The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-08-28

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Ithe bottom Of his, heart, The next words
made shacklett glad that 4s6 Md not In
terrupted the ilOnologue. &. Il
You know my positi on, Noel, the
| stream of language flowed on Witnou Y 2. q
|Sripple S and you know exactly what this
| ii to me. The folks down home call me
Honest JOHN and no man darss to g. say y
| a word about my honesty. When the
| Chicago crowd threw q lot OF money into
1.-the district TO help Walsh beat me, and
I%it got out, that made me solid as long IS
| i want to stay. I'm going to QUIT now nov
lsYoii know It. I'm going home krow wing
THAT never touched a cent of crook ed g,
money and am as honest as u was When
| I3caime here. e X A vi 4 rs +. igg. Az
" But I'm going home covered with the
lfilth Of the stock-yards whether stole a
|iiiog or not They'll believe that was
bought. can't make them believe any
thing else, and You can t, by q long shot;
They'll say I got a big pile, for 1t would
take d fortune to get me. They II wonder
lat all the stores o nights what y done
with IT. They'll come around TO sell me
Their blasted farms and ~ n w buggy; and
they'll watch TO see how Mary and the
| girls dress. q y IS Ell sts rs 95
le1,',As long as 4 live they'll say to stran-
gers: That's old John Mel amnra; 81 he
used to be in the Senate. but lie, sold out
q
got n%blg pile J nobody'd ~ believed he'd F!sd,
done It. $fsl II IA S 3F =. st. 5s "a
nv children that Bob has a nice ia rt1l---
his father got rich selling out when lie
|Iwassin the Senate; and that Carrie mar.
Irjed well because she was licl-her father
made a lot of money when lie was q
senate and them big Chica go bills / wa 3
| passed I. Yestc rday i thought i d 80 down
linton grave old Honest y DIN M Nam.
| ara now I'm going to go homo disgraced
among the people tl,at've known me- I, SO
Hong, If You say So It shan't he said that
L ever went back on q. friend II yot,
shy 50 Noel, 1'lliyotc for tho bills. But
III { want yon to understand tho stua tom
send nc son,o kind o word II under
stand when the tussc begins In the Sei,-
ate. and Iii play our SUI
|s114The old man got IN and began to count
Ibis collars on tho floor az IT, his laundry
| SLIPS were tho most important things in
1.-the world. The con ference was closed,
very evidently Shack cit went gu t; wit tn
| out d word. and with his face az iinpasr,
| fslve as t was the time he won the TWEEN
| ty-tive: hundred dollars from tho member
J from Cook County on a pm o. sevolis.s
He did not ring for the elevator but
walked down 4 he stairs and went out the
| side Ell trance. 5 AS Shc& passed the Palace,
he saw the man he felt sure Graves
IShnd In mind sitting on the sidcWalk IN
front OF the office with = clerk I'm ne
lauditor.ss Office Sand al deputy wa rden Of
4 penitentiary telling stories. Even
Shacklett could not guess what he had
said to Graves "A Sl .s n
For Is Y s;l,acklett walked up TO the
State House again, ~ al q depended lpoll
whether Graves had s been success ful.
|Shacklett& hoped from the bottom OF Fhts
|settlc the mat ter easil Graves had
|not failed. 7 thcn. the whole tiecision would
| be on his own shoulders Il g had thought
lit all overSbefore he get to the 81 tte
would be 4 he neanest ras cal y II nt5eeyers
sold his brother s he accepted N Nam .l;
ara 4 offer; he knew that; Il but then there
was the twenty ousand ID q lars---a nd the
GIRL w hat the girl would think I'D not
\ ma for she would never knoW t.
l:WhetherSthe devil or the training u ,f his
| own motherswon. In either ca se{ she AZ uld
never know anything L. bout. E! was q
\ nasty thing to do, and a dir Ter thing than
| FSha cklett had ever done; but a mar, s @
| fool gifsheS does not sell his soul hens the
Ideyi1S offers such q price, h reasoned The
more he thought aboutit t. the more mixed
up he became; finally by the time that he
was passing under A the railroad bridge
again 3he seemed to be watching a. struE-:
lIEle going on In some other mans mind,
as he might look a y n a ght between a
brakeman and 81 a tramp on q passing
train, which had come into his environ w =
{ment from som eWhcre 3inde emit e ana was
|sgoing out somewhere unkn own Y was no
,lRuse& to argue 1t any LONG ", hat Graves
l5had done-or rather:gll had Fly failed to q do;
would probably settleathe Who'll Gq tion
Hand what wa s the use 5of bot erinE vi IN
i sit#n ow? This was what he found jrun-.
lining through his brain as he walked Up ?
| theEp pavement to- the Swide s steps He felt
THAT twas about three to ono thai tho
4 devil would win. If Graves did have his
4 man.. ~ Twenty thousand and the cir! III
his own opinion of himself, pro badly had
/ a bigger 'pull" than the Unborn and IN.
Them no higher name q nd 50, WI B the
/ devil a. favorite at three to one i. he went
Into see the end Of the game. @ I'd
i "a, AS II Shacklettf entered the room Of Tho
i outer office, Graves picked up an account
|sbook with 4 a prcoc coupled air. and 4 went
Unto the inner chamber Of b his chiefs
i sShacklctt affablyE greeted the man in The
,)3outer Office shook hands wi 18th a pos tnlas-
/ ter from down country, passed the steno-
i era piers and minor clerks In the Inner
office with lightly, and went on into the
private room Of the secre tarysEso ~ ne
board. He gently shut VI the door,Eand !
i found iGraves' standing in the middle Of
] the floor facing him. . N. 3s
4 Well. did you get him ~ asked Shack
i lett heartily, and with one OF those most
cordial smiles generally reserved for s sk-
|! Ing about the health Of the baby OF q
\ mem beri from the country. III tst5 "a
s.''Yo gu sbet i did; Il did you Z get yours !!''
Il Graves almost shouted. 3f 43t3
4 E3$s..ssfyXllat did he say?b asked s. acklett,
i! ignoring the question addressed to hin.-
Il sci Il 3E5! 81 i M
4 5f, II e wouldn't take a cent of m oney, but
4 said If ] wanted him to he'd vote for the
Il bill. Said at would ruin him UP at home
4 and all that, and that people would sal-- i
\ WAYS talk about his family as the hills,
4 ,dren Of that man that was s3insthe Senate
4 the time the Chicago bills We're passed
and sold out to the gang, and all that;
4 but he said he'd vote all light to make
4 ma the twenty thousand. II I said So Did
yon get yours q y. 81
i when Graves had a fortune hanging
i on the answer It was cruel OF Shacklctt
i toFgnore the momentous question again;