Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-20
BY THOMAS wv. LAWSON
Author of EFrenzied FinanceU

"Jim," he began In a voice that
shook in spite Of his efforts to make it
sound calm, there is no Disgusting the
fact that I am nightly worked up
about this matter. and want to do
everything possible for this girl. No
need of my telling you how sacred we
have got to keep what she has just let
me into. You'll see as l go along that
It Is sacred. and know you will look
at 1t as I do. Miss Sands must be
helped out of her trouble.
Judge Lee Sands, her father, is the
head OF the old Sands family of Vir-
ginia- The Virginia SsSss don't take
of their bonnets to another family in
this country, or elsewhere, for that
matter, for anything that really counts.
They have had brains learning, money
and fixed position since Virginia was
Erst settled. They are the best PEG
pie Of our state. 1t is a cross-road say
ing In Virginia that a Sands OF Sands
Landing can go to the bench, the
United States senate, the house, or the
governors chair for the starting, and
nearly all of the men folks have held
one or all Of these honors for genera
tons The present judge has held
them all. don't know him personally,
although my people and his have been
thick from away back. Sands Landing
on the James is some so miles above
our home. The Judge, Beulah Sands
father, is close on to 10, and / have
heard mother and father say is a stall
wart, a Virginia stalwart. Being rich
that is, what we Virginians call rich,
4 million or so-he has been very ac-
tive in affairs, and knew before his
daughter told me, that he was the
trustee for about all the best estates
In our part of the country. 1t seems
from what she tells, that of late he has
been very active in developing our
GOAL mines and railroads, and that par
ticularly he took a prominent hand in
the Se&boaHd Air Line. You know the
road, for your father was a director,
and think the house has been prom
inent in it's banking affairs. Now, Jim,
this poor girl, who. 1t seems. has re-
Gently been acting as the judges sec
rotary, has just learned that that coup
Of Reinhart and his crowd has COM
pletely ruined her father. The decline
has swamped his own fortune, and,
what Is worse, million to a million
and a half Of his trust funds as wen,
AID the old judge-well, you and can
understand his position. Yet l do not
know that you just can, either, for
you do not quite understand our Vir-
ginia life and the kind of revered posi-
ton a man like Judge Sands occupies.
You wOuld have to know that to I'M
derstand fully his present purgatOry
and the terrible position of this daugh-
ter, for It seems that since he began
to get into deep water he has been
relying upon her for courage and ideas.
From our talk | gather she has a won
derful store OF up-to-date business no
lions, and / am convinced from what
abe Lays out that the judges AFFAIRS
are hopeless. and, jim, when that old
man goes down II will be a smash that
Will shake our state in more ways than
one.
up TO now the girl has stood up to
the blow like a man and has been able
TO steady the Judge until he presents
an exterior that holds down suspicion
as to his real financial condition, al
though she says Reinhart and his Bal
timore lawyer, from the ruthless way
they put on the screws to shake out
his holdings In the Air Line, must
have line on It that the Judge is
overheard. The old gentleman can
keep things going for six months
longer without Ieopardizing any OF the
remaining trust funds, Of which he has
some two millions. and while his wife,
who Is an invalid, knows the Judge is
In some trouble. she does net suspect
his real position. His daughter says
that when the blow came. that day OF
the panic. when Reinhart iammed the
Dtock oat OF sight and scuttlod har
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