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But Mendenhall, a methodical and careful man, wished to vindicate his business prudence by explaining that he had taken no risk in indorsing for a stranger, since he retained possession of the goods. The rest is too painful.
"It won't be here long," retorted Britt, with garrulous good nature. "Draw it all out next week. Eleven, twelve and fifty. Thanks to you. There goes the clock. Good day!" "Quite an odd character, that Mr. Britt?" said the president casually at the club that night. "Boyish old chap." "Yes, isn't he?" said Mendenhall, folding his paper. "I sold him a pretty stiff bill of goods this morning.
Quite by chance, on the way back, meeting Mendenhall, the horse manager, they were deflected by him to a wide pasture, broken by wooded canyons and studded with oaks, to look over a herd of yearling Shires that was to be dispatched next morning to the upland pastures and feeding sheds of the Miramar Hills.
Councilmen 1st Ward George Mendenhall, Timothy P. Spencer, Moses Ross. 2d Ward John A. Foot, Charles M. Giddings, Jefferson Thomas. 3d Ward Thomas Bolton, Tom Lemen, John A. Vincent. Mayor Nicholas Dockstader. President of the Council William Milford. Aldermen William Milford, William Lemen, Josiah A. Harris.
The man he stopped he addressed as Mendenhall, who was his horse-manager as well as pasture expert, and who was reputed to know, not only every blade of grass on the ranch, but the length of every blade of grass and its age from seed-germination as well. At signal from Forrest, Mendenhall drew up the two colts he was driving in a double breaking-cart.
The following buildings were found to have withstood the flood, furnishing shelter to about 7,000 people who were marooned in them since Tuesday: Conover Building, Kuhns Building, The Arcade, two Cappel Buildings, Callahan Bank Building, Schwind Building, Commercial Building, Mendenhall Building, Rike Kumler Building, Reibold Building, Elder & Johnson's building and United Brethren Publishing Company's building.
"Yes, it is on the Commercial." He held it out inquiringly. "Thought so!" snorted the other. "Dolt! Imbecile! Ass! I'll apply for a guardian. Fix you out this time!" He whipped out fountain pen and checkbook. Pay to J.C. Mendenhall & Co. how much was that?"
In his "Chirurgical Observations," Job van Meek'ren tells the story of a Russian nobleman who lost part of his skull, and a dog's skull was supplied in its place. The bigoted divines of the country excommunicated the man, and would not annul his sentence until he submitted to have the bit of foreign bone removed. Mendenhall reports the history of an injury to a laborer nineteen years old.
Business, with Mendenhall, was a matter for dignified and strictly private conference. With stately precision he took up the neat bundle of checks which he had just indorsed, ran them over, slipped one from under the rubber band, and scanned it with great deliberation. He could not afford to offend a good customer, but he could thus subtly rebuke such hasty and slipshod methods.
There Ruth and Lars Together sat upon the women's side; And when the peace was perfect, they arose: He took her by the hand, and spake these words, As ordered: "In the presence of the Lord And this assembly, by the hand I take Ruth Mendenhall, and promise unto her, Divine assistance blessing me, to be A loving and a faithful husband, even Till death shall separate us."
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