The Washington times., 1913-11-22
THE DAILY SERIAL
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CHAPTER III.-(Continued.)

CHAPTER 1II.-(Continued.)
'ttX JOU rat, You snake. You
v crawling reptile, Keep your
distance while ! warn you
of the consequences of wha'
, You are attempting to do" Harvard
said, in suppressed tones. which yet
were filled with menace indescribable
i am not guilty of this horrible charge
and you know it Whatever evidence,
| pointing TO my guilt, you may have
shown to that old man who crouches
IN his chair and dares not speak what
L know is In his heart to say, you,
You. YOU, have manufactured. II Is
what the men of your business. and oi
! your kind, call a 'frame-up, and !
know that Don't you dare to interrupt
me,
''As for the charge itself, If it were
! not that you have made this OLD man.
/ who has been kind 10 me. and more
/ than a father to rne-if 1t were not
| that You have made him believe me
, guilty Of that charge, ] would meet II,
| and disprove it. l would give Inyseil
J up 10 you, and defy you, II i mao ms
| confidence and his belief in me, to sup
! port me.
but YOU are breaking his heart as
, well as mine. You are spoilins MS M LMIe
! in his old age, even as you are tryins
| to ruin mine, while / am still young in
! years.
| And you know that 1t Is a frame-up.
/ II could be nothing else. Now. wait.
Bingham Harvard turned once again
| toward his benefactor, who sat with
! bowed head and lowered eyes, seem.
! ingly needless of the storm tnat mao
arisen. but trembling nevertheless.
mfr. Chester" he. said, raise your
eyes and look at me-"
Slowly the banker complied.
J DO you, in your inmost heart, be-
lieve that am guilty Of this thingT
Il must, Bingham; I cannot the help IT.
Harvard wheeled again upon his tor
| mentor. His eyes were cold. and hard.
and relentless. His muscles We're rigid.
| On his neck they swelled until his col
! lar was near to bursting. He was .
none knew the fact better than ne did.
But he held himself in check for an
other interval.
Man, do you see what you have
know what you are doing? Tell hin,
that you have lied to him. Tell this old
man that the charge against me Is ]
false one. Tell him that am not guilty
that you have lied. damnabiy, or, as
surely as you stand there. l will tear
you apart with these two hands of mine;
As sure as YOU grin at me now. VIII
break your ...s t.....
Rushton sprang forward again at that
instant. HIS two aides leaped to his
assistance. ---
But Bingham Harvard was prepared.
He abandoned all effort at seff-control:
He met the attack of Rushton hall
way.
He tore the handouts from the Of
ficer's grasp and hurled them crashing
through the plate glass window. he
seized the wrist of Rushton's out
stretched right arm and twisted u;
turning the man halfway around; then
he grasped the officers elbow with his
other hand and brought the forearm
down with a terrific force across his
own bended knee, which he raised to
meet it. and there followed sharply
dry stick, and a cry Of mingled agony
and rage from Rushton.
Then a second snap followed the hrst
one, with scarcely a pause between
Rushton, who staggered or was thrown
backward and collapsed in a corner of
the room, with his arm broken N two
places.
While that was happening the other
two men sprang upon Harvard from
behind, one hugging him around the
neck and body. the other diving to the
floor to seize him by the legs.
President Chester started to his feet.
dismayed and frightened by what was
| taking place.
Harvard seized one of the hands that
his own and bent 1t backward at the
wrist quickly. and with terrific fierce,
and the crunching grind of the smaller
bones as they were fractured by the
strain, and the yell OF the man whose
wrist II was followed instantly. The
hold about Harvards neck relaxed. and
the man fell away from him, moaning
with pain.
But Harvard was falling also, for the
third man had seized his legs and was
lifting and throwing him.
He half turned as he fell, freed from
the other encumbrances, and he grasped
his last assailant as he went down.
pulling the man across him ana throw,
ing him forward at the same time; ana
then. as they both sought to rise, with
the advantage with Harvard, the other
man made a last desperate clutch at
him to seize him by the throat.
Harvard caught the hand in one OF
his own as 1t shot forward, and clasped
It SO that the four fingers were doubled
together inside his own grip-and the
man sent up a great cry as he sank
backward with every finger Of that hand
broken.
The big library table had been over
turned in the scramble. and Its contents
! had crashed to the floor. Just beyond
all that confusion, half crouching in his
| terror and paralyzed by fear, the banker
was standing. wringing his hands to-
| gether, when Harvard turned to make
| his escape from the room.
! The banker held up his hands appeal
| ingly as Harvard approached him then
! he sank back and collapsed upon a
chair beside door. But the young man
| who had so defied the power Of the law
! scarcely noticed him at all One glance
only Of his blazing eyes rested upon the
panic-stricken banker and one look
| more he swept around the dismantled
room toward the three other men who
crouched or groveled upon the floor,
| now rendered utterly helpless against
him-and then Bingham Harvard pass
| ed outside of the room and was gone,
| closing the door after him without a
sound and gliding away into the OBJ
scurity and mystery which was to en-
| velop him for a long time to come.
The dismay, the terror, and the
! broken bones that he left behind him
were all the direct consequences Of tn"
| loosing OF that terrific mastering
strength which was Bingham Har-
wards birthright which his unknown
| father and mother had bestowed upon
him as an inheritance, and which was
coupled with a tempestuous fury and
| implacable determination whenever II
was thorough reused.
| Outside OF the house he paused for
an instant to glance backward. for ne
| was his own cool, self-contained self
again, and he thoroughly realized the
enormity Of the thing he had Just done.
| Innocent - the crime with which he
had been charged. he was nevertheless
| pTIfIty of other things now, and he