"This kissing is your strong
point. _The Lyre_ is backing you up on the strength of it. So is the
Benevolent Assimilation Trust, Limited. In every city and town the
girls have turned out, and you've captured them hands down. If you stop
now it will upset the whole business. The Convention delegates are
coming out for you by the dozen. Our committee is working it up so that
it will be nearly unanimous. There won't be another serious candidate,
and I doubt if they put anybody up against you when you're nominated.
You're as good as President now, but you must go on kissing. That's all
there is of it."
Sam wrote to Marian rehearsing these arguments, and he got Cleary to
write too, but the letters had no effect. At last he received a
telegram from her announcing her intention of meeting him at St. Lewis.
She reached that city before him and was present at the station when he
arrived, altho he did not know it, and from a good point of vantage
she saw him kissing the young ladies of that city by wholesale to an
accompaniment of "Captain Jinks." It was more than she could stand, and
when she joined her _fiance_ at the hotel the meeting was very
different from the one he had so often pictured to himself. It was a
stormy scene, intermixed with tender episodes, but she gave it as her
ultimatum that the kissing must cease forthwith, and, in order to give
a good reason for it, she insisted that they be married at once.
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