In the meantime I'll see the chairman of the committee on that bill--one of the so-called 'pork' bills it is.

Possibly from him and some other acquaintances of mine I may learn something.

At any rate, you come to dinner." So the invitation was accepted, and Captain Cy went back to his own hotel and his room.

He slept but little, although it was not worry over the appropriation question which kept him awake.

Next morning he wrote a note to Georgianna, giving his Washington address.