The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-12-08
Three or four days passed, with the

Three or four days passed, with the
senator trying hard to appear indif-
ferent, but really anxious. and then he
felt compelled to ask:
"Well, Dorothy, what about that
wonderful death-bed confession?"
II am sorry to tell you, daddy. that
there Is still worse news. Mr.. Ray
burn happened to be on the spot the
other day when a man named Shane
was run down by a street car. Mr..
Rayburn is tender-hearted and gen.
erous, and he consoled the injured
man and sent his wife $50. He couldn't
be saved, however, but before he died
he made a confession. He was mem.
Der of the legislature when the good
roads scandal came out. Perhaps you
knew him?"
1.-THE internal rascal! Did he men,
ton my name?"
II think he did, daddy. think he
confessed that he and you divvied up
on something"
ITS lie. Of course, but want that
document as well as the other.
hCl Q IL NO ooIiS looAo lhat O0-
lieve what dying man says of an
honest politician. Perhaps that Mr..
Rayburn-"
II don't think he would come To
see you. daddy. You know you threat
ened him."
Then he can stay away. I can get
half a dozen good men to swear that
Shane was a liar"
The senator walked around with his
chest thrown out and self-satisfied
air, but he was worried. He was be-
ing written up in his PARTY organs as
the snow-white candidate. He wanted
to seem defiant, even to his daughter,
and it wasn't many days before he
asked in what he thought was jocu
lar tone:
well. suffragette, any further
: alarms?"
why. yes, daddy. That is, you may
not think it worth minding, owing tc
your snow-white record, but Mr.. Ray
burn considers it a great find"
Dang Mr.. Rayburn!"
80 l say, but you see he has go
another deathbed confession. II.
drove out the other day to see Farme
! Brambe 1t seems that the farme
5 owned land where the aqueduct is t,
I rum and by the aid of a certain poll
u tician and state senator he was en-
abled to get $4,000 for land wort
about $4,000 OF course, there was
divvy in it."
II "They can't prove it," shouted tn
senator.
Perhaps not, but you see the fal
mer had been kicked by a mule an
70 lay dying. He couldn't die in peac
is until he had confessed that the sci
ator got two-thirds of the graft. Nj
Rayburn has the document"
"And it says I'm the senator, doe
it,"
81 think it does, daddy think 81
Is there such an expression as dea,
! to-rights?"
= 81 believe So"
\ well, I think that Mr.. Raybur
thinks that that document gets yo
i dead-to-rights. Don't they sometime
: say that man is caught with til
z goods on?"
} yves"
] "And there Is something about
} rams goose being cooked?"
"Um!"
O "And with the three death-bed CO
/ fessions in Mr. Rayburn's pocket, al
with the suffragettes Investigating, al
with the Examiner" hot on the ira
| think, daddy, dear-I think that "
will be showed under ten feet deep
the coming election!"
But he wasn't What does a poo
innocent girl know about the trio
S of snow-white politicians? The sc
ator fixed that thing in day. VIII
Mr.. Rayburn came calling again
aeemed to feel perfectly at home,
III. he did sigh as he observed:
no "You are worth It ten times ov,
but really ! almost hated to do It,"
~. And Dorothy's answer was:
bo- 'But if you were suffragette y
"a would understand that graft must
nv met with graft. Daddy gratis the pl
40 lie and we graft him!"