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look you up Barry has some sort of an acquaintance with this Percival

fellow, and when he proclaimed his intentions, Percival jumped on him

with a flat defiance--told him that he had proof of a disreputable

affair in Barry's career that would queer hiot hold of this thing, I'ht I was the only man in the city that knew it, and it has been ot them, Percival's

facts were all square, and Barry collapsed Now, these two patched up an

agreeive up his candidacy for mayor, and stay

in his seat in the council, and Percival, on his part, agreed to keep

quiet"

"Well, that suits you all right"

"It would if it ended there, but what I started out to tell you is this:

the Municipal Club is beginning to take up city politics in earnest

They are organizing systeht

for the council in next fall's election, and, to cap the cli Preston to run for mayor

Now you know they could hardly have picked out a worse man, so far as we

are concerned Preston is popular and strong, and he's perfectly

unapproachable I'd as soon tackle the law of gravitation It isn't even

pleasant for respectable citizens, like you and ainst the whole ot to be done on the quiet"