Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-03-17

Nv 50. common sense
you mugu.n at Calc:" he asked.
"What are you laughing at?' re.
Joined the other.
81 dunno"
The day wore on, wet and drcary out
side. but all within the Herald's bosom
was snug and busy and murmurous
with tho healthy thrum OF life and
prosperity renewed Toward 6 o'clock,
system accomplished. the new guiding
spirit was celebrating on a policy. as
Harkless would conceive policy were
he there. when Minnie Briscoe ran joy
Cusly up the stairs, plunged into the
room waterproofcd and radiant and
caught her friend in her eager arms
and put an end to policy for that day.
But policy and labor did not end at
twilight every day. There were even
ings, as in tho time of Harkless, when
lamps shone from the upper windows
of the Herald building; for the little
editor worked hard. and sometimes she
worked late; she always worked early.
She made some mistakes Mt first and
one or two plumbers which she took
much more seriously than any one else
did. But she found remedy for all
such results of her incxperience, and
she developed experience. She set at
her task with the energy Of her youth.
fitness and no limit to her ambition,
and she felt that Uarklcss had pre-
pared the way for wide expansion OF
the papers interests wider then he
knew. She brought fresh point OF
view to operate in a situation where he
had fallen perhaps too much in the rut
and she watched every chance with a
keen eye and looked ahead of her with
clear foresight What she waited and
yearned for and dreaded was the tins
when a copy of tie new Herald SHOULD
be placed in the trembling hands of the
man who lay in the Roucn hospital
Then she felt if be, unaware of her
identity as he was and as he was to be
kept. should place everything in her
hands unrescrvedly, that would be a
tribute TO her work. And how hard she
would labor to deserve III
After n time she began to see that as
his representative and editor of the
Herald she had become n factor in dis.
trict politics. 1t took her breath, but
with a gasp Of delight. for there was
something she wanted TO do
Rodney McCune had lifted his head
and the friends of his stricken enemy
felt that they and the cause that Hark
less had labored for were lost with
out the leader, for the old ring that the
Herald had beaten rallied around Nc.
'''i'bp have in IN,
Every one knew that Holloway, a dull
but honest man. the most available ma.
tcrial that Harkless had been able to
lind. was already beaten. If John
Uarkless had been con the ground to
work for him" il was said, Holloway
could have received the nomination
again, but rs matters stood he was
boaton and beaten badly. and Rodney
Me- "ould sit in congress, for nom.
mat rant election.
But one afternoon the Harkless
forces, dcmorallzcd, broken. hopeless.
woke up to find that they had a leader.
There was political conference at
Judge BrScoes The politicians de
sccnded sadly at the gate from the
omnibus that had met the afternoon
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,hing is that nobodv Thought of this
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