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The restraint passed, and when Floss Dickerson came out with eulogy for any man his status was settled for good and all. Margaret plunged once more into her treasures of early schooldays. Floss and Elinor made merry over some verses Margaret had handed up with a blush. Helen apparently lapsed into a brooding abstraction.
Jimmy saluted Major Wrightson, the senior officer then present, and when the latter looked at the lad, seeing that he had something to say, Jimmy spoke: "My comrades and I," he said, indicating his four Brothers, "wish to denounce that man as a German spy!" He spoke quietly, and pointed an accusing finger at Captain Dickerson. "What's that?" cried the major, in great surprise.
He was to blame, but I was the most, for he might have thought it was just some little thing, and I knew what it was, and that it was something he ought to know at once. He will always believe now that it was worse than it is, if anything can be worse. I shall tell him that after I had seen Mr. Dickerson again, and knew just what a a dreadful thing he was, I tolerated him, and lured him on "
"That Dickerson boy ought to be lashed Nine and thirty lashes none too much This sausage is good humph! and pancakes fit for the gods But he'll come back do more damage the butter, yes I I want butter and syrup, though two spreads is reckless extravagance Eh? eh? can't prove anything against that Dickerson lout?-well, mebbe not." So Old Lem Camp commented upon the affair.
Dickerson," said the Captain, "I am the man who removed the figure-head from the Constitution, and I have brought it here to restore it." Secretary Dickerson threw himself back in his chair and looked with astonishment at the man who had cast such an indignity on the Administration. "Well, sir," said he, in an angry tone, "you are the man who had the audacity to disfigure Old Ironsides?"
Dickerson had just gone; he wished Mrs. Montgomery to give Cornelia his respects, and apologize for his going away without waiting to see her again. He had really expected to stay over till Monday, but he found he could save several days by taking the Chicago Limited that morning. Mrs.
"But it was to Italy the letter was going," Jack hastened to explain. "Mr. Dickerson said he took particular pains to notice it, because the stamp was put on the wrong end of the envelope. He remembered that Luigi, the bootblack at the railroad station, always insisted on doing this. He also read the address, which was to Luigi's parents in Genoa." Big Bob's face darkened again.
And he was sorry he had said it. For he had no real intention of having Pete arrested, and an empty threat is of no use to anybody. The turkeys came back; Sister did not even know that they had been stolen, for when she went down to feed them about the middle of the forenoon, all ten came running to her call. But Pete Dickerson ceased from troubling for a time, much to Hiram's satisfaction.
"The best I ever saw," answered the boy. "What's your name?" "Freddie Bobbsey. What's yours?" "Laddie Dickerson. Where do you live?" "We live away up in Lakeport, but we're staying at the Parkview Hotel." "Why why, that's where we live, my mother and my uncle and my aunt. My father is dead. We live at the hotel, except in the Summer, when we go to the seashore. What floor are you on?" "The tenth.
It really seemed such a joke, that she almost yielded to the temptation of showing passages of the letter to Charmian; and she forebore only because she would have had to tell more than she cared to have any one know of Mr. Dickerson, if she did.
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