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They also learned that he had taken up woodcraft in the hope of recovering his health. And while they contentedly munched sandwiches and sipped steaming coffee the girls learned a good deal more about Arnold Dempsey, and the more they learned of him the more they felt drawn to him.
"They don't want to rent it again, you know, and ever since that last party moved out of town and left things looking so bad, Mr. Dempsey has kept it closed up." "When he lived here, you and Scissors used to be something of chums, didn't you?" Paul went on. "Well, yes," the other admitted, "when we were smaller. But ever since Scissors started going with the Slavin crowd I've cut him dead."
But I don't think that. I believe we should all do good to everybody." Folklore: Ex-Slaves Paulding Co., District 10 MARY BELLE DEMPSEY Ex-Slave, 87 years "I was only two years old when my family moved here, from Wilford county, Kentucky. 'Course I don't remember anything of our slave days, but my mother told me all about it." "The man who owned my father and mother was a good man."
He drew a fold of the blanket up across his face with the gesture of one craving solitude or sleep. "Huh!" quoth Dempsey. "Not what I'd call a talkative guy." This shortcoming could not be laid at his own door. He talked steadily on. After a while, though, a reaction of weariness began to blunt Dempsey's sprightly vivacity.
On the morning of this day, some ten days or so after their strange encounter with Professor Dempsey, the girls were gathered on Betty's porch, talking over their plans for the summer. "I am only waiting to hear from Uncle John," Mollie was saying, as she swung lazily back and forth in the couch swing.
O'Sullivan has had a telephone message to go down to Tammany Hall." And then he turned back to Maggie. "Say, Mag," he said, "I'll see you home. And how about next Saturday night? Will you come to the hop with me if I call around for you?" It was remarkable how quickly Maggie's eyes could change from dull to a shining brown. "With you, Dempsey?" she stammered. "Say will a duck swim?"
Well, never mind that, he would have supper soon now, he and baby together. "Bless me, Peter, is that you home so early?" cried cheery Mrs. Dempsey turning around from the stove, frying-pan in one hand, a large fork in the other. "You must have had good luck to-night to be back so early."
I was well, just that evening, I was awfully happy. I expected nothing. And then within twenty minutes " She told the story to Janet's astounded ears, of the two apparitions in the road, of her two interviews first with Dempsey, and the following evening with Delane and of her own attempts to bribe them both. And at that her composure broke down.
He was received with the greatest demonstrations of joy, and took lodgings at the house of Colonel Purry, who had provided a handsome entertainment for him. The chief purpose of his visit to this place was to engage a conveyance for the Honorable Charles Dempsey to St. Augustine.
But finding himself sent to Ralstone, which was only five miles from Ipscombe, he saw no reason to wait, and he had already given all the information he could to the superintendent of police at Millsborough. His grandfather had signed a written confession before his death, and John Dempsey had handed it over.
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