oomed forth when the enthusiasts,
wearied of plain cheering, of mooing like the moose, or of yelling: 'We
want Teddy! We want Teddy!'

"The great hall whose galleries and arched ceiling were completely
hidden with bunting and huge flags, made a marvelous picture as the
colonel, leaning over the speaker's rail, his teeth snapping like a
bulldog's, raised his left hand in first greeting.

"For three-quarters of an hour he stood there. Now and then recognizing
a friend he would make a dash to the other end of the stand, a distance
of twenty feet and wave his hand--always his left--in greeting.

"As he faced first to the left, then to the right, he awakened
successive outbursts of cheers, and bandannas and flags were set in
motion by sections, till red flushes ran over the crowd like waves.

"The colonel's speech was pitched in a solemn and impressive key. He
made no direct allusion to the attack upon him. He made no attack upon
any individual among his political foes. He named no names save those
of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Jackson.

"Deliberately avoiding the line of advance, which was punctuated with
applause, he appealed for the votes of his auditors for the progressive
cause, making no reference to himself and none to his achievements.

"With cheeks thinner than they were before the attack upon him, but
with a brilliant color, with figure sturdy and erect, and with a voice
that reached to every part of the hall, and never once cracked into the
falsetto squeak that often characterizes it, the colonel seemed the
picture of health. Not at all while he was speaking did he smile. All
his gestures, save one or two were made with his left hand which, being
farthest removed from the bullet wound, could be moved with impunity.

"Once or twice toward the end he brought his right hand down with a
resounding slap on the rail of the speakers stand, but his face gave no
indication that the gesture caused him pain. The flashlights which were
set off at intervals during the address he faced without wincing.

"Col. Roosevelt was preceded by Senator Dixon, who presided, by Oscar
Straus, candidate for governor in New York, and by Governor Johnson of
California."

"Col. Roosevelt's physicians went into his state room to see him soon
after the train left Englewood. They found him contentedly reading:

"'Col. Roosevelt is resting well and is very comfortable.'

"So well, indeed, was the ex-President that the doctor said