I says, “Anybody that laughs about such a thing will be no good
American,” I says. “The plain people like I know back in the gas-house
district of Camden New Jersey,” I says, “will think that a Man that has
to teach them and govern them and manage their international affairs
should be a sober Man and a moral Man with no time for foolishness,” I
says. “I dont suppose He rides that camelephant for fun,” I says.
And Mr. Edgerton says, “No it is for His liver.”
And I says, “Exactly He has got to take care of His liver of course,” I
says. “And while He rides He will have His mind on the government and
He will not let Himself be worried by no laughing jackasses along the
roadside.”
Mr. Edgerton says that when the Spokesman saw the story in print He
was fearful peeved and could not talk about nothing else all day He
demanded to know who had give that camelephant away to the reporters
and He told Mr. Edgerton to go and find out. And Mr. Edgerton went
first to Mr. Grandaddy Prows and the old gentleman said he was not at
liberty to say but in strict confidence he had an idea that it was
Senator Buttles that had give it out. And then Mr. Edgerton went to
Senator Buttles and asked him who had give it out and Senator Buttles
said that he was not at liberty to say but in strict confidence he had
an idea that it was Mr. Prows that had give it out. And gee Mom would
you think that a palace would be so much like the Elite Beauty Parlors?
Well Mom I could of listened all day to international affairs like
this but I had got nervous about all this intreeging and I looks about
and there at one of the tables is sitting the same feller that I seen
at the table the other night trying to listen in on our talk. “Mr.
Edgerton,” I says, “we are being shadowed again.” And after that he was
so uneasy that his mind was not on what I was saying. And he says,
“When we go out you must let me put you into a taxi because it will not
be so easy for him to follow you and I will go another way and lose him
in the crowd,” he says.
So he gives me money for the fare and we goes out and he puts me into a
cab and away I go and pretty soon I look back and there is the lights
of another car behind us and so I watches and that car follows us all
the time so I tell my driver not to take me no farther but to let me
out and I will save most of my fare. And when I get out I see that
the other car stops too and waits to see where I am going and then it
follows slow.
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