CHAPTER III.—THE GENTLEMAN DISCOVERS A NEW KIND OF POWER
REMAINED at Rushwater to run the shop while McCarthy was beginning his legislative career. I was going about a good deal looking after branches in Chicago and New York. The hand-made gentleman was at home and doing something for Sal in the intervals of adjournment, but I saw little of him. Two or three times in my absence he called to see my mother and sister.
When I had returned from a long journey, one evening Sarah said to me:
“I have seen that girl.”
“What girl?”
“Mr. McCarthy's girl—the one you say he loves.”