_papes_ to send a lot of you duffers to the pen if you don't come to
time."

Corkey therefore sails for Duluth. It increases his standing with the
sailors to make these trips late in the year.

Lockwin is to go to Washington. It is evident, say his friends, that
he is greatly exhausted with the efforts of the campaign. Dr. Tarpion
has hinted that Lockwin is not the ambitious man that he has seemed to
be. Dr. Tarpion has hinted that it was only through strong personal
influence that Lockwin has been held faithful to the heavy party duty
that now lies upon him.

Dr. Tarpion has hinted that Lockwin did not want the office if it did
not belong to him.

But Lockwin has had brain fever for nearly a month. What could you
expect of a man who made so many speeches at so many wigwams?

"Besides," says the political boss, "he had sickness in his family."

"Some one died, didn't they?" asks a rounder where these reports are
bandied.

"Yes, a little boy. Good-looking little fellow, too. I saw him with
Lockwin."

"When I was a young man," said the boss, "old Sol Wynkoop got in the
heat of the canvass, just like Lockwin. Old Sol was just about as good
a speaker. He would talk right on, making 'em howl every so often.