He says he wants to do the state one patriotic service before he dies by cleaning out the bosses, and he doesn't want to spoil the record by taking the senatorship himself.

Meanwhile Bassett stands fast and there's no telling when he'll break through Thatcher's lines." "Thatcher was here to see me to-day--the third time.

He won't come back.
You know what he's after ?" said Ware.
"Yes; I understand," Dan answered.
"There won't be anything of that kind, will there, Dan ?" Dan shrugged his shoulders, and glanced at Sylvia and Mrs.Ware.
"Mrs.Ware knows about it; I had to tell her," remarked the minister, chuckling.

"When Ed Thatcher makes two calls on me in one week, and one of them at midnight, there's got to be an explanation.

And Sylvia heard him raving before I showed him out this afternoon." Sylvia's plate was untouched; her eyes searched those of the man who loved her before she spoke.
"That's an ethical point, Mr.Ware.If it were necessary to use that,--if every other resource failed,--would you use it ?" "No! Not if Bassett's success meant the utter destruction of the state.
I don't believe a word of it.