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My first business was to worry everybody about my guns, which I had telegraphed should be sent from Buda Pest to this place. I am afraid the postmaster will never hear the name of an Englishman without associating the idea of a fussy, irritable, impatient being, such as I was, about my guns. Of course it was very provoking that they had not arrived.
He'll see that the matter is investigated for you." Johnnie was profuse, but somewhat incoherent in his thanks. "Much obliged to meet you, Mr. Postmaster. An' an' if you ever hit the trail for God's Country I'll sure I'll sure Us boys at the B-in-a-Box we'd be right glad to to meet up with you. Tha's right, as the old sayin' is. We sure would. Any ol' time."
I call him 'Chum. You see, that dawg's more like a chum to me than " "No use asking about his pedigree, I suppose," resumed the postmaster, "I mean who his parents were and " "Nope," said Link. "I I found him. His leg was " "Pedigree unknown," wrote the postmaster; then, "What classes are you entering him for?" "Classes?" repeated Link dully.
A month elapsed, and no letter of acceptance was received by Governor Morehead, who had presided over the Convention, but the Postmaster at Baton Rouge, where General Taylor lived, addressed the Postmaster-General a letter, saying that with the report for the current quarter from that office, two bundles of letters were forwarded for the Dead- Letter Office, they having been declined on account of the non- payment of the postage by the senders.
"Squire" Hawkins got his title from being postmaster of Obedstown not that the title properly belonged to the office, but because in those regions the chief citizens always must have titles of some sort, and so the usual courtesy had been extended to Hawkins. The mail was monthly, and sometimes amounted to as much as three or four letters at a single delivery.
That night a piece of news flashed over the wires to New England, and the next morning a small item appeared in the Newcastle Guardian to the effect that one Ephraim Prescott had bean appointed postmaster at Brampton. Copied in the local papers of the state, it caused some surprise in Brampton, to be sure, and excitement in Coniston.
"You shall see it at once." I waited in anxious expectancy, chatting lightly with the policeman, while the postmaster looked through the file of the day's messages. "This is it, I think," he said presently we were in his private room. "But," he went on, glancing from the message that had been sent to the original, "your original message is unsigned.
"As you please," said Aramis, "particularly as regards disobliging the Comte de la Fere; only I think I have a right to give you a louis for your idea." "Oh! doubtless," replied the postmaster with delight. And he himself harnessed the ancient horse to the creaking carriage. In the meantime Porthos was curious to behold.
I told them I did not intend to fight, but that if within thirty minutes they did not make a proposition of settlement I would telegraph to the Department and his case would become one for harsher measures. "The postmaster set out to convince him that Uncle Sam was too big a job for him to handle, and in twenty minutes or so back he came with an offer which was forwarded to the Department.
The things they could not use were distributed later among the governesses; the Pension and the village also, got their share. And the Postmaster got his hat a black Trilby. He loved its hue. And for days afterwards the children hoarded their treasures with unholy joy. What delighted them as much as anything, perhaps, were the coronets upon the pyjamas and the shirts.
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