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ith this whole matter. Suppose the bottom falls

her husband. "You talk as though we have committed or are about to commit

t I need not meet the man?"

lied Mrs.

ltzed across the room, kissed his

uttered betwe

ent to her will. It had been on her programme to have her daughter Eunice and her husband present during a part of the interview with

reporter for the "Daily Columbian," w

. Seabright, with a smile, directing a kindly gaze in the direction

ous." said M

that carry the world forward,"

mphasis. "I have money with which to further my ambitions. I am aware of the traditions of your paper, the 'Columbian.' I shall not ask you to violate them. But if you will put your heart in your lab

ive of whatever may result in my favor in consequence of work worthily done," said the young

volution. Mr. Seabright inherited a large fortune which a keen business sense had enabled him to increase very materially. He had now moved to Almaville to found one of the largest furniture manufacturing es

s, was a girl of great beauty, highly accomplished, and the

on as a suitable location could be found, Mr. Seabright was going to erect a mansion in Almaville that would be the pride of the South. An option had been t

es of the property in that vicinity,

aristocracy, was favorably impressed with the Seabrights as a valuable addition to the commercial and

e legal minds of the state and the real head of the Democratic party of the state. He was now forty-five years old and unmarried. He had never held public office but was seriously cons

ncils of the nation. He was a well-to-do man but did not have the money to gain an assured social position at the n

king up the paper and looking again at the published pic

ght its fish. And what had the fish c