Stop dar! Lie down dar! Hol' on, co'nnle, for massy's sake.

Well, dar--I'll call her back!" And she did! "Look here--don't you know--it rather took me by surprise," said Champney, a few days later, with a hearty grip of the colonel's uninjured hand; "but I don't bear malice, old fellow, and, by Jove! it was SUCH a sensible, all-round, business-like choice for the girl to make that no wonder we never thought of it before.

Hang it all, you see a fellow was always so certain it would be something out of the way and detrimental, don't you know, that would take the fancy of a girl like that--somebody like that cousin of hers or Higbee, or even ME, by Jove that we never thought of looking beyond our noses--never thought of the BUSINESS! And YOU all the time so cold and silent and matter-of-fact about it! But I congratulate you! You've got the business down on a safe basis now, and what's more, you've got the one woman who can run it." They say he was a true prophet.

At least the Syndicate affairs prospered, and in course of time even the Reeds and the Higbees participated in the benefits.

There were no more racial disturbances; only the districts polled a peaceful and SMALLER Democratic majority at the next election.