There's the National Republican Committee and Sergeant Ellison of the Secret Service from Washington--all here by appointment.

It's quite impossible." "I didn't ask you if it were possible.

I said I wanted to see him and I will see him," answered Jefferson quietly but firmly, and in a tone and manner which did not admit of further opposition.

"I'll go and leave word for him on his desk," he added.
He started to enter the library when the secretary, who was visibly perturbed, attempted to bar his way.
"There's some one in there," he said in an undertone.

"Someone waiting for your father." "Is there ?" replied Jefferson coolly.