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Well, here, perhaps, is a chance for a summer lark. If Strahan is enamored I'd like to cut him out, for by all the fiends of dulness I must find something to do." Strahan had accepted an invitation to lunch at the Vosburghs' that day, and arrived, hot and flushed, from his second morning's drill. "Well!" he exclaimed, "I've seen the great Mogul." "I believe I have also," replied Marian.
As he sped through the streets, running where he dared, and fortunately having enough of the general aspect of a rioter to be unmolested, he noticed a new feature in the outbreak, one that soon became a chief characteristic, the hatred of negroes and the sanguinary pursuit of them everywhere. "Another danger for the Vosburghs," he groaned.
They both remained proteges of the Vosburghs, and received frequent tokens of good-will and friendly regard. While these were in the main disinterested, Mr. Vosburgh felt that in the possibilities of the future it might be to his advantage to have some men in the police force wholly devoted to his interests.
"Send him to me," gasped the mother. Dr. Henderson soon came and explained in part what had occurred. "Oh, those Vosburghs!" exclaimed Mrs. Merwyn, with a gesture of unspeakable revolt at the state of affairs. "Well," she added, with a stern face, "it is my place and not a stranger's to be at my son's side." "Pardon me, madam; you cannot go to your son at all in your present mood.
"Well," he said, "for a man of your phenomenal reticence you are asking a good many questions." Merwyn colored slightly and blundered: "You know my motive, Strahan; one does not care to make acquaintances that are not quite " and then the expression of his host's eyes checked him. "I assure you the Vosburghs are 'QUITE," Strahan said, coldly. "Did I not say they were my equals?
He became a close student of the progress of events, and, with his sensitiveness in regard to the Vosburghs, adopted a measure that taxed his courage. A day or two later he called on Mr. Vosburgh at his office, and asked him out to lunch, saying that he was desirous of obtaining some information. Mr.
At last the brave fellow was struck down almost opposite the balcony. Merwyn knew the man was a favorite of the Vosburghs, and he could not bear that the brave fellow should be murdered before his very eyes; yet murdered he apparently was ere Merwyn could reach the street. Like baffled fiends his pursuers closed upon the unfortunate man, pounding him and jumping upon him.
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