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Susan Ellen was apt to think it tiresome to hear about her grandmother, who, being dead, was hardly worth talking about. "There's Judge Masterson's place," said their father in an every-day manner, as they turned a corner, and came into full view of the beautiful old white house standing behind its green trees and terraces and lawns.
The race was prolonged scarcely two miles when young Masterson's horse began to fail. He was then a quarter of a mile ahead of Clark, who, nursing his horse, kept just beyond reach of the bullets. Gradually the gap between Clark and the boy narrowed, and slowly the Indians began to gain. At last Clark rode up beside the boy whose horse was thoroughly spent.
Hilton came out with a hat in his hand to be seen in a better light, Katy whispered that she wished he would buy a shiny one like Judge Masterson's; but her father only smiled and shook his head, and said that they were plain folks, he and Katy.
I have samples here from that of Dr. Boss, from a machine used by Mr. Masterson's secretary, and from a machine which was accessible to both Mr. and Mrs. Maitland." Kennedy stopped, but he was not yet prepared to relieve the suspense of two of those whom his investigation would absolve.
"In any amount," said the man who had driven the car, in a loud, boastful voice. "My father, Evans Masterson, owns the Boston Moon, the evening paper. If I can telephone to him he will soon get us out of this scrape." "Very well, then," said the Squire, frowning slightly at young Masterson's tone.
His manners improved, his back straightened up, he acquired a not unimpressive poise of the head. Such is the miraculous power of hot muffins and pie! "As you came down," I asked finally, "did you happen to see old man Masterson's threshing machine?" "A big red one, with a yellow blow-off?" "That's the one," I said. "Well, it was just turning into a field about two miles above here," he replied.
Jack and Tom soon found themselves wealthy, and often in fancy trace the days back to that afternoon when they found the sturdy miner lying on the roadside, having been knocked unconscious by Masterson's careless driving of his automobile. Zeb, continued to take charge of the work on Rattlesnake Island, to which the boys never returned.
"I think we may be able to sell it for you. Come on, we'll get to work now!" "You're not such a bad chap," said Eph when he heard Jack agree to Masterson's suggestion. "He's the finest chap on earth!" exclaimed Tom. "That he is," added Dick Donovan. "He is a model young man," declared Professor Jenks, overhearing Tom's last remark. Jack flushed with pleasure and embarrassment.
The servant said he had not; and after adding the common gossip of the court, that Masterson had left money, and the widow had gone to her own people, concluded, 'But they were very close after Masterson's death, and the neighbours saw little of them. There was a lawyer in and out, a stranger; and it is thought he was to marry the girl, and that that had set them a bit above their position, sir.
It was very gratifying to know that his friends thought highly of him, but at the same time he wished they would not give him that uneasy feeling with their sincere compliments. So he hurried away, asking the others to follow him toward getting together Masterson's outfit.
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