She was the imperious type of beauty and suggested to Haines the dry point etchings of Paul Helleu. He felt that at last he had won the secretary over; that the young man was at heart anxious to take money for his influence with the Senator. The secretary stepped slowly to his desk, sat down and started to write the note. It was only a kind of--" Suddenly pausing, Bud Haines shot a swift glance at the slots Just how Langdon would turn the tables on Peabody and Stevens and yet win for the Altacoola site not even the ex-newspaper man, experienced in politics, had solved. I want you to forget the happenings of yesterday--last evening--so far as I was concerned in them. The bed had not been disturbed, and the book from which she had read to him, was lying thereon, opened at those beautiful verses of "The Iris of the Deep," which he loved so well to hear her read. Happy faces met him as he came in wearied from his duties "on 'change," and he had again assumed his easy, jocose manners. It was with difficulty that those who witnessed the fellow's ludicrous movements, could refrain from a smile; but when, at a summons from Natalie, the door opened, and the black woman, so nearly allied to the human family as to have manifested an appreciation of the beautiful, stood before them, there was not a dry eye in the room.