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What was my price, and what did I do with the money?" Shackwell glanced about the room, and his eyes returned to Mornway's face. "Look here, John, Fleetwood is not the only man in the world." "The only man?" "The only Attorney-General. The 'Spy' has the Lead Trust behind it and means to put up a savage fight. Mud sticks, and " "Hadley, is this a conspiracy?
Nimick had kept house jerkily and vociferously; Ella performed the same task silently and imperceptibly, and the results were all in favor of the latter method. Though neither the Governor nor his wife had large means, the household, under Mrs. Mornway's guidance, took on an air of sober luxury as agreeable to her husband as it was exasperating to her sister-in-law.
His plea was that the Governor's charge, though unproved, had so injured his reputation that he could only hope to clear himself by getting some sort of small job under the Administration. After that, it would be easy for him to obtain any employment he wanted. He met Mornway's refusal with civility, but remarked after a moment: "I hadn't expected this, Governor. Mrs.
You're saying to me just what Ella said this afternoon." At the mention of Mrs. Mornway's name a silence fell between the two men and the Governor moved uneasily in his chair. "You are not advising me to chuck Fleetwood because the 'Spy' is going to accuse me of having sold him his first appointment?" he said at length. Shackwell drew a deep breath. "You say yourself that Mrs.
DUSK had fallen, and the circle of light shed by the lamp of Governor Mornway's writing-table just rescued from the surrounding dimness his own imposing bulk, thrown back in a deep chair in the lounging attitude habitual to him at that hour. When the Governor of Midsylvania rested he rested completely.
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