A Gentleman from Mississippi

, with a towel filled with cracked ice around his head, he saw two familiar figures s

something important that brings both the boss

s, looking up, he saw the newspaper man approaching. "Senator Peabody, yo

advance in the Senate the financial interests of himself, of Standard Steel and other commercial organizations met with very little protest in Washington. That he deserv

nts by diplomacy-as he had found that reporters of the Haines sort could not be influenced by money. He considered a reporter who would take a bribe as a constructive, conservative member of society, and fre

sentative of the Morning St

here on the same errand," s

y appeared to

r Langdon, Senator Stevens

ngdon stock is going up when the chairman of

nt in on a naval bas

n of the South is re

its naval base appro

interrupted H

, "the friends of Senator Langdon are working to have him appointed on that committee, because he comes from the State where the naval base

es n

hat town's going t

vens paused

ty are the chief candidates. I suppose

porter

to the War Department now. When Senator Langdon comes wil

bowed co

's in luck to have the smartest y

ng that he won't recognize me when he sees me. Good-d

tevens as the newspa

f the Sena

ewspaper man to be too clever. Spoils his usefuln

r it would never do to

g the subject, "to come with me to welcome the new

mile, yet a cold one-acc

tle attention like this to a new man is never wasted

i acquiesced, and he laughed heartily at

p any measure for the benefit of the South and Langdon will go the limit on it. Even a Republican majority doesn'

him?" asked P

ew closer

and he knows i

oss n

imple gentleman of the old school, as you describe him-might

rasped the arm of the

ellows you just have to believe when he talks. He'll do what

antee him?" sn

vedly, S

hat ought to be enough honor for a man who a year ago was gro

rton, the Congressman from Langdon's district, working on it. There isn't a foot of land there which

runted ap

tidy bit," he said. "Now, if we could only get Langdon interested, dir

r from Mississipp

Golden Rule. Fact is, he rather lives by that antiquated standard. That's where we get him. He owes everything to me, y

over," sai

e flame had lured the moth, and it liked the manner of the singeing

ll of the good trick he had turned, "but I didn't like to inter

y pricked u

both Senat

c, the Congressman let his next

on interested-financial

exchanged a si

ed Peabody

smiled

son invest $50,000 of

d. That ought

his Congressman, his eyes threa

ot Langdon's money in Alt

to the extent of fifty thousand, and I've promis

client of mine has a little business that I cannot attend to handily. Doesn't involve much work, and a young, hustling lawyer

long breath. His eyes

course, it won't interfere with

dy sm

oving. If convenient, run over to New York the last of the wee

Senate nodded a

you very much." And Norto

turned t

ressman can be useful

ns, d

what he is told and doesn't ask any fool questions. This was good work. Langdon's on the naval committee now sure. Come, Stevens; l

ce, followed by the rushing of porters and bellboys and an expectant pose on th