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And half-way between Painted Hat and the "Circle-Bar," nestling in the hollowed hands of the mountains, were the horse-corrals of one Debbleby, a true hermit of the hills, and the boy Evan's earliest school-master in the great book of Nature. Blount's one meliorating softness during the years of exile had manifested itself in an effort to keep track of Debbleby.
Any change in the situation since your last report?" Gantry shook his head. "Nothing very important. Blount's up-town office was broken into last night and his safe ripped open with dynamite, as I suppose you have read in the papers. Who did it, or why it was done, nobody seems to know." "Well, what came of it?" "Nothing, so far as I can find out," returned the traffic manager.
"That is good of you, I'm sure. I should bore myself to death if I had to travel alone." Blount's rejoinder might have passed for a mere friendly commonplace if it had not been for the rather curiously worded telegram. But it was a goodly portion of Gantry's business in life to put two and two together, and that phrase in the senator's message about a woman's apron-string interested him.
Pa was born on Blount's plantation and Blount bought my ma because they brought her from Kentucky for sale. They had her for sale just like you would sell hogs and mules. Then my father saw her and liked her and married her. She was a slave too. Master "Blount Steward was kinder good. He was very well till the war started the Federal War. Miss Ann went to whip me for nothing. Whippings
Dicky puts in most of his time at Blount Hall. Indeed, it has grown to be a matter of speculation with the Blount's whether in the event of his marriage he will not elect to bring his bride also to stay with them for good and all! They have even gone so far as to hope he will marry a nice girl, and one whom they can receive in the spirit of love.
When it came to collecting bills you could trust the express company and you could trust Uncle Sam with your mail but as to the people in Vegas, and especially the telephone girl, he had his well-established doubts. His telegraphic messages went out over the 'phone and were not a matter of record and if she happened to be eating a box of Blount's candy she might forget to relay them.
"Your train is half an hour late," said the traffic man, with a glance for the travelling-bag in Blount's hand. "Didn't they know enough at the hotel to tell you about it?"
Thus in the fifth edition of Blount's "Glossographia, or a Dictionary interpreting the hard words of whatsoever language now used in our refined English tongue...very useful for all such as desire to understand what they read," published in 1681, I find, "Dril a stone-cutter's tool wherewith he bores little holes in marble, etc. Also a large overgrown Ape and Baboon, so called."
Blount." She took it over and put it in Blount's hands, and as he read the first line he turned pale. "Why Virginia!" he gasped and then he clutched at his heart and reached out quickly for the fence. "Why why, I thought that was all settled! I certainly understood it was and what authority had you to interfere?"
"Because, apart from the railroad and the anti-railroad factions, there is a very complete and smoothly running machine organization." "And my father is identified with the machine?" Again Gantry choked over the singular lack of information discovering itself in Blount's question. "Land of glory!" he ejaculated. "Where have you been burying yourself, Evan?
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