I haven't been in politics all these years to be beaten at last by Ed Thatcher.

I've pledged votes enough to-day to give me a majority of three on the next ballot; but I'll explode Thatcher's bombshell in his own hands.

I'm all prepared for him; I have the documents--the marriage certificate and the whole business.

But you won't suffer; you won't be brought into it.

That's what I'm going to do about it!" The failure of his declaration to shake her composure disturbed him; perhaps after all his contemplated _coup_ was not so charged with electricity as he had imagined.