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"Oh, I don't know," says Chuck. "Maybe it's just as well." "She don't think so," says I. "Who was feedin' you that?" asks Dempsey. "A certain party," says I. "But you know how easy a queen like her can pick up an understudy. Some have been mighty busy lately, too; one in particular. And I don't mind sayin' I'd hate to see him win out."
They wanted more than they had wanted anything in a very long time to find Professor Dempsey and tell him the joyful news that his sons were alive. "I'm horribly afraid of him at night," Mollie confided, as they started out at last, "but in the daytime I am only sorry for him." "Do you think we shall find him, Will?" asked Amy, with a helpless little look into Will's self-reliant young face.
But whatever it was they were doing, their conversation almost invariably returned to one of two subjects the return of the boys and the good time they would have at Moonlight Falls. They spoke often of Professor Arnold Dempsey.
No she had never heard Rachel mention the name. But it happened that Dempsey had given a precise date. It was in the "November before they Passed Conscription" in Canada, i.e. before he himself was called up that he saw Mrs. Delane, at night, in Dick Tanner's house.
It gave way, and in the instant that she entered her eye caught the scene the Board standing about with open watches; Dempsey Donovan in his shirt sleeves dancing, light-footed, with the wary grace of the modern pugilist, within easy reach of his adversary; Terry O'Sullivan standing with arms folded and a murderous look in his dark eyes.
Rehearsing for the movies, I guess. She has worn that companion of hers down to a frazzle. She has her own masseuse in the bath department, she rides a horse three days a week, and every morning she takes a long walk " "I've got it!" Mr. Delamater slapped his thigh. "Road work! She's getting ready to take on Dempsey." He laughed musically.
"As a rule," went on Dempsey, huskily sweet, "O'Sullivans in this district know one another. You escorted one of our lady members here, and we want a chance to make good. If you've got a family tree let's see a few historical O'Sullivan buds come out on it. Or do you want us to dig it out of you by the roots?" "Suppose you mind your own business," suggested O'Sullivan, blandly.
One of the gentlemen of leisure seconded this motion; it was carried unanimously, and this gentleman of leisure was himself appointed courier and left the room in a hurry. He had hardly reached the street when he was back again, followed closely by Dempsey, Quigg, Crimmins, Justice Rowan, and, last of all, fumbling with his fur cap, deathly pale, and entirely sober Dan McGaw.
Isaac Gregory, who had been appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Pasquotank Militia by the Convention of 1775, was promoted and made Colonel of the Second Regiment of Pasquotank Militia, the other officers being Dempsey Burgess, Lieutenant-Colonel, Joshua Campbell, Major, and Peter Daugé, Second Major.
In spite of their reluctance to leave their new-found friend, the girls were anxious to be off, for they knew their parents would be worrying about them. Professor Dempsey insisted on seeing them safely back to the road although they protested that there was absolutely no need of it.
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