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Langmaid's a vestryman, you know, and they've only got him there because he's the best corporation lawyer in the city. He isn't exactly what you'd call orthodox. He never goes." "We are indebted to Mr. Langmaid for Mr. Hodder." This was one of Mr. Waring's rare remarks. Eleanor Goodrich caught her husband's eye, and smiled.
The world may have advanced; but patriotism still remains the art of restraining the arrogance of full stomachs and the anger of empty ones. In Cromwell, Goodrich believed he had a candidate with sufficient hold upon the rank and file of the party to enable him to carry the election by the usual means a big campaign fund properly distributed in the doubtful states.
According to Cameron, you ought to have invited him home and asked him to stay with us until he found a job, I suppose. Amy would have liked to meet him, and to make his visit with us pleasant. He was not bad-looking, barring his clothes and a few whiskers." "Who was that, Mr. Goodrich?" inquired the wife.
Parr's getting ready to make another big haul right now. I know, because Plimpton said as much, although he didn't confide in me what this particular piece of rascality is. He knows better." Phil Goodrich looked grim. "But the law?" exclaimed his wife. "There never was a law that Nelson Langmaid couldn't drive a horse and carriage through." "And Mr. Langmaid's one of the nicest men I know!"
"Pardon me," I interrupted. "We do not need him. On the contrary, we must put him out of the party councils. If we don't, he may try to help Scarborough. The Senate's safe, no matter who's elected President; and Goodrich will rely on it to save his crowd. He's a mountain of vanity and the two defeats we've given him have made every atom of that vanity quiver with hatred of us."
One thing was certain, he had much less respect for them than for Eleanor Goodrich . . . . That afternoon he sent her the list of books. But the weeks passed, and she did not come back. Once, when he met her at a dinner of Mrs. Preston's, both avoided the subject of her visit, both were conscious of a constraint.
Gradually the interest on the part of the citizens subsided, and the detective returned to Chicago to other mysteries, demanding his attention. Adam Goodrich refused to talk of the matter, and gave no sign of his sorrow, save an added sternness in his manner.
But for Burbank you couldn't get a cent not a damn cent! A rickety candidate on a rickety platform that's what they'd say." I made no answer. "May I ask," he presently went on, "has ex-Governor Burbank seen this this astonishing document?" Burbank had written it. I confess when he first showed it to me, it had affected me somewhat as it was now affecting Goodrich.
"You are prejudiced, Harvey " "Please don't say that again, Governor," I interrupted coldly. "I repeat, Goodrich must give place to me, or Scarborough will be elected." "You don't mean that you would turn against me?" came from him in a queer voice after a long pause. "While I was in St.
Singularly enough, less than twenty-four hours before, on the 18th, the auxiliary steamer St. Louis, Captain Goodrich, lately one of the American Transatlantic liners, had been close in with the mouth of this port, which had hitherto lain outside our sphere of operations, and had made a determined and successful attempt to cut the telegraph cable leading from Santiago to Jamaica.
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