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We find her father, when she was but seventeen years old, making frequent investigation about the estate of one Captain Tuthill, a prospective suitor who had visited Betty and "wished to speak with her."
She little dreamed that Doctor Eben was as anxious to avoid seeing her, as she had been to avoid seeing him. He had a strangely resentful feeling towards Hetty, as if she were a personal friend who had been treacherous to him. She was the only one of all the partisans of Doctor Tuthill that he could not sympathize with and heartily forgive.
But before I could recover myself, the promising candidate had disappeared." Harry Tuthill, specialist in knees and ankles, was the first trainer West Point ever had. When he turned up at the Academy he was none too sure that a football was made of leather and blown up. He got his job at the Point through the bandaging of Ty Cobb's ankle.
Tracey Tanner pumped the organ and puffed audibly in the pauses a singular testimony to his devotion to Angie Tuthill, who "just sang" with the others, chiefly because she was Josie's nearest friend. I remember that, one Sunday night after evening service, Duncan confided to me, quite seriously, "that the church thing was getting to him."
"Oh, you don't know... I heard the girls talking in the post-office Angle Tuthill and Mame Garrison and Bessie Gabriel... I was round by the boxes where they couldn't see me, but I could hear them, and they were laughing because I was invited. They said the reason Josie did it was because she knew I didn't have anything to wear, and she wanted to hear what excuse I'd make for not going.
Tuthill, in his history of the time writes with more warmth, and probably more truth: "There was a charm in King's delivery that few could resist. He was received with applause where Republican orators, saying things no more radical, could not be heard without hisses.
An Army coach saw him do it and said: "Harry, if you can do that, the way you do it, come to West Point and do it for us." Tuthill was none too welcome to the authorities other than the football men. In the eyes of the superintendent every cadet was fit to do anything that might be required of him. "You've got to make good with the Supe," said the coaches.
Evidently hysterical from the shock he had received, he told my father, amid his sobs, that half of Newcastle and Gateshead had been blown down by a frightful explosion in one of the Gateshead bonded warehouses; that the dead and dying were lying about in hundreds, and that, to crown everything, Tuthill Stairs Chapel had been destroyed.
He just kept me alive." Hetty's face flushed. Sally had never told her so much before; she could not help a glow at her heart, at the picture of the handsome young doctor sitting with the poor, outcast baby on his knees, and comforting the poor outcast mother. But Hetty was a Gunn; and, as Dr. Eben had said, obstinate. She could not forget her partisanship for Dr. Tuthill.
She insists that: "Of course, I never let on, but every time we meet I can just feel him looking and...." Bessie interposes: "Why, Tracey Tanner's just crazy for fear he'll take on with Angie." I can see Josie's head toss at this. "I bet he don't know what Angie Tuthill looks like. That's too absurd..." "Absurd" is Josie's newest word.
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