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Updated: June 5, 2025
I rushed to the telephone and called up the liveryman, but before I could think of a word strong enough to fit the occasion he whispered over the wire, "I know your voice, Mr. Henry. I suppose Parsifal is waiting for you outside!"
Her rider slid to the ground as the liveryman grabbed the pony's bridle. "Take care of her," gasped Winthrop. "I want the machine." "Anybody hurt?" "Yes. Who did that?" Winthrop stood with mouth open and eyes staring. The tires of the big machine were flat. "I dunno. I watched her every day. I sleep here nights. Las' Sunday I was over to Daggett." "And left no one in charge?" "The boy was here."
The next town was made quite early in the afternoon. Phil, however, did not settle down to wait for another day. He had wired the liveryman in the next town to meet his car, so, immediately upon arrival, he bundled his billposters off on the country routes. "Work as far as you can before dark, then find places to sleep at a farmhouse. Do the best you can.
Uncle John welcomed the girl artist cordially and under his hospitable roof the waif soon felt at ease. At dinner the conversation turned upon Thursday Smith and his peculiar experience. Beth asked Hetty if she knew the man. "Yes," replied the girl; "I've seen him at the office and we've exchanged a word or two. But he boards with Thorne, the liveryman, and not at the hotel."
"Under the circumstances, Joseph, can you see me takin' it? No; it ain't in me to horn in for no rake-off on one o' the Lord's miracles." The old man climbed into the sleigh, took the reins from the liveryman and started the horse from the livery yard.
While the stable boy was putting the harness on the horse, the colonel related to the liveryman, whose manner was energetic and business-like, and who possessed an open countenance and a sympathetic eye, his experience at the hotel. "Oh, yes," was the reply, "that's Lee Dickson all over. That hotel used to be kep' by his mother.
"He was two days ago. He'd been up to Louisville where the Southern leaders had a meetin', but couldn't make things go as they wanted 'em to go, an' so he come back to Pendleton. People are tellin' that he's goin' to Frankfort soon." Harry thanked him, threw his saddle bags across the horse, a powerful bay, and, giving a final wave of his hand to the sympathetic liveryman, rode away.
The machine was temporarily out of commission, and the carriage horses had been sent to a farm for the summer. Gertrude finally got a trap from the Casanova liveryman, and we went out. Just as we turned from the drive into the road we passed a woman. She had put down a small valise, and stood inspecting the house and grounds minutely.
It was a dark night, and there was a dug way ten feet deep perpendicular, near the fence to which their team was hitched, which the valiant and mysterious trio did not discover, and when they re-entered their carriage and attempted to turn around they tumbled into it, horses, carriage, and all. They told the liveryman, Mr.
But knowing where I was, I did think I could ride out to Debbleby's. So I hired the bronco and set out and that reminds me: the horse will have to be sent back to the liveryman in Twin Buttes, some way." "Never mind the cayuse. Shackford would have made you a present of it outright if you had told him who you were. Go on with your story. It listens like a novel."
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