White-faced
assemblymen sneaked into offices at midnight to return the bribe
money for which they dared not deliver the goods. Two days after
the report of the investigating committee Jeff's bill passed the
Senate. Within three hours it was signed by Governor Hawley. That
it would be ratified by a vote of the people and so become a part
of the state constitution was a foregone conclusion.
Jeff and his friends had forged the first of the tools they needed
to rescue the government of the state from the control of the
allied plunderers.
Part 2
In the days following her return to Verden Alice Frome devoured
the newspapers as she never had before. They were full of the
dramatic struggle between Jeff Farnum and the forces which
hitherto had controlled the city and state. To her the battle was
personal. It centered on the attacks made upon the character of
her friend and his pledge to refute them.
When she read in the _Advocate_ the report of the committee Alice
wept. It was like her friend, she thought, to risk his reputation
for some poor lost wanderer of the streets. Another man might have
done it for the girl he loved or for the woman he had married.
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