Then, turning to his secretary, who had taken a score of letters shorthand and was about to seek his own quarters and run them off upon the typewriter: "Have those copied by three o'clock and bring them here for signature." Senator Hanway had no more than given Richard good-morning when Senator Loot was announced.
"He won't stay long," said Senator Hanway; "but while he's here, dear, won't you take Mr.Storms into the library ?" This request was preferred to Dorothy.
"Yes," began Dorothy, when she and Richard found themselves in the library, and nothing to interrupt them but the distant slumbrous rumble of Senator Loot.

"Yes, I'm going to help Uncle Pat.

And I'm going to learn how to be a newspaper woman, too.

I think every girl should be capable of earning her own living.

Not that I expect to be obliged to do so; but it is best to be prepared." Dorothy's face was funereal, as though disasters, clawed and fanged, were roaming the thickets of the future to spring upon her.