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Dk SILVER. HORDE 5 By REX BEACH. Author of "The SpoQen" "The Barrier** and CtpyriKhl, 1909. by Harper QBrotbar* [COWTIHUED.] Boyd returned to the cannery with the old mood of self disgust and bitter ness heavy upon him. He realised that George's offer to commit murder had aot shocked him as much as upon Its first mention. He knew that he had thought of shedding human blood with as little compunction as if the intend ed victim had been some noxious ani mal. He felt, Indeed, that if his love for Mildred made him a criminal she, too, would be soiled by his dishonor, and for her sake he shrank from the Idea of violence, yet he lacked the energy at that time to put it from him. Well, he would go to her father, hum ble himself and beg for protection. If he failed then Marsh must look out for himself. He could not find it in his heart to spare his enemy. At the plant he found Alton Clyde tremendously excited at the arrival of the yacht and eager to visit his friends. He sent him to the launch and after a hasty breakfast joined him. On their way out Boyd felt a return of that misgiving which had mastered him on his first meeting with Mildred in Chicago. For the second time he was bringing her failure instead of the promised victory. Willis Marsh was ahead of him, standing with Mr. Wayland at the rail. Some one else was with them. Boyd's heart leaped wildly as he recognized her. He would have known that slim figure anywhere. And Mildred saw him, too, pointing him out to her com panions. With knees shaking under him he came stumbling up the landing ladder, a tall, gaunt figure of a man in rough clothing and boots stained with the sea salt. He looked older by five years than when the girl had last seen him. His cheeks were hollowed and his lips cracked by the wind, but his eyes were aflame with the old light. His smile was for her alone. He never remembered the spoken greetings nor the looks the others gave him, for her soft, cool hands lay in his hard, feverish palms, and she was smil ing up at him. Alton Clyde was at his heels, and he felt Mildred disengage her hand. He tore his eyes away from her face long enough to nod at Marsh, who gave him a menacing look, then turned to Wayne Wayland. The old man was laying something, and Boyd answered him unintelligibly, after which he took Mildred's hands once more with such an air of unconscious proprietorship that Willis Marsh grew pale to the lips and turned his back. Other people whom Boyd had not noticed until now came down the deck—men and women with fieldglasses and cameras'- swung over their shoulders. He found that he was being Introduced to them by Mildred, whose voice betrayed no tremor and whose manners were as collected as if this were her own draw ing room and the man at her side a casual acquaintance. The strangers mingled with the little group, leveled their glasses and made senseless re marks after the manner of tourists the world over. Boyd gathered somehow that they were officers of the trust or heavy stockholders and their wives. He led Mildred to a deck chair and seated himself beside her. "At last!" he breathed. "You are here, Mildred. You really came, after all?" "Yes, Boyd." "And are you glad?" "Indeed I am. The trip has been •wonderful." "It doesn't seem possible. I can't be lieve that this is really you—that I am not dreaming, as usual." "And you? How have you been?" "I've been well—I guess I have. I haven't had time to think of myself. Oh, my lady!" His voice broke with tenderness, and he laid his hand gently upon hers. She withdrew it quickly. "Not here! Remember where we are. You are not looking well, Boyd. I don't know that I ever saw you look so bad. Perhaps it Is your clothes." "I am tired," he confessed, feeling anew the weariness of the past twen- lty-fbur hours. He covertly stroked a fold of her dress, murmuring: "You are here, after all. And you love me, •Mildred? You haven't changed, have iyou?" "Not at all. Have you?" His deep breath and the light that flamed Into his face was her answer. "I want to be alone with you," he tried huskily. "My arms ache for you. Come away from here this is torture. I'm like a man dying of thirst." No woman could have beheld his burning eagerness without an answer ling thrill, and, although Mildred sat motionless, her lids dropped slightly and a faint color tinged her cheeks. Her Idle hands clasped themselves rig idly. "You are always the same," she smiled. "You sweep me away from myself and from everything. I have never seen any one like you. There are people everywhere. Father Is somewhere close by." "I don't care" "I do." "M^ launch is alongside. Let me take you ashore and show you what I have done. I want you to set." ILL'S L,' I' i-v,x T,.•#•«••» "I cant. 1 promised to go ashore with the Berrys and Mr. Marsh." "Marsh!" "Now don't get tragic! We are all going to look over his plant and have lunch there. They are expecting me. Oh, dear!" she cried plaintively. "1 have seen and heard nothing but can neries ever since we left Vancouver. The men talk nothing but fish and packs and markets and dividends. It's all deadly stupid, and I'm wretchedly tired of it. Father is the worst of the lot, of course." Emerson's eyes shifted to his own cannery. "You haven't seen mine oars," said he. "Oh, yes, I have. Mr. Marsh pointed it out to father and me. It looks just like all the^thers." There was an in stant's pause before she ran on. "Do you know, there is only one interesting feature about them, to my notion, and that is the way the Chinamen smoke. Those funny crooked pipes and those little wads of tobacco are too ridicu lous." The lightness of her words damped his ardor and brought back the sense of failure. "I was down with the fishing fleet at the mouth of the bay this morning when you came in. I thought I might see you," he said. "At that hour? Heavens! I was sound asleep. It was hard enough to get up when we were called. Father might have instructed the captain not to steam so fast." Boyd stared at her in hurt surprise, but she was smiling at Alton Clyde in the distance and did not observe his look. "Don't you care even to hear what I have done?" he inquired. "Of course," said Mildred, bringing her eyes back to him. Hesitatingly he told her of his dis appointments, the obstacles he had met and overcome, avoiding Marsh's name and refraining from placing the blame where it belonged. When he had con cluded she shook her head. "It is too bad. But Mr. Marsh told us all about it before you came. Boyd, I never thought well of this enter prise. Of course I didn't say anything against it, you were so enthusiastic, but you really ought to try something big. I am sure you have the ability. Why, the successful men I know at home have no more intelligence than you, and they haven't half your force. As for this—well, I think you can ac complish more important things than catching fish." "Important!" he cried. "Why, the salmon Industry is one of the most im portant on the coast. It employs 10,000 men in Alaska alone, and they produce $10,000,000 every year." "Oh, let's not go into statistics," said Mildred lightly "they make my h6ad ache. What I mean is that a fisherman Is nothing like—an attorney or a bro ker or an architect, for instance he is more like a minier. Fardoii me, Boyd, but look at your clothes." She began to laiigh. "Why, you look like a common laborer!" "I might have slicked up a bit," he acknowledged lamely, '-but when you came I forgot everything else." "I was dreadfully embarrassed when I Introduced you to the Berrys and the rest. I daresay they thought you were one of Mr. Marsh's foremen." Never before had Boyd known the least constraint in Mildred's presence, but now he-felt the rebuke behind her careless manner, and it wounded him "WHT, YOU LOOK ITZKB A COMMON I* BOBBB!" deeply. He did not speak, and after a moment she Went on with an abrupt change of subject: "So that funny little house over there against the hill is where the myste rious woman lives?" "Who?" "Cherry Malotte." "Yes. How did you learn that?" "Mr. Marsh pointed it out. He said she came up on the same ship with you." "That is true." "Why didn't you tell me? Why did not you write me that she was with you in Seattle?" "I don't know I didn't think of it." She regarded him coolly. "Has anybody discovered who or what she is?" "Why are you so curious about her?" Mildred shrugged her shoulders. "Your discussion with Willis Marsh that night at our house interested me very much. I thought I would ask Mr. Marsh to bring her around when we went ashore. It would be rather amusing. She wouldn't come out to the yacht and return my call, would she?" Boyd smiled at her frank con cern at this possibility. "You don't know the kind of girl she is," he said. "She Isn't at all what you think. I don't believe you would be able to meet her in the way you sug gest" "Indeed!" Mildred arched her brows. "wi»r "8n% wouldn't fancy being 'brought jartict|hu-Jy byJftEglt.*' fisf %Jft Tffe&^S.4 -"1*,^$* From her look of surprise he knew that he had touched on dangerous ground, and he made haste to lead the conversation back to its former channel. He wished to impress Mil dred with the fact that if he had not quite succeeded he had by no means failed, but she listened indifferently, with the air of humoring an insistent child. "I wish you would give it up and try something else," she said at last. "This Is no place for you. Why, you are losing all your old wit and buoyancy you are actually growing serious, and serious people are not at all amusing." Just then Alton Clyde and a group of people, among whom was Willis Marsh, emerged from the cabin, talk ing and laughing. Mildred arose, say ing "Here come the Berrys, ready to go ashore." "When may I see you again?" he Inquired quickly. "You may come out- this evening." His eyes blazed as he answered, "I shall come!" As the others came up she said: "Mr. Emerson can't accompany us. He wishes to see father." "I just left him in the cabin," said Marsh. He helped the ladies to the ladder, and a moment later Emerson waved the party adieu, then turned to the saloon in search of Wayne Way land. mNthere CHAPTER XVIII. Mr. Wayland's stiff greeting was no hint that the two men had ever been friendly, but Emerson was prepared for coolness and seated himself without waiting for an invitation, glad of the chance to rest his tired limbs. "I have a great deal to say to you, sir," 'Emerson began, "and I would like you to hear me through." "Go ahead." "I am going to tell you some things about Mr. Marsh that I dare say you will disbelieve, but I can verify my statements. I think you are a just man, and I don't believe you know or would approve the methods he has used against me." "If this is to be an arraignment of Mr. Marsh I suggest that you wait until he can be present. He has gone ashore with the women folks." "I prefer to talk to you first. We can call him in later if you wish." "Before we begin may I inquire what you expect of me?" "I expect relief." "You remember our agreement?" "I don't want assistance I want re lief." "Whatever the distinction in the words, I understand that you are ask ing a favor?" "I don't consider it so." "Very well. Proceed." "When you sent me out three years ago to make a fortune, for Mildred it was understood that there should be fair play on both sides"— ''Have you played fair?' quickly in terposed the old man. "I have. When I eame to Chicago I had no idea that you were interested in the Pacific coast fisheries. I had raised the money before I discovered that you even knew Willis Marsh. Then it was too late to retreat. When I reached Seattle all sorts of unexpect ed obstacles came up. I lost the. ship I. had chartered machinery houses re fused deliveries shipments went astray my bank finally refused its loan, and every other bank in the northwest followed suit. I was har assed in every possible way. And it wasn't chance that caused it it was Willis Marsh. He set spies upon me he incited a dock strike that resulted in a riot and the death of at least one man moreover, he tried to have me killed." "How do you know he did that?" "I have no legal proof, but I know it just the same." Mr. Wayland smiled. "That is not a very definite charge. You surely don't hold him responsible for the death of that striker?" "I do, and for the action of the po lice in trying to fix the crime upon me. You know, perhaps, how I got away from Seattle. When Marsh arrived at Kalvik he first tried to sink my boil ers failing in that, he ruined my iron Chinks then he 'corked' my fish trap, not because he needed more fish, but purely to spoil iny catch. The day the run started he bribed my fisher men to break their contracts, leaving me short handed. He didn't need more men, but did that simply to cripple me. I got Indians to replace the white men, but he won them away by a mis erable trick and by threats that I have no doubt he would make good if the poor devils dared to stand out. "His men won't allow my fellows to work. We have had our nets cut and our fish thrown out. Last night we Jiad a bad time on the banks, and a number of people were hurt. The situ ation is growing worse every hour, and there will be bloodshed unless this persecution stops. All I want is a fair chance. There are fish enough for us all in the Kalvik, but that man has used the power of your organiza tion to ruin me not for business rea sons, but for personal spite. I have played the game squarely, Mr. Way land, but unless this ceases I'm through." "You are through?" "Yes. The run is nearly a week old, and I haven't begun to pack my salm on. I have less than half a boat crew, and of those half are laid up." The president of the trust stirred for the first time since Boyd had be gun his recital. The grim lines about his mouth set themselves deieper, and, staring with cold gray eyes at the speaker, he said: "Well, sir, what you have told me confirms my judgment that Willis Marsh is the right man in the right place." THE liAfiOR WORLD. Ojn the morning of February 19, ,1903, a trolley car, crowded with boys and girls on. th.eir way to high school was run down by a Delaware Lacka wanna and Western railroad train at Clifton avenue, Newark, N. J. Eight young women and one young man were instantly killed or fatally in jured, and nearly twenty others were crippled or otherwise seriously hurt.'' The crossing at which the accident .occurred had been frequently pointed out by the newspapers arid the public officials of the ofcty as an especially dangerous one.1 East-bound trains and north-bound cars both approached the crossing on heavy down grades, and the railroad tracks were hid from view by surrounding buildings until one was nearly upon them. It was a north-bound car that was struck by 'an east-bound train. On the morn ing of the accident ice-and sleet made the tracks slippery, and neither the trolley motorinan nor the engineer of the train ...could do anything to prevent the accident both saw was inevitable. There had for years-been agitation in New Jersey for the abolition of grade crossings!, but railroad influence in the. legislature frustrated attempts to secure legislation to compel the roads to abolish the dangerous cross ings at their own cost, and the courts had refused to make orders for the abolishment of such crossings, al though they had the power to do so. At the time of the killing, the city officials of Newark were negotiating with the railroads to elevate and de press their tracks throughout the city. Since the accident practically all the crossings in the city have been eliminated, the city paying more than half a million dollars of the cost of this work. Prominent Men Acquitted. The trolley road on which the killing occurred was operated by the Public Service corporation of New Jersey, and owned by the North Jer sey Street Railway company, a sub sidiary corporation. An Essex .county dieted the members of the executive committee of the board of director? of the North Jersey company, for manslaughter. They were all in dicted and tried on a single indict ment, and were all acquitted, th* trial judge not even allowing the case to go to the jury. Among the men so tried and acquitted were the late A. J. Cassatt, then president of the Pennsylvania Railroad company John D. Crimmins, the New York trolley, magnate and promoter Leslie D. Ward, first vice president of the Prudential Insurance company, and David Young, general manager of the Public Service corporation. The Public Service corporation was organized, and is largely con trolled by the Prudential Insurance, company interests. John F. Dryden, president of the Prudential, was then a Republican United States senator from New Jersey. Thomas N. Mc Carter, president, of the Public Ser vice, was a,.former state senator and attorney general of- the state. His brother succeeded Jiim as attorney general. Chandler, W: Riker, the public prosecutor Who conducted trie man slaughter trial for- the state, was, with his brother, the present- clerk of the supreme court of the state-, largely interested in trolley companies which had been taken to the Pub lic Service merger. William S. Gummere, chief justice of the supreme court of the state, be fore whom, the manslaughter case was tried, was an attorney for the Pennsylvania railroad before his ele vation to the judiciary. Gummere has been reappointed as chief justice since the trial in question. His name also appears as a" director of the Federal Trust company of Newark, of which James Smith, Jr., is president. Smith was once a Democratic United States senator from- New Jersey, is recognized as the tooss of the Demo cratic party in the state, and is close ly identified with the financial man agement of the Public Service cor poration. An Amojiing Statement. Alden Freeman, who made the re markable statement which follows, is a resident of East Orange, N. J., who has been very prominent as an in dependent worker in reform move ments in the state within recent years. Freeman's statement, here re printed, was mad6 In August, 1907, at which time Chandler W. Riker was being talked of as a probable Repub lican nominee for governor. A few days later Riker announced he was not a candidate. Although Freeman's statement aroused great indignation among the people of New Jersey, the public officials, politicians, lawyers and newspapers almost unanimously ignored the serious charges it con tained, and contented themselves with vehement denunciations of Free man for having told jury room se crets, Freeman demanded that the minutes of the grand jury be made public, to prove his charges, but his demand was refused by the public prosecutor who had succeeded Riker in the office. Freeman's statemnet, taken in con nection with the facts here stated, is republished because of the unusual light it throws on the methods by which the influence of the railroads and utility corporations reaches and affects juries and courts in a state where for fifty years or more repre sentative government has been only a name, and where the constant ef fort in legislation has been to so shape the machinery of elections and government as to make this influence more effective and absolute. Of this statement the New York Press (a Republican newspaper) said editorially: "A clear and startling notion of the manner in which Justice for the wealthy is administeifed in the state of New Jersey can be gained from the disclosures made by Alden Free man. We should say from our observation that Mr. Freeman has given a typical cdse of how gov ernment works in a state which is ruled, not by the people, but by a group of men who have gained con trol of the public service corpora tions,-big banks and insurance com panies." The prominent newspapers in New Jersey gave ho attention to the grave significance and real meaning of Frfceman's statement, but generally devoted themselves jto criticizing his baa* manners in betraytoff jury rami A STORY OF JERSEY JUSTICE secrets. None of the essential facts in Mr. Freeman's statement has ever been denied. The Story of a Juryman. By Alden Freeman. I l?as a member of the December jury of 1902 for Essex county, N. J. On that terrible February 19, 1903, which Newarkers will never forget, I was still on duty in the grand jury. Aside from the horror of it, which grew as we examined the crippled victims on crutches in the jury room or in their cots "at the hospital, .my most vivid recollection was the stren uous effort on the part of both Chandler Riker and Chief Justice Gummere to prevent the bringing in of an indictment. The jurymen were most unanimous in favor of separate individual indictments for man-: slaughter against various officers of the North Jersey Street Railway com pany and each member of the executive committee of the corpora tion, and directed the public prosecu tor to prepare such indictments. For a week we kept asking for the indictments ordered from the prose cutor. Different members of the jury in the meantime told me that they were being approached from the outside. One man told me he was offered fifty $1,000 bills by the son of one of the officers of the com pany to use his influence to quash the indictment. The same man told me of loans called by financial insti tutions of Newark and contracts held up. After this week of suspense, Mr. Riker finally brought in an indict ment of all the men in a J?unch in stead of the separate, individual in dictments offered. I protested with all the power I possessed, and was ably supported by some of the finest men I have ever met, but the week's delay of the prosecutor had done the work, alth°ugh the trick of the blanket in^ dictment was fully exposed Mr. Riker was greatly excited. I recall that his.hands shook as though with palsy, although his face re mained immobile. He made his final effort when he said the chief justice wished us to go before him and let him advise us. I resented the inva sion of the rights of the grand jury, I said that if Mr. Gummere had any thing to say to the grand jury, let him come before us like any other citizen, that the functions of the grand jury and those of the chief justice are dis tinct and separate, and that he had no right to thus encroach upon the rights of the grand jury, which was a coordinate part of our judicial. Sys tem and the only weapon left1 in the hands of an outraged people with which odious tyranny can be assailed. Chandler Biker's pleadings finally prevailed against me in the grand jury, just as two years later the plead ings Of his brother WilUam Riker (clerk of the supreme court of New Jersey) in 'behalf of the vested in terests which control the state of New Jersey prevailed against me in suppressing the "Trial of the Serpent" circulars in the. Colby headquarters, and a committee was appointed to wait upon the chief Justice. It was insisted that I should go along. The chief justice received us, and we found Mr. Gummere even more agitated than the public prosecutor. He also had the violent shaking of the hands. This I particularly noted in both men. The chief justice made a long argument against indicting. He said we must have reasonable ground to show criminal negligence. We brought up the warning of Mayor Doremus in his message and various warnings of a similar nature by cit izens, and particularly the words of the president of the Lackawanna, railroad, Samuel Sloan, who told the trolley people before they laid their rails across the railroad tracks that there would inevitably be an awful slaughter there some day and that as a mere matter of business it would be much cheaper to carry the trolley tracks over the railroad on a bridge than to pay the damages in civil suits which would follow the death of the\ victims of parsimony. I cited the testimony of officers of the trolley company that there were twenty-one other trolley grade cross ings equally dangerous in Essex coun ty, and finally asked the chief justice if, knowing of the collision of February 19—I cannot call it an ac cident—and the butchery of the high school children, would he (the chief justice) then consider that these trol ley officials had knowledge of the danger sufficient to call it criminal negligence if, while we were disput ing, nine othen school children were being done to death at any one of the other twenty-one unprotected, un guarded grade crossings over, the railroad tracks? Mr. Gummere made no reply, and we filed out without a Word. When we returned to the grand jury the indictments went through as prepared by Mr. Riker, but with a solemn pledge upon the part of the. grand jurors that If a miscarriage of justice resulted from the failure of: Mr. Riker to carry out the instruc tions of the grand jury then the jurymen should unite in a statement. This miscarriage of justice certainly ensued, but the members of the De cember grand jury of 1902 have never kept their solemn pledge. I followed the trial with the closest attention and the public prosecutor utterly neglected to bring out the essential point in the testimony. The engineer of the trolley company, Arthur A. Reimer, under oath, told us of the grand jury that Clifton ave nue where the disaster occurred, was long considered a place of danger, and that he was directed to prepare plans for a derailing device at Clif ton avenue by David Young. He tes tified that he drew up. plans for such a device. It was found that hjo mech anism cost more than $1,000, and he testified that Mr. Young told him they would not put It In, as the com pany could not afford the expense. This was the. essential point, in de termining the criminal negligence of the officials of the- company, -and Ifr. Biker ntfver broughtout a wor«lof Spoons, etc. Sheffield Silver True Christmas Dentiment. Silver Fern Dishes, Silver Tea Pots, Silver Coffee Pots, the most important testimony in the whole case. At the close of the trial, when judge Gummere and his associates refused to permit the case to go to the jury, I myself. heard Roosevelt Shanley,, one of those on trial for man slaughter, in shaking hands with Chandler W. Riker, say most hearti ly: "Thank you, Chan."—La Follet te's. (It is now said by the daily press that President Taft is considering the name of Judge W. S. Gummere for appointment to the bench of the Su premen court of the United States. —Ed.) 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