United States or Mexico ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
It is not up till midnight, and any action taken before then on any other assumption will give grounds for damages." Crozier spoke without passion and with a coldblooded insistence not lost on Burlingame. Taking down a calendar from the wall, he laid it beside the paper on the table before the too eager lawyer. "Examine the dates," he said. "At twelve o'clock tonight Messrs.
Hunter confessing that stuff on her face made her sick; but adding that she adored dress and thought that any rich woman was a fool who didn't. After that there was a compromise on both sides. Mrs. Hunter lunched or dined at Rincona in her simplest frocks and Mrs. Abbott wore her best when honoring Mrs. Hunter and others at Burlingame. Mrs.
All day theatrical folks had been in and out of this little ten-by-twelve cubby-hole; and now there would be quiet. But no. The door opened and an iron-gray head intruded. "Will I be in the way?" "Lord, no!" cried Burlingame, throwing down his proofs. "Come along in, Cutty." The great war correspondent came in and sat down, sighing gratefully.
Several members of this family of Appletons have since, during successive generations, been distinguished and well known citizens of Boston, one of whom, William Appleton, was elected to Congress over Anson Burlingame, in 1860. Recently, one of the descendants of this family has had a tablet of copper securely bolted to the rock with the following inscription:
She had been adored all her life by three younger brothers, by her charming and simple, half-invalid mother, and her big, clever father, and now, all the girls were beginning to suspect, was also adored by the very delightful Eastern man who was at present Mrs. Butler Holmes' guest in Burlingame, and upon whom all of them had been wasting their prettiest smiles.
"Now we have equality of opportunity," he remarked quietly. "If you think you would like to repeat any slander that's slid off your foul tongue, do it now; and in a moment or two Mrs. Tynan can turn the hose on the floor of this room." "I want to get to business," said Burlingame sullenly, as he took from his pocket a paper. Crozier nodded. "I can imagine your haste," he remarked.
Afterward I visited San Mateo and Burlingame, with the same object in view. At the former place the young pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. C. B. Sylvester, was just commencing a series of revival meetings. Upon learning my errand to San Mateo, he and his wife urged my cooperation in the evening services, and to this end invited me to remain under their roof.
The old man was almost hysterical. "You just come in time, Mr. Guise. You frightened 'em off. They'd have found it, if it hadn't been for you." "Found what?" asked Orlando, as he helped the old man towards the camp-fire, himself in pain, and a dizziness coming over him. "Found your six thousand dollars that Burlingame paid me to-day," gasped the old man, spasmodically; "but it's here-it's here!"
Many who came in much direct contact with him, as Augustus Burlingame the lawyer had done, tried to draw from him all there was to tell about himself; which is a friendly custom of the far West. The native-born greatly desire to tell about themselves. They wear their hearts on their sleeves, and are childlike in the frank recitals of all they were and are and hope to be.
I had to do some mighty fine wire-pulling. For one of those stones I would give half of all I own. To see them in the possession of another man would be a supreme test to my honesty." "You old pirate!" said Burlingame. "But why the word jeopardy?" persisted Kitty, who was intrigued by the phrase. "Probably some Hindu trick. It is a language of flowery metaphors.
Word Of The Day