And Molly Culpepper replied, "When are you going, Bob ?" The young man picked up the sagging lines to turn out for Watts McHurdie's buggy.

He had just let Nellie Logan out at the Wards', where she lived.

After a "Hello, Watts; getting pretty late for an old man like you," Hendricks answered: "Well, you know John--when he gets a thing in his head he's a regular tornado.

There was an immense crowd in town to-day--depositors and all that.

And do you know, John went out this afternoon with a paper in his hand, and five hundred dollars he dug out of his safe over in the office, and he got options to lease their land for a year signed up by the owners of five thousand acres of the best wheat land in Garrison County.