The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-02-17

ne Is sun raItnfui. YOU see she
laughed Obviously she referred to
Gregg. They are preparing TO lay
me on the shelf. am almost TWEEN
ty-nine you may remember And they
are beginning to put me on boards and
committees and things already. Ii
is suspected in some quarters that |
rouge
He smiled his skepticism.
No. ! don't though no doubt I'll
aenIe to il in time. About yourself You
havp had sare very interesting expert
III -. Invent you2 | keep tab on you
hrcHsh tie newspapers heard
flsI ia.y you = very fine compliment.
Ought 10 tell you. | wonder? Or do
you receive 50 many that one more
wouldn't INTEREST,"
''It is when we get few that a com
pliment is dangerous. I'm not sure.
but I'll risk it. he said idly.
He said, a man can't keep on
preaching decency as earnestly and
bravely as Dunmeade does unless he's
pretty decent sort of chap himself
| don't mind telling you it was Mr..
Gregg who said that" She did not add
that Gregg had qualified his compli
ment with. "Of course he's a crank"
THAT was kind of Gregg
HE often speaks of you. He ad-
mires you and is very much interested
In your-career. We may call 1t that.
mayn't we?"
IF you can't think of better word"
He wished it were not necessary to
bring Gregg's name SO often into the
conversation.
They talked for a few minutes long
er on embarrassing, impersonal sub
jects until they saw Gregg appear at
| the entrance. But Mrs. Deland ELUSIVE
| ly waylaid him, and there was an awk-
ward pause which John did not know
how to bridge.
Katherine said, on an impulse, the
wisdom of which may be regarded as
| doubtful: about what you said of
| your career. | don't like to hear you
| speak $3.50 lightly of it. | think you
| have been very brave and splendid
| Not many men would have held out
! as you have
| He was taken off his guard. 81 did
not expect you to think So"
''My-my notions of values and things
| have changed good deal, find. And,
may go on?' She looked at Gregg.
He was still in Mrs. Deland's clutches.
Il was a very selfish, thoughtless girl
then. | deliberately-no, carelessly.
which is worse-jeopardized your hap
piness in the search for my own
have been heartily ashamed of it. /
I hope it did not mean serious unhap-
| piness to YOU
He looked at her steadily. 81 have
not been unhappy" Then he rose to
/ greet Gregg. who had extricated him
/ self
i The latter was very cordial Amy
time you're in town call me up and
We'll lunch at the club. Any time, re
/ member
But he did not miss Katherine's tone
as she said to John. "Goodby-and |
am very glad of what you have just
| told me-"
Later, when they were at their table.
Gregg said to Katherine. II have no
ton Dunmeade is the reason you have
| kept me waiting SO long"
Under his gaze the tinge of color ii
her cheeks deepened. She made n9
| reply.
Does it ever occur TO yOu," he ask
ed. carefully setting down the glass
that | might get tired of waiting?"
Does it ever occur to YOU she an
swered, that | shouldn't care very
much?"
But of this John could know nothing
!
The ceremony of exchanging minis.
ters was not an elaborate court func-
| ton Fifty odd gentlemen. represent
ing each his principality, met in g
hotel parlor and elected Mark Sherrod
TO succeed William Murchell as chair
| man of the state executive committee.
AS the latter retired from the chair
| which, symbol of his undisputed sway,
he had occupied for twenty years and
| his enemy took his place there was
nothing to indicate that the seals of do
| I1lIIIOL MA btE1 lOt
The monarch was not present in per
son. Many of the committeeman were
surprised at Murchell's presence. They
had thought that he would stay away
to escape the last humiliation of be
| holding the formal ratification of his
| accomplished defeat.
He had gone to the meeting in a car
| riage because the weather was rough
and his physical condition was not
good. But when he left he forgot the
carriage and started to walk TO the
house that he called home. He walked
aimlessly, head lowered as though he
were bordering some deep problem
The defiant front that he had main
!, tanned before the committee had been
a pose. He was feeling old-old!
His course took him past a house
of state, where the monarch sat en-
throned amid his court, directing the
affairs of his kingdom. What Muir.
chelI saw was the office building OF
the Atlantic railroad. He entered an
elevator and was rapidly hoisted TO the
I proper story. \ page of ebony skin
took his card
Murchell did not have to wait long
Soon he was before his former liege.
The royal brow wrinkled 'Isn'i
this little MISREPRESENTATION the