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One could not well restrain one's laughter at the aptitude with which she reproduced Miss Primleigh's severity of expression and somewhat acid quality of voice. One gathered also, from chance remarks let fall, that Miss Primleigh had lately treated Miss Hamm with marked aversion bordering upon actual discourtesy.
Some folks thought he was silly, and Mrs. Hamm, riding by in a buggy, on the road below, said to Mr. Hamm, "There's that good-for-nothing Frank Clark again, hollerin' like a wild Injun with all those children." "Yes, Maria," agreed her husband. "I'd send him to the work'us if I was on the Township Committee." But the Hamms, like many other people, were very stupid. Was the Toyman worth while?
I shall formally ask Miss Hamm that in our hours of private communion together, if not in public, she call me Roscoe, while in return I mean, with her consent, to address her as Hildegarde. None need know of this excepting ourselves. It will be, as I conceive, a secret between us, a bond, a tie, as it were. Good night, small russet-clad confidante. Prithee be of good cheer!
Hector Hamm had come to enquire regarding my condition and to express a desire to have private conversation with me at the very earliest moment when I might receive visitors. Therefore, it is plain that he has been here at least twice, but each time oh, fortunate circumstance has been turned away from the door. 'Tis I and I alone who know his implacable object.
Spinning upon my heel, I detected a group of our seniors who with difficulty stifled their merriment; and I saw, too, Miss Hamm, her face illumined by a smile, with one hand upraised as though in gentle admonition of them. This helped to explain much. The raillery could not have been intended for me, since already I had passed on.
It is not to be gainsaid that Miss Hamm lends to our institution a picturesqueness of outward aspect as well as a light-heartedness and a buoyancy of viewpoint which heretofore has been quite utterly lacking among our instructor corps.
Hamm hastened to inform me that they rarely bit any one unless they took an instinctive dislike to him at the moment of meeting.
I had meant to stay on until he had betaken himself away, being minded to have a few words in private with Miss Hamm touching upon Miss Primleigh's peculiar and inexplicable attitude toward us, but since he persisted in remaining on and on, I, having a proper regard for the proprieties, was constrained shortly after eleven o'clock to depart.
He was accompanied by his second in command, Lieutenant Barnard, of the Marine Artillery, by Mr Hamm, the boatswain of the Alecto, and Mr Baker, the pilot, with twelve artillerymen and eleven seamen. Silent as the grave, they pulled behind the islands, and without accident reached the appointed spot.
Hamm; the time being devoted to the pleasures of conversation, riddles, anagrams at which I am adept interchange of views upon current events, et cetera, et cetera. Reviewing recent events here in my study as the hour of midnight draws on apace, I own frankly to an ever-deepening interest in this young woman.
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