Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-07-25

not that ! should call you Helen
mean s-Miss-Fisbee-no. Sher-
woodruff I've always thought Helen
was the prettiest name in the woriu.
you'll forgive me?-and please zen
Parker there's no more copy and won
bel wouldn't grind out another such
to save his immortal-she said-ah'
never made good trade-no-uniess,,
they can't come seven miles-but IL
finish you. Skillet. first; ! know you.
know nearly all of you. Now iet
sing Annie Isle" - He lifted us
hand as If to beat the time LOT
chorus.
"Oh, John, john cried Tom Mere
dith, and sobbed outright. My Dos'
my boy-old friendr' The cry OF LUG
classmate was like that of a mothei'
for it was his old idol and hero WHO
lay helpless and broken before hlln'
Two pairs of carriage lamps sparkieu
in front of the hospital in the ealiies'
OF the small hours, these subJolheu ~
two deep hooded phaetons. from eaIn
of which quickly descended sen'ies
man with beard, an air or elillnen
and a small, ominous black DON "no
the air of eminence was justlhed py
the haste with which Meredith hau
sent for them and by their VIDE re-
pute. They arrived almost slnuita-
neously and hastily shook hands DIS
| they made their way to the ward down
| the long hall and up the narrow cotrl-
| dor. They had short conversation
| with the surgeon and word with Tue
nurse, then turned the others out OF the
room by a practiced innuendo OF nlah-
| ner. They stayed a long time III Tue
| room without opening the door.
Meredith went out on the steps ana
breathed the cool night air. A slender
faint of drugs hung everywhere ABOUT
the building, and the almost impercep-
tible permeation sickened him. 1t was
deadly, he thought To him it was I'M
bued with hideous portent or suffer-
ing. The lights in the little ward were
turned up, and they seemed to shlne
from a chamber of horrors. While ne
waited as a brother might have Walteu
outside the inquisition, II lndeeu
brother would have been allowed to
wait outside the inquisition.
Alas, he had found John Harkless
He had lost track of him as men some
times do lose track of their best be
loved, but it had always been a com
fort to know that HAIRLESS was some
where, a comfort without which h'
could hardly have got along. Like otn
ers. he had been waiting for John u
turn up-on top, of course-he had sucl
ability. ability for anything, and peopl
would always care for him and bellev
in him so that he would be shovel
I ahead no matter how much he hum
a back himself; but Meredith had no
1 expected him to turn up in Indiana.
He remembered now hearing ma
who had spent the day in Plattville o
. business speak of him: They've got
l young fellow down there who'll be gov
: ernor in few years. He's a sort c
. dictator. Runs the party all over thG
\ part of the state to suit his own swet
will just by sheer personality. An
; there isn't a man in the district WI
wouldn't cheerfuIly lie down in Il
= mud to let him pass over dry. Ii
Il that young HAIRLESS, you know. OW
. the Herald, the paper that downed NJ
~ Cune and smashed those imitati'
n white Caps in Carlow county,
;. had been struck by the coincidence
:, the name, but he had not dreamed til
70 the Carlow HAIRLESS was his frle
h until Helen's telegram had reach
r. him that evening.
,, He shivered His name was spoE
no from within, and Horner came out
y the steps with the two eminent S
geons. and the latter favored him W
"a n few words which he did not und
bo stand. He did understand, howeV
wv what Horner told him. Somehow
~ look of the sheriff's Sunday coat, WI
king forlornly from his broad, b
;s- shoulders, was both touching and
ON emn. He said simply: "He's consci
70 and not out of his head. They're g
in to git his antemortem statemel
~ And they re-entered the ward.
,ar HAIRLESS eyes were bandaged.
i'm lawyer was speaking to him, and
ro- Horner went awkwardly toward
Iad cot Warren said something indica1