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It is he who has labored with the prominent citizens . It is he who has moved the great editors to place David Lockwin in the western pantheon -- to pay him the honors due to Lincoln and Douglas . It is Harpwood who has carried the banquet to success . It is he who , in the midnight of Esther Lockwin 's grief , prepared for her confidential reading those long and scholarly essays of consolation which she studied so gratefully . Mr. Harpwood did not put his lucubrations in the care of Dr. Tarpion . Each and every one was written for no other eye but Esther 's . While Dr. Tarpion was holding the husband at bay , Dr. Tarpion was rapidly overcoming a prejudice against Harpwood .