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He had done the great man favors in New York where he was a valuable cog in the political machine, while the Senator was still a newcomer in the field, and with accurate judgment he had foreseen that Rexhill would be a winner.
"Miss Rexhill asked me, mother, and you know that I always speak frankly." "Yes, do go on," Helen urged, with even an added touch of sweetness in her manner. "I really want to know. I am so out of touch with things here, so ill informed." "Well, you can sit here at the windows and learn all you wish to know. There isn't a man in this town that would see Gordon arrested and not fight to free him.
"Oh, very well, I'll go anywhere once, but who is Mrs. Rexhill? I suppose, of course, she is the Senator's wife, but who is she in society? I never heard of her." "You wouldn't; it isn't what she is, it is what she wants to be. You must not laugh at her; she is doing the best she can. You'll admit one thing readily enough when you see her.
"Well, can't you tell a body what you're thinking about? What are you sitting there that way for?" "I was wondering," said Dorothy in despair, "if Helen Rexhill knows where Gordon is." Mrs. Purnell snorted in disdain. "Land's sakes, child, what put that into your head? Drink your tea. It'll do you good." "Why shouldn't she know, if her father does?"
Dorothy had inherited her democracy from her father and not from her mother, who, indeed, would have been disappointed if Helen Rexhill appeared any less than the exalted personage she imagined herself to be.
Will you sign it?" Wade started in spite of himself. This idea was so preposterous that it had never occurred to him as the real motive for his capture. He could scarcely believe that so good a lawyer as Senator Rexhill could be blind to the fact that such a paper, secured under duress, would have no validity under the law. He looked up at the agent in amazement.
Rexhill, who had been really frightened at her hysterical threat of exposure, and assailed by it in his pride as well, felt his fear begin to leave him and his confidence in himself return. In the next minute or two, he thought rapidly and to considerable purpose.
Purnell shot an "I told you so" glance at Dorothy, which made that young lady smile to herself. "I was sorry not to have been at home when you called, Miss Rexhill." The two girls looked at each other, each carefully veiling hostility, Dorothy beneath a natural sweetness of disposition, and Helen with the savoir faire of social experience.
When Miss Rexhill was nice enough to call on us first." Mrs. Purnell set much store upon her manners, as the little Michigan town where she was born understood good breeding, and she had not been at all annoyed by Helen Rexhill's patronage, which had so displeased Wade. To her mind the Rexhills were very great people, and great people were to be expected to bear themselves in lofty fashion.
"That's the stuff!" growled Santry, whose temples were throbbing under the effort he put forth to hold himself within bounds. "I do not!" the Senator said, bluntly. "And I'll say freely that I would not tell you if I did." Santry's hands opened and shut convulsively. He was in the act of springing upon Rexhill when Trowbridge seized him.
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