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On the platform of one a small crowd was gathered, and from the interior came shouts of laughter and the sound of a tin-panny piano. "That's the billiard saloon," volunteered Captain Eri, suddenly waking from his trance. "Play pool, Mr. Hazeltine?" "Sometimes." "What d'ye play it with?" "Why, with a cue, generally speaking." "That so! Most of the fellers in there play it with their mouths.
Snow were certain that this increasing nervousness on the part of their guest was not due to school troubles alone, but, at any rate, nervous she was, and particularly nervous, and, it must be confessed, somewhat inclined to be irritable, during the supper and afterward, on this ill-starred night. The beginning of the trouble was when Ralph Hazeltine called. Mrs.
She colored, apparently with displeasure, and looked out of the window again. Mr. Hazeltine colored also and fidgeted with the book on the table. The situation was confoundedly embarrassing. He felt that he must say something now, so he made the original observation that it had been a pleasant day. To this the young lady agreed, but there was no enthusiasm in her tone.
On the contrary, she frowned, and when she spoke the Captain had a vague feeling that someone had dropped an icicle inside his shirt collar. "Captain Jerry," said the young lady, "I want to have a talk with you. Why do you think it necessary to get up and leave the room whenever Mr. Hazeltine calls?
"That is the boy; but how the deuce did you know?" "Gentlemen to run with all the dirty boys looking on like horses," remonstrated the grammatical one, "it is a disgrace." "So it is for the one that is beat. Well, I was to meet Hazeltine to supper out of town. By-the-by, you don't know Tom Yates?" "Oh," said Jenny, "I have heard of him, too." "I doubt that; there are a good many of his name."
But it came back again when Captain Eri said: "Oh, I say, Mr. Hazeltine, I forgot to ask you, did 'Gusty come yesterday?" Ralph answered, rather hurriedly, that she did not. He endeavored to change the subject, but the Captain wouldn't let him. "Well, there!" he exclaimed amazedly; "if 'Gusty ain't broke her record!
"Does she look like me?" "Like YOU? Oh, my soul and body! Wait till you see her. What made you ask that?" "Oh, nothing! I was a little curious, that's all. Have you seen her, Mr. Hazeltine?" Ralph stammered, somewhat confusedly, that he hadn't had the pleasure. The Captain glanced from the electrician to Miss Preston and back again. Then he suddenly realized the situation.
"What a silly person you must take me for!" returned the girl. "Why, of course I do; and, besides, I want some cakes for tea, and I've nobody to send. Here is the latch-key." Gideon put on his hat with alacrity, and casting one look at Miss Hazeltine, and another at the legs of Hercules, threw open the door and departed on his errand.
So, when Mr. Hazeltine called to spend the evening, Captain Jerry would rise from his chair and, with an elaborate cough and several surreptitious winks to his messmates, would announce that he guessed he would "take a little walk," or "go out to the barn," or something similar. Captain Perez would, more than likely, go also.
"You shall not speak to Miss Hazeltine in that way," said Gideon sternly. "It is what I will not suffer." "I shall speak to the girl as I like," returned Morris, with a fresh outburst of anger. "I'll speak to the hussy as she deserves." "Not a word more, sir, not one word," cried Gideon.
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