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"Gray!" it was Uncle Pros's voice, and Uncle Pros's face looked in at the office door. "Could I bother you a minute about the sidewalk in front of the place up yon? Mr. Hexter told me you'd know whether the grade was right, and I could let the workmen go ahead." Stoddard swung around from his desk and looked at the old man. "Come right in," he said. "I'm not busy I'm just pretending this morning.
Hexter, who had been all winter in Boston, had decided, suddenly, to go abroad; and when her husband wired her to know if he might let the house to the Consadine-Passmore household, she made a quick, warm response. So they were domiciled in a ready-prepared home of elegance and beauty. Though the place at Cottonville had been only a winter residence with Mrs.
Behind him failure and derision. Before him, Alice, dying, waiting impatiently his return, the news of his triumph. "We won't need you to-morrow night, Mr. Mogley," said the stage manager as he reached the stage door. "Mr. Hexter told me to pay you for to-night. Here's your money now." Mogley took the envelope as in a dream, answered not a word, and hastened homeward.
Hexter," murmured the mortified Miss Sessions, glancing uneasily toward the mill-girl contingent which was listening eagerly, and then at the speaker of the day, "I am sure Mrs. Archbold will agree with me that it would be a gross, material idea to aspire after blouses and such-like, when the poor child needs er other things so much more."
What kind of con is this you're giving me, Hexter?" "This is the man, sir. What I mean by saying you know about the case is that you have agreed with me that an innocent man was railroaded into prison, after I gave you the facts. He is out through a trick worked by a prison guard. He'll give us the details later.
As to what those feelings were and why he stirred them, I'll have to ask you to excuse me, Squire Hexter. If I were going to stay in the bank I would explain the matter to you and to the directors. But I'm going to resign. Under these conditions, nobody has the right to tear the heart out of me and stick it up for a topic of conversation."
If he does know something about the inside of the dreadful puzzle, as you and I have talked so many times, I do believe I can coax him to tell me." "I don't want you to coax him, dear. Squire Hexter has put the thing up to Britt, man to man, and I think it better to let it stand that way." "But if we could get only a little hint to work from!"
"Even Usial and his press; the new town will be in his legislative class." Then he looked long at Colonel Wincott, who was rocking on the legs of his chair. "I know mighty well what you want to say to me, Squire Hexter," stated the object of the regard. "You don't need to say a word, though. I'll do the saying. Vaniman, you have had a raw deal. But you'll soon be through the woods.
Vaniman did not go on his way at once, though, by his daily routine, he was headed toward his bit of recreation which cheered the end of his day of occupation. Every afternoon he dropped in at the office of Notary Amos Hexter "Squire" Hexter, the folks of Egypt called him and played euchre with the amiable old chap.
Hexter shot one of her quaint, crooked smiles at the lady from London and, with a silent gesture, bade her hearken. "I think these things are most important for you girls who have to earn your daily bread," Miss Sessions condescended. "Daily bread," echoed Johnnie softly. She loved fine phrases as she loved fine clothes. "I know where that comes from.
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