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A salesman, connected with a large mercantile house from one of the large cities, furnished the information that on Monday, the day on which the robbery occurred, he had traveled with Edwards as far as Newtonsville, and as he did not see him after leaving that place, he concluded that he must have stopped there.
I'm afraid this time the mountain must come to Mahomet. That ended it. He went away and never come back, and after a long spell she give in to her dad and married Bill Edwards. Foolish? 'Well, now, WA'N'T it!" "Humph!" grunted Crocker. "She must have been a born gump to let a smart man like him get away just for that."
Pierce's and left her there, and so to Captain Cooke's, but he was not at home, but I there spoke with my boy Tom Edwards, and directed him to go to Mr. Thence to White Hall, and after long staying there was no Committee of the Fishery as was expected. Here I walked long with Mr.
"How should I know?" said Worth, and added, helpfully, "Pity they didn't steal the whole lot. That would have been a relief." There were voices and the sound of steps outside. I shoved the diary back into its place on the shelf, and turned to see Barbara at the broken door with Jim Edwards. She came in, her clear eyes a little wide, but the whole young personality of her quite composed.
At the same moment a shot from the helmsman struck Williams in the chest as he and Edwards dashed toward him and the man fell to the deck, mortally wounded. Edwards, unarmed, dashed upon the other, but even as he would have grappled with the man, the latter dodged and Edwards went staggering by. Before he could recover himself, the German had clubbed him over the head with his revolver butt.
She spent tenpence on lunch. "Dear, miss, she's left her umbrella," grumbled the mottled woman in the glass box near the door at the Express Dairy Company's shop. "Perhaps I'll catch her," answered Milly Edwards, the waitress with the pale plaits of hair; and she dashed through the door. "No good," she said, coming back a moment later with Fanny's cheap umbrella. She put her hand to her plaits.
"Mrs. Edwards and Miss Latrop, anyway," said Frances, seriously. "Now keep still." Pratt digested this for a while; then he held up one arm and waved it. "Well? What is it?" asked the stern nurse. "Please, teacher!" "Well?" "May I say one thing?" "Just one. Then silence for an hour." "If that girl from Boston comes I'm going to have a fever understand? I don't want her up here.
Hence for a number of years after my marriage we lived at the Edwards ranch as a matter of precaution against Indian raids. I was absent from home so much that this arrangement suited me, and as the new ranch was distant but a day's ride, any inconvenience was more than recompensed in security.
We have been too often tempted to make of conversion a routine emotional experience. Even Jonathan Edwards was worried about himself in this regard.
She and her mother had been speculating, ever since the invitation had arrived, upon the possibility of Jerome's refusing to accept it. "Nobody can tell what he'll do," Mrs. Edwards had said. "He's just as likely to take a notion not to go as to go." "I can't go if he doesn't," said Elmira. "Why can't you, I'd like to know?" Elmira shrank timidly.
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