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In spite of rehearsals, Grace Harlowe's team found time for a few basketball games, and whipped the senior team twice in succession, much to the disgust of Captain Julia Crosby, who threatened to go into deep mourning over what she called "her dead and gone team."
I have no doubt Miss Crosby obtained her information about this affair to-day from you, and that everyone in school will hear it from the same source. You seem determined to meddle with matters that do not concern you, and I warn you that if you do not change your tactics you may regret it.
"'Do you suppose that any one in this walk could hear cries proceeding from the low gate? "'Certainly not. "The cross-examination of Crosby was as follows: "Mr. A. 'Were the prisoner's clothes much disordered, as if he had been struggling? "'No; he looked much as usual; but he was covered with blood. "'So we have heard you say.
"Shall I go?" said Harriet. "No; stay." "You may well want to go, girl," said Crosby. "You have betrayed an innocent woman into the hands of her enemies, and for reward what has this man promised you for reward?" "Will you listen to me a moment, Mr. Crosby?" said Rosmore. "Your confederates have made it impossible for me to refuse." "That is unworthy of you," Rosmore answered.
"He's a sorry beast to my way of thinking, but to his thinking maybe I'm a sorry rider. Those who have great souls to carry often have poor knees for the gripping of a saddle." Crosby did not answer. The vision was still before him on the road, and he wondered whether Fate and this fiddler were leading him to his desire.
After a pause he said: "Oh, he takes his chances." "Of course he does," cried Crosby, encouragingly. "He takes the chance of being shot by the passengers, and of being caught by the posse and lynched, but this man's got away with it now six times in the last year. And I say that takes nerve." "Why, for fifty dollars " laughed Ranson.
"Don't fall off that beam, please," he panted. "It might rattle me." "I can't help being excited. It is the grandest thing I ever heard of. He can't get out of there, can he? Dear me, the sides of that stall are more than eight feet high." "He can't get out of it if I get him in," gasped Crosby.
With the Chicago delegation, Mrs. Livermore, Judge Waite, Judge Bradwell, Mrs. Myra Bradwell, editor of the Legal News, and others, they addressed the legislature. At Chicago, in Crosby Music Hall, the meeting was decidedly aggressive.
Higgins?" cried Mrs. Delancy anxiously. "How selfish of us not to have thought of you before!" "Oh, that's all right. This gum coat kept me purty dry." He and Crosby assisted her from the wagon, and, while the former gave his attention to the wet and shivering horses, the latter took her arm and walked up and down the dark shed with her.
Crosby appeared in Madame Vine's room after breakfast, and gave her an account of Helena's projected marriage. She then apologized, the real object of her visit, for dispensing so summarily with madame's services, but had reason to hope that she could introduce her to another situation. Would madame have any objection to take one in England?
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