o bring out Harry's
political shrewdness.

"Fancy, Margaret," says he, "whom do you think Harry has brought over
to our side now? The shrewdest ward politician in the town--why, you saw
him when he was a boy--Tommy Fitzmaurice."

Then Mrs. Carriswood remembered; she asked, amused, how was Tommy and
where was he?

"Tommy? Oh, he went to the State university; the old man was bound to
send him, and he was more dutiful than some sons. He was graduated with
honors, and came back to a large, ready-made justice court's practice.
Of course he drifted into criminal practice; but he has made a fine
income out of that, and is the shrewdest, some folks say the least
scrupulous, political manager in the county. And so, Harry, you have
persuaded him to cast in his lot with the party of principle, have you?
and he is packing the primaries?"

"I see nothing dishonest in our trying to get our friends out to vote at
the primaries, sir."

"Of course not, but he may not stop there. However, I want Bailey
elected, and I am glad he will work for us; what's his price?"

Harry blushed a little. "I believe he would like to be city attorney,
sir," said he; and Mr. Lossing laughed.

"Would he make a bad one?" asked Mrs. Carriswood.

"He would make the best kind of a one," replied Harry, with youthful
fervor; "he's a ward politician and all that, I know; but he has it in
him to be an uncommon deal more! And I say, sir, do you know that he
and the old man will take twenty-five thousand of the stock at par if we
turn ourselves into a corporation?"

"How about this new license measure? won't that bear a little bit hard
on the old man?" This from Mr. Lossing, who was biting his cigar in deep
thought.

"That will not prevent his doing his duty; why, the old man for very
pride will be the first to obey the law. You'll SEE!"

Six months later they did see, since it was mostly due to Fitzmaurice's
efforts that the reform candidate was elected; as a consequence, Tommy
became prosecuting attorney; and, to the amazement of the critics, made
the best prosecuting attorney that the city had ever known.

It was during the campaign that Mrs. Carriswood met him. Her
goddaughter, daughter of the friend to whom years ago she described
Tommy, was with her. This time Mrs. Carriswood had recently added
Florida to her disappointments in climates, and was back, as she told
Mrs. Lossing, "with a real sense of relief in a climate that was too bad
to make an