A Gentleman from Mississippi
, with a towel filled with cracked ice around his head, he saw two familiar figures s
something important that brings both the boss
s, looking up, he saw the newspaper man approaching. "Senator Peabody, yo
advance in the Senate the financial interests of himself, of Standard Steel and other commercial organizations met with very little protest in Washington. That he deserv
nts by diplomacy-as he had found that reporters of the Haines sort could not be influenced by money. He considered a reporter who would take a bribe as a constructive, conservative member of society, and fre
sentative of the Morning St
here on the same errand," s
y appeared to
r Langdon, Senator Stevens
ngdon stock is going up when the chairman of
nt in on a naval bas
n of the South is re
its naval base appro
interrupted H
, "the friends of Senator Langdon are working to have him appointed on that committee, because he comes from the State where the naval base
es n
hat town's going t
vens paused
ty are the chief candidates. I suppose
porter
to the War Department now. When Senator Langdon comes wil
bowed co
's in luck to have the smartest y
ng that he won't recognize me when he sees me. Good-d
tevens as the newspa
f the Sena
ewspaper man to be too clever. Spoils his usefuln
r it would never do to
g the subject, "to come with me to welcome the new
mile, yet a cold one-acc
tle attention like this to a new man is never wasted
i acquiesced, and he laughed heartily at
p any measure for the benefit of the South and Langdon will go the limit on it. Even a Republican majority doesn'
him?" asked P
ew closer
and he knows i
oss n
imple gentleman of the old school, as you describe him-might
rasped the arm of the
ellows you just have to believe when he talks. He'll do what
antee him?" sn
vedly, S
hat ought to be enough honor for a man who a year ago was gro
rton, the Congressman from Langdon's district, working on it. There isn't a foot of land there which
runted ap
tidy bit," he said. "Now, if we could only get Langdon interested, dir
r from Mississipp
Golden Rule. Fact is, he rather lives by that antiquated standard. That's where we get him. He owes everything to me, y
over," sai
e flame had lured the moth, and it liked the manner of the singeing
ll of the good trick he had turned, "but I didn't like to inter
y pricked u
both Senat
c, the Congressman let his next
on interested-financial
exchanged a si
ed Peabody
smiled
son invest $50,000 of
d. That ought
his Congressman, his eyes threa
ot Langdon's money in Alt
to the extent of fifty thousand, and I've promis
client of mine has a little business that I cannot attend to handily. Doesn't involve much work, and a young, hustling lawyer
long breath. His eyes
course, it won't interfere with
dy sm
oving. If convenient, run over to New York the last of the wee
Senate nodded a
you very much." And Norto
turned t
ressman can be useful
ns, d
what he is told and doesn't ask any fool questions. This was good work. Langdon's on the naval committee now sure. Come, Stevens; l
ce, followed by the rushing of porters and bellboys and an expectant pose on th