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On the evening of the second day, a little before supper-time, my wife came to me, and announced that a young lady had waited on her with a tale so remarkable that she craved leave to bring her to me that I might hear it. "What is it?" I said impatiently. "It is about M. Vilain," my wife answered, her face still wearing all the marks of lively astonishment. "Ha!" I exclaimed. "I will see her then.
I went to sup with my brother and his wife, who were delighted to see me, and told me that I had come just in time to use a little gentle persuasion on our friend the abbe, of whom they had got tired. "Where is he?" "You will see him before long, for it is near supper-time; and as eating and drinking are the chief concerns of his life, he will not fail to put in an appearance."
When O'Neil had managed to regain the camp he began preparations for an attack that very night, using the telephone busily. News of the coming affray quickly spread, and both the day and night shifts discussed it excitedly at supper-time. Nor was the excitement lessened when a loaded gravel-train rolled in and Dr.
The husband came in at supper-time, and as she had often talked to him about me he rushed to embrace me as soon as he heard my name. He was an intelligent man, like most of the pagletti of Naples. We supped together like old friends, and the Abbe Gama going soon after supper I stayed with them till midnight, promising to join them at dinner the next day.
I did not come home till supper-time, that the marquis might say what he had to say in perfect freedom. The noble Genoese supped with us, and the conversation turned on indifferent subjects. After he had gone, my sweetheart told me what had passed between them.
We were in debt to Felix for a load of turf and we suspected he had called for the money. Anna lit the candle she was saving for supper-time. The bogman threw his cap and overcoat over in the corner on the lasts and sat down. "I'm frozen t' death!" he said as he proceeded to take off his brogues.
"Let him have the whole five and a quarter," said Don Quixote; "for the sum total of this notable disaster does not stand on a quarter more or less; and make an end of it quickly, Master Pedro, for it's getting on to supper-time, and I have some hints of hunger."
The story was threshed out in Dave Dyer's drug store, with Sam Clark, Kennicott, and Carol present. "That's the way to treat those fellows only they ought to have lynched him!" declared Sam, and Kennicott and Dave Dyer joined in a proud "You bet!" Carol walked out hastily, Kennicott observing her. Through supper-time she knew that he was bubbling and would soon boil over.
The emblem patrol sauntered over to the flag pole and sprawled beneath it to rest and await the moment of sunset. Several canoes moved aimlessly upon the glinting water, their occupants idling with the paddles. It was the time of waiting, the empty hour or two between the day's end and supper-time. Upon a rock near the lake sat a little fellow, quite alone.
Yes, it was Tony Kirk, sure enough, a man who would never shoot a boy if he knew it. "What are you doing here," asked Tony, "a-squattin' in the dirt at supper-time?" Harry told him what he was doing, and how he had been frightened, and then the remark about supper-time made him think of his sister. "My senses!" he cried, "there's Kate! she must think I'm lost." "Kate!" exclaimed Tony. "What Kate?
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