The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-01-01

tried 10 sst yuung Mills "a me Mas4-
vile normal 10 run against you, didn't
hef But Mills didn't run. q
Ja1set put a firm gicysd hand on hts
arm. Not since ! put ON my best
clothes and went 20 An Eikg' CLUB
lAdies' night dence purposeIy 70 put this
notion out 81 Mr.. MiiIs' mindi II took
half my dance program, thought"
wiley rubbed his hands delightedly.
Lord, Ja~net--it's geniusIT
-No-bueinsss. And Wiloy-oh. 4
want you to wake upi DO somcthingi
BE with us--the people who try some
thingl on, Wiley, I want you toll
That was ever her old fond cry.
Ever since their school days she had
tried something and that was to make
n success OF Wiley. Ever he, with the
trihing blindness OF q man, might have
known what was behind II ell. She
went on ~niournfully: You said some
thing had stirred you OF last, Wfley!"
He was looking past her out the
window 10 Harlan and Arne across the
square. The door was open, and
the evening held the frgt cool
stealth OF autumn. The breeze
upon the r fRcades OF the
rock behind the own Bhowered
GOWN the req ana yellow IGaFG&. AL
ready, from the elevation OF Curran'B
shop one could catch glimpses OF the
distant river through the denuded
cottonwood OF the bottom lands. And
his eyes were there with their old
detachment OF a man who dreams of
what he had found and lost out be-
You'd the circling hills; OF what tho
years had given and taken away, and
he had stood BY empty-handed. but
he turned to her with sudden new
eagnernesB.
Janet, I wonder II it's all as you and
Arne say? And Mcbride, over In
Earlville, and Purcell, and these men
who have such a curious notion that i
can beat Hall In the p~rimariesg And
Governor Delroy, he spoke Of mel"
yes. You know his organization
doesn't amount to much down here. IL
needs local leadership. They want a
man out for congress. ~Assemblyman
Barrett, OF Dallas county, was con-
Bidered, but they need him where he
Is. And all the other progressives are
like father--too-well, they've had their
fing. The movement wants new men
and young men
'But me In congress. It sure would
be a treat for congressl"
'Oh, Wiley! BE seriougl"
He was still for a long time. Yes,
he had been the watcher from afar Of
/ AJ ikE lNAAA6 hAiNAAs .lA1G Ad0 AhOQHAk TITS
years OF ardor done Ho spoke at last
Janet, I'm ,r~emorsefully humble.
you've been my good angel--always,
since we were kids IN school. Good
God, how a man filings his youth awayi
Eh, / thought that was what I'd done.
But Janet, I've awakened-I havei"
Her eyes were sparkling. She tensed
with a new splendid tubilance. She had
been the militant; she was OF that fine
modernity that q given to strong
women the fearless vision and the win
to do, and has taken nothing from
their womanhood. She was alert with
the expression Of seq, unacceptable, un-
daunted, as free as q mans virile pride.
And Curran, with his love for the
modern, his hatred OF sham, had felt
at times, the pulsing OF her power and
had misunderstood nothing. That was
the bond OF their intimacy: this
knowledge unspoken but unafraid.
Wiley" she murmured. "You win
come out9 You will 90 in the
~primaries2 oh, win your I've waited
so long, Wtieyl For youl"
Il know. And this very week III
seemed to see myself aright--to re-
allie what q miserable failure I'd been
"a dreamer. oh, something very
wonderful awakened me-Quickened
me. I'll tell you, Janet. the very frst
thingl"
she looked e~uriously ait him, but with
her bright fond faith, her OVERCOMING
happiness, The fine hard lines that the
years had schooled about her eyes were
gone.
"The very first thingi oh, but he
point is that you've done t.! Wen
work for you--all my friends who'ye
stood by men will be with you. But
the first t~hing-was IL todayT"
mo, Last Tuesday. A little thing
-7such q foolish little thing, But II hit
me hard-it appealed to the senti-
mental IN. me. / suppose. But you
know me--all that sense OF nan
that's made a begRar OF me. JANET II
was Aurelia Lindstrom."
She did not stir; her attentive eyes
w re on him merely, but the cool
shrewd reading Of her workaday life
came over the eagerness Of q moment
ago. "Aurelie2' she murmured-"and
her prize winning 2" She smiled slowly.
Why. Wiley, you hardly knew the
| chiIdi"
eyes. But the thing hit me, Janet.
She came to me"-he hesitated over
mentioning Harlan's name In Aurelie's
troubled ~cAse--"this thing confused
her so. And hurt her--it was--sort OF
R-a--tragedy, Janet. And she left II
all to me--what she should do. Here's
this great newspaper going to shout
all about her next Sunday-you know
the stuff--her beauty, and her po-
sition and life and prospects--all that
sort Of thing. I know it's cheRpness
and it's Stiffness, but it's her chance,
Janctl She asked we what to do"
Yes" b watched his ardent
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