Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-12-30
The Daughter Of David Kerr
By HARRY KING TOOTLE
Illustrations by Ray Waite
illustrations by Ray Walters
Copyright by a. c. Meclurs & Co.. IQIa.

cut giving property owners or the sly
adequate compensation for running or
confscating their property. | call that
pretty raw"
Well it's our best and certainly
our cheapest way if Kerr will put
through a franchise for us" Kendall
maintained stubbornly. I'm come back
next week, and take the matter up
again. In the meantime you can talk
| it over thoroughly with Kerr. He may
have something to say by that time"
1T hardly seems likely. He seldom
changes his mind
He may this time. I've got to get
away now and go by the hotel before
| go to the train. Let's go back to
the drawing-room, where / can have
a few more words with Wright. We
may be able to win him over"
That's what I'm going to try to
do, replied Judge Gilbert, as they
rose TO rejoin Mrs Gilbert and her
guests.
The attorneys entered the drawing
/
newspapers just drawing to a close
with victory still uncertain on which
standard to perch.
You just missed hearing DR.. Hayes
| pay his respects to newspapers, Judge
Gilbert said Joe Wright with smile.
The layman's opinions always inter
est and usually amuse journalist.
What's the matter? Have you told
him you won't publish the box scores
of the ball games this year?"
IN do that for him, and gladly"
Then there's no occasion to kick
That's the only thing that can trouble
fat man"
This time l was speaking general
ly." explained Hayes. Il don't like
some of the ways reporters have"
That's only small part of the
business" laughed Wright. IF you
complain only about that l shall have
you for staunch adherent"
Mrs. Hayes saw that Kendall was
at a loss TO understand the drift of
the conversation, and accordingly
said, "Dr. Hayes is coroner, Mr.. Ken
dali, and the Banner man calls us up
at most unearthly hours"
The Belmont Banner was the morn
ing paper, and it's editor, Deacon
Jerry Withrow, was always at the
beck and call of the boss. Kerr let
him think that he had something to
do with directing the affairs of the
city. This was a harmless delusion,
since its plant attitude always made
him consider a suggestion let fall by
the boss as a scheme which he him
self had Matched.
Il think it is dreadful for nice men
to be mixed up in politics., said Mrs.
Gilbert
Perhaps it was no more dreadful
politics displayed by the nice women
of Belmont This would have been
diffic to impress upon Mrs. Gilbert.
She knew well enough that her hus-
band was consulted by that odious
David Kerr. but that was in a legal
way and Kerr paid well for the adj
vice he received. Even the tone in
which she spoke showed how thank
full she was her husband was not in
politics. Mrs Hayes was quick to say
what she thought along the same line
by adding:
And DR.. Hayes doesn't have to at
ALL you know He says he does it for
the good of the party"
This would have been all very in
teresting to Kendall If he had had the
entire evening to spend in such pleas
ant company. Time was pressing,
however. and in the few minutes still
at his disposal he wished to sound
Wright at greater length about the
Belmont News
Kendall looked closely at the young
man whom he had already set down
as an opponent. Physically Wright
seemed no shirker of combat. His
shoulders were broad and his body
well developed Led to believe from
his knowledge of the reformer type
that he would find Joe Wright a long
haired theorist and Utopian dreamer,
the lawyer found instead a self-pos-
sessed, balanced young man. The
newspaper owners manner, even in
repose, was judicial To Kendalls
thinking he had the air of man who
would not be swayed by prejudice or
liking. 1t was his part, however, as