"Is Halloway--did McCune--have you----" Warren Smith seized one of his hands and Briscoe the other.

"What does it mean ?" cried Warren; "it means that you were nominated for Congress at five minutes after one-o'clock this afternoon." "On the second ballot," shouted the Judge, "just as young Fisbee planned it, weeks ago." It was one of the great crowds of Carlow's history.

They had known since morning that he was coming home, and the gentlemen of the Reception Committee had some busy hours; but long before the train arrived, everything was ready.

Homer Tibbs had done his work well at Beaver, and the gray-haired veterans of a battery Carlow had sent out in '61 had placed their worn old gun in position to fire salutes.

At one-o'clock, immediately after the nomination had been made unanimous, the Harkless Clubs of Carlow, Amo, and Gaines, secretly organized during the quiet agitation preceding the convention, formed on parade in the court-house yard, and, with the Plattville Band at their head, paraded the streets to the station, to make sure of being on hand when the train arrived--it was due in a couple of hours.