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It was to Chisholm that he put his first questions casually, as if they were very ordinary ones, and yet with an atmosphere of meaning behind them that excited curiosity. "You made a very exhaustive search of the neighbourhood of the spot where Crone's body was found, didn't you?" he inquired. "A thorough search," answered Chisholm. "You found the exact spot where the man had been struck down?"
Wordsworth reports a case in which a foreign body was deeply imbedded in the orbit for six weeks, and was removed with subsequent recovery. Chisholm has seen a case in which for five weeks a fly was imbedded in the culdesac between the lower lid and the eyeball. Foreign bodies are sometimes contained in the eyeball for many years.
"Say nothing about that will, to anybody," said he. "I'll think that matter over to-night, and see what'll come of my thinking. It's as I said before, Hugh to get at the bottom of all this, we'll have to go back maybe a far way." I said nothing and went home. For now I had work of my own I was going to what I had resolved on after Chisholm told me the news about Crone.
Nevertheless, the agitation was continued. The next year constitutional lawyers like Mr. Chisholm Anstey decided that women might be legally entitled to vote; and 5000 of them applied to be registered. In a test case brought before the Court of Common Pleas the verdict was adverse, on the ground that it was contrary to usage for women to vote. The fight went on. Mr.
But Chisholm, who was a sharp fellow, with a good headpiece on him, suddenly spoke. "There's the fact that the murdered man sent that letter from Peebles," said he, "and that he himself appears to have travelled from Peebles but yesterday. We might be hearing something of him at Peebles, and from what we might hear, there or elsewhere, we might get some connection between the two of them."
This momentous decision was almost as unpopular with Congress and the general public as the decision in Chisholm v. Georgia had been a hundred years earlier. Many legislators were in favor of enacting another income tax law forthwith and endeavoring to coerce the Court, through the force of legislative and popular opinion, to overrule its decision.
In due time another boat arrived, containing Colonels Chestnut and Chisholm, and Captain Stephen D. Lee, all aids of Beauregard. They came to notify Major Anderson that the latter was willing to treat with him on the basis proposed. There was some difficulty about permitting us to salute our flag; but that, too, was finally conceded.
The idea of that old hag's saying those children are so naughty they ran their mother crazy! It makes me sick. They are precious kids." "They certainly are," agreed Josie. Miss Chisholm looked at her in astonishment. "Do you know them?" "Yes," said Josie, "I know them very well. Miss Chisholm, I'm going to do a rather cheeky thing.
My father always preached being faithful in small things." The next day was a busy one for Josie as well as Alice Chisholm. Josie must lay in a supply of maid's uniforms, aprons and caps. She must write letters to Mary Louise and her partners of the Higgledy-Piggledy, also a business epistle to her boss of the household necessities and jeweled novelties.
Chisholm straightened himself in his chair in fiery indignation, which he made no attempt to conceal. "You mean that after asking my consent, and seeing more of Evelyn, you have changed your mind! Can't you understand that it's an unpardonable confession one which I never fancied a man born and brought up in your station could have brought himself to make?"
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