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PICTURE-PLAY WEEKLY
"You can go,'' muttered the boss.
If he could not discredit Mason in the eyes of the public, he could at least give him a great deal of trouble. Walker believed that Margaret Macy would take the original letter to the mayor at his home directly after dinner. With this thought in mind, he stepped into a telephone booth.
"Hello, central, give me 381 iW," requested Walker. "Hello, Mr. Rising's residence? Is Miss Margaret Rising there?"
There was a pause while Miss Rising was being summoned to the phone. At last her voice came from the other end of the wire, and Walker replied in a voice which he effectively concealed.
Without waiting for any reply, Walker hung up the receiver.
"I guess that'll fix Mayor Mason."
How well Walker's plot succeeded was proven the next morning, when Tom Mason received a registered package in his mail. The package contained Ruth Rising's engagement ring, and with it was a letter explaining why the engagement had been broken. She informed him that she had learned of his intimacy with Margaret Macy, and had seen the girl leave his home on the previous evening. In the letter Ruth mentioned the fact that she had received a telephone call from a friend, who had warned her of the meeting.
As he finished reading the letter, a
With the boss, as the mayor entered the room, was Humphries, to whom Walker was relating the plot which had brought unhappiness to Tom Mason. The men started as Mason entered the room.
"See here, Walker," said Mason in a voice that was menacing in its quietness, "you have not only interfered in my public affairs, but you have robbed me of the girl I had hoped to make my wife. You have overstepped yourself this time. You want a fight, and, by Heaven, you'll have it ! Before I am through with you I "111 drive you and your gang of dirty, crooked grafters out of this city !"
Before Walker could reply. Mason
Their eyes met, and therein each read the light of love.
"Miss Rising, if you wish to learn something to your advantage, be in front of Tom Mason's home at about eight o'clock this evening. Never mind who this is; i am simply warning you as a friend."
mighty pain tugged at the heart of the young mayor. In that telephone warning Mason saw the work of Walker. Picking up his hat, Mason left his office, and made for the room occupied by Walker.
turned on his heel and passed from the office.
That day the newspapers all carried an announcement of the breaking of the engagement that had existed between Mavor Mason and Ruth Rising. Both