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Updated: June 17, 2025
He and she got on pretty well when we were on the coast." "You lie!" I bellowed, beside myself, "Hildreth will be faithful to me ... she has promised." Penton Baxter looked me up and down, courageously, coolly, for a long time. Slowly I realised what I had just said. "That's all I wanted to know, John Gregory! I've got it out of you at last!" He turned on his heel.
James's Palace and had a long audience with the King, presenting several charts and maps and submitting several drawings, some of which were ordered to be engraved for the private museum. In return the King presented him with his commission as Post-Captain and his appointment to H.M.S. Kent. The commission, signed by Sandwich, Penton, and Pallisser, bears date 9th August.
"When Penton was writing The Slaughter House and we were running it serially, his protagonist, Jarl it seemed he didn't know how to dispose of him ... and the book was running on and on interminably.... I wired him 'for God's sake kill Jarl. ...
And the story was a good one the story of the anarchist-shoemaker who invoked the use of archaic, reactionary laws, in his battle against his less radical antagonists, the Single Taxers and Socialists. Story after story was also written about our curious little colony. Penton Baxter shared honours with the shoemaker.
"Penton Baxter has invited me to pay him a visit at Eden, a Single Tax Colony just outside of Philadelphia, before I go on to Europe via cattleboat ... maybe I'll take him up, go down there, and run away with his wife ... she's a mighty pretty woman, Joe!" Joe was scandalised at my remark the effect I had wished for.
"'That's the name, I answered; 'couldn't think of it. "I walked straight into the editor; he was still irritable. 'What is it? What is it now? he snapped out. "'I only want the ticket for the Royalty Theatre, I answered. 'Penton says you've got it. "'I don't know where it is, he growled. "I found it after some little search upon his desk. "'Who's going? he asked. "'I am, I said.
With solemn face he sang high, and always off key, till the three women had to stuff their handkerchiefs in their mouths to keep from laughing at him before his face.... After class, we strolled home by a devious path, through the moonlight. This time Ruth walked ahead with little Dan, Hildreth with her husband, Penton, Darrie with me....
"Oh, bother Kansas!" replied Hildreth humorously. For a month "I wonder what they'll say back in Kansas" was a catch-word for Broadway and the town. When the Evening Journal put us in their "Dingbat Family" I enjoyed the humour of it. But Hildreth was angry and aggrieved. "You and Penton," remarked she, "for men of culture and sensibility, have bigger blind spots than ordinary in your make-up.
Daniel had been put to bed, angrily objecting. The five of us joined the flow of people toward the barn. Penton carried a lantern. "Jones is all right," said Penton to me, "I like his spirit.
A pause; I was startled by what he said next: "Besides, it's time you had a mate, a real mate ... and I," he proceeded with incredible gravity, "I have been urging Ruth, my secretary, to take you ... you and she would be quite happy together ... she can support herself, for instance ... that would place no economic burden on you." "Really, Penton!" I demurred.
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