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Crane’s elegant place, with its oyster soups and ice creams, a part of which the head cook always reserved for the "colored gentleman from New Orleans," who assured her, that though when at home he didn’t exactly eat at the same table with his master, he still lived on the top shelf! Not long, however, did Rondeau enjoy his new quarters, for about that time Mr.
He retired into the darkest corner of the room as Rondeau shuffled across to the writing-desk. It was all done in a moment. In less time than it had taken to bind and gag Heriot, his henchman was laid out on the floor, his coat had been taken off him, and he was tied into a mummy-like bundle with Sir Andrew Ffoulkes' elegant coat fastened securely round his arms and chest.
Then the Cardigan crew fell upon it while Jules Rondeau ran the train back to the Laguna Grande yards, dismissed his crew, returned to the mill- office, and released the manager. "You'll pay through the nose for this, you scoundrel," Sexton whimpered. "I'll fix you, you traitor." "You feex nothing, M'sieur Sexton," Rondeau replied imperturbably. "Who is witness Jules Rondeau tie you up?
This was no less a personage than Colonel Seth Pennington, and it was obvious he had taken charge of what he considered the obsequies. "Stand back, you men, and give them room," he shouted. "Rondeau will take care of him now. Stand back, I say. I'll discharge the man that interferes."
"You shan't!" she fired back at him, and a spot of anger glowed in each cheek. "You're the most stubborn and belligerent man I have ever known. Sometimes I almost hate you." "Come around at ten to-morrow morning and watch me put in the crossing watch me give Rondeau and his gang the run." He reached over suddenly, lifted her hand, and kissed it.
The latter was in the sitting-room by this time; he had drawn a chair close to the table and sat down with the air of one who has a perfect right to be where he is; as soon as Heriot entered he said placidly: "I would desire to speak alone with the citizen-deputy." And Heriot, after another slight hesitation, ordered Rondeau to close the bedroom door.
On the morning when Julia was snugly esconced in the summer house, Rondeau returned from the post office in great tribulation. "What’s up now?" asked Leffie, whom Rondeau drew aside, with a dolefully grave face. "Nothing’s up," answered Rondeau, "but the letter has got to come up! I ain’t going to feel like I was a whipped dog any longer.
"I s’pose you’s one of the niggers?" said Aunt Dilsey. "Why, yes," returned Rondeau; "but then I was helpin’ and was tryin’ to push them all back so I could get to marster, who was feelin’ so bad that they sent for me, because nobody else could comfort him." Here Rondeau began to fumble in his pocket, as if in search of something.
"I will have my time," said Jules Rondeau patiently. "Then you'll wait till pay-day for it, Rondeau. You know our rules. Any man who quits without notice waits until the regular pay-day for his money." Jules advanced until he towered directly over the manager. "I tol' M'sieur I would have my time," he repeated once more. "Is M'sieur deaf in zee ears?"
"And then," said Aramis, pinching his ear to make it red, as he rubbed his hands to make them white, "and then I made a certain RONDEAU upon it last year, which I showed to Monsieur Voiture, and that great man paid me a thousand compliments." "A RONDEAU!" said the Jesuit, disdainfully. "A RONDEAU!" said the curate, mechanically. "Repeat it!
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