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Show WILES OF WOMEN fl gVHE did not live in New York, jH SjP or Washington, or even in the V East. If she had she would in- jfl all probability known her political JH world better. Her home was in a !H town of 30mo importance, however, a H centre of conditions that mado it a iH desirable point for a gathering of po H litical powers. She herself was not !H in the political atmosphere, but she jfl know the names of political lights, jfl though she had no knowledge of po- H litical and personal ambitions and its H accompanying enmity. Her town was jH what might bo called a Southern one, where personalities and feuds run H riot all the time and more so when H political victories must bo won. For 'H herself, she was just pretty, with the H leputation of being rich, or the daugh- IH ter of a rich father, with whom she lived. She considered herself also a jH social ruler. Somebody put her up to ;H giving a big dinner, or, rather, a din- :l ner to big people governors and sen- fl ators and a "boss" or two, with some il town women and one or two of the I H visiting women who wero with these jfl important men. M H The dinner was for ton, and an in Hi novation was in its being informal, Hi ahdHjejng Summertirao it was to be H i given at a roadside inn, ten or flf- H ! teen miles out of town. The hostess H and the guests in her own car ar- H j rived early. One by one the other H ; motors got in on good time, but the H ; guest of honor did not arrive. The H hostess became uneasy, and after H much more than the time allowed for H(; a tardy guest she asked to be excused HI for a short time, and took her car and H' went down the road a bit to see if h anything could have happened to her H't most Important guest, who chanced to H bc tlle Governor of her State. H! AfteK. a few minutes another gue3t, H who felt herself quite as important H as anyone who might bo coming and H had the right to thing so said: H "Has anything happened? "Where is H our hostess?" H "She has gone down the road a Hi- H tie way to see if anything could have H happened to Governor 's car," H somebody answered. H "What? Governor ? Do you H' mean to tell mo that Mrs. Blank in- H vited us here to meet that disroput- H i able man a man that we haven't H spoken to in years long before we H went to Washington, and whom no H self-respecting person, man or wo- H man, would permit to cross his Hires- H' hold, much less to sit at table with H) him?" And she was gatheriug her- H self up and reaching for her wrap. Hi (To Be Continued.) |