The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-03
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They turned to see Chester pale and tottering in his pajanlas in the doorway.
 .tIf one of you fellows will lend me a hand,' said Chester, "Tn get into more or less clothes. I seem to have been wandering in my mind little. Remember that you fellows called, but can't think what you said What is it? More collar gall among the mules? I'd like to kill couple of those niggers.''
 The panacea for disease is laugh ter. As a portly director knelt at his feet lacing his shoes, and another fumbled at his tie, while third had soIicitousIy placed his hat on his head, Chester suddenly threw it back, and laughed long and loud. They gazed at him in silent apprehension"
 etNo,' said Chester in answer to 3heir look, I'm not delirious again was mentally comparing the pres ent situation to the frigid reception you accorded me when I first sprung this cireus.''
 If you bring it to successful ConcIusion,'' said one of the \ direc- sors, you will have achieved one of tfhe most remarkable performances that has ever been accomplished in s&he Lone Star state."
 ssIl1 do my best, gentlemen said Chester.
 The ensuing weeks passed like a bad, dream. It was during the latter part of the sixth that Chester added barrel of whiskey and a wagon
 
 ready uninteresting cattle parade, and the seventh. that he imported the brass band from Houston. @At the be- ginning of the eighth week he dar- ingly posted three of the eenters as tied for the supremacy, and the oth- CTS as close competitors On We'd nesday the Pickslay Hollow gang made the onslaught on the barrel cf whiskey when they thought that Chester was not on hand. It required only his appearance to put them to sudden terrified flight, although he had not even drawn his revolver They never returned, and with their detection came the cataclysm. It needed only the example of one gang to cause all the others except the three apparently tied for the lead, to leave the entertainments, Chester substituted barrel of water for the barrel of whiskey, which was now in constant danger of attack from all the idle negroes loafing about. By the end of the eighth week there re- mained but half mile of track to be laid, but there was not man on the construction work to lay it. Wcr- ried beyond measure over Edith Twining's failure to reply to his 1et- 1er i'll with fever, agonized over the prospective loss of twenty-five thou sand dollars to the firm, which ha d relied upon him to such an extent and backed up so royalty, Chester was in an abyss of despair. It is a curious thing how great a difference in a mans whole career nine little words, not spoken, not printed, but simply written on al dingy slip of yellow paper with black ruled lines, can make. Goldsmith s telegram simply read: seYou are all right. Telegraph for money when needed" That was all. It was the only word he had had from the office since he left, beyond couple of checks impersonally forwarded in of Zee envelopes in answer to his re- quests.
 That said Chester, 'is the sort of thing that makes you love a man. Then he sat down to consider the situation. After his return, when he was talking over this particular crisis with Goldsmith, he asked:
 How did you get the hunch that I needed a little moral suason at that precise moment? Do you believe in mental telepathy?" s.Sometines,'' replied Goldsmith un- emotionally, t'but not in this case. I also believe in mathematics. You were two weeks overdue to write for another remittance When Chester had finished his meditation he looked up the most prominent negro minister in town sI have heard of you," said Ches- ter affably, ''as powerful exhorter. a man with the ability to move men. have another month in which to finish the construction work of the Warsaw Street Railway, but I find that it cannot progress without Ue ing consecrated. Will you hold a service at the end of the track to- morrow?" sHow does An know dat it am de Lawd's work?'' .i .Because,'' argued Chester con clusively, cit is worth fifty dollars to the servant of the Lord to hold that service.''
 The service was held. and the negro