The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-09

ing, Mr.. Cleveland turned tired face
toward the great. sun-lighted window.
Somewhere IN the big features was an
expression as of one harried.
"Dorsheimer was just up here he
spoke, and he used exactly the same
words that you did, or you the same
that he did, lest there be any question
as to whom belongs the distinction.
You seem not highly gleeful, Mr..
Governor, as TO the. outlook, / ven
tured The spectacle OF a man saddened
by the prospect Of a presidential nonin-
alton was new to me. and rather discon-
locked on, silent Wholly inert, he
gazed through the window with a far
away stare which observed nothing.
'.Yes," he nuttered to himself at
length: yes, ] believe things are coming
this way.
The lettering breeze brushed a tree
limb against the awning outside the
window The Governor stirred, with
drew the non-observant stare. glanced
sharply for an instant at his caller. and
suddenly leaned heavily up on his elbow.
He spoke strongly enough now, some
thing of protest, something of appeal
in his tone or manner. He bent earnest
" forward as he spoke:
Eyes, ] have felt things coming this
way. and | feel certain now that I
cannot escape it,
Escape the nomination. | blurted.
Yes. the nofnination-escape the NOM
ination, say. Tell me this. Can you
understand rle-1nigllt ANYBODY under
stand me-when ] say that, if were
to indulge my personal impulse at this
moment I would go away into some
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man could reach and where this awful
burden might never find me
There was slow intensity about this
utteraace, and as he paused there was
in the Governors eyes an anxiety lest
his visitor might not distinguish be-
tween weakness and apprehension, be-
tween cowardice and the "buck-fever'
of an honest man. He expected an an
swer.
Yours is nervous apprehension, Mr..
Governor-tllat of man who fears not
the responsibility, but who questions his
power to achieve his own ideals, | said.
Whereat, after a moment OF earnest
scrutiny, the Governor dropped back
among the oillows with a look and mo-
ton of relief I then he listened, as
one who would be convinced, to the
story Mary Anderson once told the
writer. Of being frozen stiff and almost
speechless in the wings of her first ap-
pearance in a notable play; and OF how,
doubling herself and stanmering forth,
she soon gained command of her pow
ers, and then of the great audience, with
triumph at the close
"There is some comfort IN these
things you say" remarked Mr.. Cleve-
land, nodding confirnatively.
ssAfen who dance hippantly forth to
meet great responsibilities are not, |
added. those who mark UP high stand
ards Of success Your apprehension,
sir, is a good symptom"
Tension in Mr. Cleveland's face re-
Taxed, though somewhere IN the features
sat a grim resolution. Though the
nerves loosed their strain, an air of de-
termination remained. Inertia possessed
brain and body-the inaction of man
who would bide his time. Turning his
face moment later to the broad, open
window the Governor smiled out into
the bright sunshine.
got the impression then, as now,
that whatever might be his impulse to
escape impending burden, this maj.
at the instant of stress would yield
nothing of his convictions to personal
indulgence.