I shall raise my voice against the fury of both factions, and thank God, our people have never refused to hear me." He spoke in a somewhat rhetorical fashion, natural to time and place, but he was in great earnest.

Harry went on, and entered the office of the Pendleton News, the little weekly newspaper which dispensed the news, mostly personal, within a radius of fifty miles.

He knew that the News would appear on the following day, and he was anxious to learn what Mr.Gardner, the editor, a friend of his, would have to say in his columns.
He walked up the dusty stairway and entered the room, where the editor sat amid piles of newspapers.

Mr.Gardner was a youngish man, high-colored and with longish hair.

He was absorbed so deeply in a copy of the Louisville Journal that he did not hear Harry's step or notice his coming until the boy stood beside him.