led. It was in time understood that if the walruses
placed an affront upon Senator Hanway he would assail them singly or in
the drove. Then the walruses made their peace with him and admitted him
to fellowship before his time; for your walrus cannot carry on a war and
is only terrible in appearance.

Now, when the seal of silence was taken from Senator Hanway and he found
himself consented to as a full-grown walrus possessed of every right of
the Senate beaches, he became deferential to his fellow Senators. He
curried their favor by pretending to consult with them, personally and
privately, on every Senate question that arose. He could be a great
courtier when he pleased and had a genius for flattery, and now that his
right to go without a gag was no longer disputed he devoted himself to
healing what wounds he had dealt the vanity of the oldsters. By this he
grew both popular and powerful; as a finale no man oftener had his
Senate way.

Senator Hanway, modestly and unobtrusively, did sundry Senate things
that stamped him a leader of men. He bore the labor of a staggering
filibuster, and more than any other prevented a measure that was meant
for his party's destruction. In the lists of that filibuster he met the
champion of the opposition--a Senator of pouter-pigeon characteristics,
more formidable to look upon than to face--and, forensically speaking,
beat him like a carpet.

On another day when one of his party associates was to be unseated by so
close a vote that a single member of the Committee on Privileges and
Elections would determine the business either way, it was Senator
Hanway, no one knew how, who in manner secret captured that member from
the enemy. The captured one voted sheepishly in committee and continued
thus sheepish on the open Senate floor, although a beautiful woman
smiled and beamed upon him from the gallery as women smile and beam when
granted favors.

It was during Senator Hanway's second term, however, that he
accomplished the work which placed him at his party's fore and confirmed
him as its chief. The Senate, following a certain national election,
fell to be a tie. The party of Senator Hanway still had control of the
committees and generally of the Senate organization; but that election
had sent to be the Senate's presiding officer a Vice-President who
belonged with the opposition. On a tie, Senator Hanway's party would
find defeat by the vote of that new Vice-President.

It was then the