40/45 He had no right to make it, of course, but the word had been passed along the line to let him go through. Amazing vocal powers, that boy,--you couldn't have stopped him!" Sylvia was aware that Colonel Ramsay's explanation had not pleased Mrs. Marian was enjoying Colonel Ramsay's praise of her father's adroitness. Near Sylvia were other women who had much at stake in the result of the convention. The wife of a candidate for secretary of state had invited herself to a seat beside Mrs.Bassett; the wife of a Congressman who wished to be governor, sat near, publishing to the world her intimate acquaintance with Morton Bassett's family. |