21/48 It's rotten--rotten clean through." "I don't believe it's quite true that you have lost your influence. I read the newspapers, and some of them are saying that you are the hope of your party, and that you have a large following. But you wouldn't do that, Dan; you wouldn't lend yourself to such a thing as that!" "I'm not so sure," he replied doggedly, angry that they should be discussing the subject at all, though to be sure he had introduced it. I'd like to see Bassett driven out of politics, but I assure you that I don't mean to do it. |