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Timothy Merrick, Donald Mackintosh, Oscar Ely, John Cleary and others. The residence streets of Ward six are pleasant with shade trees, blooming gardens and lovely houses. From the most sightly eminence of the ward, the house of William Skinner of the silk-mill overlooks the city.
Will you join us as my guest? If so, take first train to New York, where I will look after your outfit. Answer immediately." That was a message likely to surprise a country girl, but it did not strike John Merrick as in any way extraordinary. He thought he could depend upon Beth.
I therefore desire you to discharge the fellow at once, and in case you refuse to accede to this reasonable demand I shall shut off your power." Mr. Merrick replied: "Shut off the power and I'll sue you for damages. My contract with you fully protects me. Permit me a request in turn: that you mind your own business. The Millville Tribune will employ whomsoever it chooses."
Don't kick him again." "Yes, but look here, Uncle Sid, they " "I will take care of things," cried Sid Merrick, and so sharply that his nephew at once subsided. But on the sly he shook his fist at both Tom and Sam. "Maybe we had better make sure that nobody else is around," suggested Shelley, who had been Merrick's best aide in the capture.
"The necklace of the Princess Lemoine is said to be priceless, and the Grandison collection stolen in London was scarcely less valuable than that of Countess Ahmberg." "Allowing all that," said Mr. Merrick, "two or three hundred thousand dollars would doubtless cover the value of the entire lot. I am quite certain, Mr.
At the end of half an hour they saw that the Merrick party had started for the north side of the isle. They waited in silence until all were well out of hearing. "I am glad we are rid of them at least for the time being," said Anderson Rover. "Now we can continue the treasure hunt in peace." "But dem fellers will be suah to come back," interposed Aleck.
"Sometime, if one man be out on mesa alone, an' plenty coyote come, he have hard fight for life. Coyote is wild dog. He is big coward unless pretty hungry. If I leave light burn he never come near us." "Then let it burn all night," said Mr. Merrick. "There he goes again and another with him! What a horrible wail it is." "I rather like it," said Patsy, with her accustomed calmness.
"You are not far from the bell. Ring it. Do what you asked me to do. Call in the whole household, and ask them which of us is mad you or I." "Mercy Merrick! you shall repent this to the last hour of your life!" Mercy rose again, and fixed her flashing eyes on the woman who still defied her. "I have had enough of you!" she said. "Leave the house while you can leave it.
They need to stand high an' shine bright to make 'em really happy, and if any special lot is particularly ex-clusive an' high-falutin', that's the crowd they long to swarm with. It's human nature female human nature, anyhow. You catch my idea, Von Taer, don't you?" "I think so, Mr. Merrick. Yet I fail to see how I can be of service to you in gratifying the ambition of your charming nieces."
Nevertheless, he was rather in favor of the plan, and when the Merrick party stopped again, for Cuffer to take a stone out of his shoe, they "cut into" the woods and pushed forward with all speed. It was hard work, but they were in deadly earnest, and did not let the vines and brushwood deter them.
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