The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-03
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Go to it." said Blount sharply
Swear out your own affidavit and get
as many mores as you can to back it
up Bring the papers here to me be-
! tween I and o'clock this afternoon.
That's ALI Now go before L am
tempted to throw you out neck and
heels If somebody doesn't kill you
for this piece of treachery you will
be playing in big luck
When Gryson was gone BIount put
On his hat and went straight to the
editorial rooms OF the Daily Capital.
Blenkinsop, the thin, faced, long haired
editor, was bumped in his chair over
his desk blue pencnfng copy like a
man running q race against time.
-'In just a minute he said when
BIount stood beside him And then.
sticking the copy on the hook, Nov
I'm withsyou-"
Blount had marked the unusual
daytime activities in the newspaper
Office and had instantly put two and
two together
You're, at work pretty early for
morning paper force, aren't you,
BlenkinsOp?" he asked
You bet we areE' was the quick re-
ply.
what is the matterf' queried
BIount
Haven't you heard?'' said the ed
itor- 'Somebody-heavens only knows
I who-has been gathering up a lot of
false registration evidence involving
half a dozen of the principal towns in
Y the state. The stuff came to us by
Z sort of underground route, but it's re-
I liable All right It's a corker. ThereI1
/ n I,ie-
state at the polls tomorrow, and no
man living can tell what the outcome
viii be-
Blount saw a great light, which sud
denly grew to clarifying brightness.
Whom does the scandal involve.
Blenkinsop2'' he asked quietly.
At this the long haired editor grew
curiously embarrassed You're with
US. Blount. that know. But you are
also your fathers son. There are only
one machine and one boss in the Sage
brush State"
Blount nodded dumb1y. Then,
when will you go to press with the
first edition Of the paper"
AT a m sharp" was the reply.
Blount turned TO go. 81 may have
another half column or so for you be
fore that time" he said, 'but you
I'll call you over the phone if I have
anything to say
Once in the street, Blount went
straight to the bank where he had
rented the safety box. Five minutes
in the privacy of the vault anteroom,
with the unlocked box before him,
confirmed his suspicious. The packet
which he had so carefully secured was
made up Of blank papers folded to ap-
pear like the originals, and it became
convincingiy evident that his office
safe had not been dynamited for moth
ing
The matter which would appear un-
der faring scare heads the next morn
ing would be the evidence which he
himself had collected, carefully edit
cd no doubt, so that 1t would leave
out all that might incriIninate any
body but the machine and the ma
chimes boss-his father
With q muttered threat OF vengeance
directed at his traftorous Office force,
Blount went slowly back to the Tenn
pie court and sat down to wait for
Gryson's return, giving Collins orders
10 deny him to everybody else.
Once again in the history Of the race
1t had become the duty of a son to be-
tray a father. Blount saw his way
lying clearly defined before him. He
must take the afhdavits which Cry
son would bring and lay them before
Judge Hemingway, the one man in the
capital, II not in the entire state, who
would have the courage Of his convic-
lions and the high sense of duty to
act, and act promptly.
Blount saw the dreadful conse-
quences marshaling themselves in
readiness His father would be i'm
plicated beyond any possibility or hope
of exculpatiOn, and the people of the
state-stirred as they would be by the
widespread story OF fraud which he
himself had gathered-wouId show lit
tie mercy to the chief instigator of the
frauds
During the last half hour of waiting
Blount could no longer sit still, and he
was pacing the floor of the private of
fee. ten steps and a turn, monotonous-
Is, when Gryson was ushered in.
I've got 'em, a full dozen of 'emI''
gro~led the brihe taker, throwing
thick packet of papers on Blount's
desk Now, then, what do 1 get out
Of it,"
6lount stopped short and whirled as
# the demand had been blow
You'll get just what any other
criminal gets when he turns states
evidence he rasped. you won't be
prosecuted and sent to the peniten-
tiary, as you deserve to be. Now get
out OF here. and don't let me have to
Seu you tEiceI'
Gryson made a move as If he would
EepoSsess himself Of thu packet of at