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finding and recriminauon and had
finally made an end of the matter by
bestowing her dowry Of hillside acres
on the son of a neighboring farmer.
Therefore Kent had stagnated
quietly, living with simple rigor the
life he had marked out for himselr;
thankful at heart, Loring had sus-
pected, for the timely intervention OF
the farmers son. but holding himself
well in hand against a repetition OF
the sentimental offense. All this until
the opening of the summer hotel at
the foot of Old Croydon and the COM
ing OF Elinor Brentwood.
No one knew Just how much Miss
Brentwood had to do with the long
delayed awakening OF David Kent;
but in Loring's forecaStings she en-
joyed the full benefit of the doubt.
From tramping the hills alone or
whipping the streams for brook trout,
David had taken to spending his after
Moons with loVer-like regularity at the
Croydon Inn, and at the end OF the
season had electrified the sleepy home
town by declaring his intentions to go
West and grow up with the country.
In Loring's setting forth Of the
awakening the motive was not far to
seek. Miss Brentwood was ambitious,
and II her interest in Kent had been
only casual she would not have been
likely to point him to the wider bat
.tlefield. Again, apart from his modest
patrimony, Kent had only his profes-
sion The Brentwoods were not rtnh,
as riches are measured IN milnonas
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tice meted out to ourselves, our wives
ana our little children, they'll come
down and quit watering their stock
with the sweat of our brows; and that
hold-up motto of theirs, All the tariff
the traffic will stand will be no more
known in Israeli"
Again the clamor of applause rose
ike line dust on the throng heated air,
and Kent looked at his watch.
IL is time we were going" he said;
adding: L guess you have had enough
of 1T, haven't you?"
Loring was silent for the better part
or the way back to the railway station.
When ne spoke of 1t was in answer TO
a delayed question of Kent's.
What do l think Of him? I don't
know. David; and that's the plain
truth. He is not the man he appears
to be as he stands there haranguing
that crowd. That is a pose, and an
exceedingly skillful one. He is not
altogether apparent to me, but he
strikes me as being a man Of immense
ossibilities-whether for good or evil,
1 can't say"
You needn't draw another breath of
uncertainty on that score" was the
curt rejoinder. He is a demaeogue
pure and unadulterated."
Loring did not attempt to refute the
charge
Are he and his party likely to win 2"
he asked.
God knows" said Kent. I'VE have
had so mar lightnir- transformations
in politics in the State that nothing is
impossible"
I'D like to know" was Loring's COM
ment. TT might make some difference
to me, personally"
That reminds me: haven't given
you q chance to say ten words about
yourself"
THE chance hasn't been lacking.
But my business out here is-Well, it
isn't exactly star chamber matter,
but I'm under promise in a way not
to talk about it until 1 have had con-
ference with our people at the capital.
I'll write you about it in a few days"
They were ascending the steps at the
END of the passenger platform again,
and Lcring broke away from the politf-
cal ard personal entanglement to give
Kent one more opportunity to hear his
word of negative comfort.
I'VE dug up the field of recollection
pretty thoroughly in our after dinner
seance in your rooms, David, but / no.
ticed there was one corner of il Won
left undisturbed. Was there any good
reason?"
Kent made no show of misunder-
standing.
There was the excellent reason
which must have been apparent to YOU
before you had been an hour in CASTOR
I've made my shot, and missed
Loring entered the breach with his
shield held we'll to the fore He was
the last man in the world to assault a
friends confidence recklessly.
II thought good while ago. and I
still think, that you are making a.
mountain out Of a mole-hill, David
Elinor Brentwood is true woman in
every inch Of her. She is as much
above caring for false notions OF caste
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tions to the speaker.
Measured by the standard OF fitness
for his office of prolocutor the man
standing beside the stage properties
speakers desk was worthy a second
glance He was dark, undersized,
trinity built, with a Vandyke beard.
clipped closely enough to show the lines
of a bulldog jaw and eyes that had
the gift, priceless to the public speaker,
of seeming to hold every unlocking eye
in the audience. Unlike his hackers in
the awkward semicircle, he wore a
professional long coat, and the hands
that marked his smoothly flowing SEN
tences were slim and shapely,
who is he?" asked Lorfng, In an
aside to Kent.
stephen Hawk. the ex-District At
torney-boomer, pettifogger, promoter
"a charter member Of the Castor wolf
into believing in the impeccability OF
Satan in one breath and knife you in
the back for $40 bill in the next" was
the rejoinder.
Loring nodded and again became a
listener. Hawks speech was merely in
troductory and it was nearing its
peroration.
auspicious as 1t is significant. When
tyranny in whatsoever form 1t op-
presses them, Thus far and no farther
shalt thou co. the night is far spent
and the light is breaking in the east.
"Since the day when We first began
to wrest with compelling hands the
natural riches from the soil of this our
adaptive State political trickery in high
places. backed by the puissant might
of alien corporations, has ground us
into the dust.
But now the time Of our deliverance
is at hand. Great movements give
birth to great leaders; and in this, our
holy crusade against oppression and
tyranny the crisis has bred the man.
Ladies and gentlemen, 1 have the
pleasure in presenting to you the
speaker of the evening, our friend and
fellow citizen, the Honorable Jasper G.
Bucks, by the grace Of God and your
suffrages the next Governor of the
State"
In the storm Of applause that burst
upon the dramatic peroration of the
ex-District Attorney, a man rose from
the center of the stage semicircle and
numbered heavily forward to the foot
lights. Loring's first emotion was Of
surprise, tempered with pity. The cri-
sis born leader, heralded by such a
flourish of rhetorical trumpets, was a
giant in size: but with his huge fig
ure, unshapely and i'll clad. all promises
of greatness seemed to pause.
His face, broad featured, colorless,
and beardless as a. boys, was either
a blank or an impenetrable mask.
There was no confinement In the
lack-luster gaze of the small, porcine
eyes; no eloquence in the harsh, nasal
tones of the unframed voice, or in the
ponderous and awkward wavings of
the beam like arms. None the less, be-
fore he had uttered a dozen hating
sentences he was carrying the audi
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his guest edged their way through the
standing committee in the foyer; but
by dint Of careful searching they sue
ceeded in finding two seats well around
to the left, with a balcony pillar to
separate them from their nearest
neighbors.
Since the public side Of American
politics varies little with the varia-
tion Of latitude or longitude, the
man from the East found himself
at once in homeful and remindful
surroundings. There was the GUS
tomary draping of flags under the
proscenium arch and across the set
piece villa of the background. In the
semicircle of chairs arched from wing
to wing sat the local and visiting
political lights; men Of all trades, these,
some Of them a little shamefaced and
Ill at ease by reason of their unwonted
conspicuity; all Of them listening with
a carefully assumed air of strained at
tention to the speaker of the moment.
Also there was the characteristic
ante-election audiences. typical of all
America-the thing most truly typical
In land where national types are
sought for microscopically, wheel
horses who came at the party call; men
who came In the temporary upblaze of
enthusiastic patriotism, which is light
ed with the opening of the campaign
and which goes out like a candle in a
gust OF wind the day after the election;,
men who came to applaud blindly, and
a few who came to cavil and deride.
Loring oriented himself In q leisurely
syegwesD and 30 CANA by easy grada-
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well. she is coming West, after a
bit. She and her sister and the mother.
Mrs. BrentwGod's asthma is worse and
the wise men have ordered her to the
interior. thought you'd like TO know
rs she-are they coming this way?"
asked Kent.
The train was in and the porter had
fetched LOring's handbag from the
checkstand. The guest paused with
one foot on the step Of the sleeping
car.
IF were you. David, I'd write and
ask: i should, by JGve- 1t would be a
tremendously cheeky thing 10 do, OF
course, having such a slight acquain-
tance with her as you have. but I'll
be hanged il I shouldn't chance il. And
in the meantime. If l don't go back
East next week, you'll hear from me.
When you do, or if you do. take a
day off and run up to the capital. I
shall need you. GoOd-by."
Kent watched the train pull out:
stood looking after it until the two red
eyes of the rear signals had dis
appeared in the dusty darkness OF the
illimitable plain. Then he went to his
rooms, to the one which was called by
courtesy his office. and without allow
ing himself time for a nice balancing
of the pros and cons, squared himself
at the desk to write a letter
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as you ought to be-"
II know her nobility: which Is all
the more reason why 1 shouldn't take
advantage of ii. We may scoff at the
social inequalities as much as we
please, but We can't laugh them out
Of court. As between a young woman
who is an heiress in her own right
and briefiess lawyer, there are differ
ences which a decent man is bound to
efface. And / haven't been able"
Does Miss Brentwood know?"
She knows nothing at all. 1 was un-
willing to entangle her, even with
confidence"
'grhe more fool you" said Loring.
bluntly. You call yourself a lawyer.
and you have not yet learned one OF
the first principles of common Justice,
which is that woman has some rights
which even a besotted lover is bound
to respect. You made love to her that
summer at Croydon; you needn't deny
it, And at the end Of things you walk
off to make your fortune without COM
mitting yourself; without knowing, or
apparently caring, what your stiff
necked poverty-pride may cost her IN
years of uncertainty. You deserve to
lose her"
Kent's smile was a fair measure OF
his unhopeful mood.
You can't well lose what you have
never had. I'm not such an ass as to
believe that she cared greatly"
How do you know? Not by any
thing you ever gave her a chance to
say, I'll dare swear. I've bit Of quail
ned good news for you. but the spirit
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but they lived in their own house in
the Back Bay wilderness, moved in
Bostons older substantial circle, and,
in a world where success, economic or
other, is in some sort the touchstone,
We're many social planes above coun-
try lawyer.
Loring knew Kent's fierce poverty
pride-none better. Hence, he was at
no loss to account for the exile's
flight afield, or for his unhopeful pres
'ent attitude. Meaning to win trophies
to lay at Miss Brentwood's feet, the
present stage of the rough joust with
Fortune found him unhorsed, un-
weaponed and rolling in the dust of
the lists
Loring chewed his cigar rehectively,
wishing his companion would open the
way 10 free speech on the subject pre-
sumably nearest his heart. He had
word of comfort, negative comfort, to
offer, but il might not be said until
Kent should give him leave by taking
initiative. Kent broke silence at last
but the prompting was nothing more
pertinent than the chaiking UP of the
delayed trains time
An hour and twenty minutes: that
means any time after 3 o'clock. I'm
honestly sorry for you, Grantham-
sorry for any one that has to stay in
IllS CndInel-0OuSe OF Il IOWu ten MIN
utes after he's through. What will
you do with yourself?'
Loring got up, looked at his watch,
and made a suggestion, hoping that
Kent would fall in with it.
Il doa't know. Shall we go back to
your rooms and sit a while?"
The exile's eyes gloomed suddenly.
Not unless you insist on it. We
should get back among the relics and
1 should bore you. I'm not the man
you used to know, Grantham."
MOP" said Loring. Il shan't be hyp-
ocriticaI enough to contradict you.
Nevertheless, you are my host. 1t is
for you to say what you will do with
me until train time"
I'VE can kill an hour at the rally,
il you like. You have seen the street
parade and heard the band play; it is
Only fair that you should see the men
agerie on exhibition"
Loring found his match box and
made a fresh light for his cigar.
Its pretty evident that you and
next Governor Bucks are on opposite
sides of the political fence" he OBJ
served.
I'VE are. 1 should think a good bit
less of myself than L do-and that's
needless-if trained in his company"
Yet you will give him a chance to
make a partisan of me? Well, come
along. Politics are not down on my
Western programme. but I'm here to
see all the new things"
The CASTOR Opera-house was a sur
vival OF the flush times. and barring
q certain tawdriness from disuse and
neglect and a rather garish effect
which marched evenly with the brick
ard terra Gotta fronts in Texas street
and the American-Tudor cottages of
the suburbs, it was a creditable relic.
The auditorium was we'll filed in pit,
dress circle and gallery when Kent and
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ence with him step by step; moving
the great concourse of listeners with
his commonplace periods as a melli-
huous Hawk could never hope to move
1t.
Loring saw the miracle in the throes
or Its outworking; saw and felt it in
MS own proper person, and sought in
VAIN 10 account for it. Was there some
subtle magnetism in this great hulk
OF a man that made itself felt in spite
OF It's hamperings? Or was it merely
tnat the people, weary of empty rhe-
tor1c and unkept promises, were ripe
70 Welcome and to follow any man
whose apparent earnestness and sim
cerity atoned for all his lacks?
ExpiainNit as he might, Loring soon
6ssqIeo himself that the Hon. Jasper
~, DUCKS was laying hold Of the SEN
tlinent OF the audience as though 1t
were thing tangible to be grasped by
lhe nuge hands. Unlike Hawk, whose
speech named easily into denuncia-
tlon Wnen 1T touched on the alien cor
porations, he counseIed moderation and
laWIul reprisals. Land syndicates, rail-
roads, foreign capital in whatever en-
ployment, were prime necessities in
any new and growing commonwealth
The province of the people was not to
wreck the ship, but to guide it. And
the remedy for all Ills lay in controll-
Ing legislation, faithfully and rigidly
inforced.
My friends: I'm only a plain, hard
handed farmer, as those Of you who
are my fellow townsmen can testify.
But I've seen what you've seen and
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with a colored handkerchief and took
a swallow OF water from the glass on
the desk.
Mind you, my friends, I'm not say
Ing We are not going to find plenty of
stumpS and roots and a tough sod In
this furrow we are going to plow. It's
only the fool or the ignoramus who
undertakes the strength Of his oppo-
nent. 1t is going to be just plain,
honest justice and the will Of the
people against the money OF the
Harrimans and the Goulds and the
Vanderbilts and all the rest Of 'em.
But the law Is mighty, and 1t will pre-
vail. Give us an honest Legislature to
make such laws, and an executive
strong enough to enforce 'em, and the
sovereign State will stand out glorious
and triumphant as a monument
against oppression.
When that time comes-and it's a
coming, my friends the corporations
and the syndicates will read the hand
writing on the wall; DON'T you be
afraid Of that If they should be a
little grain thick-headed and sort o.
blind at first, as old King Belshazzar
was, 1t may be that the sovereign State
will have to give 'em an object-lesson
lawfully, always lawfully. you under
stand. But when they see, through the
medium Of such an object-lessen or
otherwise, as the case may be, that we
mean business; when they see that we,
the people of this great and growing
commonwealth, mean to assert our
rights to live and move and have our
being. to have fair. even-haE,ded 1us-
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I've suffered what you've suffered.
Year after year we send our represen-
tatives to the Legislature and what
comes of it? Why, these corporations,
looking only to their own interests, as
they're In duty bound to do, buy 'em
II they can. You can't blame 'em
for that; it's business-their bust
ness. But it's our business, as
citizens of this great commonwealth
to prevent it. We have good laws
on our statute books. but we need more
OF EN-; laws for control, with plain,
honest men at the capital, in the ju-
dietary, in every root and branch Of
The executive, to inforce EN-. With
such laws and such men to see that
they are executed there wouldn't be
any more extortions, any more raising
or the rates Of transportation on the
produce Of our ranches and farms
merely because the Eastern market for
that particular product happened to
jump a few cents on the dollar.
No, my friends; plain, hard handed
farmer though / be, can see what will
follow an honest election of the peo-
pie. by the people and for the people.
The State can belt ought to be-sov-
ereign within it's own boundaries. If
we rise up as one man next Tuesday
and put ticket into the ballot box
that says we are going to make it SO,
ana keep 1t so, you'll see new COM
modify tariff put into effect on the
Western Pacific Railroad the day af-
ter"
The speaker paused and into the lit
tie gap of silence barked a voice from
the gallery.
That's what you say. But supposin'
they don't do it?"
Loring was gazing steadfastly at the
n q 0T1k he Co. .v1r = j
the enthusiasm the man was evoking
in others. For one fitting instant he
thought he saw behind the mask The
immobile face, the awkward gestures,
the slipshod English became suddenly
transparent, revealing the real man; a
man of titanic strength, of tremendous
possibilities for good or evil. Loring
put up his glasses and looked again
but the figure of the hashlight inner
vision had vanished and the speaker
was answering his .objector as calmly
as though the house held only the sin
gle critic to be set right.
I'm always glad to hear q man
speak right out in meeting" he said.
dropping still deeper into the COLO
ouialisms. "Supposing the corpora
tons don't see the handwriting op the
wall--won't see 1t, you say? Then. my
friend, it will become the manifest duty
of the Legislature and. the executive
to make 'em see it; always lawfully.
you understand; always with a Just
and equitable respect for the rights of
property in which our free and glori-
Gus institutions are founded. but with
level handed justice and without fear
or favor"
A thunderous uproar of applause
clamored on the heels of the answer,
ana the Hon. Jasper mopped his face
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CHAPTER III.
A Nfan Of the PeonIe


Train No. 3. the Western flyer was
late, as Kent had predicted-just how
late the operator could not tell: and
pending the chalking up of its arriv-
Ing lime on the bulletin board the
two men sat on an empty baggage
truck and smoked in companionable
silence.
While they waited Loring's thoughts
were busy with many things. friendly
solicitude for the exile serving as the
point OF departure He knew what 4
hsndfast friend might know: how
Kent had finished his post graduate
course in the law and had succeeded
10 his fathers small practice in the
New Hampshire county town where
he was born and bred Also he knew
how Kents friends, college friends
who knew his gifts and ability, had
deprecated the burial; and he him
self had been curious enough to nav
Kent a visit to spy out the reason
why. On their first evening together
IN the stuffy little law Of
fee which had been his fathers, Kent
had made a clean breast of Il: there
was a young woman in the case, and
promise passed before Kent had
gone 10 college. She was a farmers
daughter, with no notion for a. change
OF environment; wherefore she had
determined Kent's career and the
scene Of II, laying its lines in the mar
row field OF her own choosing.
Later rs Loring knew, the senti-
mental anchor had dragged until it
was hopelessly off holding-ground
The young woman had laid the blame
at the door OF the university, had
given Kent bad half-year Of fault
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-01-19
coneratuiation.

Mr.. John III. Cullom, Editor of the
Garland (Texas1 News has written a
letter Of congratulations TO the manu-
f~acturers Of chamberlain's Cough
Remedy as follows. Sixteen years
ago when our first child was a baby
he was subject TO croupy spells and
we would be very uneasy about him.
We began using Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy in 1887, finding It such a re-
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have ley been without 1t in the
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Homestead Entry No. 503O.)
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department OF the Interior,
Land onlee at Santa &c. N. NJ.

Department OF the Interior.
Land ONCE at Santa Fe. N. NJ.
Jan. 6, 1904.
Notice Is hereby given that the vi.
lowing-named settler has filed notice
of bis intention to make flnal proof
in support Of his claim. and that said
proof win be made before u. S. court
commissioner Nc Las Vegas, N. Nj,
on Feb. is, 1904. VIZ:
EPIFANIo MARTINEZ,
for the l. IL OF SE IA and s 10 OF
NE Ia OF See. 80. Il II N, II. "a Il.
He names tho following witnesses
% prove hts continuous residence up.
on and cultivation Of said land, viz:
Felipe Garcia OF %Trementina, N. NJ;
CatarIno Trnjlllo Of Trementina, N.
NJ: Rnmaldo Trujillo OF Tremontina.
N. NJ; Gregorio Garcia j sandoyai or
Trcmcntina. N. M.
MANUEL n oTERo,
1926 Register
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May Locate.

Last week Messrs. J. c. Day and Il.
J. Rhome Of Fort Worth, Texas. spent
several days al Dayton ana Artesla.
Mr.. Day owns considerable land
around Dayton. and Mr.. Rhome pur.
chased 100 acres Of irflgable soil while
here. lilo is TO return In a short time
and expects 70 eet some nice valley
property upon which % locate d stock
farm. The Rhomo ranch III Tarrant
and Wise counties Is tamous for its
prize winning white faces, several
OF which we're recently sold 10 the
Slaughter ranch near Roswell. A
short inspection showed Mn, Rhomo
that the Hartford viii develop TO per-
fcciion IN this climate when fed upon
alfalfa, and will engage extensively
in business here. Artesla Advocate.
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Steady Work.

All reports from tho new gold camp
Of Plttsburg Indicate that there Il a
steady production OF gold. The popu.
uar methods OF extracting the gold
from tho gravel are by the blowing
process which made that camp IA,
nous throughout the mining world.
and By dry washers. We understand
that gold il continually being found
higher up the hills near the main
range. and Notwithstanding the fact
that most Of the dry washers rate as
very poor co~ntriyances, considerable
gold Ii saved each day.
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