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It was the slackest, blackest hour in an all-night dive; the nocturnal habitues had slunk away, and the day's trade had not yet begun. Higgins, drawn and haggard beneath his drunken flush, was babbling incessantly; Locke, as usual, sat facing the entrance, his eyes watchful, his countenance alert.
Haviland wanted one sunbeam before the darkness. "Yes, I'll come, Cap," and turned to shake hands with the Phi, whose invitation was frozen half-way in his throat. Now the Beta Phis were not of the people who let to-morrow get anything while to-day lasts, so Higgins asked Walt to come down after dinner for the night, and the unhappy boy, half-hearing, promised.
Here, caddies, take our clubs back to the club-house, and tell 'em to have two nectar high-balls ready at six-thirty. Phaeton, you and Jason will have to get back the best way you can. I've told you a half-dozen times to bring two machines with you, but you never seem to understand. Come along, Higgins, we'll go back. Shut your eyes."
'All right, Mumford replied, studiously refraining from any hint of curiosity. So, next morning, their breakfast was served in the library. Mrs. Higgins came down at the usual hour, found the dining-room at her disposal, and ate with customary appetite, alone. Had Emmeline's experience lain among the more vigorously vulgar of her sex she would have marvelled at Mrs.
The last one that hit Fairfax stayed just three days and was mighty glad to light out on a freight train." "Now, Higgins, don't try to scare Mr. Nichols," exclaimed Thomas. "His father's vice-president of the Great Western." "So you are Si Nichols' son, eh?" inquired Higgins. "I thought out-West people weren't supposed to ask questions," returned Bob. "Good boy!
As he came along toward the main entrance he saw Andrew Higgins, the longest, lankiest Phi of them all, bearing down upon him. His heart sank, but his resolution was firm, and he looked his fate in the face. When his executioner had almost reached him, somebody touched his shoulder; it was Smith.
"Miladi is a dream!" Henriette exclaimed when at last she was ready. "Milor will be proud!" And he was. She sent Henriette to knock at his door his door in the passage not the one between their rooms! just on the stroke of half-past eight. He was at that moment going to send Higgins on a like errand! and his sense of humor at the grotesqueness of the situation made him laugh a bitter laugh.
"So she be," said Mr. Higgins heartily. "Ain't every one 'ud do it not by a heap!" "I'll give you a hand with the trunks," said Madison thoughtfully. They carried the large trunk between them into the cottage and, as Helena called to them, down the little hallway past what Madison knew to be the Patriarch's bedroom, and stopped before the next door, which was open.
"Oh, how lovely!" she whispered rapturously. "How far are you goin'?" came the strange voice from the night. "Oh, 's far ag'in as half," responded Higgins warily. "That you, Scott?" demanded the other. "Yep." "Say, Scott, gimme a ride, will you? Goin' as far as Lonesomeville?" "What you doin' out this time o' night?" demanded Higgins. "Lookin' for a feller that tried to steal Mr. Austin's horses.
There was nothing which the skill and knowledge of a nation of a hundred million people had to offer that was not gathered into this vast encampment. All the youngest and keenest were here, eager to do their part, laughing at danger, tingling with excitement, on tip-toe with curiosity and delight. Jimmie Higgins, watching them, found his doubts melting like an April snow-storm.
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