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This party, Unknown, stole the coins." "Aw, shucks, Jase!" grunted Mr. Cross Moore. "You got to give us something more satisfactory than that if you want to shunt us off'n Nelson Haley's trail," and the other three members of the School Committee nodded. Something more than mere curiosity drew Janice Day's footsteps toward the new school building.
Haley's face, he saw to his relief that both the action and the remark had been unnoticed by her. But on Mandy's face he saw the red ensign of shame and wrath, and in spite of himself he felt his aversion towards the ever-smiling hired man deepen into rage.
Haley's getting in the game of "curbing" her stirred up my risibles. "But but Sallie already has a good many people to help her with the children. I have been trying to to influence Henrietta and she does not swear except on the most exasperating occasions now."
Nelson Haley's trouble; her father's possible peril in Mexico; the many in whom she was interested being so affected by the sale of liquor in Polktown all these things combined to make Janice feel a burden of responsibility that should not have rested upon the shoulders of so young a girl. "Frank," she whispered to Bowman, there in the front of the dusky store, "Frank, what shall we do?"
"Ain't willin' ter give the young feller a chance't at all, heh?" said Mr. Day, puffing hard at his pipe. "Wall! we'll see abeout that." "We'd never have a better teacher, I tell 'em," Walky flung back over his shoulder. "But Mr. Haley's drawin' a good salary and there's them that think it oughter go ter somebody that belongs here in Polktown, not to an outsider like him."
Dudley, with two sections of Carruth's battery under Phelps and with Barrett's troop, marched on the right bank of the bayou, supported by Charles J. Paine's brigade with Haley's battery. Morgan, under the orders of Birge, temporarily commanding Grover's division, moved in line with Dudley on the opposite bank.
It did not seem as though there was anything more to say regarding the robbery and Nelson Haley's connection with it. Besides, Hopewell Drugg was gently reminding her that they must start for home. "I'm afraid Amarilla will be anxious. It it is dreadfully late," he suggested. "We'll leave Mr. Massey to think it over," said Frank Bowman.
At any rate, he must leave him again, while he released the cows from their stalls, and drove them to pasture. He tried to obtain his nephew's companionship, but in vain. "I'm not interested in cows, uncle," he said. "I'll be here when you come back." With a sigh his uncle left the house, only half reassured. That he had reason for his distrust was proved by Ben Haley's movements.
Haley's hat and riding-whip. Take a seat, sir. Yes, sir; I regret to say that the young woman, excited by overhearing, or having reported to her, something of this business, has taken her child in the night, and made off." "I did expect fair dealing in this matter, I confess," said Haley. "Well, sir," said Mr. Shelby, turning sharply round upon him, "what am I to understand by that remark?
"Likely story!" and, as if satisfied with his examination, he walked out and looked, and stood with his hands in his pocket, his cigar in his mouth, and his hat cocked on one side, ready for action. "What think of 'em?" said a man who had been following Haley's examination, as if to make up his own mind from it.
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