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I believe there's no one who can approach him with more tact than my daughter Lana." Despeaux found an opportunity to dig his thumb suggestively into Blanchard's side. "They have been extremely good friends, I believe, in boy-and-girl fashion; between us three old townsmen, I'll go as far as to say they were very much interested in each other.
"But if you don't mean it if you have put yourself on record and if you're obliged to step up and honor the draft you've sanctioned what's going to happen in the showdown?" Attorney Despeaux moderated his mordancy and became tolerantly patient in enlightening the ignorance of one of his employers. "The people are hungry for some kind of fodder in this water-power proposition.
It ought to be saved carefully to do business with later! To win a stroke in politics it's necessary to jump the people with a sensation!" "Try it on me! I'm one of the people. See if it will work," insisted Morrison, after the manner of his methods with Despeaux. "They propose to go according to the strict letter of the law." "Important but not sensational."
Then he wilted despondently, because Morrison greeted the gentlemen with breezy hospitality, led them beyond the rail, and gave them chairs near his desk. "Command me! I am at your service!" "We're on our way to Senator Corson's. We have been invited to meet Mr. Daunt at lunch," said Despeaux; a thin veneer of suavity suited his thin lips. "Fine!" "I'm glad to hear you say so.
They were from the Marion Chamber of Commerce; they made up the Industrial Development Committee. "I'm afraid we're a bit too early to see the mayor," suggested Chairman Despeaux. "Ye are! Nigh twenty-two hours too early to see the mayor!" "But we 'phoned the house and were told he had left to come to the office!" "The mayor mind ye, the mayor he cooms frae the mill at "
Do you know, these fellows with poetic, chivalrous natures are hard boys to bring to reason in certain practical matters?" "I was just telling Despeaux that I never saw much poetry sentiment in Stewart Morrison," affirmed the millman. Senator Corson's condescending smile assured Mr. Blanchard that he was all wrong. "He was much in our family as a boy.
If I really start out to go the limit I can have him tarred and feathered as a chief conspirator, rigging a scheme to have our big industries knocked in the head." Despeaux spoke low, but his tone conveyed the malice and the menace of a man who had been nursing a grudge for a long time.
I wish I could get a line on what's underneath that girl's curly topknot," he said, fervently. Apparently absorbed by that speculation, Lawyer Despeaux again gave close attention to the tableau on the landing presented by Lana, Mrs. Stanton, and Morrison. When Governor North marched up the stairs, said his vociferous say, and marched down again Despeaux grunted his satisfaction.
Morrison promptly put more of a snap into his crispness. "Having balanced to partners, for politeness's sake, Despeaux, we'll take hold of hands and swing, with both feet on the floor. That was a good job you did in the legislative lobby two years ago for the crowd that called itself 'The Consolidated Development Company. You're a smart lawyer and we had hard work beating you."
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