"That was the first newspaper story I ever worked on," said Bates.
"Of course, the Pittsburg papers didn't print the facts, but I got
them all the same. And afterwards I came to know intimately a lawyer
in Pittsburg who had charge of a secret investigation; and every
time I read in the newspapers that old Harrison has given a new
library, it sets my blood to boiling all over again."
"I sometimes think," put in the other, "that if somebody could be
found to tell that story to the American people, they would rise up
and drive the old scoundrel out of the country."
"You could never bring it home to him," said Bates; "he's too
cunning for that. He has always turned his dirty work over to other
people. You remember during the big strike how he ran away and left
the job to William Roberts; and after it was all over, he came back
smiling."
"And then buying out the Government to keep himself from being
punished!" said the Lieutenant, savagely.
Montague turned and looked at him. "What is that?"
"That is the story that Bates's lawyer friend can tell," was the
reply.
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