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Captain Elkanah and the gracious Miss Annabel, his daughter, had been kind enough to express gratification, and their praise alone saved him from despair. Then, to his amazement, the call had come. Of casual conversation at the church and about the Daniels's table he could recall nothing. So there was another religious organization in town and that made up of seceders from his own church.
Finally the cattleman reached out a hand toward the smoothly muscled shoulders. It was Calder who stood nearest and he managed to strike up Daniels's extended arm and jerk him back from the region of danger. "What'n hell is that for?" exclaimed Daniels. "That horse is called Satan," said Calder, "and when any one save his owner touches him he lives up to his name and raises hell."
I stopped at Captain Daniels's house and the girl said he had gone with his daughter to the next town, but that they were to stop here at the parsonage on their way. So there! that's right, at last! so I came, hoping to find them. The door was open and I came in. The captain and his daughter were not here, but, as I was pretty wet, I thought I would seize the opportunity to change my clothes.
But of equal importance, greater importance history may decree it, was Secretary Daniels's action in 1915 of appointing the Naval Advisory Board of Inventions. That was looking ahead with a vengeance. The idea was to make available the latent inventive genius of the country to improve the navy.
For a young lady, supposed to be a devout Come-Outer, to hurry along the main road, a handkerchief at her mouth and her eyes sparkling with fun, was a circumstance calculated to furnish material for enjoyable scandal. And Didama missed it. Other happenings she missed, also. Not knowing of Captain Daniels's call upon Keziah, she was deprived of the pleasure of wonder at the length of his stay.
Then her trunks were loaded on the tailboards of the wagons, to be left at the parsonage, and with a sigh and a quick brush of her hand across her eyes, she locked the door for the last time and walked briskly down the road. Soon afterwards John Ellery, under the eminently respectable escort of Captain Elkanah and Miss Annabel, emerged from the Daniels's gate and followed her. Mrs.
At the Daniels's door Keziah turned her new charge over to Matilda Snow, the hired girl. It was an indication of the family's social position that they kept "hired help." This was unusual in Trumet in those days, even among the well to do. "Good night," said the young man, extending his hand. "Good night, Miss or is it Mrs. Coffin?" "Mrs. Good night." "She's a widow," explained Matilda.
"Why, don't you think he is Cabinet timber?" asked Colonel House. "Timber!" "He isn't a splinter! Have you got a time table? When does the next train leave for Princeton?" Wilson, earnestly protesting against Mr. Daniels's appointment. But Mr. Wilson said that he had already offered Mr. Daniels the place. Dr.
The sheriff stared at him in dumb amazement, his mouth open. "They's a price of ten thousand on the head of Whistlin' Dan," suggested Purvis. The sheriff still seemed too astonished to understand. "I s'pose," said Purvis, "that you wouldn't care special for an easy lump sum of ten thousand, what?" "In Buck Daniels's house!" burst out the sheriff.
The brick walk leading to the door of Captain Elkanah Daniels's fine residence held undignified puddles in its hollows. And, through the damp stillness, the muttered growl of the surf, three miles away at the foot of the sandy bluffs by the lighthouse, sounded ominously.
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