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Upon which the deaf old grandfather rises in his corner, and pulls off his cap, with the usual salutation, "Sarvant, Sah," etc., and sitting down again, relapses into a doze immediately. Frisbie is furious. "What you 'bout here?" he cries, in an alarming voice. "Bless you, Sir," answers the old woman, over a tub, "don't you see? We's doon' a little washin', Sir.
What's a-gwine to 'come on us all, if you pull the house down? Can't git another right away; no team to tote our things off with; an' how 'n the world we can do 'thout no house this winter I can't see. So I've jes' concluded to trust the Lord, an' git out my washin'." Rub, rub, rub! Frisbie grows purple. "Are you fools?" he inquires. "Yes, I am! I'm Fessenden's."
If we can get well out of the mountains before the heavy snows come " Frisbie wagged his head. "I guess I've got it all, now after so long a time. We merely break the record for fast railroad building all the records for the next six months or so. Is that about it?" "You've surrounded it," said Ford tersely. "Good enough: we're ready to make the break when you give the word.
I'd give something if I had Dick's knack in detail organizing." She looked up, laughing. "You have the funniest way of ducking to cover if you think a bit of honest appreciation is coming your way, Mr. Ford. You know you told Mr. Frisbie how to do it." "Did I? I suppose it wouldn't be polite to contradict you." "Or any use. Is Mr. Frisbie here now? Oh, yes; there he is."
And just as ardently as Gladys Frisbie Gudge adored the rich, so ardently did she object to the poor. If you pinned her down to it, she would admit that there had to be poor; there could not be gentility, except on the basis of a large class of ungentility.
Frisbie took him in charge, and Ford went to obey the summons. The president was sitting very erect in his swing chair when the young engineer let himself into the box-like compartment, and his voice was at its thinnest when he said: "Be seated, Mr. Ford." Ford sat down on the divan-couch, and the president plunged at once into business.
But here come the children downstairs, so I must drop into plain prose, and tell you what already you have guessed, that the Prince I mean is their father, John Frisbie, Prince John, if you like, and the Princess's name was Mary Jones before she was married, but now, of course, it is Mary Frisbie. There were five of the princelings, Jack and May and Arthur and Lulu and Bertha.
Frisbie left, and while Fanny's quince-blossom blushes all rallied to her cheeks and mounted to her forehead at the allusion in his last words, they all wondered why any one could suspect George Ludlow of crime, on evidence so trivial; and they thought none the less of him, or the merchant, or the clerk.
"No, it doesn't; necessarily," Ford contradicted, rising suddenly and signaling a waiter. "What are you going to do?" queried Frisbie, dropping his knife and fork and preparing to second his chief. "Come and see. I'm going to get out another special train and give Mr. North a run for his money," was the incisive answer. "Hike down to the despatcher's office with me and help cut out the minutes."
Hastily he turned the paper with the blank side up and looked around. It was Mr. Bruce, his counsel. The lawyer looked unusually grave. "Well," he said, as soon as he was left alone with his client, "the poor devil Frisbie is gone." "Yes," responded the viscount, in a low voice. "That is an ugly business of the confession." "Very; the man was mad," said the viscount.
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