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Thelismer Thornton heard him coming. "Pretty heavy on his heels, the boy is!" he observed to the State chairman. "He's been licking his dander around in a circle till he's got it rearing." The young man halted, erect before his grandfather, but again the old man got in the first word. "I'm going to give you all the time to talk in you want, bub.
"This campaign, Thelismer, will be started, as it ought to be started, within the next twenty-four hours. As to how it will be started I'll have you present as a witness, if you'll accept an invitation." The Duke was obliged to be contented with only that much assurance and information. "There's a train back to the State capital in half an hour, Thelismer," the General stated.
It is not a programme that should alarm honest gentlemen!" There was appeal in the tone there was a hint of rebuke in that final sentence that troubled the conscience of even Senator Pownal. Thelismer Thornton was in a chair close to him. "Don't let a few little cranky notions about a platform scare you," he mumbled in the Senator's ear. "You know Vard Waymouth as well as I do.
He sat down at one side of the room, bearing himself with an air of judicial impartiality. The chairman scowled at him. Judged by recent experience, Thelismer Thornton was a questionable quantity in a conference between the machine and General Waymouth. The committeemen took their cue from the chairman. They were sullen. They bristled with an obstinacy that betrayed itself in advance.
You needn't worry about my going behind your back to make love to any one. But you shall not break up the dearest friendship I ever had." This was the Clare Kavanagh who had bearded even Thelismer Thornton that day the imperious young beauty that the country-side knew.
He may seem a little wilted just now, but he's a hardy perennial you needn't worry about him." "I think you're the man to take these documents to the Committee on Resolutions, Thelismer," stated the General, drawing out the planks he had submitted the evening before. "You can explain why they should be inserted and I have modified them somewhat.
There was silence in the room. The chairman looked at Harlan, impressed by his demeanor. He knew the young man well enough to think twice before he persisted. Thelismer Thornton smoked hard, scowling. He was a little cautious about thrusting himself further into a matter that he knew would test the Thornton spirit in his grandson. But Linton was determined to win his point.
He turned to leave, still serene with the poise of one who has experienced all and is prepared for all. "I used to have pretty good luck playing a lone hand in our old card-playing days, Thelismer. I'll see what I can do in politics." "General Waymouth, have you a few moments to give me if I come to your room now?" inquired Harlan Thornton. "I want to offer my services!"
General Waymouth was serious now. "I came here resolved to tell Thelismer, face to face, that I could not sacrifice the last strength of my life in the way he has asked. But when you met me at the station all my ambitions for this newer generation, as I have dreamed them, came up in me. My boy, this State of ours is in a bad way. In one respect it is especially bad.
An angry man may be made to antagonize the neutrals and even to insult his friends and Thelismer Thornton was not patient when provoked. There was shrewd management behind this revolt. Suddenly the yard was full of men, new arrivals. It was an orderly little army, woodsmen with meal-sack packs, an incoming crew on its march to the woods. A big man plodded ahead and marshalled them.
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