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"What are you doing? asked Mark, inspired a little by curiosity. "I am agent for a wholesale tea house in New York," Frank answered, briefly. "You don't say so!" exclaimed Mark, rather impressed. "What is the name of the firm?" "The Great Pekin Tea Company." "Does it pay well?" asked his stepbrother. "I have met with very fair success," replied Frank. "I congratulate you, Frank," said Mr.
But when they came to the ring, Lincoln, deeming the Grigsby champion too much overmatched, magnanimously substituted for himself his less puissant stepbrother, John Johnston, who was getting well pounded when Abe, on pretence of foul play, interfered, seized Grigsby by the neck, flung him off and cleared the ring.
This was why he seldom entered the premises of the Alpha and Omega Club where, quite apart from his objection to Parker's poison and the loose and rowdy talk of the place, he was liable to encounter the lady's stepbrother. Of course he knew perfectly well what he ought to have done. He ought to have imitated the example of other people who behaved like scoundrels and openly gloried in it.
He stood so sorely in need of a little kindness that he felt grateful for the friendly aspect of his stepbrother, whom he met just before he reached the shop. "'Pears like ye air toler'ble late a-gittin' home, Ike," said Jube. "I done ye the favior ter feed the critters. I 'lowed ez ye would do ez much fur me some day.
As it happened, however, he did not even know that his stepbrother had been summoned to the doctor's study. Had he met Herbert, the later would have told him; but after receiving his list, it so chanced that he and his friend did not meet.
Frank did not like his stepfather, he did not trust him. "Your stepbrother, Mark Manning, enjoys the same advantages as yourself, does he not?" inquired Herbert. "Yes." "Then his father's marriage proved a good thing for him." "That is true. When he first came to the house he was poorly dressed, and had evidently been used to living in a poor way.
Brooner, "Abraham and his stepbrother, John Johnston, came over to our house to swap a horse for a yoke of oxen. 'Abe' was always a quiet fellow. John did all the talking, and seemed to be the smartest of the two. Many others were struck by the clever use he made of his gift for writing.
He was about to hurry away, but Carl felt like questioning him further. The extraordinary resemblance between this man and his stepbrother led him to think it possible that there might be a relationship between them. Of his stepmother's family he knew little or nothing. His father had married her on short acquaintance, and she was very reticent about her former life.
"I believe it is," answered Mark, indifferently. "And what right has he to sell my horse?" demanded Frank, indignantly. "You'd better ask him," said Mark, with provoking coolness. "It is an outrage," said Frank, indignantly. "As to that," said his stepbrother, "you can't expect father to be at the expense of feeding your horse." "With my money?" "The money is legally his," replied Mark.
"I would like to give him a sensation." Considering the manner in which Mark had treated his stepbrother, Frank may be excused for the wish to puzzle him a little. Finding himself lonely, Mark decided to take a walk not long after Frank's departure. He was sauntering along the road, when he heard the sound of hoofs, and, to his surprise, saw his stepbrother on the back of Ajax.
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