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"Have you two got to go up before the June exams. here?" asked one of the young men, who had introduced himself as Grigsby. "Part of it," grinned Dan. "We've already gone through the primer tests and the catechism, and that sort of thing; but we still have to go before the barber and the toilet specialists and see whether our personal appearance suits." "You're lucky, then," replied Grigsby.
"If you don't keep quiet I'll kill you. I mean what I say." He still had the instinctive crook sense to conceal his natural voice. Hicks was afraid, but as mile after mile fell behind them and the westerning sun gave promise of the early shelter of dark, he began to gain confidence. He mumbled to himself reminiscently: "The old Grigsby house, eh? Nobody but " he checked himself.
When I read in the GAZETTE such announcements as 'Lieutenant and Captain Grig, from the Bombardier Guards, to be Captain, vice Grizzle, who retires, I know what becomes of the Peninsular Grizzle; I follow him in spirit to the humble country town, where he takes up his quarters, and occupies himself with the most desperate attempts to live like a gentleman, on the stipend of half a tailor's foreman; and I picture to myself little Grig rising from rank to rank, skipping from one regiment to another, with an increased grade in each, avoiding disagreeable foreign service, and ranking as a colonel at thirty; all because he has money, and Lord Grigsby is his father, who had the same luck before him.
He would marry Isabella! Sir Charles Verdayne lingered for several weeks, no stronger, nor yet perceptibly weaker. He took a sudden fancy to see his old friend, Captain Grigsby, and the old salt was accordingly sent for.
"Pardner, what are the lodging-houses here now? City Hotel still running?" "City Hotel, Parker House, Portsmouth Hotel, United States Hotel; they're all running, and full to the roofs, too, stranger. If you want a bed you've got to make tracks and I reckon by the looks of your feet you'll make 'em." "We'll go up to the plaza, I reckon, then," said Mr. Grigsby, to his partners.
"I expect the place has been all worked out, by the first rush," commented Mr. Grigsby, as he led on, up the well-marked trail. "This is where the gold was discovered in Forty-eight, is it?" queried Charley's father, as on the edge of the clearing they paused, to take breath, and gaze about them. "Yes, sir; and unless I'm much mistaken, there's Jim Marshall himself, in front of that cabin."
As justifying the statement made in the text, I would refer to his letters of August 30, 1777; of October 29, 1777; of October 30, 1777; of December 6, 1777; of December 9, 1777; of January 20, 1778; of January 28, 1778; and of June 18, 1778. Writings of Washington, v. 495-497; 512-515. Jour. Va. House Del. 131. Given in Grigsby, Va. Conv. of 1776, 142 note. Jour. Va. House Del. 27, 33.
Amidst the baggage, and over the canoes, swarmed the Georgia's passengers, in their flannel shirts or broadcloth or muddy white, shouting and pleading and threatening, trying to hire the boatmen. "There's your father," spoke Mr. Grigsby, suddenly, to Charley, as their boat neared the busy landing.
Instead of scolding him and confining him on bread and water, or sending him back home, they were standing shoulder to shoulder with him. "The papers don't amount to so tearing much," mused Mr. Grigsby. "You know what the sketch looks like. That assignment of the claim may be important and may not. But of course nobody likes to be robbed."
His father wasn't quite convinced, and squinting earnestly he said: "I hope so, but it may be some other canoe, after all." "Not a bit," assured Mr. Grigsby. "That's our craft, with our men in it paddling for dear life. I can see 'em plain; can't you?"
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