t back. Mrs.
Bassett will be well enough to leave the sanatorium in a few days, and
I'm going up to Waupegan to get the house ready."

"It will be pleasant for Mrs. Bassett to have Mrs. Owen there this
summer. Anybody is lucky to have a woman of her qualities for a
neighbor."

"She's a noblewoman," said Bassett impressively, "and a good friend to
all of us."

On the train the next morning Harwood unfolded the day's "Courier" in
the languidly critical frame of mind that former employees of newspapers
bring to the reading of the journals they have served. He scanned the
news columns and opened to the editorial page. The leader at once caught
his eye. It was double-leaded,--an emphasis rarely employed at the
"Courier" office, and was condensed in a single brief paragraph that
stared oddly at the reader under the caption "STOP, LOOK, LISTEN." It
held Harwood's attention through a dozen amazed and mystified readings.
It ran thus:--

It has long been Indiana's proud boast that money unsupported by
honest merit has never intruded in her politics. A malign force
threatens to mar this record. It is incumbent upon honest men of
all parties who have the best interests of our state at heart to
stop, look, listen. The COURIER gives notice that it is fully
advised of the intentions, and perfectly aware of the methods, by
which the fair name of the Hoosier State is menaced. The COURIER,
being thoroughly informed of the beginnings of this movement, whose
purpose is the seizure of the Democratic Party, and the
manipulation of its power for private ends, will antagonize to the
utmost the element that has initiated it. Honorable defeats the
party in Indiana has known, and it will hardly at this late day
surrender tamely to the buccaneers and adventurers that seek to
capture its battleflag. This warning will not be repeated. Stop!
Look! Listen!

From internal evidence Harwood placed the authorship readily enough:
the paragraph had been written by the chief editorial writer, an old
hand at the game, who indulged frequently in such terms as "adventurer"
and "buccaneer." It was he who wrote sagely of foreign affairs, and once
caused riotous delight in the reporters' room by an editorial on Turkish
politics, containing the phrase, "We hope the Sultan--" But not without
special authority would such an article have been planted at the top of
the editorial page, and