Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-03-04
Copyright. 1909. by Joseph Medill
Patterson and Harriet Ford.
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS

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II-Tudit discards her engagement ring.
Dupuy, lawyer, representing big advertisers,
calls and demands Brands discharge, as his
clients are friends Of Judge Bartelmy. III
Brand is discharged by the managing editor,
/ the paper, long owned by an insurance com
pany, had been friendly to corporations.
Michael Nolan, who buys the paper, comes in
the office and finds Dupuy to be an old enemy
of his. IV-Nolan calls for Brand and makes
him managing editor. V-Brand tells Nolan
and his socially ambitious family that the dis
honest Judge, Bartelmy, and his unsuspectng
daughter have taken them up socially so as to
try to induce Nolan not TO attack the Judge in
his newspaper. NI-Dupuy aids Bartelniy in
endeavoring to have Brand and the Advance
avoid attacking the Judge regarding a tricky
spinon he has rendered in the lansing Iron
case. every man has his price, even Brand, -
says Dupuy. NII-Nolan says if Brand will
trap Bartelmy in the act of offering him a
bride to keep silent that the Advance will print
the story in full. VIII-Batelmy agrees to
pay Brand $4,000 to keep quiet about the
Lansing Iron case. IN-Brand lays the trap
for Bartelmy. X-Bartelmy arrives at the
Advance office to pay Brand the $4,000.
CHAPTER ri.
0 1ARTELMl, now that he had
n taken the final and extremely
E-Pa distasteful plunge and had
la14y come to the office of the Ad-
vance, waited for Brand to make the
opening remarks about the particular
object of his visit.
Brand was waiting for the judge to
do the same. 1t was the newspaper
man who spoke first. after the two
mad seated themselves. He was anX-
ious to get the matter over with as
quickly rs possible. for he well knew
that, in spite of all his precautions, af
fairs in newspaper office are so I'M
rertain that an interruption OF All I'M
expected nature might occur to ruin
the entire plan.
mir. Dupuy was here short time
ngo," he ventured.
Judge Bartelmy proceeded to ex-
plain the appearance of the lawyer lob
byist in the affair. While it was plain
to Brand that the judge had sent Du-
puy as a go-between so that it would
be impossible to connect Bartelmy
with the payment of any money as
bride. the jurist did not propose to ac-
knowledge that such had been his laud-
able purpose He gave an entirely diff
ferent reason.
Yes, | know" he said HE found
me at the opera with my daughter.
hoped, Mr.. Brand. that by allowing me
to act through him you would spare
me this last humiliation"
Would it not be safer for you if no
third party knew of your transaction
with me?" suggested Brand.
The judge pitied the colossal igno
rance Of this amateur in trickery. Did
not he know that in the superior
spheres of crooked practices it became
necessary to employ third persons on
many occasions to put through mat
tiers of this sort? And he was a news
paper man Of years of experience too.
No, this peculiar young man would
never finish supplying the judge with
surprises; of that Bartelmy was posi-
tive. Perhaps it might be in order to
observe at this point that, while Brand
of course could not know that these
thoughts were passing through his
visitors mind. he at the same time
would have been ready to confess that
he was going to provide several more
surprises for the jurist. But there are
different varieties Of surprises.
"Dupuy is in my confidence" the
judge pronounced with an air of final
fly.
Hes not in mine" responded the
managing editor.
you're mistaken in him. l know
him intimately"
"Oh, the pity of it," exclaimed Brand,
that you should be intimately ac-
quainted with such q man as Dupuy"
Bartelmy could not restrain u sarcas-
tic smile at the EDITORS sheer at Dupuy.
"Mr. Brand" he said quickly, your
moral reflections at this juncture i'm
part a certain quaint humor to the sit
uation."
81 am afraid that is the trouble with
me. My humor is nearly always unin-
territorial" Brand sighed as though
sorry for himself.
The judge began to show signs of
nervousness.
"Well, Shall we get ON with it," the
editor asked him.
Eyes. l must rejoin my daughter.
She's waiting for me at the opera. She
was very anxious that should not
come here tonight. 1t was curious
her persistency in the matter"
Brand drew his chair closer to the
desk-closer to the telephone.
"Let us get to business" he said.
The judge went on talking about his
laughter.
"She displays an unusual. should
say an extraordinary. curiosity as to
my mission here" he said, my daugh.
ter would have made a great cross ex-
aminer If she had been a man."
Were wasting time, Judge" Now
it was Brand who was becoming i'm.
! patient.