Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-06

Tell me-" she begged briefly; and,
since he was staring fixedly at the
scored slopes Of Jacks mountain, he
did not see that she caught her lip
between her teeth to stop its trem-
bling.
"As you know, I had a debt to pay
before could say: Come, little girl,
let's 60 and get married. So became
stakeholder in Cortwright's power
company, knowing perfectly we'll when
consented that the hundred thousand
dollars worth of stock he gave me was
bribe-the price of my silence and
noninterference with his greedy
schemes"
But you didn't mean to keep It;
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.
II did keep it."
She dropped quickly on the step be.
side him and sympathetic hand crept
into his.
"You kept it until tho unhappy day
when you gave it to my father. and he
and he threw 1t 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 t
leave nothing untold. "Cortwright had
bought me, and I served him as only q
man in my position could serve him.
became promoter, booster with
when a word from me would have
pricked the bubble. I haven't said the
word; am not saying it now. If
should say it I'd lose at a single
stroke all that have been fighting for
And am not good loser Amy
For once the keen. apprehending per.
ception failed.
II don't understand" she said. speak.
ing as If she were cropping in thick
darkness. Il mean I don't understand
the motive that could"
He turned to her in dumb astonish.
ment.
II thought I had been making II
plain as went along. You wanted
something-you needed it-therefore
it must be purchased for you. And
the curious part Of the besetment is
that have known all along that was
killing your love for me. If it wasn't
quite dead before, it will die now-now
that have told you how am fiinging
the last vestiges Of uprightness and
honor to the winds"
But howl" she queried. "You
haven't told me-"
with the dam completed before con
gress could intervene, Mirapolis would
of course, be quite dead and ready fol
its funeral But If the Cartwright PEG
pie industriously insist that the spend
ing of another million or two of gov
eminent money Is only another plum
for the city and its merchants and In
dGstries, that, Notwithstanding the re-
newed activities, the work will still
stop short of completion and the city
will be saved by legislative enactment
the innocent sheep 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.
1T is as simple as 1t is despicable
In the first place, am to set the stu
alton before the department in such q
light as to make It clearly matter OF
public policy to take advantage of the
present Mirapolitan crisis by pushing
the work vigorously to conclusion
After thus turning on the spigot Of
plenty, am expected to crowd the
pay rolls and at the same time to hold
back on the actual progress OF the
work. That 10 all-except that l am to
keep my mouth shut"
But you can't, you cant!" she cried
Then, in passionate outburst: III
you should do such thing as that. II
wouldn't kill my love-I can't say that
any more; but it would kill me-
shouldn't want to live!"
He looked around at her curiously
as II 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 we're
as impersonal as the arms-length gaze,
Perhaps might be able to patch up
the ideals and stand them on their feet
ssss.n-end you would pay the penalty
all your life in poverty and privation,
In hopes wrecked and ruined, and ]