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Philemon Bliss, then of Elyria, and now Supreme Judge of Missouri, was afterward elected, and his term was cut short in 1851, by the adoption of the new Constitution, under which the judges were elected by the people for the term of five years. Hon. Samuel Starkweather was the first judge elected under the new system, and in 1856. Mr. Bolton was chosen his successor.
"It's taking all my capital to carry my customers. And you know how tight money is." "Oh, yes. Well I guess your credit's good for five, all right. When do you have to have it? Now?" "Any time that suits you, suits me." Mr. Starkweather shook his head. "No, it don't, either. When a man wants money, he wants it. Wants it some particular day. When is it?"
It must have been two weeks later that I went to town by the upper hill road in order to pass the Starkweather place. It is a fine old estate, the buildings, except the barn, set well back from the road with a spacious garden near them, and pleasant fields stretching away on every hand. As I skirted the shoulder of the hill I looked eagerly for the first glimpse of the barn.
Here I've left John Starkweather in my pasture while I remark to the extent of a page or two that I didn't expect him to see me when he went by. Perhaps I was not consumed with excitement: here was fresh adventure! "A farmer," I said to myself with exultation, "has only to wait long enough and all the world comes his way."
It was on this morning, on her way through the streets, that Margery dropped in a dead faint upon the pavement, and Miss Amory Starkweather, passing in her carriage, picked her up and carried her home. Susan Chapman never saw her again. Some months afterwards came the rumour that she had died of consumption in Italy.
"The breeze is coming," declared Captain Starkweather. "Shall we put back to Boston, John? We'll not know what to do with this craft in Province Town." "A good night's work this, and Boston folk will be glad to see this English 'Sea Bird' come in to her harbor. 'Tis the same craft that has caused so much trouble to fishing boats.
I told him that the vicar had married my mother's sister, and that the two had been father and mother to me since the death of my parents. He asked if he might venture to call on Doctor Starkweather the next day, mentioning the name of a friend of his, with whom he believed the vicar to be acquainted.
I had lived long enough with my uncle Starkweather to catch some of his enthusiasm for field sports, and to learn something, especially, of the angler's art.
It seemed curiously to have come alive, to have acquired a personality of its own. A corner of the great garden had been cut off and included in the miniature grounds of the cottage; and a simple arbour had been built against a background of wonderful beech trees. You felt at once a kind of fondness for it. I saw Mary Starkweather in her garden, in a large straw hat, with a trowel in her hand.
"Would you do it if you were in my place?" "Would I lie down like a yellow dog, and let people say I hadn't sand enough to stop a wristwatch?" "I know, but Bob the Orpheum!" "I know, but Henry don't you sort of owe it to Mr. Starkweather? You wouldn't have put on this milk-fed expression if he'd soaked it to you himself, would you?" At this precise instant, Henry was required on the telephone.
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