THE NEW PRESIDENT Their great day came.

Clear sunlight shone over the town, the hills and the brown waters of the Alabama.

It was a peculiarly Southern country, different, Harry thought, from his own Kentucky, more enthusiastic, perhaps, and less prone to count the cost.

The people had come not only on the railroad, but they were arriving now from far places in wagons and on horseback.

Men of distinction, almost universally, wore black clothes, the coats very long, black slouch hats, wide of brim, and white shirts with glistening or heavily ruffled fronts.