The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-11-11

eANI' dSAcu tHe uiStTlCl attorney
We'll, she's mixed up in it in rather
nasty way. She's afraid she'll suffer
| II her part of it is made public"
Il can fix that" said Rutherford
coolly enough. "A promise of immun-
| ity, and
| She won't do It," returned the
chief You can drive these women
| just so far. and there you stop. Be-
sides, it ain't never goin to come into
court"
What do you mean?" asked Ben
SON
| u mean." said Connell emphatically.
that Gormly is goin' to give up the
| game"
dane.
| That's what said. It's goin' to be
put up to him as to whether he wants
4 this told or whether he withdraws
| from the field"
You might back your put up to
him with warrant for murder. I be-
| lieve," said the district attorney "If
the evidence is what you say I'll have
| charges preferred against him."
| All right" answered the chief.
Mr.. Rutherford and ! will fix that up.
Now. gentlemen. you leave this to me
] am accustomed to deal with Grim
inals, and I'll fix Gormly ought to
have all the reports in my hands the
| day after tomorrow
| Wouldn't 1t be well to spring it to-
night?'
Hardly. Besides it's too late. Not
even Gormly himself could keep the
stuff out of the papers now
| Il guess now, Mr.. Haldane," said
| Rutherford. as the assembly dissolved
and the two found themselves alone
together. the others being gone. that
| you are rather glad than otherwise
that your bribe did not work"
| Yes, l suppose SO. | don't know"
answered Haldane brokenly. Il had
heard some intimations of this, moth
Ing definitely. Connell has been very
close mouthed. | tried to bluff CORN
ly with that. l don't know what ef-
feet the disclosure is going to have.
l don't know how true it is 1t seems
rather suspicious"
| "Connell had better be careful what
he does" returned Rutherford He'd
better be very sure of his facts"
| why did you leave the handling of
the affair to him?"
| We'll he'd make a good scapegoat
II anything went wrong" answered
Rutherford with cynical Indifference
Now, as 1t happened Colonel Bill
Hamilton was not so guileless as he
looked. After the first exclamation
and the first few condolences over the
drinks which he gave to the plain
clothes man who had so adroItly
sought TO get his story on that event
ful night, Colonel Bill shut up like
clam. The interest of the stranger in
the story was suspicious. Colonel Bill
knew great many things that he had
not told and did not intend to tell I'M
| less 1t was necessary Therefore, he
soon got rid of his new friend and
| went to his room to think 1t over.
| lie was morally certain that Gormly
| and the man whom he had known as a
| boy as George Fordyce were one and
the same. Fortunately he had always
liked Fordyce, and he was not dis
| posed to do anything that would in
| jure him.
OF course he had heard, as had ev-
eryone else In the United States, OF
the remarkable campaign of George
| Gorm1y for the mayoralty OF New
York. He had not had great amount
of personal interest in the matter,
however. But when he identified
Gormly with Fordyce, the affair at
once engaged his keenest attention.
Since the day he had left Kill Devil
Camp, he had never heard one word
of either the man or the woman. He
had supposed. as everyone else had,
that they had perished 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
cumstances? 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
lone hand, and he felt every conf
dence that he could do it.
Meanwhile he determined to fortify
himself with such evidence as he
could secure, and at the proper time.
If the story was .ferreted out and an
attempt was made to make use of it.
he would, as he phrased it, butt into
the game!" He set the telegraph to
work, therefore, and presently receiv-
ed from his partner in Bntte 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 on
his own account, the result Of which
filed him with joy and satisfaction.
The demonstration of the alliance
between the Gotham Freight Traction
carnnanx and the Sachem sGcieiY the