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"Oh, no; you've been doing good work, mighty good work. You've helped out in the only way that help could come in this campaign; you've stirred up a good, healthy public sentiment in favor of a square deal for everybody. McVickar was fixing to tangle it all up get the people down on him until they'd simply legislate the life out of his railroad. But he couldn't see that."
"Yes that is, it's the first time I've been inside one of the buildings. I came to a ball game last autumn." "Then you must have a look round before you go." Blue Bonnet assured him of her willingness if Mrs. White and the others were agreeable. "You have pleasant quarters here," she said, turning to Mr. McVickar.
Kittredge's men report that the speech-making has been a triumphant progress all over the State; bands, receptions, committees, and banquets wherever Blount goes." Mr. McVickar grunted. "The speeches have been all that anybody could ask. I've been reading them." Kittredge shook his head. "Gantry says they are, but I say no," he contended.
With the ex-senator as the all-powerful head of the machine in this State of many costly battle-fields, it would have been a weakness inexcusable on the part of so astute a commander as McVickar if David Blount's history, political and personal, had not been known to him in all its details.
Blount is land hungry, and I guess he'll take a few more sections of the railroad mesa-land under the Clearwater ditch. That was what he did two years ago when McVickar wanted the right of way for the branch through Carnadine County." "Don't you believe he's going to take any little Christmas gift this time!" was the rasping reply.
"I'm afraid we are a good deal more than a mile or two apart yet, McVickar," said the man who was not smoking, after a long minute. "Let's ride back to the beginning and get us a fresh start. I said that Gordon is going to be the next governor of the State."
McVickar; that was common talk on the division. But until yesterday I didn't know for certain that the trouble had been patched up; in fact, I had my own reasons for believing that it hadn't been patched up." "And you told me there was an alliance in order that I might believe that my father would be involved in an exposure of the railroad's double-dealing with the public?" "Just that.
Anything he could say against us would simply have the effect of holding his son up to public exprobration as a common campaign liar. I know David Blount pretty well; he won't do anything like that." Gantry bit his lip and a slow smile of respectful admiration crept up to the Irish eyes. "When it comes to the real fine-haired work, you have us all feeling for hand-holds, Mr. McVickar," he said.
"That's good; that's the real thing this time, isn't it?" was the senator's even-toned comment. "Gives you a right nice little chance to shine the way you can shine best." Then: "That was one of the things McVickar wanted you for, wasn't it? speech-making and the like?" "Why, yes; he intimated that there might be some public speaking," admitted the younger man.
"So McVickar talked you over to his side, did he?" was the boss's gentle comment. "It's all right, son; you're a man grown, and I reckon you know best what you want to do. If it puts us on opposite sides of the political creek, we won't let that roil the water any more than it has to, will we?"
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