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"Look here," he said, "I guess Pardriff's recovered his senses. Look here!" The tired secretary, ready with his pencil and notebook to order fifty copies, responded, staring over his employer's shoulder. It has been said of men in battle that they have been shot and have run forward some hundred feet without knowing what has happened to them. And so Mr.
"Say, Aust, on the dead, I haven't time. Pardriff's waitin' for some copy now." "Just for a minute, Ham," said Austen; "I won't keep you long." "Leggo my collar, then, if you don't want to choke me. Say, I don't believe you know how strong you are." "I didn't know you wore a collar any more, Ham," said Austen. Mr. Tooting grinned in appreciation of this joke.
The Tribune, it appeared, had a scintillating idea, which surely must have occurred to others in the State. "Why not the Honourable Adam B. Hunt of Edmundton for the next governor?" The Honourable Adam B. Hunt of Edmundton! It is a pleasure to record, at this crisis, that Mr. Crewe fixed upon his secretary as steady an eye as though Mr. Pardriff's bullet had missed its mark.
"Say, Aust, on the dead, I haven't time. Pardriff's waitin' for some copy now." "Just for a minute, Ham," said Austen; "I won't keep you long." "Leggo my collar, then, if you don't want to choke me. Say, I don't believe you know how strong you are." "I didn't know you wore a collar any more, Ham," said Austen. Mr. Tooting grinned in appreciation of this joke.
The morning after the State Tribune had printed that memorable speech on national affairs statistics and all, with an editorial which gave every evidence of Mr. Peter Pardriff's best sparkle Mr. Crewe appeared on the floor of the House with a new look in his eye which made discerning men turn and stare at him.
"He ain't," replied Mr. Tooting, "he's grateful for that red ticket he carries around with him when he travels, and he's grateful to the Honourable Adam B. Hunt for favours to come. Peter Pardriff's a grateful cuss, all-right, all right." Mr. Crewe tapped his fingers on the desk thoughtfully. "The need of a reform campaign is more apparent than ever," he remarked. Mr.
The morning after the State Tribune had printed that memorable speech on national affairs statistics and all, with an editorial which gave every evidence of Mr. Peter Pardriff's best sparkle Mr. Crewe appeared on the floor of the House with a new look in his eye which made discerning men turn and stare at him.
Crewe got five or six lines into that editorial before he realized in full the baseness of Mr. Pardriff's treachery. One who has served with distinction upon such boards as the Railroad Commission, the Board of Equalization, etc., etc." Crewe could not for the moment see whether the next word were place or principle. He skipped a few lines.
One can be both a conservative and a radical if one is clever. There were other columns in Mr. Pardriff's paper besides editorial columns; editorial columns, Mr. Pardriff said, were sacred to his convictions. Certain thumb-worn schedules were referred to. Paul Pardriff, Ripton, agreed to be the publisher of the biography. The next edition of the Record was an example of what Mr. Emerson meant.
Crewe got five or six lines into that editorial before he realized in full the baseness of Mr. Pardriff's treachery. One who has served with distinction upon such boards as the Railroad Commission, the Board of Equalization, etc., etc." Crewe could not for the moment see whether the next word were place or principle. He skipped a few lines.
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