DANIEL HARWOOD RECEIVES AN OFFER A brief note from Morton Bassett, dated at Fraserville, reached Harwood in July.

In five lines Bassett asked Dan to meet him at the Whitcomb House on a day and hour succinctly specified.
Harwood had long since exhausted the list of Hoosier statesmen selected for niches in the "Courier's" pantheon.

After his visit to Fraserville, he had met Bassett occasionally in the street or at the Whitcomb House; and several times he had caught a glimpse of him passing through the reception room of the law office into Mr.Fitch's private room.

On these occasions Dan was aware that Bassett's presence caused a ripple of interest to run through the office.

The students in the library generally turned from their books to speak of Bassett in low tones; and Mr.Wright, coming in from a journey on one of these occasions and anxious to see his partner forthwith, lifted his brow and said "Oh!" meaningfully when told that it was Morton Bassett who engaged the time of the junior member.