Of course, it can't be helped that Halloway has to be kept in the dark; he won't spend any money, anyway." "It looks a little underhanded at first glance," said Warren Smith; "but, as Miss Sherwood said, you've got to be a little underhanded sometimes, especially when you're dealing with as scrupulous a man as John Harkless.

But it's a perfectly honest deal, and it will be all right with him when he finds it's all over and he's nominated." "It's a plain case," added Boswell.

"We want him, and we've got to have him." "There's one danger," Mr.Keating continued.

"Kedge Halloway is honest, but I believe he's selfish enough to disturb his best friend's deathbed for his own ends, and it's not unlikely that he will get nervous towards the last and be telegraphing Harkless to have himself carried on a cot to the convention to save him.

That wouldn't do at all, of course, and Miss Sherwood thinks maybe there'd be less danger if we set the convention a little ahead of the day appointed.