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He was back in Pendleton, sitting on the portico with his mother, watching the flowers on the lawn nod in the gentle wind. His cousin Harry Kenton saluted him with a halloo and came bounding toward the porch, and the halloo caused Dick to awake and sit up. He rubbed his eyes violently and looked around a little bit ashamed.
The brigadiers had no orders; many of the superior generals had not told their subordinates where they would be found; and the commander of the rear-guard, General Pendleton, had not been informed of the strength of the infantry placed at his disposal.
"Oh, I wouldn't like to say that I suspect Thalassa, or anybody else." Mrs. Pendleton was prompt with this assurance. "But there are certain things which seem to me to need further investigation. There's the question of the door being locked on the inside. It seems to me that the door might have been locked on the outside, and the key dropped in there afterwards.
"I can understand the thick glasses," said Pendleton, "his being near-sighted suggested those. But what made you think he cared for the modern German dramatists?" "That was a hazard, merely," and the investigator laughed. "He knew German and was apparently a man of intelligence. No man who combines these two things can fail of admiration of Hauptmann, Sudermann and their brothers of the pen.
Ralph Pendleton rich was a very different person from Ralph Pendleton poor, and it occurred to him that he might so far ingratiate himself into the favor of his former ward as to obtain the charge of his second fortune. He saw that it would be safe, as well as politic, to exchange his coldness for a warm and cordial welcome. "Proceed with your story," he said; "I am quite interested in it."
Something that would kind of show that she was the daughter of the city, you know." "You couldn't call her 'Santa Francisca, eh?" said Colonel Pendleton, doubtingly. "Not much," said the woman, with a seriousness that defied any ulterior insinuation. "Nor Chrysopolinia?" said the Mayor, musingly. "But that's only a FIRST name. She must have a family name," said the woman impatiently.
"My name is Kenton, Henry Kenton though people generally call me Harry and I live at Pendleton in Kentucky," he replied. Now the smile of Leonidas Talbot, late colonel U. S. A., became rarely sweet. "I should have guessed it," he said. "The place where you joined us and the strong resemblance should have made me know. You must be the son of Colonel George Kenton." "Yes," said Harry.
George Washington, Peyton Randolph, Richard Bland, Edmund Pendleton, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee were all members, and Henry at the first session won a place in the front rank among them.
You must remember that those in my profession have few leisure hours. He would not set a time. I had to let the matter rest at that." "He is not very much in love, then, I fear, my dear Sally," said her mother, reflectively. "Still, bad beginnings often make good endings. But I had almost forgotten to tell you the startling news, my dear," added Mrs. Pendleton, hastily.
Mr. Pendleton wished to preserve the right of primogeniture; but seeing at once that that could not prevail, he proposed we should adopt the Hebrew principle, and give a double portion to the elder son.
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