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Updated: June 18, 2025
He left the office an hour earlier than usual, and for the reason that for the first time since the panic there was not an item of work waiting to be done. He dropped into Hegan's private office, before leaving, for a chat, and as he stood up to go, he said: "Hegan, we're all hunkadory.
Venable about how well her costume became her, she passed on out of the box. "Who is that?" asked Montague. "That," the Major answered, "that's Laura Hegan Jim Hegan's daughter." "Oh!" said Montague, and caught his breath. Jim Hegan Napoleon of finance czar of a gigantic system of railroads, and the power behind the political thrones of many states. "His only daughter, too," the Major added.
At this point Oliver put in appearance, and Betty got up and went for a stroll with him; then Montague asked for light upon Miss Hegan's remark. "What she said is perfectly true," replied the Major; "only it riled Betty. There's many a gallant dame cruising the social seas who has stowed her old relatives out of sight in the hold." "What's the matter with old Simpkins?" asked the other.
It was Laura Hegan's uncle, whom the Major had pointed out to him in the dining-room of the Millionaires' Club! Old Henry S. Grimes, who was really only sixty, but looked eighty; and who owned slum tenements, and evicted more people in a month than could be crowded into the club-house! Montague gave no sign, but sat holding the man in his arms.
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