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Would they be disappointed? The Messages and Papers of the Presidents , vol. II, gives Jackson's official statements. Bassett's and Parton's biographies, already mentioned, are still very serviceable. There is no full biography of Clay, but C. Colton's The Private Life of Henry Clay contains some of Clay's letters.
Colton's work while alcalde. He soon gained the confidence of law-abiding residents, but was a terror to evil doers. Those he put to work quarrying stone and building the solid structure afterward named Colton's Hall. Here one of the first of California's schools was opened, and here was held the first convention.
Gwynne declined the national delicacy, feeling that diplomacy had its limits, and lit a pipe, wondering how he should lead his new friend to give him some practical political information. He detected the guile under that bland, almost vacant exterior, and Colton's prattle about duck-shooting and deer-hunting, although apparently endless, did not divert him for a moment.
He thinks it may be necessary to put up barbed wire fences, I suppose." "Roscoe, don't be narrow-minded. Mr. Colton's ways aren't ours and we must make allowances." "Let him make a few, for a change." "Aren't you going to see him?" "No. At least not until I get good and ready."
Don't you ever dare set foot in that bank again. You're fired! bounced! kicked out! Do you understand?" "Very well; I understand." "You will understand, whether you do now or not. Colton's got the Shore Lane and you've got his dirty money in your pocket. He's paid you, but the town ain't. The town you sold out ain't paid you but I'm goin' to see that it does.
"You promised him you wouldn't sell without telling him beforehand. Shall you tell him of Mr. Colton's offer?" "If he asks me, I shall, I suppose." "I wonder what he will do then. Do you suppose he will try to persuade the Selectmen to buy the Lane for the town?" "I don't know. I shouldn't wonder." "It will be harder to refuse the town's offer." "Yes.
At any rate, when the smoke, so to speak, had cleared, the Comfort was headed on her old course once more, I was back on the bench by the wheel, Mabel Colton's head was on my shoulder, and I was telling her over and over that it was all right now, there was no danger, we were perfectly safe, and various inanities of that sort. She was breathing quickly, but she sobbed no more. I was glad of that.
Julia had somehow lost her babyish beauty now; she was thin and lanky, four teeth were missing, and even her glorious mop of hair seemed what her mother called "slinky." "I landed the Fox order right over Colton's head!" said George. Emeline said: "I wish to the Lord you'd quit opening that window, leaving the wind blow through here like a cave!" "Well, the place smelled like a Jap's room!"
"Thank God!" was the fervent exclamation at the other end of the wire, and the voice which uttered it was shaking with emotion. "Stay where you are a moment, Paine. Let me tell my wife. She is almost crazy. Hold the wire." I held the wire and waited. The next voice which reached my ears was Mrs. Colton's. She asked a dozen questions, one after the other. Was Mabel safe? Was I sure she was safe?
I folded the check, put it in my pocketbook, and, hastily scribbling a receipt in pencil at the bottom of Colton's note, replaced the latter in the envelope and handed it to Johnson, who departed. Entering the dining-room I found Dorinda and Lute at the window, peering after the butler. "By time!" exclaimed Lute, "if I didn't know I should say he was a bigger big-bug than old Colton himself.
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