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And to Ed's eager inquiry as to what made them act as they had been acting, they answered evasively, and pretended that they had put it up as a joke, to see what he would do. It was the best explanation they could invent at such short notice. And each said to himself, "He never delivered that letter, and the joke is on us, if he only knew it or we were dull enough to come out and tell."
I do not need pitying glances or rough condolences. I wonder if I could not hide at Uncle Ed's in Wisconsin for awhile?" The book closed suddenly. The father leaned across the table and looked into the son's eyes. "Phil, are you sure of what you just have said?" "Perfectly sure!" "Do you think you are in any condition to decide to-night?" "Death cannot return to life, father.
He took the pamphlet from Sam's hand and put it in his pocket. "I'm a socialist," he explained, "but don't say anything. Ed's against 'em." The men filed back into the room, each with a freshly-lighted cigar in his mouth, and the florid-faced man followed them and went out at the office door. "Well, so long, boys," he shouted heartily.
It gave a false warmth to the spaces of the room above the level of the mantelpiece, and Ed's figure, as he turned the regulator, looked from the waist upwards as if he stood within that portion of a spectrum screen that deepens to the band of red.
"Hand me back that purse," demanded Ed. "I know you've got it as well as if I had seen you take it." "What's that over there?" snarled Peters, pointing to something bright in the grass. Ed picked it up. It was the purse, but it was empty. Ed's exclamation told them that. "My ring," cried Cora. "I had my ring oh no.
Jake, standing among them, read aloud a list of names among which was the name Sam had written on the register at Ed's hotel. "It's a list of the names of men we think will stick together and vote together on the bond issue," he explained, turning to Sam. "Ed's in that and we want to use our votes to scare him into giving us what we want. Will you stay with us? You look like a fighter."
Since Alaire spared him all reproaches, his efforts seemed to meet with admirable success. Now Ed's opinion of women was not high, for those with whom he habitually associated were of small intelligence; and, seeing that his wife continued to manifest a complete indifference to his past actions, he decided that his apprehensions had been groundless.
Jack added as he saw the young man about to alight from Cora's car. "From the ditch," was Ed's laughing answer, as he looked down at his splattered garments. "I just got but in time to " "Never mind shake!" interrupted Jack, extending his hand. "When I was a youngster, and our big Newfoundland dog came out With the stick from the pond " "Now! now!" cautioned Ed.
He made a very wise speech, saying very little about the States, and a great deal about his joy at getting home again, but when he sat down, the applause was not quite as enthusiastic as had been given the other home-comers and Lawyer Ed's warm heart was grieved.
All the boys talk about among themselves is Miss Dot's eyes, an' all they brag about is which feller is the luckiest. Anyway, sure Ed's wife knows it. An' Monty up an' told her that it was fine for her to come out an' see how swell Ed was prancin' round under the light of Miss Dot's brown eyes. Beulah calls over Ed, figgertively speakin', ropes him for a minnit.
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