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In spite of the hard teaching of all the years, he would have clung to some poor shadow of belief in Duxbury Farley if he could have done so. "That's all," Tom went on stridently: "all but the turning of the trick that put them in the hole they were digging for you and the Major.
Had not the iron-master been raised to the high degree of fellowship by the hand that signed the lease? On his part, Mr. Duxbury Farley was equally successful. A company was formed, the charter was obtained, and the golden stream began to flow into the treasury; into it and out again in the raceway channels of development.
Before she was twenty she taught two years on a Virginia plantation as a governess, and came North with six hundred dollars and a good supply of clothes. Probably she has never felt so rich since that day. She was now asked to take charge of the Duxbury High School, where she became an inspiration to her scholars. Even the dullest learned under her enthusiasm.
Whereupon the wire to Tom, already on his way to New York, and the prayer for returning haste. Tom caught a slow train back, and was met at a station ten miles out of town by his energetic ex-lieutenant. "Of course, I didn't dare do anything more than give him a hint," was the conclusion of Norman's exciting report. "I didn't know but he might give us away to Colonel Duxbury.
"I positively must go back. We have company, and I ran away without saying a word." "Anybody I know?" inquired Tom. "Three somebodies whom you know, or ought to know, very well: Mr. Duxbury Farley, Mr. Vincent Farley, Miss Eva Farley." His eyes darkened suddenly. "I'd like to know how under the sun they managed to get on your grandfather's good side!" he grumbled.
I reckoned he was about all in, quite a spell ago; but you can't tell nothing by what you see when it's Colonel Duxbury. He got two car-loads o' new men to-day, the Lord on'y knows where from; and he's shippin' Pocahontas coke, and gettin' it here, too." Tom sat glooming over it for a time, shrouding himself in tobacco smoke.
Accordingly, they watched with interest the test case between the Quaker constables of Duxbury and Tiverton, both, then, under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, and the authorities of that colony. Fines and persecutions were so much alike in Connecticut and Massachusetts that a dissenter's victory in one colony would go far towards obtaining exemption in the other.
Truly, this was a retransformed Tom; a creature totally and radically different from the college junior who had sweltered through the industrial battle of the previous summer, breathing out curses and threatenings. "Was you allowin' to let Colonel Duxbury climb into all three o' the saddles?" he inquired, keeping his emotions out of his voice as he could.
Anyway, Vincent's no moneymaker; and if the look on a man's face counts for anything, old Colonel Duxbury has made his last flight from the promoting perch. O Lord!" rising with a cavernous yawn and a mighty stretching of his arms overhead, "I reckon it's up to me to go on doing all the things I don't want to do; that I didn't in the least mean to do.
The long, curved sand-spit-which was heavily wooded when the Pilgrims landed-was silvery also, and upon its northern tip glowed the white sparkle in the lighthouse like the evening-star. To the north, over the smooth pink water speckled with white sails, rose Captain Hill, in Duxbury, bearing the monument to Miles Standish.
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