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The thing must be said and who would say it? Senator Whitredge was the hero. Mr. Thomas Gaylord has just entered the convention hall, and is said to be about to nominate a dark horse. The moment was favourable, the convention demoralized, and at least one hundred delegates had left the hall. The Honourable Hilary rose abruptly, closed the door to shut out the noise, and turned and looked Mr.
"First, I investigated carefully the records of your trial and it didn't take very long to discover that Whitredge had doubled-crossed you. He bribed the two deputies sent to transfer you from the police station in Glendale to the county seat. They were to bully and browbeat you into making an attempt to escape thus affording proof presumptive of your guilt and this they proceeded to do.
Crewe had no means of knowing whether Senator Whitredge had been in conference with Mr. Braden or not. "The senator mentioned your name casually, in some connection," said Mr. Crewe. "He knows," Mr. Braden repeated, with a finality that spoke volumes for the senator's judgment; and he bent over into Mr.
I understood well enough what he was asking me to do: to tip the scale against what might be Barrett's and Gifford's better judgment, and to sign a paper which would stamp me for all time as a criminal pleading, not for justice, but for pardon. In spite of this knowledge the pressure Whitredge had brought to bear was well-nigh irresistible.
Here, take these telegrams. No, wait a minute, I'll go out there. Call up Billings, and see if you can get Senator Whitredge." He started out of the room, halted, and turned his head and hesitated. "Father," said Victoria, "I don't think Hilary Vane is out of his mind." "You don't?" he said quickly. "Why?" By some unaccountable change in the atmosphere, of which Mr.
If I were going to be the father of Polly's children, as you are, I well, I don't believe I'd care to hand down that sort of a legacy to the children; a legacy of hatred even a just hatred gorged and surfeited on the thumb-screwing of two old men. Whitredge will get what is coming to him; the Bar Association will see to that.
Mr. Whitredge laughed, and blew out a ring of smoke. Mr. Flint's face remained sober. "Now, Mr. Flint," Mr. Crewe went on, "you and I understand each other, and we're on the same side of the fence. I have inherited some interests in corporations myself, and I have acquired an interest in others. I am a director in several.
Whitredge was to advise you to urge the sale of the Little Clean-Up upon Barrett and Gifford, and your reward was to be a pardon, by the asking for which you would be virtually confessing your guilt. Thus the past would be buried beyond any possibility of a resurrection. Nice little scheme, wasn't it?"
Flint, and incidentally with Senator Whitredge." "Knowed Whitredge afore you had any teeth," said Mr. Braden, who did not seem to be greatly impressed, "know him intimate. What'd you go to Flint for?" "We have interests in common," said Mr. Crewe, "and I am rather a close friend of his. My going to the Legislature will be, I think, to our mutual advantage."
It was quite late in the afternoon when Whitredge made his second visit to my cell, and this time his attitude was entirely different. Also, he dropped the curt use of my surname. "We're going to ignore the question of your culpability for the present, Bert, and wrestle with the plain facts of the case," was the way he began on me.
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