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The awful and unsuspected results I beheld on my first visit of patronage to Barbran's cellar, the occasion being the formal opening. A large and curious crowd of five persons, including myself and Phil Stacey, were there. Outside, an old English design of a signboard with a wheel on it creaked despairingly in the wind. Below was a legend: "At the Sign of the Wheel The Wrightery."
It had been the talk of the press at the time of its formation, a few months ago, especially as it included among its organisers one very clever business woman, Miss Rebecca Wend. There had been considerable opposition to the combination in the trade, but Stacey had shattered it by the sheer force of his personality.
This is Mr. Stacey, the new teacher." "How de do? Run in; I'll take the horses." Herman and Wallace stumbled toward the house, stiff and bent. Herman flung his arms about a tall woman in the kitchen door. "Hello, muz!" he said. "This is Mr. Stacey, the new teacher." Mattie came in soon with a boyish rush, gleeful as a happy babe.
"He must go back to school as soon as he is well, and from what Dr. Stacey tells me that will be by the time the vacation is over," Daddy Horton said. "I stopped in at the doctor's office on my way home to-night. We'll persuade Bob to go back to school on the promise that he shall come into my office for the summer vacation and be taught shorthand and typing. Doctor Stacey says Mr.
'What do you know? inquired Stella, smiling in spite of her sadness. 'I know everything that Mr. Stacey said to you, announced the younger girl confidently. 'How can you possibly know that, Vava, seeing that I have not told you a single word and that you were not at the interview? Stella was always very matter-of-fact, and Vava would say that she was slow.
Young Stacey raged against a stupid and corrupt press. MacLachan expressed the acidulous hope that thereafter Cyrus the Gaunt would be content with making a fool of himself without implicating innocent and confiding friends. The party then sent out for turpentine and broke up to reassemble no more. Only Phil Stacey, inventor of the great idea, was still faithful to and hopeful of it.
Say, Bobby, did you see that necklace Della Stacey had on the other night? Twenty-two hundred dollars it cost at Tiffany's. But, of course pull my sash a little to the left, Adams." "Miss Lauriere for the opening chorus!" cried the call boy without. Gillian strolled out to where his cab was waiting. "What would you do with a thousand dollars if you had it?" he asked the driver.
Our old Indiaman answered but doggedly; and the huge bowsprit of the Serapis, towering over our heads, snapped off our spanker gaff and fouled our mizzen rigging. "A hawser, Mr. Stacey, a hawser!"
He declared he could not allow them to leave Sicily without a peep at the famous capital city, and that in motoring there they could also see some of the sights upon the way. Though they were perfectly happy at Casa Bianca, a visit to Palermo was of course a great attraction, and the party, including Cousin Clare and Mr. Stacey, were all excitement and smiles.
I'm tellin' you mine, which is that Jim Waring goes to Stacey just the first minute he can put his foot in a buck-board. And he's goin' peaceful. I got a gun on me that says so." "The law is the law. I can run you in for packin' concealed weapons, Mr. Shoop." "Run me in!" chuckled Shoop. "Nope. You'd spile the door. But let me tell you.
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