The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-07-06
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| CHAPTER I - Congressman standish
| tha the W oman. believing themselves In
| loNe spend trial week as man and wife
| n Il hotel ia northern New YORK under
| 'ssHiiiSa names; The Woman. awaiseus to
ne tact that she does not love Standisi
l nd calls their engagement of Standish
| roiests undying devotion.
| CHAPTER IE-Wanda Kelly. teiephon,
| ri at the Hotel keswick \. ashjngtou Is
| owed BY Tom Blake son of the political
| ooss OF the house. He proposes marriage
| and is refused.
| CHAPTER IIi-She gives as one ST the
reasons her determination to get revenge
gresham Franz Z, Kelly. Congressman
standish, turned insurgent, is fighting the
A0ihns pill. measure Ia the interests
OF the railroads. The machine is seeking
means 10 discredit Standish in the hope
of pushing the bill through
Now you are talking sanity" ap.
proved the lawyer. That was just
what | was waiting to suggest"
We'll. we didn't wait for you to sug
gest it, retorted Neligan. We aren't
corporation Observation-Disclosures. per.
haps. but we've got few grains of
gray matter left. That's the first stunt
we tried We put good men on the
case to look up Standish's record--to
find one break that We could hang a
story on
"Weli?"
Well. from their reports, Standish
seems to have led life that would
make Saint Anthony and Sir Galahad
and the Pilgrim fathers look like a
bunch OF soused Tenderloin FOUNDERS"
You're sure your men left nothing
uncovered"
DO you think we'd overlook any
thing when the whole game hangs on
it,"
That's right, Van Dyke" supple.
mented Gregg. We've been over
Standish's record with q microscope.
He's cost us enough to make tho
search mighty careful, Even IL you
don't give Us credit for sense enough
to probe the business, you'll have to
allow that Mark Robertson's no fool.
And Robertson's moved heaven and
hell to get something on Standish But
he can't. Robertson's got more at
stake than any Of US, II Standish ticks
him in this fight and gets the speaker.
ship it'll cost Mark Robertson more
than most people could understand
Solf-respect and ambition and future
and"
1T sure will" agreed Neligan. Lets
sect must be close on Ave years,
now. that Standish and Robertson
have been at each others threats. Five
years-no, six. Ever since Robertson
ran for governor and Standish dug ap
that smelly franchise deal against
him. Robertson's had it in for him
ever since"
Just when I'm all loaded up to the
guards with perfectly good stock that
will go to pieces like a card house
when the bill fails!" walled Gregg.
Cut out the whine!" ordered Nell.
gan. you aren't the only man who's
bought stock that Standish Wilt turn
into waste paper. Oh, that man Stand
ishl He's got the country running
after him like flock OF hens after the
farmer at feeding time. They think
his private life's got Saint Peter and
Anthony Comstock dashed to the mast
and that his politics are so pure they'd
make Abraham Lincoln feel like a
ward heller. He's no man. He's a
bloodless saint. don't believe he
ever SO much as squeezed a woman 9
hand in his life pr swigged anything
stronger than sarsapariila, How are
We going to get the hooks into fell
low like that"
Il don't know howl" fared Van
DYKE. But It's Jim Blake's business
to know, He was supposed to be run.