The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-31
SYNOPSIS:

MiIlicent Della Burts. or Milly D1lly Burts. as she was better known the daughter of The Burts. political boss of the city, returns home rom a short vacation to find that a queer looking bungalow had been built on the cliff opposite her studio, and en- ters into conversation with the young man whom she sees sitting on the porch rail.
 The Burts, her father. had chosen that very day to begin his fight for political supremacy and had sum moned Whispering Kelly. his chier henchman, and commissioned him to
 find @ candidate for Mayor.
 Mflly's acquaintance with the young man of the bungalow grows apace. They rig up a means of exchanging presents and the young man sends MElly some trout.
 MiHy exacts a promise that the bungalow man will not attempt 70 find her studio or learn her name, so they agree that he should call her You Lady while she named him MT. Wiuow-Ware, shortened to Willow and finally to Will.
 Whispering Kelly meanwhile seek ing a nayorility candidate comes upon William Edson Bolton, other wise known as But In' Bolton, and offers him the nomination for Mayor. but Bolton refuses.
 On the fourth day Mil1y finds a bunch of violets, which Will tells her are for rembembrance while he is away. He invites her to lunch but she refuses. Before she has a chance to change her mind. Kelly visits her studio to break the news to her Of The Burts' re-entry dnto active po1i- tics. Yielding to persuasion she
 gives her approval, and obtains in return her fathers permission so 1 take sketching trip. From the boy
 who cleaned the bungalow she finds | out where Will had gone, and fol- l lows.
 | From San Rafael, she is driven to
 Mrs. Warren's house on the slope of l TamaIpats. On the way the driver | "showed her Billy Wick's Rest alm ost
 hidden among the big redwoods, and
 told her how Jem Jiffers, the cham
 pion. had trained there for the fight
 that gave him the belt" 1 At Widow Warren's, Milly Dilly | found gracious welcome and a com | fortab1e room.
 So she began unpacking her suit case and lying to Mrs. Warren. She
 was Mildred DobbA, an artist on va
 cation, quite poor but able to earn
 her living by her work. She was an | orphan, and lived in her studio in 1 the city, all alone.
 1 The Burts received Mi11y Di1ly's tel l egram with it's assurance of her safety | and comfort. and was content. In l fact, he was too busy during the next few days to worry. for the boss was ] gathering in the gang, organizing for l the campaign.
 Because Burts had never locked l horns with Whalen since that first de- | feat, his reputation was still sound
 and his ability for leadership assured. | Quietly, secretly, organization was | spread in small, compact loyal bands. l The Sentinel. still hamnering at
 Whalen, began laying the underground | wires for our poetical candidate for l Mayor.
 1 EditoraTlv and in the political col | unns, the Sentinel cried for just the l man whose description read Butt-In Bo1on; and on the book page Willia m 1 Edson Bottoms Mountain Trails'' re- | ceived undue share of notice.
 Burts desiring to make Bolton a l popular hero quickly. worked the book of verse in as the basis of a
 story Of his romantic legal accom- l pFshments, recalling the Miner case
 sctructed the Sentinel to dig up a | Sunday supplment story of Bolton 1 with pictures.
 l And so the public was prepared, | quietly, secretly, to greet with cheers, l the first suggestion of Butt-In Bolton as the candidate to beat Dan Whalen's s