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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt:...it set forth a certain statute of 31st March, i860, and an averment that one Arthur L. Dale had been guilty of offending against said statute; that he had bribed and unduly influenced one Michael Conry, councilman, and that the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth had been thereby offended. "I have just been to the District Attorney's office," said Coogan, softly. "He thinks that wid the help of the witnesses prisent ye will get a year, at least. He drew th' indictment himself." For a moment the two men looked each other fairly in the face. Nora uncomprehendingly stared from one to the other. Then the contract man, reading in Coogan's eyes the hopelessness of the struggle, half surrendered. "You'll go with me if I do," he said, weakly. "I will--gladly," said Coogan, "wid the hope, however, that it'll be solitary confinement." "I--I had forgotten that letter," the contract man said, lamely, hauling down his colors. "1 thought ye had," answered Coogan grimly. "And now, as soon as ye have apologized to Mrs. Conry for insultin' her man, and as soon as ye have written that check, we'll be acceptin' of your kind invitation to leave." On the street he turned to Nora. "The lyin', smooth-face rogue!" he cried angrily. And Nora, whose idol had tottered and in the nick of time been thrust back on the shelf in safety, merely said, with a shining face, "Oh, Coogan!" A week later a steamer sailing for Queenstown churned panting out of New York harbor. A tall, thin man stood on the dock until it vanished in the network of shipping on the river. His face was a little drawn, and his lips pressed tightly together, as he watched the yellow tops of the steamer's stacks blur in...