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I was as much to blame as you were; and the shot really did me good I came out of the hospital as healthy and fit as a cab horse. Come on; that drink's waiting." "Old man," said Merriam, brokenly, "I don't know how to thank you I well, you know " "Oh, forget it," boomed Hedges. "Quinby'll die of thirst if we don't join him."
"Must!" repeated the girl, for she was hardly older than Miss Merriam they saw when her hair was pushed back from her face. "Must! 'Tis glad I'll be to be doing it!" and a ghost of a smile fluttered her lips. Outside of the bedroom door Mrs. Emerson asked for an explanation and the others for her advice.
Tom was booked for Yale and then for business. It was the day after Lincoln's birthday, and Saturday. Edward Watkins had come out for his weekly visit to Elisabeth and was sitting in Mrs. Smith's living room surveying her and talking to Miss Merriam. Elisabeth was walking with a fair degree of steadiness now, and made her way about all the rooms of the house without assistance.
With misty eyes Gertrude slowly lifted the cover from the box. Wrapped in a twist of cotton was a ring set with several large diamonds. "Is it marked 'Gertrude'?" asked Dorothy breathlessly. Miss Merriam nodded. Below the ring lay a miniature, the portrait of a fair woman with deep blue eyes. It was set round with brilliants and on the gold back was engraved, "Gertrude Merriam."
Monday was the day set for the burial. Early in the morning old Thomas Merriam walked feebly up the road to the Squire's house. People noticed him as he passed. "How terribly fast he's grown old lately!" they said. He opened the gate which led into the Squire's front yard with fumbling fingers, and went up the walk to the front door, under the Corinthian pillars, and raised the brass knocker.
"I knew that he was overcharging the rifle when loading it," I cried, delighted to think that Merriam had done so. "It was the means, perhaps, of saving my life, for the fellow aimed with good intentions, and I saw by the expression of his face that he was bound to hit me if possible."
"At attention" is the rigid attitude taken by a United States soldier or sailor when in the presence of his officers. Jack had already seen men in that attitude, and did his best to imitate it in smart military manner. Eph and Hal did likewise. "No, no, no, you dense blockheads!" uttered Cadet Midshipman Merriam. "'At attention' upside down on your hands!"
Come, you can't get away with it." "I've not seen the girl since that night at Athens yes, I saw her to-night for a moment but I did not speak to her. I am here on business of my own with these gentlemen. If you have an officer of the law with you I'll show him my papers. If you haven't, I'll go on. If you shoot, we'll shoot." "Anyone would think he had papers," murmured Hard to Merriam.
It is a regrettable fact that Eph was really beginning to want to fight. “See here,” ordered Mr. Merriam, suddenly, taking Jack by the arm, “you’re a horse, a full-blooded Arab steed—understand!” He gave young Benson a push that sent that youngster down to the ground on all fours. “You’re General Washington, out to take a ride on your horse,” announced Mr.
There was something familiar to him in the walk of one of the passengers. He looked again, and his blood seemed to turn to strawberry ice cream in his veins. Burly, arrogant, debonair as ever, H. Ferguson Hedges, the man he had killed, was coming toward him ten feet away. When Hedges saw Merriam his face flushed a dark red. Then he shouted in his old, bluff way: "Hello, Merriam. Glad to see you.
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