k hat and ample gold watch chain. The gentleman had, in fact, just arrived; but he seemed perfectly at home as he laid down his hat on the marble-topped bureau, mopped his f

e gentleman, "I've got

, just to make sure yo

a particular friend of mine, Mr. Will Wetherell of Co

e had sunk down upon it, and seized Mr. Wethere

ly. "If Jethro calls you a particular friend, it means

litician," said J

said Mr

l don't

he next governor of the state. Everybody knows I want to be governor, everybody knows I've got twenty thousan

ndow through the foliage of the park, and his eye was caught by the monument there in front of the State House, and he though

sighed. "Time was when a man could be governor f

Cabin's' comin' to tow

uiescing cheerfully in the change of subject. "We

in, "'Uncle Tom's Cabin'

ing himself, and glanced

e you an idea?" s

Eva and the bloodhounds. For a few moments the Honorable Alva appeared to be

t." he exclaimed, with involuntary tr

u'll find it'

for it?" sai

it, Alvy, you'

ar, and promptly drew from his trousers' pocket a roll of stupendous

is it?" he

o put up

opkins of Gosport-p-patron of the theatre. Hai

e to say I'd never have thought of it. If you ain't the all-firedest smartest man in America

even more expressive silen

o presently, "what's

s, "I guess you've got

n out exactly Lily. She

thout a note of regret,

ou say her na

s Cassandra," said

assa

l. Didn't like Lily, and it didn't seem to fit her anyway, so she called herself Cassandra. Read it in a book. I

of a gal, Alvy-fine-

seem to draw men's eyes as if she was magnetized some way." Mr. Hopkins did not speak as though this quality of his daughter

er about her if she was married to some good man who could hold her. There's young Joe Turner in Gosport, he'd give his soul to have her, and he'd do. Cassy says she's after bigger game than Joe. She's young-that's her only

me to Cassandry

in here. And now how about gettin' an adjournment to-morrow nigh

r's Company for the following night, and that the Honorable Alva Hopkins of Gosport, ex-Speaker of the House, had bought three hundred and twelve seats for the benefit of the members. And the Honorable Alva himself, very red

ter-stroke. The afternoon Chronicle waxed enthusiastic on the subject of Mr. Hopkins's generosity, and predicted that, when Senator Hartington made the motion in the upper house

at President to a great Country in the time of her dire need-the soul calling on the body to fight for itself. Wetherell seemed to feel again the thrill he felt when he saw the blue-clad men of this state crowded in the train at Boston: and to hear again the cheers, and the sobs, and the prayers as he looked upon the blood th

ns and the twenty thousand dollars he had put in the bank to defraud the people; but now he could have wept over it, and as he looked down upon the three hundred members of that House

is deep voice, or rapped sternly with his gavel to silence the tumult of voices that arose from time to time; or while some member was speaking, or the clerk was reading a bill at breathless speed, he turned with wonderful nonchalance to listen to the conversation of the gentleme

ng, the Speaker had stopped conversing, and, seizing his gavel, looked expectantly over the heads of the members and nodded. A sleek, comf

eson of

hroat impressively and lo

m-the just enthusiasm-of any gathering in this House, or in this city, or in this state,

allery. He stood rubbing his hands together, and it seemed to William Wetherell th

ouse for to-morrow night" (renewed applause), "in order that every member of this august body may have the opportunity to witness that most classic of histrionic productions, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'." (Loud applause, causing the Spe

d in their seats as they clapped, and glancing along the gallery he caught a flash of red and perceived the radiant Miss Cassandra herself

n instinctive and extraordinary dislike to Miss Cassandr

in the gallery craned forward to see a member standing at his seat in the extreme rear of the hall. He was a little man in an ill-fitting coat, his wizened face clean-shaven save for the broom-shaped beard under his chin, whic

, Mr. Heath," he said, and

till holding on to his beard,

come down here without any l'arnin' of parli'ment'ry law, and before we know what's happened the session's over, and we hain't said nothin'."

t be passed if we don't set to-morrow night-little bills that are big bills for us farmers. That thar woodchuck bill, for one." (Laughter.) "My constituents want I should have that bill passed. We don't need a quorum for them bills, but we need time. Naow, Mr. Speaker, I say let all them that wants to go and see 'Uncle Tom'

ause, and before it died away Mr. Jameson was on his feet,

renewed laughter), "he can do so as far as I'm concerned. I guess I know where most of the members of this House will b

id the Speaker, smiling broadly

pondering over this incident, he almost ran into a dist

gton!" said Cynthia

e his acquaintances. He had, in fact, just come from the Throne Room, where he had been to remind Jethro that the se

e their people paid to

. "We've got a bare majo

o risk it. What are you

ss

bill to pass

gton had cried, on the e

t to me-d

to know what's being do

aid for it

t assuredl

wait til

l off his dogs who were sitting with such praiseworthy pertinacity in their seats. As the two friends walked on the lawn, Mr. Worthington tried to explain, likewise for the twentieth time, that the extension of the Truro Railroad c

might see the Truro Railroad and the Central acting as one. And Mr. Worthington had no intention whatever of sacrificing Mr. Duncan's friendship. The first citizen of Brampton possessed one quality so essential to greatness-that of looking into the future, and he believed that the time would come when an event of som

at, when a barouche with two shining horses in silver harness drove past her and stopped before the gate. Four or five girls and boys came laughing out on the porch, and one of them, who held a fishing-rod in his hand, Cynthia recognized. Startled and ashamed, she began to walk on as fast as she could in the opposite direction, when she heard the sound of footsteps on the lawn behind h

Wetherell!" he cried; "didn't

said

dn't yo

e porch, who were watching them. Suddenly she turned to him defiantly

igence the meaning of her words was entirely lost. "If I had known

Pelica

ll the politicians? How d

er and me to come down

ghtening again. Life i

coming aware o

ethro?"

thia, smiling in spite of her

ns the Pelican H

man, but I didn't know how great

nted his flippancy on the spot. He had heard

hat," he said, growing

great man of course.

who understood now that he had spoken a

, slowly, and he followed her on the other side of the fence. "Hol

?" asked Cynthia, still

't! Wait just a

ut her toe between the pickets. Then she saw that ther

lieve you have anything to say at all." And suddenly

m coming down to the Pelican to-morrow

remoteness of the time he set was s

se to do to-morrow m

morrow afternoon,"

re?" she aske

I'm visiting

ed at the porch again. The group there had gown larger, and they were st

g after her; and scraping the bu

girls here to satisfy

said, "but none of 'em co

laughed

them all something l

retorted, and then he laughed hi

"and-well, for a good many other reams." And he looked into her f

," she answered, and started to

d of the fence by this, and the pickets were sha

aused hes

"We're going on a picnic to-day, to Dalton's Be

came a voice f

ob Wort

slender girl with light brown hair

at?" aske

some confusion, "oh,

," said

her heart that she had not stopped to talk with him at the palings. The girls, indeed, were giggling as the carryall passed, and she heard somebody call out his name, but nevertheless he leaned out of the seat and waved his hat at her, amid a shout of laughter. Poor Cynthia

many of these pages have been written in vain. She sat down for a while in the park and thought of the many things she had to be t

joys and sorr