The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-22

quickly. Don't let us talk of them"
she said, don't let us talk of such
hollow folk"
Pegs carriage stood at the curb. In
deed she had but just arrived when,
as l piloted the Reverend Campbell and
the magpie, 1 found her by the Cen
erals fire.
Some day you must go with me to
meet my mother" said Peg; I've
promised her" Then, as l lifted her
into the carriage, Mercy! you should
practice for a lighter hand. l feel as
one in the paws of a bear"
With wave of her hand, she was off
for the Presidents Square where her
home stood; l, on my part, turned back
to the General, walking slowly, and see
ing Pegs gentle eyes before me all
the way to his door. Sweet Peg! had
it been l, no tawdry ambition of pol
! itics would have divided my heart with
you; you would have reigne6 over it
alone; we would have left Washington
to the vermin who devoured it, and
made our kingdom in lands of peace
and truth!
1t was not without relief discover
ed that the Reverend Campbell, with
his maybe mate, was gone.
'Assuredly, mol" exclaimed the Cen
eral, when l inquired whether the name
of DR.. Ely, and the petition prefer
red of the Reverend Campbell, had
FeCOlOTeu MS thoughts touching CC.
Augustine and the Florida governor
ship; "assuredly, mol He who has
that place from me must be emphati-
cally two thingS-a man and a friend.
The creature, Westfall, is emphatical-
| ~ neither. 1 can not guess, however,
in what this sudden office-hunting ex-
element of our ghostly fathers finds
it's source. l asked the Reverend
Campbell, was this Westfall known to
him. He said, only by repute; that
he urged the case at the request of
| DR.. Ely"
Clearing him on that question Of pur-
| pose, l told the General of DR.. Elys
arrangement to be a governors chap
! lain in st. Augustine; and how, in a
moment of gurgling exaltation con-
| corning what might be, that unguard-
ed magpie exposed the scheme of call
| ing" our Reverend Campbell to DR..
Ely's fat present pulpit, should it be-
come vacant in favor of palms and
| orange groves.
And in that way runs the road"
exclaimed the General, full of leniency
and amusement. The preachers are
| becoming better politicians every day.
Major, you and 1 must look to our
lines, or some dominic may yet turn
our TANKS
Then 1 gave the General what Peg
| had told of her attitude, like diminu-
tive iceberg, towards the Reverend
Campbell and his magpie partner.
"They have done Peg no actual
| HARM" 1 said. "They passed her by
one day, like the Levites they were
and are; and now she revenges her.
self"
lone can always hear the savage
stirring about in Peg" commented the
General; land I like her the better
| for it. l love your revengeful soul-he
| who has long knife, a long memory,
and will go long trail to his feud."
And that is an excellent observe" 1
said, teasing him a bit, "and you a
Christian and a PRESIDENT"
'sFhe observe, as you phrase it," re-
| torted the General, lis not only ex-
cellent but earnest. Revenge is the
| fair counterpart of gratitude. They
are off the same bolt of cloth. Find
me a soul for revenge, and I'll find
| you a soul to be grateful. What are
revenge and gratitude, when one goes
to the final word, but just man pay
ing his debts?"
"Who is this DR.. Ely?" I asked.
The Reverend Campbell described
him as your friend"
Or. Ely is no more than an ac-
| quaintance, and hardly that. I met
| him years ago in Philadelphia; and
I've heard him preach. He is a snowy,
| fashionable figure of man: not deep,
| yet musical and fluent. The women,
| 1 remember, liked his discourses right
well. There were a beat and a march
| to his periods; and albeit, while he
| talked, the wise ones went to sleep,
others with music boxes for minds, and
who mistook sensation for sense, sat
bolt upright, feeling the liveliest de-
light"
1--WE met the latter sort" I assented;
''the gentry who prefer rhyme to rea-
SON."
Somehow" observed the General
following an interval Of silence, II
ever fear I'll be unfair to your preach
ers. My inclination is to judge them
too harshly-estimate them below their
worth. 1t has been ever the fault of
military men to do this, and for my
self, l would guard against it,"
And now will you explain what you
are talking about?" I was in cold
earnest for the Generals remorse over
an injustice to preachers was clean
beyond me and apropos of nothing.
My own thought galloped to it-for
his wife taught him that softness, be-
ing as devout as an abbess, herself