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ISSUED TWIOE-A-WEEK?WEDNESDAY A.TJD FRIDAY. l. k. grist & sons, Publishers. } % jfantil]) Jfea'spger: |for "'I jproMtotion o); the political, Social, Agricultural ana ?ommet;cial Interests of the South. j TERs,iw;copv! Bra: cks4nce' VOLUME 41. YORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER (>, 1895. NUMBER 85. FROM TH BY CAPTAIN C Copyright, 18M, by the J. B. Llppincott Co. CHAPTER X. ? Perhaps it was as well for all parties that Frank Armitage concluded that he must have another whiff of tobacco that night as an incentive to the "think" he had promised himself. He had strolled through the park to the grove of trees out on the point and seated himself in the shadows. Here his reflections were speedily interrupted by the animated flirtations of a few couples, who, tiring of the dance, canie out into the coolness of the night and the seclusion of the grove, wiicre their murmured words and 6oft laughter soon gave the captain's nerves a strain they could not bear. He broke cover and betook himself to the very edge of the stone retaining wall out on the point. He wanted to think calmly and dispassionately. He meant to weigh all he had read and heard and form his estimate of the gravity of the case before going to bed. He meant to be impartial, to judge her as he would judge any other woman so compromised, but for the life of him he could not. He bore with him the mute image of her lovely face, with its clear, truthful, trustful dark eyes. He saw her as she stood before him on the little porch when they shook hands on their laughing?or his laughing?compact, for she would not laugh. How perfect she was I Her radiant beauty, her uplifted eyes, so full of their self reproach and resrret at the speech she had made at his expense! How exquisite was the grace of her slender, rounded form as, she stood there before him, one slim hand half shyly extended to meet the cordial clasp ^ of bis own! He wanted to judge and be just, but that image dismayed him. How could he look on this picture and then on that, the one portrayed in tiie chain of circumstantial evidence which the colonel had laid before him? It was monstrous 1 It was treason to womanhood! One look in her eyes, superb in their innocence, was too much for his determined impartiality. Armitage gave \ % himself a mental kick for what he termed his imbecility and went back to the hotel. "It's no use," he muttered. "I'm a slave of the weed and can't be philosopher without my pipe." Up to his little box of a room he climbed, found his pipecase and tobacco pouch, and in five minutes was strolling out to the point once more, when he ^ came suddenly upon the night watchman, a personage of whose functions and authority he was entirely ignorant. The man eyed him narrowly and essayed to speak. Not knowing him, and desiring to be alone, Armitage pushed past and was surprised to find that a hand was on his shoulder and the man at his side before he had gone a rod. "Beg pardon, sir,"said the watchman gruffly, "but I don't know you. Are you stopping at the hotel?" "Iam,"said Armitage coolly, taking his pipe from his lips and blowing a oloud over his other shoulder. "And who may you be?" "I am the watchman, and I do not remember seeing you come today." "Nevertheless I did." "On what train, sir?" "This afternoon's up train." "You certainly were not on the omnibus when it got here." "Very true. I walked over from beyond the schoolhouse." "You must excuse me, sir. I did not think of that, and the manager requires me to know everybody. Is this Majoi w, Armitage?" "Armitage is my name, but I'm not a major." "Yes, sir; I'm glad to be set right. And the other gentleman?him as was inquiring for Colonel Maynard tonight; He's in the army, too, but his name don't 6eem to be 011 the book. He only came in on the late train." v, "Another man to see Colonel Maynard?" asked the captain, with sudden interest. "Just come in, you say? I'm sure I've no idea. What was he like?" "I don't know, sir. At first I thought you was him. The driver told me he brought a gentleman over who asked some questions about Colonel Maynard, but he didn't get aboard at the depot, < and he didn't come down to the hotel? got off somewhere up there on the bench, and Jim didn't see him." "Where's Jim?" said Armitage. "Come with me, watchman. I want to interview him." Together they walked over to the barn, which the driver was just locking up after making everything secure for ** the night. "Who was it inquiring for Colonel Maynard?" asked Armitage. "I don't know, sir," was the slow answer. "There was a man got aboard as I was coming across the common liiciu xxx mc viiidgt; at luuaiaixuij. inuxc were several passengers from the train yt and some baggage, so he may have started ahead 011 foot, but afterward concluded to ride. As soon as I saw him get in I reined up and asked where he was going. He had no baggage nor nnthin, and my orders are not to haul anybody except people of the hotel, so he came right forward through the bus and took the seat behind me and said 'twas all right, ho was going to the hotel, and he passed up a half dollar. I told him that I couldn't take the money ?that bus fares were paid at the office ?and drove ahead. Then he handed me a cigar, and pretty soon he asked me if there were many people, and who had rtie cottages, and when I told him he asked which was Colonel JUayuard's, E RANKS. :harles king. but ho didn't say he knew him, and the next thing I knew was when we got here to the hotel he wasn't in the bus. He must have stepped back through all those passengers and slipped off up there on the bench. He was in it when we passed the little brown church up on the hill." "What was he like?" "I couldn't see him plain. He stepped out from behind a tree as we drove through the common and came right into the bus. It was dark in there, and all I know is he was tall and had on dark clothes. Some of the people insido must have seen him better, but they are all gone to bed, I suppose." "I will go over to the hotel and inquire anyway," said Armitage, and did so. The lights were turned down, and no ono was there, but he could hear voices chatting in quiet tones on the broad, sheltered veranda without, and going thither found three or four men enjoying a quiet smoke. Armitage was a man of action. He stepped at once to the group: "Pardon me, gentlemen, but did any of you come over in the omnibus from the station tonight?" "I did, sir," replied one of the party, removing his cigar and twitching off the ashes with his little finger, then looking up with the air of a man expectaut of question. "The watchman tells me a man came over who was making inquiries for Colonel Maynard. May I ask if you saw or heard of such a person?" "A gentleman got in soon after we left the station, and when the driver hailed him he went forward and took a seat near him. They had some conversation, but I did not hear it. I only know that he got out again a little while before we reached the hoteL " "Could you see him and describe him? I am a friend of Colonel Alaynard's, an officer of his regiment, which will account for my inquiry." "Well, yes, sir. I noticed he was very tall and slim, was dressed in dark clothes and wore a dark slouched hat well down over his forehead. He was what I would call a military looking man, for I noticed his walk as he got off, but he wore big spectacles, blue or brown glass, I should say, and had a heavy beard.'' "Which way did he go when he left the bus?" "He walked northward along the road at tlje edge of the bluff, right up toward the cottages on the upper level," was the answer. Armitage thanked him for his courtesy, explained that he had left the colonel only a short timo before and that he was then expecting no visitor, and if one had come it was perhaps necessary that he should be hunted up and brought to the hotel; then he left the porch and walked hurriedly through the park toward its northernmost limit. There to his left stood the broad roadway along which, nestling under shelter of the bluff, was ranged the line of cottages, some two storied, with balconies and verandas, others low, single storied affairs, with a broad hallway in the middle of each and rooms on both north and south sides. Farthermost north on the row, almost hidden in the trees and nearest the ravine, stood Aunt Grace's cottage, where were domiciled the colonel's household. It was in the big bay windowed north room that he and the colonel had had their long conference earlier in the evening. The south room, nearly opposite, was used as their parlor and sitting room. Aunt Grace and Miss Renwick slept in the little front rooms north and south of the hallway, and the lights in their rooms were extinguished; so, too, was that in the parlor. All was darkness on the south and east. All was silence and peace as Armitage approached, but just as he reached the shadow of the stunted oak tree growing in front of the house his ears were startled by an agonized cry, a woman's half stifled shriek. He bounded up the steps, seized the knob of the door and threw his weight against it. It was firmly bolted within. Loud he thundered on the panels. " 'Tis 1?Arniitiigi'!" he called. He heard the quiok patur of little feet, the bolt was slid, and he rushed in, almost stumbling against a trembling, terror stricken, yet welcoming white robed form?Alice Renwick, barefooted, with her glorious wealth of hair tumbling in dark luxuriance all down over the dainty nightdress?Alice Renwick,with pallid face and wild, imploring eyes. " What is wrong?" he asked in haste. "It's mother ? her room?and it's locked and she won't answer, " was the gasping reply. Armitage sprang to the rear of the hall, leaned one second against the opposite wall, sent his foot with mighty 1 impulse and muscled impact against the opposing lock, and the door flew open 1 with a crash. The next instant Alice was bending over her senseless mother, and the captain was giving a hand in much bewilderment to the panting colonel, who was striving to clamber in at the window. The ministrations of Aunt ' Grace and Alice were speedily sufficient 1 to restore Mrs. Maynard. A teaspoonful of brandy administered by the colonel's trembling hand helped matters materially. Then he turned to Armitage. "Come outside," he said. Once again in the moonlight the two men faced each other. , "Armitage, can you get a horse?" ' "Certainly. What then?" "Go to the station, get men, if possi- , ble, and .head this fellow off. He was here again tonight, and it was not Alice he called, but my?but Mrs. Maynard. I saw him. I grappled with him right here at the bay window where she met him, and he hurled me to grass as though I'd been a child. I want a horse! I want that man tonight. How did ho get away from Sibley?" "Do you mean?do you think it was Jerrold?" "Good God, yes! Who else could it be? Disguised, of course, and bearded, but tho figure, the carriage, were just the same, and he came to this window ?to her window?and called, and she answered. My God, Armitage, think of it!" ?l/~* Z4.U o-o oil LUII1C Willi UiCy UUJLU1IC1. XUU <*XU UH unstrung," was the captain's answer as he led his broken friend away. At the front door he stopped one moment, then ran up the steps and into the hall, where ho tapped lightly at the casement. "What is it?" was the low response from an invisible source. "Miss Alice?" "Yes." "The watchman is here now. I will 6end him around to tho window to keep guard until our return. The colonel is a little upset by the shock, and I want to attend to him. Wo aro going to the hotel n moment before I bring him home. Y ou are not afraid to have him leave you?" "Not now, captain." "Is Mrs. Maynard better?" "Yes. She hardly seems to know what has happened. Indeed none of us does. What was it?" "A tramp, looking for something to eat, tried to open the blinds, and the colonel was out hero and made a jump at him. They had a scuffle in the shrubbery, and the tramp got away. It frightened your mother. That's the sum of it, I think." "Is papa hurt?" "No; a little bruised and shaken and mad as a hornet. I think perhaps I'll get him quieted down and sleepy in a few minutes if you and Mrs. Maynard will be content to let him stay with me. I can talk almost any man drowsy." "Mamma seems to worry for fear he is hurt." "Assure her solemnly that he hasn't a scratch. Me is simply ngnnng maa, and I'm going to try to find the tramp. Does Mrs. Maynard remember how he looked?" "She could not seethe face at all. She heard somo one at the shutters and a voice and supposed, of course, it was papa and threw open the blind." "Oh, I seel That's all, Miss Alice. I'll go back to the colonel. Good I night!" And Armitage went forthwith a lighter step. "One sensation knocked endwise, colonel. I have it on the best of authority that Mrs. Maynard so fearlessly went to the window in answer to the voice and noise at the shutters simply because she knew you were out there somewhere, and she supposed it was you. How simple these mysteries become when a little daylight is let in on them, after all! Come, I'm going to take you over to my room for a stiff glass of grog, and then after his trampship while you go back to bed." "Armitage, you seem to make very light of this night's doings. What is He mounted a horxc nrul trotted over to the railway station. easier than to connect it all with the trouble at Sibley?" "Nothing was ever more easily explained than this thing, colonel, and all I want now is a chance to get that tramp. Then I'll go to Sibley, and 'pon my word I believe that mystery can be made as commonplace a piece of petty larceny as this was of vagrancy. Come." Bat when Armitnge left the colonel at a later hour and sought his own room for a brief rest he was in 110 such buoyant mood. A night search for a trainp in tho dense thickets among the blulfs and woods of Sablon could hardly be successful. It was useless to make the attempt. He slept but little during the cool August night and early in the morning mounted a horse and trotted over to the railway station. "Has any train gone northward since last night?" he inquired at tho office. "None that stops here," was the answer. "The first train up comes along at 11:56." "I want to send a dispatch to Fort Sibley and get an answer without delay. Can you work it for me?" The agent nodded and pushed over a package of blanks. Armitage wrote rapidly as follows: Captain Chester, Commanding Fort Sibley: Is Jerrold there? Tell him I will arrive Tuesday. Answer. F. Aiimitaoe. It was along toward 9 o'clock when the return message came clicking in on the. wires^.waa written .out and handed to tlio tall soldier with the tired blue eyes. He read, started, crushed the paper in his hand and turned from tho office. The answer was significant: Lieutenant Jerrold left Sibley yesterday afternoon. Not yet returned. Absent without leave this morniotr. Chester. TO BK CONTINUED. JttiSffUaitfous iUtulitii). TILLMAN WAS SEATED. Report That Hi* Right Wouhl Rc Challenged Was I'nfoiinded. Just before the senate convened Tuesday, there was a reports circulated to the effect that Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, would interpose an objection to the swearing in ofSenator Ben Tillman, of South Carolina, who succeeds the Ex-Chesterfield of the senate, Matthew C. Butler. There are several petitions or memorials pending before the senate now, urging the senate to investigate Senator Tillman's right to a seat in that body, charging that his election was illegal. The documents were drawn by Dr. Sampson Pope and other Anti-Tillmunites in South Carolina, and they were presented to the Senate by Senator Butler and referred to the committee on elections. Senator Tillman's friends in the house were greatly agitated over the report that Senator Chandler might oppose the formal seating of their champion and leader, for it was feared that he would make a scene that might operate to his advantage. Consequent ly when the name of Senator Tillman was read out by the secretary among the list of senator-elect, who were invited to come forward and qualify, interest at once centered around the South Carolinian, while many glances were directed toward the "peppery" Senator from New Hampshire. Senator Irby, who is the colleague of Senator Tillman, being absent, Senator George, of Mississippi, volunteered to go through the ceremony of escorting the new senator from South Carolina t<? the vice president's desk, where the oath of ollice was administered. So much has been said and written about Ben Tillman that he was an object of considerable curiosity as he advanced down the aisle, leaning on the urtn of Senator George. Senator Chaudler apparently paid no attention to the proceeding and Senator Tillman was sworn in without a murmur of objection. Then, to the surprise of all present who had heard the original report, Senator Tillman went over to Senator Chandler aud greeted him as though they were old acquaintances, and the incident, so far as Senator Tillman is concerned, was closed.?News and Courier. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. SynopKit* of the Document Henri to Con juitnc lumunj* The president's message to congress was read in the house and seuate on Tuesday. It is about 17.000 words in length, and if priuted in full would make over two pages of Thk Enquirer. There is so much of it, however, that is of so little intersst to many of our leaders, that we have decided that a brief synopsis of it will prove more than acceptable. At the outset attention is called to the separate reports of the different heads of departments, and the attention of the country is invited to them. He urges the adoption of the various suggestions made iu the reports. The recent uprising of fanatical Chiuese against missionaries and other Americans is referred to, and the successful efforts of this government, iu connection with others, to have the rioters punished are reviewed in detail. Congress is reminded of the fact that the lump sum of $525,000 assessed against the United States by the Paris f I'lKunol r\( ofhilrafiiMi A ?? m ? rr??c ill U. ..'V4 44<?4 W4 Ml M.VIUV.WU 4^4 X* 4* " fiicted on British sealers has never been paid. The president recommends that cougress either appropriate the necessary money forthwith or make such arrangement as may be necessary for further arbitration. Several paragraphs are devoted to a reference to the boundary line between Alaska and British Columbia and also the liue betweeu the United States and Canada throughout the great lakes. The Alaska country is growing in importance, and the president thiuks that a settlement of the boundary now will be the means of preventing serious disputes hereafter. The uncertainties of the liue through the great lakes gives a great deal of trouble to American fishermen on account. of arrests for alleged trespass in Canadian waters. Something should be done to establish the line in order that fishermen should know when they .1. . TT..:.?.J are iu uie jurisdiction oi me umtcu States and when in the jurisdiction of Canada. The dispute between Venezuela and Great Britain brings out some positive talk. The president says without equivocation that the United States is committed to a policy that does not allow a forcible increase of foreign possessions in America. The State department has asked Great Britain whether or not she is willing to submit her dispute to arbitration. No answer has yet been received ; but the probability is that it will be in before a great while longer. The Cuban situation is dealt with at length. The president refers to the fierce and sanguinary character of the war; recommends that citizens of the United States abstain from taking any part in if. The government must neceessarily be neutral and the citizens of this country should be careful not to do anything that is calculated to embarrass the government. The fact that an American vessel has been wrongfully fired on by a Spanish vessel is referred to, as is also the fact that numerous American citizeus have been arrested in Cuba. In these matters the United State* has promptly taken such action us the circumstances of the cases demanded. The situation in Turkey is referred to. An attempt has been made by this government to get positive information as to the nature and extent of the troubles; but without success. The Turkish government has positively refused to allow any investigation to be made. So fur, no American citizens have lost their lives because of the riots; but much mission property has been destroyed. The government has two vessels in Turkish waters and the governments of Europe have agreed to assist in the protection of Americans. A scheme for the iraprovment of the consular ser.vice is proposed, and it is recommended that American ambassadors iu foreign countries be furnished with official residences. The balance of the message is devo ted to the financial question. The president reviews the history of greenbacks, shows how they were originally issued as a war measure, afterward redeem able in coin, and re-issueable. lie at length finds the government in the situation of owing to the holders of its notes gold. After the gold is paid, the notes can he re issued and must be redeemed again and again. He tells how bonds to the amount of $102,000,000 have been issued to maintaiu the gold reserve at $100,000,000; but on account of tbe $300,000,000 of greenback still outstanding the gold can't be kept in the treasury. He next attacks the free coinage of silver idea and in conclusion recommends as a remedy for the whole situation the issue of long time bonds at a low rate of interest and the redemption of all greenbacks, so as to put the country squarely on a gold basis. WAUEKS WON A.NU LUST. Some Peculiar Beta Made by People on Both ContinentH. Betting is a human weakness by no means confined to the wagering of money on sporting events. In ail ages, says the Chicago Record, it has been common to settle points of difference by a wager, or to accomplish great feats under the penalty of the loss of a given sum. There's a man down in Kentucky who vowed never to cut his beard until Henry Clay was elected president. This was really a vow, but it was also a bet. The man bet against fate, and fate won. A rash young Harvard graduate recently went around the world without a cent of mouey in his pockets when he started. It was given out that he had laid a wager of $5,000 that he could make the trip without money. It has since turned out that he was simply the agent of a widely advertised article. The old Euglish law forced bettors to pay their debts. A remarkable actiou was brought in 1812 by Rev. Mr. Gilbert against Sir Mark M. Sykes. The baronet, at a dinner party at his own house, in the course of a conversation of the hazard to which the life reBonaparte was exposed, offered on receiving 100 truiueas. to nay one guinea a day as long as Napoleon should remain alive. Mr. Gilbert closed with Sir Mark and sent the lOOguiueas, and the later continued to pay the one guinea a day for nearly three years. At last he declined to pay any longer, and an action was brought to enforce the payment. It was coutended by the defendant that he bad been surprised into the bet by the clergyman's hasty acceptance of it, and that the transaction was an illegal one, seeing that Mr. Gilbert, having a beneficial interest in the life of Bonaparte, might, in the event of an invasion, use all his means for the preservation of the life of an enemy of his country. The jury loyally brought in a verdict for the defendant. Auother queer wager is the one popularly believed to have beeu won by Sir Walter Kuleigh from Queeu Elizabeth on the debatable question of how much smoke was contained in a pound of tobacco. A pound of the article was weighed, burned and weighed again in ashes, and the question was held to be satisfactorily settled by determining the weight of the smoke as exactly that of the tobacco before being burned, minus the ashes. The fact of the ashes having received au additional weight, by combination with the oxygen of the atmosphere was uuthought of by Elizabeth and the knight. An amusing bet for the small sum of os was laid in 1806 in the castle yard, York, between Thomas Hodgson and Samuel Whitehead as to which should succeed in assuming the most original character. Hodgson appeared decor- i ated with 10-guiuea, 5 guiuea and guinea notes all over his coat and waistcoat, and a row of 5 guinea notes arouud his hat, while to his back was 1 fastened the words "John Bull." Whitehead appeared like a woman on one side, one-half of his face painted, one silk stocking and slipper, while the other side represented a Negro in man's I dress, with boots and spurs. "John I Bull" won the wager. 1 A gentleman of the last century laid I a wager to a great amount that he could ; stand for a whole day on London bridge i with a tray fall of sovereigns fresh from the mint and he unable to find a purchaser for them, at a penny a piece. Not oDe was disposed of. Wagers have sometime taken a grim form. It is credibly recorded that in the last ceut u ry a wager was laid for one of a party of gay revelers to enter Westminster Abbey at the hour of midnight. He was to enter one of the vaults beneath the abbey ; in proof of his having been there he was to stick a fork into a coffin which had heeu recently deposited there. He accomplished his object and was returning in triumph, when he felt himself suddenly caught and was so overpowered by terror that he fell in a swoon. His companions not being able to account for his absence found him in this condition. The fork which he had fastened into the coffin had caught and pinned his cloak and so occasioned a fit of terror which nearly proved fatal. Spare Moments.?A boy, poorly dressed came to the door of the principal of*a celebrated school one morning, and asked to see him. The servant eyed his mean clothes and thinking be looked more like a beggar than anything else, told him to go round to the kitchen. "I should like to see Mr. W?," said he. "You want a breakfast, more like?" "Can I see Mr. W? ?" asked the boy. "Well, he is in the library; if he must be disturbed, he must." So she bade him follow. After talking otvliilu tliu m-inr>inn1 rntf nuirfp fhp vr>l. urae that he was studying and took up some Greek books and began to examine the new-comer. Every question be asked the boy was answered readily. "Upon my word," exclaimed the principal, "you do well. What, my boy, where did you pick up so much?" "In my spare moments," answered the boy. He was a hard-working lad, yet almost fitted for college by simply improving his spare moments. A few years later he oecame known all the world over as the celebrated geologist, Hugh Miller. What account can you give of your spare moments?" We overheard a foreman in a manufacturing establishment the other day exclaim, as he looked about him aud found that one of his workmen was missing, a moment before the hour for stopping work : "Jim has gone, has he? He watches the time very closely, and usually throws down his tools about three minutes before the bell strikes, so as to be ready to start for home at its first tap. Tonight he got ahead of the bell. Just as soon as I have to drop a man from my roll he shall go." The incident carries with it its owu lesson, without comment. 9 ? To marry your ideal woman may be all very well, but you will have to live with a real one. Good health, a good disposition, industrious habits, and prudent management will do more to insure your conjugal happiness than all the sentimental excellencies in the realm of imagination. Young man, instead of spendiug hours in picturing an ideal, make your own disposition agreeable, your own manners gentle and refined, studying to correct all conceit, and thus fitting irmircolf tn inaL-p an hnnpef, and virtll J"1"01"' w ~ ? ous woman happy. S3?~ Mr. Whiffles?Doctor, I hear you have a sure cure for insomnia. I wish you would treat me for it, as it is almost impossible for me to get to sleep. Doctor?Certainly. My plan is very simple. As soon as you lie down at night begin to count, and keep on counting until you get to sleep. "Is counting ail it is ? Why counting is iust what I do every night of my life, Hud it doesn't put me to sleep at all." "Eh? What do you count?" "O, household expenses, unpaid bills, time left on notes, and all sorts of things." In a village smithy in the north of Aberdeenshire, a few worthies had forgaithered, and the discussion on "a man loving his second wife," was touched upon. "Nyod Smith," said Millies, "you sud be weel able to gie an opinion on that subject. Ye've haen fower wives. Which o' them a' did ye like best?" "Weel, Hillies, I I ha'e nae qualms o' conscience in answerin' that question. I aye liket the the livin' one best." BST 'Way back in 1841 the Great Western Railroad of England agreed to stop all trains 10 minutes at Swinrlf\r? if tho "nnrti* r?f tho coonnrl nurt V.V,.,, .. W.V. J/?. w.v. ^vwu,. r?..v, bis heirs, assigns and executors," would keep a restaurant there. The railroad has just paid $500,000 for the right or runuing trains past Swindon if it wishes. 8ST A husband, feeling his end approaching, sent for a solicitor to make his will. l'I leave my wife a life interest in 100,000 francs." "Very good ; but if she marries again ?" "In that case I will make it 200,000. It is not for her, however; I leave it to her husband. Poor fellow ! It will be hard earned money !" SOT" A small boy had taken the prize for an exceptionally well-drawn map. After the examination, the teacher, a little doubtful, asked the lad, "Who helped you with this map, James?" 'Nobody, sir." "Come, now, tell me the truth. Didn't your brother help you?" "No, sir; he did it all."? NT. Y. World.