The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-15

said.
look like a picture, and we won't let
the habit get dry until morning"
Philip, to quiet his mothers fears
about his own stalWart health, went to
his room to change his coat, and then
going into the library settled himself
! In deep armchair to read such news
| from Washington as filters slowly into
the county papers. Half an hour later.
attracted by a slight noise on the other
side of the room, he looked up to find
Miss O'ConnOr standing before the tire
! in short-waisted gown of red satin
of the fashion of half century ago
Don't let me disturb you" she said.
1 am merely experiencing a new de-
| sire. l believe | am actually longing
| for a grandfather
She rested both hands upon the man
| tel and stared up at a picture i'm a
| gllde1 frame 1t was the portrait of Il
delicately featured young man arrayed
| IN black and wearing a f1aring Byronic
collar. who was hep" she asked.
He was your husband, if You are
the ghost Of my grandmother" he said.
rising and coming closer to. the fire.
i d" feel like ghost" she said.
dreamlly feel as if my world was
liett so far behind
Her cheeks We're flushed, and I'm her
deep gray eyes there was a new ex-
preston of sadness. Philip regarded
| herSfOr few moments in silence.
Are the sensations of a ghost pleas
ANTI" he asked
| "Oh, / don't understand" she sail
tapping her foot impatiently upon he
! bearskfn rug. Il doubt if a man ever
Understands woman. Did it ever nc-
cur TO you what part you men call on
| a ~
no matter how old. We must be CAV
to make you glad. We must think Of
| you ways-always, or else you FORGET
us, and then we are powerless either
for good or for evil
Not at ALL" he said, in blunt con-
tradictiOn. Your viewpoint is being
colored by the fashion of your gown.
No woman is as helpless as in the days
of our grandmOthers.'
oh, l know I'm taking the worldly
point of view" she said YEARLY. The
narrow, political point. I've been up
stairs talking to your sister-she is so
tender, so good. so unworIdly that she
has made me remOrseful, and because
l was troubled l selected the gayest
gown in the garnet. Minnie has gone
to see about luncheon; she will return
! in moment, and | don't know that
I shall ever have the chance to talk
to you again. At present I'm animated
by a feeling of loyalty to my father
You said you did not like him"
He was silent making no attempt
to soften his first statement. He was
thinking that she was beyond cIassi-
fication, and was wondering why her
rich beauty had never appealed to him
before.
q fancy that your dislike is founded
I dc cha
on. You don't approve of the means
by which he gains his ends. l wanted
to tell you that l have helped him. 1t
does not seem fair that you should
blame him without blaming mel am
sharing his success. Don't you under
stand that honesty demands that 1
share his shame as well?"
He opened his lips to speak but she
stopped him.
Let me go on" she said 81 want
to tell you that | think you are a lit
tie hard in your judgments. Perhaps
you might make allowances if you had
ever felt as we have felt-if you had
sprung from common stock and seen
the real SOrdidneSs of poverty, the
shrieking, Squalid, shirt-sleeve sort. the
kind in which my grandfather lived
and died, and which fathers life has
been a struggle to keep from falling
back into. He managed by hard work
/ to get some sort of an education. He
was reasonably successful in his bust
/ ness ventures, and he gave me all the
advantages that a girl could ask My
father was civilized by my mother long
before I knew him. If my mother had
lived I might have been different. but
my father was a strong man and J.
unreservedly, accepted his viewpoint
| When he first went into politics he
wanted to enter the legislature. His
election depended upon his being NOM
mated by the vote of the majority of
few delegates This nomination was
/ equivalent to an election. At the pri-
mary election they were evenly divided
That afternoon father found that one
of his delegates had been bought by
the other side. That evening at ball
met two of the opposing delegates
and ! bought them before the evening
was over. I had $500 of my own in
the bank. and l gave them $3.50 apiece
Father won the political leadership
began my political career.
shortly after this a syndicate Of
which father was member wanted
to lease the waterworks of the city.
1t was not honest. for it was passing
public property over to private indi-
viduals without giving the citizens any
return For weeks worked among our
opponents. ] gave theatre parties and
| lunches to their wives and their daugh-
tiers Four or five of the young, un-
married councilmen fell in love with
me, and 1 persuaded them to vote
| against their convictions. My natural
frankness has always deceived people.
Because / can say half that / mean
am counted candid. That night. before
the bill was passed. went to the town
hall to a meeting that was being held
to protest against the bill. / don't
know why I went Sometimes my mo-
tives are beyond me. One frail looking