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You heard your patrol leader tell you to get into the skiff. Do you think you know better than they do, what is best for you?" Even still he didn't pay any attention, he was so excited. "Now am I a hero?" he said. "No, you are not a hero," Mr. Ellsworth told him; "and you will go inside and get your uniform on. The first duty of a scout is to obey his leader, and you have failed to do that.
New faces showed up in his office now from time to time among them that of Van Nostrand and one Terrence Relihan, a representative of some other political forces at Harrisburg. He was introduced to the governor one day at lunch. His name was mentioned in the papers, and his prestige grew rapidly. Immediately he began working on plans with young Ellsworth for his new house.
Ellsworth laughed, "because strictly speaking, he has never been in the troop; on the contrary the troop has been in him, as one might say." "Good night, did he swallow that too?" said Roy. And he rolled backward off the troop-room table on which he had been sitting. Though Pee-wee was without a patrol he was by no means without a troop.
They were published simultaneously in the Connecticut Courant at Hartford and the American Mercury at Litchfield, and this so clearly indicated Oliver Ellsworth as the writer that they were at once credited to his pen. The letters had a very wide circulation, numbers being reprinted as far north as New Hampshire, and as far south as Maryland.
"I bet he was going to blow up some ships," Pee-wee said. "I bet he'll blow us up in a minute," I told him; because I could see that he was saying something to the men while they all looked at the book, and that the whole four of them were laughing especially Mr. Ellsworth. "It was the elder boy who discovered it," I heard him say, smiling all the while. "Good night!"
"Do you agree with your associate, Hazelton?" inquired Mr. Ellsworth. "Absolutely," Harry proposed. "I have been watching Tom Reade to see if he was making the statement emphatic enough to suit my ideas. Gentlemen, the property we have staked off on this map is a good investment one that will soon make the American financial markets ring."
If the war is simply one in which brute force is to prevail, if we are fighting only for lust and pride and domination, then let us have our "Ellsworth Avengers," and let us slay the wounded of our enemy without mercy; let us burn their hospitals, let us justify their, as yet, false charges against us; let us admit the truth of the words of the Bishop of Louisiana, that the North is prosecuting this war "with circumstances of barbarity which it was fondly believed would never more disgrace the annals of a civilized people."
Seems a pity that the only thing that prevented a clean sweep was a little three-foot pocket edition of a boy scout " At this moment, Pee-wee, by a miracle of dexterity, landed a ball of twine plunk in the middle of Roy's face. "Roy," laughed Mr. Ellsworth, "you're a good campaign manager." "He's a boss," shouted Pee-wee, "that's what he is.
"You don't happen to know the Gately's, of New York, do you?" he was quite anxious to know. "I am truly sorry, but I am acquainted with so few people in New York. We are from Chicago, you know." "Oh," said he blankly, and took the water up to the Ellsworth suite. Mrs.
"How little do Emma Taylor, and girls like her, imagine the cruel remarks to which they expose themselves by their foolish manners!" thought Elinor, as she succeeded at length, with the assistance of Mr. Ellsworth, in extricating herself from the crowd.
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