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ALL-WOOL MORRISON

Time: Today Place: The United States

Period of Action: Twenty-four Hours

by HOLMAN DAY

Author of "The Rider of King Log" "The Red Lane" "King Spruce" "Where
Your Treasure Is"

To

PERCIVAL P. BAXTER

A Consistent and Courageous Champion in the Protection of "The People's
White Coal." With the Author's Sincere Friendship and High Regard.

CONTENTS

I. HOW "THE MORRISON" BROKE ST. RONAN'S RULE II. THE THREAT OF WHAT THE NIGHT MAY BRING III. THE MORRISON ASSUMES SOME CONTRACTS IV. ANSWERING THE FIRST ALARM V. THE MEN WHO WERE WAITING TO BE SHOWN VI. THE MAN'S WORD OF THE MAYOR OF MARION VII. THE THIN CRUST OVER BOILING LAVA VIII. A ROD IN PICKLE IX. MAKING IT A SQUARE BREAK X. A SENATOR SIZES UP A FOE XI. FLAREBACKS IN THE CASE OF LOVE AND A MOB XII. RIFLES RULE IN THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE XIII. THE LINE-UP FORMS IN THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE XIV. THE IMPENDING SHAME OF A STATE XV. THE BOSS OF THE JOB XVI. THE CITY OF MARION SEEKS ITS MAYOR XVII. THE CAPITOL IN SHADOWXVIII. THE CAPITOL ALIGHT XIX. LANA CORSON HAS HER DOUBTS XX. IN THE COLD AND CANDID DAYLIGHT XXI. A WOMAN CHOOSES HER MATE

All-Wool Morrison

I

HOW "THE MORRISON" BROKE ST. RONAN'S RULE

On this crowded twenty-four-hour cross-section of contemporary Americanlife the curtain goes up at nine-thirty o'clock of a January forenoon.

Locality, the city of Marion—the capital of a state.

Time, that politically throbbing, project-crowded, anxious, and expectantseason of plot and counterplot—the birth of a legislative session.

Disclosed, the office of St. Ronan's Mill of the city of Marion.

From the days of old Angus, who came over from Scotland and established awoolen mill and handed it down to David, who placed it confidently in thepossession of his son Stewart, the unalterable rule was that "TheMorrison" entered the factory at seven o'clock in the morning and couldnot be called from the mill to the office on any pretext whatsoever tillhe came of his own accord at ten o'clock in the forenoon.

In the reign of David the old John Robinson wagon circus paraded thestreets of Marion early on a forenoon and the elephant made a break in apanic and ran into the mill office of the Morrisons through the big door,and Paymaster Andrew Mac Tavish rapped the elephant on the trunk with apenstock and, only partially awakened from abstraction in figures, statedthat "Master Morrison willna see callers till he cooms frae the mill atten."

To go into details about the Morrison manners and methods and doggednessin attending to the matter in hand, whatever it might be, would not limnStewart Morrison in any clearer light than to state that old Andrew, atseventy-two, was obeying Stewart's orders as to the ten-o'clock rule andwas just as consistently a Cerberus as he had been in the case of Angusand David. He was a bit more set in his impassivity—at least to allappearances—because chronic arthritis had made his neck permanentlystiff.

It may be added that Stewart Morrison was thirty-odd, a bachelor, dweltwith his wido

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