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"Mr Harwood's recommendation makes me place confidence in you, but I tell you frankly, I would rather know more about you than I do!" "Very sensibly spoken," said Pearson, laughing. "The state of the times makes `masquerading, as you call it, necessary; but of one thing you may be sure, that I mean you fair; I will treat you honourably.

"I don't think he has it to fire; it's incredible; I don't believe it." "Neither do I, Sylvia," said the minister earnestly. The talk at the Wares' went badly that evening. Harwood's mind was on the political situation.

The object of the series was frankly to aid the circulation manager's efforts to build up subscription lists in the rural districts, and personal sketches of local celebrities had proved potent in this endeavor. Most of the subjects that had fallen to Harwood's lot had been of a familiar type country lawyers who sat in the legislature, or county chairmen, or judges of county courts.

"Out with it; just how did you manage it?" Allen was twisting his gloves nervously; he had not been conscious of transgressing any law, but he would not for worlds have invited Harwood's displeasure. He was near to tears; but he remained stubbornly silent until Harwood again demanded to know how he contrived the meeting with Marian.

Colonel Ramsay's entrances were frequently a bit theatrical, and on a particular afternoon in April, as he opened the door of Dan Harwood's new office in the Law Building, the sight of Miss Farrell at the typewriter moved him to characteristic demonstrations.

"I heard the whole plan discussed, but whether Mr Harwood's especial friends were acquainted with it or not, I cannot say; but of one thing I feel very sure, from what I heard, that James was well aware of the project, and sanctioned it by the countenance he gave to those who undertook to carry it out."

Some one was telling a story, and at its conclusion Bassett caught Harwood's eye and called to him in a manner that at once drew attention to the young man. "Hello, Dan! You're back from the country all right, I see! I guess you boys all know Harwood. You've seen his name in the newspapers!"

Harwood's affection for him dated from that first encounter in the lonely Meridian Street house when the boy had dawned upon him in his overalls and red silk stockings. He had never considered Allen's interest in Marian serious; for Allen had to Dan's knowledge paid similar attentions to half a dozen other girls.

Harwood." Fitch pointed to a huge pile of manuscript on a table by the window. It was a stenographic transcript of testimony in a case which had been lost in the trial court and was now going up on appeal. "Digest that evidence and give me the gist of it in not more than five hundred words. That's all." Harwood's hand was on the door when Fitch arrested him with a word.

His predecessors on the list of leaders in Hoosier politics had not been backward about making suggestions, but Bassett did not refer to Harwood's errand at all. When Dan asked for photographs of Mrs.