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"What ?" asked Briscoe, cheerily

"We better explain, I guess," answered the other; and turning to his

compatriot: "You tell him, Boswell"

"Well--it's this way--" said Boswell, and ca aside sheepishly and unable to proceed

"So that's the way of it, is it?" said the old gentlehed cheerfully, and looked about her with a courageous and

encouraging eye "It is ee Briscoe, we are

conte 'a piece of the blackest treachery and chicanery' We are

going to give Mr Halloway the--the go-by!" The ean to talk at once

"Hold on a ht What do you

ith"You see, the boys are getting in

line again for this convention They are the old file that used to rule

the roost before the 'Herald' got too strong for thee Halloith that Gaines County

uess We had trouble

enough once with him and his heelers, and now that Mr Harkless is down,

they've taken advantage of it to raise a revolution: Rod McCune for

Congress! He's a dirty-hearted swindler--I hope Miss Sherill pardon

the strong expression--and everybody thought the 'Herald' had driven hih it never told how it did it; but he's up on top