An investigation there, if it begins at all--as I think is very
likely--should be very slow in producing the facts."
The Senator was not at all for mincing words with his important
confreres, when it came to vital issues. He preferred, in his
grandiloquent way, to call a spade a spade.
"Now that sounds like very good sense to me," said Butler, sinking a
little lower in his chair for comfort's sake, and concealing his
true mood in regard to all this. "The boys could easily make that
investigation last three weeks, I should think. They're slow enough with
everything else, if me memory doesn't fail me." At the same time he was
cogitating as to how to inject the personality of Cowperwood and his
speedy prosecution without appearing to be neglecting the general
welfare of the local party too much.
"Yes, that isn't a bad idea," said Mollenhauer, solemnly, blowing a ring
of smoke, and thinking how to keep Cowperwood's especial offense from
coming up at this conference and until after he had seen him.
"We ought to map out our program very carefully," continued Senator
Simpson, "so that if we are compelled to act we can do so very quickly.
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