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Judge John E. Raker was chairman of the committee, which did not need any argument but was interested in asking many questions of Mrs. Pitman. At the close of the hearing the committee voted unanimously to make a favorable report. The bill was passed June 3 without a roll call. It was signed by President Wilson on the 13th.

It's hard lines, I daresay; but does he think I'm living on hot muffins? One comfort, was his grim reflection, 'he can't cut and run he's got to stay; he's as helpless as the dead. And then he broke forth again: 'Complains, does he? and he's never even heard of Bent Pitman! If he had what I have on my mind, he might complain with a good grace.

If so, I'm done with it. And then, on second thoughts: 'Not so, either, he resumed more cheerfully. 'Here, turn your back a moment. So. Give me the specs. 'But you agreed I was to have them, protested Pitman. 'Ah, but that man knows me, said Michael. 'Does he? what's his name? cried Pitman. 'O, he took me into his confidence, returned the lawyer.

This is my mother, a woman of good family, every inch a lady. Here is a Lancashire lass, the daughter of a common pitman. She has exactly the same physical characteristics as my well-born mother the same small head, delicate features, and so forth; they might be sisters. This villainous-looking pair might be twin brothers, except that there is a trace of good humor about the one to the right.

'Hullo! said the lawyer, pausing, 'what's wrong with the long-suffering Pitman? 'You had no right to speak of me as you did, the artist broke out; 'your language was perfectly unjustifiable; you have wounded me deeply. 'I never said a word about you, replied Michael. 'I spoke of Ezra Thomas; and do please remember that there's no such party. 'It's just as hard to bear, said the artist.

Their immediate company consisted of thirteen individuals, five of whom were women, viz.: Mrs. White, Mrs. Beers, Miss Downing, Miss Johnson, and Miss Pitman. These ladies were all admirably fitted both physically and mentally for the enterprise in which they were embarked. Mrs. White was a lady in whom were blended quiet resolution, a high sense of duty, and great sensibility.

The other head boys are Lawrence the captain, Bunce, famous chiefly for his magnificent appetite, and Pitman, surnamed Roscius, for his love of the drama. Representations have been made concerning Mr. Horace Swanky's behavior; rumors have been uttered about notes in verse, conveyed in three-cornered puffs, by Mrs.

Fully awake now to the danger which threatened the young people, for the pitman and his wife knew that when blows were exchanged and blood heated things would go much further than was at first intended, they hurried off to get a few men together, while Jane Haden started for the hall.

"Then you'll like your soda from the ice-box?" "Soda? For what?" "For your whisky and soda, before you go to bed, sir." "Oh, certainly, yes. Bring the soda. And just a moment, Mrs. Pitman: Mr. Holcombe is a total abstainer, and has always been so. It is Ladley, not Holcombe, who takes this abominable stuff." I said I quite understood, but that Mr. Ladley could skip a night, if he so wished.

Do you suppose money would induce me to touch this business with a stick? I give you my word of honour, it would not. But I own I have a real curiosity to see how you conduct this interview that tempts me; it tempts me, Pitman, more than gold it should be exquisitely rich. And suddenly Michael laughed. 'Well, Pitman, said he, 'have all the truck ready in the studio. I'll go.