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Updated: June 6, 2025
In my desperation I might have gone on to the whole truth recklessly; told her what an absurd man Judge Bundy really was, and how the Todds were being dragged over Europe on a glorified Cook's tour, captives at the wheels of his chariot; told her how I appreciated her sweet condescension in offering to call on the woman I loved. The woman I loved?
My servant will now place you in a taxi; and if you will do me the honor of calling here at eleven o'clock tomorrow morning I think I can promise you a satisfactory termination to this little affair." The girl patted him on the shoulder. "That's all right, Bundy!" she declared. "I hope you'll take me out to lunch again!
At this question Doctor Todd brought his eyes down from the ceiling and Judge Bundy lifted his from the red rug of the platform. The judge was our great authority on striving. He had qualified himself by years of successful labor.
Doctor Todd and Judge Bundy seemed to be of the same mind, for they were whispering together; debating, I suspected, whether it were better to let him go on and try to talk fifty dollars' worth or to break abruptly into his discourse and end it.
'Yes; but there's no need to claw 'old of the bloody doors every time you goes in and out, snarled Crass, 'and you could 'ave put yer tools on the floor instead of makin' a bench of the dresser. 'You can 'ave the bloody place all to yerself in about five minutes, replied Bundy, as he assisted to lift a sack of cement weighing about two hundredweight on to Dawson's buck. 'We're finished now.
Bundy was badly beaten, and then Easton suggested that it was time to think of going home. This proposal slightly modified met with general approval, the modification being suggested by Philpot, who insisted on standing one final round of drinks before they went. While they were pouring this down their throats, Crass took a penny from his waistcoat pocket and put it in the slot of the polyphone.
Bundy and Her Majesty's Royal mail embarked with much majesty; and in the twinkling of an eye, the Royal standard of England, about the size of a pocket-handkerchief, and at the bows of the boat, the man-of-war's pennant, being a strip of bunting considerably under the value of a farthing, streamed out.
He marched out in hurt dignity, followed by his train, many of whom, in loyalty to their host, sneered openly at the bar-tender as they passed. Outside the Colonel poised himself in gala attitude, and benignantly surveyed our quiet little Main Street in both directions. Across the way in the door of the First National Bank stood Asa Bundy, a look of interest on his face.
'No, said Crass amid laughter, 'and you can bet your life 'e didn't lose it neither, although 'e tries to make 'imself out to be so innocent. 'I always though old Harlow was a bl y liar, remarked Bundy, 'but now we knows 'e is. Although everyone pretended to disbelieve him, Harlow stuck to his version of the story.
Philpot said that, in order to get on with the business, he would second the resolution. Bundy suggested as an amendment that it should be a whole day, starting from the Cricketers at nine in the morning, and Sawkins said that, in order to get on with the business, he would second the amendment. One of the new hands said he wished to move another amendment.
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