[The President by Alfred Henry Lewis]@TWC D-Link bookThe President CHAPTER XVIII 4/29
You might do well to remember that promise; I have been known on occasion to tell Mrs.Hanway-Harley the truth." After the last gloomy notice Mr.Harley went his defiant way, while Storri sank back a more deeply wounded wolf than ever. Mr.Harley drew his check and dispatched it to Mr.Fopling, and Richard in due course received a check from the latter.
Mr.Harley did not allude to the transaction on those few and distant occasions when he and Mr.Fopling met; and Mr.Fopling, burdened of his feuds with Ajax, soon forgot the affair in matters more important. Mr.Harley, when emancipated from the thraldom of Storri, was as dollarless so far as immediate cash was concerned as was the stripped Storri himself.
But in the rebound of spirit which followed, Mr. Harley's genius regained its old-time elasticity.
A member of the House with whom he was in touch, being one of that speculative party who opened the New Year at Chamberlin's with cards, was so conveniently good-natured as to offer a measure putting coal on the free list.
This, if passed, would be a woundy blow to the Harley mines; also to that railway whereof Mr.Harley was a director, since it hauled the Harley coal to the seaboard.
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