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"A very simple one. I took what he was pleased to give me, and if it didn't hold out, I bought what I needed, and had the bills sent in to the store." "Capital!" exclaimed Mrs. Ellis. "Just what I have been thinking of. And it worked well?" "To a charm." "What did Mr. Claxton say when the bills came in?" "He looked grave, and said I would ruin him; but, of course, paid them."
After an experience some of the women had, the moment our committee decided on another demonstration, little Mary O'Brian went out, without consulting anybody, and bought me the whip. "If you will go," she said, "you shan't go unarmed. If we have that sort of cur to deal with, the only thing is to carry a dog-whip." Miss Claxton clenched her hands in their grey cotton gloves.
Claxton had said on the day previous, and the more she thought of her advice and example, the more she felt inclined to adopt a similar course of action. On new Brussels carpets she had, long ago, set her heart, and already worried her husband about them past endurance. To obtain his consent to the purchase, she felt to be hopeless. "I must get them in this way, or not at all. So much is clear."
In the course of time he came to where Claxton road ends and Claxton Road begins. It will be recalled that Claxton road, hemmed in by barb wire, leads interminably past vacant stretches of prairie with occasionally a farm and farmhouse. Nearing town its scene and atmosphere suddenly change.
On the contrary, it was the very reverse. Everybody liked her. She was one of the sweetest, most winsome girls I ever knew, and I soon grew to love her dearly. As for what Dick called her 'little queernesses' well, we got used to them in time. "Miriam was engaged, as I have told you, to a young Harvard man named Sidney Claxton. I knew she loved him very deeply.
"Alex!" exclaimed Jack, at once recognizing the sending; and was about to break in when the instrument clicked, "17 just coming CX." "Claxton, and 17! Just what we want!" Quickly interrupting, Jack sent, "CX Hold 17! Hold her!" Then, "To X This is Jack, Al. I'm in the woods about four miles from Claxton. We found the freight thieves, but they have Boyle prisoner.
So, in a little while, she came back to her resolution to tell her husband, on that very evening, all about what she had done. This was her state of mind, when her friend Mrs. Claxton called in. After the first pleasant greeting, the lady, assuming a slight gravity of manner, said "Do you know, Mrs. Ellis, that I've thought a good deal about the matter we talked of the last time I saw you?"
No word out of Miss Claxton. She sat there, not leaning back, nor any longer stiffly upright, but hunched together like a creature ready to spring. That woman never spat at a policeman." 'Spit? No, she said grimly. "Nor bit, nor scratched, nor any of those things. And since the papers have lied about that," I said to myself, "I'll go to headquarters for information."
Ask the chief to have 17 take on a posse at CX and rush them here. I'll wait here, and lead them back. If they are quick they'll capture the whole gang." "OK! OK! Good for you," shot back Alex. The wire was silent a moment, then Jack heard the order go on to Claxton as desired. Twenty-five minutes later, waiting in the darkness on the track, Jack saw the headlight of the fast-coming freight.
It looked as if they must have been hard up for speakers to-day, for two of them were younger even than Miss Claxton of the tam-o'-shanter. One of them couldn't be more than nineteen. 'How dreadful to put such very young girls up there to be stared at by all these louts! 'Oh, yes, 'm, quite 'orrid, agreed the maid, but with the air of 'What can you expect of persons so low?
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