ieve that that obligation would
have led me to yield, where I felt that a principle was at stake. It
was the words of Dollie, spoken yesterday, that stuck to me. They kept
me awake most of the night and played a part in the dreams that I had
about her being lost in the woods and eaten up by panthers and all
sorts of creatures. When I awoke this morning, the mists had cleared
away. I saw my error, and fully made up my mind to do all I could to
correct it. I went to the telegraph office before breakfast and sent a
message to Vining countermanding the order for the men. Then I came
back and had just finished my meal when a message was brought to my
house. Odd, wasn't it?"

"I see nothing odd in a telegram for you."

"I mean in the telegram itself."

"I could not answer that unless I saw it."

"Of course," said Harvey with a laugh, wheeling about in his chair and
picking up one of the yellow slips of paper which the Western Union
furnishes its patrons gratis.

"There, read _that_," he added, passing it to Hugh O'Hara, who looked
at it with no little curiosity.

It was dated in the city of New York and signed by Johnson W. Bradley,
father of Harvey, and President of the Rollo Mills Company. This was
the body of the telegram:

"Don't lose sight of the interests of your men. Before hiring other
hands _try arbitration_."

"That _is_ rather odd," said Hugh; leaning forward, so as to hand the
telegram back to his employer, "but it is sound wisdom all the same."

"Undoubtedly; but are you convinced that I agree to your terms not
because of gratitude, but because I believe them right?"

"I am satisfied," said Hugh; "have you sent the notice to the hands?"

"Yes. I wonder that you did not hear of it on the way here."

Hugh smiled.

"Of course I heard of it. I knew it long ago, but I did not know _why_
you had decided to restore our time to what it was and to pay the same
wages; _that_ I have learned from yourself. And now that you have done
your part so well," added Hugh, rising to leave, "I assure you that we
shall do ours; we shall give you the best service we can. No one shall
misinterpret your action or try to take advantage of it."

The superintendent was wise enough to avoid a mistake to which persons,
placed as was he, are liable--that is, he did not overdo his part. He
was so happy over the return of his little sister that he was willing
not only to give the old wages and time asked for by his