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Also, it ht have been inquired if this parade of fashion had no

connection with the simultaneous action of Mr Ross Schofield; for Ross

was at this hour engaged in decorating the battered chairs in the "Herald"

editorial room with blue satin ribbon, the purchase of which at the Dry

Goods Emporium had been directed by a sudden inspiration of his superior

of the coarnish each chair with

an elaborately tied bow, but, as he was no sailor and understood only the

intricacies of a hard-knot, he confined hi, however, very long ends of ribbon hanging down

after the manner of the pendants of rosettes

It scarcely needs the statement that his labors were in honor of the new

editor-in-chief of the Carlow "Herald" The advent and the purposes of

this personage were, as yet, known certainly to only those of the "Herald"

and to the Briscoes It had been arranged, however, that Minnie and her

father were not to come to the station, for the journalistic crisis was

i; the "Herald" was to appear on the e directly, and without the briefest

distraction, into the paper's difficulties, now accumulated into a

veritable sea of troubles The editor was to be delivered to the Briscoes