Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-27

suggestion of reproof had accentuated his pallor. Under his excitement he looked illand worn.
 You might talk till doomsday, but every word would be wasted" he said irrltnbiy. I'm past praying for by something like six years"
 "Then why come here?'' Loder was pulling hard on his pipe. I'm not n dealOr In sympathy"
 T don't require sympathy" Chilcote rose again. He was still agitated, but the agitation was quieter. T want much more expensive thing than sym pathy, and am willing to pay for it."
 The other turned and looked at him. T have no possession in the world that would be worth Aver to you" he said soldly. You're either under delusion IT you're wasting my time." .n
 Chilcotc laughed nervously. Wait" he said. "Wait. I only ask you to wait. First let me sketch you my posi- tion. It won't take many words"
 My grandfather was a Chilcote of
 
 first of his day and his class to recog- nize that there was future in trade, so. breaking his own little twig from the family tree, he went south to Warll and entered shipowning firm. In thirty years time he died, the owner of one of the biggest trades in England, having married the daughter of his chief My father was twenty-four and still at Oxford when he inherited. Al most his first act was to reverse my grandfathers early move by going north and piecing together the family friendship. He married his first cousin, and then, with the Chilcote prestige re- vived and the shipping money to back 1t, he entered on his ambition. which was to represent East Wark in the Con- servative interest. It was a big fight, but he won-as much by personal in- fuence as by any other. He was an aristocrat, but he was keen business man as well. The combination carries weight with your lower classes. He never did much in the house, but he was power to his party in Wark. | They still use his name there to con lure with"
 Loder leaned forward interestedly. Robert Chilcote?" he said. T have heard of him. One of those fine. unos- tentatious fgures-strong in action, a little narrow in outlook, perhaps, but essential to countrys staying power. You have every reason to be proud of your father
 Chlcote laughed suddenly. 'How easily we sum up when matter is i'm personal. My father may have been a fine figure, but he shouldn't have left me to climb to his pedestal" Loder's eyes questioned In his new ly awakened interest he had let his pipe go out.
 Don't you grasp my meaning" | Chilcote went on. My father died and I was elected for East Wark. You may say that if had no real inclination for the position I could have kicked, but tell you couldn't. Every local inter- est, political and commercial, hung up- on the candidate being a Chilcote. did what eight men out of ten would have done. yielded to pressure"
 Tt was a fine opening~ The words escaped Loder.
 Most prisons have wide gates" Chilcote laughed again unpleasantly. ''That was six years ago. had started on the morphia track four years earlier, but up to my fathers death had it un- der my thumb. or believed had, and in the realization of my new responsi- bilities and the excitement of the po- litlcal fight I almost put 1t aside. For several months after entered parlia- ment worked. I believe I made one speech that marked me as a coming man." He laughed derisively. "I even married'-
 "MarriedY'
 "Yes-a girl of nineteen. the ward of a great politician. It was a brilliant marriage. politically as well as socially, but 1t didn't work. I was born without the capacity for love. First the social life palled on me. then my work grew irksome. There was only one factor to make life ndurable-morphia Before | six months were out had fully admit ted that"
 But your wifef'
 "Oh. my wife knew nothing nothing. It is the political business, the beastly routine of the political life, that Is wearing me out" He stopped nervously. then hurried on again. "1 | tell you it's hard to see the same faces. | to sit fin the same seat day fin. day out, knowing all the time that you must hold yourself in hand. must keep your | grip or the reins"-
 Tt is always possible to apply for the Chiltern Hundreds"
 ''To retire? Possible to retirei" Chilcote broke into a loud. sarcastic laugh. You don't know what the To- cal pressure of a place like wark stands for. Twenty times I have been within an ace of chucklng the whole thing. once last year wrote private iy to Vale. one of our big men there, and hinted that my health was bad. ' Two hours after he had read my letter he was in my study. Had l been in Greenland the result would have been the same. No: resignation is n mean ingless word to q man like me" ! L0ier looked down. Il see" he said slowly: 'I see"
 Then you see everything-the diff. ] ficulty. the isolation of the position.