The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-09
(Continued from yesterday.)

The Governor arose and congratu- | lated the people of West Gap, and | its contiguous territory on having a | man of such enterprise and inspiring | leadership -to. play the Moses who should lead it out of the Egyptian darkness and he. in turn, perceiving the psychological value of the mo- ment, took a wallop at the banks, the money power and the vested inter ests Apparently, to the minds of ms hearers referring to MT. Warehouse F. Burgess pique waistcOat, which Mrs. Burgess had very painstakingly 1aun- dered for him the night before.)
 Then the Governor asked if there was any further business. and if no>, he would declare the meeting adj -"
 MT. Chairman remarked a voice "Afore we adjourn, kin I ast MT. Wilton question:"
 MT. Chairman turned toward Mir. Wilton, who bowed in complacent as- set. Things had surely gone his way.
 Wal said the voice, ''I was jest a goin' to ast how much MT. Wilton paid or Si Fishley, chairman O the state railroad commission, f'r approv- in the road"
 .eNothing,' shouted Wilton. hotIy Absolutely nothing! That's a most absurd question. MT Fishley Is above reproach.''
 F'That's good" said the voice which by now was observed to issue from a little old cap named LOOmis. who lived out East Gap way. I'm glad he's above reproach. even if he ain't above taking a check for five thou sand dollars. dated July 10, 1914, an another one dated September IS, same year. They was signed by the treas urer of the Wilton Construction Com pany.'
 The president of the w. G. and R. B. turned a sickly, pale green.
 ''It's die,'' he shouted 'eNo, 'tain't." said old Loomis. ''I seen 'en.''
 "Where?"
 "I ain't a sayfn'. I reckon they could be produced at the proper time | If necessary
 1 sponsible for F'ishley's appointment, | fidgeted.
 ''If there is no further business" | he began. ''I declare this meeting ad- journed-'
 | atn't no bondho1der; I'm a stoch older. I cal'1ate MT. Wilton's got most every body hypnotized but me. He did me till today. Now. he's told us a lor 1 of hokus-pokus about buildin' eighty 1 odd mile of new road and a maxim Of | us all rich. Pm as ready to git rich as the next feller. But if the Wilton | Construction Comoany's going to have the contract to build it an clean | up half million dollars profit on a 1 skin job an then bribe a public of'cer 1 to give it clean bill O. health, dumb l ed II wouldn't ruther trust myself | to them money bags O Wall Street." 1 Pandemonium broke loose. Old | Loomis had thrown "a monkey wrench | into the machinery. It took half an l hour and six policenn en to restore or l der At the end of that time Loomfs l was still bleating stubbornly, if | horse1y.
 -'somebody put that old fool out" suggested Wilton.
 zone moment, please said a cool, clear voice at the railway presidents I elbow; and turning, he confronted | Lucy Pollard.
 ''Now, look here,' he began. ''what | the devil are you doing - But Lucy was not listening to Will | ton. She had managed to find her way 1 unnoticed to the stage. and now, no
 than that of Wilton. was pushing her | way through the disturbed dignitarres | of the committees of the Main Street l Association and the bondholders to a i place close to the foot1:ghts.
 'Lucy! cried her husband. 'Lucy!'' But she paid as little attention to | Clarke as she had to Wilton. Now
 she held up hand and suddenly si- | 1ence fell upon the excited tnrong.
 She was so slender, so young, so ap- | parently out of place.
 | The Governor. DerpIe0ed. collected
 his it's enough to arise and DOW stiff1y.
 Ladies and gentlemen said Lucy
 Pollard, "I should like to speak a
 word to you before the meeting is ad- | journed.
 ''It was I who showed MT. Loomis the cancelled checks for five thousand
 dollars each, paid to MT. Si1as Fishley
 by the Wilton Construction Company
 as a bribe for approving the twelve
 miles of road built under contract for
 the West Gap and Rocky Bottom
 Railway
 A murrnur of disbelief ripp1ed
 through the audience. Only old
 That's the truth; she done it.''
 Yesterday afternoon" went on
 Lucy, 'T got this letter
 Mrs. Clarke Pollard,
 l 'Millett House, West Gap.
 Dear Madam: As it is known
 that you are the person who robbed Mrs. Dorsey Regent of her diamond
 brooch, you are hereby warned that to the plans of MT. Wilton for the further promotion of the W. G. and
 R. B. Railway, you will be in danger of imm ediate exposure. ''The letter was typewriter and unsigned; but I know from whom i came"
 Lucy turned dramatically ant ''It's a lie" he shrieked. Its { | damnab1e''
 '.Thatul be about all from you and the prom otor subsided. "So." went on Lucy, 'T 'te1ephonet
 Mrs. Regent, and she said she has he r brooch, which was found by a work 5 man in a crack in the barn floor or Tuesday. I want to tell you wh! Mir. Wilton sent me the letter, how ever.
 "In the first place, my husband straighten out the affairs of the raiI way, because his entire fortune, lief
 him by his father. was tied up in th'
 bonds of the road We were mar
 red just before we left New York MT. Pollard discovered with the hell Of MT. Burgess and some of the othel
 bondho olders that the con7'tion of thu :, road was due to mismanagement anC } graft on the part of William D. Will ton and certain others, who make III 7 a crowd of professional railroad builders and wreckers. "The two checks paid to Silas Fish T ley are evidence Of the way the.