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He had been quite elated with the thought of the pleasure it would give them, when the possibility of larger service Henry's cure by means of his cherished hoard had suddenly come to him. He arranged with Adoniram Judd that he should go to the shop the next morning, then bade him good-night, and turned his own steps thither.
Rather, I had a strong desire to see the man whom he called his partner the man who had given his name as Carver on the Sally Smith, but was now known to Tugg as "Professor Vose." I was in a fret of uncertainty. I shall never forget that evening as I sat beside Captain Adoniram Tugg on Maria Debora's portico.
Have you got a set of dishes like that?" Adoniram looked at him. "Will I get jailed if I say yes?" he answers. "Maybe you will if you don't," says Peter. "Now, then, ladies and gentlemen, this is something we're all interested in, and I think everybody ought to have a fair show.
Adoniram begged for an explanation, since it was possible their plans might not coincide, to which his father replied there was no fear, and told him that the minister of the biggest church in Boston wished for him as a colleague. "So near home," said the delighted mother.
"Your father really did it," corrected Mother Fisher. "Yes, Adoniram, you did, only I saw to things a little, that's all." "Which means that pretty much the whole business was hers," added the little doctor, possessing himself of her hand under cover of the table. "Well, girls, if you like your birthday party fixings, that's all your mother and I ask.
Adoniram drove, and the three women sat up straight, and looked out with a strange interest, as if they had never seen the landscape before. The meadows were all filmy with cobwebs; there were patches of corn in the midst of them, and the long blades drooped limply. The flies swarmed thickly over the horse's back.
"Let me do that for you, Adoniram," said Mother Fisher, coming up to help him. "I guess you'll have to, wife, if it's done at all," he answered, resigning himself willingly to her hands; "the thing slips and slides like all possessed. Well, now, I was going to say that I wouldn't hate a title so much, if there was a grain of common sense went along with it. And that Mrs.
"It's as much as fifty thousand dollars," said one. "Every dollar of it," assented the other. "It ain't likely he's made a will. Who's goin' to heir it? He 'ain't got a relation that I know of. All the folks I ever heard of his havin', since I can remember, was his step-father an' his brother Sam, an' they died twenty odd years ago." "Adoniram Judd's father was Simon Basset's mother's cousin."
She's made so she can't take anybody else's sufferin' to ease hers, an' so's Henry he's like his mother." "Can't you make her take it, Uncle Adoniram?" "She can't make herself take it; but I'm jest as much obliged to ye, J'rome." Adoniram was about to re-enter the house. "She'll wonder where I be," he muttered, but Jerome stopped him.
So that settled the mystery of the man I had come clear down here to the Straits of Magellan to find the man whom Captain Adoniram Tugg knew as Professor Vose and who had met so terrible an end when the savages had destroyed Tugg's headquarters.
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