The Green Forest tribune., 1916-06-30

Joo Nioh lhSe'Ai you know you couldn't keep it!' she broke in; and now he did not need to look to know that her lips were trem bling piteously.
 'I did keep it''
 She dropped quickly on the step be side him and a sympathetic hand crept into his.
 You kept it until the unhappy day when you gave it to my father, and he and he threw it away She was crying softly, but his attempt to com fort her was almost mechanical.
 Don't cry about the money. It had the devils thumb-prints on it, and he merely claimed his own and got it. ' Then he went on as one determined to leave nothing untold Cartwright had l bought me, and I served him as only a man in my position could serve him. | became a promoter, a booster with the others. There have been times when word from me would have pricked the bubble. l haven't said the word; l am not saying it now. If should say it I'd lose at a single stroke all that have been fighting for. And 1 am not a good loser, Amy"
 For once the keen, experimenting per ception failed.
 T don't understand" she said, speak ing as if she were groping in thick darkness. T mean I don't understand the motive that could"
 He turned to her in dumb astonish- ment.
 'I thought I had been making 1t plain as l went along. You wanted something-you needed it-therefore it must be purchased for you. And the curious part of the besetment is that 1 have known all along that l was killing your love for me. If it wasn't quite dead before, it will die now-now that I have told you how I am flinging the last vestiges of uprightness and honor to the winds"
 But how?'' she queried You haven't told me-"
 With the dam completed before con- gross could intervene, Mirapolis would, of course, be quite dead and ready for it's funeral. But if Ithe Cartwright peo- pie industriously insist that the spend ing of another million or two of gov ernment money is only another plum for the city and it's merchants and in dustries, that, tEithstanding the re- neWed activities, the work will still stop short of completion and the city will be saved by legislative enactment. the innocent sheap may be made to bleed again and the wolves will es- cape"
 She shuddered and drew little apart from him on the log step.
 But your part In this horrible plot, Victor?" she asked.
 Ut is as simple as it is despicable. In the first place, I am to set the situ. ation before the department in such light as to make it clearly matter of public policy tt take advantage of the present Mir Jan crisis by pushing the work, M. V, lsly to a conclusion. After tn Forest asg on the spigot of plentd Julia Andd dected to crowd the pay 5,ndav o,,o,+cye same time to hold baGb ho1as al progress of the wo except that am to kq We undeg lh1at."
 coin Stevenson, ou can't!" she cried Y Glarenee GeTf lefe outburst: "It cannot el,sss ,sa.s,sssssrsss < is ss ssss tliaS is wouldn't kill Exve-I cant say that any more; but it would kill mel shouldn't want to live!"
 He looked around at her curiously as if he were holding her at arms length.
 Shall do what you would have me do, Amy? Or shall do what is best for you?" The opposing queries were as impersonal as the arm's-length gaze
 The tears had burned out of the steadfast eyes which were resting with the shining soul looking out through them, upon the crimsonine snow peaks of the distant Timanyonis.
 How little you know the real love!' she said slowly.
 He got up stiffiy and helped her to her feet and together they stood look. ing down upon the city of the plain lying now under the curved. sunset shadow cast by the mighty, intending sweep of the great dam.
 
 Monsieur Poudrecaulx Bongras, TO tund, smiling and reached and waxed to a broad burlesque of second-empire ferceness, looked in vain among his dinner guests that evening for the chief of the reclamation service, and Brouillard's absence held small dis appointment for the Frenchman. Ru nor, the rumor which was never quiet and which could never be traced con clusively to it's source, was again busy with exciting hints of a new era ot prosperity about to dawn, and Bongras had hoped to drop his own little plum. met of inquiry into the reclamation service chief.
 
 @ Will Amy be able to awaken a
 in 5rouiliard's breast enough S e manhood to defy Cortwright- g ss and fight him to finish, even a s though the fight appears hope g Ia less? a ta 6 sslassfsCs (TO BE CONTINUED