The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-06-10

WORLD"
with you about rather delicate mat
ter. It's about Miss Breed. Er-now
don't take this amiss, Phill-are you
contemplating anything serious in that
direction?'
Kelvin was silent for so long that
Herbert began to think he had not
heard, but presently he answered,
Nothing whatever
"SureT' Herbert asked
Absolutely" Kelvin replied.
'Thank you," said Herbert slowly.
'Rather caddish question, 1 know,
Phil, but between u.s. He, too, laps
ed into troubled silence.
Kelvin seemed to be about to say
something more, but he did not
"Sam, do you think that in a fight
could rely on your brother Peavy as I
could on you7" asked Kelvin as he
was dressing for;dinner that night. :
Deed, All doan' know, sah," an
swered Sam, putting the studs in Phil
lips shirt. "He's kim O. no count,
anyhow. All doan' reckon Aid place
too much 'liance on Peavy in pinch"
"Well, We'll keep him for his looks
then" said Kelvin, laughing. you
want to be careful, though, that he
doesn't steal Lucy from you"
Lucy! Huh?' grunted Sam, brush
ing the last speck of dust from Kel-
wins pumps. EFF that wuthless coon
even tuhns up the whites O. his eyes
t'wahd Lucy, Abs goan t. brock ev'y
bone in his body. Heh-heh! Lucy"
and Sam grinned.
"You don't want to be too sure, SAM
cautioned Kelvin. "Do you think you
could whip him?"
whip mp repeated Sam. "Why,
Mistuh Phillip, wild them two hams All
kin lick airy man in all this worp"
Kelvin, however, firing of the ban
ter, had strayed to the table in the
corner Of his dressing room, where lay
spread out an outline map Of the
United States, with figures here and
there contiguous to large cities-so
many troops massed here, so many
there, so many in that other place, at
stations scattered thickly from coast
to coast and from lakes to gulf, grand
total so many. He nodded his head
in satisfaction, sweeping his eye over
his diagram. The little points upon
his map were regiments of stalwart
men clad in the khaki Of the United
States government. He could hear the
tramp Of their feet, the click Of their
guns, the clank of their sabers. The
ground shook, under their rhythmic
tread, while nations heard and trem-
bhed. And these, all these, were Of his
dominion!
An insatiate ambition had taken
possession Of him. It had always
been there, he realized now, but it
had grown with his years and his op-
portunities. 1t had grown until it en-
comprised the seas and the land be-
yond until it encircled the earth.
At the porte cochere he found wait
ing limousine, with an open car be-
fore and behind it, each of these ex'
ira cars carrying four silent and alert
members of the secret service. Peavy
already sat beside the chauffeur of
the limousine, and Sam followed Kel-
vim into it, upon which all three Of the
autos moved away. Just beyond Du.
pont circle they were delayed by a
congestion of carriages, and Kelvin
saw Elsie White in the doorway of
the house occupied by Rollins and his
mother. Elsie was now Mrs Rollins
companion. She had loved him, this
girl; loved him, he knew, with an un
selfish heart ever since he had been a
penniless prospector years before;
loved him yet, he was sure, and he
had neglected this gift, had thrown 1t
away.
She was talking to her father and
George Blagg. Kelvin from within
his closed car saw White start away
with Blagg and Elsie apparently str1v'
ing to coax him back. She even came
out to the edge Of the walk and put
her hand upon his arm. Blagg, how