u, Colonel Ward," remarked
Parker, as the train clanked along under the big trees. "I think I was
never more glad to offer modern conveniences to any traveller across
this carry. You understand how deep my sincerity is in this, I am
positive."

"I understand everything better than I did, Parker," returned Colonel
Ward, feelingly, turning away wet eyes.

The astonishment in Sunkhaze settlement when the doughty ex-tyrant was
borne through to the "down-country" train, accompanied by Parker and
Joshua, was so intense that only the postmaster recovered himself in
season to put a few leading questions. After the train had gone he
announced the results of his findings to the crowd that clustered about
him on the station platform.

"Near's I can find out," he said, "that young Parker has been way up
into the Moxie region an' found old Gid, and spent a week gettin' round
him and coaxin' him to go 'long with him and Josh to the city, and be
fitted to new hands and feet, that, so they tell me, is so ingenious a
fellow can walk round and cut his own victuals and all that. Well, that
will help old Gid a little. If the blamed old sanup could only be fitted
out with a new disposition at the same time, we folks round here would
be more pleased to see him, come back."

"Postmaster," cried Dan Connick, who had been one of those who bore
the colonel from the landing in a chair, "don't you ever worry any more
about a new disposition for Gid Ward. Those things come from the hand of
God, and Colonel Gid has already been fitted out with the heart and soul
of a man!"

"Then," declared Dodge, gazing to where the smoke wreaths from the
departing locomotive hung above the distant treetops, "I reckon we've
just seen in bodily shape the passin' of the old in this section as well
as the comin' of the new."

THE END

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