THE CITIZEN, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1913.
PAGE SEVEN
TbeRootOfEvil
BY
THOMAS DIXON
Copyrlflht, 1011,
SYNOPSIS
Btuart, southern lawyer In New York, Is
In lovo with Nan Primrose. His friend,
Dr. Woodman, who has a young daugh
ter, Is threatened with tho loss of his
drug business by Blvene, whom he be
frlendod years before. Stuart visits tho
Primroses.
Nan wants Stuart to accept a place with
Bivens' chemical trust. Ho dislikes Blv
ens' methods and refuses. Bivens ca
on him.
Bivens is In lovo with Nan. Stuart re
fuses tho offer, and Nan breaks her en
gagement with tho lawyer. Bivens asks
Woodman to enter the trust.
WCodrhan wllf'hof yicld"and'8uos Bivens'
company. Tho promoter tells tho doctor
he and Nan aro engaged, Harriet Wood
man Is studying music. Stuart takes Nan
for a day In tho country.
Stuart pleads with Nan to give up Biv
ens, but tho spell of millions is on her and
Bho yields to It.
"Knowing full 'well that no ceremo
ny of church or stato, no word of
priest or Judgo, no pealing of organ or
pomp or pageantry can make this
thing a marriage?"
The lovor dropped In silence to the
window sont and hurlod his face In his
hands in a paroxysm of emotion be
yond control. At length ho roue and
looked at the girl ho loved long and
tenderly.
"God In heaven! Ifs lncon"clvable
When I took Into your beautiful face!
Have you no pity In your heart?"
The full Hpa smllod a cruel little
smile.
"Men are strong, Jim. Thoy' can
stand hard blows. You coma of fight
ing stock, I know tliat you will sur
vive. I'm sorry to hurt you, Jim, but
I must; It's fate. Tho big world I some
how feel- I'm akin to Is calling me, and
I'm going"
"And Bivens is this big world! If
you will throw me over for money
can't you wait until n real man goes
with It? It wouldn't bo so bad If I
felt you had chosen ono who was my
equal physically and mentally in cul
ture and breeding but Bivens!"
"l'ou underestimate his nbility. You
may hate him, but ho is a man of
genius."
"Ho Is everything you loatho and yet
you are going to marry him. You are
giving up too easily. Btvons has only
a couple of millions, and he may lose
them. Don't hold yourself bo cheap.
If you wero on tho block for sale I'd
give a million for each dimple in your
cheeks. The smile that plays about
your Hps should bring millions. Your
deep dark eyes, I swear, are worth a
million each."
"Hush, Jim, dear, wo must go now,
I can't stand any more. There's a
limit"
"Yes, I know. Forgive mo."
Without another word he led her
from the placo, closed tho little gate
quietly and returned to her home.
Alono inside the parlor they stood in
silence a moment, and she took his
hand in hers.
"I'm sorry, but it must be goodby.
Your lovo has' been a swoet and won
derful thing in my life"
"And you throw it aside as a worth
less rag."
"No," she answered, smiling. "It
shall bo mine always. Goodby."
She ralaod her lips to his in a cold
kiss.
Dazed with anguish, ho turned and
left Tho door closed on his retreat
ing figure, and Nan burst Into a flood
of passionate tears.
CHAPTER VI.
Despair.
TO the very dawn of Nan's wed
ding day Stuart had refused to
glvo up hope.
Tho little financier bad sent
him an invitation, and, worst of all,
had called to ask that ho act as his
best man. Ho refused bo curtly that
Bivens was deeply wounded.
"But I eay, Jim, thatfe nil rot I
want you to stand by n). Vvo always
taken as much of your friendship as
you would gtvo and boon grateful for
It I don't moke now friends cosily.
I want you, and youvo Just got to do
it"
Stuart shook his bead and firmly set
bis jaws. A grim temptation flashed
through hid Imagination. If ho should
accept K might bo tho ono thing which
would proveot Nan's betrayal of her
love at tho altar. Might bo not by the
power of his personality, tho hypnotic
force- of his yearning passion and will,
stop tho ceremony? In tho moment of
fatt)Hko sllcnoo which should follow
tho mlnistert words a skins Jf there
jam
by Thomas Dixon
were any eiluSo findwn'wny ffloso two
should not bo made ono, might not a
single movement of his body at that
moment, a groan of pain, a sob, a cry
of agony in a supremo act of his will,
cause the white figuro to reel and fall
at his feet? It was possible. But it
would bo too cheap. It would be a
worthless victory, a victory of tho Hesh
without the spirit, and he refused to
take the body without the soul.
With a frown he turned to Bivens:
"It's no use talking, Cal., I've made
up my mind. I won't do it"
"Well, if you won't you won't," the
little man said with a sigh. "At least
you'll come to the church. For God's
sake, let mo get a glimpse of one friend
ly face! I'll be scared to death. You
know, I'm not used to this."
Stuart smiled:
"All right, I'll bo there."
But when tho fateful morning came
Btuart was stunned by the feeling of
incredible despair which crept into his
heart. The day was chill and damp.
Dull, grayish, half black clouds rolled
over the city from tho sea clouds that
hung low and wot over tho cold pave
ments without breaking into rain.
He knew that Nan was as supersti
tious as the old black mammy of the
south who had nursed her. Aunt Sal-
lie had come to New York for tho wed
ding of her "baby." Stuart thought of
the old saying, "Happy Is the bride the
sun shines on." As the hour of noon
npproached despair slowly sottlod over
his heart.
now could ho reconcile himself to
the horrible reality? A marriage sor
did, cold, vulgar to such a man this
little tobacco stained, bead eyed wen'
sel.
Ho rose, breathing hard and brushed
a tear from his eye a tear that had
come unbidden in spite of his Iron
will.
His heart fairly shrieked its cry of
despair, no moved mechanically to
ward tho church and waked from his
reverie to find himself jammed In a
solid mass of humanity. Never before
had he realized tho utter vulgarity of
a public wedding. Ho forced his way
into tho side door and stood waiting
the arrival of the bride and groom.
When Bivens camo tho sight o him
roused tho slumbering devil in Stoart
Tite excitement of his triumph had
evidently steadied, tho littlo man's
nerves. Never had his shrlmpHko fig
ure looked so slippery and plausible.
He extended his slender hand and
touched Stuart's In passing. To save
his life the lawyer could not rep row n
shudder. In that moment ho could
have committed murder with Joy. Tho
agony of defeat was on him. Ho folt
in that moment his kinship with all the
rebels and disinherited of tho earth.
At lost the brido camo and tho but
plleed choir moved slowly and solemn
ly down the aisloa through a sea of
eager faces as tho great organ pealed
forth the first bars of tho wedding
march from "Lohengrin."
Nan was leaning on tho arm oC a
stronger ho had never seen before, au
uncle from tho west She was pale,
deathly pale, and walked with a hesi
tating movement as U tough weak from
Illness. Suddenly his heart went out
to her in a flood of pity nnd tenderness.
Ho tried to make her feel this, but she
passed without a glance. Sho had not
seen him.
Stuart listened to tho ceremony with
a vague impersonal interest as if it
were something going on in another
world. A slnglo question was burning
ltsolf into his brain tho prioo of a
woman! "Have wo all our price 1" ho
asked, searching deep into bis own
soul. Something pathetic iu the white
faeo of tho bride had touched the deep
est sources of his being.
"Have I, too, my price, oh, boastful
souir ho cried. "Would I edl my
honor for a million? No. For ten,
fifty, a hundred millions? No not in
tho market place, no but would I sell
by a compromise of prlnciplo in tho
socrot conclavo of my party at n nalo
tho world could never know would I
soli for tho presidency of tho republic?
Or would I sell now to win this wom
an? Would I? If so, I should hold
her blamoloss. nave all men and all
woman a price if wo but name It?
Answer! Answer!" And then from
the depths ot his being came the burn
ing words
"No! I swoar it Nor
He looked up with a start, wonder
ing vaguely if the crowd had heard
this cry.
No they wore Intent on the drama
at the altar. The minister was say
ln "What God bath Joined together let
not men put sounder."
- 'Uod! Surely ho Giant say U007 "
Stuart brooded. "Docs God, tho au
gust mysterious, awful creator of the
unlverso, work like this? DM not tne
God of heaven and earth glvo this wo
man to him beneath tho sunny skies
of the south whllo their souls sang for
Joy?"
They wore moving again down tho
aislo, tho organ throbbing the reces
sional from Mendolssohn. A wave of
emotion swept tho crowd Inside, and
they became a mob of vulgar, chatter
ing, gossiping fools, swarming over
tho church ns if It wero tho grand
stand of a racecourse, without hesita
tion rearing down and stealing Its dec
orations for souvenirs.
By a curious law of reaction all re
sentment nnd anger wero gone, and
only n great pity for Nan began to fill
Stuart's heart.
That night Stuart entered one of the
moro dignified and serious theaters just
off Broadway. Tho play was a serious
effort by a brilliant young dramatist
of tho modem school of realism. In
two minutes from tho rising of the cur
tain the play had gripped him with re
lentless power. Slowly, remorseless as
fate, he saw the purposo of the author
unfold Itself in a series of tense nnd
terrible scenes. The comedy over which
tho crowd laughed with such conta
gious merriment was oven moro sinis
ter than the serious parts. No mntter
what tho situation whether set to
laughter, to terror or to tears beneath
It all throbbed ono insistent question:
"nas tho woman who sells herself
for money a soul?"
With breathless Interest bo watched
the cruel carving of her body into tiny
pieces. Without sniffling, whining or
apology, wllli arms bared and gleam
ing scalpel firmly gripped in a hand
that never quivered once, tho author
dissected her. Always be could hear
this white invisible figure bending over
each scene talking to tho audience In
his quiet, terrlblo way:
"Well, if be she has a bouI we shall
find it. Perhaps It's here."
With a Ann, strong hand tho last
secret of muscle and nerve and bono
was laid bare, and tho white face look
ed into the eyes of tho audlenco through
n mist of tears.
"I'm sorry, my friends. But wo must
faeo tho truth. It's better to know tho
truth, however bitter, than to believe a
lie."
With a soft rush the big curtain came
down in a silence that could bo felt.
Tho dazed crowd waked from tho spoil
and poured Into tho nisles, while Stu
art still sat gripping tho arms of his
seat with strangling emotion.
At last he said to himself with chok
ing emphasis:
"He was cruel, Inhuman, unjust. I
refuse to beliovo it! She has n soul',
She has a soul!"
Next day Stuart went to his office
with his mind keyed to a higher pitch
of power, lie feft that lw was on his
mettle. The fight was not yet won,
but this morning ho was winning. lie
plunged Into his work witli tireless
zeal. Everything ho touched seemed
Illumined with a now light
At tho close of tho day's work ho was
still conscious of an oxhaustless pity
which had found no ndequato expres
sion in his labor on his clients' cases
nis mind wandered to tho dark silent
millions into whoso world tho doctor
had led him that night millions who
have no voice in courts because thoy
have no money to sustain a fight for
tho enforcement ot Justice. Ho had
never thought about theso people be
fore. Thoy wore calling now for his
help. Why? Because he had been en
dowod with powers of head and heart
which they did not possess. Tho iws
session of these gifts carried a respon
sibility.
On reaching his club in Gramorcy
park he saw that tho Primrose house
was closed. Nan's mother had gono
with tho bridal party on' Bivens' big
yacht for a cruise which would last
through tho summer. Somehow, for
all his bravo talk ho didn't feel equal
to the task of seeing that window of
Nan's old home from his club. Ho was
about to beat a retreat when he stop
ped abruptly and tho linos of his mouth
tightened.
"WhatB the uso of being a coward?
I've got to get used to It I'd as well
begin at once."
Ho deliberately took his seat on tho
little pillared balcony of tho clubhouse
and watclied tho darkened window
through tho gathering twilight. For
the moment he gavo up tho fight tho
devil had him by tho throat Ho let
the tears come without protest. Ho
was alone and the shadows wero
friendly.
Ho stepped Inside, touched a bell and
ordered a cocktail. Ho placed the glass
on the littlo toblo by his side and
looked at it What an aslnlno act, thla
pouring of poison into tho stomach to
euro a malady of tho soul! Ho smllod
cynically and suddenly recalled some
thing the doctor was fond of repeating.
"Sly boy, I'm rich so long as there
aro millions of pooplo in tho world
poorer than I am."
Perhaps there was an antidote bet
ter than this poison. If ho could lift
tho curtain for a slnglo moment In an
other llfo more hopeless and wretched
than his? It was worth trying.
Ho roee, left the liquor untouched
and in a few minutes was treading his
way through tho throngs of tho lower
east side. When ho reached tho houso
on Washington squaro ho found Har
riet reading In tho library.
"Oh, Jim, dear! Whero on earth
have you been for nearly two days?"
fiho crlod. "I ha vent soon you since
tho wedding"
"Won't you sing for mor he broko in.
"AH right" She pausod and sud
denly clapped her hands. Til get my
mandolin. Yotfvo never heard mo
play that, have you? I've learned
Way Down on the Swanneo Bibber
on it I know you'll like It"
Btuart listened to her, entranced.
Ha had heard that old sons of -the
"Tell me what you aro thinking about,
Jim,"
south a hundred times. ' But she was
singing It tonight with a stange, new
power. The girl leaned forward at
last and laid her friendly hand on his.
She had a trick of leaning forward like
that when talking to him that had al
ways amused Stuart.
"Tell mo what you aro thinking
about Jim," she sold, a smile flitting
around her tender, oppressive eyes.
"I was seeing a vision, littlo pal,"
ho began slowly, "the vision of n gala
night of grand opera. Broadway
blazed with light and I was fighting
my way through tho throng at the en
trance to hoar a groat singer whose
voice had begun to thrill tho world.
At last amid a hush of Intense silence,
she camo before tho footlights, saw
and conquered. The crowd went mad
with enthusiasm. I lifted my hat and
waved It on high until sho saw. A
beautiful smile lighted her face, and
straight over the hoods of the people
sho blow me n kiss."
The Unlest frown clouded the girl's
brow.
"Who was she, Jim?"
"One who shall yet sing before kings
and princes. I call her 'Sunshine.'
Her name Is Harriet Woodman."
"But, Jim, suppose I'm not ambl
tious? Sunnoso Vm lust n slllv littlo
n6inoboly, who only wlshos to bo
loved? How old do you think a girl
must 1 to really and deeply and truly
love, Jim?'
Siuart'sbrpw contracted, and he took'
her hand In his, stroked It tenderly and
studied tho beautiful lines ns they
melted from tho firmly shaped wrist
into tho rounded arm and gracefully
molded body.
"I'm afraid you've asked a bigger
question than I can answer, dear," he
aaid, with serious accent. "I've been
wondering lately whether tho world
hasn't lost the secret of happy mating
and marrying. A moro beautiful even
llfo I have never soon than the ono in
the homo of my childhood. Yet my
mother was only fourteen and my fa
ther twenty-one whon they were mar
ried. Now folks only allow themselves
to marry in cold blood, calculating with
accuracy their bans accounts. My
mother had been married six months
at your ago, and yet hero I sit on a
pedestal and have the impudence to
talk to you as a child
"But you're not impudent, Jim," sho
broko In eagerly, "and I understand."
"I'm beginning to wonder," Stuart
continued, "whether nature made a
mistake when she made woman as sho
is. I once knew a girl of fifteen to
whom I believe life was tno deepest;
tragedy or the highest joy of which her
heart will ever bo capable. ELse why
did tho blood como and go so quickly
In her cheeks?"
A sudden flush mantled Harriet's
face, and sho turned away that ho
might not see. Stuart's head bent low
and rested between his hands.
"I loved such a littlo girl once,
dear"
Harriet's face suddenly flushed with
Joy. It was too wonderful to be true,
but it was true! And ho had chosen
this curious way to tell her. Her voice
sank to, tho softest whisper as she bent
closer:
"And you lovo her still, Jim?"
His head drooped lower as ho sighed:
"I loved and lost her, little pall Sho
was married two days ago. She camo
to tho great city, learned Its ways and
sold herself for xtnld."
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SHERIFF'S SALE OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE. By virtuo of
process Issued out of the Court ot
Common Pleas of Wayne county, and
Stato of Pennivylvanla, nnd to me di
rected and delivered. I have levied on
and will expose to public sale, at the
Court House in Honesdale on
FRIDAY, JUNE 0, 2 P. M.
All tho defendant's right, tltlo and
interest in the following described
property viz:
All that certain piece, parcel or
tract of land, situate in tho Town
ship of Manchester, county of Wayne,
and Stato of Pennsylvania, bounded
and described as follows:
BEGINNING for a corner at the
northeasterly corner of land belong
ing to E. K. Barnes, and commonly
called tho Cole Flat, on the hank of
tho Delaware River; thence in a
southwesterly direction along the
easterly side of the Cole Flat lot and
the H. Lerons lot, let the distance be
more or less, to a corner In the line
of land formerly belonging to Robert
Halsey, and now belonging to Eras-
tus Lord estate; thence in a some
what southeasterly direction along
tho said Erastus Lord estate to a
corner of the C. G. Armstrong lot,
let tho distance be more or less;
thenco in a somewhat northeasterly
direction along the line of lands be
longing to C. G. Armstrong and Ken
ney Brothers to tho Delaware River,
let the distance bo moro or less;
thenco up the Delaware River to the
place of beginning.
CONTAINING ono hundred forty
(ono hundred forty) acres, moro or
less, and commonly called tho Gore
lot. Being the same property con
veyed by William M. Kellam et ux.
and Coo F. Young et ux. to George
Gould, by deed dated tho 9 th day of
February, 1904, and recorded in tho
office for the recording of deeds in
and for Wayne county in deed book
No. 92, page 128, and being the same
land that George Gould and wife
by their deed dated the 18th day of
July, 1910, recorded in Wayne coun
ty deed book No. 101, page 191,
granted and conveyed to Gould Lum
ber Company.
Seized and taken In execution as
the property of The Gould Lumber
Company at tho suit of First Nation
al Bank of Hancock, N. Y. Judg
ment, '$3,000. No. 23 Jan. Term,
1912. Attorney McCarty.
TAKE NOTICE-All bids and costB
must be paid on day of sale or deeds
will not be acknowledged,
FRANK C. KIMBLE, Sheriff.
SHERIFF'S SALE OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE By virtue of
process Issued out of the Court of
Common Pleas of Wayne county, and
Stato of Pennsylvania, and to me di
rected and delivered, I have levied on
and will expose to public sale, at the.
Court- House m Honesaaje, on.
THURSDAY, MAY 20, AT 2 P. M.
All tho defendant's right, title, ana
Interest In the following described.
property viz:
All those three certain lots or par
cels or land situate in the township
of Damascus, county of Wayne and
stato ol Pennsylvania, hounded and
described as follows, to wit:
The flfst, beginning In the north.
lino of land convoyed to Z. & P.
Wileox at a heap of stones south
west corner of lands conveyed to Z.
& P. Wilcox; thenco south fiovonty-
sevon degrees west olghty-four and
seven-tenth rods to a corner; thence
north ono hundred six and one-half
rods to a stones corner; thenco east
eighty-two and one-half rods to a
corner; and thence south eightv-sev
en and one-half rods to tho place of
beginning. Containing fifty acres
being the same moro or less. Being
tne same land which Samuel H.
Skinner by deed dated May 7, 1904,
and recorded in Wayno County in
D. B., No. 92, page 4G4, granted and
convoyed to John G. Skinner.
The second Beginning at a heap
of stones the south-western corner
of land conveyed by F. Stewardson
and L. Smith to E. B. Keealer;
thence by lands formerly of Nathan
Mitchell north eighty degrees west
thirty-two rods to a hemlock corner;
thence by lands formerly of Z. & P.
Wilcox south seventy-seven degrees
west seventy-three degrees west
seventy-three and one-half rods to a
stones corner; thence by land form
THE DELAWARE AND
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erly of John Torrey north eighty
seven and one-half rods to s.ona
corner; thenco east ono hundred and
three and one-tenth rods to stones
corner In tho western line of land
formerly of E. B. ICeesler; thenco
along said lino south seventy-six
and six-tenth rods to the place ot
beginning. Containing fifty acros bo
the samo moro or less.
The Third Beginning at a stako
and stones at tho south-cast corner
of Jesse O. Mosier's lot, thence east
thirty-eight and one-tenth rods to a
stake and stones; thenco north ono
hundred and five rods to a stako and
stones on a level spot of ground
about two rods west of a ledge of
rocks; thence west thirty-eight and
one-tenth rods to a stako and stones
and thence south ono hundred and
five rods to tho place of beginning.
Containing twenty-five acres of lnnd
be tho same more or less. Tho sec
ond and third piece abovo described
being samo land which Delia C.
Haynes by deed dated July 3, 190G,
and recorded In Wayne County in
Deed Book No. 9G, page 210, grant
ed and conveyed to John G. Skinner.
On said premises is a house and
two barns.
Seized and taken in execution as
the property of John G. Skinner, at
the suit of Daniel L. Brown. No. 31,
Juno Term, 1911. Judgment,
$1,125. Attorneys, Kimblo & Han
Ian. TAKE NOTICK. All bids and costa
must be paid on day of Bale or deeds
will not bo acknowledged.
FRANK C. KIMBLE. Sheriff.
pEGISTEU'S NOTICE. Notice ie
XL hereby given that tho accountants
herein named have settled their respective
accounts In the otllce of the Kesister of Wills
of Wayne County, Pa., and that the sanie.will
be presented at the Orphans' Court ot said
county for confirmation, at the Court Houso
In Honesdale, on the third Monday ot
June next viz:
First and final account of J. C.
Burcher, administrator of the estate
of Thomas L. Burcher, Damascus.
First and final account of Frank
L. Bedell, administrator of the estate
of Helen J. Bedell, Dyberry.
First and final account of Jano
Loercher, administratrix of tho es
tate of John Loercher, Honesdale,
First and final account of Homer
Greene, administrator of tho estate
of Charles II, Mills, Lake.
First and final account of Charles
J. Stevens, administrator of William
F. Stevens, Sterling.
First and final account of John W.
Hazleton, administrator of the estate
of Angeline H, Masters, Sterling.
First and final account of Helen
K. Robacker now intermarried with
O. W. Megargel, administratrix of the
estate of Mary Robacker, Sterling.
First and final account of Minnie
Townsend, oxecutrlx of the estate of
Leo Calvin Smith, Lake.
First and final account of Adam
T. Van Driesen and Walter N. Cor
nell, administrators of the estate of
Ella Gllpn, Honesdale, '
First and flhal account of Kato'
Dllliird, administratrix of the- setate
of George Billard, Cherry Ridge.
First and final account of Eliza
beth C. Lawyer, administratrix1 of
the estate of Fred E. Lawyer, Hones
dale. W. B. LESHER, Recorder.
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