Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-01-02
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VIRGINIA LEILA WENTz
CONTINUED from yesterday

CONTINUED from yesterday
''Eh? What's wrong then?" demand
ed Craven sharply. A light had fallen
on the darkness of his first surprise.
lie was beginning to understand.
Mrs. Mason left the antlers and hunt
ing scenes and went to the favorite
guns.
i've been strictly brought up. Mr..
Craven. and somehow feel it amt
right-it's doing violence to my con-
science-to stay on under this roof"
For a second Craven studied her
curiously-this sturdy New England
housekeeper who for three years had
made the daily routine of living in the
Temple home a smooth and comfor-
table thing.
Her constituencies. that was it.
She was beginning to feel that she
could not live in the same place and
take money from man whom she
considered had come by it unworthily
"Puritanism is as lasting in family
as sin-to the third or fourth genera
tion," he thought to himself. the outer
corners Of his eyes still contracted.
II think, somehow, that sin might be
easier to lop off the family tree"
"Yes." went on Mrs. Mason. land l
can't work for a man who has done
wickedly as Mr.. Temple has. His con-
duct would reflect on me. There you
have it. Mr.. Craven. My conscience
won't. let me give silent consent to his
deeds by my presence"
'Oh. I say, Mrs. Mason, come, come"
laughed Craven in spite Of himself.
Get of old Plymouth rock just for
once, that's good soulv'
1T might be better for your new
New York If it stood a bit f>rmer on
old Plymouth rock" snapped she, lin.
stead Of Wall street quicksand." She
was about leaving the room in high
dudgeon when her eye CHANGED upon
some glazing headlines in the morn
ing's paper which, with other journals.
Craven in his hustle had flung upon
the floor.
"See! See that" she said. picking It
up and handing it triumphantly to the
lawyer. TITS that piece in today's pa
per which has finally decided me to
make change. All about the Granger
case and Mr.. Temples connection with
1t. Lookv'
"'Justice and high finance" read
Craven half aloud in hne. sneering
fashion. 1.-THE continued silence on
the part Of Mr.. Burton Temple re-
garding his connection with the Gran
ger case only confirms suspicion in the
minds Of the thinking public
Thinking public that's good"
CALCULATED he. He bit off the end of
a cigar. Every successful mans a
cur and every rich man a malefactor
In that blessed thinking public's eye"
"Just read it through. please" plead
ed Mrs. Mason. with clasped hands.
"When the law is 30 fagrantly de-
fed It is time that the American pub
lie made stand. The Granger case
has gone a step too far. 1t is one
thing for rich man to avoid punish
ment; it Is another thing for rich
man to avoid punishment by throwing
the guilt on another's shoulders. There
is scarcely a man today who does not
believe that Robert Granger is a scape-
goat for Burton Temple
why in the name Of heaven must
this Granger case come up again ?"
shouted Craven, throwing down the
paper with hot expletive Granger
had fair trial. was convicted. sent
to prison, and now, not content with
the Justice of their own courts. these
newspapers are trying to get him out"
And send Mr.. Temple in his place
% serve his term" finished Mrs. Ma
son quietly. where he deserves to be"
she added in measured tones. There,
I've said it. To be silent is to acqui-
esce. 1t is sheltering evil. 'Tisn't' al
ways easy to speak out our thoughts.
But I've been taught where a principle
q concerned it's our duty to do so.
It's like the sun-it puriaes." Her
chin was well up in the air.
A pause. Craven's cigar was out,
and he was slow about relighting it.
'The sun purifies. yes" sighed he.
but it terminates too. Half the moral
and social crimes would cease if wom-
en- and men also buried the other
half in silence. That hysterical de-
sire to express it belongs to past age.
Mrs. Mason" he said sternly. latter
all. We don't know much about our
neighbors' lives-really any of us-so
it's safer and wiser to be kind in our
judgments. eh? None Of us needs to
resolve himself into a fraction Of the
day Of Judgment. thank God" He
swallowed hard. this old stole of a
lawyer. "And. by thunder" he ex-
ploded. IF three years knowledge of
q mans daily life. with all it's integrity
and dneness and honesty Of purpose.
must go for naught them
The telephone bell interrupted. Mrs.
Mason. close at hand. took the mes
sage.
Its Miss Dale, Miss Graham's sue
eessor," announced she. awaiting Cra-
sen's orders.