28/45 The delegate from Marion, like the mysterious person from Pulaski, was a stranger to state conventions. The ladies were at once interested in the young gentleman with the red carnation in his buttonhole--a trim young fellow, in a blue serge suit, with a blue four-in-hand knotted under a white winged collar. As he waited with his eye on the chairman he put his hand to his head and smoothed his hair. "He ought to have asked me if he's going to back Edward Thatcher for Senator." "I always think his cowlick's so funny. He's certainly the cool one," said Marian. |