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He found now that the sound proceeded from below the grating covering the basement window. He dropped his glance through the bars, and saw a child's white face. 'Who did you woant? said the voice the third time, with precisely the same languid inflection. 'Mrs. Higgins, said Edward. 'Third bell up, said the face, and disappeared.
In 1907 the battle for the bill was renewed and among the petitioners was Governor James H. Higgins. At two largely attended hearings nearly every person gave a rising vote in favor. Mrs. Charles Warren Lippitt and Mrs. Edward Johnson protested against women's being allowed to vote for President and Rowland Hazard supported them.
Some of us were still in our bedrooms when the assault began and were there overpowered. We chanced to be short-handed at the time, two of the attendants being ill, and another absent. As I say, we were all seized the women attendants and nurses as well and locked up. Higgins here, my head-man, they put into a strait-jacket." "Yes, sir," spoke up Higgins for himself, "they did so!"
He's a watchman. He's got only one arm. Old Higgins an' her a funny bunch, the two of them. The people's scared of her some of 'em. The Dagoes an' some of the old Irish dames thinks she's a witch. Won't have a thing to do with her. Bert was tellin' me about it.
Payne and Higgins watched him, expertly appreciative of his novel woodcraft. "It was a shame to take this country away from his kind," said Higgins. "They know how to live in it and like it." Payne nodded. He was looking back over the watery waste through which they had come. "You got your tract located?" asked Higgins.
Five minutes later they were plunging through a field of partly grown wheat, in what she averred to be the direction of the Higgins home. It was not good walking, but they were young and strong and very much interested in one another and the adventure. "Hello, what's this? A river?" he cried, as the swish of running waters came to his ears. "Oh; isn't it dreadful?
Do you think there's anything beastly in being a model?" "Certainly not." She added in modification: "That is if you like it." "Well, supposing I don't like it?" She did not reply for a minute or two. Then: "If you really don't like it, I should be rather glad." "Why?" asked Paul. She raised a piteous face. "Yes, tell me," he insisted. "Tell me why you agree with that cad Higgins?"
To withdraw in silence would be like a shamed confession of the charge brought against her, and she suffered not a little from her consciousness of the modicum of truth therein. 'It was a most unfortunate thing, Mrs. Higgins, burst from her lips, 'that I ever consented to receive your daughter, knowing as I did that she wasn't our social equal.
"Sure! he's too modest," Higgins chimed in. "Fine fellow an' all that, understand, but he's got two faults he's modest and he's lazy. He's caused a lot of uneasiness to his father and me. Father's a fine man, too." He nodded his long, narrow head solemnly. "We know who did the trick for us," added Anderson, the straw- haired half-back. "Glad you dropped in," Mr. Padden assured them.
Joshua Higgins turned around to see what had carried away, and met the full blast of the vilest portion of Captain Cullen's profanity. "I made the sheet fast myself," whimpered the mate in the first lull, "with an extra turn to make sure. I remember it distinctly."
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