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 accompanied him on electioneering tours it was only to be with him; she preferred the quiet of her elegant home and the society of her little boy. She was enjoying both one October evening when Miss Herrick, who had been sent West by "The Searchlight" to write campaign specials, called to interview her on the position of American women in politics.

Mrs. Eddington knew nothing about the position of American women in politics, and frankly said so to the young reporter whom she received very graciously, coming as she did with a letter of introduction from a friend. The wife of the candidate placidly avowed that she held old-fashioned views on the woman question. She afforded the journalist, however, a very good two-column interview on "Woman in the Home," which made the copy-reader sniff contemptuously, and brought a flood of commendatory letters to the editor from the "Constant Readers" of the paper.

As Mrs. Eddington talked, Miss Herrick studied her face, and was impressed by its striking resemblance to one she had seen before. Those brown eyes with the peculiar