The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-02-22

Three Or four days passed. with ths
senator ,rytnw bard 60 appear tndlf.
s.rrrt- bat really anxSous. and then e
fss compelled 20 AK:
We'll. Dorothy. What about thas
wuneersal aesth-eed con.ssSson.
81 an sorvy TO tell you. dat1y. that
there - xtEIl worse news- Mr.. Ray
burn happened - Be on the spot she
/ other day waea . rsAn named shane
was run down hy . street car. Mr..
/ Rayburn II tezderheartcd and sea
eroaa. and Re cozsosed the Injured
man and sent his wife $50. lie couldn't
be saved. however. but before &c died
lie made > confession. He waF = mem
Der Of the legislature when the good
roads scandal came out Perhaps Jon
knew him.
The internal rascall Did no men
ton my nane7-
Il think be did. daddy. think he
confessed that 10 and you divried Up
on something"
It's lie. OF course. but want that
document as well rs the other.
There1l be souoc fools that will be-
I!ove what a dying man says Of "a
honest politician Perhaps that Mr..
Rayburn-"
i don't think he would come -
see you. daddy. You know you threat
ened him"
Then he can stay away. can set
half a dozen good men 10 swear that
Shane was q liar"
The senator walked around with his
chest thrown out and a self-sa;isaed
air, but he was worried. He was be-
Ing written up In his rarity organs rs
the snowwhite candidate. He wanted
10 seem defiant, even to his daughter,
and II wasn't many days before he
asked in what he thought was a jocu-
lar tone:
Well. sunragette. any further
alarms?"
Why. yes. daddy. That is, you may
not think it worth minding. owing to
your snow-white record, but Mr.. Ray
burn considers 1t great find" /
Dang Mr.. Rayburn!"
so / say, but you see he has got
another death-bed confession. He
drove out the other day TO see Farmer
Bramble. 1t seems that the farmer
owned land where the aoueduct is to !
run, and by the aid of certain poll
ucian and state senator he wa en-
abled to get $4,000 for land til
ABOUT $4,000. or course, there was a
divvy in it."
They can't prove it." shouted the
Perhaps not, but you see the far
ner mad been kicked by a mule and
ay dying. He couldn't die In peace
until he had confessed that the sen.
ator got two-thirds of the graft Mr..
aayburn has the document"
And 1t says I'm the senator. does
t."
L think it does, daddy think go.
S there such an expression as dead
o-rights?"
II believe So" 4
well, I think that Mr.. Ravburn
kinks that that document gets you
Don't they sometimes {
ay that a man is caught with the
OOdS On!" n
Yves"
And there is something about
ans goose being cooked?" 7
UNI"
And with the three death-bed con. 7
essions in Mr.. Rayburn's pocket, and
18th the suffragettes investigating. and
nth the Examiner" hot on the trail r
think, daddy, dear-I think that Won
Ill be showed under ten feet deep at =
he coming election!"
But he wasn't What does a NOR
1nocent girl know about the tricks =
snow-white politicians? The sen.
tor fixed that thing In a day. When :,
lr. Rayburn came calling again b.
eemed to feel perfectly at home. but
cid sigh as he observed: y
You are worth 1t ten times over
Ut really | almost hated to do it." ',
And Dorothy's answer was:
But If you were a suffraeetta vo,,
ould understand that graft must ba A
let with graft. Daddy gratis the pub.
and We graft him!" =,