WITH
SYNOPSIS.
A foolish young tenderfoot becomes
fascinated with th bold, artful wife of a
drunken prospector In a western mining
town. They prepare to elope In a blind
ing blizzard but are confronted by the
maudlin husband. He is shot by the
wife, but the chivalrous boy pins a
note to the body taking the crime
upon himself. In their flight to the
railroad station the woman's horse
falls exhausted: the youth puts her
on his own and follows hanging to the
stirrup strap. Seeing he la an Impedi
ment, th woman thrusts her escort Into
a snow drift and rides on. Half-froren
ha stumbles Into the railroad station Just
as the train bears the woman away.
Twentv-flve years later, this man. George
Gormly, is a niultl-mllllonaire in New
York. He meets Eleanor Haldane, a
beautiful and wealthy settlement worker,
and co-operates with her In her work.
Oormly bemes owner of a steamship
lino and finds himself frustrated In pier
and track extension plans bv grafting al
dermen, backed by the Gotham Traction
company. An automobile accident brings
the Haldanes to his country home. Oorm
ly announces that he will be mayor of
New York and redeem the city from cor
ruption. The political declaration of the
merchant prince produced a tremendous
sensation. The whole machinery of the
city's detective force is to be used to dlff
up something damaging to Gormly. The
proas heretofore unanimously favorable
to the merchant candidate, under pres
nure, divides and the campaign waxes
warm. A resolution is Introduced grant
ing a gratuitous renewal of the traction
.franchise. Gormly offers ten million dol
lars for the franchise. Miss Haldane con
'gratulates Gormly on what she terms a
jtiew Declaration of Independence, and he
.makes an unexpected declaration of love,
lie Is shocked by the confirmation of his
jeusplcions that her father Is the head
and backbone of the notorious traction
company which he Is attempting to over
throw. Toung Haldane discovers his
' father's connection with the Gotham
fraction company, and Is Incensed. In
nn Interview between Gormly and Hal
'dane the latter practically offers his
da.oghter's hand as a bribe for Gormly to
:wlthdraw. Gormly refuses. In an Inter
Ivlew with Gormly Miss Haldane learns
if her father's baseness though Gormly
vainly tries to hide It.
CHAPTER XIV. Continued.
"Stop! You are on oath, now, by
jyour honor as a gentleman, by your
jbelief in God, by your faith in woman
ikind, by your love for me! I want the
jtrath. Indeed, it is almost unneces
sary for you to speak. Your silence,
(everything, confirms me in that belief.
A man who would do what he haa
'done would not hesitate at that. But
!l must know, and I must have your
'answer." .
"And I can't tell you."
"You can."
""Well, I won't then. I have told
you enough. Anything else you must
.get from other people."
"And so you refused me?" said the
I girl standing up. "Look at me!" She
i stretched her hands out and stood
'boldly, magnificently, defiantly before
:him. "You refused me! Many men
lhavb wooed me; many men have
! sought mo for a wife. I did not love
jyoti, I don't love you; but I might
jhavo learned. You might have had
me. You say I am the dearest desire
;of your heart. A little silence, a pa
jper torn in two, a momentary forget
j fulness, and I should have been
! yours." She picked the paper up from
jthe table as she spoke and held it be
jfor her. "I could tear it up in a mo
jment Think what you might have
had." She stepped slowly around the
Itable and approached him. She came
jr-.earer to him.' He stared at her fixed
jly without moving. She was by his
islde now. She laid her hand upon his
j shoulder. "Me," she said, "for this,
land you refused!"
He nodded, ft was the hardest task
ilifo had ever laid upon him, this dis
cussion. "What are you made of?" she cried.
"I don't know," gasped the man
; hoarsely. "I was a fool!"
"Will you take me now?" she inter
posed swiftly, "and suppress this? If
il say that I will marry you tomorrow,
will you keep this a secret forever?"
"Great God!" whispered the man.
'how you tempt me!"
"Will you do it? Answer!"
"No!" said Gormly faintly at la3t.
I won't!"
: "Why not?"
"For two reasons. I would not be
worth your respect for a moment II I
did. I could never hope for your love
in that case. And I won't have any
worndirf that I have to buy.".
"And we have both tried to bribe
jyon my father and I, and we have
Iboth failed" '
. "You did not try to bribe me, El
eanor. I am sure you did not know
what you were doing."
"I did," she said. "I wanted to test
you. I wanted to try you. I wanted
to see if it was true. I wanted as
surance that my father had done this
thing. I wanted to measure your man
hood by my womanhood. Oh!" she
said in a sudden change of. mood, "the
light has gone out of life for me!"
"My dear child," he began tenderly.
She shook her head and sat down
once more and once more buried her
face in her hands. He ventured to
come near to her. He laid his own.
hand on her head and stroked it gent
ly, murmuring broken words; mean
ingless, save to her on whose ears
they fell indistinctly. At last she lifted
her head and looked at him. She
caught his hand in both her own.
"You are a great man," 6b e said, "a
strong man, a true man, and I am
only a poor, wretched woman. I kiss
!the hand that smites me." Before he
jcould prevent it she suited the action
to the word. "Now," she said, "go.
jYou have done all you can. I under
stand. I believe. Sometimes I thick
I But won't you go now?"
SOME INCIDENTAL
RELATION It) VIE WOMAN
Cvj?u3 To wnsEND Brady'
utarfMTom By Dzswborh Melvll
cmhct set artftmrr: ro 4 cwr
Without another word Gormly turn
ed and left her.
He found Miss Stewart and young
Haldane still in the hall. They stared
at him awestruck at the tragedy in
his grim face.
"Go to her!" he said as he passed
them. "She needs you."
CHAPTER XV.
The Last Council of War.
Summoned by LIffey at Haldane'e
urgent request, the governing mem
bers of the ring met that night at their
secret rendezvous. There were pres
ent besides the two mentioned, Van
Slyke and McRonald, Rutherford, Con
nell, Habberley, Benson representing
the allies, and the mayor. When Hal
dane arrived, he found the others al
ready assembled.
"Well?" asked LIffey as soon as the
other entered the room.
"He's found it out and he's going to
do it."
"Found out what and going to do
what?" asked Rutherford.
"Gormly has got onto us, Mr. Ru
therford," was Liffey's reply. The boss
realized instantly that Haldane had
failed to postpone the disclosure.
"He's found out the secret history of
the Gotham - Freight Traction com
pany. He's found out the whole bloom
in history; where we git our money,
how we spend it."
"And who was the traitor that be
trayed you?" asked Benson fiercely.
"I'd like to know that Bame," an
swered Liffey, hia fat jaws clamping
together, his '.'pompadour" crest bris
tling. "I don't imagine anybody betrayed
us," said Rutherford. "We've known
all along that the thing was bound
to get out sooner or later. If it had
'He's an Adulterer, a Thief,
been later, It wouldn't have made
much difference; but now Is he
going to publish It?"
"He is," answered Haldane.
"When?" demanded Van Slyke.
"Tomorrow. It will be in every pa
per in the city except our own."
"Great God!" exclaimed Connell. "If
we could only stave It off for just
three more days. Gimme three days,
and "
"Did you bid for him?" questioned
the chief of police.
Haldane nodded.
"Did you go high enough?" asked
Benson.
"I went so high," said the man,
"that his refusal covered me with
worse shame than the publication will
do."
"And it wasn't enough?" queried
Rutherford, who had a clearer compre
hension of what the offer might have
been than the others.
"No."
"So it's coming out tomorrow, I
it?"
"Yes."
"Well, I don't know what we can
do," said LIffey, "but grin and take
it."
"Gents, hear me!" burst out Connell.
"I can't throw no light oa this situa
tion; I don't see no way of keeping
this rot out of the papers unless we
could burn up the plants or close 'em
down some way. which I'd like to
have the job of doin'. But . we ain't
beat yet.
"This man that's posln as an angel
of virtue" before the people. of New
York and talkin. reform and so on is
an adulterer, a thief, and a self-confessed
murderer."
"What!" roared the men present.
"You're dreaming! You're mad!"
"I am, am I? Well, you Just wait,"
returned the chief, "and you'll find I'm
the sanest man in tha whole bunch.
You know the other night when you
was'Jammin' through the franchise at
the city hall and Gormly made his
great play?'
"Yes."
"Well, one of my men I had a
bunch of plain clothes men scattered
through the crowd with his eyes and
ears open heard a man say, lookin at
Gormly etandin' up on that automobile
and givin' the crowd his infernal rot,
'Well, if that ain't a dead ringer for
a boy named George Fordyce that 1
used to know back in Kill Devil Camp
in Wyoming twenty-five years ago, I'll
eat my hat!' My man sized up the
speaker at once. He was a big west
ern man free of speech as he was
with his money. His name's Bill Ham
ilton, and he's a big Montana mine
owner. They call him . colonel out
there. They struck up a friendship
right away, had a few drinks together,
and my man got enough out of him to
get on the trail of the story we been
lookin' for without Hamilton in the
least suspectln' what he was after. I
sent a dozen of the smartest men on
the force out to Wyoming to rustle up
old inhabitants of Kill Devil Camp,
which has long since been blotted off
the map. It seems that this Gormly,
or Fordyce, or whatever his name is,
once run away with a miner's wife,
first robbln' him of his pile and shoot
in the miner."
The little group of men listened to
the chief's startling story in a fever
of excitement and surprise, which Con
nell greatly enjoyed.
"Now, we knew that he never came
to New York with no woman," he ran
on. "We've got his whole history from
the day he landed here, every minute
of it. We reasoned that the woman
must have deserted him, or he her.
Naturally she'd make for one of the
big cities, especially if she had the
money. We believed that she had it;
for he had practically none wheri he
landed. He went to work as a clerk
and a Self-Confessed Murderer!"
in a store at Ave dollars a week. A
woman like that'd be pretty sure to
turn up on the town somewhere soon
er or later. We've got a detailed his
tory of everyone of 'em here and else
where. If she went down to the gut
ter, she'd be dead. If she went up
to the parlor, she'd be alive still. It
was only necessary to look among
those that are runnin' the thing. We
found one, who'd come from Wyo
ming. I went to see her myself, and
I've got her confession here." He
hauled a paper out of his pocket "She
didn't want to tell nothing about it.
She don't come out of it especially
creditable; but we had means to make
her. All we got to git now is the
stuff from Wyoming, a witness or two
to identify Gormly with Fordyce, and
that's the end of him."
Connell snapped his finger in de
rision. "Has the woman seen the man?"
asked Benson as soon as he could get
his breath.
"Often."
"Does he still "
"Lord, he don't know she's on the
earth."
"Is she sure he is the man?"
"She says so."
"Has she never tried to blackmail
him?"
"Never. She's glad enough to let
him alone, I guess."
"Why isn't she witness enough
then?" asked the district attorney.
"Well, she's mixed up in it in rather
a na3ty way. She's afraid she'll suffer
if her part of it is made public."
" "I can fix that," said Rutherford
coolly enough. "A promise of immun
ltyand "
"She won't do it," returned the
chief. "You can drive these women
just so far, and there you stop. Be
sides, it ain't never goin-' to come into
court." , ,
"What do you mean?" asked Ben
son. "I mean," said Connell emphatically,
"that Gormly is goin to give up the
game." .
"Give up the game!" repeated Hal
dane. "That's what I said. It's goin to be
put up to him as to whether he wants
this told or whether he withdraw
from the field."
"You might back your 'put up' to
him with a warrant for murder, I be
lieve," said the district attorney.' "If
the evidence is what you say, I'll have
charges preferred against him."
"All right," answered the chief.
"Mr. Rutherford and I will fix that up.
Now, gentlemen, you leave this to me.
I am accustomed to deal with crim
inals) and I'll fix Gormly. I ought to
have sail the reports in my hands the
day after tomorrow."
"Wouldn't it be well to spring it to
night?" "Hardly. Besides it's too late. Not
even Gormly himself could keep the
etuff out of the papers now.
"I guess now, Mr. Haldane," said
Rutherford, as the assembly dissolved
and the two found themselves alone
together, the others being gone, "that
you are rather glad than otherwise
that your bribe did not work."
"Yes, I suppose so. I don't know,"
answered Haldane brokenly. "I had
heard some intimations of this, noth
ing definitely. Connell has been very
close mouthed. I tried to bluff Gorm
ly with that I don't know what ef
fect the disclosure is going to have.
I don't know how true it is. It seems
rather suspicious."
"Connell had better be careful what
he does," returned Rutherford. "He'd
better be very sure of his facts."
"Why did you leave the handling of
the affair to him?"
"Well, he'd make a good scapegoat
if anything went wrong," answered
Rutherford with cynical indifference.
Now, as it happened, Colonel Bill
Hamilton was not so guileless as he
looked. After the first exclamation
and the first few confidences over the
drinks which he gave to the plain
clothes man who had so adroitly
sought to get his story on that event
ful night, Colonel Bill shut up like a
clam. The interest of the stranger in
the story was suspicious. Colonel Bill
(knew a great many things that he had
not told, and did not intend to tell un
less it was necessary. Therefore, he
soon got rid of his new friend and
went to his room to think it over.
He was morally certain that Gormly
and the man whom he had known as a
boy as George Fordyce were one and
the bame. Fortunately he tad always
liked Fordyce, and he was not dis
posed to do anything that would in
jure him.
Of course he had heard, as had ev
eryone else inthe United States, of
the remarkable campaign of George
Gormly for the mayoralty of New
York. He had not had a great amount
of personal interest in the matter,
however. But when he identified
Gormly with Fordyce, the affair at
once engaged his keenest attention.
Since the day he had left Kill Devil
Camp, he had never heard one word
of either the man or the woman. He
had supposed, as everyone else had,
that they hr.d perished in the storm,
and although their bodies had never
been recovered there were plenty cC
reasons to account for that.
What was he to do? Wa3 he to ser
Gormly, or Fordyce as he called him,
and put him on his guard? Or waf
he to wait and be governed by clr
cumstances? This, was snot an easy
problem to decide; but Colonel Bll
Hamilton finally came to the conclu
sion that his best game was the wait
ing one. Besides, he liked to play a
lone hand, and he felt every confi
dence that he could do it.
Meanwhile he determined to fortify
himself with such evidence as ha
could secure, and at the proper time,
if the story was ferreted out and an
attempt was made to make use of it,
he would, as he phrased it, "butt Into
the game!" He set the telegraph to
work, therefore, and presently receiv
ed from his partner in Butte by ex
press a tin box full of very private
official documents. Thereafter he
amused himself by following the prog
ress of the campaign and doing some
highly profitable local investigating on
his own account, the result of which'
filled him with Joy and satisfaction.
The demonstration of the alliance
between the Gotham Freight Traction
company and the Sachem society, the
publication of the membership of Hal
dane and his friends in the traction
company, the exhibition of its iniquit
ous processes, came off according to
schedule. Such a storm of wrath and
indignation rose in the public breast
after the disclosure as had never
been equaled In any political campaign
In New York.
The stocks of the Gotham Freight
Traction company had fallen off terri
fically, and every other interest fur
thered by the syndicate of which Hal
dane was the head had suffered ac
cordingly. The city was on the verge
of a tremendous panic. Unrest, ex
citement, uncertainty, were in the air.
The people had been aroused as never
before.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Too much sun is as great an evil is
too little.
For the
The Yarn Charm to Find Partners.
One of the oldest stunts for Hallo
we'en was to find one's future mate
by the aid of a ball of yarn. A
maiden was to talc a ball of yarn and
toss it through an open window and
then hold the end in her hand and
walk away. If she was to carry with
in the year the ball would be picked
up by the man inside, who began to
wind up the yarn and thus draw her
back to him. A young matron should
use this method of finding partners
for her Hallowe'en supper, which is
to be served at 8:30. Knowing the
preference of her guests, she will have
the right man for each maid conceal
ed in the garage. One at a time the
girls will be given a ball of warn,
there being one ball for each girl, and
she is to go alone through the yard,
which Is to be lighted only with
"Jacks" In the trees. When the man
winds up his maiden, who is instruct
ed not to drop her end no matter
what happens, they will go out a rear
door of the garage and into the house
by a side entrance. Then the next
man is slipped into the hiding place
and another girl started to meet her
fate. There are to bs ten couples, so
this will add much to the fun and
mystery. If the details as given here
are not practical, the same scheme
may be worked by throwing the ball
over a transom or over a bannister
down stairs.
Recipe for Chop Suey.
I give the recipe for chop suey
which is fine to serve at Hallowe'en
feasts. The rice is to be eaten with
chop sticks, which are to be retained
as souvenirs, each pair being tied
with red ribbon.
One five-pound chicken.
A pound and a half of tender beef.
One pound of celery.
Two pounds of bean sprouts.
One ounce of Chinese sauce, known
as sol.
One can of mushrooms.
Salt, thickening.
Cook the chicken and beef together
till they are very tender, take out all
the bones, add the mushrooms, onions
sliced in very thin slices, the celery
sliced in thin pieces, and do not cook
very long; then add the bean sprouts
and the thickening, and last the sol.
Enough for ten people.
To obtain the bean sprouts soak
beans in water till they absorb it all,
then keep them damp and in a very
warm place. The sprouts come very
quickly, so there is plenty of time to
prepare them. Sol may be purchased
at a large grocery or at a Chinese
store; lacking these, use Worcester
shire sauce. Serve the chop suey in
howls with rice and the tea in cups
without handles. For the table cen
terpiece have a witch's kettle with in
cense burning Inside.
New and Old Tricks.
"We are tired of bobbing for ap
ples," said a young devotee of the de
partment who was asking me for new
stunts for Oct. 31. But did you ever
bob for them prepared in this way?
In a light zinc tub which may be
brought from the laundry put at least
a dozen red apples, and In four of
them conceal a ring, a thimble, a but
ton and a coin. Just press the arti
cles carefully into the fruit and the
mutilation is not discernible in the
water. The boy or girl getting the
ring will be married or engaged with
in the year. The thimble means no
such luck; the one getting it must
remain single or unattached for an
other twelve months. The coin means
wealth and the button means one
must win fame or fortune by one's
own exertions.
Who remembers the old trick of
nvalidPs
Anything that tends to the comfort
and ease of an invalid, who may for
a long period be confined to bed, Is
well worth attention, and our sketch
illustrates a capital suggestion that
may be carried out without much diffi
culty. The bed should be placed In the
corner of the room against the wall,
and a shelf about nine inches wide by
two feet six inches long, fastened to
the wall in the position shown. This
may be easily done, and a piece of
board of the size mentioned should be
procured, and three strong metal
brackets of the nature indicated by
diagram "A" in the Bketch fastened
on underneath. Brackets of this kind
fan be obtained for very little at any
b-onn-orgar's, and the shelf can then
Hostess
trying to get a coin but of a pan of
flour with the teeth, the hands being
tied behind the back? This is a laugh
able sight. Sometimes a wedding ring
is concealed in the flour, and the on
getting it will be married within tha
year. Of course, the coin denote
wealth.
Party Given In Barn.
I must tell you briefly of one party
to be given in a barn, where the deco
rations will be branches of autama
leaves, which remain brilliant in tha
country far longer than la tows.
There are to be grinning "Jacks" set
on posts along the driveway, and la
side the barn all the lanterns are to
have electric lights to avoid possibil
ity of fire. Cucumbers, squash and
many other vegetables are to be made
Into lanterns and candle holders. Tha
hostess is to dress as an old witch,
and all the girls are to have witches
hats, surmounted by black cats, pre
sented to them. The boys will weaf
hats of scarlet and adorned wita
horns.
A Chinese feast Is to be served at
a table where black and scarlet drag
ons will run rampant. The part of
the barn reserved for the party Is to
be gay with Chinese lanterns, fan,
screens and parasols.
A Hallowe'en Party Invitation.
Use a Hallowe'en post card or a
pumpkin-shaped card and write ths
following jingle for an invitation to a
party on Oct. 31. It is appropriate foi
either children or grown-ups:
At our house on Monday night
iou wui sureiy see a signi.
Ghosts, and goblins,' witches, too.
Are busv nrenrlns" fates for vou.
The hour Is 8, don't be late,
But come be brave at any rate-
Hallowe'en Cakes.
Often a few novel recipes have t
creep into the department, so now foi
these very unusual and seasonable
rules. First for "Jack olantern"
cakes: From a plain loaf cake baked
in a sheet cut pumpkin-shaped cakes
about two and a half inches wide and
two inches thick and ice with frosting
colored yellow, with the yolk of eggs
or with saffron. While the Icing It
Olll rflnlof Inoavf wa o m oil ion.
dies for the eyes and nose and a row
of them for the teeth.
For the "clock faced" cakes, buy
few vanilla wafers, coat with vanilla
frothing and let them dry. With melt
ed chocolate and a new small paint
brush you make the numerals of th
clock, the hands in the center point
ing to midnight, "the witching hour.
Children adore these confections,
which require only a little time and
patience. I am sure every mother Is
more than willing to do this.
MADAME MERRL
Green is the ruling favorite for even
ing gowns.
Three piece suits of serge are In
great favor.
White serge has Jumped into favor
with a bound.
Skirts show a decided tendency to
ward drapery.
There seems to be no end of black
velvet sashes.
Satins continue to "hold a firm posi
tion in fashion.
Rows of tiny buttons are used on
wraps and gowns.
The directoire coat may be a fea
ture of fall fashions.
Bed Shelf
4y
be securely nailed to the wall.
Diagram "B" shows the under sidi
of the shelf and indicates the posl
tion in which the three brackets should
be fastened. For appearance sake,
a little flounce of some pretty cre
tonne can be tacked all round the
edge of the shelf, and the material
may easily be arranged so that It
forms a tiny frill at the top with a
flounce hanging down underneath.
A shelf of this kind will prove the
greatest boon to an invalid, as on It
may be kept well within reach all
those little things in the shape ol
books, papers, watch, glass, etc.. that
are always eo necessary for the la
valid to have handy, and who may
thus obtain them with the least pa
Bible exertion.
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