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For we would have taken him within our little circle gladly after Stanton's sure report; and there would have been chance after chance for him to make good with us. But no; he preferred the pose of aloofness, and his face betrayed that he was ashamed of that one night's weakness.
"He is a splendid catch," were Mr. Stanton's words on first hearing the news. "He belongs to a fine solid family and you will have entrée into the first establishments in America and Europe." Hélène was instinctively repelled by the manner of his congratulations.
He did go up to his room and lay down upon his bed and, eventually, he slept. But for an hour, his mind raced like an idle motor. That nonsense of Lucile's about Portia Stanton's folly in marrying a young musician whose big Italian eyes would presently begin looking soulfully at some one else. Had they already looked like that at Paula? Jealousy itself wasn't a base emotion.
Nerved by it, he got into the saddle and rode on, urging the Clydesdale savagely through the wood. Half an hour later he heard a measured drumming sound and Stanton's voice answered his hail. Then a horseman rode out of a gap in the trees and pulled up near him. "I suppose you have seen nothing of Wandle?" Prescott asked. "Not a sign," said Stanton shortly. "Have you?"
Stanton's keen spectacled eyes bored him through in silence as he snapped: "I may make Abe Lincoln President of the United States." Evidently another man was entering the Cabinet under the impression that the hands of an impotent Chief Magistrate needed strengthening.
He had either failed to recognise, until it was too late, that the force at Front Royal would be exposed to attack from the Luray Valley, and, if the post fell, that his own communications with both Winchester and Washington would be at once endangered; or he had lost favour with the Secretary. For some time past Mr. Stanton's telegrams had been cold and peremptory.
John Graham had informed a gaping public what should be and what was the opinion of every decent woman in New York in regard to the guilt of this heart-broken widow, thus making it extremely difficult to feel the actual state of the public pulse on this all-important subject. Mrs. Stanton's lecture clearly expressed the convictions of the intelligent and right-minded.
But in fact there had been a meeting fifteen years before, the recollection of which in Stanton's mind had been so overlaid by the accumulations of a busy life that it did not awake till after the President's death. In the early fall of 1842 Stanton had occasion to visit Illinois.
Stanton's opinion is expressed carefully, in his own words: "My opinion is, that the whole subject of reconstruction and the relation of the State to the Federal Government is subject to the controlling power of Congress; and while I believe that the President and his Cabinet were not violating any law, but were faithfully performing their duty in endeavoring to organize provisional governments in those States, I supposed then, and still suppose, that the final validity of such organizations would rest with the law-making power of the government."
Stanton's suspension, and he consequently resumed his position of Secretary of War and retained it until the close of the Impeachment trial the Senate then, in effect, by rejecting the Impeachment, declaring that the President had the right to remove him. Very naturally, after Mr.
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