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EDWARD D, WORRELL. o7

remarkable beard, his remarkable military pants, his mili-
tary cap and the not remarkable saddlebags of Gordon, keep
his company without change until he reaches Pittsburgh.
There McGee induces him to have his mustache taken off,
and the change wrought is so great that he is not recognized
by a gentleman who had traveled on the cars with him from
Vincennes. ‘You have the advantage of me,”’ said the gen-
tleman, ‘‘I do not know you.”” ‘‘I am Worrell, do you not
know me? This is the difference’’-—pointing to the absent
mostache, Here was a suggestion which no sane fellow could
disregard, but he is solicitous to disclose even an accidental
and unintentional disguise,

At Baltimore begets into a conversation with a stranger
on the affairs of Kansas. The cireuit attorney, in allusion
to this strange interview, exclaims, ‘‘If all the men who get
excited om Kaneas be insane the hospitals of the country
won’t hold them!’’ The prosecutor dodges the point, gentle-
men; the point of the incident is that there was no dispute,
no disagreement; but on the contrary, a perfect coincidence
of opinion on the subject between Worrell and the stranger,
and yet Worrell became so excited as to require the inter-
ference of another. There is no solution of that excitement
but the senseless irritability of mental disorder. The effort
to evade the fact proves its power even on the mind of Mr.
Gale. Little as he affects to know of insanity, he feels the
force of thia parenthetical fact. ,

At Baltimore he purehasea clothes and a trunk, Now the
saddlebaga may be no longer needed to carry their contents;
the military pants may be thrust aside; the military eap need
be no longer worn and the boot with its identifying patch
may be left off! He is at last near home and kindred. One
day may bring him to Dover, where he will meet those two
(pointing to his father and mother), whe now sit by his side
and watch the currents of this trial, Their presence will
inspire the absent missing instinct of self-preservation! Surely
he will rid himself now of all trace of crime, and as far a8
may be of every mark of identity. There is a Dover, Mary-
land, and a Dover in Delaware! ‘I am going to Dover,” he

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