And then he stops kidding and explains how it is that on one side is ladies and gentlemen what is doing the killing and on the other side it is just common dirty workingmen and of course our country is got to see to it that the side of refinement is victorious and that the wives of the young sectaries in the state department is not stopped from being noble and rich. It would be breaking up the home he says if it was to be any other way for what would become of the foreign matrimonial market if our young men of fashion was to pay for a peach and find they have got a lemon?
Well I guess I am being a dumbell again but I do not know exactly whether he is joking but it seems that he is real angry because his advice is not took and the Spokesman is not got the sense to stay as the Strong Silent Man which is what Mr. Edgerton made Him and the only thing that any man can be when He does not know enough to be nothing else.
And by and by we got out of the restaurant and are walking in the park and it is moonlight and soft and sweet and romantic and Mr. Edgerton he says, “Well I have got some news for you my dear Mamie that I fear will make you very sad I am going to quit this job as the Spokesman’s Secretary.” And I says, “My God!” and my knees is like to give away.
“Yes,” he says, “what is happened is that some of the brass kings is come to me with a proposition it seems they are planning a great new brass trust that is to include all the brass mines and mills of the entire country and they are scared the public may not like it and may make a fuss and force the Spokesman to do something about it and so they have asked will I come and be their head press agent and fix the stories that they will tell to all the newspapers and they have offered me just about three times what I am getting now not only from the government but from the private funds of them that is put me here to manage the Spokesman for them. And so I am going to take this new job.”
Well I am so weak that I have to set on a bench and I says, “Oh Mr. Edgerton I will be so lonely!”
And he says, “That is just what I want to say that you are to come with me.”
“With you Mr. Edgerton but where?”
“To Chicago for that is where the brass trust is to have its offices.”
“But oh,” I says, “what would I do in Chicago?”
“You will be free,” he says, “and so will I because why,” he says, “when you are in private business you can have some fun and you do not have to worry about a lot of meddlesome Matties and old women in pants that is watching everything you do. And you and me can have a little apartment and be as jolly as two turtle-doves.” And while he says that he is put his arm about me and he says, “Oh Mame I am sure fond of you for you are the gamest kid I ever got to know and wouldn’t you like to have a nice little love-nest and with nobody to look out for but just me?”