Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-03-02

anything more than the usual pledge
of faithful performance
After the dissolving of the joint eau
Gus he escorted Madeleine to the coun-
ell chamber, where the new governor
was holding his impromptu reception
There were no shadows on the faces
which pressed closely around him.
The general received the young cou-
pie with marked graciousness.
Governor Weymouth, you have con-
WINGED me today that you are the apos-
| tie of universal salvation for the
wicked-in politics. said the girl. Il
hope the doctrine will be accepted
In that belief you are a safe com
panion for my first disciple he re
turned, humoring her jest. The crowd
| carried them on.
Il believe that, too." Harlan muir
INJURED.
Universal salvation according to the
| new political creed?'
I'm not talking about politics. I'm
not thinking much about anything else
| just now except you. During the gov
ernor's address it came over me sud
denly what wise counsel you gave me.
If had you for an adviser all the rest
of my life could amount to more in
the world than 1 ever can without
YOU
She glanced at him sharply.
Il mean that he insisted. "Will You
be my adviser for the rest of my life?"
1t was a crude. blunt and sudden pro-
posa1. The throngS were eddying about
them. They were jostled at the mo-
| ment by the Toms, Dicks and Harrys
of the legislative concourse.. Curious
| eyes surveyed them. Ears were near by.
II can't help saying it here and
now" he rushed on. 'I"-
"My dear Harlan, you don't mean
to say that you are proposing to me
here in the face and eyes of this
crowd?" She said it with sudden amaz-
ed mirth dancing in her eyes, but with
a note of satire in her tone.
81 do mean itv' He cried it 20 loudly
that men turned their heads to stare
! at them.
'Hushr' she cried sharply, and then
pulled him along. She spoke low. II
| don't think you have enough humor
| in you to realize just what you have
| done, Harlan. / have found humor
lacking in you. You have picked out
the lobby of the statehouse, in the mid
| die of the biggest crowd of all the
! year, as the loves bower for an offer
of marriage. You say you mean it as
| an offer of marriage. But what you
| really did was to ask me to attach my
self to you as general adviser You
! can hire a clairvoyant who will do
| that much for you, and 1 doubt if you
would engage the clairvoyant as pub
licly as you have just tried to engage
| me-"
Il understand just what a fool I
made of myself" he muttered husl1ily
| but i COnldn't wQif-and 7
mo, you don't realize just how
much of fool you are where women
| are concerned" she returned, judici-
| ally "A Woman-a young woman
| is generally interested in hearing first
of all little about love and devotion
and loyalty, all unselfish and uncaIcu-
lating. Now be PATIENT Listen to me,
woman can detect real love- And
real love seeks its opportunity sweetly
and shyly. 1t doesn't preface itself
with remarks about a woman's brain
| and advisory ability. / believe it has
a lot to say about eyes and hair and
lips and such things. However, since
| you admire me in my capacity as adj
wiser, I'll advise you to be sure that
you love woman before you propose
! to her, and then when you propose
pick out some place that's suitable for
convincing her that you do love her
L see mother yonder. Take me to her,
turning away, flushed and angry,
from her demure smile, he became bit
terly conscious that even had they
been alone under most favorable cir
cumstances he would have lacked
| speech for real lovemaking He felt
that conviction inwardly. He wondered
whether he had the capacity for low
ing as he had read of men loving.
Thelismer Thornton, strolIing anna
bly, through the lobby throng, came
and put his hand on Harlan's shoulder.
| 1.-The best way to make good sugar
is to simmer the sap slowly, my boy"
Harlan glanced sharply at him, but the
duke was not discussing love Ward
has got into the simmering stage at
last. 1 reckoned he would. He's too
good politician to boil the kettle over
as he started in doing. What's the
matter with you? You look as though
you'd been listening to funeral ora
! ton instead of an address that has
put the party back on Easy street,
| His grandson was careful not to ex-
| plain the cause of his gloom. He was
willing to let politics be answerable
| In the eyes of the politicians Gov
ernor Weymouth had become safe and
| sane. They construed his earlier dec
larations as the ambitions of an old
man dreaming a dream of perfection.
The legislature swung into the routine
of its first weeks in the usual fashion.