He has a good following in the party. Perhaps the
best of the old conservatives are for him. I don't like his attitude
on the Mexican trouble and sometimes I have felt uneasy as to his
entire loyalty to you. Yet, I am not convinced that he would not make
a far more able chief executive than I?"
"Suppose that he openly ties to Brown, Huntingdon?"
"In that case," replied Enoch slowly, "I would feel in duty bound to
interfere."
"And if you do interfere," persisted the President, "you realize fully
that it will be a nasty fight?"
"Perhaps it would be!" Enoch's lips tightened as he shrugged his
shoulders.
The President's eyes glowed as he watched the grim lines deepen in
Enoch's face. Then he said, "Huntingdon, I'm giving a dinner to-morrow
night too! The British Ambassador and the French Ambassador want to
meet Senor Juan Cadiz. Did you know that your friend Cadiz is the
greatest living authority on Aztec worship and a hectic fan for
bullfighting as a national sport? My little party is entirely
informal, one of the things the newspapers ordinarily don't comment on.
You know I insist on my right to cease to be President on occasions
when I can arrange for three or four real people to meet each other.
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