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And the two I've got one's old Bill, and he couldn't go twenty mile to save his hide. And t'other's the gray mare, and blamed if she didn't git cast last night and use up her off hind leg so's she can't step. And Sam's GOT to have a horse. Where can I git one?" "Hum! Have you tried Haynes's?" "Yes, yes! And Lathrop's and Eldredge's. Can't git a team for love nor money." "Sho!
"But you and I have got some excuse and they ain't. Haven't they been in to see you; or did you lock the doors?" "I have had callers, of course. Mrs. Berry was here, and Mrs. Tripp, and the Cahoon girls, and Issachar Eldredge's wife.
It was the belief of the neighborhood at least of some old men and women in it that the long period of Mr. Eldredge's absence from England had been spent in the search for some trace of those departing footsteps that had never returned.
Perhaps the mode of Eldredge's attempt on Middleton's life shall be a reproduction of the attempt made two hundred years before; and Middleton's knowledge of that incident shall be the means of his salvation. That would be a good idea; in fact, I think it must be done so and no otherwise.
It may be, that Middleton has learned Eldredge's previous character through some Italian patriot who had taken refuge in America, and there become intimate with him; and it should be a piece of secret history, not known to the world in general, so that Middleton might seem to Eldredge the sole depositary of the secret then in England.
I didn't pay much attention. But I shan't wash no hen's window, now you can bet on that!" I shouldn't have bet much on it. He went away, to spend the next hour in a political debate at Eldredge's, and I wrote letters, needlessly long ones. Closing time came and Sam went home, leaving me to lock up. The train was due at six-twenty, but it was nearly seven before I heard it whistle at the station.
He finds no such food and drink as that in his own country, I warrant." "His color has come back," responded Hammond, briefly. "He does not need any refreshment, I think, except, perhaps, the open air." In fact, Middleton, recovering himself, apologized to Mr. Eldredge's part to permit the young man to view the cabinet whenever he wished. "Take care!" said he. "It is the Bloody Footstep."
It may be, that Middleton has learned Eldredge's previous character, through some Italian patriot who had taken refuge in America, and there become intimate with him; and it should be a piece of secret history, not known to the world in general, so that Middleton might seem to Eldredge the sole depositary of the secret then in England.
The frantic sacrifice was about to bound away again, when Captain Eri caught him by the arm. "I'll tell you what," he said, "we'll scoot for Eldredge's shanty and hide there till she gits tired and goes away. P'raps she won't come, anyhow." The deserted fish shanty, property of the heirs of the late Nathaniel Eldredge, was situated in a hollow close to the house.
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