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15he Gen?tem From Indiana "By BOOTH TA TULIJVG TO JV *.$ -:- *.* Copyri?bu 1899. by Doubltdoy /Si McClur* Co. %%% Copyright. 1902. by McClure. VhilUpj /3fc Co. ? CHAPTER XI. ^^JTlR.'ROSS SCHOFIELD wa ss ged in decorating the ^IS?f? ? *ere<* cliairs i11 tiie Heralc ^"T^T ' foriai rp0^ """iih blue jd&bon,* t?e purchase of which al 2>ryt Goods Emporium- tad been di ?? ?y a sudden inspiration of his -s saes; Mr. Parker of the comp( ?orca* - It was Ross' intention to *tish each chair -wita an elabon ?Sed bow* but as he was no sailor . sniderstpod? only the intricacies < feartj knot he confined himself to - species of ornamentation, leaving, 1 ?i>nr, very long ends of ribbon .han ??o ?va af ter the manner of. the pend . <sl rosettes. Mr. Schofield was alon ?iis labor, his two confreres having ?sk?n themselves to the station to 1 train from Rouen. li was a wet, gray day. The .< country lay dripping under form wraps of thin mist and the warm, t sUng rain blackened tie weather 1 fsz shingles of the station, made c re?e???ng puddles on the unev< 'worn' planks of the platform and da <es-3d the packing cases too thoron*; for occupation" by the station loon The bus driver. Mc Bennett and proprietors of two attendant "cut ?ders* and three or four other wort) 'shani business or the lack of it ca ?> that locality availed themselves t?te shelter of the waiting room, but gentlemen of the Herald were too : tated to be confined save by the HE of the horizon. Zbey had reached the station half tiowr before train time and COUSUE the interval in pacing the platform ?a? a big cotton umbrella, address ?ach other only in monosyllables. Th ia the waiting room gossiped eage I end for the thousandth time about 1 3ate events and particularly about 1 tremendous news of Fisbee. Judd B sett looked out through the rainy do "way at the latter with reverence, an? Sse pride "of^lbwnsmanship. He ( dared it to be his belief that Fist ?md Parker were waiting for her nov * For all Carlow knew why Fisbee h 3*one 'to meet the strange lady at t f. oration when she had come to vi ris? Briscoes, why he had come wi ser. to the lecture, why he had tak H app?r at the Briscoes' three times ai ligner'twice when she was there. F liad told the story to Parker on z.' l~ach?\j afternoon as they sat t >. : her m the Herald office, and Park ii?d tcid the town. It was simp -enough indeed, and Fisbee's past w? -a mystery no longer. It might hai ?Ixron revealed years before had the; . U>een anything in particular to reve; smi if it had ever occurred to Fist* to talk of himself and his affair Things had a habit of not occurring 1 ITSshee. Mr. Parker, very nervous himsel felt his companion's elbow treuibhn against his own as tho great engin, ?reeking in the mist and sending gre:' clouds of white vapor up to ihe si:: swooped. down the track, rushed b "them ar.d came to a standstill bevon "the platform. Fisbee and the fcrema made haste to the nearest vestir.ui rind were gazing blankly at its barre Ifj Approaches when they heard a silver laugh behind them and an exciamatioi ?"?Upstairs and downstairs and in m lady's chamber! Just behind yoi .clearf' Turning ..quickly, the foreman behel -a blushing and smiling little vision, -vision with light brown h?ir, a visio enveloped in a light brown rain cloe and with brown gloves from whic ; ( -the handles 'of a big brown travelin i?g were let fall as the vision dis appeared* under the cotton umbrelli ?while the ?smitten Judd Bennett reele i& gasping against the station. ' - '"Dearest** the girl cried to the oh xnan. "you should have been lookin: g|. for me between the devil and the deo; sea, the parlor car and the smoker V i've given up cigars, and I've begin to study economy, so I didn't come o: ?eitherr Tb* drizzle and mist blew in unde ?the top of the "cut under" as the: <drov? rapidly into town, and bright lit ?tie drops sparkled on the fair hai .above thc new editor's forehead and o: the long lashes above the new editor* ?cheeks. She shook these transion -gems oif lightly as she paused in th? ?loorwsy of the office at thc top of th< rickety stairway. Mr. Schofield had just added the las touch to his decorations and managec to slide into his coat as the party came mp the stairs, and now. perspiring proud, embarrassed, he assumed an at? titude at once deprecatory of his en? deavors and pointedly expectant ol commendations for tho resuhs. (Hf was a indues* youth and a conscious. After his first sight of her as she stood *\ in the doorway it was several days be? fore he could lift Ins 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 vi\o of his blue rosettes, tied carefully and firmly to the middle shit of each chair back. Then- hail "been several yards of ribbon left over, and there was a hard knot of glossy satin on each of the inkstands and un Hie doorknobs. A bdue baud passing v yr -4.- >? >- -?- .?- ? 9 ^ " around t?i? stovepipe'Ient Tt an anti rakishness suggestive of the chariot and a number of streamers suspen from a hook in the ceiling encoura a supposition that the employees of Herald were contemplating the tr?cate festivities of May day. It n( ed no ghost to infer that these ga tures had not embellished the edito chamber curing Mr. Harkless' activ but on the contrary, had been.put place that very morning. Mr. Fis had not known of the decorations. 1 as his eye fell upon them a faint 1< of pain passed over his brow. But girl examined the room with a dane eye, and there were both tears ? laughter in her heart "How beautiful!" she cried. "H beautiful!" She crossed the room a gave her hand to Ross. "It is ! Schofield, isn't it? The ribbons ? delightful. I didn't know Mr. Ha less' room was so pretty." Ross looked out of the window a laughed as he took her hand, which shook with a long up and down moti< but he was set at better ease by 1 apparent unconsciousness of the fi that the decorations were for her. "( it ain't much, I reckon," b> repli< and continued to look out of ^ne w dow and lau^h. "She went To the desk and remov her gloves and laid her rain cloak 0^ a chair near by. "Is this Mr. Harkle chair?" she asked, and, Fisbee answi ing that it was, she looked gravely at for a moment, passed her hand gent over the back of it and then, throwi: the rain cloak over another chair, sa cheerily: "Do you know, I think the first thii for us to do will be to dust everythii very carefully ?" I "You remember, I was confident si i would know precisely where to begin j was Fisbee's earnest whisper in tl j willing ear of the long foreman. "N an in?^ant's indecision, was there?" "No, siree," replied the other, and ; he went down to the pressroom to hm for a feather duster which he thougl might be found there he collared Bi Tipworthy, the devil, who, not admi ted to the conclave of his superior was whistling on the rainy stairway. "You hustle and find that dustbrus we used to have. Bud," said Parke And presently as they rummaged i the nooks and crannies about the nu chinery he melted to his small assis ant. "The paper is saved, Buddie saved by an angel in light brown. Yo can tell it by the look of her." '.Gee!" said Bud. Mr. Schofield had come, blushing, t join them. "Say. Cale, did you notie the color of her eyes?" "Yes. They're gray." "I thought so, too, show day and a Kedge Halloway's lecture. But saj Cale, they're kind of changeable. Whe: she /ome iu upstairs with you and-Fi: bee they were jest as blue-nea matched the color of our ribbons." "Gee!"' repeated Mr. Tipworthy. When tile editorial chamber Lad bee I made so neat that it almost glcwe< ! diough it could never be expected ; .hine as did Fisbee and Caleb Parki and Ross Schofield ilia: morning, tl. lady took ber s::a? at the desk ai: looked over the few items tv gent! men had already compiled for lier p rusal. Mr. Parker explained many tee! niealities peculiar to the Ci* lew lie: aid, translated some phrases of th printing room and enabled her to gras; the amount of matter needed to fill a. issue. When Parker finished the three ir. comp?tents sat watching the little Cg ure with the expression of hopeful am trusting terriers. She knit her brov for a second, but she did not betray at instant's indecision. "I think we should have regula: market reports," she announced ear npstiy. "1 am sure Mr. Harkless wouk approve. Don't you think he woul??" She turned to Parker. "Market reports!" Mr. Fisbee ex claimed. "I should never have though af market reports, nor do 1 imagint would either of my-my associates. A .vornan to conceive the idea of market .-.crts!"' The editor blushed. "Why, wk; ?.vould, dear, if not a woman or a spec? ulator, and I'm not a speculator, an? neither are you. and that's the reascr yen didn't think of them. So. Mr Parker, as there is so much pressure, and if you don't mind continuing to aei ?is reporter as well as compositor untii ;ifier tomorrow, and if it isn't too wet yon must have an umbrella-would ii be too much bother if you went around to ail the shops-stores. I mean-to ali the grocers and the butchers and the leritlicr place we passed, the tannery. ?:: if tliere's eire 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 far, and at the dry goods store - and you must take a blank book and a sharpened pencil, and will von price everything, please, and jo? down how much things are?" Orders received, the impetuous Par? ker was departing on the instant when s!,<- stepped him with a little cry, "i'm you haven't any umbrella!" And she forced her own, a slender wand, upon ! im. It bore a cunningly wrought 1 andie, and its fabric was of glisten? ing ilk. The foreman, unable to de? cline it. thanked her awkwardly, and as she turned to speak to. Fisbee he boiled out of the door and ran down the steps without unfolding "the tm brella, and then as he made for XI Martin's emporium he buttoned it 9 eurely under his long Prince Alber determined that not a drop of wati should touch and ruin so delicate "bing. Thus he carried it. triumpban ly dry. through the course of his r< portings of that day. ""Wii?li he had gone the editor laid ht hand cn Fisbee's arm. "Dear," she sai( "do you thiuk you'd take cold if yo went over to the hotel and made a not of all the arrivals for the last week an the departures too? I noticed that Mi Harkless always rilled two or three sticks, isn't it?-with them and thing about them, and somehow it 'read' ver; nicely. You must ask the landlord a about them, and if there aren't any, w can take up the same amount of spac lamenting the dull times, just as h used to. You see, I've read the Hera! faithfully. Isn't it a good thing I a! ways subscribed for it?" She patt? Fisbee* s cheek with her soft hand an< laughed gayly into his mild, vague oh eyes.- "It won't be this scramble to 'iii ui)' much longer. I have plans, gentle men, and before long we will prin news; and we must buy- 'plate matter instead cf patent insides; and I had : talk with the Associated Press peopl in Rouen, but that's for afterwhile And I went to the hospital this morn ing before I left. They wouldn't let rn? see him again, but they tdd me al about him, and he's better, and I go Tom to go to the jail, and he saw som< of those beasts, and I can do a columi of description besides an editorial abou them, and I will be fierce enough t< suit Carlow, you may believe that Anc I've been talking to Senator Burns that is, listening to Senator Burns which is much stupider-and I think j 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. Bj the time you get back from the hotel father, I'll have half my-my stuf! written-*written up/ I mean. Takt your big umbrella and go, dear, and please ask at the express office if a typewriter has come for me." She laughed 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!" I and went to him and knelt before him I and, with the humblest, proudest grace ? in the world, turned up his trousers to keep them from the mud. Ross Scho? field liad never considered Mr. Fisbee a particularly sacred sort of person, but he did from that moment The old man 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 him, 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. Ile 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 ad. smiling, to the paper's remaining vassal. "Mr. Schofield. 1 heard some talk in Rouen of an oil company that had been formed to prospect for koro ?ene in Carlow county. Do you know an viii ing about it?" Iioss. surfeited with honor, terror, and possessed by a sweet distress at find? ing himself tete-a-tete with the lad? looked at the wail and replied, "Oh. it's that Eph Watts' foolishness." "bo 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 reckon they've be? gun yet hardly. They're gittin' the machinery in place. I heard Eph say they'd begin to bore-dig, I mean, ma'am; I meant to say dig"- He stopped, utterly confused and unhap? py, and she understood his manly pur? pose and knew him for a gentleman whom she liked. "You mustn't be too much surprised," 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 io morrow's paper beyond an item or so. but do yea think you could possibly find Mr. Watts and ask him for some information as to their progress and it it would be too much trouble for him to call here tomorrow afternoon w the day after? I want him to give me an interview if he will. Tell him, please, he will very greatly oblige us." "Oh. he'll come all right," answered her companion quickly. "rrTTl ta'keTibbs' buggy and go down there right oil'. Eph won't lose no time gittin' hen1." And with this encouraging assurance he was flying forth when he. like the others, was detained by her solicitous care. She was a born mother. Iii.' pre? tested that in the buggy he would be perfectly sheltered. Besides, there wasn't another umbrella about the place. Ile liked to get wet anyway: had always loved rain. The end of it was that he went away in a sort o?" tremor wearing her rain cloak over bis shoulders, which garment, as it cov crcd its owner completely when she wore it. hung almost to his knees. Ile j darted around a corner, and '.here. I 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 hui!.line, and left the package in the hands of j Bud Tipworthy. charging him to care j for it as for his own life and not to j opeujt but ifjthe lady so much as set _i i-- II------1.^ one foot out of doors before his return to band it to her with the message "He borrowed another off J. Rankins.' Left alone, the lady went to the desk and stood for a time looking gravely at Harkless' chair. She touched it gently, as she had touched it once before that morning, and then she spoke to it as if he were sitting there and as she would not have spoken had he been sitting there. "You didn't want gratitude, did you?" she whispered, with sad lips. Soon she smiled at the blue ribbon, patted the 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 hear him, nor did she .look up when Parker entered, but pur? sued the formulation of her fast flying ideas with the same single purpose and abandon. So the two men sat and waited .while . their chief tainess 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'-once a week?" "A woman's page!" exclaimed Fis? bee. "I could never have thought of that. Could you. Mr. Parker?" Before that day was over system had j l*een 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 Cud and Mr. Schofield (after his return with the items and a courteous mes? sage from Ephraim Watts) bent over the forms downstairs, and Uncle Xeno? phon was cleaning the storeroom and scrubbing the floor. An extiaordinary number of errands took tbo various members pf the printing force up to see the "editor "in cliieT, literally to" see the editor in chief. It was hard to be? lieve that the presence had no: 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? ald, their paper. Once Ross, chuckling, looked up and caught the foreman gig? gling to himself. "What in the name of common sense you laughin' at. Cale?" he asked. "What are you laughing at?" re? joined the other. "I dunno!" The day wore on, wet and dreary out? side, but all within the Herald's bosom was snug and busy and murmurous with the healthy thrum of life and prosperity renewed. Toward 6 o'clock, system accomplished, the new guiding spirit was deliberating on a policy, as Harkless 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 hard, and sometimes she worked late: she always worked early. She made some mistakes at first and one or two blunders which she took much more seriously than any one else did. But she found a remedy for all such results of her inexperience, and slie developed experience. She >?t a: her task with the energy of her yt nth fulness and no limit to her ambition, and she felt that Harkless had pre? pared the way for a wide expansion of the paper's interests, wider then he knew. Slie brought a fresh point of view to operate in a situation where lie had fallen perhaps toe much in the rat. and she watched every chance wills a keen eye and looked ahead of her with dear foresight. What she waited and yearned for and dreaded was the time when a copy of the new Herald should he placed in the trembling hands of the man who lay in the Rouen hospital. Then slie 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 tri?jme to lier work". And Low ??;:rd sli \\ '>i?ici labor to d:-s?rve *T* After a ti!!';? she began to sot- that his representative and editor ;f th? Herald sh<- lind become a factor in d's trict politics. It tool* her brea*.?J. :>:;; with a ?rasp of delight, for the* * tva* something sjie wanted to dcL (To Be Continued.) But Few are Free. *But few people are entirely free I from indigestion at this season of the i year. 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