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it so they won t be injured but if she s being neglected as she certainly is in this case and i m not satisfied the best thing to do is to separate i can provide for her amply i wouldn t be at all surprised if she would be willing to let me go she certainly wouldn t want any he was counting practically and man fashion ...	43
short all along the line but he did not dare to do that he would be breaking his own back quickly and what he needed was time if he could only get time three days a week ten days this storm would surely blow over the thing that was troubling him most was the matter of the half million invested with him by a fall elec...	43
been through before the first was always the worst after he had closed his doors no aid from any one would be and the have against him the additional grievance that he had concealed the fact of the they might claim that if he had told them they would have aided him gladly in order to avoid exposure it now seemed to the...	43
prey on the souls of men the and the moral of the time seem to foster it with almost zeal you would imagine that a of life had been established by divinity and the care of its execution given into the hands of the utterly yet there is that other form of which has nothing to do with conscious calculation in the vast maj...	43
could keep this matter of ind the city treasury quiet for a day or two until i see how come out suggested i can t promise that replied butler i ll have to io the best i can i won t lave it go any than i an help you can depend on that he was thinking low the effect of s crime could be ome if failed he stepped to the do...	43
may all come out all right yet the money s invested hasn t failed yet it may be put back the thing to be settled on now is whether anything can be done to save him if he s me the truth and i never knew him to lie he can get out of this if street railway stocks don t break too heavy in the i m going over to see henry ...	43
let him look out for himself it may hurt the party but you ti look after that later you and can fix the newspapers so they won t talk about it till after election butler s son paused and stared out into the dark he was thinking how long had been a favorite of his father and that it was high time that the latter s sons...	43
will be able to sustain it we have not replied butler solemnly thought he could see s doom quite plainly at that moment the door rang again a maid in the absence of the footman brought in the name of just the man said show him up you can see what he thinks perhaps i had better leave you alone now suggested to his fathe...	43
it was for any one to approach a group of with a proposition like this particularly in a crisis such as bid fair to occur he reflected that if he and butler and could get together and promise protection in return for the surrender of his street railway it would be a very different matter it would be very easy in this c...	43
president covering all his real and personal property i can t tell you frank walter insisted when after many had called at his house i don t know how things will be running by to morrow noon i m glad to know how you stand i m glad you re doing what you re doing getting all your affairs in shape it will help a lot i ll...	43
the third national on somewhat weak union street railway shares he could probably replace if stocks did not drop too he must replace this at all costs but his father s in street which had risen with his own and which now involved an additional two hundred thousand how could he protect these these shares were and the m...	43
eye of rivers who at his station near the local railway post was buying small lots to maintain a semblance of the strength the change sounded and trading stopped all the and faced about to the little balcony where the secretary of the change made his and there he stood the door open behind him a small dark man of thirt...	43
the evidence of non support on the market was inclined to think that was being reached and influenced against him frightened into getting out of the market entirely it gave him a feeling of cold treachery on the strength of this feeling drove swiftly to s office and not finding him there direct to his house here he wa...	43
act for him and now when he should have seen more clearly than ever the significance of what was proposing he was frightened and his reason obscured by such things as s probable opposition and rage s possible failure his own inability to face a real crisis and things of that sort s real innate financial ability did not...	43
he could induce these people to dose the exchange to give him more on his house and property than under the they would ordinarily give if they could be induced to give him twenty four or thirty six or hours of grace why so much the better it wasn t their charity it was his that was doing it he didn t think they would ...	43
their and the general results sent them all to the third national his father was immensely relieved from one point of view but sadly depressed from another he knew what it meant to frank he hurried out at the noon hour to see what his own would bring he was himself in a way by doing it but his parental heart as well as...	43
pathetic my john my mary impossible but it is possible very possible decidedly likely some through lack of experience or understanding or both grow hard and bitter on the instant they feel themselves in the face of notable tenderness and sacrifice others and go to pieces before the grave of the and uncertainty of life ...	43
been satisfied with his wife why should he or the reputation of his children in this way why should he enter into his butler s home of all places to establish a relationship of this character was in any way to blame she was an able sufficient attractive self willed girl and was not without mental resources of her own s...	43
what they knew but supposing they said that i had said for instance he a case trying to the extent of her tact and caution i d deny it she repeated i d deny until i had positive proof that they knew i d never admit anything more than a foolish under any circumstances even then never her clear eyes glowed with self def...	43
by these many many days chapter butler finally decided that before his sons returned for the evening he would go out to the house and see if he could find so was he that he took his hat in a very way and slipped away telling the clerk to say to that he had gone down the street for a few moments he took a car and rode o...	43
back in a hot defiant wave why what a lie she said lifting her eyes to her father s to think that any one should write such a thing of me how dare they i think it s a shame old butler looked at her narrowly solemnly he was not deceived to any extent by her if she were really innocent he knew she would have to her feet ...	43
frank had looked so sternly at her the night before was this why his face was so set he had not told her why your mother would die of a broken heart if she thought there was anybody could say the least word the against ye pursued butler in a shaken voice this man has a family a wife and ye t to want to do to hurt them...	43
wife s brother who was now fairly well to do joseph the wealthy dry goods dealer who had dealt with him in the past judge kitchen a private of considerable wealth van the state who was interested in local street railway stocks and others he was determined that he would not dispose of his street railway at any price he ...	43
the had been warned and frightened nevertheless he proposed to go to him again it was his last recourse he got in his again and drove directly to the city s office since s visit in the morning had talked still more with mr mr and others all sent to see that a proper fear of things financial had been put in his heart th...	43
at once sank feebly in a chair and he was entirely done for mentally his was gone his exhausted like a breath well mr mr pretending even though he had sent not to what brought him i came about this matter of my to mr mr had kept mr waiting a full hour in order to melt him and he was properly well what about them well h...	43
to do follow him exactly and whenever i send for you come at once he got up large self confident reserved by the subtle of his remarks recovered to a degree his mr the great mr was going to help him out of his scrape he might not have to go to jail after all he left after a few moments his face a little red from weepin...	43
disturb his own clear thinking machinery however he merely stared at for a few minutes in order to convey to him something of his own surprise and to him with a sense of the contempt he had for any such weakness if long persisted in and then he asked who the else have you been talking to george since i saw you who ha...	43
least morally at the of the city s money was the one thing that would hurt him most and how his rivals would this fact he might get on his feet again if he failed but it would be work and his father his father would be pulled down with him the old gentleman could not stand this and he might weather it if no attached to...	43
sad in his yes honey yes she declared slipping her under his and pulling him tight oh yes you can depend on me oh sweet i love so i m so sorry oh i do hope you don t fail but it doesn t make any difference dear between you and me whatever happens does it we will love each other just the same you will love me and i will...	43
got it what part did frank play in this transaction how much did henry his father get if that question were raised there would be in his own bank adam would find his excuse for speaking the secondary element that is present everywhere and is always seeking a change hoping to profit thereby would find in this its strong...	43
habit acquired years and years of what seemed to him essential commercial practice as some people look up over and along their noses and now in this hour of distress he did it with a peculiar touch of to the action it was mechanical and pathetic frank was so used to he scarcely noticed it well it looks uke stormy weath...	43
and his wife were married many and notable changes had taken place had filled out from the daring frame of youth to the broader more of manhood he knew so much more of life now of the actual practical workings of life than he had thirteen years before when he suspected everything experience had given him a larger a u...	43
deliberate way she put down her pot and went into the library there it was lying on the green leather which constituted a part of the of the large table she picked it up glanced at it curiously because it was on cheap paper and then opened it her face always placid slightly as she read it and then her hand trembled no...	43
distinguished home was after all built on shifting sands what should she do what say how act she dropped the letter after a time and stood there then picked it up and went into her private she hid it in her bosom and wondered how she go about it to watch this house if she did at all could she what about the children he...	43
information nothing more can be done to day frank walter informed him quietly the majority want the privilege of examining the books there is some about this with the city which you say exists they feel that you d better announce a temporary anyhow and if they want to let you resume later they can do so i m sorry for t...	43
ct from these causes if any such ill him be called fear and he had done his veiy tip to the hour to make his chances of h those two difficulties as secure as possible his il wit told him there were ways to his s in favor of his largest who would him to and he was swift to do this the his lawyer drew up documents which...	43
though he thought that seeing how loosely city funds had always been handled how close the relations of and were nothing would come of it before a let them proceed against you he said his brilliant legal mind taking in all the phases of the situation at once i don t see that there is anything more here than the a charg...	43
and he was fighting for his financial life was he really going to lose entirely he meditated this gravely wondering what he do the while he worked with after but he saw no light the question as to whether edward butler could do anything to injure the financial and social prosperity of once he had become so against him ...	43
in a few months things are going to be better than ever i ll go right on there are a lot of things in connection with it all that i ought to be attending to right now so there is nothing new at your house he seemed a little to as he might well but she did not quite see why he should neglect her in his thoughts still hi...	43
at moment although he suspected that the plan he had in mind was already beforehand he nevertheless preferred being the cautious man that he was to find out just what chance he had of putting his idea into force and might not have told any one else before he could reach them and seal their lips also he did not know tha...	43
carrying money on deposit at two per cent or more which left him quite free and beyond just what do you mean asked the looking at butler there haven t been any outside parties mixed up with this have there no o i wouldn t call him an outside party exactly it s himself i m of there s that has come up since i saw you gen...	43
itself and from what he could see of local conditions it was not far there was now the matter of s to look into and if by buying in these he should succeed in preventing the from business he would have him in a very precarious condition indeed it was a sad day for butler thought the day he had first tried to lead astr...	43
guarded hint in the morning press concerning the need of a public morality to which referred there s no doubt that fellow s one person all right he s got this business going like a bob over in the county clerk s office was telling me that he got a last check out of for sixty thousand dollars by some trick or other and ...	43
he would have considered carefully he had to say for then could have his recovered property to him as it was there vas small of this situation ever being straightened out the citizens reform association it came to their ears as it was certain to do would follow it closely to the end particularly the disposition of thi...	43
open question whether he was more disgusted with this evidence of public in office than he was pleased at finding that it was ready to his hand to the occasion was such an excellent one too the eve of an important and state election nevertheless it was a serious charge to make against any one the sum in question was s...	43
the newspapers and even the citizens reform association got the notion that was largely if not solely to blame had him the money it is true put bond issues in his hands for sale but somehow every one seemed to gain the impression that had desperately the the fact that he had taken a sixty thousand dollar check for wh...	43
administration and in a way this would divert attention from the evil nature of the dear darling party until after election which was what was wanted so finally on october d two days after mr c wheat had issued the first blast when there was not a moment longer to lose the several letters so carefully and prepared w...	43
ith v e in contact how e il ood really was he did not v ant the to escape by any chance v as beside herself with distress but she could do noticing she scarcely realized what was going on butler argued ith himself that she was still young and must have another chance if he did something radical now to break oil this sh...	43
it rains on the just and the unjust we suffer for our which we did not make and for our weaknesses and which are no part of our willing or doing who by taking thought can add one to his stature who can make his brain better his thoughts his courage greater who is it that can do anything it was not given him to do all g...	43
how it was she understood or thought she did anyhow her frank was telling her and that was enough in the household the two ood things had been to a deadly cold the life was going out of them frank was that life he was the courage and force of his father the spirit and opportunity of his brothers the hope of his child...	43
that my connection with the bank now is a serious to it a short well built attractive man of fifty breathed an inward sigh of relief it was so urgent that should do this i have been with it now nearly thirty eight years continued but at the thought of the long long years which had really been his life spent with this o...	43
of going to mrs and having her bring pressure to bear on her husband but he decided that would not do he was not really positive as yet that was secretly having to do with and besides mrs might not know of her husband s he thought also of going to personally and threatening him but that would be a severe measure and ag...	43
thought and confirmed the he decided after a while to employ a but q the was not until all hope of persuading to accept the proposition had been abandoned when that was gone and was still going to and fro in philadelphia as careless and as before he became determined she pretended to be visiting her friends many of who...	43
here to begin with mr butler easily that s as good a name as any if you want to use one i m me own to for the present continued easily i really don t care whether this is your right name or not i was just going to say that it might not be necessary to have your right name under any circumstance it all depends upon wh...	43
told him s now go on he a lace in third street frank a any one can show you where it is he s just failed there recently oh that s the man i ve it the of him he s mixed up in some city over there i suppose the reason you didn t go to philadelphia office is because you didn t want our local men over there to know anyth...	43
butler sent for her while he was in there came quickly as it was planned between the and butler the latter stood in the door just far enough to one side to prevent from coming in but nevertheless to yield a good view of her the stood behind one of the heavy curtains which had already been put up for the winter pretendi...	43
to take t by surprise to do that he explained it would be to have at least three men in addition to the perhaps four who once one man had been able x make his entrance into the on the door being in response to a ring would appear quickly and with and sustain him quickness of search was next thing the prompt opening o...	43
t now any more but he would have sometimes you know i i ve been very bad for you i don t know what i ought to da if i thought it would help you any i d not see you any more for a while though i don t see what good that would do now oh i love you love you frank i would do anything for you i don t care what people think ...	43
with the character of the reception room itself which was a of gold wall paper blue and cream colored carpet heavily gold framed of and a gilt framed pier mirror which rose from the floor to the ceiling needless to say that butler was shocked to the soul of him by this suggestive atmosphere which was supposed to includ...	43
attained a proper memory of him her fluttering wits told her what to do no frank she whispered excitedly if it s father you d better let me go i know how to talk to him he won t say anything to me if it is he and you go down it might make him very angry you stay here i m not afraid really i m not if i want you call yo...	43
think of any one who would be likely to take her in for any period without question there were a of young women of her own age and who were very friendly to her but there were few with whom she was really intimate the only person who stood out in her mind as having any real possibility of refuge for a period was a cert...	43
one word with and decided to act she must go he must compel her he must talk to her at once tell her what he thought reproach her with her sins and her state of mind and then by sheer force of will power compel her to go it was a for him a deadly one he came home from his office very early in the afternoon hoping to f...	43
ye had these notions my child he suddenly asked calmly and where did you get them ye certainly never heard anything like that in this house i warrant ye talk as though ye had gone out of er mind oh don t talk nonsense father angrily i m not a child any more i m twenty four years of age you just don t mr doesn t hke his...	43
here ye won t be to keep up that a mortal sin it s against the laws of god and man he did so hope the thought of sin would come to the of her crime from a spiritual point of view but did not see it at all you don t understand me father she exclaimed hopelessly toward the end you can t i have one idea and you have an...	43
t want anybody to know particularly no one of my family you re not going to run away for good are you asked curiously and gravely oh i don t know i don t know what i ll do i know hat i want to come away for a while anyhow the well of all things replied her friend wonders never cease do they but it will be so lovely to...	43
you know i do i m crazy about you protested that she did not need so much that she did not really need any she had some at home but he put that aside he knew that she must have money don t talk honey he said i know what you need she had been so used to receiving money from her father and mother in comfortable from ti...	43
local and life it was a low building of red brick with a white wooden central tower of old dutch and english of the square the circle and the the total of a central portion and two t shaped brings lying to the right and left whose small oval old fashioned windows and doors were set with those the many so much admired b...	43
s the s and s he had long heard he knew by with one light and what the situation was the party as the saw it had been put in a very bad position by s he had led astray more an ordinary city should have been led stray and although was guilty as the in the was more for having led him on so besides the needed a that w...	43
and putting hem each written on a separate slip of paper in a whirling spinning it a few times and then lifting out he first slip which his hand thus and settling on who should be no i his hand in times drew out the names of the twelve who were as their names were called ordered x take their places in the jury box in ...	43
sum of money a specific sum to wit sixty thousand dollars on a check given him drawn to his order october which was intended to him for a certain of of loan which he as agent or of the check was supposed to have purchased for the city sinking fund on the order of the under some form of a which had been in existence b...	43
as mr began and all through his testimony but he never again looked at he could not for some reason though he really had the more truthful end of the argument was he george w yes where did he live at at spring garden street what was his business or occupation on october th last he was of the city of philadelphia and d...	43
all the evidence admitted to the records of the case must tend either to or deny this fact s testimony in one respect was most important for it made plain what mr did not want brought out namely that and had had a dispute before this that had distinctly told that he would not loan him any more money that had told on t...	43
the nor for the is limited to a peculiar routine of sion cr himself was ready to smile but he did not dare to when mr was through bringing out this unsatisfactory mr took mr in hand l could not make as much out of him as he hoped ill so far as this particular situation was concerned was the exact truth and it is hard t...	43
knew at the time he received this check that he was going to fail that he did not buy the as he claimed with the view of placing them in fund and that knowing he was going to fail and that he could not subsequently deposit them he deliberately went to mr mr s secretary told him that he had purchased such and on the str...	43
secured the cash through the clearing house no was drawn out of the bank by co after that to create an the bank s with was nevertheless mr might have drawn heavily and nothing would have been thought of it mr did not know that mr was going to fail did not suppose that he could so quickly he had frequently his account ...	43
he never gave any personal attention whatsoever his mr attended to ll that he did not know as a matter of fact that they d not been deposited this was a lie he d know as for the check being turned over to the national bank that was it might just s well have been turned over to some other bank if the conditions had been...	43
worn wooden floor some heavy plain wooden benches the four sides no pictures or ornaments of any kind a single two arm gas pipe descended from the of the ceiling it was by a peculiarly stale and obviously of all the d of life criminal and innocent that had stood or sat in here from time to time waiting patiently to l...	43
but do we want to punish him dot s de question it ain d de same as if he broke into a house and took t hundred dollars or knocked a man down on de the street and robbed him you look at de way de whole t ing come about he wouldn t a took de sixty t dollars if he hadn t been business with de city treasury in dot way dot...	43
reach not much definite conclusions as very often a will have concluded little so far as its individual are concerned when yet it will have reached the a verdict the matter of time as all lawyers know plays a part in this speaking of the members and frequently object to the amount of time it sometimes takes to decide a...	43
thought it was a shame to punish a man for doing exactly what any other man would do imder the circumstances during the drag of moments and those who had made up their minds came to feel sick of the waste of time why sit here and when ten men all equally good in brain and of life were agreed that the was guilty why kee...	43
mere in its way and yet here it had risen up this miserable insignificant check and become a mountain of opposition a stone wall a prison wall his further progress it was astonishing he looked around him at the court room how large and bare and cold it was still he was frank a why should he let such queer thoughts dist...	43
his clothes himself in his bed and going fast asleep chapter say one will about prison life in general it never so much by special chambers a general tendency to make one as comfortable as possible a jail is a jail and there is no getting away from that in his new private room which was not in any way inferior to that ...	43
that so far as he could see the was getting about what he deserved made her feel that her father had secretly confided in her brother and that what the latter said was intended as a back handed slap at her this at once and her but she made no move she read on the morning of the tenth that s plea for a of reasonable do...	43
of the family she felt very strange somewhat like a thief a new sensation for her and as she laid the letter on her father s desk she felt a momentary sense of ingratitude coupled with pain perhaps she was doing wrong her father had been very good to her her mother would feel so very bad would be sorry and and still t...	43
mind if she wants to she knows it s meal time old butler decided that s mind was telling against her appetite it was not strange the conversation drifted from a new water works that was being planned to the new city hall then completion s financial and social troubles and the state of the stock market generally a new g...	43
ye ll tell me where my daughter is and ye ll leave her alone from now or i ll the old man s fists closed like a and his chest heaved with suppressed rage ye ll not be me too far man if ye re wise he added after a time recovering his in part i want no with ye i want my daughter listen mr butler said quite calmly the si...	43
one how fine this r e s that had the man had some it but much evil in him butler very well how he had taken the check and a good ly other things in connection with it the manner which he had played his cards to night was on a par the th the way he had run to on the night of the fire he was just shrewd and calculating a...	43
surrender was a great triumph she made her to the saying with a smile that they could not do without her at home and that she would send for her later and returned with od to his own door he asked her to wait in the while he sent her father down well said butler turning on him when he opened the door and not seeing you...	43
attention three of them judges and men most amen the a a b w a ta m v w w z j v w w ci w i r t vo r i i ji s r were n en of t i i c ry and m r rs i r r o consideration t er r i v ci ie g ne r v r c but ov ing o his political x v v j h ail i at t m ...	43
the majority as well as a slight from and addition to the points on which he agreed with judge it was a question this of s guilt and aside from the political necessity of him nowhere was it more clearly shown than in these varying opinions of the superior court judge held for instance that if a crime had been committed...	43
goes don t talk nonsense at this stage i know whether i m satisfied or not and i d soon tell you if i wasn t i think you might as well go on and see if you can find some definite for carrying it to the supreme court but meanwhile iii begin my sentence i suppose will be a day to have me brought before him now shortly it...	43
a to satisfy some court clerk with or to pay a it would be easy enough but he paused and x wisely away and mr s face began to t once the law against which it was ordinarily so hard offend was not now so important saw that it s as needless to introduce any additional arguments it s a very business this mr put the but i...	43
i had a note from him and i fancy it s about that he did not care to say that he had lost he knew that she was distressed as it was and he did not care to be too rough just now he was thinking of the and what it would be whether could get him any special privileges there he had heard that the rules of the eastern where...	43
ll et out be out or out in a reasonable length of time just now it s better to go i think i wouldn t think of running away from philadelphia two of five judges found for me in the decision that s pretty fair evidence that the state has no case against me his wife saw she had made a mistake it her judgment on the insta...	43
for his work in connection with the newspapers i ll do everything i can frank assured him heartily and as for he simply said you may depend on me mr and he meant it informed now as had others before that he knew that the local and butler were against him that they had been anxious all along to see him convicted and fo...	43
you but you ll have to mind what you re doing don t try to see me at once i want you to but i want to find out how the land lies and i want you to find out too you won t lose me i ll be there well enough he paused as he thought of the long tier of iron which must be there one of which would be his for long and of see...	43
was this pale thin dusty high on his bench with his weak eyes and his thin white hair looking down on them now his whole soul was convinced that he was some very important function of life acting in accordance with some inherent fact of our being for the benefit of the people good heavens and the and the law why had n...	43
not to the fullest extent of the authority granted me protect society against you and your kind finding absolutely nothing to or your guilt i sentence you to fifteen years imprisonment k the state for the eastern district at labor he turned calmly from his victim while the latter stared and then hurried away being marc...	43
his hand if the court please my mr the prisoner at the bar is neither guilty in his own estimation nor in that of two of the state supreme court the court of last resort in this state he exclaimed loudly and clearly so that all might hear one of the interested listeners and spectators at this point was edward butler w...	43
have given due heed to the for mercy in his case saw through the trick at once but it did not disturb him it struck him as rather weak and contemptible a came ard and started to him away the prisoner to remain a moment called judge the name of george w had been called by the clerk and the ex city was now quite near co ...	43

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