He told Richard that he hoped to see him personally every day.

Here Richard broke in on the Senatorial flow to ask if he might wait upon Senator Hanway every morning at eleven.
"For I am warned by Mr.Gwynn," explained Richard, with an alert mendacity which would have done honor, to Senator Hanway himself, "that he will hold anything short of calling upon you once a day as barefaced neglect of his interests." "Certainly, sir; most barefaced!" creaked Mr.Gwynn, giving the mandarin bow.
Senator Hanway would be graciously pleased to see Richard every morning at eleven.

Also, he would aid him, as far as was proper, with a recount of what gusts and windy currents of news were moving in the upper ethers of government.
Then, having been polite, Senator Hanway got down to business and stated that Mr.Frost, if Speaker, would favor a certain pooling bill, much desired by railways, and particularly dear to the Anaconda Airline.

On the obdurate other hand, Mr.Hawke was an enemy to pooling bills and railways.

Mr.Gwynn's interest was plainly with Mr.Frost.
"Not that I care personally for the success of Mr.Frost," remarked Senator Hanway, "but I know how the railways desire that pooling bill, and how that pooling bill is a darling measure with Mr.Frost." "Which brings us back," observed Richard, who never took his eye off a question, once put, until he saw it mated with an answer, "to Mr.
Gwynn's first interrogatory: What can the Anaconda Airline do ?" Senator Hanway explained.