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As to Garvie, of course he knows as well as everybody else that some of the men there must be thieves, else goods would not disappear from that station as they do, but his frequent visits there are for the purpose of reclaiming Davis, who, it seems, is an old playmate of his." "Reclaiming Davis!" exclaimed Sharp.
Although thus situated in the midst of smoke, noise, dust, iron, and steam, Will Garvie managed to indulge his love for flowers. He had a garden on the line between the very rails! It was not large, to be sure, only about six feet by two but it was large enough for his limited desires. The garden was in a wooden trough in front of his sentry-box.
Observing that something at the head of the engine required looking after, Will Garvie went out along the side of it, and while doing this piece of work his hair and jacket were blown straight back by the breeze which the engine had created for itself. He resembled, in fact, a sailor going out to work on the sails in a stiff breeze.
"Yes, an' it's my opinion that it'll take a cleverer fellow than him to reclaim Davis, for he's one of the worst of the lot; but Garvie is real earnest. I chanced to get behind a hedge one day when they were together, and overheard 'em talkin' about these robberies and other matters, and you would have thought, sir, that the fireman was a regular divine.
Edwin, knowing that he had imbibed a considerable amount of knowledge of gardening from Loo, at once offered to employ him as his gardener; John gladly closed with the offer, and thus it came about that he and his wife removed to the villa and left their old railway-ridden cottage in possession of Will and Loo or, to be more correct, Mr and Mrs Garvie, and all the young Garvies.
"Father is safe, thank God," replied Loo, with a choking voice, "and Gertie also, but mother " "She is not dead?" exclaimed the fireman. "No, not dead, but very very much hurt. The doctors fear she may not survive it, Will." No more was said, for at that moment four porters came up with a stretcher and placed Garvie gently upon it.
Bob Marrot was wont to say of her, in after years, that, "if it had bin his mother who had lost an arm instead of Will Garvie, he was convinced that her firmness, amountin' a'most to obstinacy, of purpose, would have enabled her to grow on a noo arm as good as the old 'un, if not better." We need scarcely add that Bob was an irreverent scamp!
A sister of the former, who lived about twenty miles from Clatterby, had, a short time before, made her husband a present of a fine fat pugilistic boy, and Mrs M felt constrained to pay her a visit. John was on the look-out for his wife and child, so was Will Garvie.
It had scarcely passed away when the door opened and Will Garvie himself entered. "Well, Jack," he said, going up to his friend's couch and taking his hand, "how d'you feel now better?"
Jonathan McCully, Hiram Blanchard, and William Garvie were among those who contributed largely to its editorial columns able political writers not long since dead. The public journals of this country are now so numerous that it would take several pages to enumerate them; hardly a village of importance throughout Canada but has one or more weeklies.
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