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I'm her guardian, lawfully appointed, and you nor nobody else can touch her while that appointment's good. Here it is right here. Now look at it and clear out." He held, for the congressman's inspection, the document which, inclosed in the long envelope, had been received that morning.
She was always welcome there without me. I was disinherited. But here, Colonel! My last drop of blood is in the girl. She loves you." A rattle arose in the sinner's throat. He made an effort, and transferred his daughter's hand to the Congressman's. Not taking it away, she knelt with her future husband at the bedside and raised her voice: "Lord, when Thou comest into Thy kingdom, remember him!"
The old system, by which a good public servant was turned out to make room for a hungry office-seeker of the successful political party, was firmly established. Men and women were not appointed to office because they knew anything about the work they were to do, but because they were cousins of a Congressman's wife, or political heelers who had helped to get the Congressman elected.
"Father gits better men than them to work on the farm for $8 a month," Si remarked to Shorty, after a lengthened survey of them. "Eight dollars a month is Congressman's wages to what they git for fightin' for the Southern Confederacy," answered Shorty. "I don't s'pose any one of 'em ever had eight real dollars in his pocket in his life.
Courtney's father was born there, but went east to live during the first Cleveland administration. He had some kind of a political appointment in Washington, and married a Congressman's daughter from Georgia, I think anyhow, it was one of the Southern states. He is really quite fascinating, Mary. You would lose your heart to him, I am sure."
She had esteemed it her duty to do so both as a Congressman's wife and as a champion of moral and democratic ideas. The crowd was oppressive, and three times the train of her dress was stepped on to her discomfiture. Amid the sea of faces she recognized a few of the people she had seen at the hotel.
An ugly sneer wrinkled the Congressman's face. "Well, I'm glad he attends to his own business and doesn't trust too many people," he said pointedly. The secretary smiled in puzzling fashion. "That's exactly why I don't talk, Congressman," he said pleasantly. "The Senator doesn't trust too many people. If he did, there might be too much money made out of land speculation.
She was always welcome there without me. I was disinherited. But here, Colonel! My last drop of blood is in the girl. She loves you." A rattle arose in the sinner's throat. He made an effort, and transferred his daughter's hand to the Congressman's. Not taking it away, she knelt with her future husband at the bedside and raised her voice: "Lord, when Thou comest into Thy kingdom, remember him!"
His next view of him was when, transformed and sanctified, he had been summoned to the platform by Mr. Atkins. No doubt he had returned to the barber shop and, in his rage and under Mr. Simpson's cross examination, had revealed something of the truth. Tad, the politician, recognizing opportunity when it knocked at his door, had hurried him to the congressman's residence.
Jealous of his honor, he had been a victim of Norton's wiles because of the Congressman's position and persuasiveness, because this companion of his young days had won his confidence and had not hesitated to distort the lad's idea of what was right and what was wrong. Randolph began an indignant protest against his father's reproof when the Senator cut him short.
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