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Then Wharton Van Nostrand fell ill with tonsilitis and was packed off to the hospital! Happy was desperate. Who under the sun would take his part? There was not another man whose voice was like Wharton's. Happy flew about like a distracted hen, at length rushing to Mrs. Harold and begging her to give him just TEN minutes private interview.
Van Nostrand hurried down the street and turned the corner, changing his pace to one of an easy and debonair grace befitting the possessor of several racing stables of horses and machines. He saw his man a few hundred yards down the street. Van Nostrand watched him sharply, and saw him hesitate, look about, and then turn to the left. He ascended the steps of a dwelling.
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"MR. SLOTE: 'Gentlemen I desire to decline in favor of Mr. John A. Van Nostrand, Jun., of New Jersey. "MR. GASTON: 'If there be no objection, the gentleman's desire will be acceded to. "MR. VAN NOSTRAND objecting, the resignation of Mr. Slote was rejected. The resignations of Messrs. Sawyer and Bowen were also offered, and refused upon the same grounds.
In a more extended work about to be published by Van Nostrand, of New York, he has endeavored, by presenting a detailed account of English and American experiments, a description and numerous illustrations, derived mostly from personal observation, of all classes of ordnance and armor and their fabrication, and of iron-clad vessels and their machinery, and a résumé of the best professional opinions, to add something at least usefully suggestive to the general knowledge on this subject.
By the time Van Nostrand had reached the house, to pass it with the barest sidelong glance, the pursued had entered and closed the door. The millionaire saw, to his surprise, a white sign over the door, "Swedish Employment Bureau." The words were duplicated in Swedish. "That's a bally queer sign!" muttered Reggie. "And a still queerer place for a crook to go. I'll double around the block."
"I ain't refusin' to let Sis marry, if ye're both sot on't," he conceded. Then he caught sight of the Van Nostrand painting, and his slow glance travelled from it to Helen. "That done for you, Sis? I never helt with bare necks. Yes, Sis can marry, if she says so, though Ma wants her home. But she ain't been writin' real cheerful. She she's asked for money, that's the size on't.
New faces showed up in his office now from time to time among them that of Van Nostrand and one Terrence Relihan, a representative of some other political forces at Harrisburg. He was introduced to the governor one day at lunch. His name was mentioned in the papers, and his prestige grew rapidly. Immediately he began working on plans with young Ellsworth for his new house.
Shoemaker and milliner and furniture man; that makes eleven." He lengthened his list on the margin of a newspaper. "Well, I never paid Van Nostrand for that painting, and I've even forgotten how much he said it would be. And there's a photograph bill a perfectly scandalous one and another dressmaker; Mrs. Edgar; I went back to her after Meg's woman got crusty, but she never'll sue me.
"You bet it is, and you helped me well. The papers ought to give you a good spread to-morrow, Mr. Van Nostrand," answered Bobbie grimly, as he shook the young millionaire's hand with warmth. The gang were rapidly being handcuffed by the reserves. Bobbie turned toward Baxter. It was a great moment of triumph for him. "Well, Baxter, so I got you at last!
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