thing more, sir. If I had any money laid by I would pay
my own way."

"I think," stated Mr. Converse, warming with the spirit of combat,
glancing up at the portrait of the war governor, "that we'll be able to
surprise some of the fat toads of politicians in this state, sitting so
comfortably under their cabbage-leaves. You're a stranger, young man,
and as you go about your work the regular politicians will simply blink
at you and will not understand, I hope, provided you go softly. It is
very silly of me to be in this affair, sir. But a man of my age must
have peace of mind, and that infernal meeting in your ward awoke me.
Furthermore," he added, displaying the acrimony that even a good man
requires to spur him to honest fighting, "a cheap politician only lately
flipped my card insolently and referred in slighting tones to my honored
father." He rose and gave Farr his hand. "I'll have assembled here in
my office at ten o'clock to-morrow morning some gentlemen who will stand
for decency in public affairs as soon as they have been waked up. You
will please attend that conference, Mr. Farr. We have only a short
month before the state convention, and we must bring there at least
a respectable number of delegates whom Symonds Dodd cannot bribe or
browbeat."

"Most extraordinary--most extraordinary!" mused the Honorable
Archer Converse, when he was alone. "From that meeting--to an
investigation--from Dodd--to this young man--I have been leaping from
crag to crag like a mountain-goat, never stopping to take breath. And
here I haven't even been able to find out just who he is--and they
do say I'm the best cross-examiner in this state! However, I'll show
Symonds Dodd that I'm not to be sneered at, even if I have to hire
Patagonians in this campaign."

Even chivalry must needs be spiced with a little strictly personal
animosity to achieve its best results!

Colonel Symonds Dodd, laboriously climbing into his limousine in front
of the First National block, scowled at a young man because the
man grinned at him so broadly as he passed along. In his general
indifference and contempt for the humble the colonel did not search
his memory and did not recognize this person as the young man who had
appealed to him in his office. The face seemed familiar and had some
sort of an unpleasant recollection connected with it; therefore the
colonel scowled. He was far from realizing that this person carried on
his palm the warmth from a hand-