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Grandpa Keeler, too, though not subjected to the renovating and rejuvenating processes of the Sabbath, but just touched up a little here and there, enough to give him a slight "odor of sanctity," and a saving sense of personal discomfort, was always led to the meeting, and kept close by Grandma Keeler's side on the most prominent bench.
I've been wanting to speak with you ever since that first night when I stared at you so stupidly at Captain Keeler's when I went up to borrow the oars, and you were engaged, you remember," said Mr. Rollin, laughing gently, "in wresting particles of hulled corn from the ocean depths of that kettle." "I remember," I said, trying to smother what annoyance I still felt at the recollection.
Laban Keeler's comments were pithy and dryly pointed. Albert was very quiet. But one forenoon he spoke. Captain Lote was in the inner office, the morning newspaper in his hand, when his grandson entered and closed the door behind him. The captain looked up. "Well, Al, what is it?" he asked. Albert came over and stood beside the desk.
Somehow Albert could not bear to go off and leave him at once. He would stay and finish his day's work, for Labe Keeler's sake. So stay he did and when Captain Zelotes later came out of his private office and found him there neither of them spoke. At home, during supper, nothing was said concerning the quarrel of the afternoon.
I made a convulsive grasp for him in the darkness, but he was gone. It was she of the soothing, comfortable voice who took me in; and Grandma Keeler's taking in I understand always in the divinest and fullest sense of the term. Further than that, I was conscious that there were white-robed and nightcapped figures moving about the room.
Little John, when not dreaming, exercises a vast amount of destructive physical force. A little more than a year after I left Wallencamp, I heard of Grandma and Grandpa Keeler's death. "Very quiet and peaceful," they said concerning Grandma, but I had known what sort of a death-bed hers would be. Scarcely a week after she had passed away, Grandpa Keeler followed her.
Then I blew the cinders, so that they scattered about the room and would not attract attention." "Oh, Syd!" This in a kind of gasp from Roy. Rex said nothing. He was sitting upright now, still seeming to see before him the face of "No. 131," Mr. Keeler's criminal brother. "Yes, I knew you would all shrink from me when you knew," went on Sydney. He spoke in a voice that was almost hard now.
A glance at the extraordinary variations upon the spiral which Professor Keeler's photographs reveal is sufficient to convince one of the difficulty of the task of basing a general theory upon them. In truth, it is much easier to criticize Laplace's hypothesis than to invent a satisfactory substitute for it.
Rothermel a curtain at his back and one in front of him, his head through a hole in the upper part of the outer flap of the double curtain. Y Mr. Powell. * Spectators. The lights were all extinguished but one, and that one was prevented from throwing light on the Medium by a shade placed upon one side of it it was turned low. The light was not so good as during Mr. Keeler's séance.
Albert sniffed suspiciously, but no odor of alcohol rewarded the sniff. Neither was there any perfume of peppermint, Mr. Keeler's transparent camouflage at a vacation's beginning. And Laban was not humming the refrain glorifying his "darling hanky-panky." Apparently he had not yet embarked upon the spree which Captain Lote had pronounced imminent. But why did he behave so queerly?
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