He pushed a
button in the row on his study table. "This new job as mayor seems to be
playing some sort of a devil's trick with Stewart. I'll admit, Daunt, that
I didn't relish some of the priggish preachment on politics mouthed by him
in his office when we were there. But I didn't pay much attention--any
more than I did to his exaggerated flourish in the way he attended to city
business. The new brooms! You know!"
"Yes, I know!" The banker was sardonic. "I could overlook his display of
importance when he neglected gentlemen in order to parade his tuppenny
mayor's business. I paid no attention to his vaporings on the water
question. I've heard plenty of franchise-owners talk that way for effect!
He's an especially avaricious Scot, isn't he? Confound him! How much more
shall I offer him?"
"I'll admit that Stewart seems to be different these days in some
respects, but unless he has made a clean change of all his nature in this
shift of some of his ideas, you'd better not offer him any more!" warned
the Senator. "I never detected any 'For Sale' sign on him!"
The Senator's secretary stepped into the study.
"Find Mayor Morrison in the ballroom and tell him I want to see him here.
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