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The cost of the building had exceeded the estimate, and it had been finished by a loan of two million dollars secured by a mortgage held by the banking house of Overman & Company. It could have commanded a larger loan, as the entire structure, except the two stories below ground and the auditorium, was devoted to business offices occupied by the best class of tenants.
The impulse to kill you is so simple and so sweet, it would be a crime against nature to deny it." Overman threw his head to one side, frowned and peered at the man before him curiously. "Do you ever get tired of preaching? The articulation of wind is a strange mania!" "Pardon me if I've tired you," came the answer in mellow tones. "You'll need a long rest after to-night, and you'll get it."
She made not the slightest effort to conceal it, and her manner was so plain a challenge to Gordon he was stunned by its audacity. Overman felt this challenge in her mood, and, alarmed, withdrew from the scene. He did not return to the house during the week, and on Saturday he received a dainty perfumed note from her by messenger. It was the first missive he had ever received from a woman.
Almost the first Senate business was an announcement on the floor by Senator Jones, Chairman of the Suffrage Committee, that the suffrage amendment would be considered in the Senate September 26th. And Senator Overman, Chairman of the Rules Committee, rather shyly remarked to our legislative chairman that he had been "mistaken yesterday." It was "now in the legislative program."
"Confound you," snapped Overman, "love as many women as you please, but don't desert your wife and children. It's too vulgar. I'm ashamed of you." "I will not live a lie," Gordon said, with emphasis. "Strange madness. I urge you to tell a tiny little polite lie and save your wife and children.
So he did what he wanted, regardless of anybody. He was a sort of brutal Overman; one could not help admiring the kind of barbaric splendour there was about him. And his poor wife idolised him and would stand everything from him. "Now he is here with another girl. Talk about a change! He has turned from a lion to a mouse.
In reply to Senator Overman, who asked if Captains von Papen and Boy-Ed were held to be implicated in all these illegal acts, Mr. Bielaski gave the following evasive answer: "The most important, and most serious of these illegal acts, were, generally speaking, inspired, financed and conducted by one or other of the accredited representatives of Germany."
Finally she explained to the jury that the wounds Gordon had received were not from Overman in a fight, but that he had tried to kill her and commit suicide and had failed. For five hours she sat in the witness chair and coolly swore his life away, baffling with keenest wit at every turn the shrewd lawyer who baited, harassed and cross-questioned her with merciless vigour.
He was especially anxious that she should meet Overman, and by her magnetism and beauty crush him into the acknowledgment of the sanity and right of his course. But Overman had promised without coming. Gordon was at his bank on Wall Street again urging him to call. "It's no use to talk, Frank," he said, testily. "All I ask of women is to be let alone." "But, you fool, I want you to meet my wife.
Win him over and work with him. He's your only hope. Van Meter knows his business as a deacon and trustee. You are off the track." "But how can I ever reconcile Van Meter's commercialism with any living religion?" Overman frowned and shrugged his shoulders. "Religion? Man, you haven't religion!
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