El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-13
The Honorable Senator Sagebrush
Copyright, 1910, By
STREET & SMITH
CONTINUED from yesterday

one out Of a perfectly clear sky! IS Il
ever right to shield criminals or Grim
inality"
'Thnt is just what 1 should like Il
know" he persisted. "At the present
moment 1 am shielding not one Grim
inal, but good many"
MAY 1 know the circumstances? y
she asked after q moments considera
ton.
"Yes. There has been fraudulent
! registration in number Of the state
legislative districts, and 1 have Sc
|, cured positive evidence of it"
ION which sideY' she asked point
edly.
"On both sides, am sorry to say
he returned gravely.
Whom does it implicate?'
THAT is further than my informa-
ton goes" he admitted Il know only
the fact of the false registration But
with a fully equipped political ma
chine on the ground the inference is
pretty plain. isn't it?''
81 suppose So" she admitted. yet
you say the frauds are on both sides"
THAT doesn't make any difference, y
be declared. "It is a fight for men
and not for parties. So far as 1 can
see. the machine picks its men quite
irrespective Of party. There is al
ready reason to believe that some Of
the candidates who have the most to
viii Of the people are themselves the
sworn henchmen of the machine,
ready when the time shall come to
vote yea or nay, as my father shall d.
rect"
''I can't believe it." she protested,
with generous warmth-''of your IA
Their, mean. l am sure he has never
authorized anything so despicable."
Blount shrugged. "Shall 1 publish
this, evidence that has come into my
hands,. or shall continue to suppress
it?'
1t wass the first time she had ever
failed him. give me q little time"
she pleaded ''Tomorrow-come to see
me tomorrow. It's a dreadful thing
for you to have to do. Evan-the most
dreadful thing that could be imagined
r.
But here young Gordon, to whom the
next dance had been promised, came
to claim her, and Blount's hard Won
interview was at an end
When he left the Gordon house,
which was rather far out in the south
eastern suburb. he meant TO go direct
to the hotel and to bed He had been
losing much sleep in the strenuous &C
tivities of the campaign, and it was
beginning to tell upon him. As the
trolley car was passing the Temple
court building he saw a dim light
Illuminating his upper floor office win
dows
With all his suspicious rearoused, he
dropped from the car and took the all
night elevator TO his Office floor.
The sleepy elevator man let him out
in the upper corridor, and almost i'm
mediately the car sank away out Of
sight.
Before Blount had taken two steps
toward his Office door there came the
dull crash of mufIled explosion. and
two or three of the glass doors in the
suit were shattered
Blount quickened his pace to a run,
let himself silently with his latchkey
the door of his private room,
flung open his desk and CROPPED in an
inner drawer for the revolver whichs
was part Of its furnishings
With the weapon in his hand, he
passed on through the swinging door
into Collins room. There was an
acrid odor Of high explosives in the
air. and when he hurried through to
the room beyond the fumes were
sitting.
His first act was to press the electric
button which turned on the lights