"Some day I want to take you over next door," he said, cordially, as Icame up. "You ought to know Beasley, especially as I hear you're doingsome political reporting. Dave Beasley's going to be the next governorof this state, you know." He laughed, offered me a cigar, and we satdown together on the front steps.

"From all I hear," I rejoined, "Y0U ought to know who'll get it." (Itwas exclaimed in city that Dowden would "come pretty near having thenomination in his pocket.")