Mr. Gwynn received Senator Hanway in his library; Richard was present,
considering the world at large from a window.

"And first of all," said Mr. Gwynn, after greeting Senator Hanway, "and
first of all, let me introduce to your notice Mr. Storms. I may say to
you, sir, I have confidence in Mr. Storms; I act much by his advice."
And here Mr. Gwynn looked at Richard as though appealing for
corroboration.

Senator Hanway, from whose nimble faculties nothing escaped, noted this
appeal. He thought the less of it, since Mr. Harley had given him some
glint of the measureless millions of Mr. Gwynn, and he deduced from this
stiff turning towards Richard, this brittle deference, nothing save a
theory that Mr. Gwynn, by virtue of his tremendous riches, had grown too
great to do his own listening and thinking. It was as plain, as it was
proper, that he should hire them done, precisely as he hired a groom for
his horses or a valet to superintend his clothes. Senator Hanway,
himself, was at bottom impressed by nothing so much as money, and was
quite prepared to believe that one of the world's wealthiest men--for
such he understood to be the case of Mr. Gwynn--would prove in word and
deed and thought a being wholly different from everyone about him.
Wherefore, his heaped millions accounted in Mr. Gwynn for what otherwise
might have been considered by Senator Hanway as queernesses.

To add to this, Mr. Gwynn was of a certain select circle of English
exclusives; Senator Hanway had learned that much from his sister, Mrs.
Hanway-Harley. It was to be expected then that he would have someone
about him to furnish brains for his deliberations, and to make up his
mind as a laundress makes up shirts. Senator Hanway, knowing these