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That was a concession to the Federal pohich could no longer be

successfully fought State poas still largely a weapon in

factional hands, and in his country the Hollmans were the

officeholders To the Hollmans, he coulderish courage, there had

cropped out from tier for knowledge That was a matter in which the old man

found his bitterest and e Lescott, distinguished landscape

painter of New York and the world-at-large, arrived in the twilight

His first iave a

touch of the weird The sweep of the stone-guarded well rose in a yard

tra structure of logs,

with additions of undressed luhts The cabin,

which had been the pioneer nucleus, still stood less and with mud

-daubed chimney at the center About it rose a number of tall poles

surreat huht have to be nized as a uest of to-day One of the kins, and before the half-hour had passed,

Lescott's wrist was in a splint, and his injuries as well tended as