nd entirely upon that community for its success, its wealth and
its very existence. The more wealthy and prosperous a people become,
the more will they patronize a railroad and contribute to its
maintenance and growth. The community, moreover, is made up of
individuals, and its prosperity must depend upon the health,
enterprise, ability, success and moral character of the people who
compose it. Does not temperance tend to build up the virtues and
prosperity of individuals, and thus to increase the general prosperity
of the country and add to the success of all useful public
institutions?

Second, how can temperance work "create feeling between the Company
and its patrons?" Surely not all the patrons of the Canadian Pacific
Railway are wholesale and illicit liquor sellers? Mr. Brady seems to
entirely ignore the great company of law-abiding temperance people who
would respect the Company far more if its employees were active
temperance men, and with whom Mr. Brady himself, rather than Mr.
Smith, created intense feeling.

It was stated in a former chapter that Mr. Smith accompanied Detective
Carpenter to Marlboro, Mass., when he went in search of Kelly. Mr.
Carpenter "on his own responsibility," went to Mr. Brady, to ask
permission for him to do so, and the following leave of absence was
sent to Mr. Smith:

"W. W. Smith, Esq., Sutton Junction.

"DEAR SIR,--You may go on No. 11, Conductor will have pass for
you.

"Sinclair will be at Sutton Junction on No. 15 to-night to take
charge during your absence. O'Regan must look after the business
this P. M.

"F. P. BRADY.
"_Farnham, Aug. 20th, 1894._"

As this leave of absence was indefinite as to time, and Mr. Smith was
engaged with the assault case for several days after his return from
Marlboro, the court having opened on Sept. 1st, he had not yet resumed
work at Sutton Junction, when on the evening of September 3d he
addressed a temperance meeting at Richford, Vermont. The next day Mr.
Brady, who seemed to keep remarkably well informed as to the
whereabouts of his agent when off duty, wrote Mr. Smith as follows,
labelling this letter like the previous one, "personal:"

"W. W. Smith, Esq., Agent, Sutton Junction.

"DEAR SIR,--I wrote you on July 9th with reference to what you
must do if you remained in the employ of this Company. I am aware
that last night you delivered a