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The r .carried them upstairs, left three v< 3ils masters guest, then knocked _ .. . :il a response 35cr< ? hizs thai the occupant i aa?vake arni slid iLe fourth envel so?ex d Meredith lay qi -?s>u2ou* morion for several minn rs?eepily vs; bing : 3 yellow rhomb ?n tile crevice. : ? was a hateful look thing to mix itseif in with a pleas; .?crfAin fin-i insist oa being read, 1 -af ter a while he ciiuibed gToaningly of bed and perused the message w heavy eyes, still half asleep. He rea( twice before it penetrated. Suppress all newspapers today. C 'vention meets at IL If we succeed, delegation will come to Rouen this aft 3200H. They will come. Tom rubbed his sticky eyelids a shook his head violently in a Spart ^effort to rouse himself, but what m< affectively performed the task for h "were certain sounds that issued fr< HarkJess' room across the hall. I -some minutes Meredith had been du conscious of a rustie and stir in t 3rtTa?d's chamber, and he began ?ea??ze that no 'mere tossing upon bed would account for a noise th . leached him across a wide hall a through two closed doors of thick w; amt. Soddenly he heard a quick, hea tread, shod, in Harkless' room, an.i eesoxmding bang as some heavy obje struck the floor. The doctor wa^ n to come till evening. The servi nt hi $gone downstairs. Who in tt si< man's room wore shoes? He ash; 'across the hall in his pajaras < ar threw open the unlocked door, .s - fflie bed was disarrange^ ??*? v? ?ant Harkless, fully dressed, w: jr^asading in the middle of th?. ?o< 1 ? hurling: garments ar a small- truoi j!rhethorr^sd Meredith stood for a se? ?zm?.bleached and speechless; then t j-tashed arp?n Ids friend and seized hil TWSSI ibsfh hands. *Ma?, by beaven! Madr f&^Let go of me, Tom: ' lunatic! Lonaticf* ^Don*t stop me one i^szar.t:"1 Meredith tried to force him ?cwar jfbe bed. "No; get back to bed. YOU L '.delirious, boy I" ; ~*3dejirioo8 nothing! Fm a we ristsn.*' *>Go to bed! Ge to ked!" :UJ?JL3JCC& set 3?m ?sat ci the wa; ^wlta ?one :arm. *To bv. " he cri?e *>Tni?g?iug 1? Plattvi?ler . ^fces?^th wrong his hands. "Tb efcetor" -*2)oetor be hanged I" ."What in the name of all that's te: cible is the matter, John?" His companion slung a light overcoat unfolded, on the overflowing, mis shapen bundle of clothes that Icy i: file trunk, then he jumped cn ?e li: with both feet-and kicked the i:as:^ in; the lock, while a very elegant} tiered cuff and shirt sleeve dangied cu %trom under the fastened lid. *T na% T-one second to talk, Tom; I have ei?h: ^?en minutes to catch the express, lr' more than, a mile to the station, a the train leaves here at 9:02. I ge there at 10:47. Telephone a cab fe xne, please, or tell me the number. 4on't want to stop to hunt it up." Meredith looked him in the eyes. Ii .th-e pupils of Harkless flared a herc light. His cheeks were reddened wit] .an angry ^healthy glow, and his teetl + xvero c?nched till the line of his jav =?tocd ^out like that of an embattle? s .?r'l?i- t?V His brow was dark, his ches . - v thrown out, and he took deep v breaths. His shoulders wer< vd. and in spite of his thinnes: looked massy. Lethargy or ma f or lK-:h whaieyer his ailment !; . I Jo was six feet of - ho . j and ? >!d resolution. ? sul? "Tou are going?" ." j?.- answered quietly, *T an . h you." ^Jg ' ?S^'-''1, said- Harkless Z','^ 'W??M?& nis rooin. pressed l^W??- -id . began to dive ?Sr lillilllS* 1 Pant*nS rapidity * ^tgSSP^ ~Ti t0 *"s desire. ^?? ^^gK: k ;.: in the doorway. .^'c^T .; I L louted his master, it vi* .-htning. Tell the - ? ' c '2 ; . ?Jess his breakfast I Set a ip of coffee on the *i nt -or for me. Run! . train. That will '?'"' ; :ab," be explained '': ' i break the ordi ?rTvmg getting .i?*ti:-v:'e." Ten minutes iuiet the cart swept ??wixy frau* the house at n enif tl?at ?*ined itbe res d. ?~i^big %orse p ir, fcis ears laidySa he .r< careenecf si ce ?be servant in irear was s: as ?iie^ pirouetted ne wheel. To him ed the corners am. ly, -and thc sp%|d a strong wind?. Harkless Kr ou make it a liBe a. They dasift id the cries of Pet Us for safety. Th :?d from ~!7?e""e&r?, " u?r? * down ~ npon * tue ticket office, stormed at the agent and ran madly at the gates, flourishing their passports. The official on duty eyed them wearily. "Been gone two minutes," he remarked with a peace? able yawn. Harkless stamped his foot o? the ce? ment flags; then he stood stock still, gating at the empty tracks, but Mere? dith turned to him, smiling. "Won't it keep?" he asked. "Yes, it will keep," John answered. "Part of it may have to keep till elec? tion day, but some of it I will settle before night. And that," he cried be? tween his teeth, "and that is the part of it in regard to young Fisbee!" "Oh, it's about H. Fisbee, is it?" "Yes, it's H. Fisbee." "Well, we might as well go up and ?see what the doctor thinks of you; there's no train." "I don't want to see a doctor again ever-as long as I live. I'm as well as anybody." Tom burst out laughing and clapped his companion lightly on the shoulder, his eyes dancing with pleasure. "Upon my soul," he cried, "I believe you are. A miracle wrought by the witch wand of indignation! That's rather against tradition, isn't it? Well, let's take a drive." "Meredith," said the other, turning to him gravely, "you may think me foci if you will, and it's likely I am. but I don't leave this station except by train. I've only two days to work in. Harmless, fvUy dressed, was sUmding in the middle of the floor. every minute lessens our chances ? neat McCune, and I have to begin by wasrjr^ rime on a tussle with a traitor. Thor. s H?otber train at 11:55; I don't luke uiy chances on missing that one." "W*n. well," laughed his friend, push - - bio ?ood humoredly^toward a door tv a red and white striped pillar, "we'll pal; I -re if you like. But at least go ii there and get a shave; it's a clean shop You want to look your best ; if ycu are sxmg down to fight H. Fis i bee.'* .Take these, tuen, and you will un erstand." said I .?kless. and he thrust thn? tele JOS of the morning iito Tom's har .LA disappeared into the barber she When he was gone Meredith went > the ie!?graph office in the static: > \ sent :. line over the wires to Hele: "?: ep your .... legation at home. He's comifis av, >fri* ~. ;.. :?>v" . Then he road the three teiegra ; Harkless had given him. Thej wer? ! all freza Plattville. i Sorry cannot oblige. Present ir ? r.' tenacious. Delicate matter. No hops K. H. But don't worry. Everything all j right WARREN SMITH. Harkless, if you have the strength to walk, come down before the convention. Get here by 10:47. Looks bad. Come if it kills you. X- H You intrusted me with sole responsibil? ity fer all matters pertaining So Herald. Declared yourself mere specta?or. Does ?his permit "your Interfering "w?thT my "pol? icy for the paper? Decline to consider any proposition to relieve me of my du? ties without proper warning and allow? ance of time. Forced to disregard all sug? gestions as to policy, which, by your own instructions, is entirely my affair and must be carried out as ? direct. H. FISBEE. CHAPTER XIV. |HE accommodation train wan? dered down through the aft? ernoon sunshine, stopping at every village and every coun? try postoffice on the line. There was a passenger in the smoker who found .he stops at these wayside hamlets in? terminable. He got up and paced the .lisip now and then, and his companion reminded him that this was not cer . 1 ii to hasten the hour of their arriva! : their destination. "I know that." answered he, "but I've got to beat McCune." "By the way," observed Meredith, "you left your stick behind." " You don't think I need a club to Tom choked. "Oh, no; I wasn't think in.*-, of your giving ll. Fisbee a beating, j ? meant to lean on." "I don't want ii. Tv,) got to walk I lame all my life, but Fm not going to bobble on a stick."' Tom looked at him sadly for a mo? ment It was true, and the Crossroad rs mjgbt hug themselves in their cells over the thought. For the rest of 1rs life John Harkless was to walk vitlj just the limp they_ themselves ? would lia ve h?d~?i7 as"m~?ofmeT their sentence had been to the ba chain. "Sit down, boy, sit down," Meredith, and his friend obeyed. The window was open beside th young men, and the breeze that in soothed like a balm, yet held a and spice in it, a hint of walnut: ! of coming frost. There was a ne^ in the atmosphere that day, a t Invigoration, that set the blood gling. The hot months were done languor was routed. Autumn spo ! industry, told of the sowing of an harvest, of the tawny shock, o: purple grape, of the red apple, and ed upon muscle and laughter, br ing gayety into men's hearts. The stations hummed with bustle and i big farm wagons rattled off up th l?ge streets and raced with "cut ui or omnibus; people walked with ( steps; the baggagemasters c cheerily to the trainmen, and brakemen laughed goodbys to TO ing girls. At times the train rai tween shadowy groves, and del landscape vistas, framed in bran? opened, closed and succeeded each er, and then the travelers were cai beyond into the level open again looked out to where the intensely September skies ran down to the horizon, meeting the boundless a of corn. It takes a long time for full beauty of the flat lands to rea man's soul. Once there, nor hills, sea, nor growing fan leaves of r. shall sufSce him. It is like the bei in the.word Indiana. It may be there are people who do not cons Indiana a beautiful word, but le ring true in your ears, and it ha richer sound than Vallombrosa. All at once the anger ran out of J Harkless. He was a hard mau anger to tarry with. And in place c a strong sense of home coming be to take possession of him. He was ing home. "Back to Plattville, whe belong," he said to himself without terness, and it was the truth. "Ev man cometh to his own place in end." Yes. as one leaves a gay acquainta of the playhouse lobby for some h handed, tried old friend, so he wo wave the outer world godspeed ? come back to the old ways of Carl? What though the years were dusty, had his friends and his memories ? his old black brier pipe. He had girl's picture that he should carry bis heart till his last day, and if life was sadder it was infinitely rici for it. His winter fireside would be i so lonely for her sake, and, losing h he lost not everything, for he had h the rare blessing of having known h And what man could wish to be heal of such a hurt? ' Far better to have h it than to trot a smug pace unscath< He had been a dullard, a sluggai weary of himself, unfit to fight, a fa ure in life and a failure in love. Th was ended. He was tired of failir and it was time to succeed for awhi To accept the worst that fate can de and to wring courage from it inste: of despair-that is success, and it w the success that he would have. I would take fate by the neck. But hi it done him unkindness? He look< out over the beautiful, "monotonou: landscape, and he answered heartil "No!" There was ignorance in ma but no unkindness. Were man utter wise he were utterly kind. The Cros readers had not known better, that W? alL The unfolding aisles of corn swai pleasantly before his eyes. The earl hearkened to man's wants and answe ed. The clement sun and summer rail hastened the fruition. Yonder stoc the brown haystack, garnered to fee the industrious horse that had earne his meed. There was the straw thatcl ed shelter for the cattle. How the o chard boughs bent with their burden; The big red barns stood stored wit the harvest, for this was Carlow com ty, and he was coming home. They crossed a byroad. An old ma with a streaky gray chin beard wa sitting on a sack of oats in a seatles wagon waiting for the tra4n to pas? Harkless seized his companion excitec '7 by the elbow. "Tommy," he cri?e "it's Kim Fentriss! Look! Did yo *>e that old fellow?" j sa v.- a particularly unintereste ana resting gentleman sitting o: u bag, replied his friend. I "V,*hy rfcat*s Kimball Fentriss Kc's going tc tov, s. He lives on th edge of the com ty. * "Can this be ?ne?" said M-redit) gravely. "I wonder," said , :'. fully a few momt. later- ? why he had them changed aron* "Who changed around?'' "The team. He always used to the bay on the near side and the so: rel on the off."' "And at present," rejoined Meredith **I am to understand that he is driving the sorrel on the near side and the ba: on the off?" I "That's it," returned the other. "IL i must have worked them like that foi some time, because they didn't lool uneasy. They're all right about tlx ! train, those two. I've seen them stanc with their heads almost against a fas) freight. See there." He pointed to ? white frame farmhouse with green blinds. "That's Win Hibbard's. We're just outside of Beaver." "Beaver? Elucidate Beaver, boy." "Beaver? Meredith, your informa? tion ends at home. What do you know of your own state if you are ignorant i of Beaver? Beaver is that city of Car? low county next in importance and population to Plattville." Tom put his hoad out of the window. "I fancy you arc right," ho said. "I already see five people lhere." Meredith had observed i lie change in his companion's mood. He liad watched him closely all day, looking for a re? turn of his malady, but he came io conclusion that in truth a miracle had been wrought, for thc lethargy was gone and vigor seemed to increase in Harkless with every turn of thc wheels that brought them nearer Prattville, ;::?v? thc nearer they drew io Pint: tho hillier the spirits of both th? ye men rose. .Meredith knew what happening there, and lie began to little excited. As he had said. ? were five people visible at Beaver, he wondered where they lived, as only building in sight was the stal md to satisfy his curiosity he wal .HIT to the vestibule. The little sta stood in the woods, and brown lea whirled along the platform. One of five people was an old lady, and she tered a rear car. The other four w men. One of them handed the < ductor a telegram. Meredith heard official say: "All right. Decorate alic I'll bold it five minutes." The man sprang up the steps of smoker and looked in. He turned Meredith. "Do you know if that 5 tierna n in the gray coat is Mr. Ha less? He's got his back this way, i I don't want to go inside. The air i: smoker always gives me a spell." "Yes. that's Mr. Harkless." The man jumped to the platfoi "All right, boys," he said. "Rip : out!" The doors of the freight room w thrown open, and a big bundle of < ored stuffs was dragged out and hast unfolded. One of the men ran to 1 farther end of the car with a strip red, white and blue bunting and ta ed it securely, while another faster the other extremity to the railing the steps by Meredith. The two co panions of this pair performed 1 same operation with another strip the other side' of the :car. They r similar lines of bunting near the rc from end to end, so that except for t windows the sides of the car wc completely covered by the national c ors. Then they draped the vestibul with flags. It was all done in a tric< Meredith's heart was beating fa j "What's it all about?" he asked. "Picnic down the line," answered t man in charge, removing a tack frc I his mouth. He motioned to the cc j ductor, "Go ahead!" j The wheels began tomove; the dc orators' remainecT on the ~sta7io~n ph /form, letting the train pass them, b J Meredith, craning his neck from tl steps, saw that they jumped on tl last car. "What's the celebration?" ask? Harkless when Meredith returned. "Picnic down the line," said Mer dith. "Nipping weather for a picnic. A b cool, don't you think? One of those fe lows looked like a friend of min Homer Tibbs, or as Homer might loc if he were in disgrace. He had his bj hung on his eyes, and he slouched lil a thief in melodrama as he tacked n the bunting on this side of the car. He continued to point out varioc familiar places, finally breaking or enthusiastically as they drew nearc the town: "Hello! Look there^-beyon 'the grove yonder! See that house?" "Yes, John." "That's the Bowlders'. You've got t know the Bowlders." "I'd Kke to." "The kindest people in the woric The Briscoe house we can't see becaus ifs so shut in by trees, and, besides, it' a mile or so ahead of us. We'll go ou there for supper tonight. Don't yo like Briscoe? He's the best they make We'll go uptown with Judd Bennett i? the omnibus, and you'll know how ; rapid fire machine gun sounds. I wan to go straight to the Herald ornee," b finished, with a suddenly darkening brow. "After all, there may be some ex planation." Meredith suggested with J little hesitancy. "H. Fisbee migb turn out more honest than you think." Harkless threw his head back an< laughed. "Honest! A man in the paj of Rodney McCune! Well, we can le it wait till we get there. Listen There's the whistle that means we're getting near home. Why, there's ar oil well!" "So it is." "And another-three, five, seven seven in sight at once! They tried il three miles south and failed, but you can't fool Eph Watts, bless him! 1 want you to know Watts." They ran by the outlying houses ol the town amid a thousand descriptive exclamations from Harkless, who wish? ed Meredith to meet every one in Car? low. But he came to a pause in the I middle of a word. "Do you hear mu? sic." he asked abruptly, "or is it only the rhythm of the ties?" "It seems to me there's music in the air," answered his companion. "I've been fancying I heard it for a minute ; or so. There! No-yes. It's a band, "No. U nat would a band-yes, it j -' '? train -lowed up and stopped at a tani; '2 io yards east of the sta? tion, und Ciieir uncertainty was at an end. From jmewhere down the track came the detonating boom of a cannon. There was a clash of brass, and the travelers became sure of a band play? ing "Marching Through Georgia." Meredith laid his hand on his com? panion's shoulder. "John," he said. "John!" The cannon fired again, and there came a cheer from 3.000 throats, the shouters all unseen. The riverine cough? ed and panted, the train rolled on, and in another moment it had stopped alongside the station in the midst of :i riotous jam of happy people who were waving Hags and banners and handker? chiefs and tossing their hats high in the air and shouting themselves hoarse. The band played in dumb show, lt could not hear itself play. The people came at the smoker like a long wave, and Warren Smith. Briscoe, Keating and Mr. Bence of Gaines were swept ahead of ii. Before the train stopped . they had rushed eagerly up the steps j and entered the car. Harkless wa? on ! ! his feet and started to meet them, lie ! : stopped. j "'What does it mean?" he said and be- ; ?gan t<> grow pale, "ls 11 alloway-did ' McCune have you" j - ! ' fTO BE CONTI Cures for Colds. "Coal oil will knock anv cold silly," said C. C. Warren. "The idea of drinking coal oil may seem repugnant to some aesthetic tastes, but one tablespoonful will fix the business for the most stubborn cold in head or body. 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