Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-09-23
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r,i,g and the Man starts with
r1srkabie prologue which is story In
S II is a vigorous elemental begin
|tseu' .1.,ibing tragedy that took place
n .haars before the real story opens. That
Z yariarea hangs over the hero like the
,ord OF Damocles. You know that II Is
Pouh a., a. badly il viii hurt; and the sus-
pa continues right up to the end.
Prologue.
| ~, ,,rrp I'm the dead of winter.
- ~ r miserable shack on the out
~ =" a storm swept western mining
80 the abused wife OF a drunken miner
nrat,entlv awaits the arrival of an in
.p,,otod young tenderfoot. The maudlin
$500 Who seemed to care little at
rst becomes furiously Jealous; the
CONAN has decided to break her matri-
roniai tnralldom and with her boy ad-
;r1r Zee the country, but now ter
sn b,izzard bids fair to render the
IN, ir11ossible. Suddenly the door Is
M onen, and tho blizzard-beaten youth.
Re horses tethered at the threshold,
-rS tbey are ready for flight, but the
alf.5runken husband coming upon the
tssnA threatens TO kill his w'fe's lover.
kSsn A shot from her gives him fatal
Ivound The chivalrous boy stons long
knough Ia scrawl a note taking the deed
{Ipon blresolf
/ rtrAPT4-R HIT seems oeatn TO race
khe storm but they hope to, reach the
Instant railway station before the hron-
fhOs give out. When the woman's horse
kalls exhausted. the youth gaflantly gives
ker his own and hanging to the stirrup.
klods nj her side, She, knowing that
His animal will also soon fall If not less
Encumbcred thrusis the boy backward
Into a drift and urges her faded steed
Forward Realizing the treachery. the
lads first thought Is to shoot her. but his
better impulses prevail. and summoning
|qll his strength he follows afoot. STUN
1fug railway
tusr as the train bearing the woman
Speeds away
He had thought vaguely of the ra-
Icing game. Of the most magnificent Of
|vachts. Of the finest and speediest Of
Etables. of the fastest string of auto
mobiles. of thousand similar things
(which he had dismissed as unworthy
bf his high purpose and inadequate to
his end; until finally. fortune favoring
him, he hit upon the field of politics.
Miss Haldane in some of those now
rather frequent conferences, had cas-
ally enough remarked that she liked
men who did things, who really &C
konplished something for good in this
World
Gormly instantly resolved to do
omething. Now if any man really
Eants to accomplish good in this
Eorld, there are few opportunities OF
reater possibilities than those pre-
ened in the political arena. There
! also no field in which it is harder
accomplish the end. Gormly as
political force was entirely unknown.
He was without experience. One
fequisite, popularity considered vital.
e had, and. that was an abundance OF
honey. Another requisite he pos
essed albeit unwittingly, was char
cter. And still third was his, and
hat was imagination coupled with
fapacity-the ideal and the real; the
lTeamer and the practical man in one!
Rn irresistible combination that.
Fortune was further kind to him,
however, for concurrently with his de-
piston she presented him with an
opening. Gormly's business was sVffi-
iently great to have enabled him to
Extend it in several directions. He
brought Ireland, England, France,
Germany, Holland. Spain, Italy, and
|he Orient into New York bay and un-
|oaded them in his great institution.
lie had conceived. some dozen years
before after paying tremendous freight
harges, the propriety of establishing
Is own line Of freight steamers. 1t
ad amused him to combine the prac-
Use OF the ancient merchant prince
With the customs of the modern one.
lie had bought the controlling inter
81 IN freight line of half a dozen
arge steamers, which he found no
lmculty in using as cargo carriers
or other people when they We're not
supplying his own needs.
The purchase of the freight line had
0ith it a lease of one of the piers in
lie North river. The lease had run
W the year before. He had there
utter availed himself of what he con-
e'Ved to be an excellent opportunity
shbleasing another pier in the East
Fef' The city had just completed an
iaoorate railroad, surface and sub
way Tor the transportation of heavy
ireight from the water front to the
ereat mercantile establishments in
ano' This system had been leased
70 the Gotham Freight Traction COM
pany vast corporation with a full
pet or ostensible promoters and d.
ectors, but which had back of 1t pow
CTS and persons unknown to the gen
tai public, carefully concealed from
u in fact.
Inc corporation had not been form.
~ TO promote the health of it's mem
UerS. Therefore when Gormly ap-
pied to the authorities for permits
sion 10 construct a switch from his
PIER on the one hand and his ware
muse near the river front on the other
" connect both with this subway, the
pel'uISslon was instantly granted, but
soupled with an expense demand upon
lars. -'A0 " ---' W.
,,. 1,,ofnly could give Miss Haldane g
l..i'on dollars to play with; he would
Nv spend ten cents for bribery. He
%" Instantly that the demand upor
.1N was a mere attempt to hold hin
NJ 10 hui1d tba ..z.,Il oc1,