The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-16

fort to seem cool IIc exclaimed: "Of
course Ill do it, shacklett. DO YOU
iinlgne that Tina degenerate idiot?
aill#t tell YOU frankly now that was
scared TO death when j saw that thing
in the Times, for figured that you'd
make it !; boomerang to elect you. ] svc
not enjoyed this fight against you. ana
I'm only too glad to be a Bile to tank 10
you again in the corners OF the corri--
doris
Judge Sommrrs?'' shacklett let out
4lthe words with all the suayity5 Of gesture
OF which mendlcant Is capable ana
with all the modulation of tone that a
long lesson I'm elocution might have given.
There were but two words uttered, but
they stood for II you dare-bc dead
duck or acknowledge you're q rascal!
You have to--and you know 1t; take your
rrnisllmentlke a man."
a CO. said Sommers.
NOV. gentlemen, each two OF us stand
as witnesses to the pledge Of the other.
You'll want to 80 to arrange for basging
my men, and as ] said, \ go to tell them
to fy to either coop they please. i also
tell them that they have lost nothing bY
sticking to Shacklett. Sommers, you
can take the front door. the way you
came In. Galloway, You pass into that
adjoining room and turn to the right;
X you'll get to the ladies' entrance. ! III
s 20 through that other room. and see ms
friend the chef#as ] go out the back
way" 3845t
There was no. LACK OF energy in ne
fight for the senatorship. Shacklett had
started East on the fastest ainaout or
tie ca pital, and at Council Bluffs was de-
lighted to hear of the phenomenal runs
made to Burlington At the latter city,
he felt he was nearly home again. ana
from the very station the lAllroad ran
s, near tho river&thnt he threw cigar
stumI into the water from the car WI VIZ.
dow Above * oekult he took a long look
Mt the hills of Illinois less than milo
away, but yet belonging TO that other
world that the river cut off so thoroughly
that it seemed to have been moved over
n little, leaving "A crack like the space
between great stepping stones. re had
left his office back there determined 70
induce the girl to change her mind. When
he saw the road across the river. SO
near that lie could distinguish the differ
ent kinds or vehicles, and so far that
1t seemed ii, another hemisphere, the road
over which they had driven so often, he
said TO himself that this was case
nl absolute necessity, and that ne never
before really knew what necessity meant.
lie left the train at the little depot
at Alexandria, and the driver OF the
ed TO take ii as y personal injury mat
Shucklett ignored him and started to wa TX
|. brskly toward The ferry. lie crossed tho
river 10 Warsaw. and jumped ino the
first hack, but not before the boy IN
the railroad telegraph Office had caught
sight of him. With the prescience OF
telegraph office boys, this one. had rea-
sOned that a we'll dressed man coming
on7the down K-IAne train and llurrying
over the river into a hack must be the
great man from out Nest for whom the
telegram was meant,
Shaoklett differed from the Stownspeo-
pie who got kilograms in that he signed
the book and tipped the boy before he
tore open the envelope. The telegram
| did not seem 10 be OF much Interest o
him and the office boy wondered hoW
| 1t would affect such q man Q be elect
| cd general manager or ira inmaster oil the
! universe. In fact, he made q remark OF
| this kind to the agent. when hf got
| Eack' to The Office, The telegram was
| his: 4.5. Ell
Hon. ~ g Shackett, Warsaw. lis,
| Deadlock between solnmers and Gallo
1 way broken by election OF yourself as
senator. We sprung II rsght without
| hearing from you. WiIes strung all a!ons