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Lindsley received him as suspiciously as ever, and positively refused to believe his story. But by using his telescope Edwards soon convinced him that the party were just leaving Gager's. The dusk of the evening was coming on, and Lindsley's fright was great as he realized his daughter's peril.
Hazzard, quite an educated gentleman who boards where we do, thought so, too. Lilly, why don't you show Mr. Lindsley that poem? He's authority." "Mamma, if only you won't talk about it." "You must bring it to class, Miss Becker." "No, no! I've I've torn it up." "I don't remember all of it, but everybody considered it a grand thought for such a young girl; it goes " "Mamma! Mamma not here now!"
Blast me if there aint Banker Lindsley; and see them reporters. And there's the editor of the Whistler. Say, this aint no bloody church meeting; there aint a preacher on the stage. Them fellers mean business. We've got to watch out if they keep on this tack. And would you look at the people?" "Come on out of here," growled his companion, a gambler; "we don't want any truck with this outfit."
"I am," said Raymond. "So am I," added Lindsley. "And I," chimed in others. "While we are waiting, suppose we circulate the idea." At this moment Tremere and Willis, who were the other occupants of the mess-room, came in, and the proposition was stated to them. "No!" exclaimed Tremere, very decidedly.
Even the mild rebels, Hyde and Johnson, were pleased with the plan, for it looked like an adventure. The persuasions of Lindsley induced them to yield whatever scruples they had. It would be a rich thing to have the principal or the officers come down into the steerage, and find it empty.
Flora's perceptions were small and quick. "Why, Lilly, your cheeks are as red as anything and you're getting a fever blister. Somebody kissed you!" Her hand flew to her mouth almost guiltily, as if to the feel of lips slightly protuberant. "Why Oh, you horrid girl!" "It was Lind! Lind!" "Lind what who?" "Lindsley, of course," dipping with laughter. "Flora Kemble, I'll never speak to you again.
Lindsley led the way up the ladder, and Raymond followed him. The last argument of his friend had evidently converted the latter, for, however much he disliked to yield, it was not so bad as supporting the cause of such fellows as Howe, who would not even give him a drink of water. And the idea of enduring positive suffering for the evil deed of the runaways was not pleasant.
"We have plans of our own; but we are not going to disclose them till we have some assurance that the other fellows will stand by us," answered the cautious leader of the intense party. "We are going to make ourselves felt." "We are not going to agree to anything without knowing what it is," said Lindsley.
"That looks a little like a threat," objected Raymond. "Besides, we don't know how many fellows will agree to send such letters." "Let us go round and see," suggested Lindsley. "We will, if there is time." As the record of the preceding chapter testifies, there was an abundance of time to carry out this or any other preliminary measure.
His long iron-gray hair fluttered in the wind, and his face seemed like a wizard's, penetrating but unearthly. That was long before the great tide of immigrants had begun to find their way into this paradise through the highway of the Sauk Valley. Lindsleyville was a hundred and fifty miles out of the world at that time. Its population numbered two Lindsley and his daughter.
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