Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-05-05

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Il hope you won't get involved IN
any more political deals, for then you're
horrid. As you are you're very nice"
Of course he kissed her for that and.
leading her to a sofa, drew her down
beside him and poured forth q flood of
mingled alteration and fiattery that,
coming from a mar supposed to be
usually wrapped In questions of import
TO his constituents, was delightful.
And to think that she was the recipient
OF all this; that she had won a man
at once so deep and so full of senti-
ment! After an evening which Miss
Buell. thought altogether too short this
combination of sense and a~bsurdity de-
parted, leaving her In a seventh heaven.
Gawtry told Ferguson about the in
terview except the kisses, for he was
an adroit politician and never made
plumbers In his handling of Others.
ferguson was much interested In the
report. After listening to the methods
his double had used he said that he
thought he could mend his ways and
accomplish something of the same re-
suits. The next evening he made the
experiment and failed signally. When
Miss Buell. entered the room where he
was awaiting her she advanced joyful
ly, but was at ono repealed by the
stern look ON his face.
"Oh, my goodness g~raciousw she ex-
claimed. "You have relapsed to your
old self"
do tell me-" he said earnestly, how
l am different from what | was when
l saw you last"
why you haven't kissed me YETI
kissed your
The plan was nearly spoiled by this
revelation. That "rascally political
charlatan," as Ferguson called CAV
try In thinking of him, had been kiss
ing the lady. But Ferguson was q man
OF great self control, and instead of be-
traying himself he bent forward and
gave his ladylove a reyerential kiss.
This helped him out for awhile, but he
soon continued to lose ground again.
and In half an hour Miss Buell. was
sitting by him pouting. He tried to say
some soft things to her, but they
were spoken from the lips rather than
from the heart and produced a contrary
effect from the II intended. The con-
sequence was that the parting was not
what 1t should have been.
Ferguson returned to his room crest
fallen. He was to have the floor of
the house the next morning on q very
important bill and spent several hours
before going to bed in preparation for
his coming effort. He had e~ndeavored
to excuse himself for his seeming cold
ness to Miss Buell. by telling her that
his mind was on his speech, and the
next morning she resolved to go to the
capitol to hear it.
When Ferguson took the floor there
was the usual hum of conversation
and business, and it continued till the
speaker was half through his argu-
ment. But gradually certain influen-
tial members were attracted by what
he was saying, and before he had fin
ished the whole house was listening.
Miss Buell. was much struck with this
power In her lover and very proud to
have won such a man, but she sighed
at remembering that only once had he
thrown off the statesman for the lover.
Not long after this she was In the
gallery of the house again when she
saw, as she thought, her Ferguson
arise to speak. He was not In his
IIcuQ1 onnoro1 ond thapn tyno coYnn-
thing about him not like himself.
When he began to speak there came
forth a charming flow of words. The
members with one accord dropped
what they were doing and listened to
him. Miss Buell. was surprised that
whereas at his previous effort he had
been obliged to wait for the attention
of his audience he now jumped right
into 1t.
But as the speaker continued one by
one the thinking members ceased to
listen. There was the same flow of
language, but no flow of ideas. When
the Grafton was ended the hum of
business there had been before was
recommended.
"Who Is that man?" asked q lady
sitting neal Miss Buell. of another.
That's Cavity, the great dema-
gogue. He has an immense following
among people who mistake his %oratori-
cal powers for craftsmanship"
A light broke In upon Miss Buell's
brain-not one light, but two. In the
first place she had mistaken this man
for her lover. In the second she saw
the unreasonable superiority Of the
one over the other. There was a third
light that did not pierce her brain. 1t
did not occur to her that one of these
men had played the part of the other.
She sent a message to Ferguson ask
ing him to call the same evening. He
obeyed the summons with alacrity and
a new hope. AS soon as they met Miss
Buell. said:
"There is a member of the house
whom, as soon as l saw him, l mistook