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"Yes," she said quietly. Had the Senator been of the Gashwiler type, he would have expressed himself, after the average masculine fashion, by a long-drawn whistle.
"Try our Preferred Chipped Beef, 58 cts. the pound." He was especially liking that use of "the." It sounded modern. Yet along came Gashwiler, as if seeking an early excuse to nag, and criticized this. "Why don't you say 'a yard, 'a can, 'a pound'?" he demanded harshly. "What's the sense of that there 'the' stuff? Looks to me like just putting on a few airs.
And Mr. Gashwiler had replied, "Well, now, that is a surprise. When was you wishing to go, Merton?" "Why, I would be much obliged if you'd let me get off to-night on No. 4, Mr. Gashwiler, and I know you can get Spencer Grant to take my place, because I asked him yester-day." "Very well, Merton. Send Spencer Grant in to see me, and you can get off to-night. I hope you'll have a good time."
The "All aboard!" of the railway omnibus at this moment tore me from the presence of this gifted legislator and his protege; but as we drove away I saw through the open window the powerful mind of Gashwiler operating, so to speak, upon the susceptibilities of Mr. Dobbs. I did not meet him again for a week.
"Yes, but, my boy," said Gashwiler, now rapidly changing situations with the cooler Wiles; "yes, but, old fellow," he added, poking Wiles with a fat forefinger, "don't you see the whole thing will be up before he gets here?" "Yes," said Wiles gloomily, "but those lazy, easy, honest men have a way of popping up just at the nick of time. They never need hurry; all things wait for them.
Merton received his order, and noting that Gashwiler was beyond earshot bespoke his services for the following afternoon. "Say, Lowell, be on the lot at two sharp to-morrow, will you? I want to shoot some Western stuff some stills." Merton thrilled as he used these highly technical phrases. He had not read his magazines for nothing. Lowell Hardy considered, then consented.
"Then I am to understand that this application is withdrawn?" "As far as my patronage is concerned, certainly. In fact, such an appointment would not express the sentiments indeed, I may say, would be calculated to raise active opposition in the deestrict." The secretary uttered a sigh of relief, and the gifted Gashwiler passed out.
There was no mistaking it. It was the voice of the Gashwiler. "The appointment of this man, Mr. Secretary, would be most acceptable to the people in my deestrict. His family are wealthy and influential, and it's just as well in the fall elections to have the supervisors and county judge pledged to support the administration.
I had a long talk to-day with the lady out in front that hires the actors, and she was very friendly, but said it might be quite some time, because only two companies on the lot were shooting to-day, and she said if Gashwiler had promised to keep my old job for me to be sure and not forget his address, and it was laughable that she should say such a thing, because I would not be liable to forget his address when I lived there so long.
The morning of my return I saw the two conversing together in the hall, but with the palpable distinction between this and their former interviews, that the gifted Gashwiler seemed to be anxious to get away from his friend.
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