I shall always be glad to see you at my house for a meal or a night, whether you come on political matters or merely for a chat." Peter found his constituents torn with dissensions over his and Kennedy's course in the convention.

He did not answer in kind the blame and criticism industriously sowed by Kennedy; but he dropped into a half-a-dozen saloons in the next few days, and told "the b'ys" a pretty full history of the "behind-the-scenes" part.
"I'm afraid I made mistakes," he frankly acknowledged, "yet even now I don't see how I could have done differently.

I certainly thought I was doing right." "An' so yez were," shouted Dennis.

"An' if that dirty beast Kennedy shows his dirty face inside these doors, it's a washin' it will get wid the drainin' av the beer-glasses.

We wants none av his dirty bargains here." "I don't know that he had made any bargain," said Peter.
"But we do," shouted one of the men.