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Harkless seized his hand and shook it fervently, and then laughed

heartily, as he accepted the invitation

At the gate, Miss Sherwood extended her hand to him and said politely, and

with soht, Mr Harkless I do not leave

to- to keep her all su her

ar?"

"Good-night, Miss Sherwood," he returned, hilariously "It has been such a

pleasure toGood-night--good-night" He shook

hands with the with hihed most of the way home, and Mr Todd walked at his side in

a was a decrepit frame structure on Main

Street; it had once been a small warehouse and was now sadly in need of

paint Closely adjoining it, in a large, blank-looking yard, stood a low

brick cottage, over which the second story of the warehouse leaned in an

effect of tipsy affection that had reminded Harkless, when he first saw

it, of an old Sunday-school book wood-cut of an inebriated parent under

convoy of a devoted child The title to these two buildings and the blank

yard had been included in the purchase of the "Herald"; and the cottage

was Harkless's ho upstairs in the "Herald" office From the street