Glacier County chief., 1940-05-10

Hardesty," thought Aunt Olympia.
Len hasn't overlooked a LASH"
The girls, considerably to their
surprise, found him pleasant, even
lkable, and a decided contrast to
the explosively verbose Len Hardes-
ty. He was slight in build, not tall,
but 1.-the, with a suggestion of mus
cular strength in his easy move
ments. His voice was low, almost
diffident, his smile boyishly win
some. He dressed with that studied
and expensive carelessness that is
SO revealing to the practiced eye.
well, you may as well begin
now as anytime" said Aunt Olym-
pia. Take a memorandum, will
your"
He fastened to comply, drawing
out his fountain pen and a small,
elegant date book in limp leather.
Remind the Senator-or remind
me to remind him-to be sure to
write up and tell the farmer at
Shires-that's our place up home
to have an extra suit of farm clothes
for the Senator to borrow when he
speaks at the Oranges"
The girls talked him over when
he had gone. They agreed that Len
Hardesty had been unjustly preju-
diced and that Cecil was a nice boy
and they could stand having him
around. They thought his eager en-
thusiasm for the job rather pathetic.
Eyes, it's pathetic" assented
Aunt Olympia. "Cece is all right.
The trouble is that he's always been
able to do what he wanted to in
stead of what he had to. He has
enough money to live on, so he's nev-
er had to file his nose on the grind
stone. It takes grindstone to make
a newspaper man."
Hes really what you would call
a sweet child" Helen wrote to Brick
Lands. 'He seems so young and
SO unspoiled, and yet Aunt Olympia
says he's had his own way all his
life and had everything he has ever
wanted. He is taking this job with
such deadly seriousness that she is
beginning to fear he will neither
amuse US nor drive Len Hardesty
mad, which was her main object.
He began bringing up huge volumes
on politics to get Aunt Olympia
opinion of them, but she stopped
that. She said he could get his opin-
ions from her and Dave Cooper. He
has bought new, perfectly gor-
geous, simply huge, brief case and a
new portable typewriter. And when
ever he is not sitting raptly in the
Senate gallery gazing down at his
candidate and taking notes of ev-
cry breath he draws, he is at the
Press Club trying to make con-
tacts.' just wonder, Brick, if you
take politics seriously enough. You
didn't pay thirty dollars for brief
case and buy new typewriter.
Aunt Olympia went with Helen
and Adele one afternoon to large
cocktail party-the invitations had
said tea" It was at the home of
an outstanding Republican senator !;
they remembered that later, with
some bitterness. Adele, left alone
for few minutes, was approached
by a man, comparatively young,
quite handsome, whom Adele in
stinctively labeled "a foreigner of
some sort"
Il met you just after you came
in, Miss Rutherford" he said pleas
antly. II am Gabriel d'Allotti. I
couldn't possibly expect you to re-
member me in that crowd and that
confusion, but by the same token,
you could not possibly expect me
not to remember you in any crowd
or any confusion. You are unfor-
gettable."
Adele smiled pleasantly. But she
remembered Len Hardesty's warn
ing, Beware of embassies and at
taches!"
Are you with one of the embas-
sies?" she asked.
ALAS, no! l have no such impor-
lance. l am just young man try
ing to get along. But I know the
embassy crowd and have friends
among them, so get around. May
I bring you drink"
mot now, thanks"
ITO tell the truth, I am one of
about a million foreigners trying to
get the true American picture. I
do free-lance correspondence for a
few foreign papers and magazines,
and naturally I am collecting my
impressions for book on America"
eff you get the American picture,
you see better than do" she ad-
mitted. ut looks a hodgepodge to
me. Like modern painting. You
can't tell whether that pink splash
is lady's arm or platter of fried
liver with onions! And then it turns
out to be bunch of grapes"
He laughed appreciatively. 81 find
the same difficulty, both with art
and with America R,lf I am v0unp