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For the time being, however, we were chiefly concerned to find out how badly Halstead was injured, with a view to getting him home. His ankle was swollen, sore and painful; he could not touch the foot to the floor, and he howled when we tried to move it. Evidently he had suffered a good deal, and pity prevented us from freeing our minds to him as fully as we should otherwise have done.
We were pretty sure now that the girls were at the old lumber camp; and hastening on to the top of the ridge that sloped down toward the brook, we all shouted loudly. Immediately a reply came back in hasty, anxious tones: "Take care! There's a mad fox down here!" "A what?" Addison cried. "A fox that has run mad!" Kate repeated. "Where is he?" Halstead cried.
The old Squire heard it through without saying much. When we had finished, he asked, "Did you know that Halstead meant to go away?" "We did not know for certain, sir," Addison replied. "Still, you both knew something about it?" "Yes, sir." "Did either one of you do anything to prevent it?" We had to admit that we had done nothing. The old Squire regarded us a moment or two in silence.
Halstead's iron rule were too fearful of losing their positions to admit a failure of duty unless they were cornered and secretly they sympathized with the strange young lady. Thus Willa came and went as her pleasure dictated in the early-morning hours. Her first real clash came during a discussion of finances with the attorney and Ripley Halstead.
Bowles was born and reared in the office of the Springfield Republican, founded by his father, and Halstead, a cross betwixt a pack horse and a race horse, was broken to harness before he was out of his teens. Assuming journalism, equally with medicine and law, to be a profession, it is the only profession in which versatility is not a disadvantage.
While we were at Query Camp orders came round to all companies that one officer per company was to be detailed to leave at 5 p.m. and proceed to the Salient and reconnoitre the trenches. Captain Andrews detailed Halstead to go from B Company. Ronald went from A, Barker from C, and Wood from D. They all set off together.
Its three newspaper bellwethers Samuel Bowles, Horace White and Murat Halstead were especially well known to me; so were Horace Greeley, Carl Schurz and Charles Sumner, Stanley Matthews being my kinsman, George Hoadley and Cassius M. Clay next-door neighbors.
Horace White looked more than ever like an iceberg, Sam Bowles was diplomatic but ineffusive, Schurz was as a death's head at the board; Halstead and I through sheer bravado tried to enliven the feast. But they would none of us, nor it, and we separated early and sadly, reformers hoist by their own petard.
He never aspired to become a regular reporter; he knew he should fail in trying a career so ambitious and energetic; but he picked up friends on the press Nordhoff, Murat Halstead, Henry Watterson, Sam Bowles all reformers, and all mixed and jumbled together in a tidal wave of expectation, waiting for General Grant to give orders. No one seemed to know much about it.
So he ate his supper with the better appetite which Pratt had prophesied, and he slept more satisfactorily than usual, and next morning he went to the nearest telegraph office and sent off the stipulated telegram to Halstead & Byner in London, and hoped that there was the end of the matter as far as he was concerned. And then, shortly after noon, in walked Mr.
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