Several times he gathered up half a dozen of these acquaintances for frugal dinners in the University Club rathskeller, or they met in the saloon affected by Allen's friends of Lueders's carpenter shop.

He wanted them to see all sides of the picture, and he encouraged them to crystallize their fears and hopes; more patriotism and less partisanship, they all agreed, was the thing most needed in America.
Allen appeared in Dan's office unexpectedly one hot morning and sat down on a chair piled with open lawbooks.

Allen had benefited by his month's sojourn in the Adirondacks, and subsequent cruises in his motor car had tanned his face becomingly.

He was far from rugged, but he declared that he expected to live forever.
"I'm full of dark tidings! Much has happened within forty-eight hours.
See about our smash-up in Chicago! Must have read it in the newspapers ?" "A nice, odorous mess," observed Dan, filling his pipe.

"I'm pained to see that you go chasing around with the plutocrats smashing lamp-posts in our large centres of population.