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THE STORY OF GEORGE HELM GRAHAM PHILLIPS
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“They were at lunch he and his wife and the fat one. George and Eleanor looked at each other as the same thought came to both. ‘Don’t, George,’ said
Eleanor, unsteadily, as her eyes tilled, ’don’t look at me like that. We’ll make the baby cry.’ ”
The story of George Helm
which has been running in
HEARST'S MAGAZINE has at
tracted much attention. It is
only one of many features of
compelling interest and diversity
which have already made the
magazine famous. The SEP
TEMBER number is now on sale,
at all news stands. Here are a
few excerpts showing how
Eleanor Helm chose between her
millionaire father and her hus
band.
/TMiERE are two things as brief as
I any in this world of brevities
the babyhood of her first born
to th<’ mother who loves babies, and his
term of office to the public man who
loves office. It so happened that both
these befell the Helms at the same time.
George married Eleanor Clearwater,
■I i.ughter of the lumber king and
I nited States senator, a few weeks
before he was inaugurated; and the
ills’ baby came toward the end of the
second year of that famous stormy
term of his. It was now the spring of
his fourth term as governor.
Roth he and the young woman nt
the window looked younger than when
they were married —without the con
s’ rt which her father dared not pub
' 'v withhold, or Indeed privately, since
II had not the courage to cut hlnr-
•ff from his only child. ' The rea
-1 the hands were turning backward
for Helm and his wife was, of course,
1 ippiness.
Rill.” said George to the lazy friend
oom he had made into his political
‘Mger and had forced to take the
'lfioe of attorney general—“ Bill, you
tght to get "married. My wife takes
'he responsibilities off my shoul
and leaves me free just to have
"When you took this office, you said
" were going to please the people,”
irsued RIH.
‘To serve the people,” corrected
him.
Same thing," rejoined his friend.
—you’ve found out that there
‘ n t any such thing as the people.”
Between Two Fires.
H°lm nodded.
I here are pluckers and plucked
there is no such thing as ’the
•• >n’e.’ ”
''Ot yet,” admitted Helm.
You’ve been serving something
h“t doesn’t exist.”
Helm nodded.
•lie pluckeru hate you beCtllP-
I ve interfered with their gam> The
■ hate you because they think
you've put them in a position where
'hcy’il not be plucked only because
they haven't anything to pluck.”
"They don't hate me, exactly;” said
George.
“You’re right. I withdraw hate.
They love you. They go crazy at
sight of you.”
“How about those cases?"
"I'll take them up in a few days."
I Desbrough was trying to hide his ner
' vousness from his keen-eyed friend
' “Give mo another week. George.”
Helm laid a heavy hand upon Des
hrough's shoulder. “What's the mat
ter?" he demanded.
Desbrough saw he could not evade.
“This Western Timber and Mineral
Company—the T. & M., as they call it
’ —it’s a queer sort of holding corpora
tion.”
“It's the worst thief in this part of
the world—a waster and a stealer and
' a starver.”
I
“But it's a elever villain -the clev
erest. It's got safety hooks and lines
i out in every direction. If you attack it
you’ll get a return volley from pretty
near everything that has a voice in this
state—newspapers, preachers, charity
societies of every kind, doctors, law
, yers, retailers. It's wound round every-
thing and everybody.”
“It’s the big waster—the big stealer,
the big starver —and the big corrup
i
tion. Now, it has defied the govern
ment of this state —the people.”
“The people doesn't exist,” Des
brough reminded him.
“It’s got to go.”
“First crack out of the box—as so. ■■
as I begin to attack—lt will close a
lot of plants and throw fifty thousand
workers —men. women and children—
, out of employment.
"Is that as bad a« what It's doing?”
“It Will Look Worse.’’
"No,” admitted Desbrough. "Not
one-hundredth part as bad. But it’ll
LOOK worse. Everybody will think
and say it’s worse.”
"What are you afraid of. Bill? I
know It isn’t yourself. WHAT is It?"
Desbrough looked steadily at his
SOME FEATURES IN HEARST'S MAGAZINE FOR SEPTEMBER
Among other features of notable interest in Hearst's Magazine for September I
r> .1
are:
“The Autobiography of Admiral Dewey,” “A Lorimer Case in Ancient
Rome,” by Gugliemo Eerrero; “The New (-riminology,” by Governor George
P. W. Hunt; “The Inside of the ( up,’’ by Winston Cliurchili; “Standard Oil and
the Judiciary;” “Captain Kidd in Wall Street,” by George Randolph Chester,
' and reviews of Stage, Books, Art, Science, Polities, Finance, by the best
writers,
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■ friend. “You know what the T. & M.
'■ fp WHO it really is?”
"Anybody especial?"
I "It's controlled by—your father-in
law.”
At noon the following day Helm left
his office—an hour earlier than usual —
and went home. At the sitting room
door he paused. After a brief hesita
’ tion he opened the door and entered.
As he expected, there were his wife and
her father. Helm glanced at the trou
bled face of his wife. Without greeting
his father-in-law, he said to her:
"He has told you?”
“It's true then, George?" replied she.
He nodded.
Clearwater interposed with angry
dignity:
Clearwater Threatens.
“I’ve been laying the whole case be
fore my daughter, sir—your proposed
attempt to disgrace and to ruin me.”
Helm now looked at him. "You have
had six warnings,” said he. “You could
have made your corporation obey the
laws —or, you could have sold your
holdings and gotten away from it.”
“We have disobeyed no laws," re
torted Clearwater. “We have simply
disregarded alleged laws enacted by
demagogues to compel us to pay black
mail or go out of business.”
"Your own lawyers drew the laws,”
replied Helm, "and Sayler ordered them
passed six years ago. But they were
intended for use against any rival to
your monopoly that might spring up.”
“You'll let us alone, or you’ll never
hold another office in this state,” cried
Clearwater. "I came here to ask my
daughter to use her influence with you
to save yourself from destruction. 1
had forgotten what an obstinate vis
ionary you were. Rut I think even you
will hesitate before breaking her heart,
"I’ve told father,” said Eleanor, "that
I haven't ajty Influence witli you. I’d
not venture to speak to you about a
political matter —unless I understood
it. And I've been so busy with the
baby these last two years that I don’t
really know anything any more.”
"Eleanor, I've explained it all to
you,” said Clearwater, deeply agitated.
“If he goes on, it means disgrace to
me. I can punish him and I shall.
But I'll have to leave public life.”
Eleanor looked inquiringly at her
husband. He said:
"Yes, dear."
"George, you can't do that!” cried
she.
Helm winced.
"My God, Eleanor! If your dead
mother could have known that her
daughter—”
Helm put his arm round his wife
and interrupted sternly:
"If her dead mother could have seen
you at your deviltry through that cor
poration—could have seen the starving
wretches in your lumber camps—the
blighted children toiling in your mines,
the blood and filth on your dividend
dollars, every one of them.”
“He lies, Eleanor!” cried her father.
"He is a half-erazed crank—”
"He Is my husband, father,” inter
rupted Eleanor. And very proud she
looked as she said it.
"You will do nothing to help me!"
cried her father, in a sudden agony of
fear.
Eleanor was about to reply. Helm
shook his head, led her gently toward
the door. He said:
"Leave us alone, please.”
"Eleanor," shrieked her father, "if
you yield to this man, if you give up
your father to be destroyed by him, I
shall disinherit you. 1 shall curse you.
1 shall curse you, I shall curse you!"
The daughter shivered from head to
foot. Helm bore her firmly on, re
leased her at the threshold, she cried:
"George, let me stay! Please, dear!
Let me talk with both of you. You are
both so hard
“It Will Break Her Heart.’’
Her voice hml been faltering, for
again he had fixed n< r gaze with those
kind, inflexible eyes of his. She be
came silent. In the hall he kissed her,
released her. Then |, returned to the
sitting room, closing the door behind
him. He said to Clear , ater, quietly,
almost gently:
> "You had better tell your corpora
tion to yield. If you don’t, it will break
, her heart, as you see.”
"We will not yield!" cried Clearwa
ter. shaking his fist in Helm’s face.
"And after you have actually done your
dastardly work, she will hate you. You
think you own her, body and soul.
You’ll find out afterward. She will
hate you; she will leave you.”
"She will neither leave me nor hate
me.”
There was in his voice the finality
not of mere conviction, but of truth it
self; for he knew —as only those who
really love and really are loved know—
what he and his w-ife were to each oth
er—the union that is a fusion which
not even death can dissolve.
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sweetness, was asked by a lady who
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"Yes, indeed," said the little girl, and
all the passengers smiled, while the
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"I got two dolls,” continued the child
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Meeting the agent some time later,
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