The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-20

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Grath Bros. Drug Co.
a mad elephant, and it got on Macys
nerves little, | guess"
An anxious look came into Winnings
| face.
Well. whatever you do, don't break
with Tank" he said.
We have broken with him." said
! Manning, tersely.
You have! gasped vining, one
| lean hand going into his long iron-gray
| hair, that was reached back like a
name. and the other laid involuntarily
on the arm of tanning, while his
beady eyes cleaned with intensity, and
his lip fell away till it showed the vel
low roots of his lower teeth. He's
got me stretched out tighter than q
drum
Oh, that's all right! " treasured
| Manning. We've figured that We
can save you on any of our deals"
But on my own DEALS" almost
shrieked vining. I'm nailed to the
cross. On that New Telephone fran
chise, he's got me at least four ways.
He can send me to Jail for life. He'll
put me on the stand against you, and
I'll have to testify, or he'll dig UP two
or three of those cases and send me to
Jail for life
Winnings lip dropped, trembling. In
two minutes he had passed from we'll
preserved, almost dandifled fifty to a
senile seventy.
Mannings own jaw dropped while he
looked steadfastly in the face of the
man who had been the go-between of
that triumvirate Of greed and graft,
which stood now in danger of disgrace
and ruin; and then rage famed up.
Why the devil didn't you tell us
this, long ago." Manning almost
screamed
Why the devil" exclaimed the old
man, wildly excited; why the devil
didn't you talk to me before you broke
with Tank? Haven't | always done the
business when 1t came to the scratch?
Amt closer to him than any of you? ,"
But Manning was too coldly intel
lectual to waste much time on mere
angry words of foolish recrimination.
Swiftly he clutched the phone and
Is Mr.. Donnelly there?" he asked
Just gone" was the answer.
Did he see Mr.. Dunne?"
Yes
Realizing that he had failed to catch
Donnelly in time to hold off the pro
posed alliance, provided Dunno was
willing to enter into 1t upon his own
part, Manning next called for Tank
oy,J, 1T fha nh
and recognized Manning's voice Never
too angry to use his brain, he listened
with patience to Mannings confession
actly what Tank had an hour before
requested.
Too late" said Tank, promptly.
don't trust you any more. Only one
way you can square it. Go to Dunno
and arrange for the District Attorney
| to dismiss every one of the indictments
against me before four o'clock to-day"
He had shrewdly suspected an al
| lance made or to be made with Dunno,
and had put his price high, so high
| that he knew 1t was impossible. Man
ming thought it impossible, too, but he
| did not know yet the measure of Don
| nellys success, and besides he wished
| to gain time, and to delay the progress
! of Tanks vengeance. SO he answered:
| "I'll see what can be done, and let
you know in two hours. Dunno will
be out at lunch now"
All right" answered Tank. All
right if you don't let me know. too"
| he added with an impudent sheer that
was gall to the heart of Manning, and
| then as he was hanging up the phone,
/ there sounded again through 1t the
| hoarse voice of the Boss Is Vining
there?" it asked.
No." lied Manning, unblushingly
If he comes in tell him | want to
see him quick" he went on, bluntly
and added dryly, got use for him"
AS Manning hung up the phone Don
nelly entered the Office.
Well" oueried Manning, quickly,
nervously. What did you do?'
Planted seventy-fve thousand with
Dunno answered Donnelly, rubbing
his jaw with an unsatisfied air.
How did he take it?" asked Man
ming.
Cold as fish. Looked at me like
schoolmaster at boy who'd been play
ing hockey. You offer this OF your
own notion he said, unreservedly,
without condition except that 1t be
used legitimately in the unearthing OF
municipal corruption and punishment
of wrong-doers? in that jerky way of
his"
And what did you say?"
What could | say" rejoined Don
nelly. u never gave up money so
easily in my life, nor was 80 uncertain
whether it got me anything or not"
Donnelly's face whitened and tight
ened gravely as Manning told OF Vim
ing's plight and hence of theirs, and of
his interview with Tank
/ For Gods sake" exclaimed Don
nelly, Chen he had heard it. Il must
see Dunno again, at once Telephone
Macy to throw seventy-fve thousand
dollars in currency into a grip of some
kind for me- quick"
Currency" questioned Manning.
Yes. I'm not leaving any broader
trail than can help on this route. I'll
drop out at Mays and get the money.
and then try to catch Dunno before he
goes out to lunch You phone and
head him off, II you can, and then
catch Macy about the money. I'll be
there in five minutes to get it."
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