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He looked solemnly at the battered cherub upon the gravestone and the cherub's grin was broad. "I bought Captain Hallett's stock," he explained, "because I did not wish Miss Mar Miss Phipps to know that I had lied and all the rest." "Yes, yes, so you said. But why did you lie, Loosh? Why didn't you tell her that you couldn't sell her stock for her?
"Why in the world," said Becky Blount, expressing the opinion of what Captain Jethro Hallett would have called her "tribe," "he felt 'twas necessary to hide it as if 'twas something to be ashamed of, I don't see. Most folks would have been proud to be offered such a chance. But that Nelse Howard's queer, anyhow. Stuck-up, I call him; and Lulie Hallett's the same way.
One who had had less experience of the iron nature of man, would have endeavored, in Edward Hallett's circumstances, to move his captor by entreaties to leave him to his dearly prized freedom; but he had long believed, with the poet, "There is no pulse in man's obdurate heart It does not feel for man;"
We picked up the small holdings easily enough, but we couldn't get yours or Hallett's. And for a very good reason, too. Ho, ho, ho! And old Loosh, of all people! Ho, ho!" Still Miss Phipps did not laugh, nor did she look at him. "By the way," he observed, "I presume my er relative paid you a fair price for the stock, Miss Phipps?" "He paid me twenty dollars a share," she said, quietly.
It was not till Emily had again opened her soft eyes and assured her father that she was not much hurt, that any notice was taken of the very unusual fact of Edward Hallett's speaking. "Father, how did you know I was hurt?"
Jack shook his head as he passed the knife, and Norman Hallett and Massimiliano Graglia left the room in company. Two masters returning met the pair, but Hallett's face wore an expression which forbade questions. When presently he re-entered the school-room, it was alone. And for the space of a week the March Hare was unseen by his school-fellows.
Hallett on his trips to Washington became aware of Talbot's action, and on his return called him to task with the result that Talbot shot him from a doorway as he was returning to his work from his midday lunch. After Hallett's death the work passed into the hands of St. Louis parties with John D. Perry as Director.
It was strange how soon the young doctor's visits began to make a brightness in Edith's rather dreary days, how soon they both grew to look forward to the two or three minutes together which they might hope to spend every alternate morning. Before very long, Edith, with the full approval of her parents and her aunt, became Edward Hallett's promised wife.
He had opened that door without knocking, because it was his habit to open doors that way. Captain Jethro Hallett's position as keeper of the Gould's Bluffs light was not an exalted or highly paid one, but his influence in Wellmouth and its vicinity was considerable, nevertheless.
"It will be time enough for that, in another eight or ten years. It is more in Hallett's line." "But we shall be chaffed, if we don't ride after the hounds, Colonel," Hallett said. "Not at all," the colonel replied, "you have a first-rate excuse. You are only just recovering from fever. That would get you no end of commiseration and pity."
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