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With these were other senators of repute; and in the House there were abundant men of mark, Colfax, Blaine, Banks, Boutwell, Dawes, Conkling, Henry J. Raymond, Randall, Hayes, Garfield, Bingham, Shellabarger, Voorhees, Elihu B. Washburn; space is wanting to name others, or to individually characterize these.
His popularity soon attracted the attention of politicians who hoped to make use of it for the good of the country. He was too influential a member of the community to be overlooked. Senator Wilson, Speaker Colfax, Governor Claflin and others called upon him, congratulated him on the fortunate turn of affairs, and hoped they might be of service to him.
"Henry Ware alive!" exclaimed Adam Colfax, springing forward and seizing the hand which dripped water from the tip of every finger. "An' don't furgit me," said Shif'less Sol, as he leaped aboard and stood beside Henry, a tiny cataract pouring from every seam of his clothing. "Nor me," said Tom Ross briefly, taking his place with his comrades.
"I've got to buy her now, sir," he cried. "I reckon not," said the Colonel. "You come along with me." Naturally Mr. Colfax was very angry. He struggled but he went. And so, protesting, he passed Stephen, at whom he did not deign to glance. The humiliation of it must have been great for Mr. Colfax. "Jinny wants her; sir," he said, "and I have a right to buy her."
Adam Colfax and Major Braithwaite looked disappointed, but both Henry and the scout insisted that it was the right place. "Try again," said Adam Colfax, and the divers went down a second time. The last of them to come up looked over the side of their boat, and when he wiped the water from his eyes, triumph showed there. "They are here," he said. "I touched one of them.
One of the neighbors, clinking with jet beads till she sounded like a pitcher of ice water coming down the hall, went on the journey to the mountain sanitarium with Mrs. Colfax, as a sort of companion, and when all the fuss of the departure and the slam of the old cab doors and the neighing of the livery-stable hearse horses was over, I was left alone with the baby Julianna and the Judge.
"You are to shoot that fire out, and at the same time shoot out as much else with it as you can," the leader said to the gunner. "I can do it," replied the gunner with pride and confidence. "I shall load with grape shot, triple charge." Adam Colfax nodded. The triple charge of grape was rammed into the mouth of the brass piece.
Scarcely had the hum of excitement died when Stephen, glancing at Colfax for the next move, saw that young gentleman seized from the rear by his uncle, the tall Colonel. And across the street was bliss Virginia Carvel, tapping her foot on the pavement. "What are you about, sir?" the Colonel cried. "The wench isn't worth it." "Mr. Colfax shook himself free.
That very evening a man, tall and lean, but with the shrewd and kindly eye of a scout, came into the sitting-room with the Colonel and handed a letter to Mrs. Colfax. In the hall he slipped into Virginia's hand another, in a "Jefferson Davis" envelope, and she thrust it in her gown the girl was on fire as he whispered in her ear that he had seen Clarence, and that he was well.
Slowly the eyes she had yielded to Stephen came back again and rested on the President. And now her wonder was that an ugly man could be so beautiful. "I wish it understood, Mr. Lawyer," the President continued, "that I am not letting off Colonel Colfax on a technicality.
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