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"Well, it will be a sort of sketch, of course," said Truesdale, still rather coldly. "It won't, either," insisted his aunt; "it will be a real, regular picture." "She'd get tired of it. Do you think it's any fun to pose?" "Tired!" said his aunt, scornfully. She thrust the supposition into the outer darkness and slammed the door behind it.
Before the assembled horde he made his proposition with a blunt, business-like brutality which almost startled him at the moment, and which disgusted him with himself for a fortnight to follow. "And they accepted it. More shame for me, more shame for them, more shame for human nature. But you are safe." He viewed Truesdale with an undisguised scorn, and Truesdale did not attempt to withstand it.
Fitch's function was that of the moderate counsellor and bellwether for new members, hence nothing could have been more fitting than the choice of that gentleman for the honour of moving, on the morrow, that Bill No. 709 ought to pass. Mr. Truesdale reluctantly consented to accept a small "loan" that would help to pay the mortgage on his new press....
I don't believe you can find a 'phone nearer than Truesdale." "How far's that?" asked the Senator, after an expressive pause. "'Bout fifteen miles by the river road. You have to go round by way of Oakwood. It's going to rain, too," he added, glancing at the clouded sky.
"Most willingly!" Truesdale would exclaim, and throw "this" in the fire at once. Or, again "Imagine; I am to have a tooth filled. Auntie says I needn't trouble to go away down-town there is a very good man right on Twenty-second Street. 'Go early, she says; 'and try to be over with it by eleven, so that you can enjoy your lunch. Did you ever know of such thoughtfulness?"
The new telegraph operator wired to McNally, who had already taken possession of the Truesdale terminal, telling him briefly of the fight for the train and the capture of Sawyerville. McNally sent back brief instructions for the conduct of the rest of the raid. They were told to make no attempt to keep schedule time, but to go slowly and cautiously, and to use as little violence as possible.
She took the cream of June, and left to later comers the skimmed milk of July and August. She always saw that her Wisconsin place was ready for her by the middle of May; then for the next five months she passed back and forth between town and country, according to the nature of her engagements and the character of the weather. Truesdale was in Wisconsin, too but not of the house-party.
A clerk came out of the office, peered about in the half light for a moment, and approached the Judge, touching him on the shoulder. "Judge Black," he said, "Truesdale wants to talk to you on the 'phone." Five minutes later the legal luminary came out of the telephone box. He was swearing earnestly, but softly, out of deference to the candy-and-cigar girl. He walked slowly across the office.
She was served by intuition, perhaps; or by a sixth sense the social sense which was now rapidly developing from some recess hidden and hitherto all unsuspected. Though Brower was out of Society, Truesdale did not find him on this account any the more in Bohemia; he merely occupied the firm and definite middle-ground of business.
Fitch Truesdale, of the St. Helen's Messenger, were given a special prominence. Mr. Truesdale was the first, in his section, to be inspired by the happy thought that the one man preeminently fitted to represent the state in the present crisis, when her great industries had been crippled by Democratic folly, was Mr. Theodore Watling.
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