Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-04-12
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STheH are bound 20 hare you for our ne14
gOpeTnOr," she said.
Although the judge was busy in
thought he could not help it that his
mind, separate and apart from the work
IN hand, dwelt upon the likelihood Of his
succeeding in the ambition Of his life.
Friends had written lim, his thought
had told him that he mad but to accept
and the nomination would be his. The
governorship-was n. that an honor Of
which any man mig . be proud?
The light from ne argand burner
spread a haS aroU / his brow. Rows
Of book cases hen ned him in: the en-
graved faces Of Channing, Burke and
Daniel Webster Looked down upon him
from the walls.
Apart from the pO~rtraiture Of such
worthless, directly opposite his writing
table was a life size crayon Of a lady
with barred neck, her fine eyes seemingly
concentrated upon the Blended form Of
the judge az his pen moved Over the pa
per, several pages Of which. covered with
his legally bad handwriting, lay scat
tered before him. The logs fared in the
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crayOn picture till the eyes seemed al
mos like those Of a living person.
Ii was a long table at which the judge
rat, and one end Of it was fanked by a
number Of newspapers. A lady in a low
chair was al this end Of the table, her
white jeweled fingers turning the huge
evening sheet she had been scanning be-
fore clipping a paragraph from it as she
had clipped similar paragraphs from sew
eral other papers there. II was easy TO
see that she was the original Of the
crayon portrait, her face some years
older, indeed, than the pictured one,
scarcely so ideal as that, with more con
troll Of the under lip. This was the
judges wife.
She had been out to dinner, and with
out changing her gown had come into
the study and taken her usual place at
her endsOf the long table. Here she sat
evening after evening, calling herself
his Nemesis, his Pallas, his Eloise, his
Laura, while he wrote at his papers or
read from the calf bound volumes that
made the atmosphere p~ungently musty.
At one moment while she looked over
the paper she held, a sparkling ornament
that clasped the rich lace at her throat
became unclasped. and she let the paper
rattle into her lap while she made the
gold hasp secure. Then she ran her hand
up to the sOiitaires IN her ears with a
feminine automatic gesture, and taking
mp a pair of scissors began cutting an
item from the paper.
"They are bound 10 nave you for our
next governor, she said as she shipped
the paper. Here Is the seventh men
ton in today papers; my scrap book
will o be- fall If your praises. This
one says You ara a shining example of
justice and logic-in other words, that
you have the honor Cf never having had
one of your decisions reversed by the
higher court. What will they say by
election time
She picked mp some other scraps she
had extracted from the leyiathans of the
printing press.
Listen to this: His honor's private
life is irreprOachable'- No, that is
not what / meant. Even his most bitter
opponent could find little in the actions
of his many years of public life to shadow
the page wherein is written a laudable
ambition That sounds rather peculiar;
but then the writer may be young.
Again, Here is an example of integrity
allied to ambition whose methods are
nns peur ct sans reproche.' Goodness
how hot that FIRE isF' She pushed her
chair = little farther from the hearth.
~sHeighol Thatdinner was a very stupid
affair, and the fbuds' and young men at
the reception i~nsupportable. EsteIle
Was the prettiest girl there, Gen.
Wayne said he ~ sorry you were too
bnsy TO come-So am land that he
hsped You would write tonight and tel
Inn that you VIII accept the nomination
-not later than tonight. He begins
VIA the politicians tomorrow"
The judge miled, his lips moving ~
fhongh they carried a word in the en-
Resaion Of which on his paper she had
mterrupted hm; out he did not look up
nnr dd his pen stop. No until he had
emo % the end Of the long page and
lad itwith its Predecessors before him
dd he speak, and then il was while be
uAehsd for another sheet of legal cap.
~ThOpe you nad a PEASANT mnner, ns
I'D a. though he had heard not a word
M wife had spoken. She wa usedto
fnis and did not resent it. "h thHf
3our decision IN ths Dunlap eassS -
aaABd referring 70 his papers.
YES" hesaid
"A pecuHariy hagrAnt case, she com
mmted sYour decizion ought 10 I'll
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