sand to show he meant business, and was to give me the other two thousand that night, and hide us where we could n't be found, and help us to get away. He was n't far off at the time of the fight."

"Short, you 're lying to me!"

"It's the living truth, so help me God! The man was got up so his own mother could n't swear to him, and he tried to disguise his voice, but I knew it just as well as I know yours. He was John Denman.” "John Denman!" exclaimed Craigin. "Impossible!" Then he remembered Denman's warning: "I want to tell you fair and plain that if this thing goes on I sha'n't shrink from necessary war measures. I'm outside the pale of the law, and of course you'll understand that, if I were to be bound by what you might consider fair fighting, I'd be helpless."

"I know it was Denman," repeated Short.

"Short, I want you to promise me one thing; will you?"

"Yes, I will, Mr. Craigin. I know you won't ask what is n't fair to me."

"Don't tell any one."

"You mean what I've told you about Denman?" "Yes."

"The cops found the money on me that night. They've been at me about it ever since, and I told 'em the whole story to-day-everything I 've told you, and all the particulars."

Though Short's statement was kept from the press, it passed from lip to lip like wild-fire. The thousand dollars found on his person strongly corroborated it, and it was generally believed. As the community had

not adopted Denman's theory of "necessary war measures," it hurt him and his cause immensely. It helped Craigin more than almost anything else could have done. It made him the idol of hundreds who had been bitterly opposed to prohibition. It won him universal admiration. All the world loves a fighter.

Denman realized how much he had lost, how much Craigin had gained, but this was as nothing to his rebuke from the one he loved best. "Papa," she said, the day after the attack on the printing-office, “papa, you were out late last night!" He started as if a serpent had stung him, and shrank in horror from the eyes he knew were reading his heart. His daughter's face turned deathly pale, her lip curled, and her voice trembled with withering scorn as she added, "I promised to stand with John Denman, right or wrong, fighting against God; but I never promised to stand with midnight ruffians, six to one! Oh, it was cowardly!"

V

THE VOICE OF MAMMON

HE attempt to wreck the "Tocsin " aroused an American sense of fair play and, by bringing the Tocsin Publishing Company its share of job-work and advertising, put it on a paying basis. Craigin's pluck and popularity, his dramatic midnight victory, one to six, and the business ability and qualities of generalship he had already shown, revived the courage of the antiliquor wing of the Republican party in Apsleighshire, made him its unquestioned leader, and won for his plans the financial backing of several wealthy men.

The city was still suffering greatly from want of a hotel. Denman had made a standing offer to lease the Apsleighshire House at a rental that would have been reasonable in ordinary times and with a thriving bar trade. Much to his surprise, the offer was accepted, and good security for the payment of rent was given. An experienced hotel man took the house, subject to conditions imposed by the League, on a small percentage of gross receipts and a large one of net profits. As soon as it was opened eleven persons under perfect

system and hundreds who were fast learning system set themselves at work to make it pay. Every week a great sleigh-ride or some other entertainment ended with a supper at the Apsleighshire House. While snow still lingered on the hills a circular was prepared, setting forth the charms of Apsleigh as a summer resort and the reasons for calling attention to them. Letters were written to temperance men in all parts of the country, asking the names of people who would be likely to patronize such a house, and hundreds of women wrote to friends, urging them to take their summer outing in Apsleigh and to influence every one they could to do the same. The "Tocsin " put the case in such a way that the press from one end of the country to the other took it up and discussed it. People who had never heard of Apsleigh before became interested in it as a social problem, and it was written about from all points of view.

The problem was not how to get visitors enough, but what to do with so many. The League established a bureau. People whose houses were large and whose incomes were small were enabled to fill the one and increase the other. Apsleighshire was a river, lake, and mountain county, with fine drives and good fishing, and the bureau extended its operations to all the attractive portions of it. Taking great pains to know what kind of entertainment would be given, representing things as they were, and working for a purpose that was understood far and near, it retained and multiplied its patrons. Looking backward a few months, the filling of the Apsleighshire House seemed to belong to the day of small things. The League had

made the county a popular resort and had put hundreds of thousands of dollars into the pockets of its inhabitants. As it had charged commissions, it also had a nice little sum of money on hand.

One morning the next winter Harnett entered the "Tocsin" office with a Boston daily in his hand.

"Craigin," he exclaimed, "the Crawford Cutlery Works at Steel Haven have been burned to the ground, -carelessness of a drunken workman,—and I believe we can get Crawford to rebuild here."

"What makes you think so?"

"I got acquainted with him last summer at Watch Hill. He's one of our kind of people on the temperance question, and I told him all about what we 're trying to do. I told him about freight rates, and taxation, and cost of living, and everything. He said then that he 'd had one very costly accident caused by drunken workmen and was sick of it, and that if it was n't for his big plant he 'd come. I could see he meant what he said. We 've got the advantage of Steel Haven in every way. If he rebuilds there he 'll have to pay taxes right along. If he comes here he can get an exemption for ten years. Freight rates here are ten per cent. lower, the cost of living for workmen less, and wages about the same. Besides, Crawford's made a large fortune and wants to live in a place that is n't altogether a factory town, where there are pleasant surroundings such as we have here, and where his family can have better society and better advantages. Let's go down there and talk it over with him and see what we can do."

"We must take all the facts and figures we can get