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George Curtin, was a little shy of his guest and longed profoundly to see the last of him. It was obvious that this alert lawyer regarded the Springfield folk as mossbacks which might be well enough for St. Louis and Chicago, but was scarcely becoming in a man from Steubenville. Another kind of visitor he might have taken to a chickenfight, but one glance at Stanton barred that solution.
On the first ballot the vote stood, Adams 205, Greeley 147, Trumbull 110, Gratz Brown 95, Davis 92½, Curtin 62, Chase 2½. The minor candidates were withdrawn as the voting proceeded, and on the sixth ballot Greeley had 332, Adams 324, Chief Justice Chase 32, Trumbull 19. There was at once a rapid change to Greeley, and the conclusion was not long delayed.
"They're wise to us," said Niles, when he returned. "Curtin knows we've got something up our sleeves, and maybe he wasn't anxious to find out what it was!" "You didn't tell him, I hope?" "Not I! Trust me to know better than that! But I think he's got an inkling." "Lord, why shouldn't he?" said Charlie to himself, bitterly. "Of course, there's no reason why that gypsy shouldn't tell him!
Curtin was brought to town, he knew nothing whatever about the circumstance, as he was not in his own tavern that night at all. That was why I did not produce the evidence. But I solemnly declare I never was in Curtin's public-house in my life till last summer, when I went in with a friend on two or three occasions, and then for the first time.
"Because," said I, "you will have to veto it; and, with the Frelinghuysens wild for it, as well as others of your nearest friends, I am sure you don't want to be obliged to do that. With your word to me I can stop it, and have it for the present at least held up." His answer was, "Go ahead." Then I went to the Capitol. Curtin and Slocum were in a state of mind.
I strapped the belt around me under my vest, placing the revolver under a pile of clothing. Nunn reported everything all right. He had seen Curtin that day as usual around the hotel and apparently unsuspicious of anything unusual going on. The window I was to jump out of opened on the public street, and the street would be jammed full of people at the hour I was going.
I never knew how long he kept at it, but there was a tradition with our party that he was still speaking when the train left the next morning. Governor Curtin was an ideal party leader and candidate. He was one of the handsomest men of his time, six feet four inches in height, perfectly proportioned and a superb figure.
With reference to the witness Curtin, whom I asked to have produced and the crown did produce all the witnesses I asked for your lordship seemed to be under the impression that I did not produce him because he might not be able to say I was not in his house that night. Now, the fact is that, as my attorney learned the moment Mr.
His scraggy throat was adorned with a black neckerchief like a boot-lace. "Abe," said Mr. Curtin, "I would like to make you known to my friend Mr. Stanton of Ohio." The queer face broke into a pleasant smile, and the long man held out his hand. "Glad to know you, Mr. Stanton," he said, and then seemed to be stricken with shyness.
We may hope for much yet from the pen of this lady, who is still in the best years of her intellectual activity. Madame Orzeszko was born a little more than fifty years ago in Lithuania, that part of the Commonwealth which produced Mickiewicz, the great poet, and Kosciuszko the hero. Translated by Jeremiah Curtin Bristol, Vt., U.S.A. September 12, 1901. It was the mansion of a millionaire.
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