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But the motorman only gave him an angry glance and would not even reach around and lift the latch. "He's running away with us!" exclaimed Lillie Nevins, who was always easily frightened. "Oh, my dear!" laughed another girl. "What an elopement!" "I hate to do it," said the conductor, when he came back to Miss March. "But I'll report him to the inspector when we get to the end of the route."
All that Nevins thought to be tried for was a charge of misappropriation of public funds and property, and it was his purpose to plead in bar of trial that he had offered to make complete restitution, to replace every missing item, and doubly replace, if need be, every dollar.
What had Nevins been doing? or rather, what that he had been doing was he to be held to account for? Why should the colonel so eagerly ask where they could reach Blake?
"I shall have to give this matter much thought. You shall have my answer "To-morrow night," Nevins interjects. "Delays are dangerous. The convention meets in two weeks time." "To-morrow night, then," assents Trueman. Nevins leaves abruptly. He does not wish to weaken the effect he has produced on Trueman by further discussion.
"I don't know about that, and I can tell you Mrs. Barrington will hustle it back in the box mighty quick. The party is for the older girls. You will simply be allowed in to look and partake of the treat if you are well behaved little girls." Miss Nevins pouted. Her new winter suit had come home and it was really admirable, making her look like quite a different girl.
A jeering laugh from these called the young man's attention to the substitution, and, with a look of indignation, he said, "You young rascal, you shall pay for this!" But Micky evaded his grasp, and scudded rapidly through the park, pursued by the victim of misplaced confidence. "Run, Micky; I'll bet on you!" cried Pat Nevins, encouragingly.
From his eyrie, Nevins, the omnipresent, flutters his commands. Under his spell the tumult rises. Delegates from Nebraska and Louisiana rush to the Pennsylvania section and seize Trueman. He is borne to the rostrum across a veritable sea of men. Now Nevins hides the flag, and as though a switch key had cut off the current from a dynamo, the confusion subsides.
"If it is the will of the people to elect me I shall be faithful to the high duties of the office." Nevins bids his protege good night, assuring him that they will keep in constant communication.
A crippled veteran who could do no field service was in charge of a supply camp for scouting parties, escorts, detachments, etc., and, to the wrath of the regimental officers, this veteran was relieved and Lieutenant and Brevet-Captain Nevins by department orders was detailed in his place.
It is not long before Trueman discovers who these spies are, and he loses no time in exposing them in open conference. This action brings him into prominence. "Who is this delegate from Pennsylvania?" asks Professor Talbot, a venerable scholar sent by the Governor of Missouri to represent that state, of Nevins, a neighboring delegate.
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