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He's not our kind of man," he concluded, mournfully; "not at all our kind of man!" "I hope," Corliss suggested, "he's going to be my kind of man in the development of these oil-fields." "How ridic" Mr. Vilas triumphed over the word after a slight struggle "ulous! I shall review that: ridiculous of you to pretend to be interested in oil-fields. You are not that sort of person whatever.
A big apartment-house stands there now, I noticed as I was walking out here this afternoon the `Verema, it is called, absurdly enough!" "Ray Vilas lives there," volunteered Hedrick, not altering his position. "Vilas?" said the visitor politely, with a casual recollection that the name had been once or twice emphasized by the youth at dinner. "I don't remember Vilas among the old names here."
He was then Governor of New York, having been but recently elected by an unprecedented majority. I recall him distinctly on this occasion as he responded to the eloquent speech of Colonel Vilas. Standing near him at the time were three men well known at a later date as members of his cabinet and his closest friends, Daniel Manning, William C. Whitney, and Daniel S. Lamont.
Corliss stood in the doorway and watched him walk down the long hall to the elevator. There, Ray turned and waved his hand, the other responding with gayety which was not assumed: Vilas might be insane, or drunk, or both, but the signature upon his cheque was unassailable. Corliss closed the door and began to pace his apartment thoughtfully. His expression manifested a peculiar phenomenon.
"Besides, it is very hot, and Cora isn't as strong as she looks. She said she felt morbid and " "Morbid? Blah!" interrupted the direct boy. "She's started after this Corliss man just like she did for Vilas. If I was Dick Lindley I wouldn't stand for Cora's " "Hedrick!" His mother checked his outburst pleadingly. "Cora has so much harder time than the other girls; they're all so much better off.
Ray Vilas, seated alone in a recessed and softly lighted gallery, did not once lose sight of the flitting sorceress. With his elbows on the railing, he leaned out, his head swaying slowly and mechanically as she swept up and down the tumultuously moving room, his passionate eyes gaunt and brilliant with his hunger.
At a hearing February 4 the following spoke in favor: Dr. Sherwood, Mrs. Fred Blanchard, Mrs. Joanna Croft Read, Senators Steele, Vilas and M. J. Hapgood; in opposition, Senators Carr and Felton, Miss Margaret Emerson, Mrs. Wayne Read, Mrs. H. C. Humphrey, David Conant, Representatives O'Dowd, Cudworth and Hopkins. On February 5 the bill passed by 120 ayes, 90 noes.
"I haven't said anything about it all day, but I met him on the street downtown, this morning " "You met Vilas?" Laura looked startled. "Did he speak to you?" "`Speak to me!" Cora's exclamation shook with a half-laugh of hysteria. "He made an awful scene!
A white jacketed mulatto came from the house bearing something on a silver tray. "Julip, Mist' Vilas?" he said sympathetically. Ray Vilas rustily manoeuvred into a sitting position; and, with eyes still closed, made shift to accept the julep in both hands, drained half of it, opened his eyes, and thanked the cup-bearer feebly, in a voice and accent reminiscent of the melodious South.
Vilas affected puzzlement. "Do I hear aright? Sir, do you boy me? Bethink you, I am now the shell of five mint-juleps plus, and am pot-valiant. And is this mere capacity itself to be lightly boyed? Again, do I not wear a man's garment, a man's garnitures?
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