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He rose and saluted . `` Coming here to herald your call , Senator Corson , I have been insulted by a bumptious understrapper and held in leash by an ignorant policeman . They say it 's according to a rule of the Morrison mills . I suppose that when Mayor Morrison comes out of the mill at ten o'clock , following his own rule , he can explain to you why he maintains that insulting custom of his and continues this kind of an office crew to enforce it . '' Miss Bunker flung the sheet of paper that she had crumpled into a ball and it struck Mac Tavish on the side of the head that he bent obtrusively over his figures . The old man snapped stiffly upright and distributed implacable stare among the members of the newly arrived party . He was not softened by Miss Corson 's glowing beauty , nor impressed by the United States Senator 's dignity , nor won by the charming smile of Miss Corson 's well-favored squire , nor daunted by the inquiring scowl of a pompous man whose mutton-chop whiskers mingled with the beaver fur about his neck ; a stranger who was patently prosperous and metropolitan .