The Candidate: A Political Romance

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Altsheler Joseph Alexander. The Candidate: A Political Romance

I. THE NOMINEE

II. THE MAID

III. THE START

IV. THE FIRST SPEECH

V "KING" PLUMMER

VI. ON THE ROAD

VII. HIS GREATEST SPEECH

VIII. SYLVIA'S RETURN

IX. JIMMY GRAYSON'S SPELL

X. THE "KING'S" REQUEST

XI. THE HARRYING OF HERBERT

XII. CHURCHILL STRIKES

XIII. THE THIRD DEGREE

XIV. THE DEAD CITY

XV. WORDS BY THE WAY

XVI. BY THE FIRELIGHT

XVII. THE SPELLBINDER

XVIII. THE SACRIFICE

XIX. AN IDAHO STORM

XX. THE GREAT PHILIPSBURG CONFERENCE

XXI. ALONE WITH NATURE

XXII. THE "KING'S" AWAKENING

XXIII. ELECTION NIGHT

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Harley's ring was not answered at once, and as he stood on the step he glanced back at the city, which, in the dark, showed only the formless bulk of houses and the cold electric lights here and there. Then he heard a light step, and the door was thrown open. He handed his card to the maid, merely saying, "Mr. and Mrs. Grayson," and waited to be shown into the parlor. But the girl, whose face he could not see, as the hall was dimly lighted, held it in her hand, looking first at the name and then at him. Harley, feeling a slight impatience, stepped inside and said:

"I assure you that I am the real owner of it—that is, of the name on the card."

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Harley could talk well, all the better because he talked so rarely of himself, and even now it was of himself only by indirection, because he spoke chiefly of men whom he had known and deeds that he had witnessed. Watching the girl closely with that side-look, he did not see the twinkle reappear in her eye; instead she sat demure and silent, and he judged that he had taken her beyond her depth. At last he stopped, and she said, in a subdued tone:

"Did I not tell you, Uncle James, that imagination was the great quality the correspondents need?"

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