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Raymond and Lindsley proceeded to canvass the rebels in regard to the letters. The eighteen runaways were ready to assent to anything, but only about half of the others were willing to give in their allegiance to what they regarded as a mean scheme. Some even declared they would back out if anything of this sort was to be attempted.
"I think we are sold, and the sooner we back down, the better," added Lindsley. "I won't back down!" snapped Raymond, savagely. "How long do you think you can eat salt horse, without any water to wash it down?" "I can stand it till I die!" "I don't think it is worth while to stand it quite so long as that." "I do! What right has the principal to deny us even a drop of water?"
"Mamma, can't I please take elocution?" "I should say not. Aren't piano and voice sufficient? The idea! I wouldn't give a row of pins for all the elocution in the world. Reciting is out of date." "Mamma, it isn't. Mr. Lindsley says the modern woman of culture should cultivate her speaking voice the same as she learns to use her singing voice. Please, mamma; only a dollar a lesson."
"How are you going to do it?" asked Lindsley. "Leave that to me. I have a plan which cannot fail. Do the fair thing by us, and we will get you out of the scrape." "I will agree to this, and nothing more: I will stand out till we have a chance to be heard," replied Raymond, who began to have some hope of the mysterious movements of Howe. "I will do nothing but stand out."
She is over there coaxing Cleo," and with a risky flourish of her red tie, a hop, skip and a jump, the Tenderfoot pranced across the big green schoolyard, in a fashion that belied her limitations on the tenderfoot basis. "Yes, I'll go," Cleo was agreeing, "but I am afraid we can't get Captain Clark. I know she is going out to Kingsley to form a troop. Maybe we can get Lieutenant Lindsley.
Raymond returned to the mess-room, while the two incorruptible fellows hastened to their stations on deck. "Now we are in for it!" said Lindsley. "Let us stick to our text," added Raymond, fearful that some of the party would back out as the decisive moment had come. "Ay, ay! Stick to the text!" added Hyde.
"Oh, mamma, can you get Katy Stutz to come in time to make it for auditorium next Friday? Mr. Lindsley may call on me to read my essay out loud." "That Mr. Lindsley makes me sick. You're a changed child since he's come to that school. Mrs. Foote said the same thing of Estelle at the euchre yesterday. All the girls want new dresses and to be in his classes." "Why, mamma!" coloring up.
And Jacques Bourdon, the half-breed who had "filed on" the claim alongside Lindsley's, and even claimed unjustly a "forty" of Lindsley's town plot, had no difficulty in securing the sympathy of the settlers and nomads, who looked on Lindsley as a monster quite capable of anything.
And they never did. Even the Indians were afraid to approach the place, pronouncing it "Wakan," or supernaturally inhabited. They regarded Lindsley as a "medicine-man" of great power. But what a night that was! For Edwards stayed two hours, and made the acquaintance of Lindsley and his daughter.
When Dick and Uncle Bobbie reached the rooms of the Commercial Club that evening, they found them filled with a large company of interested citizens, and when the opportunity was given, over two hundred enrolled as members of the Association. Mr. Lindsley, the banker, was elected president, with Mr. Wallace, a merchant, for vice president.
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