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"Of course, that is magnificent," Pamela declared, "but it isn't common sense, is it, and you haven't answered my original question yet." "I am not in a position to do so, Miss Van Teyl," Joyce replied. "The trouble probably is that Governor Roughton has been considered incompetent as so many of these disasters have taken place unhindered in his State."
He guided the conversation into light yet opportune subjects, and he utterly ignored the fact that Senator Joyce, one of the great politicians of the day, whose support of his nomination was already more than half promised, seemed distrait and a little cold. It was Pamela who quite inadvertently steered the conversation into a dangerous channel. "What has Governor Roughton been doing, Mr.
I have an idea that it is about this Roughton business." Fischer returned to the others alone. Hastings was clearly disturbed at his guest's departure. His friend and supporter, however, affected to treat it lightly. "Joyce is like all these lawyers," he declared. "He is simply waiting to see which way the wind blows. I have come across them many times.
"There was a list of the names of the proposed organisation which, owing to your very wise intervention, was never formed. There was a list of factories throughout the United States in which munitions are being made, with a black mark against those holding the most important contracts. And there was a letter from Governor Roughton." "Mr. Fischer inquired eagerly.
Fischer was standing with the tape in his hand, his eyes glued upon a certain paragraph. The Senator took out his eyeglasses and looked over his friend's shoulder. "What's this?" he demanded. "Eh?" Fischer was fighting a great battle and fighting it well. "Something wrong, apparently, with Frank Roughton," he observed; "an old college friend of mine. They made him Governor of only last year."
Hastings read the item thoughtfully. Governor Roughton this morning tendered his resignation as Governor of the State of . We understand that it was at once accepted. Numerous arrests have taken place with reference to the great explosion at the Bembridge powder factory. "Looks rather fishy, that," Hastings observed thoughtfully. "I'm sorry for Roughton," Fischer declared.
"I will do more than answer your question in the direct negative," was the firm reply. "I will assure you that no such organisation exists." "I am relieved to hear it," Hastings confessed. "This resignation of Roughton, however, seems a strange thing. Most of these fires have occurred in his State.... Ah! there is Senator Joyce waiting for us, and Pamela and Mrs. Hastings." Mr.
Fischer?" she asked. There was a moment's silence. Pamela's question had fallen something like a bombshell amongst the little party. It was their guest who replied. "The matter is occupying the attention of the country very largely at the moment, Miss Van Teyl," he said. "It is perhaps unfortunate that Governor Roughton seems to have allowed his sympathies to be so clearly known."
"This will do," said Leam, suppressing a shudder as she looked round the little room, where what had originally been a rhubarb-colored paper chosen because it was a good wearing color was patched here and there with scraps of newspapers or bits of other patterned papers; where the huge family Bible and a few musty and torn odd volumes of the Spectator and the Tatler comprised the sole library; and where the only ornaments on the chimneypiece were three or four bits of lead ore from the Roughton Gill mines, above Caldbeck.
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