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The general effect of this day dwells upon my mind in fond remembrance; but I do not find much conversation recorded. What I have preserved shall be faithfully given. One of the company mentioned Mr. Thomas Hollis, the strenuous Whig, who used to send over Europe presents of democratical books, with their boards stamped with daggers and caps of liberty. Mrs. Carter said, 'He was a bad man.
Then logic came to his aid; and, deducing with care and patience, an earnest conviction grew within him that the dark circles under his eyes and the tottering old gentleman resembling Dr. Austin Atwood had a great deal to do with this dreadful disease which Dr. Hollis desired to study.
Through the open kitchen door Marjorie heard her ask, "Is anything the matter?" "Hush! Where's Marjorie?" asked Hollis' voice. Was it her trouble? Was it Miss Prudence? Or Prue it could not be her father and mother; she had seen them at church. Morris! Morris! Had they not just heard from Will? He went away, and she was not kind to him. Who was saying "dead"? Was somebody dead?
It surprised me considerably to find that you had not been thinking of Dunlavey at all." "No," admitted Hollis gravely, "I was not thinking of Dunlavey. I was wondering if something couldn't be done for Ed Hazelton." "Something ought to be done for him," declared Potter earnestly. "I have watched that young man closely and I am convinced that with proper care and treatment he would recover fully.
"Less than a prejudice against a witness has swung a decision sometimes." Hollis said no more. He went over to his safe and selected a package containing three documents held together by a rubber band. After a hesitating moment, he drew out one, which he returned to its place. The others he brought to the attorney, who carried them to the reading lamp to scan.
When Terry Hollis arrives, the moment he touches a gun butt, you fill him full of lead and accuse him of using unfair play against Larrimer. Any excuse will do. The public want an end of young Hollis. They won't be particular with their questions." He found it difficult to meet the narrowed eyes of the sheriff.
"Father has letters too," she said to Hollis; "he will give you his news." As the sleigh containing Linnet, her father, and Marjorie sped away before them, Captain Rheid said to Hollis: "How shall I ever break it to them? Morris is dead." "Dead!" repeated Hollis. "He died on the voyage out. Will gives a long account of it for his mother and Marjorie.
That is why I desire to spend my life in studying means to combat it. That is why I desire you so earnestly to place yourself under my observation and let me try." "Tell me one thing," he said; "is it contagious? Is it infectious? No? Then I don't mind your studying me all you wish, Dr. Hollis. You may take my temperature every ten minutes if you care to.
Ben Allen had returned from his visit to the small ranchers in the vicinity, had confided to Hollis that he had "mixed a little politics with business," and then, after receiving a telegram from the Secretary of the Interior, had taken himself off to Santa Fe to confer with the governor. After several days he returned. He entered the Kicker office to greet Hollis, his face wreathed in smiles.
"I ain't givin' them to you," he grinned. "But you can't wear no tenderfoot clothes out here. Some day when we're together an' we've got time you can blow me to another outfit; I won't hesitate about takin' it." He leaned over and tapped the butt of the Colt. "You ever handle one of them?" he questioned. Hollis nodded. Once during a shooting tournament he had done good work with a pistol.
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