New Britain herald., 1921-09-01
, Continued from Yesterdays Herald

| Jimmy Gordon, the family black sheep and village ne'r do well, comes ! home after several months absence and received a cool welcome. The only pleasant greetings he gets arc from Melody a not too respectable actress. and a dog owned by the local saloon keeper. Jimmy is stepson oI the Rev. Watson Duncan. Rev. Dun can however. ignores Jimmy but goes | to the station with T. Elihu Banks, the banker and village magnate. who is brother to Duncan's wife, making him an uncle to Jimmy, where the pair meet Sidney Banks. Elihu's son, as the latter alights from the train, gorgeous in fine rainment and leading a bull terrior by a leash
 Jimmy and Carol Landis are in love with each other. Carol is the daughter of "old Dave" Landis, owner of the Daily Courier. a run down newspaper plant. She is an amateur actress and because of her. Jimmy is ordered from home by the Rev. Watson Duncan.
 T. Elihu Banks. who is one of the leading politicians in the community, does his best to make things disagree able for Jimmy. One night Jimmy g|es into a gambling den in order to keep his cousin. Sidney Banks, and Lloyd Jameson, a son of the local judge. from being ieeced by a couple of crooked gamblers. Just as he eX- poses the game, the police break in and raid the place. Jimmy helps Banks and Jameson to escape but is trapped himself. Judge Jameson gives him 24 hours to leave town. He leaves immediately.
 Carol Landis leaves with a theatri- cal troupe. She returns to her home and is scorned by the residents. Years 'ater she returns as successful actress and is feted in the best houses. Shortly after this her father dies and leaves the Courier to Jimmy Gordon.
 Jimmy takes charge of the paper and the townspeople try to lionize him. He manages to obtain evidence to prove T. Elihu guilty of crooked politics and exposes him in The Courier.
 Tivotson. city editor of The Courier, is kicked out when he goes to in- terview T. Elihu following the pub lication of charges. The next edition Of The Courier contains an accurate account of Tivotson's visit and what happened. Gordon is accosted on the street after publication of the ac- cc unt. by Judge Jameson, who threat ems to drive him out of town again. Jimmy def1es him and retaliates by telling the judge that he (the judged may be the man to leave this time before The Courier got through with him. Tivotson, formerly was a mem- Der of the Banks-Jameson gang of crooked politicians and has the goods on them.'
 Whitey Garritty, another member of the gang. out on bail for grand lar ceny twice postponed and apparent 1y being protected by Judge Jameson. is summoned into conference by the latter, who intimates that Tivotson could be handled if Gordon were out of the way. Some time later, fol- lowing T. Elihu Banks unsuccessful attempt to buy off The Courier for S30, 900, two shots are fired at Cor don as he leaves the home of Carol Landis. He is saved by Pegleg Han lon. who drags him into his bar-room. Hanlon declares 1t was Garritty who fired the shots and promises to cap ture the latter.
 Garrity disappears Jameson, who i;. now district attorney, is thrown into a panic when he hears the erroneous report that Jimmy is dead. Pegley Hanlon tells Jimmy he was shot by
 
 venge from the time Jimmy spoiled his game in the gambling house. Lloyd Jameson plans to marry Evelyn Latham and Jimmy and Carol Landis are about to wed.
 IL was quiet for an infinitesimal space. And then, abruptly. Judge Jameson threw back his head and laughed. And his son joined in. diffidently unaware how shrill his fa- ther's laughter was. how nearly bor- dering on hysteria.
 CHAPTER VI.
 Rank MeIodrama."
 Tn the last few days that had inn rnediately preceded the foregathering of warchester's citizenry to witness the acclaim of T. Elihu Banks as the senatorial candidate of the common wealth, public opinion had undergone a subtle but unmistakable readjust- ment Such changes in sentiment are always hard to analyze: usually 1t is next to impossible to state exactly when or why the change began to take place. But the fact remains that Manchester, vaguely perturbed by it. had for days been experiencing that metamorphosis.
 | Perhaps it was the odd silence or the Courier. following hard upon the heels of its scurrilous attack on T. Elihu. that had caused the first in sidious suspicion to creep into the brain of the man upon the street. For having challenged T. Elihu, and re- ceived no public reply. abruptly-so abruptly in truth as to make it seem almost onninous-the Courier closed | all mention of the matter with a calmly confident prediction that MT. Banks. in spite of the high enthus- iasm of the body of estimable citi gems behind him. would in rising to | his introduction as the chief speaker