Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-07-19
III. Honorable Uncle Lancv
By ETHEL HUSTON

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least make q little sense in some
languagei"
Try one Of these mullins, my
dear" said the Senator. Piping
hotl Hilda's mullins make sense in
any language"
Aunt Olympia, feeling dulled and
bruised, mechanically set her teeth
into muffin. II was all right. Her
eyes wandered to the pile of papers
on the foot Of the bed. Purpose
fully, she forced them away and
looked at the Senator. He was look
ing at the papers, too, rather sheep
ishly, over the rim of his cup.
Whoever gave a patent to the
fool that invented kodaks should be
strung up for treasonl Freedom of
the press, huh? It's freedom of the
press makes cowardly slaves and
craven knaves of otherwise good cit
liens. You ought to get up a bill
about it. The press freedom is
taxpayers poison" She could have
smiled at that. She wished the
girls had been there to hear it.
Purely extemporaneous it was, too.
But her eyes would not be kept
away from the pile of papers. She
set her cup down with an impa-
tient little crash.
"Oh, well, we may as well have a
look at the pictures, suppose" she
snapped. They're not bow-legged,
that's one thing!"
She reached for the papers and
passed two or three from the top
of the pile across to the Senator,
who was reaching for them. They
settled back on the pillows. Sudden
ly Olympia gasped. Itch, tch, tch,"
clucked the Senator, and kept on
clucking. Olympia gazed across at
him, wide-eyed, speechless. He
gazed at her. -E
"Well, God bless my soul! Think
of that now!" he said reverently.
Then they fell desperately on the
papers and silence hung between
them, except for the crinlsle of pa
per, occasional Kissing signs from
Olympia and an almost continuous
stream of clucks from the Senator.
The election was as good as won.
The girls, and the Senator along with
them, had got terrific press. News
paper men all over the state had
worked on the case all night. They
had covered the Dastardly Outrage
in large caps-from every posi-
BILE angle. Public sentiment was
aroused to the highest pitch; public
indignation was an inferno. Never
had the widely publicized American
standard Of moral decency been so
flagrantly betrayed.
The New York Herald-Tribune
came out with an editorial denunci-
alton of tactical devices so contrary
to pure Republican principle and
ideal.
I'D like to see Len Hardesty's
face now" said Aunt Olympia hap
PLY.
Len Hardesty publicly absolved
the Governor Of all completely and
shouldered the blame for the deba-
Gle; Governor Wilkie pleaded COM
plete ignorance of the entire matter
and deplored the incident. But the
newsmen did not let it rest there.
They admitted that while the Gov
ernor hadn't been smart enough to
think it up, he had certainly been
immoral enough to try to reap the
advantage of it; they cited his pre-
pared speech, the use of his chauf-
feur, the arrangement of hoodlights.
Limpy's speech was quoted YER
batim, with Helen's anguished
Don't say brats" in parenthesis.
Uncle Limpy's glasses logged up
SO over Limpy's speech that Aunt
Olympia had to read it aloud to
him.
''Now, you see, Ollie" he said
reproachfully, ''Hilda made good
sense indeed. Very good sense.
Seems as if they have did all right
for themselves just as she said"
In the meantime, Hilda, with all
she had on hand that hectic day,
did not neglect to keep the secluded
girls informed.
"The've rung for their coffee
now" she said. It'll take 'em a
good thirty minutes to get recon-
posed"
At the end Of an hour, she ap-
peared again. "Mr. Hardesty
'phoned have you any bad effects
afterward and he feels the same and
they ought to be composed by now,
if ever"
The girls got up at once, little
frightened, but determined.
'Shan we dress?" asked Adele.
''Um, no, I think not" said Linn
py sagely. ''We'd better go as we
are. Don't brush your hair, Adele.
Don't be too. slick. We look more
votes-appealy in our bathrobes and
a little tousled. But not too tou-
sled. Not tousled enough to be
tough"
In bathrobes and slippers, effec-
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