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Mark my words, in five years he'll run the sixth ward. Drop all
talk of fighting him. He is in politics to stay, and we must make it
worth his while to stay with us."


CHAPTER XXII.
POLITICS.

Peter sat up later than was prudent that night, studying his blank wall.
Yet when he rose to go to bed, he gave his head a puzzled shake. When he
had gone through his papers, and drunk his coffee the next morning, he
went back to wall-gazing again. He was working over two conundrums not
very easy to answer, which were somewhat to this effect:
Does the best man always make the best official?
Is the honest judgment of a fellow verging on twenty-four better than
the experienced opinion of many far older men?
Peter began to think life had not such clear and direct "right" and
"wrong" roads as he had thought. He had said to himself long ago that it
was easy to take the right one, but he had not then discovered that it
is often difficult to know which is the right, in order to follow it.


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