White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-10-17
CHAPTER VI-Continued
wNU Service
Copyright by Evelyn Campbell.)


tent upon their own silly affairs, to do
with them? 1t was growing dusk. a
dusk that vanished as it came, before
the food of brilliancy that flowed like
river upon the street. Shops thar
had been but shops an hour ago we're
more splendid still. Faces siIhouetted
by the fattering light became beautiful
and young and spiritual. Electricity
is kind to lipsticks and rabbit skin.
The street became an enchanted street
with man and woman walking in
enchantment, feeling it all while they
saw nothing.
81 always liked the SERVICE" said
Brian. when was boy | had
crazy ideas about glory and prin-
thing. All bunk, of course. But
still wanted it when got old enough
to have some sense. Wanted it and
got it. But somehow | didn't get it
The way wanted it. Horribly hard
to make anyone understand" His
eyes searching for, hers again.
what does it matter so you got
what you wanted?" her clear voice, a
little hard, came back to him.
He returned an indulgent smile.
'Child!" it seemed to say
"The way | wanted was not the way
1t came to me. have family"-he
sighted this as some men always slight
The fact that they belong to clan
not rich folk awfully hard up, to be
frank; but it's the sort of family that
IAN do miracles if they want-make
the lion lie down or sit up and beg.
That sounds awfully egotistical, but
yulgarians might say that they know
where the body is buried and maybe"
ne grinned reminiscently, 'the vulga-
fians would be right. My dad and
Simon Fentress fshed in the millpond
together when they were kids, so you
ran imagine what Fentress did when
lad slipped it that l wanted an ap-
pointment." He made wry face, and
.urned to her for sympathy.
"They managed it for you," she haz-
lrded.
He nodded. "They did-with a ven.
geance. And it simply took the blush
off the rose. You see, wanted to do
The thing myself. had already gone
70 Senator Converse. He promised to
put it through"
Linda was puzzled. But what Is
the difference? 1t was only pulling
wires, no matter how it was DONE"
They were talking at cross purposes
Brian tried to make himself plain
Don't you see? Fentress tossed it
20 me like plaything! Influence! 1t
nas bad taste and, Of course. I'm an
ass. Everybody does it-everybody
uses everybody else If they can, and
are jolly well glad to, but 1t wasn't
my boyhood dream by long shot"
de laughed shamefacedly and added
bromide that took some of the. seri.
BUSINESS out of the discussion. II don't
Snow why I am telling you all this"
"Perhaps because you never before
net woman who understood" she re-
.urneO instantly.
When their laugh was over, they
walked on in silence for half block,
and then Linda surprisingly reopened
he subject.
II wonder why Senator Converse's
influence would be different from Mr..
Fentress'. she said thoughtfully. She
really wanted to know; it was amaz
ng to find that Brian, young and clear
minded and little romantic, regarded
the senator with anything but aver
| sion.
ut is different" he said, and they
went on slowly. II don't believe can
make you understand, but | will try
Put into words it sounds fantastic or
what loathe-sentiment There
It's out" He became shamefaced
again as men are when they are forced
to reveal their inmost thought that
have to do with vainglory. 81 wanted
to earn my spurs myself. wanted to
make them notice me because of my
own brains, not the brains or money
of somebody else, but found that
didn't weigh penny's worth beside
the fact that Simon Fentress favored
me and my grandfather controlled q
large-sized vote in his community. If
somebody else had been my fathers
son it would have been the same don't
you see? Not myself-but what stood
for. had to take my medicine or
leave it."
"And if Senator Converse had backed
gov, said Linda in low voice.
'He wouldn't, If he hadn't believed
In me. was on my own with him
and that made all the difference. His
mind was not controlled by anything
but his own Judgment"
"Ah. He was not Influenced by your
connections them"
81 DONE believe he knew had any,"
said Brian simply.
"You admire him?" she asked, think
Ing of what Converse had said last
night She could hardly keep the
H.,rD from her voice.