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He held Pendleton's judicial talents in the highest respect; and I have heard him say that no man living but Pendleton could have reconciled the clashing laws passed during the first twelve years of the commonwealth, and made such just and satisfactory decisions.
"Heavens, Kirk!" cried the newcomer, as he leaped out, "has anything serious happened?" "To whom?" asked the investigator, quietly, his eyes fixed upon the young man's face. "To Edyth, of course. Has any thing been seen of her?" "I have just left her; she seemed a bit agitated, but perfectly well." A look of relief crossed Pendleton's face. "Oh!" said he. "All right.
"Then is it still your intention to go to the police with this terrible suspicion?" he asked, in a voice that trembled with agitation. It was on the tip of Mrs. Pendleton's tongue to reply that she had already been to the police, but she decided to withhold that piece of information until she had heard all that her brother had to say. "Certainly," she replied.
Hathaway," said the colonel, with an increased exaggeration of manner which Paul thought must be apparent even to himself, "I should have but one way of dealing with questions of that kind from anybody but yourself." This culminating extravagance taken in connection with Pendleton's passing doubts actually forced a laugh from Paul in spite of his bitterness.
He obeyed, seemingly from the inertia of utter surprise. Midway in the act of lifting the stove-cover, he glanced at her in sharp, suspicion. "Where's the rest?" he asked, savagely. "You ain't alone?" "Well, I guess I'm alone!" returned Mrs. Wadleigh, drawing off her icy stocking-feet, "an' walked all the way from Cyrus Pendleton's!
James E. English of Connecticut, Joel Parker of New Jersey, and several minor candidates, were presented as local favorites. The first ballot verified the claims of Mr. Pendleton's friends, and showed him to be decisively in the lead, though still far short of the number necessary to nominate.
Pendleton's timorous and inferior mind was incapable of translating the command into action. He could only stare dumbly before him. "No, no! Let me stay, I will be calm," Mrs. Pendleton pleaded. "Is is he dead, doctor?" Dr. Ravenshaw crossed to the centre of the room and bent over the body, feeling the heart.
Again Pendleton's eyes opened widely; then recollection came to him and he said: "It was Locke the man concerning whom you were making inquiries of the railroad conductor!" Ashton-Kirk nodded, and replied. "And it was he who shrieked when the door of the showroom opened.
This girl Bernardine whom I refer to, and whom Doctor Gardiner knows, can not possibly be a friend of yours, miss, for she is only the daughter of an humble basket-maker, and lives on the top floor of a tenement house in one of the poorest parts of the city." Sally Pendleton's amazement was so great she could hardly repress the cry of amazement that arose to her lips.
Pendleton's vision eliminated the sight of suffering because her heart was too tender to bear it, so he overlooked all facts except those which were a part of the dominant motive of his life.
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