er's face. Only one person in Pleasantville had that mixture of loft

nd extending his big golden-headed cane as if it was a spear and he was poising

d Bart promptly-"wha

l and collected that the colonel ground his teeth, stam

ou-" he began, and

at for?" inte

laced his cane under his arm and

aper and held it between

bserved, "do you

hook h

ts the bare cost of a new copper pedestal to replace the one you shot to pieces last night, and it's a wonder you are not in jail for murder, for had that cannon b

n, I haven't got e

t!" snapped

an I g

, restoring the bit of paper

arrington was a power in Pleasantville, h

ine distress, "but eighty-five dollars is a sheer

I sha

yment or replace the pede

don'

am not to blame

d the colonel

Bart. "I never knew the can

now who l

was s

the colonel. "Aha! it's serious now, is it? Not so much fun breaki

th his volcanic visitor was the blow to his pri

"laughing stock of the community! Young man, you're on the

d with a dangerous

decisively, "my mother has n

er, her teachings. You're full of infernal p

e our r

reach the express service. You'll stay in your present job just l

elt very glad that Mr. Leslie had not met the irate colonel. The

e cried, with a gloating chuckle. "Very

control his voice,

unge us into new trouble and distress that we do not deserve. I have never had the remotest thought of injuring you or your property in any way. I am will

d that cannon-two, C.O.D. before ten o'clock to-morrow mor

cy that he was a born orator, and had just given utterance to some prof

duty. I would like to have money and influence, but would ra

he end of a dead freight and cross to the pub

nstead, he came to the strangest rigid po

hrown up as if he had been struck a stunning blow under the chin, and even at the distance he was, Bart could see that his usually

nel. It fascinated and transfixed the military man, and Bart Stirling, starin