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"Then I can put the screws on him safely, you think?" "Yes," cried several. Peter rose. "Dennis, will you see Blunkers and Driscoll this evening, or some time to-morrow, and ask if they think so too? And if they don't, tell them to drop in on me, when they have leisure." "Begobs, sir, Oi'll see them inside av ten minutes. An' if they don't agree widus, shure, Oi'll make them." "Thank you.
Driscoll chooses to think that the fact that San left practically everything to you, without any restraint in the way of trustees, or restriction of any sort, is another count against you." Eunice smiled bravely. "But that isn't news," she said; "we all knew that my husband made me his sole or rather principal beneficiary.
"Dearie, George Taylor is with Dick, and the Skinners and Cherokee Bob and Lame Jim Driscoll. They say, too, that at times Dick rides with Tom Bell's gang." "Ah, he tried with all a strong man's power to win a new name for himself and for you but Fate was too strong. His false record followed him up and down the state from every idle throat, casting a blight over all he sought to, do.
Tom's conduct had remained so letter-perfect during two whole months now, that his uncle not only trusted him with money with which to persuade voters, but trusted him to go and get it himself out of the safe in the private sitting room. The closing speech of the campaign was made by Judge Driscoll, and he made it against both of the foreigners. It was disastrously effective.
Driscoll, while Alma sat with her dove in her hands, watching the bright face that looked happy and at home in these unusual surroundings. It seemed so very strange to be close to Miss Joslyn, like this, where the teacher had no bell to touch and no directions to give.
"Well, it couldn't have put itself there," went on Driscoll. "Who else has access to that place?" Eunice gave no heed to this speech. She gave no heed to the speaker, but stared at him, unseeingly, her gaze seeming to go straight through him. "Why, the maid," said Aunt Abby, with a helpless glance toward Elliott and Hendricks, as if beseeching assistance.
"Not back till moonlight," replied I; "why did you not say so? and I would have gone on with the other." "Is it with the other you mane, your honour? Then if Teddy Driscoll could make his horses go one step farther than our door, may I never have a soul to be saved. Will your honour please to sit in the little room Kathleen shall light a fire."
"No one ever tells who sends valentines," returned Ada defiantly. "No one will ever know." "Well, if the foolish child, whoever it was, only had known, she wasn't so smart or so unkind as she thought she was. Mrs. Driscoll isn't an ordinary factory hand. She is an assistant in the bookkeeping department." "Well, they must be awfully poor, the way Alma looks, anyway," returned Ada.
In his softer moments Driscoll tells us that it used to "cur-r-r-l" before he had the "faver" in Burmah, and on such occasions we assure him that it "cur-r-rls" even yet. It is more polite to agree with him than to cross him and a lot safer.
My future calling being thus speedily settled, Doctor Driscoll, who was aware that knowledge would not come by intuition, sent me to an old master in the navy, who fortunately resided in the neighbourhood, to be instructed in the rudiments of navigation.
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