The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-31

the first time I've sworn since Joined
the church"
Miss Roberta kept her smiles for rare
occasions. 81 wish 1 could have heard
YOU" Which concession she imme-
diately negatived by adding, II sup
pose you're going to do the same kind
of thing over again"
Roberta, you're the most consistent
ly inconsistent person in the world.
You mean am 1 going to turn reform
er? You can't teach an old dog new
tricks"
mot if he doesn't want to learn,
expect"
She rose to go. He followed her ex-
ample, though urging her to remain.
She went few steps toward the door,
then suddenly turned and walked back
to face him.
"Why don't you help John?"
1t was his turn to stiffen angrily.
"You ask that after the way he at
tackled me and created a sentiment
against me that paved the way for
Sherrod to beat me? He's responsible
for Sherrod's getting on top, do you
know that? 1 gave him a chance five
years ago, and he wouldn't take it.
will do nothing for him.
"And BESIDES" he added more mild
ly, "he wouldn't let me help him in the
only way 1 could"
81 wasn't thinking of him. He doesn't
need you. You need him."
His astonishment was genuine as she
left. He went to window where he
q grenadier, breasting the March gale.
He tried to recall how she had ap-
peared when she was young, for she,
too, all unknown to him, must have
marked a phase in the life of the young
man who once had been. When she
had passed out of sight he returned to
his chair.
His book was forgotten.
The Hon. G. Washington jenkins had
been of the faithful at time when
heresy was profitable; hence his tall,
Lincoln-like figure was one Of the few
that were not turned inhospitably away
from Murchell's door.
Ilc wa Ill 4NSW ShClSCa q lC" uuS .
after Miss Roberta's neighborly errand.
"Wash," asked the senator abruptly,
"how'd you like to be a candidate for
governors?
"Id like it, said Wash honestly.
Suppose" Murchell suggested, "you
begin a campaign for delegates. We
could use the delegates, even if we
couldn't use you," he added thought
fully.
The congressman smiled family
They discussed the matter at length.
AS Jenkins was leaving, his host re-
marked earnestly, thereafter consult
only with Greene. Don't come here.
I'm out Of politics."
Neither gentleman smiled.
When the Honorable Jenkins re-
turned to Washington, he reluctantly
admitted to an interrogative reporter:
"No, I'm afraid the senator is in a
bad way. l don't think he'll ever go
back into politics."
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Of John Heath you have never
heard. Unhonored and unsung until
this hour, he has remained in that
shadowy obscurity for which he was
designed. And no man ever saw
him.
1t was at a crucial time for those
whom this chronicle concerns when
Jerry Brent and John Dunmeade We're
marching from Dan to Beersheba and
back and iaboring, with a patience
worthy of larger results, to rally the
slender hosts of reform; when Stephen
Hampden was risking his all in one
wild throw for vast fortune and War
rem Blake was following that daring
example; when the Consolidated Coal
company was making many happy by
declaring dividend of 7 per cent.
In the kingdom things were awry.
The rival monarch was laundering at
the gates. Worse still, there was dis
affection in the very source of
dominion, in the army. And the min
lister in power chose this hour-to get
drunk! Anxious glances were being
cast toward the deposed minister in
his self exacted exile. Royal messen-
gers We're being sent galloping post
haste to him to urge him, with fine,
unconscious irony, for the sake of past
favor to speak the word that would re-
store concord among the muIinous
regiments. But the ominous silence
continued unbroken.
At such a juncture, we say, John
Heath stepped in to defect the course
of history.
Came to the exile, not many days aft
er Miss Roberta, a messenger not I'M
der royal seal. Secretary, we may call
him, to the new minister, having cur
ried favor by desertion of the old.
He was visibly perturbed and would
not desist from his opportunities un-
til admitted to the presence of the
exile. Even then, such was his fever
ish haste, he did not notice in his