The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-09
zHE SALT LAKE HERALDs SUNDAY. sEPTEaBER 8, 1900

veloped no advantage for any man
of the three. The assembly had
been reasonably temperate and equable
until the last three ballots. Edged
| words and wrangling then had showed
/ that tempers began to fray under the
/ long strain The leaders felt the situa-
| ton critical. Their majority in the
! state was so swollen and riotous il
would not take much TO rend the party
Argument is a waste of breath. We
| have proved that-fat." Lisket, Alb
/ shire's campaign manager, burst out
/ to the conclave in Abshire's room, af-
well: hmm influence. We must
somehow clinch things-or have the
very deuce and all to pay"
Tell US news, Lisk-if you can't
| keep silence" Martin said, yawning as
/ he spoke. Martin presumed on the fact
| of heading the Abshire delegation first
/ instructed Lisket sWore at him and
/ added: News, If it comes to news of
a split, judge you'll stay home from
| congress this time.
! ssLikeiy-and I should hate like poi
son to miss S. 0GJ a year, earned in
/ the sweat of my ears" Martin said
/ TRANQUILITY: But somehow 1 can't be
/ afraid. when Abshire sits there smil-
| ing like a craven image, never opening
/ his mouth"
silence is-golden," Abshire said.
! Lisket whistled. Martin laughed ex-
/ plosively: -Abshirel Abshire" he said.
| What an oil magnate is lost in youi
/ Here you have been pipelaying and we
/ swearing ourselves hoarse. trying to
/ hammer reason into unreasonable
! headsl"
| Abshire laughed, a low, chuckling
| laugh, but said with a deprecating
wave of the hand:
/ Really. have said nothing. You all
| know that trite old proverb. OF course
am in this fight to stay-and win. I
/ looked over the ground as soon as
came. A deadlock or a disagreement
| would, ii appeared to me, be equally
detrimental to the party. Naturally I
| have done what 1 could TO prevent
| either
How? How? How? That's what 1
/ want to know" Martin broke in Lis
ket frowned. Abshire yawned slightly,
as he said:
Go to bedl Tell all the boys to do
| likewise-and to be very wide awake
toward II o'clock today"
! After he had dismissed them he sat
! by the open window, smoking and
| thinking deeply. It was well he had
! held to his reserves throughout the
/ campaign. Subtle work was needed
and Lisket had no genius for subtlety.
| He was all for making deals with the
| Allison men. Allison divided about
| equally with Abshire the vote of the
| mountains and the midland. Abshire
| knew that his hope and his fear lay in
| the Cummin folloWing-the rough, har-
| dy fellows from the river counties.
| They were almost a upit-mOre, they
, had an open, child-like enthusiasm for
! their man. More strictly speaking, it
was enthusiasm for their leader-that
| slouching fellow Doss, who had prac-
| ticalIy forced Cummin's candidacy
Abshire had seen Doss only once, and
| then half a block away. For many
reasons he did not wish a nearer view.
| 1t would be ruinoUs to meet the man
| and talk with him face to face. He
| had found out, though, that DoSS was
| desperately poor-that he had a sickly
| wife to whom he was blindly devoted.
| It was said he would give his soul for
| the chance of curing her. Hers was an
obscure nervous malady, for which
complete chance of air, scene and en-
| vironment might work wonders. Re-
| calling Margaret Wyeth, Abshire felt
within himself a thrill of Virtuous sym
| pathy, as he reflected that he had made
/ it possible for this unknown woman to
regain health and happiness.
| He took Margaret's picture from his
| breast pocket and looked at it, his eyes
| suddenly soft. She had made him her
( lover twice over by setting herself
| thus to spur his natural ambition. In
/ tuitively he felt that love was the root
! lights, flung himself, full dressed upon
| the bed and fell asleep, his last con
| scious thought, Margaret will be there
/ to see my triumph.
/ Margaret was among the very first
who climbed into the gallery. She had
| been there before. The place had in
| deed a fascination for her, which had
| betrayed to her father, Major Wyeth,
| the state of her heart. a veteran of
! many conventions, he preferred to sit
| at his daughters elbow rather than
| mingle in the turmoil of the floor. He
| knew many Of the delegates, and en-
| tertafned Margaret with piquant scraps
| of inside political history, though he
| respected her innocent enthusiasm far
| too much to even intimate that there
was ever crooked work
H-m-m! Hes new-the 1ank fell
| low in the gray suit" he had said
/ upon the first day, as the river county
men filed in. After a little he had
| added: 'New-but a man to be reck-
| oned with. If you notice, there has not
/ been a minute since he took his seat
that he has not had a knot of men
around him"
! Margaret had looked, and shuddered
family. She had caught the mans eye.
| suddenly lifted. His face was mild and
melancholy, but the eyes had. a CLEAN
/ like the lambert fliclSers she had seen
upon molten steel, when Abshire played
guide to her through the big furnace