Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-08-10

tinct as the megalosaurian lizards
whose bones we used to find sticking
in the gully banks on Table Mesa. BY
the way, that reminds me. Are there
any Of those giant fossils left? l was
telling Professor Anners about them
the other day, and he was immensely
Interested"
"We're all fossils, we older folks Of
the cattle raising times" laughed the
man whom Richard Gantry had called
the "super governor" "But there are
some of the bones left, too, I guess,
and if the professor is a friend Of
yours We'll get him a state permit to
dig all he wants to-"
Eyes, Professor Anners is a friend
of mine," was the younger mans half
absent admission, "as much of a
friend as his daughter would ever al
low him to be-"
The qualifying clause was not
thrown away upon the senator.
"What has the daughter got against
you, son?' he asked mildly.
Nothing very serious" laughed Pa
tricia's lover. "But l think she is
jealous of any one who tries to share
her father with her. Next to her ca
reer''-
"That's Boston, isn't it," interrupted
the ex-cattle King. Then he added.
"I'm right glad it hasn't come in your
way to tie yourself up to n of those
careers Evan. my boy"
The young man felt better after he
had told his father his love story. 1t
was highly necessary that he should
tell some one, and whom better?
David Blount listened with the far
away look in his eyes that the son had
more than once marked as the great
est of the changes chargeable to the
aging years.
'Think a heap of her. do you, SOM
he said when the ambling saddle ami
mails had covered another half mile Of
the homeward journey.
$50 much that it went near to spoil
ing me when she finally made me real
ize that I couldn't hold my own
against the career" he made an
sWer Then he added: 81 want work,
father. That is what l am out here
for; the hardest kind of work and
plenty of it; something that I can put
my heart into. Can you find it for
me?'
There was the wisdom of the cen
turtles in the gentle smile provoked by
this u~nashamed lovers appeal.
Il wouldn't take it too hard if 1
were you, son. said the wise man.
"And as for the work, I guess we can
satisfy you if your appetite isn't too
big. How would a state Office do"
"Politics?' queried Blount, bringing
his horse down to the walk for which
his father had set the example. 1--WE
thought a good bit about that, though
I haven't had any special training that
way. The schools Of today are turn
ing out business lawyers-men who
know the law and are trained particu-
larly in its application to the great
business undertakings. That used to
be my ambition-to be a business adj
wiser and perhaps after awhile to
climb to the top of the ladder and be
somebody's corporation counsel"
But now you have %changed?"
81 don't know that l have. But
there are other fields hat are also at
tractive. No man can study the poll
tics of America today without seeing
the need for good men-men who will
administer the affairs of the state or
the nation without fear or favor; men
who will hew to the line under any
and all conditions"
A quaint smile was playing under
the dropping mustache of the Hon.
Senator Sagebrush.
that, Evan-need 'em mighty bad.
Think you could fill the bill if you had
a right good chance?"
The potential newer of political
chips smiled.
I'm not likely to get the chance
very soon,' he returned. Just at pres
ent l am still a legal resident of the
good old commonwealth of Massachu-
sets and a member of it's bar, eligible
to Office there and nowhere else"
you'd be a citizen Of this state by
the time you could get elected to an
Office in it." suggested the senator.
II know-the required term Of resi-
dence here is ridiculously short. But
you forget that I am as unknown in
the %sagebrush hills as you are we'll
known. I couldn't get a nomination
for the Office Of poundkeeper."
David Blount was chuckling softly.
Sounds right funny to hear you talk
that way. son." he commented. mighty
near everybody will tell you that the
slate hangs up behind the door at War
trace. and I don't know but some peo-
pie would say that old Sagebrush Dave
himself does most Of the writing on 1t.
Anyhow. there's one place on it that
Is still needing a name, and I guess
yours would At 1t as well as any
body's."
The young man, who was SO lately
out of the we'll considering east,
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