Brenham Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 30, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 7, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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\ilTH SOME INCIDENTAL
—tioh lb The Woman
Cvjfc/3 Tbwifsend Brady
&£t/arfi*r/om By Dearborn Melv/li
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SYNOPSIS.
A foolish young
fascinated with the bold.
tenderfoot becomes
., L „ , , ■ 61<1, artful «■
drunken prospector in a western tnimng
town. They prepare to elope in a blina-
Ing blizzard but are confronted by the
maudlin husband. He is shot by th>,
wife, but the chivalrous boy plns a
note to the body taking the ^cflwe
upon himself. In their flight 10Vl
railroad station the wj^gtos how
fails exhausted; the youth puts ner
on his own and follows h*n«t»S JR j&*
stirrup strap. Seeing he is lrvto
merit, the woman thrusts her jMSgrtJwp
a snow drift and rides on. «jtt»^ozen
he stumbles into the »ilroail sWta jwt
as the train bears the woman away.
Twenty-five years lator t h Isman.George
Gormiy, is a muUi-mlllionaife In Nf™
York. He meets Eleanor Haldane, a
beautiful and wealthy ^ementwwW
arid co-operates with* her in ner \vorK.
Gormiy becomes owner of a
Una and finds himself fru*^a'*Vinfc al-
and track extension plans by
Mermen, backed by the Gotham Tractlo
company. An automobile accident brtn^a
w
JfaidaneV'ti'li'isyountry Go™}
ly announces that he will be mayor
tiw>
New York and redeem the city' from cor-
ruptton. The political declaration (>f tne
merchant prince produced f. l"'n®"i the
sensation. The whole machinery of the
■city's detective force is to be
up something damaging to \]®
press heretofore unanfmously #»»Wb
to the merchant candidate, under J^SL
■aure. divides and the campaign waxes
warm. A resolution is I'ltroauced gran^
lng a gratuitous renewal of the traction
franchise, Gormiy offers ten nillllon dol-
lars for the franchise. Miss Haldane eon
gratulates Oormly on what she terms a
new Declaration of Independence, and he
makes an unexpected dprlarfttionoflov^
He is shocked by the confti-matlon of his
auspicious that her father is the head
and backbond of the notorious traction
company which he to fctte'npMns tc ov r
throw. Yiiuiig Haldane df"v Gotham
father's connection with ln
Traction company, and is 1 "r:,t',.
an interview between Gormiy and Ha'
<lane the latter practically offers nu
daughter's hand as a bribe
withdraw. Gormiy refuses. In an Inter
view with Gormiy Miss ^'f^Voriiuy
of her father's baseness though GOpTuy
vainly tries to hide it- Members of t e
Ritift- find the woman for wliofl* sn»ce
fiormlv declared himself a STO*r^^4
4eel™' totorco htm to withdraw under
threat of prosecution.
CHAPTER XVI.
If so, will you please,, tell me without
hirther delay what you want, where ia
your warrant and incidentally inform
me why you Come In plain clothes?"
"Nfever minti how I come or why 1
come!" said Connell wrathfully. "As
I said, I've got something to say to
you,"—he paused for a moment—"Mr.
Gormiy, if that's your name. I'm go-
ing to say it, and you're going to
listen!"
"Am 1?" Said Gojmly. "You see that
bell?" He pointed to one of the but-
tons in the big desk in the library.
"I have only to press that to have two
men here instantly. The three of us
are quite equal to throwing you out
of the apartSent, and two of us, 1
know, would be more than willing to
do it. I think 1 have had about
enough of you, anyway."
"Well, I don't leave till I've had
my say, George Fordyce!" was the
answer.
In spite of himself Gormiy started.
He controlled himself Instantly, how-
ever.
"You seem," he said coolly enough,
"to have discovered my middle name,
which I dropped for reasons that
seemed good to me when I came to
New York."
"For reasons that seemed good to
you!" sneered the big officer. "I
guess they were good to you!"
"What do you knqw about them?"
asked Gormiy quietly.
"I know what they were."
"And It is to tell me what you know
that you came- here tonight?"
"Not by any means. It's to tell you
whst. you've got to do that I'm here."
"And what have I got to do?"
theft, 'dultery, murder. You'll make a
hell of a reform mayor, won't you?
How'd the people enjoy that?"
"Why are you offering me aaytbte*,
if you possess this power and are con-
fident as to your Information? Why
don't you publish this stuff and knock
me out without giving me any chance
to withdraw?"
"See here, Gormiy, It ain't for you
to question! It's for you to do what
you're told. We've decided that this
la the way this scheme is goin' to be
•worked, that's all there Is to It. If
we have our reasons for not publlshln'
the stuff, why they're ours; they're
not yours.
"Why, man. all I've got to do is to
go down to the district attorney and
swear out a warrant to have you ar-
rested for murder. We've got our
Angers on the woman you run away
with—and a pretty lookin' old hag she
is now, too. She don't want to bo
mixed up in it; but we've got hold of
her, and if necessary she'll swear that
you done It. We've located several
people that used to live in Camp Kill
Devil who remember the circum-
stances. One of 'em said, and the
woman corroborates it, that you wrote
an acknowledgment with your own
hand, sayin' that you shot up the man,
and you left it in the cabin. Maybe
we can turn that up, too. It's all as
clear as day. I don't really know
why I stay here talkln' about it any
longer, except I rather enjoy seeiu
you squirm."
"Have you seen me squirm any yet,
chief?"
"No, not yet r but I can imagine how
you're feelin' beneath that iron com
posure of yours. I've had to deal with
too many blackguards and criminals
not to know that. Well," the man
threw up his hands, laid down his
cigar and yawned prodigiously, "It's
gUtin' late. I'll take that withdrawal
and go."
"Wouldn't it be better for nie to
have my secretary here?" said Gorm-
iy, "and dictate what I have to say ?
Let him make a number of carbon
copiSs of It, so that we could send it
to all the papers."
"Well, If you want to let your sec-
retary in on this game, I don't see
that I've got any objections," said the
chief. .
Gormiy stepped to the door.
M
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a
The Chief of Police Visits Mr. Gormiy.
On the evening of the second day
before the election Connell, dressed In
plain clothes and entirely unaccom-
panied, presented himself very late at
night at Gormly's apartment and de-
sired to see him. It was Somes who
Admitted the official. Gormly's estab-
Hshment was a simple one, and the
other servants had gone home for the
night.
Somes knew very well who he was,
and while he had some of the English
*we of the. police he had all the ha-
tred of a zealous and devoted partizan
<jf his master, which he certainly was,
for the enemy. Therefore he re-
- -quested the functionary to take a seat
while he carried the request for an In-
terview to the library.
Somes entered the library without
knocking, a most unusual course for
him. He also took occasion to turn
the key of the door behind him. Then
he stood at attention in his respectful
English way. Gormiy had looked up
Instantly the door was opened, and
had stopped his dictation. He was
greatly surprised at the valet's en-
trance, and more surprised when he
locked the door; but he realized that
something unusual was up and said
nothing.
"Beg pardon, sir," began Somes de-
precatingly, "but there's a party out
ln the hall wants to see you."
"Who Is it?"
"He didn't give any name, sir, but
i recognized him as the chief of po-
lice."
. "Yea sir." - ■ * < ]
"What does he want?"
"He didn't say, sir."
"What wasJils message?"
"Just to tell you that a gentleman—
that^s what bo called himself, sir-
wanted to see you."
"Where is be now."
"I left him sitting out in the hall,
but I wouldn't be too sure as to where
he is, sir. He seemed to want to come
right In here without permission, and
that's why I locked the door, sir."
"I see," answered Gormiy, a twinkle
of amusement in his eye. "I wonder
what the chief of police can have to
say to me? Well, I suppose I'd better
him. Clialoner. will you go into
the dining room and wait until I call
for you. Tell the chief to come In,
Somes."
While Chaloper gathered up his
notebooks, pencils, and letters and
withdrew into the dining room across
the hall. Somes unlocked the door,
E stepped out into the hall and preseut-
t returned. He threw the door of the
hrary open in great style, drew him-
lelf up and announced as If it had
:cn a reigning prince:
"The chief of police of the city of
few York!"
"To what," asked Gormiy suavely.
"MS I indebted for the honor of this
'Visit at this late hour?"
He glanced at the clock as he
spoitc and observed that it was hal£-
afler eleven.
'Tve got something to say to you,
Gormiy," began Connell bruskly.
"I am not aware of any Intimacy
between you and me, Mr. Connell,
which warrants you in your familiar
mode of address. Address me with,
and respect, or I'll have you
of the house!"
roared Connell. "You'd lay
an officer of the law, lo
of hie—"
officer of
f your duty?
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/
"And If I Do This, Asked Gormiy, What Do I Getr
■
"You've got to withdraw from this
campaign now, tonight."
"And how do you propose that I
should withdraw?"
"Set down thero and write that for
business reasons you've concluded to
withdraw from the campaign; that
you advise your friends to vote for
Pete Warren, the best mayor New
York ever had; that you're convinced
that you were wrong in the charges
you've made; thart investigation has
shpwed you that the Gotham Freight
Traction company is all right and that
the Sachem society Is equally honor-
able and virtuous. You'll know how
to put it. I give you the substance.
Fancy It up in your own language.
You can sling words good and plenty
as baa been proved in this campaign.
That's all you got to do."
"And If 1 do this." asked Gormiy,
"what do I get?"
"You'll get silence as to your do-
ings twenty-flve years ago." -
"Would you mind telling me what
my doings were twenty-five yearn
ago?"
"Certainly not," said the chief. "No
reason for concealment between you
and me, that I can see. You ran away
with a miner's wife out at Camp Kill
Devil, Wyo., in the midst of a howlin'
blizzard. With the wife you took the
man's pile, product of his hard-work-
ing toilsome life for a worthless wom-
an and you. And before you left, you
put a bullet into the man's breast
There's three counts against you;
"Mr. Cbaloner," he said, "will you
bring your notebook and pencils here?
Mr. Chaloner, this is the chief of po-
lice, Mr. Connell," he continued, as
the young man entered the room.
"Pleased to know you," said Con-
nell grimly.
"Will you be seated, Mr. Chaloner,
and take a statement from my dicta-
tion? By the way," he pushed a but-
ton on the deck, and the door into
the hall opened instantly, with suspi-
cious promptness, it might have been
thought, had any of the party given it
any attention, "Somes," said Gormiy,
"I want you." The servant stepped
Into the room. "Lock the door,
please, so that I may be sure we are
not Interrupted."
"Now," said Gormiy, "this gentle-
man, as you knot?, is the chief of po
lice."
"Yes, sir," said Somes.
"He has asked me to dictate a cer-
tain statement to the people of the
city of New York, and I'd like to
have you hear what I have to say and
witness all that occurs."
"Yes, sir."
"Are you ready, Mr. Chaloner T"
"Quite ready, sir."
'Tonight at half after eleven
o'clock," began Gorm!;-, "the chief of
police of the city of New York—"
"You needn't bring me into it!
roared Connell, sitting up.
"Will you have the goodness to be
silent, sir?" cried Gormiy. "I am dic-
tating this statement, not you!"
"Well, you're going to diotats what
I say," thundered the chief, slamming
his big Uanfi down on the desk, "ar
rn—-
"Keep b<tok there, Somes," said
Gormiy cnwply as the man stepped
forward, his face aflame. "I can deal
with the man. Connell," he contin-
ued, "you are j oing to sit right there
until I've finished with you. Now,
Somes," he said, "you stand right be-
hind him, and if he attempts to get
out of his chair keep him down."
"You're assaulting an officer of the
law!" roared the chief, snapping his
fingers.
"You ought to bo man enough to
know that the game's against you so
far." bald Gormiy, "and keep quiet un-
til I get through. Then I'll give you
a chance to talk. Are you ready now,
Mr. Chaloner?"
"Quite ready, sir," was the Imper-
turbable answer of that most ex cl-
ient young man.
"I'll bejrln again:
"Tonight at half after eleven o'clock
Ben Connell, the chief of police of the
city of New York, called at my apart-
ment He came unaccompanied and
wearing plain clothes. The object of
his visit was to demand of me that I
should withdraw as a candidate for
the mayor of New York; that 1 should
request the people who had honored
me with their support to vote for
Warren; that I should declare my be-
lief in the integrity of the Gotham
Freight Traction company and the
pitrlty of the Sachem society, of which
he is an honored member. The means
by which he sought to Induce me to
take Ibis course were a promise of
'•Hence ns to certain episodes in my
past career, and a thrbat of instant
publicity, including a possible arrest
!i I refused, in the presence of my
private secretary, pbilip Chaloner, of
my friend and se'rvant, William Somes,
Rnd of the chief of police, Connell
himself, I am dictating this state-
ment
"Twenty-five years ago 1 came to
New York. Since that, time my ca-
reer has been thoroughly exploited.
The detective force—f the city, sup-
plemented by whawer talent could
bo procured or suborned, has had. me
under Investigation. To not one ai
have they been able to point of which
I am ashamed, or upon which they
could fix an attack.
HWheu I came t.o New York 1 was
nineteen years of age. I was born in
Vermont. 1 received a common school
education, graduating from the high
school when I was sixteen. My father
died before I was born, my mother at
my birth. Some email property ac-
cruing to me was turned over to mo
by my guardian on my graduation
from the high school. 1 spent two
years at sea as a caljln boy, and then
drifted west, finally bringing up at
Kill Devil Camp ln Wyoming.
"There I came under the influence,
of a woman older than I, who thought
it. not unbecoming to her to beguile
and entrap the young eastern tender-
foot who was Just entering upon his
nineteenth year. I was young, Inex-
perienced, impressionable; I fell com-
pletely under her influence. -There ia
something to be said for her, poor
woman. She was married to a drunk-
en brute of a husband, a miner, a
gambler, who was not only unfaithful
to her, but who abused her fright-
fully. I think my sympathies more
than my affections were engaged. I
had a chivalrlc desire to help her, a
boy's reverence for womankind
abused and suffering, a quixotic spirit
of knight errantry, of which even now
I am not ashamed.
"I had still some little money left
and resolved to take her away from
her intolerable life. I do not wish to
shelter myself behind a woman; but
I have always told the people of New
York the exact truth, and I am do-
ing it now. We had planned to leave
the camp on a certain night and ride
south to the Union Paciflo. That
night was the night of the great bliz-
zard of 1882, which is still remem-
bered in the west. It was very late
when I reached her cabin with the
horses. The woman was ready for
me, waiting eagerly in fact, . Her hus-
band had recently won a small sum of
money by gambling. That money she
took with her.
'We had turned to the door to go
out, although it was almost certain
death to be abroad In such a storm,
when her husband entered the room.
How he knew,-or whether he knew,
what we were going to do, I cannot
say. At any rate, he was there. He
covered me with a gun; I was entire-
ly helpless.
I worked in a desperate hurry, and
at last got my band on the butt of
my pistol. I saw from the look of his
eye that I would have little time to
draw it. I realized that unless I could
I was a doomed man. At that In-
stant there was a flash and a report
in the room. Immediately after the
man pulled the trigger of his oWn
pistol, but the bullet went wild. He
sank down on his knees, and fell back
dying. I dropped my own weapon and
bent over him. There was a hole In
his breast through which the blood
was oozing."
"Who shot, him?" growl** ch!cf,
who had been listening with the great-
est absorption to the narrative.
"The woman shot him," answered
Gormiy. "But you need not put that
in, Chaloner. Let it go as I have
dictated it." He resumed to hla ste-
nographer:
"There was nothing that I could do
for the man. It was more than ever
necessary that we get away. In pity
for the woman, I tore a blank leaf
from a book and wrote upon It that I
had shot this man. We left that note
on the body and plunged into the
storm. Words cannot convey the
frightful nature of the tempest We
became separated In the storm
through no fault of mine."
(TO B» CONTINUED.)
:PH TRISTRAM, JS,
Drugs, Medicines, Toilet Articles
Brenham, Texas.
rib ft fwftrftlly recognised fast tmoag practillonm ttftt portly
ta Medicine ia Moaaaarj to obtain baal results ia fighttaf diMMM
Thar* should be ao doubt aa to wkatkar it ia right or mot TM>
Drug Store has the oonfldonoe of physicians and others who know
our methods. Thay know thay everr drug or madloiaa from this
store ia eorreot ia erary respeot. A fall line 01 perfumery kept ia
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Patroaagi
T. A. LOW & SONS J
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Ized Iron. Full 8took of Lumber, Bag*
gtaa, Sbinglaa and Saparatora alwaya on
band, — —
T A LOW & SONS BRENHAM, TRXAB
RANKIN,
j^,ttoraa.ay-ekt-Ij*w,
Caldwell. Teaae.
H. BAS8ETT,
Attorney at Law.
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QIvm ipeoiel attention to coll.otioo*.
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MM Dentist,.
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Resident Dentist,
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Only $41.50
0A80LENB
Pumping Engine,
Complete with supporting heme an4
walking beam, ready to connect
to aoy pnrnp. It Ptmrs
while you rest.
LAMER SIZE ENGINE
at proportionate low oost.
MT Send tot datcriptive circular, of m
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Beaumler Iron Works,
Brenham, Taxaa.
Relchardt, Becker ft Co.,
Wholesale Grocers.
Wast Main Straat, Brenham, Tax
Prompt attention given all ordera
intrusted to our oare.
Krause'i Corner Saloon,
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Cm. It Chart.. Btreat aoi Alamo *»"»
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Cigar*. Cold, lreah Beer Jwaia o» tap.
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■ Mercbaat of laiMnita
County, Amaler Building,
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Country Produce bought and eold
The Favorite Saloon,
Oener Mala sad Bt Outl* Btrta, BrMha
101 MAKXK, PionusToa.
Bar aspplUd at all Una with ohelo* Wlse*i
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Th. nnderaigned ha*. om««I » Tts Sh»v
ta th. PWcfccr Market BalMlng. Oppofit. Sa-
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werk is th«ir Un«, *uch si n» and Repair
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Barber - Shop,
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Lumen wmi
Stndebaker Wagons, Walte|
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Casino Lunch Stand,
We keep oa hand Imported 8av»
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■Cheese, Sardells, Herring, eta., is4
are prepared to faraieh the heal
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