Chapter 1. The Fly On The Wheel
_ CHAPTER I. THE FLY ON THE WHEEL
The offices of the Governor and the Lieutenant-Governor adjoined. Each had its ante-room, in which a private secretary wrote eternally at a roll-top desk, an excessively plain-featured stenographer rattled the keys of his typewriter, and a smug-faced page yawned over a newspaper, or scanned the cards of visitors with the air of an official censor. At intervals, an electric bell whirred once, twice, or three times； and, according to the signal, one of the trio disappeared into the presence of the august personage within.
A door connected the office of the chief executive with that of his lieutenant, but this was rarely opened by either, and then only after a formal tap and permission to enter had been given. It was a matter of general knowledge that the Governor and the Lieutenant-Governor were not in sympathy； but few, even among the intimates of either, were aware how deep, and wide, and hopelessly impassable

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