[The President by Alfred Henry Lewis]@TWC D-Link bookThe President CHAPTER IV 25/27
The Anaconda Airline could press down the weights of its influence upon those twenty-three members.
The Anaconda influence might better be exerted through its President and General Attorney, and perhaps what special attorneys were local to the congressional districts of those twenty-three. "Mr.Gwynn," observed Richard, "anticipated something of the kind, and I think is prepared to request those officers you name to come to Washington." "They shall be requested, sir; certainly, sir," rasped Mr.Gwynn. Richard's words seemed ever to reverberate in Mr.Gwynn's noble interior as in a cavern, and thereafter to issue forth by way of his mouth in the manner of an echo.
"Certainly, sir; they shall be requested," repeated the cavernous Mr.Gwynn. "Now this is highly gratifying," said Senator Hanway.
"And you will have them call upon me, too, I've no doubt.
You should wire them at once; the caucus, you know, isn't ten days away; Congress convenes on the first Monday of next month." Senator Hanway, being of a quick intelligence, had by this time found his rightful line.
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