"Yes. Senator Scudder says to tell you that bill will be reported to-day and rushed through before evening."
"Have Conover go up to the Astor and get Scudder on the 'phone and say that the bill must be passed before noon recess. The Governor will sign it immediately."
"Yes, sir."
"And Conover is not to mention names."
"Of course not, sir."
"Anything else?"
"No—except somebody has been trying to get you on the long-distance wire from Hartford."
"That's Sparks.—Run over to the corner pay-station and call up the legislative building at Hartford. Get Sparks on the 'phone. Be sure it's the right man you're talking to. Tell him that the New York gentleman he wanted to speak to—just that: the New York gentleman he wanted to speak to—is out of town, but has telegraphed you to say to him it is all right for him to go ahead. Got that?"
"Yes, sir."
"Read it."