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Updated: May 11, 2025
If you interrupt me again when I'm reading my Izaak Walton I'll have you put off the train! Gad! I will, sir, if I have to do it myself!" The military-appearing traveler snapped the green book against the palm of one hand with a report like that of a pistol, thereby causing an old lady, asleep in a chair across the aisle, to awaken with a start. "Are we in? Have we arrived?
From a little green book, which, from the evidence of its worn covers, seemed to have been much read, the tall, military-appearing occupant of a middle seat in the parlor car of the express to Colchester scanned again this passage: "And if you rove for perch with a minnow, then it is best to be alive, you sticking your hook through his back fin, or a minnow with the hook in his upper lip, and letting him swim up and down about mid-water, or a little lower, and you still keeping him about that depth with a cork, which ought to be a very little one; and the way you are to fish for perch with a small frog "
At that very moment he was on his way to the home of Superintendent Cabral, with whom he had no engagement whatever, to learn all he could concerning the business of these military-appearing strangers; also to impress on that official the fact that he had sought to dissuade them from starting on their mad quest.
"Ah-a-a-a!" "Beg pardon, sir, but I " "What?" The military-appearing man sat up with a jerk into sudden stiffness, while the soft light died out of his eyes. "New York papers?" "Don't want the New York papers any of them!" The man, after a swift glance from his green-covered book, again let his eyes seek its pages. The ghost of a smile flickered around his lips. "Chicago, then. The latest "
"Which I regret exceedingly, madam," interposed the military-appearing traveler with another bow. The old lady again composed herself. The tall man bowed again, resumed his seat and tried to read, but his feelings had been too much ruffled, it was evident, to allow a peaceful resumption of his former mood. "The idea!
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