El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-27
JUST A WOMAN'S WAY.

here" And the speaker looked it as he
sank lower in an easy chair and lazily
| blew smoke toward a statuette on the
| mantel.
| Ideal October day outside, and there's
nothing in the way of weather finer than
| that. Sunday afternoon, too, and hun
dreds of people out for airing
Il don't care for anything finer than
| this, and the miscellaneous crowd has
ceased to interest me. Go on and enjoy
| yourself, if you care to. I'll stay here
and look after the dem
Dick, you've got 'em. What if she did
refuse you? You act as though the world
had come to an end for you"
But she didn't refuse me; just said to
wait for time and see Hung me over
the precipice, as it were, on a slender
hope" And Dick laughed a mirthless
laugh.
Whats the matter with the girl, any
how? Is she afraid that you have not at
tanned sufficient greatness to crafty her
ambition?
ITS all because I'm not up to her
standard She thinks that 1 write Just
to show what little brilliancy i have, to
make money and attract praise. There's
something in it too. Her idea is, don't
you see, that all literature should have a
high moral purpose and accomplish good
among those who read it. That's all
right enough She has 40 ideals and is
going to live up to them. You can't help
admiring a woman with the courage of
her convictions, can you?'
Ny candid opinion is that she comes
mighty near being 4 bluestocking. Now
don't get huffy, for she has dropped you.
That's plain enough
Il tell you she hasn't. We're to remain
friends, just the same, and I'm not the
fellow to go back on my friends"
YOU'RE hopeless, Dick. Don't you
know that a clever girl always lets a fell I
low down that way? Come on out and
give up this fool idea of stagnating just !
because you've met with a disappoint-
ment. Chances are that We'll see her" :
1t was this last possibility that induced
Dick TO make hurried toilet and then !
start up the avenue with his friend. In I
fact, they We're chums, one a doctor, the
other a writer, and both bachelors occu-
plying the quarters in which the above
conversation occurred
Though the mathematical proba bilities
We're all against it, they did meet her
about the park with her ia
Their. All four stood near the fountain
talking for some time, and then the IA
ther indicated that they must part by
asking Dick to be sure to call at the
house the next evening, he had an I'M
portant matter to talk over with him.
DICK slept only an hour and a half that
night, deyoting all the remainder of the
time and the next day to wondering and
at what her father might want
His most plausible conclusion was that
she had told the old gentleman of the
proposal. and he wanted to discuss some
phase of the matter, probably TO caution
him not to repeat the offense.
But DICK was on time and was shown
into the pretentious library for private
my young man. began the father at
once, Il have consented, at the solicita-
ton of my friends, to run for congress-
am assured of the nomination, and,
we have a close district,
I'm confident of election. I can afford to
spend some money and propose to do so.
fou are writer?''
Not on political economy or the great
ssues now before the people,
OF course not. but you know how to
tut ideas into forcible and effective Ian
,uage- l want some who can do
he smooth and the plausible, convincineI
hose that are not settled and firm in
heir opinions. III supply the cartridges
md only want you to fire them"
But I'm not of your party, and not in
ccord with its tenets. / do not believe
hat 1t should be intrusted with the ad-
of our national affairs, and
uch a result
I'm not asking you to sacrifice youri
onvictions, SIR" replied the old gentle
IAN stiff1y. '1'm responsible for my DO
ltlon and the arguments with which
GRITTY it. You simply supply the Ian
uage to be utilized as campaign literal
1re. hire your talent as a writer"
II do not write from dictation. either
S TO words or thoughts. Pardon the
lggeStiOn. sir but what Won want is n
and typewriter" With that
lick arose and nothing more was said
ntIl the door was reached. when the
ather CURLY informed Dick that he
ould not reasonably expect to be a caller
the house in future
We'll, you have put your foot in it,"
Iughed the doctor when he heard psr.I
culars Of the call.
Foot? I'm in up to my ears. But I've
Established a standard, haven't I? I'm
a advocate of what 1 believe to he high
oral principals. am 1 not? I'll do some
riting now in which 1 will seek neither
oney nor praise, and that's what she
ants, isn't it ?'
'Pshawi My dear boy, she wouldn't
Ok at you If she'd meet you on the
rect Her abstract theories won't in
'rse an action that hurts her father
ou've burned your ships behind you
lex, but don't show the white feather"I
And Dick didn't. He wrote campaiCnl
erature for his own party and wroteI
never before. Once stirred, he was an
compromising champion of his cause
e TOOK TO the stump, not as a special
speciOus pleader, but as an honest andI
hscentlous patriot. His utterances
ent thrilling home as the truth. and
ose who heard him had more exalted
ca or the duties of citizenship. During
e entlre campaign he never heard q