The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 3, 1905, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCIS CO SUNDAY. CALL. ;\ Ny Fs N 5\ o S~ e — The mother gave him'her a solitary digar and reviewed the thin Harley.,” She addeqd: anway-Harley. and this ny Harley. Hanway name; 1 always™use for his H Dor My name daughter. my nte is my ow ld's des- e concluded, wered _in her you ight have broken an -a _glance -over Mrs. ‘Han- was not cosrse, but -a wom of inferior ideals. He marveled how.a being so fine as the daughter could have a more sifken and hugged the boot-heel. The was a flower; the " motber He : declded that the superiority was dué to the father, and gave that absent gentlemanr a world of credit without wa! g to make his ac- quaintance. : Hanway-Harley Washington. live? ome has been returned Richard. source. eed she Mr. said .that Where did nowhere for ten .Then, as he hie heart took “But I shall live In Washington in & few months.” Doroth; the saved, béneath whose bagtheel beat Richard's heart, looked up, in the bilue depths—so Rjchard hone pleasure &t the newy. ‘He st be certaln, for when the Dlue eyes met the gray unes, they Tell to a furtive consideration of tke floo: You are to iake & house in Washing- » gaid Richard to Mr. Gwynn'an hour ter. Mr. Gwynn. bowed. You whe read will now come. back to that snow-filled day in November. Rich~ d relockéd his dear bootheel In tre casket; eleven and Matzal had entered the room together. Matzai laid ot Rich- 's clothes, down -to pin and puff f his bathrobe skin 'and sleeyeless undershirt and of those cotton trousers, cut short which dramatié usage 1¢’s, chest arched like the .deck »f a whaleback, he ‘might have been 2 for the Farnese Hepcules, if that were slimmed down by training cars off his age. He of Farnese if one may go but thirty. cled to" the Pict” would del ae long es a out of drawing from stand- t art. One m rescue it was mot that nubbfn of a head whith goes with the Farnese Moreover, it showed wisest-balance ;ase ta brow: with the face free of and musta while the yellow owned' no’ taint of curl-altoge rican head on Farnese should Richard made no speed with his dress- ing with refusing several waist- diousness which opened the of Matzal, belg unusual—and ith pausing to smoke a brooding cigar, it stogd voundly twelve hefore he ready for thé street. - One need not Richard lazy. He was np omg to to rise with the birds: why rly to bed and early to jon of the copybooks. It I when candlelight was-cheap at the dozen; but should not belong of électricity no ‘dearer than out, Richard crossed to a g cabinet and pressed a button, : white disk whereof showed in ifs ma- hogany skdg. It was not the-bell Re used for the wheat-hyed Matzal, -and .owned tself. As though in nsé came M. Gwynn, irpeproach- austere: 5 % »n the .advent ‘of Mr. Gwynn, one have observed supdry amazing phegom innpcent it that. Mr. Gwynn 4id not sit down, but stood in the middle aof the room. On the careless other hand, Richard did not arise from the chair in which he had fiung himself, but sat with hat on,.pufiing blue wreaths and tap- g his foot with a rauan. “Mr. Gwynn,” quoth Richard, "you will catch the four-o'clock limited to New York. Talon & Trehawke, attorneys, Temple Court, have op sale a majority of the stock of the Dally Tory. Buy it; notify those in present charge of the edi- business departments.of the p. There will be no the personnel of the paper to New York. ¥ou are to in as refer: however, trol, and forty- ld be enough to carpy The balance of -the stock your leisure. This is ave the bureau here ready for rsday evening.” in inelined his head. "an you give me, sir, some notion of what Talon & Trehawke are to have?’ asked Mr. Gwynn. r letter addressed to you—here it —says that sixty per cent of the stock n be had for two+*millions eight hun- thousand.” 'Very good, sir,”” and Mr. Gwynn bowed ply. will pulied on ¥ Mr. Pickw from his cu gloves to depart, elped frantically Richard tapped Mr, Pickwick with-the lacquered rattan. “0ld man,’ Richard, “I am going ake a look at the lady I love.” Mr. k moaned querulously, while Richard sought the street. Richard, the day before, dispatched a note and a card to Mrs. Hanwav-Harley and had been told in reply that he might call to-day at three. Richard decided to ropair. 10 the club and wait for three o'clozk. Richard, during his week in Wash- ington, had found a deserted cormer in the club and pre-empted it. At those times when he honored the club with his presence he occupied this vantage point. From it he was given hoth a view of the street and a fair survey of the apartment itself. No one approached him; his atmosphere was repellant; be- yond civil nods, curtalled to the last limit of civility, his intercourse with his fellows had not advanced. On this afternoon as Richard smoked S N\ procession of foot passengers trudging through the snow beneath his window, he-was attracted by the loud talk of a coterfe abdut a table. The center of the group was Count Storri—a giant Russ. This Storr! did not belong to the Russian legation, did not indeed reside in town, and had’been yauched into the club by one of his countrymen. He had onyx eves, with blue-black beard,and mus- taches which half govered his face, and hair as raven as his beard. Also/he yalued himself for that a favorite dish with him was raw meat. chopped fine with “peppérs and ofl. i Storri's education—which was wide— &id not suffice ta cover up in him the barbarian, videlicet, the Tartar—which was wider: d when a trifle uplifted of drink, it was his habit to brag pro- foundly in purring, snarling,’ half-chal- lenging toncs. Storri boasted most of his thews, which would nat have disgraced ,Goliath. He was at the moment telling a knot of gaping youngsters eof monstrous deeds of strength. Storri had crushed horseshoes in his hand; he had rpiled silver 1 inta bullets between thumb and finger. “See, you children, T will show what a Russian can do," eried Storri. Storri came over to the’ firenlace, the rest at his heels. Taking up the poksr— round - half-inch _red of wrought ~he seized it firmly by one' end his Jeft hand and with the wound twice about his arm. The black .spiral reached nd fo elbow; when he withdréw the club poker was’'a Breb- dingnagian corkscrew. The youngsters stared wonder-bitten. Then a mighty chatter of compliments broke .forth, and Storri swelled with vage glory of his achievement. Richard, the somber, who did not like ugged his shoulfiers. Storrl, e fireplace, caught the shrug and found it offensive. He made toward Richard, and offered the right hand, his white teeth gleaming in a sinister way through the fastnesses of his beard. “Will you try grips with me?” erjed Storri loudly. “Will you shake hands Russlan fashion?" 3 No,” rctorted Richard, all ice and unconcern. “I will not shake your hand Russian fashion.” Storri broke into an evil grin that made him look like a black panther. “Some day you must put your fingers into “that. trap,” said he, opening and ‘closing his broad hand. Richard making no return, Storrl and the others went back to their decanters. Richard mi have said, and would Bave believed, that he did not like orri, bec ¢ of a Siberian rudeness and want of breeding. It is to.be thought, however, that his antipathy arose ratlicr from having heard the day before Storri’s name coupled with that of Dorothy Harley. The Russ was a caller at the Harley house, it seemed, and rumor gave it that he and Mr. Harley were together in speculations. At that Richgrd hated Storri with the dull integrity of a healthy, normal ani- mal, just-as he would have hated any man who ‘raised his eyes.tp Dorothy Harley; for you are to khow that Rich- ard was In a last analysis evep more savage than.was Storrl himself, and withal as jealously hot as a coal of fire. Presently Storr! departed, and Richard forgot him in a reverie of smoke. It stood the quarter of three, and Richard took up his walk to the Har- leys. It was no mighty journey, be- ing but,two blocks. In the Harley drawing-room whom should Richard meet- but Storri? The Russ was on the brink of departure. At thot meeting Richard's face clouded, Dorothy was alone with Storri; her mother had been called temporarily from the room. At sight of Dorothy’'s flower-like hand in Storrl's hairy paw, Richard's eves turned jade. “Mr, Storms,” sald Dorothy, as Rich: ard paused In the door, “permit me to present Count Storri” “Ah!” whispered Storri, beneath his breath, “see now how my word comes true!” With that he put out his hand like a threat. Storri's exultation fell frost-nipped in greenest bud. It was as fhough some implacable destiny had selzed his hand. In vain did Storri put forth his resource of strength—he who crushed horseshoes and twisted pokers! Like things of stcel Richard's fingers closed grimly and invineibly upon those of Storri. The Russian strove to re- cover his hand; against the awful force that held him his boasted strength was as the strength of children. Storri looked into Richard's- evespy they were less feraclous, but infinitely more relentless than his own. There was that, too, in the other's look which appailed the Tartar soul of Storri— sométhing in the drawn brow, the eye like agate, the jaw as iron as the “hand! And ever more and a little more thyt fearful grip came grinding. The onyx eyes glared in terror; the tor. tured forehead, white as paper, became spangled with drops of sweat. There arose a smothered feline screech as from a tiger whose back is broken in a dead-fall. Richard gave his wrist the shadow of a twist, and Storri fell on one knee. Then, as though it were some foul thing, Rich- ard tossed aside Storri's hand, from the nails of which blood came ocozing in black drops as large as grapes. “What is it?” gasped Dorothy, who stood throughout the duel like one planet-struck; “what was it you dld?” “Storrl on his knee?” asked Richard with a kind of vicious sweetness. There was something arctic, something remorselessly glaclal, in the man. 1t caught and held Dorothy, entrancing while it froze. “Storri on his kneeX' repeated Richard, looking where his adversary was staining a handkerchlef with Tartar blood. “It was nothing. 1t is a way in which Russians honor me —that is, Russlans whom I do not like!” right left fromn CHAPTER IL Hlow a President Is Bred. Mr. Patrick Henry Hanway, a Senator of the United States, had the counte- nance of 2 prelate and the conscience of Dy Y a buccaneer. His grandfather—it was this old gentleman, for lack of informa- tion, he was compelled to stop his an- cestral count—was a farmer in his day. Also, ‘personally, he had been the soul of ignorance and religion, and of a narrow- ness touching Scriptural things that.oft got him into trouble. Grandfather Hanway read his Bible and belipved it. He held that the earth’ was fiat; that it had four corne and that the sun-went around the earth. He re- plied to a neighbor who ‘2ssured him that the g¢arth revolved, by placing a pan of water on his gate post. Not a drop was spilled, not a spoonful missing, in the morning. He showed this to the astron- omical neighbors as refutatory of that theary of revplution. “Ior,”" said Grandfather Hanway, a logical directness which among - the world’s greatest has more than once found parallel, “if the y'earth had turned over in the unight like you' allow, that water would have done run out.” When the astronomical one undertook a counter argument, Grapdfather Hanway fell upon him with the bund, unreasoning fury of a holy war and beat him beyond expression. After that Grapdfather Han- way was left undisturbed in his beliefs and their demonstrations, and tilled his sour acres apd begat a son, i Thi: son, Hiram Hanway, was sly and lazy, and not wanting m a gift for mak- ing wmoney that was rather the fruit of avarice than any general length and breadth apd depth’ of native wit. Having occaslon to visit, as‘a young man, the little humdrum capital of his State, he stayed thers, and engaged in the trade o lobhyist before the name was cgined. He, tao, married, and had children—Patrick Henry Henway and- Barbara Hanwdy. These his offspring wero given a peculiar albelt not always a sumptuous bringing up. L When Patrick Henry Hanway was about the age of Oliver Twist at the time Bill Sykes shoved him through the win- dow, Hiram Hanwav caused him to be apppinted page in the State Senate. There, ‘for cight years, he lved in the midst of all .uat tregson and wmendacity, and cowardice and rgpacity and dishonor . war. the war was nfin;:. The aristo- crats, wu;'%krm rbons, had’ learned nothing, forgotten nothing, plodded with horseback saddle-bag pol- ities. Patrick Henry sanway met thém With modai A bthoRs 3¢ telegraph an l!flqm mthlt.:nd, left : among the peasantry. .In the en tr'q-l"”l! m!fi his u:t:%‘g %Q;:flfi ike : n o d his Legislature sent. him into gahm‘wn"by a vote ol‘ three to one. He had been there now twelve years and was just entering upon his third term. Moreover, he had fortifled his position; his enemiss werp powerless to do him harm; and t’t{:k time thig story finda him he had con- structed a machine which rendered his held upon his State as un hqh%je'hp Gibraltar's famous rock. Patrick Henry. Hanway might now “be BSenator for with what space he pleased, and nothing left When for that opposing mobility but to glire in helplesg rancor ard digest its spléen. When Patrick H r Hanway came to Washington he 5 unhampered of even a shadow of cor srn for any pub- lic good. His sole thought was himself; his patriotism, if he ever possessed any, had perished long before. Some said that its feeble.wick went flicker- ° ing out in those earlier hours of civil Patrick Henry Hanway, rather 4rom a blind impression of possible pillage than any eagerness to uphold a Union which seemed toppling to its fall, enlisted for ninety days. As he plow- ed through rain and mud on the pain- ful occasion of a night march, he ad- dressed the man on his right in these remarkable words; “Bill, this is the last a d time ¢ I'll ever love a country!” And it was. The expletive, however, marked how decp dwelt the determination of Pat- rick Henry Hanway; for even as young nian he had taught himself a suave and cautious comversation, avoiding profanity as of these lingual vices that never made and sometimes lest a dollar. - The Senate of this republic, at the time when Patrick Henry Hanway was given his seat therein, was a thing of granite and ice to all newcomers. The oldsters took no more notice of the £ 1d find defeat b; vote. t new t was then the pouter-pigeon chleftain moved that the Senate organization be -glven. over to him and The T his fellqws. - motlon would geem to settle It. The vote on the floor would be equal and the saga- e sowed -his clous pouter-pigéon reckoned on the new . Vice Presldent to decide for him and his.” The party.colleagues of Senator Hanway, many of them four terms old in Senats mysteries, were eaten of despair; they saw no gateway of escape. nm}:onn:v::ld take possession, remake the committe , practically speaking, therelly remake the legislation of that Congress. % At this crisis Senator Hanway took down the constitu and showed by that ' venerable document how the power of the Vice Presidént went no further than de- ciding tles on legislative quéstions—that the business at bay was a matter of Senate organization he had no more to say .than had the last appointed mes- senger on the gallery doors. The situa- tion, In short, did not present a tie, for the settlement of whigh the “Vice Presi- dential decision was possible, therefore Senate things must remain as they then were. Senator Hanway’s reading of Vice Pfes- idential powers was right, as even the op- position confessed. He saved the Senate and thereby the nation to his party, and his rule was established unchallenged over her people, his least opinion becom- ing their cloud and their pillar of fire to guide them day and night. He was made far and away the dominant figure of the Senate. Finding himself thus loftily situated and his hands so clothed with power, Senator Hanway, looking over the plains of na- tiorial politics, conceived the hour ripe for another and a last step upward. For twelve years a White House had ‘been his dream; now he resolved to seek ‘his reali- zatlon. From the Senate he would move to a Presidency; a double term should close his career, where Washington and Jefferson and Jackson and other great ones of the past closed theirs. True, Senator Hanway must win his party’s nomination, and it was here he teok counsel with his Senate colleagues. Being consulted, the word of those grave ones proved the very climax of flattery. Senators Vice and Price and Dice and Ice, which as raw materials are ground to- novice in their midst than ig he had not . 4 g ¢ ana Bluff and Gruff and Muff, gether to produce laws for a common- been, and it was Senate tradition that .5 7,,¢ ‘and Coot and Hoot and Toot, wealth. commandments have no bearing on poli- fore he could speak and three before He learned early that the ten a member must hold his seat a year be- ., tyink and Blink and Drink and Kink —statesmen’ all and of snow-capped emi- tics and legislation, and was tayghbt that he would be listened to. If a man Were ... jj the topegraphy of party—indorsed part-of valer which, 1 reed and cunning and fear, is called dis- retion, and consists in first running from savage could be relied upon to meet him on the beach and welcome him basing itself- on cast away on a desert igland, the local genof ¥ e CPAEEP Y N without a wrinkle of distrust to mar their brows r a moment lost in weighing the pro- an enemy and then hiding from pursuit. with either a square meal or club. Not poq4) mhe Senate became a Hanway Aitogether, those eight yg been less pernicious in their rs might have so in the cold customs of the Senate. propaganda. Even the opposition, so far influence had The wanderer thrown upon its arctic ;5 g)gntly Jay with them, were pleasantly Patrick Henry Hanway passed them with shores might starve or freeze or perish winine to help the work along, and Sen- the chain gang, and he emerged there- in what way he would; never an-old- ator Hanway blushed to find himself a from, to cast his first vote, treacherous ster of them all would make a SI&N. Senate idol. By the encouragement which and plausible and boneless and false—as Bach sat in mighty state, like Some his colleagues gave him, and the generous voracious as a pike and as much without ancient walrus on his cake of ice, and jjept of it, Senator Hanway saw the way a prineiple. made the new one feel his littleness. If clear to become the choice of his party’s Patrick Henry Hanway did not follow through ignorance or worse the new pational convention. But he must work. in the precise footsteps of hig sire. He resolved to make his money by pulling and hauiing au iegislation; but the meth- ods should he changed, He would im- prove upon his father, and instead of pulling and hauling from the lobby, he would pull and haul from within! returns were surer; also it was easler to one sought to be heard, the old wal- ruses goggle-eyed him ferociously. If the new one persisted, they slipped from their cakes of ice and swam to the seclusion of the cloakrooms, leav- ing the new one talking to himself. cause the collapse of the new one, after It was in that prior day when Senator Hanway served his State in the legisla- ture that he wedded Dorothy Harley.. 1t is to he assumed that he loved her dearly; for twelve years later when she died his grief was like a storm, and for The This snub was commonly enough 0 the rest of his days he would as soon think of a top hat without a crown as knead and mold and ‘bake one's loaf of which the old walruses would return without a mourning band. legislation as & member,«with a seat In Senate or Assembly, than as §ome unas- signed John Smith, who, with a handful of pribes and a heart full of cheap in- trigue, must do his work from the corri- dor. A legislative seat was a two-edged sword 1o both ways. Yug with it, it A a bri ‘bartering vote for vote; that was ene'afi:s or you could thr with it, pgomising nay for nay, and thus cammi some: member 10 save your bill to save his own; that was the other edge. A mere bribe from the lobby owned but the one flar; it was like @ cavalry saber; you might make the one slagh at a reauired vote, with many clances of mfssing as of cutting down. Every argument, fore, pointed to a seat; whereat Patrick Henry Han- way bent himself to its acquirement, and at the age of 26 he was sworn to uphold the law and the constitution ap_dhtold to vote in the Assembly. In iaat body he flourished for ten years, while m’ man- hood mndqvfilmd his gwkel! filled. The native State of Pattick Henry Han- way was a mo: own membef of the republic and had m one of the origl- nal thirteen: It possessed with other im- pedimenta a mo: wn aristocracy that borrowed money, devoured’ canvasbacks, drank burgundy, wore spotless w‘ summer, clung to the duello, and talke of days of greatness which had been be- fore the war. It carried moss-grown laws upon its statute books wuich arranged tg:_ the capture of witghes, the flogging Quakers at a cart's tall, the boring of - Prestyterian tongues with red-hot Irons, and the punishment of masters t:hoj op- pressed their hapless slaves with terra- pin oftener than ree times a week. Howeyer, these nmun% u;g&l[mt doubtless in thelr hour, gapn er with the arlstocracy referred to, had falle n to de: cay. s The mos; ocracy were aware in a lli‘ way cof Patrick Henry Any nd tolerating while tk:y despised him as dop: with- out an in, Ermatiel im his place in the umfitnn. Somebody must go, and why not Patrick Henry Hanway? They, the tocracy, would there command his services in what legislation touching game, and oyster- ‘beds, and the talac;unure of mortgages \thei ro;:tud apd that was all gx ir nee e supple Patrick Henry Han- way thanked the aristrocpracy for the honor, took the place, and earried out their wishes for patrolling oysterbeds, protecting canvasbacks, and preventing * toreclosures. ‘While these conditions of mutual helpfulness subsisted, apd Patrick Henry Hanway kept his hat off in the presence of his patrons, nothing could be finer than that peace which was. Byt time went on, and storms of change came brewing. Patrick Henry Hanway, expanding beyond the pent-up Utloa of a State Capitol, docidqd npgu a political g;!“ratlox- to the Senate of. the Ua!{:é tates. i nderstood by men, the shocked artstrocracy let thelr canvasbacks grow cold and ‘their bur- gundy stand untasted, ith horr! voice they commanded “No!" The Unil States Senate had been ever reserved for gentlemen, and Patrick Henry Hanway was a clod.” The flat went forth; Patrick Henry Hanway should not go to the Senate; a wide-eyed patrician wonder was abroad that he should have had the insolent temerity to har- bor such a dream—he who was of the social reptilia and could not show an ancestor who had owned a slave! When this news was u to their cakes of ice. Senator Hanway—one should give him his title when now he has earned it—was not inclined to abide by those gag traditions that ruled the Senate beaches. He was supple, smooth, was one would sooner run a mile than fight 3 moment. For all that he was wise in his geperation, fearing no. one who could not reach bim for his' injury, He did not, for instance, fear the.Senate walruses, goggle-eying him .from their ice cakes. They could do him no harm; he did not take his seat by their permission. Upon delib- erate slqn, therefore Senator Hanway had not been in his place a fortnight before he got the floor on appropria- tion, and began ta voice his views. The walruses at first ;ho;gla—ugd him in wrathful amazement; but he kept on. Then, as was their habit, they set sail for the cloakrooms, waving condemnatory enator Hanway had thought of this, and the cloakroom move did pot discon- Sercrend of e Benata Wajputes, dne Tk reyerend of the Senate walpuses, one fes- tooned with the very peawesa af Senate dition, and casting hi Were, :?- mfif- of his hot thetoric nmeeoflui?; roast him exhaustively. The cloaks walruses gmelled the odor of burning blubber and returned eagerly to their 3 of ice, for there {s nothing so B to your true walrys as the -m—, cle %{ a brothér walrus' being gri 1§ was in time understood that If the walruses placed an.affront upon Senator Hanway he would assall’ them single or in’ K:! Then the walruses de their peace with him and admitted him to tel!o’"%l before his time, for your walrus elm!gt carry on a war and Is only terrible in appearance. Now, when the seal of silence was taken from Senator Hanway and he found him- self consented to as a full-grown walrus, ossessed of every right of the Sepate es, he hecame deferential to his fel- ow Benatars. He curried their favor by reten ta consult with them, person- ally and privately, on every Senate ques- tion that arose. He could be a great courtier when he pleased and had a ge- nius for flattery, and now that his right to go without a gag was no longer dis- nutéd he deveted himself to healing what wounds he had dealt the vanity of the oldsters. By this he grew both popular and powerful; as a finale no man oftener had his Senst 3 el s yanes,tly and unob- P by 1 P Scnator Hanway, trusively, did sundry Senate things that stamped him a leader of men. He bore the labor of a staggering filibuster, and more than any other prevented a measure that was meant for his party's destruc- tion. In qhtquqh of that filibuster he met the champlon of the opposition—a Sen- ator of pouter-plgeon characteristics, mor: Ata‘uwlblq to lgok upon than' ta la':,.‘! a1 'fqunllc-llylgpg-unx. beat him qn". ‘ng er day, assoc was .::.?- :;:'n mittee on Hfl. a and determine the husiness either way, it was enator Hanway, no ane t' w, who n mann red that member n enemy. ca] one voted [ 3 m;: continued enate floor, . smiled and gallery as '%m granted when one of his party ted by so close r of the Com- llections would sheepishl thus sheepish on th although a H tiful beamed upon fro women smile and beal favors. T It 'was during Senator Hanway's second When Senator Hanway married Doro- thy Harley, her brother, John Harley, married Barbara Hanway. Whether this exchange of sisters by the two was meant for retort or for compliment lived a point af ‘dispute—without being settled—amang eauld tride goologdtic deprecatory, and his nature the friends of the high contracting parties for many, many months. Not that any one suffered by these doyble nuptials; the famiiles owned equal social standing, having none at all, and were evenly balanced in fortune, since nejther had a dollar. Both Senator Han- way and John Harley had their fortunes to make when, each with the other's sister on his arm, they called in the preacher that day; and after the wedding they set about the accumulation of those fortunes. s In a half-sense the two became part- ners; for while a lawmaker can be highly useful to a man of energy outside the halls of legislation, the converse Is every inch as ‘true. They must be folk, of caurse, who know and trust one another; and, aside from marrying sisters—a fact caleulated to guickly teach two gentle- men the worst and the best about each other—John Harley and Senator Hanway had been as Daman and Pythlas for a decade. Not that either would have died for the other, but he would have lied and plotted and defrauded and stopped at nothing short of murder for him, which, copsidering the money appetites of the ‘pair and those schemes they had for feeding them, should be vastly more im- poriant, ‘When Senator Hanway came to Wash- ington, John Harley and his wife, Bar- bara Hanway-Harley as she preferred to style herself, came with him. Senator Hanway made his home with the Harleys, when now he was a widower: and the trio, with the daughter, Dorothy—named for the Senatar's wife—who lost her boot heel when Richard lost his heart, made up a famlily of four, and took their place in capital annals. - Jolin Harley had a red jovlal face that promised conviviality. It was the custom with John Harley to slap a new acguaint- ance on the shoulder and hail him as “0Old Man." He was long of body, short of leg, apoplectic as to neck—a girthy, thick, explosive, boisterous gentleman, whg could order a good dinner and could eat one. He could find you a fair bottle of wine, and then assist in emptying it. He aimed at the open and frank and generous, and was willing you should think him of high temper, one who would *on provocation deal a knoek-down blow. Senator Hanway was his opposite, belng of no more color than a monk and of manners as precisely soft as a lady's. He never raised his voice, never lost his temper; he strove for an accurate gen- tility—to give the He to moble foes at home—and far from owning any ferocities of fist, retorted to a heated person who charged him with flat falsehood by a mere shrug of the shoulders and a simple: “I refuse to discuss it, sir!” And all with a high air that left his op- ponent gasping and helpless and flounder- ing with the feeling that he had been somehow mos{ severely and completely, not to say most righteously, rebuked. There you have vague charcoal sketches of Senator Hanway and John Harley; you may note as wide a difference between the two as lies between warclubs and poisons. And yet they fitted with each other like the halves of a shell. © Also they were masters of intrigue; only John Harlay Intrigued like a W and Sen- ator, Hanway like' a Richeliem John Harley played the business man, and was rough and plain and blunt—a - This purple opposition did not sur- term, however, that he accomplished the muan of no genius and with loads of com- prise the astute Patrick Henry Han- way; it had been fores¢en, and He met it with prompt money. He had made his a}lhnge! ‘with divers raflw: por- porations and other vig campan: get in to overturn that feudalism in pol~ itics which had theretofore heen dom nant. $§:1. nl’h:ocr:h felt ,ux; a upan v caste; they c h t that issue and the var:{;::'flg bk s 2 e nl?{ of the work which placed him at his party’ -awu"_d: e“' "“1‘ be th‘o Presi tion. mon sense. He made a Ity of un- ng terms. . When T, was known that he possessed an in the mines, certain armor plate - and shipbuilding concerns, as well as nineteen steamboat lines, came forward to buy the coal. As for the railway. wijereas prior to John Harley's introduc- tion us shareholder and director it could get no consideratfon in the way of freights from those t corporations which have to do with beef ahd sugar and ofl—it being bath slow and crooked es a railroad—thereafter it was given all it could haul at rates even with the best, 2nd it prosperity became such that fifty- five points were added to the quoted valus of its stock. It {s possible that John Harley's near- ness to Senator Hanway something to do with founding for him a railway and a coal-mine popularity. The Sehator may be important to armor plate and shipbuilding concerns, as much might be sald of com- panies that deal in beef, sugar and oil. The om of a Senator may even be- come of moment to a steamship lne. The last was .evidenced on ‘s day when those nineteen suddenly refused to pur- chase further coal from the Hagley mines. They were buying five millions of tons 8 year, those five millions. flnding their Way to the sea over the rallway of which John Harley was a director and in which he owned those sheaves of stocks, and a fortune rose or fell by that refusal. The steamboats sald they would haYe no more Harley coal; it was stones and slates, they sald- 3 . Senator Hanway at once introduced a bill, with every chance of its passage, which provided for a tariff reduction of ten per cent ad valorem on goods brought to this country in American ships. Since- the recalcitrant nineteen were, to the lust rebellionist among them. foreign ships, flying allen flags, this threatened preference of American ships took away their breath. The owners of those lines went black with rage; however, their an. ger did not so obscufe them.but what they saw their penitent way to re- adopt the Harley coal, gnd with that the mining and carrfage and sale of those annual five millions went forward as be- fore. The Hanway bill, which promilsed such American advantages, perished in the pigeon holes of the committee, but not before the press of the country had time to ring with thé patriotism of Sen- ator Hanway, and praise that long-head- ed statesmanship’ which was about to build up a Yankee merchant marine with- ~ out.committing the crime of subsidy. John Harley and Senator Hanway at the time when Dorothy suffered that momentous mishap of the heel were both enrolled by popular opinion among the country's millionaires. Each had been . the frequent subject of .articles in the magagines, recounting his achlevements and offering him to the youth of Ameri- ca as a “Self-made Man,” whose example it would be wise to steer by. In. the Presidential plans of Semator Hanway, John Harley nourished a flaming fnter- @st. With his pale brother-in-law in the - White House, what should betfer match the genius of John Harley than the role of Warwick. He would pose as a Presi- dent-maker. When the President was made, and the world was saying “Presi- dent Hanway,”-that man should be dull, indeed, who did not look upon John Har- ley as the power behind the curtalw. He would control the backstairs; he would wear a White Holtse pass key as a watch charm! John Harley as well as Sena- tor Hanwdy had his' dreams. et Both Dorothy and her mother were profound partisans of Senator Hanway. Dorothy loved her “Uncle Pat” as much as she loved her father. Dorothy, who could weigh a woman—being of the sex— might have felt occasional misgivings as to her mother. -She might now and again observe an insufficiency that. was almost the deficient. But of her father and “Uncle Pat”” she never ‘possessed a doubt; the one was the best and the other. the greatest of men. e Dorothy was so far tified In her af- fectiom that to both John Harley and Senator Hanway she stood for the model of all that was good and beautiful in life. Hard and keen and never honest with the world at large, the love of those two for the girl Dorgthy was gold itself. Neither sald *“No™ to Dorothy, and neither made a dollar without think-. ing how one day it would go to her.. She was the joigt darling; they would . divide her between- them as the re- cipient of their loves while they lved and their fortunes when they died. Afhd many thought Dorothy lucky with two such fathers to cherish her, two such men to conquer wealth wherewith to feather-line her future. John Harley made no secret of Senator Hanway's Presidential prospects, and if he did not talk them over with his help- meet he listened while she talked them over with him, Mrs. Hanway-Harley, who insisted more vigorously than ever upon the hyphenation, would af neces- sity preside over the White House. She saw and said this herself. The Harley ° family would move to the White Mouse. Anything short of that would be pre- posterous. Under such conditions and facing sugh a future, the tremendous responsibilities of which already cast their shadow on her, Mrs. Hanway-Harley was driven to take an interest in her brother's can- vass, and she took it. She gave her hus- band. John Harley, all sorts of advice, “and however much it might fail in qual- ity, no one would have sald that in the matter of quantity Mrs. Hanway-Harley did not heap the measure high. Senator Hanway himself she was not so ready to approach. He never mentioned the ques- tion of his Presidential and fears, holding to the pesition one who is sought. Under the circumstances Mrs. Hanway-Harley felt that it would be gross and forward to force the subject with her brother, although she was cer- tajn that her silence meant unmeasured loss to him. Mrs. Hanway-Harley was one of those excellent women whereof it is the good fortune of the world to have such store, who cherish the kno 3 nat always shared by others, that what- ever they touch they benmefit and wher- ever they advise they improve. “Barbara,” sald Senator Hanway, on ‘the morning of that day when Richard ‘meddled so crushingly with Storri’s hand, “Barhara, there IS a matter fn which you might please me very much.” Mrs. Hanway-Harley looked across the table at her brother, for the four were breakfast. 1 promise in advance,” said she. “There is a gentle: " went on Senator Hanway. “I met him for'a moment—a Mr. Gwynn. You ladies know how to arrange these things. I want to have him—not too large a party, you know—have him meet Grus and Stuff and two or three of my Sepate friends. Ha is vastly rich, with tremendous railway connections. I need not explain; but conditions may arise that would make Mr. Gwynn prodigiously important—extremely so. I don’t know how you'll manage; he is w::\y conventional-—one of your A s . 2 &% & ut ‘m s bara, :Zu brin, matter about; and I leave it with confidence.” (Continued Next Sunday.)