The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 24, 1903, Page 4

: ( THE SUNDAY CALL > 3 % A 3 A s ow. RS " 2 ehair. e it hought we weren't s He sighed. he recol'ection never ialk like that. It's the way with some ekeeping recefpts, etc.. strike me as You must forgive me i I write too sharply. ments al a big traveiing bag. Gow. !'k‘ A e . s A w v ihat ha ntin’ me. 1 reckon [ hayen't had papers to jibe at our great inztitutions, interesting, as 1 admit that & You ses | %ave failed tv understand your The horrified Mereditn stood for a sec- wouid address a ciiizen on pla ? 3 . Page'' is always a dif silence: and ii 1 wrong you I heartily ask peechl then he fey. Sam irk ond. bleached and rushed uven his friend and nighi s'nee Junc. Maybe you and vou've becn reading them: that's the { remember his lecture.” trouble with you. your pardon in advance of your explanation. for & man.to handle t A Withou 1 it that you are sorry for MeCun "he only criticlsm any “Pieage do mot think 1 mesn 1o eized him . “Oh, but 1 do. e laughed nd I re- one b any business making against :x“p’?n n'qr ‘arious successes: we ;\I-;nu"lg' b"- weah|p\lll)' l:lll could g with both hards. e » > ver e SLOFY @ e fiy £ ¢ s 's toc cvations and eniargements at just 3 rned him long ago that the pa- v ¢ Mad!" the . ir. Harkiess tmber thie K10 fr Ab v,fi‘ e 4 ht ‘I 2 Is that 1t $on, g°"’d for "’:"e "‘: time—a time which )'.,.:"h,d ,.-p:»er by pers vou hold would he published if he ever M“["’ }'f’{he’:"?m““? . Shibs B jown—if I pever was jest what you might the men we send there: the CONSTESSMEN of wark ang waiting, and at ths momen- tried ‘to return to voiitical life, he s de- HES O OO NI L - Mond tly call ¢ over Kedge.” Mr. are o 1w ¥ou had bullt up the reputation .7 :ne iferald liberately counting on my phy weakness Lunatic! Lunatic! gy Ly P work 2 Martin drawled. doesn't strike me “1 didn’'t m wvthing like that,”.pro- &';m“slhlshm point. Everything tiii s "$3“~; :’nrl‘fnn;nee. hLuh:n:. mr\ wpon | II am not - ‘‘Don’t stop me ome instant 15 m i e the . as havin' many precisely—he hao {ested the girl. “I haven't been reading e 18 successtul only because you ved th o weak as he thinks. Persona _canno Meredith tried to force him toward the kind of a symntom of one once, that he Papers except the: Herall” | MISNDE - pivers Bag i e e et il M Cune T MAVELIaURd bed. “For mercy’s sake, get back to bed. There was an impatient ger n him a very entertai is the best fil. T some of his £ sorry for hi per: and the peaple believe jhut whateve 1t from Harklese. but it didn’t take shovid she send him away If she Your paper does is eresiing a1 husbands. and a true friend to You're delirious, boy! 4 the smoker. who found the stoppages at o e send him 3 : s fs int & ; : b hed around in his mind and neve: him? Trusting that your recovery woll ns T4 iends, and, helieve me. I am “Delirious nothing. I'm a well man. thess wayside hamlets interminable, b really come out on him. | always thoUght .She'll ro with him." am yours truly, {1, FI3H T s Iy hationy o vy M- o to bed—go to bed.’ in' frequency and in elay at ezch his brain was sort of syrupy. Harkiess .rhev .ouldn't hoth go. What would |1arkless dropped the typewritten sheets B [t Gr80 B Ol (orier. To-morrow's Harkless set him out of the way With of them:. ard while the dawdling caug o wn W a relapse and was it lberty atng thought there was fruit in it. and I pecoma oo the Herald?" Witha gigh. .. fseue answers for vou. Untl I have recelved one arm, “Bed be hanged!’ he cried: remained freri and the moments p . recken there ix: but some Way it REVer “The\'q fix thui eary enough: there are T suppose 1 oush to get well” he sald a'copy'T withnold my Joement, G o N e iy e e et s wat with on.” said Helen gayly want to DichtY of smart voung fellows i ROUD “Yes." saja’ Meredith, “I think you The morrow's issue — that fateful or__v then. when the trucks groaned and the e Hss hear him abused. It helps me (o feel less _h;g‘fm“ o run it : Ought: but you're chock full of malaria print on v“’h!\-{]l 'd‘ 5'1?-:]~';I"’;|;1xv I;Ia‘r - ector be damned:” . wheels croone] aganst the rafls oncr So w mean about the Way wWe afe trealing 'y Harkless Is sure to be clécted, is ~S38 feVer and all kinds of meanness, iese opinian of H. Fisbecs SHeCTERC - “WIll you tell me what has happencd. more, he sank back in his seat with sighs . ad this meet- him e and—" 3 ontained; an oditorixl agdfesied o the" Japas : i coar, Of Teiiet. Sometimes he would get up and xgaf s ho i i T At Goabe Y DB S: EIRS AR i e ‘You' ’tend to vour own troubles.” re- delegates " of 'h'ujr( ention, wagnihe His compznion slung a Tight overcoat: pace the aisle until s companion re- i i say f 1 feel awnrier about it because he ... Mgt - oo ik turned the other, with an imitation of them to act for the vita i the unfolded. on the overflowing. MIsSh&DEN mirjeq him that this was not certain in Shat he's been & est avaflable mate- done me a good turn once. in the Hayes .Gt NG Cet the momination ” = o . ness. “1—I den’t think it intcresis me community. and deciaring that the oPPOT~ pungle of clothes that fay in the Das: j.cion the hour of their arrival at their > s had 1o menil 56 WAKD. ADA: Wheeler ‘cAmPatEH. -1 -Went $ a | ort i Nobndy Syer happepelito Ly he sald queralondls. He was often tunity to be given them in the PreSent (nen he jumped on the lid with both geiiin (T s 150 BeRBL-=T | ymmatin'site. hedr lih Sk WA e Sl TOr AU £0F 16 HU AL e M IRLDL N TEREN of Tote o frightened Tom. convention was a rarc one, a SIEUIAT hoth feet and kicked the hasp into the know that,” answered the other, M speaker sick and couldn’t wRA bupsonlyicking XS0k ner ane. “I'm: just tived. | am strong enough— Pitce oi good fortune indeed; they WeI® jock; 3 very clegantly laundered cuff and t I've got to beat McCune.” . - Sl s S o S e R PR T way of it is Harkless himself: (ja¢ 15 1 think 1 am t11 I try to _move (0 have the chance to vote for a man white sieeve damgling out from between e s ohueried Warain, “yen « “Weil, is thig all for the present? but T exvect we can leave It to Ner 10 g4roung and then I'm like a log, and a Who had won the love and respect of the fastened lids. “I havem't ome Sec- oy your stick Hehind alodl - “Ia brythmi Reltid Y manage. and | guess she will. She's B0l jetnarg gats me—that's it: | don't think cvery person in the district—one who had ¢nq to talk, Tom: I have seventeen miB- .you" don't think 1 need a cub to - Salt & molaiat aid Keating, “Ia More divlomacy than Blaine. Kedge Hal- i " oy, g, - ietharey suffered for his champlonship of righte- yiee to cateh the cxpress, and i's & (... 1 : x che” - loway is up the spout all right. but they = ©, : . ousness—one whom even his few politteal ryi1e and a half to the station: the train 3 A S o » like to hear from the Herald about its .on D the apaut ¥ et FalBbEyY comes fiom malarla. : 3 X sw: pollije X Tom choked. “Ob, po. I wasw't think . : 2 want to keep it quiet; that's why she . N 3 enemies confessed they held in personal jeaves here at S- I get to Plattville at 2 N n s ¢ out of it, and. ex- po if Miss Sherwood will tell u: < ’ a o IU's the Gther way with me. 1'd be all peyss get ille 8L yng of your giving M. Fisbee a thrashing e & oy s T d_them come here instead of the of- . S he ciher way with me. 0" D€ i affcction and csteem—one who had been 1047 Telephone for a cad for me, please, ;"0 0 30 iy "o soon give it up. be very stmple. ‘Don't you think there i She Wit marry b, o minuLesoer. S STedneas’ Yot meshave that pencilandLic heanaton. oTe REW. UL U0 il bl D e ek A 20 don't want it. 1've got (o walk lame P this and that, and only one course to nursue? We will ad- i WOUICH b Aty 2im 2 B0 bad, will you, please, Tom?' He g ReEAnERS; Y <P to | 1p. %5 all my life, but I'm not going to ho me n.” We vocate no one very energetically, but we S, becauee he went to Congres 2318 e et the pad on his knce and hegan Nad reached ont G ek, l’”““'“ and Meredith looked him in the eves. In .o ."gick™ Tom looked at him sadi unforiunate—a ma d met d#nd tpe pupils of Harkless flared a fierce feced danger for the sake of others—one Jight. flis cheeks were reddened with an with a losing fight will print as much of the truth about Mc- to write languidly: for it was true, and the Cross-Roade “You're giving up,” he exclaimed. “You ! 5 1o put v winner, Cune as we can, with delicacy and honor, 2 . YUEN. Sesiembe 4 ki might hug themselves in their cells over o 1) Fooewulenn that fo this case. but. as I undefstand if, the <20% I'm righ ) ATl Db M BiRthe T T iy st o I who lived undense threat for years, fl:\ll angry, healthy glow, and his teeth were ¢ 50 b, St S5 O of his life John < s ot gt v tobing e Shive Bt S eicdogo vl i Wait and see. It might— No. you're 1 entirely ove all arrangements you have who had been almost overborne in the clenched tll the line of his jaw stood out o actElE FOF (08 Fesl B0 p~4 ol . o as wropz can be. T wish you made. 1 think you understand that I wish (yjfliment of that threat, but who would like that of an embattled athlete in h and that's what he’d delegates. We shall not mention our plan he ground. But Miss at all—but—but, when the convention is oned that she’d had one over, and he is nominated, we will get ast iliness be and he'd ¢ an ext and 1 am so confident of t I'll tell you now that i s e es would d, if, as i ) he su R, scui aats oy 4 heny they them: would have had, if, live to see the sun shine on his triumpk, scuipture; his brow was dark: his chest ;27 O Gt o had been She couldn’t do all these things for him patis;, JO0 #re the edftor ng, in- the tribute the convention would bring was thrown out. and he took deep, quick (. (1o ban and chain if she loved him. That's the very proof cluding policy, uniil, aiter proper warning. I him as a gift from a community (hal breaths; nis shoulders were squared, and gy oo 0 o0 open beside the two itself. 1 suppose you—well, you can’t un- relieve you in person. until that time joved him. His name necded not to be in spite of his thinness they looked | ne TROOW WAS SREP SEREC COE O Wwrong e? You're blind. You to regard ev your =OWR weren't. n't 2 ren’t. Don’t rou hafde | Ton abe tho e Tlerald and the your success ti oy comes you must look tipo a mers spe e 3 ; ; she the extra will be ready the night before derstand.” f Tator T an uns lock Upon e il make any (0ld: it was on every lip tkat morning, Lethargy, or malaria. or both, o nf B0t Ao N elds. There was a 3 e toes - A® ive that Ull tell vou one thing.” Le returned. mistakes: you have done very much better in and in every heart. .whatever were his ailments, they were . . for any- th. convention. We will contrive that : . A tang in the air; it soothed like a balm, Mra Smith sa M1 Harkless shall not receive his copy of . 1f she doesn’t the rest of it won't amount all metters than I could have done mnur|‘l’ AL Tom was eagerly watching his compan- gone. He was six feet of hot wrath and .+ rare was a <pur to energy and heart- the paper containing the notice of the '° p with John Harkless e e omy Ome SUEEee Ome Hallo. lon as he read. Harkless fell back on cold reselution Tt I i critamsan | fla - wikuiotuine Einge of _and 1 think the chance it will. Nobody could help lik- ot o A e eomething lukewarm. the pillows with a drawn facz, and for @ Tom sad: “You are going 3 touch of fall. John looked out over the his seeing it in any Rouen paper may DS %o find himself as big a man as he'll 35y imoortant that he be moment he laid his thin hand over his “Yes.” he answercd. “I'm going. boundleas aisles of corn that stood higher S i ey ¥ be when he comes back here. Besides. renominated. | mot’ "sltogethor on o &C eves fn a gesture of intense pain “Then 1 will go with you SRR € 0T ey eunt Peie: Do ey WRSCEDR et do: o ce, it's r way o < count o is rteturn to Was ‘on & s g 3 oty 2 iped ML 1 coul ch; nk vou.” said Keating. “That is 9on't you i l"l:‘!' e oF “‘“"“;‘“ It or he ts no Ma 1 lears. but tha rel- . What s it?" Meredith sald quickly. Think you, Tom,” said the other qui- ,ippled across them. Here, where the cry more or less a lv the course to follow.” Every UP to him for not liking him as much a8 jow McCune must be so beaten that hi ¥ Give me the pad. please. etiy. of the brave had rung in forest glades, sinn e con b acomlensed iy SWAROE: nid he wants. You give up, don’t you? feat will be reme: red for twen years “YWhat it, b Meredith ran into his own room. pressed (hore the painted tribes had hastened. sh to do At by Betio adae Over 0 BHEeR . 25 be cried, with feeble voice, “I Halloway is honert and clean. at least. while The other's teeth snapped together an electric button, sprang out of his Pa- were marshaled the tasseled armies of ¥ nd who was also a man her conversation, The don't. She'll find out some things about orunt to the bome. He has e “What is it?" he cried. “What is it? jamas like Aphrodite from the white Sea- pooce ' And beyond these, where the train we w somebod at had worked a to look about for their hats, !f when she sees him again.’ of L are in your hands, ou tell ‘me 1t's trcachery, and the worst I ever knew. foam and began to dive into his clothes ,a, pbetween - shadowy groves. delicate b h L e viataly TessaMEs 16 Tebve iie shoolc her q. Parker Tound them. as dirécted, in my truck. Not a word of the accusation I demanded with a panting rapidity astonishingly for- langscape vistas. framed in branches. = could prom- “Wait @ minute,” said the Judge. There was a sound of wheels: the buck- ~3nd gave them to vou —lying praises instead! Read that edito- eigg to his desire. Jim appearsd in the gpened. ciosed and succeeded each other. s s as for a time ro train due just now.” And board drew up at the gate, and Helen, , The pavers xou hold drove him out of pcl- rial—there, there!” He struck the page dodway. e (I4H e traveline-wers atriing’ o the paper was perated almost in- Minnie appeared in the doorway with a Teturning from her cvening’s labor, Jump- tjer, S0c%;, bS, the mere threat of PUUICS- with the back of his band, and threw the “The cart, Jim,” shouted his master. into the level open again. and the in- ¢ bic pitcher of erabapple cider. rich and ed out lightly and ran around to pat the as 1 ¥uggesisd. Do so at once. the time i4 DAPEr to Meredith. “Read that miserable *‘We want it like lightning. Tell the cook tensely biue September skies ran down to ees. W g o I8 vt aelaleris es’ he "hank vou so much. Mr. short. You have heen too gentle: it has the He! ‘Onc who has won the love and re- 1o give Mr. Harkless his breakfast in & ¢he low hotlzon, meeting the tossing f s the elling orchard where it Willetts.” she said to the driver. T know air of fearing to offend and of catering, as if spect of every person in the district hirry. Set a cup of coffee on the table pLiumes of corn. th was born. Behind Miss < Briscoe came You:will hand'e the two delegates you u& "ere Airaid of antagonizing pecple againit ‘One who has suffered for his champlon- by the front door for me. n like the ¢ takes a long time for the full beauty Mr. Bence w Miigy Upton with giasses and a fai, Are to look after as well as you do the the convention. Poseibly yon consider our SHiP of righteousness!” Righteousness! deuce: We've got to catch a train. That of the flat lands to reach a man’'s soul and vou ought to, you subseription books es such; I do not. But Save the mar will be quicker than any cab,”” he ex- gnce there, ke on a sec- Judge's team What does it mean?” plalned to Harkless. “We'll breAk the shaking. four-sto hills, nor sea, nor grow d Jelly ¢ band into o v. The Judge passed his cigars know. becaun: the delegates are men. !; ‘""3' are, go ahead twice as hard. What " 5 t ng fan leaves of palm shall suffice him. s & other in a around and the gentiemen took them You dears!” > stroked the sleek necl G e e Y, & e msin i Mean! It biesns. McCune-Rod Mec- 2P "anlu against fast driving, getting j¢ is like the beauty in the word “Indi- « gesture i looked as impressive as biiikely, then hesitatingly held them in of the colts and handed them bunches of 1o see a canger of i) we w be with the Cune, ‘who has lived under a threat for 90Wn there. ana.” It may be that there are people 2 ma [ eyebrows their fingers and glanced at the ladies, grass. enemy. 1 do mot carry my partisanship so vears'—my threat! 1 swore [ would print ,-,Tm '}"""uu‘! later the cart swept away who do consider “Indiana’ a beauti- s n uncertain f permission Briscoe came out. and let the friendly far as to help elect Mr. McCune to Congrese. him out of Indiana if he ever raised his flom the house at a gait which pained ful word; but once it rings true in vour T ame of “Let me get you some matches,” Helen animals nose his shoulder as he looked JoU have been as non-committal in your edi- jgad again, and he knew I could. ‘Al. ihe respectable neighborhood. ~The big ears it has a ri sound than “Vallom- y 2 toriale as if this were a fit time for delic own on the piquant face beside and the cheaper conception of parts most overborne in the fulfillment of that Norse plunged ihrough the air, his ears prosa.” > dusk. ‘‘Young lady.” he said, My nction of party poliey—no new o threat!” Almest! It's a black scheme, l2id flai toward his tail: the cart ca There was a newness in the atmosphers Wait till we get on to Wash- the party which considers the public e and I see it now. This man éame to T°cred sickeningly: the face of the ser- that dav, a bright invigoration, that se and sit in the gallery and see Defore it considers lteelf will thrive best in Piat(ville and went on the Herald for VAN ciutching at the rail in the rear was ihe bicod tingling. The hot months were 8 the long run. The Herald is a littla paper vort 9 . meared with pallor as they piro ted t n his place, and § < y 1 v, Uothing in the world but this. It's Mc- P a ey pirouetted dope with, languor was routed. Autymn » (not go little nowadays, after all. thanks t und curves on one wheel-to him it spoke to industr told of the quickly, and found a box on the and handed it to Keating. Every 1 sat beaming, and fragrant veils of > soon draped the room. ingt do you call her ‘Miss Sher- John Harkless rise u ke the fire of a Wes: Harkles i dis b the cor- Boswell whispered in Keating’s hearthe Speaker say. “Thegentlemanfrom you). but it Is an honest one, and it isn't Cune's hand all along. He daren’t name © q wing of f pos teem with pr Indiana! I know the chills would go up afraid of Rod McCune and his friends. He him even now. the coward! The trick lies “(€Med they skirted the corners and another harvest. of the tawny shock. of ke The name of “That's her name and down my snine, and I guess vou'd I8 0 be beaten, understand, if we have o between McCune and young Fisbee—the @¢ath simuitancousiy—and the speed of the purple grape. of the red apple and s w n that con- Ain't she the daughter of that old fel- feel pretty well paid for your day's work. [o7g,"im g the penlientiary oo an old lasie olg man is innocent. Give me the pad. (helt 8oing made a strong wind im"theif called upon muscle and laughter . 1 sit ashamed ow over there by the window? Ain't I guess we all would.” us crue! or vengeful. let. thm. Piease Inc NOt almost overborne. There are three [ACES e B b breathed gayety into men's hearts. The < Judge. “Why her name Fisbee? Aren’t you tired, Helen?" asked Min- me see as hearty a word as vou can say for 300d days to work in.and. by the gods [ariess leaned forward. o .., little stations hummed with bustle an? r m long ago?” ‘No: she’s his daughter, but her legzl nie, coming to her in the darkness and "x'"““i‘.' S e with ginger: of perdition, If Rod McCune sees Con- »s:;:')“" make it a little faster, Tom?” noise; big farm wagons rattled away and d Keatin rame's Sherwood: she’s an adop— clasping her waist, 1S8se 1 A e0ime 38 iy matier. gress it will be in his next incarnation g P < raced with cut-under or omnibus: peop : Great Scott! I know all about that. *Tired? No: I'm happy. DId vou ever 1 ame vers trals toons © e rapidly scribbled a few lines on tha .y dashed up to the statlon amid the walked with quick st the baggas m shook nds with him. 1'd like to know if there’s man, woman see the stars so bright? 3 * JOHN HARKLES: pad, and throw the sheets to Meredith. ¢ les of :&'&'l'-v fiying to the walls for masters called cheerily to the trainmen imed. “It will or ckild in this part of the country that S When the letter was concluded he hand- . Get those “telegrams to the Western ;hv:r(:arl‘ ;O‘:‘(’] gentlemen leaped {rcm and the brakemen laughed good-bys where. A lot of the doesn’'t. 1 guess it won't be Fisbee or CHAPTER XVIII. cd it to Meredith. -~Please address that, Union office in a/rush, please. Read them (e ATt wore dewn upon the ticket of- rollicking girls. hemseives will be swept along Sherwood either very long. She can easy 2 put a ‘special’ on it and send it, Tom. Jt Prst.” L at ‘;h:‘egu:e‘su‘éozfis‘l‘m‘ln‘;mih‘;ai: ;’;?r:_ A% e R falmeriiy. (bree chikieen we make our nominatio get a new name, that lady! And if she RN = ® = o 5 % ’ With a very red face Tom read them. . 3 8- cjad in calico, barefoot and bareheaded it Bt took a fancy to Boswell, why, 'm a THE TREACHERY OF MR. FISBEE. ls‘}\"o‘:r:(-ln'goh(‘?'l once, 0 as to reach him U0 A T eed to H. Fisbee: rorts. The official on duty eved them came rompinz out of a lozx cabim on the besaens <y et An Indiana town may lie asleep a long DY l0-Night " e e e prem The cares 42" baitar. WeaTily and barred the way oglakirts of the {owi, and waved fhotr ne i like “I expect she won't take a fanc e, but there always comes & day when o=« To¥el g . L. sl You will furn over the management of - B€en gone two minut he remarked hands to the passengers. They climbed i e e el Boswell very early,” said Keating. wakes up: and Plattville had wakened e i v the Herald to Warren Smith. You will give With a peaceable yawn. on the sagging gate .in front of thei in August when the Herald became a I belleve it does vou good to Write. him the McCune vapers. If you do not, or if Harkless stamped his foot on the ce- humble domain, ana daily and Eph Watts struck oil. It was Doy, said the other, as he bent over you destroy the you laughed for Mr Klese sa> it will be Harkless.” 'l Harkle: a e nnot _hide where 1 n:ent flags, then he stood stock still, gaz- joy to see the monstrous caravan 'Go 'wa) returned Mr. Boswell. mouldnt . What do sou want to say that for? then that history began to be made. The him. *You look more chirrupy than you Shai not o L Lo H““l"_“ irg at the empty tracks; but Meredith come clattering out of the unknown name be used agaimst Car’t you bear for anybody to be happy Herald printed news, and the paper was have for several days i The sccond was to Warren Smith; turned to him, smiling. bearing the faces by. The smallest child \ ku“’ ft a minute or two, now and then?” © =old every morning at stands in all the 1U's that beast, McCune; young Fisbee -y possession Herald. Dismiss H. Fisbee. “Won't it keep?” he asked. a little cherubic towhead, whose cheeks S hm"" Warren Smith approached Helen and mn- 10Wns in that section of the State. Its is rather queer about it, and T felt stir- ;’."}f.:,i?.u{ n’x',’ll(hrf"?;" ';:3!::'" ‘{.'fiké'",'., papers “Yes, it will keep,” John answered. were smeared with clean earth and the McCune follie quired if it woudd be asking too much if €irculation tripled. Parker talked of new Ted up as 1 went along.” But even be- ¥ 1y R L Fhpcl Phg cuns Part of it may have to keep till election tracks of forgotten tears. stood upright it : fore the sentence was finished the favor ¢ cay, but some of it I will settle bef v folks 8 v petitioned her for some music; so Presses: two men were added to his staff., T ; JOHN HAR sel before on a fence-post and blew the most impu et he went {0 the plano and sang some and a reporter was brought from Rouen Of age and utter weariness returned, And /. auior of the curt episties tossed PISHt. And that he crled, between his dent of Kisses to the strangers on a Tour- weve made erky songs for them, with a quaint sug- 10 join Mr. Fisbee. The Herald boomed the dark’lide closed over hi€ eyes. They . icocly on his couch. but the reader of '€€th. “and that is the part of it in re; ney. 3 R it too ar tntes old. the oil feld: people swarmed into town: opened again, slowly, as he took the (RRllessi OF BIS FORCE PIG e TG8COP B0 gard to youns Mr. Fisbeer O evond thh they: cimne fashioned negro melodies of Foster's, the hotel was crowded: strangers became ‘;;:'I? !hl:?"(' "I:“‘ v""’ki'l‘ Lot "l"" urth founded, uncertain of his command of ['Ch, it's about H. Fisbee, is it>" lcwing by some rollicking modern imi- Do sensation whatever. A capitalist Ye 35 bR RIS ROUR RheNe gravity. His jaw fell and his open mouth Yes, it's H. Fisbee. into a great plain, acres and acres of green rag-weed where the wheat had grown, all so flat will operate.” added me of Harkless Sttt ng interrupted him . e with the movement and spirit of bought the whole north side of the square in dumb and eloquent thanki might have betokened a being smit to im- “Well, we might as welt go up and see one thought of an enormous billia g v + Halloway dele. @ tinshop falling down a flight of stairs, 10 crect new stores, and the Carlow Bank I-I'm giving you a Jolly summer. ..y . ang, haply, he might be, for What the doctor thinks of you; there’s no table. and now, where the railroad gates, you see. and | oWy ele ler audience listened in delight from the began the construction of a mew bank Tomn" he said, with a quivering effort €0 ygien”had written him from Plattville, tain. crossed the country roads, they saw the firct: but the latter sones quite overcame building of Bedford stone on Main stree:. smile. “Don’t you think I am? 1 don’t— pledging his honor to secrecy with the “i don't want to see a doctor again, staunch brown thistle, sometimes the i iyl e all the un- i with pleasure and admiration, and Then it was whisnered, next afiirmed, I don’t know what I should have—done Sy lic "and it was by her command €Ver—as long as I live. I'm as well as sumach. and always the graceful fron- wee them afierward but iher et ay befcre she finished every head in the that !hc Horn‘ld had -succeeded in another et s said Meredith, ten. (hat he bad found excuses for not sup- anybody 5 . weed, slender. tall, proud, bowing a pur- e this district against John Hark. TCOm Wwas jogging from side to side, and of its enterprises, and Main street was Reil 2 . plying his patient with all the papers 1om burst out l?.u‘hmg and clapped his ple-turbaned head, or shaking in an ag- e Al weve ot e john Hark” forward and back, in time to the music, (0 be asphalted. ‘That was the end of derly. o which huppened to contain references to CUmpanion lightly on the shoulder, his any of fright when it stood too elose to word. It's all kept quiet, you understand, “While every foot shuffled the measures on H'xe old davs" of Plattville, i :g‘ afl.? o m:ll‘"m‘ “; M; C i the change of date for the Plattville con- Ve dnncm{z wllh_pleasure, % the train. The fields, like great, flat em- We go into t nventionsand the names h® carpet There was a man who had laid the foun- symptoms of invig i pa - vention. And Meredith had known for Upon my soul”” he cried. “I belicve eralds set in new metal, were bordered When ";w )gem:»men from ot ;)( (nw‘y; ;i;xlilnn :E;;:x n:llcr:’:‘r‘m ?fir‘l',u';lu'."fi'l'%mfi ;ld'if;]ezmr:g‘c“:mif ‘f‘u':) “‘npr:(‘l:"s‘nm:l;‘;l :I:; some time where James Fisbee had found :::; Tr:!e!hi'sm:g-.:;::lg:‘ll‘ ‘r)!;_\'n:l:?il.lo?:; ;::’:t'f:‘.?e:r?gr :;‘f:xmmmogf' this the discovel ‘- 1 eave o be : vho, e . - 5 et “ Vi 4 B olden-re - O e i ety train, Helen, labor of years, had stamped his spirit surprised to find the occupant sitting & YOUDE relative’ to be the sevior of the y.(; jjways belleved it to be beyond ques- bol of stored granaries, of ripe sheaves, gt called them to wait, and they gathered upon the people as their own was stamp- slrraifilhl up '::;llhhx couch wiflhoulhihe ‘vrfllv “You mea"‘ e P g T tion that this sort of miracle was the kindness of the season xeneroujv im; y g of pillows, e was reading the day's e s a0 % wreught, n rage, but by th - Vi o i -"J'fjclht.{;,@ second,” she said, and she ';:-‘xa.\::“:‘ ::;Tse‘“:z:r;‘edils)nnthc‘;.rel.n ol::: copy of the Herald, and his face was ;‘"j'flf young Fisbee?” he stammered at fiezer‘ senu‘LLTyTunnf chficke;' miml:lnr i‘s“:r?e ax':n'(J."“:F’l"';'!fi'fi?‘fii;..f;’f";n'é poured all the glasses full to the brim: day Meredith found him propped up in flushed and his brow stern. st “Well, let's take a drive.” bounteous fulfillment: and the plantstains the | . £ e % o “Yes! Le have the answers the in- . & 2 then, standing in the center of the circle bed reading a letter—reading I} listlessly ‘What's the matter, boy? [ I t.ur;e“'n‘\“" s ’;um?"'-d_‘ bon ‘Meredith,” said the other, turning to its blossom with yellow so that when it of Hallowav and McCune are placed be- fore it. Then will come a speech nam- ing Harkless—and you want to stuff your ears with cotton! On the first ballot Harkless gets the scattering vote that was going to nominate McCune if we'd et things run. and Halloway is given every vote he'd have got if he'd run ’ .A ;i siant the > e ' o Sy i N hey made around her, she said: and with a dull eye. Mismanagement, T hope,” said the oth- Siant to ¥ 3 Y him gravely, “vou may think me a fool, falls it pays tribute to the ground which Ssainst McCune alone: it's as a compll- “Up S SN0 it we pledge each eEaBls 3 er. In a strong yoice. “Worse perhaps, 1t's Harkless turned his face from the wall jr vou will, and it's likely [ am; but I has nourished it ment will help him see how things 3 3 PLATTVILLE, September 1 e e ‘hat's and spoke through his teeth: I mean to A 2 i 4 - e atteramras 2 him sce how AMNES | ther to our success in this good. home- Dear Mr Harkiess: Yoars of the Both re. this young IFlsbee. I can't think what's a0d spoke through bis teefh? [ mean 16 dor't leave this station except by train. From the plain they passed again into o gl ay e s e Th’r;“ i Indiana cider, that leaves our ceived. Every one here is very glad to know come over the fellow. T thought he was a l 'a“;k “" Bt 8 e 0 “* TI've only two days to work in, and every a thick wood, where ruddy arrows of the . > ” . o . p e ) S that your Realth is #o far improved as to ad- ' s SO MRS id ens o D Me- s i . . gpratird g b adhisyicy e il ear and our arms strong? If you !hat ¥« ,\rvnr "m‘-‘ - r P o rescuing angel and he's turning out bad mirute lessen: ur chances to beat Mc- sun glinted among the boughs; and, here : and it is our strongest j. 2 G S e But, though he tossed and fretted him- ¢ . She began to blush furlous- s, °f, 30T, MTILNE: and It s ouf Strongest 1l swear it looks like they'd been—well, But. though he tossed and fretted him" Cune, and 1 have to begin by wasting and thete, one saw a courtly maple or but we've got el e Iy and her voice trembled, but she lifted ered ‘I won't say that yet. But he hasn't il oy 3 " nce time ‘on a tussle with a traitor. There’s royal oak wearing a gala mantle of crim- R o D e I e, pigh over her head and cried | New subscriptions are comin in at a slight- printed that McCune business T toid you decldealy improved state. no answe- came apother train at 11:35; I don't take any son and pale brown, gallants of the for- be Kept in the Aark He wont coeng any bravely, “Here's to ‘Our Candidate! Iy advanced rate since my last letter: Sou Wil of, and he's had two days. There is jess ) either telegram that day or nizht. The chances on missing that one. est preparing carly for the October mas- b n the dar e won't spend any Pravel . s sce they gre_ distributed o al” coun- extmornim essenger boy stambled -yell, well” % inds The big men, towering over her, thrcw tiex when vou exzmine the books on your (Nar & week sbefore the itar SLRL MOTHINE. & eyt boscutmble Well, well,” laughed his friend, push- querade, when they should hold wanton right off; it's a mighty short campaign money, ; on_your - ¢ up the front steps and handed the cclered jnz hi d-h dly toward . v o '« back heads and quaffed the gentle return: and | am glad to state that with our @nd—" He broke off, seeing the yellow % 5 nz him good-humoredly toward a door carnival, pefore they stripped them of It lJooks a little underhanded at first Dack their heads and q s Foniie Sinesvine the Herald is now ervelope In Meredith's hand. “Is that a men. Jim, four yellow envelopes, night 1y 2 red and white striped pillar. “we'll their nmg for plous gray. . " 2 Saok 4 The: ; arrangement for « glance” sald Warren Smith: “but, as 1Quor to the last drop. Then they sent arrangement for Miss Sherwood said, you've got to he a UP the first shout of the campaign and a1 the towns little underhar cheered John Harkness till the rafters on. Our plan - n vance on the when s're 4 issue proves a rning at o prominent stors i telegram for me?" His companion gave Messages. Three of them were for Hark- wult here, If you like: Lut at least g0 11 And when the coughing engine drew e ',1,‘1",‘,:“‘;.",.“,"}?;,"‘;"_‘;? it to him. iTe tore it oven and read the less. one was for Meredith. Jim carried {here and get a shave; it's a clean shop. them to the borders of this wood, the: fee of the former tri-weekly contents. They were brief and unbappy. them upstairs, left the three with his You want to lnok your best if youre §o- rolled out into another rich plain « uccess. | now propose making cap't vou dn, something? Can’t you come master's ghest, then knocked on his mas- {ng down to fight H. Fisbee.” green and rust-colored corn; and far to ed sometimes, especially ng with as scrupulous T2DE. a man as John Harkless. But it's a per- MY friends,” said Mr. Keating, as he foxue » quarto every day. (At § R oo % - g % s . fectly honest deal, and 15 will be ol rient 8nd Boswell and the men from Gaines price) mstcad of once & week. T think pur s, 907n? 1t beginis to look the other way. = € oot 7 answered a thick vice, Take these, then, and you will under- the south John Harkless marked a wind- with him when he find it's all o g drove away in Judd Bennett’s omnibus, perience warrants tie cxperiment. Tt is my < 2 & % Had 3 e i © stand,” sald Harkless; and he thrust his Ing procession of sycamores, which, he BV memingtod” = all over and | Mends, here is where I begin the Peliel that our present circulation will be in- ~ “It's from Halloway.” sald John. “I Mercdith had not vet risen. three telegrams of the morning into knew, followed the course of a slender . aeon™ " 4 e 1 ever i wan( Creesed 40 per cent'' Please adviee me it you have got to go. What did the doctor “A telesraph, Mist' Tawm Tonts %8 aissuscsved Hiih: thi Dertge streans: Sud VNG Weltes of Uho - Mrcem 1w & plain case.” added Boswell. ““We RFEUONCE IC AR Gy O ote Bim— o ¢ Ao B i Bl T Ll B DB S S T T There was a_terrific yawn shop. When he was gone Meredith wen: fowed Dby a bank where wild thyme PSS Bimn. and we've got to have him." It 15 n glorious idea.” sald Mr. Bence, #hould have 1o bring another map . from He said two weeks at the carlicst, or Slide it—oh—under the—doo) to the telegraph office in the station and misht have grown, and where, beyond an “The one danger,” Mr. Keating con- ¢ ' & ECFIIR 28 O : Rouen—possibly {wo more—hut 1 think we you'll run into typhoid and complications “Yessuh. 2 sent a line over the wire to Helen: orchard and a rose garden, a rustic bench B e owe Halloway 18 homest, it 7o Sl arbmned’ e sbratber. . SHIOL M e L s * from' your hurts, and even pleasanter Meredith lay quite without motion for " “icep your delegation at home. He's Was placed in the shade of the trees: an eve he's se h eno o dis- y. 01 yon ve taken you a b A i S bt e e I belleve hes selfsh enough to'dis- Kot all. That lttid girls wants hlm your' werd sniusting o et ne ‘eneiey, bings than that. T've goi you hete, gnd ‘severs| minutes, sléeplly waiching the coming on the 1145: the nams of the streasi wie Hiltans so lie back and get easy, yellow rhombeid in the crevice. It was 2 Then he read the three telegrams Hark- Creek. IHere the land lay flatter than hateful looking thing to come mixing in |ass had given him. They were zll from elsewhere: the sky came closer, with a with pleasant dreams and insist upon be- Plattville: gentler benediction; the breeze blew in. vou stay = . 2 SEtlen charge of your intorests here. and 1 t herc his®own ends, and It's not unlikely that 0 80 to Congress and that settles it. He [RATS of Youn interents have and 1 had the /706 he will get nervous toward the last and S90S and offered it to the telegraph company for “Then give me that pad and pencil be telegraphing Harkless o have himself _That evening Minnie and her father half ih: rent they were payving In thelr former . 1o rapidly dashed off & note to il. Fis- ing read. After a while he cllmbed ~ gopr: cannot oblige. Present incumbent ten- laden with keener spices: there was the carried on a cot to the convention o save Were stroliing up and down the front Wineiees gyer the postaffce. They have maved 'y, groaningiy ot of bed and read the mes- aclous. Unconditionaily refuses surieader. flavor of apples and the smell of the wal- him. That wouldn't do at all. of course. Walk together, betwecn the flowered bor- ygiches direct, in @ reduction of expense., . September 5. sage with heavy eyes, still half asleep. DeMcats matter. No hope for K. H. But nut and a hint of coming frost: the im- and. Miss Sherwood thinks maybe there'd e fve npt itk T PGB, | o e ohs D el SR Bditor, Carlow Herald, =y He read it twice before it penctrated; don't worry. Everything alivight. .~ measurable earth Jay more patlently (o PPt Jhoad e iy Tve up whats Net . returned —the The boom In not hollow. It is simply an awak: 2 of September by & nole (which _ Suppress all newspapers to-day. Conventlon Hiarkless if you have the sirensth to wais Awalt the husbandman: and the whole 3 . ening; and the town. so long a dependent upon shculd have reached me the following morn- meets at 1i. If w a come down before the conventicn. Get here World seemed to extend flat in line with dangerous, because it shortens our time: daughter. the impetus of agriculture for its trade, is 58_. ing), or by the alteration in the tenor of my come to Rouen this afterncon. They will come. 1"16.97 Looks bad. Come If it kills you. the eye—for this was Carlow ‘County but we can fix it for three days before he hasn’t told you veloping a prosverity of its own on other columns which T requested, or by the publi- e HELEN. k5 7o g ipentiy e AL 2 s the day we'd settled on, and that will “Not vet: she and Mr. Fisbee left the lines as well. Strangers come every day: oil cation of the McCune papers which 1 directed. rrom rubbed his sticky eyelids and shook You intrusted me with sole responsibility for ¢ ger ran out of Johr bring it 1o September 7. What we want office right after those men went.” has lubricated every commercial joint, In this T hold you grossly at fault. 1t you . O BB LA T GO N Toeort to all matters pertaining to Merald. Declared )1arkless: he was a hard man for anger g d il s - 3 “ontracts have been let for thhee new brick have a conscientious reason for refusing to > g vourself mere spectater. Does this permit 10 tarry with. And in place of it a strons of you. Judge, is to go to the convention daven't vou discovered what the Lusiness buildings o be crected. on the epet CArTY oul my requeat It should have been com- rouse himself: but what more eftectively YOUTT TEINL WIL My poticy for the papers tense of home-coming began to take pos. as a delegate, and make the nominating £ about politics’ she’s doing for side of the square. The value of your Main- municated to me at once. as should the fact— performed the task for him were certaln Dacline to consider any proposition to melleve el e g i L S you .« Bpeech for Mr Harkless. Will you do 117" him is? Did you understand what she $treet frontage will have dgubled by December, if such be the case—-that you are a personal sounds issuing from Harkless' room, me of my duties without proper warning and b s going m g - = Eod a ok S, and possibly you may see At (o tear away (or impersonal, if you like) friend of Mr. Rod- - s “Back to Plattville, where T belong.” he Do it cried the old man, dnd h by “Our Candidate? the present’ bullding And put up another . ney Mecune. ‘Whatever the motive, ulterior or across the hall. For some minutes Mere- sllowance of time. H. FISBEE. 1.4 sald: and he said it again without struck the table a resounding blow with it exactly. stead: the investment might be profiiable. The otherwise, which prevents you from operating dith had been dully conseious of a rustle CHAPTER XIX. Ditterness, for it was the truth. “Every nis big fist. “Do it? I'd walk from here Did you see her blush when she pro- Merald could find room on the second and third my pever as 1 direct, I should have been In- ,ni stir fn the invalid’s chamber and he o 3 > > - i 4 10 Rouen and back again to do it'” sed that teast?” ficors and the first could be let to stores. formed of it. This is a matter vital to the P SIEEthalt o There tehil iy man cometh to his own place in the end J ey o e N i " Y. B ancs o B - 5 1 regret that you find your copy of the paper interests of our community, and you have DeSan to realiz T N8 THE GREAT HARKLESS COMES Yes, as one leaves a gay acquaintance They were all on their feet at this. an ¢s. So would anybody—with all those (g the 20th overlooked in the mail and that hitherto shown yourself too al in acespt- about a bed would account for a noise HOME. of the playhouse lobby for some hard- they pressed forward to shake Briscoe’s men. and their eyes hanging out on their your messenger could find none for you at the ing my slightest suggestion for me to construc that reached him across a wide hall and i banded, tried old friend, so he wauld hand. congratulating him and each other chees!” newspaper offices in Rouen. Mr. Schofield was this fallure as negligence. Negligence I might vo. clog - The accommodation train wandered through two closed doors of thick wal 1 wave the outer world godspeed and as though they were already victorious. “Pooh! She got up the whole show. Siven directions in regard to supplying you esteem a3 st least hapest and frapk: Nebr ..o “guqdenly he heard a quick, heavy languldly through the eariy afiernoon come back 1o the oid ways of Carlow. " v e with the missing lssue at onc 3 _Mr. Martin bent over Helen and asked her Do you know why 1 fear that you mav have had difficulty in _ You will receive this lettor by 7 this evening, trcad, shod, in Harkless’ room, and a sunshine, stopping at every village anl what though the vears were dusty. he if she minded shaking hands with a man “I only know it's politics.” deciphering some of my former missives, as 1 by special deliyery. You will print the facts yesounding bang, as some heavy object Aalmost every country postoffice on, ihe hag his friends and his memories and his who had voted for Shem at the first elec- _“Politics!" He glanced over his shoul- ¥as unfamiliar with the typewriter when 1 conetraing MgCune In to-morrow evening's seryck the floor. The doctor was not to jine; the engine whistle toot-tooting at old black brier pipe. He had a girl's % taok f the Herald: however, ner. 2 X tion in the Ark. der and then, leaning toward4her, he sald {na; you find my later letters move. lesible . "'f &m well awabe of the obilgations under Come till evening: Jim had gone down- the road crossings; and, now and asain, picture {hat he should carry in his Reart till his last day; and if “I thought I'd rightiy ort to thank you in a low tone: “I'll tell you in confidence, The McCune people are not worrying us; we which your extreme efficiency your stairs. Who wore shoes in the sick man's at such junctures, a farmer, strusglios for finishin’® off Kedge Halloway,” he Minnie: she's sending him to Congress!” are sure to defeat them. The papers you speak thoughtfulness in many matters have placed room? He rushed across the hall in his with a team of prancing horses, would phis Jife was sadder, It was in- #dged. ~1 made up my mind I'd never “Ah!” she cricd triumphantly. “If she OfWere found by Mr. Parker in your trunk and me. It ls 1o you Ilowe my unearned profits giamasand threw open the unlocked be seen, or, it might be, a group of school finitely. richer for it. FHis winter fireside vote for him again, the night he killed loved him <he wouldn't do that, would “'7 send with this & packet of communications 1 owe the Herald's extraordinary vresent cir- QOOT. children, homeward bound from seats of should be not so lonely for her sake, and that intellectual insect of his.” she? and press clippings indicative of the success culation, srowth of power and influence. That The bed was disarranged and vacant. learning. At h station, when the train losing her, he lost not everything, for he “intellectual inseet, Mr. Martin?’ she “Minnie!” Briscoe turned upon her daily, and in regard to other innova- power Is still under my direction. and is an pygrkless, fully dressed, was standing came to a stdndstill. some passenger, i 8 mis- ‘ 5 » had the rare blessing of having known asked, puzzled. sternly. “1 don't want to hear any more i e o e e R LY S atied onsibllity which shall mot be mis- 4, "iho middle of the floor, hurling gar- hanging head and elbows out of his win. her. And what man could wish to be e O% (e g