The Tempering

on stood ranged about the state house corridors, and their unbl

o hint of any weakening or excitement. His gaze betrayed no interest beyond the casua

ing of the twenty-ninth an eagerness to be near the focus of activity mastered him. The elements of right and wrong involved in this ba

h-like needcessities." For the avoidance of possible discussion, he slipped quietly out of the back door with no announcement to Saul's wife. With soft snowflakes drifting into his face and melting on his eyelashes, he began his march, and for four hours swung along at a steady three-and-a-h

army," and the senator from Kenton had passed boldly through its unordered ranks, as

at ten, and it was five minutes short of the hour when the man, with preoccupied and resolute features, swung through th

about him with a hasty scrutiny, and as he did so a sharp report ripped the quie

halted too, but after a moment he wavered a little, lifted one hand with a gesture rather of weariness than of pain, and, buckling

s arms under the prone shoulders, he heard words faintly enunciated-not dramatically

ng with eyes turned inward toward some core of excited interest,

rne a helpless body, until it jammed about the door of a doctor's offic

late afternoon he came face to face with Asa Gre

of quiet amusement, but before Boone reached his side, or accosted him, another figure rounded the corner, walki

ted gaze meet Asa's quiet eyes, curiosity o

sa," Saul was advising in the high voice of

utterance was velvet smooth. "Hain't I got

ed reply. "An' you've done been writ up too much in ther newspapers a'ready. You've go

urbable suavity, "ter try an' git me a pardon. I hain't

arch of his tobacco plug, and in doing so he hauled out mis

ins and matches, and then-as Saul's voice broke into fri

, "ain't ye got no more common sense than ter b

nsman. "Why, ginrally, I've got a few ca'tridges and pis

ain man in town's goin' ter be suspicioned, an' thet ther legislater'll vote more money

, confronting him here on the sidewalk of a Frankfort street. Now as the boy reached u

e foot in yore hand an' light out fer my house-an' ther fust spring-

of shock settled upon the State where passion had run its inflammatory course. The reiteration of Cassandra'

strong leader had bowed to his dominant will. Today they stood d

itself-and when police and posses hastily summoned had hurried to its doors, a grimly

been able to seize the Governor, he too would doubtless have been thrown into a cell. But the Governor still held the disputed

ld spring a hundred injustices, and so in opposition to the mounting clamour for extreme penalties arose

vengeful accusation, came a handful of volunteer def

lature the contest must be settled, if at all, while there was yet st

-the persistence of sheer resolution that h

dignity to the snowy winds, they raced toward an opera house, the soldiers raced with them, and arrived first. When t

Their connection with the arrival of the mountaineers was not difficult to establish-and for

e dying candidate. A hectic and grotesque rumour even whispered that Mr. Goebel's gallant hold on life had slipped b

owed along the road, but his brain was in a swirl of perplexity and in his blood was an inoculation. He wo