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"I'd like to know who got up this thing in the first place," he said. "Who's the founder of the F.O.T.A., if you please? Who got this room rent free? Who got the janitor to let us have most of this furniture? You suppose you could keep this clubroom a minute if I told my grandfather I didn't want it for a literary club any more? I'd like to say a word on how you members been acting, too!
Theodore shook his head, with a look of surprise, that his teacher should know anything about the rooms upstairs. Mr. Scott added, "Well then, suppose you come up with me now, and take a look at it. I have the key." Wondering much, the boy followed his teacher up the stairs to a large room with two windows on each side. "How would this do for your clubroom, Theodore?" Mr. Scott inquired. "This?
They tramped on after this, and managed to bring down a big owl, which Snap said they could stuff and put it in their clubroom providing they ever got one. Then they came to a peculiar trail that bothered them not a little. "Do you know what I think it is?" said Snap, at last. "It's the trail of a bear and the beast was carrying something pretty heavy."
"'Oh, nothin'! he says. 'Bije Simmons got a ball in the pocket, that's all. Don't do that too often, Bije; I got a weak heart. Well, Bailey, he adds, turnin' to me, 'Gabe's club's fixed up pretty fine, ain't it? "'Why, yes, I says; ''tis. "'Finest ever I see, says he. 'I told him so when I was in there. "'What? says I. 'You don't mean to say YOU'VE been in that clubroom? "'Sartin.
The building and grounds express the most refined taste. Exteriorly the house is a long, low Queen Anne cottage, with brilliant shops on the ground-floor, and above, behind the wooded balconies, is the clubroom. The tint of the shingled front is brown, and all the colors are low and blended. Within, the court is a mediaeval surprise.
"Why not let Reddy and his reliable old rope come into play again?" "Say! we'll have to beg or buy that clothesline from Reddy when we go away from here, and hang it up in our clubroom, as the most valuable asset we have. Without it what would become of us, eh? Talk about your trained nurses! That fellow is a whole hospital to the tenderfoot crowd.
But I'll give him just a year's life," and the gay lieutenant struck an attitude, quoting the menacing jargon in "Hamlet": "In second husband, let me be accurst; None wed the second, but who killed the first." "What infernal rot you do gabble, Murray!" suddenly cried Alan Hawke, dropping a double barrier of the newest Times, as he prepared to leave the clubroom in disgust.
"I didn't say nothin'. I was past talk. And that evenin' as I went past the billiard room on my way home, who should come out of it but Gaius Ellis, and HE looked as happy as Tompkins had. "Friday night that clubroom was filled. Every member was there, and most of 'em had fetched their wives and families along to see the fun. There was whisperin' and secrecy everywheres.
Jimmie winked when the others roared at him and then looked reproachfully at Ned. "You promised not to tell about that!" he said, accusingly. At that moment a knock came on the door of the clubroom, which was on the top of the palatial residence of Jack Bosworth's father, and a moment later a tall, military-looking man with a white, stern face, thin straight lips and cold blue eyes was shown in.
He is up and down the line, busy with his sick and running this library and clubroom business." "Yes," replied Daggett thoughtfully, "I hear of him often. The railroad men and the lumbermen grovel to him. Look here, would he run in this constituency?" Dick laughed at him. "Not he. Why, man, he's straight. You couldn't buy him. Oh, I know the game." Daggett was silenced for some moments.
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