Then at Last
WITH
a
SYNOPSIS.
A foolish young tenderfoot becomes
fascinated with the 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 tho 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
tirrup strap. Seeing he is an Impedi
ment, the woman thrusts her escort into
a snow drift and rides on. Half-frozen
he stumbles into the railroad station just
as the train bears the woman away.
Twenty-five years later, this man, George
Gormly, is a multi-millionaire in New
York. He meets Eleanor Haldane, a
beautiful and wealths settlement worker,
and co-operates with her in her work.
Gormly becomes owner of a steamship
line and finds himself frustrated in pier
and track extension plans by grafting al
dermen, backed by the Gotham Traction
company. An automobile accident brings
the Haldanes to his country home. Gorm
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
ensation. The whole machinery of . the
city's detective force is to be used to dig
up something damaging to. Gormly. The
press heretofore unanimously favorable
to the merchant Candidate, under pres
sure, 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
new Declaration of Independence, and he
He is shocked by the confirmation of his
suspicions that her father is the head
and backbone ' of the notorious traction
company which he is attempting to over
throw. Young Haldane discovers his
father's connection with the Gotham
Traction company, and is incensed. In
an Interview between Gormly and Hal
dane the latter practically offers his
daughter's hand as a bribe for Gormly to
withdraw. Gormly refuses. In an inter
view with Gormly Miss Haldane learns
of her father's baseness though Gormly
vainly tries to hide it. Members of the
Tting find the woman for whose sake
Gormly declared himself a murderer and
decide to force him to withdraw under
threat of prosecution. The chief of police
visits Gormly. who makes a full confes
sion of the truth. Young Haldane runs
the gauntlet of the police and carries the
confession to the newspapers for publica
tion. By accidnt the newspapers find Bill
Hamilton, one or the men who were at
"Camp Kill Devil" and know the truth
Hamilton's story, and New York goes
wl!d with enthusiasm for Gormly.
CHAPTER XVIII. Continued.
"Don't you want to hear what they
Bay aDout your
"I had rather hear what you have
to say than anything in the world,
and I want to tell you first of all what
comfort, what pride, what satisfac
tion, I take in your presence here. I
know you read the miserable story.
Your brother had my permission to
tell It to you last night. If you were
awake." .
"I was awake and waiting for him."
"Your interest does me much hon
or," continued the man, "and that you
have come to me now this morning is.
as 1 say, the greatest thing that could
happen to me. I don't really care now
what the world thinks'. You have
given me evidence enough that you
till respect me."
"You don't know all the evidence
j-et." eaid the woman faintly.
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If she had consulted her Inclinations,
she would have run away; but that
could not be.
"Yes," said Gormly vaguely, scarce
ly noting her low voiced statement.
"Now that It is all over and now that
I have lost you, if indeed It is proper
.to say I had lost what I had never
possessed and never could have pos
sessed, you will understand that it
was this incident to which I alluded
when you said you-respected me be
cause I had been a perfectly straight,
square man. Your words cut me to
the heart; not because I wasn't
straight or square now or that I had
not made what amends I could for the
actions of a boy and a fool since I had
become a man, but because after this
I could never persuade you or any
one that I had not always been so,
and because I could not bear to have
even your respect on a false pretense.
I wanted to tell you many timeSi and
you know of course that if things had
shaped themselves differently and you
could have cared for me, I should
have told you the whole story before
I allowed you to say you would be
come my wife."
"I am sure that you would have
done so, Mr. Gormly," said the girl.
"And that you have come here to
give me that assurance, to show me
that you have not lost confidence in
mo in spite of the frightful tangle in
our affairs, my antagonism to your
to the Gotham Freight Traction com
pany and then this. That I take It
was your purpose in coming?"
"Yes," faltered the girl, "that,
and" ' - -
"What more?" asked the man.
"Whatever it is, if it is in my power
to give It, it is yours. What is It
that you want?"
The woman opened her mouth to
speak. She moistened her lips. Words
apparently were difficult, perhaps im
possible. "Wrhat Is It that you want, Miss
Haldane?" asked Gormly again.
"I want you!" she said in her low,
clear voice.
Gormly lifted his hand and stared
at her.
"You want me!" be- faltered.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean to be your wife," was the
direct answer.
"My wife!"
"Yes. That is, If you still want
me."
Gormly stared at her In amazement.
"Do I understand aright?" said the
man, shutting his teeth together.
"After all that is In the paper this
morning, do you mean to say that you
will marry me?"
"I do mean Just that," was the an
ewer. "But," said the man, "you said you
did not love me, and "
"Must I do all the wooing?" cried
the girl passionately.
"You offered yoursel Wo me once
before," went on Gorml. (relentlessly.
"And you refused me.. Will you do
so again?"
"Why do you come to me now?"
"Can't you think of the reason?"
"I don't want to think; I want to
hear."
"I love you then," said the girl
resolutely. "You are the bravest,
noblest, most splendid' man on earth.
If you will take me, I will be the hap
piest, proudest, thankfullest woman
that the sun shines on."
"Take you!" repeated Gormly. "But
I can't understand "
"Will you understand this?" asked
the girl. .
She walked slowly toward him. She
laid her hand' on his shoulder. She
lifted her face to his. His arm went
around her waist. What she had be
gun, he finished. He swept her to
him. She gave herself up yieldingly
to his embrace. When his lips sought
hers, there wa3 no avoidance. Her
arm slipped round bis neck and tight
ened there. And then at last he un
derstood. After awhile she drew
away from him.
"You don't ask me what I have
done?" she said.
"I neither know nor care since you
are here and you are mine."
"Perhaps I should not have been
here," she returned, "if we had not
been already engaged and the engage
ment already announced."
"I am very stupid this morning."
said Gormly in some bewilderment.
"You certainly are," was the an
swer. "For a man who aspires to be
mayor of New York, you are quite the
stupidest and dearest person Imagin
able." "I have wit enough at least to know
where I can get orrect Information
upon all points."
"And where is that?"
"Here!" said Gormly, pressing with
his own the loveliest Hps in the wtrld,
which smiled at him and were not re
fused his touch. "What have you
done and how has our engagement,
which, so far. as I know, was not en
tered into until a moment since, been
announced?"
"Head that!" she cried, releasing
herself from hi3 grasp and handing
him the neglected copy of The Planet.
She turned to the editorial . page
and pointed to a postscript to the lead
er of the morning, which was a dis
cussion highly eulogistic of Gormly's
action and character. The postscript
was in the form of a belated com
munication which had been received
at the office of The Planet at the last
moment, and had been forced into the
paper because It furnished the final
and completing touch to the other
revelations it contained. It had been
printed in heavy black capitals, double
spaced. Coming closer to her, so that
' he held her with one arm, Gormly
took the paper with the other and
read: .
"The engagement of Mr. George
Gormly to Mis3 Eleanor Haldane is
authoritatively announced. The fu
ture mayor of New York is to be con
gratulated upon having won for his
promised wife the young woman, who
not only from her beauty of mind and
person, but because of her lively and
practical interest in the poor, the op
pressed and suffering, is easily first
among the daughters of our great city.
The Planet feels that this announce
ment supplies the completing touch to
the other admirable qualifications
which Mr. Gormly possesses for -the
great office to which he has aspired
and to which the people mean to see
him elected tomorrow."
"Who did it?" asked Gormly.
"I did." . c
"But why?"
"First of all, because I found out
that I loved you." .
"Why did you do it last night?"
"Because I believed that such an
announcement this morning, with Its
implication of trust, and honor, and
affection, would do more to establish
you In the public confidence than al
most anything that could be Im
agined." "You have made my election cer
tain. But whether you have or not, I
could almost believe that winning you
I don't care."
Why Girls Excel in Study
;
Early Development of Their Percep
tive Faculties P.equired by Their
Weaker Physical State.
The superiority of female students,
both children and adults, has been
mentioned and explained hundreds af
times, and yet the full pedagogic sig
nificance of the fact still seems to be
Ignored. 'The girls In many a co
educational college furnish an over
whelming percentage of the best stu
dents, and yet in later years the men
take the lead In every one of the lines
in which as boys they were so back
ward. It is all due to the well known
fact that In her weaker physical state
self-protection has demanded an early
development of the perceptive facul
ties. Age for age, girls perceive un
derstandingly what boys scarcely no
tice. The differences between the two
sexes are so great that It is unscien
tific to class them together, ana mere
la a growing suspicion that each is in
jured by current co-educational meth
od, the boys unduly stimulated and the
girls retarded. In Bpite of this self
evident conclusion pedagogues seem
bent upon the Impossible task of mak
ing the boys keep up with the girls
a plan sure to be followed by far
reaching bad results. The boys are li
able to become discouraged, while the
girls are led to embark upon careers
"Don't say that," Interrupted the
woman, delighted nevertheless at thU
splendid declaration.
"Your father and mother, do they
know?" '
"Certainly. I told them at break
fast this morning."
"How did they take it?"
"You can imagine what my mother
thought and said," answered the girl,
smiling faintly.
"And your father?" .
She sighed deeply.
"My father, I imagine, -is not un
willing to have a friend at court.
What are you going to do when you
are elected?"
"Marry you the first thing."
"I mean after that."
"Live to make you happy."
"Do be reasonable! I mean what
are you going to do with the opposi
tion?" "I am going to do Justly and fairly
by all men, whoever they are, what
ever they may have done. Mine shall
be no policy, of ruin. Some things
must be .broken down; but my aim
shall be to upbuild."
"I thought so," returned the girl.
"And what are you going to do with
the one woman?"
"I am going to love her as no wom
an was ever loved before in this
world."
How long this might have continued
can never be told. Young Haldane in
terrupted them.
: "Mr. Gormly," he said, "I see you
have heard the news."
"I have heard the essential part of
It from your sister."
"Dc you mean to tell me that you
haven't read the paper yet? Well,
sit down and read it, or I'll withdraw
my influence and vote against you. I
suppose all Eleanor told you was the
news of her engagement?"
"Well, wasn't that enough?"
"Enough!" cried the young man.
"Why, you want to read the interview
with Col. Bill Hamilton. It's the fin
est thing that ever appeared. Every
body knows that you didn't shoot the
man, but that the woman did. The7
know, too, that you gave her your
horse In the snow and that she aban
doned you. Why, man, you're a hero!"
"To be perfectly frank with you,
Haldane, this is all most Interesting
and gratifying. How on earth Bill
Hamilton turned up at the right mo
ment and told the truth, I don't know;
l)ut as a matter of f act,s I do truly
care more for your sister's, action and
I get more satisfaction out W the fact
that I am going to be married to her
Immediately after the election than I
will In winning, if we win."
"You are sure to win," said Hal
dane. "I told you not to say that," said
the girl to her lover.
"Now read the paper, and then we'll
go uptown."
What more 13 there to tell? Miss
Haldane, in view of the new relation
ship between them, boldly rode up to
the auditorium in the great store by
the side of Gormly in the tonneau of
her brother's big car. The enormous
crowd that filled the great hall to
overflowing, that packed the streets
outside, that suspended all traffic; the
addresses that Gormly made; the
frantic cheering that greeted him as
he stood overlooking the greatest mul
titude that had ever filled that sec
tion of Broadway, Miss Haldane on
one side and his old frie-d of a quar
ter of a century back, Col. Bill Hamil
ton, on the other, with Haldane, White
field and a great galaxy of supported
in the background, including Abbott,
the cub' reporter, scribbling like mad
on the greatest story of the day
these have all passed into history.
The result of the election, which oc
curred next day, la of course known
to everybody.
"It is over," he said, "and we have
won!"
"Yes. No one congratulates you as
I."
"I have a great deal to live up to,
was the slow answer.
"As mayor of New York?" she ques
tioned softly.
"As your husband," he replied.
as wago earners In professions in
which failure"l3 Inevitable. American
Medicine.
The Hampton Court Maze.
Ninety-eight thousand persons have
paid a penny each for admission to
the famous maze at Hampton Court
palace this summer, the largest num
ber for some years. It is estimated
that about 25 per cent, of these were
foreigners, mostly French and Ger
man. During August 24,000 people
pasted through the turnstiTcs. For a
number of years the takings at the
mae were the perquisites of one of
the palace attendants, upon whom the
right to collect and retain them was
conferred by the late Queen Victoria.
Since his death a few days ago.ths
takings have gone to his majesty's of
flee of works. London Standard.
Accommodating.
"Mrs. Weeds." said Mr. Binks, "1
asked your daughter to marry me,
and she referred me to you."
"I'm sure that's very kind of Susie,
but then she always was a dutiful
girl. Really. Mr. Binks. I hadn't
thought of marrying again at my time
of life, but since you insists, suppose
we make the wedding-day the twen
tieth of this monUi."
fed x,v . HL
Parrish V- 'T
Fifty Year
The titantic struggle between the North and
South was being waged. The semi-centennial
of this greatest of all modern wars
makes everything pertaining to it of pe
culiar interest at the present time, and a
stirring Civil War story is particularly
appropriate now. It is for that reason we
have arranged tq print:
If Hue Mwtflu
By RANDALL PARRISH
Jutiorof "Bob Hampton of Placer," "Keith of the Border, Vr.
This is the greatest of all the great historical stories
Mr. Parrish has given to American readers. It is
a swift, intense, adventurous romance, with some
mystery, as much action as is possible to crowd
into one story, plenty of realism of what may be
termed the romantic variety, and a glow which will
enlist your sympathies as well as your attention.
On as black a night as any daring soldier could ask, a cavalry
captain rode out from the Army of Northern Virginia to
carry certain dispatches from General Lee through the Union
Lines. The officer is Captain Philip Wayne, and a gallant
Virginian in every sense of the word. He is at once plunged
from one dangerous adventure into another, and the dashing
style in which he describes them will keep you enthusiastic
and fairly breathless in your effort to keep up.
You Will Not Want to Miss a Single Line of the
Story and. We Strongly Advise You to '
Watch for the Opening Chapter
3S2E
Highest
Wajfes for
Greatest
Amount of
Work
ny G? A. CROSBY
Terre Hants. lad.
much work out of you as he can and pa,
as little for your meals as he can. -
I have been out harvesting in Nebraska. There I worked only ten
to eleven hours a day, with home-cooked food, the best a man ever could
get I went with a machine from one farm to another, staying on tha
average of two days on each place. The farms being small, it only took
about two days to finish a place. You were not expected to work so hard,
but the pay ran only from $2 to $2.50 a day, whereas in Kansas it run
as high as $4 a day.
I had about nine full weeks of it in the vicinity of Wymore, Neb.,,
and the beauty of it was the fact that now and then you could get a half
Jays rest while the machine was being msved to the next place.
City boys musn't think that they
work dav in and day out for sit weck3 m the hot broiling sun.
I
It has been my eroerience in the wheat
fields that where the highest wages are
paid there also the greatest amount of,
work is demanded. "Where the hours of
labor are from 4:50 in the morning until
8:30 at night a city chap can stand tha
strain for only one or two days at tha
most. Kansas pays high wages, but the
hours are long and the board is not always
60 extra. For there the farmer does not
feed you, as the harvest hands generally,
work for the owners of the thrashing ma
chine and naturally he wants to get aa
are strong enough; to get out an4
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