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They grew suspicious of him, however, especially after reading his speeches, etc., which as the spring came on grew more and more significant, and so they shut up like so many clams on all professional topics whenever Elmendorf appeared. For it was well known in the great community that "the regulars" were keeping close watch on the changing phases of what the papers termed "the situation."
"May I trouble you for those despatches, Mr. Elmendorf?" she asked, wearily, almost disgustedly. Elmendorf flushed with wounded vanity. "The despatches are yours," he said, bowing with marked reverence. "But, as this may be my last opportunity of speaking to you in some days, I have that to say which I urge you for your own sake, your brother's sake, your father's sake, to hear and heed.
Just how it came about Cranston could not now remember, but he had invited Elmendorf to step in and look over some old books of his father's, and as the tutor became enthusiastic he was bidden to come again. Out at the post the major established his modest soldier home, much missing the companionship of his devoted wife, who was in Europe at the time with their only daughter.
Now their wrath was frantic. And Elmendorf was madder than ever. The general and his staff reappeared in the midst of the concentration. Their coming was announced.
They have done no wrong, violated no law, and yet here you come with bayonets and ball cartridges to intimidate, if not to shoot down in cold blood, husbands and fathers and peaceable citizens who are only pleading for justice at the hands of their employers." "Some mistake here, Mr. Elmendorf. Your leaders have already declared it a rebellion.
"I told you he would reappear here, if at all, only as her husband, or possibly her affianced, did I not?" Another nod as cool as the first. "And you turned away in contemptuous unbelief, did you not?" "Contempt certainly, but unbelief not entirely." Elmendorf was fairly trembling with wrath by this time.
And Elmendorf waited a moment. "I shall not be apt to write," said Forrest, coldly, after a pause. "Well in case you you see any of the family again. If it's all the same to you " "I shall not volunteer any information, Mr.
Suppose we three adjourn to my den, where the books are right at hand. Mr. Elmendorf has his duties and will excuse us." If he had struck him, the master of the house could not more have stung his employee. Even Forrest, who by this time had many reasons of his own for bringing Elmendorf to book, tingled with something like sympathy at a slight so marked.
Elmendorf, still presumably recuperating in the shades of the university at Jena; and that night Mr. Elmendorf called upon him at his hotel. "I found myself so much better," said he, "that I decided to push ahead, and, still availing myself of my leave, to stop and see some of these most interesting old Helvetic cities. My coming here to-day was fortuitous, yet possibly unfortunate. Mr.
You are, as I understand, the commanding officer of the regiment that has just arrived in this city. You are an officer sworn to maintain the Constitution of the United States; and is not your very presence here you and your men in glaring violation of that Constitution?" Here the few officers who had joined their commander, all strangers to Elmendorf, turned upon him in astonishment.
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