"Well," he said, as he entered the room, "I see you have found Mr.
Thatcher, and shown those papers. I trust you have, for you've certainly
had time enough. I am sent by mother to dismiss you all to bed."
Carmen still in the arm chair, covered with her mantilla, did not speak.
"I suppose you are by this time lawyer enough to know," continued
Harlowe, "that Miss De Haro's papers, though ingenious, are not legally
available, unless--"
"I chose to make her a witness. Harlowe! you're a good fellow! I don't
mind saying to you that these are papers I prefer that my WIFE should
not use. We'll leave it for the present--Unfinished Business."
They did. But one evening our hero brought Mrs. Royal Thatcher a paper
containing a touching and beautiful tribute to the dead Senator.
"There, Carmen, love, read that. Don't you feel a little ashamed of
your--your--your lobbying--"
"No," said Carmen promptly. "It was business,--and if all lobbying
business was as honest,--well?--"
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