Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-03-25
FIGHT FOR MILLIONS
By JOHN ]. M'GINEIsS.
popyright, 1894 by American Press Associh-
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CHAPTER XI.
u M PLorTER : ToILs.

ing nereF
Raymond addressed the newspaper man
as If they had always been the best Of
friends
II might as well ask what are you de-
Ing here"
81 don't mind telling you. The board
Of supervisors is supposed 20 visit aSy-
lumS receiving support from the cOun-
". / thought Mother S. Gertrude
might like % have that disagresble visit
dispensed with by the supervisors In
their ANNUAL inspection. il so, was
going 20 send them word to pass the in
stitutiOn by"
"Im sure IL was very kind OF you,
said Mother st. Gertrude.
81 will do 80 then. Ny business is
DONE" be added, turning to Mangan.
Are you going down town, have a
cab outsider"
'Tm going" said Mangan, "but
prefer to do q little walking"
This was no place for a scene. Man
gan deemed 10 best TO leave the convent
with Raymond. He was satisfied that
the politician had lied. What was his
mission? Mother st. Gertrude would
fam detain MaDgan, but she could get
no chance 70 give any sign OF her
wishes. The politicians keen eyes took
in everything; nothing could be done
that they would not observe. She could
not keep Mangan back, and 10 truth he
did not want TO stay. He wished 20
sound Raymond.
Both walked out together The sun,
sinking behind the chimney tops, cast
lurid glow on the vacant lots around
the convent. Furnishing the landscape
with an iridesCence in harmony with
the fiery vlndictiveness which Raymond
felt and from which Mangen was not
altogether free. 10 fed their anger, sur
charging their temperaments with its
vivid magnetism, strengthening the
mood they wire in and moving it on
ward to passion.
IF you're going 70 walk, Mangan,
said Raymond, "I'll dismiss the cab and
accompany you"
'As you please" was the answer.
'Now look here, MaCgan;" remarked
Raymond, after he had paid the cab
man, "'let us have an understanding.
You sre unjust TO me, especially so
since you know how far / would be will
ing 70 60 for you"
"You would 60 no farther for me
than it suited you"
"Grante1, but why not you 60 as far
fo- me as suits yOu?'
81 do"
Eyes, but n you cease 20 be my en-
envy and become my friend you can be
rich"
AT the expense OF the OrphanP"
what do you mean''
perhaps you are not aware that you
are rObbng the orphan Of the heritage
that Is hers
"Whom do you mean?"
81 will not say, since you do not con-
Tess, but let me add tina, I an not am
bilious or envious Of wealth that IS &C
CURED BY dishonOrable means"
'You dare 90 taunt me-
And to do more than that, II you
press me TO t."
The two men stood and glowered at
each other. Both were men Of courage.
Each was conscious OF his own strength.
Dfangan was not anxious 90 avoid an
encounter; in fact, be was aching for
an opportunity to punish the man be
so thoroughly hated and despised. Ray
mond's better judgment came to guide
him. and he laughed as be walked on,
saying;
Come on, Mangan, it doesn't pay me
TO quarrel with you. i wanted 20 talk
TO you about the story you are writing
and concerning which YOU have INDUCED
I'm some extravaganza.
''I have, eh?" was the cOntemptuOuS
eomment How beautifully you phrase
ideas that lift the weight Of crime from
your conscieuCe!
81 will not argue the point. Are you
going TO wrile as rapidly as you have
talked?"
you'll get yourself and your paper
into trouble"
"Wm i? You hold the lands the
commission will select, and you think
the rightiul owner cannot reclaim
them"
''Thsre is no one TO claim them. II
I there is, I don't know it,
"I don't expect you 20 know much
/ that Is honest. You excel 10 knavery.
/ s,You are unnecessarily bitter. Now
? do YOU know il any one can claim
\ them?"
''I can't say that do"
RAYMOND took this ambiguous reply
[ "a q confession of ignorance. He knew
that Mother ST. Gertrude had never
l sDoken of Isabeps origin 20 outsiders,
/ and he had never heard that Isabel had
[ breathed her secret 20 any Que. He
Z felt safe. The name on the deeds would
! not suggest anything to Mangau, be ar
rued. But the publication? That was
I his dread.
! "I couldn't expect a prooishest Of
I vour articlc?" Queried Raymond, Affect
! Ing gayety that was not hls.
s,You can expect nothing but an
evDose OF your peculiar practices
''You are going tntP this matter 'nor-
oughly." ,,,-.,
LEGATION of the story may lead 10 the
discovery Of the owners or heirs. IN can
do good in that way, I will. AT the
same time, I viii. make known the fac
that Francis Raymond is about 20 have
an the property transferred 20 him
self
at wouldn't do me any harm, and 10
wouldn't do the owners or heirs any
good. The time Is very short. Wouldn't
YOU like 90 own some Of these lois,
Mangan?"
,.Your corrupt method may reach the
business Office Of the paper, not me.
7 Try &C." 90,
ST will and then where will you 0e?'
'sYou will not try it."
"Why uot?'
s,You are too cunning to leave your
self open to perpetual blackmail by an
Inscriptions publisher. even 10 you
tbould ind one 10 the BuJ.c office,