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I was shocked when I heard it. Miss Meadowcroft was the last person in the house to spare the poor girl; Miss Meadowcroft would make the hard tidings doubly terrible to bear in the telling. I tried to find Naomi, without success. She had been always accessible at other times. Was she hiding herself from me now?
I repeated, startled. He nodded. "Yes, plague; all same like dem hab him so bad down Bombay way." "Do you know his name?" I asked; for though one does not like to desert a fellow-creature in distress, I did not care to turn aside from my road on such an errand, with Hilda and Lady Meadowcroft, unless for some amply sufficient reason.
Hilda was on one side of me; Lady Meadowcroft on the other; and beyond her again, bluff Yorkshire Sir Ivor, with his cold, hard, honest blue North Country eyes, and his dignified, pompous English, breaking down at times into a North Country colloquialism. They talked chiefly to each other.
Not the slightest trace of the lost man turned up; not the shadow of a doubt was cast on the assertion of the prosecution, that his body had been destroyed in the kiln. Silas Meadowcroft held firmly to the horrible confession that he had made. His brother Ambrose, with equal resolution, asserted his innocence, and reiterated the statement which he had already advanced.
"All right" came through in Edison's voice. A brief pause ensued and "Thank you, Mr. Edison," from Mr. Meadowcroft in a low tone, which he immediately raised: "Mr. Hearty cheers followed this closing announcement, but as the speakers they had heard were not aware of this, the demonstration soon ceased.
By the time we had laid him out on a mattress in a cool tent, with the fresh air blowing about him, and had made him eat the meal prepared for him, he really began to look comparatively comfortable. Lady Meadowcroft was now our chief trouble.
Ambrose Meadowcroft considered before he replied; touched his horse with the whip; looked at me with a certain sheepish hesitation; and suddenly burst out with the truth, in the plainest possible words: "It's just the nicest girl, sir, you ever saw in your life." "Ay, ay! A friend of your sister's, I suppose?" "A friend? Bless your heart! it's our little American cousin, Naomi Colebrook."
I will now reproduce for you a message from one of the world's foremost citizens and greatest men, one who has brought more joy and comfort to civilized millions than any other man of his time, and therefore the greatest inventor in history; Mr. Thomas Alva Edison will now speak to the boys and girls of America through his constant associate and devoted friend, Mr. William H. Meadowcroft."
They're dying by thousands." "A microbe, I believe, Dr. Boyell," the inquisitive passenger observed deferentially, with due respect for medical science. "Yes," the ship's doctor answered, helping himself to an olive. "Forty million microbes to each square inch of the Bombay atmosphere." "And we are going to Bombay!" Lady Meadowcroft exclaimed, aghast.
The long period of inaction, under the name of rest, to which the doctor's decision had condemned me, could hardly be more pleasantly occupied, as I thought, than by paying a visit to my relation, and seeing what I could of America in that way. After a brief sojourn at New York, I started by railway for the residence of my host Mr. Isaac Meadowcroft, of Morwick Farm.
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