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"Blanchard?" she echoed. "Yes, Blanchard, the Blanchard we 've been looking for, for seven months now, the Blanchard who chloroformed Ezra Newcomb and carried off a hundred and eighteen thousand dollars." "Newcomb?" again meditated the woman.
Newcomb and other special patrolmen, rendered most effective service in arranging the commissary supplies for the large number of police, military, special patrolmen, and destitute colored refugees, whose subsistence was thrown unexpectedly on the department. The duty was arduous and responsible, and was performed with vigor and fidelity.
"He'll know more about it than anybody else. Hey, Ros, how many hired help does he keep, anyhow? Thoph says it's eight, but I know I counted more'n that, myself." "It's eight, I tell you," broke in Newcomb, before I could answer. "There's the two cooks and the boy that waits on 'em " "The idea of having anybody wait on a cook!" interrupted Mullet. "That's blame foolishness."
Later, several horses were secured for the officers, but, meanwhile, the train was ready to depart. Colonel Newcomb waved them farewell, the faithful and valiant Canby opened the throttle, and the train steamed away. The men in the little column, although eager for their new task, watched its departure with a certain sadness at parting with their comrades.
"That's the girl's house. She's the Miss Newcomb you read about in the papers. Now do you understand?" "Certainly I do. She was a fugitive from justice because the cat found dynamite in the woods. Or perhaps I'm a trifle confused, but Now I have it! She had stolen a gold-mounted traveling-bag and given it to McDonald. Lucky chap! I was crazy about Hutchins myself.
The Union men and their enemy were reeling back and forth, neither winning, neither losing, while the thunder of battle along a long and curving front beat heavily on the drums of every ear. The smoke, low down, was scattered by the cannon and rifles, but above it gathered in a great cloud that seemed to be shot with fire. The two colonels, Winchester and Newcomb, were able and valiant men.
Then came the Jewett collection in geology, which he gave at a cost of ten thousand dollars; the Ward collection of casts, at a cost of three thousand; the Newcomb collection in conchology, at a cost of sixteen thousand; an addition to the university grounds, valued at many thousands more; and it was only the claims of a multitude of minor university matters upon his purse which prevented his carrying out a favorite plan of giving a great telescope, at a cost of fifty thousand dollars.
Simon Newcomb was directed to the solution of this question, and he arrived at the conclusion that the planetary perturbations could not explain the actual situation of the asteroidal orbits. But afterward it was pointed out that the difficulty could be avoided by supposing that not one but a series of explosions had produced the asteroids as they now are.
The drawn shades of parlor windows moved significantly as we passed and, as we turned into the Lower Road, I glanced over my shoulder and saw Sim Eldredge and his clerk and Thoph Newcomb and Alvin Baker on the store platform, staring after us. As if this audience was not sufficient, and to make the affair complete, we met Captain Dean strutting importantly on his way to the post-office.
Say, Ros," turning to me, "how many is there, altogether?" "How many what?" I asked. It was my first opportunity to speak. "Why, hired help servants, you know. How many does Mr. Colton keep?" "I don't know how many he keeps," I said. "Why should I?" The group looked at me in amazement. Thoph Newcomb voiced the general astonishment. "Why should you!" he repeated. "Why shouldn't you, you mean!
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