Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-19
Bradley paid no attention to the gen

eral manager. but turned, speaking to Mir Durant, but looking at Marsh.
 "I will explain, Mr. Durant. Lieu tenant Sommers is an honest man. It is to him and the girl he loves that Mir. Pinckney and your wife and 1 and a score of others owe our lives. Tomor- row he is 10 answer in Washington for an accident in which two men were killed and others maimed and crippled for life. One man is totally blind" A sharp intake of breath and gasp of horror from Marsh made him pause. then repeat over solcmnly with em- phasiS: "One forever and ever blind. a lad of twenty, who must grope his way through this world to the end of his way" Marsh was shuddering now, for the picture brought up to him that other lad of twenty, his own son, who had died blind. With inexorable cool ness Bradley continued:
 "I know Lieutenant Sommers is blameless in this affair, and am here to find some one to answer the cry of justice which comes through the tears and sobs of the mothers, sisters and sweethCarts of those boys. And TT find him. Mir Durant; I'll find him."
 A pitiful picture~was Marsh, half stopped, half crouched. shuddering with horror at the thought of what he had helped to do. Frances saw and completely misunderstood his attitude. Her eyes filled with tears of sympathy. She stepped over and put her hand gently on the arm of the shuddering man.
 MT Bradley. beg of you not to question Mir. Marsh any further" she pleaded. "rm sure if Mir. Marsh knew anything about the forging he would tell you. No one knows the horrors of that accident better than he, No one could know. He had son who was blinded in an accident"
 Her voice grew very gentle as she continued: T was with him at his boys bedside when he died. Enow the anguish that he felt then" She !et lrr arm slip gently around the old mans shoulder. And know if there was anything to tell he'-
 She got no further, for, with a shud. derlng cry of terrible anguish. the man drew away from her arn.
 Don't" he moaned-"don't say any more! can't stand it. I'm going to strip my soul naked to God and end this"
 He stood up straight to face Brad. ley, no longer the frightened. shud- dering coward, with a guilty secret, but man who had done wrong and knew it, a repentant sinner eager to tell all. There was look not merely of anguish. but almost of exaltatiOu. on his face. Pinckney saw it and made his last desperate appeal.
 Here, Marsh!" he shouted sharply. -
 But the little man was past his in- fiuence now He faced his former bully, wide eyed. unafraid, desperate.
 If you speak 10 me again, as there is God above us, l will kill you where you stand" he said in a low, tense voice of fury. Then with a quick move he reached to his pocket, and the watchers saw the gleam of pistol. They did not know the little man now. He stood straight up, bold. eager, repentant.
 "Listen," he said. And any one here who values his life will let mo alone. am the inventor of the Rhine strom patent. l know what Mir. Brad ley meant about the royalty. You're thief. Pinckney! Do you hear? A thief! Why don't you speak? Deny it if you dare, you thiefr'
 There was a gasp of surprise, of hor- TOT.
 You told me the royalty was to be a hundred dollars an inch. Now 1 find it's a thousand. That was why the patents could not be in my name-you wanted to steal. And that was why you wanted that gun of Sommers killed. so that you could get the government to take mine-mine," he repeated, bringing his fist violently against his chest-"not Rhinestroms, but mine! And you were to get nine times as much as me. You told me to forge