Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1911-05-26

WHY, bless Ny west to which you
SOUL. OF All. TIE sad you were
LUCKY THINGS comino Patricia 80
1T is. and you're to blame. young
man." snapped the father of the peer
/ less maid. IF you've been telling me
| tibs about those meGalosauridae which
you said could be dug out Of your sage
brush hills you'll pay cur fare back
| home northumberland? Now show
US to the best hotel I'm this mushroom
| city Of yours. and do 1t quickly"
Having Il definite thing to do. Blount
forgot his problem and bestirred him
self Hospitality.
Though 1t WAS only three squares to
the Inter Mountain. he chartered the
best looking auto he could find In the
hack rank. put his charges into It and
went with them to do the hOnors at
the hotel. thereby missing two things
which might have had IN important
bearing on the temporarily forgotten
problem.
If he had gone Directly to the office
1
| door of the station building he could
hardly have missed meeting Il tall. full
faced man coming out of Gantry's pri-
vate room. ard he might have over
heard the visitors parting word to
Gantry: "Oh. yes: he fell for 1t all
right. II you'd seen his face when
Lackner and came away you'd have
said there were battle. murder and
sudden death In 1t for somebody"
But. see here. Bradbury" Gantry
held lis visitor to say. lit wasn't In
the game that you were to fill him up
with a lot Of lies. won't stand for
that. you know. He is too good IL fell
low and too good friend Of mine"
It was Mt this conjuncture that
Blount, II he had been present and
Invisible. would have seen n sour smile
wrinkle upon the full face Of the club
gossip.
| 1T wasn't necessary. If he or the
senator wanted to sue us for libel we
could prove every word that was said
And 1t got him-got him right In the
solar plexus. If you don't see some
fireworks within the next few days l
miss my guess and lose my ante"
On the other hand. II Evan had lin
gered a few minutes longer on the sta
ton platform he would have marked
Vice President McVickar crossing to
the carriage stand. followed by the
private car porter bearing impedi-
menta. At the carriage rank the vice
president climbed heavily into the
senator's roadster. which seemed to
have been arranged for in advance,
and was whirled stormily up to tho
Inter Mountain. where he traced his
illegible name in the great guest book
two minutes after Blount. still anx-
lous for the comfort Of Professor An
ners and the serene eyed maid. had
gone up In the elevator with them to
see that the rooms to which they had
been assigned were all that they
should be.
| Coming down few minutes later to
give the several luggage checks to the
hotel porter, BlOunt missed another
Incident which might have sent him
back suddenly to his problem and its
unsettled condition. When Mr.. Nc
vickar turned away from the clerks
desk 1t was to shake hands perfume
torily with the owner Of the fast road
| ster
We'll. SENATOR" he said. with q GER
tain logged emphasis. I'm here. Let's
find a place where we can fail 1t out"
And together they entered an elevator.
which. as chance would have 1t, pass
ed. in ascending. the car In which tho
younger Blount was coming down.
1t was to the senator's suit that the
TWO opposing field commanders made
their way when their car reached the
fourth floor. In the senator's sitting
room McVickar dragged q chair over
to one OF the windows which COM
manded n view Of the Lost River
mountains and dropped into 1t mas
sively.
x suppose we may cut out the pre-
liminaries and come to the point at
once" he began. "Ackerton wired me
that you had definitely announced your
son as candidate for the attorney
generalship. Have your"
The senator was opening q box Of
cigars. and his reply savored Of good
injured irony.
THE primaries do the nominating In
this state. Hardwick. Didn't you know
thatW he asked mildly,