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As soon as the women were close to the ambuscade, Higbee, who was in charge of the detachment, gave a signal, which had evidently been prearranged, by saying to his command, "Do your duty"; and the horrible butchery commenced. Most of the men were shot down at the first fire.
So she followed slowly the gaunt, angry woman down the steep path, and only the memory of the boy's gift remained with her through the rest of the days of that last vacation at Higbee School. Nancy was in disgrace with Miss Trigg, and was very lonely. She wondered who the boy was and where he lived and who the girls were with him and if he had suffered any bad result from his adventure.
Magnificent!" cried Percival, with the automatic and ready hypocrisy of a sympathetic nature. "That certainly is great." "Notice the size of it?" queried Higbee, when they had flitted by. "Did I!" exclaimed the young man, reproachfully. "We went by pretty fast you couldn't see it well. I tell you the way they're allowed to run trains so fast right here in this crowded city is an outrage.
"Hello!" said Higbee; "if I'd known that was you we was chasing I'd have put on steam and left you out of sight." "It's much better you didn't recognise us; these boiler explosions are so messy." "Know the baron here?" "Of course we know the baron. Ah, baron!" "Ah, ha! very charmed, Mr. Bines and Miss Bines; it is of a long time that we are not encountered."
Sometimes the story of Nancy's coming to the school, and of her circumstances, were sadly twisted. She was often looked upon as a combination of Cinderella and the Sleeping Princess. However that might be, it set Nancy in a class by herself. Girls came and went at Higbee. Some took the entire course and were graduated. But none save Nancy remained at the school from year's end to year's end.
How restful this quiet and reserve after the colour and line tumult of the Higbee apartment. There the flush and bloom of newness were oppressive to the right-minded. All smelt of the shop. Here the dull tones and decorous lines caress and soothe instead of overwhelming the imagination with effects too grossly literal. Here is the veritable spirit of good form.
"On the 2d inst. an affray occurred between one Stephen Scarbrough and A.W. Higbee of Grand Gulf, in which Scarbrough was stabbed with a knife, which occasioned his death in a few hours. Higbee has been arrested and committed for trial." "Life in the Southwest.
After dinner the ladies gossiped of New York society, while the barbaric males smoked their big oily cigars and bandied reminiscences. Higbee showed them through every one of the apartment's twenty-two rooms, from reception-hall to laundry, manipulating the electric lights with the skill of a stage-manager.
The Council formed a prayer circle, and kneeling down, so that elbow touched elbow, the Danites prayed for Divine instructions. After prayer Brother Higbee said: "I have the evidence of God's approval of our mission. It is God's will that we carry out our instructions to the letter."
The surmise regarding the Baron de Palliac and Millie Higbee proved to be correct. Percival came upon Higbee in the meditative enjoyment of his after-dinner cigar, out on the broad piazza. "I s'pose you're on," he began; "the girl's engaged to that Frenchy." "I congratulate him," said Percival, heartily. "A real baron," continued Higbee.
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