"Can't you--marry him? Is he too poor?" asked Stanley.
"Poor?" Her eyes were stars; "that wouldn't matter. No, he's not my sort...."
"Does he know?"
"No," Aleta answered, hastily. "No, he doesn't ... and he never will."
Frank told his father something of the conversation.
"Its an open secret," said Francisco, "that Ruef and his crew are out for the coin. I'll tell you something else you mustn't print, your paper is determined to expose Ruef. The managing editor is on his way to Washington to confer with President Roosevelt.... The plan is to borrow Francis Heney and William J. Burns."
"What? The pair that has been exposing Senators and land frauds up in Oregon?"
His father nodded. "Phew!" The young man whistled. "You were right when you predicted that there was a shakeup coming."