The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-17

Get along. them" said Emmett, ana
/ burst from the room so imDetuously
/ that he brushed against one e Gala
gher's IieutenantS-
/ The lieutenant entered, staring: found
( Johnny still standing by his desk, his
/ hands in his pockets, asked: What's
/ the matter?" un1er his breath.
! "Oh, these colts. Jakey, these colts"
! he said. YEARLY. Dan Emmett is nutty
and full of oats He's bound to run
| away. He's going to run right into a
stone wall and there amt going 10 be
/ any uphOlStering on that wall, either
/ He reached over and closed the rolling
/ top of his desk I'm going to hand
] Danl a little package" he said. still
most glOOmily, and after the explosion
\ if he lives through it-he1l know
more"
/ Mr. Winthrop had been notified of
/ the failure Of his offer, and Emmett had
/ taken the evening train for Springfield.
Thomas Frederick Winthrop, who w2s
/ PreScOttS attorney received the nOtifi-
| cation with his he bitual oldndnpSS. But
there IVES the sense of a painful swell
/ ing IN the region of his heart. STAND
I ing in the center Of his private office
/ On a rug Of price beside a desk Of
cary ed mahogany with shiny silver
/ trimmings, his startled eyes travelled
with slow aimlessness over the dull
walls. In fact, Mr. Winthrop was per-
sonally long a big line Of South SIDE
/ Illuminating and Consolidated Light
+ and Power shares. and his margins were
so UnCOmfOTtably thin that ne could
easily see ruin through them if any
| thing happened to the consolidation
plan
! Wednesday his confidential agent at
/ Springfield wired: Row on this MORN
+ ing in senate committee on cities. En-
met tried to get the Fairgrounds bill
/ reported out Committee Slaughtered
4. Emmst mad. Talk of row between
/ Emmet and Gallagher May affect the
| electric bill"
/ Then his broker called up on the teJe-
4 phone. Somebody on the stock exchange
/ was selling Light and Power and Illu-
. minGting to beat the band. They said
. there was a row at Springfield and tn
/ consolidation bill was mixed up in it
/ some way
Evidently. something must be done.
Miss Page, shopping on State street
. and mainly intent upon the new pat
terms in waists. heard the cry, bought
a copy of the Express and went into
Fields to read it
For firm ground the correspondent
had only the fact that Emmet had
called up the playground bill in his
committee. Smooth sd ling has been eX-
pectod for it; but the committee had
ruthleSsIy Telegated it to the files. En-
I met had left the capitol and gone Ii
his hotel. where he refused an inter
view. The report was that the chair
nan and Gallagher had fallen cut some
4 way because they couldn't agree. on The
electric matter. BIT others said It was
a dodge An unnamed Democratic
member was quoted: when t come!
to aking terms with the electric cont
Ianies for letting that amendment 81
through. you'll find there wont be any
. TOW in JOhnny's camp The neWspa-
per headlines read: 'Ts Johnny Turn
ing a New TTick?''
Miss Page felt a little sick. Sh,
scOrned the imputation of sordid treach
! cry. But there was this nameIess touct
of corruption and cheap rascality which
every one seemed to take for granted
Especially, there was the picture of bin
going off alone to his hotel aS thougi
= he had no friends And if ne we're an
/ crv. it must be little bit at least "
/ account of that DTOmise-9h' if SOM
che had the courage to help him. Blu
, what could a woman do?
, Her chair was Iext 10 court tina
= cut through the huge shop from tn,
ground floor to roof Elevators ladeT
with women piled up and down. AbCv,
r and below she could sec sectional viStal
and glimpses of the immense Dusy cs
her sex. shopping. examining fabrics
r cOsSiping. loitering-the moments ph1S
5 CT a p9rpe tUal WOmaR's fair. She t.
, nerabered that she herself had put II
two hours spending So in dry goOGs. Oh
: she might send him ribbon or a shirt
waist. and write him, on a nice It'll,
, Liece Of tinted notepIper, in a nice
: slaEting little hand, that she was 81
: sorry!
She arose and swept TO the elevators
! When she entered the anterOOrn Of Mr.
NinthrOps law office she wSs aware
, that q brCId-shOCl1eTod man in Il der.
by hat whom she had Overtaken and
passed blindiy in The hall. was AT hel
! heels Mr Winthrop was 1t the dODl
Ct his private room. She saw that nj:
- glance took in herself AMI the mar
with kind Of perplexity. Neverthe
less, the lawyer bowed urbaneIy anc
> stepped forward.
t No very tangible program had com;
to Mr.. WinthrOp's mind that afternoon
but he had frequently resOrted 20 tn,
{ little cabinet in TIE lavatory. His fac
t was uncornmonly red, and he was look
t ing at his trouble through an optirnisti
fog.
Miss Page moved forward Quickly
= impatient to get separated from thi
strange man. 7 wish you'd tell me II.
{ news from Springfield" she said quick
t ~. in low tone; Il know only what tn
newspap ers say. don't understand it.
The rosy mists in the lawyers brafl
were not q help tC cleer thinking, hu
I they helped 70 POPULARITY
I Why, couldn't Mr.. Gallagher en-
e tighten you?" nc asked. at his blandest
. looking over her shoulder at the MAJ
( and sounding ms mellow laugh.
{ She understood at once that it wa
Johnny Gallagher, the boss" She tool