The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-09-19

boldly the course he was reSC lyed on,
the stand he would take on the curren-
cy and the tariff, albeit the general
was in advance of the orthodox Of his
party in his personal convictions. In
his speech tonight there We're, there
fore, some ticklish passages which two
or three of the anxious leaders of his
supporters were pleading with him to
cut out or modify. They had locked
the door of his study against all intru-
sion, and although several insistent
tappings were heard, they would not
open it. The crowd was now growing
impatient, as was evident from occa-
sional cat-calls. mingled with shouts of
"Hamiltonw 'Hamilton-" At last the
wording was settled to everyody's real
dissatisfaction, and he parted from his
henchmen, who, under the lead of the
busy alderman, were to start the ap-
plause in the crowd at certain critical
points. 49, -
Gen. Hamilton ascended to the floor
above, and was passing through his
dimly lighted bed room out upon the
little balcony, when he was confronted
with the breathless apparition of Mrs.
Jaquith. She had come by the narrow
winding staircase from underneath the
piazza, and in the darkness had
brushed her white muslin dress against
dusty beams and caught wisp of
black cobwebs upon her hair. This
had dragged a greWsome Smooch down
upon her pale forehead and across one
cheek. It had made her suddenly hag-
gard and strangely old, accentuating
the hollowness under her cheek bones
and painting new burrows. in addition
to the deep lines which her habitual
high tension of nerves had worn in the
thin face.
General" she exclaimed in hoarse
whisper, "Wait a moment. Don't go
out there yet.''
He stared at her in blank amazement
and annoyance. Her greenish gray
eyes, one of which was slightly smaller
than the other, all at once took on to
him sinister, baleful gleam. Was she
not his evil genius, this no longer
white eyelashes?
ham," she painted. ''Laughlan's man.
personal fight if you accept; and that
he will expose ALL"
"An? All what?"
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her soiled face in her hands and
dropped upon a chair. There they cow
cred together in silence for a moment.
away from the light from his torch
lights in the street. There they COW
cred together in silence for moment.
What can they say? What is there
to say?' stammered the candidate.
GWhaf yynI11111't 1i1-o hi f,,1
out? He says, for one thing. that he
has found out that my husband has no
income but his salary, and is living at
ten times that rate; that he has no
property, and his family have cast him
off; that l am-that we-oh, it is too
horrible!''
Its Laughlan's style," said the gen.
eral grimly.
"Well, and are you going to let me be
dragged through such dirt?' pleaded
the agonized woman frantically trying
to brush off the smooches on her face
and dress, and only rubbing them in,
till she looked to be some forlorn
creature in the dock of a police court
proved or not, the scandal will be the
same"
Whose idea was it my going into
this thing? said her companion in the
shadowed corner, while the crowd out
side yelled and whistled more and
more impatiently and uncivilly, as if
the day of Judgment had already burst
upon him. Il only did it to humor
you"
Il know, know" sobbed the broken
woman. 1T was all my folly, my am
bition; but you should have stopped
me, you a strong man, I weak, crazy
woman"
Eyes, I can stand it better than you