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Don't want to call it off and come into the fold again. s'pose?" suggest ed Blake quizzically.
 No. thanks smiled the insurgent and passed on toward the dining room.
 Hello, Van Dyke!" called Blake as the lawyer, with Neligan and Gregg in tow, came along the corridor toward them. from the bar. What brings you to Washington? Whats up?y
 That's what I'm trying to find out" answered Van Dyke, shaking hands with Blake and instinctively leading the way to the adjacent amen corner. What is up? You're supposed to be managing this fight, Jim. And here We find ourselves in the very worst hole we've been in since ninety-seven. If you and I hadn't fought shoulder to shoulder for years and years, I'd be tempted to say you were lying down"
 The crowd down on Broadway" answered Blake, ''have handed us 8 raw proposition in this Mullins bill. The bill smells so rank that even the dear, dear public have got a whif of it. And when the public gets its sense of smell into good working order-0h, what's the use. Van Dyke? You can see what we're up against. You know the temper of the country. We can't even defend that bill of yours. And this is no time to put over such raw one. It's like"
 Still" argued Van Dyke. "you said you'd be able to put the deal through nd io fOx us all"
 q said could put it through. And l could-when we started. But Stand ish wasn't fighting it then. This isn't the Bill versus the People. It's Mat Standish versus the Organization. And Standish has the peopie-the wakea-up people-behind him. He's their idol. He's the parsons pet. They look on him as the Worthy Young Man who couldn't do wrong if he tried and who isn't wicked enough to try. In other words, he's never been found out. There's only two classes of men that I ever met-the sort that have been found out and the sort that haven't. If we can damage Standish in the eyes of the people-if we can make the clergy repudiate him"
 That's just the point" cried Van Dyke "Why haven't you been able to do that, instead of sitting peacefully to one side and waiting for him to wreck himself?"
 We've had detectives on him. put in Neligan. q told you all that, Van Dyke
 '"Detectives?" snorted the lawyer. -'cWhat good is that? Your detectives will charge you seven dollars 6 day and expenses-mostly expenses-for giving you a full report of the way ,Standish spends the day and what he has ito eat and the number of cigars he smokes and the addresses of some of the letters he writes. You'll never get sStandish that way. If ever he's .hreken "a ilaw-and most men have"
 .sOh, not so many" gently coEtra- ,dicted Blake. 1.-Two jails would be lplenty large ito hold all the folks who have broken any law. And the two iails could be built real easy-just by running a high wall around the equa- tor. But you're right in one thing, Wan Dyke We'll never get Standish fn the way these boys have been go- ing about it. So, it's lucky I happened -to put a man of my own on the job"
 "Yes. While live been living down. as you call it.
 sI didn't say you had been"
 No. But you thought it. Just be- cause don't nun around in circles. barking. and now and then biting a piece out of the ceiling, you folks think I'm doing nothing. And I'll newer teach you any better"
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 "Oh, yes ' o''t " '~ own on to Standfsh's record. I told him not to bother about anything that had happened during the last three or four years Your men would ba busy on that; and there'd be nothing to find, anyhow. I set my man to scratching up ancient history. l told him to go back and back and back, in Standish's record and to keep on going back till he found something"
 "Well?' chorused the others as Blake paused and searched his clothes with maddening siowness for match
 We'll" drawied Blake. "he's found it."
 "No?" chuckled Neligan, wildly elated
 "The story is long," said Blake: but I can shorten 1t up considerably for you. Along about five years ago friend Standish fell in love with girl. Right sort of a girl you know. Good family. Father rich and all that Standish wasn't very well off-he was always