15/18 Ask John a question to-day and he may say, 'I don't know,' but to-morrow he does know--he has spent a night with it. Your life up to a short time ago, you say, was a struggle; your uncle was a poor man. Suddenly you became the son of a millionaire. A weak nature would straightway have assumed the airs of a rich man; you remained a democrat. It was so remarkable that I thought the decision might react as an error, and therefore I asked if you had not begun to grow weary of this democracy, the Press Club." McGlenn smiled, and his smile had two meanings, one for his friends and another for his enemies. |