The evening world. Newspaper, April 6, 1907, Page 5

Vj 1 == “ROMANCE arty ¢ a aria ~~ ROMANCE SUPPLEMENT “Soe: "gator, SUPPLEMENT As Exciting, Fascinating and Heart-Gripping a Narrative as Has Appeared in Novel Form in Years 7 # THe LION AND THE MOUSE » o@ etd oan hey are Barely eninany | Novelized From CHARLES KLEIN’S GREAT PLAY of the Same Name, °"®*r A j cares of business, his eyes were of ine most restful, b utiful blue, like i CHAPTER I. By ARTHUR HORNBLOW. the aky after sunrise on a epring morning, and Jooking into thelr wereae The Money King. When t of truce was ended, when the plutocrat wms once Pm more absorbed {n controlling the political as well as the commercial me- was unwonted bustle tn the y shaken off the e with the wor @ had tempc EOREOEAAEOOLEDERS COE SERED E REE SERS EES EERE SEF EOR OOS pany, one suspected & snare, and such was the magio of John Ryder's) and his followers were there to at Just now the cohort was|chinery of the nation, then tls eyes fook on a snakish, greenish hue, and ale ignified New | name 1d flowed 1 ev nt of the compass. The stock sold rsalled in defence of t mids a attacks of the new Rebate a ‘ haben he avariciousn ean, ate away above par the da Men < ed themselves fortunate | bill. In fact, Ryder managed to keep the all the time. When, eh pam “ 7 adhicay nrbametessncedipee of the Southern and | i? they were even gran What matter If, a few days Iater,/on the other hand, the nators wante they often did 8, the Insatiable thirst for giin that had made this man the most uz. of cards cam wn Ryder séw that they got !t, lower rates fc at one,| scrupulous money-getter of his Ume. But his eyes had still another color, Company in| the t Job for t Tyansconti and a dozen suicides were str along Wall Street, that e whicl has said, has a not forgetting themselves. Senator Roberts was a! @ very rich man «pt i t y r The »# lous 4 oo and whe is last tra rmation took plare those dependent on him, wer Bre T percllious, | graye one end othe twinges although the world often wondered where he got it, no one, had the| ve res ; apm ‘ = well-groomed clerks, who on ordinary | of « Hard! sa cool tw Ions by the age to ask htm ° even his friends, quaked with fear, For'they were his eyes of anger. On lays are far too preoccupied with thelr | deal But the Republican leader was stirred with « Uon greater than|these dreaded occasions his cyes grew biack-as-darkest night and finshed : ; et this commerc was not a wholly | that of controlling a majority in the Senate, He a daughter { {ihine Sha ‘chindaret 1 nkove MORASS aNil es tos be Thi © martl-/fre as lightning rends the thundercloud, Almost ungovernable fury. w: Fe rence ety, ee | bed tan. cHetbad \bis bad men. His most/ageable young woman who, at least in her father’s opinion, would make @ een iee - rege’ mh tae AR din. | ‘Mghtest interest in anything not !m-| pronounced weakne! he most conspicuous desirable wife for any man. His friend Ryder had a son, and this son was | /2eed, the weakest spot in John Ryder’s armor, for hese moments of appalling wrath he was reckless of what he said or did; friendship, self The love | interest, pratence—all were sacrificed Scenes Such was the Colossus on whom ali eyes were turned as he entered, Instantly the conversations stopped as by magic. The directors nudged between Jeach other and whispered. Instinctively, Ryder ning} 1 out his crony, Sem the | stor Roberts, who advanced with effusive gestu Hello, Senator! beautiful “You're puntual as usual, Mr. Ryder. I never knew you to be late!” mediate concerning. them, now con bestir themselves and The le groups, conversed In + +H ubdued, eager tones. The slim, ne "| Principal characters us fingers of half doz haug enographers, representing as many |; . dee } in this ifferent ty 3 of business femininity ere busily rattling the keys of click-/ rOMAaANCEe c yd Aap Ay erie Satie are John Shirley The great man chuckled and the 1 standing around, listening ntent on reducing with all possible Sgeibe eres maine tee eae nthe ee the of |} er h ren € 1 hue n res! led . fi Raut : tia : ules Ryder, Rossmore pushed on another thetr efforts to attr Ry s notice, Nke so many jled up in front of- her nroug | naire he heavy plate-glass swinging doors, known as AN | cowardly hyenas 1 & to approach the lordly wol enator Roberts yder, whereupon the latter laughed. The ulated each other silently The £ man was pleased or. And as Ryder turned with the Senator to enter the de a remark ow tone te leading to the elevators and thence to |**Reaqdy- made a remark in a low t 0 the str , Came and went an army of boys, noisy and tnsolent Money r quarterly meeting of the directors of the Southern Ryder, the Ratlroad Company, But it was something more than| , J called out a quorum of such strength and which |richest, Jetferson bystanders cc Ryder, |to be tn good bur which directors’ room the light from the big windows fell full on his face, an@ thep-noticed that his eyes were of the softest blue give Outside the sky was darkening, and drops of rain were already falling this |A Mash ot Aghining presaged the coming storm rout made to-day's one of extraordinary importance in the history of | {cruelest 8 i the road k iness on hand was of the greatest significance was t Ryder passed on and into the directors’ room, followed by Senator Rob easily the concerned and anxious expresefon on the} 9Nd MOs thrillingly | ers ana the other directors, the procession being brought up by the dappee directors’ faces eagerness of the employees as they plied each other powerful dramatic’ little secretary bearing the minutes The long room with its narrow centre table covered with green baize TOMANCE | was filled with directors scattered {n Tittle groups and all talking at once with excited gesture. At the sight of Ryder the chattering stopped as if by @nhanced) Cimon consent, and the only sound audible was of the shuffling of fear with questions “Suppose the ot the road rich tion ts sustained?” asked a clerk in a whisper. “1s; Man in the loss?” |history ; The man he ssed turned impatiently to the questionel A and the moving of chairs as the directors took their places around the long “That's all you know abodt ralfroading. ‘Don't you wnderstaad mat|NIS SON, charm “i 1. ,thts suiy we haye lost will be the entering wedge for hundreds of others?| Jefferson and Some years back the road had acquired as an {nvestment some thou- é sands of acres of land located {n the outskirts of Auburndale, on the line of interest their road. The land was bought cheap, and there had been some talk of «| Jaying part of it out as a public park. ‘Phis promise had been made at Are 1M the time tn good faith, but {t was no condition of the sale. If, afterward owing to the rise In the value of real estate, the road found it impossible sweetly to carry out the original idea, surely they were masters of their own ‘Lhe ve existence me,” he added, in a Never stood much show. It von. T 8, but road may be at stake. And, between you and r key, “with Judge Rossmore on the beach we| RYGer, » Rossmore that scares ‘em, not the in- i corrupt most of tbe Supreme Court | Who is nore is one too many for them. You could no more Of much him br <i Abraham Lincoln.’ “But th s say that too, has been caught ting $50,000 tenderer Gentle |property: The people of Auburndale thought differently and, goaded om wortn of for t decision he rendered in the Gri orthweatern by the local wspapers, bad begun action in the courts to restrain the | cane |and more CONtrast | road trom eerting the land from its alleged original purpose. Théy had succeeded in getting the injunction, but the road had fought it tooth and to the vail, and finally carried it to the Supreme Court, where Judge Rossmore, stirring “fer reserving his opltion, bad finally sustained the injunction and dealded | against the railroad, That was the situation moment! Ryder, who controlled legislatures and dictated to Supreme Court judges, had found himself powerless when each turn of the’ legal | when inachinery had brought him face to face with Judge Rossmore. Suit after { : sult had been decided against him and the interests he represented, and} the girl 22h time tt was Judge Rossmore-whe had-handed-down-the- decision: Shirley So when Ryder found he could not corrupt this honest judge with{ gold, he decided to destroy him with calumny. He realized that the sordid tears the methods which had succeeded with other judges would never prevail with Rossmore, so he plotted to take away from this man the one thing he, mask | cherished most—bis honor f h Like many of our public servants whose labors are compensated only Pom the 4, niggardly fashion by an inconsiderate country, Judge Rossmore wae @ money man of but moderate means. His income as Justice of the Supreme Court L All those stortes are lies,” replied the other emphatically. | ‘Then, looking cautiously around to make sure no one overheard, he added | MUMAN nptuously: “The is fear him, and they're tnveufing these! fj jnture y might as well try to blow up Gibraltar. fibre, and aroused this time, and the railroads are Shirley heretofore had considered tteelt) ROSSMOre, 2 ite career of outlawry and op of steam and steel whicn | WhOSe had at last been brought father A 4 the railroad appe the markets of the East t stages of its development, jg the It brought to roduce of t h It opened up| Victim of itory and made orses of waste p It brought food a ether p nec esi ies a Ife ais the elder wo ge clothes and her manu Ryder’s vad wormed if int was $12,000 a year. but for a man in his position, having « certain ap 1 indispensable part of nscru- Ot | pearance to keep up, it litte more than kept the wolf from the door. He all and life itself ts uns: M desp lived quietly but comfortably in New York City with his wife and bis allroad found it could not be dispensed w " pulous nN his OWN daughter Shirley, an attractiye young woman who had graduated from f ‘ Legitimate profits were not enough Vassar shown a marked taste for literature. The daughter's edu- : { he ratiroad greed and sanctum <4 t SaNCaels cation i a good deai of 1 ni, fawning on those it red and crushing ‘ e and oth utals of keeping house in New York, had he all he had " Jefenseless. It raised fis rates for hauling who is and shows Yet he had managed to save a little, and those years when he could put against cer n localt jes without reason or juatice, herself him | by a fifth of bis salary the J idered himself lucky. Secretly, he was! p ; et 5 Own ators By col ing gov a mers proud of his comparative po world could never ask him | F ther unlawful methods {t appropriated lands, and | paSSion= what a) “where he got here was no ¢ f s exactions and brigandage. Other roads were Ryder was w ed with Judge Rossmore’s private means, The built, and for a t iberlod there wa id ¢ out the bope of qallet that In- ately shameless, |iwo men had met at a dipaer and although Ryder had tried to cultivate the Wwariably comes { But the rallroad either absorbed : u yder's i . 2 > acquaintan: he never reeelveu much encouragement. Ryder's son Jeffer- 8 rivals or poc and ther there were several |OVed by hideous fon, too, liad met Miss 8! y Rossmore and been much attracted to ber, 8 instead Soon the “ecramble to se one. is began to war among themeslves, and in a maa|the Money business at any price they cut each other's rates and King’s son monster but the f-ther, having more ambitious plans for his heir, quickly diseour- aged all attentions in that direction He himself, however, continued to he is, } meet the Judge casually, and one eventng he contrived to broach the sub- unlawfully entered © secret compacts with certain big shippers, permit- ject of profitable investments, The Judge admitted that by careful hoard- to enjoy lower trelght rates than thelr compettiors. |The | “I told you on the boat I loved you.” sald Jefferson Ryder. ‘You didn’t say no— ing and much stinting ne bad managed to save a few thousand dollar, Matition. was Throtied, -a0d-pricas-went—up, ranting the raiimes batons} — and you accepted that ring. soar era ny eee no? palin terme ey rR ee 9 ne-giant Tr Ficher and the 5 rer, That was the beginning of financier setzed the Opportunity thus presented, And he took so much bog reste dees pei Rye i‘ Lege man of his time, was a k of moral e. No honest or fortun assed by one man, a fortune ble in answe:ing the Judge's {nexperiences questions, anu generally’ unless checkec inevitably drag this hroes of honorable man coul such stupen wealth. In othe nerease, t me father died and tho made mself so agreeable, that the Judge founc himself regretting that words, John Ryder had ped by Na with hn iat tw t sunt to ¢ he and ayder had, by-force of circumsiahees, ueen opposed to Aa ar oa a4 3 -_ a ed by Na ith a consclen inherit, would probably amount to over'six| he and ay DP > each other ¢ of corruption and rascality emerged the Colos-| te bad no senee of fustios, wheré bis own interes the huma nd grasp the possibilities of such | {0 p Je 80 00K. Kyaer strongly reconumenued the purchase of «.c8- e of egoists, On the othe t as virtue rich and with such unlimited powers for evi! un Lnlhg stock, @ new ar booming enterprise which bad “iy looked upon bis lik The famous Croesus, wh« were concerned. He was nat come very active in the market. Ryder said he bad reasons to believe that | sensed qualities which, wit It owner, or the man hand, he pos | Was not this a prise an He was pio Ryder Se eae ‘no, man” could pany and regular ta his “ioe a while he had done but little Senator was thinking of it| the stock would soos advance, and BOW there was an opportunity to get oer, m 1 ' ‘or charity, he was known to have 4 the ¢ g of a " the men who accosted him, |!' che -p. Ape Bed tne Tris the onre OC sorpore ate eee Ot whith | rarely heard, and a son, Jefferson, who was the d 1 successor of his | of his lif id as far as John Ryde ce creanantan OF St0Ss for OOUne kas SmOURS he hed DAML nam emed but me the Tru (inatihs gigantic estate. a 2 me rN spoken PAR taesheg bow Ime he recelved & letter from the secretary of the company ‘ he richest man in the world—the man whose| ,.. SUch was the man who waa tho real power behind Ryder de further his busines ie ae one be nee ae a nina not 0 'De snares ; ant Gornaie tt he date teeance ea cin Transcontinental Rall More than any one els er ' daughter Kate had more present. me. st wi Dera SS eee {0 Tae ae Pe eats Bes ee aroused by the present le ait tan anna t nal t over, Kate was prac ed aa one of he letter was full of verbiage os stake as that any one should d thwa al, | f what {t would meat nica, : ood nothing, but he ‘ fy scheme of his, this 5 " tress of the Ryder fort k as all right, but the phe it vy t ing the stock away {fm , No othe him a aa tone a rt apg 7 it would two tnithivceenio make safe, soon f all g H business man he would A had b: a of: ls 4 t 4 ate i a ae he had now in bis pose ‘ values creased in aston ashion fferson R as, In trut y diferent man from his Session $50, th of stock for which he had x da cent, end fur ; uiring Vonger afford to carry ou original sche he was diff a rung from the same t nad 1 4 reorganiza’ Mi eb Bi eae bya dispose of the property for building purposes: Ke “ his father’s wealth « e w c : rently disinter- 1} ree He made secret over. | branch road, The wows, made public in the x e had inhe 1 from the pare those characterist ' s ot thanked him 1 iness If he could get | OTM Of protest. The people in the vicinity clain would have made I ful even if f activity, pluck \ ; 1 ‘ sked him if he f al ¢ His competitors, | eure? the land on the expre condition of a park 1g laid out, ar t logged ot i 1 To these qualities he added wh pa ae Shan s the investment he contem- 4 ays ; ¥ Dee tere Nin OF to make a legal te t had secured jon, which had bis father sore ke r & keen sense of right and 4 . € his sa in the second letter I atl alert Dusinese:” the | been sustaine Judge Rows: of the Unite reul ha t ‘ 8 for di ° 5 investment, and 4-and #low These details were has told and retold b one erk > h 1 f th ‘ ‘00n ed t h elt ijl t ef 0 e ad bee unable to Se Yih he babel of volces in the inr grew louder, and more re k act th t und i] w € t company ly now uation, Ryd artying from the eve ‘ vat rhe meeting was' called t 0 k t if ent ‘ g him that everyth " 1 These letters of or Er Trading Commany: the, Another five m chairman wo Ap fo " I & is called. Where's Ryd althy business ins t erged f ¥ x @ Aaa yaterious own. ¥ & rve of e ed £ f ectors toward Y Burkett I y ontent. H 6 wh t 1 ( 7 wx i ec 3 : He e v ga f the street w é e t ompany, wan r in 4b 4, the a going into lie € whed yuan hi n 4 ¢ He was elected to the Legislaturc, wher | flea b 1 ot H r gained the (rier p of the men in poweb ¥ I of me e a 1 ‘ y ‘ he wa H initiated in the ga = : 4 at em f b f corrupt politics. In} utered the Ur ates Benate @ BoC ‘ m 2) ; engoyn ‘ b “ h f ‘ um ated, he h Benators, and from then or we a figure to be reckoned with q ‘by | " ont ; ae ry ambitious man, with a great love of power and few serusiles 1 te littl The Trap Is Set. 4 i soe) onder that only the pract honest.side of polities appenied to hie ix Biake n ie was in politics for all there w It, and he saw in his lofty position exce ft P y e pper A 1 control of this ‘and that | 28/7 8 splendid opportunity for easy graft monntlon of b gail Pil athe yt . Net And teemientinaete He did not hestta make such alliances with corporate interes wo Sha dy . . - y 4 { t Then he and bis fell vweeking influence at Washington as would enable him com| th brais as vigorous and alert as ine f une ronay z f b. The millions were noi con urpose, and in this way he had met and formed a strong friendship with It w mn Ryder's . an tan en0Uus " make @ hundred millions at ope stroke. ‘They | /98b Burk “ Rya Fach being a maser in his own Reld, was useful to| barometer of his mental condition. ¥ strang , \ yy pated & grou ns company, te whieh the public was invited to sub | other, Neither was troubled with qualms of conscience, so they never | eloquent end expressive, and their most singular feature www that they | St Paper returned to the peribe. The schewe hav lndorsemen| be ” mistaken the records showed a eal ing the tof the Bmpise Trading Com-/ we a 1 the Hyder Antereet needed anything in the Benaie, Moberta! pogsemned the uncanny power of shanging color Jike s oat Whaa theie| somien meen known ea-the Aleakaa, Minins Caunant. . a “i . “ om tll ta taint iit ain 6 al can its . .