naval affairs that could not be handled" was sufficient to make liim who reveled in the title of "boss of the senate" determine that lie must get another chief lieutenant to replace Stevens. who had proved so trustworthy li) me pa si. Mevfus unu iw>i n?.-> Mm;! As the vote of Laugdon could not be secured by humbug or in exchange for favors and as it could not l>e delivered," Peabody. of course, was willing to pay in actual cash for the vote. This was the final step, but one in political conspiracies of this nature?cash. Jiut Laugdon would not take cash, so I'eal>ody had to resort to the last agency of the trained and corrupt manipulator of legislation. He would threaten. Moreover, lie knew that to make threats effective, if it is possible to do so. they must lie led up to systematically?that is, they should be made at the right time. The scene must be set, as In a play. Senator Peabody glared at Langdon as though to convince the latter that to stand In his way would mean political destruction. "So nobody is going to make a cent, eh? Well, I suppose you want all the profits for yourself." Turning to Stevens. who had Just enter^ the Tennaylvanlan cried: "Do you but listen to our suddenly good friend laingdon. He wants to tie the only man to make money out of the naval ba*e. He won't listen to any other member of the naval committee making a cent out of It. Why, he"? "Great God. sir!" exclaimed Langdon. "You are going too far, Feabody. You state what is false, and you know It. you?you"? "Then you are willing that others should have their rightful share?" put in Stevens. "Oh, I understand now, senator." "No. no. no!" cried I^angdon. "You do not understand. Senator Stevens, and I must say I am ashamed to speak of you by the honorable title of senator. sir. I will not listen to any person enriching himself at the government expease. and I am your enemy, you, Feabody, and you, Stevens, beyond recall. You both know you misrepresent me." Langdon walked over to Stevens and faced him directly. "Do you renieinlter. Stevens. Lorlmer Hawkslee, back in wartime?" "Yes,"' said Stevens, puzzled, "I remember him?a very fine gentleman." The old planter sneered. "Yes, a very line gentleman! You remember be got rich out of contracts for supplies furnished to the Confederate government when it wasn't any too easy for the Confederate government to pay and when he was iu that government himself. I never quite thought that the act of a gentleman, Stevens. It seemed to me to be very like dishonesty. I refused to speak to Loritner Uawkslee iu the Carroll hotel at VKksburg. and when the people there asked me why I told them. I waut to warn you, Stevens, that I'm likely to meet you some time in the Carroll hotel at Vic-ksburg." Stevens backed away uDgrily. "1 catch your Insinuation, but"?he received a warning glance from Pea body and broke into a pleasant smile calculated to deceive the old planter? "this once I will overlook it because of our old friendship and the old days in Mississippi." "You are a tine talker, Langdon." said Peabody, coming to Stevens' rescue, "but I can readily see what you are driving at. You want an investigation. You think you will catch some of us with what you reformers call 'the goods,' but forget evidently the entirely simple facts that your family has invested In Altacoola lands more heavily probably than any one else among us. You want to raise a scandal. do you? Well, go on and raise It, but remember that you will have to explain how it happened that there is $50,000 Invested in the name of your sou and $125,000 in tne name 01 your daughter, Miss Carolina, not to mention a few thousands put in by the gentleman who, I am given to understand, Is to be your son-in-law, CongressmanNorton. [CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.l Notice to FarmersI will be at the following places on and after September 1 next, representing Maybank & Co, cotton buyers: Greelyville, Salters Depot, Lanes, Gourdins and all points on the Georgetown & Western Kailroad. Will pay highest market price for yonr cotton. J F Scott. Kingstree, S C, July 1, 1909. 7 1 3m FOB SALE. Brick in any quantity to suit purchaa er. The Beat Dry Press Machine-made .XBXeXCGEZ. x Special shapes made to order. Corre> pondence solicited before placing your orders. W. R. FUNK. i CONDITION LOWEST FOR YEARS. 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