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As they were issuing from the wood they heard the sound of galloping hoofs, and had barely time to hide themselves before Madison Clay, on the stolen horse of Judge Boompointer, swept past them with his kinsman. Salomy Jane turned to her lover.
"Why don't you see the President about it?" asked a bystander, in affected commiseration. Mr. Hooker stared contemptuously at the suggestion, and expectorated his scornful dissent. "Not much!" he said. "But I'm going to see the man that carries him and his Cabinet in his breeches-pocket Senator Boompointer." "Boompointer's a big man," continued his auditor doubtfully. "Do you know him?"
"For I want to talk to you of old times. General Brant," she went on, turning explanatorily to Boompointer, "married my adopted mother in California at Robles, a dear old place where I spent my earliest years. So, you see, we are sort of relations by marriage," she added, with delightful naivete.
He noticed the divided attention of the crowd; the name of Senator Boompointer was upon every lip; he was nearly face to face with that famous dispenser of place and preferment this second husband of Susy! An indescribable feeling half cynical, half fateful came over him.
Alas! the eyes of two of that wedding party saw the fatal act. Judge Boompointer shook his head sternly. Mary Jones sighed and breathed a silent prayer. Her husband chewed! "What! more bread?" said John Jenkins gruffly. "You're always asking for money for bread. D nation!
"I quite forgot," the Senator went on, as he drew the curtain aside, "that you are engaged with a friend; but Miss Faulkner is waiting to say good-night, and I volunteered to find you." "Tell her to wait a moment," said Susy, with an impatience that was as undisguised as it was without embarrassment or confusion. But Miss Faulkner, unconsciously following Mr. Boompointer, was already upon them.
In this way it was averred that he once removed a gigantic theatre bill setting forth the charms of the "Sacramento Pet," and being caught in the act by the advance agent, was pursued through the main street, carrying the damp bill on his horns, eventually affixing it, after his own peculiar fashion, on the back of Judge Boompointer, who was standing in front of his own court-house.
That blank it all she reminded him of the blankest beautiful woman he had seen even in Washington old Major Beveridge's daughter from Kentucky. Were they sure she wasn't from Kentucky? Wasn't her name Beveridge and not Boompointer?
You're a stranger here, and we want some one who knows the city, Dewslake," he returned to the receiving teller, "who's taken Larkin's place?" "No one yet," returned the teller, "but," he added parenthetically, "Judge Boompointer, you know, was speaking to you about his son." "Yes, I know that." To Randolph: "Go round to my private room and wait for me.
"One cigar a day is three cents a day," remarked Judge Boompointer, gravely; "and do you know, sir, what one cigar a day, or three cents a day, amounts to in the course of four years?" John Jenkins, in his boyhood, had attended the village school, and possessed considerable arithmetical ability.
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