The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-07-18
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I - Congressman 6tandish
and the Woman, believing themselves In
love. spend trial week as man and wife
In hotel In northern New York under
assumed names. The Woman awakens to
the fact that she does not love standish
and calls their engagement Off. Standfsh
protests undying devotion.
CHAPTER Willie lays q trap to secure
tho narno OF the woman. He tells Miss
Kelly that he is going to have a. talk with
Standish and that at Its conclusion the
phone to warn the Woman. He offers
Miss Kelly 800 for that number.
CHAPTER What the conclusion of
the interview with Blake Standish gets a
New York wire and calls Plaza 1901. A
few minutes later Robertson tells Miss
Kelly to call Plaza 1901 and get his wife
or enc OF the servants on the phona
CHAPTER Ix-Mlss Kelly refuses to
give Jim Blake the number called by
-
CHAPTER X-Blake has a story of the
standish episode prepared ready 10 send
learned Tom Blake tells his father OF
his love for Wanda Kelly and a family
row ensues. Biake's daughter, Grace, ar
rives with her husband. Governor Robert
san.
/. CHAPTER xTy~Grace sends far Miss
Kelly. apologies for her rudeness and
ciares she viii never betray the Woman,
CHAPTER xV-Grace pleads with Gov
ernor Robertson to withhold the Standish
story for the sake OF the Woman, She
niehdS IN vain.
"Thate your misfortune" sneered
Mark. 1.-THE people have a right to
know who represent them. In the
newspaper articles we have prepared,
there are no facts we cannot prove;
your affair with the Woman-your
failure to carry out your pledge to
marry her"
''Then the story is written?" ex-
claimed Standish.
ut is in type" put In Van Dyke,
"and waiting our word to send 1t out
to the whole country"
II see," unused Standiah. "And see
how such story will be handled in
print. You'll use every trick of sug-
gestion, every fact inferring lie"
And" cried Mark, lit will beat you.
1t will beat you. mainland that's what
we've been working for, for years"
I'm not beaten yet" retorted Stand
fish. And advise you. Governor Rob
ertson, to be careful"
'Oh, we shall be careful" returned
Van Dyke. "The proprietor OF the no
tel is coming tonight. The hotel where
Mr.. and Mrs. Fowler were registered.
We may not need him to identify her.
But he'll be on hand in case we do.
Take my word for 1t, Mr.. Standish,
you'u save great deal of unneces-
sary trouble II you'll quietly step down
and out"
"lf | did" said Standish, 81 would
be politically dead You know that"
You're politically dead, anyway"
insisted Mark. IF this story will beat
you tonight it will beat you 20 years
from today. Particularly If this Wom-
an proves to be-what shall we call
TIA trile off color?"
Robertson"
"Ah! That hurts, does it? Then
It's probably true. If the Woman is
the kind that-that would not do you
credit, you can understand how much
more effective 1t will be-"
You are wrong!' denied Standish
She is of good family. She"
"She may have been q good woman
when you found her." said Mark. But
there must have been a bad streak In
her, somewhere. You left her to sink
as low as expect to find her and"
Drop that, Mark" burst out Ton
Blake, jumping from his seat and con
fronting his hrother-in.law. Don't.
can't listen to 1t any longer. Standisf
is right. What you men are doing Ii
vile. If you've got scrap of man
hood left in the whole bunch OF you
you won't drag this Woman Into YOU
dirty schemes. L."
oh" drawled Blake with the air o
a sleepy man bothered by fly. TO
the love of Mike, don't you butt in
The situations punk enough as it is
without your laying your trophies o
idiocy at its feet"
Idiocy?" fared Tom. "Perhap
common decency's better term. o
| perhaps in your vocabulary the tw'
mean the same thing. You men ar
known as political leaders. The put
lie looks to you for examples. An,
yet you stoop to currish trick lik
| thisl Isn't there enough whiteness i
| the whole lot OF you for single vote