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"I have heard enough and more than enough, and Aunt Ann never reads them." Penhallow had found time to visit his home twice in the winter, but found there little to please him. His wife was obviously feeling the varied strain of war, and Leila showed plainly that she too was suffering. He returned to his work unhappy, a discontented and resolutely dutiful man, hard driven by a relentless superior.
"Now, dear, look!" said Penhallow. At the end of the long table a cadet rose the captain of the corps in charge of the battalion. There was absolute silence. The young officer spoke: "You all know that to our regret one of us leaves to-day. Mr. Gresham, you have the privilege of calling the battalion to attention." A slightly built young fellow in citizen's dress rose at his side.
When John Penhallow said, with a curious gravity and a little of his old formal manner, "I will reflect on it," she knew with the quick perception of her sex that here was a new masculine study for the great naturalist woman. The boy the lad she knew were no more. "Who is that with Uncle James?" she asked. "The Commandant." "My niece, Miss Grey. Colonel Beauregard, my dear.
Then too Rivers's laugh set free her mirth, and Ann Penhallow laughed as she had not done for many a day. "That is about my condition," said Rivers. "I shall go home and get into dry clothes. Billy, you're a poet." "Don't like nobody to call me names," grunted Billy. "I wish James had heard that," cried Ann, while Rivers gathered up the remains of his umbrella. As Billy drove away, Mrs.
"I don't know," which was hardly true, but the chivalry of childhood forbade tale-telling and he learned very little. "He was rather tired and cold, so I made him go to his room and rest." "Poor child!" said Aunt Ann. James Penhallow looked at Leila. Some manner of signals were interchanged. "I saw Billy digging in the big drift," he said. "I trust he found the young gentleman's cane."
He had his likes and dislikes, but he had the prudently guarded tongue of servitude. Long before John Penhallow had understood better the tall black man's position and won the confidence of a friendly hour, he saw with his well-bred courtesy how pleased was the man to be called Mr. Josiah. It sounded queer, as Pole remarked, to call a runaway darkey Mister, but this in no way disturbed John.
Penhallow said to himself, "until he felt pretty sure that it was going to be a paying business. If he was only a young minister now, there'd be no difficulty about it.
As time ran on, a Penhallow prospered in the cities, and clinging to the land added fresh acres as new ambitions developed qualities which are not infrequently found in descendants of long-seated American families.
He had hoped to find an ally in his cousin's husband, and now what should he do? He had concluded that as an honest man he had done his duty when he had written to Woodburn; but now as a man of honour what should he say to James Penhallow? To conceal from his host what he had done was the obvious business-like course.
"I'd like to try it again, sir," gasped John. "You young humbug," laughed Penhallow. "Go and console your distracted aunt. I am off to the mills." The ex-captain was merciless enough, and day after day John was so stiff that, as he confessed to Leila, a jointed doll was a trifle to his condition. She laughed, "I went through it once, but one day it came." "What came, Leila?"
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