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I know what your name will accomplish in that convention. You shall be Governor of this State without making pledge or promise. Will you stand?" "I ask you again, Thelismer, if there is no other way?" "Any other way means Spinney and mob rule." General Waymouth turned to Harlan. "Go out and tell the honest young men of this State that I will try to satisfy their ideals.
"I don't usually interfere in these matters, but we'd better have this thing straightened out for the good of all of us. I'm glad you're here, Thelismer. I want you to stand by and listen. Here are two mighty good boys, these two and now we'll leave out all political differences. We can afford to. We're all better friends than we were when the session opened."
Say, look here, Thelismer, honest to gad, you're using our politics just to grind your own axes with!" "And you never heard of anybody except patriots in politics, eh?"
Harlan felt the thrill of it. Even his grandfather was gravely anxious. The General leaned forward and put his thin hand on the elder Thornton's knee. "Thelismer, you yourself link the past with the present, so far as the politics of this State go. You link them even more than I do, for you are active in the present. You have been a strong man you are strong to-day.
I was only trying to help you. I wanted you to come, for I thought you ought to know! You've come. I knew you'd come. You won't let him send you away. You'll not let him call me those names ever again!" He gently swung her down, alighted and faced his grandfather. He had the stalwart frame of Thelismer Thornton, and with it the poise of youth, clean-limbed, bronzed, and erect.
And no one in the State was politically more sagacious than Thelismer Thornton, who had seen men come and seen men go, and knew all their moods and fancies. On the morning that the State chairman hurried out of Fort Canibas he discussed the matter of the rival candidates with the old man that is to say, he talked and Thornton listened.
It was a vandal hand that had wrecked the little shrine of her childhood. His indignation against Thelismer Thornton blazed higher. But Dennis Kavanagh knew how to be even more brutal, for that was Dennis Kavanagh's style of attack.
"Thelismer," he said, familiarly, "I've been trying to get something out of Luke. He won't say. Now what do you know about it? Is the party going to be honest? Are we going to get that resubmission plank in the platform this year?" "They haven't asked me to write the platform, Phon." "I tell you, the people want a chance to vote on this prohibitory question.
His whispering voice gave the suggestion ominous significance. The Hon. Thelismer Thornton stared for a moment at Cobb, and then looked up at the heights that shimmered in the beating sun. "You may start in, Cobb," he said at last. His perception of what the man meant came instantly. He had hesitated while he figured chances.
His hands were behind his back, and he sauntered along like one who was at peace with the world. His face was serene once more. He seemed to have recovered all the genial good-nature that men associated with Thelismer Thornton. The chairman trotted on short legs at his side, looking up at him sourly. Thornton smiled down at him.
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