The very fact of Mr.Gwynn being an Englishman would defend it.

Mr.Gwynn, at the word of Richard, was willing to serve the views of Senator Gruff, and the dinner was arranged.
There were full sixty present, including Speaker Frost and those high officials of the Anaconda.

Mr.Gwynn had also dispatched an invitation to Mr.Bayard, and Richard inclosed therewith a personal note which had for its result the bringing of that astrologer of stocks, albeit dinners political were not precisely his habit.
"Who is your friend Gwynn ?" asked Mr.Bayard, the afternoon before the dinner.
"I'll explain Mr.Gwynn later," replied Richard.

"He is quite devoted to my interests, I assure you, and to nothing else." "I can well believe so," returned Mr.Bayard, who had already half solved the enigma of Mr.Gwynn.

"I begin to fear that you are a quixotic, not to say an eccentric, not to add a most egotistical young man.