"Perhaps not. What more can you tell me about this boy?"
Powell's face lighted up.
"I remember now, he told me that his father died in California."
"Is it possible?" said Jack King, excited. "I begin to think I am on the right track. I begin to think, too, that I can tell where Tom Butler got his first start."
"And now he poses as a philanthropist?"
"Yes."
"And is nominated for mayor?"
"Yes, also."
"How are your relations with him?"
"They should be friendly, for he and I were comrades in earlier days, and once I lent him money when he needed it, but he has been puffed up by his prosperity, and takes very little notice of me. He had to do something for me when I first came to Milwaukee, but it was because he was afraid not to."