Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-10-12
Continued


! The Grain that whirIed Paul toward
the Steel City was passed by another
bearing Mayor McAdoo to the DEATH
bedsofsa ] who had come very cIose'
to hirns
Bob saw much OF MureheII durffE
the two years following the Steel city
s~nayorajity election. He came to feel
b mighty admiration and affection for
the great general who had created a
lhew political era, who had shackled a
nation to the service of q vast, vora-
cious system. who had lifted at least
one nonentity to the presidents chair
md who lib the last years OF bis iifo
WAS struggling to undo the work Of his
prime.
sWhen a man reaches bis th~reeacore
years and ten,ts Murctieil said to him
day, sshe has learned that the evil
Or good a man does concerns himself
least OF all. The balance must remain
heavily against me. | MUST strive not
to atone. but to make the way rendy
for other men who viii undo what r
have done"
MurcfieIl's lofty self ignoring gave
him an example that he strove to emu-
late.
Many other things Of less abstract
kind he learned from the master.
MurcheIl feyealed TO him the secret
intricate inner workings OF the vast
machine that gripped the state as In a
Wise. IT was not Ill pretty. More
tuan once ne saw reDeiilous posses eIfs
ter the presence OF the master to leave
s fhas sksy VS. IhsstTissb apaH II Ss
power Of q man who seemed to know
everything. Many things Murchell
and Bob did of which they said naught
Ito the gentle DunIaeade that they
might save his heart from burning.
Gradually Bob came to understand,
too, why the secrets and sources OF
MurcheIiss power wer revealed to
him. He was being prepared to take
Murcheilss place. Unen hitn net rrrn
|Dunmeade, the masters mantle was
to fail.
And nov MurcheII was dying.
Bob knew as the train bore him
swiftly to the east that he was going
to assume that mantle.
Fears before II will be master Of the
state before I der ambition had cried.
Now he said, Il am not yet forty,
and / am master of the state"
Master OF the stated He had dream
ed OF power. Now power, tremendous,
farreaching, almost unlimited power
would be his IL he could retain what
aMurcheIl would very . place In his
hhnds.
II cant r wlflw His teeth clinched,
his muscles frightened in the stress Of
Ills determination II will be TRUE to
my trust. I will use my power for
the good OF this people. So help ms
GedTs
His words were a prayer, not an
oath. There was no exuitation In his
heart, neither was there humility. Self
was forgotten. His task loomed large
before him, self obliteratings filing his
horizon as be hurried toward the gov
ernorss mansion. In the library some
one was playing the piano very softly
the gentle, soothing chords lingering
Ia the air Thither tie servant show
ed Bob.
On the threshold Bob halted sharp
II. Death, power. battle, were in an
instant swept from hts mind. His
heart Ieaped convulsfvely.
The players back was toward him.
She did not notice his entrance. He
did net move, lest he might disturb
her. Then her voice o full and
clear and pIaintige la a Song that not
all the street pianos in the world can
rob of Its appeal. Bob listened In raptl
attention. Once before be had heard
her sing that song, on the night when.
On that very spot, he Ind dealt her
the craelest blow a man could gfve a
woman.
AT the last Hns her Voice shook
ssIigIIttvs onee 1T gaitared
.sTso kiss the cross, sweetheart-to
kiss the cross"
The last long quivering note died
away. She furxed and arose to faee
him. For a long minute they regard.
ed each other unwavegingiy. 1t had
been two years and more since they
had met. those two whose lives had
81 strangely crossed. They had been
constantly in each others nalnAa IN
each others hearts, Each saw that
the years had wrought changes tn the
other.