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As the men slowed up a gleam of moonlight showed through the knot-hole, and peering forth he discovered a tree-lined road, and a two-horse wagon. Sliding the box into the rear of the wagon, and well to the front, the men disappeared. The wait that followed was to Jack the most trying experience of the evening. Had the detective safely landed?
We bought a two-horse wagon and put eighteen hundred pounds of bacon, flour, beans, blasting-powder, picks and shovels in it; we bought two sorry-looking Mexican "plugs," with the hair turned the wrong way and more corners on their bodies than there are on the mosque of Omar; we hitched up and started. It was a dreadful trip. But Oliver did not complain.
It was hard to do all this in the time, but well worth trying for, and not impossible. A two-horse fly is not a slow conveyance, and he offered the man a guinea to drive fast; so that it was not nine o'clock when they reached Silverton Grove House, a place Alfred had never heard of. This, however, I may observe, was no wonder: for it had not borne that name a twelve-month.
There is little "society" or formal entertaining in Sofia, little display and little, apparently, of that state of mind which, in Bucarest, is suggested by the handsome, two-horse public carriages at a time when there are not enough horses and carriages to go round.
Avoid the camps as much as possible on your way back, or they'll steal every inch of it away from you." "Very good, sir," said Si, saluting. "Shorty, jump on the wagon there, and gather up the lines." Shorty very obediently took his place on the seat of the two-horse wagon employed by the Pioneers for their jobs. "Hurry up," enjoined the Lieutenant; "we need those boards at once."
That was not the only time the girls saw Scorch O'Brien that summer; and on one occasion the entire O'Brien family from the fat, ruddy-faced Mother O'Brien, down to Aloysius Adolphus O'Brien, the baby came clear out to Hollyburg on the train, where they were met by the Bruces' man, and Nancy and Jennie, with a two-horse beach-wagon and transported to the lake for a picnic.
"Well," said Anthony, reaching for his chequebook, "it was a good bilin' of soap. Let's see you had $5,000 in cash." "I paid out $300 more of my own," said Kelly. "I had to go a little above the estimate. I got the express wagons and cabs mostly for $5; but the trucks and two-horse teams mostly raised me to $10. The motormen wanted $10, and some of the loaded teams $20.
The one thousand dollar debt was weighing upon him even when he went to the door of the church to meet some of the people. A stranger brushed past him a big, bluff, hearty looking man, all bone and muscle, roughly dressed and covered with mud. There was a two-horse rig from the livery, at the curb. The stranger started for it; but turned back on seeing the priest.
Wellsville is enjoying itself over the "sensation." One beautiful day last August, Mr. Elmer of East Cleveland, sent his hired colored man, of the name of Jeffries, to town with a two-horse wagon to get a load of lime. Mr. Elmer gave Jeffries 5 dollars with which to pay for the lime. The horses were excellent ones, by the way, nicely matched, and more than commonly fast.
I had been ten days on my journey, and the man that now crossed the Missouri River at St. Joseph was not just the man that ten days before crossed the Mississippi at Quincy. He was a wiser and a sadder man. On the Kansas side the first company I met was a two-horse wagon load of men that had been exploring the Territory and were returning.
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