b'ys will have their little scrap with the policecome to me for bail-any crime! any crime! Say not that the freedom of the city by the lake has not been conferred upon me. It has. Even Mayor Harrison will have to own it. But this chapter has outrun its space, and I have n't yet said what I had in mind concerning Theodore Roosevelt. I will drop reminiscences and settle right down to it now. XII THE DESPAIR OF POLITICIANS W ' E had been summoned to the White House, my wife and I. I say, summoned " on purpose, because we had carefully avoided Washington; it was enough for us to know that he was there. But he would not have it, and wrote threateningly that he would send a posse if we did n't come. So we went. I do not think I ever saw a prouder woman than my wife when the President took her in to dinner. I heard her ask him if her smile reached from ear to ear because she felt like it. And I was proud and glad, for so it seemed to me that she had at last come to her rights, and I where there was nothing more to wish for. But withal I felt a bit unhappy. I had thought to do him the highest honor I could by wearing the |