Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-01-07
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y Then he paused The rugged mask
5T5of al face had not changed, But the
pupils OF the half-shut eyes had sud
denly contracted as though a binding
light had been flashed before them.
Yet, 8 seconlJ later, when Blake spoke
n again, there was no trace OF pain or
resentment In his dry drawing voice.
s'"sBlackmail e, he rs said once more.
4 III How q bout the way Standish; dragged
up that franchise affair Of mine last
b year? What was that but blackmail?''
4; Well, e demanded Tom. In the stark
Y mercile of youth, you were
stealing the franc hise. weren't you,
dad s,3
Y ed. q asserted Blake with a. de:
3sslightfuI absence OF all false modesty,
IS 81 sure was. And u was doing 1t neat
q ~, too. Not q ripple, not q kick, till
Standish butted In with his measly
reformers and queered the whole Job
ssaaand cost us 4 . half n million dollars.
Son. every time i think Of that. I want
tos chase some one with an az. don't
Ellie awake nights thinking how cum
y Ming. our friend standish would look
with seaweed In his hair and sand I'M
der his nails. But / keep that fran
chise memory and q few others fresh
on the Ice. And 1t sure doesn't break
my heart to have chance now41o
getting back at him. S n q 81 |tS
But,,, persisted Tom, that was q
& public matter It doesn't Justify you
I'm dragging his private life into the
sslime-l light
ss. The. deuce It doesn't? Who told
/. you that l. Nj
my self-respect. /. i ss5
si3 IL Oh! III thought maybe you might
have got the tip from some reliable
source. Go ahead. son. Doesn't justi-
ttfy me. hey y III; u
!: 81 10, dad, II you want truth. It
q doesn't. Il Isn't lean T.! II sSS
n Clean Say, son. this 10 politics.
Not q prayer,mee citing. You've got In
1.-THE wrong pew sg5 M;
4ass5l$SsE."'If the right i pew justif1es dirty
work like thai, 81 hashe the boy, I'm
glad have. And ] want to stay there.
This business OF making political cap
llital Of "a mans dead buried sins
Ills enough to turn the stomach OF q
camel. "a thousand times more 20
when one considers the Woman, 8ES3
Well queried Blake, IN high good
Il humor, &c he always was when he
! could stir up a quarrel between his
i adored only son and himself. What
about her q 4. Nh NJ
h Every thing. She made a fool OF
y herself. Presumably when she was
y young. She has probably repented
4 it bitterly, ten thousand times. She
may have atoned for what she did.
She may even be a wife. and mother.
now. Respec ted, loved. All the world
n and Heaven, besides. to her husband
B and children. And. just to pass . rot
ten railroad bill, you are going to drag
her out into the glare Of the newspa-
per world and cruelty her! Y ou are
going to strip from her. her husbands
q love !; you are going to make her
friends shun her as an outcast; you're
throwing black shame on her innocent
children name You re- e !, z !, II.
Excuse me, son. I, interrupted Blake.
those terribly dramatic things.
sstandish% is doing Or, rather. he
4 has done 1t Not ]. Catch the idea?
If 8Standish committed murder and
I found the body. would you call me
a murderer? Hey Well, that's what
has happened this time. When Stand
4 ish took the lady on that little left
& handed wedding trip, five years ago
/ IN March, he3repdered her liable to all
thof ia MI &uoy.p q III N, a n 7oo " think
OF such things at the time. Neither
does a woman, ! guess, This one
sure didn't, or she'd never have
thrown over her one hope OF safety
by fitting him" AZ jsj /. IA IA
Listen, dad" returned Tom, chok-
\ ing back q hot answer. Ever since
you brought me here into the thick Of
II the fight, you and Il haven't agreed
about politics. But I've stood with
\ you, through and through. Fl I've work
ed hard for the party, because l felt
j. ! was working for you. But we'll
{ this time I'd rather be working for the
! other side. Because i believe they're
4 right and we are wrong. x a II
well, then" blazed his father, in a
h dry gust Of unwonted wrath, why
don't you work for the other side? Go
ahead! It's no great loss to u.s.
You know perfectly well why I
don't. It's because you are on this
4 side the wrong side just now
over to them! Z snapped Blake.
his rare anger still unspent. They'd
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