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In a kind of despair, I turned half-way through the volume; and coming upon his lordship dealing with General Cannon, and fresh from Claverhouse and Killiecrankie, here, with elucidative spelling, was my reward: 'Meanwhile the disorders of Kannon's Kamp went on inKreasing. He Kalled a Kouncil of war to Konsider what Kourse it would be advisable to taKe.
But for his uncle Harald, this orphan child would doubtless have been one of those poor creatures who come into the world only to leave it; and Ole Kamp evinced a truly filial devotion toward his parents by adoption. Nothing would ever sever the tie that bound him to the Hansen family, to which his marriage with Hulda was about to bind him still more closely.
"Pardon me while we take the next trick," remarked Evelyn with a laugh quite as light and gleeful as his own, and disappeared into the hall. He followed her slowly, and was met at the door by her father. "You are the younger Mr. Ellsworth, I believe," politely said Mr. Van Kamp. "Ralph Ellsworth. Yes, sir." "Here is a note for your father. It is unsealed. You are quite at liberty to read it." Mr.
He tried the weather, the flood, the accident, golf, books and three good, substantial, warranted jokes, but the conversation lagged in spite of him. Miss Van Kamp would not for the world have it understood that this unconventional meeting, made allowable by her wrenched ankle, could possibly fulfill the functions of a formal introduction.
"Air you a-goin' t' scribble that there three thou-san' on a piece o' paper?" inquired Uncle Billy, sitting bolt upright. "Ef you air a-figgerin' on that, Mr. Kamp, jis' you save yore time. I give a man four dollars fer one o' them check things oncet, an' I owe myself them four dollars yit." Mr.
Van Kamp read the note, and the tip of her nose became white. She also sat down, but she was the first to find her voice. "Atrocious!" she exclaimed. "Atrocious! Simply atrocious, Belmont. This is a house of public entertainment. They can't turn us out in this high-minded manner! Isn't there a law or something to that effect?" "It wouldn't matter if there was," he thoughtfully replied.
In sacrificing this last moment of her betrothed, had she also sacrificed the fortune Ole Kamp had coveted for her and for himself? The sixth little girl had some difficulty getting her hand into the urn, she was trembling so, poor thing! but at last the figure appeared. "Two!" exclaimed the president, sinking back in his chair, quite breathless with emotion.
Was it not worth a fortune the fortune upon which Ole Kamp had counted? Consequently it is not surprising that overtures for the purchase of this ticket came from all parts of the country. At first, the prices offered were small, but they increased from day to day; and it was evident that they would continue to increase in proportion as the day of the drawing approached.
Van Kamp grinned understandingly, and agreed to the infamous ruse. "By the way," continued Mr. Ellsworth, with a still happier thought, "you must allow Mrs. Ellsworth to furnish the dinner for Mrs. Van Kamp's shiver party." "Dinner!" gasped Mr. Van Kamp. "By all means!" Both men felt an anxious yawning in the region of the appetite, and a yearning moisture wetted their tongues.
Uncle Billy met him at the door, reflectively chewing a straw, and handed him an envelope. Mr. Van Kamp tore it open and drew out a note. Three five-dollar bills came out with it and fluttered to the porch floor. This missive confronted him: MR. J. BELMONT VAN KAMP,
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