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Cudlip all the keepers of the Rest took the name with the house was behind the bar, glancing suspiciously from the new arrivals to the incoming residents. "And you say it's payable?" he said at length; and every ear in the room was strained and every eye turned upon the silent four. "You take your colonial," one of the four answered. "And a poor man's field? Good alluvial?" Cudlip added.
C. N. Skinner, John H. Gray, James Quinton and R. D. Wilmot, and the anti-confederate candidates were Messrs. Coram, Cudlip, Robertson and Anglin. The former were elected by very large majorities, Mr. Wilmot, who stood lowest on the poll among the confederates, having a majority of six hundred over Mr. Coram, who stood highest among the defeated candidates.
"Hell for leather," cried a second, as he set after the first. "My " the third began, but left the sentence unfinished as he also started. The fourth said nothing. He had too much handicap to make up. When they had all gone, the four strangers stood and looked at one another in silence. "Better have another nip and then move on," the man who had had the conversation with Cudlip remarked.
The host, who had gone to the door to watch the last of the residents disappear, turned back at the mention of business. "They've swallowed everything bar the bottles," he exclaimed. "Then we'll move on without the nip," the man said quietly. As they started towards the door Cudlip interposed before them. "Say, Misters, before you go," he said.
They were in sight of Boulder Creek, and could see Cudlip's Rest showing out on the slope the other side of the creek, when they met the last two of the army, one of whom was Cudlip himself, who, having weighed the chances, had decided to leave the hotel to run itself while he went and had a look round the field.
H. Gray, Charles N. Skinner, W. H. Scovil and James Quinton, who ran as supporters of confederation, were opposed by John W. Cudlip, T. W. Anglin, the Hon. R. D. Wilmot and Joseph Coram. Mr. Cudlip was a merchant, who at one time enjoyed much popularity in the city of St. John. Mr. Anglin was a clever Irishman, a native of the county of Cork, who had lived several years in St.
What liquor there was to be seized was taken and swallowed before its owner could raise a protest; but a dozen promises to pay ten times over for every nobbler was made on all sides, and, like a wise man, Cudlip hesitated before he opposed overwhelming odds.
"It's all square about that there alloovial, I take it?" "Square?" one of the men replied. "Well, you needn't believe it. It's twenty miles over the ridge to the west, the place I mean, but don't you go there. You'll make your pile here, if you stop." Cudlip vouchsafed no reply, and the four passed out and round to the back of the house where they had left their horses.
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