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Being assured that they got him, Elmer downheartedly withdrew. "At any rate," continued Lady Agatha, "there was that terrible box upon my sitting-room floor, and there were those two degraded wretches. The callous beasts stood above the box apparently quite insensible to the ethical enormity of their crime.
Toward the end of the evening, having been thoughtful for ten minutes, Elmer adopted Florrie's tactics and remarked suddenly and in a voice to be heard much farther than his needed to carry: "Say, Fluff. Saw an old friend of yours the other day." And when Florrie, "gun-shy" as Elmer called her, was too wise to ask any questions, he hastened on: "Juanito Miranda it was. Sent his best. So did Mrs.
Elmer Webster stepped on one of mine yesterday when I accidentally had it out in the aisle, and when he apologized after class, he said he wasn't so much to blame, for the foot was so little he really couldn't see it! Isn't he perfectly great?
Little Elmer, first thing I know, he'd got it open to-day and was crawling out almost. Say, can you beat that for a kid sixteen months " Nick had finished shaving, had donned his clean white soft shirt. His soft collar fitted to a miracle about his strong throat. Nick's sartorial effects were a triumph on forty a week. "Say, can't you talk about nothing but that kid of yours?
Elmer, whose heart was very tender towards the motherless boy, and, above all, the great alteration in his father's manner, had changed the shy, sullen lad, such as he had been, into an honest, happy fellow, anxious to do right, and in every way to please the kind friends to whom his debt of gratitude was so great.
It was red, as usual, for his complexion and that of his younger brother were alike in colouring; but there was a look of strain on his features, as if he were keeping his muscles taut. Sir Elmer Cartwright began to talk to her. His voice buzzed unmeaningly in her ears, as though she were coming out from under the influence of chloroform.
They spent Sunday in Tallahassee, and on Monday started for home before daylight, on horseback and driving a small herd of cattle, which, with two horses, Mr. Elmer had bought on Saturday.
"When you come back this evening," exclaimed Bob jovially, "I'll try to have a juicy venison steak." "An' hot biscuits," chimed in Elmer. "And a good bed of balsam boughs," added Bob, "and a fine camp fire, and we can sit wound it and talk it all over." "And if we don't get back to-night you'd better have your camp fire anyway," said Ned,
Elmer might have advised me but he was not there. The miserable episode ended with my giving them a thousand dollars each, and they left. "Alone with that box, my panic increased. When Elmer returned with Teddy, I told him what had happened. He wished to open the box, having a vague idea that perhaps after all it did not really contain what they had said was in it.
A moment later, Elmer came out of the passage with a bill-book of good size in his hand. He lifted the book gaily as he entered the illumination. "I'll bet he's got the money!" exclaimed Tommy. "Sure he has!" replied Will, and Elmer nodded. The voices of Carson and Buck again came roaring up from below. "Why don't you lower the cage?" Carson shouted.
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