The Orlando Clipper. (Orlando, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, May 7, 1909 Page: 3 of 8
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SYNOPSIS.
Senator Morley Vernon's visit with Ills
fiancee was interrupted by a call from
his political boss at the state capital.
Both regretteil it, the Kill more than lie.
because she had arranged to attend a
dinner that evening with him. She said
she yearned for a national office for hint.
On Vernon's desk in the senate he found
a red rose, accompanied by a plea for
suffrage for women. He met tiio au-
thoress, pretty Miss Maria Greene of
Chicago, who proposed to convert him
Into voting for house resolution No. 19.
CHAPTER III.—Continued.
Vernon scarcely knew what to re-
ply; such objections as he might have
found at. other times—the old mascu-
line objections to women's voting and
meddling in politics—had all disap-
peared at sight, of this remarkable
young woman who wished to vote her-
self; he could not think of one of
them, try as he would. His eyes were
on the rose.
"Perhaps your objections are mere-
ly prejudices," she ventured boldly, in
her eyes a latent twinkle that dis-
turbed him.
"I confess, Miss Greene," he began,
trying to get back something of his
senatorial dignity, such as state sena-
torial dignity is, "that I have not de-
veted much thought to the subject; 1
am indeed rather ashamed to acknowl-
edge that I did not even know the
amendment was coming up to-day, un-
til [ was—ah—so delightfully re-
minded by your rose."
He raised the rose to inhale its fra-
grance. She made no reply, but she
liept her eyes on him, and her gaze
compelled him to go on. It was hard
for him to go on, for it was now but
a struggle against the formality of a
surrender that had been inevitable
from the beginning. But his man's
pride forced him to delay it as long as
possible.
"What assurances have you from
other senators?" he asked. "Though,
perhaps, I need not ask—they have
unanimously mounted your colors."
He looked at his colleagues, sporting
their roses. Miss Greene gave a little
exclamation of annoyance.
! "Do you think I don't know," she
said; "that I don't understand all that?
I might have known that they would
not take it seriously! And I thought
—I thought—to put the matter so eas-
ily to them that I should be spared the
necessity of buttonholing them!"
"It was a novel way of buttonholing
them," he laughed.
"Oh!" she exclaimed, catching her
breath, "they wear the roses—and
laugh at me!"
Her eyes flashed through the mists
of vexation that suggested tears.
"You are all alone then?"
Vernon said this in a low, solicitous
tone, as if he were dealing with some
deep grief.
"All alone."
I "And you represent no one—that is,
no society, no club?"
"I am not a paid lobbyist," she said,
"though I believe it is not beyond the
properties of our profession. I do
"what I do only from a love of princi-
ple. I represent only my sex." She
Said it impressively, and then with a
quick little laugh that recognized the
theatrical that had been in her atti-
tude, she added: "And that, I suspect,
without authorization."
j "The ladies, generally, do not seem
to be interested," Vernon acquiesced.
"No," she shook her head sadly, "no,
on the contrary, I suppose most of
them oppose the measure."
"I have generally found them of that
feeling," Vernon observed.
"The slaves, before ihe war, often
petitioned congress not to set them
free, you will remember."
Miss Greene spoke wilh a bitter-
ness. Then quickly site collected her-
self.
"But your objections, Senator Ver-
non?" she said. "Really, we must get
down to business."
She raised the little chatelaine
watch that hung at her bosom and
looked down at it. And then sudden-
ly, without waiting for his objections,
as if she had quite forgotten them in-
deed, she impulsively stretched forth
a hand and said:
"You will help me, won't you?"
Vernon looked into her eyes. His
gaze, after an instant, fell. He tried
to run the stem of the rose through
his buttonhole. The thorns caught in
the cloth,
"You'll have to do it," he said, help-
lessly.
From some mysterious fold of her
habit she took a pin, and then, lean-
ing over, she pinned the rose to his
coat, pinned it with its long stem
hanging, as a woman would pin a flow-
er to a man's lapel.
"Thank you." He was looking into
her eyes again.
"Rather let me thank you," she said.
"It's so good of you to vote for my
measure."
His eyes widened suddenly. He had
quite forgotten the resolution. St*,
must have perceived this, los' she
blushed, and he hastened to make
amends.
"I'll not only vote for it," he rushed
ahead impulsively, "but I'll make a
speech for it." He straightened and
leaned away from her to give a proper
Vernon went over to Hums' seat anil
touched him on the shoulder.
"Come on," he said in a tone of
command, speaking for once from the
altitude of his social superiority. And
for once he was successful. The burly
fellow from the First district stood up
and looked inquiringly.
"Come with me," Vernon said;
"there's a Chicago lawyer back here
who wants to see you."
Burns followed and an instant later
Vernon halted before Miss Greene.
The other men, who had quickly re-
turned to her side, made way, and
Vernon said:
"Miss Greene, may I present Sena
tor Burns, of the First district?"
Miss Greene smiled on the big sa
loonkeeper, who instantly rtumed with
embarrassment. She gave him her
hand, and he took it in his fat palm,
carefully, lest he crush it.
"1 am delighted to meet Senator
Burns; I've heard of you so often,"
she said, looking up at him "And do
you know I count it a privilege to
meet one of your acknowledged inliu
ence in our state's affairs?"
Vernon stood back, delighted beyond
measure with the confusion into which
Burns for once had been betrayed.
The senator from the First district
was struggling for some word to say,
and at last he broke out with:
"Aw now, lady, don't be t'rowin' de
con into me."
The men in the little group on that
side of the senate chamber burst out
in a laugh, but Bums becoming sud-
denly grave, and dangerous and terri-
ble in his gravity, they broke off in
the very midst of their mirth. The
group became silent.
"Really, Senator Burns," said Miss
Greene, "this is no—ah—confidence
game, I assure you." Site rose witlt a
graceful sweep of her skirts. Then
she went on: "If you will permit me,
1 should like to explain my mission to
You. I am down here to ask the sen-
m
'Den I'm Wit' You."
perspective in which she could admire
him. He sat there smiling.
"How splendid of you!" she cried.
"I feel encouraged now."
Then Vernon's face lengthened. He
stammered: "But you'll have to give
me some data; I—I don't know a thing
about the subject."
"Oh," she laughed, "I brought some
literature. It shall all be at yo-ar dis-
posal. And now, I must be about my
work. Can you make any suggestions?
Can you tell me whom I should see,
whom I should interest, who has the
—ah—pull, I believe you Call it?"
"I'll bring them to you," Vernon
said. "You sit here and hold court."
He rose and his eyes swept the
chamber. They lighted on Burns, and
an idea suddenly came to him. He
would revenge himself on Burns for
all the slights of the session.
"Of course you'll have to see Sam
Porter, but I'll begin by bringing Sen
atot- Burns—familiarly known as Bull
Ti'jrns."
"I've read of him so often in the
newspapers," she said. "It would be
an experience."
nient, and then turned to the moo,
their numbers augmented now by
others who had come up to see Burns
in the presence of such a woman. The
glance she gave them was a question.
"Oh, he means it," said Monroe of
Whiteside. "He'll vote for the reso-
lution."
"Yes, lie's given his word," said
Brown well of Cook.
Vernon devoted half an hour to
bringing senators to meet Maria
Greene. It was not difficult work,
though it had its disadvantages; It
did not allow Vernan to remain with
her long at a time. But at last it was
done, and he found a moment alone
with her. She had given him some
pamphlets on equal suffrage.
"Ah, if you could only address the
senate!" he exclaimed, in open admi-
ration. And then, as if an inspiration
had come to him, he added:
"Perhaps I could arrange it; it has
been done."
She gasped and stretched out her
hand to stay him.
"Oh, not for ail the world!" sho
protested.
"Hut you'll come and meet the lieu
tenant governor?"
"I' 1) there?" she said, incredulously,
pointing to the dais under the Hags.
"Why, yes," Vernon answered; "why
not? It's where all the eminent law-
yers who come down here to lobby
sit."
She looked tip at the desk behind
which the lieutenant governor sat,
swinging gently in his swivel chair,
while the secretary read senate bills
on third reading. There was a re-
luctance in her eyes, but when she
caught Vernon's smile, she gathered
her skirts and said:
"Well, if 1 must."
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CHAPTER IV.
While Miss Greene sat chatting with
the lieutenant-governor, who gladly
neglected the duties of his high office,
Vernon- went out into the rotunda,
lighted a cigarette, glanced over the
pamphlets, and tried to arrange the
heads of his speech in his mind.
At the thought of the speech, Ver-
non grew cold and limp with nevous-
riL-ss. His hands were clammy, his
knees trembled, his mouth became dry
and parched, and the cigarette he had
lighted imparted all at once an evil
taste. Yet he smoked on, and as ha
wandered around the rotunda, men
from both houses, passing to and fro,
greeted him, but they seemed to him
to be strange new creatures flitting by
in a dream. If lie was conscious of
them at all it was only as of envied
beings, all on a common happy plane,
fortunate ones who did not have to
make a speech within the hour. He
went over to the state library, think-
ing that its quiet would soothe, but
when he stood among the tall stacks
of books he suddenly remembered that
he must not smoke in those precincts;
and so he turned out into the rotunda
again, for he must smoke. He walked
round and round the rotunda, pausing
at times to lean over the brass railing
and look far down to the main floor
where the red light glowed at the
cigar stand; he sauntered back into
the dim and undisturbed corridors, his
mind racing over all the things he
might say.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
ate to adopt, a resolution that will
submit an amendment to the constitu-
tion permitting the women of Illinois
to vote at all elections, as they vote
at school elections now. if you can
give it, 1 should like your support; 1
should, at least, like to tell you my
reasons."
Slowly she seated herself again,
saying: "Will you sit down?"
But Burns only stood and looked at
her. There was a trace of fear in her
face.
"Do you want dis resolution put
t'rough?" he asked, bluntly.
"I? Indeed I do!" she said.
"Is dere anyt'ing in it fer you?" he
went on.
"Why," Miss Greene said, somewhat
at a loss, "only that I am interested as
a matter of principle in seeing it
adopted. It would be a great day for
me if I could go back to Chicago feel-
ing that I had had just a little bit to
do with such a result."
"Den I'm wit' you," said Burns, and
wheeling, he went back to his desk.
Mi»s Greene watched him a mo-
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