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West liked Plonny, as everybody did, and of Plonny's sincere liking for him he never had the slightest doubt. In fact, Mr. Neal's present call was to report that the manner in which a lady brushes a midge from her summering brow was no simpler than the wiping of James E. Winter off the board of Blaines College. That topic being disposed of, West introduced another.
Therefore Plonny Neal's passionate earnestness surprised him, and Plonny's reasoning, which he knew to be the reasoning of the thoroughly informed State leaders, impressed him very decidedly. Of the boss's sincerity he never entertained a doubt; to question that candid eye was impossible. That Plonny had long been watching him with interest and admiration, West knew very well.
You mustn't blame y'r friends and you've got a sight more of them than you have any idea of if they feel all broke up to see you get in bad, both for your own sake and f'r the sake of the party." Plonny's voice trembled with earnestness; West had had no idea that the man admired him so much. "You want to serve the people, Mr. West? How could you do it better than in public orf'ce.
But the fervor which Plonny had imparted to it, and the respect which he had for Plonny's knowledge of practical conditions, stood by him, unconsciously guiding his thoughts along the line of least resistance.... Though nobody dared admit it publicly, the party was facing a great crisis; and it was in his hand to save or to wreck it.
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