"A few
years ago, if I'd answered that question truthfully, I'd have said for
personal aggrandizement! But my intimate association with you, Mr.
Huntingdon, has given me a different ideal. I'm going into politics to
serve this country in the best way I can."
"Thanks, Abbott," said Enoch. "I've been wanting to say to you for
some time that I thought you had served your apprenticeship as a
secretary. How would you like an appointment as a special
investigator?"
Charley shook his head. "As long as you are Secretary of the Interior,
I prefer this job; not only because of my personal feeling for you but
because I can learn more here about the way a clean political game can
be played than I can anywhere else."
"All right, Abbott! I'm more than grateful and more than satisfied at
having you with me. See if I can have a conference with first the
Secretary of State and then the President. Now let me finish this
report before the Attorney General arrives."
Enoch's conference with Secretary Fowler was inconclusive. The
Secretary of State chose to take a humorous attitude toward what he
termed the Secretary of the Interior's midnight conference with
bandits. Enoch laughed with him and then departed for his audience
with the chief executive.
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