Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-31

elect him. But the adjoining district was strong enough to spare county without loss to the party; and that county added to MacFarlane's voting strength would tip the scale in his favor. The assembly was in session. and the remedy applied in the shape of bill re-adjusting the district lines to fit the political ueesssIs1 sAa Il
 While this bill was still in the lower house n obstacle presented itself in the form of a vigorous protest from Judge Whitcomb, whose district was the one to suffer the loss. The county in question was a prosperous one, and the court fees-which compliant clerk might secretly divide with the judge appointing him-were large: where fore Whitcomb threatened political re- prisals if Kiowa county should be talk en away from him. The outcome was . compromise. For elective purposes the two districts were gerrymandered as the bill proposed; but it was ex pressly provided that the transferred county should remain judicially in Whitcomb's district until the expira- ton of whitcomb's term of office.
 Having refreshed his memory as 10 the facts, Kent spent forenoon in the state library. He stayed on past the luncheon hour. feeding on dry diet of digests: and il was not until hun ger began to sharpen his faculties that he thought of going back of the statu- tory law to the fountain-head in the constitution of the state Here, after be had read carefully section by section almost through the entire instrument, his eye lighted upon clause which gradually grew luminous as he read and re-read 1t.
 "That is what Msrston meant; 1t must be what he meant" he unused: and returning the book to it's niche in the alcoye he sat down to put his face in his hands and sum up the status in logical sequence.
 The conclusion must have been con- vincing. since he presently sprang up and left the room quickly to have himself shot down the elevator shaft io the street level. The telegraph of- fee was closed. but there was another in the Hotel Brunswick, two squares distant. and thither he went
 Hold the pool in fighting trim al all hazards. Think have found weak link in the chain" was his vir- ging to Loring at Boston; and having sent if, he went around 10 Cassatti's and astonished the waiter by order ing a hearty luncheon at half-past three o'clock in the afternoon
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