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"It is my father's cheque," he said, "which I received about a week ago." "Look at the endorsement, please," said Mr. Rae. Cameron turned it over. A slight flush came to his pale face. "It is mine to " he hesitated, "Mr. Potts." "Mr. Potts cashed it then?" "I suppose so. I believe so. I owed him money, and he gave me back some." "How much did you owe him?" "A considerable amount.
Two of the Trio sided against the odd man, Potts, and turned him out of the Little Cabin one night during a furious snowstorm, that had already lasted two days, had more than half buried the hut, and nearly snowed up the little doorway.
There, before them, was the man who was not only a deadly enemy to each, but who made it impossible for them to be more to one another than they now were. Yet for a time they forgot this in the joy of the ecstatic meeting. At the gate Potts got out and excused himself to Brandon, saying that he would be up directly.
Potts had lived with shadows until he believed in shadows that came out of his own imagination and into it returned again. Still, she was a woman of some sort, and apparently she had a lover or a husband, a man with a great fair beard. How at this date, which must have been remote, did a golden-bearded man come to foregather with a woman who wore such robes and ornaments as these?
The result is that you get the horse and buggy the liveryman intended you to have from the minute he saw you coming toward him down the street, but you get it with a fine touch of style that is worth much in this dollar and cent world. Potts drives the rig around to where you are standing, and the liveryman sends Potts back to get a clean laprobe instead of the one that is in the buggy.
If you had chosen to run off every man of them would have helped you, and would have rejoiced at the chance of making themselves rich at the expense of Potts. Under these circumstances I thought you were safe." "And why did you not tell me?" "Ah! love, there are many things which I must not tell you." He sighed. His sombre tone brought back her senses which had been wandering.
In those days went on a famous controversy provoked by a speech at a New England dinner in the city of New York which had set by the ears two eminent divines the Rev. Dr. Wainwright, Episcopalian, and the Rev. Dr. Potts; Presbyterian. Dr. Potts had insisted that the Puritans had founded a "church without a bishop and a state without a king"; Dr.
Do you know where I live?" "Yes, Miss Patty," and, with a respectful little bob of her head, Pansy Potts disappeared, and Patty ran back to the house. "Well, chickadee," said Mr. Fairfield, "I have about decided that you and I can make ourselves comfortable within these four walls, and, if it suits your ladyship, I think we'll consider that we have taken the house." "It does suit me," said Patty.
An' whin ye've been at it an hour ye'll find it goes betther wid a little blasphemin';" and he gave his end of the saw to the reluctant Potts. Potts was about this time as much of a problem to his pardners as was the ex-schoolmaster.
Are ye quite sure Potts didna owerhear your conversation wi' Mistress Nutter?" "Why d'ye ask, Jem?" she replied. "Fro' summat the knave threw out to Squoire Nicholas just now," rejoined Jem. "He said he'd another case o' witchcraft nearer whoam. Whot could he mean?" "Whot, indeed?" cried Elizabeth, quickly. "Look at Tib," exclaimed her son.
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