general voice condemned; but I beg that you will at least believe that

I am a grateful man; it will help me to bear my burden. [Signed]

'BURGESS.'"

Saved, once more. And on such terms!" He put the note in the lire.

I--I wish I were dead, Mary, I wish I were out of it all!"

Oh, these are bitter, bitter days, Edward. The stabs, through their

very generosity, are so deep--and they come so fast!"

Three days before the election each of two thousand voters suddenly found

himself in possession of a prized memento--one of the renowned bogus

double-eagles. Around one of its faces was stamped these words: "THE

REMARK I MADE TO THE POOR STRANGER WAS--" Around the other face

was

stamped these: "GO, AND REFORM. [SIGNED] PINKERTON." Thus the

entire

remaining refuse of the renowned joke was emptied upon a single head, and

with calamitous effect. It revived the recent vast laugh and

concentrated it upon Pinkerton; and Harkness's election was a walk-over.

Within twenty-four hours after the Richardses had received their cheques

their consciences were quieting down, discouraged; the old couple were

learning to reconcile themselves to the sin which they had committed. But

they were to learn, now, that a sin takes on new and real terrors when

there seems a chance that it is going to be found out. This gives it a

fresh and most substantial and important aspect. At church the morning

The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg