The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1910-06-16

ulA uIlDlllOu iuul ulu IL. Dt-
sides, ! was tempted by woman"
"a woman faltered the girl.
Like Adam, I'm blaming It on Eve.
This woman wanted me to be-well,
really great
You
"Yes." he persisted, II was bribed.
took the money. oh. you don't know
about me! You don't know what |
was Eve years ago. II seemed to me
then that money was the only thing
that could make me really great. ]
knelt at the shrine Of money-loved 1t
as a dipsomaniac loves his bottle"
He paused. Then he continued in n
low voice:
Eyes. took money to acquit Chal-
loner, and then convicted him. WhyT
Because the instinct within me to do
my duty was too strong to allow me
TO do otherwise All the evidence was
against him. He had confessed. /
had TO convict him"
"And the money ventured Shirley.
Like dipsomaniac-a reformed
dipsomaniac-I put that money as he
might have his bottle. on the shelf
corked. There II was. l could have
II any time | wanted It," His face
became more serious as he proceeded:
"Then | kept on being a thief, for
there was new and overpowering
motive thar got the best of me. Like
the reformed dlpsomanlac. was de-
termined to see what | could do with
out II. II became passion with me.
knew that every move made meant
the expenditure OF money. A hundred
times-yes, a thousand times-I have
had my fingers on those seals, abov,
TO break them, aud then have crawled
away-once more to do without the
money. Somehow | knew that my
time must come. Besides, there was
that overwhelming ambition-prompt-
ed by woman"
Shirley hung her head.
Yes" he went on fiercely, "a wom-
an who must have her due. 1t was up
TO me to be something more than
merely honest. Anybody could be hon
est, she told me, but not everybody
could he great"
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 ] could buy with the
money for which | had sold my soul.
Again and again ! came into this Of
| fee and went to that vault there, de-
| termined TO break the seals of the COW
ers on those bOXes-to buy the United
States senatorship. But l could not
bring myself to do II. Something al
ways said to me: You must do WithOui
~ You must be hoHesti You must MAKE
clean f0htP Yet still | was thief
holding thousands that didn't belong
to me, But always upon me was that
all absorbing passion-a passion not
to use, but to do without the thing
which was at my fingers ends, an in
centiye without which | could not sue
ceed. And So" he concluded, IL went
in and won without It,"
Probably better than any one pres
ent ChallOner realized to the full what
Murgatroyd had suffered. Manlike
however, he was more than willing t
permit the great work that Murga
troyd had done to oyershadow com
pletely his questionable proceedings
OF course Challoner was quite wei
aware that the prosecutors actions
viewed in the light of a successful
campaign wore an entirely differen
aspect than they would had he faile'
to obtain the senatorship. In the lat
ter case II was inevitable, no matte
what moral satisfaction he could de
rive from the return of the money
and In fairness 10 ChallOner be 1t sat
that he never once questioned it-tha
In addition 10 the humiliation of
ruined career the prosecutor woul
have TO endure the modification o
knowing that his loss of self respec
was wholly futile. But In any even
Challoner was too generous not to a,
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