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Before either of the two men could speak, the door was violently flung open and Martin Jaffry appeared. His clothing was disarranged, his manner agitated in striking contrast to the dapper and composed appearance usual to that middle-aged little gentleman. "George," he panted, "heard anything about Geneviève?" "She's safe. Penny's got charge of her by this time." His answer was almost mechanical.
"Here is my good friend, Benjie Doolittle. When he played the ponies in the old days, before he went into the undertaking and furniture business, was he less patriotic than now? Was he less patriotic then than my Uncle Martin Jaffry is now, with all his manufacturer's interest in a stable government? And is my Uncle Martin Jaffry more patriotic than Pat Noonan?
"As a friend and well-wisher, I'm sure I'm delighted to hear the news." "Do I understand that you have your doubts, Mr. Doolittle?" Jaffry inquired mildly. "There's two things we need and need badly, Mr. Jaffry," said Doolittle. "One's money " "A small campaign contribution would not be rejected?"
"I mean he is too personal, over-excitable, irrational and very hard to deal with." "Dear me," said Jaffry. "Is Geneviève like that?" "Geneviève," replied her husband loyally, "is much better poised than most women, but yes, even she all women are more or less like that." "All women and Penny. Well, George, you have my sympathy.
Planning it all out to Thorne's at lunch they was, an' Heally was sittin' at the next table and beats it to me. You can see for yerself what a hell of a mess they'll make!" It was a relief to both men when at this point the door of the office opened and Martin Jaffry entered. Not since the unfortunate anti-suffrage statement of George's had Uncle Martin dropped in like this.
Some one there I'm afraid of." "Telephone?" Mr. Jaffry shook his head and lowered his voice. "With Betty hearing it at this end, and the committee from the Antis sitting it out down there the telephone's on the stair landing " He pursed his lips, waved his cap slowly to and fro and observed it with a whimsical expression on his sandy face, then glanced out of the window.
He just knew, in a leer from Doolittle, that they had extraordinary need for Eve thousand dollars or so in your behalf that they had consulted you. And then Doolittle winked and Noonan cocked his head rakishly, and Uncle Martin put Hello, Mr. Jaffry. This is Penny. Dress and come down to the office quickly. We are in serious trouble."
"Well," he said at last, "let's call in Uncle Martin Jaffry. He " "Yes; he is probably paying for the job. He might know something! I'll get him." "Paying for the job! Do you think he knew of this plot?" cried George as Evans stood at the telephone. "Oh, no.
Then, with berserker fury, crumpling her Sentinel into a ball, she venomously hurled it to the depths of a waste basket and religiously rubbed the feel of it from her fingers. As she had not even glanced at the column headed "Births, Deaths, Marriages," it will be seen that her agitation was real. And surely a more discerning sympathy might have been looked for from the seasoned Martin Jaffry.
"Penny," asked George suddenly, "what has Pat Noonan got in this game I mean against the agitation by the women and this investigation of conditions in Kentwood? Why should he agonize over it?" "Is he fussing about it?" "Is he? Do you think I'd tie his name up in a public speech with Martin Jaffry if Pat wasn't off the reservation? You could see him swell up like a pizened pup when I did it!
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