"I didn't make any promise."
"I say you did!"
"Well," said Carlton, easily, "there's no use wrangling over it. It's all over now."
Hudson doubled up his fist, and shaking it at his adversary, said:
"It's not all over. Not by a long sight! Every dog has his day, and I'll have mine sooner than you think!"
Carlton laughed.
"There's no use borrowing trouble," he said, lightly. "The dog-days won't be here for some time yet."
As they passed out of the door into the corridor of the Capitol, a third member came up to Carlton and said:
"John, were in the world did you dig up that report?"
"Oh," was the response, "it was pulled out of a pile of old junk in my office."