The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-10-24
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The Window
at the
White Cat
By MARY ROBERTS
RINfHART
Copyright. 1910 by Bobb,-Mer-
1li Co.
CHAPTER XIX.
Measure For Measure.


/ path with his head down. / sa'
j the shadowy figure OF the othe
man fall into line behind hin
Then caught the platform OF the las
car as II passed. and that short rid
into town was a triumphal procession
with the wheels beating time and sing
ing, Its all the same-tbe same-t
| me-to me-"
/ | called Burton by telephone. W
arranged TO meet at little Chimes
restaurant. where at that hour.
o'clock. we would be almost alone.
Burton listened attentively to War
drops story as repeated It.
80 Schwartz did it. after ALL" hi
said regretfully when | finished. "It's
a tame ending. II had all the elements
OF the unusual, and 1t resolves itself
| into an ordinary, everyday man to
man feud I'm disappointed. We
can't touch Schwartz"
II thought the Times-Post was hot
after him."
Schwartz bought the Tlmes-Post at
o'clock this afternoon" Burton said.
with repressed rage. I'm called or.
rrornorrow we run n photograph of
Sehwartzwold his place at Plattsburg,
and the next dav we eulopize the adj
minlstration. I'm going down the riv-
er on an excursion boat and write up
the pig killing contest at the union
butcbers' pIcnic.v
"How Is Mrs RutIer7, asked
..DelIrlous.r shortly. "She's going TO
croak. Wardrop's going to Mexico.
Schwartz will be next governor. and
Miss MaitIand's body will be found IN
cistern. The whole thing has petered
out. What's the use of finding the
murderer II he's coated with asbestus
and lined with money? Mike. L want
some more tea TO drown my troubles"
We called up the hospital about 1890
and learned that Mrs. Butler was sink
ing Fred was there and. without
much hone OF getting ANYTHING. we
went over. | took Burton In as
nephew OF the diving woman. and
was glad had done 1t! She was quite
conscious. but very weak. She told
the story to Fred and myself, and In
a corner Burton took IL down In short
hand We got her TO sign II about day-
light sometime, and she died very
quietly shortly after Edith arrived at 8.
To give her story as she gave il
would be impossible. The ramblings
of n sick mind. the terrible pathos of
IL all. is impossible to repeat She
lay there. her long. thin body practical
ly dead. fighting the death rattle In her
throat There were pauses when for
FIVE minutes she would lie in stupor.
only to rouse and 90 forward from the
very word where she had stopped.
She began with her married life.
and to understand the beauty of 1t is
to understand the things that came
after. She, was perfectly. ideally. IL
logically happy. Then one day Henry
Butler accepted the nomination for
state treasurer. and with that things
changed. During his term in office
he altered greatly; his wife could onlv
guess that things were. wrong, for be |
refused to talk.
The crash came, after all, with ter
rible suddenness. There had been an |
all night conference at the Butler
nome. and Mr.. Butler, In a frenzy at |
inding himself n dupe. had called the
1utler from bed and forcibly elected
Fleming and Schwartz from the house.
ellen Butler had been Mortified. sick.
med by what she regarded as the yul.
,arity of the occurrence. But her low
Ilty TO her husband never wayered.
Butler was one honest man against
complete organization OF unscrupu.
,us ones. His disgrace. IMPRISONMENT
nd suicide Mt the White Ont had fol
owed In rapid succession. with his
eatb all tint was worth willis IN his
rife died Her health was DESTROYED.
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