So did
I, for all of Hector's glittering had brought him very little
money. While he had some law practice, of course it was small, in
Greenville, and what he had he neglected. Nor was he a good lawyer. I
knew him to be heavily in debt to Lane, whose father had died lately,
leaving Joe fairly well off; and I knew also that this debt sat very
lightly on Hector. I judged so, because in the matter of the advances
I had made for his education, I never heard him refer to
them. Probably he forgot all about it, having so many more important
things to think of.
Mary was right: it was a very long engagement. It had lasted seven
years in all, when Passley Trimmer declared himself a candidate for
the nomination for Governor and gave Hector the great chance he had
been waiting for. Hector "came out" for Trimmer, and came out strong.
He worked for him day and night, and he was one of the best cards in
Trimmer's hand.
It was easy enough to understand: Trimmer's nomination would leave his
seat in Congress vacant and the Trimmer crowd would throw it to
Hector.
You could see that the "young Lochinvar" was really a power, and I
think they counted on him almost as much as on the personal machine
Trimmer had built up.
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