will rise against the National Banks
and against all Indirect Taxation."

Its dedication was marked with a pencil and he read it over and over:
"To the Toiling Millions who produce all the wealth, yet because they
have never controlled legislation, have been impoverished by unjust
laws made in the interests of the Land-holder and the Money-changer,
who seize upon and hold the surplus wealth of the nation by the same
right that the slave-master held his slave, _legal_ right and that
alone, this tract is inscribed by the author."

It was Bradley's first intimation of the mighty forces beginning to
stir in the deeps of American society. He found the pamphlet filled
with great confusing thoughts. He confessed frankly in his letter to
Miss Wilbur that he got nothing satisfactory out of it, though it made
him think.

It was astonishing to himself to find his thoughts flowing out to her
upon paper with the greatest ease. He was stricken with fear after he
had mailed his letter, it was so bulky. He was appalled at the length
of time which must pass before he might reasonably expect to hear from
her. He counted the days, the hours that intervened. Her note came at
last, and it made his blood leap as the clerk flung it out with a grin.
"She's blessed yeh this time!" It was a red-headed clerk, and his grin,
by reason of a quid of tobacco in his thin cheek, was particularly
offensive. Bradley felt an impulse to call him out of his box and whip
him.

When he opened the letter in his own room he felt a sort of fear. How
would she reply? The letter gave out a faint perfume like that he
remembered floated with her dress. It was a rather brief note, but very
kind. She called his attention to two or three passages in the
pamphlet, and especially asked him to read the chapters touching on the
land and money questions. But the part over which he spent the most
time was the paragraph at the close:

"I liked your letter very much. It shows a sincere desire for the
truth. You will never stop short of the truth, I'm sure, but you
will have sacrifices to make--you must expect that. I shall take
great interest in your work.

"Very sincerely,

"IDA WILBUR."

XIV.

BRADLEY CHANGES HIS POLITICAL VIEWS.

The West had always been Republican. Its States had come into the Union
as Republican States. It met the solid South with a solid North-west
year after year, and it firmly believed that the salvation of