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Updated: May 15, 2025
A change of some kind had taken place during his absence. The nightwatchman, Hager, had been heard praying in his attic for the boys. A boy, in great trouble with a trigonometrical problem which would not come right, had solved the difficulty by linking work with prayer. The boys in the "First Room" i.e., the elder boys made an agreement to speak with one another openly before the Holy Communion.
"Fremont was working late in his private room, and the janitor and nightwatchman were moving about the building, from the deposit vaults in the basement to the ironclad room which enclosed the big safe. "I went there to see Mr. Fremont in order to secure financial help. He had been an old friend of my parents, and I had every reason to believe that he would assist me if I could get to him.
Among the men who for two hours had been sitting and talking quietly a quarrel broke out. Jack Fisher the town nightwatchman had been telling the others the story of a battle in which he had fought during the Civil War and Duke Yetter had begun bantering him. The nightwatchman grew angry. Grasping his nightstick he limped up and down.
"Now I have one male and three females," he mused. "If I am lucky by spring I shall have twelve or fifteen. In another year I shall be able to begin advertising ferrets for sale in the sporting papers." The nightwatchman settled into his chair and his mind became a blank. He did not sleep.
We can't stay now. You'll have to take us and our things off, too." "Can't do it," called up another muffled voice. "Make your things into a little bundle. We'll take that, but you'll have to get past the nightwatchman yourselves and meet us at Riverledge." A moment later something else went over the side, and from the sound we could infer that the engine of the motor-boat was being started.
Altogether, it's worth the difference of ten or twelve miles of tramping." "You're staying at the Royal Palm, then?" "Near it," corrected Brice. "To be exact, in the darkest corner of its big gardens. The turf is soft and springy. The solitude is perfect, too unless some nightwatchman gets too vigilant." He spoke lightly, even airily, through his pain and weakness.
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