Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-06-23

ana ala they tell you they'd de
stroy you II you didnt?"
"Oh, that of course" he answered
indifferently.
We'll, what did you do?"
PLAYED with EN- till was elected
Then | dropped Goodrich line You
go to hell I wrote I travel with
men,
Very imprudent," was my com
ment
Yes he admitted, but l had to
do something to get the dirt off my
hands"
so Burbank has gone over to
Goodrich | went on, presently, as
much to myself as to him.
II always knew he was one of those
chaps you have to keep scared to
keep straight said Woodruff They
think your politeness indicates fear
and your friendship fright Besides
he's got a delusion that his popularity
carried the west for him and that
you and l did him only damage. 3"
Woodruff interrupted himself with a
laugh "A friend of mine" he re.
sumed, was on the train with Scar
borough when he went east to the
meeting Of congress last month He
tells me It was like a president-elect
on the way to be inaugurated. The
people turned out at every crossroads.
even beyond the Alleghanies. And
Burbank knows 1t. If he wasn't clean
daft about himself he'd realize that II
it hadn't been for you--well, I'd hate
to say how badly he'd have got left.
But then if It hadn't been for YOU.
he'd never have been governor He
was a dead one and you hauled him
out of the tomb"
True enough. But what did it mat
ter now?
He's going to get a horrible Jolt
before many months" Woodruff went
on. Il can see you after him
You forget. He's president" an
swored. He's beyond our reach"
Not when he wants a renomina.
ton insisted Woodruff
lie can get that without us-if."
! said. You must remember we've
made him fetish with our rank and
file. And he's something of fetish
With the country now that he's presi-
dent No, we can't destroy him
can't even injure him. He'll have
20 do that himself. if it's done. Be
sides"
| did not finish. | did not care to
confess that since Frances and ] saw
CRANKY swinging from that tree in
3}y GROUNDS had neither heart nor
stomach for the relentless side of
the game. Indeed, whether from cal
culation or from sentimentalty or
from bOth-or, from a certain sympa-
;aF and fellow feeling for all kinds
Of Weakness have never pursued
those who have played me false. ex-
cept when exemplary punishment was
Imperative.
Well Woodruff looked bitterly
disappointed. Il guess you're right"
He frightened Il forgot Goodrich for
a minute. Burbank'll do himself I'D
through that--I'd have to he In
guage that describes him"
Il fear he will, ! said. And it was
not a hypocrisy-for ! did not, and
could not, feel anger toward him
Had | not cut this staff deliberately
because it was crooked? What more
natural than that it should give way
under me as soon as | leaned upon
it?
your sickness certainly couldn't
have come at an unluckier time"
Woodruff observed just before he
left.
I'm not sure of that" was my re-
ply 1T would have been useless to
have found him out sooner And if
he had hidden himself until later, he
might have done us some serious mis-
chief
AS he was the president-elect, to go
to him unlimited would have been in
fringement of his dignity as we'll as
of my pride. A few days later
wrote him, thanking him for his mes
| sages and inquiries during my illness
and saying that | was once more TAX
ing part in affairs. He did not reply
by calling me up on the telephone, as
he would have done in his cordial, in
innate years preceding his grandeur
Instead he sent a telegram of con
graduation, following it with a note.
lie urged me to go south, as | had
| planned, and stay until | was fully re-
stored. q shall deny myself the pleas
ure of seeing you until you return"
That sentence put off our meeting in
definitely could see him smiling at
its adr0itness as he wrote it.
But he made his state of mind even
clearer. His custom had been to be.
gin his notes: Dear Harvey" or
Dear Sayler," and to end them
James" or Burbank" This note be-
gan: My Dear Senator" it ended:
Yours sincerely James f. Burbank"
As | stared at these phrases my blood
steamed to my brain. Had he spat
in my face my fury would have been
less. Sol" | thought in the first
gust of anger, you feel that you have