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Easterly's face was one great exclamation point. "Now what the devil does this mean?" "I'm afraid," said Senator Smith, "that it may mean an attempt on the part of Cresswell's friends to boost him for the French ambassadorship. He's the only Southerner with money enough to support the position, and there's been a good deal of quiet talk, I understand, in Southern circles." "But it's treason!"
At the very moment that we sat down to dine that night no one knew just what Cresswell and the Labourites with their new-won power would do. Smuts, as Minister of Finance, had deported some of Cresswell's men and Cresswell himself narrowly escaped drastic punishment. When Smuts brought Cresswell over he said jokingly to me: "Cresswell is a good fellow but I came near sending him to jail once."
"Hang it, no! We can deal with them; we've got whips, chain-gangs, and mobs, if need be no, it's the Negro who wants to climb up that we've got to beat to his knees." Taylor could not follow this reasoning. He believed in an aristocracy of talent alone, and secretly despised Colonel Cresswell's pretensions of birth.
"I cannot believe that Cresswell would deliberately commit an outrage upon me," he said. "And it would be an outrage to sing like that to a tired man. Weeks of work would not fatigue me as I am fatigued by Cresswell's music." Julian was silent and looked uneasy. Valentine repeated again: "I couldn't help it. I am sorry." Doctor Levillier ignored the remark.
She had not found it before he said, slowly: "All yon is Jason's." "What?" she asked, puzzled. He pointed with one sweep of his long arm to the quivering mass of green-gold foliage that swept from swamp to horizon. "All yon golden fleece is Jason's now," he repeated. "I thought it was Cresswell's," she said. "That's what I mean." She suddenly understood that the story had sunk deeply.
Cresswell were indiscreet, but she hoped that they had attracted no one else's attention. Now she feared the Colonel was suspicious and her heart sank. Alwyn went straight toward the house and disappeared in the oak avenue. Still Colonel Cresswell waited but Zora waited no longer. Alwyn must be warned. She must reach Cresswell's mansion before Cresswell did and without him seeing her.
This is roast beef night, too; and that's the night I always pay the cook a compliment by eating two portions my own and Anna Cresswell's. She doesn't like roast beef, and I don't like rice pudding. So we trade. Good-bye. I'll see you then to-night." "The mail has come," was Miss Wilson's greeting, as Elizabeth entered her room. "I have a letter from Mrs. Gleason.
It was the same old tale of blind receipts for money "on account" no items, no balancing. By his help she made out that last year his total bill at Cresswell's store was perhaps forty dollars. "An' last year's bill was bigger'n common 'cause I hurt my leg working at the gin and had to have some medicine." "Why, as far as I can see, Mr.
"We're too late!" "That theory's not necessarily correct," replied Copplestone. "Sir Cresswell's message may have been quite right. For all we know the folks on the Pike had confederates on shore. Go carefully, Gilling let's see if we can make out anything in the way of footprints."
"Don't you know we're not going to interfere with Colonel Cresswell's tenants?" He stated the dealers' attitude, and Alwyn saw light. He went home and told Zora, and she listened without surprise. "Now to business," she said briskly. "Miss Smith," turning to the teacher, "as I told you, they're combined against us in town and we must buy in Montgomery.
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