The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin

uarrel between the Coal King and his attorney. In her

afternoon ride?" Purdy in

r Harvey and I were discussing can be deferred. Go and e

u go with

have a Board me

as you do to business. You are not looking well. Have yo

ttend to the details of this business, there would be a dozen competitors in the coal industry within a year. Even if I cannot go with you every day, you h

dinner," says Harvey, as

he office building, a groom stands holdin

horse. "Take Nero back to the stables," Harvey instruct

The prospects of a bracing canter over the mountain roads could not be brighter. The high color on the cheeks of Harv

ung couple have been constant companions. They have been encouraged to seek each other's company by Mr. Purdy, who app

horses climb slowly up one of the rough hills on the

new he would not stand in the light

e said?" she i

in life; that he had never had but one fear that you might fall in love with some worth

continue to be attentive to my business, and to his interests

You know I am never ab

sent you with his n

t that one thing? O, won't it be jolly to go there

e and spend the summer. He really m

en playing in the dusty road, scurry out of the path of the horses. On the hillside to the left stands the Jumbo Breaker, the largest coal crusher in the world. Its rambling walls rise to a height of several hundred feet up a stee

of the town do they realize th

five miles so quickly

us longer to-day than ever," Harvey

ad so much to talk about. We must make good time

es and are off at a

es-B

not noticed a clump of men and women standing at the do

men are in the roa

an have happened

en than any other in the district. It's all through using the new crusher. It's dangerous. I said so from t

e crowd that the horses

" Harvey ask

ly the Sheriff puttin

the decision of the Judge who had said that she could not claim damages for the killing of her husband. He thinks of the check that is in his

stands Sheriff Marlin. He is

n at the court house. They look at Harvey with gl

o are to slay her, the widow rushes from the house. She runs to t

ze," she wails. "It is not for myself. I don't mind

cent in his life. He was killed in the mines, and the company will give me nothing-nothing. I won't ask for charity. All I ask for is a chance

tuation. They do not long stand idly by and see the daughter of the great Purdy s

me time grabbing the poor creature by the throat. "Back to you

Harvey. He stands in his saddle and wa

ing her! D

Marlin hurls the

will not annoy you again." "You must excuse me, Mr. Trueman," he adds, turn

as passed from Harve

s woman for non-payme

orders from the company to turn her out to-day. She has been making trouble her

oy, as he runs to his mother, laying pros

ll me?" and then he burs

r his breath to a man. As the deputy starts to

utter horror. She has till now been a mute witnes

is saddle, and is a

shall see that it is tak

heriff Marlin, "you must not interfere

d. I shall not stand by and see the law violated. You have authority to

h does s

ars," is the

Harvey, as he takes a roll

he money now," pro

to Harvey he says

n out of town; she will cause trouble if she remains. The mi

you such

Pur

he

fice. He told me to get the widow out of town this ve

s. I intend to pay the rent for the woman an

decided that with the widow in the town, the miners would be more likely to carry out

ome," Harvey repeats. "Here is the rent money. I know the

akes the mone

ting up, vainly trying

elps her to arise. "I have paid your rent and here is some money for

" cries the widow,

Marlin declares, as he places h

arge," True

usband's card when he was dead, and she had no money

e care that you do not overstep your authority. It is not the Widow Braun you have to deal with now. I am interested i

that he cannot serve two masters and he

posing, Mr. Trueman," he says with

yer's" grates o

all serve my conscience before I do any man. But I do no

the widow has a thousand dollars

rew the check from his pocket. "It is to be placed to her

irect to Mr. Purdy," the sher

wives who have witnes

expression to their fe

ng lawyer who bid def

st dreaded man in that

rs it with kisses. Her tears of gratitude fall on his hand. He apprec

of being turned out of

ngs back int

, let us sta

e mood to talk. On reaching the Purdy mansion the riders dismount, an

ned me. He tells me that you opposed his evicting the widow, and that the miners are now likely to make serious trouble. This

is because I have your interests at heart that I cannot see y

t above mine?" asks the

t on the propriety of assembling the Coal and Iron Police and of evicting a woman who has the sympathy of the entire mining district I

thousand dollars to the credit of the wi

end to

al King emphatically, rising and pacing the floor. "You must be out of your mind to

l. "He prevented the sheriff and his me

speaks in a tone he has never emp

ressing Harvey. "There can be but one head of the Paradise Coal Co

shall continue to do as I have done. But to tell you that I will do your bidding, whether legal or not, t

eman; how he has advanced him to the position of counsel to the company. "And all the thanks I receive is you

find that the irate Coal King has gone to his pri

the evening

ssed the events of the day, and speculate on the r

solute confidence in you. Only yesterday he told me that there was not another man

s a remarkably rich baritone. At Ethel's request

as she plays the ac

EA OF

love and dea

joys that

hord of the

the futu

y music ri

ks the bu

blast too s

forest ble

a line from th

th the moon'

oung, in those

led on the s

songs that re

se sung

and their

nes ne'er

range that t

to the s

love when i

its joys

lear that an irreparable breach has been made in the relations between himself and Gorma

in the highway, when I knew that it was through my skill as a lawyer that just damages were kept f

perform. It is making a heartless wretch of me. A

wing his objections to the assembling of the Coal and Iron Police. As to the widow, a compromi

to lose Ethel, turns Harvey's decision when the

o defeat the pending st

man working in