The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-25

and sat down. Slowly he poured him,
self glass of spirits, and then O.
slowly drank it off. For some ms
nlents he smoked IN silence
What With this wrong to nv sida
Major" he said at last. '.and the blood
I've let. and all on a pale diet of rics
1 fear I'm not strong enough to areI1e,
with you. Let us agree, then. thai
Eaton shall go in as Secretary oS
War. AS for Peg-7poor little Peg
why should she be safer out than -
Moreover, woman must have bar
courage as man has his. She must
risk SANDER as he risks sword and
both must front their enemies" He
had gone on with a mighty mildness.
now he began to wave his second nina
and l looked to have it go into the
fireplace with every word lyon saw
that the Eatons will be assafled Al.
ready they are attacked not for them
selves, but for me. They We're married
in January; none found fault until
with our coming, EatOn's nearness 70
me was remembered and the whisner
of what / would do with him began to
run abroad. The Eatons are the vic
Tins of my feuds; it is 1, through
them, who am stabbed at. Sir
smash! went the pipe and the General
started up-"sir. it is the work of
Henry Clay-that creature of bargain
and corruption! You know his meth
DDS Of the past campaign. What lie
was too vile to tell? What calumny
too gross? Who so innocent as to es-
cape his malice? Why, sir! such as
Clay and his crew would befoul Ge-
henna, and Satan himself might shrink
aside in shame from their companion-
snip! Who was sure from them and
the poison of their mendacity She
died by there he pointed to the
miniature. Even the poor lost grave
of my mother was not sacred to such
jackals. And now it is the cations
now it is the pretty, harmless Peg!
So let it be: they will find me ready.
If 1 feel joy for a presidency it is be-
cause it clothes my hands for their
humiliation"
There was a rap at the door. Au-
gustus opened it and announced: Gen.
Green"
Duff Green" said the General. as
though a new thought occurred. Il
think now for once, in a way I shall
turn our rotund friend to partial use.''
And how will you compass that mir
acle?" 1 spoke rather in scorn than
curiosity since l owned to briefest ad-
miration for the Generals caller. 1T
will be novelty to see your Duff
Green of use"
"Why then" returned the General,
"the benefit I propose from him is
one simple enough. 1 shall have him,
in his paper, give this cabinet list to
the public. Once in print the thing is
ended-the nails for that cabinet
building will be clinched."
"And that is it, cried I, in opposi-
ton. "Now to my notion it is ever
best to hold a question of this sort in
allegiance until the latest moment.
Thereby you preserve for yourself room
wherein to change your plan"
zones first aim is the surest." re-
sponded the General. "Now I've never
known much good to come from this
plan-changing of which you talk. Nor
do 1 believe in secrets. One should
tell the people their business so soon
as ever that business is transacted.
More folk are trapped and slain with
their own secrets than are saved by
them. Besides one has no right to
lock a door between the people and
their affairs. There go but two keys
with government, one for the treas
ury and the other for the goal, and
every officer from pathmaster to
President should be made to study this
lesson of the keys until he can repeat
- -
To this lecture I made no retort
whether of comment, denial or agree
ment These distractions delighted
him; and in this instance I, too. list
ened with pleasure, not so much be-
cause of the deep-sea wisdom disclos-
ed as for that tranquility of spirit
after his tossing anger against Clay,
which their utterance would seem to
bring him. AS it stood, the Generals
high temper had faded and his heat
was much cooled away when Duff
Green appeared.
Continued in Next Sundays News.)