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maintain that tho placers can he oper-
ated practically every DAY in the year.
Under existing conditions. prominent
men OF the mining world declare that n
has encountered something new in ore
deposits. IN gold bearing material and In
the uniformity Of high values In ny.
draulic mining, constituting wha, will be-
come tho greatest and richest placer
mining regions In the world.
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"A1 right; then l shall assume that
Mr.. McVickar was responsible" said
BlOunt calmly, thus proving that he
had not taken his degree in the law
school for nothing.
ooh, hold on; you mustn't do that.
either" protested the unwilling occu-
pant If the witness stand
Thank you" said the postgraduate,
with the true Blount smile Now I
know that It was my father. No; don't
deny it. But we are wandering from
the real issue. I've asked you for a
promise, Dick. VIII you give itT'
IL can't give 1t, Evan, and that's
the truth"
mo; it isn't But that was abo1t
what I expected you to say Now
hear my side of it. If you don't clean
house-you and the other officials of
the company-I shall not only resign: l
shall take the field on the other side and
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company had been the basis for cor
power people. preferential freight
rates had been traded for the votes Of
employees. as with Hathaway.
Some of these special rates were
still In force, as the quiet investigation
on the ground developed, whereupon
Blount's communications to Gantry
took on a more emphatic tone. The
tariffs must be revised and one of two
things must be done-either the prefer
entail of the favored corporations must
be withdrawn or the public rates must
be leveled down to meet the specials.
1t was on a second spcechmakinS
visit to Ophir that Blount had his first
ager after the opening Of the CORE
spondence battle.
A meeting of the Mine Owners as
ISOLATION, moving for a readjustmenU
of the classification on copper matte
and bullion at a time when the rail-
road company might be supposed to be
on the giving hand, took Gantry to
the great camp in the Carnadine hills,
and the first man he met at the hotel
was the new dictator of fSlicies for
the Transcontinental company.
made a mistake, didn't you, Dick,
coming while l was here" said the
reformer, with a very lifelike replica
\ of his fathers grim smile. Il suppose
you've got an immediate engagement
to go somewhere or see somebody"
''No; I wish l had" was the hearty
admission. Say, Evan. you are get
ting to be a perfect nightmare with
your letters and kilograms. You've got
me so I'm afraid to open my desk.
Why can't you let well enough alone!
You haven't heard of any skulduddery
lately, have your
Nothing new, no. But houseclean-
ing is supposed to take down all the
old cobwebs. Those preferersials for
United Electric and the Siwash Land
and Improvement
Heavens and earth! You call your.
self a lawyer, and yet you ask US to
set aside promises that are or ought
to be as binding as so many written
contracts, with penal attachments! II
can't be done, Evan-that's all there is
to it; t can't be done"
Cant goes out Of the window
when must comes in at the door, Dick
I've been digging into the records, and
1 have evidence enough to turn the
people of this state into a mob that
will tear up your tracks If l should
publish it"
But tell you we can't withdraw
the specials, you wild eyed fanatic!"
"All right: then level down the pub
hes rate to fit them. And do it quick
" Dick. The time is growing fear
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SYNOPSIS.
copyrisht. 1910. by Street 9 Smith

CHAPTER EVAN Blount, son Of
Boss" David Blount Ex-senator Sage
brush''), has been rejected by Patricia
Anners Dick Gantry offers him a po-
sition with the Trans continental rail-
way, which Is lighting his father. Nc
yickar, head of the railroad. and
Boss BZlount quarrel. 1.-THE boss
demands that the railroad stop the use
OF crooked methods. Going west &c
meet his father, Evan meets a man
who takes fhm for forestry employe
m-Evan is kidnapped by a band of
men, evidently land corporation agents,
and is taken at night to a mansion
seemingly presided over by a woman.
TV-The house is Wartrace Hall, Sen
ator Blount's home. and the woman is
Evans's gtepmother, whom he had
never met. V-The senator purposes
running Evan for attorney general de-
spite the young mans recent arrival
III the state. Evan objects. He hears
his father called a political trickster
VI-McVicker defles Senator Blount &c
nominate Evan. Patricia and her ge-
ologist father arrive at the SagebrusE
capital. What McVicker's request
Evan joins the railroads forces as d.
vision counsel and political worker
He favors clean politics. but finds that
his Office is made rallying point by
small political hangers-on of the road
VIu-Evan has a disagreement with
Gantry about the roads mixing in poll
ties. His father pulls wires unknown
&c him to have him invited to speal
in distant mining town. Hathaway
who has been trying to do business
with the road and with Senator Blount
is to have a talk with Mrs. Blount
Chapter IX-Hathaway wants a rebate
from the road in consideration of pc.
litical favors. He is referred to Evar
and is advised by Mrs. Blount to pu
Professor Anners' name on his list o.
stockholders. X-Evan's interview will
Hathaway reveals the roads misdo
ings. In rage he resigns. GantrJ
holds up the resignation. Evan insist.
that 1t go through to McVickar XII
Patricia refuses Evan again. She ad
vises him to stick to the road and worl
for clean politics. He withdraws hi
resignation and is sent into the field OF
a speaking tour. Xn-Exposure Of the
railroad is threatened by Evan t
Gantry unless rebating and other un.
lawful practices are stopped EvaI
suspects his secretary, Collins, of tam.
pering with his desk.
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Mr.. Samuel Mckinley, 1915 Grand
Ave-, Kansas City, Mo, writes: Il can
honestly say owe my life to Peruna.
Travelling from town to town, hav-
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Last December l contracted a severe
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without avail, until l heard of Peruna.
1t cured me, so I cannot praise it too
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raking over of past misdeeds,
many of the editors were charging a
secret alliance between his father and
Mcvickar and warning their readers
to look out for startling developments
later on.
Not content with mere watchfulness.
however, Blount got his finger upon
the pulse of occasions whenever he
could. On his brief stopovers in the
capital he kept his eyes and ears open
for the earliest hint of any charge of
chicanery, and, though he was IN
able to get hold of Gantry personally.
he kept up a steady fire of letters and
kilograms, all pointing to the same
end-absolute and utter good faith
and the upholding of his hands in the
public plea for a square deal. /
To these the traffic manager replied
guardedly. but optimistically. The
management was delighted with the
good work done and doing by the new
division counsel; public opinion was
slowly but surely changing; it would
be a landslide election. and Blount
could take credit for his due.
In all this Blount did not fail to re
mark that there was never anything
said about the Hathaway bargain. and
the omission made him the more
watchful. A little investigation IN
earthed other and similar bargains
made in the past.
For example, there was a practical
and very effective irrigation trust, an
alliance. offensive and defensive, of
the big irrigation companies. Control
ling the water under proprietary
rights, as most of them did. these
companies could influence many votes
among the beneficiary farmers. Land
deals in the past with the railroad
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BlUUnE Here It Is. You can do the
wastebasket act yourself. / couldn't
let yOu commit harakiri without at
least trying to get the cutting tool out
Of your hands. What Is the other
thing you've got on your mind this
early in the morning?"
cts this, Dick. You know what
rye been doing-what I supposed ]
was hired to do-assuring everybody.
right and left, that we were going
into this campaign with clean handsT
'T know" admitted the traffic man
ager, developing a sudden interest In
the figures OF the rug at his feet
II have been doing this in a business
way at my Office uptown in season and
out of season, and night before last at
.-Ophir I did it publicly. AS the cam
paign progresses I shall doubtless put
myself ON record many times to the
same effect"
Good manr' applauded Gantry,
striving to drag the talk down to some
less portentous altitude. "I'm sure we
need all the whitewashing anybody
can give u.s."
THAT is just the point" Biount went
On gravely. ct mustn't be merely a
coat Of whitewash, Dick. 1t has got
30 be the real thing this time. be-
gam by firing the little brothers, as
you called them, but mean to go
higher up IL am compelled to. am
here this morning to ask you to give
me your word as gentleman and my
friend that you viii not. directly or In
directly, do or cause 10 be done any
thing that will make me stand forth
as q self convicted liar before the peo-
pie of this state. I want you to prom
Use me that you will cut out all the
deals, all the briberies, all the bargain
ings, all the
''Oh, say, see here" protested the
man under fire; you've got the wrong
pig by the ear, Evan. I'm not the
Transcontinental Railway company"
"T know you are not. But to a
greater degree than any other official
In the management you have Mr.. Nc
Vickar's confidence. If you don't feel
competent to handle this thing on your
own responsibility pass it up to those
who IAN and have it understood that
there must be no compromise"
"Great Scottw murmured Gantry
.And you're on the pay sheets the
same as the rest of us! But candidly
as man to man. Evan. the thing can't
be done. We've got to play the game.
They'll eat US alive If we don't. You
needn't figure in it. 1t was a mistake
letting Sim Hathaway go to you, and
I said SO at the time. But your-er-
the powers that be said it had to be
that way, and had to let him go and
ball you all up. 1t shan't happen
again. ] can promise you that much
anyway"
Blount caught quickly at the hest
tant pause.
who were the powers that be- in
Hathaway's case, Dfck?' he demand.
ed.
81 can't tell you that: honestly
can't, Evan" was the anxious refusal
"Don't ask me-" sssz
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aren't they, SOM was the friendly re-
mark that opened the way for more
to follow. IF you belonged to my
generation instead of your own you
wouldn't be cold shouldering that
young woman out at WaTtrace the way
you do-not for all the politics that
was ever hatched."
"I have my work to DO" said the
son gravely. "and Patricia AnnSrs
would be the last person in the woriA
to put obstacles in the way Of Il 4
wish I could say as much for other
people"
The boss looked up quickly. Some
body been trying to block your
Evan Blount met the gaze Of tho
shrewd gray eyes without fiinching.
"I don't know of any good reason
why we shouldn't be frank with each
other, dad" he said, using for. the
first time since his return the old boy
hood father name You know better
than any one else, think, what the
stumbling blocks are and who Is put
ting them in my way"
Instantly the faraway look came
into the gray eyes.
Il know a heap Of things that r
can't teH-not Just yet, son. Bias Mo-
Vickar been calling You DOWN.
"No one has called me down, bot
some one or something is keeping me
out Of the real fight. There isn't any
light that can get into. Everywhere
go there is the same cut and dried
welcome, the same predetermined en-
thusiasm. Sometimes It seems az II
all the people meet had been m
structed to make things pleasant and.
easy for me-"
The senator's chucR1e was barely,
audible.
II wouldn't find much fault with
that II were you. son." be said.
You'll get enough of the real thing
by and by"
Blount felt his anger rising. He
was in precisely the right mood to be-
lieve that his father, failing to make
him a cog In one OF the wheels IN the
machine, had gone about in some mys-
ferrous way to insulate him, to make
It impossible for him to get into the
real tide Of affairs. But he kept his
temper
cts no use" he said, with a tang
OF abruptness in his tone. I'VE are
Numerically opposed to each other
you and /, dad. stand for democ-
racy, the will Of the people and fits
fullest and freest expression. You
stand for
well, son, what do I stand forY'
queried the father, and the question
was accompanied by the quizzical smile
that brought the hot blood boyishly to
Blount's cheek.
IF should say what all men say
what some Of them are frank enough
to say even to me- He stopped short
and then went on again with better
self control:
CONTINUED next Wednesday,
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CHAPTER KIM.

~ LOUNT drove himself back 10
TX the capital the following
morning in the big roadster,
and there was no opportunity
for further confidential speech with
Patricia before he left. But with the
new day had come a new determine
ton. To the best of his ability he
would try to live up to the high
standard set for him by the woman
he loved, not only preaching the Cos
pei of political righteousness, but do
ing his utmost to try to make it ef-
fActive.
With this high purpose In view he
drove on past the city garage and
made an early call upon Gantry.
''Hello, old man! Come back TO row
me some more about that telegram
was his greeting.
BIount shook his head. "No. II
you have sent It well and good; II
you haven't. you may pitch it into the
wastebasket. 1 came to talk about
something else"
Good, sound, sensible second
thought" said Gantry, laughing. Their
he took out his pocketbook and passed
the suppressed telegram across tc
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fully short, and my patience isn't what
rnCnd "a h.
copyrirh, Hart seha6her & Marx

fully short, and my patience isn't what
it used to be-"
Anybody would think you owned
the Transcontinental, lock, stock and
barrel! Where under heaven did you
get your nerve, Evan? Blest If don't
believe you could outbluff the older
your father himself if you once got
the fool notion into your head that it
was your duty to try"
This time Blount's smile was rather
sorrowful. and he shook his head.
Come and hear me speak tonight
If you're staying over that long.
Then you'll know why must have the
solid rock Of good faith under my feet,
Gantry. You spoke of my father just
now. bear the name, too, Dick. Don't
you see that I've got to make good?"
1t was during this handwriting in
terval that Blount saw, with keen re-
greet, the gradual widening of the
breach between him and his father.
That the long arm of the machine of
which his father was the acknowl-
edged head was reaching out into all
corners of the state there was ample
evidence. and that the machine cam
paign was a thing TO be reckoned with
and fought against was a cardinal
principle with the young reformer.
But it is hard to fight in the dark.
The organization was so perfect that
its very existence seemed mythical at
times-a mere bugbear set up to be
knocked down by the honest voter at
the polls on election day.
Yet Blount knew that it was no
myth. Sometimes he fancied that it
was the machine which was interpos-
ing the invisible barrier beyond which
he was not permitted to pass. With
that thought came the old doubts and
fears that his father and McVickar
had consulted together to make him
the fence behind which all the trickery
of a venal campaign could be safely
screened. But while this thought Wis
ibIy widened the growing breach it
made him only more determined to
fight to the bitter end. What one man
could do to herald the dawn of a new
political epoch for his native state
should be done.
It was on one Of his short stopovers
in the capital city that Blount found
himself seated opposite his father at a
table for two in the Mountain
cafe The meeting was purely acct
dental, as most of their meetings had
come to be. Inquiring for his father
at the desk, Blount had been told that
the senator was out of town. But an
hour later, when he had taken his seat
at the dinner table, the supposed abb
sentee had walked in to take the OPP
posite chair.
For a time their talk was Of the do
ings at Wartrace Hall, Of the profess
sor's enthusiastic digging for fossils, of
Patricia's keen enjoyment Of the life in
the open and-this put with gentle
hesitation on the part Of the news
bringer-of Mrs. Honoria's growing
love for the young woman whose am
billions reached out toward career"
working you pretty hard these days,
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tains much valuable information.
BRADEzELD REGULATOR CO., Atlanta, Ga.
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CONTINUED next Wednesday,
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tell what I know.
/ have been tell
/ n g everybody
that this Is to be
a campaign of
publicity. ! shall
keep my word"
"Oh, you would
OF do that"
protested Gantry,
now thoroughly
alarmed. "Y o u
know TOO much
a great deal too
muchw
Blount got up
and Pelighted his
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A PROMINENT
EDUCATOR HERE.
FOR FEW DAYS
DR.. 3. F. RILEY, OF BIRMINGHAM,
ALA, STOPS OVER EN- ROUTE
TO EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION
IN MOBILE-DELiVE LEG.
TURE At COLORED SCHOOL
LAST NIGHT.

Rev. B. F. Riley, D. D., of Birming-
ham, former president Of Howard Col
lege. and one of the best known educa-
tors and divines in the southern states,
is in this city, having stopped over en-
route to Mobile, where he is going to
attend the Educational Convention in
that city, Il
DR.. Riley last night delivered a very
interesting and able lecture at the an
nitersary exercises of the Colored In
dustrial School Of this city. DR.. Riley
is one of the best informed men in the
country on the subject Of the social
ed race problem. being author Of the
popular and widely read book entitled
1.-The White Mans Burden" and his
address was listened to with much in
terest by the colored people, as well as
number Of white people who went
out to hear him.
Dr. Riley will remain in the city for
a day or two, and while here is the
guets of Fl. E. Melton. who is gradu-
ate of Howard College and who was a
student at that college during the time
DR.. Riley was president of the institu-
ton.