Arizona republican., 1907-03-03

the city below. where the lights twin
 kled in the streets. Then he smiled
 and took out his watch. IL was 9 o'clock He still had time to see Will
 jams and ask his price. and then.
 He smiled again. shrewdly.
 He entered the hotel of the Boss
 with frightened step He stopped a
 hall boy in the brilliantly lighted cor
 ridor of the hotel. sent his card up to
 Williams room and walked into the
 smoking room. where he 1t a cigar and
 sat down. with a shrcwd. cNultant look
 coming into his eyes. 10 wait for the
 Boss.
 When he had waited a quarter of an
 hour and no answer came. he sent up another card. But Williams was still busy"
 And a half hour later. with an i'm
 patient order to the bellboy. he tried again.
 And still the Boss did not reply.
 He was angry now. He sat down at the broad writing table and drew d piece of paper toward him. He had long ago lost any early feeling that he might have had that this sort of thing was dishonest What if it was? Lots of other members of the House were doing it all the time. IL was only the Sunday school people. the members with the idea that the public had any rights outside of paying the bills, that neglected their opportunities. He would show Williams that he was some thing after all. Until now he had been content to take little ten-dollar bills q checks from big corporations and one hundred dollar bills from Williams himself. for a few paltry votes in the House on minor matters. That was like boys play noW-like building sand houses in a kinderEarten.
 He wrote two curt sentences on the hotel paper and sent il up by a bclIboy to Wiuiams's room.
 Now he'd see if Williams could af- ford to ignore him that way. whether he could kick him out without a hear ing. even if he was Boss of the Lobby. and had bought him and his county for $500.
 He went across the city angry. to his own hotel He passed Mason com ing out of the hotel corridor as he en- tered. and nodded to him, smiling. Then he sent for his county members, calling them by the belboy. one by one. | and told each of them that Mason for the trolley road. was willing to give them S50 for their votes if they would leave Williams, and that he wanted them to take it. And when the last one If them had shaken his hand and said he would and gone out and shut the door. Tompkins leaned back in his easy chair, with his feet on his table. and it another cigar and smiled again. He would give Williams day to meet his Drice-aud then
 T. was drizzling rain when Tomp- lwoke late the next morning and walk . -d up through the wet streets to the . ,apitol. He had taken the step-pitted . himself against Williams done what few members of the House had ever dared alone co do. And now it was up 70 the Boss He held his head back on - his shoulders and laughed complacently . IS he thought of it. If Williams sent or him that day he would have tc put his bid at a figure that he had never . laid before He had seen his county. 1 lnew what they were going to do. . Twenty of them, whom Williams had .cunted on. we're to vote the next day or Mason. He laughed again compla- ,ently.
 The House was in session as he en- cred the lobby. but he only glanced trough the doors as he went to his | .ustomary seat in the corridor. He . would give the Boss until the next morning.
 A member from another county hur- led through the lobby in front of him. -ompkins eyes followed him absently- I A group of men were standing in front f him. one of them went up to the House door. looked in. said something | O the others. who walked rapidly way in opposite directions. A news aper man whom Tompkins knew rush q by him. pad in hand. calling hurried Y to a member down the corridor.
 Tompkins wondered what the un- lsual interest was about. His eyes we're on the staircase. where every | minute he expected to see Williams. .i ilk hat in hand.
 A member from his own county came | ut of the House. looking up and down he corridor. When he saw him he Il anne over hurriedly.
 What are you going 10 do?' he | sked.
 "Do-about what2" said Tompkins-
 About the biIl-House Bill No. 29- he B. Line Third Rail-Didn't you now about ,-What2-Didn't you now that Williams had sprung the .ote-a day early-that he was here his morning-that the county is in ,anic-that he will win his bill"
 Tompkins. his hands shaking so that lc could hardly hold his derby hat, tumbled to his feet. What, The vote vas on, His county panic stricken, Ie rushed Go the House doors through
 crowd of men. The clerk was calling ut in sing-song. monotonous tones:
 House Bill No. 29-BeinE an act D parnit-the Interstate Railroad Com .any-to equip its lines-with third liI."
 A messenger. seeing him. slipped a ote in his hand
 Here" he shouted 10 his county lember. hold them," Delay the vote do anythinE," He opened the paper nervously: He aad: "I rely upon you to vote for the bill. Williams"
 He left the House on the jump. "Where's Williams" he said. catch lg by the arm man who was hurry