The Orlando Clipper. (Orlando, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, June 18, 1909 Page: 3 of 8
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SYNOPSIS.
Senator Morley Vernon's visit with his
fiancee was interrupted by a call from
liis political boss at the state capital.
Both regretted it. the girl more than he,
because she had arranged to attend a
dinner that evening with him. She said
she yearned for a national office for him.
On Vernon's desk in the senate lie found
a red rose, accompanied by a plea for
suffrage for women. He met the au-
thoress, pretty Miss Maria Greene of
Chicago, who proposed to convert him
Into voting for house resolution No. 19.
Miss Greene secured Vernon's promise to
vote for the suffrage resolution. He also
aided her by convincing others, lie took
a liking to the fair suffragette. Miss
Oreene consulted with the lieutenant-gov-
ernor. Vernon admitted to himself that
the suffragette had stirred a strange feel-
ing within him. He forgot to read his
fiancee's letter. Vernon made a great
speech in favor of suffrage, aided by
glances from Miss Greene. The resolution
was made a special order. Vernon was
enthusiastic on the prospects for the res-
olution. He was much in Miss Greene's
company. Vernon neglected thoughts of
Amelia. He took Miss Greene driving and
laid out plans for the success of the reso-
lution. Vernon's speech caused a great
newspaper sensation. He was being neg-
lected by Amelia, who had not answered
liis letter. Vernon is "tipped off" that his
suffrage resolution may not pass. As
Miss Greene was due the following morn-
ing he had no fears. Miss Greene ar-
rived and breakfasted with Vernon.
Across the dining room, entrenched be-
hind women opponents of the suffrage
resolution, he spied Amelia. He started
toward her.
CHAPTER Xi.
None of the ladies relaxed at Ver-
non's approach, Mrs. Overman Hodge-
Lathrop least of all. On the contrary
she seemed to swell into proportions
that were colossal and terrifying, and
when Vernon came within her sphere
of influence his manner at once sub-
dued itself into an apology.
"Why, Amelia — Mrs. Hodge-La-
throp!" he cried, "and Mrs. Standish,
Mrs. Barbourton, Mrs. Trales, Mrs.
Langdon—how do you do?"
He went, of course, straight to Mrs.
Overman Hodge-Lathrop's side, the
side that sheltered Amelia, and he
tried to take the hands of both women
at once. Amelia gave him hers coldly,
without a word and without a look. He
grew weak, inane, and laughed un-
easily.
"Delightful morning," he said, "this
country air down here is—"
"Morley," said Mrs. Overman-
Hodge-Lathrop, severely, "take that
seat at the foot of the table."
He obeyed, meekly. The ladles, he
thought, from the rustle of their skirts,
withdrew themselves subtly.
Vernon shrank.
"Morley Vernon," Mrs. Overman
Hodge-Lath cop continued, "do you
know what I have a notion to do?"
"No, Mrs. Hodge-Lathrop," he said
in a very little voice.
"Well, sir, I've a notion to give you
a good spanking."
Vernon shot a glance at her.
"Oh, you needn't look, sir," she con-
tinued, "you needn't look! It wouldn't
be the first time, as you well know—
and it isn't so many years ago—and I
have your mother's full permission,
too."
The chain of ladylike sympathy that
passed about the table at this declara-
tion was broken only when Its ends
converged on Vernon. Even then they
seemed to pinch him.
"Your poor, dear mother," Mrs.
Overman Hodge-I^ithrop went on, "in-
sisted, indeed, on coming down her-
self, but I knew she could never stand
such a trip. I told her," and here Mrs.
Overman Hodge-Lathrop paused for an
Instant, "I told her that I thought I
could manage."
There was a vast significance in this
•peech.
The waiter had brought the substan-
tiate to the ladies, and Mrs. Overman
Hodge-lAthrop began eating deter-
minedly.
"It was, of course, Just what I had
always predicted," she went on, In a
staccato that was timed by the rise of
her fork to her lips, "I knew that pol-
itics would Inevitably corrupt you.
soon or late. And now it has brought
you to this."
"To what?" asked Vernon, suddenly
growing bold and reckless. Amelia
had not given him one glance; she
was picking at her chop.
Mrs. Overman Hodge-Lathrop, rais-
ing her gold glasses and setting them
aristocratically on the bridge of her
nose, fixed her eyes on Vernon.
"Morley," she said, "we know. We
have heard and we have read. The
'Chicago presi is an lustituiion that.
fortunately, still survives in these
iconoclastic days. You know very
well, of course, what I mean. Please
do not compel me to go into the re-
volting particulars." She took her
glasses down from her nose, as if that
officially terminated the matter.
"But really, Mrs. Hodge-Lathrop,"
said Vernon. He was growing angry,
and then, too, he was conscious some-
how that Miss Greene was looking at
him. His waiter, John, timidly ap-
proached with a glance at the awful
presence of Mrs. Overman Hodge-
Lathrop, and said:
"Yo' breakfus, senato', Is gettin'
col'."
"That may wait." said Mrs. Over-
Mrs. HodRe-Lathrop," he went on with
a shade of irritation in hia tone, ' ihls
is too much!"
Mrs. Overman Hodge-Lathrop was
calm.
"Have you shown her any respect?"
che went on. "Have you not, on :ho
contrary, said and done everything
you could, to drag her down from her
exalted station, to pull her to the
earth, to bring her to a level with
men, to make her soil herself with
politics, by scheming and voting and
caucusing and button-holing and wire-
pulling? You would have her degrade
and unsex herself by going to the
polls, to caucuses and conventions;
you would have her, no doubt, in time,
lobbying for and against measures in
the council chamber and the legisla-
ture."
Mrs. Overman Hodge-Lathrop paused
and lifted her gold eye-glasses once
more to the bridge of her high, aris-
tocratic nose.
"It is that kind of women you have
been brought up with, Morley? Do
we look like that sort? Glance around
this table—do we look like that sort
of women?"
The ladies stiffened haughtily, dis-
dainfully, under the Impending inspec-
tion, knowing full well how easily they
would pass muster.
"And, if that were not enough,"
Mrs. Overman Hodge-Lnthrop went on,
inexorably, "we come here to plead
with you and find you hobnobbing with
that mannish thing, that female law-
yer!"
She spoke the word female as if it
conveyed some distinct idea of re-
proach. She was probing another chop
with her fork. She had stmt the pot
of coffee back to the kitchen, ordering
the waiter to tell the cook that she
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I am down here to see that It fs done.
We go to the State House after break
fast, and these ladles will assist me in
laying before each member of the
senate this matter in its true and ex-
act light. As for our rights," she
paused and looked at him fixedly, "as
for our rights. I think we are perfectly
capable of preserving them."
Her look put that question beyond
all dispute.
"And now," she resumed, "you
would better take a little breakfast
yourself; you look as if you needed
strength."
Vernon rose. He stood for an in-
stant looking at Amelia, but slm
glanced at him only casually.
"I suppose, Amelia, I shall see you
later in the morning?"
"I suppose so, Mr. Vernon," she said.
"But pray do not let me keep you from
rejoining your companion." She was
quite airy, and lifted her coffee-cup
with one little finger quirked up high
er than lie had ever seen it before.
He went back to where Miss Greene
sat, and where his breakfast lay.
"My goodness!" he said, seating
himself. "I've had a time!"
"I should imagine so," said Miss
Greene.
She was just touching her napkin tc
her lips with a final air. She carefully
pushed back her chair, and rose from
the table.
"I beg your pardon," he stammered,
getting up himself, "I'll see you aftei
breakfast."
Miss Greene bowed. Then she left
the dining room.
CHAPTER XII.
Morley Vernon came out of the din-
ing room in a temper far different
from that he had worn when he went
in. His breakfast, after so many vi-
cissitudes, was sure to be a failure,
though John, striving against fate, had
tried to restore the repast to its orig- j
inal excellence by replacing each dish
with a fresh one. He affected a heroic
cheerfulness, loo, but the cheer was
hollow, for his experience of men and
of breakfasts must have taught him
that such disasters can never be re-
paired.
Vernon, however, bad heavier things
on his mind. In his new position as
knight-errant of Illinois womankind,
he had looked forward to this day as
the one of triumph; now, at its begin-
ning, he found himself with two of-
fended women on his hands, and two
hopelessly irreconcilable mistresses to
serve. He began to see that the lot of
a constructive statesman is trying; he
would never criticise leaders again.
The lobby of the hotel was filling
rapidly, and men with their hair still
damp from the morning combing were
passing Into the breakfast room with
newspapers in their hands. In tha
center of the lobby, however, he saw
a group of senators, and out of tha
middle of the group rose a dark bon-
net; the flowers on (he bonnet bobbed
now and then decisively. Around it
were clustered other bonnets, but they
were motionless, and, as it were, sub-
ordinate.
"Can you tell me who that is?"
asked Brooks of Alexander, jerking his
thumb at the group.
"Yes," said Vernon, "that's Gen.
Hodge-Lathrop. She's on her way to
the front to assume command."
"Oh!" said Brooks. "I saw some-
thing in the papers—" And he went
away, reading as he walked.
Vernon looked everywhere for Miss
Greene, but he could not find her. The
porter at the Capitol avenue entrance
told him that she had driven over to
the State House a few minutes before.
Vernon was seized by an impulse to
follow, but he remembered Amelia.
He could not let matters go on thus
between them. If only Mrs. Overman
Hodge-Lathrop were not in command;
if he could get Amelia away from her
for a while, if he could see her alone,
he felt that explanations would be pos-
sible.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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"Please Do Not Compel Me tc Go Into Revolting Particulars."
man Hodge-Lathrop, and John sprang
back out of range.
Vernon was determined, then, to
have It out.
"Really, Mrs. Hodge-Lathrop, jesting
aside—"
"Jesting!" cried Mrs. Overman
Hodge-Lathrop, "jesting! Indeed, my
boy, this is quite a serious business!'
She tapped with her forefinger.
"Well, then, all right," said Vernon,
"I don't know what I've done. All I
have done has been to champion a
measure—and I may add, without
boasting, I hope, with some success—
all I have done has been to champion
a measure which was to benefit your
sex, to secure your rights, to—"
"Morley!" Mrs. Overman Hfldge-
Lathrop said, cutting him short. "Mor-
ley, have you Indeed fallen so low? It
is incomprehensible to me, that a
young man who had the mother you
have, who had the advantages you
have had, who was born and bred as
you were, .should so easily have lost
his respect for women!"
"Lost my respect for women!" cried
Vtrnon, and then he laughed "Now,
was accustomed to drink her coffee
hot.
"And now, Morley Vernon, listen to
me," she said, as If he were about to
hear the conclusion of the whole mat-
ter. "If you have any spark of honor
left in you, you will undo what you
have already done. This resolution
must be defeated in the senate to-day;
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sensitive," said Mr. Goslington. "but
it seems to be the way I'm built. I
can stand being snubbed by a man,
but it hurts my feelings to be ignorod
by a woman.
"This morning coming in at a door
through which from within I was
about to go out was a woman. When
I saw her coming I of course opened
the door for her as politely as I could
and stood back to let her oaaa,
"Did she as she passed through
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