It looks now like certain busybodies in this community had over-stepped themselves and been hoisted up by their own petard.

The Colonel is a fine man for County Judge, and we bespeak for him the suffrages of every voter who wants an honest judiciary.= Westley Keyts, reading this, wanted to know what a petard was.

Inquiry disclosed that he hoped it might be something that could be used upon Potts to the advantage of almost every one concerned.

But in the minds of others of us an agonized suspicion now took form.

Had the letters been upon Potts when he went down?
Had they been saved?
Were they legible?
And would he use them?
It was decided that Solon Denney should try to illuminate this point before taking the candidacy of Potts seriously.