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Helen gave a little gasp "Never!" she cried "Never!"

The buckboard stopped on the "Herald" corner, and here, and along Main

Street, the line of vehicles which had followed it from the station took

their places The Square was al, and the north

entrance of the court-house had been decorated with streas,

so as to make it a sort of stand Hither the croas already strea,

and hither the procession made its way At intervals the cannon boo the air with his bell; nobody had a

better time that day than Schofields' Henry, except old Wilkerson, as

with the procession

In advance, ca, and behind the their horses like cavalrymen, led by

the sheriff and his deputy and Jim Bardlock; then followed the Harkless

Club of Ananiht of this the people shouted like

madmen But when Helen's eye fell upon his fat, rather unhappy face, she

felt a pang of pity and unreasoning remorse, which warned her that he who

looks upon politics when it is red must steel his eyes to see many a man