The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-17

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me passing street cars in Washington
street, a hundred feet below.
Inc door TO the inner room was wide
open MISS Prescott had Sauntered ont
I'VE minutes before, because il had oc-
CURED 10 her that all the business OF
Inc interview respecting the chfldreu's
Fairgrounds bill was really done. THAT
had occurred also to the secretary of
inc Prairie Avenue Social Settlements
league and TO the chairman of the SEN
ATE committee on cities Still, they lin
6ered in there. AS for Emmett linger-
ing had not got TO be a vocation with
MN whenever this tall young lady was
concerned.
I wish that electric consolidation bill
were well out of the way" he was say
Ing, with preOccupied abruptness. If he
looked worried, it was so fleeing an ex-
preston that the secretary could not be
sure He came back at once to his
confident manner. But ] mean that
It shall be; I'm sending a man to work
ii on now"
She was smiling at him a little vague
y.
wen. I shall go to Springfield Tues
day hope it will go through She
looked down and brushed her neatly
gloved fingers along the edge of the
desk.
As a kind Of discovery. Emmett found
Ter in that small, distracted action, in
eXpressibly feminine
It's pretty hard for you to 90 down
there" he said-sO personally that there
was little commC ton in the secreta-
rvs pulse
Yes, sometimes IT'S pretty hard-and
not always quite pleasant with some of
the people But''-she smiled-"a good
many things are pretty hard"
The chairman stepped over to her
No; don't go down there again. he
said abruptly There's no need. It's
just getting your bill reported by my
committee. Leave it to me. I want to
90 something"
But I've engaged to go she protest
ed, nervOCsly, steadily looking down.
Mrs. Randall thought I ought to"
No; he repeated I know better
tileR Mrs. Randall, If you don't leave
II to me I'll beat your bill The com
mittee shant report II at all"
oh. if it's a question Of life or death.
Ct course, I surrender" She laughed, too.
in the same nervous way. IF YOU think
that's best" she added, rather hum5ly
Tor the laugh would not hold out, and
she started for the door.
As Emmett took the fist step beside
her. his hand brushed her sleeve. so that
il could scarcely be said whether he had
touched ner or detained her for the
wink of an eye.
Thank You, 7 won't forget" he
said TREMENDOUSLY. under his breath: and
Returning To the InLer room from
usEeTing the two ladies out and clos
ms the door behind him. Emmett kept
assuring himself amid the endless tur-
E1oil in his mind that nothing whatever
had happened. Once he found himself
gripping the top of the low bookcase in
his two strong hands. as though he
we're going TO cOeTCe If into acknowledge
ing that nothing had happened He
kept thinking OF himself in odd, disCOn-
Hected pieces
When the Clarion published its esti-
mate Of city candidates for the IegiS-
laturC, this paragraph appeared under
his name and senatorial district:
Democrat Age p Born IN Cook
county Lawyer An unknown guam
tity- Well educated. good speaker. But
owes his nomination to johnny Gala
cher. Has some respectable friends.
who Say he Is better than his sponsors.
Looks dubious"
It looked dubious to Emmett himself
just then He had told her once that
ne believed IN practical politics He
thought he had never been a bad fell
low. But there had been a certain care
lessnesS. 4 certain free-handed liberal
ness. in his politics Especially there
was this affair Of the electric bill. It
came back II him in a kind of lump.
also, she came back TO him just as she
had stood there beside the desk 1t
providence might well personally pre-
vent that presence from coming any
farther into affairs that looked so dub
Gus; and he made a little prayer to her
or to the providence. or to both, to the
effect that if she would come in he
yvOtld get himself all spOtlessIy cleaned
Up and De worthy of her
It looked rather more than dubious to
Mr.. Gordon Prescott, president of the
Consolidated Light and Power COM
pany-
He was explaining it to the men in
the smOking-rOom after dinner: so the
sang in the city council got up a paper
concern that they called the MetrOpOli-
tan Electric company an passed an Or
dinanCe for it Then. when they couldn't
sell out 10 me or TO the South Side Illu-
minatinS company they turned il over
to Johnny Gallagher. He got some
money and built a shed that he calls q
power station on the west side and
strung some wires and pretended to 70
into the electric lighting business Well
my company and the South Side Illu-
minating gOt around to the point where
were willing to go in together, to con-
sOlidate. We can save $780, GOO a year
Dy II, and give just as good and cheap
q service to the public. The lawyers
look il over, and they find that there'l
have to be a little amendment to thC
state incorporation law. They fix OF
the amendment and introduce it into
the Senate. Then it's referred to tbs
committee on cities. instead OF to the
committee on corpora tons. as it Should
be. anC we find out that johnny Gala
CHER owns that committee, body, boots
and breeches. and we've got to make
terms with him and buy out his rotten
metropolitan company at his price OF
err amendment viii be hung up lis
Just damnableI = ice mess for ladies
10 be mixed up with in their play
grounds bill. And this fellow Emmett
that Miss Page quoted to US, is chair
man of that committee. He'll pick hel
pockets il she doesn't lock out"
Nevertheless. the fellow Emmett bore
100 outward marks of deg6Heracy as. OF
Monday about noon he entered the in
uer room on the upper floor 0f one Il