Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1911-06-30
absence wcre just as keen. But now
Patricia confessed freely TO a lonS.n.
for the sight II city streets

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Won have inicrferod with uoth.As,
was the ready assurance. NO induce
faent that vas ever devised would
take the senator away from his own
state during political campaign, and
Your coming has been blessing. But
for the god excuse t. bring your IA
Their out here to the fossil beds We
should have been moved up IL the In
ter Mountain hotel from the firing OF
the opening gun - the day after cleo
ton. 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
awhile
u shall be delighted" said Patricia.
and the eyes which were SO apt to
tell tales confirmed II. Then she add
cd, Now that father has his box Of |
Will never miss US"
On their first day in the capital |
Evan was away, but he returned the F..
allowing morning, and Mrs. Blount
Captured him for theater box party.
1t proved to be q rather more for
nidable affair than Evan had antici-
pated There was a sufficient num-
Der Of guests to I'LL two Of the open
dress circle boxes. Gantry was Of the
number, and so were the Weatherfords
father. mother, daughters and son.
Blount had been counting upon a
measurably uudisturbed evening with
Patricia, but fate or Il designing host
ess interviewed. and he found himself
cornered between Mrs. Weatherford
and her younger daughter. with the
square shouldcrcd reform candidate
for governor strengthening the bar
lier which separated him from Pa
sricia.
Hlount had met Gordon socially a
number Of times, and in the intervals
allowed him by Mrs. Weathcrford he
Ias silently studying the face of the
big man. who, if the gods should SO
direct, might be the leader and chief
political figure in the state for the sue
cceding two years.
1t was a good face and, in Blount's
estimate, an exceedingly strong one.
Almost unconsciously he fell to con-
trastfng it with that of Reynolds. the
candidate for whom the corporation
interests We're 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 timeserver.
Weighing the two men one against
the other-Reynolds was sitting In an
adjacent box with party of railroad
Ofiicials-Blount was conscious of a
twinge of regret that chance or his
convictions had made him n partisan
of the weaker man.
Throughout the play and the inter
missions the Weatherfords - mother
and daughter-kcpt him from eXchang
Ing SO much rs Il word with Miss An
hers. whom Gantry was shamclessly
monopolizing But on the short re-
turn walk to the hotel after the play
Blount resolutely pushed his friend
aside and gave Patricia his arm.
Il think YOU owe me Il very abject
apology was the way she began on
him when they had such privacy as
the crowded sidewalks conferred
Consider them made and then tell
mc what for" he countered.
Consider n moment You come to
me with really narrowing story of
Your new experiences, and just as l
am beginning to get interested there
IS an interruption, and in the morning,
ut some perfectly impossible hour, off
you go. and we hear no more Of you
FOR weeks and weeks. What have you
been DOING"
Il have been doing precisely what
you told Inc to DO -preachin. the Cos
pei Of honesty and fair dealing and
trying my level best to make other
people practice it."
You have been Successfult" she
asked quickly.
REASONABLY 50 in the preaching,
since that depended solely upon me. AS
10 the other, l don't know. Sometimes
] think the houSeclcaners are honestly
"a I I
they are putting up front only 10
deceive me. Some time perhaps ]
may tell YOU how far have had to
20 into the practical politics armory
l. get my weapons"
And your father, Evan-are Won
coming to understand him any bet
ter:'
lie shook his head deSpondently.
No. or, rather, YES. am afraid !
am coming 10 understand him or his
methods only too well. The only way
We can keep from quarreling now is
70 Danish politics when we are to-
SetAer."
Il am sorry" she said, ana the sor-
VOW was emphatic In her tone. As |
have said before. YOU don't understand
Lin. 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 for
others when You try. Can't you be
broad Fl him.
Il vas good 10 hear her defend his
i4iheF. Il Mas what he would have
Wished -, wife to do. Suddenly there