El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-12
CHAPTER XIV.
THE DYNAMITER.

THE DYNAMITER-
= 7 was about the time that Evan
Blount was finishing his fourth
Is week Of the campaign Of educa-
ton that the senator's wife be
gan to detect signs Of country weari-
ness in the eyes Of Miss Patricia An
ners. During the last week or two
some impulse which she did not take
the trouble to analyze seemed to be
drawing the girl toward the city The
roads around -Wartrace were just as
good as ever, and the free pleasures
Of motoring in a country where speed
restrictions were conspicuous by their
absence were just as keen. But now
Patricia confessed freely to longing
for the sight of city streets.
"Only you mustn't consider US or
me so much as you do. Mrs. Blount,"
she protested. 81 have a dreadful sus-
picion that we have already interfered
shanefully with your autumn plans.
You are merely too kind and hospita-
bic to admit IT"
was the ready assurance. mo induce
ment that was ever devised would
take the senator away from his own
state during a political campaign, and
FOR the good excuse to bring your IA
Their out here to the fossil beds we
should have been mewed up in the In
ter-Mountain hotel from the firing of
the opening gun to the day after cleo
lion. But that is neither here nor
there You are tired of the country.
Shall telephone the senator that we
are going in this afternoon to stay
awhfle?"
81 shall be delighted" said Patricia,
and the eyes which were so apt TO
tell tales confirmed it. Then she add
ed, Now that father has his box of
books from the university library he
viii never miss u.s."
On their first day in the capital
Evan was away, but he returned the
following morning, and Mrs Blount
captured him for a theater box party.
It proved to be a rather more for
affair than Evan had antici-
pated- There was a sufficient num-
Der Of guests to I'LL two Of the open
aress circle boxes. Gantry was Of the
number, and so were the Weatherfords
father, mother. daughters and son.
Blount had been counting upon a
neasurably undisurbed evening with
but fate or a designing host
esS interviewed, and he found himself
between Mrs Weatherford
and her younger daughter, with the
square shoUldered reform candidate
for governor Strengthening the bar
her which separated him from Pa
tricia-
Blount had met Gordon socially a
NUMBER Of times, and in the intervals
allowed him by Mrs. Weatherford he
was silently studying the face of the
big man, who, if the gods should so
1irect, might be the leader and chief |
political figure in the state for the sue
seeding two years
It was good face and, in Blount's
,stimates an exceedingly strong one
Almost unconsciously he fell to con-
rasting it with that Of Reynolds, the |
candidate for whom the corporation |
were working
Though BIount himself was on the
side, he could not help adj /
hitting that the comparison was not
favorable to Reynolds He said to /
himself that Reynolds face was the /
ace of a timeserver
Weighing the two men one against
ne other-ReyDolds was sitting in an
Idjacent box with a party Of railroad
was conscious of a
winge of regret that chance or his
onFictions had made him partisan
4 the weaker man
Throughout the play and the inter