Show D a JUST TO PLEASE HER 0 BY BARRY PRESTON 0 0 and let a little thing like that trouble yon yen would you billy r marionora Mari onOr ton looked up tram from the outspread paper ocher knees and raised her pretty grotty brows at tho the big troubled young man amna who paced up and down the ver twan anda da little thing la 17 echoed billy capou capen little gt heres an old and I 1 d honored name dragged through tho the mire ope one perfectly good reputation torn t 0 j n to t 0 shreds honest h 0 n e a t motives twisted and warped carpe d you jou expect ift ii she asked well not anything so sa bad as this he be contested confessed its a nice mess mass youve got me into itt oh billy youre such a quitter she sighed 1 I never neter wanted to run tor for mayor anyway said he you egged me on to it 10 1 I wanted vante dyon yon to do mow more worth while than amuse yourself said she bhe billy you have great possibilities ties in you II if only really try well ive ite tried said eald be and this la is the result mudslinging mud slinging reau tation wrecking a joke to all your friends why only this afternoon as aa I 1 was coming up here I 1 met bob whiting and charlie green and they seemed to think it was excruciatingly tunny funny to give three cheers for or her honor the next mayor of course theres no chance of 0 my being elected but they make quite such buch a silly joke of it perhaps you wont be so BO much of a joke after election tomorrow dont you believe that said bald he hei ive got lust just about as much show as a snowball in in july lie he ended lamely it was 3 the next afternoon when billy capen rather white faced rushed up to the veranda where marton marion orton sat fussing with tea things say what am I 1 going to do he groaned helplessly about what she asked ive been hanging around tern be said it booms that vm im going to be elected beyond the shadow of a doubt j oh billy sho she cried radiantly I 1 ait its awful be groaned groa nod wh I 1 do she stared at him 1 I believe if I 1 really am elected ill III so eo right down and resign said he be billy capen she cried rd id like to r shake bake you 1 41 I wish you would he said inga br ill make a sweet little mayor wont 17 I 1 well the downfall of tai this beautiful burg be upon your head you put me up to it you induced me to run when the reform crowd put my name up now see what youve done its perfectly splendid she cried why whir billy youre the right nan man tor for the right place placa needed you tor for ever so BO long I 1 know youve got it in you i 1 I 1 wish I 1 thought that way said bald ho be you want to be elected not she stared at him I 1 then then what on earth did yon ym run for 9 well I 1 though there the least chance of my getting it so I 1 see bow it was going to do any harm barm and I 1 though the tha attempt the trying would show you well would please you marlon marion and and oh hang lt it the plain truth of the matter Is I 1 wanted to make good with you now I 1 ive va gone and got elected mayor mayar and and if ive got to bo be his honor have to be her the tha power behind the throne she flushed slightly she did dot cot look at him instead her eyes were fixed on the blue flame flickering beneath the bubbling brass kettle it if I 1 do if I 1 consent to be her as you choose to call it will you do just es as I 1 say why of course then you wont throw mike touhey out as head of the street department you yon know mike was our gardener here once im very vary fond of 0 mike billy capen stared at her silently tor fo r a good minute why mikes the biggest grafter of the whole ring its Vs scalp the reform crowd ta Is particularly after ill have to throw mm out ont banever abat bat ever you say eren it I 1 wont marry you it you do even it if you wont wona marry me it I 1 do he repeated ae sha put out the lamp under the kettle li ettle she camped from her chair and just tor for that I 1 will marry you billy she cried 1 I was afraid afraid it really was as aa you said bald that you care anything about the reform crowd or about being mayor I 1 was afraid you were doing it ju aust st to make good with me well all im doing it tor for be maintained stoutly et outly oh indeed said shel but she was smiling proudly RG as the slipped into hla his outstretched arras copyright 1914 by the mcclure ver per Syn dlott |