I should like to run the treasury department about six months.

I'd make things plenty, and business look up.'" The Colonel had access to the departments.

He knew all the senators and representatives, and especially, the lobby.

He was consequently a great favorite in Newspaper Row, and was often lounging in the offices there, dropping bits of private, official information, which were immediately, caught up and telegraphed all over the country.

But it need to surprise even the Colonel when he read it, it was embellished to that degree that he hardly recognized it, and the hint was not lost on him.