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That's why he took the other road so's he'd have more time to talk, I s'pose." "Humph! Emeline, answer me true: Wa'n't you goin' to Denboro to get to get a divorce from me?" "A divorce? A divorce from YOU? Seth Bascom, I never heard such " She rose from her seat against the rail. "Set down," ordered her husband sharply. "You set down and keep down." She stared, gasped, and resumed her seat.
"I'd like to kick him downstairs," said Mr. Billings, savagely biting off another cigar. "I guess you hadn't better try it, Nat," said Mr. Bascom. Meanwhile Austen had returned to his own office, and shut the door. His luncheon hour came and went, and still he sat by the open window gazing out across the teeming plain, and up the green valley whence the Blue came singing from the highlands.
Bascom, "I have been a life-long Abolitionist and have often read of the cruelties and crimes of American slavery, but never before did I realize the low moral tone of the social life under which such shameless cruelties could be practiced on a defenseless widow and her orphaned children. Let me read the letter again. Just look at it, all tear-blotted and written with a trembling hand:
All the windows in those sections of the city as yet beyond the path of the fire were open, for although closed windows might have shut out the torrid atmosphere, the explosions would have shattered them. "Oh, dear," sighed Olive Bascom, "there goes my building. The smoke lifted for a moment and I saw the flames spouting out of the windows. A cool million and uninsured.
Rogers was not his name; neither was Jones, Brown, Dexter, Ferguson, Bascom, nor Thompson; but he answered to either of these that a body found handy in an emergency; or to any other name, in fact, if he perceived that you meant him. He said 'What is a person to do here when he wants a drink of water? drink this slush? 'Can't you drink it? 'I could if I had some other water to wash it with.
In the meantime the Honourable Elisha Jane, spurred on by desperation and thoughts of a 'dolce far niente' gone forever; has sought and cornered Mr. Bascom. "For God's sake, Brush," cries the Honourable Elisha, "hasn't this thing gone far enough?
"It has been thought wise," the Honourable Hilary continued, "to send an annual to the Groveton News. Roberts, his name is. Suppose you recommend to Mr. Roberts that an editorial on this subject would be timely." Slip number two. Mr. Bascom marks it 'Roberts. Subject: "What would the State do without the Railroad?"
Groome was paying his addresses to Maria Ballinger, "a fine figure of a girl" who had inherited little of her mother's beauty but all of her virtue, and Madeleine wondered if he would reform and settle down. Abbott was engaged to Marguerite McLane and looked as if he were having his last glad fling. Ogden Bascom had proposed to Guadalupe Hathaway every month for five years.
"It looks that way to me," said Mr. Jane. "It looks that way to Doby too, I guess," said Mr. Bascom, with a glance of contempt at the general; "he's lost about fifteen pounds to-day. Did Hilary send you down here?" he demanded. "No," Mr. Jane confessed. "Then go back and chase yourself around the platform some more," was Mr. Bascom's unfeeling advice, "and don't have a fit here.
In the broad, low kitchen, while Letitia Bascom poured boiling tea for the two men, Rogers, cup in hand, stood squarely on the hearth and explained himself. The other man, whose name does not matter, sank into a great wooden chair at the side of the fire and seemed to be ready to make good his threat of staying until spring. "I represent the U. & M. railroad.
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