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The storm subsided toward daybreak, and I dozed gradually to sleep with a sense of obligation to Lem Hackett for going to eternal suffering in that abrupt way, and thus preventing a far more dreadful disaster my own loss.
Hackett, set down the breakfast! Fall to, young man, and eat hearty jest as tho ye relished your vittles." It was evident that Colonel Ward was making desperate attempts to appear cordial. He even endeavored to force a smile but it was hardly more than a ridging of his cheek muscles under his bristly beard. Parker imagined that he could hear the skin crackling at this unaccustomed facial twist.
"I leave it with you," says I. "You're the one that's developed this what-do-you-call-it instinct, temperin' kindly zeal with practical wisdom, ain't you? Then go to it!" So five minutes later Hackett Wells shuffles out with an order good for the whole twenty-five hundred in his pocket, and Mabel clingin' tight to his arm.
She was so breathless that Miss Hackett would have given her a glass of wine, but she shook her head, "Oh no, thank you! I've kept the pledge." The tea-things were there, waiting for her arrival. Dolores would have helped her take off the red garment, but she shrank from it. She had only her gaudy theatrical dress beneath. How was she to go to London in it?
In the house, mother told her it was time to go to Miss Martin's to try on the Pink Dress. Down the street, she encountered Mr. Hackett, the rich bridegroom come out of the East, a striking figure, on that quiet street, in the natty white flannels suggesting Cleveland, Atlantic City, and other foreign places. "Well, if here isn't Sappho!" he greeted her gaily. Missy blushed.
She is a G. F. S. member, Melinda, and I do believe you would be doing a very good deed if you could help us to get her away from those people." Melinda's eyes grew round with eagerness. She had no doubts respecting what Miss Hackett advised her to do, and there was nothing for it but to take the risk.
"You know you've promised you'll never tell Miss Pendleton or Miss Macon that you talked to me!" "You can depend on it that I will protect you," Dundee assured her. "When did Flora Hackett kick up her little fuss?" "Let's see.... Flora graduated in June, 1920," Miss Earle obliged willingly. "So it must have been in 1919 yes, because she had one more year here.
Can't you do it on the diamond, too?" insisted Hackett. "I hope so, but Greg and I will feel a lot more like bragging, possibly, after we've played the game through. There isn't much brag about us now, eh, Greg?" "Not much," confessed Greg. "And you fellows want to remember that old ramrod and I are to play only two out of the nine positions.
Then Waldron, wheeling the chair himself, took his friend Hackett away as carefully as if he were convoying a baby. Julius, after seeing the party through the gates, went back to his college rooms, his wits busy with the task which so took hold of his fancy. Julius would have enjoyed scheming involvedly, but Waldron had been too peremptory about that to allow of a particle of intrigue.
I am under a strong temptation to give my reminiscences of many notable persons whom I was wont to meet at Saratoga, such as the urbane ex-President Martin Van Buren, and that noble Christian statesman, Vice-President Henry Wilson, and the cheery old poet John Pierpont, and the erudite Horatio B. Hackett, of Newton Theological Seminary and the level-headed Miss Catherine E. Beecher, and the gifted Queen of the great temperance sisterhood, Miss Frances E. Willard, and General Batcheler, the able American Judge, at Cairo, and that extraordinary combination of courage, orthodox faith, and brilliant platform eloquence the late Joseph Cook, of Ticonderoga.
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