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I am glad of this opportunity of assuring you that we do not," he continued, leaning forward and holding up his hand to ward off interruption, "and I know that Senator Whitredge will bear me out in this statement, too." The senator nodded gravely. Mr. Crewe, who was anything but a fool, and just as assertive as Mr. Flint, cut in. "Look here, Mr. Flint," he said, "I know what a lobby is.
"O ought to have come right to me," said Mr. Braden, leaning over until his face was in close proximity to Mr. Crewe's. "Whitredge told you to come to me, didn't he?" Mr. Crewe was a little taken aback. "The senator mentioned your name," he admitted. "He knows. Said I was the man to see if you was a candidate, didn't he? Told you to talk to Job Braden, didn't he?" Now Mr.
So absorbed had he been in his momentous news, and solicitous over the result of his explanation, that his eye looked outward for the first time, and even then accidentally. "Hilary!" he cried; "for God's sake, what's the matter? Are you sick?" "Yes, Whitredge," said Mr. Vane, slowly, "sick at heart."
"You must give me time, Whitredge; a little time to think this over," I pleaded. "Four years and a half ago I told you I was innocent I tell you so again. You are asking me to confess that I was guilty; if I sign that petition it will be a confession in fact. I have sworn a thousand times that I'd rot right here inside of these walls before I'd ask for a pardon for a crime that wasn't mine.
It was a business-like letter addressed to Barrett and Gifford, going fully into the situation from the point of view of a man needing ready money, and urging the acceptance of the Lawrenceburg offer, not wholly for the personal reason upon which Whitredge had been enlarging, but emphatically as a prudent business measure an alternative to the possible loss of everything.
They both testified that they had heard me admit that I was guilty. There were no details given which could involve Agatha Geddis. It was merely stated that my admission of guilt was made at Abel Geddis's house, and both witnesses asserted that Geddis himself was not present. Whitredge leaned over and whispered to me while this evidence was being taken.
Though I had every reason to expect it, the low-voiced verdict of "Guilty as charged" struck me like the blow of a fist. "Brace up and be a man!" Whitredge leaned over to whisper in my ear; and then the good old judge, with his voice shaking a little, pronounced my sentence. Five years was the minimum for the offense with which I stood charged.
Rumours have been in the air that the harmony between the Source of Power and the Distribution of Power is not as complete as it once was. Certainly, Hilary Vane is not the man he was although this must not even be whispered. Senator Whitredge had told but never mind that. In the old days an order was an order; there were no rebels then.
He perceived Senator Whitredge, returned from the Pelican. But the advice if any the president of the Northeastern has given the senator is not forthcoming in practice. Mr. Flint, any more than Ulysses himself, cannot recall the tempests when his own followers have slit the bags and in sight of Ithaca!
"A monumental farce." Ex-Governor Broadbent. "Who is Mr. Crewe?" Senator Whitredge. "I have been very busy. I do not know what candidates are in the field." Mr. Augustus P. Flint, president of the Northeastern Railroads. "I have heard that a Mr. Crewe is a candidate, but I do not know much about him. They tell me he is a summer resident at Leith." The Honourable Hilary Vane.
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