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The Root
of Evil
SYNOPSIS
Stuart, southern lawyer In New Yeork, i=
tn love with Nam Primrose. His friend,
Ir. Woodman, who has a young daugh
ter, is threatened with the loss of his
drug business by Bivens, whom he be
friended years before. Stuart visite the
Primroses.
Nan wants Stuart to accept a place with
Livens chemical trust. e dislikes Biv
ens’ methods apd refuses. Bivens calls
on him.
Bivens i in love with Nan. Stuart re
fuses the offer, and Nan breaks her en
gagement with the lawyer. Bivens asls
Woodman to enter the trust
Woodman will not yie!ld and sues Pivens'
company. The promoter tells the doctor
ho and Nan are eagaved. Harriet Wood
man 8 studying music. Stuart takes Nan
for a day in the country,
Stuart pleads with Nan to glve up Biv
ens, but the spell of millions is on Ler ands
st yields to it,
Nan becomes Mrs. Divens, Harriet
loyes Stuart, but he does not know it.
Nine vears pass. Stuart becomes district
attorney. He investizates criminal trusts.
Nan asks him to eall.
“1 assure you that if the cuse comes
to its final test you are certain to lose.”
“S 0 you have said again und again,
my boy,” was the good natured reply,
“hut his sudden terror and this offer
show that we have won alrendy, and
he knows it. Bivens has seen the
handwriting on the wall. When the
American people are once aroused
their wrath will sweep the trusts into
the bottomless pit.”
“Bivenssn't worrying about the pec
ple or their wrath.”
“Then it's time he began! the doctor
eried. “Mark my word, the day of the
common people has dawned. This mud
sill of the world has lesrned to read
and write and begun to think. [le
will never be content again until he
turns the world upside down.”
“But you must consider this offer
You have too much at stake. Your
factory has been closed for five yenars.
Your store has been sold, your busi
ness roined. and yon are (ighting to pay
the Interest on your debts, [l've secen
you growing poorer daily until you
firve turned vour home into a lodging
house and filled it with strangers,”
*l've enjoyved Knowing them My
sympathies bave heon made larger.”
“But is this battle yours alone. doe
tor? You are but one among millions
You are trying to bear the burden of
all. Have you counted the cost* Har
riet’s course in music will continne Iwae
vears longer. The last year she tiust
spend abroad Her expenses will e
great. This settlement is a gencrous
ane, no matter what Bivens' motive ™
“1 ean’t ¢ompromise with a man who
has crushed my business by a con
spiracy of erganized blackmail.”
*Oh, come, corue, doctor, talk cotn
mon sense! You were not ruined by
biackmail. You were crushed by a
law of -progress as resistiess as the
faw of gravitv.” ;
*“lf the law of gravity is unjust it
will be abolished. I can't compromise
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“The last tribunal will give you noth
ing.” g
with Bivens. 1 refuse his generosity.
I'll take only what the last tribunal of
the people shall give me—justice.”
“The last tribunal of the people will
give you nothing.” the lawyer said
empbatically.
“I'll stand or fall with it. 1 make
common cause with the people. | know
that Bivens is a power now. He
chooses judges, defies the law. bribes
legislatures and city councils =ad
imagines that be rules the nation. But
the Napoleons of Gnance today will
be wearing stripes in Sing Ning to
worrow. A despotism of money can-
! not he fastened on the people of Amer
fea. Oniy a few years ago a zreatl
"millionaire who lived in a palace on
Pifth avenue bholdly sald to a newspa
per Feporter, ‘The public be d-—d”
Times have changed The millionaires
| have began to bny the newspapers and
| beg for public tavor. We are walking
|en the crnst of a rvoleano of publie
iwrath. I am content to live and fAght
| for the right. win or lose, and play
I my iittte part In this mighty drama!”
i “1 had hoped you were tired of tight
| ing a losing battle.”
“I'll fight this battle to a (inish and
11l win., If God lives I'll win-I'm so
gure of it, my boy."”
The doctor paused and his eyes
flashed.
| “r'm so sure of it that I'm not only
| zoing to refuse this bribe from Biv
'ens. but my answer will be a harder
blow. I'm going to begin another big
ger and more important suit for the
dissolution of the American chemical
trust.”
| Stuart slipped his arm around the
older man' with a movement of 1
stinctive tenderness
| “Look here. doctor, I've lived in vour
‘ home for fourteen years and I've
{gruwn to love you as my own father
| You must listen o me now I can give
' no time to your suit. 1 am just enter
! ing on a great struggeie for the peopi
| Tremendous issues are at stake”
i “You'll go down a wreck if you fail”
' “Perhaps, but its my duty.” :
| *Good boy!" the oider wman cried
! seizing Stuart’s hand. “You can't fail
| That's why I'm going to risk all in
oy fight”
i “But the cases are not the same.”
“No, I'm old and played out-—my
! life's sands are nearly run, | haven't
| much to risk-—-but sneh as | have |
'um'r it freely to (God and my coun
| try I envy you the opportunity to
i make a greater sacrifice-and you ad
- vise me to compromise for a paltrs
s of money a righteous cause mere
! ly to save my own skin ' proud 6f
| you—proud that yvou live in my house.
' proud that I've known and loved you.
| and tried to teach you the joy and the
| foolishness of throwing your |life
! away!” $
. With a wave of his hand the stil
E wart tigure of the old man passed oul
Cand left him brooding in sorrow i
- dllence
| He seized his pen at last, set his face
3 like flint and resolutely wrote his an
! swer:
| Dear Nan- Your letter is very kind. I'll
‘ be honest and tell you that it has stirred
' memories I've tried to kill and can't. }
| hate to say no, but 1| must. Sincerely,
| JIM
| On the night following Stuart work
| od late in his oilice developing his
';:reat case He was disappointed in
i the finnal showing of the evidence to
' be presented to the grand jury. His
' facts were not as strong as he ex
| pected to make them.
At 10 o'clock he quit work and bur
ried home to refresh bis tired spirit
! with Harriet's music. As he hurried
|l up the steps he nearly collided with
| & bandsome voung fellow just emerys:
‘ ing from the door. He wag dressed
well, and he had evidently been calling
’ on some one—perhaps on Farriet!
Stuart let himself in softly and start
| ¢l at the sight of Harriet's smiling
! face in the parlor doorway. His worst
| fonrs were confirmed. She was dress
| ed in a dainty evening gown and had
| evidently enjoyed her visitor.
Stuart pretended not to notice the
fact and asked her to play. As he sat
drenming and watching the rhythmic
movement of her delicate hands he
| begau to realive at last that his little
pal. stub nosed, red haired and frec
kled. had silently and mysterionsiy
grown into a charming woman. She
wis twenty-four now, in the pride and
glory of perfect young wotmanhood,
and yet she had no lovers. He won
dered why. Her music, of course. it
hnd heen the one absorbing passion of
life. And her eves had always spar
kled with deep joy at his slightest
word of praise. For the first time it
had occurred to him a 8 an immediate
possibility that she might marry and
their lives drift apart.
A sweet comradeship had grown be
tween them. [He resented the idea of
a break in their relations. Yet why
should he? What rights had he over
her life? Absalutely none, of course.
Who was that fel'ow? Where had he
| met him before? 7
He rose with a sudden frown Sure
as fate—the very hoy—the tall, dreamy
looking youngster who danced with
her so many times that night ten years
ago at her birthday party! She said
he was too frail-that her prince must
be strong. Well, confound him, he
bad got strong. :
Stuart said. with a studied indiffer
ence: :
“Tell me, little pal, who was that
tall young fellow 1 ran into oy the
steps?"
“Why. don’t you remember my frail
voung admirer of long ago?®™
“Do you love him. girlie?” :
“When ] was very. very yvoung, |
thought I did. It makes me langh
vow, It's wonderful how much we
can outgrow, isn't it?’
*l just don't like him, and 1 don’t
want you to like him. You see, little
l pal. Pm your guardian.”
“Are you?” :
“Yes. And T'm giving youn due lezal
l notice that you have no right to marry
withont my consent—you promise to
l make me your confidant?’
A soft laugh. full of tenderness and
‘ joy. came from the girl as she turned
{ her eves upward for the first time:
| “AN right. guardie, 'l confer with
; vou on that occasion.™
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] CHAPTER Vi
A Straight Tip.
AN received the announcement
of Rivens' failure to settle
© Woodman's suit with a grim
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29. 1912
reswiuion o win new. af sll
hazinrds The senxitional reports of
Sruart’s action against the big finap
viers had given her guick mind the
cue to a new line of stratagem. She
bernn cantioasty.
“You ure net going to give up a thing
I've set my heart on merely becguse
old Woodman's a fool, are you?' she
asked her husband. with a touch of
scorn. “Jim Stuart is the best friend
vou ever had. He hag become one of
tite most famous men in America. |
want him at our next entertainment.”
“The thing that puzzles me,” Bivens
broke in, “is why he will not come te
tie house. When | meet him down
town he's always friendly.”
Nan's lips guivered with a queer lit
tle smile.
“Wi!l he sueceed in this action
against these wmen?”
“No: he can't get the facts. If he
roulkl be'd shuke the foundations of the
finnncinl world.”
“Why not give the facts to him?”
“1 had thought of that, but it might
brive on i panic.”
“Wlhat have you to lose by it?"
“Nothing. but a panic’s a dangerous
thing to monkey with.”
“It couldn't injure Stuart?’ his wife
asked cantiously.
“No [t couldn’t hurt him On the
other hand. J might make him the un
conscious instrument of a great per
sonn! vengeance, double my fortune
and possibly laud Jim v the White
House.”
“Yon wust do it. dear!” his wife
erviedd. trembling with sunpressed ex
citement.
“It's piaying with dynariite.”
“It'y worth the risk to double your
fortune. Do it for my sake!”
Nan leaned close and pressed her
hushand's hand while her dark eves
found their way into his heart. |
eIl do it he said with firm ac
cent. “I'll phone him at once.” ‘
When Stuart sat down with Bivens
in one of the magnificent private din
ing rooms of his millionaire club two
days later he was strnck with the per
foction of the financier's dress and the
easy elegance of his manners.
“Nan has surely done wonders with
some pretty crude material!” he mused
He recalled Nnn's diary with grim
amtisement. -
it took two years to thoroughly break
him so that she could always be sure
that his naile were trimmed and his
clothes in perfect style. He had long
since ceased to struggle and had found
much happiness of late years in vying
with her in the perfection of his per
sonal appeariance.
When the dinner was finished Bivens
dismissed the waiter, lighted one of
his buge cigars and drew {rom amo
rocco case which he had placed beside
his chair a typewritten manuscript. He
turned its leaves thoughtfully a mo
ment and handed them to Stuart.
“There's a document, Jim, that cost
me $lO.OOO to prepare; for whose sup
pression $1.000.000 would be paid and
no questions asked”
“But why this generosity on yows
part. Cal?”
“1 have anticipated that question |
answer it fully and frankly. There is
enough dynamite in that document to
blow up half of Wall Street and land
somebedy in the White House.”
“And many in the morgue?”’
“And sowe in the penitentiary. I've
watched your work the past nine years
with genuine pride, Jim. You've said
a lot of hard things abont rich malefac
tors, but you've never touched me."”
“No. 1 think you're too shrewd to be
caught in that class, Cal”
“} pride myself that 1 am. It's only
the clumsy fool who gets tangled in
the criminal law. But a lot of them
have done it—Dbig fellows whose names
ill the world with noise. I've taken
the pnins to put into that typewritten
doenment the names, the dates, the
places, the deeds. the names of the wit
nesses nird all the essential facts. Do
what vou please with ir. If you do
what | think vou will, some men who
are wearing purple and fine linen will
e wearing stripes before another year
and you will be the biggest man iv
New York.”
“And your motive?”
“Perhaps 1 wish to get even with
some men who have done me a dirty
trick or two, and perhaps incidentally
in the excitement which will follow
this exposure of fraud and crime I
may make an honest penny. Is that
enough "’
*“Quite.”
“And you’ll make the attack at
once ?”
Stuart glanced rapidly through the
first page of the document. and his
eres began to dance with excitement.
“The only favor I ask,” Bivens add
ed, “is twenty-four hours’ notice be
fore you act.”
“I'll let you know.” :
Stuart rose quickly, placed the decu
ment in his inside pocket and hurried
home. v
The deeper the young lawyer probed
into the mass of corruption Bivens had
placed In his hands the more profound
hecame his surprise. That men whose
names were the synonyms of honesty
and fair dealing. men intrusted with
the management of companies whose
assets represented the savings of mil
lions of poor men. the sole defense of
millions of helpless women and chil
dren - that these trusted leaders of the
world were habitually prostituting
their trusts for personal gain. stagger
ed helief.
He delayed action and began a care
ful. patient, thorongh investigation.
As it proceeded his amazement fin
creased. He founnd that Bivens had
only scratched the surface of the teath
New York. the finnncial center of the
nation. had gone mad with the Insane
passion for money at all hasards—by
all weans, fair or foul The nation
was on the tidal wave of the most
wonderfu! industrial boom in its his
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This November 8, 1912,
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