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He had consulted it a dozen times a day on the journey, and it was quite worn in its enfoldings. Harlowe's quick eye had noticed this, but he speedily became interested and absorbed in the other papers. Thatcher lapsed into contemplation of the fire. "Well," said Harlowe, finally turning to his client, "here's enough to unseat Gashwiler, or close his mouth.
The gifted Gashwiler, uneasy in his soul over certain other Unfinished Business in the shape of his missing letters, but dropping oil and honey as he mingled with his brothers, was King of Misrule and Lord of the Unfinished Business. Pretty Mrs.
You need not mention my name to this-er this Mr. Wiles." And with one eye on the door, and an awkward dash of his lips at the lady's fingers, he withdrew. There was no introductory formula to Mr. Wiles's interview. He dashed at once in medias res. "Gashwiler knows a woman that, he says, can help us against that Spanish girl who is coming here with proofs, prettiness, fascination, and what not!
"Then my duties will keep me with you here?" he asked doubtfully. "No, no," said Gashwiler hastily; then, correcting himself, he added: "that is for the present no!" Poor Dobbs's face fell.
Detecting the meritorious doings in the Gashwiler barnyard, they perched in a row on the alley fence and had been excited spectators from the moment that Merton had mounted his horse. In shrill but friendly voices they had piped, "Oh, Merton Gill's a cowboy, Merton Gill's a cowboy! Oh, looka the cowboy on the big horse!"
Wiles saw his blunder, but saw also that he had gone too far to stop. "Pedro," he said, "was strongly suspected of having murdered Concho, one of the original locators." Mr. Gashwiler turned white as a sheet, and then flushed again into an apoplectic glow.
He let himself into the dark store, so lately the scene of his torment, and on the way to his little room stopped to reach under the grocery counter for those hidden savings. To-night he would add to them the fifteen dollars lavished upon him by Gashwiler at the close of a week's toil. The money was in a tobacco pouch.
Gashwiler, addressing an imaginary constituency, "is nothing but a season of waiting of preparation ha, ha!" As he laid his hand in a fatherly manner a fatherly manner that was as much of a sham as anything else about him I don't know whether I was more incensed at him or his victim, who received it with evident pride and satisfaction. Nevertheless he ventured to falter out:
Of course he would always feel a warm gratitude for her trusting kindness, but when he no longer owed her money he could choose his own line of work. Rather bondage to some Hollywood Gashwiler than clowning in Baird's infamies! "Well, I'll try anything he gives me," he said at last, striving for the enthusiasm he could not feel. "You'll go big, too," said the girl.
She conducted the millinery and dressmaking establishment next to the Gashwiler Emporium, but found time, as did Merton, for the worthwhile things outside her narrow life. She was a slight, spare little figure, sedate and mouselike, of middle age and, to the village, of a quiet, sober way of thought.
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