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Conrad, of the army, joined me, and in the Manhattan we continued on to St. Louis, with a mixed crowd. We reached the Mississippi at Cairo the 23d, and St. Louis, Friday, November 24, 1843. At St. Louis we called on Colonel S. W. Kearney and Major Cooper, his adjutant-general, and found my classmate, Lieutenant McNutt, of the ordnance, stationed at the arsenal; also Mr.
But I fear my arrangement of your pretty furniture was very ungraceful." "We haven't altered a single thing," declared Louise. "You must have found it a tedious task, unpacking and getting everything in shape." "Tom and Nora were good help, because they are fond of me and seem to understand my wishes; and Peggy McNutt brought me some men to do the lifting and rough work," explained Ethel.
Also Plymouth Rock Hens & Road Commissioner Agent for Radley's Lives of the Saints Insurance and Watermelons My Specialty Millville, Mount County, N.Y. The Major shook his head doubtfully as he read the above announcement; but Mr. McNutt was the only known person to whom he could appeal to carry out John Merrick's orders. So he dictated the following letter: Dear Sir: Mr.
"Surely you won't let Harry ruin his life from a mistaken sense of his duty to you?" "Duty, fiddlesticks!" said she. "He's going to marry Bertha McNutt!" "But he doesn't want to marry Bertha McNutt!" "Then he needn't marry anybody." She seemed to think this a triumphant answer. Indeed, in some ways I must confess it was. But still I persevered.
The knowledge of such reckless expenditures had fortified little McNutt in "marking up" the account of the money he had received, and instead of charging two dollars a day for his own services, as he had at first intended, he put them down at three dollars a day and made the days stretch as much as possible.
By good fortune the sky was overcast with heavy clouds and not even the glimmer of a star relieved the gloom. They put McNutt on the back seat with Louise, cautioned him to be quiet, and then drove away. Dan Brayley's place was two miles distant, but in answer to Peggy's earnest inquiry if she knew the way Beth declared she could find it blind-folded.
"Oh, no; he has seen no visitor since Captain Wegg died." "Well, good-bye, Ethel. See you at the farm in the mornin'." The girl sat for a long time after McNutt had driven away, seemingly lost in revery. "Poor Joe!" she sighed, at last. "Poor, foolish Joe. I wonder what has become of him?"
"Captain Wegg thought it was," answered Louise, quickly seizing this opening. "Otherwise he would not have built so good a house upon it." "The Cap'n were plumb crazy," declared the agent, emphatically. "He didn't want ter farm when he come here; he jest wanted to hide." The girls exchanged quick glances of intelligence. "Why?" "Why?" repeated McNutt.
"Well, what can you do with a Scotchman who's mad clear to the marrow? Especially a rough actor like McNutt. I'd already done a mile from the village when along comes 'Chita in her roadster. You know, old man Alvarado's only daughter. Some senorita, 'Chita is. You should have seen those black eyes of her's flash when she heard how abrupt I'd been turned loose.
As he turned the corner of the house he observed Louise still reading in the hammock. In some ways McNutt was a genius. He did not neglect opportunities. "Here's my las' chance at these idjits," he muttered, "an' I'll learn thet nabob what it costs, to make Marsh McNutt stand out'n his light." Then he hastened over to the hammock. "'Scuse me, miss," said he, in his most ingratiating voice.
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