By rights Henry, being the hero of this story, should be introduced in the first line. But really there isn't so much to say about Henry-Henry J. Allen for short, as we say in Kansas-Henry J. Allen, editor and owner of the Wichita Beacon. And to make the dramatis personae complete, we may consider me as the editor of the Emporia Gazette, and the two of us as short, fat, bald, middle-aged, inland Americans, from fresh water colleges in our youth and...