She's one of those uptown plungers, and the story is
that she has a whole string of scalps of alleged Sunday-school
superintendents at her belt. She can make Bruce do pretty nearly
anything, they say. He's the latest conquest. I got the story on
pretty good authority, but until I verified the names, dates, and
places, of course I wouldn't dare print a line of it. The story
goes that her husband is a hanger-on of the System, and that
she's been working in their interest, too. That was why he was so
complacent over the whole affair. They put her up to capturing
Bruce, and after she had acquired an influence over him they
worked it so that she made him make love to Mrs. Parker. It's a
long story, but that isn't all of it. The point was, you see,
that by this devious route they hoped to worm out of Mrs. Parker
some inside information about Parker's rubber schemes, which he
hadn't divulged even to his partners in business. It was a deep
and carefully planned plot, and some of the conspirators were
pretty deeply in the mire, I guess. I wish I'd had all the facts
about who this red-haired female Machiavelli was--what a piece of
muckraking it would have made! Oh, here comes the rest of the
news story over the wire. By Jove, it is said on good authority
that Bruce will be taken in as one of the board of directors.
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