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In it he indicted no less than twenty of his fellow-townsmen for treason; and he also thought it wise to send over to Clovelly for Bijah Bixby, a lieutenant in that section, to come and look over the ground and ascertain by his well-known methods how far the treason had eaten into the body politic. Such was Jake's ordinary procedure when the bombs were fired, for Mr.
Bijah Bixby paid a visit to the Harwich bank and went among certain Coniston farmers looking over the sheep, his clothes bulging out in places when he began, and seemingly normal enough when he had finished. History repeats itself, even among lions and jackals. Thirty-six years before there had been a town-meeting in Coniston and a surprise.
In short, Bijah was the working bee, and the Honorable Heth the ornamental drone. I do not know why I have dwelt so long on such a minor character as Bijah, except that the man fascinates me. Of all the lieutenants in the state, his manners bore the closest resemblance to those of Jethro Bass.
Worthington had not had at that time much of an experience in politics, and he did not possess a very good memory for faces. Mr. Bixby, who had, as we know, a confidential and winning manner, seated himself in a chair very close to Mr. Worthington somewhat to that gentleman's alarm. "How be you?" said Bijah, "I-I've got a little bill here you understand." Mr.
The boys are coming over to-morrow, and I want to have it done before they get here. Say, will you, 'Bijah?" "Wal, I'd know but I can," said 'Bijah. "I want a real one," said Benny, "life-size, just like them you saw when you was out there to Dakota none o' your baby-houses." 'Bijah went up-stairs into the barn chamber, humming The Sweet By and By, and Benny accompanied him in doing both.
Bijah Bixby, sits on the other side of the Honorable Heth, and performs the presentation of Mr. Wetherell. But Mr. Sutton, as becomes a man of high position, says little after he has rebuked the waitress, and presently departs with a carefully chosen toothpick; whereupon Mr. Bixby moves into the vacant seat not to Mr. Wetherell's unqualified delight.
"And Sam Price," continued Bijah, in pretended astonishment, "wahn't he settin' on the edge of the stoop when I drove up?" Another silence, broken only by the enraged breathing of Chester, who was unable to retort. Moses Hatch laughed. The discreet departure of these gentlemen certainly had its comical side. "Rias as indoostrious as ever, Mose?" inquired Bijah.
"Hello!" said he, "Sandy, I vum! That means 't Benny ain't fur off. You don't ketch that feller to stir a peg from Benny 'f he c'n help himself." 'Bijah gave Sandy some milk, feeling sure that if Benny was on earth, Sandy would go straight back again to where he had left him.
Bixby the envelope as he unhitched his horse; and so deftly did Bijah slip it into his pocket, that he must certainly have misjudged its contents. None of the loungers at Ephraim's remarked the transaction.
If Jethro had indeed instructed Bijah to look after his flock at Coniston, it was an ill-conditioned move, and some of the flock resented it when they were quite sure that Bijah was climbing the notch road toward Clovelly. It was Lem's boast that he never had been and never would be a politician. "Why don't you folks quit railin' against Jethro and do somethin'?" he said.
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