The Red Cloud chief., 1905-04-21
joined the other.
81 dunnO,''

biuc, DUl All Wllnln the licraIuS bosom
was snug and busy and urmurou
with the healthy thrum of life and
prosperity renewed. Toward q o'clock,
system accomplished, the new guiding
spirit was celebrating Oh u policy. as
Hnrklcss would conceive a policy were
he there, when Minnie Briscoc ran Joy
ously up the stairs. plunged into the
room w~atcrproofcd 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 the time of Harklcss, when
lamps shono from the upper windows
of the Herald building: FOR the little
cdito worked hard. and sometimes she
worked late: she always worked early.
She made some mistakes ut first and
II or we plumbers which she took
much more seriously than any one else
Gid. I'ut she found n remedy for all
such results OF her incXpcricncc. and
she developed experience. She set at
her task with the energy of her youth.
tulncss and no limit to her ambition,
ana she felt that Harklcss had pre-
pared the way for n wide expansion of
the papers intcrcse', wider then he
knew. She brought a fresh point OF
view To operate in Il situation where he
had fallen perhaps too much I'm the rut,
and she watched every chance with n
keen eye and looked ahead of her with
clear foresight. What she waited and
ycarned for and dreaded was the time
when Il copy of the new Herald should
be placed in the trembling hands of the
man who lay I'm the Roucn hospital.
Then she felt IL he, of her
Identity as he was and ms he was to be
Kept, should place everything In her
hands unrcscrvcdly, that would be n
tribute TO her work. And how hard she
would labor To deserve It'll
After Il time she began to see that as
his representative and editor of the
Herald she had become Il factor I'm dis
trict politics. Ii took her breath, but
with n gasp OF delight, for there was
something she wanted to do.
Rodney McCunc 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
Cune. ''rhe boys were I'm line again"
Every one knew that Holloway. a dull
but honest man. the most available ma.
terial that Harklcss had been able tn
find, was already beaten. If John
Harklcss had beer con the ground to
work for him." 1t was said. Holloway
could have received the nomination
again. but ms matters stood he was
beaten and beaten badly, and Rodney
McCune would sit in congress-, for nom
inatiOn meant election.
But one afternoon the Harkless
forces, dcmoralizcd, broken, hopeless.
woke up to find that they had Il leader.
There was Il political conference at
Judge Briscoe's. The politicians de
sccnded sadly ut the gate from the
omnibus that had met the afternoon
train-Boswell and Keating. two gen
tlcmen of Amo, and Bencc and Shan
non. two others of Gaines county, to
confer with Warren Smith, Tom Mar
tin, Briscoc and Harkless' representa-
tivcs. Fisbee and the editor of the
Herald. They entered the house gloom
lily. and the conference began in de-
jccted monosyllables. But presently
Minnie Briscoe, sitting on the porch
pretending TO sew, heard Helcn's voice.
clear, soft and trembling Il little with
excitement. She talked for only two
or three minutes, but what she said
seemed to stir up great commotion
among the others. All the voices burst
forth at once I'm EXPLANATIONS, almost
shouts. Then Minnie saw her father.
seated near the window, rise and strike
the table a great blow with his clinch-
ed fist. "Will | make the nominating
specch?" he cried. "Td walk from
here to Rouen and back again to do
IT,
wen swim OUT" exclaimed Mr..
Heating of Amo. "The wonderful
thing is that nobody thought of this
before. There are just two difficulties
Holloway and u man himself. lie
wouldn't let his name be used against
Hedge. Therefore we've got to work
1t 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 1t as n surprise on
the convention. Some of the old crowd
themselves will be swept along with rs
you want to stuff your ears with co..
ton. You see. all we need to do Is to
pass the word quietly among the Hal