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"Now, Senator, go ahead, and, Randolph, you bring Stevens." "You're switching to Gulf City?" demanded Peabody. "I'm considering Gulf City," agreed Langdon. Peabody brought down his fist on the table. "It's too late to consider anything, Langdon," he cried. "We're committed to Altacoola, and Altacoola it is. I don't care what you heard of Gulf City.
At the close of his formal speech he began on his statement of the action of the naval affairs committee in buying control of the Altacoola land to foil attempts to rob the Government. As he had predicted, the Senate did "sit up." The Senate did agree that a new kind of politics had arrived.
For a moment Langdon was speechless. It was too much at first for the honest old Southerner to comprehend. "You mean," he gasped at last, "that you induce a boy to put $50,000 in Altacoola land when you knew I had to vote on the bill? And you even let my daughter put her money in the same scheme?" "Of course, I did.
"All right!" he cried. "If it's an open fight I'll enlist. I'll give them all a run. What are your orders?" Carolina appeared indifferent. "I don't know that I have any particular orders, sir knight, except to see that my father does all he can for the Altacoola naval base." Haines paused, seized by a sudden tremor. "The Altacoola naval base?" he stammered.
"And then you and I'll be married at once, Carolina, whether your father likes it or not," ended Norton for her. "With Altacoola safe, we can do as we please, as between us we'll be rich. What does it matter how we get the money, as long as we get it?" Bud returned to find Miss Langdon and Norton still in the room. New buoyancy, new courage, thrilled in his veins.
Haines," he spoke as an answer to her. The girl was startled. She had not thought that things would go this far. "I told him how Haines wanted to get in some land speculation scheme with Altacoola, how we tricked him and caught him with the goods when he made the proposition to me and how we forced him to confess." "You told father that?" gasped Carolina. Norton nodded.
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