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With the aid of this illumination Mr. Bascomb read the brief note directed to him. "It's from Evarts," said the president, looking up with a quiet laugh. "He commands me to come to him at once, in his cell, and to arrange some way of getting out. My man," turning to the messenger, "are you going back to Evarts?" "Yes," nodded the messenger, shifting his weight from one foot to another.

"We won't either of us be in for a little while yet. But you turn in now -at once -instanter!" Then Tom bounded over to the little porch before the foremen's barracks, where he pounded lustily on the door. "Who's there? What's wanted?" demanded a sleepy voice from the inside. "Is that you, Evarts?" called Reade. "Yes, sir." "Get on your duds and turn out as quickly as you can."

It is hardly worth while repeating in detail all that passed at this Wormley Conference, made public long ago by Congressional investigation. When I entered the apartment of Mr. Evarts at Wormley's I found, besides Mr. Evarts, Mr. John Sherman, Mr. Garfield, Governor Dennison, and Mr. Stanley Matthews, of the Republicans; and Mr. Ellis, Mr. Levy, and Mr. Burke, Democrats of Louisiana.

More clouds of cigar smoke ascended; then, shaking, and his face a sickly white and green, the president inquired: "Reade, were you there -you and Mr. Prescott -at the time when I talked with Evarts on that very spot to-night?" There was no use in evading the question, so engineer Reade answered in a straightforward manner: "Yes, sir. Mr. Prescott and I were there."

My girl'ain'tgotno watch. I'veputmymoneyinthebank. It'srobbery. I'llhavethelawonye. I'llsueyou. I'll " At that moment something happened. The man, William Evarts, who was talking with a vociferousness which seemed cutting and lacerating to the ear, who was brandishing an arm for emphasis in a circle of frenzy, fairly jumped to one side.

"I made up my mind not long ago to put some of those fellows behind the bars, and I am going to put them there." "Only be careful, Mr. Nast, that you do not first put yourself in a coffin," said the banker as he left. A public meeting in Cooper Institute, April 6, 1871, was addressed by William E. Dodge, Henry Ward Beecher, William M. Evarts, and William F. Havemeyer.

The President was defended by a group of the foremost lawyers in the country, including Benjamin R. Curtis, Jeremiah S. Black, and William M. Evarts. The only weighty article in the charge was that concerning Stanton's removal, and upon this a legal defense was made which now seems conclusive.

"You've nothing more to do here," Tom answered, dryly, without yielding the wheel. "What do you mean by that?" Evarts cried quickly. "Can't you guess?" wondered Reade. "Mr. Reade means," said Conlon, who had come forward, "that we're fired -discharged." "Nonsense!" protested Evarts. "Conlon has guessed rightly, as far as you're concerned," Tom continued. "To-morrow, Evarts, you go to Mr.

We'll be at Abel Meeker's." Again Jean was confronted with an uneasy premonition as to some idea or plan his father had not shared with his followers. When the cavalcade started on again Jean rode to his father's side and asked him why he had wanted the Evarts boy to come to Grass Valley.

Blackford Singleton had belonged to the coterie that included such men as Hoar and Evarts, Thurman and Bayard; neither her imagination nor her affection could bridge the chasm that separated men of their type from her husband, who, in middle life, was content with a seat in the state legislature and busied himself with wars upon petty rivals.