When I began to recover, my election district captains came to me and said that McManus had sold me out with the idea of knockin' me out of the Senatorship, and then tryin' to capture the leadership of the district.

I couldn't believe it.

My trustin' nature couldn't imagine such treachery.
I sent for McManus and said, with my voice tremblin' with emotions: "They say you have done me dirt, 'The.' It can't be true.

Tell me it ain't true." "The" almost wept as he said he was innocent.
"Never have I done you dirt, George," he declared.

"Wicked traitors have tried to do you.