The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-04-29

lives, Fisbee and the editor or the L
Herald. They entered the house gloom
lily, and the conference began in de-
jected monosyllables. But presently /
Minnie Briscoe. sitting on the porch /
pretending to sew, heard Helen's voice, /
clear, soft and trembling a little with /
excitement. She talked for only two
or three minutes. but what she said i
seemed to stir up great commotion /
among the others. All the voices burst |
forth at once in exclamations. almost /
shouts. Then Minnie saw her father, /
seated near the window, rise and strike /
the table great blow with his clinch- |
ed fist. "Will l make the nominating /
speech:" he cried. I'D walk from /
here to Rouen and back again to do /
itw
We'll swim outr exclaimed Mr..
Keating of Amo. "The wonderful
thing il that nobody thought Of this
before. There are just two difficulties
Holloway and our man himself. He
wouldn't let his name be used against |
Kedge. Therefore we've got to work |
it quietly and keep it from him."
Its not too difficult" said the speak
er's colleague, Mr. Boswell. "All we've
got to do is to spring it as surprise on
the convention. Some of the old crowd
themselves will be swept along with us
when we make our nomination, and
you want to STUFF your ears with cot
ton. You see. all we need to do Is to
pass the word quietly among the Hal
loway people and the shaky McCune
D. -t,zI <.$f t..xt
you can't fix men in this district against
| us when they know what we mean to
| do now. On the first ballot we'll give
Holloway every vote he'd have got If
he'd run against McCune alone. 1t will
help him to understand how things
were afterward- On the second ballot
why, we nominate. OF course 1t can't
be helped that Holloway has to be kept
in the dark, too. but he's got to be-"
There's one danger" said Warren
Smith. ''Kedge Holloway is honest. but
I believe he's selfish enough to disturb
his best friends deathbed for his own
ends. It's not unlikely that he will get
nervous toward the last and be tele-
graphing Harkless to have himself car
| ried on a cot to the convention TO save
him. That wouldn't do at all, Of course.
And Miss Sherwood thinks maybe
there'd be less danger IL we set the
convention a little ahead OF the day
appointed. It's dangerous, because 1t
shortens our time, but we can fix it for
three days before the day we'd settled
on, and that will bring it to Sept T."
ITS a great plan," said Mr.. Bence,
who was an oratorical gentleman. He
thrust one hand in his breast, raised
the other toward heaven and contin-
ued. For the name Of Harkless
shalr'-
"Wait a minute" said Keating. I'D
like to hear from the Herald about its
policy, If Miss Sherwood will tell u.s."
"Yes, indeed" she answered. at will
be very simple. Don't YOU think there
Is onIy one course to pursue! We Will
advocate no one very energetically, but
we will print as much of the truth
about Mr.. McCune as we can, with del
icacy and honor, in this case; but as
understand ii the work Is almost all to
be done among the delegates. We shall
not mention our plan at all, and we
will contrive that Mr.. Harkless shall
/ hot heNcifc hiS SoPs VI thC paper Noh-
tanning the notice of the change of
date, and think the chance Of his see
ing it in any Rouen paper may be
avoided That is all, think"
THANK you." said Keating. THAT is
certainly the course TO follow"
Every one nodded or acquiesced In
words, and Keating and Bence came
over to Helen and engaged her In con
versation. The others began to look
about for their hats, vaguely preparing
to leave.
"Wait a minute" said the judge
| There's no train due just now" And
. Minnie appeared in the doorway with
big pitcher of crab apple cider, rich
and amber hued. sparkling, cold and
> redolent of the sweet smelling orchard
!. | where it was born. Behind Miss Bris
coe came Mildly Upton with glasses and
|. | fat, shaking, four storied jelly cak,
on a second tray. The judge passed
his cigars around, and the gentlemen
> took them blithely, then hesitatingly
!. held them in their fingers and glanced
, !, at the ladies, uncertain of permission.
"Let me get you some matches,
!, Helen said quickly, and found bo,
: on the table and handed them to Keat
ing. Every one sat beaming, and fra
/ grant wells of smoke soon draped tn,
room.
why do you call her Miss Sher
I wood'?" Boswell whispered in Keat
ing's ear.
That's her name"
"Ain't she the daughter Of that oil,
fellow over there by the window? Aim
{ her name Fisbee?"
"No; she's his daughter but her lega
names Sherwood. She's an adop"-
"Great Scott / know all about thai
I'd like to know il there's man, VIC
: man or child in this part OF the couI
/! try that doesn't. l guess 1t won't b
Fisbee or Sherwood either very Ions
She can easy get new name. tina
e lady. And If she took fancy to Bo:
>, well, why. I'm a BACH
:, Il expect she won't take a fancy
!" Boswell very early" said Keating.
go way" returned Mr.. Boswell
y what do you want TO say that for
= Can't you bear for anybody to be hal
py n minute or two now and thenT
Warren Smith approached Helen an
;" inquired il it would be asking too muc
IL they petitioned her for some musi
: and she went to the piano and san
some darky songs for them, with
quaint suggestion of the dialect. Tw
!, or three old fashioned negro melodi'
= of Foster. followed by some rollickin
. modern limitations. with the movemel
= and spirit of tin shop falling down
flight of stairs. Her audience listene
in delight from the first. But the latt
~ songs quite overcame them with plea