Evening star., 1912-07-07

Chewing it was some foolish thing you had
put up there in your boyhood, half-circlc
around a triangle, and inside the triangle
two little initials, E. B. If there is any
mark there, take off your coat
For long moment he gazed into her eyes.
Then, without word, he did as she had or
dered. She unfastened his cuff and rolled
the sleeve back to his shoulder There ii
was, in Indian ink, the half-circle, the tr-
angle, the initials.
"Well?' he asked, dependent entirely on
her.
She put the handbag on the desk and took
from it stick of greasepaint.
"This will do it, she said, businesslike, in
tent on the necessity of the thing.
She rubbed the greasepaint over the mark,
rubbed it in well, and smoothed it.
"Hold back the sleeve moment" she di-
rected, and flashed over to the desk, bringing
back the powder and the lambs wool puff
From the skill she showed in putting on the
powder and rubbing it, in turn, into the
paint, she might have been leading woman
for years.
She stepped back and viewed the work
critically. at will do, she said with a little
sigh of relief. at is all hidden
She went back to him, pulled down the
sleeve, and, after he had silently buttoned
the cuff, handed him his coat
There was the sound of men entering the
outer Office, and, without the delay of mo-
ment, she whisked the makeup materials
into the handbag, which she dropped into
the drawer of the desk. As she went out,
Mendor sat down at his desk His face was
no longer gray.
MISS HOPPER reappeared @Mr. Chew
~ ming and Mr. Garlock to see you, Sir
she announced.
Tell them to come in, > he said, his steady
voice reaching through the door to the visit
OrS.
As they entered Mendor turned to the
girl, who had stepped to one side, allowing
them space to come in
1Please wait, Miss Hopper" he said Il
may want some notes taken
She walked to the window and stood look
ing toward the river and the hills again, her
back to the group.
"This is our last call, Mendor,' Chewing
opened the discussion in his thick, almost
husky voice. He was tall and powerfully
built. Its our last call, and your last
chance. Will you vote for the Gapine billo"
"You know | will not" replied Mendor
"Perhaps it would be better to explain
more in detail, came the booming voice of !.
Garlock, voice that had done wonders on
the stump and on the floor of the House
Both OF the visitors were powerful in their
party, nearly IS powerful as Mendor h;.d
been before his refusal to support the meas
ure. But they acted now under the goad of
such bitterness as sometimes springs from
desperate politics.
Chewing wasted no time "The fact is
Mendor, he said bluntly, ait's all up with
you. You've been trying to dscredit the
whole party before the country by your in
sane opposition to the BILL You can't do it
any longer There was pause in which
Miss Hopper heard Garlock strike mattel
and suck noisily on his cigar 4We're onto
you, continued Chewing 1That little
affair down in South Carolina you remem-
ber?"
"No, do not Memoirs reply was cool,
utterly Indifferent !.
Miss Hopper heard the noise of both
Chewing and Garlock getting to their feet,
Somehow the sound reminded her of the
sputtering of a fuse before an explosion.
3You were sent up in South Cardinal"
said Chewing excitedly. "You went to the
pen! You escaped and you've never served
your term out!'
There was no explosion. Mendor called
Miss Hopper, and was apparently paying no
attention to the two men.