Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-18

( tor Theatcro
: Copyright, 1918. Mrs. Wilson Woodrow.
S1NoPSIS or PRECEDING CHAPTERS.
q Z. senator Mason. "r""k"u politician. and
4 Stephen fletcher ,nswsrap"r. "d't"t arc
!. Military school ami Mss"n's daughter. Rose.
&Set nearby scninsrN Tho nav" beot
~ Roses school discovers .omc love letters
Z spnis:on. Tom proposes that thoy slope and
! marry and Rose fcsrfuuy consents.
4 Continued from Moudsyp
s. He kissed her. And she clunc to
lin weeping q little. Presently he
laid:
ssTre ,h"ucht cut the arrangement.
300. I'm not going back To the acad-
amy at all. I'll sleep some where out
Shoors Tonight You'd better spend the
SNght in some par; oi Tho seminary
iSnere they wont he apt to look for
isIou and where YOU can set out at
SEayltSht. before they're nm IN meet
lou here At 80" in the morning Wen
q atch the 5:4S milk train 10 Masonhurc
IND go straight To the city Hall there
ssor license. Then we'Il got that new
S2resbyterian minister ur on Avon Place
80 marry us. HE docsu'- know ne and
SECS been in Masonburs only a month
IN two. After that we'll go 10 your
Gather and mother and tell them ALI
si.bcut IT,
"oh. Tom" she declared. YOU'RE
lttIIynnderful! You're a regular Napo-
3son! You think Of everything"
II NO." he contradictcd saviy. ~
Son't think OF anything except you.
arlinR."
And so they parted for the night
u senator Mason sat in tho library 81
lis big house on Masonburc's widest
sesldence street He had Just finished
leading the Appeals tronchan, account,
81 the preceding days h2ht in tho
&ewspapcr Office. and q thrc,-column
Seport OF certain recent franchise deals
irherein fhe senator was alleged 10
ave played 4 somewhat doubtful role.
Mason waNcd apoplcptic With indie.
tation "a he read Nor WAS his wrath
II esscned by front-paEc cartoon ~
II imsclf, in gus" ~ a hold-ur man
rshouting Your franchise or you, Iif.,'
10 a group OF trembling city fathers.
&c His wife-a sallow pcrpetuaIly timtd
l3ioman-sat al his side trying in vain
Is assuace his wrath Her wcll-meant
condolences served only 10 make hin,
lhe angricr.
ID She was in mortal terror Of her dom
,s1ating husband aud ra,he,icalv
snxious TO pleas" him Always she
tad been SO, thGoUsh their quarter
century of wcdded lifn Is q result.
she had yearly grown moro ,imid and
unhappy. and he had waved daily more
suliyins and ill-tempcrcd
The distric, attorney" he was sn,r,-
ns now, says I've perfect case
against that cur Fletcher >nd he
ays he'll press it, il / say the word
That's what had him elected for
a, jump when ! pun the strincsy Ru,
fly own lawyers advise mo not Ia bring
Suit-the towards They seem to rh!nk
81 have trouble in proving the lihe'
8 don't sec why. But III fnd some
gay or other 70 shut him up, Id Give
10000 TO any tough who cut his th-oa,
5S,r me-
b "oh, my dear Ny dear" protested
&trs. Mason, YOU mus,n, say such
n ainss, even in Joke He is"
In Joke? Do ! look as II l va,
I liking? I've always run this place u
8ait myself No one has complained
& nd now this rascaly editor
,SE'What wonderful world tins mus.
ave been Tor statesmen and financiors
md politicians she commented, inno-
GENTLY. before newspapers we're In.
\ ented"
Z I'm goinE % shA,. UP ,tha, news.
4aper." he ErowlaS ,-1sesdins. ~ if,
%ikes every cent have. And IN, 90.
tsiE TO get back at Stephen Fletcher
g."
He stepped short. with erun, TWO
Feople--a man and : cirl-had entered
zoe room Tn" man paused near rha
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