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Miller at once to Davenport, where she stayed at a hotel until such time as she could be admitted to Ethelyn's presence. Mrs. Markham, senior, was washing windows when Tim Jones brought her the letter bearing the Davenport postmark. Melinda had purposely abstained from writing home until Richard came; and so the letter was in his handwriting, which his mother recognized at once.
"Gentlemen," he said, "it is a custom in this society that the president for the year opens the proceedings not by any general toast of sentiment, but by calling upon each member to give a brief account of his trade. We then drink to that calling and to all who follow it. It is my business, as the senior member, to open by stating my claim to membership of this club.
I declined, however, for being now the senior officer present, Foster, Parke, and Granger having remained at Knoxville and Strawberry Plains, their absence left me in command, and it was necessary that I should make disposition of the infantry when it arrived.
Leslie, senior, in a shabby straw-hat, was engaged in feeding the chickens before the threshold, and he performed even that occupation with a maundering lack-a-daisical slothfulness, dropping down the grains almost one by one from his inert dreamy fingers.
I tell you he's a real man. Dot hasn't seen one yet. I'll make her see Kirke somehow. You wait." He marched away, head up, eyes thoughtful, lips pursed in a whistle. Next morning, when three luxurious motor cars stopped at Mrs. Jack's door, Julius was lounging on the porch. It was his Senior vacation; he could be forgiven for lounging.
And none contributed more to that result than the clever and beautiful hostess of Excelsior Lodge, the charming country home of James Hurlstone, Esq., senior partner of the firm. Under the truly catholic shelter of its veranda Padre Esteban and the heretic stranger mingled harmoniously, and the dissensions of local and central Government were forgotten.
He arrives at 7:15, he brings a friend: you perceive the unexpressed corollary that the dinner must be better than usual. Then melt away to the cook with this very book in your hand. I take it that you consider her to be the junior partner in the household, you, of course, being the senior, and your husband the sleeping partner in it.
In ten minutes from the time of their being left alone, a woman who was five years his senior had made him what was practically a confession of love had given him to understand that she know what were the relations between himself and his wife and had implored him with the quick breath of an indescribable excitement to see what a woman's sympathy and a woman's unique devotion could do for the causes he had at heart.
He lifted his hat, bowed, said a polite nothing with his lips, and an indifferent "Oh, some friend of Helen's," with his eyes, and turned to a radiant blonde senior at my side. And that was all for him. But for me All that day I watched him whenever opportunity offered; and I suspect that I took care that opportunity offered frequently. I was fascinated. I had never seen any one like him before.
The Senior Surgeon cleared his throat, preparatory to making some comment, but the nurse raised a silencing finger. "Wait! there is one thing more. What you have taken from me is the smallest part. The children pay double treble as much. I pay only with my heart and faith; they pay with their whole lives. Remember that when you install your new surgical ward and don't reckon it too cheap."
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