The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-08-21

tdo aeslsnment. ~ oad1r That th1
tsrmh 81 the ereFoN conld not Be mis-
taken
~ The powerful hand d Thomas !.
Wood. resting 81 hir written resigna.
ton clenehed. Twin not eonaent 70
An escrow, he1repeated + {.
Randolph Mason thrunt acr0Bs the
table the paper which he had made
out. "sign that he said.
The man took the mem ora nduIn, q.
fixed his signature ana laid Il on the
letter of reslgna zion under his
clenched hand. HIS face dprkened. Il
trust be said, shat my words are IN.
telligible. 1ehaye twice said that ]
would not consent to an escrow,
There shan be. no eiHroW.s SAID
Randolph Mason.
The attorney for John A. GaFnett
leaned forward in his chair. ''HoW
then, he said. Us Mr.. Wood toohthiH
this assignment"
II shall give It to him, = replied Ran.
dolph Mason. Then he picked up the
assignment and handed Il to the Unit.
ed States marshal. TAKE this" he
said, "and leave ON the table the pa.
pers under your hand"
The shadows IN the resolute face
OF Thomas 3. Wood vanished. He got
up, put the assignment into his pocket,
buttoned his great coat, took up his
driving gloves from the table, babe Us
good-eyening and vent out Of the
room, down the stairway to his horses.
came back wonderingly to Ram
aolph Mason. HIS boast that he would
BE here to prevent the ruin Of Garnstt
was idle. He father had speeded that
ruin The attorney regarded him with
cold lerenity. @.ss
Have you in iact, he asked, "any
interest In he, success Of John A. Gar.
i'nett?"
Il have not, he said. Then he5conl
tiaued, Ike one explaining briefly to
an annoying query II am interested
only in removing this man from his Of.
fee, In correcting thereby the wrong
of his appointment iS
All" said the attorney. y, under.
stand, then, why you so readily cut
from under US the only possible foot.
hold against thfs man -that OF an es.
crow. With Wood once out of office,
the delivery If this paper might have
been entoined."
Sir" replied Mason. ''your purposed
fiimsy trick was patent even to Wood"
Perhaps" said the attorney, but
in shipwreck no plank can be al.
lowed to pass. You had no right to
come into this affair, II you had no
regard for Mr.. Garnett's peril"
"since came into the affair" re.
piled Randolph Mason. "Mr. Garrett
has never been In peril" y
This conversation with It's last en-.
tgmatic answer Of Randolph Mason
was interrupted by the abrupt en-.
trance Of Margaret Garrett,
She spoke to Randolph Mason, Il:
noring the rest OF us as though we
were tntermlnably distant.
you. even yor," she said, could
not defeat him. He got whathe want.
ed in spite Of you"
Mason regarded her with a. leisure.
ly, ironic interest &
Thomas B. Wood, he replied, 'has
got nothing" 7H II 's@ ~ 90
'Nothing!" she repeated, "Do you
| call control Of my fathers railroads
nothing? control Of millions moth.
ing? q seat in the United States sen:
ate nothing? And what have you talk.
en- from him for It? indeed, what have
you taken! A paltry federal ofice!,'
4 "Ihave taken" replied Randolph Ma.
son, "the little that he had, and / have
| given nothing" Then he added as
though likewise in explanation to the
rest of us, in the removal OF this
man from his Office It was not my in.
tention that he should obtain any ben.
eft from John A. Garrett"
Then" she cried, you have
failed"
j 81 have not failed" replied Ran
dolph Mason, speaking with cold pre-
cision., This assignment Of stock
was delivered to Thomas B. Wood il
consideration of the resignation Of his
Office. Such contracts are void, as
against public policy The ~eonsol
idated. Fuel Railroads will refuse tc
recognize the validity. Of this agree
\ meut, and It cannot be enforced ii
the courts. It cannot avail this mar
that the paper is in legal form and
recites another and valid consfdera
ton, when the moving consideration
was in fact the resignation of a fed
erai Office"
The atmosphere of a victory rising
about John A. Garnett was less i'm
pressive than that atmosphere OF dis
aster fallen thus swiftly on his daugh
ter. The wondrous vitality of her fiR
ure vanished; the light fed from the
silver, the blood from the porcelain
Then, as by some masterful effort
going to the very springs of, life. Il
all splendidly returned. She looked
I steadily at Randolph Mason, her eyee
/ two lines Of light.
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