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"By the way," he observed, "I want you three to lunch with me to-day at my club. It is close by. You can wait there for news of the court's decision as well as anywhere else, and I should like to show you the place. I have just joined." At the club, when the four men were seated at a small table in the round window of the main room, Lyman's popularity with all classes was very apparent.
Lyman's story," the daughter answered. "It appears to have stirred up quite a sensation," said Mrs. McElwin. "One of those happy accidents." "It was not an accident," the girl replied. "It was genius." "Come, don't be absurd," said her father. "There is such a thing as a man finding a gold watch in the road. I call it an accident.
"And it is said" the man fixed his gaze almost insultingly upon Judge Lyman's face "that you'll get about as hot a corner in the lower regions as is to be found there, whenever you make the journey in that direction." "You are insolent!" exclaimed the judge, his face becoming inflamed. "Take care what you say, sir!" The man spoke threateningly. "You'd better take care what YOU say."
That Lyman's wantin' to be Amanda's beau and she don't want him. Guess he'll stand watchin' if he gets turned down. I never did like them Mertzheimers all so up in the air they can hardly stand still to look at abody." Lyman was standing at the window, looking out gloomily. He turned as Amanda came into the room. "I had to come, Amanda hang it, you keep a fellow on pins and needles!
This Lyman Mertzheimer, now, his pop's the richest farmer round here and Lyman's the only child. He'd be a good catch, mebbe." "Ach," Amanda said in her quick way, "I ain't thinkin' of such things. Anyhow, I don't like Lyman so good. He's all the time braggin' about his pop's money and how much his mom pays for things, and at school he don't play fair at recess.
When the cheering had subsided, the eighty boys of Missionary Lyman's School, who, dressed in white linen with crimson leis, were grouped in a hollow square round the flagstaff, sang the Hawaiian national anthem, the music of which is the same as ours.
By so doing, they were able to secure the election, once more, against the growing temperance party, which succeeded, however, in getting a Maine Law man into the State Legislature. It was, therefore, Judge Lyman's last winter at the Federal Capital.
Gambler that he was, he had at last chanced his highest stake, his personal honour, in the greatest game of his life, and had lost. It was Presley's morbidly keen observation that first noticed the evidence of a new trouble in the Governor's face and manner. Presley was sure that Lyman's defection had not so upset him.
"While she had one anxious mamma, I took two or three, and kept them waiting until she could attend to them. Several teachers were with me. I made a rush at the visitors as they entered, and sometimes I was asked if I were lady principal, and sometimes if I were the matron. This morning Miss Lyman's voice was gone. She must have seen five hundred people yesterday.
There came a day, and it followed the picnic, with not a week between, when Lyman's midnight scratching, done at the house of old Uncle Buckley, came out into the dazzling light. A story written by him appeared in one of the leading magazines of the East.
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