Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-17
Useful
Woman and I lone
WhoPa avs?
Story No. 9
For the Commonwealth
By EDWIN BLISS
Copyright 1915. by Pathe EN-
change. Inc. All moving picture
fights md all foreign copyrights
strictly reserved Shown at the VIC
tor each Saturday,
Continued From Yesterday
Blu EDWIN BLISS
Continued From Yesterday

Well, you'll do said the pink faced
one, in hard. patronizing voice. Its
this way. I'm "a clerk in Marcer x
Barnes Mercantile Insurance.
Green's my namc-Ralph Green. /
don't claim 10 he an angie Mason
thought there was nothing Particular
~ startling about that statement Il
have my fun like the rest OF them
no better. no worse. don't kick when
l lose fair; but l do kick and kick
hard when get buncocd-and I've
been buncoed-- buncocd for fair"
Here he told Ellis the story: told
him the story he already knew. told
it from beginning to end. and We shall
take ii up with Mason where. for us.
il left of on the night that Mason
stumbled upon the notorious sid
Dodge's place, running wide open
You sec" he finished. If wasn't
sure mat whole outfit is as crooked rs
nell Wouldn't come up here squealin'
like a kid But I'm dead sure those
oice We're loaded, the wheel was Iop-
sided and tho cards were marked: and
think that this rotten lot OF under
hand ates'--Nason wondered at his
qualifying should be sent
up
Mason felt it was a strange trick Of
rate that sent that young loose
mouthed rounder to the District At
:.
possible for him TO act. He had been
admontshed by his chief to forget ~
when he reported that fragrant viola
tion Of the law and II seemed To his
highly lima sinative mind that this mo-
ment had been OPPORTUNITY selected b.
an unseen Judge TO weigh the sincerity
or ms principles against the material
success" OF his career. He knew tina,
MS principles were rght-that his
ideals were noble, aspiring. splendid.
true-knew that they would he true
no matter how their injunctions were
sighted, CLOSED over. spurned-knew
that Truth was unalterahle. cverlast
ing, Infinite Truth wouldn't be any
the less Truth or his Ideals any the
less fine because he failed to stand by
them What good would II be-whcrc
was the advantage OF his broad CON
cepiion of what was right and just If
he failed to acknowledge IL in his
actions?
That night the busy traffic of Sid
Dodge's guided cafe was INTERRUPTED
in the midst OF it's fcvcrish play bv
squad OF police, headed by Ellis Mason,
and the entire outfit loaded into n
waiting patrol wagon. Clarice Adair.
the dancing girl and guiding spirit"
OF the place, recognized Mason as the
man who, two night before. had re-
fused her urgent persuasion 10 play.
While the police were busy taking
charge of the place, he went up to
her.
I'm sorry, but you'll have to he de-
tanned. You remember. l said I'd be
back soon, when ! felt luck to he with
me- he laughed. You see. I've made
a clean sweep, as promised"
She looked mp at him, all the fierce
vindictiveness OF hen passionate soul
finding expression in the concentrated
stare OF her hate-glowing eyes.
Yes. YOU have made a cream sweep
OF 1t this time" she said. slowly, in
tensely. Make the most OF il The
banker always wins--in the end"
He turned from her. smilingly. hut
annoyed At her covert threat, and pro-
ceeded in the direction OF the men
under him.
Charles ellison was pillar Of So
ciety' Pondcrous and pOrtly, he was
endowed by nature with dignidcd.
heavy face. and pompous air that his
snow-white hair and ivory-headod
cane did great deal toward making
Impressive lie was nfty-iivc years old
and seemed siNty-tive. His deeply