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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1906-11-01, Page 7'ears:weave ealea aaa aeaoe eee eelefeeeeeiaeeeeeeeatseeteieletaleteleeielealei÷letease+eiek lorees4opooi•4441.4444kfr000e4el000so *** estsseeeeesseeeisreettee .....1..t..a.:..1.**1...loa++.P*4*4444,1440.1,-,H41.4.01014-4•4,4011444.+444,44144. • 0 it 4. , rtr Tu. irt. • r I. *0 0 .• Copyrliht, 1899, by Voubleflar ( McClure Co. .0.. Copyrisfht, 1902, by McClure. Phillip.: eal Co. 1p 4 • eelat*44aVaataleteleteegeaeae+ealeletoaaefat+34:+felatee,e++++.44+.44.0+ • "sseeee•e••esse oo e 00000000 o eeeeesse•oeseeeeorrees••••oe• $11a1,444+41,444.4441÷#4.1.4.01.14444,14+4444•4441**14.1aa+444,4 +0+0 Uhc Gentleman Fi'Orti Indiana 29y BOOTH TARK.I.NGTO.N -• 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:- ' MOTHER, SISTER AND BROTHER •q> saie" e-410- IN LT OBPS rtiCHEY/Tit PINE svnur Cures COUGHS, COLDS, BRONCHITIS, HOARSENESS and all THROAT AND i LUNG TROUBLES. Bliss Florence B. 1 Mailman, New Germany, writes:— , I had. a cold which left inc with a very bad. cough. 1 was afraid I was going into ConsuMption. 1 was advised to try ! DR. WOOD'S NORWAY in.sn SYRUP. I had little faith in it, but before I had taken one bottle I began t ) feel better, and after the second I felt as well as ever. My cough has completely diap. peered. MUM es CENTS. 1.=.“..11:0•11•••••• DiedofConswnption,butthis Linden lady used Psychine and is strong and well "My mother, brother and sister died of consumption," says Ella At. Cove, of Lin- den, N.S,, " and 1 snyself suffered for two years from a distressing cough and weak lungs. I suppose I inherited a tendency in this direction? "But thank God 1 used Psychine and it built me right up. My lungs are now strong. I enjoy splendid health, and I owe it all to Psychine." Cousumption, whether hereditary or con. tracted, cannot stand before Psychine. Psychine kills the germ, no matter bow it attacks the lungs. Psychine builds up the body and makes it strong and able to resist disease. Psychine is an aid to digestion and a maker of pure, rich blood. The greatest giver of general health is SYC 1NE (Pronounced Si keen) 50c. Per Bottle Larger sizes SI and 62—all druggists. DR. T. A, SLOCUM. Limited, Toronto. 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 - t Minister of the Gospel itecommendS MITGEIMATWEI "Tar aoreral years I Wore been In very pees ...cab L Fall I was advised by Rev. J. S. 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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. 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