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Julia had tried hard to convert her mother to Yankee ways, and had at last given it up in despair. Rob kept on safe subjects, mainly asking questions about the crops of Peterson, and when addressing the girl, inquired of the schoolmates. By skillful questioning, he kept the subject of marriage uppermost, and seemingly was getting an inventory of the girls not yet married or engaged.
"Tell them we neither deny nor confirm the story. Say we are investigating. We'll give them a formal statement in the morning," Peterson ordered. He left the table and walked to the desk where Johnny was finishing his list of building supplies. "What time do you usually get those eggs?" he asked. "Well, as a rule, Hetty gets out and gathers them up about nine each morning.
Dick's unconquerable romanticism upheld him; he had achieved distinction, and the prospect of deluding and outwitting the police after the manner of his most brilliant heroes filled him with delight; but Billy Peterson was awed and out of spirits. 'It's all right, Billy, said Dick, 'they'll never find us here. We can defy 'em all fer weeks. 'Yes, said Billy bitterly, 'but I'm hungry!
Grady's affairs were prospering beyond his expectations, confident though he had been. Away back in the summer, when the work was in its early stages, his eye had been upon it; he had bided his time in the somewhat indefinite hope that something would turn up. But he went away jubilant from his conversation with Peterson, for it seemed that all the cards were in his hands.
During his residence in the city he had met several times his first acquaintance, Mr. Peterson, the hackman, who from time to time inquired how he was getting along. On one of these occasions Wellington mentioned his willingness to accept employment. As good luck would have it, Mr. Peterson knew of a vacant situation.
Peterson, do you overcast your seams or fell 'em? Then Mrs. Baker said, 'Why, Melia Parsons, you're making that little pair of pants upside down, then they all hollered and yelled at Melia, and I never tried to tell anything more about Dr. What-yer-call-him and his cities; might just as well try to talk in a hornets' nest."
Lodged against the wall at the back, and in a corner, was something round and hard, a thing which seemed to be about the size of a small filbert. The girl brought it out between thumb and finger, freed it of dust, and saw an immense pearl. "That settles that!" she said to herself. Peterson was the thief. But had he stolen the envelope as well as the pearls?
A dozen railroads ended in one or the other of these centers of business that we had known as little better than frontier towns. Our first positions after our release from prison were in the employ of the P. N. Peterson Granite company, of St. Paul and Stillwater, Mr. Peterson having known us since early in our prison life. We were to receive $60 a month each and expenses.
While Thomas Crann was bending his spiritual artillery upon the poor crazy tub in which floated the earthly presence of Peter Peterson, Mr Cowie's bark was lying stranded upon that shore whither the tide of time is slowly drifting each of us. He was gently regretted by all even by Thomas. "Ay! ay!" he said, with slow emphasis, 'long drawn out'; "he's gane, is he, honest man?
"A particular friend," said Peterson. And then, the lines of mirth on his face becoming a little less rigid and the color a little less ruddy, he added to Sylvia: "Doesn't your father occasionally talk about his old friend Peterson?" Harboro interrupted. "At any rate, you probably don't know that she is Mrs. Harboro now." Peterson appeared to be living entirely within himself for the moment.
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