The Red Cloud chief., 1905-01-27

y iNlfN AAAlS' II ~ ~ sANA' WV 6'F
err TO you before long, and if-if any.
thing should turn up that | can do for
you in II private way I'll be very glad.
you know. Goodby."
The sound Of the IIcrald's victory
went over the state. The paper came
out regularly. The townsfolk bought
IL, and the farmers drove in for IL. Old
subscribers came back. Old advertis'
ers renewed. The Herald began to sell
In Amo, and Gaines county people sub.
scribcd. Carlow folk held up their
heads when journalism was mentioned.
Presently the Herald announced Il news
connection with Rouen, and with that
and the aid of patent insides" began
an era of three issues Il week. appear.
ing on Tuesdays. Thursdays and Satnr.
days. The Plattvillc brass band sere-
naded the editor.
During the second month of the new
regime of the Herald the working force
of the paper received an addition. One
night the editor found some barroom
loafcrs tormcnting Il patriarchnl old
man who had a magnificent head and a
grand white beard. He had been
thrown out Of q saloon. and he was
drunk with the drunkenness OF three
weeks steady pouring. He propped
himself against n wall and rcproved
his tormentors In Latin. "Im walking
your way. Mr.. Fisbcc." remarked the
journalist. hooking his arm into the old
mans. Suppose We leave our friends
here and go home
Mr.. Iisbcc was the one inhabitant OF
the town possessing an unknown past.
and n glamour of omanc was thrown
about him by the gossips. who agreed
that there was II dark, portcntous Sc
cret If. be life, an opinion not too well
confirmed by the old mans appearance.
His fine Eyes had a habit of wandering
to the horizon, and his expression was
mild, vague and sad, lost In dreams.
At the first glance II guessed that
his dreams would never be practicable
! In their application, and some such i'm
preston of him was probably what
caused the editor of the Herald TO nick
name him, Ia his own mind. 1.-THE White
Knight"
Mr.. Fisbce. coming to Plattvillc from
nobody knew where. had taught In the
high school for ten years, but he proved
quite unable to refrain from featuring
to the ~dumfounded pupils on archT'
ology, neglecting more II more the
ordinary courses Of instruction. grow.
Ing year by year more fOrgctful and
absent, lost in his few books and his
own reflections, until Mt last he had
been discharged for incOmpetency. The
dazed old man had no money and nc
way to make any. One day lie dropped
In ut the hotel bar, where WilkcIson
the professional drunkard, favored hin
with his society. The old man under
stood. He knew ii was the beginning
Of the end. He sold his books in ordel
to continue his credit ut the Palace
bar, and once or twice, unable to pro
coed to his own dwelling, spent the
night In n lumber yard, pilotcd thithe
by the harder veteran Wilkerson.
The morning after the editor tool
him home Fisbee appeared ut the Her
aid Office in a new hat and Il decen
suit of black. He had received his sal
airy in advance, his books had been re
purchased and he had become the re
portorial staff of the Carlow Count.
Herald; also he was TO write vaiiou
treatises for the paper. For the Hrs
few evenings when he started HON
from the office his chief walked wit
him, chatting cheerfully, until the.
had passed the Palace bar. But Els
bees redemption was complete.
The editor Of the Herald kept steat
lily at his work, and as time went o
the bitterness his predecessors swindl
| had left in him passed away. But hi
), loneliness and q sense of defeat grey
> and d%eepened. When the vistas of tn
world had opened to his first youth h
, had lot thought to spend his life l
such u place as Plattville, but he foun
himself doing it, and it was no grei
happiness to him that the Hon. Kedp
Holloway Of AmO, whom the Herald
opposition TO McCune had sent
Washington, came to depend on his IL
fiuence for denomination, nor did III
realization hat the editor of the Ca
low County Herald had come TO
McCune's successor as political dict;
tor produce a p~erceptibly ~enlivening g
, feet upon the young man. The yea
drifted very slowly, and to him it seen
q ed that they went by while he stood 4;
aside and could not even see the
y move He. did not consider the life ]
led an exciting one, but the other eli
q zens of Carlow did when he undertoC
a wal against the White Caps, der
zens of Six Crossroads, seven mil