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Updated: May 10, 2025
Ah, Dobbin, you and I " The Professor was becoming indiscreet. "What do you know about love-making, Professor?" "My dear fellow, it is the province of learning to know everything and practise nothing." "But Dobbin " "We all have had our Dobbins." For some miles the road out of Erie was soft, dusty, narrow, and poor by no means fit for the proposed Erie-Buffalo race.
He was in bed when that smash-up took place, so I reckon I won't go into any plot to ruin the character of an honest boy, this time." Judge Roseberry gave up the knife reluctantly and felt pretty sheepish in the act, for his cronies were winking and chuckling over his discomfiture. "I thank you very much for what you have done for me, Mr. Dobbins," said Frank as they left the spot.
Dobbins' lashings were very vigorous ones, too; for although he carried, under his wig, a perfectly bald and shiny head, he had only reached middle age, and there was no sign of feebleness in his muscle. As the great day approached, all the tyranny that was in him came to the surface; he seemed to take a vindictive pleasure in punishing the least shortcomings.
Dobbins Wesson was regiment mail boy, then Rufus W. Gardner took his place. William Green shot and killed himself while hunting deserters. David Philbeck was the first man to die; he died of measles. Ben. A. Jenkins was the last man to die; he died in Point Lookout prison. The Fifty-sixth Regiment N. C. Troops served under Generals Bob Ransom, Martin Pryor, and then under Brig-Gen. Matt.
"That's just it that's just it," retorted Dobbins in a tone almost jubilant. "Where would I be if it hadn't happened? Why, boy, when I think of what you've done, I I almost would adopt you that is, if you weren't too big an eater." There was some mystery under all this, Frank discerned. He wanted to get at the plain facts of the case.
"Which was a falsehood," asserted Frank with vehemence. "Yes, I can believe that," nodded Dobbins, "seeing that Roseberry said so. He then began to tell me how they were trying to have you give up that bracelet. He said that if I would have you arrested for smashing the house, it would break you down and make you confess about the bracelet.
During the night we rescued Henry Weaver, his wife and two children; Captain Carswell, wife and three children, and three servant girls; Patrick Ravel, wife and one child; A.M. Dobbins and two others whose names I have forgotten.
He owned a little patch of ground and a dilapidated house. His wife had died recently, and all the village knew of his two chronic complaints. The first was that "Sairey had died leaving a sight less money than he had expected," and old Dobbins had wondered if the lawyers or the speculators had got it. The second was that the old man had got nervous and lonely living in the isolated spot.
"My name's Dobbins," smiled the farmer, extending his hand. "Glad to meet you, Prescott. I thought it was you all the time. Mebbe the young man with you is Darrin." "Yes," laughed Dick, and there was more handshaking. "I hope I'll see the rest of your friends when you pass in the morning," said the farmer cordially. "Hiram -supper!" called a shrill voice from The doorway. "Coming, mother!
"But I don't know," declared Frank forcibly, "and as I have not earned any five dollars, of course I can't take it." "Sho!" chuckled old Dobbins, dancing about Frank, as spry as a schoolboy and poking him playfully in the ribs. Frank had to smile. "See here, Mr. Dobbins," he observed, "it appears to me that you feel pretty lively for a man who has just had his house all smashed to pieces."
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