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Show 94 Culley's coming through our back yard heading for the door. What does the likes of him want at this house?" Hugo started to say, "Now, Maggie...," but she added, "There's a man with him." Karl had already gone to the door to open it for Jame's father, Mayo Culley. Slightly behind Mayo stood a good-looking, florid-faced man wearing a well-made pinstripe suit and a necktie pierced with a pearl stickpin. "Ah, good evenin' to ye, Karl," Mayo Culley said. "If memory serves me right, this is the night of your father's euchre club get-together, is it not? I brought the honorable burgess Harry Ward over here to do a little politickin' amongst the card players." Hugo had risen to invite the men inside. "Come in, Harry, come in," he said. "Haven't seen you for a while. Come in, Mayo." Maggie Rose deliberately avoided Mayo Culley's eyes as Hugo introduced first her, then the euchre club members, to Burgess Ward. "Don't let me interrupt your game, boys," Harry Ward said, waving a hand toward the table. "I just came to have a few words with you fellows about the election coming up. From the looks of you, I'm sure you're all registered Republicans, since I can see that you're all men of good sense." He smiled, showing small, even teeth. "Interrupt the same all you want," Jack Kratzer grumbled. "It sure ain't much of a game with matchsticks. Hugo won't let us play for pennies because of that ban on gambling you put in last week's Canaan Times." "Is that a fact?" Ward asked. |
