He wired Colonel Ramsay, of Aurora, to come to the capital on the first train.

Telegrams went flying that afternoon to every part of Indiana.
Thatcher read the evening papers in Chicago and kept the wires hot while he waited for the first train for Indianapolis.
One of his messages, addressed to Harwood, read: "Breakfast with me to-morrow morning at my house.

Strictly private.
This is your big chance." Harwood, locked in his office in the Law Building, received this message by telephone, and it aroused his ire.

His relations with Thatcher did not justify that gentleman in tendering him a strictly private breakfast, nor did he relish having a big chance pointed out to him by Mr.Thatcher.It cannot be denied that Dan, too, felt that Senator Ridgefield had chosen a most unfortunate season for exposing himself to the ravages of the pneumococcus.

He kept away from the State House and hotels that evening, having decided to take no part in the preliminary skirmishes until he had seen Ramsay, who would bring a cool head and a trained hand to bear upon this unforeseen situation.
He studied the newspapers as he ate breakfast alone at the University Club early the next morning.