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29y BOOTH TARK.I.NGTO.N
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3onstant delusion wee that the unt.
terse was a vast, white heated brass
boil and he a point at the oenter of it,
listening, listening for years, to the
brazen hum it gaye off and burning.
In hot waves of tiound.
Finally be came to what he would
have considered a lucid interval had
It not appeared that Helen Sherwood
Was whispering to Tom aferedith at
the foot otitis bed. This he knew to
be a fictitious presentation of his fever,
for was she not by this time away and
away for foreigh lands? eaud also Toni
Meredith was a slim young thing and
pot a middle aged youth with an un-
•Seniable stomach and a baldish bead
Who by the preposterous necromancy,
if fever assumed -a grotesque !Menem;
Of bis old friend. Ie waved his hand
to the figures, and they vanished like
figments of a dream; but, alt the same,
the vision had been realistic enough
for the lady to look exquisitely pretty.
No one could help wishing tb stay in
a world which contained tis charming
a picture as that.
But the next night Meredith waited
hear his bedside, haggard and dishev-
eled. Harkless had been lying in a
long stupor. Suddenly he spoke, quite
loudly, and the young surgeon, Gay,
who leaned over him, remembeted the
words and the tone anises life.
"A.way—and away—Across the wa-
ters," said joint. Harkless. "She was
here—once—in June."
• "'What is it, John?" whispered
dith huskily. "You're feeling easier,
Aren't you?"
And John smiled a little, as if, for
the moment, he saw and knew his old
friend again.
' that same night a friend of Rodney,
afeCune's sent a telegram from Rouen:
"Be is dying. His paper is dead.
four name goes before convention in
September."
Iva
CHAPTER XI.
R. ROSS SCHOFIELD was en-
gaged in decorating the bat-
tered chairs in the Herald edi-
torial room with blue satin
ribbon, the purchase of which at the.
Dry Goods Emporium had been direct -
td by a sudden inspiration of his supe -
Idea Me. Parker of the composing
force. It was Ross' intention to gar-
nish each chair with an elaborately
tied bow, but as he was no sailor and
understood only the intricacies of a'
and knot he confined himself to that
ecies of ornamentation, leaving, bow-
er, very long ends of ribbon hanging
own after the manner of the pendants
•rosettes. Mr. Schofield was alone at
,is labor, his two confreres having be
ken themselves to the station to meet
e,
e train from Rouen
It was a wet, gray day. The wide
country lay dripping under formless
'-feraps of thin mist, and the warm, driz-
Ong rain blackened the weather beat -
In shiegies of the station, made clear
vflecting puddles on the unevenly
!fora planks of the platform and damp-
dae the packing cases too thoroughly
4�r occupation by the station lounger.
.1;1.1e los driver, Mr. Bennett, and the
opeletors of two attendant "cut un-
•lara" and three or four other worthies
rlic)m business or the lack of it called
to that localityavailed themselves of
the shelter of the waiting room, but the
gentlemen of the Herald were too agi-
tated to be confined save by the limits
of the horizon.
; They had reached the station half an
dour before train time and consumed
*Iie interval in pacing the platform un-
, r a big cotton umbrella, addressing
teach other only in monosyllables. Those
In the waiting room gossiped eagerly
and for the thousandth time about the
late events and particularly about the
tremendous news or Fisbee. Judd Ben-
nett looked out through the rainy door -
ray at the latter with reverence and a
fine pride of townsmanship. Ile de-
Clared it to be his belief that Fishes
and Parker were waiting for her now.
For all Carlow knew why Fisbee bad
gone to meet the strange lady at the
'talon when she bad come to visit
the Briscoeg, eeky he hadcome. with
Nervous
Exhaustion
'TWITCHING of the nerves, sud-
AA den starting, tenderness of the
scalp or spine, headache at top or
back of head, noises in the ears)
sparks before the eyes, sleepless-
ness, dyspepsia, pains and cramps,
neuralgia, timidity, irritability, mel-
ancholy, physical weakness and
general debility are among the
symptoms of nervous exhaustion.
Good food, pure air, suitable rest
and the regular and persisent useof
Dr. Chase's Nerve Food will thor-
oughly overcome the most extreme
case of nervous exhaustion and
prostration.
By noting your increase in weight
while using Dr. Chase's Nerve Food
you can prove that new, firm flesh
and muscular tissue are being added
to the body. 50 cents a box, six
boxes for $2.50, at alt dealers, or
Edmanson, Bates & Company,
Toronto.
ker to toe lecture, why he bataken
quepor at the Briscoe' three times and
dinner twice when ehe was there. Fis-
bee had told the story to Parker on a
melancholy afternoon as they sat to-
gether in tee Herald office, and Parker
had told the town. It was simple
enough indeed, and Fisbeeee past was
a mystery no longer. It might have
been revealed years before had there
been anything in .particular to reveal
and it it bad ever occurred to Fisbee
to talk of himself and his affairs.
Things bad a liabit of not occurring to
Fisbee.
Mr. Parker, very, nervous himself, •
felt his companion's elbow trembling
against his own as the great engine,
reeking in the mist and, sending great
clouds of 'White vapor up to the sky,
swooped down the track, rushed by
them and came to a standstill beyond
the platform. Fisbee and the foreman
made haste to the neareet vestibule
and were gazing blankly at its barred
approaches when they heard a silvery
laugh behind them and an exclamation.
"Upstairs and downstairs and in my
lady's chamber! Just behind you,
dear!"
Turning quickly, the foreman beheld
a blushing and smiling little vision, a
vision with light brown bah:, a vision
enveloped in a light brown in cloak
and with brown gloves from which
the handles of a big brown traveling
bag were let fall as the vision dis-
appeared under the cotton umbrella,
while the smitten Judd Bennett reeled
gasping against the station.
"Dearest," the girl cried to the old
man, "you should have been looking
for me between the devil and the deep
sea, the parlor car and the smoker!
I've given up cigars, and I've begun
to study economy, so I didn't come on
either!"
The drizzle and mist blew in under
the top of the "cut under" as they
drove rapidly into town, and bright lit-
tle drops sparkled on the fair hair
•above the now editor's forehead and on
the long lashes above the new editor's
cheeks. She shook these transient
gems off lightly as she paused in the
doorway of the office at the top of the
rickety stairway.
Mr. Schofield had just added the last
touch to his decorations and Managed
to slide into his coat as the party came
up the stairs, and now, perspiring,
proud, embarrassed, he assumed an at-
titude at once deprecatory of his en-
deavors and pointedly expectant of
commendations for the results. (He
was a modest youth and a conscious.
After his first sight of her as sbe stood
in the doorway it was several days be-
fore he could lift his distressed eyes
under the new editor's glance or, in-
deed, dare to avail himself of more
than a hasty and fluttering stare at
her when her back was turned.) As
she entered the room he sidled along
the wall and laughed sheepishly at
nothing.
Every chair in the room was orna-
mented with one of his blue rosettes,
tied carefully and firmly to the middle
Slat Of each chair back. There had
been several yards of ribbon left over,
and there was a hard knot of glossy
satin on each of the inkstands and on
the doorknobs. A blue band passing
around the stovepipe lent it an antique
rakishness suggestive of the chatioteer,
and a number of streamers suspended
from a hook in the ceiling encouraged
a supposition that the employees of the
Herald were contemplating the in-
tricate festivities of May day. It need-
ed no ghost to infer that these garni-
tures had not embellished the editorial
eh:ember during Mr. Harkiess' activity,
but, on the contrary, had been put in
place that very morning. Mr. Fisbee
had not kuown of the decorations, and
as his eye fell upon them a faint look
of pain passed over his brow. But the
girl examined the room with a dancing
eye, and there were both tears and
laughter in her heart.
"How beautiful!" she cried. Mow
beautiful!" She crossed the room and
gave her hand to Ross. "It is Mr.
Schofield, isn't it? The ribbons are
delightful. 1 didn't know Mr. Hark-
less' room was so pretty."
Ross looked out of the window and
laughed as he took her hand, which he
shook with a long up and down motion,
but he was set at better ease by her
apparent unconsciousness of the fact
that the decorations were for her. "Oh,
it ain't much, I reckon," ho replied,
and continued to look out of the win-
dow and laugh.
he went to the desk and removed
her gloves and laid her rain cloak over
a chair near by. "Is this Mr. Harkless'
chair?" she asked, and, Pisbee answer-
ing that It was, she looked gravely at it
for a moment, passed her hand gently
over the back of it and then, throwing
the rain cloak ever another chair, said
cheerily:
"Do you know, I think the first thing
for us to do will be to dust everything
very carefully?"
"You remember, 1 was confident She
'Would know precisely where to begin,"
was Mabee's earnest whisper in the
willing ear of the long foreman. "Not
an instant's indecision, was there?"
"No, slree," replied the otlier, and as
he Went down to the pressroom to bunt
for a feather duster *which he thought
Might he found there he collared Bud
Tipwerthy, the devil, who, not admit -
THE
wiNoBAII um NOVEMBER 1 1906
tea, to the conclave of his superiors,
Was whistling on the rainy stairway.
."You bustle and find that dustbrush
we used to have, Bud," said Parker,
And presently as they rummaged in
the nooks and crannies about the ma-
chinery he melted to his small assist-
ant. "Tbe paper is saved, Buddie—
saved by an tingel.in light brown. You
ean tell it by the look of her."
"Gee!" said Dud.
Mr. Schofield had come, blushing, to
join them. ",Say, Cale, d:d you notice
the color of her eyes?"
"Yes. They're gray."
"1 thougbt so, too. show day and at
Kedge Halloway's lecture. But say.
Cele, they're kind of changeable. When
she come in upstairs with you and Els-
bee they were jest as blue—near
matched the color of our ribbons."
"Geer repeated Mr, ripwortby.
When the editorial chamber had been
made so neat that it almost glowed,
though it could never be expected to
shine as did Fisbee and Caleb Parker
and Ross Schofield that morning, the
lady took her seat at the desk and
looked over the for items the gentle-
men had already compiled for her pe-
rusal. Mr. Parker explained many tech-
nicalities peculiar to the Carlow Her-
ald, translated some phrases of the
priuting room and enabled her to grasp
the amount of matter needed to fill an
issue.
When Parker finished the three in-
competents sat watching the little fig-
ure with the expression of hopeful and
trusting terriers. She knit her brow
for a second, but she did not betray an
instant's indecision.
"I think we should have regaini
market reports," she announced ear-
nestly. "I am sure Mr. Harkless would
approve. Don't you think he would?"
She turned to Parker.
"Market reports!" Mr. Fisbee ex-
claimed. "I should never have thought
of market reports, nor do I imagine
would either of my—my associates. A -
woman to conceive the idea of mkatet
reports!"
The editor blushed. "Why, who
would, clear, if not a woman or a spec-
ulator, and Ian not a speculator, and
neither are you, and that's the reason
you didn't think of them. So, air.
Parker, as there is so much pressure,
and if you don't mind continuing to act
• no reporter as well as compositor until
after tomorrow, and if it isn't too wet—
you must have an umbrella—would it
be too much bother if yon went around
to all the shops—stores, 1 mean—to all
the grocers and the butchers and the
leather place we passed, the tannery,
and if there's one of those places where
• they bring cattle, would it be too much
to ask you to stop there—and at the
flour mill, if it isn't too ear, and at the
dry goods store—and you must take a
blank bo9k and a sharpened pencil, and
will you price everything, please, and
jot down how much things are?"
Orders received, the impetuous Par-
ker was departing on the instant when
she stopped him with a little cry, "But
you haven't any umbrella!" And she
forced her own, a slender wand, upon
him. It bore a cunningly wrought
handle, and its fabric was of glisten-
ing silk. The foreman, unable to de-
cline it, thanked her awkwardly, and
as she turned to speak to Fisbee he
bolted out of the door and ran ,down
the steps without unfolding the um-
brella, and then as he made for Mr.
emiorium he buttoned it se-
curely under his long Prince Albert,
determined that not a drop of water
should touch and: ruin so delicate a
tbing. Thus he carried it, triumphant-
ly dry, through the course of hit re-
portings of that day.
When he had gone the editor hag her
hand on Fisbee' s arm. "Dear," she said,
"do you think you'd take cold if yan
went over to the hotel and made a note
• of all the arrivals for the last week and
the departures too? I noticed that Mr.
Harkless always filled two or thee—
sticks, isn't it?—svith them and things
about them, and somehow it 'read' very
nicely. You must ask the landlord ail
about them, and if there aren't any, we
can take up the same amount gf space
lamenting the dull times, just a'S he
used to. You see, I've read tbs. Herald
faithfully. Isn't it a geed thing I al-
ways subscribed for it?" She batted
Plebee's cheek with li soft hind and
laughed gayly into his mild, vaifie old
eyes. "It Won't be this scramble to 'fill
up' much longer. I have plane, gentle-
men, and before long We will print
news; and we Must buy 'prate matter'
instead of patent insides; and I had a
talk with the Aseoelated Press People
du. Ronde bet that's for this rtorn:-
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Ing beforI lett:" They "wouldn't fel' inc
see him again, but they told me all
about .ains, and he's better, and I gOt
Tom to go'to the jail, and he saw some
of those beasts, and I can do a column
of description besides an editorial about
them, and I will be fierce enough to
suit Carlow, you may believe that Aid
I've been talking to Senator Burns—
that is, listening to Senator Burns,
which is much stupider—and I think I
can do an article on national politics.
I'm not very well, up on local issues
yet, and I"— She broke off suddenly.
"There, I think we can get out tomor-
row's number without any trouble. By
the time you get back from the hotel,
father, I'll have half my—my stuff
written—ewritten up,' I mean. Take
your big umbrella and go, dear, and
please ask at the express office if a
typewriter has come for me."
Shelaughed again with sheer delight,
like a child, and ran to a corner and
' got the cotton umbrella and placed it
in the old man's hand. As he reached
the door she called after him, "Wait!"
and went to him and knelt before him
and, with the bumblest, proudest grace
in the world, turned up his trousers to
keep them from the mud. Ross Scho-
i field had never considered Mr. Fisbee a
particularly sacred sort of person, but
he did from that moment. The old
813 n made some timid protest at the
_girl's action, but she answered: "The
'great ladies used to buckle the Cheva-
lier Bayard's spurs for hint, and you're
a great deal nicer than the Chev—
You haven't any rubbers! 'I don't be-
lieve any of you have any rubbers!"
. And not 'until both Fisbee and Mr.
Schofield had promised to purchase
overshoes at once and in the meantime
: not to step in any puddles would she
let the former depart upon his errand.
He crossed the square with the strang-
• est, jauntiest step ever seen in Platt-
ville. Solomon Tibbs had a warm ar-
gument with Miss Selina as to his
identity, Miss Selina maintaining that
the figure under the big umbrella—only
the legs and coat tails were visible tO
them—was that of a stranger, probably
an Englishman.
In the herald office the editor turn-
ed, sniThii, fo the paper's remaining
vassal. "Mr. Schofield, I beard some
talk in Rouen of an oil company that
had been formed to prospect for kero-
sene in Carlow county. Do you know
anything about it?"
Ross, surfeited' with honor, terror, and
possessed by a sweet distress at find-
ing himself tete-a-tete with the lady,
looked at the wall and replied, "Oh,
it's tbat Eph Watts' foolishness."
"Do you know if they have begun to
dig for it yet?"
"Ma'am?" said Ross.
"Have they begun the diggings yet?"
"No, ma'am, I think not. They've
got a contrapshun fixed up about three
mile south. I don't reckor they've be-
gun yet, hardly. They're gittin' tbe
machinery in place. 1 1< .,':I Eph say
. they'd begin to bore—die. I mean,
ma'am; I meant to say e!g"— Ile
stopped, utterly confused end unhap-
py, and she understood his manly pur-
pose and knew him for a gentleman
whom she liked.
' "You mustn't be too much sprprised,"
she said, "but in spite of my ignorance
• about such things I mean to devote a
good deal of space to the oil company.
It may come to be of great importance
. to Carlow. We won't go into it in to-
morrow's paper band an item or so,
but do you think you could possibly
find Mr. Watts and ask him for some
information as to their progress and if
it would be too much trouble for him to
call here tomorrow afternoon or the
• day after? I want him to give me an
Interview if ho will. Tell him, please,
• he will very greatly oblige us."
"01 he'll come all right," answered
• her companion quickly. "I'll take Tibbs'
buggy and go down there right off.
i Eph won't lose no time gittini here."
; And with this encouraging assurance
be was flying forth when he, like the
others, was detained bf her solicitous
care. She was a born mother. Ile pro-
tested that in the buggy he would be
Iperfectly sheltered. Besides, there
wasn't another umbrella about the
place, Re liked to get wet anyway;
Ihad always Rend rain. The end of it
Was that be went away In a sort of
tremor wearing ber rain cloak over Ids
shoulders, which garment, as it cov-
ered its owner completely 'When she
wore it, hung almost to ids knees, Ile
darted around a corner, and there,
breathing deeply, tenderly removed it,
then borrowing paper and cord at a
neighboring store wrapped it neatly
and stole back to the printing office, on
the ground floor of the Herald building,
and left the package in the hands of
Bud Vpworthy, charging him to care
for it as for bis own life and not to
open it, but if the lady so much as set
one foot out of doors before his return
to baud it to her wail the message,
"He borrowed another off S. Hankins "
Left alone, the lady went to the desk
and stood for a time looking gravely at
Harkless' chair -She tonehed it gently,
as she had touched it once before that
morning, and then she spoke to it as if
he were tatting there and as she would
not have spoken had he been. sitting
there.
"You didn't want gratitude, did
you?" she whispered, with sad lima
Soon she smiled at the blue ribbon,
patted tate chair gayly on the back and,
seizing upon pencil and -pad, dashed
into her work with rare energy. •
She
bent low over the desk, her pencil mov-
ing rapidly. She seemed loath to pause
for breath. She had covered many
sheets when Fisbee returned, and as
he came in softly in order not to dis-
turb her she was so deeply engrossed
that she did not bear him, nor did she
look up Nvboa Patter entered, but pur.
sued the formulation of her fast flying
ideas with the same single purpose
and abandon. So the two men set and
waited while their chieftaiuess wrote
absorbedly. At last she glanced up
and made a little startled exclamation
at seeing them there and then gave
With the humblest, proudest grace in the
world.
them cheery greeting. Each placed
several scribbled sheets before her, and
she, having first assured herself that
, Fisbee had bought his overshoes, and
having expressed a fear that Mr. Par-
ker had found her umbrella too small,
as he looked damp (and indeed he was
damp), cried praises on their notes and
offered the reporters great applause.
"It is all so splendid!" she cried.
"How could you do it so quickly? And
in the rain too! It is just what we
need. I've done most of the things I
mentioned, I think, and made a draft
of some plans for hereafter. Doesn't
it seem to you that it would be a good
notion to have a woman's page—'For
Feminine Readers' or 'Of Interest to
Women'—onca a week?"
"A woman's page!" exclaimed Fis-
bee. "I could never lave thouiart of
that. Could you, Mr. Parker?"
Before that day was over system. asko
been introduced, and the Herald was
running on it, and all that warm rainy
afternoon the editor and Fisbee work-
ed.in the editorial rooms. Parker and
Bud and Mr. Schofield (after his return
with the items and a courteous mes-
sage .frons Ephraim Watts) bent over
the forms dowratairs, and Uncle Keno -
piton was cleaning tbe storeroom and
scrubbing the floor. An extraordinary
number of errands took the various
members of the printing force up to
see the editor in chief, literally to see
the editor in chief. It was hard to be-
lieve that the presence had not flown,
hard to keep believing without the re-
peated testimony of sight that the din-
gy room upstairs was actually the set-
ting for their jewel, and a Jewel they
swore she was. The printers came
down chuckling and gurgling after
each interview. It was partly the
thought that she belonged to the Her -
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ald, their paper. Once Ross, chuckling,
looked up and caught the foreman gig-
gling to bimseirs
"What in the name of common sense
• you laughin' at, Cale?" be asked.
"What are you laughing at?" re-
oinedutnlineoor,th e r.
‘Id
The day wore on, wet and dreary out-
side, but all within the Herald's bosom
was snug and hinter and murmurous
• with the healthy thrum of life and
prosperity renewed. Toward 0 o'clock,
system accomplished, the new guiding
spirit was deliberating on a policy, as
fruitless would conceive a policy were
he there, when Minnie Briscoe ran joy-
ously up the stairs, plunged into the
room waterproofed and radiant and
caught her friend in her eager arms
and put an end to policy for that day.
But policy and labor did not end at
twilight every day. There were even-
ings, as in the time of Harkless, when
lamps shone from the upper windows
of the Herald building; for the little
editor worked bard, and sometimes she
worked late; she always worked early.
She made some mistakes at first and
one or two blunders which sin) took
much more seriously than any one else
did. But she found a remedy for all
such results of ber inexperience, and
she developed experience. She set at
her task with the energy of her youth-
fulness and no limit to ber ambition,
and she felt that Harkless had pre-
pared the way for wide expansion of
the paper's Tuterests, wider then. he
knew. She brought a fresh point of
riew to operate in a situation wbere
had fallen perhaps too much in the rut,
and she watched every chance with a
keen eye and. looked ahead of her with
dear foresight. Mat she waited and
yearned for and dreaded was the time
when a copy of the new Herald should
be placed in the trembling hands of the
man who lay in theeRonen hospital.
Then she felt if he, unaware of her
identity as he was and as he was to be
kept, should place everything in her
hands unreservedly, that would be a
tribute to her work. And how bard she
would labor to deserve itl
After a time she began to see that as
his representative and editor of the
Herald she had becotne a factor in dis-
trict politics. It took her breath, but
with a gasp of delight, for there wee
something she wanted to do.
Rodney McCune had lifted his head,
end the friends of bis stricken enemy
felt that they and the cause that Hark-
less had labored for were lost with-
out the leader, for the old ring that the
Herald had beaten rallied around Mc-
Cune. "The boys wore In line again."
Every one knew that Halloway, a dull
but honest man, the most available Ina-
terial that. Harkless had been able to
find, was already beaten. If John
Harkless bad been "on the ground to
work for him," it was said, Holloway
could have received the nomination
again, but as Matters stood he was
beaten and beaten badly, and Rodney
McCune would sit it; congress, for nom-
ination meant election.
But one afternoon the Harkless
forces, demoralized, broken, hopeless,
evoke up to find that they had a leader.
There was a political 'conference at
judge Briscoe's. The politicians de-
scended sadly at the gate from the
omnibus that had met the afternoon
train—Boswell and I'eating, two gen-
tlemen of Amo, and Bence and Shan-
non, two others of Gaines county, to
confer with Warren Smith, Tom Mar-
tin, Briscoe and Harkless' representa-
Uwe, Fisbee and the editor of the
IXerall They entered the house gloom-
*, and the conference began in de-
jeeted monosyllables. But presently
Minnie Briscoe. sitting on tbe poreh
pretending to sew. heard Helen'e volee,
clear, soft and trembling a little With
excitement. She talked for only two
or three minutes, but what she said
seemed to stir up great commotion
among the others, All the voices burst
forth at once in exclamations, almost
shouts. Then Mintile saw her father,
seated near the window, rise and strike
the table a great blow with his clinch -
e(1 fist. "Will I make the nominating
speech?" he cried. "I'd walk from
here to Rouen and back again to do
it!"
"We'll swim out!" exclaimed Mr.
Keating of Amo. "The wonderful
thing is that nobody thought of this
hefore. There are just two difficulties
—Halloway and our man himself. Ile
wouldn't let his name be used against
Kedge. Therefore we've got to Work
it quietly and keep it from him."
"It's not too difficult," said the speak-
er's colleague, Mr. Boswell. "All we've
got do is to spring. it as a surprise on
the convention. Some of the old crowd
themselves will be swept along with us
when we make our nomination, and
you want to stuff your ears with cot-
ton. You see, all we need to do is to
pass the word quietly among the Hal-
loway people and the shaky McCune
people. Red may get wind of it, hat
S'ou can't Ai men in this district against
us whoa they know what we mean to
do now. On the first ballot we'll give
Hallway every vote he'd have got if
he'd run against McCune alone. It will
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