Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-03

temper of the host betrayed how little he
welcomed this guest. He did not fail in
courtesy-the Moores are always gentle
ment-but it was a hard courtesy, which
cut while it fiattered. The two children.
shrinking from it's edge without knowing
what it was that hurt them, skunk to COW
ert, and from behind the two pillars which
mark the entrance to the library watched
the two men as they walked up and down
the halls discussing the merits of this and
that detail of the freshly furnished man
sion. These two innocent but eager spies
whom fear rather than curiosity held in
hiding, even caught some of the sentences
which passed between the So-called friends
and though these necessarily conveyed but
little meaning to their childish minds, the
words forming them We're never forgotten
as witness these phrases contided to me
by Mistress Callista twenty-five years
afterward.
You have much that most men lack
remarked the general. as they paused to
admire some little specimen of Italian art
which had been lately received from Genoa
You have money-too much money Moore
by an amount L might easily name-a home
which some might call palatial, a lovely
II not altogether healthy wife, two fine
children and all the honor which a man in
a commonwealth like this should ask for.
Drop politics.
i Politics my lfe,' was the cold re-
sronse. TO bid me drop them is to bid me
commit suicide Then, as an afterthought
| to which a moment of intervening silence
added emphasis, And for you to drive me
from them would be an act little short OF
murder
Justice dealt upon a traitor is not muir
der, was the stern and unyielding reply.
BY one black deed of treacherous barter
and sale, of which none of your country
nen is cognizant but myself, you have
forfeited the confidence of this government
Were l, who so unhappily surprised your
secret to allow you to continue in your
ANT MI, <Nft
a traitor to the republic for which L have
fought and for which l am ready to die
chat is why | ask you to resign before
The two children did not catch the
threat latent in that last word, but they
realized the force of it from their fathers
look, and were surprised when he quietly
said:
=" You declare yourself to be the only
| man on the commission who is acquainted
with the facts you are pleased to style
traitorous?
The generals lips curled. Have I rot
said? he asked
Something in this stern honesty SEEM
ed to affect the father. His face turn
ed away and it was the others voice
which was next heard. A change had
taken place in 1t and 1t sounded almost
mellow as it gave form to these words:
Alpheus we have been friends You
Shall have two weeks in which to think
over my demand and decide. If at the end
OF That time you have not returned to do
mestc life you may expect another visit
from me which cannot fail of consequences
You know my temper when reused Do not
force me into position which will cause
| US both endless regret
'Perhaps the father answered: perhaps
ne did not The children heard nothing
| further, but they witnessed the gloom with
winch he rode away to the White House
the next day. Remembering the generals
threat, they imagined In their childish
hearts that their father had gone to give
up his post and newly acquired honors But
| ne returned at night without having done
! SO, and from that day on carried his head
higher and showed himself more and more
| the master, both at home and abroad
But he was restless, very restless and
possibly to allay great mental uneasl-