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He lighted a fresh cigar out-of-doors. "Luke," he declared quietly between puffs, "this is developing into quite a caucus day take all trimmings. I'm glad you are here to look on!" The town house of Fort Canibas needed no guide-board that day. All roads led to it. Thelismer Thornton walked down the main street, his following at his heels.
I'm prepared to settle without beating down prices. Let's go over to The Barracks." Presson went along grumbling. "You ought to have stayed in this fight this year for yourself, Thelismer. There was no need of all this uproar in ticklish times. A proposition like this makes the general campaign all the harder." He kept casting apprehensive glances behind at the swelling smoke-clouds.
"Presson likes the frame-up, Harlan," said the Duke, smiling broadly. "He isn't even jealous because I thought of it first." "Who else could have pulled it off as you have, Thelismer? It would take more than straight politics to get Vard Waymouth out of his den. And I could have offered only politics."
Everett's got it buttoned. I tell you he has! You're too big a man, to-day, to get before that convention and be thrown down. I've got a better line on the situation than you have. Vard, let's not have this come up between us at our time of life. It's bad it's bad!" "It is bad," returned the General, quietly; "but not for me! And it's too late to stop. I'm going through with it, Thelismer."
He could have sulked and excused himself, but there was no excuse for inaction after demand had been made upon him in this fashion. There was silence in the room. "Fellow up our way used to be a mighty good mule teamster," said Thelismer Thornton, tipping his great head back into clasped hands, and gazing meditatively at the ceiling.
The State chairman was with him his executioner skilfully disguised. Thelismer Thornton forged through the crowd in that direction. He paid his respects publicly and heartily. In that hour when congratulations sugared the surface of conditions, after he had pump-handled men until his arm ached, Everett forgot that he ever had entertained doubts.
"I'll suggest a place for that convention," muttered Thelismer Thornton to those who stood about him. "Hold it in Purity Park in Paradise! Settle the rum question!" he sneered. "Noah hadn't been stamping around on dry ground long enough to get his quilts aired out before he was drunk on Noah's Three Star!
"Not an elaborate lay-out for a candidate, Thelismer," he remarked, pleasantly, "but headquarters to-day is where we hang up our hat." "Vard, you don't mean to tell me seriously, at this hour that you mean to be a candidate?" Thornton had put aside his anger. That had been bitter and quick ire, because his grandson had seemed so blind to his own personal interests.
Furthermore, Squire, the fact that you're gettin' out yourself and proposin' to put your grandson in gives 'em their chance to say a lot. Next place, this is goin' to be a caucus. It ain't any imitation. They're goin' to use a marked check-list." "What?" roared the Honorable Thelismer, jarred out of his baleful calm. "Yes, sir! They've pulled the town clerk into camp and have had him mark a list.
"I'm supposed to know as early as any one, I presume, what it is I'm going to stand on." Thelismer Thornton decided that it was up to him to speak. He leaned against the table, half sitting on it, and swung his foot. "You have a perfect right, Dave, to inquire about any platform that you're going to stand on. And when we get your platform ready for you we'll call you in and submit it.
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