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Updated: October 1, 2025
All the indications were that way, and a rumour flew from table to table-leaping space, as rumours will that the Gaylords had sent to Ripton for Austen. There was but one table in the room the occupants of which appeared not to take any interest in the event, or even to grasp that an event had occurred. After supper Mr. Tooting found Austen in the rotunda, and drew him mysteriously aside.
Speaker Doby a most convenient and congenial arrangement; farther down the board were State Senator Nat Billings, Mr. Mr. Tooting's description would not have stopped here. Sensations are common in the Pelican Hotel, but when Austen Vane walked in that evening between the Gaylords, father and son, many a hungry guest laid down his knife and fork and stared.
"Well, just try it," smiled Miss Maggie, helping her visitor into the luxurious fur coat. "You've no idea how much more comfort you'll take." "Would I?" Mrs. Hattie's eyes were wistful, but almost instantly they showed an alert gleam of anger. "Well, anyhow, I'm not going to try to do what those Gaylords do any longer. And and you're SURE Fred won't have to go to prison?"
"Why, mother, I look perfectly horrid in black, you know I do," she was wailing. "And there's the Gaylords' dance just next week; and if I'm in mourning I can't go there, nor anywhere. What's the use in having all that money if we've got to shut ourselves up like that, and wear horrid stuffy black, and everything?" "For shame, Bessie!" spoke up Miss Flora, with unusual sharpness for her.
If anything's up, give me the tip, that's all I ask." Reflecting on the singular character of Mr. Tooting, Austen sought the Gaylords' headquarters, and found them at the furthermost end of the building from the Railroad Room. The door was opened by young Tom himself, whose face became wreathed in smiles when he saw who the visitor was. "It's Austen!" he cried.
But she told me not to go to the Gaylords or the Pennocks, or any of that crowd, for she wouldn't have them know for the world that we had a relative right here in town that had to take in sewing. I told her they weren't her relations nor the Blaisdells'; they were mine, and they were just as good as her folks any day, and that it was no disgrace to be poor. But, dear me! You know Hattie.
To begin with, she's very much flattered at Gaylord's attentions to Mellicent the more so because he's left Bessie I beg her pardon, 'Elizabeth" for her." "Then Miss Elizabeth is in it, too?" "Very much in it. That's one of the reasons why Hattie is so anxious for more money. She wants clothes and jewels for Bessie so she can keep pace with the Gaylords.
Well, I don't want this to go any farther, you're a gentleman, but Austen came down here yesterday and had the whole thing sized up by last night. Old Hilary thought the Gaylords sent for him to lobby their bill through. They may have sent for him, all right, but he wouldn't lobby for 'em. He could have made a pile of money out of 'em. Austen doesn't seem to care about money he's queer.
"You aren't, dear, you aren't," fluttered Fred's mother hurriedly; "and I'm sure it's lovely you've got the chance to go to the Gaylords' camp. And it's right, quite right, that we should travel this summer, as Bessie er Elizabeth suggests. I never thought; but, of course, you young people don't want to be hived up in Hillerton all summer!"
Austen bit his lip, and then laughed outright, the canonization of old Tom Gaylord being too much for him. "Now, Judge," he said, "it isn't like you to draw hasty conclusions. Because I sat down to supper with the Gaylords it isn't fair to infer that they have retained me in a legislative case."
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