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Updated: June 13, 2025
A good brother who formerly lived in Missouri, said, not long before father's death: "They used to tell me before I came to Kansas that Pardee Butler preached politics, and I said that if ever I heard him begin to preach politics, I was going to get right up in meeting, and ask him to show his Scripture for preaching politics.
Sam Pardee had once taken his wife to see a performance of The Man From Home when that comedy was at the height of its popularity. A line from this play flashed into Mrs. Pardee's mind now, and she paraphrased it deftly. "There are just as many kinds of people in Okoochee as there are in Zanzibar." "I don't believe it." "Well, it's so. And I'm thankful we've got the comforts of home."
Sam Pardee was drawn to a new town, a boom town, as unerringly as a small boy scents a street fight.
"Where you going from Honolulu, Miss Pardee?" "Samarkand." "Beg pardon?" "Samarkand." "Oh, yeh. Samar le' see now, where is that, exactly? I used to know, but I'm such a hand for forgetting " "I don't know," said Maxine, distinctly. "Don't but I thought you said you were going " "I am. But I don't know where it is." "Then how "
"Being a shipmaster, his signature was necessarily affixed to many papers. I have found not less than twenty of these, all identical with the signature of the will." "That would certainly seem to be conclusive," said Hesden. "Taken with other things, it is," answered Pardee.
She had thrilled him. "After my Uncle Max that lives in uh Australia." "I've never heard you talk of any Uncle Max," said Mrs. Pardee, coldly. But the name had won. How could they know that Maxine would grow up to be a rather bony young woman who preferred these high-collared white silk blouses; and said "eyether." Maxine had been about twelve when Okoochee beckoned Sam Pardee.
"What!" she exclaimed, "not the little nigger teacher at Red Wing?" "The same, madam," said Pardee, with a smile and a bow. The announcement was too much for the long-excited invalid. She fell back fainting upon her pillow, and while Cousin Hetty devoted herself to restoring her relative to consciousness, Pardee gathered up his papers and withdrew.
Hendryx, of Wichita, writing to me since his death, speaks thus of a prayer offered by him at the Hutchinson Convention: "Never, while consciousness shall last, will I forget the ring of your father's voice in prayer, at Hutchinson. I asked, 'Who is that aged veteran? he seems almost inspired. And they told me it was Pardee Butler."
"I may be mistaken, but I never forget a face. Where are you from, may I ask?" Maxine hesitated a moment. "Oklahoma." He slapped his leg a resounding thwack. "I knew it! I'm hardly ever mistaken. Name's wait a minute Pardee, isn't it?" "Yes. But how " "One of the best meals I ever had in my life, Miss Pardee. Two years ago, it was. I was lecturing on Thibet and the Far East." "Lecturing?"
"And settle down in Okoochee! Never see anything! Stuck in this God-forsaken hole! This drab, dull, oil-soaked village! When there are wonderful people, wonderful places, colour, romance, beauty! Damascus! Mandalay! Singapore! Hongkong!... Hongkong! It sounds like a temple bell. It thrills me." "Over in Hongkong," said Arnold Hatch, "I expect some Chinese Maxine Pardee would say, Okoochee!
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