CHAPTER V
OLD FRIENDS
SPONLEY drove home immediately after the re- sult of the election became known ; but Harriet had expected him earlier, and when she heard the carriage drive up, she hurried into the hall and opened the door before he reached it.
“ How did you come out ? “ she asked.
“ We win,” he answered, “ and comfortably, too.”
He closed the door behind him and then kissed her, and while she was helping him out of his great-coat, he asked her how her day had gone.
“Well enough,” she answered briefly, “but never mind about that. I want to know all about the stockholders’ meeting.”
From a casual glance they seem to have changed but little since John Bagsbury’s wed- ding day. Sponley has put on another twenty pounds of flesh ; he is so heavy now that he walks but little and sit
