The Washington herald., 1913-08-17
| THE MIDLANDERS

| famous-it figured in Chicago date
line six times, and the photographers
came and snapped Lindstrom's shack
and the Sinsinawa bridge and the
North Side school where she used &c
go. and"-Wiley got up and sighed
We'll Amelia Parsons says the noto-
! riety to Rome was shocking. and the
Shakespeare Club ought to pass reso-
lutions deploring the whole business =
Probably they will. They deplored
my election also. If Aurelie can 60
and do anything that otherwise she'd
never had the remotest chance of do
ing, l approve. Miss Conway said she
was very bright child in the eighth
! grade. And she certainly has appealed
to- your sentimental SELF
"Eh. wellT He shrugged. Janet.
the whole thing hit mel The little girl
is deal like myself, / fancy. A soul
in bonds. | was Janet-you remem-
ber?" He raised his hand to the Oc-
tober hills. Il had to 60 off foot free
and wander and see it all. Something
beyond all this. Aurelia's suddenly
, awakened, too, out of her bitterness
her love" he checked himself and
sighed. Il can understand all that,
Janet My world was gilded splen-
didly-and it is yet, you know. ] can't
get over it."
IS it true-these proposals of mar
riage she gets?" pursued Miss Vance,
impersonally.
Rot! Even Aurelie laughs--and
tears 'em up! A lot of people bother
her, indeedl But she's a sturdy little
soul with a terrible simplicity and d.
rectness Wants 10 be somebody
wants to. be somebody! God bless the
kid can understand"
Wants to be somebody Janet
watched him shrewdly. And you?
| Wiley, / took you at your word
you're going to run for Congress-
"Janet!'
Il had luncheon with Gov. Delroy
up in Des Moines last week. Now,
please-please-thi is not for the
News, rcmember!! ! told him you had
promised to lead his forlorn hope in
this district"
Janet, | never held an Office in my
lifer'
Neither did Delroy until he re-
belled up there in the North" She
arose and came swiftly to him. Wiley,
I've been all over the county in my
school work. and all over the district
at the institutes. and say the time has
come! You don't know the restlessness
against Congressman Hall and this old
regime. Some live. forceful man is
going to seize the chance and seize il
to success, and, oh, Wiley, | want it
to be-youH
you lunched with Delroy? You-
discussed me?'
Yes. He was eager to know OF
you-he'd watched your editorials"
Wiley looked quizzically at her
Janet lunching with Delroy, the great
new name in the tumult of new poll
tics! OF course Delroy knew Janet
The last paper she read to the State
teachers on a radical Reorganization OF
the country school system, and the way
she forced a favorable resolution
through the institute against the oppo-
sition of the State superintendent, had
attracted every ones attention. And
Delroy. the handsome, dashing. bach
elor Governor-of course Janet Vance
would attract him. He would be glad
to listen to a woman who had twice
been elected against the hostile conser-
vatism of a Reserve county in her su-
perintendency.
Curran sighed. Janet, I couldn't at
ford it"
Suppose your campaign could be
financed" her cool business smile
was on him. And then her enthusi-
asm broke past it. "Oh, Wiley, it's a
big game. A mans game! / never
was so interested as in what father and
Arne tell me. and what | see is going
on over the county! And you're going
to be in it / told Delroy sol They'll
build his organization on you and your
fight down here-they're eager to break
in. and the county so needs leader
ship!"
He smiled, but he felt the inward
tremor of the pian who is conscious
of his limitations of daily nervous
force. The need OF care of it had held
him from many a crucial effort, that
supreme hazard of fortune; for the
physical integer, after all, is the factor
of success. He ha tried to tell him
self that youth was done. its visions,
its nobleness, its lechery; its easy pur-
ity, which is virtue untempted; and its
evil. which is ignorance of good. But
of late had come his rebirth, the surge
of aspiration and fine hope to the shall