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A shrewd fellow like that who got out of the Micklethwayte concern just in time. Catch him giving up a place like that, though he may humbug you. 'Then you will see him, father? 'If you turn him in on me, I can't help it. Bless me! umbrellas everywhere! And here you mean to turn me over to the mercies of that solemn idiot, Edsall. I should have been better off with poor Gregorio.
An incident happened about this time that greatly stimulated my desire to get into the army. Harvey Edsall, a neighbor boy some four or five years my senior, had enlisted that summer in the 22nd Illinois Infantry. Harvey, with his regiment, was in the battle of Belmont on November 7, 1861, and in the action received a rather severe gun shot wound in the calf of one of his legs.
"No one can say what the property is worth now," Edsall reported, "but it must be millions." "Millions!" the judge growled. "And they're trying to get it from an old woman and a girl for twenty-five thousand dollars." "A plain steal," the real estate man remarked. "Sculduggery I smelt it!" laughed the judge. One of the first results of this was that Mr.
But he was very nice and friendly, and put on his best, most courteous self. I think he looks on me rather as a protector from the solemn Mr. Edsall. 'Surely Edsall treats him well. He was excellently recommended. You know I saw his master's daughter. 'Oh! only too well. He takes the management of him as if he were three years old, or a lunatic.
"Yes," he replied, somewhat surprised by my breathless eagerness. "What about it?" "I want to know what happened to it and why?" Edsall, being a lawyer with a special interest in real estate, could tell me many of the known facts about the Clark property over which there had been some curious litigation.
Chism and Mrs. Mack were re-elected. The other members of the board chosen were: Vice-presidents, Mrs. F. O. Norton, Mrs. J. E. Church, Mrs. Jennie Logan, Mrs. Charles Gulling, Mrs. J. E. Bray, Miss B. M. Wilson; recording secretary, Mrs. Burroughs Edsall. An active executive committee was appointed and plans were made for a vigorous campaign. Mrs.
And this story the story of Clark's Field I deem well worth setting forth.... That same evening, when I entered the city hotel where I was to dine, I found my friend walking impatiently up and down the lobby, for in my search for the past I had forgotten my engagement and was late. Scarcely greeting my guest, I burst out, "Edsall, do you remember Clark's Field?"
His friend Black Tom Black, of Edsall Green had driven him home in his dog-cart, set him down at the turn to cross the fields moon as light as day no notion, of the lateness till he got in sight of the great clock, and saw it was half-past twelve; so knowing the early habits of the place, he had thought it best to turn back, and get a bed at the Three Goblets.
He simply will not be offended any more than if he had to do with a baby. 'What should offend him? 'That Mr. Egremont greatly resents being allowed nothing but by what Edsall calls medical sanction.
A word lightly cast forth at the club table where he always lunched, and he could get a clue to almost anything of current interest. And that noon, after he had first seen Mrs. Clark and her niece, my friend Edsall happened to be at the judge's table. Orcutt asked him what he knew about the Clark property in Alton. Edsall happened to know almost all of importance that has been told here and more.
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