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a relative, dictated a hearty and grateful indorsement of their action,

and, soon after, received a typewritten rejoinder, so, because of the numerous type errors and their corrections

Theested six feet of enterprise and roaned and fretted over the writhings of the "Herald's" headless

fortnight, but, perusing the issues produced under the domination of H

Fisbee, he started now and then, and chuckled at soement, or stared, puzzled, over an oddity, but ca of

vast relief; and, when the question of H Fisbee's salary was settled and

the tenancy assured, he sank into a repose of ht be an

eccentric fellow, but he knew his business, and, apparently, he knew

soth concerning the

Carlow oil fields, urging Harkless to take shares in Mr Watts's co been sunk without

satisfactory results H Fisbee explained with exceeding technicality his

reasons for believing that the third ould strike oil

But with his ease ofthe "Herald," Harkless found hiet back to Plattville With

the prospect of return it seelared at hiht of the dreary routine he ave hi after the

circus And, though it was partly the long sweat of anguish which had

benumbed him, his apathy was pierced, at tiht he faced the grotesque ain; over and over he felt the blows, and

clapped his hand to where the close fire of Bob Skillett's pistol burned

his body