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In Albany to hear the report, these two conspirators gloated over their plan as they surveyed the packed galleries and noted the many reporters who would jump at a bit of spicy news to send their papers. Just before Horace Greeley was to give his report, George William Curtis announced with dignity and assurance, "Mr. President, I hold in my hand a petition from Mrs.

On finding themselves outside the dive Hamar, Curtis and Kelson first of all divided the spoil. They then went to a clothes depot and rigged themselves out in fashionably cut garments; after which they took rooms at a presentable hotel in Kearney Street, next door to Knobble's boot store.

Somehow, Nyleptha's way of putting the thing, though true and forcible enough, was not altogether pleasant. 'I understand, stammered Curtis, looking at Good, 'I understood that he were attached eh attached to to the Queen Sorais.

Curtis, if she don't mind, an' she says Mr. Curtis ain't able to see no one. So I guess I'm goin' to be let out. Not as I keer very much, 'cept I hate to leave Mr. Curtis in the lurch. He was mighty good to me up to the time he got bed-ridden." "I dare say you will have no difficulty in finding another place," said Barnes, feeling his way. "'Tain't easy to git a job up here.

The next year an office was opened in Madison and Miss Alice Curtis was installed as executive secretary. It was difficult to do effective work so far away from the president and the office was removed to Waukesha, her residence, with Miss Curtis and later Mrs. Helen Haight in charge.

"Allowing for some of the ash slipping down the pile and for our having moved a little that was there before Wandle threw the cash-box in, it fixes the time he did so pretty close to Jernyngham's disappearance," he remarked. "Looks bad against the Austrian, doesn't it?" "You have quite as much against Prescott." "Yes," Curtis admitted regretfully; "that's the trouble.

Tom Curtis was not ashamed of the tears in his eyes as he looked at Madge. The first moment he had feared that she was an apparition that might vanish while he gazed upon it. "I'm real, Tom; please don't look at me like that," faltered Madge, feeling her own eyes fill with tears. "We have been lost on a desert island, and a battleship brought us home to-day.

"Certainly I should," replied Miss Jenny Ann promptly, falling into the trap. "Then why not let me have a houseboat party this fall?" proposed Mrs. Curtis. "Madeleine and I will be staying near Old Point Comfort. Tom will be camping with some boy friends near Cape Charles.

The man's tone was commanding and Curtis complied. "On the whole, I'm inclined to blame the other fellow, Wandle." "Against the evidence?" asked his superior in quiet surprise. "You of course remember your instructions and know what your duty is." "Yes, sir," said Curtis. "Still, I think " He paused and continued diffidently: "You would have an answer."

Our way was south-west and consequently with the wind, and although Curtis would not crowd on all sail lest the extra speed should have a tendency to spring the leak afresh, the "Chancellor" made a progress that was quite satisfactory.