Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-27

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 KENT FORGED HIMSELF TO BE
 NEIGHBORLY."
 Gaily to the battle legal, meaning to 'Fwring victory out of jury drawn for the most part from the plaintiff s stock-raising neighbors. By dint of great perseverance he managed to pro- long the fight until the middle of the afternoon, was worsted, as usual, and so far lost his temper as to get him. self called down by the judge, Mac Farlane.
 Whereupon he went back to the Farquhar Building and to his office and sat down at the typewriter to pound out a letter to the general coun- sel, resigning his sinecure. The Shot, well case was the third he had lost for the company in single court term. Justice for the railroad company, un- der the present agrarian conditions, was not to be had in the lower courts, and he was weary of fighting the los- ing battle Therefore
 In the midst of the type rattling the boy that served the few occupied offices in the Farquhar Building had brought the afternoon mail. It con- tained letter from Loring, and there was another reversive upheaval for the exile. Loring's business at the capital was no longer secret. He had been rendered the resident manage ment of the Western Pacific, with headquarters on the ground, and had accepted. His letter was a brief note, asking Kent to report at once for legal duty in the larger field.
 "I am not fairly in the saddle yet. and shall not be for week or so," wrote the newly appointed manager. ''But find I am going to need level headed lawyer at my elbow from the jump-one who knows the state poli- tical ropes and isn't afraid of scrap. Come in on Number Three to-day, if you can; If not, send a wire and say when I may look for you. Or, better still, wire anyway"
 David Kent struggled with his emo tions until he had got his feet down to solid earth again. Then he tore up the half written resignation and be- gan to smite things in order for the flight. Could he make Number Three? Since that was the train named in Penelope's message, nothing short of catastrophe should prevent his mak- ing it.
 So it came about that the outcome of the cataclysm was a thing which happens often enough in a conven- tionalized world. David Kent, with his tragedy fresh upon him, dropped informally into place as one of the party of five; and of all the others, Penelope alone suspected how hard he was hit. And when all was said; when the new modus vivendi had been fairly established and the hour grew late. Kent went voluntarily with Ormsby to the smoking compart- ment. 'to play the string out decent ly," as he afterward confessed % Loring.
 "1 see you know how to get the most comfort out of your tobacco" said the club-man. when they were com panionably settled in the mems room and Kent produced his pipe and to- bacco pouch. "1 prefer the pipe my self, for a steady thing; but al this time of night a light Castilla fits me Sretty we'll Try one7' rendering his cigar case. .
 Fighting shrevdIy against a natural prompting to regard Ormsby as an hereditary enemy, Kent forced himself to be neishboriy.
 T don't mind" he said. returning the pipe to it's case. And when the Havanas were veil alight. and the talk had eircled down upon the po- liticsl situation in the state. he vas able to bear his part with a fair eT- terior. giving Orrnsby an impression istie outline of the late campaign and the conditions that had made the sweeping triumph Of the party ia power possible.
 we have ben conhuz to it stead ily through the last administration. and q part Of the prees3irx ozs.- ke explained Last year the drought cut the cereals i1 half. and the eo1nirT uzs too nsu to stand ft Eithozf bor- ruzfng Ths-e uzs lftfIs lOrzi capital. azd the eastern sr7icEe vaz hangy. taking all the inssrzs- the law zIlorz. and ss E1ch Eore ss It cold zst This yssr ths crop trOSe sI rsc0rss fer sb1ass1es. blt the pEioe is down
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