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CHAPTER XIII.
Old Judge Mason, accustomed to
seeing Barry in times of stress, tried
his best to be jovial.
“Well, boy,” what is it this time?'
“Money,” Houston came directly
to the point.
“What s the money for; running
expenses?”
“No. Machinery. I’ve got to have
a good, smooth-working plant—
otherwise I won’t be able to live up
to specifications.”
“You’re not,” and the old lawyer
milled quizzically, “going to favor
your dearly beloved friend with the
order, are you?”
"Who?”
“Worthington.”
“The district attorney? ’
“That was. Plutocrat now. He
came into his father’s money and
bought the East Coast Machinery
Company. Hes president,” again
the smile, “and I know he’d be glad
to have your order.”
Houston continued the sarcasm.
“I'd be overjoyed to give it to him.
In fact, I think I’d refuse tw buy any
machinery if I couldn’t get it from
such a dear friend as Worthington
was. It wasn’t his fault that 1
wasn’t sent to the penitentiary.”
“No, that’s right, boy.” Old Law
yer Mason was quietly reminiscent.
“He tried his best. It seemed to me
in those days he was more of a per
secutor than a prosecutor.”
“Let's forget it.” Houston laughed
uneasily. “A persecutor . . . You’ve
given me an idea, Judge. I’m going
to New York.”
And the next morning, Barry
Houston was in New York, swirling
along Seventh Avenue toward Bell
strand hospital. There he sought
the executive offices and told his
story. Five minutes later he was
looking at the books of the institu
tion, Searching, searching—at last
to stifle a cry of excitement and bend
closer to a closely written page.
“August second,” he read, “Kilbane
Worthington, district attorney, Bos
ton, Mass. Acc. by Drs. Horton,
Mayer and Brensteam. Investiga
tions into effect of blows on skull.
Eight cadavers.”
With fingers that were almost
frenzied, Houston copied the nota
tion, closed the book, and hurried
again for a taxicab. It yet was only
nine o'clock. If the traffffic were not
too thick, if the driver were skillful—
He gacedi through thje gate at
Grand Central just as it was closing.
It was night when he reached Bos
ton, but Houston did not hesitate. A
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glance at a telephone book, another
rocking ride in a taxicab, and Barry
stood on the veranda of a large
house, awaiting the answer to his
ring at the bell. Finally’ it came.
“Mr. Worthington,” he demanded.
Kilbane Worthington was seated
at the large table, much in the man
ner which he had affected in court.
“Well,” he asked, somewhat
brusquely, “may I inquire—”
“My name is Barry Houston, son
of the late William K. Houston. You
and I met—in the courtroom. You
once did me the very high honor to
accuse me of murder and then tried
your level best to send me to the
penitentiary for life when you knew
absolutely and thoroughly, that I
was an innocent man!”
CHAPTER XIV.
The former district attorney start
ed slightly. Then, coming still closer,
he peered into the tense, angry fea
tures of Barry Houston.
“A bit melodramatic, aren’t you?”
he asked in a sneering tone.
“Perhaps so. But then murder is
always melodramatic.
“The point is this: I am thinking
of suing the city of Boston for a mil.
lion dollars.”
“You’re talking blackmail!”
“I beg your pardon. Blackmail is
something by which one extorts
money. I’m here to try to give you
money—or at least the promise of it
—and at the same time allow you
to make up for something that
should weigh rather heavily on yous
conscience.”
“If you will come to the point.”
“Mr. Worthington, I have con
vincing evidence that you knew I
was innocent. Further, that you
knew it at the beginning of the trial.
But that in spite of this knowledge,
you continued to persecute me—no
tice, I don’t say prosecute—to per
secute me in a hope of gaining a
conviction, simply that you might go
before the voters and point to me in
prison as a recommendation of your
efficiency as a district attorney. I
don’t mind giving you the names:
Dr. Horton, Dr. Mayer and Dr. Bren
steam, all physicians of the highest
reputation. I would like, Mr. Wor
thington, to know why you did not
make use of them in the trial?”
“Why—” The former district at
torney suddenly changed the subject.
“You spoke of a suit you might bring
when you came in here?”
Houston waited for a moment, then
went on.
“But personally, I don’t want to
file the suit. I don’t want any
money—that way. I don’t want any
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bribes, or exculpations, or statements
from you that you know me to be
innocent. You owe me something.
And I'm sere tonight to ask you for
it. ’
“I thought you said you didn’t
want any bribes.”
“I don’t. May I ask you what
your margin or profits is at your ma
chinery company?”
“I suppose it runs around twelve
per cent.”
“Then will you please allow me to
give you tweve thousand dollars in
profits? I'm in the lumber business.
I have a contract that runs into the
millions; surely that is good enough
security to a man”—he couldn’t re
sist the temptation—“who knows my
absolute innocence. It isn’t good
enough for the bankers, who still be
lieve me guilty, so I’ve come directly
to you. I need one hundred thou
sand dollars worth of lumber-mill
machinery. I can pay for it—in in
stallments. I guarantee to give you
‘A bit melodramatic, aren’t you,”
he asked in sneerin" tone.
every cent above my current run
ning expenses until the bill is dis
posed of. All 1 want is to have you
do what you would do to any reput
able business man who came to you
with a contract running into the
millions of dollars —to give me credit
for that machinery. Come in with
me on it, and we’ll forget the rest.
Stay out—and I fight!”
For a long moment, Kilbane Wor
thington paced the floor. Then, at
last, he looked up.
“All right.”
CHAPTER XV
It was a grinning Barry Houston
who leaped from the train at Taber
nacle a week later and ran open-arm
ed through the snow toward thfc wait
ing Ba’tiste.
“You got my telegram?” He asked
it almost breathlessly.
“Ah, oui! oui, oui, oui! Sacre, and
you are the wizard!”
A moment he surged with another
idea. “But, now, Ba’teese have eet!
He shall go to Medaine! He shall tell
her to write to the district attorney
of Boston—that he will tell her—”
“It was part of my agreement, Ba’-
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tiste, that he be forced to make no i
statements regarding my innocence.”
Slowly Ba’tiste nodded and slapped ;
the reins on»the back of the horse. ,
“Ba’teese will not see Medaine,”
came at last, and they went on.
Again the waiting game.
A month went by, to bring with it
the bill of lading which told that the
machinery was at last on its way.
March, and a few warm days,
which melted the snows only that
they might crust again. Back and
forth traveled the bobsled to Taber
nacle, only to meet with disappoint
ment.
“I’ve wired the agent at Denver
three times about that stuff,” said
the Tabernacle telegrapher and
general supervisor of freight. “He’s
told me that he’d let me know as
soon as it got in.”
A week more, and winter had re
turned for a last fling.
They tried the bobsled, Ba’tiste
and Houston, only to give it up. The
horses floundered and plowed about
in vain efforts at locomotion, at last
to plunge in the terror of a bottom
less road.
“Eet is no use,” came finally “The
horse, he can not pull. We must
make the trip on the snowshoe.”
They turned back for the bunk
house, to emerge a few moments
later bent, padded forms, fighting
clumsily against the sweep of th
storm. Ghosts they became almost
immediately, snow-covered things
that hardly could be discerned a few
feet away, one hand of each holding
tight to the stout cord which led
from waist-belt to waist-belt, their
only insurance against being parted
form each other in the blinding swirl
of winter.
The features of the agent, as he
stared up form the rattling key, were
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“Your stuff’s on the way, if that’s
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“Not post Tollifers?” Houston
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at the top of the range by now.”
“Good reason. They're getting the
snow worse than here. Denver re
ported ten inches at eleven o’clock—
and it’s fifteen miles from the
range.”
He rattled and banged at the key
for a long moment, cursing softly.
Only the dead “cluck” of a grounded
line answered him.
“Things are going to get bad in
this country if this keeps up,” came
at last. “There isn’t any too great
a stock of food.”
At last the wire opened again, and
the operator went once more to his
desk.
He bent over the key. His’ face
went white—tense.
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the road and whine of the storm, yet
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three waiting men knew that all had
turned to a white hell of wintry fury.
(Continued in Our Next Issue.)