New-York tribune., 1908-01-26

tenor filed away. Couldn't
v.u get whocvcrI Is nanag-
IN, ...trIlnd and me I've Come Miles
,o vary heir vocabulary oee You MF' Speaker
"a httc:
The man mumblcd
something about It's being the work OF shameless
1a.nc syndicatcs in the East but his buster
al gone The Speaker. however. was lust as
cordial as before in bidding him good by. When
the door had swung To-, he continued TO Wear his
bland smile and merely SAID IN rather an absent
1 spoke more truly than | knew he Devil he
came also. And now he knows l know him. y
very profitable visit
THEN he turned to us and insisted that we should
stay and have lunch with Miss Speaker, who
to JON HIM in their private dining room down
stairs about this time. In the Speakers dining
eat the same things that can be ordered IN the
big House restaurant next door; but china deli
cate and pink shells IS substituted for heavy
dishes that look as II they had been Jumped out of
white clay with pudding stick and everything IS
quiet, while in the restaurant there is a constant
clash like the fat man falling down stairs in the
thcatcr But, perhaps after all it only the
stimulation of the clever company and the of
cxcIusiveness-I wonder, Eta whether am getting
10 be d snob that made that luncheon of sand
wiches and PIE taste like a French caterers best
effort at elaborate courses
Miss Speaker had brought a Miss Gavlord with
her and as they had come up in an open automobile
both wanted to embrace the open log fire Suddenly
| happened to glance by them into the mirror
the m"nlel and saw Captain RGderigue$ reflection
III iHt doorway lIpuShI must bc seem
things; but Miss Speaker was facing the reality,
and her exclamation reassured me.
Come in, little bOVi' She called. This IS
party, and | don't want anyone looking the
fence
A thousand pardons. dear Miss Speaker"
begged the Captain, and there a look of child
like embarrassment in his beautiful eyes. Il was
looking for he began.
An honest man, perhaps" teased Miss Speaker
well, then, come IN and prove a modern Dlogencs
grit by facing three painfully honest women"
To my surprise he did come III and IO1n the lunch
con company, and | glad in view of all this
tcstNltV that | had tailor suit and
Captain ROderque tried to draw the Speaker INTO
a whispered conversation; but the Speaker insisted
upon walking up and down, swinging his soft felt
hat IN one hand and unlighted cigar in the other
and singing:
Savation's free q YOU and 1nc'
The Captain looked a little annoyed; but Miss
Speaker seemed amused
Never mind. Captain Rodcriquc," she laughed.
that $ the way he treats me, even when | am bent
as important a mission reminding him to
send the oldest iii Clark County her quota
OF garden seeds, the fact that the livery stable
man in our town has not received his Government
pamphlet on the diseases of horses
At the luncheon table Miss Speaker and Amos
Tell INTO discussion of methods of campaigning
and she drew Amos out III a surprising way. Miss
Gaylord, who 1t is the daughter of the Sec
retary of the Interior, known the grandfather"
in the remarkably young Cabinet of this admnstra-
ton, and is the head of her fathers house
hold bent all her sprightly efforts entertain
ing the Speaker with anecdotes of her experience
hostess So Captain Roderique and | were left
alone.
= 1t for this that | mistooI this door for a
committee room" he said. with that fascinating
smile at once so arch and bland and yet so sadly