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"Your place, sir!" said I; "why, you are no hired servant of mine, you are merely a guide, whose knowledge of the country I availed myself of on my road." "I am no just a common servant, I admit, sir," remonstrated Mr. Fairservice; "but your honour kens I quitted a gude place at an hour's notice, to comply wi' your honour's solicitations.
In fact, he had been so excited that he had not thought logically of the circumstances surrounding the theft. "Well," he said, "I reckon I need a hired man to do my thinking for me. Why didn't that idea get into my thick head before?" "Are you still certain that the necklace was in the safe when you left the room?" asked Ned, with a smile. "Yes; I am dead sure of that.
Then back home with the solemn Parade to sit among the condemned waiting for that superlative Gorge known as the Sunday Dinner. While she was waiting, a male Friend dropped in. His costume was a compromise between an English Actor and a hired Mourner. On Week Days he sat at a Desk dictating Letters and saying that the Matter had been referred to the proper Department.
Bowers had offered to take Lingle, the Deputy Sheriff, to the sheep camp, which he was sure he could find easily from the directions Mormon Joe had given him when he hired him, but, as it proved, the herder had been over-sanguine.
Paul found that he could speak even of the family past, into which by degrees he began to fit the real man in place of that bucolic abstraction which had walked the fields of fancy. He had never dared to actuate the "hired man," his father, on a basis of fact.
I saw he had fallen, like the rest of us, to think mainly of the house. Now that all the living members of the family were plunged in irremediable sorrow, it was strange how we turned to that conjoint abstraction of the family itself, and sought to bolster up the airy nothing of its reputation: not the Duries only, but the hired steward himself. "Are we to tell Mr. Henry?" I asked him.
Stone owed me for some work I had done for him once and he wanted me to come back and cook again. I didn't do that and he died without paying me for the work. He said it was his brother that owed me. But it was him that hired me. I 'tended to some mules for nine months at four dollars a week. I never got but one four dollars.
Eighteen cases or parcels, containing Buddhas, chimeras, and vases, without mentioning the last lotus that I carry away tied up in a pink cluster. All this is piled up in the djins' carts, hired at sunset, which are waiting at the door, while their runners lie asleep on the grass. A starlit and exquisite night.
I took his advice, I went to the widow's house, packed my trunk, gathered together what money I could readily lay hands upon, and with about $300 in my pocket, I started for New York, staying that night at a hotel in Courtland street. The following morning I went over to Jersey City, hired a saddle-horse, and rode to Newark.
In her simple dress of dark blue, trim as any office woman's attire, she might have been a hired stenographer of a very high class putting her affairs in order for the day. Richard waited till she approached his desk, which she had to pass on her way out. Then he rose to his feet. "Allow me to congratulate you," said he, "on having accomplished a long task in the minimum length of time possible.
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