bottles of rye, to Pete Glover's room over the hardware store. And
then all three of them went up one night with Ed Moore, the
photographer, to Judge Pepperleigh's house under pretence of having a
game of poker. The very day after that, Mullins and Duff and Ed
Moore, and Pete Glover and the judge got Will Harrison, the harness
maker, to go out without any formality on the lake on the pretext of
fishing. And the next night after that Duff and Mullins and Ed Moore
and Pete Glover and Pepperleigh and Will Harrison got Alf Trelawney,
the postmaster, to come over, just in a casual way, to the Mariposa
House, after the night mail, and the next day Mullins and Duff and--

But, pshaw! you see at once how the thing is worked. There's no need
to follow that part of the Whirlwind Campaign further. But it just
shows the power of organization.

And all this time, mind you, they were talking things over, and
looking at things first in one light and then in another light,--in
fact, just doing as the big city men do when there's an important
thing like this under way.

So after things had been got pretty well into shape in this way, Duff
asked Mullins one night, straight out, if he would be chairman of the
Central Committee. He sprung it on him and Mullins had no time to
refuse, but he put it to Duff straight whether he would be treasurer.
And Duff had no time to refuse.


That gave things a start, and within a week they had the whole
organization on foot. There was the Grand Central Committee and six
groups or sub-committees of twenty men each, and a captain for every