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Not," he added with commendable caution, "that I'd call old Doc. Farr's boat a 'launch' myself." "What," asked Professor Spence, "would you call her yourself?" "Don't know as I can just hit on a name," said Mr. Johnston. "Doesn't come natural to me to be free with language." It had been pleasant enough on the wharf at first and certainly it had been worth something to see the fog come in.
The overseer's name was James Farr, of whom it appears Mrs. M'Coy's waiting woman was enamoured. One night, while I lived there, M'Coy came from Natchez, about 10 o'clock at night. He said that Dinah was gone, and wished his overseer to go with him to Farr's lodgings.
And again circumstance was kind. "If it's Farr's Landing you want," said the boat-man, leading a precarious way down a dark wharf, "I guess you've come to the right party. 'Taint a place many folks know. But I ran in there once to borrow some gas. Queer gink that there Chinaman! Anyone know you're coming? Anyone likely to show a light or anything?"
"All right, sir. If it's to be an exclusive for me I'll steer away the other newspaper men. But do you know just why Richard Dodd that man over there is damning you into shoe-strings?" Even at that distance Farr's keen gaze detected the filmy eyes and the flushed face. "Perhaps it's because the Corn-Growers propose to put their corn into johnny-bread instead of using it for whisky?"
With Friday, Dr. Farr's obligation toward me ends. He is not likely to extend it." She sat so still that he forgot how slippery the moss was and thought only of the growing shadow on her face. "But, the work!" she murmured. "We are only just beginning. I wish oh, I shall miss it dreadfully." "'It," said Spence, "is not a personal pronoun." "I shall miss you, too, of course."
"But that is only one feature of what this state demands and needs, gentlemen," was Farr's ringing declaration. "This struggle for pure water has opened a broad avenue. The towns and cities of this state must take back into their own hands the properties and franchises which have been mismanaged by the men to whose hands unwise gift by the people has intrusted the people's own.
Young Dodd stepped back to avoid the glare in his uncle's eyes. The colonel turned away and listened. Farr's voice was raised now in solemn appeal. "The idea of my letting myself get rattled by a crack-brained demagogue," muttered the colonel. He had been fondling the outside of his coat furtively, locating his check-book. Now he took his hand away.
P.S.: Any arrangement I may find it necessary to propose in Miss Farr's case will be based on business, not sentiment. Desire was seated upon a moss-covered rock, hugging her knees and gazing out to sea. It was her favorite attitude and, according to Professor Spence, a very dangerous one, especially in connection with a moss-covered rock.
Farr's power to control and interest men achieved astonishing results with Daniel Breed's exact knowledge of persons and conditions. But they were rather humble citizens. There was no fanfare about their work. If Colonel Symonds Dodd knew anything at all about the fires they were setting, he made no move to turn on the Consolidated hose.
"Ba gar!" commented old Etienne, putting Farr's thoughts into words, "that be queer t'ing for such a fine, pretty lady to go down into Rose Alley, because Rose Alley ain't so sweet as what it sounds." Then two men came hurrying past without paying any attention to the denizens of the neighborhood who were sitting in the gloom on the stoop.
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