Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-03-05

" NO. NtlcA surrey teleulAhk.
N Yes" be went Oh merci-
iessly. 1T is true. Il was
my ambition that did IT. Be
sides, Was tempted by a woman"
"a woman faltered the girl.
Like Adam. I'm blaming It on Eve.
This woman wanted me TO be-wen.
really great
You
Yes" he persisted. Il was bribed
took the money oh. you don't know
about me. You don't know what
was Eve years ago, Il seemed 10 me
then that money was the only thing
that could make me really great
knelt az the shrine OF money-loved Il
ns a dipsomaniac loves his bottle"
lie paused. Then he continued in
low voice:
Yes. took money 70 acquit Chal-
Toner. and then convicted him. Why7
Because the instinct within me TO do
my duty was too strong 10 allow me
20 do otherwise. All the evidence was
against him. He had confessed. ]
had 10 convict him"
"And the money venrured Shirley.
Like a dipsomaniac-a reformed
dipsOmaniac-I put that money as he
might have his bottle. on the shelf
corked. There II was could have
II any time I wanted f." His face
became more serious as he proceeded:
Then kept on being n thief. for
there was a new and overpowering
motive that got the best or me- Like
the reformed dlpsomaniac. I was de
termined 20 see what could do with
out It. II became a passion with me
knew that every move / made meant
the expenditure OF money. A hundred
umes-yes. a thousand tines have
had my fingers on those seals, about
to break them, and then have era wled
away-Once more to do without the
money. Somehow knew that my
time must come. Besides. there was
that overwhelming ambirion-prompt-
ed by a woman"
Shirley hung her head
yes" he went on fiercely. "a wom-
an who must have her due. II was I'D
to me to be something more than
merely honest Anybody could be hon
est, she told me- but not everybody
could be greatr
Shirley ventured TO look up at him:
but. meeting his gaze fixed on her face.
she shifted her eyes instantly. Then
there was the United States senator
ship-the fairest Office IN the state
which / knew l could buy with the
fnr vel Fgh
Again and again / came into this Of
fee and went to that vault there. de-
termined TO break the seals OF the GOV.
ers on those boXeS-to buy the United
States senatorship But l could not
bring myself TO do IT, Something al
ways said 70 me: You must do without
tfI You must be hOReSfi You must make
clean P0hf( Yet still was a thief.
holding thousands that didn't belong
70 me. But always upon me was that
all absorbing passions passion not
TO use but 10 do without the thing
which was at my fingers ends. an in
centiye without which could not sue
coed. And So" he concluded, Il went
IN and won without IT."
Probably better than any one pres
ent Challoner realized 20 the full what
MurgaToyd had suffered. Aanlike,
however, he was more than willing to
permit the great work that Murga-
troyd had done TO overshadow com
pietely his questionable proceedings.
or course Challoner was quite well
aware that the prosecutors actions
viewed in the light Of a successful
campaign wore an entirely different
aspect than they would had he failed
TO obtain the senatorship. In the lat
ter case IL was inevitable. no matter
what moral satisfaction he could de-
rive from the return OF the money
and In fairness TO Challoner be IT said
that he never once questioned it-that
II addition TO the humiliation of a
ruined career the prosecutor would
have TO endure the modification of
knowing that his loss OF self respect
was wholly futile Blu; In any event
Chaiioner was too generous not to ac-
cept without reservation Murgatroyd's
contention that-at least In part--he