oung man answered; "food and this
cold will drive that out of me. And I must go back. There is so much to
do there," he added. "Ah, if I could tell them, as you can tell them,
what I feel here." He struck his chest sharply with his hand, and on the
instant fell into a fit of coughing so violent that the young man at
the carriage door caught him around the waist, and one of the policemen
supported him from the other side.

"You need a doctor," said the senator kindly. "I'll ask mine to have a
look at you. Don't forget, then, at one o'clock to-morrow. We will go
into this thing thoroughly." He shook Arkwright warmly by the hand and
stooping stepped into the carriage. The young man who had stood at the
door followed him and crowded back luxuriously against the cushions.
The footman swung himself up beside the driver, and said "Uptown
Delmonico's," as he wrapped the fur rug around his legs, and with
a salute from the policemen and a scraping of hoofs on the slippery
asphalt the great man was gone.

"That poor fellow needs a doctor," he said as the carriage rolled up
the avenue, "and he needs an overcoat, and he needs food. He needs about
almost everything, by the looks of him."

But the voice of the young man in the corner of the carriage objected
drowsily--

"On the contrary," he said, "it seemed to me that he had the one thing
needful."

By one o'clock of the day following, Senator Stanton, having read the
reports of his speech in the morning papers, punctuated with "Cheers,"
"Tremendous enthusiasm" and more "Cheers," was still in a willing frame
of mind toward Cuba and her self-appointed envoy, young Mr. Arkwright.

Over night he had had doubts but that the young man's enthusiasm would
bore him on the morrow, but Mr. Arkwright, when he appeared, developed,
on the contrary, a practical turn of mind which rendered his suggestions
both flattering and feasible. He was still terribly in earnest, but
he was clever enough or serious enough to see that the motives which
appealed to him might not have sufficient force to move a successful
statesman into action. So he placed before the senator only those
arguments and reasons which he guessed were the best adapted to
secure his interest and his help. His proposal as he set it forth was
simplicity itself.

"Here is a map of the island," he said; "on it I have marked the places
you can visit in safety, and where you will meet the people you ought to
see. If you leave New Yo