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It was his intention to own a railroad, and he was at work finding out how the thing was done. Next morning at seven he was on hand at the terminal offices of the G. and B. An hour later minor employees began to arrive. "Young feller," he said, accosting a pleasant-faced boy, "where d'you calc'late I'll find Mr. Castle?" "President Castle?" asked the boy. "That's the feller," said Scattergood.

Ben resumed his place as the secretary and confidential clerk of Mrs. Hamilton. He found his position more agreeable when Mrs. Hill and Conrad were fairly out of the house. In place of the first a pleasant-faced German woman was engaged, and there were no more sour looks and sneering words. Of course Ben kept up a weekly correspondence with his mother.

Tricksy came downstairs and waited in the hall, somewhat shyly, beside her brothers. 'Oh, I do hope they will be nice, she whispered apprehensively to Reggie, as the dog-cart drew up at the door. A tall pleasant-faced gentleman was beside the driver, and two boys were on the back seat wrapped in Inverness capes, and with caps drawn over their brows as a protection against the wind.

Following directions, Stacey came at length to a two-story frame house situated on the edge of the bank, with its back to the river. It stood alone, with vacant lots all about. A pleasant-faced woman answered the ring. He explained briefly. "How do you do? I'm a teacher, and I'd like to get board here a few days while passing my examinations. Mr. Herman Allen sent me."

The Gazette's star reporter was as different from one's conception of a dangerous adversary as it is possible for a man to be. He seemed only a pleasant-faced, friendly boy of twenty-three or four, with an honest eye and a singularly infectious laugh. "Don't mind if I do thanks!" said Hammerton, to the proffer of cigars. "Well, it wasn't so very hard.

Then a comfortable, pleasant-faced mulattress came to clear the supper-table. Virginia they called her.

The door was opened by a pleasant-faced young woman of about thirty, who greeted Cockerell tartan is always popular with French ladies with a beaming smile, but shook her head regretfully upon seeing the billet de logement in his hand. The inevitable duet with Alphonso followed. Presently Alphonso turned to his superior. "Madame is ver' sorry, sair, but an officier is here already."

But both men had the same impression of a pleasant-faced young woman sitting erect behind Jonathan Webb, the decrepit driver of the wagonette, and looking straight at them as they passed her. There was a general effect of youth and bright colour; of pale brown hair, too, over very dark eyes. "Aye, she be quite nice-lookin'," said Batts, with unction, "rayther uncommon.

Jessie soon found the street and number to which she had been directed. A pleasant-faced maid opened the door. She was immediately shown into the parlor, and a brisk, bustling little woman soon put in an appearance. She looked curiously at the two pretty young girls when she learned their errand.

"You came to pretty quick after your ducking," he remarked. "I'll go call the doctor." In a few minutes he was back with a pleasant-faced, gray-whiskered man who informed Billy that the ship that had run him down was the Sound steamer, Princeton, bound from Boston for New York.