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The Ploughshare
By S. R. Milken
"There is a vast difference between brothers," her father told Helena Leigh. And that he spoke the truth, she was to learn through bitter personal experience. William Lawrence, the Governor of his State, was all that an honorable, upright man should be. His brother, Jim, was not. What happened before Helena found that out, is told in a way that will hold your absorbed interest to the end, in this story based on the Edison photoplay of the same title. In the cast were:
Helena Leigh Gertrude McCoy
Jim Lawrence Augustus Phillips
JENNY STRONG, eh? The young scoundrel ! I'll teach him to come .oneyfugling around my daughter, when le ought to be paying the debt he owes mother woman ! "11 teach the .vhelp !"
Doctor Nelson -eigh was plainly n a passion. He strode angrily up iand down his lirary, fuming and r o w 1 i n g : "I'll teach him," until Arthur Wilier, who had roused the storm in the Id man's breast by telling of what e had seen and heard that day, began to fear for the health of his host.
"I did not mean to upset you. sir," the "sir" came from his lips not servilely, but with h e old-fashioned courtesv of the South ; "but I felt that you ought to know what sort of man young Jim Lawrence is. I wouldn't have said anything if I
hadn't found him making love to your daughter within an hour of the time I had heard him refuse to do anything for Jack Strong's sister. Of course, it isn't really any of my business, but "
"'Stuff and nonsense! Stuff and non
sense !" roared the doctor. "It's the business of every honest gentleman to warn a friend when a rascal threatens the sanctity of his home.
Jim's dark eyes looked steadily into the frightened ones of girl he had betrayed — and therein Jack Strong read
"Not," he added hastily, "that I haven't the fullest confidence in Helena's good sense, but I do not wish her exposed to the contamination of this man's society. By gad, sir, it is a constant marvel to me that so fine a man as Governor Lawrence could have such a
good-for-nothing brother as Jim. It's the eighth wonder of the world, sir, that's what it is !" "I agree with you there, doctor," said
■ W i 1 1 e t heartily.
HHP' Tins St.-.i, never
produced a finer gentleman nor a more upright statesman than William Lawrence. He is a man you can rely upon to be faithful to his trust. Take the case of Jim, yonder, for an example. When old man Lawrence died and left little Jim in William's care, he didn't know what a burden he was saddling him with, nor did William. And, for that matt e r , he doesn't know yet. He thinks that little lady-killer is the salt of the earth, and nothing that you or I could say to him would change his opinion of Jim.
"He's given Jim everything he's asked for since he was a boy, and I believe he'd try to give Jim the governorship to-morrow if Jim would ask for it. And Jim, the hound, would be just selfish enough and greedy enough to take it, if he had the chance." Doctor Leigh, who had continued
the brother of the his doom.