Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-03-18

POLITICAL UHuT6 Ia the Btdt6 IOK ING sue
ceeding two years.
1t was a good face and, IN Blount's
estimate. an exceedingly strong one.
Almost unconeciously he fell to con.
trasting It with that Of Reynolds, the
candidate for whom the corporation
interests were working.
Though Blount himself was on the
corporation side, he could not help ad-
hitting that the comparison was not
favorable to Reynolds. He said to
himself that Reynolds' face was the
face Of a t1meserver.
Weighing the two men one against
the other-Reynolds was sitting In an
adjacent box with q party Of railroad
0f1ciafs-Blount was conscious Of a
twinge of regret that chance or his
convictions had made him q partisan
of the weaker man.
Throughout the play and the inter
missions the Weatherfords - mother
and daughter-kept him from exchang.
ing so much as a word with Miss An
Hh~ASy "AVA@ 8AAs1y mas @AdIhciS@1Ay
monopolizing. But on the short re-
turn walk to the hotel after the play
Blount r~esolutely pushed his friend
aside and gave Patricia his arm.
II think You W me a very AFFECT
apology" was the way she began on
him when they had such privacy as
the crowded sidewalks conferred.
Consider them made and then tell
me what for" he countered
Consider a moment You come to
me with a really narrowing story OF
-FOUR new experiences, and Just as /
am beginning to get Interested there
10 an interruption, and in the morning,
at some perfectly impossible hour, of
you go. and WI hear no iaore Of you
for weeks and weeks What have you
been doing7~
~ have been doing precisely what
you told ms to ~do-preaching the gos-
pei Of honesty and fair dealing and
trying my level best to make other
people practice it.o
"You have been s~ucceasfulT' she
asked quickly.
Reasonably 80 In the preaching.
since that depended solely upon me As
to the other, I don't knew. Sometimes
I think the housecleansru are honestly
at work, and at other times l am afraid
they are putting mp 4 front only to
deceive me. Some time perhaps I
may tell you how far I have had to
go into the practical politics. armory
TO get my weapons"
"And your father, Evan-are you
coming to understand him any bet
terri
He shook his head despondentiy.
NO. or, rather, yes. I am afraid
am coming to understand him or his
methods only too well. The only way
we can keep from Quarreling now is
to Danish politics when we are to
gether."
-" am sorry," she said, and the cor
row was emphatic In her tone. CAS-
have said before, you don't understand
him You are judging him by stand
ards which. however just and true they
may be, are peculiarly your own stand
ards. ! know you can be broad TO,
others when you try. Can't you bs
broad for himY'
1t was good to hear her defend hi.
father. II was what he would havs
wished his wife to do. Suddenly Their,
arose within him q huge reluctance ii
lessen or to weaken In n way hel
trust In David Biount
Let us say that the fault Is mine,
he said hastily. God forbid that
should be the means of making yo,
think less of him In any respecti"
HE Is simply a grand old man-thl
first | have ever known for whom tn
{ hnckneyed phrase seemed to have beef
, made" she asserted warmly. "If b.
. has faults / am sur they are nothing
!, more than gigantic virtues, the fault
OF a man who Is too strong TO be littl,
in any way"
With Patricia In town, the "siive
tongGed spellbinder of Quaretar,
: Mesa" as the Daily Capital called tn,
= new division counsel, would have beef
2 glad to eyade some OF ths speaking up
pointmeuts, but as his engagement
, had been made for some days In ad
I vance he was obliged TO go.
On his return TO the capital he wa
delighted to find the party Of three stil
occupying the private dining room sui
In the Inter-Mountain. Arriving o.
the morning train, he was permitted t
make the party Of three a party OF fou
at the breakfast table.
Later, however. when he went to hi
Offices in the Temple court buildin.
the s~trenucsities asserted themselve
again with somewhat startling empns
sis. Though he found his desk close
and was reasonably sure that he ha
in bis own possession the only Ike
thai would unlock 1t, he found his ps
pers scattered in confusion under tn
roll top and the letters and telegram
which had come during .nis absenc
opened. A touch Of the electric butte
brought the s~tenographer from th
anteroom.
who's been In my desk. Collins
be demanded, pointiRg TO che eenfusio
and a-eruafnfxing tha face Of the pszsrs