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In Lake View old General Van Sickle and De Soto Sippens, conferring with shrewd Councilman Duniway, druggist, and with Jacob Gerecht, ward boss and wholesale butcher, both of whom were agreeable but exacting, holding pleasant back-room and drug-store confabs with almost tabulated details of rewards and benefits. In Hyde Park, Mr.
She did not feel that she would ever send this Indian to any one for a guide and say he was perfectly trustworthy. He hadn't done anything very dreadful yet, but she felt he was going to. He had a number of angry confabs with his wife that morning. At least, he did the confabbing and the squaw protested. Margaret gathered after a while that it was something about herself.
Delaherche, who was very sore over these incessant requisitions, expressed his opinion of them with frankness, pulling them to pieces mercilessly at their nightly confabs, in much the same way as he might have criticised the cook's kitchen accounts.
When will you come back?" "My summering's over." "Indeed. I thought my cousin would want you again!" "She did not say so." "The deuce she didn't. It must be the only thing she didn't say, then, in your long confabs?" Peter made no reply, though Lispenard looked as well as asked a question. "Perhaps," continued Lispenard, "she talked too much, and so did not remember to ask you?"
But not all together. The two D's, in their own room, and the other two girls in theirs were having separate confabs. "Now, Dolly Fayre," Dotty was saying, "you tell me EVERYTHING you know about this thing! I don't want any holding back or concealing of any suspicions or doubts you may have." "It isn't really a suspicion, Dotty, but I will tell you.
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