The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-05


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, sort o. game 1 can't ana. can
never understand. | know them all
And personally they're white men, ten
der-hearted, clean, honorable. But pro-
fessionally- Why. for instance.
| there's my brotherin-law, Mark Rob
ertson. He and Grace have been mar
ried over three years now, and his
love for her is still sort OF alteration.
He's the perfect lover-husband. But
as a lawyer he won the name of being
a bloodhound And, as politician
well. he's like the rest. They'll all re-
sort to the dirtiest trickery. the rot
tenest sort of corruption. ! can't make
# out But why should dads political
deal affect you and me? I'm not to
blame if"
"And I'm not blaming you But I've
been brought up to hate jim Blake AMI
his crowd and to pray for chance to
get back at them. | know that isn't
a meek and womanly way to talk. But
it's the way feel. II loved my ia
ther sol My square, honest, white IA
ther. And they killed him. All there's
something coming to that crowd! To
Blake and all of them! And it's com
ing from me. Some day may be able
to deliver the goods! II oughn't TO
talk so to you," she caught herself up,
half apolcgetically. "I'm afraid hurt
| you. Perhaps you didn't fully know"
"Why In blazes did 1t have to be
| your father, of all men, that they
| chose to-"
1T didn't He was just one OF hun
| dreds that the party machine smashed.
He used to say the machine was like
| the Juggernaut car, crushing every
thing that dared stand in its path. Jim
| Blake guides that car And he guides
| it over the bodies of better men. He
and his crowd prosper. But some
things coming to them, Just the
| same"
| But"
"The machine has tried to run over
| the wrong man at last. And its Joints
| and wheels are rafting with fear.
/
had the cleverness and the strength
not to be crushed And he has rallied
weaker stupider insurgents around
him. till he has formed an obstacle the
machine can't override. He's done
more. He's reused the whole people
And the people are watching their rep
resentatives SO closely, at last. that q
lot of crooks have to play fair or lose
their Jobs oh, I'm following Standi5h'
| work! When he clashed horns with
Jim Blake over this Mullins railroad
bill It did me good all over For when
Standish defeats the Mullins bill he'll
break the backbone of Jim Blakes po
litical power Yes, and he'll smash
Jim Blakes plan to put Governor Rob
ertson tn the speakers chair. Hell
keep Robertson out. And he'll si
there himself. And when he does
his gayel blows will beat the Jugger
naut car into scrap-iron."
"Wanda!" protested Tom, amazed a
her TRADE, Haven't we better thing
to talk than politics? I'll tell da(
about your father and see II ht
won't"
mo! You mustn't. You must prom
Use not to tell him who am. Promise!
"Oh. promise. If you like. But
can't bear to have you go on hatini
dad. He's the kindest. dearest oil
chap alive. Maybe he didn't know
Does the organization do anything
I Jim Blake doesn't know and dictate?"
mister Thomas Blake!" PACED
liveried boy. at the far end of the COZ
ridor. mister Thomas Blake!"
Tom caught sight of telegram ol
the tray the lad carried. But befor
he ceuld signal the boy himself. tn
latter had gone out of sight.
He's carried 1t to the bar with al
the une.ring instinct of a homin
dover grumpIed Iofn. ana ne1
bawl Mister Thomas Blake! in tha
/, disreputable place for a solid houf
J don't go and choke him off,"
: Wanda watched her suitor hurr
away IN search of his quarry, and he
dark eyes took on tenderer ligh
= than ever he had seen In them. Their
at sound of chance word behind hel
o. became all at once her alert bus