money that had helped the young man through the State university. Undoubtedly--so Maydew read the signs of the times--it was the judge's influence which now brought the youngster forth as an aspirant for public office. In the Houser candidacy Maydew saw, or thought he saw, another attack upon his fiefship on the party organisation and the party machinery. On an evening of the same week in which Tobe Houser inserted his modestly-worded announcement card in the _Daily Evening News_, Senator Maydew called to conference--or to concurrence--two lieutenants who likewise had cause to be stalwart supporters of his policies. The meeting took place in the living room of the Maydew home. When the drinks had been sampled and the cigars had been lighted Senator Maydew came straight to the business in hand: “Well, gentlemen,” he said, “I've got a candidate--a man none of us ever thought of before. How does the name of Quintus Q. Montjoy seem to strike you?” Mr. Barnhill looked at Mr. Bonnin, and Mr. Bonnin looked back at Mr. Barnhill. Then both of them looked at Maydew. “Montjoy, eh?” said Barnhill, doubtfully, seeming not to have heard aright. “Quintus Q. Montjoy you said, didn't you?” asked Bonnin as though there had been any number of Montjoys to choose from. He spoke without enthusiasm. “Certainly,” answered Maydew briskly, “Quintus Q. Montjoy, Esquire. Any objections to him that you can think of, off-hand?” “Well,” said Mr. Barnhill, who was large of person and slow of speech, “he ain't never done anything.” “If I'm any judge he never will do anything--much,” supplemented Mr. Bonnin, who was by way of being small and nervous. “You've said it--both of you,” stated their leader, catching them up with a snap. “He never has done anything. That gives him a clean record to run on. He never will do anything--on his own hook, I mean. That'll make him a safe, sound, reliable man to have representing this district up yonder at Frankfort. Last session they licked the Stickney warehouse bill for us. This season it'll come up again for passage. I guarantee here and now that Quint Montjoy will vote right on that proposition and all other propositions that'll come up. He'll vote right because we'll tell him how to vote. I know him from the skin out.” “He's so powerfully pompious and bumpious--so kind of cocksure and high-an'-mighty,” said Mr. Barnhill. “D'ye reckin, Hod, as how he'll stand without hitchin'?”