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The latter gave him his address, or rather the address of his mistress, and made Jurgis promise to look him up. "Maybe I could help you out of a hole some day," he said, and added that he was sorry to have him go. Jurgis rode in the patrol wagon back to Justice Callahan's court for trial.
He smiled languidly at Callahan's excited greeting, and as they ran down the yard listened without comment to the story of the washout. No words were needed to convey to Glover or to Blood the embarrassment of the situation. Freight trains crowded every track in the yard, and the block of twelve hours indicated what a two-day tie-up would mean.
After spending the night at Covington, the passengers were put into as many stage-coaches as were necessary, and the long, rough drive over the mountains by "Callahan's" commenced. General Lee on Traveller was at once recognised, and when it was found out by his fellow-travellers that Mrs.
He listened to every detail of the disaster, to the cold hard figures of Agnew's estimates which nothing could alter, jot or tittle and to Callahan's despairing question as to how he could possibly save the unlooked-for avalanche of fruit.
O'Neil had no difficulty in securing men. Once he was recognized, the scenes at Hope were re-enacted, and there was a general scramble to enlist upon his pay-roll. Within an hour, therefore, his arrangements were made, and he and Tom repaired to Callahan's Hotel for a few hours' sleep.
The diplomatic history of the war will be found in J. M. Callahan's Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy ; J. W. Foster's A Century of American Diplomacy ; Charles Francis Adams's Charles Francis Adams , in American Statesmen series; Charles Francis Adams's Lee at Appomatox ; and Transatlantic Solidarity ; and Pierce Butler's Judah P. Benjamin, in American Crises biographies.
It's Honey-Sweet's girl and a lady." Peggy opened the door. "Come right in," she said. Then she explained: "We was tryin' to get Lois back in bed. The doctor says she must stay in bed and she hates it, so she will get up and have a pillow-pallet on the floor." There the child was lying, tossing restlessly about, while Mrs. Callahan's machine rattled away as usual.
"What d'ye calc'late the major will do about it?" said Brodrick, in the roundhouse conclave held daily by the trainmen who were hung up or off duty. "Will he listen to reason and give us a sure-enough railroad man or two at the top?" "Not in ein t'ousand year," quoth "Dutch" Tischer, Callahan's alternate on the fast mail. "Haf you not de Arkoos been reading?
Rabbits began to come about the camp at night, especially when the moon was bright, and frequently of late they had heard a querulous, yelping bark that Caleb said was made by a Fox "probably that old rascal that lives in Callahan's woods." The gray Cat in the log was always interesting. The boys went very regularly to watch from a distance, but for good reasons did not go near.
He gave the baggage man twenty-five cents to take the check off his trunk, the 'bus driver fifty cents to drive him up to the Main Street, and he went into Callahan's tobacco store and bought two ten-cent cigars and took them across the street and gave them to Mallory Tompkins of the Times-Herald as a present from the Prime Minister.
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