this condition of disseverment does not exist," cried he, as he bowed
with final grace to Mr. Gwynn, who approved stonily, "is due to you,
sir; and to gentlemen like you; and to those railways which, like the
Anaconda Airline, form the ties that bind us safe against such
dismembering possibilities and give us, for war or for peace, absolute
coherency as a commonwealth."




CHAPTER V

HOW RICHARD WAS TAUGHT MANY THINGS


Richard went every day at eleven for a brief conference with Senator
Hanway. The latter was no wise backward in his use of the columns of the
_Daily Tory_. There are so many things concerning both men and measures
that statesmen want said, and which, because of their modesty, they
themselves hesitate to say, that Senator Hanway, when now through
Richard he might tell this story of politics or declare that proposal of
state, and still keep his own name under cover, discovered in the _Daily
Tory_ a source of relief. So much, in truth, did Senator Hanway, by way
of Richard and the _Daily Tory_, contribute to the gayety of the times,
that the editor-in-chief was duly scandalized. He aroused himself on the
third evening, killed Richard's dispatch, and rebuked that earnest
journalist with the following:

"Send news; nothing but news. No one wants your notion of the motives of
representatives in fight over Speakership."