Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-11
NHENRY RUSSELL Mill
,r9RIGl5T. 1910 By BoBBS r1ERRILL CO.

stay. I can't help him. I can only
hurt him. Don't you see. I'll be re-
ninder to him and 20 every one of
| what must be forgotten-shat thing
his shame"
But you don't understand she
cried. What others think doesn't
count. He has never denied it. part
~, l think, because he wouldn't shame
you before the people As for him. it
wasn't his shame. He wasn't guilty"
-wasn't-guilty!!"
Then to the bewildered Paul she told
the story of the convention a. she had
had It from Haggin.
It was long before he answered. Els
hands and face twitched continuously.
Evidently his nerves were gone. 1t
was not easy. the thing required Of
him.
At last he opened his eyes. ats the
only thing to do"
She guessed what was In his mind.
HE would never ask 1t. Paul."
LET us call Haggin and do It. Now
-tonight-while my courage lasts"
Carrying the baby. she left him
alone In the library. When she re-
turned. after many minutes. she had
left the child asleep In the motherly
4 arms Of Norah.
Paul was lying in the chair In the
same attitude as when she had left
him. his eyes closed. He opened his
eyes and looked up at her question
ingly.
fSAr AvNN a
swered. Then she added abruptly. al.
most sharply. paul. it's only fair to
you to tell you that-that Bob and
Mrs. Gilbert She stopped as alb
ruptly as she had begun.
He made no answer. and after
awhile she continued gently:
us there any reason why they
shouldn't be happy-as men and wo-
men want to be happy. Paul?
Again 1t was long time before he
answered in a voice, that was very
tired: There is no reason. All that
is dead. 1t has no right 20 live, Kath.
leen."
In her heart she was crying Jealous
~ to her secret. cts the last thing I
can do for himr' Aloud she said:
"You must tell him that too.''
He did not notice that her voice was
sharp and constrained He was
watching the frcs OF a real suffering
burning out the last vestige Of the
self that had been Paul Remington.
When Bob came home the two men
met quietly. What was said then
need not be set down here. but new
footing was established. Thereafter
many things were ignored by them.
Paul went on the stafr Of Bob's news.
paper. The Bugle's editorials are
often quoted in other newspapers Of
note.
Many. have often tried to initiate
them in vain. perhaps because they
breathe spirit that cannot be simu'
lated convincingly. He IL no longer q
public figure in the Steel City. Few
now remember bis sensational dis
avowal Of McAdoo, fewer still bis
equally sensational amende. Some
times there have been struggles with
a burning appetite. At such. times he
has fed to Kathleen. He tells her II
is she who has conquered.
Both Kathleen and Paul are happy
At least they have achieved content.
The train that whiried Paul TOWARD
the Steel City was passed By another
bearing Mayor McAdoo to the death
; bed Of man who had come very close
to him.
Bob saw much Of 1Iurchell during
the two years following the Steel Cit,
mayorality election. He came to fee
q mighty admiration and affection f0l
the great general who had created {
new political era, who had shackled
nation to the service of vast. vora
cjous system. who had lifted at ieas
one nonentity to the presidents chail
and who in the last years Of bis lift
was struggling to undo the work Of, hi:
prime.
.When q man reaches his threescorl
years and ten." Murchell said to bin
. one day. ''he has harmed That the evi
!. or good a man does concerns himself
I least Of all. The balance mnst reinai'
. heavily against me. must strive no
to atone, but to make the way ready
: for other men who will undo what
. have done"
Murchell's lofty SELF ignoring gav'
him an example that he strove to emu
4 late.
Many other thinss Of less abstrac
kind he learned from the master
Murchell revealed q him the secrs
intricate inner workings Of the vas
machine that gripped the state - In I
i wise. 1t was not all pretty. Nor
L d + - ~ "
. thsn once he saw rebellious bosses =
ter the presence Of the master 60 leav'
Q shaking. stunned BY the knowledg
. that. they were ipextricably IN th
power Of Z man who seemed to know
! everything. Many things Murchel
s and Bob did Of which theyssaid naueh
+ to the gentle D4nmeade that the.
might save his heart from burning.
|. Gradually Bob came 70 understand
too. Why the secrets and sources Q
= NurcheIl's power were revealed 3
= him. He was being prepared to tab
Hurehsll's placs. upn him, not upol
: DunmeadA tie usastas's mantle W
!. 20 fan : ~. RI Z - = 4
And now MufeheIl was dying.
N Bob knew - tAe train bore bin
81 swfftiy % ~ east that ~ was sotn'
). - aseume that uDsntiA
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