Crossword-Solution: GAYLORDS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The Gaylords ain't exactly poverty-stricken, but they might as well try to move Sawanec Mountain as the Northeastern." It was a fact that young Tom Gaylord had approached Austen Vane with a "delegation" to request him to be a candidate for the Republican nomination for the State senate in his district against the railroad candidate and Austen's late opponent, the Honourable Nat Billings.

Tooting, Austen sought the Gaylords' headquarters, and found them at the furthermost end of the building from the Railroad Room.

Sensations are common in the Pelican Hotel, but when Austen Vane walked in that evening between the Gaylords, father and son, many a hungry guest laid down his knife and fork and stared.

Was the younger Vane (known to be anti-railroad) to take up the Gaylords' war against his own father? All the indications were that way, and a rumour flew from table to table-leaping space, as rumours will--that the Gaylords had sent to Ripton for Austen.

Because I sat down to supper with the Gaylords it isn't fair to infer that they have retained me in a legislative case." The Honourable Hilary did not respond to his son's humour, but shifted the Honey Dew to the left cheek.