New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-06-01
The FOURTH
ESTATE
~.
NoveliZed by
FREDERICK R. TOOMBS
From the Great Play
Of the Same Name by
Joseph Medill Patter-
SON and Harriet Ford.
Copyright. 1909. by Joseph nedin
Patterson and Harriet Ford.

II TdlIGTSOI1 ana harriet fOTo.
"How do you do, Mr.. Dupuy?" greet
ed the hostess shaking hands warmly
with him. Here's Judge Bartelmy.
He's just adjourned a most important
conference to come to our tea Pitch
er, tell Mr.. Nolan the judge and Mr..
Dupuy are waiting. Say the judge has
just adjourned his court to come. Miss
Bartelmy, Phyllis will be so delighted
to see you." She grasped Judith's
arm and led her to a door, speaking
rapidly as she did so. Phyllis wants
to show you her new gown Quinlan
brought over from Paris. Very smart
effect, but $3.50, and you could hold it
In the palm Of your two hands,
rag!'
IAN amusing character, our hostess
commented Bartelmy dryly to Dupuy.
'Yes; she seems very appreciatiye OF
your daughters visit"
"Well," decisively, 'she certainl.
ought to be-"
81 suppose we shall see it in the AID
vance tomorrow suggested Dupuy.
"Oh, of coursen' Bartelmy laughed
amusedly.
"By the way" remarked Dupuy,
"did you see the evening: papers?"
A serious look came into Bartelmy's
face as he said:
IL glanced over them on my way up
town, and their accounts of my deci-
sion this morning are not at all Objec-
tionable.'' -..----
"No blood drawn said Dupuy reas-
guringly. "A little surprising, too, for
the Lansing Iron people have been in
pretty bad odor with the public ever
since the receiyership matter last
year."
''That was the beginning of all these
attacks upon me. l hope the morning
papers will treat me fairly" m
"Oh, there will be no trouble about
them. They have not investigated the
matter thoroughly enough yet, Of
course, excepting the Advance. But
you did just the right thing today to
bring Miss Judith
Bartelmy was showing not the
slightest hesitancy at using his beauti-
full and accomplished daughter as a
decoy in his plottings. In the first
place, he desired that she should mar
~ Wheeler Brand, hoping that the
young reformer's zeal against him
would disappear; secondly, by prevail
ing on her to pay attention socially
to the Nolan family he was confident
that the owner Of the Advance would
capitulate and become his friend. AS
for Judith, she little comprehended the
entire significance Of her fathers atti-
tude, and if she had, her frank, genu-
inc nature, which revolted at trickery
and deceit, would not have permitted
her to continue to do his bidding. She
admired and loved her father.
She knew that her mother before
her had aided her father in his work
and ambitions to considerable extent,
and now that her mother was no long
er alive she felt it her duty to fill her
place in every possible way. After
all, she had only young woman's
knowledge Of the ways of men in the
business and professional world, and
she could discern in the attacks on her
father nothing beyond what he him
self had taught her to believe-that
they were the efforts Of envious men
or ignorant reformers or misguided
fanatics, who assailed him entirely
without just cause. However, it
would seem that the judge would in
any event have attempted to conceal
from others his motives for procuring
the presence Of Judith at the Nolan
home on this day. 1t would seem,
no matter how low he had sunk,
that he would have denied that he had
ever employed her unsuspectingly as a
decoy on other occasions. That was
the least this father could do for his
daughter. But he made no attempt to
protect her reputation, at any rate to
Dupuy, for in answer to the lawyer
lobbyists remark that he had done
'Just the right thing to bring Miss
Judith today he replied with his char
acteristic GOODNESS:
ooh. in matters of this kind my
daughter Is of the greatest help to
mew After moment he continued,
Ell don't at all like your idea, Dupuy.
Of my proposing this man Nolan at
the club"
That's our trump card" insisted the
other Every man has his price
even this young Brand il we could
only find out what it isl
CHA TER VII