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Dick Ranney observed this with a grim smile of satisfaction. "He's making things easy for me," he said to himself. As softly and cautiously as a cat he ascended the ladder, but not softly enough to escape the vigilant ear of Manning, who was expecting him.
He had been in prison with them, drunk with them, stolen with them, and in fact had done everything that they did, and now here he was telling his old pals how they could be better men, how God would help them if they would only give Him a chance. God was with me that night. It didn't seem to be Ranney at all.
No severer test could have been applied, and the young men thought it a little rough. Bart answered the questions with some care, and gave the reason of the rules clearly. Ranney then proposed a case of a certain special plea, and asked Bart how he would reply. Bart enumerated all the various replies that might be made, and the method of setting each forth.
It was almost at the same moment that Colonel Ranney penetrated the intrenchments on the left only to be mowed down by grape shot.
Ranney suggested to him at the last term that the books were all against his straddling about the bar, as he always does." "That smallish man with the prominent chin and retreating forehead, is Horace Wilder, one of the best men at the bar. You see he is pleasant and amiable. He is a good lawyer, and give him a case which involves a question of morals and he develops immense power."
"We all speak kindly of our own dead," said Bart, "and should hardly expect the dead to hear what we said. Mother said you had determined to leave us in the morning;" to Ranney "Our brother the Major will be home in the morning, and would be glad to make your acquaintance, and show you some attention." And so he escaped.
Ranney without feeling that he is no ordinary man. Indeed, Henry said that he was destined to a distinguished career." "Well, now to me they were both a little heavy and commonplace. Mr. Ridgeley was easy and gentlemanly; Mr. Ranney a little shy and awkward. I've no doubt one would come to like either of them, when one came to know him."
I weighed one hundred and ninety pounds and was five feet ten inches tall. I went into the young man's study and sat down. I did not know what was coming next, perhaps money. I was ready for anything, for I took him for a millionaire's son. Up to this time he had said nothing to me about God. Finally he opened up and asked my name. I told him Dave Ranney, but I had a few others to use in a pinch.
Manning at the sound stepped from the bed he had thrown himself on the outside, without undressing and stepped into a closet, as he did not wish Ranney to learn that there were two persons in the chamber. Walter was awake, but he lay in bed motionless and with his eyes closed.
God spoke to-night, not you. It was the best talk I ever heard. It took you a long time to start, but nothing can stop you now. One word of advice, pal, I'll give you: Don't get stuck on yourself. God will use you when He won't others among your own kind. He will make a preacher of you to men of your own stamp. And Ranney is to-day what I said and thought he would be.
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