I showed him that our private lives
are only a few feet square anyhow, and that really, to breathe
freely, one must get out of them into the open." He paused and broke
out with sudden violence, "My God, Hadley, didn't you see that
Fleetwood had to obey me?"
"Yes--I see that," said Shackwell, with reviving obstinacy. "But if
you've reached such a height and pulled him up to your side it seems
to me that from that standpoint you ought to get an even clearer
view of the madness of your position. You say you have decided to
sacrifice your own feelings and your wife's--though I'm not so sure
of your right to dispose of _her_voice in the matter; but what if
you sacrifice the party and the State as well, in this
transcendental attempt to distinguish between private and public
honor? You'll have to answer that before you can get me to carry
this letter."
The Governor did not blanch under the attack.
"I think the letter will answer you," he said calmly.
"The letter?"
"Yes. It's something more than a notification of Fleetwood's
reappointment.
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