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Graves's unreasonable desire for secrecy for one could not suppose that these measures of concealment had been taken by the patient himself. The further suggestions that evolved themselves from this consideration were a little disquieting. Whither was I being carried and for what purpose?
"If he's anxious to inform and reform, why doesn't he? I don't like the look of it. What does he want?" "You." "He wants me?" "He said he would speak plainly with you." Graves's revulsion was fairly physical. "You manage it, Volney," he entreated. "You will know how." Sprague shook his head. "He was positive on that point. It must be you or nobody." "I doubt if it's worth while."
Square issues, square dealing, square men! We'll placard every fence and barn door in the district. A woodcut will cost next to nothing, and I'll run the posters off right here on the premises." The suggestion bruised Graves's sensibilities. "Is that necessary?" he protested mildly. "I'd really prefer to leave all that sort of vandalism to the other side; it's so philistine, you know."
"I'll try to keep you supplied with solid cargo, and Abbie'll 'tend to the moistenin'. Hope that teapot is full up, Abbie. Hot tea tastes good after you've swallered as much cold rain as Mr. Graves and I have... Father-we-thank-thee-for-these-mercies-set-before-us-Amen.... How's your appetite when it comes to clam pie, Mr. Graves?" Mr. Graves's appetite was good, and the clam pie was good.
"He's got gumption, that man," he exclaimed, "gumption, simon-pure." Graves's own impressions were mixed, and the stress of the accident passed, he resumed his ruined coat with a vague sense of personal slight. Something of this sort prompted him to say rather patronizingly to Shelby as they parted: "You made skilful use of that method of resuscitation. Where in the world did you pick it up?"
It compensated fully for her defect of vision, and lent her a distinction which she felt to be wholly cosmopolitan. She aspired to be cosmopolitan. The New Babylon Brass Band fell lustily upon a popular two-step at this moment, and an usher thrust a bundle of campaign leaflets into Graves's hands.
Empty-handed and disappointed, the two followed and overtook their companions about noon, at the foot of a steep hill near "Gravelly Ford," where the teams had to be doubled for the ascent. All the wagons, except Pike's and Reed's, and one of Graves's in charge of John Snyder, had already been taken to the top.
"I began to feel as though I had been an innocent party to Donald Graves's wrongdoing. When I went to try to see you, this afternoon, I supposed only that Donald had gotten into trouble through some filibustering expedition to Central America. I did not look upon that as so serious, you see. But selling the national secrets is quite another matter," she added, bitterly.
A human signboard advertising Bernard Graves's volume for ninety-eight cents, with the privilege of return, evoked no unkind thought against his rival; and from this loftier plane he could see even the morning's rencounter with the reporters in an indulgent light.
He felt that it would be joy unspeakable to rush out there and thump them into animation. The fact that the stately Atwood Graves even thought of such an undignified proceeding is sufficient indication of his frame of mind. Then, behind the door which the brakeman, after announcing the station, had closed again, sounded a big laugh. The heartiness of it grated on Mr. Graves's nerves.
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