I'll carry that thousand as long as you like." Miss Rose Farrell, nigh to perishing of ennui in the lonely office of the absentee steel construction agents, had been installed as stenographer in Room 66 a year earlier.

Miss Farrell had, it appeared, served Bassett several terms as stenographer to one of the legislative committees of which he was chairman.
"You needn't be afraid of my telling anything," she said in reply to Dan's cautioning.

"Those winters I worked at the State House I learned enough to fill three penitentiaries with great and good men, but you couldn't dig it out of me with a steam shovel.

They were going to have me up before an investigating committee once, but I had burned my shorthand notes and couldn't remember a thing.

Your little Irish Rose knows a few things, Mr.Harwood.I was on to your office before the 'Advertiser' sprung that story and gave it away that Mr.Bassett had a room here.