9/22 He had the stampede all ready, down to the dress rehearsal. He practically gave away a victory he had been working for all his life." "Yes; he is like that; he can do such things," murmured Sylvia. Bassett has bought Thatcher's interest in the 'Courier,' and he proposes editing it himself. More than that, he was at my office this morning when I got there, and he asked me, as a special favor to him, to take a few shares in the company to qualify me as secretary of the corporation, and said he wanted me to help him. He said he thought it about time for Indiana to have a share in the general reform movement; talked about it as though this were something he had always intended doing, but had been prevented by press of other matters. |