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Elizabeth was soon afterwards allowed to retire to Hatfield, where she remained under supervision till her accession.
She saw him run across the tracks, and quick as a flash she sprang down after him. Fred Hatfield, the runaway, was approaching the old, rambling country store at Emoryville Crossroads. It was so cold an evening that there were no loungers upon the high, railless porch which extended clear across the front of the building.
I saw she was out of humour, and I derived a secret gratification from the fact, not that she was vexed, but that she thought she had reason to be so. It made me think my hopes were not entirely the offspring of my wishes and imagination. 'I mean to take up Mr. Weston instead of Mr. Hatfield, said my companion, after a short pause, resuming something of her usual cheerfulness.
The boys never so far forgot themselves as to endanger the school buildings by their beacon, which was kindled well out on the big campus. What if numerous rules were cracked or broken? It only happened once a year. And what if ginger pop and sandwiches were surreptitiously introduced into the dormitories? That, too, need not be seen by the authorities. "Wood! More wood!" "Where's Tom Hatfield?"
This brown will do for a spring suit. It doesn't make much difference what I wear." Maggie Hatfield, who had not been at prayer meeting the night beforehand knew nothing of what had occurred, looked at her curiously, wondering what Lawrence Eastman could see in her to be as crazy about her as some people said he was.
"Hatfield," interrupted Lawler, gravely, "it seems to me that the people of this state are always taking medicine political medicine. That's what I have come to talk with you about." Hatfield's smile faded. His eyes gleamed coldly. "What's wrong, Lawler?" "It's cars, Hatfield or rather no cars," he added, grimly.
There was the figure of Fred Hatfield on the ice some distance, already, from the shore. Ruth ran eagerly down to the shore. She had no idea what young Hatfield intended; but she was well aware that he could get across the Lumano if he chose; the ice was thick enough. She quickly clamped the skates upon her shoes, and within five minutes was darting off across the ice.
Probably it was through the intercession of Philip now her brother-in-law, whose policy at this time was to conciliate the English people that she was set at liberty and readmitted to court at Christmas. At the end of the next year Elizabeth was at Hatfield, under the gentle surveillance of Sir Thomas Pope.
All he has is some money and one rather good horse." "And you wish to police this Hatfield person, sir?" "If I could, I'd die happy, Farrel." "Very well. Send for your old trainer, train Panchito, try him out a bit at Tia Juana, Lower California, at the meeting this winter, ship him to Saratoga and make Señor Hatfield curse the day he was born.
Good-day, sir." He strode out, leaving Haughton to glare after him. Ten minutes later he was in the editorial office of the News, detailing his conversation with Hatfield and the governor to a keen-eyed man of thirty-five, named Metcalf, who watched him intently as he spoke. At the conclusion of the visit the keen-eyed man grinned. "You've started something, Lawler," he said.
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