The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-07-22

the mOnLu.
Then more wine was ordered to
toast the bride, and Artie extOlled &C
statically the bliss Of connubiaI life,
touching In particular upon his own,
which to him, OF course, was unparal-
ieled and paramount Gradually the
talk turned upon other topics, with the
benedict easily leading.
l read all about it in Lunnon, deah
fellow" This to Daniel. 'Frightfully
cievah Of you, 1 must say, getting all
that grain and freezing out the othah
him in Carlsbad last week. He looks
dreadfully done for. feah the poor
fellow won't last long,
Always the mention Of OTIS name
spelled bad moments for Daniel. Since
that Indian summer day when millions
had hung upon the toss Of a coin the
aged Spectator, as Daniel knew, had
been bOwed-down man. He never
visited the pit again. He never went
near 1t, The memory Of its roaring
sent shudder through him. He was
care-wOrn, ustless, comfOrtless. He
had lost his nerve" Grain gambling
topics were taboo In his household,
and those who. valued his good win
found it polite not to breach such in
his hearing. When In October he had
left for the German bad" cures he
was broken in health as well as In
spirit.
His quest was fruit1esS.
One May morning in Florence Dan
lei read at his breakfast table Of Otis
death He had died in mid-ocean en-
route to New York.
He put down his newspaper, beck
oned the waiter, ordered some cable
gram forms. Leaving his breakfast
untouched, and Hunts questions un-
answered, he wrote a lengthy message
to a Chicago trust company that spe-
cialized in mortgages. He fretted
with Impotence until he received an
answer; and then, having read it, he
tore it up and sighed hOpelessly.
Daniel heard afterward that Otis
had left nothing beyond his life insur-
ance. The house on the drive had
gone, and with it all the pomp Of cir
cumstances. Mrs. Otis was residing
temporarily in OcOnomowoc. Kathleen
was with her.
Early in June of that year two
wealthy Americans, who had made
their piles" In July wheat, booked
first-class transportation from Rome to
Chicago. When they boarded the liner
at Naples there embarked with them
quarter of a million dollars worth Of
European art treasures. When they
left the liner at New York the name
of the tall, notwithstanding one,
of the black Vandyke beard and white
ducks, was not Daniel Randolph Fitz-
hugh It was his own, Hugh Daniel
Fitzrandolph.
This name juggling had heralded
their coming. and they were surround
ed at the pier by a phalanx of sharp
eyed men armed with cameras.
Daniel greeted them warmly, shook
hands, gave them cigars, and waxed so
jovially humorous about his malleable
patronymic that he was voted a shin
ing member of the Good Fellows club
and Iauded as a thoroughgoing, fine
sort Nothing derogatory was printed
of him in the New York newspapers
and the eccentricity Of ones using
ones family name for 'komical kut-
OUT was made to appear a very nat
uraI thing for one to do.
His arrival in Chicago received a
similar reception.
The thing he had long been plan
ming, the thing that had prompted his
trip abroad, which had necessitated
the proper rearranging Of his name,
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trumpets, a sounding of cymbals, a
beating Of tom-toms. Hugh Daniel Fitz-
inaugurated his campaign for
the Chicago mayoralty.
In the primary election these were
Hugh Daniel Fitzran-
dolph, advocating pure politics; Sam
Burlington, fat and puffy and a tool Of
the trusts; John Dinwoody, lean and
lank and a patron OF vice, and Ivan
Sk1mkus, skinny and cratic and a
champion of the working man.
Before the primaries, Daniels chief
rivals, Burlington and Dinwoody, took
scant notice OF him, shelving him in 8
category with Skimkus, the Socialist,
who had no chance whatever. After
his nomination they changed their
views. They suddenly realized many
things; realized he had been working
hours TO their minutes; that his enor-
nous volume Of advertising was not
unproductive Of results; that he had
a happy faculty Of making friends
wherever he went; that his popularity
was booming daily; and that he con
trOlled nearly as many votes as they.
This would never do, decided Buff
hngtOn and Dinwoody. They immedi-
ately set about to crush the intruder
who presumed to enter a domain al
ways exclusively their own. Thus,
when the papers supporting the NAL
contents were not casting their har-
poems at each other, they took time to
shy a concerted volley at the iDterlo-
per.
To BE CoNTINUED)