Show 14 vt UT ri T 1 j A vt eluse 0 oth UA i W YN P mh ARTYN ga avenue Y WK woo wn v service CHAPTER VIII Continued in aed i 1 15 I 5 not exactly i bu bathes thes A sneering sue ering alne told bradney and me only this morning that men servants were merely parasitic growths growt bs said that only Y timidity drove husky men like alt alf nud and die into dow domestic esile service 1 I 1 liepe P e theres a time klien lien hell beu think differently er itly milman wants you to familiarize yourself with radons private from an interview in iwa a paper it appears he lives tn in a tower 4 does since ive been here not oven even hla Is wife has boa ventured into intuit Int Vit it I 1 go th in regularly to carry cedar logs for or his open ore fire the doors are fitted with special locks ive taken an impression of the keys beys alt alf goes gaea to town tomorrow hell fetch them im not worrying nita and peter peteri I 1 never dever noticed fobeare for eare are running this show baxon expects a great deal from you yon he says you are the only expert he ever sot got for nothing 0 mrs its whose fortune had enabled her husband to become one of the wealthiest men in a wealthy state enjoyed staying in new houses honses and meeting new sets of people she saw in n this invitation to great rock the opportunity of discussing reduction to music fruit diet and the gospel of calories calori cs on each of these points mrs had her experiences to relate her son robin a good looking man of five and twenty did not welcome new friends unless he be knew all al about them and that knowledge proved satisfactory is on the drive from the hotel in new york where the be always stayed he kept questioning his father about the why should his father waste a week here when ho be could be touring the state and strengthening his bis political position robin desired to be a senators son and taste washington life under the happiest conditions although had planned that mckimble should visit him the manufacturer had bad no idea of it mckim her on ob his bis way to to great rock felt humiliated with the knowledge that hir a foran ineita tion here A afew few months before such a thing would bate bare seemed impossible had arned suddenly that paul baxon was working to gain it primary nomination tor foi the exalted position believed was already alfready in his hie owai own graap at first he laughed the idea to seem scorn but his campaign manager had haa showed him innumerable clippings filled with interviews ter views in which paul braxon bad bad dpn ken enthusiastically about beautifying american cities so that the old world sent her tourists to see them 1 mien baxon had spoken before a federation of clubs club and had been very rell ell received ile he was described 0 I a rendy ready and eloquent speaker hes got a peach ox of a press agent a aid 4 campaign manager gloomily and his bis line Is absolutely new lee its making 4 a great hit bit with the influential women 1 r 1 he cant win on ion that stuff me kimber growled he was one of those old time who distrust worn en and underestimate 1 their power maybe not but he can split the party vote cant he be his platform Is a winner ile he promises the building trades plenty of work and he has been their man for twenty years As ive told caldr the women will vote for him and to no will the intellectuals I 1 tell you john hes bes got to be stopped if h he runs our party loses doses out sure eure what sort of jot a fellow Is he het nobody seems beems to know youve e got to get under his skin no good going to his hie office in another maliba mans office the cards are stacked against you try the social end of it hes just bought place and Is going to entertain ive pt got 1 I 1 inow herman loddon coddon arki pretty ty well rit ril work ork it so be asks you for a week end how about it in the end McKlin ber agreed this was the best plan eventually he be mrs mh and their son were 0 asked for a week ald not look forward to his task but he did not dot doubt his hie success he had bad been lifted 0 to o dealing with men and he would have little trouble with j a dreamer with a better architecture complex robin refused to be one of the party he hd agreed to drive his parents to 6 great Rock where they would make his bli excuses 4 v tm rm sure suie bioti yon would enjoy yourself aid his mother 1 I cant think why tou reBO particular do bo stay with us as t I 1 k the car described a sud den alardin lurch i accepted acce pled I 1 suppose I 1 ought to stay sold said koban bec what arbeauty 1 h s f mr ilia hia mother sF agreed greed thinking he ha had obtained gome laia new blew of the big bonsa they preaching t app but t it waa not nota a view ifer of great hock which influenced ced him aji just for a to lew r rb pi the jis aj ij heavy car wung swung i rand d a an boata abia had into t the he amethyst effs of ft a lovely girl ile he had looked into many eyes but these were different ferent dlf baffling alluring inviting repelling ile he had bad barely time to see she was tall and slim and golden haired 1 I hear bear said hla bis to others placid voice that the oldest baxon n girl lils Is good looking I 1 good looking he said indignantly she la Is a peach 1 when did boj yog we see her mrs me bimber looked at him curiously 1 I mean ive heard she la 14 a peach p eh ch he be explained they it lived ed in voris paris for some years mrs lire Mc Kimber added 01 1 I imagine they are chic you yon bet said robin heartily Mc Kimber sighed and spoke for the first time for some miles you nearly ran us off the rond a while ago he said was drop of 0 thirty feet at that point I 1 yvant want to go to washington I 1 dont want to end up here 1 I must have the wheel tightened robin answered he hoped he be was not flushing he had bad thought himself to be above such displays 0 of emotion but then he had never seen such a girl before until now he had bad believed that writers who described heroines ayea as aa violet or amethyst were merely lying he knew now he had misjudged them they too must have seen the eldest baxon girl it took robins utmost composure to keep his face becomingly wreathed in smiles when he be was introduced to the misses baxon they were nothing usual types overdressed over dressed and badly made up when they suggested he might like to see sae the estate he agreed readily so readily that the eldest girl dismissed her sisters with a ke gesture sture As an the eldest sh she b was to have the first chance robla robin saw the golden girl as ai he be crossed the golf links one of your house gues he asked as he hoped without apparent interest That aces fl miss bliss drown said the rax on girt girl no she a guest A neighbor perhaps the eldest miss laughed maliciously Ild licious buslY ly shea hn if p 0 f housekeeper secre tary mother and we girls time to thin about ordering meals meala or firing servants sowe hired her visa HISS brown had a marible and was practicing short approaches of all the nerve said gertrude baxon ill see mother stops that thai she cant learn how to play golf here robin watched miss brown swing the ball cleared three pine trees and nestled within putting distance of the bole aff aar pretty a stroke as he be a scratch man am could ever liepe to make 1 I imagine she has learnt A good bit of golf somewhere else fia fiasili dryly gertrude baxon becan becarra more nae anil and more distasteful distaste tal to hini him Sh ewas au an empty headed little flirt and bo could i tild not interest him As stion ai as he be could he went back to his room ills his reward came at dinner miss brown was there quite well dressed they were not introduced and she sat some distance from him robin determined to get an after dinner after dinner came a dance and the evasion of the two elldee elder braxon girls was not easy robin looked sourly at an animated and gesticulating frenchman a vIscA viscount unC as lie he recalled it who carried on da a long coi conversation in his bl native amative tongue with miss brown only once robin stared into the violet eyes they seemed molook to look through him but he was sure miss brown remembered that moment when there was a reasonably good chance of the extinction of the family he wished he could dance with her ile be dete detested stid very small mull clinging girls like Gei gertrude trude baxon and since mince he be was himself dark he preferred the blonde type of course the baxon girls were jealous and well they might be probably miss bliss brown bad ad a hard time t to 0 placate the furies her charms and beauty aroused in her employers daughters finally poor robin had to introduce bl himself self he did it very well it came in the nature of an apology robin was wa 11 eo a 0 good looking that most girls forgave him minor breaches brea cies of ett etl buotte qu itte i my ali name Is a robin Mc KImber he began and as I 1 know you are miss brown w we e are introduced arent we and this to Is your idea of an introduction miss brown spoke without enthusiasm ile he was a little stag his hij smile was what people usually termed infectious 1 I had to introduce myself he re turned nobody else would exactly what was the necessity she demanded 1 I wanted to apologize for nearly running you down on the drive this afternoon gh ahe was not making it easy im afraid you yon exaggerate she bhe said calmly 1 I was standing on a rock ft fully ily two wo feet above the road read level when when you turned the corner so recklessly lt ilia face fell she bhe could not help smiling fi fl little but of course it if you really do want to apologize for being so careless 1 I do he said bar earnestly nestly then you must apologize to your parents they were in real danger arid and I 1 was not im a most careful driver he said ask my mother what happened today never happened to roe me before what was that there was a trace of a smile which passed over her race face and was gone 1 I saw that eyes could really be alo let he be answered he looked into them admiringly 1 I forgot everything you should lose your license stia she sold said severely hut but there was no doubt that she smiled as she turned away with a slight bow she was waa more used to verbal fencing than ll 11 he had imagined on the whole he be decided he had beba bc havel veol very stupidly this was no brow 2 1 beaten dependent thirsting tor for kin klinl 1 words robins robina evening was spoiled john was puzzled concerning poul pad baxon he lind had known of baxon tor for years but he haily had never nover met him gilr nor believed belleve 4 very much in his influence Mc Kimber had thought ot him as a younger man w who ho would look up to him as one having long igo ago won his babad P co come e here sure aure that victory would be h hist rein in the th struggle he was uneasily aware that pint baxon was not easy to impress the younger mans knowledge of politics and politicians seemed uncanny he was without reverence fo for the dead or respect for the living once or twice Mc Kimber believed his host hoet was laughing at him it would not be advisable to start way any serious discussions until the two avire were on more friendly terms radons would not be the first political aspirations that i r had bad nipped dipped in inthe the bud bad that was the duty of all sound machine politicians or popular government might creep in and destroy the machinery baxon would see he be was wrong to imperil hla hie party because of his bl newborn new born ambitions for almost a generation now john MeR imber had been the mainstay of his party in his own section of the state if honors were to be awarded it was to him they should owe come baxon would probably see it in that light it if he did not there would be summoned the big mentho men who must be obeyed 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 braxon had two big rooms for himself in a tower from which an uninterrupted view of the sound could be enjoyed one of the rooms was a library deep paneled and splendid the other was his bedroom and bath to this retreat none came but the servants here he dreamed of power and planned the new life none could overhear what he would say to me mc kimber when the hour came to which he had bad long looked forward there would be no tinkling tele telephones phones to td interrupt he chuckled as he thought of Mc Kimber he knew the manufacturer fac for in an honest it if stubborn man who had bad long been regarded as a valued party prop well the me kimber who would come to this talk would not be the man who went down dowal the tower stairs TO BID CONTI CONTINUED NUBIN |