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Balfour said: "The ground of his resignation is not ill-health," less than a year later, when asked during the election at Manchester by a heckler to state the reason why Mr. Wyndham retired, the reply of Mr. Balfour was "He retired chiefly on account of health."
"You're going to try to take the ride with us, then?" asked Mart. "I think so." "Bully!" glowed Mart, who, like most of the younger boys of Gridley, was a great admirer of the leader of Dick & Co. Billy Heckler, a man of thirty, was, indeed, to be found at his stand. "Dick wants to go up to Lake Pleasant with us on Monday," Mart began, but Dick quickly added: "I understand, Mr.
Beecher, a stranger in a strange country, to hostile audiences, were probably as extraordinary an evidence of oratorical power as was ever known. He captured audiences, he overcame the hostility of persistent disturbers of the meetings, and with his ready wit overwhelmed the heckler.
The heckler said: "General de la Rey guaranteed the men fighting under him a living." Quick as a flash Smuts replied: "Nonsense. What he guaranteed you was certain death." Like many men conspicuous in public life Smuts gets up early and has polished off a good day's work before the average business man has settled down to his job.
At last one of them a lanky youth, with a frowning, ironic expression and famous as a heckler at public meetings said with slow emphasis: "There'll coom a day i' this coontry, mates, when men as treat poor foak like Muster Melrose, 'ull be pulled off t' backs of oos an' our like. And may aa live to see 't!" "Aye! aye!" came in deep assent from the others, as they turned away.
It was undignified and improper for her to bandy words with a heckler, but Kate had already breathed too much of the freedom of the mountains to resist a second retort, and said, almost without thinking and certainly in a very positive manner: "I am not coming back." "Give me a cup of coffee before you go." "There is no service here this afternoon." "Beg your pardon.
Heckler, that you're going up to the lake without a load." "Yes," nodded the truckman. "Then it struck me that perhaps I could arrange with you to take up our canoe and some bedding, and also let the fellows ride on the wagon." "How many of you are there?" inquired Billy Heckler. "The usual six," Dick smiled. "If you can do it, how much would you charge us?"
Here follows the excerpts from the manuscript, made and arranged by Rudolph Heckler: I never killed my brother. Let this be my first word and my last. Why should I kill him? We lived together in unbroken harmony for twenty years. We were old men, and the fires and tempers of youth had long since burned out. We never disagreed even over the most trivial things. Never was there such amity as ours.
"If you could call it ten dollars," Heckler proposed after a few minutes, "that might " "The crowd hasn't money enough," Dick replied. "You see, we've got to get the canoe back, too. Then we'll have to use money to feed ourselves up there. I don't see how we can go if we have to spend more than five dollars to get there."
"Carrying a load takes more out of a team than an empty wagon does. You can see that, can't you?" "Ye-es," Dick nodded thoughtfully. "But, you see, we're only boys, and we can't talk money quite like men yet." "Some men can't do anything with money except talk about it," Billy Heckler grinned. "Well, I'd like to oblige you boys. What's your offer, then?"
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