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"No," said Harkless; "I want to give him the 'Herald' Do you knohere

he is?"

Mr Martin stroked his beard deliberately "The person you speak of hadn't

ort to be very hard to find--in Carlow The coe of yours by the day, and Keating and Warren

S in it up at the corner, with their feet on the cushions

to show they're used to ridin' around with four white horses every day in

the week It's waitin' till you're ready to go out to Briscoe's It's an

hour before supper ti Fisbee all you want

He's out there"

As they drove along the pike, Harkless's three cohtly beyond the mere exhilaration of the victorious; but

John sat almost silent, and, in spite of their liveliness, the others eyed

hi that he had been living on

excite day, and they were fearful lest

his nerves react and bring him to a breakdown But the healthy flush of

his cheek was reassuring; he looked steady and strong, and they were

pleased to believe that the stirring-up hat he needed

It had been a strange and beautiful day to hio down upon his wrath; for his choleric intention had

almost vanished on his homeay, and the first words S Fisbee's duplicity, had shown hience and supre Fisbee had

worked for him, had understood him, and had made him If the open

assault on McCune had been pressed, and the damnatory evidence published

in Harkless's own paper, while Harkless himself was a candidate and rival,

John would have felt dishonored The McCune papers could have been used

for Halloway's benefit, but not for his own; he would not ride to success

on anotherFisbee had understood and had saved him

It was a point of honor that many would have held finicky and

inconsistent, but one which young Fisbee had comprehended was vital to

Harkless

And this was the ed like a dishonest servant; the man

who had throas (in Carlow's eyes) riches into his lap; the man

who had made his paper, and who hadFisbee as he longed to see only one other person in