The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1914-10-15

we,re to expect great things Of you.
You see. rye been mixed up In poll.
Tics ali my life, and do love to have
hand In them"
shed run for president IL they'd
let her." teased her father.
Indeed would" the girl admitted,
brazenly. 1--WE got politics In my
blood. and home doesn't seem like
home unless politics are being brewed
In our dining-room So you'll both
come, vent you--you aud Mrs. Slade."
Slade was stammering his accept
auce when Strickland interrupted abb
ruptly.
HOW'D you like to be governor.
6lade7'
| slade threw back his head with a
| laugh. that was intended to denote
complete unconcern.
"Oh--that talkl Did the evening
papers put that into your head Or"
and he paused significantly, did you
put It into the evening papers?"
| elr.cklands laugh was practical
admission.
| f"It would mean hard fight, Slade.
The waterfront crowds against you.
and you can't get on without their
| influence"
mot in this town. at least" amend
ed Katherine.
you've got to have Wesley Merritt,
his paper, his highfaluting editorials
and his speechmaking-and his Wife,
Strickland explained. He and his
/ crowd rim the town /"
"Oh, you mean my neighbors?"
asked Slade. They'll come around"
he finished, meaningly.
But, man alive! Only today Mer'
ritt's attack on you was scurrilpus. l
| demonstrated with him myself He's
your out-and-out enemy I've tried to
get him-to-to come oyer and shake
). hands, but he swears hem never ,ss
your threshold"
Il guess they'll come when / want
'em to come" Slade interrupted, with
an assurance his auditors could not
understand "In fact, I'm looking for
'em any minute now" and he consult
ed his watch.
You're looking for them-here-to-
nighf?D gasped Strickland, showing
plainly he thought Slade was making
joke OF the matter.
Eyes, tonight" replied the would-be
governor, quietly, and turned to .Kath-
crime.
Strickland subsidized, question
growing in his mind as to whether hs
had fully measured the man he expect
ed to use for his own political and
| .yJ-l- fx. osu
method of fighting direct and open
quality that would make him hard to
handle in the crooked and indirect
ways of political life.
Katherine Strickland's eyes mar
rowed as she met SHADES gaze. Her
quick, calculating mind saw In this
man the possibility of realizing her
highest hopes and ambitions. With
such man a woman could scale any
heights-reach any goal. He was hard
yes! But man needs to be hard
in these days and times If he is ever
to accomplish anything. In her fer
tile brain smoldered ambitions as
great as his ambitions that she now
realized would never be attained I'M
less she made some great, radical
change in her life.
She had pushed her father as far
as the man would-could go. She
had outdistanced every girl in her
circle. She had reached high, but she
had triumphed. Now she was at the
end of her tether. 1t was matter
of making some one huge stroke or
sinking back into stupid obscurity, a
situation all the more bitter because
of her previous successes. The
thought of settling down into the ev-
eryday life of the western city where
she was born made her very soul
squirm- Surely there was something
more in life for her Surely there
were bigger goals to be gained
She had never realized how empty
: the old home life was until now. when
she suddenly found herself a part of
, it again after the brilliant European
season and the stimulating, exciting
!, life in diplomatic circles at the capital
!; The thought of remaining in the West
+, big frog in a little puddle, had
l. grown positively hateful to- her. Big
or little herself, she wanted a big
: puddle. She was quite satisfied in her
own mind that no puddle would be sc
big that she couldn't become a FROG
- of considerable size in it,
- Nor, as her restless brain and SOU
! clamored for higher goals and wider
= field, the thought of SHADES millions
- SHADES dominating, forceful personal
= ity, SHADES reputation for sweeping
w everything before him, SHADES prob
IA able governorship, flashed through hel
- mind like burning streak of electri,
If f1re. With him, with his weapons
y. what career lay before woman!
- just as suddenly she found hersel
= wondering what sort of a woman hat
~ been a mate to this man for so man,
~ years. She was conscious of a poign
. ant pang of envy-jealousy almost
= against this woman who had the OF
is portunity which was denied her.
e. We'll, what do you think OF you
81 own country, now you're back?" sh
- heard Shades voice saying. 'sSeen
=, big to your"
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