What Harwood had taken for steel seemed to him now only iron after all--and brittle iron.
During the last week of the campaign an incident occurred that shook Harwood a good deal.

He had been away from the capital for several days making speeches, and finding that his itinerary would permit it, he ran into town unexpectedly one night to replenish his linen and look at his mail.

An interurban car landed him in town at eleven o'clock, and he went directly to the Boordman Building.

As he walked down the hall toward his office he was surprised to see a light showing on the ground-glass door of Room 66.

Though Bassett kept a room at the Whitcomb for private conferences, he occasionally used his office in the Boordman for the purpose, and seeing the rooms lighted, Dan expected to find him there.