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I inquired his name, and was informed that it was ROSCOE. I drew back with an involuntary feeling of veneration. This, then, was an author of celebrity; this was one of those men whose voices have gone forth to the ends of the earth; with whose minds I have communed even in the solitudes of America.
Before I started for Toronto she said that she might see me there some day, for she was going to San Francisco to inspect the property her uncle had left her, and in all probability would make a sojourn in Canada. I gave her my address, and she then said she understood that Mr. Roscoe intended taking a missionary parish in the wilds.
On December first Charmian and I left the sweet, clean Sonoma country and came down to live in the stifling city but not for long, oh, no, only for two weeks, for we would sail on December fifteenth. And I guess we ought to know, for Roscoe said so, and it was on his advice that we came to the city to stay two weeks.
His fellow citizens respected him; so much so, that they intended to give him an office in the new-formed corporation; which means that he had courage and downrightness, and that the rough, straightforward gospel of the West was properly interpreted by him. I heard Roscoe more than once declare that Phil was as good as two curates to him.
"Really," he said, "I think this ill-judged, very ill-judged. It will lead to misapprehension. It will deceive people into the belief that you are a real Roscoe." "I don't know but I am," answered Hector, with a calm look of defiance, which aggravated Allan Roscoe. "Have I not told you you are not?" he said, frowning. "You have; but you have not proved it," said Hector.
"Oh, I don't care to call upon you," said Guy, annoyed. "I can have all the company I want." "I won't detain you any longer, Mr. Roscoe," said Hector, realizing that the conversation had occupied considerable time. "Good-morning." "That boy is as proud as ever," said Guy, after Hector had left them. "He doesn't seem to realize that he has lost his money." "He has not had time to realize it yet.
But if he married Ruth, disaster would come Roscoe himself acknowledged that she held the key of his fortunes. Upon an impulse, and as a last resort, I had taken action whereby in some critical moment I might be able to wield a power over Mrs. Falchion. I was playing a blind game, but it was the only card I held.
She is kind, most kind, but she hates illness and such things." Galt Roscoe looked at me to reply, his face showing clearly that he thought "madame" an extraordinary woman. I assured Justine that we would say nothing.
"There!" he exclaimed, "I knew there was somethin' I forgot. I'll do it soon's ever I get home." "When you get home," observed Dorinda, firmly, "you'll wash that henhouse window." "Now, Dorinda, if that ain't just like you! Don't you hear Roscoe askin' me about that gas? I've had that gas in my head ever since yesterday." "Um-hm," wearily.
It may be that we have not got to the end of this refined analysis yet, but at any rate, I suppose I may say and I speak with some little hesitation for fear my friend Professor Roscoe here may pick me up for trespassing upon his province but I believe I may say that now we can account for 99 per cent. at least of the sugar, and that 99 per cent. is split up into these four things, carbonic acid, alcohol, succinic acid, and glycerine.
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