For Surface sat long that evening, meditating how he might most
surely break up the friendship between his young friend and Sharlee
Weyland; while Queed, all during his busy hours at the office, found his
thoughts of Nicolovius dominated by speculations as to what Miss Weyland
would say, if she knew that he had formed a lifelong compact with the
man who had betrayed her father's friendship and looted her own fortune.
XXIII
_Of the Bill for the Reformatory, and its Critical Situation; of
West's Second Disappointment with the Rewards of Patriotism; of the
Consolation he found in the most Charming Resolve in the World_.
In January the legislature met again. All autumn and early winter the
_Post_ had been pounding without surcease upon two great issues: first,
the reform of the tax-laws, and, second, the establishment of a
reformatory institution for women. It was palpably the resolve of the
paper that the legislature should not overlook these two measures
through lack of being shown where its duty lay.
To the assistant editor had been assigned both campaigns, and he had
developed his argument with a deadly persistence.
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