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Hildreth and I, a-field, had found a bed of that exceptionally poisonous mushroom named Pallida something or other ... the book said its poison was kin to that of the poison in the rattlesnake's bite. My eyes met with Hildreth's ... we needed say no word, both thinking the same thought that frightened us!... "how easy it would be !" Now we were plumbing the darker side of passion.
And on that road he had traveled far, thanks to a keen wit, to Portia Van Brock's incessant promptings, and to the help of the leaky clerk in Hendricks' office; so far, indeed, that he had found the "stool pigeon" oil company, to which Hildreth's hint had pointed a company composed, with a single exception, of men of "straw," the exception being the man Rumford, whose conferences with the governor and the attorney-general had aroused his suspicions.
The night drew on. The electric lights which it was Judge Hildreth's fancy to have ablaze in every room downstairs until the central current was shut off, still gleamed steadily upon the rigid figure before the desk, with the white, drawn face and the awful look of horror in its staring eyes. In an agony he tried to call, but no sound escaped the lips, set in a sphinx-like silence.
When the door closed behind the outgoing visitor the victor in the small passage at arms began to walk the floor; but at four o'clock, which was Hildreth's hour for coming down-town, he put on his hat and went to climb the three flights of stairs to the editor's den in the Argus building.
"Have a care, Master Weld," says he, in a quiet tone that boded no good; "there is more evidence against you than you will like." Master Chipchase, after being frightened almost out of his senses, was pardoned this once by Captain Daniel's influence. We went thence to Mr. Hildreth's shop; he was suspected of having got tea out of a South River snow; then to Mr. Jackson's; and so on.
It was on one of these that we sat down, without a word. I laid my head against Hildreth's shoulder. Soothingly she began stroking my hair. With cool fingers she stroked it. "What fine hair you have. It's as soft and silky as a girl's." "I took after my mother in that."
Oh, it's a wale o' tears!" "But there are no bears in Vernon, Mrs. Riggs," laughed Evadne. "Land, child! you never know what there might be!" said the old lady testily. "Be you a' stayin' at Mis' Everidge's?" "Yes," said Evadne, "she is my aunt." "Hum! I never knew she hed any nieces, 'cept them two gals uv Jedge Hildreth's down ter Marlborough." "I am their cousin, Mrs. Riggs.
This company did nothing, and the sixteenth century came to an end with no English colony in America. I., pp. 60-79; Hildreth's History of the United States, Vol. Gosnold in New England.% With the new century came better fortune. Ralegh's noble efforts to plant a colony aroused Englishmen to the possibility of founding a great empire in the New World, and especially one named Bartholomew Gosnold.
"What do you wish, Lawrence?" and there was a soft frou frou of silken draperies as Mrs. Hildreth's dress swept over the carpet. "Evadne wishes to become a nurse." "Are you crazy?" There was a steely glitter in Mrs. Hildreth's eyes, and her tone fell cold and measured through the room. "She says not," said the Judge with a feeble smile. "Why should you think so, Aunt Kate?" asked Evadne gently.
Evadne found herself one morning in Judge Hildreth's roomy coach-house, watching Pompey, as he skilfully groomed her uncle's pets. It had been decided that after the summer holidays, she should become a member of the fashionable school which Isabelle and Marion attended. In the meantime she was left almost entirely to her own devices.
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