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Norris restrained an impulse to throttle him and allowed Barry to

proceed

"Why, yes, we passed the old thing I always said ould Your friend

Percival voted with the combine He's the real stuff When he sa

truth and justice lay, he buckled down and did the square thing Have a

cigar? No? Oh yes, it's straight goods I'ivin' you You needn't look

so queer And say, on the quiet, I'uet 'em

cheap Say, it's better than cash, any day"

Norris ran up the steps and snatched a ainst his friends and had given the victory

to the other side Ellery flung into his office and whirled into his

day's work in a kind of daze There was ht, but when the afternoon was over, instead of rushing

back to the little home, as he had expected, Norris hurried into his

coat and hastened to find Dick Mr Percival was at ho up the stairs to the little

sanctued in on

Dick, pale and unresponsive, and blurted out his question

"Yes," said Dick, "I voted for it I beca the city could do I've been telling the boys so for the past

teeks I really didn't understand the et so

excited, Norris"