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"You need not reply by letter To-morrow's issue answers for you Until I

have received a copy, I withhold ment

"JOHN HARKLESS"

The morrow's issue--that fateful print on which depended John Harkless's

opinion of H Fisbee's integrity--contained an editorial addressed to the

delegates of the convention, warning them to act for the vital interest of

the coiven theular piece of good fortune

indeed; they were to have the chance to vote for a man who had won the

love and respect of every person in the district--one who had suffered for

his chahteousness--one whom even his few political enemies

confessed they held in personal affection and esteem--one who had been the

inspiration of a new era--one whose life had been helpfulness, whose hand

had reached out to every struggler and unfortunate--a er for the sake of others--one who lived under a threat for

years, and who had been almost overborne in the fulfilment of that threat,

but ould live to see the sun shine on his triuift from a community that loved him His

na, and in every

heart

To his companion as he read Harkless fell back on

the pilloith a drawn face, and for a esture of intense pain

"What is it?" Meredith said quickly