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Edward Ruggles the real one did expect to come on the Vaterland, whereas I did not. But the day before the steamer sailed she was summoned to Andover by the serious illness of her only son, who is at school there. I took her ticket, got ready overnight I like to start on these unpremeditated journeys and here I am."
"And I wouldn't waste any sympathy on that girl," put in Spud. "She is as bad as Tubby, when it comes to cutting the fellows she doesn't care to know." "Well, I guess it will all pass over," remarked Sam. And it must have, for a few days later William Philander and Clarabel Ruggles were seen out driving together and apparently as friendly as over.
Receiving permission to read my own, I found it to be a dinner invitation for the following Friday. Mrs. Effie looked up from hers. "It's all too true," she announced grimly. "We're asked to dinner and she earnestly hopes dear Colonel Ruggles will have made no other engagement. She also says hasn't he the darlingest English accent. Oh, isn't it a mess!"
"When he comes to think soberly of it," added Ruggles, "he'll thank us for giving him warning in time. If we wait much longer, it might be too late; we couldn't scare him off the track, but now he'll show his sense by stopping at once." The two passed out of the house and walked to the cabin of Lieutenant Russell.
Then, adjusting his glasses, the sunset-haired Professor left his seat and walked down the aisle to the door. He came hurrying back with an interested, perhaps anxious look on his countenance. "Now's your time, Sam," whispered Professor Ruggles; "the fellow's on the platform smoking!" This was fully two hours after the thickset man first stepped upon the train.
Ruggles?" said John, throwing up his hand as, at the moment of his reply, a puff of wind blew the cape of his mackintosh over his head. "What a nice place!" she said, looking about her. "Yes," said John; "I sit here a good deal when it isn't too windy." "I have been wondering why I did not get a sight of you," she said. "I saw your name in the passenger list. Have you been ill?"
'She is your own flesh and blood, and your name, too, Mr Ruggles. And she's going to be the respectable wife of a respectable man, Mr Ruggles. 'I won't give 'em no breakfast; that's flat, said the farmer. But he had yielded in the main when he allowed himself to base his opposition on one immaterial detail.
She commenced to make an inspection, holding the box close to a lamp. "Humph! Rubber bands, beans, slate pencils, and polishing wax!" she declared. "Mr. Tubbs, do you call this a box of candy?" "Upon my word, Mrs. Garlett, I " gasped the dudish student. He did not know how to finish. "It's just some old horrid joke!" declared Miss Ruggles, haughtily. "One of your college jokes, I presume!"
Not until the final summing up of all accounts, will the full measure of the influence of the little one be known. It was gentle, subtle, almost imperceptible. Wade Ruggles never broke his resolve not to touch liquor.
And the moment when he had about persuaded himself that it was but a figment of the imagination, it had sprung into being and crushed him. But he was now stern, remorseless, resolute, implacable. It was much the same with Wade Ruggles. He strove desperately to gain the remarkable control of his feelings, displayed by his comrade, and partly succeeded.
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