"My being a senator wouldn't have mattered at all. They've been
changing your name, over this side the river, I see. How did that
happen?"

Again Chip was uncomfortable.

"We've got a cook that is out of sight when it comes to Saratoga chips,
and I'm a fiend for them, you see. The boys got to calling me Saratoga
Chip, and then they cut it down to Chip and stuck to it."

"I see. There was a fellow with you over there--Davidson. What has
become of him?"

"Weary? He works here, too. He's down in the bunk house now, I guess."

"Well, well! Let's go and hunt him up--and we can settle about the
pictures at the same time. You seem to be crippled. How did that
happen? Some dare-devil performance, I expect."

The senator smiled reassuringly at the Little Doctor and got Chip out
of the house and down in the bunk house with Weary, and whatever means
he used to make Chip "behave himself," they certainly were a success.
For when he left, the next day, he left behind him a check of generous
size, and Chip was not so aloof as he had been with the Little Doctor,
and planned with her at least a dozen pictures which he meant to paint
some time.

There was one which he did paint at once, however--though no one saw it
but Della. It was the picture of a slim young woman with gray eyes and