The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-08

i II hear you're going to leave, ht
said.
sure and I'm not said Kelly.
But you said you wouldn't take or
ders from MacManaman."
What's that got to do with leaving?'
said Kelly.
| The Mayor lay back in his chair and
felt rested. His eyes twinkled and he
looked at Kelly with the amused smile
in which few politicians detected the
note of semi-contemptuous superiority
I Kelly" he said, you're a bird!
think I'd like to make you assistant tc
my secretary. He never heard of Con-
naught. Will you do it?''
! From that time on Kelly found things
with even greater ease than before. His
! Honor was good judge of men. II
man would stand up against Con-
| naught just because his mother had
expressed an aversion to it, his Honor
calculated that he would spend his time
and money for a friend just because he
| saw him every day. That was the kind
! of man his Honor needed.
! So Kelly found a seat in the City
Council and then seat in the County
Central Committee, and then the hy-
drant-key above mentioned, which
Z
find that he had ever made.
For several years that hydrant-key
worked industriously and profitably. It
tapped the hydrants in the Sixth Ward
and the vertical-spray wagons shot the
macadam pavements full of holes after
the manner of such wagons, and Kelly's
neighbors paid him four cents a front
foot per month, and Kelly himself
10 nrfn of bn in
Larry's saloon at the corner. Especial
ly did he spend his money on O'Brien.
OBrien wasn't Democratic County
Central-Committeem but he tried to
be in the sprinkling business, and he
had to look for his hydrant-key With a
fifty-dollar permit before he could find
it. Also, he had to come up with
hundred dollars every month for the
water which his sprinkling wagons
consumed. These drawbacks resulted
in the transfer of a large part Of his
business to Kelly. So Kelly was always
finding him over at Larrys corner
He's a fine fellow, that Kelly" said
O'Brien.
"O'Brien's all right said Kelly.
I'm going to get his mother a job to
be janitresS in the City Hail.
Hall, in place of the Mayor with the
indulgent smile, new Mayor, a young
man who thought he knew more than
men who were old enough to be his
father. This young man invented the
idea that everybody should pay for his
hydrant-key and that the water-office
should know where all the hydrant-
keys were. SO he sent out bunch of
knockers who rounded up all the hy-
drant-keys in the city. Among others
they found Kelly's. They found it I'M
deniably working with it's nose in the
corner hydrant just outside Larry's
saloon.
Kelly went down at once to see the
Mayor.
who's been knocking me?" said
Kelly.
Nobody" said the Mayor.
I've always been with you said
Kelly, and if anybody says 1 amt he's
a liar
So then, with instructive native
Kelly said nothing further,
but went out silently to look for his
key. He had squared himself with the
Mayor, and he loafed about the corri-i
doris of the water-office waiting for the
custo Ian of the keys to get the tip.
There seemed to be a delayed pass
about that tip
Il put myself right with the Mayor"
said Kelly to the new Water Commits
sioner Somebody's been trying to
queer me, but I got there in time. I'm
strong now
clad to hear it, said the Water
Commissioner, shaking hands hurried
ly and then turning back to the dia-
grams on his desk. This was the
same Water Commissioner who invent
ed the idea of having the men in the
water-off1ce come down to work every
day. His intention of sighting Kelly
by going on working in his presence
was too obvious to be overlooked.
They've been knocking me TO you,
too said Kelly. There's somebody
against me-
few days later his suspicious were
confirmed. He went in to see the May
or about Mrs. OBrien. 1t was the first
time that he had asked a job from the
new administration. His smile was
smile Of confidence as he entered the
Mayors Office. But when ne came out