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...Elephant wrecked. For 20 months the wreckage lay where it fell, untouched. Only a stout heart would dare to attempt the labor of "repairing" the débris, least of all undertake to reconstruct the House in five scant months. That heart was the heart of Henry Prather Fletcher. Last week Mr. Fletcher might well have doubted whether courage or folly had moved his heart...
Whatever business support the Administration may have lost, political observers agreed last week that the great bulk of the U. S. voters were, if not in heart and soul at least in pocketbook, ardently in favor of the New Deal. Henry Prather Fletcher and all good Republicans hoped that there would be many surprises in the election returns. Any unexpected result on Nov. 6 was bound to be in their favor...
...More natural-like, too; kind of wild an' bred in the hills an' the devil be damned, somethin' that-a-way." Clint's girl was Tillie Starbuck; he was aiming to marry her and everybody knew it and kept out of his way, till Ed Prather came along. When Clint found Prather sneaking off from the fish-fry to talk to Tillie, the trouble started. Prather got away that time, but Clint went to look for him, found him in the postoffice and beat the daylight out of him. Prather had him arrested for breaking into...
...shells, he was mighty grateful, but when she spent the night with him he knew there was no help for him now. Cornered with Nance in the old cave where his uncle's still had been, Clint made a last stand, had the supreme satisfaction of killing Ed Prather before they...
Back at Lansing, Governor Landon announced six-month "good time" allowances for 1,850 convicts who did not take advantage of the break. The State Prison Board exonerated Warden Prather and his staff of all blame. "The six men who planned the break were lifers, killers and desperadoes," the board found, ". . . desperately willing to gamble for freedom...