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Yes, thought I'd drop in and see how you be on my way home." Sergeant Ephraim had much to say about the great war, and about Coniston. True to the instincts of the blood of the Stark hero, he had left the plough and the furrow' at the first call, forty years of age though he was. But it had been otherwise with many in Coniston and Brampton and Harwich.
Dodd, with just a trace of awe in his voice, "that's Somers Duncan, son of Millionaire Duncan down to the capital. I guess," he added, "I guess them two will be the richest men in the state some day. Duncan come up from Harvard with Bob." In a few minutes the game was in full swing, Brampton against Harwich, the old rivalry in another form.
"I came near getting married once," she said presently, with characteristic abruptness. "You!" cried Cynthia, looking around in amazement. "You see, I am franker than you, my dear though I never told any one else. I believe you can keep a secret." "Of course I can. Who was it anyone in Brampton, Miss Lucretia?" The question was out before Cynthia realized its import.
Dodd, who was not sure now that this was not the fire and the other the frying-pan, pulled at his tuft until words came to him. "Jedge," he said finally, "I must say I'm a mite surprised. I must say your language is unwarranted." "The truth is never unwarranted," said the judge. "For the sake of the fair name of Brampton," began Mr. Dodd, "we cannot allow " "Mr.
Seven days were an interlude quite long enough in which to discuss every phase and bearing of this opening scene, and after that the play in all justice ought to move on. But there it halted for a while and the curtain obstinately refused to come up. If the inhabitants of Brampton had only known that the drama, when it came, would be well worth waiting for, they might have been less restless.
Spoke with several, among others my cozen Roger Pepys, who was going up to the Parliament House, and inquired whether I had heard from my father since he went to Brampton, which I had done yesterday, who writes that my uncle is by fits stupid, and like a man that is drunk, and sometimes speechless.
Prescott," answered honest Bob, a little abashed, "I should have done so anyway, but the fact is, I wanted to speak to you a moment in private." "Certain," said Ephraim, glancing helplessly around him, "jest come out front." That space, where the public were supposed to be, was the only private place in the Brampton post-office.
In short, the first citizen, as became him, had delivered the first reform speech ever heard in Brampton, and the sensation which it created was quite commensurate to the occasion.
Sam Price, with his horse in a lather, might have been seen driving with unseemly haste toward Brampton, where in due time he arrived. Half an hour later there was excitement at Newcastle, sixty-five miles away, in the office of the Guardian, and the next morning the excitement had spread over the whole state. Jethro Bass was dethroned in Coniston discredited in his own town!
Could Miss Wetherell start in at once, provided the committee agreed? Cynthia replied that she would like nothing better. There would be an examination before Mr. Errol, the Brampton Superintendent of Schools. In short, owing to the pressing nature of the occasion, the judge would take the liberty of calling the committee together immediately. Would Mr.
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