Chapter Seven
HOW VARIOUS PERSONS SPENT A MAY SUNDAY IN WASHINGTON
Next morning Crane rose with the intention of
going to church—a thing he had not done for
years. And in the practice of this virtue he committed
an act of the greatest hypocrisy. He knew
the very hour when Hardeman, the correspondent
of his home paper, took his Sunday morning stroll
on Connecticut Avenue. Crane timed his own appearance
so that he met Hardeman directly in front
of the Austrian Embassy.
In half a minute afterward Crane mentioned that he was on his way to church.
As he spoke Hardeman took a newspaper out of his pocket, and opening it, held it up before Crane. On the first page, with the most violent display-head, was the official announcement of his appointment by Governor Sanders to the unexpired time of the late Senator Brand's term.
