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would wish to come at once When those fellows caraph

When they came out--ah! he did not want them to come out; he was afraid

They were an eternity--why didn't they come? No; he hoped they would not

come, just now In a little time, in a few minutes, even, he would not

dread a feords so much; but now he couldn't quite bear to be told he

had found his friend only to lose him, the man he had always most needed,

wanted, loved Everybody had always cared for Harkless, wherever he went

That he had always cared for everybody was part of the reason,a man who had spent a day in Plattville

on business speak of hi fellon there who'll be

Governor in a few years He's a sort of dictator; and runs the party all

over that part of the State to suit his oill, just by sheer

personality And there isn't a man in that district ouldn't

cheerfully lie down in the

Harkless, you knons the 'Herald,' the paper that downed McCune and

smashed those imitation 'White-Caps' in Carlow County" Meredith had been

momentarily struck by the coincidence of the name, but his notion of

Harkless was so inseparably connected as (to his mind) a

handsome and more spacious--certainly more illuht be his friend never entered his head Helen

had said so once--he could not remember what--that hed He thought of the whimsical

fate that had taken her to Plattville, of the reason for her going, and

the old thought came to him that the world is, after all, so very s stars; they were reassuring and kind Under

their benignancy no loss could befall, no fate ht he felt his vision opened, for the moment, to perceive a fine

tracery of fate