Dan had expected his friend to resent his part in the convention, and he had sought Allen at Lueders's shop to satisfy himself that their personal relations had not been disturbed.

He had found Allen, at the end of a day's work, perched upon a bench discoursing to the workmen on the Great Experiment.

Allen had, it seemed, watched the convention from an obscure corner of the gallery.

He pronounced Dan's speech "immense"; "perfectly bully"; he was extravagant in his praise of it.

His father's success in naming the ticket had seemed to him a great triumph.