Travis, and this Mr. Hanford. They are even going to ask me
to carry the money in a sealed envelope to the studio of this fellow
Hanford, to be given to a third person who will be there at two
o'clock this afternoon."
"You, Miss Ashton?" inquired Kennedy, a light breaking on his face
as if at last he saw something.
"Yes, I," she repeated. "Hanford insisted that it was part of the
compact. They - they haven't asked me openly yet to be the means
of carrying out their dirty deals, but when they do, I won't - "
"Miss Ashton," remonstrated Kennedy, "I beg you to be calm. I had
no idea you would take it like this, no idea. Please, please.
Walter, you will excuse us if we take a turn down the corridor
and out in the air. This is most extraordinary."
For five or ten minutes Kennedy and Miss Ashton appeared to be
discussing the new turn of events earnestly, while I waited
impatiently. As they approached again she seemed calmer, but I
heard her say, "I hope you're right. I'm all broken up by it. I'm
ready to resign. My faith in human nature is shaken. No, I won't
expose Wesley Travis for his sake. It cuts me to have to admit it,
but Cadwalader used always to say that every man has his price. I
am afraid this will do great harm to the cause of reform and through
it to the woman suffrage cause which cast its lot with this party.
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