"We'll be honest with each other; we know that the floor of a convention
is not the place to discuss the platform frankly; I don't want to wash
our linen in public. We'll settle it now between ourselves. That plank,
there, comes out of the platform if you expect me to stand on it."
The Senator, challenged by his eyes, spoke.
"You don't take exceptions to honest efforts to develop our State, do
you, General Waymouth?"
"I do not. But that proposition, no matter how good it sounds, is the
sugar-coated preface to an attempt to steal the undeveloped water-powers
of this State."
The Senator's fat neck reddened.
"You may be inclined to modify that rather rash statement, General
Waymouth, when I tell you that I suggested the insertion of that
resolution."
"I recognized it as yours, Senator. Some time ago my bankers gave me the
personnel of the group behind the Universal Development Company. In
making my statement, I understand perfectly what legislation that
resolution is leading up to."
"Vard," broke in the Duke, conciliatingly, "don't take so much for
granted.
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