The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-02
ME-. chauoner awered fam the rIrl.

Mrs. Challoner answered for the girl
Shirley, don't be in any hurry.
Laurie and ] will wait for you in the
ante-room-" And as they passed Out
Cballoner called: wait until you sec
that concrete hospital. Murgatroyd!'
For moments that seemed hours Shir-
ley and Murgatroyd stood facing each
other. neither having the courage IL
speak. the girl filed with shame at the
great wrong she had done to the man
she loved, While he, feeling as il the
burden that had rested upon his sou
had at last rolled away, was drawing
deep Notwithstanding like a man who
has suddenly come out of darkness into
the daylight. Shirley was the frst tc
break the silence. and now looking III
at Murgatroyd. with a little shake oil
the head she asked;
Billy, do YOU care to know what
think of vou?"
Perhaps, if I had cared less. T."
But not for a moment would Shirle.
listen now to his c%ensuring himself fur.
taer and quickly she cut him off.
i think 1t was a far finer thing to
take the money and not touch it," she
declared with true feminine logic.
than never to have taken it at ALL"
But what If this habit should grow
upon me-" he retorted smilingly. "Evi-
IDENTIFY Miss Bloodgood doesn't know
what graft awaits me in Washington ?'
Shirley laughed softly.
ITO think that you accomplished all
this without money" she said happily.
But the worst is yet to come he
observed quickly. "It means that one
has to keep up the social game, the
club game, the political game, and the
Lord knows what other games on five
thousand-or is 1t now seventy-fve
hundred a year? 1t mean that an UNI
married man must starve; and Heaven
help the married Senator! For he and
his family must live on a back street
In the capital and freeze. That's what
1t means to a Senator who lives on his
salary"
But doesn't poverty always travel
hand in hand with greatness she re-
marked enthusiastically, and with
superb disdain for anything that she
may have said heretofore to the con-
trary.
Murgatroyd looked at her with adj
miration. Never before had her eyes
seemed to him so blue and so lovely.
There's one thing-one thing that I
didn't tell Challoner and his Wife, he
said, lowering his voice almost to a
whisper. Can you guess what that
something vas that always made me
keep my hands off those iron boxes?'
Shirley lifted her eyes to his in
quick understanding.
1T was my love for the woman who
wanted me to be great" he went on In
a voice so shaken with emotion, tina
she scarcely recognized 1t as belonging
to him THAT was the motive that
beat down all others
And will you forgive the foolish lips
that told you to go wrong?"
For answer he held out his arms to
her and she came to them. Then he
stopped down and catching her face
between his hands raised it slowly, and
kissed the lips tenderly, murmuring
lovingly:
"Her soul would not let me go
wrong"
After a moment Shirley slowly drew
herself out of his arms and placing a
hand on each of his shoulders, asked
laughingiy, looking deep into his eyes;
"And we'll go to Washington 2"
Yes. dear" he smiled back. "we're
going to Westinghouse freeze and
starve together on that back street,
yes, -Svenge is now complete"
EN- could kiss her a second
~ v darted to the door, opened