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THE NEWS-ftECOUD, MARSHALL, NORTH CAROLINA. VI ft z?evv Wi ism Am 8YNOP8IS. vungivninta Bianaisn ana xne woman, fcellevlng themselves In love, spend a trial week aa man and wife In a hotel in northern New York under auumed name. The Woman awaken to the (act that ahe doea not love Standlsh and call their engagement off. Standlsh protect! undying devotion. Wanda Kelly, tele phone girl at the Hotel Keswick, Wash ington, la loved by Tom Blake, (on of the marriage and la re fused. She gives aa on of her reasons her determination to father, Congressman Frank E. Kelly. Congressman Standlsh, turned Insurgent, la fighting the MulUns bill, a measure U the Interests of the railroads. The a- l I I - 1. 1 ... .41 ..I. ohHI(. lsh In the hoM of pushing the bill throuui. Robertson, son-in-law of Jim Blakeand the letter's candidal for I speaker of the house, trie to win Stand' lsh over, and falling, threatens to dig luto his past. Jim Blake finds out about the episode of five year back tt -the northern New Tork hotel. He secures all the faota except the name of the Woman and proposes to use the story as a club to force Blandish to allow the Mulllns bill to pas. Tom Blake and hi father have a family row over the father' poWJeal the ories. Jim Blake lay a tray to secure ' the name of the Woman. He tells Miss Kelly that he Is going to have a talk with Standlsh. and that a Its conclusion the lat ter will call up a number on the telephone to wars the Woman. He olTera Mies Kelly 1100 for tnat number. At the conclusion of the Interlaw with Blake, Standlsh frets a New York wire and calls Plasa fool. A few minutes later Robertson tells Miss Kelly to call Plasa 1001 and get hi , wife Or cn of the servants on the phone. Miss Kelly refuses to give Jim Blake the umber called by Standlsh. Blake has a lory of the Standlsh episode prepared gady to send out as soon a the Worn i'a name 1 learned. Tom Blake tells s tether of hi love for Wanda Kelly, and a family row ensues. Blake's daugh ter Grace arrives with her husband. Gov ernor Robertson. - Miss Kelly calls on Oraca to warn her that her good name la threatened by Impending exposure of Standlsh. and la Insulted for her pain. Grace appeal to Standlsh to give up the fight In order to proteit her name. He , refuse. Grace sends tor Miss Kelly, Wanda's aslstance. Wanda declares shs rill newer betray the Woman. CHAPTER XV. A Wasted Plea. Grace started guiltily at ber hus band's troubled Question. He took tar race betweet. bla banda and ralaed It to tbe light , "You're mi" he exclaimed In quick dread. ."Ton look actually ghastly. Shall I aend for a doctor?" "What nonsense!" ahe laughed. "I'm all right Just a little tired. A good nlght'a Bleep will put me on my, feet again.". : 7 . ' . "I've buried myself so deep In poll' tics." he frowned self accusingly, "that . I hadn t sense enough to remember . that you might be worn out and might rant to co to Led. But I didn't notice that you looked badly at the station. It wasn't till just now when the light happened to Strike your face Oh, but Fin glad to see you here again, sweet heart!" - "Really?" ahe asked almost timidly; drinking in her husband's words as a condemned man might gaze on his last sunset - ... "Glad?" he cried. 'Indeed I am. I'm afraid I'll never get past the honey moon stage. -You don't want me to, do jrour- : ,.y, y -7. - "I wonder," she faltered, "If you'd never met me if you'd " "I'd never have known what I miss ed. That's where nature Is kind. Peo ple who miss . the " real love never know. We only know when we've found It" . - "But," she pursued, '"when people find out too late afterward That's the bitterest thing in life, I should think. It isn't easy to judge people women, . especially who find out too late and and who try then to get their birthright of happiness in spite of everything." 7'v. . 7.v. -v 7 , "Such people have lost their birth right." "he answered. "They've sold It for a mess of pottage. That's one Of the problems of the ages, Grace. And man has made laws to govern 'it Laws that are wise and" ; "And often bitterly cruel.". I'Laws are for the many. Not. for the few.' And the few must obey them for the good of the many. But I didn't' give the rest of, the crowd the slip. Just to bore you by discussing ethics. Was It foolish of , me to run away, simply to have a few extra minutes with you? I've been ; fighting . so hard" ;:v. i Z ' ' "And fighting fairly, too, I know. Dear, you'd never take an unfair, ad vantage of" ' ':- -bv "Politics," answWed Mark, "Is war. And war is the science of finding the ' weakest point in your enemy's armor and hammering away at It till he yields. For instance, we've Just found the weakest sort of spot In Standlsb's armor and" "Ton have? . What Is It?" '- "There are only two weak spots In sost men's armor. One : Is money crookedness. 'The other Is women. In Standlsh's case it was a woman. An affair he got tangled up in five Tears ago." ' .' "And you'll stoop to use such ' a weapon aa that?" she cried indignant ' " ' Why not? He'd use the same sort rf weapon against us, fast enough; if he had It" " ' "But that isn't fair fighting, Mark, tfs disgusting scandal." "That's his lookout not ours. ' If he chanced to know something dam aging In my private life, he'd use it in, a minute." , '-'.r-:: ' v ' rBut If I asked you If i begged ou , " "Don't ask me, dear. - This Is one of the things you dont understand. Toull .tare to 1mt It U me." y ' AFvrT A TTT A lernime, founded on v ade Nllles Pay with Pfioto? fan rfoPov "Perhaps," she retorted desperately, "I 'may understand It far better than you do. You say there's a woman con cerned In It This scandal will pillory her and " ' "That type of woman belongs In the pillory." . t - "You are cruel!" she cried. "You yourself admit that there in a chance the Woman may have repented. Are you going to refuse her the benefit of that chance?" "The chance Is too small to be con sidered. Don't let's talk of It You can't" "Then," she continued, unheeding, "There's something else you don't con sider. Se may have married. She may be the wife of some honorable man who loves her and thinks she is perfect All his heart and all his Ideals may be bound up In her. Are you going to ruin his life, too?" "Dear," sneered Mark, "the sort of fool who marries women of that kind (like the man who teaches his wife to be a 'dead game sport') deserves what he gets. And generally he gets it Though, In both cases, he doesn't always find it out Don't waste sym pathy on him. If he married ber he probably knew what she was. If he didn't know, It's time he learned. No sane man should want to live In a fool's paradise." "But her family! Her parents? Her brothers or sisters? Surely tbey aren't to blame. And they will be disgraced, too." "Such things are rather apt to runJ In families. Cankered flowers don't grow from clean roots. You're wast ing a lot of sympathy over a woman and a man who are unworthy to speak your dear name. There are your fa ther and the rest, getting out of the elevator now. Go to bed. dear girl, and try to get a good rest Don't sit up for me. I'll probably be up all night on this Standlsh affair. Good night sweetheart." As he bent to kiss her, her arms clung to his neck like a frightened child's. She tried to speak, faltered, and hurried from the room. CHAPTER XVI. Sixty 8econds Leeway. I In they trooped, Jim Blake at their head Van Dyke, Nellgan, Gregg, and (sulkily bringing up the rear) Tom.i - Grace had quitted the library at her husband's order. Now, starkly un ashamed ef the eavesdropper's role, she wa standing tense, expectant, her ear to the closed door leading to the inner rooms. Through the thin panel she could hear every syllable from the library. Her own name was the first word she caught. "Grace turned in?" Jim Blake was asking; and Robertson replied: "Tea. She's all tired out We can talk freely here. No one will Inter- She Tried to 8peak, Faltered, and Hurried From the Room. 7. rupt Sit down. The cigars are over there. And here's the Scotch." ' "Has Standlsh been around yet?" queried Van Dyke. '""'-v' f ' "Oh, he'll be here all right" vouch safed Blake, before Mark could an swer. "He knows we've got him In a hole. He'll" ' ' , J "But have we?" argued Van Dyke. "As far as I can see, It's still the other way around." s 7 y-..- ."y 1 'It's bad enough to be delayed 'by anything," fumed Mark, "But it's ten times worse, when we're blocked by damned little by the person who got this Information,", he corrected him self, catching a warning glint from Blake's half-shut eyes.' . ;, "'Whatever .the price la suggested Gregg. "JI say pay It!. Pay It and save time.". . r - 4 as. ' V i 1 i I 1 : : r : ' "No," contradicted Blake, nls glance shifting as It by accident to Tom. "Her the the price is too high." "Too high?" snorted Nellgan on whom the undercurrent of Blake's re fusal was entirely lost "It's the first time we've ever economized.'' . Before Blake could reply the buzzer sounded. . , .. , $ ,V "There's Standlsh, nowsald Jim. Let him In, Nellgan. Take the lead from me, all of you. And don't dis grace me by acting like wild asses of the desert" Nellgan, In obedience to his chief, had opened the outer door. Standlsh, after a quick and seemingly indifferent look that Itemised the room's occu pants, walked forward. Nellgan care fully dosed the door behind him. The men nodded stiffly, uncomfort ably, In response to the visitor's slight bow. . "Good evening, gentlemen," said Standlsh pleasantly. "This setting of the stages seems to suggest Daniel in tbe lions' den. I hope Pone of you has made the error of castljag me for the role of Daniel." Nellgan's lips flew apart with the force of a retort that leaped to them. But the words were never formulated. For Blake, beaming on the newcomer like a father upon his dearest loved son, exclaimed affectionately: "Why, how are you, my boy? How are you? Take a chair. Nellgan, get him a" "Thanks," declined Standlsh. "I Can talk better on my feet" . "Oh!" deprecated Blake, in pathetic disappointment. "You've come to talk? I was hoping you had come to " "To lie down?" supplemented Stand lsh. "Well," answered Blake oracularly, "the man who lies down can get up again. But the man who is knocked down, is apt to take the count" "The question Is this, Mr. Standlsh," broke In .Mark, impatiently at his father-in-law's slower method of reach ing the point "Will you support us, or will you not?" 1 "I will not," returned Standlsh. "Or at least resign your leader ship?" "No. I thought we had settled all that" 'Then," asked Van Dyke, "you are prepared to take the consequences, Mr. Standlsh?" , ' "If there are consequences yes." "Oh, there'll be consequences, all right" Blake assured him. "Hell's full of 'consequences.' So you won't even protect tbV Woman?" "You haven't found her yet" "No?" smiled Blake. "Son. I told you there was a trap. Well, it caught her. And we'll have her name in half an hour at most Probably sooner. If you think that's a bluff, you're wel come to. . But you've only a half-hour to keep on thinking It" "Look here, gentlemen," said Stan dlsh, turning to the others. "All this does not Interest me in the least I came here tonight for just one rea sonto appeal to your sense of Jus tice." - t, , 7: A ripple of derision from his hearers stirred his slow voice to slightly faster measure. . "You can't beat me," he went on. "And you know It as well as I do. I am secure. But for the sake of others, I ask you not to make political capital out of something In my private life." ' Gregg's loose mouth parted in a grin. Nellgan laughed' aloud. But Mark Robertson could see- no humor In the situation, i- "You're wrong, Standlsh," he de clared. "This scandal will beat you." "Let us suppose, for argument's sake, that it would," Agreed Standlsh. "Can't I appeal to your honor? Won't you fight fairly?" , : "We'll publish the truth," retorted Mark. "If that's unfair." y "It is unfair. If not to me, then to the Woman." . "It Is too late to go into that matter now, Mr. Standlsh. Your presence here tonight la, by Itself, strong proof against you; if further proof were needed." ' .. y- '. . ' ; . v y. Standlsh made a gesture of weary impatience.' ' V "Proof?" he echoed. "I don't deny the story. You wouldn't dare use It if you couldn't prove it. But, gentle men, there comes a time even in poli tics when we've got to be men first and politicians afterward." " "Then," suggested Blake, "be a man. Give up the fight." ' : y ; -' ' ; "No; replied" Standlsh, "I won't be blackmailed. The affair was over and lone with before I asked the people to Rccept me as their leader. Long be fore. It has no bearing on my pres ent fitness." v'' . ;V yy.' '.". TV ' - "That's your misfortune," sneered Mark. "The people have a right to know who represent them. In tne newspaper articles we have prepared, there are no facts we cannot prove; your affair with the Woman your failure to carry out your pledge to marry her" . , , , "Then the story Is written?" ex claimed Standlsh. 7 "It Is In type," , pot In Van Dyke, "'and waiting our word to send It. out to the whole country." 7 "I see." mused Standlsh.7 "And I see how such a story win be handled in print You'll use every trick of sug gestion, every fact Inferring a lie"' And," cried Mark, "It will beat yo'ul It will beat you, man and that what we've been working for, for years." 7 "I'm not beaten yet" retorted Stand lsh. 7 "And I advise you, Governor Rob ertson, to be careful" "Oh, we shall be careful," returned Van Dyke. "The proprietor of the ho tel IS coming tonight The hotel .where Mt. and Mrs. Fowler ware registered. We may not need him to identify her. But hell be on hand -ia case we do. Take my word for It Mr. Standlsh, you'll save a great deal of unneces; snry trouble If you'll quietly step down and out" ,"u.- -"i 1 . "If I did," said Standlsh, "I would be politically dead. Y01 know that" "You're politically dead, anyway," insisted Mark. "If this story will beat you tonight it will beat you 20 years from today. Particularly if this Wom an proves to be what shall we call Itr a trifle off color?" "Robertson!" ' r'-" "Ah! That hurts, does it? Then It's probably true. If the Woman Is the kind that that would not do you credit, you can understand how much more effective It will be," "You are wrong!'- denied Blandish. "She Is of good family. She" "She may have been a good woman when you found her," said Mark. "But there must have been a bad streak In her, somewhere. You left her to sink as low as I expect to find her and" "prop that, Mark!" burst out Tom Blake, jumping from his eeat and con fronting his brother-in-law. "Don't! I can't listen to It any longer. Standlsh is right. What you men are, doing Is vile.; If you've got a scrap of man hood left In the whole bunch of yon, yon. won't drag this Woman into your dirty schemes. I" "Oh," drawled Blake with the air of a sleepy man bothered by a fly, "for the' Jove of Mike, don't you butt In! r i- "Thanks," Declined Standlsh, Can , Talk Better en My Feet" 1 The' situation's punk enough as it Is, without your laying , your trophies of Idiocy at Its feet" "Idiocy?" flared Tom. "Perhaps common decency's a better term. Or perhaps in your vocabulary tbe two mean tbe same thing. You men are known as political leaders. The pub lic looks to you for examples. And yet you stoop to a currish trick like this! Isn't there enough whiteness In the 'whole lot of you for a single voice to protest against such use of a wom an's name? You've Just been told she's of good family. That she haa a name to lose: And you answer: "Po litical necessity!' You know this story will destroy at least two lives. Prob ably several more. And again you an swer: 'Political necessity!' You have the power to ruin these lives. If you use that power; I tell you now, one and all my father as well as the rest I'm ashamed to have breathed! the' same air with you!" "Good night, Tom," drawled Elakt, no; so much as troubling to glance in his Irate son's direction. "No," corrected Tom, "good-by." "It's up to you," yawned Blake, y "Good-by," reiterated Tom, stamp ing from the room and slamming the outer door of the suite behind blm. The others stared after him In dull wonder. But an exclamation from their host suddenly shifted their attention. "Grace!" cried Mark in surprised disapproval. She ' had come, unnoticed, from her hiding place behind the iriner door and was standing among them before they were aware of her presence. ' "Mark!" she panted. "I I heard what Tom said. And he was right. You must not" - ' "Please keep out of this, Grace," re quested her husband in dire embar rassment '"You don't know -anything about It You couldn't possibly" DOC NAPpLEON WROTE OF DEEDS Great Soldier -Told How He Used to ' Play on the Feelings of His . ' ' 8oldlera. ; Great Interest has been aroused among military students and histo rians through the publication by Col. Ernest Plcard of a selection from hitherto 7 unknown military maxims and precents dictated " by Napoleon during his imprisonment at St Hel ena. :yy': :. - 7V :;y . ' .!" .' - The emperor attached great weight to tact and skill n the treatment of soldiers. yf.y :'";''''-' ';7;y;' i 7' y "When I used to say," he wrote, "as I rode through the lines In tbe heat ot battle, 'Unfurl your flags; the mo ment has come,' the French soldier simply shook with eagerness ' 1 y y "At such a moment nothing seemed Impossible to me. The Thirty-second dem (brigade would have died to a man for me, because titter Lon'ato I wrote. The ThIrty-eecond was there, and I was at ease.' The power t words on men Is astonishing." ' ' The ' following is Napoleon's Idea of a general: ' " -' ' ' .1 Tin . time of war men are nothing: It is one man who Is everything.- - A "I do" she denied. "I've beard And" . , "Grace, dear girl." soothed Blake. "This is muddy business at best It's no time for you to be here. You'll only roll those pretty hands of yours." : "It Is the time -for me to be here!'' she declared. "I can see this front tbe Woman's standpoint You men can't " j, "There Is nothing in common be tween your standpoint and that of the Woman we are talking about," protest ed Mark. - "Tom was" right!'! she persisted. "You must not sink to using this story. The whirr of the buzzer interrupted her. At such high tension woro tbey all that the sound made thera turn as though to confront a physical pres ence Nellgan strode to the door, con ferred for an Instant with some one outBlde, then returned with a tllp of blue paper in his hand. 7 "The duplicate llet of . phone num bers from central," he announced, turning over the paper to Van Dyke. "Good," approved Blake. ."Now we'll get to what we're chasing. And we'll get It mighty quick." Van Dyke and Nellgan Were already poring over the sheet of numbers that the lawyer had just spread on the table under the lamp. . '. ' ' "Now, then, Standlsh," (exulted Rob ertson; "we're ready to' begin. One of these numbers leads directly to the WvrseuL We'll put a man at work tracing each one of them. In a few hours at ocgest we will have what we want. And when we find the Woman we'll lay bare erery soilrd page In her life and in yours ' It was Standlsh wta broke tho mo ment's silence. "Very well, Robertson," he said calmly. "I've done what I promised to do. And I have failed. You drive me now to the use of 'your own Weapons. . I shall have to fight ex posure with exposure." "No, no!"' moaned Grace, incoherent with fear. Mark Robertson had caught up Standlsh's defiance and had stepped forward to confront him. "In other words, Mr. Standlsh," he demanded, "you threaten me? That's an empty threat There Is nothing In my life you have not. already shouted from the housetops." "Dont be too sure," warned Stand lsh, meeting Mark's scornful ' flare with unconcern. "What do you mean? Speak up!" "Mr. Standlsh!" pleaded Grace. "I beg " "Don't worry, dear," said Mark. "Let him bluff. Ill call him. Mr. Standlsh, I give you full permission to use any weapon that I use. If you know any thing against me. tell it here and now. Here. In my wife's presence. Yon know our cards. Show yours." Standlsh's gaze strayed, as if by chance, to Grace's ghastly face. "Well?" urged Mark. "Speak up I We're waiting!" - At sight of the mortal terror In Grace's eyes, Standlsh checked the words that were on his lips. Turning away from the domineering man who so truculently confronted him, he mut tered: .... 7 . "I'll choose my own time!" r "I thought r so!" scoffed Mark. "You're licked. This Is your last fight From tonight you're a dead man. po litically. And if we have to hunt out a woman or two to keep you dead, well dolt" : Van Dyke had glanced from the tola phone list to his watch. . : "We've just time enough to catch the last editions of the morning pa pers," said he. "I told Jennings to hold a wire ready " "What?" exclaimed Standlsh. "Youll go ahead without the Woman's name?" "Yes," answered Van Dyke. "Slnoe we've an absolute certainty, now, of getting It We can afford to do that and publish the name tomorrow. TaD Jennings to send out the story. TaTt him we're holding the Woman's name and that we won't give it out unless Standlsh denies the story. By the time he can get his denial f.n print well have the name." "Good!" asserted Robertson, catch ing up tbe telephone. "Hello! Give me" ' , '"Mark!" begged Grace. "Oh; I lr plore you don't " "4400 Main." 7 (TO BE CONTINUED.) great general is not an ordinary man Military genius is a gift from heave, but the most essential quality for i commander-in-chief is firmness 0! character and the resolution' to win at all costs."..: .Hi,'.. 'Xr Next to the qualities ot the con mander, whose surest way of win, ning was, he thought "to exaggerate1 one's own forces and minimise those! of the enemy," r Napoleon considered a strong artillery the prime facto? la success. 'w 7yy..7 ,.y77yyy) "If I had had 30,000 more rounds oti the evening of Leipzig, I should today be master of the world." " In speaking ot a national army, o which he was, ot course strongly lfl favor, . Napoleon ; Ineisted that "all Frenchmen should consider the laws of conscription necessary and sacred, if they do not wish to see their homes devastated." 7 .y- -sy y 7 Millions 8pent for 8oda ; Authorities In the drug business ea timate the number of soda fountain! in use in the United States at not leu than 75,000 and they are said to rep resent an investment of $50,000,006 The annual ' receipts of these sua plies of soft ' drinks may trtal t 000,000. . ' ' - Practical Fashions LADY'S DRESS. .6456 This model shows the elegance of the more simple styles. It haa a very plain blouse, with the drop shoulder and plain, full length sleeves. The neck Is trimmed with a pretty collar and the closing is In front The skirt may be made In one piece or In two, as preferred. It also closes in front Cheviot, serge, velveteen, satin, mes sa line and many of the novelty woolen, fabrics are suitable for a dress ot thia style. The dress pattern (6456) la cut m sizes 84 to 42 Inches, bust measure. 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