Sitting at dinner she talked of him describing his charms. "He had a
wonderful mind and we sat late into the night talking," she said,
watching the face of David.
When she had spoken Margaret looked up and said laughingly, "Have a
heart Dad. Here is romance. Do not be blind to it. Mother is trying to
scare you about an alleged love affair."
CHAPTER III
One evening three weeks after the great murder trial McGregor took a
long walk in the streets of Chicago and tried to plan out his life. He
was troubled and disconcerted by the event that had crowded in upon
the heels of his dramatic success in the court room and more than
troubled by the fact that his mind constantly played with the dream of
having Margaret Ormsby as his wife. In the city he had become a power
and instead of the names and the pictures of criminals and keepers of
disorderly houses his name and his picture now appeared on the front
pages of newspapers. Andrew Leffingwell, the political representative
in Chicago of a rich and successful publisher of sensational
newspapers, had visited him in his office and had proposed to make him
a political figure in the city. Finley a noted criminal lawyer had
offered him a partnership. The lawyer, a small smiling man with white
teeth, had not asked McGregor for an immediate decision.
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