Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-09-28

Hardly. Besides Is ooo late. Not
wen Gormly himself could keep the
stun out Of the papes nov
guess now, Mr. Haldane," said
nutherford. as the assembly, dissolved
n the two found themselves alone
'osether. the others cling gone. that
you are rather glad than otberwis"
'nat your bride did OF work."
yes. suppose &C don't know.
answered Haldane rokenly. II had
neard some intimattns OF this. moth.
ing definitely. Conrll has been very
close mouthed. I tired to blum CORN.
~ with that. I dot know what ef.
iect the disclosure is going to have.
l dont know how trie It Is. 1t seems
rather suspicious"
cornell had bettr be careful what
ne Does" returned rutherford. He'd
better be very sure Of his facts"
why did you leive the handling of
the affair to him?"
well. he'd MAKE a good scapegoat
II anything went wrong" answered
rutherford with cynical Indifference.
Now, as It happened. Colonel Bill
Hamilton was not so guileless as he
looked. After the first exclamation
and the frst few condolences over the
drinks which he gave to the plain
clothes man who had 30 adroitly
sought 10 get his story on that event.
iui night. Colonel Bill shut up like a
clam. The interest Of the stranger in
the story was suspicious. Colonel Bill
knew a great many things that he had
not told, and did not intend to tell un-
less II was necessary. Therefore, he
soon got rid Of his new friend and
went to his room to think 1t owe
lie was morally certain that Gormly
and the man whom he had known as a
boy as George Fordyce were n and
the same. Fortunately he had always
liked Fordyce, and he was not dis.
posed to do anything that would in.
jure him.
or course he had heard, as had ev.
eryone else in the United States. Of
the remarkable campaign Of George
Gormly for the mayoralty Of New
York. He had no had a great amount
OF personal interest in the matter.
however. But when he identified
Gormly with F~ordyce, the affair at
once engaged his keenest attention.
Since the day he had left Kill Devil
Camp. he had never heard n word
OF either the man or the woman. He
had supposed, as everyone else had,
that they had persisted in the storm,
and although their bodies had never
been recovered there were plenty Of
reasons to account for that.
What was he to do? Was he to see
Gormly. or Fordyce as he called him,
and put him on his guard? Or was
he to wait and be governed by cir.
c~umstances? This was not an easy
problem to decide; but Colonel Bill
Hamilton finally came to the conclu'
sion that his best game was the wait
ing one. Besides he liked to play a
lone hand, and he felt every conf
dence that he could do 1t.
Meanwhile he determined to fortify
himself with such evidence al he
could secure, and at the proper time
II the story was ferreted cut and an
attempt was made to make use Of 1t
he would, as he phrased it, butt into
the camel" He set the telegraph to
work. therefore, and presently receiv
ed from his partner in Butte by ex
press a tin box full Of very private
official documents. Thereafter he
amused himself by following the prog
ress of the campaign and doing some
highly profitable local investigating or
his own account, the result OF which
filled him with Joy and satisfaction.
The demonstration of the alliance
between the Gotham Freight Traction
company and the Sachem society. the
publication of the membership OF Hal
lane and his friends in the Traction
company, the exhibition of its iniquit
Gus processes, came of according t
schedule. Such a storm Of wrath and
indignation rose In the public breast
after the disclosure as had neve
been equaled in any political campaign
In New York.
The stocks Of the Gotham Freigh'
Traction company had fallen of terri
fcally, and every other interest fur
thered by the syndicate of which Hal
dane was the head had suffered &C
cordingly. The city was on the verge
of a tremendous panic. Unrest. e1
element, uncertainty. were In the air
The people had been aroused as nevel
before.