Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-03

few of them would. As he stood tnuS
musing, a strong arm gripped his own
It was Victor Robinson.
"Raaten - exclaimed Jerry holloway
for he knew that Victor UNDERSTOOD ho"
much he had counted on success
Let's go in and talk about H. pro
nosed his lawyer, turning toward the
Bellevue-Stratford.
IAN right" said Jerry. I've orooaea
all day and I want to talk put, te!i
me, what about Sylvy?' ana theLs, ~
the midst of this vast unheeding throng
that filled Broad street from oulldihs
wall to building wall for blocks, Jerry
stopped and held the arms of his trleno
tight while he gazed up with sympathy
into the great blonde face.
"No progress" said the big man quite
as hollowly as Jerry had spoken Of de-
feat But she has come to no harm
vet I have her watched every moment
she is outside of her fathers house
And you? You still feel the same
way about herr"
cad. Jerry! I'll never feel any other
way" said the big man soberly.
And her father"
"Nuttier than ever"
But there must he some way to break
through. This is ntolerable. 1t can't
go on. We can't let it go on"
Leave il to me, old man, will you?'
exclaimed Victor, with a sudden plea in
his voice. Leave the Aurentskys to me.
Don't think about them even"
But can't help thinking about them.
It was Sylvy started me on this whole
campaign Ruth is always asking when
we are going TO do something about
her"
well Maldono is going over the road
for one thing" said Robinson grimly
The jury is sure to convict. And now
let's get back to politics"
Victor turned once more toward the
all nl,a note api. ie #
man that he was least willing to talk
of that which doubtless occupied more
Of his thoughts than any other single
thing.
While the lawyer buffeted his way
through the crowd, Jerry followed in the
wake, rejecting how strangely human
plans miscarry only to involve and re-
involve the makers of them. II was
but two months since he and Ruth had
lightly formed themselves into politi-
cal party to save Philadelphia and had
taken Sylvy for their watchword Then
Victor had come in TO fight Maldono
| and to challenge in the courts the whole
machinery of contractor bossism but
here had intervened the murder in the
Fifth Ward and that swirl of events
which had grown out of it to draw both
men into the campaign of the Town
Meeting party, forcing some Of their
| plans into allegiance and completely re-
casting others.
Rollinson's heart meantime had. by
| a most curious chain of circumstances,
| been caught in the fame of a great
| love for Sylvy, who. held away from
| him by barriers of race and religion.
and herself borne on the current of
events flowing from her fathers mis-
| fortunes, constituted for the time being
at least. an insoluble problem.
1t was all strange. complex, impene-
| trable. There was his own relation to
| p,r4b ,ayNIn rt,+
Of the tempestuous rapids upon which
| he seemed to have entered Ruth had
| emerged as his promised wife and over
every turbulent uncertainty this one fact
| hung like a rainbow mist illuminating
| with its radiance the darkness of all
other clouds. At the same time her
| father and mother We're not permitted
| to know of their engagement
"It was inevitable that we should be
beaten" said Victor, while they waitet